"Thanks, Megin, may I ask a few questions?"

"Tell me, I'll know everything." Mei Jin sat down at Wang Qiu's motion.

"Seven people are missing now." Wang Qiu frowned: "Can you tell me some detailed information about the missing person?" For example, age, job, personality, or the time period of disappearance, etc., the more detailed the better. ”

Mei Jin nodded, and thought carefully: "The first to disappear are the two brothers Defoe and Dilu, who are young adults in the clan, responsible for stone carving and masonry, usually silent, a pair of very honest and reliable brothers, I don't know the specific time of disappearance, it was the third grandmother who said that the two brothers said that they would repair the broken courtyard wall early in the morning, but they didn't go until the evening, and we found out that they were missing." ”

Wang Qiu recorded it in his notebook and motioned for Mei Jin to continue.

"The second time he disappeared was a twelve-year-old boy named Liuse, whose parents were wood carvers, usually naughty, and liked to go to the river to catch fish. When I went to the river, I only found a shoe and the same drag marks as last night. is such a lively child, but if you can't see it, you'll be gone...... Ah, sorry, it's a little sad. ”

Mei Jin's face was not very good, she reached out and wiped the corners of her eyes and continued: "The third time he disappeared was the younger brother of the clan escort leader Al, Ash, who was only eight years old, his parents died early, and he was brought up by his brother. Al said that after dinner, Ash patrolled with him, saying that he was going to Xiaojie, that is, as soon as he turned around, he heard an exclamation, and rushed over for two breaths, but the person was gone. ”

Wang Qiu still recorded carefully, and Mei Jin waited for Wang Qiu to raise his head, and then continued: "The fourth disappearance is the person from the escort team, a young man, and he is an orphan. Because the clan has been lost continuously, and the younger brother of the leader of the team has also disappeared, the clan has strengthened patrols and increased the search, one night, Yimao led the team, and listened to the people in the team say that when passing by Blue Stone Creek, they heard an abnormal noise, and when they investigated, Yimao suddenly shouted 'Run' and there was no sound. A hair is also missing. ”

Wang Qiu marked the time of his disappearance and asked, "Is the Blue Stone Creek the stream with blue pebbles?" ”

Mei Jin nodded: "That's right, but before that, there was a river, but in recent years, it has suddenly become much shallower." ”

"Please continue."

"The fifth disappearance was a village plumber, Yu Wen, who was about the same age as me, liked to drink, and had just finished laying a new pipe for his people at noon on the day of his disappearance. He was invited to a thank-you banquet, but refused to be escorted after the banquet and went alone to the mountains on the other side of the stream to collect ore samples. Since the people kept being lost, we would count the number of people before the end of the day, and it was only then that we found out that he was missing. Mei Jin looked very tired: "And last night, the missing person was the second child of the Tianchang family, Tianwen, a young man, who had just learned to grow crops recently." ”

"Is the second child of the Tianchang family a man?"

Mei Jin nodded, and Wang Qiu wrote and drew on the paper: "What about that one hair?" ”

"It's also male."

"The common denominator of the missing people has found several at the moment." Wang Qiu wrote down three sets of words on the paper: 'male', 'time' and 'place': "All are male; Although the time is not so certain, it is bold to guess that it should be from evening to evening; Last night, Al said that most of the drag marks had disappeared in the direction of Bluestone Creek, so the location should all be near Bluestone Creek. ”

"Your Excellency, do you have anything in mind?" Mei Jin heard Wang Qiu's analysis and felt very reasonable.

Wang Qiu shook his head: "I can only sort out so much for the time being, I need more clues to verify the guess in my heart." ”

Mei Jin watched Wang Qiu pick up the information book, and said with a very good look: "If the adults need anything, I will retreat first." ”

"Thank you very much for your cooperation." Wang Qiu carefully opened the somewhat torn pages, which looked very old, and the paper was yellow.

But...... The words on it......

"Wait a minute." Wang Qiu called out to Mei Jin, who was about to leave: "I think I still need your help." ”

All morning, Wang Qiu finally finished reading the relevant content of the information book he found with the help of Mei Jin. The notebook was full of information that she thought might be useful: "I need to sort it out, thank you for helping me so much today." ”

"My lord, it's great to be able to help, so I'll really step back this time."

Wang Qiu nodded, looking at the notes from beginning to end.

Regarding the sacrifice of the architect elf clan, Wang Qiu had a general understanding.

There is no exact time, it was a very old-fashioned long, long time ago, when life was lived as depicted in the painting, when the Elves of the Architects lived in the main mountain range closer to the guardian god of the Tea Mountain, and lived there for generations.

At that time, the tradition of sacrifice still existed, and there was no fixed time for sacrifice, and only when a harmful existence was caught, would the harmful existence be sacrificed to the gods, and the gods would dispose of it. Just like an act of mutual benefit, the gods get rid of the calamity and maintain the stability of the place, and the elves will also be rewarded by the gods.

Since the gods do not appear directly, they make an agreement with the elves that whenever there are sacrifices, they will put them in a special cage containing the power of the seal, and then throw them into the Blue Stone Creek.

No more specific details can be found in the remaining materials, but there is a book that is missing several pages that mentions that during the last sacrifice, the former patron saint of Chashan defected and disappeared, and Chashan was in chaos. Because the architect elves supported the tea mountain and defected to the gods, they were expelled and suppressed, so in order to survive, they moved to the mountain stream at the foot of the tea mountain and the small branches, and took away the spring of the blue stone stream before leaving, and the architect elf clan declined.

A lot of things were lost during the migration, and there were also heavy casualties, so there was a fault in the inheritance, and the sacrifice also disappeared after the migration.

Wang Qiu felt that there was a line in his mind, and he couldn't grasp it, and after thinking about it to no avail, he decided to go to the old man's side to see if there was anything he needed help with.

As soon as he came to the door of the old man, he found that many people were gathered there, and the elves saw Wang Qiu coming, and made way for a path, Wang Qiu walked in and saw some black things on the ground, exuding a foul smell, looking at the thin layer of the ridges, and some hairs, faintly exuding a bad smell.

"It's ......"

The old man's expression was solemn: "This is the skin shed by the monster." ”

Very disgusted, Wang Qiu held his breath, unable to imagine what kind of monster it was, he came back with the escort at this time, and also saw something on the ground, wrinkling his nose: "It stinks!" This thing...... I think I've seen ...... somewhere."