Chen Gou and Dongli rode to a small square in the middle of the village and stopped, and several old people hurried over.

One of them, an old man who looked to be in his fifties and was still in good health, said respectfully: "Two knights, I am Bai Fang, the village chief of Baishi Village, thanks to the Holy See and the knights, the village is finally saved." ”

"Without further ado, take us to see the bodies of the victims, and send someone to take care of our war horses and feed us some water and beans!"

Dongli climbed the hill and dismounted, throwing the reins to a young villager with a discerning eye.

Chen Gou also acted in the same way.

"Yes, please come with me, Knight. ”

Led by the village chief, a group of villagers and members of the Wildfire Mercenary Regiment gathered around the two Abyss Knights to the church where the bodies were temporarily stored.

It was a small church made of brick and adobe, which was a little larger than the small courtyard of the Long Song Clan's in Rock City, and was not guarded by priests and bishops from the Holy See.

"At first, a month ago, a sick and unconscious girl suddenly woke up in the middle of the night, screamed wildly, and then ran out of breath. We thought he was just too sick, so we didn't pay much attention to it.

A week later, another boy suddenly disappeared in the middle of the night, with no scars on his body, only a loud scream.

Five days later, one of the adults in the village died tragically, this time with scars on his body, like the claws of some kind of wild beast, but we can be sure that no beast ever entered their room......"

"Interesting. ”

Dong Li was obviously very interested in this strange event, and successively uncovered the white cloth covering several corpses on the ground, and squatted down to carefully examine the scars on his body.

Chen Gou also chose a corpse and studied it carefully.

He had no anatomical studies and was not well-versed in the characteristics of the scars caused by various attacks.

But the keen perception of the Rank Awakened gets two very strong messages.

First, the scars are not only claw marks, but also wounds such as sharp objects piercing the organs or fractures caused by violent impacts.

Second, the wounds on the deceased's body were bloody and terrifying, and his facial expressions were distorted, revealing extreme horror, as if he had been brutally tortured before his death.

"Three days later, another person died, and the death became more and more terrible, and even a wife watched her husband lie in bed and sleep, but suddenly his stomach was torn, and blood gushed out of his internal organs. ”

The old village chief continued: "Then the time for the dead became shorter and shorter, and the number of dead people became more and more drawn, until four days ago, every night began to die, and there was more than one!"

In order to avoid the plague, the corpses in the early stage have been buried, and only those who have died in the last ten days are parked in the church, but there are as many as a dozen.

Fatal injuries are not the same, but they all have one thing in common, and that is the expression of horror.

"Based on the death of the body and the available information, I came to several conclusions. ”

Dongli said in a deep voice: "First, this is definitely not a man-made vendetta incident, it must be the work of evil demons.

Second, the frightened expression of the deceased proves that the demon behind it is a cruel, bloodthirsty pervert who takes pleasure in torture and kills, and he enjoys the horror of the slain.

Third, it can be inferred from the increasing number of deaths and the shorter time interval that the power of the demons is likely increasing.

What do you think?" he finally asked Chen Gou for advice.

Chen Gou listened but was noncommittal, and turned to a few people from the wildfire team and asked, "How long have you been here, and what have you found?"

"We only came three days ago, and we found some patterns that we don't know if they are correct or not - the demons only commit crimes at night, and the targets are random, and they come and go without a trace, and yesterday we were lucky enough to see the whole process of a villager being killed. ”

An ordinary-looking young woman walked out of the wildfire team and said, "First she shouted with a frightened expression, 'Don't, don't, go away' and something like that, her limbs twitched, as if she was resisting something, and then the whole person suddenly flew up on its own, and the strongest player in our team couldn't hold it down.

In the end, after he knocked our team members into the air, his head hit the beam of the house, and it shattered directly and spilled on the ground. ”

Chen Gouyan's eyebrows walked slightly, but he was still noncommittal: "What inferences do you have?"

"We think there are two possible characteristics of the demon, the first is that it has very strong stealth skills, and no one can see it except for its victims;

The second is that its attack method is spiritual soul, and it can kill people invisibly from a very long distance. ”

Although the woman is young, she is the captain of the wildfire team, and she knows everything.

For under the rule of the Holy See, it is an obligation for anyone to help the emissaries of the Holy See in their tasks.

Moreover, she also has her own plans - if she can take this opportunity to connect with the two Abyss Knights, it will undoubtedly be of great help to the Wildfire Clan's foothold near Rock City in the future.

If a small team like them wants to grow and develop, it must have a backer in the Holy See.

Although these two Abyss Knights were very young when they heard their voices, only in this way could the newly promoted knights accept their submission.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for any neatly staffed Abyss Knight clan to take a second look at the wildfire.

"No, both of these don't make sense. ”

At this time, Chen Gou shook his head while pondering: "If it is invisibility, most of the victims have their eyes closed until they die, so how did the expression of fear on their faces come from?"

If it is a mental attack, the expression is explained, it is likely that he has fallen into some kind of terrifying illusion, but the death method of this attack should be a mental breakdown and soul annihilation, and there can be no obvious external injuries on the body!"

"Is it possible that these two situations are combined?" Dongli said with a frown.

He felt that he might have been overt before, and that this task was only quite tricky, but with a mask on his face, no one could see the change in his expression.

"Unlikely. If it had both the mental skill that could kill people invisibly, and the invisibility that even the witchers could not detect, then he would have slaughtered the entire village long ago without needing to slowly regain his strength. ”

"Also, I agree with you - the demon's power is growing, or rather he's recovering. What exactly...... I'm afraid we need to keep a vigil tonight and try it out for ourselves. ”

Chen Gou's logical thinking ability has always been good, trying to peel back the cocoon and find out the truth hidden behind the surface.

"That's all there is to it. Dongli nodded.

A lot of things are heard as false and seeing is believing, and anything that has been relayed by others will deviate from reality to some extent.

So Chen Gou and Dongli directly ordered the village chief to gather all the villagers in the square in front of the church, and light a few large bonfires in the middle to keep warm, and everyone spent the night here after dinner.

It was the Mid-Autumn Festival, the temperature was not very cold at night, and the villagers were on the verge of collapse due to the fear of death, so they did not resist this order.

I only hope that the Abyss Knights sent by the Holy See can find out the evil behind it.

The advantage of this is that no matter which villager is attacked tonight, they will be the first to see it.

All the villagers gathered around the campfire in four directions, south, east, west, and west, and the ground was covered with straw mats or bedding.

The Wildfire Brigade was placed on the perimeter of the plaza, monitoring for any possible approach.

Chen Gou and Dongli stood in the middle, looking around.

Chen Gou's gaze swept over the villagers and members of the Wildfire Brigade from time to time, and he suspected that the demons might be like Grimmmon, taking on the form of humans and hiding in the crowd......