The journey from Pingtai City to Nancheng is not long, and if you hurry up, it will only take three days.

Now with 3,000 troops, the team will be delayed if it is too large, and it will take almost five days to arrive, after all, there are already people in the southern city who are panicking, and it has reached the point of a dead city.

Sitting on horseback, Ning Rou wiped the sweat on her forehead with a handkerchief, her face was red from the scorching sun, she reached out to her forehead to block the dazzling light, and said softly: "My lord, since I walked through the border between Nancheng and Pingtai City, this place has begun to become barren, and it is a dry land as far as the eye can see, with dead grass and trees, not to mention lush crops. ”

It's summer, it's time for the crops to be harvested, but there's no life here, it's dead.

It is clear that the two places are not far apart, but the situation is completely different.

"Behind everything that happens, there is a reason, and digging deeper, it may be shocking." Chu Xuan pulled the horse rope and raised his eyes to look at the barren eyes in front of him, and at the same time, the afterglow passed over Ning Rou's face and quickly moved away, as if it was an illusion.

When the gaze met for just a second, Ning Rou's heart was shocked, and her fingertips unconsciously pinched the horse rope, and there was a terrifying feeling of hair standing up.

When her mind was a little empty and she didn't know how to react, she saw that Chu Xuan had already turned over and dismounted, squatting next to a burned ruin, regardless of how dirty the fire-blackened soil was, she directly reached out and grabbed it, rubbed the tips of her fingers, and put it under the tip of her nose to sniff lightly.

The mind of an adult is as deep as the abyss. Ning Rou looked at Chu Xuan's back deeply, and finally regained her gentle smile, turned over and got off the horse, trotted to Chu Xuan's side and squatted down, turned her head to look at her, and said in a warm voice: "My lord, what are you doing here?" ”

While marching, she changed out of her beautiful skirt and put on a suit, and her gentle and virtuous temperament was a little more neat.

"This fire, which burned last night, was extinguished this morning. Presumably, he knew when the troops would arrive and acted in a hurry. Chu Xuan slapped the soil off his hand, stood up and looked at the rows of burned villages and plants in front of him, his eyes were as dark as ink.

Ning Rou wrinkled her eyebrows lightly, still a little puzzled, "You mean, this fire was deliberately done by someone." ”

Chu Xuan bowed slightly, and a cold light crossed his eyes, "Yes and no, you will know when you check it." ”

Hearing this, Ning Rou stopped talking.

She and Chu Xuan stood together, watching the soldiers quickly enter the ruins to search.

The action was quick, and in a few moments, they removed many bones and placed them in a clean clearing.

Pile upon pile, at least a few hundred people died.

The most worrying thing is that there are also a lot of small corpses, and they are obviously still children.

It is a carefree, innocent and lovely age, but it is death that greets it.

Feeling the low and cold aura exuding from Chu Xuan's body, Ning Rou unconsciously grabbed the corners of her clothes with her fingers, lowered her eyes and didn't dare to look at the piles of white bones, and even breathed carefully.

Standing in this place, even though the weather above her head is hot, she is like an abyss, and a cold aura rushes from the soles of her feet to the top of her head.

A subordinate wearing a military uniform and a sword walked up to Chu Xuan, bent down and clenched his fists, and told him in detail: "My lord, my subordinates have searched all the villages, and found two hundred complete skeletons, dozens of which have been scattered and scattered, and in addition... There are currently 100 children found. Although the corpse has been charred, judging from the traces left on the bones, it is very likely that they were slaughtered by extremely cruel means, and the people of this village were exterminated. ”

As he spoke, a wave of anger rushed out of his chest.

Slaughtering the entire village, not even sparing the children in the womb, trying to set fire to destroy the corpses is really a heinous crime!