The results soon came out, and none of the people who died inside had obvious external injuries and had not taken poison.

Most of them didn't even struggle, only a few of them would have one or two traces of fractures on their bodies, which could tell that they should have resisted when they were alive.

The corpse was awake, but who got these people here and killed them like this, but they didn't have a clue.

Could it be the villagers of Yamashita Ling Village? But why are they?

According to the information compiled by Rayong, most of those who disappeared were poor, so they should not have killed for money.

It's also important to note that more than half of the missing people have the same birthday.

But now that I think about it, it's possible that the number is too large, and it doesn't happen to be necessarily.

Of course, this statement is a bit unreasonable.

When Zhuang Siyan was thinking about this, Xu Ning had already come out of the bottom of the pit.

He washed his hands with a soldier's water, and came over to Zhuang Siyan and said, "These people either died of evil arts, or they died of some disease?" ”

Zhuang Siyan didn't understand too much, and turned his head to look at him.

Xu Ning wiped his hands and said, "There are nearly twenty people at the bottom of the pit, and the number of years they have died is almost two a year.

So I think the people who kill them should be using them to sacrifice something, or to heal the disease. ”

This was weird, Zhuang Siyan couldn't help but ask: "Healing?" What disease can be cured by skinning people? ”

Xu Ning asked her: "Have you ever heard of the folk saying that what you eat and what you supplement?" ”

This Zhuang Siyan has really heard of it, but not in the Dasheng Dynasty, but in the modern era when she is alive.

At that time, she took an order from a female client, and the female client was a nutritionist.

Modern nutritionists have been relatively popular in recent years, so in the process of handling cases, the two came into contact, and she occasionally talked to Zhuang Siyan about this.

Under normal circumstances, it is to eat walnuts to replenish the brain, because the appearance of walnuts is somewhat similar to the human brain, which can be regarded as complementing the form with form.

Eating cruciferous plants will replenish the heart, because the human heart also has several petals.

What cashew nuts, beans to nourish the kidneys, etc., there are countless of them, but Zhuang Siyan has never heard of eating people and being people, this is too terrifying, right?

But Xu Ning followed up and said: "These people are fine elsewhere, only the skin is gone, so if it is really the latter, I guess that there may be something wrong with the skin of this patient." ”

When he said this, he reminded everyone present.

But this kind of evil trick is really difficult for people to accept, so Zhuang Siyan asked again: "Eating other people's skin, can you really make up for your own skin?" ”

Xu Ning shook his head: "This is not clear, some people say that home remedies cure serious diseases, and some people also say that they can't believe in this evil, but as far as I can see, this situation is still unreliable." ”

But in fact, Zhuang Siyan already knew in his heart that if it was really useless, that person would not have eaten it for so many years.

Two people a year, twenty people die here, that's ten years.

Also, where did all those who didn't have birthdays on this day go?

He remembered asking Rayong to go to the prison to check on the people in the teahouse, but he still hadn't had time to ask him about the situation.

When I go back today, I must sort this matter out properly.

If Luo Hecheng really had such a person who used other people's lives to raise his skin, then Zhuang Siyan would definitely not let him go.

Thinking of this, she suddenly found that Ling Tiancheng hadn't spoken for a long time.

So she turned around and walked to his side a little, because the light in the mountain was unclear, and all the torches they were holding were not all lit, so only now did she see that Ling Tiancheng's face was not good at all, and even a little pale.

Zhuang Siyan suppressed his voice and asked him, "What's wrong?" Is something wrong? ”

Ling Tiancheng didn't respond, his eyes still looking at the bottom of the pit.

They only found these dead people here, and they didn't see any of them alive, and now it was midnight, and they didn't know what was going on down the mountain, so if they didn't find anything else, they had to go back.

Zhuang Siyan thought so, touched Ling Tiancheng's hand and said, "If you have a problem, just say it, if we can't find anything here, we will close the ......, why are your hands so cold, are you cold?" ”

She looked at Ling Tiancheng in surprise again.

Maybe the voice was a little loud, and Xu Ning and Luo Yong next to them glanced at them.

But before Ling Tiancheng could say anything, they saw that halfway up the mountain, a sudden burst of fire light moved towards this side.

At first, I thought it was Qingran them.

But soon found out that something was wrong, Qingran and they entered the village, even if the speed was faster than them, but they had agreed in advance, they would only wait at the bottom of the mountain, and they would not come up the mountain.

But this group of people went straight to their current location, and judging from their actions, they should have entered and exited this mountain forest.

It's fast, and it's familiar.

"That's them." Rayong said.

Ling Tiancheng also took his gaze back at once, stretched out his hand and grabbed Zhuang Siyan and said, "Fight, don't go forward, this group of people is extremely fierce and ruthless, and it will hurt you." ”

Zhuang Siyan didn't reply to him, but he was thinking in his heart: "I've seen a lot of ruthless people." ”

However, things were not what they expected.

The fire was not big, but there were more people than they could have imagined.

They originally only borrowed more than 300 people from Du Jixin, plus the miscellaneous people that Ling Tiancheng brought with him when he came, there were no 400, and the two sides were divided, and there were no 200 people in a team.

But the group of people who went up the mountain, when they got closer, saw that there were as many as 300 people, and the most important thing was that they were like puppets, their eyes were dull, they didn't ask four or six at all, and they came up to kill them.

Rayong said: "These people are the same as the people in the teahouse, they should have been drugged, they will not stop until they die, everyone should be careful." ”

In fact, when everyone saw this group of people, a layer of sweat appeared on their bodies, and when they heard Luo Tong say this, some of them were timid and simply turned their heads and ran.

Zhuang Siyan scolded in a low voice: "Du Jixin, this straw bag, who is this for, he slipped away before he started." ”

Ling Tiancheng didn't say a word, just pulled her behind him again?

Xu Ning didn't know martial arts, and he didn't dare to stand in front, but he didn't dare to hide behind Ling Tiancheng, and stood helplessly.

In a hurry, he picked up a branch from nowhere and whipped it at the person who rushed in front of him.

There were many small branches on the branches, and a lot of blood soon appeared on that person's face, but he didn't even blink an eye, and continued to hit in the direction of Xu Ning.

Zhuang Siyan couldn't help it anymore, and called Luo Yong and said, "Protect Xu Ning, let's retreat." ”

There are few and weak people in his hands, but the other party is such a large number of lifeless forest people, and only running away is the best policy.

But the way back was not so easy, and when they came, they had been blocked, so they could only go back.

Behind it were several hills, and it was impossible to see inside at night, and in this case, it was possible that someone would be driven into the encirclement.

Ling Tiancheng glanced at the Luo and the soldiers of Luo Hecheng who they had brought and fled in all directions.

It's impossible to call them back now, and it's up to their luck to survive.

But they have to get out well, and he has to protect Zhuang Siyan.

He quickly shouted to Rayong, who was not far away: "Go separately, you go south, we go north." ”

To the south is the way they came up, and it is likely that there will be Qingran at the bottom of the mountain to answer them.

But the north is very likely to be the enemy's trap, although Luo Yong and Xu Ning have never fought and rarely seen this kind of scene, but they still have some understanding of the current situation.

Hurry up and say, "Let's go north." ”

However, Ling Tiancheng had already taken Zhuang Siyan to that side, and they were still holding torches in their hands, obviously leading people over there.

Here, Luo Yong and Xu Ning, after avoiding a few people, killed a few more who chased after them, and walked all the way down the mountain.

Qing Ran and they pounced in the village, and when they heard the sound of the mountain, they were already in a hurry, and they were discussing whether to rush up, and they saw that two people had come down.

As soon as the two sides were in a situation, Qing Ran immediately left the person he borrowed from Du Jixin at the bottom of the mountain, and he took Qing Feng and them to chase them up the mountain.

When I met some lonely people on the road, I didn't hesitate to kill them directly.

But it wasn't until they reached the top of the mountain that they saw the altar paved with stone slabs again, and they didn't see Ling Tiancheng and them.

Qing Ran's anxious head was smoking: "Continue to look north, there are only a few people in them, but there are hundreds of chasing them, if you don't look for them quickly, something will happen." ”

They didn't say much, they looked for the fire, and chased them all the way.

But the farther north he went, the thinner the firelight became, and in the end he only met a few people in the forest, and even the clues were cut off after he was killed.

In the distance, Dawn tore a corner of the night's clothes, revealing a glimmer of skylight.

There were many shadows in the woods, and you could see the traces of people stepping on them, and there were also blood stains, but they were all messy, and they couldn't even tell the specific direction, let alone where Ling Tiancheng and they went.

They didn't dare to rest, so they sent people down the mountain and called the people down the mountain together, and the palace opened a carpet search, and later found a piece of Zhuang Siyan's clothes between a mountain wall.

I must have been in a hurry, and I was scraped off by a branch, but nothing else.

After a day and a night, everyone had no gain, but because the water did not enter, a few of them had already fainted.

Du Jixin also came over and persuaded them to go back to the city first and then find a way.

Qing Ran and Qing Feng asked him to bring the soldiers back, and the few of them took some dry food from Du Jixin and searched for them in the mountains.

Let's say that Ling Tiancheng took Zhuang Siyan all the way to the north, originally they were followed by a few internal guards, but later, because those people chased too closely, they stayed behind one by one, and lost their traces, and in the end, there were only two of them left.

The two joined forces, and the people who barely chased after them couldn't do anything to them, but walking around in the mountains, the forest was dense and the night was deep, and they soon lost their direction.

They couldn't light the fire, for fear that those people would chase after them in the fire, so the two of them walked forward in the dark.

Finally, I found a small cave between a mountain wall.

Ling Tiancheng looked out and said, "There is no sound in this piece, even the smell of corpses is much weaker, we should be far away, let's rest for a while." ”

Zhuang Siyan let out an "um" and sat down on a stone on the edge of the cave.

It's summer, the mountains are damp and sticky, and after a night of running, the sweat on my body soaks my clothes, and I have a strange smell, which is really unpleasant.

But even if you want to find water, you can only wait for dawn, so Zhuang Siyan didn't speak, leaning on the stone to look at the sky.