The patriarch's pair of small triangular eyes were dripping and turning, his face was flushed, and he held back for a long time before saying, "Alas! I also want to know, what the hell is going on? ”

Xia Ti said quickly: "Patriarch, what happened in the village? Let's get straight ahead! If you have something to hide, how can we help you? ”

The patriarch sighed: "That's it, that's it, anyway, you should also know, the strongest men in our village will take off their heads bizarrely on the day of the climbing festival every year, all because of the sins we committed thirty years ago, this retribution we suffered." A few days ago, the crazy old man came back from the back mountain, and told the experience in the back mountain, we knew that everything was done by Zhang Pu of the Fang Immortal Sect, and he was the one who lowered his head Gu, and now he and the rest of the Fang Immortal Sect are dead, and the whole village is happy when they hear the news, and they think that it will be peaceful from now on, and the village celebrates for three days and three nights, we all regard the crazy old man as the true god, and it is a precedent to break the precedent, enter the ancestral hall to worship, and tell the good news to the ancestors and ancestors, you know, the rules in our village, Only men can enter the ancestral hall on the morning of the Miao year, not only breaking the precedent of a hundred years, but I also want to give him the position of the patriarch, but he refuses, only said that Ah Duo has revenge, he wants to be idle. But it happened that day, he came in a hurry, saying that there was something urgent, and before he could say what was the matter, he had a poisonous Gu attack, he grabbed his throat by himself, and couldn't make a sound. As he spoke, he pointed to the center of the hall.

Looking in the direction of his finger, a pool of blood could be faintly seen on the floor.

He pointed to Ah Jin and continued: "At that time, Ah Jin was also there at that time, as well as Elder Bu and a few respected old men in the clan, we were discussing things, who knew that such a thing had happened. A few days later, Elder Bu also bowed his head and died at home, looking exactly like the crazy old man. ”

Ah Jin agreed, nodded, and continued: "That's right, I saw the crazy old man die here with my own eyes, and Elder Bu is exactly the same as his death!" Now people are panicking, I don't know who will die next, I heard the crazy old man say that you have taken the wooden butterfly, this is the back mountain......"

I asked, "Patriarch, I heard Ah Jin say that the crazy old man said four words after his death, 'The Curse of the Heavenly Master', is there such a thing?" ”

The patriarch was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "Well, it's the voice of a crazy old man, it won't be wrong." ”

"So what do these four words mean?"

"I don't know, I don't know!" The patriarch shook his head, and I noticed that he said "I don't know" twice, and although his tone was firm, his eyes flickered a little.

I was about to interrogate when Warber diverted and asked, "What day did the crazy old man have an accident?" ”

"The fifteenth, the fifteenth of this month, it won't be wrong, that day is my mother's birthday, and I was still waiting to go home to celebrate my mother's birthday, but this happened." Ah Jin replied without thinking.

Hua Bo frowned and muttered, "There's a problem with that, uh, I'm not sure yet, let's talk about it later." ”

I saw that Hua Bo was deliberately silent, so I took the lead in making a false conclusion: "Prima facie, it seems that it should be the remnants of Zhang Pu's party, which is clear."

Apparently a crazy revenge. ”

When Da Zhuang heard me say this, he nodded again and again: "Alas! This is what I said first, how can there be any dead souls, it was done by Zhang Pu's gang of remnants, the murderer should still be hidden in the village, has anyone ever been in the village these days? ”

The patriarch shook his head together with Ah Jin, saying that he had not seen any outsiders coming.

I don't know when, Xia Ti walked to the center of the hall, stared at the floor and looked at it intently, according to the description of the patriarch and Ah Jin, where did the crazy old man take off his head, suddenly, Xia Ti asked: "Is there anything different from usual before the crazy old man's accident?" ”

The patriarch and Ah Jin were both stunned, and after thinking about it for a long time, Ah Jin said: "I didn't find anything abnormal, this crazy old man is very sloppy on weekdays, and when he came that day, he was also clothed in a cloak, but, it's just that he usually wears tattered clothes but loves to be clean, yes, his family raises Gu, and the Gu raiser is very clean at home, and that day, it seems to be a little dirty that day......"

I walked up to Xia Ti and looked at the old floor, there was a large dark stain on it, thinking about the crazy old man who took off his head at that time, it must have been blood gushing like a spring, splashing everywhere, although the floor had been carefully wiped, but the blood seeping into the cracks in the wood still left a vague blood stain on it.

I asked, "Is there anything wrong?" ”

Xia Ti shook his head, pointed to a place and said, "That's weird, where are you looking?" ”

At this time, everyone else also gathered around, their eyes staring at the floor, and the position that Xia Ti was pointing to was a vague blood mark, the shape of a foot.

Da Zhuang rushed and said: "Alas! It's a bloody footprint! ”

The crowd nodded.

Da Zhuang continued: "This is normal, the crazy old man's head has fallen off, and the blood in the cavity must be sprayed everywhere, and if the foot steps on the blood, it will naturally leave bloody footprints." ”

Xia Ti said: "Yes, but if you step on blood, the bloody footprint left behind should be a blood stain, but this bloody footprint only has the outline of a foot, indicating that the soles of the feet are not stained with blood, and you see, the location of this footprint is closer to the door." ”

Hua Bo nodded and said, "Yes, that means that the crazy old man was injured before he came here, and the blood flowed to his shoes, leaving this kind of bloody footprints with only outlines." ”

I also suddenly realized, and continued: "In that case, it is very likely that the crazy old man fought with someone before he lowered his head, and he was already injured, and he didn't have time to deal with the wound, because there was a very important thing to tell the patriarch, and before he could speak, he died of Gu hair." ”

Da Zhuang asked, "What's so urgent?" If he fights with people, the first thing he does should be to call for help, he was already a hero in the stockade at that time, as long as he shouted no, many people would come to help him. ”

Da Zhuang said well, I thought about it and said: "That means that he didn't come to the patriarch to fight with people and ask for help. But there are more important things, there can be no delay, the Gu cultivator is clean, but he still didn't have time to sort it out and ran out. ”

Xia Ti continued: "He should have known that his life was short, so he came here, most likely he already knew that he had fallen into the head lowering Gu." ”

Hua Bo thought for a moment and said, "It's in this stockade."

The wooden building on stilts is very close, if there is really a fight, it is impossible not to be noticed by the people around him, only, only the crazy old man's home is lonely, very remote. ”

Ah Jin said: "Well, we thought so too, but after he died, we went to his house, and it was neatly furnished, and it didn't look like there had been a fight. ”

Xia Ti said: "Let's go and have a look." ”

So, everyone hurriedly said goodbye to the patriarch and went straight to the lonely building on the mountain where the crazy old man lived before his death.

At this time, the sky was dark, the dilapidated lonely building seemed a little more gloomy, and when the door was opened, an unpleasant smell mixed with smoke and dust came to the face, and the room was foggy, as if no one had lived in it for a long time, but the furnishings were still neat, as Ah Jin said, it didn't look like there had been a fight.

Da Zhuang retched and scolded: "Holy shit, it stinks, this, is there a corpse in here?" ”

I also covered my nose and replied, "It doesn't seem to smell like a corpse, but it smells ten times worse than a corpse." ”

They searched around the house, but found no dead body, but found that the stench emanated from a two-foot-high terracotta jar with a layer of tarpaulin sealed at the mouth of the jar, and it was impossible to see what was inside.

"What is this?" Da Zhuang pinched his nose and asked.

Hua Bo said: "I guess this should be a Gu worm raised by a crazy old man, Gu worms and Gu keepers live and die together, when the crazy old man dies, the Gu he raises will also die, so it stinks."

Da Zhuang showed a disgusted expression and said, "A jar is full of dead Gu worms, no wonder it smells so bad?" And as he spoke, he stretched out his hand and opened the lid of the altar.

I hurriedly stopped him, remembering that day, the crazy old man was holding this jar and eating the contents of the insect, insects, he ate insects, chewing his mouth full of green water, and now he is still sick to his stomach when he thinks about it, and he is busy saying: "You are not afraid of the smell, I can't stand it, until the last resort, don't open this thing." ”

Da Zhuang pinched his nose and said angrily: "What if there is a murder weapon hidden in it." ”

Xia Ti hurriedly said: "Don't quarrel with the two of you, look here, this jar seems to have been moved." ”

I endured my nausea and took a closer look, indeed, this foul-smelling jar was originally placed in the corner of the wall, and there were marks on the bottom of the jar on that floor, but now I don't know who removed a few inches. It is said that this Gu worm jar is oily and smelly, and it doesn't matter for any reason, who will go near it?

Everyone unconsciously nailed their eyes to the corner of the wall, and there was a hole the size of an eyeball in the wooden wallboard, which was very round, and the circle was a little strange.

Xia Ti leaned over to check, I quickly stopped her, there are a lot of insects and snakes in the seedlings, this round hole is very similar to a snake hole, in case there is a poisonous snake hidden in it, wouldn't it be dangerous, so he said to her: "This kind of thing, let the gentlemen come!" ”

I reached out and tapped on the board in the corner, "Boom! Boom! Clang! The hole in the plank was indeed empty, and I clasped it with my hand, "Kara! "The plank fell, and there was a dark compartment inside.

"Ahh Everyone screamed in unison, and a strange scene appeared in front of them.

I saw that there was a withered hand in this dark grid, it was not a living man's hand, it should be a dry corpse's hand, the dark brown skin was tightly wrapped in bones, and the most incredible thing was that this withered hand was holding a letter tightly.