Chapter 75: Night Detective
In the afternoon, Liang Zhesi came to Yin Si alone, saying that he wanted to ask him to help him in the evening.
Ku Rong waited outside the door for an afternoon, knowing that the two people in the house must have some clues.
At night, when it was dark, Liang Zhesi and Yin Si wore black clothes and disappeared into the boundless darkness.
Tonight, there is no moon or star, and in the night, I can't see my fingers.
The two of them raised their luck and crossed all the way to a farmer's house on the outskirts of the city.
At this point in time, many families have already eaten, turned off the lights early, and rested, only the one near the west side of the village, the house is still lit with dim candles.
In the silence of the night, the light that penetrated the window paper was particularly dazzling, and the two stopped in the trees some distance from the yard.
The dogs in the village seemed to smell the movement, and barked for a while before they stopped.
Liang Zhesi flew out of the window first, leaned his back against the wall, hid beside the bed, lightly put his ears on it, and after a while, he nodded at the place where Yin Si was.
Yin Si landed on the other side of the window.
There was a deathly silence in the room, and no one was breathing when they held their breath to listen.
The two of them took advantage of the light, glanced at each other, lifted their breath to the roof, gently lifted the tiles, and looked into the room.
The room was empty, except for a worn-out bed, and near the window there was a table beside two benches, on which the oil lamp was placed, and on one side of the bench lay a dustpan with some dried vegetables in it, and the rest of the place was empty, and there was nothing.
The door was closed from the inside, bolted, and the bed was covered with a quilt, and no one lay on it. Strange, why is there a light in the house, but there are no people?
Could it be that there is a secret passage in this house?
The two men kept watch for an hour with doubts, and the oil lamps were burned out, and there was still no movement in the house.
Could it be that it ran away? Liang Zhesi lit a fire and looked at Yin Si, "Brother Li, why don't we go into the house and have a look!" β
After waiting for so long and no movement, this house is so simple, there should be no ambush, and even if there is, you have to go in hard.
Yin Si nodded, the two of them came down from the roof, the lights in the house had been extinguished, Liang Zhesi went to the firewood pile in the yard, picked up two wooden sticks, took out the fire oil from his arms, drenched his head, lit it with a fire fold, and handed it to Yin Si.
The two men held torches, and then kicked open the door of the house.
The dark doorway is open, like a youkai that eats people.
The two men walked in one after the other, back to back.
The room was not large, and it was clear at a glance, and the two of them circled around the wall, knocking and knocking, but found nothing.
The ground is made of mud and hard erection, and there will be no secret passages, the stools are made of old locust wood, and the dustpan is made of rattan, and there is nothing special about the dried vegetables that ordinary people come to eat in winter.
In the end, it was this dirty bed, the quilt and bedding on it, patched, dirty, at first glance, it was a raunchy man living here, Liang Zhesi picked up the quilt with a sword, and immediately there was a smell of sweat on his face, and he only frowned.
This quilt has not been washed in ten years!
After confirming that there was indeed nothing in the room, the two men held torches and separated to investigate them carefully.
Liang Zhesi was very resentful of this quilt, and kept poking and poking on it with a sword, and the black cotton wool in the quilt fell out by him, so he was satisfied.
The bed itself is very low, and if you kick it with your foot, you can kick it to the side board next to the ground, which is empty, and Liang Zhesi circled around the bed, and there are side boards in each circle.
Now, the whole room can hide things under this bed.
Liang Zhesi frowned, holding a torch and squatting down.
Out of the corner of his eye, Yin Si skimmed to the opposite side of Liang Zhesi's view, and something was squirming.
"Be careful!"
Yin Si threw the sword directly into the shadow that pounced on Liang Zhesi, the sword pierced through the flesh and blood, and directly fixed the person on the wall behind him, with a muffled snort, obviously, it was a person.
Liang Zhesi had already retreated to the window when Yin Si spoke.
The person who was pierced in the shoulder by the knife was indeed a person, and it was a thin woman, the torch shone past, and I could see her pale and bloodless face, with a strange smile, a pair of eyes, which were already red, her hair was messy, and the wound on her shoulder did not hurt at all, and she was still desperately struggling forward, trying to grab the two people in front of her, her teeth rattling.
It's a witch plague, not good!
Liang Zhesi and Yin Si realized that something was wrong, and the two quickly retreated from the house, only to find that the courtyard was full of people.
Men, women, and children, dressed in shabby clothes, with their hair disheveled, their pale faces glowing strangely in the firelight, their scarlet eyes, and gurgling voices coming out of their throats.
The whole village has been infected with the witch plague, and it is obvious that the other party knows that they will only have two people coming tonight.
Liang Zhesi immediately lit the signal flare in his hand, which is a distress bomb that Dali Temple will only use in an emergency, and the brighter the color, the more dangerous it is.
The bright red flares exploded in the air, and the strange colors were particularly conspicuous in the night.
The guards of Dali Temple guarding the Taoist temple were all dispatched in an instant, and Ku Rong also saw the bright red, and his heart chuckled, and he immediately ran away from the direction where the signal flare was and rushed over.
"Be careful, you can't be bitten by them," Yin Si and Liang Zhesi stood back to back in the middle of the courtyard.
Yin Si's sword was still nailed to the woman in the house, and there was only one torch in her hand at the moment, Liang Zhesi was shocked by the torch in one hand and the sword in the other, "These people, how long can they last after the outbreak of the witch plague?" β
"It depends on whether they are subdued or not," once the witch plague occurs, the whole person is like crazy, just want to bite, and the strength and reaction speed are different from ordinary people, only when they are caught, tied their limbs, so that she can't resist, the whole toxin will stop.
When the toxin stops, it means that their lives will be gone.
These are ordinary people, how desperate and crazy are they to turn the people of a village like this.
"Wu Man'er is not among these people," Yin Si stared at the people in the courtyard, and silently screened it, "You have to fight quickly, you can't let him run!" β
Once he is allowed to run to another village, the consequences are unimaginable.
"Okay," that's all! Liang Zhesi raised his sword and slashed at the crowd in front of him, while Yin Si retreated to the pile of firewood, picked up the axe of chopping wood with his foot, and slashed at the people who pounced on him.
When they arrived, the courtyard was already a mess, with severed arms and limbs, dripping with blood, and the two people in the middle were full of a strong smell of blood.
"Search the village to see if there is anything missing!" Liang Zhesi held the sword and said to the others, "Be careful, don't be bitten, if you find a living person, you must send a signal as soon as possible!" β
"Yes!" The guards who arrived immediately went to the houses in the village to investigate.
Ku Rong stepped forward quickly, grabbed the wrists of the two of them, probed for a while, and after noticing that there was no obstacle, he took out a medicine bottle from his waist, poured two pills, and stuffed them into the mouths of the two people.
"What the hell is going on?"
"It's a witch plague," Yin Si turned back to the house, the person fixed on the sword was no longer moving, and when he pulled out his sword, Yin Si swung his sword and turned around, and the blade of the sword slashed through the man's neck.
"Where's Wu Man'er?" The only one who can cause the witch plague is the witch barbarian.
"Ran away," Yin Si looked at Liang Zhesi with an ugly face on the side, "Brother Liang, you have to let someone hurry up and investigate!" β
Ku Rong whistled, and immediately more than a dozen people flew up to him from the shadows, "You guys also go to investigate!" β
"Yes!" After receiving the order, the people immediately dispersed.
"Just let you bring someone, you prefer to come by yourself, isn't this nonsense?" Ku Rong has palpitations, but fortunately it's okay.
"I have my own measure, my uncle is too worried," these people who are crazy about the witch plague are not terrible, what is terrible is the forces behind them, how do they know about his actions with Liang Zhesi?
"The people who came, but they were all guards in the Taoist temple?" Liang Zhesi asked suddenly.
"yes, what's wrong?" Kurong is puzzled, the Taoist temple is the closest to here!
"In that Taoist temple, but there are still people guarding it?" Yin Si chuckled in his heart.
"And some more," Kurong had left people there.
"Philosophical," Huang Pi arrived with the talent, "what happened?" β
"I still have something to do, so I'll take my leave first," Yin Si had an ominous premonition.
"Me too," Liang Zhezhe and Gongbo Zhezhe were in the same place, Liang Zhesi was also confused, and he didn't care about Lord Huang's questioning at the moment, followed Yin Si, and the two of them disappeared into the darkness together.
"This isβ" Huang Pi frowned and looked at Ku Rong.
"It's a witch plague, there are witch barbarians in the village," Ku Rong also realized that something was wrong, "The guards in the Taoist temple have already searched the village. β
While speaking, the guards had already finished searching, and they were a little surprised to see Huang Pi there, Lord Huang is here!
"Why are you here, didn't you let you guard the Taoist temple and not go anywhere?" Huang Pi frowned, and there was a ripple in his heart.
"Didn't the adults give an order, saying that the Liang guards might encounter danger when they went out tonight, so that we rushed over immediately when we saw the signal flare?" The guards were also puzzled, it was Jiang Jing who came to deliver the message today, and he had been responsible for delivering orders and news.
"Who gave you the command?" The person questioning was Jiang Jing.
"Isn't it Brother Jiang?" The guards were all stunned, "You said that the adults are going to meet Lord Du of Jing Zhaoyin tonight, and the others are going to protect the safety of the adults, and there is no way to rush over, so let's pay attention!" β
"When did I tell you that?"
"Just this evening, when we had dinner in the Taoist temple," the leading guard was very confused, "The brothers were all there at that time, and you also said that there were Miss Liang in the temple, as well as Li Wangye's people, and there would be no danger when we came out!" β
"I have been with adults all day today, and I have never left Dali Temple," Jiang Jing was also stunned, and looked at Huang Pi for help, "My lord, what I said is the truth!" β
"Okay, okay, there must be a misunderstanding in this," someone must have pretended to be Jiang Jing and coaxed the guards of the Taoist temple over, Huang Pi immediately ordered that some of the people who came with him immediately rushed to the Taoist temple, and some of them went to guard several intersections leading to the Taoist temple.