Su Qingmo exhaled in a low voice, "Who?" ”

Several people in the secret room hurriedly withdrew when they heard the sound, only to find that the person outside was actually Pei Lin.

Before a few people could breathe a sigh of relief, Pei Lin said anxiously: "Hurry up and leave, someone is coming." ”

Wei Xu pressed the protrusion, closed the stone wall again, and quickly moved in the direction of the hot spring pool under the feet of several people.

Not long after I stood still, I heard footsteps at the entrance of the hot spring pool.

Su Qingmo looked at the people who walked in and asked, "Is there anything else wrong with Xiaohu?" ”

Xiaohu's immature face was full of questions, "Sister, why didn't you go into the hot spring?" ”

Su Qingmo said naturally: "We didn't bring spare clothes, and we plan to come back when we go back and get them." ”

Xiaohu nodded knowingly, and then looked at Pei Lin, "Who is this brother?" ”

Su Qingmo introduced: "He is the one who entered the village with us, and he stayed elsewhere last night. ”

Pei Lin's eyebrows wrinkled subconsciously, and he looked at the half-grown child in front of him with deep meaning.

He saw the death gas in the little tiger's body.

Several people left the hot spring cave in a hurry, returned to Chang Bo's house to get clothes, and called Fang Mubei again, leaving Acropolis and Yong'an to guard the village.

Mu Yuanjing used the excuse that he was already familiar with the hot spring route as an excuse to reject Xiaohu's idea of wanting to accompany him.

The group returned to the cave again, Wei Xu guarded the entrance of the cave in a hidden place, once someone came over, he could quickly inform everyone, Mu Yuanjing called Mu Bei above the reason for wanting him to check the bones in the secret room.

After the secret room was opened again, even Fang Mubei was a little surprised, he looked at the countless white bones in front of him, and spontaneously stepped forward without Mu Yuanjing's instructions.

First glanced around in a large area, then he picked up a leg bone from the ground, carefully observed inch by inch, twisted his eyebrows and thought for a while, and then picked up a few white bones, compared them for a long time, and said to Mu Yuanjing: "Childe, there are no fatal injuries on the surface of these bones, which means that they were not killed by a foreign object, and there is no sign of poisoning on the surface of the bones." ”

Fang Mubei held the leg bone in front of Mu Yuanjing's eyes, "The entire bone obviously has marks of being cut and scraped by a knife, and the same is true for other bones. ”

Mu Yuanjing glanced at Fang Mubei, "What do you think?" ”

Fang Mubei licked his somewhat dry lips and said the guess in his heart, "I think that the cause of their death was that someone shaved the flesh off their body with a sharp blade and lost too much blood or died of pain. ”

After Su Qingmo on the side finished Fang Mubei's words, he then asked questions, "If these people were all killed by the villagers of Changshou Village, then why did they do this?" Where did they get these people? ”

Everyone fell into a brief silence because of Su Qingmo's words, and she pointed to a place buried under the bones, "There is something wrong there. ”

Pei Lin looked in the direction of her finger, and did notice a slight difference, he stepped forward to push away the bones on the surface, and dusted off the sand on the ground, revealing a rectangular plank.

Pei Lin glanced at Fang Mubei, and the two of them lifted the plank together, and a cold and pungent smell wafted out.

Below the floor is a secret passageway entrance, with a hazy candlelight reflection, and a soft ladder connecting the entrance to the ground, and you can faintly feel the wind blowing from below.

Pei Lin leaned on the wooden board and planned to go down to take a look, but as soon as his feet stepped on the soft ladder, he heard Wei Xu's voice from outside the secret room, "Quick, Xiaohu is here." ”

Pei Lin landed neatly on the ground, and together with Fang Mubei, he put down the plank and piled the bones back in place.

Several people hurriedly left the secret room, changed into spare clothes in the hot spring cave, and walked outside the cave, and met Xiaohu halfway through.

Xiaohu saw that a few people had changed their clothes, and said with a smile: "Grandpa asked me to ask you to go back to dinner." ”

The group followed Xiaohu back to the village chief Chang Bo's house, the table was full of wine and food, Chang Bo warmly beckoned everyone to sit down, "Come and try it, these dishes are all sent by the village people to entertain you." ”

Several people looked at the meat dishes on the table, thinking of the white bones in the secret room, and the chopsticks stretched out towards the vegetarian dishes.

After eating, Mu Yuanjing said to Chang Bo: "In the afternoon, we want to go around the village, but it is inconvenient. ”

Chang Bo readily agreed: "Let Xiaohu accompany you." ”

Mu Yuanjing smiled and declined, "Let's just take a walk." ”

Chang Bo hesitated, "Okay, then you should be careful, although the people in the village have lived here for many years, there are some places where we dare not go too deep." ”

Mu Yuanjing and Su Qingmo only took Wei Xu out of Chang Bo's house, and the three of them walked around the village and found that among the twenty-two families in Changshou Village, except for the village chief Chang Bo's house, the other twenty-one families were all built together in a group of three households, and they surrounded the village chief's house in the center.

On the way back to Chang Bo's house, Su Qingmo asked, "Did you see livestock in the village just now?" ”

Wei Xu thought about it for a moment and shook his head, "I didn't see anyone raising it." ”

"If there is no one in the whole village to raise it, where do those plates of meat come from at lunch?"

Chang Bo said that life in Changshou Village is self-sufficient, and the villagers will never step out of the village.

Wei Xu said: "Maybe it's raised somewhere else?" ”

Su Qingmo shook his head in denial.

The village is so big, they have walked nearby, and even the villagers will not go to the deeper places, so how can they keep their livestock there.

Mu Yuanjing looked at her, "What did Qingmo find?" ”

Although she hoped that she had thought too much, Su Qingmo still spoke: "There is no sign of raising livestock in the village, what can the white bones in the secret room in the cave and the plates of meat on the dinner table make you think of?" ”

Wei Xu thought about her words, his face changed suddenly, and he said in an extremely low voice: "What it means.. That. Some of the flesh that was shaved off the bones was brought to the villagers' tables? ”

Mu Yuanjing frowned imperceptibly, if the truth was really as Su Qingmo said, then Changshou Village would become the most dangerous place at this time.

The three of them quickly returned to Chang Bo's house and told the few people who stayed at Chang Bo's house that the villagers of Changshou Village might be cannibalism.

Pei Lin was a little worried, and asked quietly, "The prince plans to continue to stay in Changshou Village?" ”

Without waiting for Mu Yuanjing to speak, Pei Lin continued: "I have always had a question, how did the prince know that the content on that note was true? What if that note was just to lure the prince into Longevity Village? ”

Mu Yuanjing took out the note from his sleeve, then picked up the candle on the candlestick and lit it, and placed the paper not far from the candle, which could not be burned by the candle, but also allowed the candlelight to hit the paper.

A few people saw the word 'sincerity' slowly appear in the lower right corner of the paper shrouded in candlelight.

Mu Yuanjing blew the candle back into its place, and when the words on the paper disappeared, it was retracted into his sleeve.

"The king knows his words."

Su Qingmo asked in a low voice, "Who is the prince talking about?" ”

Mu Yuanjing's hands in his sleeves subconsciously clenched, "After the Emperor Taishang's throne returned to the mountains and forests, his whereabouts have been unknown, the emperor has sent someone to find but there has been no clue, and then the emperor heard the news, so he sent a secret guard to send a letter to the emperor, so that the emperor does not have to look for him again, when the time comes, he will appear, and there is a word 'sincerity' in the bottom corner of the letter to the emperor." ”

"So no matter how dangerous the trip to Changshou Village is, this king will take this trip."

Several people pondered the true purpose of the Emperor Taishang to lead Mu Yuanjing into Changshou Village.

Unconsciously late at night, Su Qingmo and Mu Yuanjing lay down one after another, the bright moonlight outside the house came in through the window, Su Qingmo couldn't sleep over and over, so he got up and left the bed.

Mu Yuanjing asked, "Where are you going?" ”

Su Qingmo put on his embroidered shoes and walked outside, "I'll pour a glass of water." ”

Mu Yuanjing didn't say anything more, Su Qingmo walked outside, and just as he was about to pick up the teapot, he noticed a faint candlelight in the house where Chang Bo and Xiaohu lived.

She gently put down the teapot and tiptoed over.

There was a small gap in the door, which was probably left unnoticed when the door was closed.

Su Qingmo held his breath and heard Chang Bo's voice coming from the room.

"When exactly are you going to do it? We can't keep them for much longer. ”

Su Qingmo's eyes looked through the gap, who knew that his strength was not well controlled, and the door was moved.

She froze in place all of a sudden, not daring to breathe, but fortunately the people in the room did not notice.

Su Qingmo continued to look into the house, and when he saw Chang Bo kneeling in front of Xiaohu, he was shocked enough.

Chang Bo in the house knelt on the ground and whispered, "Our people have been ready for a long time, and they are all waiting for your order." ”

Xiaohu still looks like a child, but the expression on his face is much more solemn, showing an adult momentum, "It won't be long before they will soon become like those people in the cave." ”

Su Qingmo covered his mouth with both hands, slowly retreated, and left silently.

The little tiger in the house glanced at the crack in the open door, with a smile on his face.

After Su Qingmo returned to the house, he told Mu Yuanjing about the conversation between Chang Bo and Xiaohu.

Mu Yuanjing's face was cold, "The two of them are hiding too deeply, if you want to catch their flaws, you must be patient and wait for the moment when they make a move." ”

When Su Qingmo heard this, his heart moved, and he said, "Do you remember the night you lived here, someone spied on us?" I suspect they were the ones who were watching us at that time. ”

Mu Yuanjing hugged her and said softly.

Su Qingmo then asked, "Don't we have to make some preparations before they make a move?" ”

"I have asked the Acropolis to return to Beijing tonight to mobilize the people of the Hidden World to come over, if nothing else, tomorrow the hidden guards will ambush into this canyon."

Su Qingmo breathed a sigh of relief and let himself sink into sleep.

Early the next morning, Chang Bo looked at the people sitting around the dining table and asked, "Why does it seem that there is a little brother missing?" ”

Pei Lin said according to the discussed rhetoric: "We can't keep bothering you here, Gongzi asked him to go up there to explore the way, and leave tomorrow." ”

Xiaohu's face was a little regretful, "Are you leaving tomorrow?" Can't you spend a few more days with Xiaohu? ”

Everyone learned about Xiaohu and Chang Bo from Su Qingmo, and at this time, looking at his coy appearance, they felt a little uncomfortable in their hearts.

Seeing that everyone didn't answer, Xiaohu put down the food in his hand and left silently with tears in his eyes.

Chang Bo smiled awkwardly, "I'll go see him, this family has never been so lively, I'm afraid this kid is reluctant." ”

Yongan echoed: "You go and persuade Xiaohu and tell him that we will come to see him next time we have a chance." ”

Chang Bo nodded kindly, and then left the table.

In order to lure Xiaohu and Chang Bo to do it, everyone had already discussed the strategy, Su Qingmo took Qingzhu to the hot spring cave, Yong'an who accompanied him stayed outside, Pei Lin and Fang Mubei went back to the villagers' houses where they were staying, and Wei Xuyin protected Mu Yuanjing who was left alone in Chang Bo's house in the dark.

Several people felt that Chang Bo and Xiaohu's target must be Mu Yuanjing, so in order to create conditions for the two of them, they left Mu Yuanjing alone.

But variables have happened.

When she, Qingzhu and Yongan fainted in the cave, she seemed to understand.

Chang Bo and Xiaohu's target turned out to be themselves.

When Su Qingmo regained consciousness, the first thing he felt was the cool air, and the smell of blood in the air.

Her head was groggy, and the feeling of restraint up and down her body made her wake up all of a sudden.

She was tied straight to a post, her hands tied behind her back, the rope wrapped from her shoulders to her knees, her feet off the ground, the rope wrapped so tightly that her spine ached.

Two steps away are Qingzhu and Yong'an, who are also tied up.

Qingzhu had already woken up, she looked at Su Qingmo with some eagerness, and asked Su Qingmo if something was wrong with her eyes.

Su Qingmo shook his head slightly.

She struggled to turn her head and look at the boxy room.

Opposite as far as the eye can see, there is a huge shelf covered with a white cloth, and the whole room has no doors or windows, except for a wooden ladder in the corner, and the place where the wooden ladder leads is the exit from the roof.

It's more like an underground chamber than a house.

Yong'an, who was on the other side, let out a low groan and slowly woke up.

His mind was still a little confused, and he struggled to blink his eyes a few times before he could see his surroundings clearly.

There was a sound at the exit where the wooden ladder was connected, and someone opened the exit above.

Xiaohu walked down with the handle of the wooden ladder, followed by Chang Bo, and the two stepped on the wooden ladder with a 'creak' sound.

Seeing that the three of them had woken up, Xiaohu smiled and said regretfully to Yongan and Qingzhu: "I didn't have to arrest you, but who knows that your luck is not very good." ”

Su Qingmo's face was calm, as if he was just asking Xiaohu how the weather was today, "Why do you want to arrest me?" ”

Xiaohu didn't answer, and slowly paced to the shelf covered by the cloth, "You don't have anything else to know besides this question?" ”

His hand slowly traced along the outline of the shelf, and his mouth kindly reminded, "For example, the origin of the Soul Leaving Incense, such as the person who took the Soul Leaving Incense from me, and then the white bones in the secret room." ”

He looked at Su Qingmo and grinned, "You don't want to know any of this?" ”

Su Qingmo still looked unfazed, "Will you tell me?" ”

"Of course you will, after all, you're all going to die."

Xiaohu's words were full of malice and resentment.

"But before you die, I'm going to show you some good things."

He grabbed the white cloth from the shelf and pulled it off.

Su Qingmo's pupils dilated slightly, looking at the things placed on the shelf, and endured the nausea that surged up in his throat.