Zhao Nan quietly searched in the woods.

He paid special attention to the lush bushes and under the tallest trees.

Bending down and grabbing lightly in those places, white bones and rotting corpses continued to appear. The deceased were all children, ranging in age from five or six to their teens. There are several corpses that are very strange, some of them grow backwards from the knee down, that is to say, the child's soles are backwards, and although the bones are scattered, it can still be seen that the thigh is broken in the wrong position, it is bent to the back.

It's an awkward position, like ...... The gardener's hands are full of strange trees, and those trees are bound and twisted by human power in order to win with strange shapes. As Gong Zizhen's "The Story of the Sick Plum Pavilion" said, "Plum is beautiful with music, and straight is without posture; Take the beauty as the beauty, and there is no scenery in the right way; Sparse is beautiful, and dense is stateless. "Everything that trees suffer stems from the deformed aesthetics of human beings. And what about the deformed humans here?

Humans have some deformities, but it is impossible for so many deformities to be concentrated on this island, or to die in their youth.

Unless this is where deformed children are deliberately collected, there is another possibility: these children were once normal, but they became deformed when they arrived on this island.

Thinking of Fang Cai's bloody broken leg and broken arm, Zhao Nan's heart tightened, and he suddenly thought of a terrible word: harvesting and cutting.

These four words seem ordinary, but in fact they are bloody and inhumane.

"Picking" is to take, collect; "Raw" raw materials generally refer to the normal development of young children, and "cutting" means cutting with a knife and axe.

To put it simply, it is to seize normal living people, especially young children, and turn them into strangely shaped and disabled monsters with knives and axes and other means.

This barbaric practice is said to have originated from the art of witchcraft, and is intrinsically linked to human sacrifice. Because the witch Gu of all dynasties was strictly forbidden, so it was only circulated secretly among the people, and there were records of dismemberment of human bodies and killing ghosts in the literature of the Song Dynasty. It is only said that this is an act of killing people and sacrificing ghosts.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the 41st volume of the "Great Yuan Shengzheng Guo Dynasty Code", "Criminal Department III, All Evils, UnTaoism, and Prohibition of Collecting Animals and Sacrificing Ghosts", included the prohibition of harvesting animals in the national law. This shows how bad this behavior must be, and can make all dynasties hate it. Will this kind of inhumanity occur on this small island?

Zhao Nan raised his eyes and looked around, only the branches in the woods danced wildly in the wind, and there was no figure in sight.

He had already walked to the front of the mountain wall, bent down to inspect it, stood up, and suddenly shook his whole body, and saw that his tall figure was like a dough, slowly elongated and flattened, and at last only a thin piece remained, and his clothes fell aside.

The man of paper got up and picked up his clothes, hid them behind a bush, and staggered through the gap in the middle of the stone wall.

Zhao Nan squeezed into the stone wall, and instantly recovered his prototype after landing, and then he felt that something was wrong, looked left and right, and then lowered his head, and hurriedly reached out to cover his lower body.

Don't talk about a human figure at this moment, there is not even a ghost, but what kind of person is he, he knows that there are some things that cannot be seen by the eye, and there may be souls in this space who know Ye Quan, I am afraid that how many characteristics he looks there will be told by them as a joke. After thinking about it, he suddenly swayed a few more times, his body was soft like a noodle, and at the same time it was dark gray, similar to the color of the rocks around the cave, he turned around to look at his body, seemed to be very satisfied, grinned, and then swished like an oversized gecko, sticking to the rock above, there were only two huge torches inserted in the hole, the fire shook in the mouth of the cave, the hole was bright and dark, the long strip on the top of the cave and the rock were one, there was no difference at all.

Crawling a little bit along the entrance of the cave, gradually looking at the road opening up, it turns out that the front of this stone cave is a passage, walking and walking into a hall, the hall is lit with a bonfire, and there is some meat hanging on the shelf next to it, and it is fragrant and roasted.

There was no one in the hall, a dark shadow hung down from the top of the cave, and suddenly there was one less roast chicken on the shelf. Zhao Nan stuck to the top of the cave, munching on the chicken legs, this day was busy, he didn't eat much, and the aroma of roast chicken was too tempting.

Zhao Nan ate a chicken leg in three or two clicks, stuffed the bone into his mouth, chewed it carefully, and suddenly stuck to the cave wall without moving. Because there was the sound of footsteps from far and near, someone spoke: "How can it bleed without stopping, isn't our medicine always good?" ”

Another person said: "I heard Bai Ye say that this dead child's life is not good, and others use medicine that works, so he can't stop the bleeding, his life is not as good as others, and he can't complain about others." ”

Zhao Nanxin said, they cut off two arms, did one of the children have an accident?

The two men carried a skinny corpse all the way, and there were still drips of blood on the ground.

Zhao Nan's heart sank, and he almost fell off the cave wall, he held his breath and condensed, and listened to a person say: "How to dig a pit and bury it at this big night." He could tell that it was the two men who had just buried their arms.

"No way, burying someone is much more troublesome than burying an arm, who told the two of us not to be proud of the boss." The other sighed.

"That little ghost hasn't eaten for a day, do you think he'll die?"

"No, I can't help him, the boss said that the little ghost has a good foundation and can be changed into a two-headed monster and can make a lot of money."

"Two-headed monsters? Whose head is cut off, yours or mine? There was tension in the man's voice.

The other laughed: "You're stupid, how old are we, and we can't use it on that little ghost's neck even if we cut off our heads." The boss said that he told the military advisor to stay away and look for a few children to come over and see the qualifications. Anyway, you can't pick this town to start, the grass next to the nest is so easy to eat, and a little ghost can't bear it. ”

This town, the grass on the edge of the nest, does not eat for a day, Zhao Nan judged that what they said must be the seventh day of the first month, and someone in this cave wants to transform the seventh day of the first month into a two-headed monster, which is really unconscionable.

Zhao Nan was angry, and the roast chicken in his hand fell down with a click. The two men had already figured out the mechanism of the hole at this moment, and when they heard the sound, they hurriedly turned around, and saw that there seemed to be something on the ground in the firelight. They put down the child's body and hurried over to check, and at this moment, Zhao Nan had quickly moved to the entrance of the cave, and the child's body on the ground could be clearly seen from above.

The child had only one arm, the left side was empty, and the shoulder was bleeding profusely, and it seemed that he had only recently died. The child's eyes were still round, just in front of Shang Zhaonan's eyes, Rao was that he had seen too many death scenes, and he couldn't help but tremble in his heart.

"How do you lose a leg?" A man picks up a chicken from the ground and looks around. "Damn, we two work hard, but they are lazy and hiding from chicken!" The other man was furious.

"No, it's the middle of the night, and those bastards have gone to bed."

"Hmph, maybe it's pretending to be asleep, not working, not talking, and stealing our roast chicken, grandma's, and telling him to have a stomach upset."

The two men put the roast chicken back on its original shelf, fiddled with the mechanism to open the door of the cave, and carried the child outside. Watching them go out, Zhao Nan swished a few times and came to the back of the stone hall, and found that although the back was smaller than the front hall, there were small holes in the four walls, and some of the holes were also equipped with iron fences Zhao Nan probe came down to take a look, and there were people in these small holes on the side.