We walked to the side of the road where we came, and there were rows of dense footprints on it.

"You see," said the spirit, "this row of footprints came from where they were by the lake, and this row came from the cave, and both rows of footprints were new, and they came together and left from this road. ”

My mind was racing, "I see, it must be the cat people who know that they are not our opponents, so, leave us in the cave, tell us the so-called truth, delay time, and let those cats and dogs escape!" ”

Xiuya said, "Ning Que is right, nine times out of ten, this is the case, last night, we blocked the entrance, and they had no way to leave, so arrange a plan and find a way to escape." They are not demons, it is impossible to leave all from the side of the mountain wall, cats can go down from the mountain wall, dogs absolutely can't. ”

"But...... That's not right. Lingling said, "Then why did the cat man die?" If he wants to escape, how can he choose to die? The cat man is the owner here, and he will die. Save these cats and dogs? It doesn't make sense. ”

Han Dongzhu said, "Are cat people treating these cats and dogs as family all these years?" He would rather die than go with us, so he let the cat and dog go. ”

Xiuya said: "Let's chase, catch up with those cats and dogs, they must have gone somewhere." ”

"Ning Que, you take care of Lingling and Han Dongzhu. I'm one step ahead! ”

Han Dongzhu and I were injured and couldn't run, and Lingling couldn't transform, so Xiuya had to chase after him alone.

The three of us could only move forward slowly, and after a few minutes, suddenly, Han Dongzhu, who was next to me, fell to the ground.

"What's wrong with you?" I helped Han Dongzhu up.

Han Dongzhu's face was pale, his eyes were black, his lips were blue-purple, his mouth was trembling, I touched his head, it was very hot!

Han Dongzhu said, "I didn't know what was going on just now, my eyes turned black, and I fell, but now my mind is very clear, and the stuffy feeling I had before is gone." ”

Lingling said, "Your face is not right, it is as white as paper." ”

Han Dongzhu caught a cold last night, his face was pale, he fainted just now, his face seemed to have turned pale with a brush, and his lips were blue, which was very terrifying.

Han Dongzhu smiled: "I'm fine, isn't it just a cold, I can hold on, I'm really fine now, I'm very energetic." ”

As he spoke, Han Dongzhu walked forward.

I think this guy is holding on, and it looks like we're going to send him back to the village when we get down the mountain.

The strange thing is that after a few minutes, Han Dongzhu's pale face improved a lot.

After we walked for more than twenty minutes, there was a sound of footsteps in front of us, and we saw from a distance that Xiuya had run back again.

Xiuya was panting and sweating profusely, I handed Xiuya a bottle of water, Xiuya took a few sips, and said, "We may have been tricked, in the small hole on the other side of the cave, black smoke is billowing out, someone is setting fire to it, and I can't get in." ”

Setting fire to a cave? Apparently blocking our way.

"Last night, at the scene of our battle, the corpses of the wolfdogs and cats we killed were all gone, and it seems that someone burned the corpses in the cave on the other side of the entrance!"

"Obviously, someone is afraid that we will take away the body for investigation!"

I was stunned, and it seemed that my previous inference was correct, "You mean, that...... Those corpses that died suddenly in the cave before......"

Xiuya wiped a handful of sweat from her head, "Let's go, we must get the body and take it back for testing!" ”

Xiuya took another step ahead, and we went back the way we came, and when the three of us approached the woods, black smoke and scorching stench were wafting everywhere around us, and thick smoke was billowing from the cave.

Xiuya sat by the lake, with a lot of black ash on her body, and a look of resentment on her face.

Xiuya told us. When she came here just now, there was thick smoke billowing from the cave, and when she rushed in, it was too late, and there was a smell of gasoline at the scene, which was burned with gasoline, and now, all the corpses had turned to ashes.

This is clearly a dismemberment, so we can't find any clues.

We sat by the lake and deliberated for a long time, and finally came up with an answer.

We found this place last night, and the cat people didn't want to expose it here, and wanted to kill us, but Xiuya came, and the cat people saw that Xiuya was a member of the Taoist Society, so powerful, so they retreated.

Today we found the cat man and his nest, and the cat man changed his attitude, relented to us, and told us the ins and outs of everything.

While we were talking to the cat people, the cats and dogs outside had quietly evacuated to transport the bodies we killed last night to the cave here.

Xiuya wants to catch the cat man back, so all the injured cats, dogs and cat people here died mysteriously, this must be the cat man's plan to delay time and let the other cats and dogs escape.

Then, we found the cat and dog fleeing, and chased after the footprints, and Suya found that the cave that came here was full of black smoke and could not be entered.

When we returned, all the bodies were burned.

Cat Man's plan. It can't deal with us, so they will find a way to erase all traces here and prevent us from taking the corpse away for study.

The corpses of cats and dogs do not have demonic energy, so there must be other problems, otherwise the cat people would not have arranged this plan.

Lingling said, "Again, the cat man is the owner here. How can you kill yourself and protect your cats and dogs? That doesn't make sense. ”

I thought about it for a moment and said, "Isn't it...... The owner here is not a cat person, but a ...... Someone else, the cat man just listens to the real owner? ”

Xiuya nodded, "What you said makes sense, maybe someone is secretly manipulating all this." ”

Ling Ling suddenly said, "The master here." Could it be the first time we've seen it in the village, the black cat burning incense? ”

Black cats? Now we just infer that there must be someone behind this plot, there must be some secret hidden, otherwise, there would not be a design to burn all the corpses and erase all traces.

Xiuya said: "Since someone is planning these things, there is no mobile phone signal in the mountains. I can only discuss with the cat people in person, no matter how high the intelligence of those cats and dogs is, they also need someone to command, then this person must have been here last night! ”

Xiuya was right, but by now, the man must have fled.

Han Dongzhu's face was ugly, and what had happened recently was beyond his knowledge. He said, "The cat-faced man was the monk from three years ago, and he ran into the mountains three years ago and disappeared without a trace, I think...... He raised these cats and dogs here, and the birth of cat children, could it be for some kind of profit, for money? ”

Han Dongzhu is right. Every case, any strange thing, has a purpose.

In the case of Shangnan Village, Fang Shenpo and others did all kinds of evil for money, and the children of Yang Village were the white bone demons who punished the villagers, behind each case. There is a mastermind, the initial investigation, and the people who appear are all pawns.

Cat people are definitely not the masterminds.

What is the purpose of the murderer to control the mutation of cats and dogs? What do you want?

We rested for a while, searched around again, and found no clues, so. Head to the peak exit.

When we arrived at the cave, there were still puffs of black smoke spreading in the cave, which did not disperse for a long time.

It wasn't until late in the evening that the smoke in the cave gradually dissipated, and when we entered the cave, there was still a smell of smoke inside, which did not affect our movements.

After we entered the small cave inside the cave, there was a passage that spiraled down. It is about one meter wide and more than two meters high, and we can't see our fingers, we are holding a flashlight, and Xiuya is leading the way in front.

As we went, we found many cracks of various sizes in the walls of the cave on both sides, and the cave had been around for some years, and the cave had been going downward, and in a short time we saw a large pile of burning ashes in a clearing around a bend.

The ditch dogs and cats we killed last night were burned here, and there were footprints of cats and dogs all around, but no human footprints.

Could it be that cats and dogs really brought these corpses to be burned?

We walked for more than ten minutes and finally walked out.

The exit is very secretive, it has been submerged to more than half a meter high, behind a large tree tens of meters high, and the large tree is only more than three meters from the mountain. The huge branches and foliage were hanging down, and the grass was more than a person tall all around, so even if you stood two or three meters away from the exit, you couldn't find a cave here.

The grass around the exit showed signs of being trampled, and the cats and dogs were leaving in the direction of the west.

Originally, I also planned to send Han Dongzhu back to the village to treat the cold, if the fever is too severe, there may be a big problem, but. We found that Han Dongzhu's face had returned to normal.

Han Dongzhu said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about me, I'm in very good health, I usually have a cold, I don't take medicine, so I will carry it, I can't go back now, I want to show everyone the way." ”

Han Dongzhu is fine. Everyone was relieved, but ...... How does a cold go so fast? A common cold, if not treated, is also a seven-day illness, right?

We followed the tracks left by the cats and dogs, and here was a large forest, to the west of the peak we had before, and Han Dongzhu told us to go around this peak. It's the canyon we passed by before, and from the canyon, it's a deep mountain.

We have been following the traces left by the cats and dogs, the cats and dogs walked very quickly, leaving a lot of trampled grass and footprints, and when we reached the mouth of the canyon, it was a large wasteland, full of rubble, and the footprints disappeared.

Streams of stench emanated from the stinky puddles in the canyon, and we judged that the cats and dogs had gone to the canyon, possibly to the mountains.

Lingling's mission this time is to go to the mountains to find the Medicine King.

Suddenly, I had a terrible thought in my mind, "You say...... Could the mastermind behind this matter be the king of medicine? ”

Everyone was stunned, and Ling Ling said, "Master said that the medicine king used to be a disciple of Shaolin Temple, and he had a strange temper, and then left Shaolin Temple and made a living by practicing medicine. ”

Suya spoke. "When the medicine king was in Shaolin, he was a bitter Zen master and a demon master of Shaolin Temple, because he stole some forbidden medicine books from the Shaolin Temple Zangjing Pavilion, he was found and expelled from Shaolin, and he has disappeared since then."

Han Dongzhu said, "I just peeked at some medicine books. Are you going to be kicked out of Shaolin? I have also been to Shaolin Temple, it is an ordinary temple, and the Scripture Pavilion is also open, ordinary people can go in, what you say is like filming a martial arts drama. ”

Ling Ling said, "Han Dongzhu, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, curiosity kills the cat, this time you helped lead the way, we are very grateful to you, but after the incident here, you still forgot everything." ”

Han Dongzhu was a little dissatisfied, but he still nodded, he was just an ordinary person, and the more he knew, the more he didn't do him any good.

Xiuya continued, "The Medicine King used to be very famous, acting both right and evil, there are many mages in the mage world because of illness, or poisoning, and injuries in battle, these diseases cannot be eradicated, they are looking for the Medicine King, but the Medicine King has not appeared, and it is rumored in the mage world that the Medicine King was secretly killed by the people of the Shaolin Temple nine times out of ten. ”

"In the past few years, some people have said that the medicine king haunts near Chongyang Mountain, but this news has not been made public, and the master learned it from a friend."

I said, "Since the Medicine King is a pharmacist, then these cats and dogs have mutated, and the Chiba monk has mutated, but there is no demonic energy, could it be that the Medicine King did it?" ”