Some of these things Cao Daoping knew when he came back to investigate before, but there were also some things that had not happened at that time, Sun Yang walked again along the road he had taken when the previous incident happened, and the traces they left here are still faintly visible, but most of the people in the matter have changed greatly.

He stayed for a long time in the place where Lu Lou attracted the heavenly thunder, and felt that he had a lot to say to Master Lu, but in the end, he just saluted a few sticks of incense and burned some paper money.

He began to look at the places mentioned by the director, and the forest behind the village was still a mess, the smell of rancid had largely dissipated, but there were bird feathers and small bones everywhere, and he found nothing unusual here, but he found that there was almost no sign of living life in the whole forest. All the plants were in poor condition and looked like they were dying, and he pulled out a few bushes and found that they had actually died from the roots.

Tiger Leaping Stone Village is actually on the top of the opposite hill, but the ditch between the two mountains is very deep, and a small river flows in it, Sun Yang found that the further down he goes, the better the survival of the plants, and the situation of both animals and plants on the two hills is very bad.

Tiger Leaping Stone Village is still empty, according to Cao Daoping and the director's description, it has been empty for nearly half a year, but Sun Yang walked into the village, except for the dust and fallen leaves all over the ground, there was not much sign of animal or plant invasion.

Many of the doors and windows were still open, and there were even traces of an unfinished dinner on the table. Of course, the food had already become moldy and then dried up and turned into a mass of black powder, but it still allowed Sun Yang to sketch in his mind the scene when the incident occurred.

It was as if the whole village had been swept away by something in the evening, leaving everything behind.

The hazelnut slope is behind the Tiger Leaping Stone Village, and sure enough, as the director said, all the trees have died, but what makes Sun Yang mind more is that there is not even a single insect, a single bird or a larger animal here, and on the top of a few square kilometers of mountains, all life has been taken away, and even the soil has turned into sand without nutrients.

This anomaly had kept him here for a long time, but he had not been able to find any signs of the existence of a tomb or even a cavern like before, but when he marked the location of the hill, he found that it was almost in the center of the nine tombs.

He began to search along the same distance, and sure enough, he soon found other tombs, some of which had even been buried deep under the earth, but without exception, the evil spirit that had terrified them, brought them to carnage and destruction, and even forced them to fight so hard was gone.

"I've found eighteen graves." He said on the phone to Cao Daoping. "There was no response."

"We really did something wrong...... Cao Daoping said in a low voice.

All indications are that this series of crude and bizarre tombs may indeed be seals against an even more terrifying being, and now they have all lost their effectiveness, which means that the thing has escaped.

Sun Yang felt a chill in his heart, Master Lu had sacrificed his life in order to defeat them, but all this made his sacrifice ridiculous and meaningless.

"I'll catch that thing." He said to Cao Daoping.

"It's not time yet, with what you're capable of now...... And we don't even know where that thing fled. ”

"I'm going to catch that thing!" He said again.

"Okay." Cao Daoping finally said. "I trust you, but you have to be careful."

But he had no way to see on the other end of the phone, on the map in front of Sun Yang, the locations of Hazelnut Slope, Tiger Leaping Stone, and Xia Invention Village could almost be connected into a straight line, and this straight line extended to Yuanshan City.

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Sun Yang wanted to ask Ma Bin to help check what happened on this line more than half a year ago, but what he didn't expect was that Ma Bin contacted him one step in advance.

"The previous incident of Li Xu, the above handling opinions are the same as I guessed, let you make meritorious contributions."

"Okay." This was originally within Sun Yang's acceptance.

"But it's a little bit more troublesome." Ma Bin said hesitantly. "They want you to deal with that matter in Xizhuang."

"Xizhuang?"

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"Let's go and have a look." Lu Xiaoling proposed.

A year is about to pass again, and the weather is getting cooler again, but there is something in the air that cannot be explained, which makes people feel depressed unconsciously.

Ma Bin did not object, there had already been agents who had come here to conduct a systematic investigation, and it had been proved that as long as there was no hostility towards these houses and no attempt to harm the old people living in them, the resentful spirit that roamed the land would not appear at all.

There was a faint smoke coming from the chimney of the house where the white flags were fluttering, and when they approached, they saw a diminutive old woman sitting in front of the stove, unaware of what was cooking on the stove in front of her.

The house is an old-fashioned street house in the front and back yards, but apparently, it has long since lost its original design function and has been artificially divided into many small rooms. The old woman lived in the original street house, which had no windows, and when the wires were cut, there was nothing to see inside without opening the door.

"Auntie!" Ma Bin tried his best to squeeze out a smile.

The old man's pale and godless face turned, and there was no trace of the sparkle on it that should have belonged to the living.

In Sun Yang's eyes, she was like a skeleton still panting.

"I'm not going to move out! Don't waste your strength. She shook her head.

I'm sure I've heard too many of these words these days.

Ma Bin smiled bitterly at Sun Yang, but Lu Xiaoling said with a smile: "Mother-in-law, we are not here to persuade you to move away. ”

"And who are you?"

"We just want to come and see you and talk to you."

The old man was probably so lonely that she didn't hear even such an obvious lie, or she heard it, but she didn't want to expose it.

"What about your cooking?" Sun Yang followed Lu Xiaoling's words and asked.

"Hmm."

In the pot, the aroma of rice is wafting out little by little, and the steam occasionally lifts the lid of the pot.

"You've done so much, huh?" Lu Xiaoling said.

"I'm not alone, my son went outside to work, he worked hard all day long, eat more!"

I don't know why, the old man's words suddenly made Sun Yang's nose a little sour. He looked around, and Lu Xiaoling's eyes were also a little red.

"Have you eaten? Why don't you eat something with the eldest mother? ”

Ma Bin was about to refuse, but Lu Xiaoling nodded and said, "Then thank you, seriously, I haven't eaten this kind of rice cooked in an iron pot for a long time, and I'm really a little greedy." ”

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Forgot to bless everyone, now make up for it...... Merry Christmas and a peaceful year