A few hours later, in a small mountain village about 5 kilometers away from the site of the explosion.

It was late at night, but the village square was lit with torches, and the flames that breathed a scorching breath illuminated the anxious and frightened faces.

The square was originally a threshing floor, and during the non-agricultural season, it was a place where the villagers gathered to discuss matters. The square is not large, barely able to accommodate the whole village.

This is a small village called Dongxiang Village, where Snow Marks once lived.

At this time, people gathered in one place, ignoring the heat and the smell of others, and looked at the corpses on the ground hesitantly, but no one spoke. Only the family members of the deceased wailed and wept beside the corpse, and the mournful cry was especially sharp in the dark night.

It was the corpses of four hunters, three of whom had been decapitated. There is another, when the chest is stabbed, penetrating the chest, the blood has dried up, but the face still retains a frightened expression, as if he saw some extremely terrifying scene at the moment of death.

Next to their corpses sat a burly hunter, blind, with two lines of blood like tear stains. He was waving his hands wildly, shouting, "Demon law, demon law!"

A burly man in a wolf's skin crouched in front of him, looked at him gloomily for a moment, and shook his head.

These people are known to the villagers, they are the hunters who are responsible for the safety of the village, and they are all the best in the team of hunters in the village. From the morning, in order to perform a special task. They had been setting up outside the village for a long time, but they didn't expect that by evening, they would be blind, fools, and corpses.

The mission failed, and the target not only fled, but also killed at least four people.

Who is so powerful and so murderous?

The villagers know it.

"Son of the Devil!"

On the high platform on the east side of the square, an angry and majestic voice was heard.

The platform is about two meters high, and is supported below by several abandoned cars, the wreckage of which has been badly rusted and has been scrapped for many years. The floor of the high platform is made of wooden planks, but they are all made of broken, different sizes of wooden planks, which looks both barren and solemn - in this era of scarcity of materials, it is very difficult for an ordinary small village to build such a high platform, so it is all the more solemn.

The high platform is a balcony-like structure extending from a large wooden house. The surface of the wooden house is covered with all kinds of strange metal pieces and plastic objects that cannot be seen. Some of them were dismantled from cars and airplanes, some were dug out of the ground, and almost all of them were attached to them as long as they could shelter from the wind and rain.

This extended platform is the one used by the village elders to announce important events. The large wooden house, on the other hand, is the council chamber of the elders.

On the high platform, there is a delicate rattan chair, which is already a symbol of wealth and status in this small mountain village where materials are scarce.

The chair was wide and ostentatious, and the man who sat in it was a thin old man, with a wrinkled face, and a white beard, and he trembled when he uttered this shout, and he did not know whether it was out of anger or weakness.

Behind him, on either side of the chair, stood two hunters with muskets, apparently much better dressed than those on the ground, at least to the extent that they could cover their bodies.

The flintlock muskets they were armed with were old, and it was unknown if they would be able to use them properly.

At this time, their faces were also sad.

Sitting on the chair was the great elder of this small village in Dongxiang, the most famous person in the village, and the head of the three elders of the Council of Elders. It was he who issued a wanted warrant for Snow Marks and sent hunters to hunt down Snow Marks.

"The means are so cruel! It's just terrible, this son must be the son of the rumored demon, if it's not the son of the devil, how can it be so powerful?"

"The Forest of Secret Whispers has a vision today, this is the wrath of the god of the forest!

"If this son is not removed, the curse of our village will not be lifted!" the elder roared angrily.

Under the high platform, the silent crowd began to stir and let out the sound of chattering. It was like a pool of stagnant water, with bubbles emerging from the bottom of the water.

"yes, I've heard that the snow marks have turned into something that looks like a devil. ”

"That kid has been different from normal children since he was a child, and I said a long time ago that there must be something wrong with him. ”

"The hunter who escaped said he killed these people with a demon spell!"

"The demon is deep, this son will be removed!"

People whispered and sent messages of terror and anger to each other.

At this moment, a crisp woman's voice came out loud from the back of the crowd:

"It's ridiculous, the legend says that the son of the devil has the power to destroy the world, if my son is really the son of the devil, I am afraid that everyone present will not escape the 'clutches'. Why did he have to flee the village?"

The speaker was facing the platform, and his words were directed at the elder, and the crowd in front of her couldn't help but separate from it, as if making a way for her.

I saw a middle-aged woman standing at the back of the crowd, looking at the high platform from afar, with a proud expression.

She was dressed in a plain coarse cloth outfit and looked no different from the other peasant women in the village. The years have left a lot of marks on her face, but it can still be seen that she must have been a beautiful woman when she was young.

She was thin, had a vegetable-looking face, and couldn't help coughing a few times after she finished speaking, as if she was seriously ill. She stood there as if she would fall when the wind blew, but she exuded a natural majesty that people did not dare to violate.

Between her and the elder, the crowd gave way to a straight passage.

This woman was the mother of Snow Scarred, and she couldn't listen to the elders' words, so she spoke out to defend her son.

"Presumptuous......! Who let this witch out?" the elder knew who was speaking without looking, and his anger grew even stronger, and he stood up tremblingly and questioned the crowd.

Mother Snow has been locked up in a makeshift cell in the village for the past few days, but somehow she is here.

"Elder, Mother Snow Scar is a simple person, we villagers see it, since she came to Dongqian for more than ten years, she has been keeping to herself, and her reputation is very good, she will not be a demon. ”

A rugged man with a hammer stood up from the crowd and said to the high platform, turning his head to look at the villagers again:

"Sister-in-law Gao, you had a difficult birth the year before last, didn't Mother Snow Marks help you give birth? And Salaha, your cow is sick and dying, and Mother Snow Mark boiled herbs to cure it, have you all forgotten?" said the rugged man as he looked at a few people in the crowd.

Salaha and the tall sister-in-law both lowered their heads and disappeared into the depths of the crowd, refusing to say anything.

"Blacksmith Naqu, don't defend her anymore! No matter what you say, you can't exonerate their mother and son. The barn tragedy must have something to do with Snow Scar, and unless she can give us a reasonable explanation, these lives in the village can only be counted on Snow Scarf!" the elder shouted.

The villagers began to whisper again, and a few people couldn't stop nodding.

The so-called barn tragedy is an incident that happened a month ago, in the only barn in the village, there was a mysterious murder, eight people were found in the barn, and a young girl **** died. However, some villagers fled from the village when they saw the snow scars covered in blood.

After the investigation of the hunters, most of the deceased were strangled by ropes, and their deaths were tragic, as if they had been tied up by ropes, and they were covered with strangulation marks.

There was no sign of anyone else moving in the barn, so the escaped snow marks were a major murder suspect.

Some have questioned whether Snow Marks may have killed in self-defense.

However, the eight villagers who died were all honest farmers on weekdays, and it was impossible for them to commit violence against Snow Marks, so the possibility of Snow Marks killing people in self-defense was basically ruled out.

Another puzzling situation is that although Snow Mark is a talented hunter seedling, he is only fifteen years old after all, and it is not easy to kill eight people in a row in the confined space of the barn.

As a result, the incident was confusing, and a panic appeared among the villagers, and gradually some people remembered the legend in the village:

Every 100 years, a "son of the devil" will appear in the village, with magical powers, can do things that ordinary people can't do, bloodthirsty and murderous, and extremely evil.

And this year, it seems to coincide with the legendary 100 years.

Coupled with the fact that the Snow Marks family lives in isolation on weekdays, some of the villagers are quite suspicious of them. So the word immediately began to spread among the ignorant and confused villages.

It seems that this is the only statement that can explain the ability and reason for Snowmark's killing.

In this way, the village chief sent people to hunt down Snow Scar, and at the same time locked up Snow Scar's mother. Until today's villagers' meeting, Snow Marks Mom was released by the blacksmith Naqu and made a big fuss at the venue.

"Wait!" said Mother Snowmark, "I don't know what's going on in the barn, but neither do you. It is not certain whether it is a snow mark murder or not, can you have a good conscience if you have wronged a child like this?"

People were poked in their hearts, and they were all stunned, and Mother Snow continued:

"There must be another reason for the tragedy, if we can't find a reason, this kind of thing will happen again! This time it's in the barn, and next time it's in whose house?!"

There is some truth in Snow Marks' mother's words, and people are talking more loudly.

But if it wasn't Snow Marks killing, then who would it be? The villagers have always been honest, and if there is a perverted murderer hiding in this mountain village, it will be too terrifying.

The thought of this possibility made everyone panic even more, and some people had already begun to disperse towards the edge of the square. The crowd began to disorganize.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the elder hurriedly ran to the edge of the high platform, pointed to the corpses, and said, "Look at these corpses, they are only going to capture the escaped snow marks, not to kill people. If Snow Mark was innocent, it would have been fine to explain a few words to them, but he had done such a poisonous thing! This son is even more vicious than the son of the devil! What is the reason for the tragedy in the barn, he must have done it!"

Offstage, the hunter in wolf's skin glanced at the elder and didn't say anything.

The wolfskin on his body was the result of the killing of a giant wolf, a whole wolf skin, and the mandibles of the giant wolf were now on his head. The wolf's skin is draped from his head like a cloak.

He was the leader of the hunters, Golon.