readx; By the time Erwin approached Susan, the screams from the cabin had become muffled and then vanished completely. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Erwin touched Susan and reached out to the ground.

Although it was much hidden by the heavy snow, Susan could still see a faint series of footprints stretching out of the hut in front of the closed door of the hut, and then turning into the depths of the village.

The two crept to the side of the cabin, Susan looked around vigilantly, and Erwin reached open the window and looked inside.

The furnishings in the room were very simple, but the beds, chairs, tables and lamps were all available, and with Erwin's night vision, he could clearly see that there were three people on the ground, two of them motionless, their fate unknown, and the other was still writhing faintly.

In the corner of the room there were a few Paz swords, as well as an old shield and a few chains, and it was clear that this was the place of the guards.

Erwin gestured to Susan, and the two turned to the front of the cabin, gently pushed the door open, and walked in.

After examining all three of them on the ground, they came to a conclusion that made Erwin and Susan's faces a little difficult to look at.

The three men who wore the same white cotton robes as combat uniforms were undoubtedly militiamen of the garrison, but the hands and feet of all three were strangely twisted, as if they were twisted and twisted.

Even if they survived, they would be crippled, and if no one helped them, the severe pain and internal bleeding would kill them.

Two of the militiamen had lost signs of life, and the remaining one in rudimentary leather armor was supposed to be the captain, not dead, and he should have had his share in the screams just now. But now, under the severe pain and rapid loss of physical strength, the militia captain no longer has the strength to continue screaming, can only let out a faint moan, and his consciousness has fallen into a near-death state.

It looks like we won't have much to live.

Erwin couldn't get anything out of the mouth of a delirious man, he could only examine all three of them's injuries, and the final result should be - first stunned, and then completely twisted the limbs of the unconscious victim, the severe pain would make them wake up, and in the absence of rescue, they would slowly die with pain and despair.

Extremely egregious methods of killing.

Erwin sighed and freed the militia captain from the severe pain, then got up from the floor and re-examined the room.

"Who could it be?"

Susan was also frightened by this cruel method, and when she used to kill people, she would at most shoot them with an arrow or solve them with a knife, no matter how big the hatred was, she never thought of torturing them to death.

"The little money on the three militiamen is still there, and the room has not been turned over, it shouldn't be robbers, and the robbers won't come out to loot at this time."

Erwin shook his head, his mind kept guessing the identity of the murderer, in addition to the robbers who would kill civilians, in fact, there were many people in Elend who would kill people without scruples - wandering wanted criminals, deserters pursued by the army, criminals with bad methods, these people were not much weaker than robbers in killing civilians.

And those who deliberately torture people to death, and even enjoy such cruel methods, in addition to neuropathy, are only perverted murderers.

This kind of person is not uncommon in the history of the Elend continent, but most of them are concentrated in big cities, and it is hard to imagine that they will run to such a barren mountain and wilderness.

There was no trace of a fight in the room, and it would take at least more strength and speed than the elite warriors to be able to defeat three militiamen without resistance with their bare hands.

Erwin swept his gaze around the room, landing on the Paz swords in the corner.

In a small village, a militia of six people will be equipped with a minimum of seven swords and one as a backup.

And now the three dead militiamen in the room had no weapons on hand, and even if the other two militiamen who didn't know where to take two or three, there would be at least four long swords left in the corner.

But now there were only three Paz swords left.

This also means that although the murderer kills with his bare hands, he may also carry a weapon.

At this moment, a terrible scream suddenly came from outside the wooden house, it was a woman's voice, and even the howling wind and snow were masked.

Erwin and Susan looked at each other, and immediately rushed out of the cabin, following the trails left in the snow.

The footprints had been obscured by the snow to the point that it was difficult to see, but with Erwin's night vision, he could still make out vaguely, and Susan could only follow closely behind him.

Entering a wooden hut with a closed door, Erwin cautiously pushed the door open, and his eyes immediately fell on the four people lying on the ground.

It looked like a family of four, all of them had their limbs twisted off in the same way, and their already blue faces showed that they had been dead for a long time.

"Not here." Erwin whispered, and followed Susan out of the cabin.

The footprints on the ground were completely invisible, and Erwin could only open one wooden house after another along the way, and the villagers inside were treated the same.

Just when Erwin's face was ugly, he faintly felt that he had been tricked, and the other party must have noticed the two of them,

The screams came again, this time in a nearby wooden house.

The next moment, Erwin's legs suddenly exerted force, and he took two or three steps across the distance of nearly ten meters between the two wooden houses, and slammed open the closed door.

There was a "boom", as if something had been trampled on.

Just as Erwin crashed into the cabin, his eyes subconsciously fell on a woman on the ground whose limbs had been twisted and was screaming, a pitch-black figure swooped down from a wooden frame on the side wall, and a pair of bloodstained hands grabbed Erwin's head.

It's a clumsy sneak attack, but the Black Shadow's speed and proximity make it possible to succeed even if it is clumsy.

If it were Susan, it might have been a good idea, but the Shadow clearly underestimated Elwin's strength.

He had already reacted in the second moment he heard the boom, and the activated iron sword skill counteracted the inertia of rushing forward, causing his body to take a sharp step back, avoiding the hands of the black shadow grabbing at his head.

At the same time, Erwin also followed closely and arched his arms backwards, and a hard hook slammed forward on the black shadow who couldn't dodge in midair.

The punch slammed into the Black Shadow's shoulder, and the explosive force of more than 9 points caused his flesh to tear and break bones, and let out a scream that was not like a human under the severe pain, and at the same time fell backwards, crackling and shattering the shelves full of debris in the room, and even smashed through the walls made of wood and dirt, and the whole person fell to the snow outside the wooden house.

Erwin's punch is enough to beat an elite fighter to death, even if it is replaced by Cyril to resist hard, but the black shadow that can be seen clearly under Erwin's night vision ability is just a thin teenager, after taking his punch, the next moment he fell on the snow, he immediately rushed out of the same place, and his speed did not affect at all.

Seeing this scene, Erwin couldn't help but curse in his heart, knowing that he had used a sword instead of a fist just now.

He stepped over the house, raised his hand to break open the gap in the wall that was not enough for him to get out, and then he stepped out, and under the snowflakes, the black shadow was gone, leaving only a long trail of footprints on the ground that stretched into the depths of darkness.

"Susan, you stay here and keep watch."

Erwin shouted into the cabin without looking back, and then chased after the footprints, he didn't want to let this bastard go in vain, and the other party had already been injured by him, and he shouldn't be able to run far in such snow.

However, the next situation proved that Erwin guessed wrong, the other party was indeed injured, and there were occasionally some blood stains on the snow-white ground that could not be concealed by heavy snow, but the footprints showed no sign of stopping, and they crossed the mountains and entered the depths of the gray mountains.

If he didn't have this idea at first, Erwin probably wouldn't chase after him for a while, but he always thought that the murderer would definitely fall, so he kept maintaining his iron swordsmanship, persevering in pursuit at the fastest speed, and when he came back to his senses, he found that he had passed through the snowy mountain road, and he didn't know how far he had chased, and the other party's speed was obviously faster than him in the snow.

The whistling wind and snow in the gray mountain area did not know when to stop, the dark clouds covering the sea of stars began to disperse, a round of bright moon hung in the sky, the hazy moonlight sprinkled in the entire mountainous area, and the white snow everywhere reflected the moonlight, as if the whole world was reflected in a bright and bright light, which was diametrically opposed to the scene of the cold wind howling and pitch black just now.

Erwin stood on a snow-covered ridge and let out a sigh of helplessness.

The murderer's footprints were broken on this ridge, not for no reason, but the other party jumped directly from this slope, although it can be identified that the murderer has gone down the mountain, but after reaching the foot of the mountain, it is probably difficult to determine which direction to flee to.

Erwin looked at the foot of the mountain with some reluctance, and the place that came into view was a rare forest in the gray mountains, with a large opening missing from the irregular edge, and the clearing above could be faintly seen as a village.

Well? This discovery raised Erwin's mood a bit, and it was very likely that the murderer did not know that he was chasing after him, so whether it was a coincidence or a purpose that was set out when he fled in the first place, the murderer would definitely find a place to hide in this village when he came to it.

Because even if it was Erwin himself, when he was seriously injured, he would never dare to spend the night in the snow in the wild.

He cheered up, and then went down the hill, the footprints at the foot of the mountain had disappeared as expected, but Erwin was not surprised, the murderer was a perverted murderer, but it didn't mean that he was an idiot, judging from his clumsy sneak attack, and his instant escape after being punched away by Erwin, and jumping down the hill to eliminate the footprints, he was a very thoughtful person.

Erwin ran through the pine woods in the direction of the village, searching for possible footprints on the ground along the way, but it was clear that the path he had chosen was not the same as that of the murderer.

It's just that when he entered the edge of the clearing in the village and poked his head into the village, there was a clear sound of breaking the air behind him.