Frankimir followed the trail of blood and made his way along the rugged mountain road.

The darkness made everything seem to be unusually blurry, and nothing seemed to be clear except for the different black shadows.

The forest was eerily quiet, and there was no sound except the sound of one's own breathing, or the creaking of one's own stamping on the snow, neither the roar of wild beasts, nor the chirping of birds, all dead and heavy.

Frankimir walked for a long time, but the blood trail continued to stretch forward, and there was not a single bird or animal in sight, not even the most common snow monkey in Hokkaido.

Everything was so abnormal, all the birds and beasts in the forest did not know where to go, as if there was nothing in the woods.

Frankimir continued to walk forward with doubts, and vaguely saw that in the distance in the mountains and forests, there seemed to be a village and town, although the scale of the village and town was not large, but the outline of the building was quite unique, and it looked more like a treasure temple, or there was a treasure temple in that village and town.

Due to the distance, there is no light source in the village and town, not even the street lights at night, and the dark clouds just block the bright moon, the whole village and town become more looming, giving people a sense of confusion.

Frankimir suspects that nine times out of ten, the guy who kidnapped Naoto Akiyama may have taken refuge in this village, and if that is the case, then there is a good chance that Kiko Ishikawa is also in that town.

Maybe this strange village and town is the Nine Palaces Chain Fort they are looking for.

Frankimir hurried towards the village, but when he reached the outskirts of the village, he could see it clearly. The streets are made of bluestone slabs, and the traditional Japanese buildings on both sides of the roads.

However, the silence of the whole village was terrible. It's like a ghost town in a movie where it's empty, whether it's a street or a house. There was not a single figure in sight, and there was no light in the whole city.

It's an empty city, and Frankimir wonders why the guys who kidnapped Naoto Akiyama would come to such a place if the village had been abandoned for a long time.

If this is really his lair, then why is there no one, and where have they all gone?

Could it be that it was because he knew that he was coming, so he secretly hid? This obviously doesn't make sense, and Ishikawa Kiko has gone somewhere.

Confused, Frankimir cautiously walked into the village to find out what was going on, and there were two restaurants at the head of the village, one was a ramen restaurant and the other was a tea house, which made Frankimir confirm once again that this was indeed an ordinary village. It's not a stronghold of the underworld.

As Frankmir progressed, he saw more shops, tailors, grocers, grocers, bathhouses, post offices, and banks.

This not only failed to dispel Frank Miir's doubts, but made him even more confused. Now he can be sure and certain that this is indeed an ordinary village, but the people who live in the village. Where did they all go?

It is impossible for those kidnappers to hurt the entire village in such a short period of time. Even if they did kill all the villagers, then at least there would be dead bodies everywhere.

However, this has come all the way. Except for the only trace of blood on the ground, there seemed to be nothing else.

Soon Frankimir discovers a police office, a two-story log cabin that looks almost indistinguishable from a sentry box.

If something really happened in this village, maybe there will be some relevant records left in this small police office.

Frankimir walked into the police station to see if he could find anything, and just as he was just about to flip through the various documents placed in the police station, a short figure suddenly flashed through the door of the police office.

The speed of the thing was very fast, and although Frank Mill noticed it at the first time, he still couldn't figure out what it was that had just passed in front of the police office.

Frank Mire put down the papers in his hand and hurried out of the cramped police room, chasing in the direction the thing had left.

The short figure soon disappeared into the night, leaving only an unbelievable back, making people wonder what the hell it was.

Franky Mill didn't want the guy to run away, and he hurried through the night to find out what it was, and what was going on in the village.

Suddenly, Frankimir felt as if he had stepped on something, and he immediately stopped and looked back, and found that what he had just stepped on was actually a human severed arm.

The hand had been severed from the wrist, the blood from the wound had solidified, and the arm was showing signs of decay, so the severed arm stump on the ground should not have been left by the thing just now.

This made Frank Miir suddenly have an extremely ominous premonition.

He began to hesitate whether he should continue to chase, but if he didn't, what could he do?

Frankimir didn't hesitate any longer, he immediately continued to chase into the darkness, but the barbed wire fence that appeared in front of him completely blocked his way, this was obviously a dead end, where did the monster go?

On the other side of the barbed wire, there was a basketball court, and it was empty, it should be on the basketball hoop, but there was something hanging from it, obviously it was definitely not a basketball, but because it was too dark, Frankie couldn't see it clearly.

After some careful inspection, there was no damage to the barbed wire, so there was a good chance that what he was chasing just now had crossed the barbed wire, otherwise it would never have disappeared out of thin air.

Frankimir ejected the blade of Gustav's heart, cutting a long cut in the barbed wire, and then the focused barbed wire came to the basketball court.

The black shadow of his title hanging from the basketball hoop walked away, and it seemed to be a huge lump of flesh, the muscles of the molecules were stained with blood, and it looked like it had been partially burned, which was really unbelievable.

Frankimir made it to the basketball hoop, and at last he could see the huge chunk of flesh. You can see it clearly.

But it's not a person, but he doesn't have hands and feet. Judging by their huge size, they are not as ordinary as them. It's an unreachable giant, if the guy who is hanging here has feet, when he is more than three meters tall, how can there be such a tall human in the world, so it should be some kind of biochemical beast.

But the blood-drenched head, the bloody facial features, but the out-and-out human appearance, this is really confusing, I don't understand what is going on.

Because this guy has burn marks on his body. Frankmir guessed that he must have been burned, but the fire burned her skin without causing any damage to his musculature.

Who saw this guy's limbs, and who burned this guy at the stake, this is indeed a headache, but it can also be known that this guy must have been subjected to inhuman abuse before he died, and this was obviously a horrific murder scene.

If the news media knew about it. It is indeed appalling that their report will not only alarm the whole of Japan, but even the whole world.

In this small village, so many strange things happen one after another. This made Frank Miir feel extremely uneasy and frightened.

He didn't know if he should stay here, maybe he shouldn't have been here in the first place. Now that the two are here, then at least they should be figured out. What the hell is going on.

The entire village is only three streets away, except for the basketball behind the elementary school. One of the things that attracts people's attention here is the ancient temple in the middle of the three streets.

This ancient treasure temple occupies about two-thirds of the entire area of the village, and one of the seven-storey pagodas is also the tallest building in the village.

Frankimir, of course, would not miss such a conspicuous building, and he decided to visit the temple and perhaps find something there, thus unraveling the mystery of the emptiness of the town.

Frankimin came to the gate of the pagoda, there was a long river, coming from the darkness, going into the darkness, and it was impossible to see that at the end of the river, there was a small bridge over the river, which seemed to be the only way to the temple.

When Frankimir walked by the bridge, he was surprised to find that the bloodstain he had been looking for at first had gone all the way to the river, disappearing at the end of the riverbank, as if he had crossed a river, or lost water.

The bloodstain stretched from the scene of their car accident to the deserted village and town, and finally disappeared into the river in front of the treasure temple.

This means that the kidnappers, or the pestering people, may also go to Ishikawa Kiko, and either fall into the river here, or cross the river into the treasure temple.

It seems that she is not looking for the wrong place, it is the right choice to come here, could it be that this kind of ordinary-looking treasure temple is the entrance to the Nine Palaces Chain Fort mentioned by the [Phantom God Province].

The search for true curiosity drove Frankimir to enter the temple without hesitation, wanting to find the answer, and even more so to find Naoto Akiyama and Kiko Ishikawa.

Entering the temple is a cloister that stretches as far as the eye can see, and outside the cloister is an empty sandy area, and in the center of the sand is the tallest building in the entire village, a pagoda full of the atmosphere of the Edo period.

Frankimir did not dare to enter the stupa rashly, he was afraid that there might be an ambush inside, and he pursued the bloodstain all the way, especially to ensure that the kidnappers did not find him from beginning to end on this road.

What's more, he stayed in this town for a long time, as long as the kidnappers were a little vigilant, they would definitely be able to notice someone walking into the town, because it was so quiet, so quiet that there was no sound, so quiet that there were no mermaids, birds and beasts.

Frankimir looked around the stupa closely, and the walls of the temple were all painted with Prajna, which is a common pattern used by many underworld organizations, but it is rarely seen in real Buddhist temples.

Being able to bring out this place is really the stronghold of the [Eight Palaces and Nine Palaces] Society, and the entrance to the [Nine Palaces Chain Fort] is likely to be near here.

Frankie Mill was in high spirits, and the empty village and town might be just a cover, and at the same time, he could spy on the intruders' every move.

Frankimir suddenly felt that in the darkness of the night, where he could not see his fingers, there was really a pair of eyes peeping at him unscrupulously, those eyes were ugly, evil, and ill-intentioned.

Suddenly, Frank Mire heard a high-pitched roar, a sound that sounded like some kind of beast, but not from any wild animal he knew.

The flat lying sand in the treasure temple also becomes ups and downs, high and low, swaying, like the waves of the sea, as if there is a dragon, hovering in the turbulent sea.

Suddenly, he could clearly feel that something seemed to be shuttling in the sand, making the entire temple seem to have a violent earthquake, and only the pagoda still stood unaware.

Frankimir was terrified, he didn't know what could hide beneath the sand, and what could shake the whole temple.

Frankimir stood still, uneasy and fearful, but he didn't know what he had to do.

If something really appeared in front of him, with his amazing experience in the past year, he might not feel fear, but it was precisely because nothing appeared, he could not see anything clearly, so he felt so frightened and uneasy, the unknown is the source of human fear, not the human fear itself.

Suddenly, mountain peaks rose up in the sand, and as the injuries slowly fell, huge stone oxen appeared in front of Frankimir's eyes.

In an instant, a total of nine huge iron bulls appeared on the sandy ground, each of which was five meters tall and more than seven meters long, and the bull's nose continued to spew out flames, and the stone carving's face showed an extremely angry expression.

Frankimir gasped, such a huge thing, he was afraid that he would be unable to cope with just one head, but in the blink of an eye, there were so many whole nine heads at the same time.

Gustav's Heart is a biochemical beast that can be invited, and at the same time, it is a metal nemesis, but it can be useless for stone.

However, the adventures on Paradise Island gave him the experience of dealing with stone monsters, that is, the golden armor that could be released using [Pandora's Box].

Frankimir immediately activated, and the [Pandora's Box], which had long been attached to his back, transformed into a golden warrior with golden light, ready to face the nine huge stone oxen in front of him.

The stone ox didn't plan to give Frankimir too much time to prepare, one was a cow roaring angrily, angrily rushing towards Frankimir, a huge horn as sharp as a knife, as if it could pierce everything in the world, not to mention just Frankimir, a small heart.

Frankimir was unhurried, and with the protection of the golden armor, he was not afraid of the stone ox in front of him at all.

When the stone ox in front of him was close at hand, Frankimir suddenly threw a punch and hit the stone cow's eyebrows accurately. Under this sudden blow, Shi Niu suddenly shattered into a pile of dust.

Such an easy victory made Frank Mimir feel unthinkable and a little carried away.

However, just as Frankimir got carried away, the huge stone ox that had turned into ashes regrouped in an instant and appeared in front of Frankimir. (To be continued.) )