The next day, Ma Yao and Zhou Yu came to Chu Yiyi's theater, and when they entered the theater, they felt a little wrong and deserted. There was a pile of leaves at the door, swirling in the wind, and it looked like no one had cleaned them for days. When the group walked into the theater garden, they found that it was really empty, the empty stage, and the inner hall were also empty.

The group walked around inside, and came out helplessly, and when they came out, they saw an old man selling sweet potatoes at the door, Zhou Yu stepped forward and asked, "Uncle, do you know where the people in this theater have gone?"

The uncle is deaf and blind, and his spirit is very good, "They, they have returned to their hometown, their pillar is dead, so pitiful, I heard that it didn't take long for the county magistrate's wife to die, hey, the world is not peaceful." ”

Zhou Yu was disappointed for a while, and felt that the uncle was easy to talk to, so he bought a few roasted sweet potatoes, and then everyone who accompanied him had one. Then when everyone took the sweet potato and began to blow and lick, Zhou Yu asked another question that he didn't intend the uncle to answer, "Does the uncle know where their home is?"

When the uncle saw them buying his sweet potatoes, he was happy, and he really knew, "I heard that in Yunnan, it seems to be called Qujing, yes, it is Qujing." Zhou Yu got the answer he thought he couldn't get, and he was more happy in his heart.

"Uncle, do you know where that pillar is buried?" asked Ma Yao coldly while eating sweet potatoes.

"Poor, buried in a long distance, more than ten miles away from here, is a mass grave, the original place to bury the warlord who died in battle, called Xialiu Village, a foreign girl, buried so far, I don't have to go to see it, worship and worship. Uncle sighed.

"Let's go to Xialiu Village," Ma Yao said to Zhou Yu, who was munching on sweet potatoes.

"Okay, Xialiu Village is about ten miles away from here, let's drive there. Zhou Yu said to Xiao Lu, "Xiao Lu, you go back and drive the car, we will wait for you at the intersection." ”

"Okay," Xiao Lu readily agreed.

Ma Yao and his party waited on the side of the road for about half an hour, and Xiao Lu drove here, an old-fashioned jeep, which emitted black smoke when it was driven, as if the engine had some problems, and often lay on his stomach. It's not fast, but it's faster than a human run. This car is still imported, and it is not easy to do. It's not easy to have a car.

After everyone got into the car, the jeep slammed forward and slammed into it. Sitting in the back, Zhou Yu and the other two policemen leaned forward, and the sweet potato in their hands almost flew out. There are five people in a group, Xiao Lu is the driver, Ma Yao, and Zhou Yu has two other policemen.

The jeep swayed and drove to Xialiu Village, fortunately, this time the jeep did not lie down, and drove to Xialiu Village in one breath, which is a small village in Wu County, almost all the people in the village are surnamed Liu, and in the past few years, it can be regarded as a big village, with a population of several thousand, but because it is in a traffic to rush.

If the warlords want to fight, they have to march, every time they pass through Xialiu Village, and then almost all the young and middle-aged people in Xialiu Village are captured and strong, and there are some old, weak, sick and disabled left, just some days ago, the two teams of warlords directly started a war in Xialiu Village, resulting in a sharp decline in the population of Xialiu Village. Only the 100th survived in the village.

In less than an hour, the jeep arrived at Xialiu Village, and from a distance you could still see the ruins of the village, but the village was lifeless, there was no voice, no dogs barking and chickens crowing. Ma Yao and the others got out of the car and walked into the village, there was no one in several houses at the entrance of the village, and the doors were open.

"Is there anyone?" Zhou Yu asked loudly, except for the wind, no one answered.

They had no choice but to go to the village, which was north-south, north-south and north-south in length, and there were more than a dozen families scattered in the east-west direction. The field was yellowish, and the wheat was growing quite well, but there was a dead silence all around, which made people panic.

Ma Yao walked around the village, and did not find a single person, every household had empty rooms, and some people still had food in their pots, but there was no one, as if at a specific time, the people in the village left collectively, and this time was not long, and it happened today.

In the past, there were cases where people in the village were lost, that is, the warlords needed to build a military fortress, and they would forcibly recruit people, but generally they would not want old people, nor would women, not to mention that now even children can't see them.

Ma Yao's face is serious, in the middle of the village, there is a collective threshing floor in the middle of the village, the threshing floor is quite large, nearly half a football field is the size, and there is a huge haystack in the southeast corner of the threshing floor, which is the firewood used by the people in the village to make fires for cooking all year round.

The horse walked up to the haystack, crouched down, grabbed a little dirt on the ground, twisted it in his hand, and put it to his nose and sniffed it. "Peel this haystack apart. Ma Yao and Zhou Yu said. Zhou Yu nodded.

The two policemen under his command and Xiao Lu brought a sickle, separated the rope above with a sickle, and several people immediately rolled out of it, strictly speaking, a few corpses. As the hole grew larger, more and more corpses rolled out of the hole, and as a result, the entire haystack was full of corpses, hundreds of them. It is estimated that the whole village is here.

Seeing the corpses all over the ground, the two policemen in the back couldn't help but vomit, and the strange thing was that the corpses all over the ground did not have a trace of blood. The skin of the corpses was very white, and the limbs were soft, and if it were not so white, it would almost be thought that they were asleep, and the skin of men, women, and children was amazingly white, like a pig that had just been scalded.

Ma Yao squatted down and carefully observed in front of a corpse, then took out a silver needle from his body, opened the corpse's mouth with the silver needle, observed carefully, and found nothing, and then put the silver needle into the nostrils of the corpse, and the silver needle had just reached into the nostrils, and suddenly a red worm crawled out of the nostrils of the corpse.

Like the crickets in the ground, they are much smaller than the crickets, and they are red all over their bodies, without any variegation. The movement was extremely fast, and he was about to climb up on the horse's hand along the silver needle.

Ma Yao flipped his fingers, and the silver needle stabbed the small red worm on the silver needle, and the red worm made a sizzling sound, struggling with its teeth and claws on the silver needle. Seeing this, Zhou Yu and the others hurriedly gathered around to take a look.

"Get out of here and get gas in the car. This is a blood cricket" Ma Yao shouted, his body was shocked, Zhou Yu and the other four people were shocked out of the back more than ten meters away, Zhou Yu and the others were slightly stunned and even rolled and crawled behind and ran away, only to hear the sound of the corpses piled up.

Countless bloody crickets crawled out of the nostrils and ears of the corpse, and it seemed that they were not happy to get up, and in a short time they filled a corner of the threshing floor.

Ma Yao stood still, these blood crickets crawled past Ma Yao but all took the initiative to bypass Ma Yao, as if there was something on Ma Ya's body that the blood cricket did not like, and as if Ma Yao could not feel Ma Yao at all. Leave a circular blank circle around the horse.

The horse quickly circled around the threshing floor, and the blood crickets were trapped in this circle, and they scrambled to crawl outward inside, but when they reached the place where the horse drew a circle, they did not dare to crawl out again. Just spinning around in circles.

After a while, Zhou Yu and Xiao Lu came over with gasoline, they poured gasoline into the circle drawn by Ma Yao, lit the fire, and after a while, a crackling sound sounded, and the blood crickets were burned to the ground, and the fire burned directly to the haystack with the momentum of gasoline, and after a while, the corpse burned, and the air smelled of unpleasant grease burning. They avoided a long way away and watched.

"What is a blood cricket?" Zhou Yu asked while the fire was burning.

"Blood crickets are a type of worm Gu that start very small. Bloodthirsty, it burrows into the body from the exposed holes of the human body and then sucks the blood of the human body in the body, and at the same time begins to reproduce, quickly lay eggs, hatch quickly, and suck the human blood dry almost in a day, so the human body appears pale. Since people die from blood loss from the inside, there is no smell of blood from the outside. Ma Yao explained.

"Why are these insects so afraid of the master?" Zhou Yu had always been curious and couldn't help asking.

"This has something to do with the exercises I practice, my master has refined my blood and some medicines, and combined with the calamity qi I have cultivated, I can restrain ordinary poisons. Ma Yao replied.

"These murderers should be the same group of murderers who killed Tu Man. Ma Yao thought for a moment and said, "But I don't know why I want to kill these ordinary people and slaughter the people of a village." ”

"Anyone who kills people is nothing more than love, money, and revenge, and now this slaughterer obviously does not belong to any of the first three, because these villagers have no property lost, and some of their corpses even have silver dollars on them. There's only one possibility. ”

"Extinguish. Ma Yao and Zhou Yu said in unison. The villagers saw things they shouldn't have seen and received people they shouldn't, so the killers had to use this and cruel method to kill them.

But what did these village names see or touch that they couldn't? After the fire burned out, they gathered the ashes of the deceased, dug a big pit, buried it, and built a large tomb, and erected a tombstone in front of the grave with the inscription: Tomb of the villagers of Xialiu Village.

The group continued to set off towards the mass grave, which was still four or five miles away from Xialiu Village, and the more the car drove forward, the more desolate it became, and at the same time, it was almost uninhabited.