Chapter 502: Discovering the Clues
Looking at Xin'er in Sakura Meng's arms, Ma Dian was unwilling, and was thinking about fighting again, but Guo Zixu couldn't help but line up Ma Dian's shoulders.
"Forget it, brother, after all, Xin'er is a male and female type, it's too difficult to snatch Xin'er from these girls, let's find another opportunity to start!"
In desperation, Ma Dian had no choice but to sigh, nodded, and left the top of the wall with the boys, while the girls returned to the residence with Xin'er in their arms.
When Ma Dian and the others left the wall, the entire wall instantly fell silent, and there was no one except for a few guards.
At this time, the sky had completely darkened, and the silver-white night light sprinkled on the ground, hazy, like a soft net, enveloping all the scenery in it, and the blue sky was dotted with countless stars, constantly blinking their eyes, spying on the crowd below.
However, the crowd had already returned to rest within the wall, and only Fang Guoan was still directing the soldiers to dispose of the corpses of the spirit beasts below, while observing the surrounding situation.
In this pitch-black environment, everything is so blurry, everything is so hazy, even if there is firelight, it is difficult to resist the erosion of the night.
Fang Guoan walked onto the plain, picked up the head of a breeze wolf at his feet, looked at his sharp fangs, revealing a stealthy and terrifying aura in the cold wind, as if he might open his bloody mouth and bite off Fang Guoan's hand at any time!
Exhaling a breath of cold air from his mouth, Fang Guoan immediately froze the head of the breeze wolf into ice, making the already somewhat hideous head clothed with a layer of dark blue and deep aura.
"Smack!"
casually smashed the head that had been frozen into ice, and countless ice slag powders were held in Fang Guoan's hands.
Fang Guoan rubbed his fists, letting the powder in his hand flow away from the gap little by little, like a crystal clear waterfall, with a light blue light, sprinkled on the ground, faintly visible, in those light blue light, there is also a little black, in this endless night, although it is inconspicuous, but it can be seen clearly.
Fang Guoan looked at the passing darkness in his eyes, and shook his head silently: "Sure enough, it's still ......."
Slowly raising his head, Fang Guoan thought as he walked to the location of the big pit before, and lightly stepped on the soil under his feet, "Huh...... How can the soil be so compact?"
"Ancient stones!people!, come over to labor!" Fang Guoan shouted to the surroundings.
Gu Maoshi, who was not far away, heard Fang Guoan call himself again, and immediately ran to Fang Guoan's side and said, "Boss Fang, dare to ask, what's the matter?"
Fang Guoan looked at Gu Maoshi and asked, "Let me ask you, who filled this hole?"
"It was filled in by a few earth magicians from the logistics department. Gu Maoshi replied.
"You bring a few of them to me!" Fang Guoan said with a solemn face.
"Obey! Boss Fang!"
After saying that, Gu Maoshi brought several earth magicians to Fang Guoan's side.
There were a total of fifteen earth magicians, with an average strength of about level fifty, with a typical military appearance, with a serious and meticulous expression, standing in front of Fang Guoan, like fifteen tall pine trees.
Fang Guoan carefully looked at the fifteen people: "This area, are you a few people filling in this area?"
"Yes! Commander Fang!" The name of the speaker was Tu Ligao, the captain of the buried door of the logistics department, and he was very tall, a head taller than Fang Guoan.
Fang Guoan looked at Tu Li Gao and said, "How did you bury it?"
Tu Ligao looked at Fang Guoan with a puzzled expression, only thinking that Fang Guoan was really a bit stupid to ask this question, but he still replied honestly: "Of course, the soil is buried by using the soil flow to condense the soil." ”
Fang Guoan nodded and continued to ask, "Then did you do anything after burying the body?"
Tu Ligao shook his head, "No, at that time, Fang didn't just ask us to landfill, you didn't tell us to do anything else." Shouldn't we bury this bunch of spirit beasts?"
Fang Guoan shook his head and said, "No, I mean, don't you think it's a little strange to bury a little bit of the soil you buried?"
When Fang Guoan said this, these fifteen people reacted and looked at the soil under their feet.
As earth magicians, these people think they know the soil very well, and the land that has just been filled in is naturally a little loose and silky, but the land here is very compact and dry, and there is no trace of any landfill, not only that, there are no footprints here!
You know, this is the place where the beast tide passed through before, so many spirit beasts trampled on this land, it stands to reason that there should be footprints, but there are no footprints left here, the whole ground is very flat, smooth, like a girl's skin, stepping on it does not feel anything unusual.
"How can the dirt here be so weird?" said Turigao.
Looking at Tu Ligao's puzzled eyes, Fang Guoan asked again: "Let me ask you again, have you done anything to the soil in the process of filling the soil!"
Tu Li Gao naturally knew what Fang Guoan's purpose was in asking this, knelt on the ground, immediately puffed up his chest, and said without hesitation: "Command the adult! The villain swears to the sky, he has never moved any hands and feet, we are completely in accordance with the command of the adult, we have not moved any thoughts, if the villain said half a lie, may the sky thunder, please command the lord to see!"
The remaining forty people also knelt on the ground one after another, and said to Fang Guoan: "Please command your lord to see!"
Looking at these fifteen people, Fang Guoan naturally couldn't completely believe them because of these few simple words, but the doubts in his heart were indeed alleviated a lot.
"Get up, be careful the next time you bury it. Fang Guoan said lightly.
"Yes, Commander!" the few people stood up and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in their hearts. It seemed that Fang Guoan didn't want to punish them, but shouted at the surroundings.
"Everyone, assemble!"
The crowd immediately gathered in front of Fang Guoan like a tide, lined up in line, and waited for Fang Guoan's instructions.
"Everyone, dig the ground!"
"Digging the ground?" Everyone was full of doubts in their hearts, but the nature of the soldiers made them choose to accept Fang Guoan's orders unconditionally, and they all tried their best, using shields as shovels and hands as shovels, and began to dig the ground.
Eventually, thanks to the combined efforts of the soldiers, all the surrounding dirt was cleared, revealing a piece of bones underneath.
You must know that the corpses of the spirit beasts here were only buried two days ago, but when they were dug up today, all the meat was also rotten, and only the bones were still piled up in the soil, emitting a strong rancid smell.
You must know that it will take at least a month for a normal corpse to completely decay, and it may take longer for some spirit beast corpses with poor flesh quality to completely decay, but the corpses of spirit beasts in this pile of soil have all decomposed in less than a week, leaving only a pile of white bones, which can't help but make people feel a little puzzled.
Fang Guoan stood on the edge of the big pit, observing the bones of the spirit beast below, and found that between the bones, there seemed to be some black spots wriggling.
Fang Guoan squatted down, and when he looked closely, he realized that these wriggling black spots were not something strange, but maggots, a bunch of black maggots, squirming between the bones, as if they were in the bone marrow of the sucker.
It was the first time Fang Guoan had seen black maggots, and he was a little surprised in his heart, and Yongmeng on the side obviously found the strangeness of this pile of corpses, and couldn't help but say to Fang Guoan: "Xiao Fang, have you ever seen black maggots?"
Fang Guoan shook his head, "No, what about you, Brother Yongmeng?"
Yong Meng frowned and said, "This is the first time I've seen it, but I've heard about rumors about black maggots before. ”
"Rumors about black maggots?"
Yong Meng nodded, "Yes, it is said that black maggots are not a species, suitable for a container!"
"Containers?"
"That's right! Black maggots are unique absorption vessels for disciples of the Obscene Yan Sect, they can actively seek out the corpses around them, quickly decompose their bodies, absorb their essence power, and store this power in their bodies. Once they have absorbed a sufficient amount of energy, they will stop moving, like a black speck, staying in the bones, waiting for the summons of their masters, then they will turn into a wisp of black silk, floating out of the bones and returning to their owners, feeding back the power of the essence they have absorbed to their masters. ”
Hearing this, Fang Guoxin was full of surprise, tried his best to control his expression, and asked Yongmeng without leaving a trace: "Brother Yongmeng, what do you mean......"
Yongmeng didn't speak, but swept his gaze to the quiet forest in the distance, and nodded absently.
"Hiss......" Fang Guoan couldn't help but gasp, only to feel that things were getting more and more tricky.
"Brother Yongmeng, is there any way to get rid of these black maggots?"
Yong Meng nodded and whispered in Fang Guoan's ear.
Fang Guoan listened carefully, nodded frequently, and then shouted to the people around him: "Obey the order!"
"Here!" shouted all the soldiers of the Ice Camp in unison.
"Frost covered!"
With Fang Guoan's order, the soldiers of the Ice Camp shot out at the same time, spewing out cold air from their palms, directly freezing the bones underground into ice cubes. The black maggots that were originally in the bones of the spirit beasts squirmed wildly, and one by one they came out of the ice cracks, turning into wisps of black gas, trying to escape from this icy area.
"The fire mage obeys!"
"In!"
All the fire mages stepped forward and prepared for the corpse of the spirit beast released in front of them.
"Blaze the prairie fire!"
"Whew!"
The raging fire rose up on the plain, with a scorching heat, instantly melting the ice underneath, and at the same time burning the black gas that wanted to fly away, when the fire disappeared, the whole area was only a pile of white powder, evenly scattered on the ground, like a white blanket, bringing some warmth to the cold ground.
After that, Fang Guoan led all the soldiers to dig out the places where the bones of the spirit beasts had been buried, also using ice to force out the black maggots in the bones, then burning them with fire, and finally re-burying them with soil.
When it was midnight after all the incineration and landfill work last night, everyone was already exhausted, and even Fang Guoan was constantly panting.
Taking a deep breath hard, barely calming down the emotions in his heart, Fang Guoan shouted again: "Everyone, from today onwards, stop all burial work, turn to incineration, and be sure to burn all the corpses of all spirit beasts!
"Understood!" shouted everyone in unison.