Chen Fan looked behind him and saw Rhodes galloping towards with a dozen or so soldiers on horseback.

"Lord Rhodes!" all the soldiers immediately bowed to Rhodes.

Rhodes and the others came to the front of the crowd, and they all turned over and dismounted, and Rhodes said, "I heard that there are corpses here, so I came here." ”

"Brother Rhodes!" Chen Fan also led Rose to the front of the soldiers.

"Brother Chen Fan, Rose, why are you here?"

"One of the soldiers told us that there were corpses here, so we came to see what was going on, but the most humiliating thing was that we were all terrified by the appearance of the corpses. ”

"In that case, leave it to us. "Rodra came with a horse:" Brother Chen Fan rode this horse to accompany Rose back to Xingyao City first. ”

"Brother, you have to be careful. ”

Rod nodded: "Got it, you can go back with Chen Fan first." ”

The two turned over and got on the horse, and since Chen Fan didn't know how to ride a horse, Rose told the horse his destination with his thoughts, said goodbye to Rod, Gna and others, and rode back to Xingyao City.

After seeing the two leave, Gna stepped forward and said to Rod: "The villain is the captain of the patrol outside the city, Gna, waiting for Lord Rod." ”

"Boring etiquette is gone. Rod raised his hand and said, "I heard that there are five terrifying corpses here, where is it?"

"Just behind this leaf curtain, because the death is really scary, so I cover it with a leaf curtain. ”

Rod let out an "um" and said, "Don't worry, I've already brought someone from the coroner's department, so you guys should be outside now." ”

"The subordinates understand. ”

"Then let's go in first!" Rod ordered, and the people brought by Rhodes followed Rod into the leaf curtain.

When Chen Fan and Rose returned to Starlight City, it was close to sunset, and the dusk of late autumn always came quickly. Before the water vapor on the mountains was dissipated by the sun, the sun was already half obscured by the western mountains.

Chen Fan and Rose handed over their horses to the guards outside the city gate, and walked with Rose on the way back to Gangyang Tower.

"Rose, are you feeling better now?" Chen Fan asked.

"It's so much better now, and I feel sick when I think back to it. ”

"I've seen a lot of corpses, but it's the first time I've seen such a horrible death. ”

"Brother Chen Fan often touches corpses?"

"Not often. In the past, when I was in Los Angeles, I helped clean up the corpses or bury the corpses. ”

"Aren't you scared, then?"

"A little. Chen Fan said casually: "But I'm not like a princess like you, if you don't do a job, you won't have money to eat, but then again, it's better to make money doing work on corpses than ordinary work." ”

"Because you're used to seeing corpses, why didn't you fall down right away?"

"No, in fact, I was so scared just now that I froze. The reason why he didn't fall down may be because his head was blank and he didn't remember falling at all. Chen Fan smiled childishly: "Besides, you haven't pounced on me at that time, I'm going to fall, I have to pull you down!"

Rose laughed for a moment, then pretended to be angry and shook off Chen Fan and said, "It turns out that you are so bad, you actually want to pull me into the water." ”

Chen Fan immediately grabbed Rose's hand and pulled her into his arms. Then he hugged Rose's petite body with both hands and said softly: "I'm just worried that if you don't hold me, you will fall and hurt." ”

Rose smiled. didn't say anything, just quietly leaned his head on Chen Fan's chest, enjoying the sweetness of this minute.

"Lord Goode" Ryle walked towards Goode.

"What, do you have any presence over there?"

"Back to Lord Good, my subordinates have searched a three-mile radius with six siblings, except for a little blood in the place where there is now Nergat. Nothing else is present. ”

Goode said with a disappointed expression: "There are no people on my side, everything is as usual. ”

"Normally, you mean nothing happened here?"

"Nope. Goode wanted to ask: "The more ordinary it is, the more suspicious it is, if there is a murder in the house." But apart from the present corpse, the rest of the furnishings in the house are perfectly normal, how do you feel?"

"We will suspect that the deceased committed suicide. ”

"Or?"

"Or the murderer didn't want us to know his identity and modus operandi, and deliberately collected all the evidence. ”

"Exactly. ”

"So what do we do now?"

Goode looked up at the sky, and now that the sun had completely set, Yepeng's wings had already covered the earth, the sky was clear, and the bright moon hung in the dark night sky, highlighting the brightness.

Goode said to Ryle regretfully: "I think it's not early now, after all, you are only a member of the team responsible for detection and patrol work, and you are not very good at fighting, if you stay here at night, I am afraid that it will be dangerous, so we should close the team first." ”

"Good. Ryle yelled, "Pack up and get ready to pack!"

"Yes!" the soldiers replied in unison.

"Roar ......" Just as everyone was about to go back, a long roar of a fierce beast came from not far away.

Everyone was frightened, and Goode immediately realized that he raised his spear and rushed towards the beast.

"Lord Good!" the soldiers also galloped away with Goode.

The grass in this area grows so dense that it is high enough to drown a person, and if the average person walks here, it should become very slow, but for the Mira who have lived in the forest for a long time, this is not a big obstacle.

Goode skillfully wielded his spear and walked in front to mow the grass to open the way, and the soldiers behind were also on guard to prevent the enemy from sneaking up in the grass.

"Roar......" Another beast cries out, but the voice was weak and weak, as if dying, begging others not to kill their wails.

"It's not far off. Goode whispered to the soldiers behind him, "Everyone take your steps lightly and try not to make a sound." ”

Everyone nodded in understanding.

Everyone quietly took every step, as if they were afraid of waking up the sleeping people, everyone kept moving forward under the leadership of Goode, and after walking for more than ten minutes, Goode suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?" asked Ryle in a whisper.

Goode put his index finger up to his mouth. He made a silent gesture and pointed to the grass outside.

Ryle immediately looked out through the grass.

Outside the grass was a relatively open circular clearing, but it was not very large, only about two meters in diameter, and the surrounding jungle was dense, and the moonlight could barely be sprinkled on the clearing through the leaves. In the middle of the clearing, a figure was crouching on the ground, and it was impossible to see the true face of the man because of the shadows of the trees cast behind him.

Based on his figure, it is roughly estimated that this man is at least more than two meters tall, but he looks very thin, and it is not too much to describe it as skinny, he has a long head, but his gender cannot be judged from his length, because there are many long men in the Mira clan.

With the help of moonshine. Everyone could also see a dead tiger lying in front of the man, and it could be surmised that the roar of the beast that they heard just now was the tiger coming out, and now the tiger had been killed by this man.

"Who is that? I don't think I've ever seen him. Ryle whispered to Goode.

Goode shook his head and said he didn't know.

Ryle continued, "What should we do now, Lord Good? This man looks suspicious, why is he alone in the forest at night?"

Goode stared at the man and continued to shake his head.

"Shall we rush up and catch him, then?"

"We'll hold our ground for the time being, and we'll keep watching. Goode shook his head and replied, "He probably has other companions nearby." Because even I am not so easy to kill a tiger with my bare hands. ”

The crowd nodded at Goode's instructions. Continue to watch the man's movements intently.

I saw that the man raised his hand, and with his five fingers together, he went straight down to the tiger's abdomen, and after inserting his entire wrist completely, he also inserted his other hand, and then his hands tore outward as if he were pulling the closed tatami mat to the left and right.

Suddenly. The tiger's blood spurted out like a fountain, splashing on the surrounding grass and trees, and a large hole was immediately opened in the tiger's chest, and the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and intestines were also exposed from it, and Gude and the others couldn't help but feel chills when they saw it. Then the man, like an animal, stuffed his whole head into the hole, gnawed and tore at the disgusting entrails, then peeled off the tiger's skin piece by piece, devoured the bright red tiger meat under the tiger's skin, and then put the tiger's white bone in his mouth and crushed it, and then swallowed the tiger's blood into his stomach.

Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but feel a burst of vomiting, although they also knew that there were indeed many strange people in this world, but they had never seen a beast swallowed alive like this, it felt like an animal, but after all, they were well-disciplined soldiers, although this vomiting feeling was very hard, but there was no sound.

The man had eaten for about a quarter of an hour, probably having eaten enough, and he placed the gnawed remains of the tiger on the ground, began to stand up, and then turned his back to the Guddes and walked in the direction of the Mira Forest.

But he walked strangely, bent over like a hunchbacked man, and his long hands hung naturally from his body, looking like a listless old man.

Seeing this, Goode made a "move" gesture to Ryle and the others, and everyone immediately followed Goode out of the grass and flew towards the strange man.

If it was a normal person, when he heard a sudden shout from behind, he would definitely reflexively turn around, something happened, but that person didn't turn back when he heard Gude and they rushed out, but ran away. However, he runs very strangely, in addition to the constant movement of the feet of ordinary people running, in order to integrate the balance of the body, the body should be straight, and the hands will also move with the movement of the feet, but the person is just running with his feet, and his body is still hunched back, and his hands are still in a vertical state.

However, no matter how ugly his running posture is, after all, everyone has their own habits, and the running posture is not uniformly prescribed, so in this regard, Goode did not pay too much attention to these trivial things, he saw the man running forward, so while chasing after him, he shouted: "Brother, there is the Mira Forest in front, it is very dangerous to be infested with monsters, if you don't have a place to stay tonight, we can ask you to stay in Starshine City for a night." ”

Of course, Goode didn't really want to invite him to the city, he just didn't want him to run away. But as if the man hadn't heard, he continued to run in the direction of the Mira Forest.

Goode had no choice but to chase after him

On the fifth floor of the Gangyang Building, in the patriarch's office, this room is not big or luxurious. There are some sun, moon and star ornaments on the wall.

There was only a wooden door in the office, and there was a small desk facing the door, and Yinlong was leaning against the desk not far from it, while Rod was sitting in front of the desk, looking at the report of the corpse outside the North City today.

There was a knock on the door.

"Who is it?" called Rod out the door.

"Brother, I'm Rose. ”

"The door is unlocked, you can come in. Rod responded.

Rose pushed the door open and walked over to Rhodes' desk.

"What's the matter with me? isn't it okay not to accompany your Ruyi Langjun?" said Rod, though he was talking to Rose. But his eyes were still on the report in his hand.

"Brother Chen Fan said that he wanted to walk around the Gangyang Building alone, and asked me to go back to the room first, but I felt bored when I went back to the room, so I came to you. ”

"So my brother is the object of your boring time, and it's really sad to be an older brother when I hear my sister say this!"

Rose pretended to be angry and said, "Hmph! brother obviously knows that I didn't mean that!"

"Hehe!" Rod smiled, finally put down the report, looked at Rose and said, "What are you kidding? What is the matter with me? Are you going to marry your eldest brother Chen Fan." So you came to me as a matchmaker?"

"Not really. ”

"Then it must be your eldest brother Chen Fan who thinks you are too ugly, so he doesn't want you. Now come and complain to my brother, right?"

"No, no...... If you guess Rose again, I'll ignore you. ”

"Okay, okay, I'm kidding you, let's talk, what's the matter with looking for my brother?"

"Brother Rod, I'm still not worried about today's corpse, after I left with Brother Chen Fan. Do you have anything to show up?"

"Can't say no. Rod was helpless: "But I can't say that there is." ”

"What do you mean?" Rose was puzzled.

"We brought the body back this afternoon, and the coroner's guy just brought me the report so you can take a look. Rod handed the report to Rose: "The report says that these people are not members of our Mira clan, and it can be inferred from the fragments of clothes. They are supposed to be residents of the town of Kolo. ”

"What are the residents of Kolo doing here?" asked Rose as she flipped through the report.

"They probably didn't come here on their own, they were killed and brought here. ”

"How do you know?"

"The report said that the skin of the deceased had some traces of dragging, so the preliminary inference was that they were dragged to the place where the bodies were present after they were killed somewhere. ”

"Why go to such a great length? If you want to kill someone, you can't kill it directly, why drag it out there and kill it?"

"I don't know much about that. "But according to the research, they should have been killed last night," Rhodes said. ”

"Last night!" exclaimed Rose, "so what does this have to do with the Forest Lookout?"

"I think there should be. Rod nodded and said, "Because that delirious soldier is the captain of the sixth team of the forest detection team, and the sixth team is responsible for the detection of the north of the city, and the corpses of these five clubs are found in the north of the city, so these two things should be related." ”

"Since that delirious soldier is a member of the sixth team, why don't you call back the sixth team and ask about it, brother?"

"We tried, but it didn't work. Rod said.

"Why?"

"Because all the twelve members of the sixth team have disappeared. ”

"What!"

Rose was very surprised, after all, the forest detection team is composed of people who are more athletic in the Mira clan, they are not only familiar with the terrain of the forest, but also have extraordinary facial features, and they are calm, they can really be called elites, but such people are also caught and even driven crazy by others, which shows that the other party also has a great background.

Rose asked, "None of them can be found?" and what about the other five teams? They should be fine, right?"

"For the sake of safety, all the members of the other forest detection teams have been recalled, and even a single member of the sixth team cannot be contacted. ”

"Is it because winter is approaching and the north wind is too strong, so the sound of the calling flute is blown away, so they can't hear it?" The communication tool of the Mira clan is a kind of flute called the sound flute, which is a vertical flute, about 40 centimeters in length, and has ten round holes drilled into the body of the flute, each of which has a different scale representing a different scale, so the flute is composed of ten scales. Different combinations of scales and lengths can be used to express different meanings, but only for communication between troops.

"No way, unless the sound of the horn blows the tenth, it can definitely be heard. "So I think the brothers of the sixth team have all been killed," Rod said. ”

Rose had a sad look on her face when she heard the news, although she hadn't met the people of Team Six, let alone spoken to them. But when I heard the news that they were all killed, I couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness in my heart.

The two were silent for a while, and then Rose spoke again and asked, "Do you know that these people are the cause of death?"

Rhodes shook his head and said, "I don't know, but they weren't killed by a sharp weapon, or they were bitten like this by a beast after they died, they were skinned like this by someone, or something, from the touch of a person with no holes." It feels like putting your hand in your stomach and ripping it open. Then use your teeth to crush the internal organs and the head. ”

Rose listened to Rod's words, and immediately remembered the death of today's corpse, and a feeling of vomiting surged up her throat from the bottom of her heart, but she immediately suppressed her brain, trying not to think about those disgusting things, after a round of breathing adjustment. The spirit finally calmed down.

"Rose, are you alright?"

Rose shook her head: "I'm fine, it's just that I feel bad to see the dead of those corpses today." ”

"Actually, there is one more thing that I suspect the most. Rod continued, "Why did the members of Forest Scout Team 6 go to the forest to the east?"

Rose immediately realized: "My brother is right, if he is in danger. If it's an escape, then why don't you just go back to Star City, but make a big circle to the east of Star City?"

Rod nodded, and then said: "And what puzzles me the most is why the whole team is missing, and he is the only one who is fine, and he can escape so far?"

"Could it be that he was so lucky that he was able to escape?"

Of course, this possibility is not ruled out. Rod nodded: "In short, this matter is full of suspicions, I suddenly have an ominous premonition, I think that our Mira clan will have a big event in the near future." ”

"Damn! that guy has such a strange running position, how could he run so fast?" Goode cursed as he watched the hunchbacked monster's agile figure thrust through the grass.

"Lord Goode. Ryle, behind Goode, said, "We've been chasing for five miles, and if we go any further, it will belong to the Mira Forest, so let's go back first." ”

"No, my gut tells me that this person must have something to do with the disappearance of the Forest Reconnaissance Team. Goode said as he ran: "The purpose of our coming out is to find clues, since the clues are right in front of us, how can I let them go?"

"But the guy was running so fast that we didn't want to catch it, and now the distance seems to be getting bigger and bigger. ”

"Tsk! damn it!" Goode cursed, pointing the gun at the back of the hunchbacked stranger: "Drink" Goode shouted, and the steel gun immediately whistled out, and flew towards the hunchbacked stranger's vest, but the hunchbacked stranger still didn't look back, he seemed to have a hind eye behind him, and saw that the steel gun was about to stab, and immediately bent with one foot, and then kicked, the whole person seemed to have a spring on his leg, and jumped to the branch of a five-meter-high tree, and then did not look back, like a ninja jumping on the branch and continued to run forward.

"Stop!" Goode saw that a shot was missed, and he saw a moss-covered stone tablet standing in the grass with the inscription "Mira Forest, danger, do not enter." Eight big words, finally stopped.

"Lord Goode. At this time, Ryle and the others also stopped with Goode: "What is that guy? How can an ordinary person jump onto a five-meter tree at once?"

Goode was also surprised by this, and looked at the figure of the hunchbacked stranger jumping on a branch and escaping into the Mira Forest, and felt very hesitant in his heart, but since it was impossible to chase it on his own, no matter how reluctant it was, there would be no result, after all, in front of him was the Mira Forest, where the monster was entrenched, and even Good, who had always been arrogant, did not dare to take half a step. Besides, seeing that it was already more than eight o'clock now, and continuing to go deeper like this would only lead everyone to a dangerous place, Goode felt that of course it didn't matter if he died, but he couldn't drag his subordinates into the water.

After rational analysis, Goode said to his subordinates: "It's not appropriate for us to continue chasing, let's go back first." ”

The crowd received Goode's order. Walking in the direction of Xingyao City together, there was nothing special along the way, but everyone seemed sullen, after a noon search, there was no clue at all, who could be happy?

The top balcony of Gangyang Tower, where Zhao Ling was sitting on Chen Hong and fled from Xingyao City at that time, only to hear that the door connecting the corridor in the city was suddenly pushed open, and Chen Fan jumped over the threshold in stride. Walked out of the balcony on the top floor.

"Huh?" Chen Fan was standing on the rooftop with a long red girl in white, leaning on the railing and looking at the night scene downstairs in the city, Chen Fan immediately recognized this person, so he shouted: "Zhao Ling!"

Zhao Ling heard Chen Fan's voice, turned around and said, "Big pervert, why are you here?"

"I should have said it, right?" Chen Fan said as he walked next to Zhao Ling.

"Ah, you go away!" Zhao Ling saw Chen Fan coming to the side and immediately retreated ten meters, and complained: "Bastard big pervert, tell you not to approach me casually." Can't remember so soon?"

Chen Fan looked at Zhao Ling's frightened look and scratched his head. Said helplessly: "Alas, why do you still remember such a long time? I said that I didn't mean to do it last time, didn't you take some strange props to prove it......?

Chen Fan shut up as soon as he said the word "Lin Luoran", but it was too late.

Zhao Ling pretended to smile at Chen Fan and said, "Sister Rose often sleeps in the same room with you, I believe you and her don't know how many times you have coped with her, but why are you even pulling Sister Lin Luoran together?

"What do you mean by 'mating I don't know how many times'. Why is your girl all over all kinds of pornography?"

"What is pornography! Isn't what a man and a woman do in bed to have copulation? My grandfather told me when I was three years old!" Zhao Ling said proudly.

Chen Fan thought to himself: You knew when you were three years old, what kind of education did your grandfather give you? He actually taught you this kind of thing, and taught his granddaughter so beautifully, I really want to meet your grandfather.

In fact, Zhao Ling has received the talent education given to her by her grandfather since she was a child, about this knowledge. Zhao Ling obtained it when she was in her grandfather's biology class, and the path was very right, but Chen Fan thought the exact opposite.

"By the way, why isn't your Chen Hong with you?" Chen Fan tried to divert the topic.

Chen Hong said that she was afraid of the cold, so she now cowered in front of the stove in the room. ”

Chen Fan complained in his heart: The best cane is afraid of cold!

"Big pervert, it's so windy here, why did you come up? Don't you have to accompany Sister Rose?"

"She went to find her brother" Chen Fan said: "I was bored, and I heard Rose say during the day that there was a balcony on the roof of Gangyang that she used for astrology, so I came up to take a look." ”

"I see" Zhao Ling nodded, everyone was silent for a while, and Zhao Ling said, "Big pervert, will you stay in Xingyao City?" was asked by Zhao Ling, and Chen Fan didn't know how to answer.

"Actually, it's good to stay here, the people here are kind, the food is good, there is no danger, you can live a comfortable life every day, I think it's quite suitable for you. ”

"Since you like it so much, why don't we all stay together?"

Zhao Ling shook her head regretfully: "Sister Lin Luoran and I both have missions that must be completed, and it is impossible to stay here." ”

"......" Chen Fan was silent for a moment, thinking about it carefully, Zhao Ling wants to find her brother, Lin Luoran wants to destroy the world, and among the three of them, he is the only one who has no reason to take risks, to be honest, Chen Fan also thinks that this place is really as Zhao Ling said, it is a paradise with a worry-free life, and with Rose by his side, if he stays here, he will be very happy in the second half of his life. (To be continued......)