Several guards made some movements in an orderly manner, and after examining four or five more corpses, since there were too many left, and some definite conclusions had been obtained, they stopped for the time being and made a return to this Mr. Tang.

Roughly speaking, these corpses were all stab wounds, and they were all killed with one hit, and the attack was crisp and clean. Since there were no traces of moving and discarding near the corpse for the time being, it was probably concluded that this was the place where the murder occurred.

In addition, there were not many traces of running and struggling in the vicinity, so the perpetrator must not have killed one and then killed the other, so there must have been more than one person or several people.

In addition, although these people have no obvious features on them, and they have not left any evidence such as road guides, judging from the skin alone, they are completely different from the homeless people who come all the way to sleep in the open air, and they should be people in the vicinity.

In fact, there is no need to say the latter, everyone present already has a clear judgment in their hearts, and these people can almost conclude that they are the descendants of the Sun family who were robbed by the mountain bandits. It's just that the lawyer replied in detail for the purpose of prudence.

Although their group did not exceed the agreed time of the mountain bandits, they came a little late, and those mountain bandits robbed their property and killed people, although cruel, but it was not an unexpected thing.

Only Tang Mingyi had some doubts in his heart.

He concluded that this was his brother's doing, but since he had played such a game, although he still didn't know the real purpose, he wouldn't change his mind for no reason.

Even if he had to leave this place because of some urgent change, then it would not take much trouble to kill them.

After all, they have a task on their side, and it is not good for them to alarm the Tongcheng government so much now.

Unless these people have some reason to die.

Out of the clear request of the Inspection Department, the soldiers did some investigation and sorting of the corpses, and everyone had nothing else to do, let alone do more, so they had to wait for the follow-up people to arrive here.

After about another moment, the second team also followed the smell of blood. Then everyone gathered one after another, dozens of torches illuminated the surroundings, and finally intuitively felt what it means to be shocking.

The more than 500 people who came from Tongcheng each had some encounters and discoveries on the way, and they also made some behaviors and decisions similar to Tang Mingyi's keeping people near Lingguangjun Temple and sending people to continue counting trees.

In the end, there were only more than 400 people who actually gathered here.

The three principals were all here, and there were a large number of people, but the scene in front of them still made people shudder.

The trees here are not luxuriant, nor dense, but are put together in the shape of many "pins", which seem to have been deliberately cut down and cultivated many years ago, but the purpose is not clear.

Tang Mingyi's place happened to be one of the southernmost "mouths" of these many characters.

The commander of the Tongcheng army ordered this place to be surrounded, and Jin Xuan scattered the Luo pawns to arrange, and Tang Mingyi's entourage simply guarded the three most important people in place.

In less than half an hour, the whole area had been explored.

Tang Mingyi: The corpses they saw before were just the tip of the iceberg.

The whole place stretched out for more than three miles, and there were no more than one hundred and thirty-three corpses, which was exactly the same as the number of people robbed in Sun's mansion.

There are more than a dozen of them in each "pin" glyph, all of which are slightly away from the trees.

And these people, without exception, have no extra property on their bodies, not even dry food, only close-fitting profane clothes, and there are traces of hemp rope on their wrists, and some of them still have cloth stuffed in their mouths.

At the same time, some discarded hemp ropes were found near the trees in the area, and it can be inferred that these people were originally tied to the trees, and then brought out and killed together.

Later, among the soldiers of the Luo Soldier and the Tongcheng Army, some of whom had dealt with the subordinates of the Sun Mansion, also clearly identified more than ten people from them, so that the identity of the deceased was finally determined.

There were even two people who recognized two people who were carrying blood debts on their bodies, who should have belonged to Yang Wantang's mansion, who went out of the city to do business before the Yang Mansion had an accident, and who had no whereabouts after that.

On top of that, there were a mess of footprints all over the floor, and it was impossible to even make out how many people they belonged to, but what Jin Wan noticed was that there was no obvious difference in the depth of the footprints.

"The road in this forest is difficult to walk, and no matter how horse-drawn carriages carry them, I am afraid that they can not be easily entered, and they can only be carried by manpower. The surname Sun is not honest, and the amount of money is vague, but it must be a lot, but there is no trace of a frame or manpower here, which is very abnormal. ”

Jin Xuan's face is not good-looking, since she took office in Tongcheng, she has learned some of Master Sun's deeds from some "survival tips for Tongcheng officials" circulated among Tongcheng officials, and she really has no good impression of this one, and is even planning to cut off his financial route.

But the scene in front of her was too shocking and too murderous, no matter her previous status as a county lieutenant or her current status as a patrol inspector, no one under her rule could be allowed to do such an act.

"Find some slightly clearer footprints and follow them to see where these people are going." Jin Wan gave an order, and five or six soldiers immediately went out to follow the order.

"There are few people on my side, so please ask the commander to contribute some men and rush back to the city as soon as possible. Whether these knives are sharp, or the style of acting, they are like mountain bandits, but they are not exactly, and I am worried that there are some other people hiding nearby, so please be on his guard. Second, please take my token directly to the Inspection Department and transfer some more people to come over, so that we can do an inspection with us, and at the same time, we need to transport these corpses back to the city. ”

Jin Wan said carefully and neatly, the commander knew the severity, and immediately divided twenty legs and feet to return to Tongcheng briskly.

Then the female inspector didn't sit next to Tang Mingyi anymore, stood up, and personally went over to direct the soldiers to act.

The pawns who were originally acting separately quickly followed Jin Wan's instructions, either going up the tree or forming a group to investigate the outside of this circle of dead people.

At this time, a few people who had stayed on the road to continue counting the trees rushed back, and there were a few people in each of the three places.

"Childe, the place has been found, about eight or nine miles north from here, there are many carriages and carts that have lost their horses left in place, and there is nothing else."

(End of chapter)