Chapter 52: The Vanishing Forest

I'm still looking, you're like a missed firework.

After the wind and sand have passed, I don't know what I have lost.

The host once said:

There are some things, some people, that you don't pay attention to when you have them.

Only one day, when you suddenly lose, will you suddenly be shocked,

Originally... I really lost you.

......

Lin Luo is missing.

And I didn't know until the day after she disappeared.

Since then, I have never forgiven myself.

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It was on the evening of June 20th, the twelfth month of my descent from the mountain.

Since we came to Gangnam, we have hardly stopped being busy.

In the beginning I was busy with plague and food;

Later, Lin Luoluo went to study medicine with Zhu Xuan;

Recently, I've been busy on this embankment again.

Now that I think about it, I often don't have time to talk and chat with Lin Luoluo, a little girl, for many, many days.

It wasn't until I opened the three notes that Lin Luoluo wrote at the back of my diary that I realized that many things were really negligent on my part.

Lin Luoluo is still a child, but I have always treated her as an adult, although Feng Xiaoer, Yun Duoer, Zhu Xuan, and everyone around me love her very much.

However, none of this is why I can be so relieved for granted.

Yesterday was the last day we built the embankment of Jianyecheng in the south of the Yangtze River, and we were all busy on the side of the embankment, until the night was deep and the sky was full of stars.

The matter of rushing to repair the river embankment is over.

After coming back, I rinsed it off, and simply and Feng Xiaoer had a hot meal and drank a cup of wine. I dragged my tired body back to my room and lay down on the bed.

Lin Luoluo was not in the room.

I shouted a few times, but no one responded.

I took it for granted that she was looking for someone to play, and although she came back every day to rub my medicine in the early days, she was too tired and didn't care about anything.

After more than 20 days of busyness, I went out early and returned late every day, and the high-intensity brick moving life that was all day long was finally over.

After the tense nerves relaxed, the deep tiredness instantly came to my heart, and I fell asleep on the bed in a groggy state. Eight Chinese Net

When I woke up, it was the afternoon of June 20th.

The afternoon sun shines through the window and shines on the wooden floor of the room, and when I wake up, I only feel very dazzling, and the cicadas are singing in the hot summer.

I struggled to get out of bed, the muscles of my body aching terribly, a pound of hunger rushing over my consciousness.

Looking around, Lin Luoluo was still not in the room, and I thought that she might have tasted the herbs at Zhu Xuan's place.

When I came to the kitchen, I lifted the lid and opened the pot, and I was stunned to dry a plate of green vegetables, two bowls of rice, three bowls of thick soup, four chicken legs, and five pieces of flower meat.

We were satisfied, burped, wiped our lips, and prepared to come and go to the Zhu family, find Lin Luoluo, and meet the head of the Zhu Xuan family.

When I walked through the streets of Jianye City, I had a strange feeling.

Although everyone has just been baptized by the flood, the post-disaster reconstruction and resumption of work and production seem to be in order, and many shops have begun to operate normally.

Could it be that it is because last year and this year, Jianye City was flooded twice in a row, and everyone has drowned out of experience?

Inexplicable... Some distressed.

But fortunately, this year, the response was still timely, and the plague did not break out again. How to deal with the dead and missing is a matter for the yamen, and as for the injured people, they are still crowded with long queues in various medical halls.

Watching the business of the Zhu family's pharmacy prosper, it is really not worth it in the world, and it is very hard.

finally squeezed into the Zhu family's pharmacy and searched everywhere, but did not find Lin Luoluo's figure.

In the crowd, it was not easy to catch the head of Zhu Xuan's family and hurriedly grabbed her.

I opened my mouth and asked her, "Master, have you seen my family's forest?" I don't know where to go. ”

Zhu Xuan opened his mouth and responded: "That girl hasn't been here for two days, isn't it where to play?" ”

I thought for a moment: "Got it, I'll go back and ask them and see where they went." ”

Zhu Xuan beckoned: "You, hurry up and find her, tell her to come back and memorize the medicine book, don't be so playful, this is not fun to fish for three days and dry the net for two days." ”

Leaving the Zhu family's pharmacy, where did this girl go? I haven't been to the pharmacy for two days.

When I returned to Feng's house, I asked everyone to gather in the conference hall, and these were the people who usually played with Lin Luoluo.

Feng Xiaoer: They also said that they hadn't seen Lin Luoluo in the past two days.

Yun Duo'er shook her head, she hadn't seen this girl for two days, and the last time she saw her was the night before yesterday.

In other words, it has been at least two days since yesterday and during the day today, and no one has seen Lin Luoluo.

It was only then that everyone realized that something was wrong!

Something happened!

Lin Luo fell and disappeared under everyone's noses.

I suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said to everyone: "That girl wrote in my diary the night before, 'You're going to buy me a gift tomorrow.'" ”

Yun Duo'er said in a low voice, and then took over: "If that's the case, then she should have gone out yesterday." And then never came back. ”

Feng Xiaoer frowned: "But Jianye City is so big, how can I find it?" ”

"Let's go separately and come back to the council hall before the hour." I was a little flustered at this point.

"Well, that's all there is to it." Feng Xiaoer said and began to arrange for the people of the Feng family to go door to door in their respective jurisdictions according to the grid of shops.

Yun Duoer and I were not idle, relying on light skills to fly the eaves and walk the walls in Jianye City, and the sea fell.

Time passed little by little, and under the night, in the sultry summer, the entire Jianye City was agitated.

Many people walked through the streets and alleys with torches, knocked on the doors of shops, and asked: Have you ever seen a nine-year-old girl, about 1.3 meters, cute and lovely, called Lin Luoluo.

The night passed without any news.

The sound of the hour was ringing.

We returned to the Feng family's meeting hall and looked at each other.

I'm already confused at the moment: "How's it going? Did you find it? ”

Everyone shook their heads with gloomy faces.

I asked, "What about the news?" What about clues? No one has ever seen it, has it? ”

There was silence in the council chamber.

Yun Duo'er said softly on the side: "Don't worry, it'll be fine, Luoluo is so smart." ”

I nodded at the clouds, hoping so.

At this moment, the sound of hurried footsteps suddenly came.

A subordinate rushed in with a feathered arrow in his hand.

"Report! Just now, a feathered arrow was shot at our gate, and a strip of cloth was tied to the end of the arrow. ”

My heart tightened.

He stepped forward quickly and grabbed the feather arrow.

Unfolding the strip of cloth, I saw a line written on it, and I read it aloud.

"The little girl is in our hands, and tomorrow we will give us 500,000 taels of silver to ransom people.

If you dare to report to the official, tear up the ticket!

Jiangnan Serial Dock. ”

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.