Ruin.

When I see the scene in front of me, the first thing that comes to mind is this word.

The wreckage of collapsed houses, charred wood, these can be seen everywhere.

Xu Shuo and his entourage walked for a long time, and finally arrived at the Blood Moon Village in Bai Yu's mouth, as Bai Yu said, this place has become a ruin, the original appearance of the village is unknown, and it can only be seen from the large ruins that this was once a prosperous village.

"This is the ...... of Bloodmoon Village," Lilian muttered.

Xu Shuo glanced at Miao Zhen with some concern, the latter had no expression on his face, and he couldn't see what he was thinking, but it must not be easy.

"Let's go in and have a look." Xu Shuo said.

The four of them walked on the abandoned village road, carefully looked at the blackened wooden stake beams on both sides, although part of the wreckage was covered by snow, but from the exposed part, they could also understand one thing - the current appearance of this village is definitely not caused by an ordinary village fire.

On a collapsed wall, Xu Shuo found a rusty iron arrow that passed through the window, but it did not penetrate completely, and the end of the arrow was stuck outside the window. This indicates that before the wall collapsed, arrows were fired at this window in an attempt to harm the people in the house.

Xu Shuo wanted to pick up the iron arrow to check, but seeing that Miao Zhen didn't seem to find this part, he didn't do it for the first time, but continued to walk forward with the others.

At this time, Bai Yu pointed to a ruin and said, "There, the patriarch family of the Blood Moon Clan used to live there. ”

When several people heard this, they stepped forward to check.

They rummaged through the rubble for a while, but found nothing of value or icon. According to Bai Yu's description, the patriarch's house should have a lot of books, totems and ornaments and other items, if the books may have been burned in the fire, what about other non-flammable items? It's so clean under the rubble that someone has apparently looted it.

But who could raid the patriarch's house? The barrier of Blood Moon Village is still in effect to this day, and it is unlikely that ordinary passers-by will enter here, and there are probably only three situations.

Either the people who attacked the Blood Moon Clan in the first place swept through the village after slaughtering it; Either a survivor of the Blood Moon who escaped and returned here to take their belongings; Or, a related person like Bai Yu who knows how to enter Blood Moon Village.

Although I don't know what kind of situation it is, as long as there is still the slightest possibility, it must not be said that there is no hope, and the people of the Blood Moon Clan may be living elsewhere in this forest at this moment, waiting for the return of the fleeing clansmen.

"Miao Zhen ......?"

Xu Shuo just wanted to say something to encourage Miao Zhen, but found that Miao Zhen was no longer beside him, Xu Shuo got up and looked around, and found Miao Zhen standing under a small pavilion not far away—this small pavilion was one of the very few buildings in the entire village that had not been destroyed. The pavilion was built on top of a well, and Miao Zhen was standing in front of the well at the moment, staring blankly into the well.

Xu Shuo found a thick wooden plank that had not been burned out for Bai Yu to sit on, and then he and Lilian came to Miao Zhen and asked softly, "Did you find anything?" ”

Miao Zhen looked at the well and said stupidly, "I remember this well." ”

"Really?"

"Well, I can't think of anything more, but it looks like my mom came here behind my back."

Xu Shuo touched Miao Zhen's head.

"Your mother must have carried you to fetch water, definitely when you were very young."

At this time, Lilian on the side suddenly covered her nose, frowned and said, "Mr. Xu Shuo, have you smelled anything?" ”

Xu Shuo sniffled when he heard Lilian say this, and indeed vaguely smelled a faint sour smell, a bit like stale fish, a bit like the fart smell of someone eating too many eggs. The smell became more pronounced as he leaned his head closer to the well.

Lilian also leaned over to the well and sniffed it, and asked with a puzzled expression, "Does this smell smell weird......"

Lilian is a girl who grew up in a deep house, and there are some things she can't think of, but Xu Shuo, who has watched a lot of modern film and television dramas, suddenly thought of some bad things.

Xu Shuo looked down at the well, the depths of the well were pitch black, and he couldn't see anything clearly. He thought about it, pulled out the snow on the spot, and dug out a small piece of frozen hard soil in the ground with a short blade, and he threw the hard soil into the well, and after a while, a very faint bump was heard in the well.

Seeing this, Lilian asked with some puzzlement, "Mr. Xu Shuo, what are you doing......?" ”

Xu Shuo made a boo gesture, dug a piece of hard soil from the ground again, and put it down against the edge of the well, this time, there was a very crisp collision sound from the well.

At this point, Xu Shuo almost confirmed his conjecture, he turned his head to Miao Zhen and said, "Miao Zhen, can you help me take care of Bai Yu?" And he sat beside the patriarch's house. ”

"Brother Xu Shuo, have you found anything that makes you feel that you can't let me know?" Miao Zhen saw through Xu Shuo's thoughts at a glance.

Xu Shuo didn't quibble, but said honestly: "Well, although I'm not sure, but if it's true, I think it's better not to let you see it." ”

"Thank you for worrying about me, Brother Xu Shuo, but I'm fine, as long as it's related to my hometown, I want to know." Miao Zhen said with a firm look in his eyes.

Xu Shuo was not surprised by Miao Zhen's answer, shrugged his shoulders and said, "Okay, you have to be mentally prepared." ”

Xu Shuo took out two flying knives, attached a magic mark to the hilt, and then threw one on the ground, and threw the other into the well, and when there was an echo in the well, he concentrated on using [Stealing Blade].

The scene in front of him darkened, a cold and hard touch came from his back, and the unpleasant stench poured into Xu Shuo's nasal cavity at once, and he hurriedly pulled up his clothes to cover his mouth and nose, only to slightly alleviate the olfactory stimulation.

Lilian's voice came from above in the darkness.

"Mr. Xu Shuo, are you going down, are you okay——?"

Surrounded by the stench, Xu Shuo actually didn't want to speak, but in order not to worry the two above, he still reluctantly squeezed out a sentence: "I'm fine!" ”

After reporting his safety, Xu Shuo began to confirm his conjecture, first chopping two feet of the ground to confirm that what was under his feet was really the bottom of the well and not the ice - the ground was rough, and this was indeed a dry well. Then he kicked forward with his foot, and sure enough, he touched something stiff. He lowered his body and slowly reached out to stroke the stiff thing.

It turned out to be the same as I suspected, it was a corpse.

Although he had made mental preparations, Xu Shuo still couldn't help but be stunned, and in close contact with the already stinky corpse in the small dark space, it was physiologically difficult to adapt, he retracted his hand and rubbed it twice on the wall,

After the cooldown of [Stealing Blade] was over, Xu Shuo grabbed the corpse's arm and tried to use [Thief Blade] to bring it back to the ground - in fact, Xu Shuo was not sure if it would succeed, on the way to the Duchy of Stealing Deer, he had tested the practicality of [Stealing Blade] and found that this skill could not move with other living creatures, such as clothes or weapons and other not very large items could be taken away together, but the corpse was not within range, and Xu Shuo was not sure.

Fortunately, it succeeded, and when Xu Shuo returned to the ground, a male corpse curled up with a terrifying face also appeared by the well.