Chapter 90: Finding the Murderer
Hearing Ning Nanxi say that the murderer was likely to be in the village at this moment, I was full of anger, my blood was boiling, and I went to the firewood room in the West House and took out a sharp firewood knife and walked towards the courtyard gate.
After leaving home, under the leadership of Ning Nanxi and the two, we came to a courtyard, Ning Nanxi raised his hand and pointed to the courtyard, and said in a deep voice: "There are blood stains in the courtyard, but there is no corpse, and there are also blood stains on the ground that have been dragged down, just now Li Hai and I entered the house to check, and found that there was no corpse except for blood stains, which means that the corpse has been dragged away, and now we are likely to find the murderer by following the blood stains!" ”
Hearing this, I looked down in the moonlight, and sure enough, there was indeed more than one blood mark on the road in the village, all of which were heading towards the east end of the village.
When I went to the village first, I didn't notice the blood on the ground because I was worried about the safety of my parents, and now it seems that the murderer is likely to want to destroy the corpse!
Thinking of this, I turned my head to look at Ning Nanxi and Li Hai, and said in a deep voice: "You two have leg injuries now, if the murderer is really in the village, you can't help much, you better go back to my house to hide first, I will go to the east of the village to see the situation, if I can't come back after an hour, you two will leave here quickly, since the murderer has begun to prepare to destroy the corpse, then he will definitely come to my house to drag the corpse of my parents, after you go back, you must not move the corpse, once the murderer detects the two of you will not be able to leave!" ”
"Don't let us move the corpses? Wouldn't the bodies of that uncle and aunt be destroyed by the murderer, but they are your parents, are you just letting it go! Li Hai looked at me and said in shock.
I can't understand what Li Hai said, but I can't help it.
Judging from the bloodstains, the murderer who dragged the body was in the order of the courtyard, and if he found out that my parents' bodies were missing, he would definitely search for them.
Ning Nanxi and Li Hai are now injured in their legs, and they can't walk fast at all, and if they catch up with the murderer, the two of them will definitely die.
Since I have to choose between the living and the dead, I can only choose the living, because there is hope only if I live.
"Chen Mo did this because he didn't want to implicate the two of us, because only if the body remained in the courtyard, the murderer would not continue to search, and the two of us would not be pursued, but such a sacrifice was too great."
Ning Nanxi looked at me with tears in her eyes, as if she had felt the struggle and pain in my heart.
"No matter how big the sacrifice is, it is always a hundred times stronger than all of us dying here, you listen to me and go home and hide, if I haven't come back in an hour, you will leave Chenjia Village quickly, and then our hatred will depend on you, you must live!"
After saying that, I turned around and was about to leave, but before I could take a few steps, Ning Nanxi stopped me.
Looking back, Ning Nanxi staggered to me with her injured leg in tow, she stretched out her hand to her waist, pulled out the evil spirit from it and handed it to me.
"You hold this evil sword, you defend yourself, relying on the murderer's killing methods, just a firewood knife is useless."
Looking at the evil sword in front of me, I didn't stretch out my hand, this is one of the three treasures of Xuanqing, once I am invincible, then this evil sword will definitely fall into the hands of the murderer.
At that time, if the murderer relied on the Evil Sword to kill innocents indiscriminately in the rivers and lakes, wouldn't all the blame fall on the head of Xuanqingmen.
Ning Nanxi saw that my face was solemn, as if he could see through what I was thinking, and said in a deep voice: "If you let you take it, you will take it, nothing is more important than your life, and when you run out, you must remember to return me!" ”
After saying that, Ning Nanxi raised my palm and put the Evil Breaking Sword in the palm of his hand, then turned around and walked towards my house with Li Hai supporting each other.
Looking at the distant backs of the two of them, I clenched the Evil Sword in my hand and whispered, "I will definitely come back alive to see you." ”
Although I don't know how to use it, it's a hundred times sharper than the firewood knife I brought out from home before.
With the blessing of full of anger, I followed the bloodstains all the way, and after ten minutes, I came to the location of the wasteland at the east end of the village.
Looking up, the surface of the Hengshui River is calm, and the river flows eastward under the moonlight, as if the years are quiet, but I know that the undercurrent under the Hengshui River is surging, and the villagers of Chenjia Village, including my parents, were killed by the things in the river.
After searching for a while in the wasteland, I found that a mound suddenly appeared inexplicably not far away, I had not seen this mound when Li Qiuyan was immersed in the pig cage before, and now I think that there must be a problem.
By moonlight I walked in the direction of the mound, and as I got closer and closer, I realized that it was not a mound at all, but a mountain of corpses made of dozens or hundreds of corpses!
It was the first time I had seen so many corpses, and what was even more frightening was that I knew all the owners of these corpses, and they were all villagers of Chenjia Village.
Familiar faces had now turned into cold corpses, piled up in a messy manner.
Some of the villagers' limbs seemed to have been broken by brute force, and they were embedded in the crevices of the mountain of corpses in strange postures.
Looking at the corpses in front of me, the scenes of the past appeared in my mind like a marquee, and their laughter and concern echoed in my ears.
I raised my hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of my eyes, and turned my head to look at the surrounding wasteland, but there was no sign of the murderer except for mountains of corpses and weeds.
Since the murderer is not here, he must have returned to the village and continued to drag the body, as long as I hide nearby, I will be able to wait for him.
I looked around and saw that there was no place to hide, and although there were many weeds on the wasteland, these weeds could only reach the calves, and I could not hide in them with my physique.
After thinking about it, I decided to hide in the corpses, first, there are dozens or hundreds of corpses here, and no one will find them if they hide inside.
The second is that when the murderer drags the corpse, he will definitely come to the vicinity of the corpse mountain, and I can eliminate it while he is unprepared.
I made up my mind to walk to the mountain of corpses, pay homage to the corpses of the villagers, and even smear the blood stained on my own body.
But when I wiped it, I found that I was covered with goose droppings at the moment, because the goose droppings had dried up for a long time, if I was lying in the corpse, it would be easy to be found, so I had to walk quickly to the Hengshui River to wash off the goose droppings on my body, and then return to the corpse mountain to smear the blood.
After a few minutes, I was covered in blood, and then I lay on my stomach on the corpses of the villagers and looked quietly in the direction of the village.
As for the evil spirit, it is tightly held in my hand, as long as the murderer is close to me, I will catch him off guard, as long as my speed is fast enough, I will definitely be able to kill him.
At this time, hatred had taken over all corners of my heart, and I had no fear even when I was lying on a corpse.
Because I know that they are all people I know, I think if they know it, they will also bless me to be able to kill the murderer in one fell swoop.
As the minutes passed, the cold wind made me shiver a little because my body was wet with river water and blood, and the long lying on my stomach also made my arms start to feel sore.
I was about to turn around and change my position when there was a sudden rustling sound in the direction of the village, as if something was rubbing against the ground.
When I heard the voice, I immediately looked sideways, and saw a figure appear not far from the wasteland.
The man limped towards the mountain of corpses, dragging a corpse with each hand, and the corpse kicked up clouds of sand and dust as it rubbed against the ground.
I couldn't help but be shocked when I saw this person limping while walking, I didn't expect this murderer to be a cripple!
You must know that there are hundreds or thousands of villagers in our village, and although many young people have gone to the city to work in recent years, there are still 50 or 60 young and middle-aged people who remain in the village.
It is too strange that so many young adults are no match for a cripple, and even if this cripple can fight again, he will not be able to kill all the thousands of people.
Just when I was surprised, the lame man had already dragged two corpses of villagers and walked over, and I looked at it by the moonlight, and when I saw it clearly, I was stunned, and my brain exploded.
I actually know this lame man, he is Chen Xuanji who tied paper, that is, Chen Papi in the mouth of the villagers!
I was caught off guard by the sudden change, Chen Papi was a villager in Chenjia Village, although he was not from the Chen clan, but he had been in the village for decades.
How could he kill the villagers who lived with him day and night, and how could he slaughter the entire village when he was old?
After some contemplation, I felt that the murderer should not be Chen Papi, for two reasons, one is that with his current body and age, it is absolutely impossible to slaughter the entire village.
The second is that when my father was dying, he clearly said that the murderer was a thing in the Hengshui River, Chen Papi has lived in the village for so many years, if he was a thing in the river, wouldn't he have done it a long time ago, why wait until today.
Besides, if it was him, my dad wouldn't be tricky, he just told me that it was Chen Papi who killed him, wouldn't it?
Just thinking about it, Chen Papi had already come to the corpse mountain, and as soon as he exerted his arms, the two corpses behind him were thrown directly onto the corpse mountain.
Then he looked at the corpse in front of him and said with tears in his eyes: "Alas, I didn't expect that it was me, a cripple, who saw you off in the end, it's really ironic, you go all the way, and I can't repay you for helping you, but there is paper money, and you spend it slowly on the way." ”
As he spoke, Chen took out a wad of paper money from his arms and waved it into the air vigorously, and the paper money flew in an instant, sprinkled on the corpses and wasteland.
Immediately, Chen Papi took out a lighter from his pocket, and said tremblingly: "There are too many people in the village, I can only burn you first and then drag the others over, I don't want to bury you, I really have a weak heart, if you let your corpses stay in the village, maybe they will rot and stink, and there will be a plague, and I tell you the truth, there is a nest of yellow skins on the Mantou Mountain behind the village, if they know that Chenjia Village has been slaughtered, they will definitely come here to eat your flesh and skin, Rather than make you the food of these beasts, it is better to burn you with a fire, and dust to dust to dust, this is all fate. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Papi squatted down and set fire to the clothes worn by the villagers.