The spring rain has not stopped.

The group walked briskly through the humid forest.

The sound of sizzling water is constantly stepping under your feet.

Walking a long way along the path covered with dead leaves, a long-abandoned village quietly appeared in front of everyone.

The surroundings are also deserted and uninhabited.

The high walls that stood on the ground were gray and black, and the surface was covered with patches of moss, which looked even more sticky and slippery under the moisture of the rain, and it was dilapidated and decayed.

The stone lions on both sides of the gate are also covered with moss.

The one on the left is still missing half of its head, and the dense insects are crawling around in the cracks of the stones, looking a little crazy.

"This is it?"

Wei Tao slowly walked to the mottled door, looking up at the already skewed plaque on it.

"Purple gas comes from the east."

He read it out slowly, and glanced back, "Ou Keqing, the newly discovered human skin straw is all inside?" ”

"Yes, the subordinates found a total of eight corpses inside, and after identification, it can be basically determined that all of them are guys who are keeping vigil on the battlefield."

Wei Tao nodded, and then looked at the other man behind him.

"Steward Quan, what kind of place is this?" He asked.

The man was about fifty years old, his face was a little pale, and his voice trembled when he answered.

"If you return to Lord Deacon, this was once the summer resort of Lord Luoshui Chengqiu."

"It used to be a summer resort, but now?"

There was a crunch and a creak.

The rusty door was pushed open, revealing a dilapidated look inside that had not been repaired for a long time.

Wei Tao walked in slowly, and felt a cold and corrupt aura gushing out of it.

Steward Quan followed closely as if he was afraid of being left behind.

When I entered the door, I subconsciously glanced left and right a few times, and my body couldn't stop fighting.

It was only under Ou Yinglian's cold gaze that he suddenly came back to his senses and began to answer questions.

"In the summer of the year before last, Young Master Qiu and his newlywed wife came here to escape the summer, but they suffered misfortune.

The two of them, along with the maids and servants, disappeared, and after the sad old man Qiu, he never came again, and this summer manor was abandoned. ”

"Lord Luoshui Chengqiu, isn't he the one who runs a grain store in the city and runs a grange outside?"

Wei Tao observed the dilapidated courtyard, the ground overgrown with weeds, completely covering the original bluestone pavement.

Now that it is watered by the rain, it may soon usher in a new round of crazy growth.

Steward Quan nodded again and again, and said slowly, "Master Qiu used a large sum of money behind him, invited the masters of the Mingshui Gang, and stationed in the manor together with the official head catcher, preparing to thoroughly investigate the matter and find the missing family members. ”

He paused at this point, then sighed and shook his head, "It's just that even so, I haven't been able to find out the whereabouts of a dozen people."

And they couldn't find even the slightest clue, as if they had suddenly disappeared, leaving no trace. ”

Wei Tao took a deep breath of moist air, closed his eyes and said, "It seems that there are more things in this place than you already know. ”

Ou Yinglian sighed lowly, "The more chaotic the world, the more cheap human life will be, and all kinds of disasters will emerge one after another. ”

"Let's go, let's go see the bodies of those guys."

Wei Tao waded through knee-deep weeds and quickly pushed open the second courtyard door.

I happened to see Gan Liang coming from the depths of the manor, carrying a stone tablet that was almost broken.

"My lord, the old man has found the true owner of this manor."

"Isn't it Master Qiu from Luoshui City?"

Wei Tao stopped and asked suspiciously, "What new discoveries did Gan Lao make?" ”

"Your Excellency, please look at this stone monument."

Gan Liang carefully placed the stele flat on the ground.

"If the old man is not mistaken, this stele must have been carved when the manor was first built.

It says that in the seventh year of Yuanzhen, an official named Gui Shufang in the Central Government resigned and returned to his hometown, and the manor built here ......"

"Seven years of Yuan Zhen?" Wei Taoyu's eyebrows tightened, recalling what he had learned from his private school.

After a moment, he exhaled softly, "Doesn't that mean that this manor has been standing here for at least nearly thirty years?" ”

"Steward Quan, you just told me that this is the summer resort of the Qiu family master of Luoshui City.

So can you explain to me what the record on this stele means? ”

The steward was trembling with fright, and muttered, "Lord Deacon, forgive your sins, the little one really didn't mean to deceive."

I only know that before the young master of the Qiu family had an accident, Master Qiu would come here every year to escape the summer, and it had lasted for at least ten years.

And the villain came here for the first time with his own master, and it was the master Qiu who set up a banquet here to entertain him.

But I really didn't know that before Master Qiu, this mountain villa was actually built by officials from the capital of Zhongfu. ”

Gan Liang said, "My lord, it's normal for him not to know, after all, the old man chatted with the housekeeper and learned that he came to the gold field to open a sand field, and it was less than ten years from beginning to end." ”

Glancing at Wei Tao's thoughtful expression, Gan Liang immediately continued, obviously in a very short period of time after discovering the stele, he had already thought about many questions with a little bit.

"My lord, when the old man saw the name Guishu imitate, he recalled another thing.

That was more than 20 years ago, there was a big rebellion and rebellion in Qizhou, and not only was the Jiedu envoy at that time expelled by the imperial court.

In the follow-up, I don't know how many official eunuchs were implicated, and the heads were rolling and the blood flowed like a river.

Among them, there seems to be a family surnamed Gui, who is still ranked very high on the list of rebellions listed by the imperial court.

It's just that I don't know if the Gui Shufang, who built this manor, and the Gui family, who was almost wiped out, are the same person. ”

Wei Tao walked to the depths of the manor while listening to Gan Liang's account of the rebellion that happened in Qizhou.

After a while, several people stopped in front of a row of houses.

Unlike the rest of the estate, it looks fairly clean and tidy.

Even the railings and columns of the corridor are brightly colored, as if they have only recently been painted.

However, for a house that has been abandoned for a long time, it seems very abnormal.

Ou Ying said pitifully, "My lord, my subordinates and Wu Yin came here to find the difference between this row of houses, so they went in to investigate carefully, and found those corpses. ”

Wei Tao nodded, and through the half-open door, he saw a figure writing at the desk, sitting there motionless.

His pupils shrank, "This is the pose after peeling the skin and grass?" ”

"Lord Mingjian, my subordinates couldn't see it at a glance at that time, and asked a few times.

It wasn't until I walked in and looked closely that I realized that it was just a human skin, filled with ......"

Ou Yinglian paused, and her face became a little strange, "It's filled with hair, not straw." ”

"So, these corpses should actually be called skinned hair, not skinned grass."

"Peel off the skin, how many people's hair does it take to fill a whole human skin ......"

Wei Tao stepped forward slowly, carefully examining the body that was still moving.

Even if it was only a few steps away, it was clearly recognizable that it was not a living person, but a human-skin corpse like a wax figure.

Soon after, he looked at the other rooms.

Different corpses, different poses.

It's like a family doing different things after a meal.

Coming out of the last room, Wei Tao stopped in the hallway.

"Master Gan."

"The subordinates are here."

"When I go back, look for the housekeeper and try to ask for the details of the disappearance case that happened in the manor."

"My subordinates understand."

"Also, about the name Gui Shufang, we must also re-investigate it in detail......

He was halfway through his sentence and kept silent without warning.

In an instant, a strong wind rose.

Piercing through the dense rain curtain, he rushed out of the hallway.

Rumble!

Its speed and strength are so great that it tears out a straight hole in mid-air.

It was a moment before it was filled up by the rain that had fallen again.

Gan Liang and Ou Yinglian reacted at this time, and immediately cast their own methods and chased after them with all their might.

The two had just jumped out of the hallway.

Then I heard a muffled boom.

I saw a large hole in the courtyard wall in the distance.

Deacon Wei didn't even want to waste time jumping over the wall, so he walked straight through the wall.

Along the way, the wind swept and the wood and stones flew wildly.

Forced through a straight passage and shot towards the trees in the distance.

In most cases, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

Now he is moving straight along this straight line.

All the obstacles that stood in front of him, as long as they were not too thick trees, not too huge blocks, were all slammed open, penetrated, and crushed by him.

Farther away, there was a figure that was flickering forward.

Boom!

Wei Tao came to a sharp stop at the top of a rocky slope.

The heat rises all over his body, like a human-shaped stove.

Feet sink deep into the ground.

The hard rock was as crisp as a biscuit, and it was stepped on with dense cracks.

Click!

A pitch-black claw, lightning striking from the side.

In an instant, it was already in front of you.

The five fingers felt as if they had been smeared with ink, and at the same time emitted a strong fishy smell.

From the wrist to the forearm, you can faintly see the hardened muscles and muscles tangled, like dense scales growing on the surface of the skin.

At this time, Wei Tao had just landed on the top of the slope, and before he could stabilize his figure, he was about to face a sudden fishy wind.

The precision of the timing of this blow, the speed of it, and the subtlety of the moves are enough to show that the person who shot is by no means an ordinary martial artist.

Faced with a sudden claw.

Wei Tao moved as he pleased, and his body moved at will.

Syllable!

The right hand pierced through the rain curtain, tearing through the air, and without warning appeared in front of Blackclaw's path.

He spread his fingers and grabbed them in the same position.

The muscles and flesh swelled in an instant, and the black and red colors were intertwined and entangled, like steel bars screwed together in one place.

Poop!

Two claws to strike.

It's like a symphony of gold and iron.

A muffled grunt rang out.

A figure retreated sharply.

Wei Tao didn't think about it, his raised right hand turned into a claw into a fist, and he stepped on the ground with progress, and a sky-turning hammer smashed down.

Break the rain curtain and explode with a roar.

The figure couldn't retreat, and the wind whistled in his ears, and the explosion exploded, and he was suddenly shocked.

In a panic, he had to throw his fists out together and meet the falling fist.

"How did his fist suddenly become so huge!?"

In the midst of the lightning, such a thought flashed in the heart of the masked Tsing Yi people.

This was followed by a crunching click.

Mixed with an unbearable howl.

Swing right at the top of the rocky slope.

The man in Tsing Yi had his arms bent and his bones shattered.

The whole person fell to his knees, trembling violently.

"Who are you and why are you here?"

Wei Tao took a step forward and asked.

But in the next moment, his pupils contracted, and he watched a large stream of dirty blood gushing out of the seven orifices of the man in Tsing Yi, and he saw that he was no longer good.

He exhaled slowly, a scorching breath, and stood there silent.

Soon after, Ou Yinglian and Gan Lin arrived panting.

Standing behind, he joined him in staring at the man in Tsing Yi who had stiffened and stood still on the ground.

The two of them looked at Wei Tao from time to time, and in addition to shock, they were still shocked.

In their minds, they thought they had thought highly of the town guard deacon.

But until today, I see him chasing for long distances, shooting at will, and killing people blatantly.

Only then did I realize how gentle and kind the former deacon Wei behaved in front of them.

"Check the body, beware of the poison hidden in this person's body."

Wei Tao restrained his breath and said slowly, "Also, in the process of chasing you, did you see a person with long hair covering the ground and stiff movements?" ”

"Nope." The two shook their heads in unison.

He glanced back and frowned slightly, "You two came over, but you left Steward Quan there?" ”

Gan Liang and Ou Yinglian's faces changed abruptly, and they subconsciously looked towards the dilapidated villa in the distance.

Under the dim sky, in the dense rain curtain, the dark and mottled buildings stand quietly.

From a distance, it looks like a monster in a deep sleep, trying to devour all the life that comes in.

(End of chapter)