The wind in Xiao Xiao Mountain, the fallen leaves, the clouds wander in the sky, covering the sun, and the light is dim in an instant.

The door in front of you is closed, the sun rises in the east on the carved pattern, the red sun is the head, and the waterfall is flowing, which means that the treasure is rich. The bronze double lion pulls the ring and is mighty and brave, but it can be a town house and a block.

Usually seen only as wealthy, now the atmosphere is rendered, and even with a lion's head makes people feel a layer of gloom.

Nangong Zhi looked at Yun Qi, Yun Qi smiled slightly, and made a gesture of invitation with a jade bone fan.

Everyone's eyes followed Nangong Zhi's hand, and as he lifted it, he paused for a moment, and even his breathing almost stopped.

'Click~Click~Click-'The crack in the door slowly widened, and everyone stiffened at the same time.

The roar of eagles in the sky, the chirping of birds in the treetops, the chirping of insects in the grass, including the sound of the wind and the incitement of leaves, all these sounds seemed to be gone in an instant.

Everyone's vocal senses were paralyzed, and their vision was infinitely magnified, leaving the scene in front of them jaw-dropping.

In the middle courtyard of the ancestral hall, a half-person high bronze three-legged tripod is thought to be used by the Zhou family to burn incense and offer to the sky, but now there is neither incense nor soot in it, but a person's head is stacked on it.

The old, the young, the men, the women, the heads of the people without bodies went up from the three-legged tripod like bricks, and the top one was the oldest, with gray hair and a pair of bloody eyes facing the gate, as if staring at the uninvited guest who broke through the door suddenly.

This scene deeply shocked everyone present, and they were so frightened and frightened that they couldn't scream any more.

The students' legs were weak, and they almost collapsed to the ground, opening their mouths wide to shout, but their voices were shaking so much that they couldn't make a sound.

Lu Anran stretched out his hand to support Meng Shizhao's lower back, narrowly dragged her person, and handed it over to Wufang to let her take the person away.

Some of them didn't help, they fainted directly, Nangong stopped moving quickly, hurriedly covered the door, and turned back to explain, "First check if the few people who fainted are okay, Captain Qian led people to block the ancestral hall, and all the students in Jixia Palace were transferred to the house just now." ”

Captain Qian, who had just finished arranging for him to run over halfway up the mountain, took a look at it and cursed: "Damn, which one is so perverted!" ”

"Yun Shizi." Nangong Zhi's expression was cold, "I'm afraid that the people in Zhoujiazhuang have been killed." ”

Yun Qi's smile faded, and his peach blossom eyes were still a little frivolous, and he replied: "Since it is the boundary of Emperor Hill, you should inform the local officials." ”

Nangong nodded, asked Captain Qian to run an errand and went straight to the county office, looked at the group of crooked people in front of him, and showed a little sorrow between his eyebrows, "It will take an hour or two for Qian Zhixian to come over, why don't we go in first to check if there are any clues." ”

The county lord of Ding'an's face was a little pale, and when he heard this, he smiled coldly: "Coincidentally, both the priest and the criminal secretary are here." ”

Nangong Zhi had the intention to resolve it, "Miss Lu is still a student, I'm afraid it's ......"

"Those who can work hard...... Yun Qi stood up, the jade bone fan was closed in the palm of his hand, his peach blossom eyes were slightly raised, with a posture of contempt, "Sure enough, we still want to raise the criminal department to take action." ”

Lu Anran glanced at Yun Qi in some surprise, when did he become so proactive.

Before pushing the door again, Nangong Zhi had already let the other unrelated people retreat, leaving only him, Yunqi and Lu Anran, who looked sideways at the other two idlers, and persuaded each other with good words: "The situation inside is tragic, you better stay away." ”

Feng Tian had already stood up from the soldier, flicked his sleeves, kicked his feet, and apparently changed a pair of shoes on it, black cloth on a white background, which was the standard combat boots of the Daning Dynasty.

He sneered and said, "What is there to fear from the dead, can you still cheat the corpse?" ”

Lu Taotao was more direct, and the person flew over from above, and turned around and beckoned, "What are you rubbing, hurry up." ”

Nangong couldn't stop it, so he had to walk up and open the door again, and several people cautiously stepped on the threshold and walked in.

At this time, Steward Zhou, who had finally woken up, stumbled over from behind and cried: "Master-madam-"

was so sad that he tripped and fell to the ground, and hit his head on the three-legged tripod.

In an instant, the human head 'boomed', and all of them fell to the ground scattered, rolling like balls.

Lu Taotao held his face and opened his eyes wide, "Yaksha eats people!" ”

According to the description of the dossier, after Mrs. Zhou saw Yaksha eating people in the middle of the night, she also rolled out of the ground with a human skull like now.

Steward Zhou fainted again, and Nangong stopped shouting two people to carry them out, looking down at the messy heads of several people helpless.

Lu Anran put on deerskin gloves, squatted down and looked at the human head at his feet, changed another look, and then bypassed the wall where the three-legged tripod was leaning back, saw the situation ahead, and a sigh overflowed between his lips and teeth.

Yunqi stood next to her, "The head is separated, and the head is folded into a wall, I should say whether this Yaksha has a good appetite or a bad taste." ”

As far as I could see, there were corpses without human heads, under trees, on steps, and at the doorway......

Rivers of blood flowed and corpses were strewn everywhere.

"Eat so many people in one go, and I'm not afraid of dying." Lu Taotao poked out a head from the wall, "Wow, there are so many dead people, I'm so scared." ”

Feng Tian followed closely, looked at it, and said in disgust: "Even the corpse is gnawed, what a disgusting thing." ”

Nangong Zhi squatted on the ground to check, such a personable son stood in the bloodstain, there was no discomfort at all, and his warm face became more and more serious, "All the corpses are almost mutilated, and none of them are complete." ”

Lu Anran roughly swept it just now, some of them were missing their hands and feet, some had a big hole in their chests, and some were even more serious, and their bodies were directly missing by half.

Crucially, the mutilated part was not on site.

"The Yaksha eats." Lu Taotao swallowed, "What a big appetite." ”

After a general inspection by a few people, Captain Qian arranged for someone to search the entire ancestral hall, and it was true that part of the body was missing.

As a result, everyone began to believe that there were Nakshatas who would eat people.

The corpses were neatly placed in the open space behind the wall, and they were counted, and there were one hundred and forty-nine in all.

It's unbelievable that not even a single intact corpse can be found.

I had to distinguish it from the clothes, men, women and children, masters and servants, all of whom were now lying on the ground without exception, without distinction between dignity and inferiority, and all of them had become a pile of rotten things left in this world.

Comparing the old man's head on the top of the human head wall and pressing it on the old body in brocade clothes, Lu Anran said calmly in his usual cool voice: "This should be the head of the Zhou family." ”

Nangong Zhi was a little curious, it was better to encounter one or two corpses before, but now that he saw so many corpses, even he was a little stunned in his heart, why could Lu Anran still maintain such a calm posture.

Lu Anran was holding a head, pressing his hand on the broken point, and lowered his body to check the corpse on the ground, and then accurately put the head on it.

Just watch her pick them up one by one, and then connect them with the corpse without a human head, the process is as smooth as a cloud, as if she is not piecing together human bodies, but building blocks.

"You slow down, everything is done, will Qian Zhixian have a chance to play later?" Yunqi dragged his feet on the side.

After hearing this, Lu Anran really slowed down, but it was not as delayed as Yunqi said, but as if he had discovered something.

Nangong Zhi immediately leaned over, "Miss Lu, what's wrong?" ”

"They were injured at different times." Lu Anran tore open the tattered fabric and observed the corpse spots on it, "Ten days ago at the earliest, two or three days ago at the latest." ”

Lu Taotao said: "It's strange, I can't finish eating in batches." ”

Lu Anran said again: "But they died at the same time. ”

"Half of the bite is not fresh, and then I will catch someone to eat, and kill it together when I get bored in the end?"

Yunqi asked, "The cause of death?" ”

"Bleeding too much."

Lu Taotao shook his head, "The beast really has a low IQ, and he doesn't know how to raise fish, so he takes two bites today, and then fattens him up, and he won't be able to eat it again another day." There are so many people in the Zhou family, and it is better to take turns to eat than to eat in one breath and waste it. ”

"You, you, you ......" Steward Zhou woke up again, but as soon as he rushed over, he heard this remark, so angry that he almost didn't roll his eyes again, and stomped his feet and shouted: "How can you talk like that." ”

Lu Taotao smiled evilly, "Old man, take it easy, don't be angry, Yaksha has one less dinner." ”

Steward Zhou's eyes rolled white, and Captain Qian pinched him with an arrow step, "Whoever put him in, quickly drag it out and hang it in the distance, it's already messy enough, don't mess up again." ”

When Lu Anran put everyone's heads back in place, Qian Zhixian finally came with the hem of his official uniform, and when he looked at his face, he almost couldn't get up in one breath.

"Shaofu, this, this, what's going on?" Qian Zhixian stroked his chest, almost lost his breath, and was about to cry with a bitter face, "Zhou family, won't it be gone." ”

"Not really." Yunqi said kindly.

Qian Zhixian's face was just a little better, and Nangong Zhi sighed helplessly: "There is only one old housekeeper left." ”

"Huh?!" Qian Zhixian is also about to roll his eyes.

Not to mention that the Zhou family is the richest family in Diqiu, a well-known figure, just this more than 100 cases of extermination, which makes Qian Zhixian feel that the future is dark.

The white cloth covered the corpses, and the people brought by the government and Captain Qian carried out the corpses one by one, and before the case was concluded, it should have been placed in the special coroner's room of the government, but there were too many people, so they had to be placed in the Yizhuang next to the government first.

Just like that, more than 100 people carried it over, and the people along the street were all trembling when they saw it, and the rumors about Yaksha eating people were also more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Outside the ancestral hall, Nangong Zhi asked Lu Anran, "Can you tell if it is really eaten by the Yaksha?" ”

Lu Anran shook his head, "Judging from the wounds, there are lacerations and bite marks, but I don't know why I was injured at different times and died at the same time." ”

It stands to reason that the first person to be injured must have more and faster blood flow, and will die earlier.

"I have a guess." Nangong Zhi frowned slightly, "What if the wounds don't kill them, and their deaths aren't because of these wounds?" ”

Yunqi raised his eyebrows, "What?" Nangong Shaofu really believes in what Lu Taotao said: two bites to fill the wound and fatten? ”

Nangong Zhi: "I mean, there are many reasons for excessive bleeding, in case it is not the wound, but the fracture......"

Lu Taotao high-fived: "Oh, I know, Yaksha pinched people's heads one by one, right?" ”

"Is it idle?" Yun Qi snorted lightly, "Just to let them die together, and then pull their heads one by one?" ”

Feng Tian put on a proud face, and said with a look on your not very smart face: "Are you stupid, Yaksha knows spells, why do you want to talk about them one by one, can't you breathe?" ”

……

Good makes sense.

On the carriage back, Lu Anran was puzzled: "Why is Yaksha staring at Zhou Yuanwai's family." ”