Branches on the moon.

After the rain, the sky was not as clear as expected.

Out of nowhere, a gray cloud drifted in, obscuring the moonlight.

In the village.

When Zheng Xiu followed a few steps, the doors that had been secretly opened closed again in a blink of an eye.

Apparently.

The existence of the "Butcher of the Night" is not a secret in the village.

Fengbei knows, the village chief knows, and everyone knows.

They acquiesced to the presence of the Butcher in the middle of the night.

The villagers are connected to the butchers in the middle of the night in some intimate way.

Passing by the door of the village chief's house, the place where they used to drink soup is now closed, and after the village chief was scared away by Wang Cangyun, he slipped home and hid.

Wang Cangyun, the young man, and his subordinates, in Zheng Xiu's attack on Fengbei for a while, have disappeared.

Are they really gone?

Zheng Xiu was surprised.

Soon he was a little disappointed, Master Zheng thought that Wang Cangyun could be a help for him to fight the butcher in the middle of the night, but in the end he still paid by mistake.

The two of them followed the fence of the village to the east side of the village, and the sound of the murmuring water was particularly clear in the silent night.

Zheng Xiu walked towards the river.

"Don't go over."

Zheng Xiu turned his head and smiled: "Heli, what's there?" ”

Xiao Fengbei hesitated for a moment and said, "Fish... Carp, there are many, many white carp. ”

With that, Xiao Fengbei quickly ran into the woods.

Zheng Xiu looked at the back of Fengbei running away, although the little girl said that she was willing to save her life, but she looked very casual, her words and deeds seemed to say, if you don't keep up, I won't care about you, let it be fate.

After thinking about it, Zheng Xiu remembered the horror of the "Late Night Butcher" that night, his trumpet had been brushed to the full level in the training again and again, and there was indeed no reason to fight hard with the Late Night Butcher.

It's better to take advantage of this to start and find the real route to clear the level.

When you come to the deep forest, there is a small slope here, the slope slopes downward, and at the end is a small river.

Under a big tree that is thick with two people hugging each other, there is a natural recess, and someone has built a simple shed with branches, like a simple home.

[Investigation].

Zheng Xiu arrived here for the first time and threw away a reconnaissance.

Reconnaissance rarely fails.

Again.

Reconnaissance was a small success.

[You followed Fengbei to come here. 】

[When you look closely, you find that the leaves on the branches of the tree used to build the tent have long since withered, as if for some time. 】

[You found some small beast remains and wild fruit pitting nearby.] 】

That's it for the information.

[Intuition] was not triggered, plus it was Fengbei who brought him here, so there should be no danger.

Wait a minute.

Zheng Xiu understood it and exclaimed, "You just eat these?" ”

Feng Bei nodded silently.

Zheng Xiu asked again: "White carp, what's the problem?" ”

Feng Bei shook his head slightly, took away a few branches, and motioned for Zheng Xiu to hide in: "Don't come out." ”

Zheng Xiu went in.

That nest accommodates Fengbei's size very easily, but Zheng Xiu's size, Zheng Xiu feels like a big grizzly bear curled up in a Chihuahua kennel.

Seeing that Zheng Xiu had finally squeezed in, Feng Bei's shriveled lips pursed up, and he told again: "You... Don't come out. ”

"That white carp..."Zheng Xiu looked at Xiao Fengbei's thin figure, and said the terrible guess in his heart: "They grew up eating white meat?" ”

White meat, which refers to human flesh.

Feng Bei's thin body trembled slightly, and he walked back in the direction of the village, and it didn't take long for his figure to disappear into the night.

Zheng Xiu raised his head and looked at the sky.

He had tried to squat in the woods and was killed by thunder in the clear sky, and now he was hiding under a tree, and it was hard for him not to think about it. It's just that the sky feels a little strange to Zheng Xiu at this moment, and the gray color is like both clouds and fog, as if this white carp village is covered by a gray cover.

At this time, Zheng Xiu remembered that in his heart, the appearance of Baili Village on the map was wrapped in a shell shaped like a preserved egg, and it was such a scene.

Whew—

In the forest, a wolf howl suddenly sounded, but the wolf howl stopped abruptly, as if someone had suddenly choked the neck.

There was a flutter of wings in the sky, and it was a flurry of panicked birds, scurrying around.

Zheng Xiu's perspective didn't see it, those birds flew into the air, and they all convulsed in the same way, crashing into the ground, falling straight to the ground, and dying in the forest.

'There's movement!' That thing's out! ”

Although it was impossible to see clearly in the dark, the strange movements around him from time to time made Zheng Xiu notice something unusual.

He slept in the village house that night, and it was around this time that he had happened.

Zheng Xiu still can't confirm whether the beastly figure is a human or a ghost - but objectively speaking, he would rather believe that it was a madman, otherwise it would be difficult to explain why the villagers lived with him.

What does it have to do with Xiaofengbei?

Is it her father?

With the progress of the ghost snake so far, coupled with Zheng Xiu's continuous exploration, Zheng Xiu feels that he is very close to the truth.

But he didn't come this time to decipher it, just to speed run.

This is just a phantom from twenty years ago, and the past cannot be repeated.

Zheng Xiu didn't really travel to the past, he can even switch to reality at any time now, hang up here, squat peacefully until dawn, and this copy will be considered cleared.

I never thought it would be so easy.

But think about it again, how much effort did Zheng Xiu put into this?

First the four bandit families, diseases, heavy rains, and kings, and finally Fengbei.

"I, Zheng, can speed run, not by luck, but by my own efforts!"

Zheng Xiu sighed with emotion and gladly accepted his admiration.

No matter what he does, the "massacre of the whole village of Baili Village" is a "history" that is sure of the facts, and the slaughter of 26 families in the village is a foregone conclusion.

But actually.

Even if Zheng Xiu didn't go to witness it with his own eyes.

Regarding the "Baili Village Massacre" that occurred 20 years ago, the cause and effect have been vaguely clarified.

The background is that bandits are rampant, and the villagers are poor and hungry.

Then for some reason, a white carp grows in the small river east of the village.

The villagers began to fish for a living, but the carp growing in a small river could not be the main food supply for many years, and it was clear that one day they would be caught and fished.

Immediately after that, I don't know who found out, and fed the fish with white meat, and the fish multiplied quickly.

The madmen began to kill people to feed the fish, the villagers ate the fish, and a new food chain was born.

It continues to this day.

Although this conclusion is very terrifying, in that world, the black shops on the side of the road can ambush the yin people, and nothing is impossible.

Even if the madman is crazy, he is not completely crazy, and one or two can be guessed from the living conditions of the residents.

And when it gets dark, the whole village goes home quickly, and closes the door, obviously a little afraid of the madman's late-night haunt.

It is very likely that Baili Village once killed many bandits, and the bandits knew that it was dangerous, but they did not dare to provoke it, and reached a delicate balance.

Zheng Xiu shook his head suddenly, and when he woke up, a tingle rushed to his scalp.

No, there are not many people on that official road, and it is very likely that the bandits also live on the "man-eating white carp" produced by this village!

It's scary to think about!

Zheng Xiuwo changed his posture in the tree cave, shocked in his heart, it was hard to imagine that in the troubled times twenty years ago, in an inconspicuous corner of the Daqian Country, such an outrageous thing could be staged.

Forty-six people from twenty-six families died tragically in one night.

Wait a minute.

Twenty-six households?

Zheng Xiu closed his eyes, and the familiar villages passed through his mind one by one.

He began to count.

One, two, three, four...... Twenty-six!

Including the "Feng's butcher shop", there are exactly a total of 26 households!

"Everybody is going to die?"

"Hasn't this food chain been around for a long time?"

"Why is it on this night?"

"Is this an illusion of the past, or am I now living in the past twenty years ago as 'Zheng Shan'?"

"If this were twenty years ago."

"There is no such person as Wang Cangyun in the court today, which means that they are likely to die here!"

"If it's the latter, could it be that the appearance of 'me' killed them?"

"Or maybe the Treasure King was harmed?"

"It's just an avatar made up out of thin air!"

"An 'avatar' that doesn't exist at all!"

"So it must be the Treasure King!"

"I see!"

"What do you have to do with me!"

Zheng Xiu shook his head again and again in the dark.

A moment later.

Squeak - squeak - squeak -

In the distance, in the silent forest, there was a sharp and piercing sound.

It sounds like a metal weight is slowly dragging on the ground.