May 2nd

"Sir! Mr! ”

When she got up early in the morning, Zhuang Zhiyu found that Chang'an's bedroom was as clean as new, as if she hadn't returned overnight, so she searched for Chang'an all over the yard.

But after searching for a long time, I didn't even find a shadow.

At this time, two patrol disciples in the village happened to pass by, and across the courtyard wall, they talked about Chang'an.

"Why are you listless, I didn't sleep well last night."

"I've been busy all night, I haven't slept yet, and I have to get up and patrol again, but I'm not tired."

"Then Chang'an hasn't found it yet?"

"No, the owner of the village ordered someone to climb down the cliff, but there is still no trace, then Chang An is afraid that he really fell to the bottom of the cliff."

When Zhuang Zhiyu heard this, her face suddenly changed greatly, and she ran out of the courtyard and anxiously asked the two patrol disciples

"What do you say? What happened to me, sir? ”

The patrol disciples looked at each other and secretly scolded themselves for talking too much, but Zhuang Zhiyu listened to it and said

"Miss Zhuang, don't worry, the head of the Chang family jumped off the cliff by himself last night, most of them have been prepared, Miss Zhuang can wait a few more days, and the head of the Chang family will come back."

They can only be so comforted, but how can Zhuang Zhiyu not be in a hurry, she is so anxious that tears are already rolling in her eyes at the moment, she pushed the two of them away, and ran towards the cliff like crazy.

She ran tirelessly for a long time, and finally ran to the stone wall, and looked at the holes in the stone wall, and her heart became more and more anxious.

At this moment, Chu Yuchao was standing on the stone wall, staring at the cliff under his feet, and when he heard the sound of footsteps, he looked back, but saw Zhuang Zhiyu's face full of tears, and he ran over anxiously.

He jumped off the stone wall and looked at Zhuang Zhiyu apologetically, but he didn't know what to say, so he had to pat her shoulder and sigh

"Miss Zhuang, the whole village will do their best to rescue the head of the Chang family."

Zhuang Zhiyu's hand trembled and touched the hole in the stone wall, without saying a word.

Seeing that she couldn't listen to anything now, Chu Yuchao sighed and walked away helplessly.

Zhuang Zhiyu sat against the stone wall for a long time, and finally slowly came back to her senses, she stubbornly wiped the tears on her face, and re-measured the stone wall.

"Sir has never been an impulsive person, since he jumped on his own initiative, he will definitely leave clues."

She looked closely at the holes left in the stone wall, two of which were flattened, like the marks of a sword, and one was narrow, but noticeably wider than the other two, more like the marks of a spear and a club.

"Sir with a sword, it can only be these two."

But among the three holes, only the sword hole at the bottom is directly through this stone wall, and the only one who can do this is probably Chang'an.

Zhuang Sleeveyu's eyes lit up, and he found that it was not only the sword hole left by Chang An, but not far from the stone wall, a few thin needles of dark iron fell to the ground.

At this time, the sunlight shone into the villa, and the place where Zhuang Zhiyu was standing happened to be in the shadow of the stone wall, in the sword hole left by Chang'an, a ray of sunlight penetrated in, leaving a little light in this shadow, Zhuang Zhiyu was surprised to find that the ray of sunlight was just shining on the few thin needles of the dark iron.

Zhuang Zhiyu walked back and forth around the few dark iron needles, but when she walked to a certain position, she was surprised to find that the sunlight and needles actually formed the appearance of a small tree in a certain position!

"Trees, trees into forests, black coffin forests!"

Zhuang Sleeveyu's complexion changed greatly

"Sir, let me go to the Black Coffin Forest!"

She suddenly realized, hurriedly ran back to the courtyard, took out the red bow and arrow box, and ran down the mountain towards the black coffin forest!

Soon after, she stood breathlessly in front of the black coffin forest, looking resolute, and muttered to herself

"Since Mr. asked me to come to the Black Coffin Forest, I will definitely come back, and I can't hold back."

With that, she slowly walked into the black coffin forest.

In the black coffin forest, as soon as he stepped in, there was a cold yin wind constantly coming, and Zhuang Zhiyu shrank his head in fear

"It's still so scary."

She removed the bow from her back and held the arrow in her other hand, carefully observing her surroundings.

"Quack! Wail! ”

The crows of crows kept coming from all over the forest.

Zhuang Zhiyu trembled with fright, and suddenly, she felt a black shadow "whoosh" from not far away.

She was so frightened that she almost cried, but in the blink of an eye she wiped her tears again, and followed the vague impression of the dark shadow.

Originally, she was recalling the trajectory of Chu Yuchao leading them into the villa the day before yesterday, but at this moment, she had already deviated from that trajectory.

She saw a shallow mark on the ground, and knew that it had been left by the man, so she followed it on.

But as she walked, she felt more and more wrong, and the smell of blood became stronger and stronger, and seemed to permeate the woods.

The further she went, the heavier the smell of blood became, and in a moment she felt the smell of blood draw nearer and nearer to her, and she looked around, and saw that there was a dense grass on the side, and the weeds grew even more luxuriantly.

But this was not enough to attract Zhuang Zhiyu's attention, what really caught her attention was on those weed leaves, she saw a little bright red, she walked over slowly, and gradually saw that it was a drop of blood, along the lines of the weeds and leaves, slowly flowing down.

At this time, the smell of blood was also so heavy that it could not be increased.

Zhuang Zhiyu was bold and slowly pushed away the weeds, but only a shallow layer was removed, and she was horrified to find that there was actually a corpse hidden in the grass.

Fortunately, Zhuang Zhiyu has become much bolder after experiencing the incident in Liangzhou.

She steadied herself a little, grabbed the red bow tightly with both hands, and flipped the corpse open with the red bow.

"Buzz..."

She picked open the corpse, and a large number of mosquitoes and flies flew around the grass, and under the corpse, there were several corpses piled up together!

Even the few bodies piled up on it, as well as rotting flesh hanging from the backbone, seemed to fall at any moment.

"Gross!"

The huge stench almost made Zhuang Zhiyu faint directly.

She turned her head, pinched her nose, closed her eyes and slowed down for a moment before turning around.

She looked at the first corpse that she had just opened, the man had obviously just died, the corpse could still feel a little warm, and on the neck, a very thin blood mark was clearly visible.

"A sword seals the throat"

Zhuang Zhiyu said intently.

She frowned when she saw that the man's clothes were those of a disciple of the Chu Clan's Villa

"Could these be all people from the Chu Clan's Villa?"

But she thought about it, if they were all from the Chu Villa, why did it take so long for the people of the Chu Villa to not notice that there were no people in the village?

And more importantly, what was the purpose of the man piling up the corpses here, was it just to hide the corpses?

She thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't get an answer.

Immediately, she carefully examined the corpses, which were seven in number, and according to the degree of weathering of the seven corpses, she found that the death interval of these seven people was long.

The one at the bottom has completely turned into bones, and it must have been more than a year since then.

But at this time, Zhuang Zhiyu heard footsteps not far away, she hurriedly put the body back and hid behind a tree on the side.

After a few moments, the footsteps slowly approached, until she reached the grass, and she heard the sound of someone pushing it away.

"I just sent it, so I have enough of seven corpses."

"Alas, every time we are called to do this kind of hard work."

"Don't talk nonsense, let's do it quickly, I heard that a large number of goods will be sent from Liangzhou soon, and they will be dry when the time comes."

"Ahh

But one of them complained

"It's not about exhausting people to death."

The other laughed

"Isn't this what you called us to do this job, stop talking nonsense."

"I heard that a lot of Jianghu people died in Liangzhou for a box."

"It's not, this has to be thanks to that Fu Rushui, if he hadn't come up with this thing, I'm afraid that just collecting the corpse, I'm afraid it would tire our landlord to death."

"Yes, like now, I only collect seven corpses every year and a half, and I am afraid that I will be discovered by the Chu family, and I don't know when it will be a head."

Zhuang Zhiyu hid behind the tree and didn't dare to come out.

"Oh, I'm moving this new one, and the rest are out of meat, you hold them."

"Okay, okay, move quickly, go back to sleep after moving."

The two of them were busy for a while, carrying the corpse and slowly leaving.

Zhuang Zhiyu listened to the footsteps of the two people getting farther and farther away, hurriedly came out from behind the tree, and tiptoed to follow the two people.

…………

The bottom of the cliff

Chang An sat next to the waterhole, holding a lantern in his hand, but saw a thin layer of skin on the outside of the lantern, which was clearly made of human skin.

Chang An's face was gloomy, because they had made such a vicious thing, they actually used human skin to make lanterns.

Behind him, a man was tied to the ground and struggled incessantly.

Chang An stood up and kicked the man in the stomach, the pain made the man sweat, but he didn't dare to scream, because he was afraid that if he screamed, he would be killed by the young man in front of him with a sword.

"Say, what the hell are you doing here?"

Chang An said coldly.

The man said with a shudder

"Hero, the little one doesn't know, the small one is a patrolman."

Chang An asked again

"Then you know how to get out of here."

The man smiled bitterly

"Hero, those who have come here, and the little ones have never seen anyone who can get out alive."

Chang An frowned, pointed to the hole that the two of them came out of before and said

"It's your den."

The man nodded

"Yes, yes, we got off the cliff and stayed there."

Chang An said

"Then tell me what it's like in there."

The man said busily

"There are three floors inside, the outermost part is where we live, the inner is the sacrificial forest, and the innermost is the main altar area, we can only stay in the residential area with a low-level patrol, and we have never even entered the sacrificial forest, let alone the innermost main altar area."

Chang'an Road

"Then do you know what's in the sacrificial forest?"

The man shook his head

"I don't know, just listen to those senior patrolmen, it's scary in there."

Chang An thought for a moment and asked again

"How many of you are there?"

The man thought for a moment and said

"I'm afraid there must be thousands."

Chang An's face became ugly.

Thousands of people were hiding here, and no one noticed it, and last night those people suddenly rushed out of the villa and attacked him, if it was based on these two points, he could basically judge that most of the inside of this Chu Villa had already been infiltrated by the twelfth floor.

Otherwise, with the Chu Clan Villa he saw, there were so many masters, no one could hide it so thoroughly in the villa.

"I'm sorry"

A cold glint flashed in Chang An's eyes, and before the person could call for help, he was blocked by Chang An's sword and then Chang An stripped him of his clothes and threw him into the pool.

After a while, Chang An changed into the man's clothes, picked up the human skin lantern, and slowly walked into the hole.

The cave was deep and secluded, Chang An cautiously groped forward all the way, and after about a cup of tea, Chang An saw a bright light in front of him.

When Chang An walked out of the cave, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

It was an extremely large cave, the cave was brightly lit, as if it was daytime outside, and in front of him, there was a lively street, with people coming and going, and even hawkers selling along the street.

Chang An was stunned, this was already a small city.

Someone tapped him on the shoulder, and he turned his head.

"Hey, what about the people who patrolled with you, why are you the only one back?"

A man dressed in clothes similar to him suddenly said, but Chang An carefully found that there was a token hanging from the person's waist, and the word sacrifice forest was written on it.

It seems that this guy is the so-called senior patrolman.

"Oh, he's upset, it's convenient to go."

Chang An casually found an excuse and prevaricated.

The man asked

"Why haven't I seen you, newcomer?"

Chang An nodded

"Just came down, hehe."

The man was also familiar, and immediately hooked his hand on the back of Chang An's neck

"Then you mix with me, and make sure you eat and drink spicy food."

As he spoke, Chao Chang'an showed off the waist card on his waist and said proudly

"See, this is the waist card of the sacrificial forest, senior patrolman."

Chang An's eyes lit up, and he was happy

"After that, I will rely on the eldest brother, and I don't know the eldest brother's surname."

The man said

"Well, everyone else calls me Brother Qiang, you can also call me that, what is your name."

Chang'an Road

"Brother Qiang just calls me Xiao Yanzi."

Brother Qiang patted Chang An's shoulder

"Okay, Xiao Yanzi, work hard and strive to become a senior patrolman as soon as possible, and become a master of the nuclear level like Brother Qiang."

Chang An looked at Brother Dian Qiang with envy

"Brother Qiang, to become a senior patrolman, you actually want to train to the nuclear level?"

Brother Qiang enjoyed Chang An's worship with a face full of face, and said

"That's it, look at these people, they used to be patrolmen, but unfortunately they couldn't step into the nuclear level for the rest of their lives, so they could only stay in this outer area for the rest of their lives and wait for death."

Chang An asked curiously

"Brother Qiang, what's in the sacrificial forest?"

Brother Qiang's face changed, and he patted Chang An's head

"You shouldn't ask, don't ask."

It is often installed as if it is painful and covers its head

"Got it, Brother Qiang."

On the street, a gong suddenly sounded.

A boy was scurrying around in the crowd, so inflexible, I saw that his face was anxious, and he shouted while striking the gong

"The people of the Zhang family and the Wang family are gone!"

There was an uproar on the street, and everyone was shocked at first, and then everyone's faces turned pale, and they bowed their heads and hurried away.

Brother Qiang's face on the side was not very good-looking, Chang An asked

"Brother Qiang, what's going on?"

Brother Qiang said

"I guess I was taken to the sacrificial forest by a senior patrolman."

Chang An asked

"Why is that?"

Brother Qiang's face suddenly became extremely terrifying, and his eyes were staring at Chang An.

"Do you really think that the building arranged us here to let us live here?"

As he spoke, a burst of sadness suddenly appeared in his eyes

"It's just a prepared sacrifice."

At this moment, at the end of the street, there was a terrible scream and the cry of a child.

The street was silent for a long time, and then it seemed as if nothing had happened, and it was once again the same as before.