Three days later.

Qin Chuan, dressed as a scholar, was walking in the suburbs with a little donkey.

Three days ago, after being told by Yan Ziqing that he would lead the Seven Star Sect into the Jialing Mountains, he left Jiaodong County the next day.

The Seven Star Sect was left alone, and he didn't want to stay alone in the Tianshu Palace.

So he took the spirit boat rewarded to him by Hong Lie to Qingping County, which is separated by a river from Jiaodong County, and found the local demon slayer to receive a secret reward.

The mission is to investigate a number of recent disappearances at Taiping Academy.

It is said that this task has been hanging on the secret reward for half a month, and during this period, two people have also taken this task, but after the two entered the Taiping Academy, they all lost their news.

Therefore, no one dared to take on this task for a while, and even if the Demon Slayer Division tripled the bounty, he was still respected by everyone.

Qin Chuan didn't plan to take on this task at first, after all, this kind of task can't help but take a long time and take a lot of brains, and it is far less simple and direct than slaying demons and the like.

But when he was pulled aside by the demon slayer and mysteriously told that there were many beauties in this Taiping Academy, he was tempted.

Don't get me wrong, he, Qin Chuan, is not so vulgar, he just can't bear to look at these are the flowers of the Daqian Dynasty, and he is in a life of fear all day long, so he chooses to help.

Of course, regardless of the purpose, he eventually took on the task.

"This Taiping Academy, I'm afraid it's not good for feng shui, right?"

At this time, Qin Chuan, while leading the little donkey, carefully looked at the information about this mission.

The Taiping Academy, founded 300 years ago, is said to have been built by a prime minister at that time.

Unlike other academies, this place not only admits male students, but also any woman who wants to study, even mountain spirits and forest demons, as long as they are eager to study and have not done evil, they can come here to study.

The most legendary thing is that in the record, there was a female dean of Taiping Academy, this female dean was transformed by a demon fox in the mountains, and then I don't know why, this female dean disappeared mysteriously.

At that time, it caused quite a stir, and even the imperial court sent people to find the whereabouts of the female dean.

But unfortunately, the whereabouts of the female dean were not found in the end.

Since then, the Taiping Academy has not become very peaceful, and students often hear strange cries in the middle of the night, or see some strange phantoms.

Of course, these are minor problems, after all, it is normal for a place like the academy to have some bizarre events.

However, 30 years ago, there was a sudden case of collective death of students in Taiping College.

According to records, one night, when a student was waking up at night, he suddenly saw a large number of figures in the viewing pool in the college.

This student was quite bold, and after seeing these figures, he felt that he had encountered those strange phantoms in the legends of the academy, so he was curious to find out.

But who knows, when he came to the viewing pool, he found that there was a phantom there, and there were more than two dozen unclothed corpses floating in the pool.

Seeing this, the student was immediately frightened and fainted, and was not discovered by his classmates until the next morning.

But bizarrely, when the student looked at the viewing pool again, there was no body in the pool, as if everything he had seen last night was just a nightmare.

However, he didn't think it was just a dream, so he found the dean at the time and told him about it.

The dean didn't believe what he said at first, but in the spirit of believing it rather than believing it, the dean asked a cultivator who was good at looking at qi to investigate.

And this cultivator did have something, and the moment he saw the viewing pool, he concluded that there was resentment under the pool, and immediately let people dig up the viewing pool.

Sure enough, a large number of skeletons were found underneath, no more, no less, which corresponded to the number of corpses that the student had seen last night.

As soon as this incident came out, the whole hospital was shocked, and they speculated about the origin of these skeletons.

At that time, the imperial court also intervened in the investigation for a long time, but in the end, they searched through the records of the Taiping Academy, and could not find out the origin of these skeletons.

Since there were no students missing from Taiping Academy at that time, the matter was over.

Later, the viewing pool was demolished and the surrounding school buildings were relocated.

And this disappearance case of Taiping Academy is related to this story.

According to what the Demon Slayer Division knew, those missing students had been to the site of this viewing pool for unknown reasons before they disappeared.

And according to the students, these people all had symptoms of visual and auditory hallucinations to a greater or lesser extent in the days before they disappeared.

"It seems that this case is not simple."

Seeing this, Qin Chuan couldn't help frowning.

If this disappearance case is really related to the viewing pool thirty years ago, it will be very tricky, after all, even the imperial court was unable to find out about this matter back then.

"Hey! Did this brother go to Taiping Academy to study? ”

At this moment, on the road behind Qin Chuan, two teenagers suddenly appeared beating horses.

Both of them are dressed as scholars, but the Confucian shirts on their bodies are much stronger than those on Qin Chuan's body.

"In Lower Qinchuan, the people of Jiaodong County."

Qin Chuan received the book recording the case in his hand into the system space without a trace, then turned around and said, "Dare to ask the two brothers Taigao's surname, but this student of Taiping Academy?" ”

"Exactly."

The two returned the salute and introduced themselves separately.

The one that is a little taller and has a darker skin is called Fang Tuo, and the other one is a little shorter and whiter is called Fang Jinli.

The two are both from Qingping County, from the same clan, and they are brothers and brothers.

"Brother Tai, haven't you heard that there have been several cases of disappearance in Taiping Academy recently? Why do you still want to come here to study, aren't you afraid that you will be the next one to disappear? ”

Fang Tuo, who was more extroverted, laughed and joked after learning that Qin Chuan was indeed here to study.

"Huh? I came all the way from Jiaodong County, and I haven't heard of it? ”

When he heard Fang Tuo's joke, Qin Chuan immediately pretended to be surprised, and he hesitated.

"Fang Tuo! What nonsense are you talking about! ”

Fang Jinli drank coldly, and after glaring at Fang Tuo, he looked at Qin Chuan and said, "Brother Qin, don't listen to this nonsense. ”

"I have indeed had some rumors in Taiping Academy recently, but those are just made up by some boring people."

As soon as these words came out, Qin Chuan couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

The disappearance cases of Taiping Academy have all been hung up on the secret reward by the Demon Slaying Division, how could this Fang Jinli say that it was made up by others?

Could it be that Taiping Academy was worried that this incident would frighten the students, so they stood up to refute the rumors?

But looking at Fang Tuo with a face that he wanted to say, but didn't dare to say it, he felt that something was wrong.

Judging from Fang Tuo's expression, it was obvious that he knew about this, since the former knew, how could Fang Jinli not know the reason?

Could it be that there was something taboo about this matter that made Fang Jinli mention it in front of him, an outsider?

Although there were many thoughts in his heart, Qin Chuan had such an expression on his face.

"Ha, it turned out to be made up by boring people, it scared me to death, I almost turned around and went back to Jiaodong County just now."

As he spoke, he pretended to pat his chest, as if he was really frightened.

"Hehe, Brother Qin doesn't need to be frightened, since my Taiping Academy is in the name of Taiping, it is determined that there will be no such thing as disappearance."

Fang Jinli said with a smile, his face was confident, while Fang Tuo still looked sullen that he couldn't say anything.

"It seems that we have to find a chance to contact this Fang Tuo alone, the latter must know something."

Qin Chuan thought secretly, and then at the invitation of Fang Jinli, they walked towards the Taiping Academy together.

Half an hour later, Qin Chuan finally saw the Taiping Academy located in a canyon.

I have to say that the person who built the academy in the first place was very good at choosing a place.

Here, surrounded by mountains on three sides, facing water on one side, especially there is a stream that just goes down the east wall of Taiping Academy, which has an artistic conception between mountains and rivers.

It's just that when he looked at the buildings of Taiping Academy, he faintly felt a hint of gloom.

In particular, the two high pavilions standing in the center of the academy, the hollowed-out top pavilions, look like two eyeless eye sockets from a distance, always watching you.

"Two Brother Fang, are you back from a family visit?"

In front of the main entrance of the college, after seeing the three people appear, even a student greeted them.

Qin Chuan glanced at this person, and found that this person's Yin Hall was black, and there was still a little blood light in the center of his eyebrows, and he looked like he was about to have a blood light disaster.

But then he frowned suspiciously.

No, I haven't practiced the art of looking at qi, how can I see that this person has a blood light disaster?

And just when he was suspicious, he heard Fang Jinli ask: "Brother Zhou, why is your brain so black, and why is there blood on this eyebrow?" ”

Qin Chuan was stunned for a moment, and then listened to the student: "Hey, I didn't get up last night, it was too dark, and I accidentally broke my head, so I just got some grass and wood ash and smeared it, it should not have been scrubbed clean." ”

Hearing this, Qin Chuan knew that he had misunderstood, and the co-authorship was grass ash.

"Brother Zhou, this is Brother Qin I met on the way." At this time, Fang Jinli introduced Qin Chuan to the other party and said, "Brother Qin, he came to the academy from Jiaodong County to study, you just take him to meet Mr. Qi." ”