The night was getting deeper and deeper, and the few lights in Shi Cheng's mansion were extinguished one after another, and only Shi Cheng's room in the inner courtyard was still brightly lit.

Shi Cheng's mind was replaying the scene of the last time he met Hu Enli, walking around the candlestick, his face was very solemn.

Suddenly, a strange feeling flashed through his heart, "When Hu Enli told me about his experience of being in distress on the Xieyang Road, he mentioned that the time they encountered the Black Messenger was on the thirteenth day of the lunar month of this year. But if you count according to the ancient Chita calendar, it should actually be the twenty-ninth day of October, when the moon phase seen here in the Union Khanate and the Western Desert State is a new moon, and the night is dark. ”

"In that case, how did Hu Enli manage to run for his life while still having time to turn his head and see clearly the scene of the black messenger spraying poison in the dim night?"

Thinking of this, Shi Cheng suddenly brightened, and he finally understood how the inexplicable feeling in his heart came from after returning from Hu Mansion.

The more he thought about it, the more shocked he became, "If the scene described by Hu Enli was not made up by him, then there is only one possibility, when the Black Messenger sprayed poison, he was actually standing next to the Black Messenger and watched the Black Messenger execute all the members of the caravan!" ”

Obviously, if things were really as Shi Cheng had guessed, then it would be impossible for Hu Enli to come back alive from the Xieyang Path. Another bold guess appeared in Shi Cheng's heart, it was with Hu Enli's assistance that the Black Messenger could easily kill all the members of the caravan.

At present, there are still many doubts in Shi Cheng's heart, what is Hu Enli staying in Yunqiu City for? What happened to the Hu family's caravan on the Xieyang Road? It is impossible to come to a definite conclusion by conjecture, and some things must be asked to Hu Enli in person.

There was a faint sense of foreboding in Shi Cheng's heart, which had already existed from the moment he saw Huang Yuan's corpse. If Hu Enli is also part of the big net, then something has happened to the Camel Bell Chamber of Commerce, can the Hu family be safe?

"No, I have to take a look." Shi Cheng stood up, sorted out his clothes and storage bags, and then went out to Wu Neng and Tie Mian's room.

The sleepy-eyed Wu Neng was still a little dissatisfied, but when he listened to Shi Cheng's new speculation, Wu Neng immediately lost his sleepiness.

The trio turned out all the lights in their room and changed into night clothes, then quietly went to the backyard and left the house through the drain.

Shi Cheng held the illumination talisman in his left hand, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the map in his right hand, and after about a quarter of an hour, he stopped, pointed to a drainage outlet in front of him, and said, "Let's go out from here." ”

There is a forest outside the drain, which is also an exit specially chosen by Shi Cheng to hide the whereabouts of the three people.

As soon as they came out of the drain, the three of them began to do light work, and rushed to Hu's house under the cover of woods, houses, and night.

When Shi Cheng saw the dark gate of Hu Mansion, his heart suddenly sank to the bottom.

Large families in the Western Desert often like to decorate their courtyards by hanging lanterns in front of their homes, and before the time of day, the family on night duty needs to change the wax of the lanterns to ensure that the lanterns can be lit until dawn. At this time, the moon was about to rise to its highest point, and the lantern in front of the Hu Mansion Gate was extinguished.

His right hand touched the storage bag, and the branch was already in his hand. Shi Cheng whispered to Tie Mian and Wu Neng: "Something is wrong, you follow me closely, especially Old Wu." If you encounter an emergency after entering, Lao Wu, you just need to protect yourself, and you don't have to worry about us. ”

Tie Mian also clenched the long sword in his hand when he saw the silent and dark scene at the door, although Wu Neng's mind was not as sharp as Shi Cheng and Tie Mian, but he also knew very well in his heart that not lighting the lamp in front of the door at night was definitely not what the big families here in the West Desert would be.

Shi Cheng led over the wall in front of him, followed by Tie Mian and Wu Neng.

The Hu family inside the fence is still silent, there is no sound of people, and the only difference from the gate is that there are still oil lamps for lighting outside each room, if it is not for the fact that there is no figure in sight, the scenery in front of it will not make others suspicious.

Shi Cheng and the three of them hid themselves next to a utility shed, and the cat bent forward to investigate.

Suddenly, Shi Cheng, who was walking in front, felt that he stepped on a soft thing on his feet, and he looked at the ground by the light of the lighting charm, and was suddenly shocked, and the thing that he had been faintly worried about in his heart really happened.

The thing that Shi Cheng stepped on was a person's hand, and Shi Cheng hurriedly shone the illumination charm upwards along his arm, and sure enough, it shone on a miserable white face.

A medium-sized young man dressed in the costume of a Hu Fuxia fell to the sky next to a pile of hay, his body was full of firewood and grass, which was why Shi Cheng and the others didn't notice him at first.

The blood at the corner of the young man's mouth had dried up, his head was tilted sideways at a large angle in a very strange posture, and his entire neck was blue and black, looking soft, Shi Cheng briefly examined his body and found that the deceased had been killed by someone twisting his neck from behind.

"Old Stone!" Wu Neng's heart was filled with fear, Rao had experienced several dangers on the Xieyang Road, and he still couldn't face death like Shi Cheng and Tie Mian.

"Don't panic." Shi Cheng motioned for Wu Neng to calm down as soon as possible, "With me and Tie Mian here, let's go, let's go inside and have a look." ”

After leaving the grocery shed, the trio found four more male bodies in the front yard, two of whom had their necks crushed from behind, and the other two had their necks cut from the front.

The two people who were killed in the front were dressed as guardians, and one of them even entered the realm of martial artists, and both of them were killed by a short sword.

The three of them began to walk towards the inner courtyard, and gradually, a faint smell of blood began to appear in the air.

There are more and more corpses in their eyes, judging from the murderer's methods, at first they still used the method of sneak attack, but then they simply let go completely, and did not hide their whereabouts, as long as there were family members and the courtyard bumped into them, it was directly a sword.

"Judging from the location of the corpses, they were hiding at first, and then they simply let go and killed them." Iron Mask said: "There is obviously more than one person who came. ”

"Judging by the temperature of the corpse, it happened about two quarters of an hour ago." After briefly inspecting the corpse in front of him, Shi Cheng stood up, "Let's go, let's hurry up and see how Hu Enli is doing." ”

The internal structure of the houses of the big families in the Western Desert is about the same, plus they have been here twice, and the three of them did not have much effort to find the courtyard where the Hu couple lived, but Shi Cheng only found the bodies of Mrs. Hu and a night watchmaid in front of the main house and the main house in the courtyard, but did not find the body of Hu Enli himself.

"Where did Hu Enli go?" With the same question, the three of them searched the room for traces of Hu Enli himself.

The main room and the side room in the courtyard were searched, and the three of them did not find Hu Enli's figure, but they found three more female corpses in the side room.

Shi Cheng was deeply impressed by one of the slain maids, whose name was Lü Yue, who had asked him for advice on the treatment of his nose during Shi Cheng's first visit. When Shi Chengsan visited Fishing Boat Alley, the three of them also went to Lu Yue's house.

There was a deep blood mark on Lu Yue's neck, she was wearing a warm winter bed, and the upper body of the whole person was leaning on the bed.

Lu Yue's eyes, which had lost all their sparkle, were wide open, and her left hand was spread straight on the bed, as if she wanted to get something before she died.

Shi Cheng followed her dead eyes and saw a small wooden horse on a wooden cabinet next to the bed.

Shi Cheng walked to the wooden cabinet and picked up the wooden horse with very rough carving, if it weren't for the two big eyes on the horse's head and the saddle painted with paint on the horse's back, Shi Cheng really wouldn't have recognized what this wooden carving was for the first time.

On the side of the horse's belly, two small lines of words are engraved crookedly in a very childish font, the first line is "The third brother gives the moon sister", and the second line is "Happy birthday".

Shi Cheng was silent, and after a moment he turned around and put the wooden horse in Lu Yue's already cold hand.

The three of them rummaged for a while, and finally, Iron Mask found a bloody handprint and dripping blood in a small corridor outside the side room.

"The bloodstains extend to this place, Wu Neng, Tie Mian, let's go this way."

The three of them chased in the direction of the bloodstain, and finally chased into a small garden.

After rounding the three stone mountains, a faint threatening voice came from the forest not far away, "Let me ask you one last time, where is the thing?" ”

An angry voice replied, "I... I really don't know what key you're talking about, maybe it was dropped somewhere on the way to the shipment. ”

"Do you still want to lie to me, thinking that we don't know your little ninety-nine?"

"You...... You bastards, how honest are you with me? At that time, you lied to me into drinking that fake poison, saying that it was to dispel the government's suspicion of me, and you could pass it...... My gibberish made the first scene on the Slope Road a little more realistic...... But...... Don't think I look ...... I don't know if you're long before we hit the road...... You have the idea of killing me after using me?! If...... If not, ahem, the key...... I'm afraid I'm ...... now It's dead. ”

"Your mouth is quite hard, do you want me to ask your son?"

After the questioner said this with a sinister smile, the other person's tone suddenly became confused.

"Don't ...... Be...... I said the wrong thing, ahem, please...... Everything is my responsibility, Tianming he doesn't know anything, for the sake of me doing so many things for you, let him go! There was more weeping in his weak voice, and he kept pleading with those who asked him.

Although the voice was weak and weak, Shi Cheng could still hear that it was Hu Enli's voice.

Shi Cheng and Tie faced each other, the two nodded, one waved the dead branch, the other pulled out the long sword, and stabbed it out at the same time, Wu Neng followed closely behind the two.

The black-clad masked man who was interrogating Hu Enli in the forest was caught off guard, and although his companions had already left with the evidence that needed to be destroyed, he did not expect that he would be attacked here tonight. However, the masked man quickly changed and responded immediately. The masked man used the bone shrinking technique, and his body suddenly became a lot shorter, and he rolled on the spot, narrowly avoiding the combined blow of Shi Cheng and Iron Mask.

In order to avoid accidentally injuring Hu Enli, Shi and Tie also left some leeway when making moves, which was also an important reason why the man in black was able to avoid the joint attack of the two.

However, between this advance and retreat, the two of them have already understood the cultivation realm of the masked man, and they are obviously a half-step grandmaster!

"You're a Blood Raven?" Shi Chengyu asked.

The masked man had already seen Shi Cheng's face clearly by the moonlight, and after a brief shock, he sneered, and while retreating rapidly, he crushed the two talismans in his hand, "Shi Cheng, the next one is you!" ”

The masked man's body disappeared out of thin air, and at the same time, as a flame rose into the sky, the Hu family's mansion behind Shi Cheng burst into flames, and all the houses and pavilions were submerged in the flames.

After the masked man completed the extermination, he easily buried the flame burst charm in the various courtyards of Hu Mansion, which was originally intended to be used to destroy the corpse after forcing Hu Enli, but now it can only be used in advance.

The masked man had already escaped with the teleportation charm, and Shi Cheng, Tie Mian, and Wu Neng could not continue the pursuit, so the three of them had to return to Hu Enli's side first.

At this time, Hu Enli only had his last breath left, and his heart had been severely damaged by the masked man, who had relied on a special secret method to allow Hu Enli to temporarily hold a breath to accept the question.

"Hu Enli, do you still recognize me?"

Facing Hu Enli, whose heart was injured, no matter how high Shi Cheng's medical skills were, he could only infuse Hu Enli's body with true qi to ensure that he could still ask for some valuable information from Hu Enli's mouth.

"Stone ...... Shi Engong. Hu Enli's voice was intermittent, and more and more blood bubbled out of his mouth, "I...... I regret not doing it in the first place. ”

"When did you collude with Huang Yuan? How much do you know about him? He just asked you what is the key? ”

"Tianming...... Tianming ...... Please, don't let anything happen to him. ”

After forcing the last few words, Hu Enli's body sank, and the last trace of color in his eyes completely disappeared.