"Alido, did you know that there is a forbidden area to the west of the city?"

Alido tilted her little head, blinked her big eyes, and asked, "Forbidden area?" ”

"It's a place where everyone is afraid to go in, you should know, there is a ravine in the west of your royal city that no one dares to enter on weekdays, and many outsiders in the city who look obviously different from your parents are going there."

Alido suddenly realized, "Uncle, are you talking about strange ditch and ditch mountain?" ”

"Strange ditch ditch mountain?" Shi Cheng was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that when he was wandering around the city yesterday to inquire about the news, he seemed to have heard the locals mention this name. "Is this what the locals call the Kenbin Exclusion Zone?" Shi Cheng thought secretly.

"That's it, Alido, do you know any rumors and stories about the Strange Gully Mountain?" Shi Cheng continued to ask.

Alido nodded vigorously, "The strange ditch mountain is very scary, even the king doesn't dare to enter it, uncle, what kind of story do you want to hear?" ”

Shi Cheng thought for a moment, "It's terrifying...... Why? ”

"Hmm...... Ever since I was born, my father and grandmother have used that mountain to scare me, saying that if I am disobedient, the man-eating monsters in the mountain will run out and take me away. ”

Shi Cheng smiled heartily, but the story of children's night crying has never been lacking in the world.

Seeing that Shi Cheng was laughing, little Alido flattened his mouth a little unconvinced, and continued: "Uncle, don't believe it, it's really terrible there, and there was always a loud rumble some time ago." ”

As soon as Shi Cheng heard it, he knew that it was an anomaly before the birth of the strange treasure, and he nodded to Alido very seriously, motioning for the little girl to continue.

"After there was a commotion in the mountain, there were a lot of outsiders in the city, and I heard Daddy and Uncle Tumu, who was working in the house, say that some people will never come back after entering the mountain." Speaking of this, a thick fear suddenly appeared in little Alido's eyes, "But a few days ago, an uncle who fell asleep in the mountains was carried back and placed outside the city called ...... It seems that there are some grandparents who fall asleep and can't wake up anymore, so they will send them there. ”

"Yizhuang." Shi Cheng thought to himself.

"The next day, something terrible and terrible happened, and I heard Uncle Dotowen, who delivered food to Zhuangzi, that the sleeping uncle woke up again, and he didn't know where to go after killing the two uncles who were on night duty outside Zhuangzi."

Shi Cheng's face changed slightly, "Alido, what you are talking about, did the uncle named Dotowen see it with his own eyes?" ”

"Yes." Alido nodded vigorously, and the fear in his eyes deepened a lot, "Uncle Dotowen was frightened, saying that the uncle who slept and woke up was ghosted. ”

"Ghost top? Shouldn't it be said to be a corpse fraud? Shi Cheng felt a little strange, so he asked, "Why do you say that it is a ghost?" ”

"Because when that uncle woke up, although his eyes were glowing red, he walked and acted like an ordinary person, and even could speak human words! After the uncle who woke up killed someone and ran away, the proprietor of our shop told us for several days to keep a close watch over the yard, and the door of the shop was replaced with a stronger one, and an iron latch was added when the door was closed at night. ”

Iron Mask couldn't understand the conversation between Shi Cheng and Alido, but he could see Shi Cheng's increasingly ugly face clearly.

"Uncle, the owner doesn't allow us to talk about these things to the outside world, but because it's you, uncle, Alido thinks it's okay to talk about it, just don't tell anyone else. That strange ditch and mountain is very terrifying, you don't have to go there on weekdays......." Speaking of this, Alido also noticed Shi Cheng's expression, the little girl didn't dare to continue talking, and asked cautiously, "Uncle, did I say the wrong thing......"

Shi Cheng came back to his senses, "No, Alido, you may have done your uncle a great favor." You rest first, I have something to talk to my masked brother. ”

After speaking, Shi Cheng turned his head and beckoned Iron Mask over, and then relayed what Alido said to Iron Mask.

Tie Mian was also taken aback, and his face sank.

"Iron Mask." Shi Chengyan frowned and said, "You say, isn't this very similar to the corpse demon we saw in the Western Desert Country before. ”

"Do you suspect that the Lu Clan has already made a move in the Kenbin Country? From Alido's description, it is indeed very similar to the corpse demon we saw before. ”

Shi Cheng walked around in place, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "Do you remember the experience when we were involved in the Xieyang Dao case in the Western Desert, and it was in this case that we discovered that the Lu Clan was testing a new type of corpse poison.

"Not bad."

"I remember saying at that time that one of the main reasons why the Lu people chose the central and western parts of the Western Desert Country as a testing ground was that the government's ability to control it was relatively low and there were enough residents."

Tie Mian thought about it for a moment and nodded, "Not bad." ”

"But after coming to Yulin Continent, I found that the control and governance of the local government here is not only political, but also bad. And unlike my impression, the population here is not small, so before coming to Kenbin, I had this question, why don't the Lu people test their corpse poison here, why don't they come here to steal the corpses? If you do things here, the probability of being found out is much smaller than that of Ximo. ”

Tie Mian thought for a moment and replied: "Maybe there are also corpse theft cases and uninhabited village incidents here, but because the governance is too corrupt, and there are wars in some places, everyone doesn't have obvious feelings." Moreover, the northern rainforest continent is very large, and the places we have walked so far are only a small part of it. ”

Shi Cheng shook his head, waved his hand, and retorted: "I have a different opinion, everything in heaven and earth, the greatest is life and death, no matter which country, no matter which land, birth and death are things that people attach great importance to, if there is really a large-scale corpse robbery here, it is impossible for such things that disturb the dead not to even reach our ears with a splash." ”

"But the uncle who Alido said came back from the dead is indeed very similar to the corpse demon we met in the Leaning Sun Road, how do you explain it? As for the theft of corpses, given the chaos of the land, have you ever thought that they might not need to dig graves at all, and that they could be bought in large quantities through smuggling channels after a war or a plague. Not to mention uninhabited villages, it is not uncommon for villages that were affected by disasters to be emptied because of their flights. ”

Shi Cheng didn't continue to say anything, Tie Mian's words did make sense, but he still vaguely felt in his heart that the Northern Rainforest Continent did not seem to be important in the eyes of the Lu Clan, what he saw and heard along the way was on the one hand, on the other hand, in the rebellion of the Lu Tribe, the Lu Clan's attack on the Rainforest Continent had indeed never been concerned, and he had no idea of taking this place with the main force, rapidly expanding the army and developing it into an important bridgehead.

There must be some reason for this, but Tie Mian's speculation is indeed very reasonable, Shi Cheng didn't dare to make a conclusion at the moment, so he had to put aside the speculation in his heart for a while, and first focus on the Yizhuang living corpse case mentioned by Alido.

Although in addition to the corpse demons of the Lu clan in the world, there are other evil techniques of refining corpses and controlling corpses, but Shi Cheng's heart is still more inclined to the wind and waves behind the birth of the strange treasure in the Kenbin forbidden area, the hand of the Lu clan has already reached over. Shi Cheng guessed in his heart that no matter how the Lu Clan operated in the Northern Rainforest Continent, they seemed to be quite interested in the forbidden area treasures.

"I'll have to ask Alido more about this, and by the way, I'll go to the city today to find out." Shi Cheng thought.

"Uncle, did I say something wrong?" Although he couldn't understand Cheta's words, seeing Shi Cheng and Iron Mask's extremely serious appearance when they talked, Alido's heart couldn't help but be frightened.

Shi Cheng hurriedly smiled gently, leaned over and patted Alido's little head gently, "Alido didn't say anything wrong, it's just that my uncle and my masked brother were very curious about what you said, do you know anything more, can you tell your uncle?" ”

Seeing that Shi Cheng's face was not ugly because of herself, little Alido finally breathed a sigh of relief, she nodded obediently, answered Shi Cheng's question, and told Shi Cheng and Tie Mian everything she knew.

From Alido's answers, Shi Cheng learns of two key parties: Dotowen, a vegetable and fruit shop helper, and the manager of the Yizhuang outside the city, a funeral merchant who Dotowen calls Daddy Kaida.

As for the identity of the corpse that came back from the dead, Alido didn't know, only that he heard that it seemed to be a Cold Moon person, and the details of this clue still seemed to need Shi Cheng to find out on his own.

"Old ~~~~~~ Shi ~~~~~~" At this moment, a breathless voice came down from upstairs.

Alido was startled by the strange sound that suddenly came from upstairs, she shrank behind Shi Cheng like a frightened rabbit, and asked timidly, "Uncle and uncle, did you hear the sound from upstairs, are you haunted here?" ”

"Uh...... Actually, it's ......" Shi Cheng, who was a little speechless, wanted to comfort Alido and said that there was actually another tenant upstairs, but when he saw Alido's trembling appearance, Shi Cheng suddenly had a prank idea in his heart, wanting to tease the little rabbit in front of him, he looked mysterious, and said angrily, "Girl, I won't tell you, there are indeed some dirty things in this room, and my friends and I don't dare to go upstairs at night......"

"Bang!" The door to the upstairs bathroom was pushed open, and a young man with a disheveled hair and drenched hair crawled out from behind the door.

"Old ~~~~~~ Shi ~~~~~~" Wu Neng's hand stretched forward weakly, and while he struggled to crawl forward on all fours on the ground, he shouted weakly at Shi Chengyou, "You forgot to leave the potion behind...... My body is falling apart......"

"Ahh - Hell! - " Alido screamed, the little one's body trembling violently, and shrunk into a small teary-eyed ball behind Shi Cheng's legs, "Uncle help me!" Woowoo woo ......"