The smell of blood was overwhelming, and Jiang Xingchen was dizzy for a while. On the way here, he saw more than a dozen corpses, and now it was bloody, which made him want to vomit, and hurriedly deepened his breathing!

Mei'er was shocked by what she saw, two days ago it was full of laughter, everyone was excited about her return, planning a bright future, how suddenly it became like this.

Under the leadership of Zhao Danqing, the people of the Iron Sword Mercenary Group have begun to search from house to house in the village, hoping to find the living. But after half an hour, they were all disappointed.

"There were sixteen dead bodies in total, with almost no signs of fighting, and they should have been killed suddenly without realizing it. There are more traces of the fight outside the village, and it seems that one side is fleeing, and one side is chasing, all the way to the beach...... The blood in the village has dried up and is dark brown, and it has been at least a day!"

Leaving the village, Zhao Danqing told Jiang Xingchen his analysis and judgment.

At this moment, Jiang Xingchen was already much better, and when he heard this, he thought: "This is the deep ocean, there shouldn't be anyone coming, and we didn't find anything on the way here...... In other words, there is a high probability of infighting!"

The old man interjected: "But a large number of spider crabs have eaten the corpses, and we can't analyze the specific situation!"

Jiang Xingchen closed his eyes slightly, took a deep breath and said: "These people have guarded the royal family for thousands of years, even if they are brainwashed from generation to generation, there is no guarantee that someone of a certain generation will not have other ideas. After Mei'er returned to the island, the patriarch behaved quite strangely, and did not get too excited, which did not match the performance of a brainwashed person...... Other than that. Over the years, the next generation of members of the royal family has passed away one after another, while the other children are fine......"

The old man's eyes lit up: "You mean." Some people, including the patriarch, have their eyes on the Great Shang Ruins!"

"I can't think of any other reason besides!" Jiang Xingchen nodded slightly.

"But why didn't they do it soon......er? Besides, even if they do it, they won't be able to leave this island!" the old man looked puzzled.

Jiang Xingchen thought carefully for a moment. sighed: "I don't know about this, I hope I can find something!"

The rest of the people looked up at the sky, and the chops and night owls circled low in the air, looking for clues, and Pink flew out.

Mei'er kept her head down and didn't speak, although she had only been with the old queen mother for half a month, but it was her grandmother after all. And it's been very nice to her these days. She was very sad that something like this happened suddenly.

Jiang Xingchen gently hugged Mei'er in his arms and patted him on the back slowly. Now he can only comfort him like this.

"Twitter!" Pink flew back and stopped in front of Jiang Xingchen, her wings pointing in one direction and shouting.

"I have found it!" Jiang Xingchen, the old man, and Zhao Danqing stood up at the same time.

"Take me quickly!" Mei'er broke free from Jiang Xingchen's embrace and said anxiously.

A group of people followed Pink, in the opposite direction to the shore where the spider crab had landed, and not far out of the sorghum field they found a mess of footprints.

"Here are the footprints of three people, which look like they came out of the sorghum field...... There are two small children. There is also an old man, here should be traces of crutches!" Zhao Danqing lowered his head and looked at it for a while, and said loudly.

"It's the old lady!" Mei'er was surprised, and only the old queen mother was the only one in the village who used crutches.

"Follow the footprints. Quick!" Jiang Xingchen commanded loudly and walked forward quickly. Although the footprints are intermittent, the people of the Iron Sword Mercenary Regiment are experienced. You can always find your way forward.

After walking for more than half an hour, a dense forest appeared in front of me. Zhao Danqing, who was at the front, suddenly stopped.

"Did you hear that? What is this sound?" Zhao Danqing asked, turning his head.

Everyone listened attentively, and there was a faint murmur.

"Crying. It's definitely a cry!" Tang Chuxue said categorically.

Mei'er was the first to jump out, and Jiang Xingchen and the others hurriedly followed. When they entered the dense forest, everyone heard it clearly, and it was indeed a cry.

After walking more than ten meters in search of the sound, Mei'er stopped in front of a big tree hugged by more than ten people, and countless vines hung down from above, blocking the trunk tightly. And the cry came from behind the vines.

Mei'er found the right direction and pulled open a vine, and a smell of blood came to her face. Inside was a tree hole, and the twin sisters were shivering together, their little faces covered in mud and tears, and their eyes full of horror.

"Don't kill us, don't kill us!" The moment the vine was lifted, the two little girls cried and screamed, and moved back desperately, as if they didn't know that their backs were against the trunk.

"Xiaomei, Xiaoyu, it's me!" Mei'er shouted, crouching in front of the tree hole.

The two little girls looked at Mei'er in a daze for a while, and then screamed and the princess sister threw herself into her arms, crying out with a wow.

"What's going on, what's going on?" asked Mei'er in a low voice, hugging them tightly, her face gloomy as water.

It took a while for the two girls to start talking: "It's the patriarch, the patriarch has killed a lot of people......"

The two children expressed themselves very clearly, but they were intermittent and everyone understood. In the middle of the night, the patriarch suddenly led more than 20 people to kill, and coerced the old queen mother to hand over the things. The queen mother didn't give it, and the patriarch started to kill. At this time, an old man of the royal family took out a picture and ran, everyone went to protect the old man, and the patriarch also went to chase after him. But before leaving, he still gave the Queen Mother a knife.

At that time, the two children were being punished by the old queen mother because of Mei'er's disappearance, and after witnessing the whole process, the patriarch was eager to chase the old man and ignored the two children. Then the old queen mother let the two children support her, and fled all the way from the village to here.

"Where is the Queen Mother?" asked Mei'er anxiously.

"The Queen Mother has ......" The two girls cried again, pointing to the position on the right side of the tree hole: "The Queen Mother is no longer there!"

Mei'er let go of them, burrowed into the hollow of the tree, and quickly dragged out the old queen's stiff corpse.

Her right hand was covering her abdomen, and her clothes had turned dark brown, apparently soaked in blood. And her right leg is missing from the knee, and there is a long, deep wound on the belly of her leg, and the flesh is turned out, which is quite terrifying.

Everyone turned their heads when they saw it, and they couldn't bear to watch it, this scene was really miserable.

Jiang Xingchen endured the discomfort, walked to Mei'er's side, and took her into his arms.

"Brother, is it because of my arrival that such a thing will happen?" Although Mei'er had tears, her tone of voice was very steady, but it was a little gloomy and scary.

Jiang Xingchen shook his head: "The patriarch has a premeditated plan, just like I judged before, he is afraid that he has already targeted the treasure of the Great Shang Ruins, whether you appear or not, the final result is certain!"

"Sister Princess, the Queen Mother said that I will give this to you when you come back!" The girl named Xiaomei took out a thumb-length metal cylinder.

Xiao Yu choked up and said, "This is what the Queen Mother took out of her leg!"

"What? ...... from the leg" Mei'er glanced at the wound and took the cylindrical metal tremblingly, mottled with dried blood everywhere.

"Hey!" the old man and the others all sighed.

Mei'er gently stroked the metal, as if there were carved marks on it, and one end seemed to move. With a slight twist of the movable end, there was a click, and a bulge of different lengths appeared on one side of the cylinder.

"This should be a key!" Jiang Xingchen sighed lightly, patted Mei'er, and said: "Make a coffin and bring the old man back to the mainland, what spider crabs are there here, and they can't be buried......"

Under the busy work of Zhao Danqing and others, a coffin was quickly prepared, and Jiang Xingchen felt the temperature control pressure array in his body, so he didn't have to worry about the corpse rotting.

Half a day later, everyone returned to the village, which was in ruins, and the corpses were gone, apparently the spider crabs had come, and after wreaking havoc and eating up the corpses, they retreated to the sea.

When the two little girls saw that the place where they lived had become like this, they couldn't help but cry sadly, and finally they were tired and fell asleep.

Everyone sat around the village, and Jiang Xingchen said: "According to what Xiaomei and Xiaoyu said, combined with what they saw all the way. It should be the old man of the royal family who took the map to attract the patriarch and give the old lady a chance to escape, but they were all killed along the way!"

The old man said in a deep voice: "There are several doubts now, why did the patriarch suddenly make a move. His purpose was the relics of Dashang, and the old queen mother protected the key very tightly, and it is understandable that he did not do it. But suddenly, it's hard to understand...... Also, according to what Mei'er said, in the battle with Chongming Island back then, he should have been sealed and cultivated, and it would have been abandoned for decades. How can there be such strength...... The most important point is, where is the patriarch now? Not to mention that this place is a deep ocean, there are still a large number of spider crabs in the sea, and even a sixth layer of vitality does not dare to say that he can leave smoothly. ”

Zhao Danqing thought for a while and said, "Maybe he's still on this island, hiding somewhere!"

"It's unlikely, he killed everyone, grabbed the map, and must have gone away. What's the use of staying here?" the old man shook his head.

"He didn't do it himself, there must be helpers. No one can leave, and if there are too many people, they can't leave!" Zhao Danqing still thought that the patriarch was on the island.

"Maybe he killed all his accomplices, isn't it good to swallow the treasure alone?" the old man said lightly.

"How did he know that the map was real?" asked Mei'er suddenly.

Jiang Xingchen said: "The iron must be true, the patriarch should have seen it, otherwise how can it be so easy to believe...... I'm afraid that the old queen mother will also see that this person has bad intentions, so she has already made a plan. Although the map was snatched, the key was saved. ”

After a deep groan, Jiang Xingchen ordered: "No matter what, search the island first, pink, ribs, I will hand it over to you, you must be careful!" (To be continued.) )