Snow covers the mountains, and the night wind rolls the ground cold.

Birds are thousands of miles away, and medicine is looking for this mountain.

After a midnight trek, the sky was getting brighter.

Shen Qi, who was tightly wrapped in clothes, finally came to the foot of the mountains in the Northern Regions.

In the distance, in a snow-covered col, there was a not-so-noticeable protrusion.

Because it was still dark, Shen Qi could only vaguely see that it was a small stone house.

"Too ...... Great!" Shen Qi cheered in a low voice.

If the forecast is good, it is a rest house in the mountains of the Northern Regions.

Perhaps this stone house was located in a mountain col, and the peaks on both sides resisted the wind and snow, so the stone house was not completely covered by the wind and snow, and Shen Qi could only find it in the distance.

Shen Qi quickened his pace.

When he got closer, Shen Qi realized that there was a thick layer of snow on the stone roof, but the snow around the stone house was a shallow layer, as if someone had cleaned it.

Could it be that there are disciples of the mountain villa who are on a mission here?

Shen Qi couldn't help frowning: If that's the case, I'm afraid it's a little troublesome. Although he is the Seven Holy Sons of Yingxue Mountain Villa, he sneaked out. If the disciples of the mountain villa who are on a mission here at that time ask, I am afraid it will be difficult to explain.

But now, I'm afraid I can only catch ducks on the shelves.

Touching the Xuanyun Coin given by Shen Er in his arms, Shen Qi couldn't help but sigh secretly: I don't know if this can convince the disciple of the mountain villa who lives in the stone house.

Exhaling softly, Shen Qi looked around.

The area around the stone house was empty, and there was nothing but snow, which made it look a little desolate.

Walking quickly to the front of the stone house, because the sky was still a little dark, Shen Qi could only vaguely see a stone plaque on the door frame of the main entrance of the stone house, with the word "Twenty-seven" engraved on it.

Twenty-seven, could it be the twenty-seventh rest house? Shen Qi secretly guessed.

Taking a light breath, Shen Qi stretched out his hand and knocked on the wooden door.

After waiting for a long time, there was no response from the stone house.

Shen Qi said darkly: Could it be that there is no one here? My previous guess was wrong?

Shen Qi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Shen Qi wanted to push the door in, but he didn't expect that with a lot of force, the wooden door shook and made a creaking sound, but it was not pushed open.

"Huh?" Shen Qi couldn't help but be suspicious, and his originally relaxed nerves tensed again.

The wooden door is locked, and there is someone inside?

"Yes...... Do you have...... Who are you?" Shen Qi patted the wooden door vigorously.

After waiting for a while, there was still no response.

Shen Qi had a bad premonition in his heart, so he didn't knock on the door rashly, but walked around the small stone house quickly.

This is a temporary resting place for the disciples of the mountain village on a mission, and if there is a window, you can take a peek.

But after a circle, Shen Qi found that there was only a wooden door and no windows.

It stands to reason that if there is a disciple of the mountain villa who is on a mission here, there should be someone who responds when he knocks on the door twice before.

In this case, there was no one in the stone house.

Judging from the snow around the stone house, someone must have cleared it within two or three days.

With doubts, Shen Qi came to the wooden door again, this time he did not continue to knock on the door, but took a breath and kicked at the wooden door.

There was a muffled "pop", and the wooden door was directly kicked and smashed.

Before Shen Qi could step into the house, a stale smell mixed with an indescribable stench came to his face, Shen Qi couldn't help frowning, covering his nose and taking a few steps back.

Shen Qi took a deep breath, his eyebrows furrowed even tighter.

Shen Qi took two steps forward, fixed his eyes and looked at the room again, it was pitch black.

It doesn't look like someone.

Out of politeness, Shen Qi still opened his mouth and shouted, "Yes...... Anyone?"

There was no response.

It seems that there are really no disciples of the mountain village who are on a mission.

Shen Qi stepped forward, and just a few steps later, he stumbled and almost tripped over.

Shen Qi stabilized his body and hurriedly turned around and lowered his head, wanting to see what almost tripped over him.

It didn't matter if he looked at it, Shen Qi's hairs suddenly stood on end, and his heart suddenly rose to his throat.

There was a man on the ground! No, a corpse!

It stands to reason that when a normal person suddenly sees a corpse, he may be startled, or even scared out of something. Especially in this barren mountain range, where there is no village in front of the village and no store in the back, when you suddenly see a dead body, normal people are likely to be frightened and faint.

Shen Qi calmed down, frowned and pinched his nose and slowly walked out of the stone house.

Why was Shen Qi not as scared as he imagined when he saw the dead body?

It turned out that as the Holy Son who had suffered the most internal strength in Yingxue Mountain Villa in the past hundred years, Shen Qi had seen the most of the old man who was about to die. Some of them lost their lives the moment they finished teaching, and some even died in the process of teaching. By the time Shen Qi had absorbed the internal forces that had come from him, he might have been with the corpse for several days.

Therefore, Shen Qi can only say that he is no longer surprised by the corpse.

I was scared to the point that my hair stood on end, but it was just because it happened suddenly and I was taken aback.

But it didn't mean that Shen Qi didn't feel disgusting with the corpse. That's why he slowly walked out of the stone house and tried his best to adjust his mentality.

Shen Qi stood in front of the stone house, took a few deep breaths, and then slowly turned around and looked at the corpse on the ground in the stone house again.

The sky was getting brighter and brighter, but Shen Qi felt that the stone house was still dark.

After another while, and then there was a glimmer of light, and Shen Qi could barely see that the corpse was wearing the clothes of the disciples of Yingxue Mountain Villa.

This also explains the reason why the wooden door is locked.

According to the snow clearing around the stone house, the death of this mountain village disciple will not exceed three days.

Shen Qi settled down and mustered up the courage to walk towards the stone house.

The corpse fell to the ground on its back, and Shen Qiqiang couldn't help but look at the corpse's face.

The corpse's face was completely covered with corpse spots, and there were even severe signs of dehydration, hair had already shown signs of falling out, and the mouth and near the eyelids had begun to decompose. It was already difficult to identify him, and he could only be judged to be a man based on his hair and body shape.

Seeing this, Shen Qi couldn't help frowning.

According to his previous "experience" of being in the same room as a corpse, a normal corpse would not normally decompose like this within three days. Don't forget, this is the white deer in the snow!

In this kind of weather, the corpse will not have such a serious decomposition even if it is left for a month, and even if it is buried in ice and snow, the corpse will not show signs of decomposition.

Could it be that this mountain villa disciple has been dead for a long time? The snow outside the stone house was not cleaned by him?

After a while, the sky was completely bright. But because Bailuya has constant wind and snow all year round, he can't see the sun at all. Even when the sky was already dawning, it was gloomy.

Shen Qi could barely see the scene inside the stone house.

The entrance to the stone house faces south. Entering along the doorway, there is a simple stone bed made of stone on the left, where the west wall is, and on the east wall of the stone house, there is a simple stone table with a small empty stone bowl and a dusty package.

In addition, there is the corpse in the center of the stone house, facing the sky on its back.

Looking around, Shen Qi didn't notice anything unusual, and there was no trace of a fight in the stone house.

Shen Qi carefully checked the ground again, and there were no other footprints except for the footprints he had just stepped on.

The body was examined again.

The clothes were intact and there were no obvious external injuries.

Shen Qi basically concluded that this dead disciple of the mountain villa should have committed suicide.

But Shen Qi felt that something was strange.

Looking around again, Shen Qi was about to leave.

But after his gaze swept over the east wall, Shen Qi's brows furrowed slightly.

There is a dusty package on the stone table on the east wall, which should belong to this dead disciple of the mountain villa, I wonder if there will be a clue to his suicide in it?

While thinking, Shen Qi walked to the stone table, covered his mouth and nose with his left hand, stretched out his index finger and thumb with his right hand and gently pinched the corner of the package, slowly raised his hand, and shook the dust on the package.

The dust was flying, and Shen Qi didn't care so much, picked up the package and walked to the stone bed in the west.

"Huh" fanned his hand lightly, and Shen Qi slowly opened the package.

As far as the eye can see, they are relatively well-preserved herbs.

Sure enough, he came to carry out the task of picking herbs, Shen Qi said secretly.

According to the picking technique and preservation degree of the herbs, Shen Qi knew that this disciple must have come here often to pick herbs.

Just as Shen Qi was checking the herb, he found that there was a mysterious object wrapped in a blue cloth at the bottom of the herb.

Shen Qi curiously picked up the object and opened the wrapped blue cloth.

It is a booklet with a black cover, with three large characters on it: "Herb Record".

Could it be that this is an atlas of medicinal herbs compiled by the mountain villa?

Shen Qi couldn't wait to open the booklet, and sure enough, there were all kinds of pictures of medicinal herbs and annotations of efficacy.

Shen Qi couldn't help but be very excited.

With this booklet, finding herbs is twice as effective with half the effort!

Shen Qi couldn't help but secretly said: Since this disciple of the mountain villa is also here to carry out the task of picking herbs, although I don't know why he committed suicide here, but since he was touched by me, I will help him complete this task by the way. When I return to the lodge after picking herbs, I will report his death by the way.

Thinking like this, Shen Qi packed up the herbs and the "Herb Record", walked to the corpse of the disciple of the villa, endured the nausea and stretched out his hand to grope on him, wanting to find the Xuanyun Coin when he took the task, after all, he had to show the Xuanyun Coin when he returned to Xuanyun Hall to hand over the task.

Shen Qi fumbled for a long time, and suddenly touched a hard object. Just as he was about to take it out, there was a faint sound of voice outside the house.

Before Shen Qi could react, he saw a rather emaciated figure appear at the door, blocking most of the light.

Shen Qi just took out a silver Xuanyun coin and was stunned on the spot.

"Hmm, the scene of the murder!" the visitor shouted suddenly.

Shen Qi frowned, thinking about the meaning of his words, but suddenly thought of his current action......

"Wow!"

"I'll go!"

"Amitabha!"

Several different voices sounded at the same time, startling Shen Qi a lot.

That's a big misunderstanding......

However, isn't this the deserted Bailuya, why did so many people come at the same time?

Shen Qi looked at the door, in addition to the emaciated figure that appeared first, four more heads appeared to look into the room, because of the backlight, Shen Qi couldn't see their faces clearly, and could only vaguely judge from the shadow that there was a woman and a bald head.

Shen Qi came back to his senses, his hand holding the Xuanyun Coin shook a little dazedly, and explained in a panic: "No...... No...... I'll kill ...... I don't ......."

Shen Qi didn't say anything for a long time after explaining, and the few people who came didn't speak, and the scene was very embarrassing for a while.

"Brother Xu, are we going to report to the official?" a rather frivolous male voice sounded.

No one talked.

"Hexagram, it's not him. A hoarse voice rang out.

"Shh......h Lao Luo, your voice is too loud!" The flirtatious voice from before sounded, "How can we collect the benefit fee in this way?"

"Money is obsessed!" a rather hard and cold voice sounded.

"Brother Xu, I don't like to hear what you say, as the saying goes, ......"

......

Shen Qi was a little confused, what was going on? What happened? Who are these people?

"You...... Who are you...... What...... Who?"

Shen Qi's question interrupted the conversation of several people.

"We?" the flirtatious voice rang out, "Destiny Five!"