"Ask the immortal master to save my 800 people in Xiaoluozhuang! We really can't live, if it weren't for this ghost and god, we would have left our hometown and embarked on this road......

Liu Xi cried a handful of snot and tears, and even Zhao Zhi couldn't bear to hear it.

Zhao Xuan said loudly: "You guys hurry up, I, Zhao Qian, swear in the name of a disciple of the Lingxi Sect, and I will definitely find out this matter clearly!"

Liu Xi helped his parents get up and kept thanking Zhao Yuan.

A few quarters of an hour later, Zhao Cheng waved goodbye to Liu Xi's family, and gave Liu Xi an iron knife and two bags of dry food when he left.

Along the way, Zhao Cheng frowned, he asked Liu Xi a lot of details about the disappearance case, and always felt that something was wrong.

Originally, Zhao Xuan thought that someone in Siwang Pavilion was using mortal essence blood to engage in some evil ritual, but Liu Xi's words made Zhao Xuan deny this speculation.

Some of the missing people are old and young, not the able-bodied men or virgin children needed for the practice of witchcraft, and even the old men and women who can't walk are missing in some villages.

Zhao Qian thought about it several times, but he couldn't think of any kind of evil cultivator who wouldn't even let go of the old man who was about to die.

All of a sudden, the matter became confusing.

No matter what, Zhao Yuan said in his heart, whether it is ghosts and gods, or evil cultivators who want to cover up, it is inevitable to go to Siwang Pavilion to see it in person, and then you will know what is going on.

Continuing to hurry, Zhao Jian didn't see people like Liu Xi who dragged their families to flee, but only occasionally encountered a few young and strong men hurrying away. The residents of the land of Qizhou have relocated to their land, and they will not leave their hometown easily until they are cornered.

It was getting late, Zhao Jiao laid out a hidden formation, rested hastily for a night, and hurried towards the Siwang Pavilion before dawn the next day.

When I arrived at the boundary of the Siwang Pavilion, there were more crops in the fields on the side of the road, and I looked like I was full of life. According to Liu Xi's description, Zhao turned east and west to find the location of Xiaoluozhuang at a remote intersection.

The stone stele of Xiaoluozhuang has fallen all over the dust, if it weren't for Zhao Yuan's spiritual sense, he might have missed it accidentally.

After entering Xiaoluozhuang, I saw a few people, Zhao Zhi walked on the road with a knife, occasionally saw a farmer who farmed, and hid far away when he saw Zhao Guan.

Every family guards the village business, and they don't go out with a white head;

Born as a citizen of the village, died as the dust of the village.

Things do not dwell temporarily, but come and go like floating clouds;

Leaving the chaos and losing his hometown, the flesh and blood are scattered.

If it weren't for this disaster, the villagers of Xiaoluozhuang might have spent their whole lives farming in the fields, busy and uneventful.

But that's all changed.

Of the 800 people, only more than 100 families were left in the three months, and those who remained in the village were all old people who could not work, and the young ones were afraid of ghosts and gods, so they left their fathers at home and ran away.

A month ago, the three elders in the village shouted hoarsely to live and die with Xiao Luozhuang, and disappeared without a trace the next day.

Did they run away, or were they taken captive?

Nobody knows.

"Hey, this old man!"

Zhao Nao shouted twice at an old farmer working on the edge of the field, but the old farmer turned a deaf ear, just didn't hear it, and just buried himself in planting seedlings.

Zhao Tan touched his nose, and no one paid attention to greeting several villagers, he was slightly angry in his heart, and shouted: "Lingxi has sent disciples to do something! Let the three elders in the village come to see me!"

Lingxi faction?

When the peasants who were still working in the fields heard this, they scattered and ran further.

Is this treating yourself as a bandit?

Zhao Cheng was confused, and only heard an old voice roaring at Zhao Tuo: "What about the Lingxi faction! It's not that we are all the way with the Four Seas Gang, our little Luozhuang is about to die!"

It's not that the people of Xiaoluozhuang haven't asked the government for help, and even the Sihai Gang has sent people to pretend to come a few times, and several waves of people just eat and drink a few times in Xiaoluozhuang and don't care, so the villagers of Xiaoluozhuang are very uninterested in Zhao Yuan's "fake" goods.

The old farmer was about to fight with his farm tools, and he put down his hoe when he saw the saber on Zhao Yuan's body.

Zhao Zhi was not angry, and said sincerely: "Uncle, I am really a disciple of the Lingxi Sect, and I am here to help you, do you know Liu Xi......?

"Hmph!

The old farmer snorted coldly: "Don't you want to see the third elder, I'll take you there!"

Zhao Zhi said embarrassedly: "Then it will be troublesome for the old man." ”

As he walked, the old farmer scolded and scolded, as if Zhao Qian owed him money.

The situation in Xiaoluozhuang is even worse than Zhao Jian imagined.

According to Liu Xi, the settlements of Xiaoluozhuang are divided into two places in the east and west of Xiaoluoshan, the east is the old village, the ancestral graves and woodlands of each family are in the east, the west is Xinzhuang, and several houses of Liu Xi's family are in Xinzhuang.

The old man took Zhao to a high ground in front of the mountain, which was much higher than the other houses along the way. There is a lot of water in Qizhou, high in the north and low in the south, in case there is no place to run if there is a big flood, if there is a natural disaster in this place, the people can escape quickly.

Curling green smoke came from that side, and I saw that there were simple small earthen houses and grass houses on the high ground.

Most of these houses are made of grass and wood ash, but there are also pure mud houses and stone houses. There are no green bricks and green tiles, and there is no vermilion paint on the pink walls, and from a distance, it looks like a piece of cow dung in the middle of the dirt road......

How could this be? Liu Xi didn't say that the house in Xiaoluozhuang was so dilapidated, this is where people live, and even the stables of the Lingxi faction are better than those built here.

"What is this?"

After asking patiently several times, Zhao Qian learned that the people of Xiaoluozhuang were afraid of the ghosts and gods who had taken away the living, and they did not dare to scatter and live everywhere. The remaining 1 or 200 families moved to one place, temporarily built dozens of earthen huts and thatched huts, went to each house to light a fire to eat during the day, and came here at night to gather together, and dozens of people took turns to keep vigil.

The villagers who came to live here never disappeared again, but there were also villagers who had not come before, and gradually disappeared like the people who were taken away before.

"Pig baby! Pig baby! Someone wants to see the three elders!"

The old peasant shouted at the small earthen hut at the top of his voice, and after a while, a farmer in his forties came out of the earthen hut, and several children also went out to look, and were soon pulled back by the old woman in the house.

The pig baby has dark skin, wrinkles on the face, and a slightly hunched back, which is the traces left by years of hard work.

"He wants to see the third elder, you can tell him!"

The old farmer dropped a word, carried his hoe and left.

"Pig Baby" didn't look at it, and when he saw Zhao Zhen, he grinned, and said honestly: "Immortal Master, if you have something, you can ask about it, this little Luozi knows everything in ten miles and eight towns......"

The pig's baby's name is Luo Zhu, and his nickname is Pig's baby, a native of Siwangting, who doesn't know Qizhou's official dialect, and a Nanxiang Dao dialect gives Zhao Cheng a headache.

Zhao Zhen frowned and said, "This eldest brother, where is the third elder in the township?"

"Three elders, what do you mean by the three elders of Xiao Luozhuang?"

Luo Zhu was stunned, embarrassed and said: "The forehead is the third elder, you can just ask." ”

Zhao Qian's face was full of black lines: "You are the third elder?"

There are several holes in the body that are in tatters, lice are born in the hair that I don't know if I haven't taken care of it for hundreds of years, and the dirt on my face has not been washed. The grin is a mouthful of big yellow teeth - how do you look at this pig baby is a blind stream in the countryside, he is the third elder? Zhao Zhi didn't believe it even if he was killed.

"Ezhendi is the third elder, I don't believe you ask......"

The pig baby was at a loss to explain, and it took a long call to explain clearly.

The three elders of Xiaoluozhuang were originally served by three respected old men in the village, but since that disaster, the men in the village have gradually run out. The rest of the people are either old and can't carry hoes, or they are women and children, and the father of the pig baby is one of the three elders, so the three old people are gone, and this burden falls on the pig baby.

Luo Zhu, who is in his forties, has become the youngest and only third elder in Xiaoluozhuang.

endured the stench in front of him and talked with Luo Zhupan for a long time, and Zhao Zhi found out some clues, and determined that this disappearance case was indeed man-made, and his cultivation would definitely not be high.

Because the villagers have not disappeared since they got together, only human traffickers are afraid of the villagers who keep vigil in secret.

If it is a ghost or a god, it means that all the villagers of Siwang Pavilion live together, and they will disappear if they disappear, even high-level monks can get people away without knowing it, so Zhao Jian concluded that this matter was an organized and premeditated abduction and trafficking case.

As long as it's done by people, it's easy to do.

There is no perfect crime in the world, as long as it is done by people, it will definitely leave traces. Although this world does not have various monitoring methods like in previous lives, spells such as the return to the original method can also be detected.

Zhao Cheng said: "Brother Luo, you tell me in detail about the disappearances that have happened in the past few days, one by one, and also tell me who usually comes and what strange things happen." ”

Luo Zhu scratched his head, detained a few lice, and said embarrassedly: "I have written down everything in the disappearance case, it is that strange thing, there are a lot of strange things in the village......"

Luo Zhu has been working in the village for many years, and he has little contact with people, and when he speaks, he doesn't match the words before and after, and Zhao Zhi has to waste a lot of effort to figure it out every time he asks a question.

“...... From that day on, they moved, and they went back to their hometown, and their neighbors were so wooden, and they didn't dare to go back......"

Zhao Qian said: "Then have you seen any living people in the past few months? There are no other strange things except for disappearance?"

While catching lice, Luo Zhu replied, "Doom...... Think about it—"

"Look at you, you're quite raw......"

Luo Zhu smiled, the people in the mountains were simple, straightforward and fast-talking, and Zhao Yuan's face was dark.

"Oh!

The pig baby seemed to suddenly remember something, but immediately lowered her head again.

Zhao Qian asked, "What's the matter?"

Luo Zhu patted his head vigorously and said, "It's nothing, it's just that Yan Junzi in the village said that he seems to have seen a bunch of strange people coming to the village......"

"What did you say!"

Zhao Xuan's eyes were full of light, and he took a step forward, startling the pig baby.