Chapter 57: The Mysterious Corpse
The second elder already understood the source of the matter at the first glance of the black fog, so he chose to act separately from Ming Fan, and chose to move forward to the right where "you" was.
Who are "you", the following is in the table.
Ming Fan got lost without accident, and after walking for a long time, Ming Fan found that he had been circling around a radius of about five miles centered on the very beginning position.
"I've been going straight since I entered the fog, why did I come back after walking for a long time?" Ming Fan stopped and found that he seemed to have underestimated the black fog, his eyes were sharp, and his hand twisted the Dao seal, "Yingdao, Mingxin, synaesthesia." ”
With the performance of the Dao technique, a trace of Dao Qi in Ming Fan's body flowed from the sea of Qi to his brain, and suddenly Ming Fan seemed to be watered with a basin of cold water, his eyes flashed, and he shouted in his mouth, "Break!"
After a few seconds, the four weeks ...... No response.....
"Ahem....... It's not an illusion, I guess right. Although there was no one around, in order to alleviate the embarrassment, Ming Fan still raised his voice and explained to the air around him.
"If it wasn't illusion, it should have been the black fog that was disturbing my sense of direction. Ming Fan calmly analyzed, "Not only does it have a sense of sight and hearing, but it can't even distinguish the direction, it's a bit interesting."
I saw an uninhibited smile on the corner of Ming Fan's mouth, "But if the eyes and ears can't be used, then use the nose." ”
After the words fell, Ming Fan took a deep breath through his nose, and then walked in one direction.
In order to prevent getting lost, the round object buried in the soil when Ming Fan first entered the black fog, which is the so-called "coordinate", is a small prop made by Ming Fan before going down the mountain, and its ingredients are medicinal herbs and animal feces, which are crushed and mixed together to form a ball.
After burying a "coordinate" at the starting point, bury another one every few miles, if you can't find a way back, just use your true qi to improve your sense of smell and follow the smell of the "coordinates" to go back.
I know you're wondering how this works, and you guessed it right.
And dogs peeing is a truth.
Ming Fan is now going in the direction where there is no "coordinate", because the location without the smell of "coordinates" is the place where Ming Fan did not go before.
"Huh, that's!"
Finally, Ming Fan came to a place he hadn't checked before, not only because there was no smell of "coordinates" here, but also because there were three corpses in front of him at this moment.
Ming Fan cautiously walked in the direction of the corpse, because he was afraid of a trap, so Ming Fan walked very carefully at every step, and finally walked to the corpse after making sure that the scene in front of him was not a trap.
Ming Fan squatted down and carefully examined the three corpses,
There were three corpses in total, the corpses were rotten and shriveled, and most of the bones of the body could already be seen, and from the skull, they should all be male, and the three corpses were about the same length, and their length should be adults.
Although the clothes worn by the corpses were a little tattered, they could be vaguely identified as ordinary farm clothes, and the identities of these three corpses should be the villagers of Yunshui Village who came here to investigate.
Due to the decomposition of the corpses, it is impossible to tell if they have any injuries on their bodies, but judging by the clothes that are still in good condition, they should not have been attacked before they died.
Ming Fan stabbed the abdomen of the three shriveled corpses again and examined them carefully.
"There is nothing left, it seems that they starved to death here because they were lost and couldn't get out. Ming Fan reasoned in his heart.
At this time, he found that there were three farm knives next to the corpse, so he picked up the farm knives and took a closer look, "Grandma Yun Rong said before that there were three groups of villagers who came to the black fog to investigate, except for the first batch, the second and third groups of villagers all came to investigate with weapons, and it seems that these three people are either the second or the third batch." ”
Ming Fan stood up, dug three pits on the side, put the bodies of the three villagers into them one by one, buried them, and stuck three farm knives into the soil, saying, "The younger generation doesn't know the names of the three, so I have to stick the farm knives on the grave, I hope the three don't mind." ”
After doing this, he continued to walk into the depths of the black mist.
Not surprisingly, Ming Fan met several more corpses, and they were villagers of Yunshui Village like the first three corpses, so Ming Fan buried their bodies one by one as before.
I thought that there would be no more corpses, but after thinking about it for a while, Ming Fan saw a group of corpses again, and at a glance he found that these corpses were not the villagers of Yunshui Village.
There were thirteen corpses, all of them monks.
Due to the reason of absorbing the qi of the true spirit, the degree of decay of the corpse of the person who cultivates the truth after death is much slower than that of ordinary people, and even after cultivating to a certain extent, the corpse can never decay.
Having said that, judging from the clothes of the corpses, judging from the clothes of the corpses, they should be two people.
There were four people on one of the sides, all dressed in black, three men and one woman, and each corpse had no less than ten wounds pierced by sword qi.
There were nine people on the other side, dressed in uniform colors and styles, who looked like they should be disciples of a certain sect.
Ming Fan carefully searched the nine corpses, trying to find some clues, but found nothing, and wondered, "Why don't they have sect tokens on them?"
It stands to reason that a sect that can have a uniform costume, the number of disciples under it, the scale and strength, and the prestige of the rivers and lakes are not to say that they are well-known, but they should also be regarded as a little famous.
Even some second- and third-rate sects have begun to use this way to improve their reputation, such as Xingluomen, which is about second-rate in terms of strength, but they not only have uniform clothing, but also embroider the word "Xingluo" on their clothes.
However, the clothes worn by the nine corpses in front of him, Ming Fan couldn't tell what sect they belonged to, and they didn't even have sect tokens on them.
In addition, what made Ming Fan puzzled was that in addition to the sword wounds on these nine people when they fought with the four people on the other side, what really killed them was the strange injuries in the lumbar vertebrae.
Through the examination of the corpse, Ming Fan found that the lumbar vertebrae of these nine people were all broken, and if it was described, these nine people were directly twisted from the waist like a figure. (Figuratively, I know of course most people don't do that, and the most they do is remove the figure-made skirt.) )
After checking for a long time and finding that the clues on these nine people were limited, Ming Fan came to the four black-clothed corpses to see if there were any clues on them.
"What is this?"
Ming Fan felt a few pieces of broken stone in the arms of one of the male corpses, "Stones, no, it should be ..... Jade, right?"
Ming Fan took out a few snow-white stones in the arms of the corpse, and after a few glances, he found that this should be a broken jade plate.
Although Ming Fan wanted to put these pieces together, playing puzzles was not his strong point, and he was in the black fog of unknown conditions, so he might not encounter a secret attack at any time, so he had to put away the jade fragments first.
After that, Ming Fan checked the other two male corpses and found that there were no clues, so he set his eyes on the last female corpse.
Ming Fan came to the side of the female corpse and said in a solemn tone, "I'm sorry, please forgive me for being rude." With that, he searched the corpse.
Just when Ming Fan searched his hand for the waist of the female corpse, he suddenly touched a piece of paper and took it out to see that it was a letter.
With the idea of looking for clues, Ming Fan took the letter out of the envelope and looked at it.
Father, I know that what my daughter has done has broken your heart, and my daughter is not writing this letter in a delusional desire to obtain your forgiveness. I just hope you don't perpetuate your resentment towards your daughter to the next generation.
Half a year ago, my daughter [I can't see it clearly because of the bloodstains here] I know that you have always hated him for killing my brother, and I also hate why I fell in love with my brother's murderer, and as a younger sister, I don't want to talk about whether my brother's fate is deserved.
Marry a chicken with a chicken, marry a dog with a dog, even if things develop to this point, I have to be by his side, no matter what happens after this, it is the result of my daughter's own choice, but [I can't see it clearly because of the bloodstains here], so my daughter can only ask you, please agree to my daughter's last willful request.
is not a girl, Wen Hong tears.
Although there are two contents in the letter that are soaked in blood and cannot be seen clearly, Ming Fan still generally understands the content of the letter, a typical father-daughter conflict, it seems that the woman fell in love with the murderer of her brother, which made the woman's father furious, and finally the woman should have eloped with the enemy who killed her brother.
It can also be learned from the letter that the murder of the brother seems to be in danger, and as a result, both of them died here, and the letter was not sent.
"It seems that one of the three male corpses should be the woman named Wen Hongxi, the favorite brother killer. Ming Fan thought in his heart, "And the only thing that is not clear is what is under the blood stains." ”