Niu Hao was afraid of causing a conflict and causing death.

The townspeople are dead, and Kongmingshan is not easy to explain. If Kong Mingshan's disciples were killed, Kong Ming Mountain would not give up.

Niu Hao was afraid that something would happen, and it happened.

There were blood stains on the ground. Following the bloodstains, a corpse was soon found behind a pile of felled tree trunks.

Look at the dress, it is a resident of Riverbend Town. Male, in the prime of life. The fatal wound was in the neck, and there were two more wounds on the body and legs.

The wound was still bubbling with blood, and there was still residual warmth on the body.

What just happened!

Zhengwen frowned and squatted down next to the corpse.

The Taoist disciples of Kongmingshan kept the precepts and could not kill.

Therefore, the disciples of Kong Ming never carried murder weapons on their bodies. Even if you subdue demons and eliminate demons, you use wooden swords.

And on the corpse, there are obvious knife wounds.

It may also be that the disciples of Kong Ming snatched the weapons in the hands of others to defend themselves.

The Taoist precepts require disciples not to kill, but they do not require disciples not to save themselves.

Continuing on, another corpse appeared. The young man in his twenties was lying on the ground with a wound on his thigh, fatally wounded in the back of his heart.

Niu Hao and Zhengwen glanced at each other.

It seems that it was really the disciples of Kongmingshan and the residents of Hewan Town who clashed, which eventually led to the fire merger.

The further you go, the more corpses there are on the ground. In addition to men, there are also women and children.

Zhengwen's face tightened, and his face became extremely ugly.

So far, all the people who have died are the residents of Rivertown.

Killing the men in the town can claim to be self-defense.

How to explain the killing of women and children?

The big man looked ahead and stopped abruptly.

Niu Hao immediately smelled a strong smell of blood.

More than a dozen zhang away, there is a deep pit.

The pit was full of corpses, there were residents of Hewan Town, and more of them were disciples of Kongming Mountain in Taoist robes.

How......

Niu Hao stood on the edge of the pit and was stunned.

The disciples of Kong Ming, who were pushed into the deep pit, once tried to climb up, climbing up the edge of the pit with their hands and feet, but they couldn't dodge the oncoming fatal blow.

The throat was slashed open and blood spurted onto the ground.

Niu Hao looked at the disciple of Kong Ming who was closest to him.

It's not a steel knife that asks for your life, but more like a short knife that you carry.

Because the head of the Kongming disciple was pulled back, exposing his neck.

A knife cut his throat, spurting blood, he had also struggled desperately, and his two hands scratched scratches on the ground. But his head was always slammed behind him until he breathed.

The big man turned his head to look at Niu Hao, then at Zhengwen, reached out and grabbed the corpse of the Kongming disciple, and dragged him up.

Previously, Niu Hao and Zhengwen both thought that the disciples of Kongmingshan had a conflict with the residents of Hewan Town, which led to a killing.

Now, it seems, no.

The disciples of Kongmingshan were all gathered together and slaughtered in this deep pit.

The big man jumped into the pit and dragged up the corpses below, one by one, and placed them neatly.

Fatal injuries are concentrated, cut throat, or pierced heart.

But everyone has more than one or two wounds.

Torture before killing, in order to vent the hatred in your heart?

Not like that.

Almost all of them had a wound on their thigh.

Leg wounds prevent escape.

Cut the throat, with a knife. And the wound that pierces the heart seems to be ...... Spears?

Zhengwen followed Niu Hao, looking at the corpses one by one, and couldn't help asking:

"Who could have done it?"

This group of people not only slaughtered the disciples of Kongmingshan, but also the residents of Hewan Town. Including the elderly in their twilight, including babies in swaddling clothes. Even dogs roaming along the streets, chickens raised in pens.

This gang does not take money, but kills people. For what, hatred?

Hate the Taoist priests of Kongming Mountain and hate the residents of Hewan Town.

And these two groups of people are actually not the same.

But in the eyes of those wielding butcher knives, they are no different.

Niu Hao shook his head at Zhengwen.

I can't guess who would have done it.

"This. ”

The big man dragged a corpse up from the pit, a feathered arrow in his hand.

The feathered arrow was plucked from the corpse's thigh.

Stainless steel arrow clusters, sheared tail feathers. The straight shaft is not too long, and it does not look like the longbow of the army, but more like a ...... A hunting bow designed for rapid-fire.

Thinking of hunting the bow, Niu Hao searched among the neatly arranged corpses, and then squatted down in front of one of the corpses and tore open the placket of the corpse's chest.

There are three wounds that pierce the heart, except for the wound in the middle, which pierces the heart, and there are two wounds side by side.

When he saw it before, Niu Hao was still wondering why. Is it following some kind of ritual, or is it a mark that the murderer left when he kills?

Actually, that's what the heart-piercing weapon looks like.

The three tips are juxtaposed, and the struggling to stab them will of course leave three wounds side by side.

It was a three-pointed hunting fork.

It was the special weapon of those mountain ghosts and mountain gods on Baishang Ridge. Hunting forks, quick bows, short knives.

It was none other than the mountain ghosts of Baishangling who slaughtered the Taoist priest of Kongming Mountain and the residents of Hewan Town.

They were originally put into a wooden cage, but the wooden cage was broken from the outside, sending out the mountain ghosts inside.

The mountain ghosts who have regained their freedom, with bitter hatred, gathered the Taoist priests of Kongming Mountain, and none of them were left to slaughter.

After killing the Taoist priest of Kongming Mountain, the mountain ghost was still unfinished, and began to slaughter the residents of Hewan Town, regardless of men and women, regardless of the elder or younger.

Niu Hao said his guess to Zhengwen, and Zhengwen thought of who caused the whole thing.

The mountain ghost who fled in Qingyang City.

The forest demon died on the table of the living mother, and the mountain ghost was sad and angry, picked up the body of the forest demon and fled.

Where is he going?

Of course, Jiangwan Town, the place where he was loaded and left.

Because he knew that in Jiangwan Town, there was a camp for Kongming's disciples. In the camp, there are many companions like him.

He had to get them all out.

The imprisoned wooden cage is protected by the Ming Dao Law, and for the mountain ghosts and forest demons locked in the cage, it is like a copper wall.

But outside, those wooden cages with simple workmanship can't help but be destroyed hand in hand.

Once one of the cages is broken, the remaining cages are useless.

Escaping from the prison cage, the angry mountain ghost can do anything.

So, what do we do next?

Zhengwen looked at Niu Hao, Niu Hao said:

"I followed the big guy, found all the corpses, set up a pile of firewood and cremated them. You should do a supernatural ritual for them. ”

Zhengwen nodded and asked again:

"Those mountain ghosts ......"

Niu Hao looked outside the woods and said for a while:

"Things have to be done one by one. Let's finish what is in front of us first. ”

Zhengwen nodded at Niu Hao, looking for materials to tie the altar.

Niu Hao and the big guy cleaned up the deep pit of the slaughter and brought out all the corpses.