On this day, Longshan Town, as usual, people come and go, Wuji Tavern also opened early, because yesterday from a disciple of the rivers and lakes who are not deeply involved in the world knocked out twelve taels of silver, the shopkeeper is in a particularly happy mood today, personally entertaining the past guests at the door, often shuttling between the wine and guests to deliver wine. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

On the wine table, people are still lively discussing the rivers and lakes in recent days, the most said is the 60th birthday of the head of Wudang Wuchen, although there are still a few days, but some martial arts celebrities have arrived in Longshan Town, and in a few days, Longshan Town will usher in a once-in-a-century grand occasion. Hearing this, the tavern keeper was even more excited, planning to expand the tavern as soon as possible in the past two days, and had to buy the property next door.

Wudang, on the rivers and lakes, has always been shoulder to shoulder with Shaolin, and is known as the two great fighters of today's martial arts. And the current head of the dustless road, the Wudang peerless Tai Chi swordsmanship has been practiced to the gods, and the people in the rivers and lakes call him the first person in martial arts swordsmanship, and no one is out of control. Under the control of the dustless Taoist, Wudang's momentum is like the sky, and its disciples are full of talents, active in all parts of the rivers and lakes, punishing evil and eliminating traitors, and its reputation is far and wide. Compared with Shaolin's low-key, Wudang now has the potential to catch up with Shaolin and become the number one faction in martial arts.

In eight days, it is the 60th birthday of the dust-free Taoist, who made a good relationship in the rivers and lakes when he was young, and made a large number of heroes in the rivers and lakes. In addition, it is rumored that on that day, Wudang will officially determine the next head candidate, which affects the hearts of the entire Jianghu people, so whether they are invited or not, as long as they are in the rivers and lakes, they all want to come to Wudang Mountain to see this once-in-a-century martial arts grand occasion.

Under this big news, other things such as the cold weather and the recent news that several street homeless people in Longshan Town were frozen to death became irrelevant, and they disappeared from the heated discussion about Wudang after being casually mentioned.

On the street, the wind was cold, and a passer-by slowly walked through the street, and saw a homeless man lying on the ground in the corner, his eyes fixed on him, so he approached to reprimand him. When I got closer, I was startled, it was another one who had been frozen to death, and he was stared at by the corpse, and the passer-by waved his hand, trying to sweep away the gloomy aura brought by the corpse, and left in a hurry. The body was still lying on the side of the street, and there were people coming and going, except for the occasional glance, no one else came to look at it, as if everyone had become accustomed to it.

When he was alive, he wandered the streets, no one paid attention to him, and after he died, he had to be a corpse in the wilderness, and no one cared about it.

This winter has been particularly cold.

Finally, an old man approached the corpse, shook his head, dragged his heavy body, and walked out of the city.

On the outskirts of the city, Lao Suo was digging a grave on the ground, and several brand-new tombs were scattered around in a disorderly manner, and some nameless stone tablets stood in front of the tombs.

After half an hour of hard work, Lao Suo finally dug a new grave, slowly dragged the corpse into the mud, buried it, and inserted an irregular stone in front of it, and then bowed and left silently.

This is the seventh corpse buried in a few days, why does God seem to have suddenly made a grudge against these poor people, who have suffered a lot before they died, and no one has collected their bodies after death, hey, now this world. Lao Suo sighed in his heart.

The temperature drops sharply on winter nights, the north wind blows, a biting cold, no matter how thick you wear, that cold can easily penetrate the padded jacket, and reach the only remaining warmth in your body.

Lao Suo wrapped himself in his coat, added a few sticks of wood to the campfire, and lay down by the fire, and fell asleep. When I am sleepy to a certain extent, I can still sleep no matter how cold I am, but I hope that I will not be like the group of poor people I buried, and I will not fall asleep and never wake up.

The night is getting deeper, the wind is getting stronger, and the day is getting colder. At last the bonfire was extinguished, and Lao Suo fell asleep peacefully, breathless, and a faint tooth mark on his neck was faintly visible.

After another two days, more and more people came to Longshan Town, and finally, another news was exposed in the Wuji Tavern, which overshadowed the heated discussion of Wudang for a while, and was widely circulated among the drinkers. That is, the disciple sent by the Huashan faction to congratulate him on his birthday was found dead in the inn. This incident not only alarmed the government, but also alarmed Wudang.

On this day, there was a sea of people at the door of the Longshan Inn, and in the inn, several people dressed as officials and people dressed in Wudang School costumes stood in a room, frowning.

"Yang Shaoxia, this small case can be investigated and handled in the next place, why bother with you. Zhao Ba, the head catcher of Longshan Town, said respectfully towards a handsome young man.

"Zhao Zhutou said seriously, we Wudang Su and Huashan are better, this time he sent his disciples to come to congratulate the family teacher on his birthday, but unfortunately died at the foot of Wudang Mountain, we have an unshirkable responsibility, so the family teacher specially ordered me to go down the mountain to assist the head catcher to investigate the case thoroughly. This handsome young man is the eldest disciple of the second generation of disciples of Wudang Mountain, Yang Mingjing, although he is young, but he has a very high reputation in the rivers and lakes, and is the leader of the young generation of martial arts.

When Zhao Ba heard this, he also had a little joy in his heart: Yang Mingjing is a young hero, wise and brave, with his help, this case does not have to be bothered, and it will be solved quickly.

"Zhao Zhutou, have you examined the corpse in detail, and what is the cause of death?" Yang Mingjing then asked Zhao Ba.

"We have seen that the deceased's face was bloodless, his whole body was cold, and there was no wound on his body that caused him to die, and he did not seem to have suffered internal wounds, and it seemed that he had died peacefully in his sleep. The cause of death was very strange. Zhao Ba replied.

After listening, Yang Mingjing walked into one of the corpses and saw that it was still lying on the bed, looking sleeping. Yang Mingjing carefully observed the corpse and searched all over his body, and sure enough, there were no external force injuries, but a faint tooth mark on the neck caught his attention. Seeing this tooth mark, Yang Mingjing remembered the monster he had encountered when he traveled in the wilderness before, a huge bat that could easily suck the blood of an animal as strong as an adult elephant to death, and there was no wound on the whole body, only an inconspicuous tooth mark on the neck, through such a tiny hole, it could suck the blood of the whole body dry.

Immediately, Yang Mingjing asked Zhao Ba for a dagger and stabbed the deceased in the arm, only to see that the blade was inserted into the muscle for several feet, and no blood flowed out.

Sure enough, this was done by the blood bats. Yang Mingjing affirmed in his heart.

"You check to see if every corpse is so normal that there is no blood in it. Also, I'd like to talk to the other guests on the left and right of this room to see if there's anything I find. Yang Mingjing commanded.

After a while, Zhao Ba called several guests around him to Yang Mingjing, and Yu Muyan and the three of them were also among them.

The Tianshan faction had a good relationship with Wudang in the early years, and Zhang Yu had also been to Wudang once a few years ago, so Yang Mingjing recognized it at a glance and said respectfully: "I didn't expect that the senior sisters of the Tianshan faction were also here? Mingjing didn't come to greet him earlier, which was rude." ”

"Eh, Senior Brother Yang is polite, the Tianshan Mountains are far away, in order to avoid delays on the road, so a few of us set off a few days early, I didn't expect everything to go well, I arrived a long time early, so I stayed in this Longshan Town first, and then went up the mountain to congratulate the dustless master on his birthday. "Zhang Yu is a few years older than Yang Mingjing, and it is rumored that when Yu Hanshang and Wuchen Dao Chang met a few years ago, they found that the ancestors of the two factions were very related, so since then, the disciples have been called brothers and sisters.

"This time there was a death case in the inn, presumably the senior sister has also known, Ming Spiegel just wants to ask the senior sister a few words, I hope the senior sister will forgive me. Yang Mingjing arched his hand.

At this time, Yu Muyan looked at Yang Mingjing behind her and said gently, and said in her heart: The prestige of this Wudang disciple has also been mentioned by Senior Sister Zhang before, and she has always wanted to see the honor. In fact, Yu Muyan secretly went down the mountain this time, and the purpose was also to go to Wudang to see what this outstanding thunderous sword looked like. A girl's heart, who can understand?

"Senior Brother Yang, please ask, it is also our blessing if we can help. Zhang Yu said with a smile.

"May I ask if the senior sister and the two junior sisters heard any strange noises last night?" As he spoke, Yang Mingjing looked at Lu Qianwei and Yu Muyan behind Zhang Yu with a smile, looking at each other's gentle and heroic eyes, Yu Muyan was shy for a while, and she lowered her head and didn't dare to look directly.

"Last night, all three of my sisters were asleep in their beds and did not notice any abnormalities. Zhang Yu replied.

"Well, I remember that there seemed to be a time in the middle of the night when the wind was very loud outside, and I don't know if it belonged to Senior Brother Yang's mouth. At this time, Yu Muyan opened her mouth and said softly, but she still didn't dare to look at Yang Mingjing.

"Oh, this junior sister, can you elaborate?" Yang Mingjing asked respectfully towards Yu Muyan.

"It's nothing, I just feel that the wind is very strong, but I feel as if the wind has eyes, and it has its own fixed direction, and that direction seems to be in the next room. Yu Muyan said.

Yang Mingjing was shocked when he heard this: this woman's senses are different from ordinary people, her observation is subtle, and she can even tell the direction of the wind, but it seems that she has never seen her before, and she has never heard of such a person in the Tianshan Sect, it seems that she is an unborn disciple. Immediately, he praised him: "Senior sister has good ears, Ming Jing admires it." ”

"It's not that I have good ears, it's just that I've been sensitive to cold things since I was a child. Yu Muyan smiled lightly. But I was extremely happy with Yang Mingjing's appreciation in my heart.

"I've worked hard for you today, I hope to climb the mountain as soon as possible, let me Wudang have a good treat, Mingjing still has important things to do, so I won't bother you first, go first." Yang Mingjing had already gotten the information he wanted to know, said goodbye to Zhang Yu and the others, and walked out of the inn with a group of people.

Watching Yang Mingjing leave, Lu Qianwei smiled at Yu Muyan and said, "Little junior sister, my heart is secretly moved? I don't think you dare to look at Yang Mingjing directly, and you keep bowing your head and being shy." ”

"Senior sister is messing around, I've just never seen such a heroic man. Yu Muyan said with a smile.

"Okay, let's pay attention to these two days, I think the death of these Huashan disciples is not that simple, we must also be appropriately vigilant, especially Mu Yan, you don't know martial arts, you must stay by the two of us at all times." Zhang Yu said solemnly.

"Yes, Senior Sister. Lu Qianwei and Yu Muyan replied in unison.

And since he saw Yang Mingjing, his shadow has taken root in Yu Muyan's heart and lingered.