Chapter 1: The Pink Skull
Three hundred miles of Taifu Mountain Road, there are many cottages on both sides, and dozens of bandits of all sizes are entrenched.
In the bitter cold wind, the convoy of the Golden Sword and Dart Bureau had trekked hard for three days on the rugged mountain road, and did not encounter a single robber.
There was an oppressive atmosphere in the convoy, and everyone's nerves were tense to the extreme.
Xiao Ziyang followed Lei Da Dart Head at the age of twelve, and walked back and forth on this Taifu Mountain Road no less than 100 times, and he was as familiar with this road as the old bandits in this mountain.
No one has ever trekked in the Taifu Mountain Road for three days, but they haven't even encountered a group of bandits!
Yesterday, when everyone was still happy about their good luck, Xiao Ziyang had an ominous premonition, but he didn't say anything, because he was just an executioner.
Today, the unusual calm finally made everyone feel uneasy.
Xiao Ziyang boarded the tallest truck in the convoy and crouched on the cargo box, observing the situation around him.
Li Hu, the head of the dart, glanced at Xiao Ziyang, who acted without permission, with some dissatisfaction, but finally didn't say anything.
The executioners and handlebar stylers, looking at Xiao Ziyang, who was standing tall on the truck with two horse chopping knives behind his back, his tense face was slightly relaxed, as if he saw a backer.
Just as everyone's heartstrings were about to break, a shrill howl of fear suddenly came from the front of the convoy.
In response to this scream, the convoy suddenly became chaotic, and the handlebar typers did not care about the big car that was still moving forward, and jumped off one after another, crouching on the ground with their heads in their hands.
Some of the executioners drew their knives in their hands and shouted meaninglessly in front of them, while others dodged and crouched behind the carts, and even the timid ones ran around.
These executioners are all perennial dart veterans, it is said that they should not be so unbearable, but the situation in the past two days is too strange, no one has ever encountered it, everyone's heartstrings are too tight, and at this time suddenly heard a miserable howl, and it was like a bombing camp.
The three dart masters were all veterans, leaving one to collect the chaotic executioners, and the other to run towards the front of the convoy under the leadership of Li Hu.
At the same time as that terrible howl sounded, Xiao Ziyang rolled over and got out of the car, like an arrow from the string, over the two darts and ran forward.
Looking at Xiao Ziyang, who surpassed him like lightning, Li Hu frowned slightly and slowed down slightly.
Xiao Ziyang pulled away the screaming executioner who was holding his head in his hands, and finally saw the thing that made the old dart man so frightened, and at the same time felt as if his heart had been squeezed suddenly.
Li Hu and the two, who followed behind him, saw that there was no fight in front of them, so they stepped up their pace and caught up.
The two crossed Xiao Ziyang and looked fixedly. Li Hu screamed in surprise and took half a step back. The other dart master was even more unbearable, and actually sat on the ground.
What appeared in the sight of the three of them was a pink skeleton!
The pink skeleton, located behind a bend in the mountain road, was blocked by a rocky protrusion from the side of the mountain road, so that by the time the three of them could see it, it was no more than a foot away from them. No wonder the pathfinder was scared like that.
The reason why this skeleton is pink is because it is covered with a thin layer of minced meat!
After the shock, Xiao Ziyang, who had settled down, stepped forward to take a closer look.
Looking closely, he only felt a cool air rise from his vest.
This skeleton is so weird!
It was a complete skeleton, with not a single bone scattered throughout its body. But the flesh is nowhere to be found. Not a trace of blood could be seen around the skeleton.
What's even stranger is that the skeleton is still wearing clothes. Except for some damage on the sides of the body, this dress is quite neat.
Xiao Ziyang took two steps forward and gently pulled open his clothes, and the flesh and blood inside were also lost, leaving only minced flesh and bones.
Suddenly, Xiao Ziyang's hand shook suddenly, his body froze, and his hairs exploded in an instant.
He saw rows of clear tooth marks on the skeleton's ribs!
This...... It's clearly a human tooth mark! No! No, it's not a human tooth mark, because it's twice as small as a human tooth mark. It's like...... It's like...... The tooth marks of the child!
Li Hu and the others, who had already cautiously stepped forward, also saw these rows of tooth marks along Xiao Ziyang's line of sight. has the same idea as Xiao Ziyang.
"Boom, boom, boom!" The sound of teeth colliding came from behind him, and Xiao Ziyang didn't despise them, because he was also clenching his teeth tightly.
Li Hu ate and asked, "Could it be a monkey gnawing it?"
Xiao Ziyang said: "Monkeys don't eat people, and even if they do, they won't gnaw so cleanly...... I will never keep my clothes neat and tidy after eating!" Xiao Ziyang's throat was dry and unspeakable, and he couldn't believe that this sound came from himself.
Xiao Ziyang felt even more frightened.
He resisted the fear in his heart and patiently looked through the skeleton's clothes.
Li Hu and the others pressed their desire to escape, and watched Xiao Ziyang look at the pink skeleton.
After waiting for a long time, Li Hu asked a little anxiously, "Ziyang, what can you see?"
Xiao Ziyang stood up, his eyes still staring at the skeleton under his feet, and his voice was a little hollow: "He should be a thief in a nearby cottage, his status in the cottage is not low, judging from the freshness of the flesh on the skeleton, this person should be dead for no more than a day." ”
Hearing this, Li Hu looked at the skeleton twice again and asked, "How did you see it?"
Xiao Ziyang turned around and said: "The clothes worn by this person are made of excellent materials and have fine workmanship, but they are dirty, who can wear such good clothes into this virtue, who else can they be besides a thief?"
Li Hu asked again: "How can you see that his status in the cottage is not low? Even if he wears clothes with luxurious materials, maybe it is just his good luck that he robbed a rich man." ”
Xiao Ziyang said: "Even if this person is a thief, if he wants to wear his clothes into this virtue, I am afraid it will take a long time, you see, although the clothes on this person are a little torn, but the stubble is all brand new." And there are no signs of wear on the cuffs, shoulders, etc. Others don't know the way, they always think that the bandit is a big piece of meat, a big scale divides the gold, Li Darttou will never be ignorant of the way, in fact, being a bandit is not so beautiful; on the contrary, the wind and the sun, through the mountains and forests, building walls and villages, is just a poor person who is struggling to live a hard life. If this person is not the leader of the cottage, how can the clothes on his body be so intact?"
Saying this, Xiao Ziyang stretched out his foot and turned over the skeleton on the ground, exposing his back. Only then did Li Hu and the others see that there was a scabbard behind this person, and the knife in the scabbard had disappeared. Xiao Ziyang pointed to the scabbard and said: "A knife that can be sheathed with shark skin is definitely not an ordinary knife, and a person who can use such a good knife will naturally not be an ordinary bandit." ”