Mountains and seas can be flat

Lian Feng couldn't help shaking, shook his head and looked at Fang Zheng as if asking for help: "No! Brother Zheng, I don't have... I can't kill it."

Fang Zheng picked up the broken part of the rope and looked carefully, it didn't look like it was cut by a sharp weapon.The rattan is made of hemp stalks, the fracture is very rough, and many fibers are pulled out, as if it was torn off by someone with brute force.

There was some blood from the man's wounds on his limbs. It was not a fatal injury, but it seemed to be caused by resistance before death.Although the wound was not deep, it was sharp, and it made Fang Zheng suspicious...why does it feel like a dagger?But this tribe doesn't have a dagger, and if there is a blade, why strangle him with a rope?

"How did you break it?" He asked Lian Feng, "Why did you run out?"

"I don't know." Lian Feng choked and said, "I passed out, I don't know who broke it, and I don't know why I'm here. I just woke up and saw this man died here. I I wanted to go back to brother Zheng's house, but you told me not to run, but the others immediately surrounded me..."

Teng Mao said in disbelief: "I don't know?! Obviously you broke the rope yourself, and then strangled him to death. The strangle mark on his neck! It's the piece of rope tied to your hand!"

Fang Zheng saw that the strangle marks on the dead Badian man's neck were consistent with the weaving pattern of the rope tied to Lianfeng's hands.Fang Zheng picked up the rope and tried to restore it, and that part fit exactly on the strangle mark on the man's neck.

Fang Zheng stared at Lian Feng thoughtfully, "So, if you didn't do this, then the person who did it will first break your rope, and then carry you over and tie it with a rope. The rope in your hand, to strangle another person? Or after strangling someone, tie it back to your hand?"

Lian Feng nodded pitifully, and murmured: "Yes, yes..."

Fang Zheng said coldly, "What is this man trying to do? Frame you?"

Lian Feng shook his head, almost crying, "I, I don't know..."

Seeing that Fang Zheng did not favor Lian Feng, the women breathed a sigh of relief.After all, Fang Zheng had never taken people back into the house before, and they heard that Lian Feng was a Western Star Sacrifice and knew a lot.I'm afraid that Fang Zheng values ​​this person so much that he won't be held accountable for the murder.

This morning, Fang Zheng also witnessed them arguing about this Badian man.People like Teng Mao who knew Fang Zheng's dark side thought that Fang Zheng might be tired of the disputes brought about by this man, and deliberately sent Lian Feng to kill him.

But Fang Zheng changed the subject, raised his eyebrows again, and asked Lian Feng with a half-smile, "But, if you did it...what are you trying to do?"

If Lian Feng wanted to run away, he could run away after tearing the rope. Why would he kill someone?

Was it because he was discovered by this person halfway through his escape and wanted to kill him to silence him?

Fang Zheng is not a forensic doctor, so he cannot estimate the exact time of death, but he can tell from the dark purple traces that the man has been dead for some time.

If Lian Feng had the ability to kill this man, why did he stay where he was?Could it be that after strangling someone to death, would he faint from exhaustion?

Lian Feng couldn't help nodding, "I don't even know this person, why should I kill him?"

Teng Mao didn't dare to expose Fang Zheng's suspicions and accusations directly in front of everyone, so he could only point fingers at Sang and scold Huai, "Who knows, some people are just sick and like to hurt people!"

At this time, the two elders also arrived, and after asking everyone present, they clarified what happened after Fang Zheng left today.

The dispute in the morning finally turned into four women unanimously attacking Badian's unruly man, and made an appointment with him again to go to each woman's house according to the original number of days.Everyone has to work during the day.The gathering they collected, the fishing they caught, all left the house.The Badian man was supposed to go to the commune nursery hall to take care of the baby, but according to two other men in the nursery hall, they did not see him.

Later, after the women finished their work in the afternoon, they returned to the house by the light of the setting sun, and were surprised to find that he had died at the door of the house where they quarreled this morning, and Lian Feng was standing beside him in a daze, expressing that I just woke up at that time, I don't know how I got here, and I don't know what happened.

"That is to say, no one saw where this man went in the end." Fang Zheng pondered, and then said to Lian Feng, "You were the only one who was there when his body was first discovered, and he was captured by you." Half of the rope broke, and you can’t tell why the rope broke.”

Even Feng seemed about to cry, "Brother Zheng, I really didn't..."

"We'll talk about this later." Fang Zheng turned his head and said sharply to everyone, "The elder and I are going to interrogate this suspect now. But he is not necessarily the murderer. Although it is unimaginable, you must be prepared—" Fang Zheng's eyes Slowly sweeping around, "If the murderer is not him, then someone in the field."

Teng Mao boldly provocatively said: "Why is it 'among you', not 'among us', you are the strongest among us."

Fang Zheng laughed sarcastically, "Doubt me? Promising, want to participate in the interrogation? Come on, the commune hall can hold a lot of people."

Fujimao shut up angrily.Of course not, they don't know how to interrogate.

Fang Zheng grabbed Lian Feng's half-cut rope and led him to the commune, as if leading a weak, helpless and trembling puppy.He casually patted Lianfeng's head, like a confident encouragement.

However, in the eyes covered by the hair that others could not see, Lian Feng's expression was as calm as frost and snow, and the rope tied to his hand swayed unhurriedly with his steps.

The brown-yellow rope tied to his hand reminded Lian Feng of the brass chains that had been pierced into his body at that time, the ones that passed through the luteal bone, the ribs, and the tibia.

Worse than wading through lava and getting pierced by the brute's needle-brush bristles.

He killed the big green dragon, the sacred object of the immortality of the three seedlings for hundreds of years.Back then, Dayi shot at its form on the ground and was eliminated as one of the "ten evils", but failed to kill its stale underground body.Let it live again as a "corpse".

The one who killed its underground body was himself, once the strongest fighter in Yu Qiang's camp, Zifeng.

That big green dragon was completely dead and would never wake up again.

Zifeng, the strongest fighter in Yuyi's Yuqiang battalion, almost died.

But what really killed him was not the ferocious behemoth - he once thought that the "ten evils" like the big blue dragon were the most terrifying enemies in the world.

It's rather... he's been trying to climb up and be side by side with those...

Lian Feng raised his gaze and fixed it on Fang Zheng's back.Most of his eyes are still buried under the ends of his hair. Others can't see his complex and deep eyes, and if they see them, they won't understand how many complicated emotions are brewed in those eyes.

Back then, I thought about it day and night—eating Fang Zheng's meat piece by piece, swallowing his heart bite by bite, and crushing his bones inch by inch.Squeeze that drop of sweetness out of a mouthful of blood.

But after experiencing those things, he understood how shallow this hatred is.

"Brother Zheng." Lian Feng whispered behind him.

Fang Zheng turned his head, "What's wrong."

"I……"

Fang Zheng thought the boy was scared, so he patted his head again before turning around.

Lian Feng looked at his back, buried his red eyes under the ends of his hair.

Fang Zheng took Lian Feng to the public to share with the elders, and found another torch.At the moment, the main thing in his mind is to investigate the gap that seems to lead to the outside, and the matter of Lianfeng can only take second place.Let the two elders handle it.

Seeing that Fang Zheng was about to leave, Lian Feng looked as if he would not participate in his interrogation, and pitifully flattened his mouth, tugged at the corner of Fang Zheng's clothes, and called out cautiously, "Brother Zheng..."

Every time he yelled like that, Fang Zheng felt itchy in his heart.However, he said with a straight face: "If you didn't do it, it's fine."

Lian Feng anxiously approached Fang Zheng's ear, and whispered, "What if they tortured me?"

There are quite a lot of things in this little head, Fang Zheng raised his eyebrows unexpectedly, and his bad humor flared up, and he said intimidatingly: "Then you have to hold on."

Lian Feng had a bewildered expression as if struck by lightning, Fang Zheng couldn't help smiling, he laughed more in the past few days than in the past few years combined, Fang Zheng walked to the side of the two elders, raised his eyebrows and said: "That guy has thin skin and tender flesh, and his injury hasn't healed yet. Be careful."

The two elders muttered: "Are you sure he didn't do it? Why did this kind of thing happen in our village as soon as he came? It never happened before."

The two elders felt that Lian Feng was still very suspicious.

"I'm not sure, but I found a gap behind the cave." Fang Zheng lowered his voice, a sharp light flashed in his eyes, and whispered to the elder, "Maybe someone sneaked in."

The two elders were also shocked, and then they were worried, and said: "If someone sneaks in to make trouble, why did you kill that Badian man, and use the rope that this young man has?"

Fang Zheng shook his head, "I'll leave it to you. I'll go explore that cave."

Fang Zheng's equipment includes a torch, a bronze sword, a long rope and a few pieces of dried meat, which are enough for him to maintain his energy for a day and a night. If he can't get out of the cave for a day, he can't go in again. He must come back and make more careful preparations. , organize more people.

Fang Zheng returned to the waterfall and stared at the mountain barrier behind the waterfall.

The village is located in the deepest pocket of the valley, surrounded on three sides by steep peaks.During the first exploration, Fang Zheng remembered that the cave behind the waterfall was very shallow and closed.

However, the geological vibrations here are active, and the impact of the magma gushing out three years ago is still slowly continuing, and occasionally slight vibrations can be felt in the valley.Gradually, a gap opened up in the cave behind the waterfall.

Fang Zheng remembered that gap from the past, it was only the size of a palm at first.Fang Zheng will check once a month.He couldn't stop the movement of the earth's crust, and the gap gradually grew wider.

But it may take hundreds of millions of years to split the length to pass through the thick mountains, so there is nothing to worry about.Even if the geological activities here are a little more frequent and the cycle is shortened to hundreds of years, there is no need for Fang Zheng to worry about it.

What Fang Zheng is worried about is, if the cycle is too short to three to five years, has the crack already connected to the outside world?Where did the hoofprints come from?

Fang Zheng held the torch and walked into the gap. It was very narrow at first, and only one person could pass through it. The torch he held almost burned to the top of the cave.From time to time, water droplets fell on Fang Zheng's body.But the gradient becomes wider as you go in.

Fang Zheng's heart sank. This was what he was most worried about. The gap did not expand from the valley to the outside, but became wider and wider, so the probability of connection was very high.

Fang Zheng walked halfway, and suddenly stopped breathing. He had a keen sense, and clearly heard another breathing sound in the depths, accompanied by a faint biological breath.

It is not fishy, ​​but has a grassy smell, which is a rare and pleasant smell for animals.Fang Zheng narrowed his eyes, trying to take a closer look. He vaguely glimpsed a silhouette lying on the ground over there.

Fang Zheng held the sword in front of his chest with one hand, and approached with the torch held high in the other hand. Under the light of the fire, the silhouette hidden in the shadow became clear.Fang Zheng saw a horse with horns on its head lying prone on the ground.Its whole body is pure black, and its coat color is so pure that there is not a single impurity in it.It slept deeply with its eyes closed.Fang Zheng approached with a torch, but it didn't wake up.

A horse with horns, Fang Zheng recalled, there are many monsters with horse attributes in "Shan Hai Jing", such as Lu Shu, "shaped like a horse with a white head". It's not Lushu; another example is "Bie", which is a snow-white horse with a black tail and tiger claws. It is rumored that it can eat tigers and leopards.The limbs of this horse are not claws but hooves, and probably not; there is also a creature called "Bo (Ma Boma), with a horn on the top of its head and a white body with an ox tail, which is the closest in appearance to it."

"Boma" was once regarded as a precious beast or auspicious, and was deeply admired by later kings. But it has never been recorded what purpose it has. Fang Zheng recalled that it was the unicorn with white horns in Western legends. Powerful "magic ability". Of course, for an atheist like Fang Zheng's adoptive father, it was just a joke to him.

But this animal is pure black. Could it be a "black boma" with a color variation?

Fang Zheng found that the ground it was lying on was wet. At first he thought it was water, and the color could not be seen on the stone.But Fang Zheng tried it with his hands, and although it was colorless and odorless, it was a bit sticky.Could it be the blood of this animal?How strange that the blood is not red.

Fang Zheng boldly touched the animal's body with a stick, but it still didn't wake up.Fang Zheng turned it over and found a small wound on its abdomen.This action finally provoked it to whine, opened its eyes, and waved the horns on the top of its head feebly.When it opened its mouth, Fang Zheng could see clearly that it had flat incisors and molars, like the teeth of cows and horses.

This is indeed a herbivore, without sharp canine teeth.Its teeth are flat and only suitable for grinding grass.

Fang Zheng took out the emergency hemostatic herb from his arms and applied it to the animal on the wound.The animal's four hooves shook weakly, as if it was so painful that it wanted to kick Fang Zheng away.The next moment, when the cooling effect of the herbal medicine kicked in, the animal let out a wet cry.

Fang Zheng also carried two long and strong Ruo leaves in his bag, which were specially used to bandage wounds.He wrapped the wounds of the animals with leaves and fixed them with thin vines.The animal also resisted at the beginning, then cooperated throughout the whole process, and finally licked Fang Zheng's hand obediently a few times.

Fang Zheng searched around with a torch, but found no paw prints of ferocious beasts, and even more strangely, there was no exit. Judging from the underground traces, this "black boma" seemed to have passed by Fang Zheng just now. The cave entrance comes in.

Doesn't this gap go through to the outside?So where did the animal get into the valley?

Fang Zheng carefully inspected the surrounding area where it was lying down. The ceiling of the cave was not high, and every inch was knocked out, even the small piece where it was lying on its back was not spared.However, the exit was still not found, and all signs indicated that the crack extended to the center of the mountain and stopped abruptly, forming a small cave, which was used by this animal as a natural haven for healing.

Fang Zheng patted it on the head with complicated emotions, "Then you can lie here."

Herbivores cannot hurt people, and there is no need to hunt them immediately.Although Fang Zheng really wanted to knock off its horn to take a look, he still had to figure out its origin, what if it needs to maintain its biological activity?

The animal seemed to understand, and obediently licked Fang Zheng's palm.

He decided to go back to the village to find some medicine and bring some other tools to knock on the cave wall.By the way, check around to find out how this animal got in.If this is not the entrance and there are other entrances, it will be more troublesome.

When Fang Zheng returned to the village commune, Lian Feng was lying on the bed, and the two elders immediately said to Zheng Zheng as if he had been pardoned: "You are finally here." They turned their heads and asked Lian Feng, "Can you tell me?"

Fang Zheng wondered: "What do you mean, he won't say it when I'm not here?"

The two elders looked embarrassed.Not only did Fang Zheng scold them inwardly for being timid, he used to force confessions from himself, but now the comfortable life makes them soft-hearted?Or is it lazy, or timid?

Fang Zheng couldn't help being angry and said: "A big animal that I haven't seen before is lying on the side. I have been looking for the entrance today. You are still wasting time here, and you can't even judge individuals-I really think it is here. Is it safe?"

Opposite to the inner side is the outer side. Because the mountain is as high as a knife and has almost no slope, it is usually called "side".The inner side refers to the inner side of the valley, and the outer side refers to the area going out through the trail.There are no large animals inside.Access to the outside is through a hidden path, and there are guards on duty throughout the day.

There has been no abnormality in the guards in the past few days, and no one has seen the animal, so it must not have come in through the passageway that Fang Zheng and others used to come in and out.

But it is even more unlikely that it came out of nowhere from the side of the valley. Could this kind of animal still pop out from the cracks in the rocks?As soon as Fang Zheng thought that it passed through an entrance and exit that he didn't know, and his abdomen was injured, whether it was injured by a man or a beast, he felt very worried, and wished to immediately search every inch of the surrounding rock walls to find hidden dangers entrance.But now he had to take over the questioning of Lianfeng, and his tone was extremely harsh.

Fang Zheng said to Lian Feng: "Tell me everything that happened during the day again."

Lian Feng said: "After Brother Zheng left in the morning, I ate the soup and the green medicine on the table, and then went to sleep. I woke up and went out to the dry pond. I saw the red-haired man put the rope under Brother Zheng's house, Then I looked at the room outside in a daze for a while, and counted the ants under the wall for a while..."

"Stop, stop." Fang Zheng became more and more impatient the more he listened, "Who wants to listen to you count ants and pick the key points."

Lian Feng whispered: "Then I went to sleep, and when I woke up, I somehow found myself next to the dead man, and the rope in my hand was broken. I just got up and wanted to go back, when suddenly those women came around me and beat me up. Surround them and say that I killed their men..."

"Didn't you feel anything when you were sleeping?" Fang Zheng asked.

"No." Lian Feng shook his head, "My injury has never healed, my head was dizzy, and now I am also very dizzy."

Fang Zhengdao: "It's the same as what you said during the day, so you really don't feel anything, don't you remember anything?"

"Yes." Lian Feng said pitifully, "I was dizzy..."

Fang Zheng sneered and said, "You have to use some tricks to say it?" He greeted the two elders, "Bone needles."

Elder Xuansi said awkwardly: "Actually, it has been used, but..."

But Lian Feng is simply a strange thing, there is no response to the bone needle piercing his temple, he will not feel pain, and he will not fall into a coma where he loses his mind and utters unconscious words for a short time.The needle was about to pierce his skin, but Lian Feng still had a cute smile on his face.Seeing that the two elders felt hairy.

"...I don't know how the star sacrificers are trained." They muttered to Fang Zheng like this.

With his eyes closed, Lian Feng could hear their whispered disputes and discussions, revealing a sarcastic smile that no one could see.

The real Star Sacrifice is as thin and tender as in the description, not to mention bone needles, even a slight pinch on the body will leave scars, and it will squeak and scream in pain at every turn.

But he is a "halfway monk" star sacrificer, this pain is too light for Zifeng.

Compared with the pain of being pierced by 28 copper chains, it is nothing more than itching.