"Empty." Although the place where she stepped was paved with soil and planted grass, which greatly concealed the fact that there was a secret door below, Wei Zhi still felt that the underground was empty.

Wei Zhuang rushed over suddenly, Wei Zhi only felt that the village chief's house flashed by in front of him, and she was carried away by Wei Zhuang to hide elsewhere.

"Someone." Wei Zhuang covered her mouth and reminded her in a low voice.

Thinking about their speed just now, Wei Zhi suddenly understood: both of them are people with high martial arts skills, lightness kung fu is a compulsory course, and it has been integrated into their lives for a long time. Of course, they will use it habitually when walking, not Like her, every foot is so heavy and solid, so it is difficult to find that the place just now is empty.

Wei Zhuang and the others saw five people approaching. The first one was guarding the gate of the courtyard, the second was patrolling outside the fence around the courtyard, the third was guarding the gate of the village chief's house, the fourth was in front of the window, and the last One entered slowly.These people, without exception, all covered their faces, and they couldn't tell who they were at all. However, what made people feel strange was that the first four people were all martial arts practitioners, but the fifth person who entered the village chief's house was not .

Last time the village chief was very peaceful here, without these messy people.For the sake of safety, Wei Zhuang sent Zhi'er back, and Gai Nie bypassed everyone and listened to what they said on the roof.

Wei Zhi told Wei Zhuang what he had found, and Wei Zhuang immediately rushed back to meet Gai Nie after setting her up.On the roof, Gai Nie was listening intently, and Wei Zhuang was going to ask him what he missed later.Judging by Ge Nie's expression, it should be a relatively important matter.

What the mysterious man said next was very interesting.

"Mr. Li, I have really tried my best. The Guigu disciples have all left before. Who knows why they will come back. I... I beg you."

"Old village chief! Didn't I say it all? It's good to lie to them this time. They are too smart. We can't succeed in poisoning. The whole village is not strong enough to give them teeth. "

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Li, thank you, Mr. Li."

"Let me emphasize again, that little girl, you can't just let her go. Keep an eye on her."

"That's for sure, that's for sure."

"Tomorrow, there will be no more celebrations. Birthdays can't be celebrated every day. I'll tell everyone to hide what they need to hide. They won't find anything, and they won't stay forever."

"Don't worry, sir, the old man has already greeted every household."

"They can look for whatever they want, but you have to keep an eye on them yourself, you will find excuses to follow them wherever they go, and send someone to report to me at any time; this matter cannot be delayed, if they don't leave, we will have no way to find new blood .”

"I understand that I will do my best."

"Hey - think about how chaotic your life was when I first arrived here, look at how harmonious, orderly, and not so bad children are crying and making noise now."

"Mister's great kindness and virtue, I will always remember it."

"Our god, remember to protect it."

The young man left immediately. Wei Zhuang and Gai Nie did not immediately analyze what they said, but found the secret door according to Wei Zhi's dictation, but found that it was locked. Looking at the light from the village chief's house, Wei Zhuang Rushing back to confirm Zhi'er's situation, Gai Nie followed the young man just now to find out his details, and they decided to come to the village chief's house later to find the key.

Fortunately, the villagers hadn't started their actions yet, and Wei Zhi was still safe.It was too late, Wei Zhi was too tired to fall asleep.After Wei Zhuang confirmed that the room was safe, he went out to see if there was anyone watching around. It should be because the villagers hadn't started to act yet, so there was no surveillance.

Gai Nie came to the young man's house and heard him whistling. He was very happy. There was nothing special along the way. When he got home, he just changed his clothes and rested.Ge Nie searched around the courtyard of his house and found some chopped up tree trunks and roots, which looked like they had been placed for a long time.The question is what he does with these things.

Seeing that there was nothing of value here, Gai Nie went back to meet Wei Zhuang.

"Before you came, they talked about why there were no children in the village." Gaine said, "Because, that young man. He called on everyone to expel children under the age of ten."

Wei Zhuang felt that the villagers must have a problem with their brains, and those who have no children are fine. How can those who have children throw their children away: "Why do the villagers listen to him?"

"When they were talking, the village chief mentioned that he brought the 'god'." Gai Nie replied, "The village chief mentioned that he suddenly appeared two years ago. At that time, a large number of villagers were suffering from strange diseases. After he appeared, He not only cured the illnesses of the villagers, but also helped the villagers get rid of the rats. It seemed that he had made some prophecy. Later, the prophecy came true, and the villagers began to regard him as the leader and listen to him. In short, now he controls the minds of the whole village.”

"He wants to expel the child, why didn't he let Zhi'er leave just now?"

"The young man mentioned it almost as soon as he came in. He wants to cultivate Wei Zhi." Gaine paused, and added: "I can become him in the future."

Wei Zhuang's anger level instantly exploded, and of course he quickly suppressed it. All the abnormalities in this village were brought about by that man, and Wei Zhuang would never let Zhi'er become such a person.

After finishing speaking, they decided to go to the village chief's house and the man's house to look for things later, and it would be best if they could find the key.In addition, we will split up tomorrow to see what tricks the people in this village can play, and take a rest for now.When he opened the door and entered the room, Wei Zhi was already awake.

"Zhi'er, what's the matter?" Wei Zhuang asked, she was clearly asleep just now.

"Brother, Zhi'er is having a nightmare."

"It's okay, it's just a nightmare." Wei Zhuang coaxed her to sleep.After all, Wei Zhuang decides to be her elder brother, so there is no need to always act coldly, at least not to her.Wei Zhi lay in his arms, finally able to sleep peacefully.

In the middle of the night, Wei Zhuang put the sleeping Zhi'er aside and acted together with Gai Nie.The two searched for a long time at the village chief's house and that "Mr. Li"'s house separately, but they couldn't find the key to open the secret door.Helpless, the secret door can only be discussed tomorrow.And they did find a lot of sharp weapons in their homes. The types and quantities of these weapons have exceeded the needs of normal life.It may have been washed, it was clean, and there was no blood on it, so it is hard to say whether it was used to hurt people.

Before Wei Zhuang came back, Zhi'er woke up again, the room was pitch dark, without Wei Zhuang, she was a little strange, and was going to go out to see where he was.As soon as the door was opened, two villagers, a man and a woman, were seen outside. These two people were very happy to see Wei Zhi come out, and said kindly, "Your brother is out, and he asked us to come over and help take care of him."

"Crack!" Wei Zhi closed the door without thinking, and put the latch on.This kind of trick, use it to deceive a real two-year-old child.

Fortunately, Wei Zhuang came back in time, otherwise those two people might not be willing to leave.

After Wei Zhuang entered the door, Wei Zhi recounted what happened just now. At the end, Wei Zhi said: "Brother, make sure that no one is watching you when you leave, so how do they know that you have gone out; besides, they don't sleep so late, it's so late. Running here, the purpose is too clear."

"Someone had expected that I would go out to search tonight, and specially arranged for them to come." Wei Zhuang continued following her words, "The people in this village are indeed interesting."

After dawn, Wei Zhuang did not go out immediately as agreed, and watched Gai Nie go first. Sure enough, the village chief greeted him enthusiastically, wanted to be his guide, and asked, "Where is the other young hero?"

"He'll be here soon," Gaine replied.

Watching them walk away, Wei Zhuang saw someone staring at the house not far away. After taking Zhi'er out, he shook off the follower and came to the edge of the village.

Wei Zhuang believes that Zhi'er can find the body, but he still has to remind her: "This village is not big. If Mr. Li really controls the entire village, those people will immediately run back and report to the village chief and Mr. Li."

"I see."

They stopped, and Wei Zhi lay down on the ground to find the bugs.Sure enough, it didn't take long to find a burial beetle. Following the direction it crawled over, Wei Zhi found many pupae in a place.

"Under here, there's something."

Of course Wei Zhuang did the physical work, and Wei Zhi watched from the side to prevent Wei Zhuang from doing any negligent behavior.There is no protective clothing in this era, and it is still very dangerous to come into direct contact with carrion corpses.

Wei Zhuang dug nearly one meter deep, and Wei Zhi saw more and more earthworms running around because of fright, so he immediately stopped Wei Zhuang.

"Brother, I'll do the rest, I'm afraid you'll be too harsh, and the buried corpse won't be able to bear it."

After digging little by little for a while, the rotting corpse was exposed, and at the same time, there was also the smell of corpse.How would you describe that taste?When Wei Zhuang smelled it, he was stunned as if someone had hit his head with a stick. He forgot what vomiting was for a moment.

Wei Zhi covered his mouth and nose with the prepared cloth, turned over the corpse with the tools in his hand, and dug some more at the same time.

"Brother, there are many corpses here, and there are still under here."

Hearing her call, Wei Zhuang walked forward a little bit, and the scene that caught his eyes really made him feel chills: the corpse had been partially ossified, and the exposed bones were stained by yellow and black corpse water The discolored, unskeletal carrion was eaten and covered by countless strips of scavenging insects.Coupled with the impact of the body odor, he really wanted to vomit.

Seeing that he was calm on the surface, but his face turned pale for a while, Wei Zhi immediately pulled him aside, helped him sit down, and took a few breaths of fresh air.He continued: "These corpses should have been buried after they started to rot. If they were buried immediately after death, there wouldn't be so many maggots and burial armor. It's hard to say how many corpses there are here. What you see is only the surface. Those. If you want to find them, you have to dig deeper and move them out one by one, but we'd better not touch these highly decomposed corpses now."

"The people who disappeared here are all dead," Wei Zhuang said.

"It seems that none of the villagers here are innocent. If you look again, there may be others in other places. But the question is why?" Wei Zhi couldn't figure it out again, "For money? But the villagers didn't become rich; offending the village ? But not so many people..."

Wei Zhuang knew that this matter was not that simple, but they really didn't have time to deal with the corpses. The person who was dumped should have reported this matter to the "Mr. Li" yesterday, and now someone has started looking for them.

They can only re-bury here before making plans.

"Brother, I'm even more curious about what's underground in the village chief's house."

"Maybe another pile of corpses."

After covering up their tracks, they prepare to meet Ge Nie.Now that there is evidence, judging from the mental state of the whole village, one of the villagers should be regarded as the murderer, and then they should report it directly to the county guard. As for how to deal with it, it should be decided by the judiciary.The most important thing is to take Wei Zhi out of here, as soon as they think of someone who is going to steal the child, Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang both want to send her back as soon as possible.

However, there is still an underground secret door in the village head's house that I haven't seen.Wei Zhi was never reconciled.With her experience, intuition and the stimulation of a major murder case, she has gradually forgotten that her current body is only two years old.

They saw Gai Nie elsewhere in the village, and sure enough, the village chief was still in front of him.As soon as Zhi'er came up, he started to talk: "Grandpa, the village chief, how come there are no brothers and sisters who are about my age in the village? I really want to find someone to play with."

"Don't you little girl like reading and studying the most? So you also play with friends?"

Wei Zhuang flew over with a sharp eye full of killing intent: "Why, you know her very well?"

The village chief was at a loss for words for a while, knowing that he had made a slip of the tongue, and couldn't speak for a long time.

Seeing the two Guigu disciples taking advantage of the victory to pursue and continue to question the village chief, Wei Zhi slipped away by himself.

She ran to the village chief's house, found an oil lamp, and went straight to the place where she found something wrong last night, and it was not locked.Wei Zhi didn't check it carefully last night, she thought it was for a more natural appearance so there was no lock, so she didn't take it seriously.Lifting the wooden board, it was a long staircase, she went down alone, halfway through, she saw something that did not belong to this era: Arabic numerals.

Wei Zhi was so frightened that he almost dropped the oil lamp in his hand: How is this possible!

Look carefully at these numbers, neatly engraved on them, beating rhythmically under the reflection of the firelight, the numbers engraved on them seem to be warning her, and seem to be demonstrating to her: it is not that she is not the only person in this era people.

She didn't know the existence of "Mr. Li", so now, she took it for granted that the village head did it.

She was only halfway down the stairs, and she already had chills down her spine. If she looked carefully, there were inconspicuous dots above some numbers, while some dots appeared directly below the numbers.

"17631763..." Wei Zhi stopped, it was the numbered notation she was familiar with.The nightmares that had tormented her every night for two years came to her mind, and the terrible sound of whistles and keys seemed to appear in her ears again. This music was the music of that person whistling.

She felt a burst of numbness in her left arm, and she couldn't breathe due to the overwhelming fear. She stepped back unconsciously, but unexpectedly stepped on the air and fell down the stairs.

She fell heavily on the ground, the oil from the oil lamp spilled all over the floor, and some of it was on her clothes.The flames quickly burned on the ground, but there was ice underneath, so it was not so easy to cause a large-scale fire.

Wei Zhi got up and saw that it was very big and surprisingly cold down here; there were a large number of corpses displayed at her feet, without exception, they were all placed in a prostrate position, and all the corpses were facing the same direction. One direction, looking forward, there is a bed with a person lying on it.She breathed into the palm of her hand, the ice under it is to delay the decay of the corpse; such a large cellar must be built by the whole village, men, women and children; After building such a large cellar, the village must be unable to make ends meet; in the end, the buried corpses should all be moved out from here, and when they start to rot, find a substitute quickly, and then bury the ones that can no longer be preserved .

The oil lamp was no longer usable, and before the lamp oil burned out, Wei Zhi walked towards the direction where the corpses were crawling. Seeing the people lying there, Wei Zhi couldn't even yell, and for a moment his body seemed to be trapped. Like tens of thousands of ants biting, the blood is about to freeze: that person is Xiao Rong, she is herself.

She was so frightened that she didn't notice a "corpse" slowly getting up behind her. It wasn't a dead person, it was Mr. Li.Wei Zhi was still retreating again and again, Mr. Li attacked from behind with a weapon in hand, Wei Zhi was knocked unconscious just like that.

At this time, a villager came in from outside, holding a rope.

When she woke up, she was still in that cellar, the bottom was full of ice, and it was bitingly cold.His hands were tied behind his back, and his feet were fixed to the base of the wall by ropes. In front of him was Mr. Li's smiling face, and a very expressionless and indifferent person.

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