Chosen Prophet [Unlimited]

When Duan Yi rushed to the village where the dead trader lived, the sun was setting.

Above the desert, the sunset glow and countless sand dunes form a gradient orange brocade, as if woven by the fairies who are most adept at weaving.

But probably because of a bad premonition in his heart, the orange-red setting sun in Duan Yi's eyes is more like blood-stained, hiding the most creepy metaphor.

Riding a fast horse, it didn't take long for Duan Yi to arrive at the simple village consisting of several earthen houses.

After getting off the horse, Duan Yi casually grabbed a passer-by, pointed to the empty room of the victimized vendor and asked, "I did business with that family before, and I had money that was not settled, so I want to come to him. Why is there no one in their house?"

The passer-by sighed heavily. "Hey, this family is too miserable! If they owe you money, you may not come back!"

"What happened?" Duan Yi couldn't help asking.

Passers-by said: "This family doesn't know what's going on. The wife killed her husband and then committed suicide! In short, this family has died tragically! Their bodies are gone, so it's not like you won't get your money back gone?"

After catching the key point, Duan Yi frowned and asked, "What's the meaning of the corpse?"

The body of the trader, that is, the husband, is gone. Duan Yi can understand it, because he was buried in the sky.

But his wife's body is gone, so what's going on?

A passer-by said: "The husband said that he believed in the teachings from the Xiangxiong Kingdom during his lifetime. After his body was taken away by Master Daguang, a celestial burial was held, and of course there was no body.

"As for the wife, she actually killed her husband, which is a serious crime! According to the rules here, killing a close relative must be executed. Although she committed suicide, according to the rules, she cannot leave her whole body .She has been burned to ashes and blown away by the wind. So, her body is gone!"

Duan Yi felt that he seemed to be faintly approaching the key to the truth, and quickly asked: "The body was burned to ashes... Is there anything special about it? Why is this the rule for you to punish people? Anyway, she is dead...how to deal with it Her body doesn't seem to matter, does it? Even if she is thrown in the desert to feed the vultures, why bother to burn her?"

——A ceremony was held to burn the body of the businessman's wife, just to warn others not to do such evil things, or is there a hidden secret behind it?

Only passers-by asked: "Are you a businessman from Huaguo?"

Duan Yi nodded: "Yes. I don't fully understand the rules here, please advise."

"Don't dare to take it." The man waved his hand and said, "In our place, there are various religious sects. In a family, everyone may have different beliefs. But basically, everyone here believes in the existence of the undead. Never wrong. Most of us think that if a person's body is burned, the soul can never find its way back."

Hearing this, Duan Yi frowned very tightly.

The passer-by said again: "We burned her body, of course so that she can't come back! This kind of wicked woman who killed her husband will never return to Loulan forever! Burn her body completely, and her soul loses its connection with the world. If you contact me, you won’t come back! Hey, why do you look a bit dazed, do you want me to explain a few more words to you?”

Duan Yi quickly reacted, took out a few accessories and handed them to passers-by.

The passer-by put away the jewelry with satisfaction, and explained a few words in detail: "She won't come back this time, there are several meanings. The first meaning is that if she is a lonely ghost without bones as a medium, she I can't find my way back, so I can only wander in places other than my hometown.

"The second meaning means that if she has the chance to be reincarnated, she will not remember that she was born in Loulan in one life, she will not have a longing and familiar feeling for this place, and she will still not come here.

"As for the last meaning... it refers to the fact that a wicked woman like her is likely to go to hell. She will be punished for thousands of years in hell. How will she come back then?"

After a person dies, the soul will leave the body. If it does not go to hell and is still wandering in the world, as long as its bones are still there, it can still find its way home.

With the bones here, it can't be regarded as a real ghost.

And if the soul is reincarnated and reincarnated as a human, even if this person is not born in Loulan, he may feel familiar with this city when he reads these two words, and then chooses to go here, and may even be a foregone conclusion here, because of the potential Memory will make her feel that every plant and tree here is very familiar.

From the perspective of Loulan people, this subconscious sense of familiarity with a place after reincarnation is also related to the fact that the bones of her previous life are buried here.

Therefore, burning her bones and completely destroying her body will make her soul never return to this place.

This is the most terrible punishment for her murderer.

But looking back, how did this woman become a murderer?

Duan Yi saw with his own eyes that it was her husband who killed her.

After that, her husband had the treatment of a sky burial, and she was identified as the murderer, and ended up being burned to ashes with no bones left.

All this can only be Daguang's handwriting.

Three people died last night.

Tong Nian committed suicide in the desert. The merchant first killed his wife and then committed suicide when he returned home.

Daguang arranged for two brothers to go to the desert to take away Tong Nian's body, and lied that he had calculated it himself.

As for Daguang himself, he should be a merchant.

After arriving at the merchant's house, he rearranged the scene, and probably used a demagogy trick to find a few witnesses, creating the illusion that there were all witnesses and evidence, successfully turning black and white, making everyone think that his wife was the murderer— — She killed her husband and then committed suicide.

In the end, the merchant's body was taken to the celestial burial platform by Daguang, and the merchant's wife's body was left here, and was quickly given the most terrible punishment.

——Wait, Daguang is quick to deal with the merchant's corpse, which is understandable, because he can just take the corpse away.But why was his wife's body processed so quickly? 4000 years ago, the officials of the ancient Loulan Kingdom were so efficient?

Duan Yi immediately frowned and asked the passerby: "What burned the body of the businessman's wife? Where is it?"

"There is an abandoned altar in front." A passer-by raised his hand and pointed, "Here, that's the direction. The corpse was burned at noon. There was a murder, we didn't go out to do business this morning, and we all rushed over to watch at noon. "

noon?

Duan Yi couldn't help thinking, if he found out this detail in time, he should have come over in time to take a look.

After thinking for a while, he asked passers-by: "But how did you quickly determine that she was the murderer and burned the body directly?"

Passers-by said: "The general sent special personnel to investigate this matter. This case is not complicated, and the investigation will be clear soon, so we should deal with it as soon as possible, so as not to leave a disaster. What are you procrastinating for? Procrastinating until the body smells bad! Hey By the way, don’t you Chinese businessmen live in the barracks? Don’t you know that the general has always done things vigorously and resolutely? We all admire him!”

General?

Why did the general help Daguang dispose of the corpse?

After saying goodbye to this passer-by, Duan Yi randomly asked some other passers-by along the road.

The answers he got were basically the same.

——Everyone is convinced that the merchant's wife killed the merchant and then committed suicide, and said that burning her body as soon as possible is a very popular thing.

There are four reasons why everyone is so convinced of this matter.

First, there are witnesses and material evidence.

Second, everyone trusts everything the general says.

Third, the businessman's wife usually lives in seclusion and doesn't deal with others, but the businessman is recognized as a good person. If someone goes crazy and kills, no one will think that the murderer is the husband and not the wife.

As for the fourth reason, it is naturally that Daguang has a high prestige here. He is a high-ranking believer who came all the way from Zhangxiong Kingdom with the princess, and he is highly respected.Regardless of whether the people believed in Zhang Zhuong's teachings or not, they had received his charity to some extent. Since he also recognized the investigation results of the people sent by the general, naturally no one doubted anything.

The village is very small and there are few residents, but because of the murder and everyone needs to stay and be questioned, the people in the village are basically homogeneous.

So Duan Yi quickly inquired around, asking almost every villager.

After doing all this, he went to the abandoned altar mentioned by the passer-by at the beginning—the place where the merchant's wife was burned.

The lonely smoke in the desert, the sunset on the long river.

Unlike the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the scenery of the vast sea is uniquely magnificent.

The sunset is the best time to watch at this time, but it also means that the sky is about to disappear completely.

After Duan Yixing traveled several miles, an altar appeared in front of him, so he reined in his horse.

After getting off the horse, Duan Yi led the horse and walked forward.

The small village consisting of a few earthen houses behind him has been hidden behind the sand dunes, and in front of him is the vast desert and the altar that looks lonely in it.

In the center of the altar stood a pitch-black log, and there were many black ashes at its feet.

Obviously, this is where the corpses were burned.

—Here they tied the body of the merchant's wife and burned her so that no bones remained of her.When the bones disappear, her undead will lose contact with the human world and will never return.

All of this was designed by Daguang, but why did he do it?

Leading the horse and stepping on the yellow sand, Duan Yi approached the altar, but what appeared in his mind was the scene of the skull wall.

There are three entire walls, and the walls are almost full of skulls.

And before they made inferences through various clues-these skulls were set up to lure the soul back.

In this way, the merchant's skull was left on the wall, so that the soul would not ascend to heaven as said in the sky burial ceremony, but return to the place where the skull was.

But the merchant's wife was designed to be destroyed so that her soul would never come back.

One soul will be drawn to the Wall of Skulls, and the other will never return.

--what is this?

It is impossible for Daguang to be jealous of the relationship between the husband and wife, and he wants their souls to never be together.

This idea is not only absurd, but also has no logical basis to support it.

Due to this, Duan Yi can't think of the connection for the time being.

He went around the altar a few more times, and when there was no more news, he had no choice but to ride back.

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On the way to the merchant's residence, Duan Yi had many doubts.

When he returned to the barracks from here, he had more questions in his mind.

The merchant, the wife, the undead who can't return, the undead who is imprisoned forever, the general, Daguang, Xiaoge, the princess... It seems that there is a faint thread connecting all the events.

Duan Yi now feels the existence of this thread, but he hasn't been able to let it surface completely.

Duan Yi yawned, and when he was approaching the barracks, he saw tomorrow.

At this time, the agreed time between the two is still far away. It seems that tomorrow, he learned of his whereabouts from Wu Junlan in advance, so he deliberately waited here for him.

Duan Yi smiled, his eyes shone slightly under the setting sun.

——To be so anxious to find myself tomorrow is obviously because I have important news to share with myself.Looks like he's had a lot to gain.

Immediately drove the horse to tomorrow's side, Duan Yi pulled him onto the horse.

Tomorrow sat on the back of the horse, took the reins and took Duan Yi to the barracks. "Seeing that you yawned just now, you are tired. So I will drive the horse."

Duan Yi yawned again. "I don't believe your horse-riding excuse."

"Brother Xiao Yi, I really feel sorry for you. Speaking of which—" Borrowing the posture of holding the rein, tomorrow he tightened his arms, allowing Duan Yi to lean closer to him.

Then ask in his ear tomorrow: "I found something. I haven't seen you smoking for a long time. In the past, when you were sleepy, you would always smoke."

Hearing this, Duan Yi smiled and waved his hands: "Smoke... I quit a long time ago."

Ask tomorrow: "Why did you suddenly quit? You are a heavy smoker."

Hearing this, Duan Yi didn't answer, and then held him in his arms tomorrow for questioning.

After a while, unable to stand up to tomorrow's offensive, Duan Yi still answered. "That's not...you disappeared after the dungeon in the maze. I thought, if I smoked, you might be angry and disappointed, and wouldn't come to see me."

"Brother Yi——"

Hearing that tomorrow's tone changed obviously, Duan Yi hurriedly said: "Stop it. Then what... let's talk about love affairs later. Tell me first, you came here specially to wait for me because you have important news, right?"

Hearing Duan Yi's words, Tomorrow was too moved, and there was no time to answer his questions immediately.

He hugged Duan Yi even tighter, and kissed his ear tomorrow with some difficulty.

After kissing for a while, he stretched out his canine teeth and bit down a little bit.

Duan Yi couldn't see it, but he was basically sure that he must have been bitten with teeth marks from the pinna to the earlobe.

Feeling that tomorrow is going to go down, Duan Yi turned around and held his wrist, looked at him and said, "Are you a dog?"

"Brother Xiao Yi, I like you." Tomorrow just looked at him and smiled.

Unexpectedly, he was watched by a pair of affectionate eyes and confessed, but he confessed so sincerely... Duan Yi blushed, and quickly patted tomorrow on the shoulder. "Speak the truth."

"Yeah." Taking a deep breath, he said tomorrow, "Through searching up and down, including buying the general's cronies, I finally found out why the general helped Daguang."

Hearing this, Duan Yi's eyes froze immediately.

Even without mentioning what he just heard about the general helping Daguang to push the murderer onto the woman, everyone can also come to the conclusion that the general is helping Daguang through reasoning.

——Because the general will send soldiers to help Daguang send the players in prison to the sky burial platform.

So what I found out tomorrow about the reason why the general helped Daguang is naturally very important.

Duan Yi held tomorrow's hand and immediately said, "Say it!"

Tomorrow said: "Daguang promised the general that even if the princess's body is found, there will be no evidence on her body that she was killed by the general. The general's innocence is related to his reputation in Loulan, and in fact, it is also related to the entire Loulan. Da Guang said that he would help the general for the sake of the country and the people of Loulan."

What the general has always wanted to do is actually not to let himself be recognized as a murderer.

Judging from his previous actions, he is not a villain.

Well, in fact, it is very likely that he was also deceived by Daguang now.

He didn't know that Daguang would kill people in the prison, didn't know that both the vendor and his wife were actually killed by Daguang, and he didn't know that the wife was not the murderer.

He thought that he was just helping Daguang a little, and he probably even thought that he was actually doing good deeds and accumulating merit.

From this perspective, the logic of the general's behavior makes sense.

After all, what Daguang told him was that he defended the general for the sake of Loulan and the people here.

A great believer who helps people in the world should be so merciful.

Relying on the reputation he has gained, Daguang actually found himself a very convincing and magnanimous excuse.

Thinking of this, after thinking about what he said tomorrow, Duan Yi noticed something, and his eyes sank again.

"Wait—even if the princess's body is found... these are Daguang's original words, right?" Duan Yi clenched his fist subconsciously, "What does this mean? Does it mean... Daguang wants to take the princess's body away?" Get it back?"

Before answering Duan Yi's answer tomorrow, there was a shout calling for the two of them not far away.

At this moment, the two of them happened to reach one of the entrances of the barracks, and it was Wu Junlan who guarded here and stopped them.

Tomorrow, when the horse is reined in, Duan Yi immediately dismounts and walks towards Wu Junlan. "What happened?"

Wu Junlan glanced at him and tomorrow, and said with a serious expression: "Dao Luo, the maid of the princess, is here. She said that she has an important last word about the princess. Fortunately, you arrived in time. Let's go and have a look together?"