How can the general be paralyzed?

Suddenly, a smell floated in the air, which was in the direction of the southeast earthquake they were going to. Qin Ran's expression changed slightly: "It's the smell of blood."

Without further ado, the two raised their breath and went straight to the place where the bloody smell came from, and they arrived under a six-storey altar in just a moment.It's just hard to stay on the ground.

From a distance, the road on the ground seemed to be floating on a layer of water, but when Qin Ran and the two flew to the ground, their footsteps were heavy, and they were actually stepping on a thick bloody beach.

The strong wind blew up, and the strong smell of blood stretched for dozens of miles.

It's like pouring a layer of chicken blood and pig blood and not satisfied, and you have to apply it thickly, making ghosts cry and resentment.Compared with the smell of the golden Buddha statue in the abandoned house, ordinary people really want to hang themselves with a rope, let alone stick to the sole of their shoes.

Qin Ran held his breath and found it was useless, so he simply looked around with a slumped face.The trees are lonely and there are no obstacles from the houses. Except for the two-story altar, it is also considered empty, and there is no room for people to hide.

"The left and right don't look like someone is hiding. There are bloodstains in a radius of 100 meters. If someone walks by, they should leave footprints. Unless this person's lightness skill is higher than you and me, he can come and go without a trace."

While Qin Ran was scanning the blood left and right, Ye Qiu squatted down and wiped the blood on the ground with his index finger, sniffed it at the tip of his nose and concluded, "Old blood."

Only a thin layer of blood on the surface is still wet and fresh, and underneath is a thick dark brown.

In such a place as big as a palm in Shanhaoli, if someone is doing things under their noses, or doing things on such a blatant and large scale, one person's manpower is naturally not enough.

Qin Ran frowned and said, "Even if it wasn't spilled recently, this scale is enough to frighten the timid as a mouse. Can you tell it's all human blood?"

Judging by the scale of the blood spill, it must be done by bloodletting of hundreds of people.And if you are willing to make no noise, or you will be noticed by someone struggling to escape or shouting before the blood is drained.That's why he guessed that it wasn't all human blood.

Ye Qiu stood up, opened and closed his plain white robe, but it was still not stained with any dirt or blood: "Animal blood. It's not human blood."

Qin Ran just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard it, and then heard Ye Qiu say, "I just need to remember. You don't need to."

Qin Ran: "..."

How should he answer this sentence?

A sword from ten years ago was pulled back and forth.He let Ye Qiu not have to remember, of course he hoped to be able to let go.

It's just inexplicable, he seemed to hear the quiet loneliness from Ye Qiu's words.

It was as if Gao Miao's reverberation in the empty valley had come to the fore, and suddenly the person in front of him was down to earth from the cloud of nine heavens.

It even made him feel sad that if he went alone, Ye Qiu would like to be friends with Huang Quan.

When Ye Qiu glanced over with deep meaning and twists and turns, the lonely and cold melancholy seemed to be gently subdued, and the thought in his heart that "he is not indifferent to me" was like a dead bonfire rekindled. But the slight fire is not about to explode at the touch of a button, but a series of nine twists and turns.

Fortunately, this illusion didn't last long. Qin Ran's eyes fell on the unexplored altar, and he just flew up and down and stood tall on the altar.

Such a sight...

Qin Ran shouted at Ye Qiu who was under the altar: "Don't, don't come up first!" In case Ye Qiu didn't hear, he even waved his hand down.What is seen and seen is horrifying.

There was no one around him, only hundreds of densely packed coffins.

It just so happened that the lid of the coffin on his right had been opened, revealing only a pale hand with five fingers spread out and moving slowly on the coffin lid, like a severed hand floating in the air.

Then look at the person in the coffin with his eyes closed, his face powdered.He guessed it was a woman who had just died.Just as he was thinking about someone frantically prying over the grave of the dead, someone handed him a pillow, but his mood was not much easier.

He swept through hundreds of coffins one by one. To confirm his sudden guess, he opened a nearby black wooden coffin. With a pensive expression on his face, he went to the side and lifted the lids of three or four coffins that appeared to be intact. : Sure enough, not all coffins are there.

Even if the corpse had just died, the smell was not pleasant, so Qin Ran covered it up after confirming it.

Qin Ran circled around, and the corpses in the coffin either showed serenity, or their faces were distorted in pain, and their movements were either struggling to open the coffin lid, or folded their hands in front of their chests, men and women showed different expressions, But it can be confirmed that they were dead when they were put into the coffin, and passed away naturally.

In the end, he squatted in front of a coffin without moving for a long time.Perhaps this coffin is too small and too inconspicuous, and it will naturally be ignored by people who are stuck in the gap between two nanmu coffins at a glance.

Inside was a newborn baby.Babies who died prematurely were thought to be unknown, and they were usually wrapped in straw mats and buried in a hurry.If you just recite the scriptures of rebirth without setting up a memorial tablet, you will not be able to eat the incense ash dedicated to your ancestors.

Therefore, it is strange to use a coffin to collect the coffin.

Qin Ran's hand to detect the pulse on the baby's neck has not been retracted, the baby's pulse beat slightly, and it has since returned to calm.It will never sound again in this life.

He could feel his heartbeat stop suddenly at this moment.

But the newly discouraged baby neither knew life nor death, a wrinkled little hand hooked Qin Ran's finger to check his pulse, and his eyes were still closed.

When Ye Qiu approached, he saw his bent back stretched into a tense line, and his upper body was covered in thick shadows.

Qin Ran looked down for a while, then suddenly tilted his head to look at Ye Qiu, his brows and eyes in the shadow of the backlight were stained with an indelible hostility at some point.

He stood up, his clothes drooping, and the bloody dirt slid down from the coffin lid with his movements.

There are still places left in the grave, who is next?

When Qin Ran watched people speak, his eyes were always slightly teasing, either in a leisurely manner or casually, and even when the tone was serious, his expression would be a bit narrow.But at this moment, there was a bottomless haze in his eyes, like a layer of black ash, with a ghostly aura.So Ye Qiu called him slightly worried.

Because of a call, Qin Ran, who had walked a few steps, pressed his forehead, and saw that the dark expression had become much calmer.The eyes looking at Ye Qiu seemed to be filled with fresh light, revealing a gleam of light.

Qin Ran was well aware of his worries: "You don't have to worry about me. I swept through these coffins in a hurry, and I didn't look carefully. The dead inside were all recently dead. Maybe there are one or two things that I missed, and you can look for them again. There were other discoveries. And—”

He paused, "Don't touch or look at the one in front of me. If you find something similar, just leave it there and wait for me to deal with it." After finishing speaking, he flew off the altar.

Ye Qiu squatted down, only hesitated for a moment, and slowly opened the lid of the coffin, which was really aggrieved for an adult.The small body curled up together and the dead baby came into view.Originally, the coffin was already too small, but it was still too wide and too long for the skinny baby.

Perhaps it has been hungry for a long time without being fed, with a big head and a small body, the same skinny limbs are supported under the neck like a dead tree branch, only the part where the ribs protrude and the belly is sunken, the belly button is still round.

Ye Qiu's eyes sank, and he understood that Qin Ran didn't want him to see such a miserable scene that made people cry.

The matter of killing Guanyin was not without benefits for Qin Ran. From it, he knew that some strange arts would use a medium—such as a statue of Guanyin, and the larger ones needed blood to describe the formation.

When the blood on the surface was cleaned up, and the scarlet symbol below appeared in a radius of ten meters, just like a seedling plowing away the soil to reveal the blue sky, Qin Ran retracted the Liuyun sword that had been used as a tool into its sheath.

He didn't recognize the formation, so he asked Ye Qiu.

After careful identification, Ye Qiu said, "Life and death in all directions."

The four directions of life and death are overwhelming the four directions, and the formation in the four directions will not work without one party.

After hearing this, Qin Ran said, "The blood of the formation has been dried for a long time, it doesn't look like it was drawn just now. If every formation has an altar, there are three places full of coffins like this?"

Ye Qiu nodded and lowered his gaze: "The shapes of the dead in the coffin are different, probably due to the activation of the formation."

Qin Ran said: "This should be the culprit who changed the pattern of Tai'a Mountain's spiritual veins. I have heard of many formations, but none is as weird as this, requiring more than 100 coffins as the eyes of the formation.

This battle is really unheard of.I heard that the big formation usually needs to be awakened with human blood, and it is probably too expensive to replace it with animal blood.

But being able to dig people's graves and gather corpses here quietly is also quite embarrassing. "

He sneered at this point and thought, so many corpses and coffins were stolen, really no relatives reported the crime, really no officials knew about it?

Ye Qiu seemed to have a feeling for his thoughts: "There are many water villages in the south of the Yangtze River, and the humidity is heavy. The mountains and forests are towering. Therefore, the dead are mostly buried in the graves."

As the name suggests, the graves are dedicated to burying the dead. There are no people but ghosts. Except for burning incense and wax paper money during New Years and festivals, it is rare to see living people in the mountains.There are also ghosts.

Only then did Qin Ran realize that Ye Qiu was also from the south before joining Tiandaozong, but he had never heard him mention his parents.

Although entering the Zongmen is like being born to raise people who do not follow the common sense, and the blood relationship is so thin that it is not humane, but it is still the person who gave birth to oneself.

Just like his mother who died of dystocia, he had to go to the clan ancestral hall to worship incense and kowtow every year since he was a child. Even though he didn't have much sense of intimacy, he still gratefully bowed down to the tablet of that gentle woman whom he had never met.

So Qin Ran asked a question in a sideways manner.

Ye Qiu answered quickly: "Mother is still here."

This sentence means that the father is gone.

Qin Ran had mixed feelings in his heart, and was speechless for a while, then thought that it's okay, at least one of Gao Tang is still alive.Not too dire.

Unexpectedly, Ye Qiu shook his head and added, "I remarried many years ago."

Qin Ran glanced over.To be honest, Ye Qiu mentioned his mother's remarriage with a detached and lonely expression, as if whether his father died or his mother remarried, no matter how many people come and go in the past, it is the cycle of the four ages.

After thinking about it carefully, he felt that the alienation and loneliness were not the melancholy of waiting for the poem to be completed, but the coldness of the snow falling from Changyun Mountain, which was a sip of the bitter wine.

It was rare to get a glimpse of Ye Qiu's revealing emotions, but he was surprised to find that Ye Qiu's exhaustion was naturally felt by him.

From the first time they met in Tiandaozong, Ye Qiu was incompatible with others, as if an invisible door was locked in front of him.

And when Ye Qiu said these things to him without hesitation, Qin Ran felt that the heavy door was opened from the inside, and a gust of fresh wind poured in from the breach.