East China Sea dust

Such a tragic scene coupled with the unpleasant smell of decay immediately scared a sea soldier to scream, making one unable to help but take a few steps back, desperately wanting to run away.

Ao Zhan looked ugly, subconsciously grabbed the wrist of the young man beside him, and dragged him behind him.Afterwards, he recited the mantra silently, and a gust of wind was induced to blow open all the doors and windows of the house, dispelling the overly strong smell of rotting corpses from the room.

Standing behind Ao Zhan, Zhang Qinglan looked at the strange scene in front of him, with a flash of surprise in his eyes.But he quickly restrained his expression, tightened his fingertips holding the rattle little by little, frowned and looked at the mummy obliquely in front of him.

The space of this dwelling is cramped, not allowing too many people to enter at the same time, Ao Zhan had to order a few sea soldiers to go out to guard first, leaving only two people, and continued to move forward with him.

Zhang Qinglan took out two pure heart talismans from her sleeves and distributed them to the two shrimp spirits behind her.

Then they followed Ao Zhan's footsteps and walked to the square wooden table closest to the door, carefully observing the mummy lying on the table.

The body of the mummy was shriveled and skinny, with deeply sunken cheeks, and the entire upper body was as stiff as a board, leaning straight against the edge of the table.The right hand is raised slightly, the thumb and index finger are bent, leaving a circular hole in the middle... as if he was still holding a teacup before he died.

The hollow eye sockets were left black, and the eyes were looking forward, and most of the teeth in the mouth were missing.

Zhang Qinglan raised his hand to pinch the corner of the wooden table, and broke off the corner of the table almost effortlessly. It leaks non-stop along the fingers.

Twirling the dust on his fingertips a few times, the young man's expression remained unchanged, he lowered his eyes calmly, and looked carefully for a moment: "...strange."

Ao Zhan was standing beside him, trying to find clues from the coarse linen clothes on the mummy, when he heard this, he straightened his waist and asked in a deep voice, "How?"

"It's not just people who have turned into mummies." Zhang Qinglan handed the sawdust left in his hand to Ao Zhan's eyes: "Even the dead things now have the appearance of being eroded and weathered for a long time, and they will shatter when touched."

Ao Zhan stretched out his hand, scooped up a handful of wood powder in distaste, rubbed it a few times, and pulled out a brocade handkerchief out of nowhere.

Immediately, he took the lead in grabbing the right hand of the young man on the opposite side, rubbed his cold face a few times vigorously through the cloth towel until the messy dust was wiped off, and snorted lightly: "You dare to touch anything directly... You really don't mind being dirty .”

Zhang Qinglan blinked, raised her hands obediently and let Ao Zhan move, and stood still, with innocence written all over her face.

The two sea soldiers on the side inspected the remaining mummy separately, and both found the same situation beside the corpse.

Zhang Qinglan looked at the obviously shorter corpse on the bed, and sighed softly.He took the brocade handkerchief from Ao Zhan and wrapped the broken rattle in his hand: "This is the family we met in the town that night."

Ao Zhan gave a "hmm", and then signaled Haizu to move the three mummified corpses to the bed, lined up.

At this time, it was clear that the clothes on each person's body were different. The woman with the hair parted on the far right was wearing a coarse cloth long skirt, while the child in the middle was barefoot, with buns on both sides of the head, and a small hole in the apron, exposing the Dark and chapped skin.

Xia Jing pulled out a sharp dagger from the scabbard at his waist, took a step forward under the gaze of everyone, and followed Ao Zhan's instructions, cut a narrow opening about two inches long on the hands and feet of the mummy.

It was found that the flesh and blood under the skin had already become as stiff as dry wood, purple and black, and even the bones became dry and brittle.

Strangely, with the passage of time, the wounds exposed to the air leaked a little bit of stinky liquid, which gathered and dripped on the bed, forming a dark red puddle.

Seeing this, Ao Zhan immediately released his spiritual consciousness, but he couldn't feel a trace of life.

After the death of a living creature, there should be a trace of soul breath left, but now the entire Luoqian Town is empty, no matter whether it is watching with the naked eye or detecting with the spiritual sense, the result is dead silence.

"There is no one alive in this town." Ao Zhan said firmly, raised his hand slightly, and signaled Haizu to take back his dagger: "Everyone has turned into a mummified corpse, and there are no souls left."

The two sea pawns were timid, and they shivered after hearing this.

Zhang Qinglan's face did not change, and when she heard what Ao Zhan said, she leaned down on purpose and stared at the blood stains on the bed carefully.

Wrapping the pulp of the index finger tightly with yellow paper, Zhang Qinglan stretched out his hand to get some blood stains, sniffed it a few times from a distance, and a bloody smell came straight to him.

If you distinguish carefully, you can still smell the scent of medicinal materials, but it was covered by the strong fishy smell before, so people can't detect it for a while.

Explaining her discovery to Ao Zhan, Zhang Qinglan untied the talisman paper from her fingertips, made seals a few times, and drew rootless fire to burn the yellow paper.

The ashes of the talisman fell on the pool of blood, and soon the blood solidified, and the stench on it also dissipated, leaving only the faint sandalwood of the ash of the talisman.

"There is another point that I am very concerned about." Zhang Qinglan took out the compass from her arms: "If these are really long-dead corpses, why do they still bleed continuously after the flesh is cut open, and the blood still looks very fresh .”

Ao Zhan followed the young man's gaze downwards, and found that the needle on the compass was vibrating constantly, pointing erratically... What's more, the inner disk of the compass was actually stained with a few spots of dried blood.

Different from the stinky blood flowing out of the rotting corpse below, the blood stains on the young man's close-fitting compass were dripping, and a small piece of dark color was smashed out on the surface of the compass, like a petal.

Although it is a small corner, Ao Zhan has to pay attention to the familiar aura that belongs to Zhang Qinglan.

"There must be someone playing tricks behind the scenes." Zhang Qinglan didn't notice the weird expression of the man beside him, and fiddled with the dangling pointer on the compass, "This place is very close to Luliao Mountain, and now such a phenomenon occurs, so we have to guard against it. "

Ao Zhan nodded perfunctorily, but his gaze fell on the compass for a long time.

While the young man was still immersed in the clues related to the mummy, Ao Zhan finally couldn't help reaching out and grasping the other's right wrist.

Suddenly being pulled by someone's hand, Zhang Qinglan regained consciousness and looked at Ao Zhan suspiciously: "...Huh?" The next second, his sleeve was pulled up, revealing a white and smooth forearm underneath.

"Ao Zhan," the young man said with a confused expression, "what are you doing?"

Not seeing the imaginary scar, Ao Zhan frowned, and pulled the wrist of the other hand to make the same movement.

After confirming that the young man's arms were smooth and without any scars, Ao Zhan gave up and smoothed the wrinkles on the other's sleeves: "It's nothing."

Afterwards, the two continued to rummage in the house for a while, making sure that there were no more clues before exiting one by one.

The same situation followed in seven or eight houses. There was really no one alive in the town, and even the poultry raised by the townspeople seemed to be sucked dry, and fell stiffly in the corner.

All the way to the town, Zhang Qinglan stopped, looked up and saw the huge plaque hanging at the door, on which the word "Yu Fu" was written in flying and phoenix patterns, and the ink mixed with gold powder shone strangely under the violent sunlight .

The heavy sandalwood door is now tightly closed, separated by a courtyard door, and there is silence inside.

Scarface's bullying words and deeds that day seem to be still vivid in his memory, but he didn't expect that in less than half a month, the originally bustling and prosperous mansion would be reduced to such a state.

The two red lanterns in front of the door are now crumbling, and the candles inside have been extinguished at some point, covered with a thin layer of dust, fluttering in the hot wind, making a soft "creaking" sound.

Ao Zhan and Zhang Qinglan looked at each other, and ordered a few soldiers to come forward and forcefully push open the gate of Yu's house.The dust immediately diffused in the air, causing the crab monsters to cough loudly.

With the dull sound of the wooden door, the scene in the mansion gradually unfolded before everyone's eyes.

The Xia Jing standing in the front bears the brunt of the blow, but he just glanced into the courtyard, and the whole person immediately rolled his eyes and almost lost his breath.

The other sea pawn who came to help from the next door also looked ashen, turned his head and looked at Ao Zhan as if asking for help, and stammered: "King, king, king..."

Seeing this, Ao Zhan made a decisive decision, and slapped away the small fish and shrimp in front of him.Immediately, he picked up the finger, and a black silk silk shot out from the man's sleeve, blindfolding the eyes of the young man beside him so that he could not see clearly what was in front of him.

At this time, the gate of Yu Mansion was wide open, Ao Zhan stepped across the threshold in two or three steps, and after a closer look, his brows were immediately furrowed.

Behind the gate of Yu Mansion is the main courtyard. In the center of the courtyard is an iron cage that is one person high, surrounded by countless fine spikes.On the other side is a large vat. After these days of wind and sun, only half of the clear water stored in the vat is left, and most of the firewood is burned underneath.

... The most frightening thing is that there is a mummy like before submerged in the water tank, with its head half leaning against the edge of the water tank, its hands bound, and its five fingers firmly grasping the wall of the tank.

A pair of black eyes looked out of the door, his mouth was opened wide, and his description was very miserable.

Similarly, in the square inch of the courtyard, there were more than a dozen corpses piled up here and there.Some even held the hemp rope water basin tightly in their hands.

Facing the water tank, there were two exquisitely crafted chairs, on which sat a dead man and a woman respectively.Men with big bellies wear black gauze on their heads, while women's bodies are covered with dazzling pearls, jade and gemstones.

The scene in the courtyard was frozen at this bustling moment.

There was nothing but silence.

Hai Zuo stammered and whimpered in horror, Ao Zhan's expression turned ugly, and he subconsciously clenched the young man's wrist.

Zhang Qinglan seemed to have sensed something, so she didn't make any noise to disturb at this moment, but silently put her other hand on the back of Ao Zhan's hand, and patted it a few times.

At this moment, a clear and shallow dragon chant suddenly came from not far away.

In the next second, a small red flame dragon as big as a palm rushed straight out from the angle, flying all the way to the eyes of everyone, circling up and down.

I saw the fire dragon flying in mid-air spit out a roll of silk from its mouth, Ao Zhan took the silk, and after opening it, he saw a line of crooked dog crawling characters written on it——

"Three bald donkeys have been found fifty miles west of Luoqian Town. They are fainted. Come quickly."