Chapter 32 The blue bird’s misfortune
"The signs of the incident appeared more than ten days ago."
Li Zheng Zhao Baishu is short in stature and has a stooped upper body, making him look even more humble. His voice was hoarse, and he must have talked a lot in the past two days.
"There was an old man in the village who went to the mountains to collect herbs that day and didn't come back. He always went deep into the mountains for good herbs, so we guessed that he had lost his footing or turned. He was used to marking the way he collected herbs, so we After summing up, we sent two people to look for him. As a result, after three full days, neither of them came back."
"We thought it was an unfortunate encounter with a tiger and leopard? We sent five more people in with knives and forks, and gave them instructions. The next day, we sent someone back to report a message. On the first day, one came back and said that they were following the route. The traces of the two people reached the rope bridge, and they planned to continue looking. But no one came back to report the next day, and no one came back on the third and fourth days."
"If I were smarter, I should have reported myself to the official by now." Zhao Baishu raised his eyes and looked at the four faces in front of him, "But, who would have thought that there are really monsters in the world?"
No one said anything. The old man took a deep breath, calmed down, and continued to talk.
"We feel something is very wrong this time. You said that tigers and leopards all travel alone. Even if we encounter each other, wouldn't one of the five men who are accustomed to hunting in the mountains escape?
"So we gathered the young men in the village, sixteen of them, and asked the best hunter Mo Laowu to lead the team and go into the mountains with all their weapons."
At this point, inexplicable emotions squeezed out of Zhao Baishu's face, fear, confusion, pain, and hatred, and he said with difficulty: "Sixteen people, all good young students, none of them...none of them came back. "
Jing Ziwang was silent for a while, and then asked when the old man calmed down a little: "Then when did you know that they were eaten by the demon tiger?"
"Because it came to the village on its own." Zhao Baishu said with a numb face, "It was the third day after the seventeen people left, and we just started to worry whether they would not be able to come back. That evening, Zhou Meizi said to go to the fields to the west I picked two vegetables, only a small slope away from the village, and never came back. When we went to look for them, almost only the bones were left."
The old man gritted his teeth and said: "It bit her to death right there, and then ate it slowly!"
"After confirming that none of the seventeen people came back, we sent people to the county to ask for help. The first time we sent two cavalrymen to run in the opposite direction at the same time. As soon as they disappeared from sight, we heard a scream, and finally The scary thing is that less than a few dozen breaths later, screams came from the other direction. Because of this, I revised the aid letter and asked for knights from the Hefu register to come. I have little experience, but It took dozens of breaths to cross such a long distance and catch up with two galloping horses. I... I really can't imagine how it was possible. In the end, we had no other choice but to gather the remaining four horses. He ran out in four directions at the same time... Now it seems that only Huang Er is still alive."
Pei Ye held the hilt of the sword and said, "It treats the village as a hunting ground."
Jing Zi looked at it and said, "But we didn't encounter it when we came."
The old man shook his head feebly: "I don't know."
Jing Ziwang narrowed his eyes out of habit: "Send a man to ride out now. I don't think it can come out to stop it."
"Master Jing!" Xing Zhi looked into his eyes, "Let's wait until Senior Brother Zhu comes."
Jing Ziwang pursed his lips and suppressed the trace of annoyance on his lips. Maybe he would not have encountered so many contradictions in a month.
"Of course... listen to Master Xing."
"Village Chief Zhao, do you still have the body?"
"Keep it, I'll take you there." Zhao Baishu picked up his cane.
Arriving at the morgue, there were five corpses parked inside.
"The one with only bones left is Zhou Meizi. These two are the people who rode for the first time to report the news, and these two are the people who rode for the second time." Zhao Baishu said sadly, "The remaining people died too far away No, we don’t dare to collect their bodies.”
Pei Ye came to the body of a middle-aged man and looked down solemnly.
A mutilated corpse, the chest and abdomen were hollowed out, the thighs and upper arms were bitten once or twice, and the white bones were exposed. The fatal part was in the neck. The neck bones were pressed to the ground with some huge force and crushed, and the head was tilted to one side softly. His face was intact, with a pair of pupils hanging high and almost invisible. The whites of his eyes were covered with twisted bloodshot eyes, and the pain before death still remained in his expression.
He turned around and looked around. The bodies of the four men were missing roughly the same parts.
'It wasn't that it was frightened away in the middle of eating, but it was not hungry at all, so it only ate its favorite internal organs. ’
Pei Ye was thinking in his mind when he saw a plain knife lying aside with its sheath. He drew the knife and looked at it. The surface of the knife was as bright as new and there was no trace of blood on it.
"This is an old man. He has been hunting for more than ten years. He is one of the best in the village, but he can't even pull out a knife." Zhao Baishu said.
At this moment, Pei Ye truly felt the difference between Immortal Hunting and Demonic Era.
Black Chi is calm and rational, and sometimes has a cold sense of humor, which is almost the same as humans. However, this "demon tiger" is worse than the beast. The beast's nature is to "eat", but its nature is to "kill" .
Shang Lang suddenly said on the other side: "Sister Xing Zhi, come and inspect this place."
Everyone gathered around and saw him pointing at a patch of dark gray skin. Pei Ye looked at it twice and showed an incredible expression: "Is this...frostbite?!"
Xing Zhi's face became extremely serious. He took a thin needle and inserted it deeply into the wound. Then he took out a small glass gourd from his bag. Through the hazy wall, he could see the slowly rippling light blue viscous liquid inside.
Then Xing Zhi pulled out the thin needle and immediately inserted it from the head of the gourd. The needle was submerged in the liquid.
In just two breaths, the liquid quickly began to boil.
"There is spiritual energy left," Xing Zhi said.
"Then we can track it now." Jing Zi looked at it, glanced at Xing Zhi, and added, "Of course, we have to wait until Lord Zhu comes."
Shang Lang said: "It stands to reason that Brother Zhu will be here soon."
"Before he left, he said he wouldn't go too far, but there was a message and he would definitely be back within two hours."
While he was talking, a green shadow fell from the sky. Xing Zhi stretched out two fingers to catch it steadily and said with a smile: "I'll be back soon."
He flicked Soul Bird's head lightly: "You're so slow, are you lazy?"
The soul bird shook its head, opened its sharp beak, and spit out a roll of letter paper from its throat.
Xing Zhi was startled and took it in his hand: "Why did you write a reply to my wish to senior brother?"
She lowered her head to take it apart and saw that her whole body froze and her face turned pale to the naked eye.
Shang Lang took a step forward and said, "What's wrong?"
Xing Zhi raised her head, looking a little flustered for the first time: "Here, this is the letter I sent before departure. Soul Bird...can't find Senior Brother Zhu."
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