The lobby of the inn is not big. From Chen Anning's current perspective, it is only thirty or forty square meters at most.
There are six tables neatly arranged in the lobby.
Including the four tables outside the inn, there are ten tables in total.
Considering the terrain, the scale is not small.
The inn has two floors.
The first floor is where diners eat.
The second floor is the accommodation area.
When she didn't recognize the bone soup as human bones, there were two tables of customers in the lobby.
Chen Anning walked to the two tables and took a look.
very good.
Like several tables outside, they all ordered bone soup.
And looking at the leftovers in the soup basin and the bones thrown on the table, we all ate a lot.
Chen Anning clicked her tongue and walked towards the kitchen.
Still some distance away from the kitchen, a bloody smell rushed towards me.
It had been a long time since I had smelled such a strong smell of blood. Chen Anning stopped for a moment before lifting the curtain and walking in.
What caught my eye were two huge iron pots, in which bone soup was boiling. On the chopping board next to the iron pot, there are two wooden basins, one large and one small. In the large wooden basin, there was half a basin of bones that had not been put into the pot, and in the small wooden basin, there were pieces of meat.
Between the two wooden basins, there were five bone-cutting knives and two axes stacked.
Chen Anning tried it and found that the bone-cutting knife and ax were very sharp. She only needed to use two points of strength to pierce the chopping board with the bone-cutting knife.
Obviously, these bone-cutting knives and axes are the 'violent weapons' for processing bones.
Under the chopping board, there is a calf-high wooden barrel, which contains liver sausage and the like.
Xie Xun had already recognized that the large wooden basin contained human limbs and bones, the small wooden basin contained meat from various parts of the human body, and the wooden barrel contained most likely human internal organs.
This is not a kitchen, this is a scene where corpses are destroyed and all traces are destroyed!
"There are so many diners, but no one has discovered the secret of the kitchen." Xie Xun endured the discomfort in his stomach, picked up a long spoon and stirred two large iron pots, then walked to the chopping board and took a look at the bones and meat in the basin. , quickly left the kitchen with a cold and white complexion, and said in a deep voice, "It proves that there is a secret space here that will not be disturbed!"
She was more curious about where these 'lambs' to be slaughtered came from than the secret space.
After taking out the bones in the big wooden basin and dividing them according to the leg bones and hand bones, Chen Anning said: "Three people."
After looking at the large iron pot that was still bubbling for two more times, Chen Anning walked out of the kitchen, glanced at the kitchen yard, then returned to the lobby and followed the stairs to the second floor.
The layout on the second floor is very simple, with six guest rooms surrounding a small hall.
After pushing open the door of the guest room at hand, Chen Anning did not rush in. She stood at the door and roughly observed the overall layout.
The guest room is small, about ten square meters, and the layout is similar to that of today's express hotels: a single bed, a table, and two chairs.
Except, there is nothing.
Chen Anning walked in after taking a general scan and seeing nothing strange.
Xie Xun followed her.
The two of them carefully checked every corner of the guest room, and after making sure there was nothing there, they went to the second guest room.
None of the six guest rooms are out of the ordinary.
The two of them went downstairs and walked towards the place where the diners said the sheep were raised.
The sheep farm is right behind the inn, with a large expanse of grassland enclosed by wooden fences, and the sheep roam freely on this grassland.
After Chen Anning walked around the sheep farm, she went to the two thatched houses where Xie Xun was standing.
The thatched house is located at the foot of the mountain, on the edge of the sheepfold, about a kilometer away from the inn.
The door to the thatched hut was closed, but not locked.
Blood flowed out from the crack of the door, staining the area about one meter square in front of them red.
The pungent stench prevents the sheep from coming here.
Xie Xun took out the handkerchief and folded it into a triangle. After covering Chen Anning's mouth and nose, he stepped on the blood and opened the door first and walked in.
Chen Anning followed closely behind him.
In the middle of the thatched house is a large wooden post with a diameter of almost one meter. Behind the large wooden post, there is a long table set horizontally.
A sheep's head and half a mutton are placed on the table.
There is no mutton in the kitchen.
So needless to say, the sheep kept here are just used to deceive others.
Chen Anning and Xie Xun checked every corner of the house and found no human body parts or rotten flesh, so they moved to another thatched house.
There were several large wooden basins placed in another thatched house. There were sheep heads, bones, or various internal organs of sheep in the wooden basins. The stench was unstoppable.
The two of them checked several wooden basins.
Just like the thatched house over there, the tub was filled with mutton and no human tissue.
Chen Anning and Xie Xun looked at each other and were about to leave to search elsewhere when suddenly two inaudible sounds of iron chains reached their ears. Although it passed in a flash, and the same noise never appeared again, both of them knew that this was not an illusion!
The two of them simultaneously set their sights on several large wooden basins placed in the room.
Then he quickly moved all the large wooden basins aside.
Under the fourth large wooden basin, a movable wooden board appeared.
When the wooden board was lifted, a disgusting stench suddenly hit my face.
Although Xie Xun was mentally prepared, he was still disturbed by the stench. He pulled Chen Anning back two steps, then supported the wall and vomited.
The four secret guards following them didn't fare much better.
Chen Anning's stomach was also a little turbulent, but she could hold it back because she was covering her handkerchief. When the stench dissipated a bit, she walked to the entrance of the cave and looked down.
The cave was dark, with only occasional dim yellow light flashing through.
Without the barrier, the sound of the chains gradually became clearer.
"You wait above, I'll take a few secret guards down to explore the way." Seeing that she was about to go in, Xie Xun came over in a few steps and pulled her aside.
Chen Anning took one look at the blood at the entrance of the cave, then looked at the escalator going down to the cave, then took out her handkerchief and handed it to him: "Be careful."
Xie Xun said "Hmm". After covering his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, he led two secret guards along the escalator at the entrance of the cave and quickly descended to the bottom of the cave.
Knowing that there would be no results for a while, Chen Anning walked out of the thatched hut, greedily taking in the fresh air, and after glancing around, he prepared to take another look around.
It doesn't matter what it turns out to be.
The dissipating rays of light filtered through the branches of the trees and illuminated the scattered white bones. The refracted light made Chen Anning, who had just reached the foot of the mountain, squint his eyes slightly, and then instinctively walked towards the place where the light source was refracted.
That is……
Skulls that have turned into bones.
Above the skull, that is, on the treetops, floating in the wind are strands of hair and many heads that have not had time to turn into bones!
After they killed the people, they hung their heads on the treetops here!
Chen Anning took a rough look at the number of skulls. It was no less than a hundred!
Chen Anning walked up to a half-dried head and looked at it carefully: this was a young man in his mid-twenties, with bruises on his forehead, cheekbones and nose, and bloodshot eyes at the corners of his mouth. The facial bones are intact, as is the skull. The broken ends of the head and neck were uneven, the result of random chopping.
wrong.
Although there was no such thing as a chainsaw at this time, the cross section of the bones in the soup basin did not have too many pits.
These heads were not chopped off by the old couple!
There's something wrong at the bottom of that cave!
Chen Anning turned around quickly.