Zhou Wen grabbed Wan Tiangui, who was also about to run towards the village, and persuaded him: "Master Wan, don't worry, these brothers of mine are all veterans of investigation, let them go and investigate first."
Wan Tiangui's eyes were red. From the expressions of Zhou Wen and others, he had confirmed his previous guess that something might have happened to the village.
He wanted to break free from Zhou Wen's arm, but Zhou Wen's seemingly casual hand on his shoulder was as heavy as a mountain, and he couldn't move it no matter how hard he tried.
Zhou Wen quickly diverted his attention and said: "Master Wang, are there other villages nearby your village?"
While Wan Tiangui was amazed at the young master's power, he also sensed that Zhou Wen had no ill intentions, so he subconsciously replied: "No, the nearest village is either inside the pass, or the nearest village outside the pass is more than 20 miles away."
Zhou Wen watched Wan Tiangui calm down a little and continued to ask: "Does your village have any disputes with other villages or any enemies?"
"No, there are only eight households in Kouwai Village. It is surrounded by ownerless mountains. It is impossible to make enemies with anyone. The villages in this area are very poor, and there are no bandit villages."
Zhou Wen patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "Don't worry, they will know what happened when they come back soon. Maybe something happened in the village early in the morning, and the villagers have all gone out."
Of course Wan Tiangui knew that Zhou Wen meant these words of comfort, but there was no point in being anxious now. He could only look towards the village with his neck raised, thinking in his heart: "God bless me, nothing will happen to me."
But his heart couldn't help but beat wildly.
Zhou Wen frowned and looked into the distance at this time. He found the direction where the smell of blood was coming from.
He signaled to the team member next to him to look at Wanda Gui, who was already extremely anxious and hesitant, and he slowly walked forward.
Zhou Wen understands Wan Tiangui's mood at this time, but because he doesn't know if there will be any danger in the village, he cannot let Wan Tiangui, who is already in a state of confusion, enter the village. If there is a battle, Wan Tiangui will become an indispensable person. He may even risk the lives of his brothers to save him.
Zhou Wen walked in the direction of the smell of blood, his sharp eyes searching everywhere carefully.
Finally, he found a pool of blood stains under a lonely oak tree beside the mountain road, and the blood stains had begun to turn black over time.
Zhou Wen squatted down, reached out and touched the blood-stained soil, crushed it gently with his fingers, and felt a slight sticky feeling coming from his fingers.
He carefully observed the crushed withered grass and dust around the blood stain, and his heart sank slightly. He initially judged that this was an indentation of a short body, probably a child.
Zhou Wen then discovered a bullet hole at the root of the oak tree. He took out the short knife he carried with him from the space, and the sharp tip of the knife quickly dug out a bullet head from the bullet hole.
Zhou Wen knew at a glance that this was a 6.5mm bullet warhead. Currently, the only domestic armies using this caliber of rifles are the Jin Army’s Jin-made 65 rifles, which imitate the Japanese Type 38, and the Type 65 semi-automatic rifles of the mercenary regiment. .
However, how could the Jin army as far away as Shanxi come here to kill people?
There is only one answer, and it is the bullets fired by the Japanese 38 rifle.
Zhou Wen then dug out three more warheads in the oak tree, all with a caliber of 6.5 mm.
Zhou Wen could already tell at this time that he might meet his Japanese counterpart.
At this time, he not only felt heavy, but also felt angry. How crazy were these Japanese people to shoot at a target suspected of being a child, and more than one person shot.
The next observation made the anger and grief in his chest fill up in his chest, turning into a blazing flame.
He found that the place where the child was shot for the first time was not under the oak tree, but on the mountain road more than ten meters away. There were blood stains and traces of falling. Then there were blood stains and drag marks all the way along the mountain road more than ten meters away. , and this is about 100 meters away from the village entrance, which is also the distance where the 38-type rifle has the strongest penetration.
Zhou Wen could see that the child did not die immediately after being shot for the first time and fell to the ground. Instead, dragging his thin and injured body, he struggled to crawl under the oak tree and was shot a second time. This time it was He was shot by several guns one after another, and some of the bullets passed through his or her body before being shot into the trunk of the oak tree.
Moreover, at the place where he was first shot, he then found an embroidered shoe covered in mud.
"The child is a girl and cannot be older than seven or eight years old."
While Zhou Wen was making judgments in his mind, he felt even heavier. He knew that Wan Tiangui had a seven-year-old daughter named Niu Niu, who was also Xiao Shui's sister.
"I hope it's not her."
However, the expression on Zhang Xiaoping's face as he ran quickly from the village made his heart sink to the bottom.
Because Zhang Xiaoping's face was pale, even his lips were so pale that there was no trace of blood, and they were still trembling slightly.
This kind of situation has never been seen in this junior brother who is not very young but has experienced countless bloody battles. Only shocking and unimaginable situations can make a Qi Jinjing master suffer such out-of-control symptoms.
Zhang Xiaoping ran to Zhou Wen, his lips trembling but speechless. When he came to Zhou Wen, he called "senior brother" and couldn't help but choked and couldn't speak for a long time.
Zhou Wen, who has been a man for two generations, knew what happened. He learned about various atrocities committed by the Japanese army in later generations, and knew that he finally encountered them today.
At this time, Wanda Takaya finally knew what happened. He roared and ran towards the village, followed closely by the two team members.
At this time, Zhou Wen knew that there was no danger in the village after seeing Zhang Xiaoping. He could guess what kind of miserable situation the village was in without looking.
However, before he could hear Zhang Xiaoping, who had calmed down, tell the result, he heard wolf-like howls and roars from the village. It was a heart-breaking pain that made his body and soul tremble with grief and anger. The voice is also the roar of a middle-aged man from the north who is independent from the world, honest and diligent, and is unfair to God.
Zhou Wen knew that the entire village had been massacred, leaving no adults or children behind...
However, when Zhou Wen entered the village, the tragic scene he saw made him, who already knew the brutality of the Japanese army, once again refresh his understanding of these beasts.
On the road in the middle of the village, although the beasts covered up some traces with dust, in front of Zhou Wen and the other experts, the smell of blood was everywhere, and there were blood stains of different shapes and shocking blood marks everywhere.
A total of thirty-eight corpses in the village were piled in a yard by the escaped Japanese soldiers. However, Zhou Wen and his brothers, who had killed people and were very proficient in killing, knew that what these Japanese beasts did was not just killing people. Simple.
