Moon on the branches.
The sky was not as clear as expected after the rain.
A gray cloud drifted in from nowhere and blocked the moonlight.
In the village.
When Zheng Xiu followed a few steps, the secretly opened doors closed again in an instant.
Apparently.
The existence of the "Late Night Butcher" is no secret in the village.
Fengbei knows it, the village chief knows it, and everyone knows it.
They acquiesced to the existence of late-night butchers.
The villagers and the late-night butcher are closely connected in some way.
Passing by the village chief's house, the place where they used to have soup was now closed. After the village chief was scared away by Wang Cangyun, he slipped back home and hid.
Wang Cangyun, the young man, and his subordinates had disappeared within a short time of Zheng Xiu's attack on Fengbei.
Are they really gone?
Zheng Xiu was surprised.
Soon he was a little disappointed. Mr. Zheng thought that Wang Cangyun could help him fight the late-night butcher, but in the end he paid the wrong amount.
The two walked along the village fence to the east side of the village. The sound of gurgling water was particularly clear in the silent night.
Zheng Xiu walked towards the river.
"Don't go there."
Zheng Xiu turned back and smiled: "What's in the river?"
Xiao Fengbei hesitated for a moment and said: "Fish... carp, there are many, many white carp."
After saying that, Xiaofengbei quickly ran into the woods.
Zheng Xiu looked at Feng Bei's running back. Although the little girl was willing to save his life, she looked very casual. Her words and deeds seemed to say, if you don't follow me, I won't care about you, just leave it to fate.
After thinking about it, Zheng Xiu remembered the horror of the "Late Night Butcher" that night. His trumpet had reached the maximum level through repeated experiences, and there was really no reason to fight against the Late Night Butcher.
It’s better to take advantage of this opportunity and find the real route to clear the level.
Arriving deep in the forest, there is a small slope that slopes downwards, with a small river at the end.
There was a natural alcove under a big tree that was as thick as two people could hug each other. Someone used the branches to build a simple shed, like a simple home.
【Investigation】.
When Zheng Xiu arrived here for the first time, he accidentally lost an investigation.
The investigation failed in a rare case.
Come again.
The investigation was a small success.
[You followed Feng Bei here. 】
[If you look carefully, you will find that the leaves on the branches used to build the shed have withered for a long time. 】
[You found some small animal remains and wild fruit cores nearby. 】
That’s it for the information.
[Intuition] was not triggered, and since Feng Bei brought him here, there should be no danger.
etc.
Zheng Xiu understood and said in shock: "Is this all you eat?"
Feng Bei nodded silently.
Zheng Xiu asked again: "Bai Li, what's the problem?"
Feng Bei shook his head gently, opened a few branches, and motioned for Zheng Xiu to hide in: "Don't come out."
Zheng Xiu went in.
The small den easily accommodated Feng Bei's size, but with Zheng Xiu's size, Zheng Xiu felt like a grizzly bear curled up in a Chihuahua kennel.
Seeing that Zheng Xiu had finally squeezed in, Feng Bei pursed his dry lips and warned him again: "You...don't come out."
"The white carp..." Zheng Xiu looked at Xiao Fengbei's thin figure and expressed the terrible guess in his heart: "Did they grow up eating white meat?"
White meat refers to human flesh.
Feng Bei's thin body trembled slightly as he walked back towards the village, and soon his figure disappeared into the night.
Zheng Xiu raised his head and looked at the sky.
He once tried squatting in the woods and was struck to death by thunder in the clear sky, and now he was hiding under a tree. It was difficult for him not to think about this. But at this moment, the sky felt a bit strange to Zheng Xiu. The gray color was like clouds and fog, as if the Baili Village was covered by a gray cover.
At this time, Zheng Xiu remembered that in the prison of his mind, the appearance of Baili Village on the map was wrapped by a shell that looked like a preserved egg, just like the scene at this moment.
Ouch——
In the forest, a wolf howled suddenly, but the howl stopped suddenly, as if someone had suddenly strangled the neck.
There was a flapping of wings in the sky, and it was a crowd of panicked birds, scurrying around randomly.
From Zheng Xiu's perspective, he did not see the birds flying into the air. They all twitched in unison, fell straight to the ground and died in the forest.
"There's movement! 'That thing' is out!"
Although he couldn't see clearly in the darkness, Zheng Xiu noticed something unusual from the strange noises coming from around him from time to time.
He was sleeping in the village house that night, and it probably happened around this time.
Zheng Xiu is still unable to confirm whether the beast-like figure is a human or a ghost - but from an objective point of view, he would rather believe that it is a madman, otherwise it will be difficult to explain why the villagers live with him.
What does it have to do with Xiao Fengbei?
Is it her father?
With Guixiao's progress so far and Zheng Xiu's continuous exploration, Zheng Xiu feels that he is very close to the truth.
But he didn't come here to decipher the secrets this time, he just wanted to speed through it.
This place is just a phantom of twenty years ago, and the past cannot be repeated.
Zheng Xiu didn't really travel to the past. He could even switch to reality at any time. He could just hang up and squat until dawn. This dungeon would be considered cleared.
Never expected it to be so simple.
But if you think about it more carefully, how much effort did Zheng Xiu put in for this?
First there are the four major bandit families, Disease, Heavy Rain, Wang Tong, and finally Fengbei.
"I, Mr. Zheng, can speed pass not by luck, but by my own hard work!"
Zheng Xiu sighed and happily accepted the praise for himself.
No matter what he does, "the massacre of the entire Baili Village" is a definite "history", and it is a foregone conclusion that twenty-six families in the village were massacred.
But actually.
Even if Zheng Xiu doesn't go to witness it with his own eyes.
The causes and consequences of the "Baili Village Massacre" that occurred twenty years ago have been vaguely clarified.
The background is that bandits are rampant and the villagers are poor and hungry.
Then for some reason, a kind of white carp grew in the river east of the village.
The villagers began to fish for a living, but carps growing in a small river cannot become the main food supply all year round. Obviously, they will be caught one day.
Then someone discovered that if you feed fish with white meat, the fish will reproduce faster.
The madman started killing people to feed the fish, and the villagers ate the fish, and a new food chain was born.
continues to this day.
Although this conclusion is very scary, in that world, shady people could be ambushed in black shops on the roadside, so nothing was impossible.
Even if the lunatic is crazy, he is not completely crazy. You can guess one thing or two from the living conditions of the residents.
And as soon as it gets dark, all the villagers rush home and close their doors tightly, obviously a little afraid of the madman's late-night presence.
It is very likely that many bandits were trapped and killed in Baili Village. The bandits knew that this place was dangerous, but they did not dare to provoke them, thus achieving a delicate balance.
Zheng Xiu suddenly shook his head and realized something, a numbness rushed to his scalp.
No, there are not many people on that official road. It is very likely that the bandits also make a living on the "man-eating white carp" produced in this village!
It’s scary to think about it!
Zheng Xiuwo changed his position in the tree hole, feeling shocked. It was hard to imagine that in the troubled times of twenty years ago, such outrageous things could happen in an inconspicuous corner of Daqian country.
Forty-six people from twenty-six families died tragically overnight.
etc.
Twenty-six households?
Zheng Xiu closed his eyes, and the familiar villages passed through his mind one by one.
He started counting.
One, two, three, four...twenty-six!
Including "Feng's Butcher Shop", there are exactly twenty-six households in total!
"Everyone will die?"
"Hasn't this food chain existed for a long time?"
"Why is it on this night?"
"Is this an illusion from the past, or am I living in the past twenty years ago as 'Zheng Shan'?"
"If this were twenty years ago."
"There is no such person as Wang Cangyun in the current dynasty, which means they probably died here!"
"If it's the latter, could it be because of the appearance of 'I' that they were killed?"
"Or maybe it was the Treasure King who caused it?"
"This is just an incarnation made out of thin air!"
"An 'incarnation' that doesn't exist at all!"
"So it must be the Treasure King who caused it!"
"I see!"
"What does it have to do with me!"
Zheng Xiu shook his head repeatedly in the darkness.
Another moment passed.
Squeak—squeak—squeak—
In the distance, in the silent forest, there was a sharp and harsh sound.
It sounded like a heavy metal object being slowly dragged along the ground.
