Yuzhen followed Lu Jing's instructions, tore apart the clothes in her hands and wrapped them around her arms and calves.
Then the two of them walked into the woods together.
As a result, after walking a few steps, she saw a boot on the ground. Yuzhen found a wooden stick nearby, moved it a few times, and said to Lu Jing.
"These are boots from Huji Clothing Store. Huji Clothes Store is the best clothing store in Ju County. The price... of course is also the most expensive. People who buy clothes there are those who are not short of money."
"How did you tell?" Lu Jing was a little surprised.
He also looked at the boots just now, but he didn't find much because there were no marks on them.
"Style, workmanship," Yuzhen said, "and materials, that's nothing. If you, Master Lu, had been a bandit for a few years, you would have mastered these things very quickly. Otherwise, how would we know how much money to squeeze from the target?" come out."
"…………"
"Okay, so Taoist Jin Guang and his followers did run into the woods." Lu Jing changed the subject in time.
He has a basis for saying this. The people who will come here are nothing more than the previous group of quarrymen and Taoist Jinguang's group.
The former obviously cannot afford such expensive boots, so these boots can only belong to the latter.
It is said that there are many wealthy people among Jinguang Taoist's followers, so it is not surprising that they can afford such boots.
But the question is why did these people run into the woods?
You must know that in order to prevent their boots from getting muddy, they are not even willing to go to the fields.
As Lu Jing and his two men continued to go deeper, they also saw more traces left by the group, including but not limited to crowns, clothes, and even purses. After opening, there was a lot of broken silver inside.
And it wasn't until I came to a mulberry tree that I finally got the answer.
Yuzhen looked at the dried brown blood under the tree and the torn clothes. Even though she knew that all this should have happened a few days ago, she still shuddered involuntarily.
"Are they being chased by the wild dog from before? But doesn't that dog belong to Taoist Jinguang?"
Yuzhen was puzzled, and later she discovered that there was more than just one set of footprints on the ground, which meant that the unlucky guy was not just being chased by a wild dog.
But Yuzhen still found it a bit hard to accept. After all, there were martial arts masters among Jin Guangzhenren's group. Logically speaking, their people should not be forced into such a mess by a few wild dogs, even if those wild dogs were much more powerful than ordinary wild dogs. And somehow difficult to kill.
So she looked at Lu Jing again, and saw that the latter was looking down at the grass at his feet.
"What are you looking for?" Yuzhen asked.
"Bones." Lu Jing said, "Looking at the amount of blood loss, it is obvious that the man will not survive. But even if the flesh and blood entered the belly of the wild dog, the bones should have been left behind, but I didn't find any around here."
"This... maybe his screams were heard by his companions. Someone came back and drove away the wild dogs, and then took him away to prevent his body from being eaten by wild dogs after his death."
Lu Jing was noncommittal and just said to Yuzhen, "Keep going."
"Okay." Yuzhen calmed down and nodded.
As a bandit, she was also the second-in-command of Qinglong Village. Of course she had seen blood. Not only had she seen blood, but many people had died at her hands.
In the past, she would not frown when she saw blood or even corpses, but since entering this valley, strange things have happened one after another.
First, nearly two hundred people disappeared, and then she saw the wild dog that should have been dead but could still move freely, and the sika deer that was half-eaten by the wild dog but came back to life.
This valley seemed to be shrouded in a mysterious force, and Yuzhen didn't know what was waiting for them ahead, but now that she was here, it was difficult for her to leave without understanding what was going on.
Moreover, Qinglong Village is not far from the quarry. If something happens to the people here, there is no guarantee that it will be the turn of the bandits in Qinglong Village.
After figuring this out, Yuzhen no longer had any thoughts of returning home.
She and Lu Jing walked about half a mile further. They followed the traces left by the people in front of them and came to a small stream.
But there, I finally saw other people.
Judging from the back, that person should be a cook. The reason why Yuzhen thought that person was a cook was because he was squatting by the stream butchering something.
Yuzhen took half a step forward, clasped her fists, and took the initiative to speak, "I'm the beautiful lady Yuzhen of Qinglong Village. This is our current... er, boss of Qinglong Village, Daxia Lu. We are here to find Taoist Jinguang and want to negotiate a deal. "
The man was indifferent when he heard the words.
So Yuzhen leaned forward again and repeated what she said before. But this time, the man finally reacted. His body shook, and then he slowly turned his head.
At first, Yuzhen felt that the man's movements seemed a little stiff, but when she saw the man's face, she couldn't help but scream.
She wasn't even sure whether that thing could be called a face anymore.
Because there wasn't much skin left on it, large swaths of bone were just exposed, the entire lip had disappeared, leaving only two rows of teeth, and half of the nose was gnawed off by something unknown, but The most terrifying thing is his eyes.
There were no eyeballs in his eye sockets, only two big black holes remained.
He tried hard to smell something in the air with his half of the nose, then dropped the half-eaten fish in his hand and suddenly rushed towards Yuzhen.
His movements felt very awkward, and his hands and feet were not coordinated at all, but his speed was much faster than ordinary people, but Yuzhen's martial arts was enough to cope with it.
Of course, that's assuming she wasn't frightened and stood motionless like she was now.
Lu Jing sighed when he saw this, and was already ready to take action.
But he had just taken half a step, but Yuzhen on the other side finally recovered from the panic, hurriedly mobilized her internal strength, and kicked the man in the chest with a series of flying kicks. He staggered and fell to the ground.
Yuzhen followed closely behind and stepped on the man's head again. Unexpectedly, the man had just been hit hard, but he was not bothered by the pain at all. He reached out and grabbed Yuzhen's calf accurately, opened his mouth and said Gonna bite it off!
But Yuzhen had calmed down at this time, and was not too panicked when she saw this. She mobilized her internal force all the way down the spleen meridian of Foot Taiyin, and shook the hand away.
After she got away, she used her trick again and kicked the man in the face. She used all her strength to kick the man's head and turned it 270 degrees.
Lu Jing on the other side took advantage of this gap to throw the mountain fire over and said to Yuzhen, "Use this to stick it into his head."
