Lu Yaoyao saw Tao Ziming from a distance, her eyes flashed with joy, and she couldn't help but smile at him.
"Brother Ziming, what should we do now?" Li Wuyou looked at Tao Ziming, waiting for him to make a decision.
Tao Ziming turned to look at the Shenmu Fort on the top of the mountain: "The current Shenmu Fort has lost the most important thing.
If City Lord Lu comes again, I believe that the strong men on the Shenmu Castle will be completely wiped out. Maybe the Shenmu Castle will be peaceful for a long time.
Miss Lu, do you have any way to contact your father? If the news here can be brought back within one day, perhaps for a long time in the future, there will be no more robberies on the mountain roads of Shenmu Castle. "
Lu Yaoyao nodded. She looked at the coachman and saw the coachman whistle and a white dove fly over.
It turns out this is the contact information.
Bai Ge returned to Shizhou City with a note, and Tao Ziming and others continued on the road, heading towards Xianhe Village in the distance.
The purpose of this trip is not only to bring Xiao Cuihun back to his hometown, but also a good opportunity for Tao Ziming to learn about nearby cities.
After leaving Shenmu Castle, we are even closer to Xianhe Village.
However, because the carriage was damaged, they walked for a long time before arriving at Xianhe Village.
Along the way, the carriage driver didn't say a word and followed Lu Yaoyao quietly, like an honest and responsible servant.
I don't know what kind of methods Lu Beihai used to make such a master willing to be a simple coachman.
Xianhe Village is not big. The entire small village is deep in a small basin.
Standing on the cliff, you can see the end of the entire village at a glance. Tao Ziming took a quick glance and found that there were about thirty households in Xianhe Village.
But there has always been an aura of decay and death in the village.
There are white ghost coins, countless wreaths, white ever-burning lamps, and soul-inducing lamps everywhere.
There are colorful paper figures and horses everywhere in the village.
At this moment, Xi'anhe Village is more like a cemetery than a village. How come there are so many daily necessities?
Tao Ziming's eyes swept towards the village, but he didn't find anyone alive.
The door of each house is open, and there are three to five black coffins placed in the yard.
Some of the households did not even have coffins, only a few simple straw mats, and the corpses wrapped in the straw mats were male and female, some large and some small.
From old men in their 70s to 80s to children as young as two or three, it seemed as if everyone in the village was dead.
Even Lu Yaoyao noticed something strange in the village: "Brother Tao, why does this village look so scary?"
Tao Ziming nodded: "That's because there are no more living people in this village."
Lu Yaoyao raised her eyebrows: "Brother Tao, what does this mean?"
Li Wuyou smacked his lips and said, "Hiss, you mean? Are they all dead?"
Tao Ziming nodded silently, and even the coachman on the side frowned: "You two young heroes, I wonder if you have noticed that there is a strong smell of blood in this village?"
The coachman's words caught Li Wuyou's attention, and he sniffed.
"It seems that's really what happened."
However, in Tao Ziming's eyes, the situation in the village was much more complicated.
There is not only a strong bloody atmosphere in this village, but also a strong resentment. This strong resentment is mixed with a strong Yin energy.
From Tao Ziming's perspective, the yin energy in the village comes from these dead corpses, but the resentment has nothing to do with these corpses.
The source of resentment is in the center of the village, a well that exudes black energy.
It was a pity that the two of them did not notice this abnormality. However, as practitioners of secret arts, they were still keen to capture the strong smell of blood in the air.
Lu Yaoyao listened to them talking, and the more she listened, the more she felt a chill on her back. She couldn't help but move closer to Tao Ziming, as if standing beside Tao Ziming, nothing unexpected would happen.
The situation was a little strange. In order to investigate the truth, Tao Ziming didn't care much and ducked into the village.
When passing by the first house, Tao Ziming looked at one of the dark and shiny coffins. He hesitated for a moment, walked over in two steps, raised his hand and clapped his hand, and opened the lid of one of the coffins.
The corpse's face was livid, and black blood overflowed from its nostrils, but the blood stains had long since dried up.
Tao Ziming even thought that these people were just asleep and not dead.
The corpse's hands were placed on the navel, and the hands were pinched into a lotus shape. A piece of white silk was placed between the palms of the hands.
This white silk cloth was no more than the size of a palm. It was unknown what was wrapped inside. It was just a small ball of cloth placed in the palm of the corpse.
Tao Ziming frowned, suddenly having a bad feeling in his heart.
He quickly came to another coffin, raised his hand and slapped open the lid of the other coffin, only to see that the body inside was exactly the same as the one he had seen before.
Tao Ziming frowned slightly.
He stretched out his hand and flicked out a finger, a burst of energy flew out from his fingertips, and the white cloth in the palm of the corpse was torn in half in an instant.
When the thing in the white cloth appeared in front of them, Tao Ziming and Li Wuyou's eyes widened at the same time.
"Orchid!"
Li Wuyou and Tao Ziming looked at each other and saw the surprise in each other's eyes.
This Orchid Grass can only be used in one situation.
Although they have only been in the mountain sect for about two years, Li Wuyou and Tao Ziming are both relatively hard-working younger generation disciples of the Qingshan Sect.
This was once recorded in one of the classics of the Qingshan Sect.
[Orchid grass: grows in cold places where there is no sunshine all day long.
Born to be associated with yin energy, as soon as it sees the sun, the orchid will instantly dry up and become obscene from the branches and leaves to the root system within three breaths.
However, if Orchid Grass can be collected, placing it on the Dantian of a dead body can ensure that the body does not rot.
Orchid grass is a rare plant that ordinary people cannot see at all. It can be said that it is hard to buy for a thousand dollars and hard to find for ten thousand dollars. 】
Tao Ziming took a deep breath, raised his hand and patted the third coffin in the yard.
The small corpse in the coffin also had a white ball of cloth in its palm.
There is no doubt that what is placed in the white cloth is also the mysterious orchid.
"Who on earth has the financial resources to make such a big move and put such precious herbs on these corpses?"
Li Wuyou frowned and looked at Tao Ziming, who also shook his head, because he didn't know what the real answer was.
Tao Ziming roughly counted the corpses in the village, including those in coffins and those wrapped in straw mats, there were sixty-eight in total.
"There are sixty-eight corpses in a row. Could it be that they were all poisoned?"
The corpse was already hard. Tao Ziming stretched out his hand and knocked, and three muffled sounds of "boom boom boom" came out.
Hitting the body was like hitting a steel plate.
Li Wuyou reached out and brushed away the hair on the cheek of one of the corpses, and black blood even spilled out of his ears.
"Yes, these people were indeed poisoned."
Li Wuyou stretched out his hand to touch his forehead and fell into deep thought. Tao Ziming's eyes scanned the entire village, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.
"Why were the sixty-eight corpses and the entire village poisoned?"
He pushed open the courtyard door and walked towards the house, trying to find the source of the poison, and finally found clues in the teapot on the table.
One of them had a half-empty teacup. There were several dead flies and a spider soaked in the tea.
Tao Ziming reached out and took out a silver needle from behind, and put it into the tea cup. In an instant, all the parts touched by the silver needle when it was put into the tea turned black.
"The source of the poison should be water. If you want to kill all the people in the village at the same time from the same poison, you just need to put the poison in the water source that everyone in the village uses. And there is only one water source in the village. That is the well in the center of the village."
Tao Ziming frowned, and the three people behind him, listening to his analysis, all turned their attention to the center of the village at the same time.
"Who on earth would do such a cruel thing?" Lu Yaoyao had a look of anger on her face.
He looked at the body of a child at the entrance of the courtyard. The owner of this body was only seven or eight years old at most. At such an age, it was originally a time of peace, peace of mind, and the happiest time in a person's life.
Unexpectedly, he died at the hands of others.
"Brother Tao, maybe the murderer is watching us secretly. If we hurry up, maybe we can catch them. I always feel that there must be some ulterior secret when they do this.
Otherwise, if the person has been poisoned to death, why would the body be kept?
This is evidence of a crime. If a normal person did this, their first thought would be how to destroy the body and eliminate traces, rather than being stupid enough to keep the body. "
Tao Ziming nodded approvingly. It seemed that Lu Yaoyao was more than just a simple and lovely young lady from the city lord's palace.
This insight alone is already far beyond that of ordinary girls.
"Maybe you're close to the real answer."
Hearing what Tao Ziming said, Lu Yaoyao raised her fist happily.
Just thinking about there being so many corpses around, I quickly put my hand down in embarrassment.
A pretty face flashed with two blushes, like the red clouds on the horizon, adding a different flavor to the girl's fair and delicate face.
In order to ensure that his guess was correct, Tao Ziming left this family and entered four more families one after another.
