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[Chapter 497, twenty years ago]

Ren Yuan said: "Actually, after most of the bandits on the mountain died in internal fighting, the town was quiet for several days. Many of the survivors would go out to exchange food with each other during the day, and some would go to the woods outside to find food together. , relying on weeds and fruits to survive. Unexpectedly, some of the remaining people were so crazy that they actually started to capture people and eat human flesh!"

Ye Qi carefully sorted out the timeline of the story he told and concluded: "In other words, at the beginning of the famine, a group of robbers first appeared in Qingfeng Town, breaking into homes and robbing gold and silver treasures. Those people went to the village outside the woods. A bandit stronghold was built on the mountain, but there was civil strife in the bandit stronghold, and someone killed his companions and ran away with the treasure... And then, another hound organization appeared in the town? "

Ren Yuan nodded and said, "That's right."

Ye Qi glanced at Shao Qingge and asked in his mind: "Could they be the same group of people?"

Shao Qingge said: "Are you saying that the people who killed their companions and ran away with the treasure were the same people who established the Hound Organization?"

Ye Qi carefully analyzed: "The robbery comes first, and the arresting and cannibalism comes later. Obviously, those who robbed the treasure were in civil strife due to the uneven distribution of the spoils. Some ruthless people simply killed their companions and embezzled a large amount of money. However, there is famine everywhere now. They take the money and run away. If they go to other places, they may be robbed by bandits in other places. It is better to return to the safety of the small town. After all, they have no respect for the hometown where they have lived for many years. Only you know best."

Shao Qingge carefully considered Ye Qi's words and agreed: "It makes sense. In such troubled times, it is actually very dangerous to run away with money. On the contrary, they are all familiar with the people in Qingfeng Town and know which ones are not to be trifled with and which ones are. They are soft persimmons that can be pinched at will. So, they come back here with money to bully the old, weak, women and children who are unable to resist."

Ye Qi said: "This can also explain why they wear masks. After all, living by cannibalism is not a good thing, and it will also affect the reputation of future generations. They hold a large amount of treasure in their hands. When the famine is over, they can take it off. Mask, transformed into a local rich man with a good reputation."

If this is the case, the person who committed the crime was extremely scheming. Perhaps he had planned an escape route for himself from the very beginning when he brought a few brothers to rob.

Thinking of this, Ye Qi looked at Ren Yuan and asked, "Brother Ren, were the people who smashed up your shop and robbed your store of silver also wearing masks?"

Ren Yuan was stunned: "How do you know?"

Ye Qi understood clearly and continued to ask: "I guessed it. I was masked during the robbery because I was afraid of being recognized by you, right? These people must be acquaintances in your town. By the way, the masks they wore were the same as those of the Hound Organization. Do people wear the same masks?”

Ren Yuan was deeply impressed by these people and immediately shook his head and said: "It's different. The group of people who robbed all used black scarves to cover their faces; but the people who arrested that night wore black masks with ghost faces on them. Strange patterns.”

Shao Qingge raised his eyebrows and said, "Ghostface mask? Can you tell whose family it belongs to?"

Ren Yuan smiled bitterly and said: "They are sold everywhere during the Ghost Festival, and anyone can buy them. I don't know who those people are just by looking at the masks. Moreover, the voices don't sound familiar to me. They must have lowered their voices deliberately to let people know. People can’t hear clearly.”

Ye Qi and Shao Qingge looked at each other and continued to communicate with each other.

Shao Qingge said: "If your guess is correct, then these people are quite smart and deliberately put on different masks to make the residents of the town mistakenly think that the robbery gang and the later Hound Organization are not the same group of people."

Ye Qi said: "I don't think the number of people in this 'hound' team will be too large. After all, they have swallowed so much treasure, and it would be difficult to distribute it if there are too many people. Moreover, normal people cannot do such things as cannibalism. It's very difficult. Most likely, they are close friends and after discussing it, they decided to act together."

Shao Qingge also thought so: "Why don't we wait until dark and explore this organization in person?"

Ye Qi did not agree directly. He was silent for a moment and asked doubtfully: "I have a question, how long can we stay in the world 20 years ago? Should we teleport back after dark or dawn, or should we stay in it forever? here?"

Shao Qingge was stunned by Ye Qi's question - he had ignored this key point.

I remember that at that time, Xiao Lou arranged for three teams to split up. Xiao Lou led the team to the ghost town at night. Brother Jiu led the team to the woods to intercept the possible murderer. He and Ye Qi were waiting at the gate of the town to teleport at any time. Xiao Lou would also He was given two Tao Yuanming cards to prevent his teleportation skills from cooling down.

However, after coming out of the Peach Blossom Spring, he and Ye Qi came to the world twenty years ago.

Time was completely messed up. The team voice headphones were still in my ears, but I never heard the voices from my teammates again.

How should they go back to meet Xiao Lou? Can you still go back?

Shao Qingge frowned slightly and said: "Well, all questions will have to wait until midnight tonight. This time the scene in the secret room will change when day and night alternate. After zero o'clock, if we are not teleported back, that means … We’re probably going to be left twenty years ago.”

Ye Qi was a little confused: "But in this case, how should we contact Professor Xiao and the others?"

Shao Qingge was helpless: "I didn't think of a good idea either. I'll watch as we walk and find out what happened with the Hound Organization first."

That's all they can do. If Zero Point can be teleported back, their worries will be unnecessary.

Ren Yuan noticed that the two brothers began to be in a daze in silence and thought they were frightened.

, then coughed lightly and comforted: "You two, this matter is indeed shocking, but don't worry too much. I will definitely help you after I collect your jewelry. I have a way. The three of us will definitely be hungry together." Immortal."

Ye Qi glanced at the food on the ground and said, "You can eat these sweet potatoes for several months by yourself. If you include our brothers, you can only eat them for about a month, right? Do you have any other way to get food?"

Ren Yuan nodded: "There is a place where you can find food in the woods outside the town."

Ye Qi pretended to be grateful and said: "Brother Ren, I'll leave it to you."

After dark, Ren Yuan asked the two of them to go together.

He was wearing old clothes with an unclear color. He found some mud and wiped it on his face, got some weeds in his hair, and then secretly left the cave with Ye Qi and Shao Qingge.

In order to avoid being suspected by him, Ye Qi and Shao Qingge did not use displacement cards. They followed him all the way, leaning on the wall and walking lightly against the wall. It took about half an hour for the three of them to walk out of Qingfeng Town.

The bright moon hung high in the sky, and the surroundings were so quiet that only the breathing and footsteps of the three people could be heard.

By the moonlight, Ren Yuan led the two of them into the woods.

The trees in the forest have long since dried up, so it seems to be winter. The cold wind was biting, and Ye Qi's teeth chattered from the cold. Shao Qingge gently shook his hand and asked in his mind: "Is it cold?"

Ye Qi said: "It's okay, it's okay, I can bear it."

Compared with the hungry and cold people, at least the two of them were not hungry and wore several layers of clothes.

After a moment, Ren Yuan said: "It's right in front."

Ye Qi and Shao Qingge followed him forward and found that there was a cliff. Ye Qi looked up and saw the mountain where they first entered the K secret room. I remember that on a night when it was raining heavily, corpses suddenly mutated in the mass graves on the top of the mountain. Countless zombies crawled out of the graves and forced them to the edge of the cliff.

The cliff is so deep that they have no way to retreat. In the end, Brother Jiu and Mr. Tang flew down the mountain on Suzaku, found a safe place, and teleported everyone away. The next day, when Brother Jiu and the others went to investigate, they found that there was a forest below the cliff of the mountain, and there was a vine hanging down from the top of the mountain.

According to Xiao Lou's speculation, the murderer probably relied on this vine to get up the mountain.

But now, this cliff appeared in front of Ye Qi and Shao Qingge.

There is one more thing...

Thick and long vines.

I don't know if it was because of the biting cold wind, but Ye Qi and Shao Qingge suddenly felt that the blood in their bodies was cold, as if someone had poured a large basin of cold water on their heads in the cold winter.

Ren Yuan knows this place.

He even climbed up slowly along the vine.

Ye Qi shuddered suddenly and said in his mind: "Mr. Shao, could it be that you gave the sapphire necklace to the murderer again?"

Shao Qingge: "..."

In the Q secret room at that time, Shao Qingge gave the sapphire necklace to Xiao Lou's sister Xiao Rou. It was finally confirmed that Xiao Rou was also a clone and an accomplice of the big boss behind the scenes.

He can't be so unlucky that he gave the "favorability-increasing" item to the Boss twice in a row, right?

At this moment, Ren Yuan turned around and said with a grin: "Don't be stunned, hurry up and climb up with me."

Ye Qi and Shao Qingge: "..."

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[Chapter 497, The World Three Years Ago]

After the four of Lu Jiuchuan returned to the inn, Chu Huaying proactively suggested: "We still left too few clues for Xiao Lou. The five people who saw the ghosts at night were just suspicious, but there is no evidence to prove whether they are related to the murderer. I I think we should continue to keep an eye on Qin Feng, the mayor’s behavior has been very strange.”

Gui Yuanzhang asked: "Huaying, do you want to follow him?"

Chu Huaying nodded and said decisively: "My physical fitness has been strengthened by the card. Even without the help of the invisibility cloak, I can follow him quietly without being noticed by him."

Lu Jiuchuan smiled and said: "Of course I trust Hua Ying's tracking ability. I will leave this clue to track Qin Feng to you."

Chu Huaying: "Okay, I'll take action as soon as it gets dark."

Lu Jiuchuan looked at Tang Ci and lowered his voice: "Have the drones at the Zhao family been arranged?"

"Well, the person who is organizing the Zhao family's mourning hall should appear soon."

Lu Jiuchuan added: "There is another person who needs attention. The woman who was crying at Chen's house today said that her sister had given birth and she came to visit. Qin Feng didn't recognize her and asked her if she was from other places. Maybe, we Can we find some clues about her sister, Mrs. Chen Yu, from her?"

Gui Yuanzhang said: "Leave this person to me. I just saw her staying at Fulai Inn."

Tang Ci said: "Brother Jiu and I will investigate the remaining five witnesses of the ghosts."

Everyone has assigned tasks.

At night, the four of them split up.

Chu Huaying flew to Qin Feng's residence like a ghost and climbed onto the roof silently.

The light was on in the study, and Qin Feng was looking at the roster he had written with a thoughtful look on his face by the candlelight. I don't know how long it took, but he actually maintained this action, as motionless as a statue.

Chu Huaying also waited patiently on the roof.

Finally, Qin Feng stood up, frowned and blew out the candles, put on a coat, turned around and went out.

It's late at night, most people have already

After sleeping, the town is very quiet, and you can occasionally hear the chirping of some crickets. Qin Feng deliberately walked lightly and walked quickly toward the southeast of the town. Chu Huaying followed him like a ghost.

To Chu Huaying's surprise, he actually walked to the door of the shop where Second Sister Xue sold tofu.

He seemed to be hesitating, pacing back and forth in the doorway.

Chu Huaying was confused - when she was asking around in the town today, Sister-in-law Xue told people that she saw a ghost last night. Therefore, Chu Huaying also listened to the nearby neighbors' discussions about this matter and knew that this A few days after Mrs. Xue married the second young master of the Xue family, her husband died of illness. She became a widow and supported the tofu shop by herself.

Qin Feng came to Xue Ersao's door in the middle of the night. Could it be that the two of them had an impure relationship?

Chu Huaying concentrated and continued to stare at the door.

After a moment, Qin Feng seemed to have made up his mind, stepped forward and gently pressed the door lock.

The room was lit up with warm yellow candlelight, and a thin woman wearing a cloak opened the door. The soft moonlight shone on her face, making her look a little pale, but this woman had delicate features and beautiful features, especially Those eyes were particularly dark and bright against the white skin.

When she saw the person in front of her, she chuckled: "I guessed it was you. Why, you came to my place to investigate in the middle of the night?"

Qin Feng looked around: "Can you go in and talk?"

Sister-in-law Xue said: "My husband is no longer here. Is it appropriate for you to come into my house in the middle of the night?"

Qin Feng coughed and said seriously: "I have something serious to ask you."

Sister-in-law Xue opened the door with a smile, Qin Feng entered the house, and she locked the door from the inside.

Chu Huaying immediately flew up the tree, jumped, landed lightly on the roof, lifted a tile, and looked inside the house.

Qin Feng was sitting in the guest seat. Sister-in-law Xue poured him a cup of tea. He didn't drink it. He looked at the other person and asked in a low voice, "I'm here. I just want to ask you a question."

Sister-in-law Xue still had a smile on her face: "Is it about the ghost?"

"Yes. Last night, five people said they saw the ghost with their own eyes. I remember clearly that there was only a sound of thunder after the rain stopped. You said that when the ghost appeared, there was thunder in the sky. Is that true?"

"Of course it's true. I was so scared that my legs went weak and I hurried back to the house."

"Uncle Liu, Zhang Chengyu, and Lin Yueran also said they saw ghosts during thunder. You four live in different locations in the east, south, west, and north of the town. How could you see ghosts at the same time as there was thunder?"

"Really? They saw it too?" Sister-in-law Xue pretended to be surprised: "The ghost can float around, I don't know what's going on. Maybe she can appear in many places at the same time?"

Qin Feng stared at her deeply: "Then do you know that Old Uncle Liu has bad ears and often hears wrongly? He lives closest to the Zhao family. Last night, when the second young lady of the Zhao family got married, there was a lot of noise on the street. If he heard a string of firecrackers, could he mishear the sound of firecrackers as thunder?"

He paused and said slowly: "I asked Zhang and Lin this afternoon. They don't seem to be lying. Moreover, Brother Lin's son Doudou also said that there was thunder when the ghost appeared, not to mention the children. Probably lying. So…”

The woman's face changed, she put away her smile, and said coldly: "Do you suspect that I am lying?"

Qin Feng sighed softly, looked at her with complicated eyes and said: "Ningshuang, we grew up together, can't you tell the truth in front of me?"

The woman said calmly: "Han Ningshuang has been dead for a long time, don't call me that."

Qin Feng was silent for a moment and then said: "Okay, Second Sister-in-Law Xue. It wasn't a ghost that was trying to kill me last night...it was you pretending to be a female ghost to scare people, right?"

The woman's lips raised a trace of sarcasm: "You think too highly of me. How can I fly around in the sky?"

Qin Feng said: "But you can make a kite - a white kite."

woman:"…………"

Chu Huaying hid on the roof, listening to the conversation between the two, and was surprised.

First, Qin Feng and Xue Ersao had known each other since childhood, and Qin Feng found loopholes in the descriptions of Li Gui by the five people, and finally confirmed that Xue Ersao was lying.

Second, Sister-in-law Xue, whose real name is Han Ningshuang, can make kites. She most likely made a white kite, dressed it in a woman's white clothes, covered it with black hair, pretended to look like a ghost, and then flew the kite into the sky with the help of the wind. , people mistakenly think that "fierce ghosts are floating in the sky."

And she herself, pretending to be one of the frightened witnesses, was actually committing the murder in secret...

The trajectory of her movement was the trajectory of the "fierce ghost" seen by witnesses in the town.

The first person to see it was Old Man Liu who lived nearby. He mistook the sound of firecrackers when Miss Zhao was getting married as thunder.

The second person I saw was the proprietress in the center of the town. She didn't hear the thunder.

The third person I saw was the Zhang and Lin families who lived in the west and north of Qingfeng Town. When Mrs. Xue walked to the northwest with the kite, a thunder sounded in the sky. The northwest direction was the closest to the exit of the town. She threw away the kite and followed the wedding party to leave the town.

However, she ignored the details of the thunder. Old man Liu was the first to say, "I saw a female ghost when it thundered." She followed closely and agreed. She wanted to lower her suspicion, but unexpectedly it was self-defeating and was revealed by Qin Feng. .

Sister-in-law Xue was silent for a long time before she said with a smile: "Do you think I am so capable that I can make all the more than 20 members of the Zhao family and Chen family disappear overnight?"

Qin Feng shook his head: "I'm not sure. When we were eighteen,

We separated. In the following years, I don’t know where you went or what you did. "

A look of pain flashed in his eyes, he lowered his head slightly, and said in a lower voice: "I returned to Qingfeng Town just to wait for you. I thought you might go back to your hometown to take a look, so that I could find you. It's just that. , I didn’t expect that what I was waiting for was Xue Zhao and Mrs. Xue whom he married back from other places.”

The room fell silent.

After a while, Sister-in-law Xue sighed softly and said: "Xue Zhao saved my life. I married him to repay his kindness. At that time, I didn't know that he was from Qingfeng Town. If I knew, I would never do it. Follow him back to this sad place." She paused and then said softly, "I thought you were dead long ago."

Qin Feng smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I was also saved by a kind person."

The room fell into silence again, both of them seemed to be lost in memories.

A lot of information is vague in their conversation, but it is certain that they have known each other since they were young. Moreover, Qin Feng has never been married. Many matchmakers came to his house to propose marriage to him, but he rejected them all. The person he was waiting for was the second sister-in-law Xue in front of him, his childhood sweetheart whose real name was Han Ningshuang.

The light in the room was dim, and the shadows of the two men swayed slightly on the wall.

Qin Feng stared blankly at the shadow on the wall. Han Ningshuang used a bamboo stick to pluck the wick and said expressionlessly: "Because we have known each other since childhood, I can tell you that the Zhao family and The Chen family deserves their punishment, so stop persisting in the investigation. You won’t forget how they treated your mother-in-law, right?"

Qin Feng's face turned pale and he didn't reply.

Han Ningshuang said word by word: "They chopped off my mother-in-law's hands and boiled them in a pot; chopped her legs into minced meat, cut off her ears and soaked them in wine..."

Qin Feng said sternly: "Stop talking!"

Han Ningshuang stopped describing and looked cold.

Qin Feng stood up in despair and said: "I hate them too! But those beasts are already dead. They are not as guilty as their wives and children. The descendants of the Zhao family and the Chen family were as old as us at that time. How many years old could the children be?" What do you know?"

Han Ningshuang sneered: "Didn't those children survive by eating the flesh of their mother-in-law? Why can't they pay for the sins their ancestors did?"

Qin Feng: "..."

Han Ningshuang said: "Blood debts must be repaid with blood. Qin Feng, I advise you not to continue the investigation, otherwise, I might take action against you." She paused and said, "It's getting late, you'd better go back. If you come to my place in the middle of the night, you will gossip if someone sees you."

Qin Feng stood up with an ugly expression, took two steps and then turned back and said, "Where did you take those people?"

Han Ningshuang sneered: "I won't tell you. Of course, you can expose me in front of everyone tomorrow, saying that I flew a kite and pretended to be a ghost on the night of July 14th, and that I killed the Zhao family and the Chen family. More than 20 people, and then according to the rules left by our ancestors, they tied me to a wooden frame and burned me alive."

Qin Feng's face turned green and white: "You are so stubborn! You kill innocent people indiscriminately, what's the difference between you and those beasts? Do you really think I can't bear to expose you?"

Han Ningshuang turned around, left him with the back of her head, and ignored him.

Qin Feng slammed the door and walked out with a look of despair.

Chu Huaying watched this scene on the roof and didn't know what to say. She followed Qin Feng back home and found Qin Feng sitting slumped at the table. He picked up a brush, dipped it in red paint, and marked all the names on the roster with red crosses one by one.

Qin Feng blew out the candles and slept with his clothes on. Chu Huaying flew to the street next to him, held down the earphones, and quickly told Lu Jiuchuan all the information he saw.

Lu Jiuchuan was stunned after hearing this: "Could it be that Han Ningshuang is the murderer?"

Tang Ci said: "The so-called fierce ghost turned out to be the white kite she flew. In other words, during the famine that year, the 'mother-in-law' in her mouth was captured by the hound organization and tortured to death. She and Qin Feng should both be mothers-in-law. The raised child was lucky enough to escape from Qingfeng Town, but a few years later the two were separated for unknown reasons."

Lu Jiuchuan followed Tang Ci's speculation and said: "Qin Feng liked her and returned to the town to wait for her. She was rescued by a young man named Xue Zhao, married Xue Zhao, and became Xue's second sister-in-law. Returning to Qingfeng Town, he treated Xiao The people in the town launched a crazy revenge?"

"I remember that the drone captured the information of everyone in the town." Tang Ci opened the drone and took a look, and said: "Based on Sister-in-law Xue's age, she was only 9 years old when the famine happened twenty years ago. The zodiac sign is...Tiger."

There happens to be a little tiger painted on the drum surface of the rattle.

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