The smell of blood was so strong that Jiang Xingchen felt dizzy. On the way, he saw more than a dozen corpses, and now it was bloody again, which made him want to vomit, so he hurriedly took a deeper breath!
Mei'er was shocked by everything in front of her. Two days ago, there was still laughter and joy. Everyone was excited about coming back and planning a bright future. Why did it suddenly become like this?
Under Zhao Danqing's leadership, the people of the Iron Sword Mercenary Group had already begun to search door to door in the village, hoping to find a living person. But half an hour later, they were all disappointed.
"There are sixteen dead bodies in total, and there are almost no signs of fighting. They should have been killed suddenly without any awareness. The more frequent signs of fighting are outside the village. It seems that one side is fleeing, the other side is chasing, and they are chasing them until the beach... The blood in the village has dried up and turned black and brown, at least a day has passed!"
After leaving the village, Zhao Danqing told Jiang Xingchen about his analysis and judgment.
Jiang Xingchen had already improved a lot at this moment. He thought to himself: "This is Shenyang, and no one should come, and we didn't find anything on the way... In other words, there is a great possibility that it is an internal strife!"
The old man interrupted: "But a large number of spider crabs share the corpse, we cannot analyze the specific situation!"
Jiang Xingchen closed his eyes slightly, took a deep breath and said, "These people have been guarding the royal family for thousands of years for generations. Even if they are brainwashed for generations, they cannot guarantee that a certain person of a certain generation will not have other ideas. After Mei'er returned to the island, the patriarch's performance was quite strange and she was not too excited. This is not in line with the performance of a brainwashed person... In addition, the next generation of members of the royal family have passed away one after another in recent years, but other children are fine..."
The old man's eyes lit up: "You mean. Some people, including the patriarch, have set their sights on the ruins of Da Shang!"
"I can't think of any other reason!" Jiang Xingchen nodded slightly.
"But why didn't they take action long ago? I've been waiting until now... Even if they take action, they can't leave this island!" The old man looked puzzled.
Jiang Xingchen thought about it carefully for a moment and sighed: "I don't know this, I hope I can discover something!"
The rest looked up at the sky, and the ribs and night owls hovered low, looking for clues, and the pink flew out.
Mei'er kept her head down and didn't say anything. Although she had only been with the old lady for half a month, she was her grandmother after all. And she had been very kind to her these days. She felt very sad that this happened suddenly.
Jiang Xingchen gently hugged Mei'er in his arms and slowly patted him on the back. Now he could only comfort him like this.
"Chilarious!" Pink flew back, stopped in front of Jiang Xingchen, and shouted with his wings pointing in one direction.
"I've discovered it!" Jiang Xingchen, the old man, and Zhao Danqing stood up at the same time.
"Take me there!" Mei'er broke free from Jiang Xingchen's arms and said anxiously.
A group of people followed the pink, opposite to the coast where the spider crab landed. Not far from the sorghum field, they found messy footprints.
"There are three people's footprints here, which seem to have emerged from the sorghum field... There are two children and an old man. Here should be the traces of crutches!" Zhao Danqing looked down at him for a while and said loudly.
"It's the old empress dowager!" Mei'er showed surprise on her face. Only the old empress dowager in the village was the crutch.
"Follow the footprints to chase. Hurry!" Jiang Xingchen shouted and walked forward quickly. Although the footprints were intermittent, the people in the Iron Sword Mercenary Group were experienced and could always find the direction to move forward.
After walking for about half an hour, a dense forest appeared in front of him. Zhao Danqing, who was in front, suddenly stopped.
"Did you hear it? What's the sound?" Zhao Danqing turned his head and asked.
Everyone listened with a vague subtle whimper.
"Crying sound. It's definitely crying!" Tang Chuxue said decisively.
Mei'er was the first to jump out, and Jiang Xingchen and others hurriedly followed. When they entered the dense forest, everyone heard it was real, and it was indeed crying.
After walking for more than ten meters after searching for the sound, Mei'er stopped in front of a big tree that more than ten people hugged each other. Countless vines hang down from above, blocking the trunk tightly. And the crying sound came from behind the vines.
Mei'er found the right direction and pulled a vine open, and a bloody smell came to her face. There was a tree hole inside, and the twin sisters were hugging each other and trembling. The little face was covered with mud and tears, and their eyes were filled with horror.
"Don't kill us, don't kill us!" The moment the vine was lifted, the two little girls cried and moved back desperately, as if they didn't know that they had already pressed against the tree trunk behind them.
"Xiaomei, Xiaoyu, it's me!" Mei'er shouted and squatted in front of the tree hole.
The two little girls stared at Mei'er for a while, shouted and threw themselves into her arms, and cried out with a wow.
"What happened, what happened?" Mei'er hugged them tightly, her face gloomy, and she asked in a low voice.
It took a while for the two girls to start talking: "It's the patriarch, the patriarch killed many people..."
The two children expressed it very clearly, but everyone understood it intermittently. Late at night, the clan leader and more than 20 people suddenly started a massacre and coerced the old empress dowager to hand over the things. The empress dowager refused to give it to him, so the clan leader had murderous intent. At this time, an old man from the royal family took out a picture and ran away. Everyone went to protect the old man, and the clan leader also chased him. But before leaving, he still gave the empress dowager a knife.
At that time, the two children were punished by the old empress dowager because of Mei'er's disappearance. After witnessing the whole process, the patriarch was eager to chase the old man and ignored the two children. Then the old empress dowager asked the two children to support him and fled from the village to here.
"Where is the Queen Mother, where is now?" Mei'er asked anxiously.
"The Queen Mother has already..." The two girls burst into tears again and pointed to the right side of the tree hole: "The Queen Mother is no longer here!"
Mei'er let them go, got into the tree hole, and soon dragged out the old lady's stiff body.
Her right hand covered her abdomen, and her clothes turned black and brown, and it was obvious that she had been soaked in blood during her lifetime. The pants under her knees were gone, and there was a very long and deep wound on her calves, with the flesh turning outward, which was quite terrifying.
Everyone turned their heads after seeing this and couldn't bear to watch it. This scene was really miserable.
Jiang Xingchen endured the discomfort, walked to Mei'er and took her into her arms.
"Brother, is this happening because of my arrival?" Although Mei'er was crying, her tone of speaking was very stable, just so gloomy and a little scary.
Jiang Xingchen shook his head: "The clan leader had planned it for a long time, just like what I had judged before. He probably had already set his sights on the treasures of the Da Shang ruins. Whether you appear or not, the final result will be certain!"
"Sister Princess, the Queen Mother said she would wait for you to come back and give this to you!" The girl who called Xiaomei took out a metal cylinder with a thumb.
Xiaoyu choked and said, "This is taken out of her legs by the Queen Mother!"
"What? From the legs..." Mei'er glanced at the wound and took the cylindrical metal tremblingly. The mottled and dried blood was everywhere on it.
"Hey!" The old man and others sighed.
Mei'er gently stroked the metal, as if there were traces of carved marks on it, and one end seemed to be moving. With a slight twist on the movable end, a bulge of different lengths appeared on one side of the cylinder.
"This should be a key!" Jiang Xingchen sighed, patted Mei'er, and said, "Make a coffin and bring the old man back to the mainland. What are the spider crabs here that cannot be buried..."
With the busy work of Zhao Danqing and others, a pair of coffins was quickly prepared. Jiang Xingchen felt that the temperature control pressure array was on his body, so he didn't have to worry about the corpse.
After half a day, everyone returned to the village. It had turned into ruins and the previous corpses disappeared. It was obvious that the spider crabs had come, and they ate all the corpses and retreated back to the sea.
When the two little girls saw that the place of life had become like this, they couldn't help crying sadly. In the end, maybe they were tired and fell asleep.
Everyone sat around outside the village, and Jiang Xingchen said: "According to what Xiaomei and Xiaoyu said, combined with what they saw along the way, it should be that the old man from the royal family took the map to attract the patriarch and gave the old lady the chance to escape, but they were all killed along the way!"
The old man said in a deep voice: "There are several doubts now. Why did the patriarch suddenly take action? His purpose is the ruins of the Da Shang Dynasty. The old lady protected the key very tightly, and it was understandable that he didn't take action. But it was difficult to understand that it suddenly took action... Also, according to Mei'er, when he fought with Chongming Island, he should have been blocked from his cultivation, and it has been abandoned for decades. Why is there such strength... The most important thing is, where is the patriarch now? Not to mention the deep ocean, there are still a large number of spider crabs in the sea, and one of the sixth levels of vitality cannot say that he can leave smoothly."
Zhao Danqing thought for a while and said, "Maybe he is still on this island, hiding somewhere!"
"The possibility is not high. He killed everyone and grabbed the map. He must have to fly away. What's the use of staying here?" The old man shook his head.
"He didn't do this by himself, he must have helpers. No one can leave, and there will be even more people!" Zhao Danqing still thought that the patriarch was on the island.
"Maybe he killed all his accomplices. Wouldn't it be good to swallow the treasures alone?" the old man said lightly.
"How did he know that the map is real?" Mei'er suddenly asked.
Jiang Xingchen said, "It must be true. The patriarch should have seen it before, otherwise it would be so easy to believe it... I am afraid that the old lady also saw that this person was ill-behaved, so she had already made plans. Although the map was stolen, the key key was kept."
After pondering for a while, Jiang Xingchen ordered: "No matter what, search the island first. Pink and pork ribs, hand it to you. Be sure to be careful!" (To be continued.)