The Emperor Chonghua issued two decrees. The fastest updated one was that at the request of Peng Keng's tribe, Mi Lian succeeded Bojun. Of course, the position of Bojun was passed down from generation to generation and was canonized by the emperor. In name, the new Bojun was succeeded by the previous one.
The first Bojun is appointed and elected by the tribal leaders, but in fact it is basically passed down from father to son. If there is no son, it is passed down to his younger brother or his nephew. At this time, the nephew is usually adopted as a son.
The term "brother" and "son" are used together to describe successors. This is how it was first used.
But after all, there is a nominal designation and recommendation system. Huwa, on behalf of Peng Keng's department, requested to pass on the position of Bojun to Milian. There is nothing wrong with it, but it is not in line with the current convention. The title of Mr. Peng Keng has been revoked in Ba.
, there will be no new Lord Peng Keng in Ba Yuan, or it will always belong to Hu Wa only.
But in China, it is difficult for the Peng Keng tribe to withdraw its title. Now Mi Lian has become the second Peng Keng clan leader. Since Hu Wa has been appointed, no one will object. Anyway, Mi Lian has been governing Peng Cheng for so many years.
And Peng Kengbu.
The second Zhaoling is similar to the first Zhaoling, which is to enshrine the throne of the king of the Immortal Kingdom. The new king is Fan. Fan was once the king of the Fanshi Kingdom. Later, he voluntarily abdicated and returned to the mountain to practice Buddhism. He was recommended by Huwa as his successor.
It can be said that the city lord of Yingtian City has quite a lot of scriptures. Fan originally never thought that he would be the king again, but Huwa's position was chosen by him, and he couldn't refuse.
The emperor's decree was actually just a formality. There was no succession dispute between Pengkeng's tribe and Fengxian Kingdom that required the emperor to arbitrate and mediate. At the same time, Xuanyuan also passed on the position of leader of Chiwangqiu to others. That year
The seven evil spirits of Ba Yuan have now disappeared, and the clan masters of Chiwangqiu, Wufuqiu and Meng Yingqiu have also changed their descendants, which seems to symbolize the change of an era.
The kings of the world were not too surprised by these two decrees issued by the Emperor Chonghua, because Lord Tiger had not appeared in the world for a long time and had almost become a legend. There is another thing that the people of each tribe do not know, but the heads of the kings of each tribe
But everyone knew that Emperor Chonghua sent many experts to the Yinshan and Helan Mountains to track down King Huang who was suspected of causing rebellion.
Where did all the ministries in the world send so many masters? Because the emperor Chonghua called all the kings to patrol the river, and they all came to escort him. In the end, they were all kept by the emperor and sent out. The emperor also said something:
During the siege against Boyi, so many masters took action, and so many artifacts were left behind. It was really a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger among all the ministries in the world. Now it is time to do something serious.
Chonghua sent many capable talents to that area, mainly to help investigate and analyze various clues. Ziqiu took Xiao Xie Zhi Shancha to the Youfeng Department.
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On this day, at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain, in the mountains not far from Youfengbu, a rather handsome young woman was running wildly, with a colorful tiger chasing after her. Although the woman could not run very fast,
Not slow, but how could the speed be compared to the fierce tiger in the mountains? But the tiger obviously did not try its best to catch up, but deliberately chased the woman into the wild forest far away from the village.
The woman was running with a stone sickle tightly in her hand. She tripped in panic and cut her leg with the stone sickle as she staggered. She fell forward and fell to the ground, then turned around and sat on the ground.
Waving the stone sickle, he screamed: "Don't come here! You beast, don't come here!"
This place is far away from the village, and is surrounded by deserted forests. Of course, no one heard her screams. The tiger fell in front of her eyes and suddenly let out a roar. The stone sickle in the woman's hand fell to the ground, and she fainted as soon as her eyes rolled.
passed.
The tiger did not pounce directly on the woman, but actually squatted down in front of the woman. The tiger skin began to move, as if something was about to come out of it. After a while, a hole opened under the tiger's body.
From the lower abdomen to the lower jaw, a pair of hands stretched out and tore it to the left and right, and a man came out. He left the tiger skin behind, just like taking off a piece of clothing.
After the tiger skin was "taken off", it was no longer in the shape of a complete tiger body, but just a flat fur. What came out was a man who looked less than thirty years old, and his body should be pretty strong.
He was strong and strong, but he looked very haggard and his face was a little pale.
He stood there panting, as if he was exhausted and tired, and his eyes were full of struggle. After a while, his heaving chest calmed down. Then he looked at the man who had fainted on the ground.
The woman's breathing became heavy again, and she limped over, her eyes filled with lustful light.
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When Ziqiu and Shancha arrived at Youfeng Department, something happened. There was a woman named A Hong in the village, who was in her early twenties. She had been working in the fields yesterday and did not return all night. She might have suffered an accident.
Early this morning, the villagers went out to look for her, calling her name all over the mountains and plains.
They arrived at this time, and Mr. Youfeng was also very sorry because he was too late to receive him properly. Since they met, Ziqiu and Shancha also took the initiative to join the team looking for Ahong. In the end, Shancha smelled the unusual smell and led
The villagers found the place where A Hong might have died in the mountains far away from the village.
A Hong was not found at the scene, only the stone sickle left by A Hong and her torn clothes were found. Shan Cha also came to this location from half a mile away and found sporadic blood stains, and there were also blood stains on her clothes, so he speculated that she
Maybe he was in trouble.
The blood stains on the clothes were from the cut made by the stone sickle, which was located about the front of the right thigh. However, the blood stains on the ground had been mixed with the dust. If they were not observant, it would be difficult for others to notice. Except for the blood stains
, Shancha also found several animal footprints in the hiding place, and identified them as tiger paw prints.
Based on these traces, it is speculated that Ahong should have been chased by a tiger and ran all the way here until he met with misfortune. After hearing what he said, a villager immediately shouted: "When I was working in the fields a few days ago, I heard something in the mountains.
There was a faint roar of a tiger. Master Zongyan killed that saber-toothed beast back then. Could it be that another ferocious tiger appeared in the mountains and it ate Ahong?"
It is not impossible for a tiger to eat people, but it cannot leave no traces at all. At least there must be some residue left. Then some people speculated that Ahong might have been carried into the mountains by the tiger, and everyone sighed. Ziqiu
He shook his head and said, "It's not the work of wild beasts."
Master Youfeng said in confusion: "Sir Shancha has just found many traces, indicating that Ahong was chased here by a ferocious tiger. He may have been knocked down and carried away here. How do you say it was not caused by wild beasts?"
for?"
Ziqiu asked: "How does Ah Hong look?"
Someone replied: "Very handsome! ... Her man went out a few months ago and disappeared without a trace. Now it seems that he may have been eaten by a tiger!"
Ziqiu pointed to the ground and said: "The ferocious beast eats people, so it doesn't leave too much blood. Why did they even take off their clothes? The clothes on the ground were either torn to pieces by the tiger's claws or peeled off. This
Wherever he is a ferocious beast, he is clearly a prostitute!"
Except for a few blood spots scattered on the road and the tears on the clothes cut by the stone sickle, there were no other blood stains at the scene. Especially the clothes left at the scene, although they were torn in many places, they were generally still intact.
It remained intact, and it definitely didn't look like it had been torn apart by tiger claws. It looked like it had been taken off roughly.
When a tiger eats a person, does it take off the person's clothes first? Even if the clothes are torn off, it doesn't look like this. Who has seen such a ferocious beast? This should be the work of a lustful person, and the murderer may also be a lustful monster.
. Everyone present shuddered when they heard this. If this is the case, this is not a simple accident. A pervert is more difficult to track down than a ferocious beast. If it is an evil monster, it would be terrible.
Master Youfeng immediately led all the clan members to kneel down: "You two masters, you must help us!" I remember that they had begged Zongyan and Shaowu like this at the beginning, and now they asked Ziqiu and Shancha again.
Ziqiu waved his hands and said, "Get up and go back to the village to talk properly. I still have some things to ask."
That night, every house in the village was closed, and everyone was in fear. There was an atmosphere of uneasiness, which was reminiscent of dead trees rustling in the cold wind. The lamp was lit in Junshou's house, and Ziqiu and Lord Youfeng
Had a long chat.
The Youfeng Department was the place where Zong Yan and Shaowu encountered evil monsters for the first time during their inspection tour. According to Zong Yan, when the saber-toothed beast fought with her, the methods he used were not like those in ordinary mountains.
The demon cultivator seems to have received guidance from another inheritance. This is also a clue, so Ziqiu and Shancha first came here to investigate, but unexpectedly encountered a situation as soon as they arrived.
The Youfeng Tribe was not a tribe that moved here due to floods. They had lived here for generations and had ancestral instructions. They could only cross the road down the mountain at noon when the weather was the clearest, thus delaying the task of controlling the flood.
.Later, Bai Tu and Zong Yan discovered the origin of the tribe's ancestral training and killed the saber-toothed beast that caused the disaster, thus dispelling the haze that shrouded people's hearts.
Later, the highway connecting the Youfeng tribe to other tribes was built, and Hepan's flood control was successful, but the Youfeng tribe still settled in their ancestral land and did not migrate to Hepan, and the legend of the tribe's forbidden land seemed to be a thing of the past.
Today, Ziqiu heard that the woman Ahong's husband had also disappeared when he went out a few months ago, and he became vigilant. He also specifically asked Lord Youfeng whether there were any other missing persons in the tribe in recent years.
Lord Youfeng recalled it carefully, and found that it really existed, and the number of missing people was no less than in previous years.
The Youfeng tribe lives in the Helan Mountains. There are deep mountains and wild forests nearby. There are five villages in total. With so many people, it is normal for a few people to get lost in the mountains and fields every year. Accidents are always inevitable. In previous years, there were strange and evil things.
, so everyone always thought about it. Later, the evil spirit was eliminated, and no one paid too much attention to it.
Ziqiu asked Mr. Youfeng to remember carefully. After Zong Yan and Shaowu killed the saber-toothed beast, who else in the tribe disappeared and when did it happen? Mr. Youfeng could no longer remember some cases.
, because in order to control floods in the past few years, the tribe also suffered dozens of casualties. The occasional missing people are not very conspicuous among them, but some cases can still be remembered.
Under Ziqiu's prompts and questioning, based on the memories of Master Youfeng, a rough outline was gradually sorted out. After killing the saber-toothed beast, someone from the Youfeng tribe disappeared again half a year later, and the missing person was another
People from the village. Starting from this person, three or five people from the Youfeng tribe disappeared every year, but they were all from the other four villages. There were never any people from this village.
The time when these people disappeared seemed to be irregular, but there were still traces, because Zong Yan and Shaowu were still inspecting various departments in Hefan at that time, and Bingchi, Dingchi and others also did so later. Whenever these inspection personnel arrived,
After that, no one from the Youfeng Department went missing, including later when Emperor Chonghua went on patrol and passed by the Youfeng Department, all without incident.
When Emperor Chonghua inspected the river and passed by the Youfeng Department, it meant that the water control had been successful and no one would patrol the river in the future. Since then, the number of missing people has increased inexplicably, and there may have been more than ten people in the past year.
So many. The two people who have disappeared recently are A Hong's husband and A Hong. They are both from this village, which means that this kind of thing has finally happened in this village.
Why is it said that there may be more than ten people? Because Mr. Youfeng is not sure of the exact number. In the past year or so, the tribe has been involved in many affairs and the situation is also very complicated. With the construction of the road, the water control has been successful.
, there are more and more people moving and communicating. Although the Youfeng tribe has not moved to Hepan, there are many tribesmen out and about, and the scope of activities of the tribe is getting larger and larger. Some people who do not return do not cause special alarm.
Based on this fragmentary or even speculative information, it is difficult for ordinary people to draw any clear conclusions, but Ziqiu is different. He is both a descendant of Hougang and a student of Gaotao. He expressed his judgment to Master Youfeng with a calm face.
.These missing persons cases are most likely caused by gangsters, who are hiding in this village, or who may have mastered some strange means.
The reason is very simple. If it is the work of ferocious beasts or monsters in the mountains, it is impossible to know exactly when Bo Yu's subordinates patrol and pass by every time, so that they can hide in time and stop committing crimes. Even monsters with great supernatural powers can know
Even so, it was impossible for them to avoid this village and only attack the other four villages.
If the gangster comes from this village, the matter can be explained. The gangster commits crimes secretly and usually subconsciously avoids places too close to him to avoid being suspected, so he only targeted people from the other four villages, but avoided them.
After the flood control in this village was successful, there were no more experts to inspect various parts of the river, so this person became bolder and committed more crimes.
Why did this person finally extend his murderous hand to this village, and Ahong and his wife also disappeared? It may be that for three and a half years, he committed the crime without being discovered, so he was no longer as cautious as before and became more courageous.
After growing up, he became even more unruly, or maybe there was something else going on. No one knew about the arrival of Ziqiu and Shancha in advance, so they bumped into each other suddenly.
Lord Youfeng broke into a cold sweat after hearing this, and immediately knelt down on the ground: "Master Ziqiu, I know all the people in this village, how could there be such a gangster? You must find out!"
Ziqiu helped him up and said: "My lord, don't panic. What I just said is just my speculation. Whether it is true or not is still unknown. Please give me one day and inform all the clansmen that they will answer the questions asked by Lord Shancha from door to door tomorrow."
.At noon the day after tomorrow, everyone in the village will be gathered together."
Lord Youfeng: "Okay, I will definitely do it! Do you want to call people from the other four villages too?"
Ziqiu: "No need for the moment, all the people in this village can be present." (To be continued...)