In the mountains late at night, a crescent moon hung alone in the dark night sky. A few distant stars occasionally flashed a cold light, flickering in and out, flickering in and out.
Bai Qingzhou and the other three stood upright on a mountainous plain.
Ren Yishuang raised his right hand, pointed to the mound not far ahead, and said softly: "Look, Lao Bai, that's the cave that day."
Bai Qingzhou looked over with a strange expression, because there was no trace of a cave in the mound at this moment. If you didn't pay attention, you would just think it was an ordinary hilltop.
Ren Yishuang walked forward quickly and explained as he walked: "When we came here that day, Old Man Hanyin had already destroyed the entire cave and brought a lot of soil to cover it up, so it became what it is today.
This scene."
Bai Qingzhou stepped forward and asked, "Where did you find the traces left by Old Man Hanyin that day?"
"Here." Ren Yishuang jumped up, flew above the mound, and then pointed to the large open space in front of him and said, "That beast put hundreds of heads here as his name!"
Bai Qingzhou followed up and took a look. There was indeed a large open space on the plain ahead, and the entire land was actually red, as if it was dyed red with blood.
Seeing this scene, Bai Qingzhou immediately felt chilled and clenched his fists tightly.
"This Li Huo is extremely arrogant. He killed so many innocent people, and it took us a lot of effort to bury those people that day..." Ren Yishuang sighed softly.
Hearing this, Bai Qingzhou thought for a moment and suddenly asked: "I once saw that you Zhu Xie will have a magic weapon that can be used to chase evil cultivators. Why don't you use that magic weapon to chase Old Man Hanyin?"
Hearing this, Ren Yishuang frowned, but then he quickly reacted and suddenly realized:
"Are you talking about the [Tracking Lord]? That thing can indeed chase evil cultivators, but it can only be used by some careless evil cultivators in the foundation-building stage. We have already used the [Tracking Lord] here, and the old man Hanyin is really careful.
Be careful, you have already eliminated those auras completely, and even [Tracer Lord] can't find him..."
"I see..." Bai Qingzhou nodded slowly, then looked at the open space in front of him, thoughtfully.
Ren Yi waved his hands and said helplessly: "The cave is right here. There is nothing at all. We have also searched with spiritual energy. There is not a trace of spiritual energy in the cave. The clues are indeed broken..."
Hearing this, Bai Qingzhou closed his eyes and remained silent.
Ren Yishuang, on the other hand, stayed beside him with a look of helplessness, waiting for Bai Qingzhou's thinking to end.
The half-grown Yue Yuan looked at the red land in front of him with curiosity, not knowing what he was thinking.
After a moment, Bai Qingzhou opened his eyes, looked at the mound of soil at his feet, and asked aloud: "Have you checked the cave?"
Hearing this, Ren Yishuang was stunned, and then replied: "I checked it, and there is nothing in it. All the items containing spiritual energy were taken away by him."
"Aura..." Bai Qingzhou said slowly: "That means you didn't enter the cave to explore in person..."
"Uh...really not." Ren Yishuang said in a daze.
Bai Qingzhou looked firm and said, "Then there may be missing clues!"
Ren Yishuang turned to look at him, paused, and asked, "Then you want to search the cave again?"
"Yes."
When Ren Yishuang heard this, he smiled and said cheerfully: "Okay, I'll help you turn over the mountain and look carefully!"
Bai Qingzhou nodded, then slapped out a palm, and with a bang, the mound of soil in front of him was blown away, revealing its original appearance.
Then the two looked at each other and began to use spiritual energy to scrape away the layer of soil and restore the original appearance of the cave.
Even the little Yue Yuan came over to help.
The three of them began to look at the mound and began to carefully search for so-called clues.
Bai Qingzhou frowned
Wrinkle, concentrating on digging the soil, although he knew that doing so would most likely be in vain, but he was unwilling to give up just like that.
He would not be willing to return without going all out to search.
Before Old Man Hanyin left, he not only destroyed the entire cave, but even moved a lot of soil to cover it up, filling the entire cave completely.
The current job of Bai Qingzhou and the others is to carefully clean out the original appearance of the cave and remove all the soil, hoping to find special features that cannot be detected by spiritual energy.
Because the three of them were monks and had very strong physical strength, they worked non-stop. When the sky got slightly brighter, they finally recreated the original appearance of the cave.
Bai Qingzhou walked slowly in the cave, staring at every inch of the area with his eyes, conducting slight exploration.
Ren Yishuang was also very loyal, and kept walking around the cave with Yue Yuan, helping Bai Qingzhou find the so-called clues.
As the soil was cleared away, the scene inside the cave was gradually restored. After exploration, they continued to find various pieces of residual muscle and meat, as well as human bones and various daily necessities.
The passages in the cave extend in all directions, winding like snake passages, connecting each cave.
And these caves still have some black roofs caused by alchemy or weapon refining. Even if the soil has been covering them for a while, there is still a fishy smell of blood here, which makes people feel sick to their stomachs.
Bai Qingzhou stood in a cave, looking at everything here. It looked like a single cave, and there were very obvious traces of smoke on the top of the cave.
In the middle of the cave, there is a three-square recess, which is obviously where the alchemy furnace or utensil furnace is placed. The land in front of the recess is still obviously bright red, and many people must have died here.
It's a pity that apart from these obvious traces, there are no other weird features in this cave, and everything has been cleaned up.
After realizing that there was no other discovery, Bai Qingzhou shook his head helplessly, turned around and walked out of the cave.
Turning back and looking at the thick red door at the door, Bai Qingzhou fell into deep thought.
"Senior Bai..."
A childish voice sounded from behind, interrupting Bai Qingzhou's thinking.
He looked back and saw Yue Yuan running towards him from the passage, holding a few notes in his hand and looking a little excited.
"Xiaoyuan, what's wrong?" Bai Qingzhou asked softly.
He had a good impression of the little boy in front of him who didn't talk much and was honest, and he spoke much more gently now.
Yue Yuan handed over the pieces of paper in his hand and said, "Senior Bai, look, I found this, see if it's useful!"
Bai Qingzhou looked happy. Yue Yuan was an honest boy. If he hadn't really met someone useful, he wouldn't have been so excited to come over and offer the treasure.
He took the pieces of paper, opened them, and then his expression became a little confused.
Because these pieces of paper have addresses and names on them, but nothing else.
"What is this..." Bai Qingzhou muttered to himself, and his thoughts began to race rapidly.
"Senior Bai, is this useful?" Yue Yuan asked with an expectant look.
Hearing the question, Bai Qingzhou came back to his senses, looked at him and asked: "Xiao Yuan, where did you find this?"
"It's just in an ordinary cave." Yue Yuan pointed to the back.
"Take me to see it."
"Okay! Senior Bai, come with me!"
Bai Qingzhou followed Yue Yuan and walked towards the cave where the note was found.
Soon, the two arrived at the cave.
There is not much that is surprising outside the cave. Looking inside, the cave is not big, only a few feet long. There is a simple bed made of wood in the corner.
There are many daily necessities placed everywhere, and there is a very obvious blood stain in the middle of the cave, which looks like a living room.
"Where did you find the note?" Bai Qingzhou asked aloud.
Hearing this, Yue Yuan walked to the bed, opened the pillow and said, "I found it right here.
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Bai Qingzhou approached, looked at this ordinary bed, and fell into deep thought.
Being able to write a note and hide it under the pillow can only be done by a mortal, but I don't know what the use of this mortal is for leaving these notes.
"Fellow Taoist Ren said that mortals here are forced to work here, but what can mortals do here? What are these addresses..." Bai Qingzhou's thoughts started to swirl in his mind. Junqu Pavilion
After standing there and thinking for a moment, Ren Yishuang's voice came from behind.
"What? Did you find any useful clues?"
Bai Qingzhou turned around, waved the note in his hand, and said, "Xiao Yuan found a few notes here, but I don't know what the addresses above are for."
"Oh?" Ren Yishuang came closer and took the note, looked at it casually, and said, "Then let's go to this address to find this person."
Bai Qingzhou nodded and said, "If there are no other clues, this is the only way... By the way, have you found anything?"
Ren Yi waved his hands and said helplessly: "There is nothing, but I saw a lot of corpses..."
"Hey, let's look again and see if there's anything else..." Bai Qingzhou sighed.
Hearing this, Ren Yishuang and Yue Yuan looked at each other, and then responded readily:
"OK!"
But unfortunately, after discovering the effective clue of the note, the three of them seemed to have fallen into a bottleneck and could no longer find anything useful.
After two hours, Bai Qingzhou stopped this ineffective behavior, called Ren Yishuang and Yue Yuan, and said:
"Old Hanyin is really cautious. The only clue we have now is the note. Let's go here and take a look. Fellow Daoist Ren, do you know where these addresses are?"
Ren Yishuang thought for a while and said: "The addresses above look familiar, but I can't remember the exact location. In order not to go astray, we'd better go to a nearby market to find a map."
"Okay! Just listen to what fellow Taoist said." Bai Qingzhou said with gratitude in his eyes.
"Then let's go. I still remember very clearly where the nearby market is!" Ren Yishuang said easily.