She lowered her eyes and looked at the body over and over again, feeling as if she had been stabbed repeatedly by a knife.
They all had their hand tendons and leg muscles cut off and were covered with stone paint. They were left to survive in the house where the fire spread, like reptiles, crawling towards the door step by step.
Until the fire raged and their whole bodies were wrapped in flames, they didn't even have the strength to struggle and roll over, so they were burned alive by the fire.
It was as if I could still see the desperate and painful faces in front of my eyes, and the wailing sounds could not stop.
Purgatory on earth!
Liu Ruyan dug into the blue bricks with her ten fingers. She buried her head deeply and kept mumbling like she was in a daze: "Who is it, who is it, who is it..."
Who is so cruel and cruel to do such a heartless thing!
She tried to calm her mind, and her chaotic consciousness tried to recall various details.
In the previous life, the inn was burned down, and a group of people from the scout battalion were killed in the flames. Later, during the investigation by the officers and soldiers, they found irrefutable evidence of collaboration with the enemy and treason, as well as an autopsy sheet prepared by a co-worker, and finally concluded that he committed suicide out of fear of crime!
But this time, the location was changed to Liujiazhuang. There was an extremely dangerous river outside Zhuangzi. No one could cross the river without a familiar person to lead the way.
In this way, there was no proof, and they were convicted of collaborating with the enemy and treason.
Her thoughts were racing, and she immediately thought of the "irrefutable evidence" left by the murderer. If she could find it before the officers and soldiers did.
She calmed down and said, "Ye Xun, help me find a secret letter."
The young man appeared, he raised his hands, and countless silver screens, like shining mirrors, flew towards Liu Ruyan from mid-air.
Screens hovered around her, and she narrowed her eyes, scanning the screens quickly.
With her as the center, every corner of the palace appears on the screen, from the beams to the floor tiles, no one is missing.
Time seemed to have stopped. She remained silent and her face became increasingly ugly.
"Why not?"
Shen Yanchu frowned: "What are you looking for?"
Liu Ruyan just shook her head.
"I know you are unwilling to do so." Shen Yanchu said, "They were plotted against. If you want to find clues, you can only go back to the place where the incident happened."
"The place where the incident happened..." She suddenly realized that although there were bones here, it was not the original scene.
Reminiscing that they had crawled a certain distance before their deaths, Liu Ruyan turned her head and looked at the lobby behind, the Liu Family Ancestral Hall!
She stood up immediately, but was swept away by the wind from Shen Yanchu's sleeves on the way, and her footsteps stopped for a moment.
"Follow me," he said.
By this time the fire had receded a lot, ruins could be seen everywhere, and a large expanse of night sky was exposed above the head.
Shen Yanchu stood under the night sky, the moonlight was flowing, and the man's whole body seemed to be covered with a halo, while she stood in the darkness a few steps away.
She looked at the dividing line between light and dark between the two of them, her eyes a little dark.
"Come here quickly." Shen Yanchu was still walking in front, opening up a path for her at the cost of consuming his own energy.
"Why do you want to help me?" she asked.
Shen Yanchu kept walking, and there was no emotion or anger in his voice: "I can't get used to your useless look."
Liu Ruyan lowered her eyes silently.
The two of them walked into the ancestral hall one after another. The place was open on all sides and there were no unnecessary furnishings. The only table was the memorial tablet of the ancestor, and there was a charred corpse in front of them.
Next to the body was an unsheathed scimitar.
"Uncle Quan's original name is Liu Hanquan, and a Hanyue Sword never leaves his body day and night." She murmured, looking at the dried blood on the blade, "There was a fight here, and it might have been the first scene."
Looking around the ancestral hall, if there is any physical evidence, a fire would be enough to reduce it to ashes. Where did the murderer hide it so that this so-called irrefutable evidence can finally be presented to the court.
As far as the eye can see, there are dilapidated wooden beams and mottled blue bricks.
She looked at the memorial tablet on the altar and paused for a moment.
"Aye."
Liu Ruyan walked towards the altar, but at this moment, the wooden sign made a soft sound, fell to the table with a "bang", and finally fell to the ground.
She reached out to pick it up regardless of how hot it was. Suddenly, she saw something again and her hands froze in mid-air.
However, I saw that there were several used incense sticks on the ground, which were burnt black by the fire. Without looking carefully, it would be difficult to find these incense sticks on the ground.
Apparently the remaining half of the incense was pulled out of the incense burner and thrown to the ground.
She suddenly thought of something, stood up, and peeled away the ashes in the stove, when her fingers came across a foreign object.
Liu Ruyan quickly took out the object and saw several small rolls of light yellow paper. The so-called ironclad evidence was clearly visible.
"Aye, Liujiazhuang is gone." She held up her father's memorial tablet, traced the blackened writing on it with her fingertips, thought for a moment, and finally entered it into the system space.
After doing this, she caught sight of the Hanyue Knife out of the corner of her eye. She took out a handkerchief, wrapped it around her hand a few times, carefully picked up the handle, and wiped off all the blood on the blade.
At this time, a dark-colored jade pendant fell. She lowered her head to look, and saw that the totem on the jade pendant looked like a green ghost or a dragon, and it was clearly Yaizi.
Cang Ming Sect.
For a moment, she seemed to have figured out something. She raised her eyes and looked at Shen Yanchu steadily.
Shen Yanchu frowned and saw her holding up a black jade in her hand, looking angry and smiling: "I have never figured out how the murderer successfully crossed the river and sneaked into Liujiazhuang. But it would be different if there was puppetry to control it.
Oh, it was in vain that I thought that I could live in peace with you by my side, but I never thought that you would still kill me to death."
She looked at him, and the black jade she held in her hand fell deeply into her palm.
"Murder and arson are indeed the usual style of the Cang Ming Sect. Their methods are so vicious that we and others are disgusted by them!" She said one word at a time, holding the Hanyue Sword, filled with the aura of decisive killing.
With Liu Ruyan Hanyue in hand, her hatred and anger turned into the wind that fell with the tip of the knife!
When the tip of the knife was close at hand, Shen Yanchu moved slightly to avoid the blade.
The light of the sword illuminated Naruto, and she stepped forward again, the cold blade going straight to her chest.
Shen Yanchu's brows darkened, Yunxiu climbed onto the blade, and swung his arms to resolve its moves one by one. At the same time, he stopped his hand, flicked his sleeves, and pulled Liu Ruyan into his arms.
"Devil, let me go!"
Liu Ruyan was suddenly pulled into his arms. She was annoyed and angry, and kept struggling in his arms. Shen Yanchu quickly raised his hand and struck it down. The violent person in his arms finally calmed down, closed his eyes, and fell into a coma.
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Outside Liujiazhuang.
Bai Zhi looked at the darkening sky and kept pacing back and forth.
At this time, he finally heard footsteps coming from inside and hurriedly looked over.
But he saw Shen Yanchu walking along with Liu Ruyan in his arms, breathing heavily.
Bai Zhi stepped forward quickly, glanced at the unconscious Liu Ruyan, and asked, "What's going on inside?"
"Liujiazhuang was assassinated and no one survived." Shen Yanchu's voice was deep.
Bai Zhi opened her mouth and said in a daze: "How could this happen? Then she..."
"He's fine, he just passed out." Shen Yanchu said, "Find a place to stay first and wait until he wakes up."
Bai Zhi nodded: "There seems to be a thatched house on the mountain not far from here where you can stay."
"Okay, you lead the way." Shen Yanchu hugged Liu Ruyan and left with Bai Zhi.