Walking towards the village step by step, Zheng Xiao carefully observed the surrounding situation.
It seems that this village has been around for some time. The blue stones that form the walls and houses are covered with moss, and some places are weathered, showing a bit of thickness in the vicissitudes of life. The paths are made of stone slabs.
It extends in the village and leads to the houses in the distance. Occasionally, you can see a patch of wild grass peeking out from the low wall, growing lushly.
Ah——, a sharp cry suddenly sounded, and immediately after the sound, a black shadow flew away, flew into the sky, and kept circling and dancing.
Zheng Xiao looked up and realized that it was a crow. It was probably disturbed by him and flew away from the nest, so he ignored it and walked forward.
It seems that the mountain village is deserted, Zheng Xiao thought in his mind as he walked, because all he saw along the way were the deserted courtyards covered with weeds, and the rusty door knockers on the wooden doors of the small courtyards. Occasionally,
One or two hares jumped out from the grass, darted towards the grass on the other side like arrows, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Zheng Xiao's heart was full of doubts, because the current situation had exceeded his expectations, making him full of confusion and confusion.
Even though this was the northeastern mountainous area in the 1930s, this small village located between forks in the road should be quite lively. Even if it is not prosperous, this kind of desolation is not what it should be.
So everything here was abnormal, making him feel like something was happening.
Walking straight along the street, Zheng Xiao focused all his attention on the courtyards on both sides. Most of the villages here had a similar layout: low stone courtyard walls, simple gatehouses, and two doors made of mountain birch or pine.
It is a courtyard gate, or simply a fence made of several wooden sticks connected together.
Looking across the deserted courtyards, Zheng Xiao opened the door of a farmhouse full of questions.
With a creak, the courtyard door that had not been touched for a long time made a hard sound. The next moment, the courtyard door opened silently, and Zheng Xiao's big feet stepped into the courtyard door.
The yard is made of black soil specially used in the Northeast. After a long period of trampling, it is now almost as solid as stone, but it still cannot stop the tenacious grass. They are allowed to crawl out of the gaps to form a lush
Wild grass.
With a whoosh, there was a slight noise in the grass behind him, which made Zheng Xiao, who was walking towards the house along a path between the grass, suddenly stop and turned back suddenly.
Looking around in the grass, Zheng Xiao stretched his right hand to his waist and subconsciously touched the pistol, but it came up empty. This made him suddenly wake up that he was now bare-handed.
Looking left and right, Zheng Xiao kicked a half-collapsed shed next to him, then reached out to grab the broken shed pillar as thick as a bowl, and coldly watched the surrounding situation.
There was silence in the grass behind him. The rustling noise just now disappeared and was replaced by the extremely oppressive silence.
Zheng Xiao turned around, stared at the tall grass behind him, and then held his breath, because his keen intuition gave him a premonition that something was slowly approaching in the grass.
Gripping the wooden stick in his hand, Zheng Xiao's muscles suddenly tightened and he was ready to fight.
Just when Zheng Xiao was on the verge of taking action, the grass not far away shook for a while, and then a sturdy figure emerged from it, making Zheng Xiao, who was waiting for his momentum, relax in an instant.
"Black Tiger, it turns out it's you." Zheng Xiao threw the wooden stick aside, then rushed towards the black wolf that emerged from the grass, hugged its big head, and rubbed it hard
.
It turned out that it was the big black wolf that emerged from the grass, and it didn't know when it appeared next to Zheng Xiao.
The big black wolf seemed very happy to see Zheng Xiao. It whined and stretched out its big tongue to lick Zheng Xiao's face, becoming very intimate with him.
A man and a dog played together for a while, and then they separated. Zheng Xiao patted the big black wolf on the head, and then shouted, "Come on, follow me in and take a look."
One person and one dog walked through the grass towards the house, and soon arrived in front of the house door.
Stopping on the steps, Zheng Xiao looked at the iron-locked door. After hesitating for a moment, he was about to reach out and push the door open when he suddenly stopped.
Crouching down, Zheng Xiao looked toward the door of the house. His face became solemn, and after a moment of pondering, he stretched out his left hand.
At the threshold, a piece of dried purple-black color stuck to the threshold, which was mostly covered by dust. If Zheng Xiao hadn't had sharp eyesight, he probably wouldn't have been able to spot it.
"This is--"
Zheng Xiao gently twisted the purple-black powder between his fingers, then pondered for a moment, then stood up and looked at the two closed doors.
The door is made of ordinary poplar wood, very rough and simple. An iron lock is hung on it, locking the two closed doors.
Snap——, Zheng Xiao raised his leg and kicked the door of the house, and kicked the door out. The door hole was immediately exposed, and the dust in the sky flew up when the two doors fell into the house, almost covering the entire house.
room.
Zheng Xiao walked into the house without any hesitation and looked around. At his feet, a strong black wolf also rushed in, baring its fangs and letting out a deep roar.
When his eyes swept across the room, Zheng Xiao's eyes suddenly widened, but his pupils shrank sharply. The wooden stick in his hand made a creaking sound when he squeezed it with such sudden force that it almost broke.
This is a main room, with a shrine in the front and a bluestone tablet placed inside. It is the favorite mountain god to worship in the mountain. However, it is covered with dust because it has not been cleaned for a long time.
Under the shrine, there is a table, which has been overturned to the side. Next to the table are several skeletons lying down. The posture with claws and teeth is a bit creepy.
Zheng Xiao took a deep breath, and quickly came to the skeleton, and then began to observe carefully. Black Wolf squatted at the door of the house, watching the surrounding movements vigilantly.
These skeletons are of different ages, which can be seen from the thickness of the bones and the degree of wear and tear. The clothes on their bodies have been weathered and turned into ashes when they were touched.
What attracted Zheng Xiao's attention were the scars on their bodies. These holes that penetrated the bones showed that they had suffered fatal injuries, which led to their deaths.
"This is a bayonet scar. This seems to be a bullet hole." Zheng Xiao identified the scars on their bodies and kept identifying the way of death. But when he saw the last hole, his eyes widened. "
What kind of scar is this?"
This is the skeleton of a young man, who looks to be in his twenties. He still maintains the same movements as before his death. It can be seen from the remains of a hunting fork in his right hand that he is engaged in a final struggle.
But the sudden attack killed him instantly.
This is a hole that is only as thick as a pencil lead, with very smooth edges. It penetrates from the center of the deceased's eyebrows and then exits from the back of the head. The place where it penetrates from the front and the place where it exits from the back are surprisingly the same thickness. There is no bullet at all.
The wound spreads through.
Zheng Xiao thought about it. He always felt that this was very similar to the wound caused by a light energy weapon, but he also found it incredible, "How can there be light energy weapons in this era?"
In the 1930s, no laser weapons that could be used in actual combat had been successfully developed in the world, let alone laser weapons that could be carried around, so this surprised Zheng Xiao even more.
While he was deep in thought, the black wolf suddenly let out a deep howl, then bolted out and ran towards the outside of the courtyard.
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