Chapter 452 The Disappearing Lights

Wang Mazi still couldn't figure it out: "I'm very familiar with this place. I've walked through it maybe thirty times if not fifty times. I don't know what happened that night. Somehow, I ended up here."

He pointed to the east and said: "Wudou Town is over there. I want to go back to Shuangyi Town. It would be impossible to reach the medicine field."

Wudou Town and Shuangyi Town are not far apart, but the detour to the medicine field will more than double the distance.

Even if it was a rainy day, this country man would deviate so much when he was walking home on a familiar road?

Soon, everyone arrived at Niutoushan.

"That night, you entered the mountain from here?" He Lingchuan stood at the entrance and understood why Wang Mazi was injured. This kind of valley is also called the Rolling Stone Valley. It is full of round pebbles, large or small. When people walk on it, it becomes slippery if they are not careful.

"Yes, I slipped and fell here." The carriage had no way to enter the mountain, so Wang Mazi rode on the blue sheep to show him, "When the wind driller comes, I will roll into the bushes over there."

"Where is the lantern?"

"Front, front."

The blue sheep moved towards Wang Mazi's instructions, jumping higher and higher among the rocks.

On the way, He Lingchuan found a small piece of torn cloth in the crevice of the rock. He didn't know who had accidentally stuck it here. The tiger found a few strands of hair on the branches, which were obviously not human.

General Ling came over, sniffed, and said sadly: "They are my children!"

"They did go up."

Finally, the blue sheep stopped halfway up the mountain, and Wang Mazi said: "It's probably here."

He Lingchuan caught up and took a look, frowning.

The place where the blue sheep stopped is just a small den, where only four or five people can stand, and it is still open-air. When the tiger jumps up again, it will be a bit crowded and it is difficult to turn around.

As for General Ling, he suddenly showed a peculiar skill:

It took a deep breath, and its body shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye.

When it was as big as an ordinary goat, it jumped into the den with a slight leap.

"..." The wind drill beast still has this ability? He Lingchuan was speechless, then why didn't it use it in the government office before, but why did it smash the window?

"Probably not. It doesn't reach the sky or the ground. The light should be on the mountainside."

He Lingchuan looked up. The rock wall directly above is very smooth and does not look like a human being can stand on it.

"But there are thirteen of your companions, and there are seven or eight wind drill beasts chasing you. How can such a small place accommodate them?"

Wang Mazi smiled bitterly: "The official said the same thing. But I really didn't lie, Master He. I really saw the light here!"

The valley is not deep, and the officials have searched for it, but there are no traces in it.

The tiger suddenly approached the rock wall and sniffed: "It's a bit fishy."

He Lingchuan reached out and dug into the rock wall, pushed aside the grass blades, and saw some reflections on the protruding rock wall.

"Some signs of dried mucus."

Wang Mazi also took a look: "Maybe it was a slug crawling through."

There are so many small molluscs in the mountains and forests, and wherever they pass, they will leave traces of mucus.

Other than that, there is nothing here.

The blue sheep chirped twice, feeling a little uneasy. He Lingchuan comforted it and said, "I know, I remember."

Not long after he entered the Chiyan country, someone came to steal the blue sheep at night and tried to push the peach off the cliff. The two sheep thieves died and fled. The one who escaped disappeared after fleeing the cliff, but traces of slime were left at the bottom of the cliff.

It seems that the thing that was under the cliff at that time also appeared here more than ten days ago, and took away a dozen countrymen and seven or eight wind beasts.

What a danger, if Taozi hadn't happened to disrupt the sheep thief's plan, his blue sheep would have disappeared like this.

"Okay, okay, this is a business matter that has turned into a personal grudge." It turned out that the other party had already bullied him! "I'll get to the bottom of it."

Official and private accounts must be settled together.

General Ling was curious: "Why did it become your personal grudge?"

"As soon as I entered the Chiyan country, the blue sheep were almost stolen. It seems to be related to the murderer here."

General Ling looked at him up and down, and suddenly said: "I always feel that something is wrong. Where are you from?"

"I'm from Fu country."

"Such a small place?" General Ling didn't understand. "Why don't you use Chiyan people, eldest son?"

This old guy really didn't care about the occasion when he asked questions. He Lingchuan glanced at him: "Maybe he can't believe it?"

General Ling was speechless.

Next, He Lingchuan checked more carefully.

There was no blood, no broken limbs, or even any signs of struggle. He Lingchuan felt that it was not too outrageous for the official to designate Wang Mazi as a prisoner. In most cases, the person who survives in the end is the most suspect.

Tiger Jiao Yu suddenly said: "Ask Shanze and ask, won't it be clear?"

He Lingchuan snapped his fingers: "It makes sense, you can do it."

Then the tiger scratched the ground hard and roared three times toward the southeast.

In the roaring forest, He Lingchuan felt that the solid rock beneath his feet was shaking. The forest immediately became quiet. The wind stopped blowing, the trees did not shake, the birds stopped chirping, and even the insects in the cracks in the rocks silenced their voices.

He Lingchuan discovered that the bronze medal on the jade necklace was glowing again, helping it spread the tiger's roar wider and further than usual.

It is the official body, and it can summon mountains and rivers by using Yuan force.

So everyone waited.

Half the stick of incense passed.

A quarter of an hour passed.

He Lingchuan stood up and shook off the grass clippings in his palms: "It seems Shanze doesn't plan to come."

"Does Shanze want to be punished when his superiors ask questions?" Goshawk said to one side.

Jiao Yu's voice was so loud that Shanze couldn't possibly not hear him.

"What kind of monster is Shanze here?"

"It's a big ground sloth." General Ling replied, "Including Niutou Mountain and the official medicinal fields, hundreds of hectares of forests are its territory."

He Lingchuan was surprised: "Isn't that thing very slow? How can it be a Shanze?"

"You are talking about sloths." Goshawk corrected him, "The ground sloth is bigger than a bear, with claws two feet long. Although it moves slower, its hard skin is invulnerable to swords and guns. I heard that Shanze here has been practicing for three hundred years, and the villagers have built a temple for it."

Wang Mazi heard this and asked weakly: "Are you talking about Wushuang Shanze?"

"Wu..." Is it the combined name of Wudou Town and Shuangyi Town? These people are too lazy to name it, but Shanze has no objection? "Probably, what's the problem?"

"I heard from my cellmate that the tablet for the Shanze Temple was broken a few days ago."

"Wushuang Shanze is dead?" He Lingchuan was stunned.

He has a say in this matter. When the old turtle monster in Xianling Lake was bitten to death by the crocodile god, the memorial tablet of Shuiling Temple was also broken.

Are these sheep thieves so arrogant that they dare to kill even Shanze.

Well, calling them sheep thieves is not appropriate anymore.

Jiao Yu suddenly realized: "No wonder they can't be summoned."

"Does the town know about this?"

Wang Mazi scratched the back of his head: "I don't understand."

General Ling said in a rough voice, "I haven't heard of it either. These idiots in the government are really useless!" They are just sitting there doing nothing and can't get any useful information.

"If they are alive, I want to see them. If they are dead, I want to see their bodies." He Lingchuan looked at the valley, "How could more than twenty big living creatures disappear without leaving any trace?"

These days, he also looked through the case materials left by Fushan Ji.

To be honest, there is not much information. With the spirit of research he practiced in Panlong City, he finished reading it in less than half an hour.

The manpower that Fushan Ji could mobilize was far beyond his reach, so he ordered the counties in the north to do some statistics.

There is no direct clue to the missing messenger case, but after counting, it is found that there are sporadic missing cases in various places in Chiyan.

In Dushan County, two people and three monsters are missing.

In Baishanyuan, one monster is missing.

In Curry, a girl is missing, and three monsters are suspected to be missing, belonging to the same nest of bat monsters.

There are fourteen or fifteen places not listed.

However, some missing persons are marked with "fighting" or "found" next to them, which is obviously added later.

In this way, there are at least ten missing humans and more than twenty-three or four missing monsters, but they are not very noticeable because they are scattered all over Chiyan.

The laws of Beijia punish fighting between monsters and humans more severely, while fighting within the monsters has always been repeatedly banned.

It is human nature and cannot be suppressed.

On the side of the information, Fushanji drew a red circle and made a note:

Monsters are missing, but humans are not necessarily missing.

This seems to be incoherent, but if you look closely at the statistics of various places, it is true that where monsters are missing, humans are not necessarily missing.

That is to say, the number of missing monsters is greater than that of humans.

Why did Fushanji need to collect statistics from all over the country?

He Lingchuan didn't quite understand it at first, but when he heard about Wang Mazi's experience and the Five-Shuang Mountain and Marsh Folding Card, how could he not understand?

What is the connection between these missing individuals in Chiyan, including the messenger from Lingxu City?

Unfortunately, Fushanji was killed by his brother before he could find the answer.

Wang Mazi also echoed: "Yes, yes, they all disappeared without a trace, and I don't know how this happened!"

"All?" He Lingchuan's eyes narrowed slightly, "Are there any other missing cases?"

Wang Mazi swallowed his saliva: "Sir, can you really save my life?"

"The more real information you give, the greater the chance that I will catch the real culprit."

Wang Mazi knelt down to him again and said: "You are sent by the Prince's Mansion, please just spare my life! I will do anything for you!"

Although the tiger monster is fierce and the goshawk is majestic, there is no doubt that He Lingchuan is the mastermind.

General Ling kicked him upside down with his hoof: "Hey, do you think I'm not here?"

But he was careful with his kicks, and Wang Mazi only hurt his head. Otherwise, with its strength, it could easily kick him to death.

He Lingchuan was unmoved: "That depends on your performance."

Wang Mazi racked his brains: "There is one thing, I don't know if it can be considered a missing case, but it is really weird."

He Lingchuan noticed that Wang Mazi's expression was obviously hesitant, "Tell me about it."

"More than a year ago, I heard that a strange thing happened in Zhitian Township, 30 miles away from here." Wang Mazi licked his lips, "People here rarely leave their hometowns. If I didn't have many friends, I'm afraid no one would have heard of this."