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【Chapter 478, Return to Mass Burial】

Lu Jiuchuan escorted the savage out of the tree house and said, “Which is the closest way to the mass grave? Help us show the way.”

A trace of horror flashed in the eyes of the savage: “What are you going to do to the mass grave?” His eyes clearly said, you don’t want to kill me, and then throw the corpse on the spot in the mass grave, right?

Lu Jiuchuan smiled and patted him on the shoulder: “Don’t worry, we have no grievances against you, and will not kill you. You can lead the way.”

Tang Ci took the initiative to take out a silver coin from his pocket and handed it to him, saying, “This is reward.”

The savage looked at the two men suspiciously. He really didn’t understand the origins of these two. He suddenly stepped on the trap he set and tied him with a rope, threatening him to ask many strange questions. Now let him Leading the way to the mass graves, but also willing to give money?

The savage murmured in his mouth, and took a few steps forward reluctantly, saying, “There are two roads to the mass graves, one is the path in front of the mountain, and the other is on the cliff of the back mountain. Which way do you want to go? ?”

Tang Ci looked at him suspiciously: “The cliff is so high, is there a way to go up?”

The savage explained: “There are vines to climb up, but it is dangerous. I have lived here for more than ten years, and once chased a wild boar to the back mountain, and found there was a long hanging vine, climbing along the vine. You can go straight up to the top of the mountain.”

Lu Jiuchuan nodded, and said, “Please show us both ways.”

The savage took them to Qianshan first.

At the end of the woods, there is a small road that leads directly to the top of the mountain. The road is winding. Fortunately, the road is relatively flat and there are many footprints left by pedestrians. This should be the town’s residents usually go to mass graves. path.

The other road is relatively hidden, bypassing the woods and reaching the back mountain, which happens to be at the bottom of the cliff. There is a large patch of tall and short staggered, strangely shaped stones.

The cliff is so high into the clouds that it is difficult to see the top of the mountain from the bottom, and the view will be blocked by thick white fog.

As the savage said, there was indeed a vine hanging down from the top of the mountain. They stood on the edge of the cliff last night. It was late at night and the light was too dim. Everyone did not notice the existence of this vine.

Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci looked at each other. Lu Jiuchuan temporarily tied the savage next to a tree and said, “Thank you, let’s climb up and take a look. We will let you down later.”

It wasn’t that he wanted to embarrass the stranger, I was afraid that if he let him go now, it would be troublesome if this guy attracts the killer. Lu Jiuchuan simply went down with a knife and knocked the savage to the ground.

He grabbed the vine and pulled it forcefully, and said in a low voice to Tang, “I’ll climb up, you can wait for me to transmit here.”

Tang Ci said, “I will go up with you.”

Lu Jiuchuan shook his head: “Climbing along the vines is too dangerous. What’s more, there are many sharp rocks on this cliff. What if you get hurt if you knock or touch it?”

Tang Ci still wanted to argue, Lu Jiuchuan stopped him with a gesture with a smile: “Xiao Tang, you are looking at this Orion here, and you can communicate with your voice headset whenever you have a situation.”

Tang Ci had no choice but to give up and exhorted: “Then you are more careful.”

It is not easy to climb a cliff as high as 3,000 meters, but Lu Jiuchuan has liked the sport of “rock climbing” since he was a child and was very interested in the cliffs in front of him. In fact, he can fly directly on the Suzaku. The reason for climbing himself is to verify whether he can reach the top of the mountain smoothly along the vine.

If it can, it means that someone deliberately placed this vine for escape.

Lu Jiuchuan quickly tied a ring around the waist with the end of the vine, grasped the vine with both hands, kicked his long legs on the cliff, and quickly climbed up. The man was extremely agile. Tang Ci raised his head and saw that in a blink of an eye, he had already climbed several tens of meters.

Tang Ci held down the earphone and said, “You go straight up like this, what if someone cuts off your vine on the top of the mountain?”

Lu Jiuchuan smiled and said: “Then I will ride the Suzaku to escape, or just go back to Peach Blossom Spring. Don’t worry, I know it in my heart.”

Tang Ci looked up at his back. Soon, that figure turned into a small black spot in the field of vision.

Gradually, Lu Jiuchuan’s figure was obscured by the white mist and disappeared. On the contrary, a lot of rubble was trampled down by Lu Jiuchuan and crashed into the valley.

I don’t know how long it took, Lu Jiuchuan’s voice came from the earphones: “I’ve reached the top of the mountain, things are not right.”

Tang Ci’s heart tightened, and he hurriedly said, “If it’s dangerous, please withdraw first.”

Yu Hanjiang also asked on the voice channel: “Are you surrounded by zombies? If there are too many zombies, try to retreat and find a way.”

Lu Jiuchuan shook his head and said, “It’s not that there are too many zombies, but that there are no zombies on the top of the mountain.”

When everyone heard this, they all stunned. Xiao Lou took the lead in reacting: “They went back to the mass grave? Or is there a crisis in the secret room only at night?”

Lu Jiuchuan said, “It might be at night. I am in a mass grave. There are rotting corpses everywhere. These things have not changed. I haven’t seen the tombstones from last night.”

He placed Li Qingzhao’s mark nearby and said: “Wait 5 minutes, I will pull you over.”

Five minutes later, a teleportation reminder appeared in front of everyone. Xiao Lou said to his teammates: “Everyone, stay in the inn, and Hanjiang and I will go to the mass grave. After checking the clues, Mr. Shao will use another Li Qingzhao to pull us together. Come back.”

Shao Qingge said: “Understand, you are careful.”

The screen flashed, and Xiao Lou, Yu Hanjiang, and Tang Ci instantly teleported to the top of the mountain.

Xiao Lou took a closer look – as Brother Jiu said, there are indeed no traces of zombies here, but there are quite a few rotten corpses thrown on the ground in a mess. Some of the corpses were gnawed by eagles and dogs, and there was a smell of rotting corpses everywhere.

Compared with the zombie group last night, the mass graves during the day were not much better. The only advantage is that these things will not actively attack them.

Tang Ci covered his nose and mouth with his sleeves, and said, “This is what the mass graves really look like, right? We entered last night, was another copy?”

Yu Hanjiang said: “It seems that this secret room alternates between day and night. Everything is normal during the day. At night, the mass grave will crawl out of zombies, and the town will become a ghost town… The challenger is forcibly teleported into the survival dungeon.”

Xiao Loudao: “It’s much better than I thought. If there are no zombies, it will be convenient for us to investigate and collect evidence.”

Looking at the corpses all over the floor, Xiao Lou stepped over the corpse with a calm expression.

There were no rubber gloves in the ancient world. He used scissors to cut out Yu Hanjiang’s white damask, and temporarily made two pairs of white cloth gloves. Lu Jiuchuan teased beside him: “Professor Xiao can not only make hand warmers and parasols, but also sew?”

Xiao Lou helpless: “I was forced.”

He put on cloth gloves, lifted his clothes and walked quickly into the mass grave, looking for the target.

What he was looking for was the welcoming team from three years ago. These people were all dressed in red, so they were easier to find. Not many of the corpses in the mass graves were dressed in red, but dozens of them gathered together were very eye-catching.

Yu Hanjiang pointed not far away and said, “It’s over there.”

The four of them walked quickly, and dozens of red-clothed corpses were thrown together in a pile of rubbish. Among them, the one wearing a phoenix crown and dressing up should be Zhao Zean, the married bride of the Zhao family.

Xiao Lou squatted aside and looked at the surface of the corpse.

“Judging from the appearance of the body’s decay and plaques, the time of death was 3 years ago, which can be matched. As for the cause of death, I have to check it in detail.” He motioned to Yu Hanjiang to help turn the body over and check it carefully. After a while, he said: “There are no signs of sharp stabbings, no signs of poisoning, and no signs of being strangled…”

A group of people walked to the mass graves in the middle of the night as if they had lost their souls. This incident itself was weird.

Now that the corpse was found, the cause of death could not be determined, which also made Xiao Lou very puzzled.

He frowned and said: “The corpse was left in the mass grave for three years in the wind and sun, and was eaten by wild beasts. The evidence has long been destroyed… But judging from the expressions of some well-preserved corpses. Most of the deceased showed horror on their faces, as if they had seen something terrifying them before they died.”

Lu Jiuchuan interrupted, “Could it be that he was scared to death?”

Xiao Lou earnestly analyzed and said: “When a person is strongly stimulated, the sympathetic nerve will produce a stress response. The body releases a large amount of adrenaline, which causes the heartbeat to suddenly increase, arrhythmia, and blood pressure… In theory, it is possible for a person to be affected. Scared to death. But usually, people who are scared to death have basic cardiovascular diseases. Healthy people with a normal heart can hardly be scared to death. When they are extremely scared, they are at most fainting.”

Yu Hanjiang nodded in agreement: “So many people are scared to death at the same time, and there are many young people among them. It shouldn’t be possible.”

Lu Jiuchuan wondered: “Then what was the cause of their death?”

Looking at the corpse on the ground, Xiao Lou suddenly remembered a key clue—the origin of the mass grave.

The famine 20 years ago caused many people in the town to starve to death, and their bodies were randomly discarded on the mountain, forming this large area of mass graves.

If the murderer killed people in the mass graves out of a kind of “retaliation”, would he let these people starve to death?

Thinking of this, Xiao Lou whispered: “Han Jiang, help me. I want to dissect a best-preserved corpse and see if I can find the cause of death.”

Lu Jiuchuan: “…”

Dissecting the corpse in the mass grave, Xiao Lou was really brave enough.

Yu Hanjiang was familiar with Xiao Lou’s behavior. He put on the gloves made by Xiao Lou, and calmly lifted a female corpse to the flat ground next to him. This corpse was exactly what he had chatted with in the small town last night. That maid wore the red embroidered shoes that Xiao Lou was familiar with.

Since she was covered by other corpses, she was not eaten by beasts, so she is the best preserved.

Xiao Lou took out a dagger and quickly slit open her abdomen.

The blood of the corpse that had been dead for three years had already dried up. Xiao Lou skillfully cut through the skin and cut open her internal organs – sure enough, the stomach was empty, without any remaining digestives.

Yu Hanjiang also noticed that something was wrong. He often saw various corpses when handling cases. After most autopsy, there were digestive residues in the stomach. Because normal people eat every day, and stomach emptying itself takes a long time, if the deceased ate some indigestible food before death, it is possible that complete food can be found in the stomach after death.

Once a person dies, the gastrointestinal tract will stop moving.

In other words, as long as a person dies after eating a meal, and the food in the stomach has not been completely digested, there must be residues in the stomach of the corpse. Some people who died from poisoning can also find evidence from the stomach residue.

But this corpse, not only the stomach but also the duodenum was empty.

It’s as if you haven’t eaten for a few days?

In order to make sure, Xiao Lou found another well-preserved cadaver for autopsy, and the result was still the same.

He looked at Yu Hanjiang and said with confidence: “I know the cause of their deaths-these people should have been brought to the mass graves by the murderer, and what methods were used to control them, and then starve to death. Fear and starvation, so Such expressions appear on their faces, and their bodies are generally thin.”

Yu Hanjiang nodded and said: “It seems that the famine 20 years ago was really problematic. The murderer deliberately led so many people to the mass graves to starve to death, obviously in revenge. Could he have a relative, 20 years ago? Starved to death?”

Lu Jiuchuan sighed helplessly, and said, “It’s too difficult to find out, right? There were so many people who starved to death 20 years ago, and thousands of corpses were piled up in mass graves. Whose descendants came back to retaliate? How should we find it?”