Chapter 42: Feeding Demons With Humans
"Xiaojiu!"
"Chen Xiaojiu!"
Many Chen family members were holding torches and shouting everywhere in the deserted house.
Chen Sheng stood with his sword in the center of many uncles, looking at the abandoned house by the light of the surrounding torches... After entering, he found that the abandoned house turned out to be the kind of garden-style courtyard where rowing can be done in the legendary courtyard.
From the weeds and broken rocks that spread in the front yard today, we can still vaguely see a bit of the grand occasion in its heyday... It's no wonder that Xiaojiu and Xiaoshi came here from Changningfang to play.
This kind of place, with vegetation, mountains and rocks everywhere, and no adults coming there, is indeed a paradise that children dream of.
Beside him.
Chen Hu, leaning on his sword, looked around at this long-famous haunted house as he did.
It's just that his brows were like flesh balls with knots. The more he looked at them, the more they wrinkled, and the wrinkles became tighter and tighter.
"Da Lang, something is wrong!"
He whispered.
Chen Sheng glanced at him and said quietly in a low voice: "What should I say?"
Chen Hu looked around and shook his head, as if trying to remember something: "I can't explain it, I just feel something is wrong!"
He couldn't explain why.
But Chen Sheng could tell that he was a little uneasy.
Chen Sheng pondered for a moment, and was about to say hello to his uncles who were about to search the backyard, when he suddenly felt a burning sensation in his chest, like an egg that had just been taken out of a boiling pot and rolled into his collar.
A burning sensation.
He hurriedly opened his collar and pulled out the cute tiger head pouch from his underwear. The burning sensation immediately disappeared.
"You don't really believe this thing is useful, do you?"
Chen Hu didn't know why Chen Sheng pulled out this kit, but he knew what it contained, and he immediately showed a dumbfounded expression.
Chen Sheng glanced at him, opened the bag without saying a word, quickly took out the hot peace charm with two fingers and threw it to Chen Hu.
Chen Hu instinctively reached out to pick it up.
However, as soon as the peace charm flew between the two of them, it exploded with a "bang" and ignited into a fireball as big as a bowl.
They were so frightened that they both took a step back.
"I'm sorry, mother!"
This scene finally reminded Chen Hu of something. He let go of the waist knife that was stuck in the soil, grabbed Chen Sheng's sword hand and pulled it out. The sword was immediately unsheathed.
"Gan!"
Chen Sheng was startled by him, "Second uncle, what are you doing?"
Chen Hu did not explain to him, but turned his face and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Brothers, be sure to hold on to the guy in your hands, there is a monster here!"
“I’m a bitch!!”
"Your mother!"
"Damn, we were wondering if some cats, dogs, mice, etc. died around here. It turns out it's the smell of monsters!"
"I haven't smelled this smell in years..."
Chen Hu's sudden shout startled many of the Chen family's clerks, and several of them almost shook off their weapons.
But this chaos was only fleeting.
When everyone came to their senses, they quickly gathered in the direction of Chen Sheng, holding torches high, and tightly surrounded him in the center, with their swords facing outward... It was when they encountered bandits and horse bandits while carrying goods outside that they protected him.
Cargo, embankment is the most commonly used circular formation by the enemy.
"what happened?"
Chen Sheng asked with a straight face and forced himself to be calm.
Chen Hu pulled out his sword and said in a deep voice: "As soon as we entered this courtyard, we felt something was wrong, but after thinking about it for a long time, we couldn't figure out what was wrong... Hey, after all, it has been too long since we returned home, and even the monsters can't even see it.
I can hardly smell the stench anymore!"
But it was the spontaneously burning peace charm that reminded him.
When he was a soldier in the Youzhou Army, he saw a similar scene.
"Monster?"
Chen Sheng caught the key words in his words.
Chen Hu didn't have time to explain to him, so he just nodded and said: "It's not a big problem... Brothers, listen to us, keep the circle formation unchanged, keep your feet steady and push it step by step towards the backyard. This kind of beast has no brains. Find it and chop it down."
Damn it!"
He shouted to the many Chen family uncles around him.
Chen Sheng turned his head and glanced at Chen Hu blankly.
I thought it was dangerous before and refused to come in even if I was alive!
Now you really realize that there is danger here, but you take the initiative to get closer?
What is the logic?
But he opened his mouth and finally closed it.
He tightened the Han Sword in his hand once more, and looked down at the peace charm that was about to be burned to ashes on the ground... Didn't you say that those thieves were charlatans? How could they have such real ability?
…
"Brother Erhu, there is blood here, from today!"
"Brother Erhu, there are leftover chickens and ducks here. They are no more than three days old. Judging from the bite marks, they should be those of wolves and dogs!"
"Fart, look at the lick marks again. Are there barbs on the wolfdog's tongue?"
As soon as they entered the backyard, everyone found the ruins of the collapsed house and found a large number of traces of monsters.
Chen Sheng looked at Chen Hu and whispered: "Second uncle, people are important."
Chen Hu nodded understandingly and said loudly: "Don't worry about the chickens and ducks. Are there any traces of the children?"
The rising and falling sounds stopped for a while.
Soon, a startled and angry voice came from a collapsed house with only half the eaves left: "Brother Erhu, he is here!"
Everyone responded with a "hoo!" and surrounded him.
The bright firelight instantly illuminated this dark corner.
Chen Sheng hurried over, pushed aside the uncles in front of him, squeezed in, and stretched his head to look inside.
"vomit……"
With just one glance, he felt a mouthful of sour water well up in his throat, turned around and rushed to the side to vomit.
What did he see?
Human bones, scattered everywhere, human bones wrapped in rotting flesh and blood!
Blood stains covered the ground and remaining walls like paint.
There are also human body parts scattered on the ground, tattered cloth scattered on the ground...
With just one glance, he saw so much.
With just one glance, his mental defense was directly broken.
At this moment, he suddenly understood why Uncle Xiang Shi was so angry when he heard that he didn't know the demon clan!
Finally understood...
After a while, Chen Hu walked out of the collapsed house with an expressionless face.
Even though he was several feet away, Chen Sheng could smell the extremely suppressed and violent aura emanating from him... like a wounded beast!
"Xiaojiu is gone!"
This was the first thing he said when he walked up to Chen Sheng.
Chen Sheng pursed his lips vigorously. Even though he was mentally prepared, he still couldn't help but feel a little sad when he heard the news.
He and Chen Xiaojiu were not close to each other. After all, the time they got together was short, and the age difference between the two meant they couldn't get along.
But after all, Chen Xiaojiu is the little brother who has been calling him "big brother" for two months...
Just when Chen Sheng was sad and didn't know how to go back and explain to Master Jiu, he heard Chen Hu say again: "He was killed!"
Chen Sheng suddenly raised his head, stared at him closely, and said in a deep voice: "What should I say?"
"There's more than just Xiaojiu inside, there are men and women, old and young."
Chen Hu gritted his steel teeth tightly and squeezed words out from between his teeth: "Most of them died under the mouths of monsters, and their bodies were mutilated. However, Xiaojiu and another little lady's bodies were still hot.
Yes, and there are no bite marks, only a stab wound... straight into the heart!"
"You mean..."
Chen Sheng's mind buzzed, and the hand holding the hilt of the sword suddenly squeaked: "Someone is using people to raise monsters? We found this place, and that person killed the people and fled with the monsters?"
Without saying a word, Chen Hu took out something from his waist and stuffed it into the palm of Chen Sheng's left hand.
Chen Sheng looked down and saw a shiny black animal nail as big as a human finger.
"This is the cat's paw."
Chen Hu said: "The human bones inside were chewed up by wolves and dogs."
"Have you ever seen a cat and a dog hunting together and sharing their prey?"
"Also, there is a horse-tying stone inside. There are traces of the iron rope on it. It's fresh."
He did not say his conclusion, but told Chen Sheng the clues they found one by one, allowing Chen Sheng to make his own judgment.
He knows that his brain is not as good as Chen Sheng's!
"What the hell kind of mule is this? It's such a pure mongrel!"
Chen Sheng also gritted his teeth tightly like him, his eyes almost bursting with fire: "Let's go together, everyone, to find those Yazi, they must know something!"
Chen Hu was startled, frowned and said: "Why don't you report it to the official? This is a big case of using people to feed monsters, and the county government is determined not to stall or slack off!"
"I can't repay it!"
Chen Sheng stiffened his neck and whispered: "If there are too few people left, we won't be able to survive. If too many people leave, we won't be able to hold on here... Don't look around, take Xiaojiu's body with you, let's go!"
The veins on Chen Hu's forehead throbbed violently. He turned around without saying a word and shouted to the many workers surrounding the house: "Take Xiaojiu, let's go home!"
Someone growled lowly: "Brother Erhu..."
They are not women, so no one complains or sighs.
But since they are men, they must repay tooth for tooth and blood debt with blood!
However, before he could say anything, Chen Hu was already snarling angrily: "Listen to me, send Xiaojiu home first... If you have anything to say, let's talk about it after we get out!"
The angry old man seemed to have a subwoofer installed in his chest when he roared. The sound was deep and strong, just like the roar of a tiger.
The torchbearers of the Chen family uncles looked at Chen Hu with his eyes bulging out in anger, and then at Chen Sheng who had his mouth crooked and gritted his steel teeth. After a long silence, someone finally turned around and walked into the Shura field.
, took Chen Xiaojiu out.
Chen Sheng returned the sword to its sheath, stepped forward to take it with both hands, and said softly: "Go home, Xiaojiu, your grandma is still at home waiting for you to spend the night..."
Listening to his words, a group of rough men who didn't even frown when they saw a room full of corpses suddenly turned red.
Chen Sheng carried Chen Xiaojiu and walked out of the deserted house. He said without looking back: "Second uncle, set a fire and burn this place down!"
"Dalang..."
Chen Hu finally couldn't help but call him. There was all evidence here, so just burn it with fire? Wouldn't that mean that he was helping that bastard who should be cut into pieces?
But Chen Sheng didn't look back, and he didn't even stop.
Chen Hu had no choice but to stomp his feet heavily, turned around, took the torch from a waiter beside him, and threw it onto the roof of the dilapidated house.
Sparks splashed onto pieces of old wood that had long been hollowed out, and the fire quickly spread and shot into the sky.
The road out finally became a little brighter.
Chen Sheng still didn't look back.
How could he not know that burning that Shura field would be tantamount to helping the murderer destroy the scene?
But instead of waiting until they left, the bastard came back to destroy the scene.
It would be better for them to send the dead souls in Shura Field away...
"Don't worry!"
He gently patted the half-grown child who was sleeping in his arms, and murmured: "Burn this place, and the eldest brother will find the person who harmed you. Don't leave in a hurry. If the eldest brother finds that bastard, take him."
Chapter completed!