A black carriage that was about to set off was stopped by Ka Xiu. He stepped up and signaled to the members of the "A" organization of spades who were acting as coachmen that they could set off. In the cold-toned carriage, Hong Kong, who was originally closing his eyes to relax.
Ya opened her eyes.
"Wind Xiang? Why are you up here?"
"I will go with you."
Ka Xiu found a comfortable position and sat down.
"Fine."
Hongya frowned, but didn't object.
First, Ka Xiu also went to Mensa Village, and Shiratiao must have known and approved of it. Second, although the two had had some minor disputes, Hongya had to admit that Ka Xiu was very powerful in combat. And it was definitely not that
Plant so-called pig teammates.
With him joining, it might be smoother this time.
Soon, the carriage began to move forward. At the beginning, it was still flat, and you could leisurely look at the scenery on both sides.
Later, the road became bumpy. After all, this place was far away from the urban area of Heisha City. They were heading further to the suburbs. After the artificially paved road ended, it was the kind of dirt road that was full of potholes and muddy after rain.
That kind of.
Fortunately, I had the foresight to use a horse-drawn carriage. If the car couldn't drive here, it would probably break down halfway.
Ka Xiu has been sitting by the window looking out. The scenery on both sides has changed from the green trees at the beginning to the hilly terrain. There is a large area of eye-catching green grass, mixed with flowers of various colors. Red, white, yellow.
, there are all kinds of pink ones.
Bees dance and butterflies fly.
The wind blowing in your face carries the fragrance of summer flowers.
About half an hour later, the carriage stopped next to a slope. Card Xiu and Hongya walked down from it. They were surrounded by a sea of flowers, and their ears were filled with the buzzing sound of bees.
Looking to the right, you can see a winding silver ribbon nearly a hundred meters away, which is a tributary of the Mim River.
The village of Mensa is on the edge of this tributary.
Obviously, the village was built on water.
Kaxiu's current location has not yet reached Mensa Village. The reason why he got off the car is because the road ahead has long been gone. Decades have been enough for various weeds to bury the original road.
So the next few kilometers can only be walked on foot.
After determining the general direction, Kaxiu and Hongya set off.
When you approach Mensa Village, people from the assassination department will naturally gather around you. Two people are obviously not enough to investigate a village.
About ten o'clock in the morning.
Card Xiu and Hong Ya walked through the grass all the way to the top of a gentle slope. Standing here, they could see the outline of the village in the distance.
"Whoosh!"
Card Xiu suddenly stretched out two fingers and pinched an insect flying next to him. Then, he spread it out in the palm of his hand.
Hongya looked over curiously.
This is a black and white butterfly, about half the size of a palm. The symmetrical antennae are very long and curled together like antennas.
The pattern on the wings is like a ghost face.
"What's wrong?" Hong Ya looked up at Ka Xiu again.
He saw Ka Xiu lowering his head and studying very carefully.
"Take a closer look." Ka Xiu didn't even raise his head.
Hongya lowered his head again and suddenly made a confused sound.
This black-and-white butterfly has two heads, and a head is located where the butt should be. The black tentacles are as long as a person's middle finger, and they twitch like a snail.
"These...are they really not two butterflies?" Hongya asked.
Ka Xiu immediately raised his hand and tore off all the butterfly wings, leaving only a long worm-like body.
There is only one branch, but the head and tail are located at the beginning and end.
"It seems that this place is indeed a little weird..."
Hongya frowned and glanced up at the sky. The weather that was originally cloudy suddenly turned dark, and the dark clouds were low, a bit like it was going to rain later.
"Let's take a look at Mensa Village first." Kaxiu threw the butterfly to the ground, and the two of them walked towards it again. When they were almost approaching, several people gathered around them.
"Lord Red Fang, Lord Wind Elephant."
These are all brothers from the assassination department. They are all dressed in black and have a sharp temperament. The joints of their right hands are full of calluses.
Apparently some experienced gun users.
"Yeah." Hongya responded, and then said: "Have you found anything new so far? Are there any brothers inside?" As he spoke, he glanced at the abandoned village.
"No new discoveries have been made yet." A gunman replied.
"There are two brothers inside, guarding the two buildings where the five brothers from the intelligence department disappeared." Another gunman said.
"Yeah." Hongya nodded.
"Let's go in and take a look." Ka Xiu said from the side.
Immediately, the tall and thin gunman who spoke first led the way, and Cassius Red Fang followed behind.
Mensa Village is located at the foot of a mountain. There are houses, some single-story and some double-story. The whole is white and black, the white is the wall, and the black is the traces of decay caused by the wind and rain after the wall ash peeled off.
.You can see that these small square buildings are covered with various vines and plants.
The tender green leaves sway in the wind, like door curtains.
Not only the walls, but also the roads originally built inside the village were overgrown with weeds, and plump grass seeds scattered to the ground in the wind.
Mensa Village is very quiet, not even the chirping of birds, only the faint footsteps of Kaxiu and his party walking. There are occasional dilapidated scenes as far as the eye can see. The walls of some buildings have collapsed, and some have broken walls, revealing messy buildings.
courtyard.
Between the gaps between the vines, dark windows flashed across everyone's sight from time to time, and the wind made a whistling sound. There was an inexplicable feeling of being here, but it was normal, after all, this was a deserted village.
Passing a corner ahead.
Hongya glanced at it and suddenly said: "Is there a fire here?"
The entire street ahead was stained by smoke and fire, and blackness crawled all over the walls and ground like mold.
The two big trees on both sides of the road showed signs of dryness. It was obviously the time when the leaves were blooming in summer, but they were completely bare. The bark of the trees was abnormally wrinkled, giving people a sense of silence that they were about to die.
"Huh? You were fine this morning..."
The leading gunman also looked puzzled.
Ka Xiu frowned. He felt a chill in his pores as he stood on this street, which made people very uncomfortable.
"Huh? There are traces of battle here."
Hongya suddenly pointed to the wall on the right and said.
Ka Xiu immediately walked over and squatted next to him.
This wall was originally uneven and full of pits. But now there are many black parts on the surface, so the white color of the craters is more conspicuous. You can spot it if you look carefully. There are four or five bullet holes in the entire wall, some of which penetrated the wall, and some of which were bullet holes.
pit.
"It looks like it was left there not long ago..." Hongya touched the jagged edge of the pit and looked up: "Did you hear the gunfire?"
"No." Three or four gunmen said in unison.
"The area around Mensa Village is relatively open and quiet. If someone really fires a gun, it can be heard clearly within a radius of several kilometers. If someone fires a gun, it's impossible for us not to know about it."
The tall and thin gunman explained.
"That's weird..." Hongya glanced at Card Xiu.
Ka Xiu also looked a little confused.
"Two adults, there are still discoveries here."
A gunman in front of the road turned around and said hello.
When everyone walked over, they saw at first sight the strange ghost symbols on the wall, which looked like very ugly graffiti.
"This should have been dug out with fingernails, and it extends all the way to the ground..." Hongya picked at the white wall plaster under her fingernails.
Ka Xiu's eyes shifted.
There were several long nail marks on the ground.
It extended diagonally all the way and stopped suddenly when it cut off about two-thirds of the road. It looked like a person with a strong desire to survive was grabbing the ground with both hands, but was dragged away by a monster.
However, there was no trace of blood on the ground.
And imaginary monster paw prints?
"..." Hongya squinted his eyes and glanced around, especially at some dark windows. But nothing happened, except that the sky was darker than before.
"Perhaps the group in Shachen are playing tricks to buy time for the transfer of the antique warehouse." Hongya guessed.
"Don't worry about it for now. Let's go to the small building where the intelligence department personnel disappeared to check the situation." After Hongya ordered, the tall and thin gunman continued to lead everyone towards the back of the village quickly.
About three minutes later, several people stopped.
In front of you is a relatively complete two-story building, covered with dense ivy. Outside is a white wall, and the wooden fence has rotted and cannot act as a barrier.
Everyone walked in directly.
The leading gunman was the first to enter the lobby on the first floor and shouted: "Jamie, two adults, Red Fang and Feng Xiang, are here."
However, no one responded.
"Jamie! Jamie!"
Only the gunman's voice echoed throughout the small building.
"Jamie, he..."
"Let's go up and have a look." Hongya and the tall and thin man looked at each other and immediately took the lead and walked up the old stairs.
The paint on the wooden handrails has peeled off, and there is a thick layer of dust on the surface. Some places have rotted, broken and fallen.
On the second floor, the air is full of dust. The inside of the house is relatively dark, and it seems that the original owners have not moved all the furniture. Now it is covered with spider webs, giving it a pale color.
"Where are the people?"
Four or five gunmen searched all the rooms, but still could not find any trace of Jamie, and it was useless to rummage through the cabinets. Card Xiu walked to the balcony step by step and looked around from a distance.
After a while.
Dead buildings stand one after another without any trace of people. Even the chirping of birds has disappeared here.
There were one or two gunmen in the yard below, and there were also gunmen in black walking through the streets around the house. They were exploring the situation around the house, and Jamie might be around.
Ka Xiu stood on the threshold from the living room to the balcony on the second floor. He picked up his pocket watch and took a look at the time. It was less than half past ten.
Crunch~
Suddenly there was the sound of the door opening from behind.
"Hongya, tell them to stop looking. Go directly to another building. I have a bad feeling." Card Xiu put down his pocket watch.
"Okay." Hongya's deep voice came from behind.
Then there was a series of thumping sounds coming downstairs.
Card Xiu stuffed his pocket watch into his pocket and was about to turn around. He suddenly saw something out of the corner of his eye and was startled.
Card Xiu suddenly looked at it, and saw two people talking on the street to the east of the house. One of them was the tall and thin man who led the way before, and the other one was... Hongya! That just now...
He turned his head sharply and stared straight at the black corridor.
"Hongya" just agreed and then went all the way.
boom!
Ka Xiu instantly turned into a black shadow and swept down, very fast. He suddenly turned and stepped forward, reaching the first floor.
At the door, a gunman was about to step out.
"Wait!" Ka Xiu called him back, his tone was very solemn: "Did you just see Hongya coming down from above?"
"Lord Hongya? Isn't Lord Hongya outside?"
The short-haired man pointed to the door with a confused expression.
"..." Ka Xiu's frown deepened.
"Let me do another quick check of the rooms on the first floor!"
A few seconds later, he walked out of an empty room with a stone-faced look on his face. There was nothing there, just like when he first came in.
Then who was talking to me on the second floor just now?!
Ka Xiu's perception is not as sharp as usual. It has been mutated by the fusion of demons and shadows, plus he has just started to learn the secret technique of the mind's eye.
A relatively familiar person didn't speak and just walked behind him. Card Xiu could also guess the identity of that person.
And the aura is exactly the same as Hongya's.
"Shadow?!"
The only guess Card Xiu can think of now is this.
There is absolutely no way that this was just an illusion!
But, here comes the problem again. People of the same kind are quite sensitive to each other. If it was the Demon Shadow Ka Xiu, he would have noticed it long ago.
"Sir?" The gunman next to him saw that Kaxiu had been standing there in a daze, thinking deeply and not speaking, so he couldn't help but ask.
Whoosh!
A black shadow quickly swept out of the door and disappeared.
Card Xiu quickly passed by the wooden fence and came to the street east of the house. Hongya seemed to be giving the tall man something.
"Red Fang."
Five meters away, Ka Xiu suddenly shouted.
"Wind Xiang? What's wrong?"
Hongya turned his head and saw a strong wind blowing in his face. The strong airflow pushed Hongya's hair away from the center of his forehead to both sides. uuReading www.uukanshu.com A black fist in the airflow quickly magnified in his sight.
"you!"
Hongya screamed in horror.
call!
The fist stopped in mid-air at the critical moment, and the veined fist surface was less than half a centimeter away from the bridge of Hongya's nose.
"Gulu."
Hongya stayed where he was and swallowed a mouthful of saliva. He felt fear again, the fear of being punched in the head.
If this punch is not strong enough, you will die!
"what are you doing?"
Hongya took several steps back. She was originally furious and wanted to question Card Xiu, but for some reason she lost the confidence to get angry.
He was afraid of angering Ka Xiu, and he was really punched to death.
"It seems you are serious..." Card Xiu slowly retracted his fist. He opened his mouth and was about to explain to Hong Ya, when his loose fist suddenly clenched again. His palm covered with veins creaked.
It was still on this street. Five meters away from Hong Ya, a very familiar short-haired man was walking towards both sides of the street.