Lily's arm strength should be her only advantage. No matter which way the door opens, she can push it open. After she violently dismantled the heavy door of the family hall, Vivian summoned a gust of wind to blow away the blocking door.
The dust mist in front of everyone's eyes and the thick smell of blood assaulting their nostrils gave a clear view of the situation in the hall.
Hao Ren was not surprised to see the same tragic situation outside, and he finally found the missing main members of the demon hunter group.
The hall was in a mess. The corpses of dead Ancatero family members and demon hunters were piled up in confusion. The dark yellow and black red blood had long dried up and turned into large disgusting stains on the floor and walls.
Among the corpses, a large number of table and chair fragments and broken bowls and plates were scattered on the ground, and traces of a banquet could also be seen on the damaged long table.
The vaulted ceiling of the hall was blasted with a hole by some powerful magic, and the chaotic skylight spilled into the hall from the hole, coating everything in the hall with an ominous dim light.
"These should be the demon hunters brought here by the elder Amtura. It seems that there are no survivors," Lily covered her nose and walked in the Shura field, her tail raised high unconsciously, for fear of getting caught in the fur.
Stained with blood, "Many of them were killed by their own people."
Hao Ren and Vivian inspected the nearest corpses together. He found traces of burns from a high-heat weapon on a middle-aged demon hunter, and found something like shrapnel from the wound of the deceased, but this demon hunter
The direct cause of death was a hole in his forehead. Judging from the residual magic power around the hole, it was caused by a holy silver crossbow arrow.
Vivian put her hand over the body of the demon hunter. A thin blood-red mist slowly floated on the corpse: "Seventeen wounds, seven of them came from the demon hunter's weapons. The other ten wounds should be
The fatal injuries were caused by the Tana people's thermal guns and radiation weapons. No trace of shadow residue was found. In addition, based on the conditions of other deceased people around them, the order of their death should be..."
Vivian professionally restored the battle situation that happened here a month ago. Hao Ren looked at her with some surprise: "I didn't expect you to be quite experienced in autopsies and case analysis?"
"After all, I've seen a lot," Vivian said calmly, "and I deal with blood after all. The secrets of the deceased will be hidden in the blood."
At this time, a warm and genial light suddenly rose from the side. Hesperus seemed to be transformed into a light source, summoning warm light to dispel the cold atmosphere lingering in the hall. At the same time, her eyes fell on the broken cups in the hall.
On the plates, tables and chairs: "They probably got into a fight suddenly during the banquet."
Not only was there a scene of melee between witchers and Tana people, but also a banquet table and a large amount of rotten food. Although it is difficult for ordinary people to believe that a banquet would be held when witchers and aliens walked together. But the evidence here is
There is no doubt that Hao Ren remembered the information he got from Bai Huo: "It seems like what Bai Huo said, the elder Amtura brought the demon hunter here for a peaceful visit."
"And the Ancatero family also held a banquet to entertain these demon hunters," Wayne looked at the broken long tables. "The accident should have happened in the middle of the banquet. It should be that the seal of the family's suppression suddenly failed, and the Shadow of Chaos came out to attack.
He killed the people in the secret realm, leading to this big melee."
"Do you think this is a coincidence or someone did it deliberately?" Yzaks asked in a deep voice, "In my opinion, if this is a coincidence, the timing is simply too coincidental. The Ancatero family has guarded the seal for thousands of years.
There were no accidents, so why did the banquet get out of control when the demon hunter came to visit and the banquet between the two parties was halfway through? It seems that it was specifically waiting for everyone to be present before taking action."
Hesperius nodded slightly: "I think so too. It must be human factors that destroyed the seal."
"But could it be them?" Vivian pointed to the dead demon hunters. "All the demon hunters have died here. I'm afraid there are no survivors in the entire secret realm. If it was a man-made accident, the person who did it would
He probably died here too."
Wayne, like most orthodox aliens, has a huge prejudice and hostility towards demon hunters, so he subconsciously wants to shift all the blame to the latter: "Maybe this is their plan, in order to eliminate the aliens.
They can pay any price, even a suicide attack..."
"Let three elders lead a group of masters to carry out a suicide attack? Just to wipe out an uncontested family?" Vivian glanced at Wayne indifferently. "Use your brain. What did you do to the Athens Asylum?"
Only two elders took part in the attack. It was still a frontal war."
Wayne was suddenly at a loss for words, but he still tried hard to find a suitable reason for this accusation: "Maybe it's an extremist among the demon hunters. Maybe this was unplanned by them."
"Could some extremist destroy the seal while no one is paying attention..." Vivian didn't agree with this statement, "Then the seal is too unreliable."
"The key now is to find the original location of the seal," Hesperius interrupted Vivian and Wayne, "to figure out where the Shadow of Chaos originally came from."
"Just find where the original battlefield was," Vivian nodded. "This hall seems to be very suspicious - if the chaos first came from other places, the elders and leaders in this hall
They should have run out to control the situation as soon as possible, but now it seems that all high-level demon hunters and family elders are dead in the hall, so the initial melee should be here, and then spread to other parts of the secret realm."
Yzaks raised his eyebrows: "Maybe the original location of the seal was in this hall... or underground in the hall?"
Hesperius mentioned from the side: "It is also possible that a certain 'action' that led to the destruction of the seal took place in the hall, so this became the outlet for the Shadow of Chaos."
In any case, this hall should hide the biggest clue that cannot be escaped. Hao Ren and the others continued to check every dead person and every trace of battle in the hall with great care, hoping to get rid of this chaos.
The scene of the moment when the accident happened a month ago was restored in the situation.
Hao Ren noticed that Wayne was not far from him, so he asked casually: "By the way, do you know what the patriarch of the Ancatero family looks like?"
Wayne didn't seem to hear Hao Ren's words, but frowned with confusion on his face: "Strange..."
Hao Ren raised his voice: "What's so strange? What's going on with Chief Ancatero?"
Only then did Wayne notice the people around him and quickly explained: "It seems that there is no body of the patriarch here."
"You said the patriarch of the Ancatero family is not here?" Hao Ren couldn't hide his surprise, "Are you sure?"
"His body hasn't been found yet," Wayne frowned, "It stands to reason that he must be here. The leader of the party must appear at this kind of party."
Hao Ren rubbed his eyebrows, and while guessing the whereabouts of the clan leader, he asked again: "Has anyone found the bodies of the three elder demon hunters?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Elizabeth shouting not far away: "Uncle Ren, Uncle Ren, there is one over here! It's Amtura!"
Everyone was greeted by the little devil and found a strong gray-haired demon hunter dead under a golden pillar. He was sitting with his back against the pillar, his eyes half-open and half-closed looking at the hole in the ceiling.
The blood has dried, and the old hunter is holding a silver dagger in his hand, but strangely there is no blood on the dagger: he did not seem to use this weapon to kill the enemy at the last moment of his life.
"Is this Amtura?" Hao Ren felt that this old hunter did not look like an ordinary demon hunter from his clothes to his aura, but he didn't know how little Elizabeth recognized it. "How are you sure?"
The little devil pointed at the dagger in the old hunter's hand: "His name is engraved on it!"
Hao Ren groaned, lowered his head to check if Amtura had left any clues, and suddenly found something strange on the pillar behind him: "Wait a minute, there seems to be something hidden behind his body."
As he spoke, he pushed the old hunter's body aside. Sure enough, there was a line of scrawled words on the pillar:
"They were right, we were wrong."
The words are engraved on it, and there is no doubt that they were left by the bloodless dagger in Amtura's hand. (To be continued...)