When the book-traveling little detective meets the two-faced prince

Except for the mountains, almost everything is hidden in the fog. It feels like you are walking on the fog, and there are stars and the moon shining brightly above your head. If you were not in such a situation, you would really feel like you are in a fairyland on earth.

After walking for a distance among the trees, the three mountains that were originally visible in front of us appeared above the thick fog. Because their positions and directions had changed, the scenery in front of us also changed.

The three mountains they saw just now were gradually blocked by the two mountains in front as they moved.

The three mountains are not arranged in parallel, but roughly form a right triangle.

The mountain behind is almost perpendicular to the mountain on the left in front, and the third mountain behind is shorter and is easily blocked by the mountain in front.

Therefore, when standing on the opposite side of the lake and facing the lake island, the third mountain that is almost perpendicular to the front is difficult to detect. Only at a certain angle can you see the mountain behind.

Under the leadership of Xiao Yihuo, the two men arrived at the location where Qingchuan and others were, but they did not see anyone.

Lin Lezhi squatted down and pushed aside the weeds nearby. He moved the tinder closer and found traces of a white snake crawling in the weeds, with bits of snake skin hanging in the weeds.

"It seems that they encountered a snake, so they had to leave here."

Lin Lezhi observed the situation around him and saw Xiao Yihuo standing beside him with a worried look on his face. Lin Lezhi took a deep breath and comforted him, "I checked the ground and didn't see any blood. I'm sure they left safely. Don't worry."

"Ah."

"Since there have been snakes here, we can't stay here any longer."

Lin Lezhi thought for a moment, then stood up and said, "When I came here just now, I saw that this place is not far from the village. The village is high and the fog rises slower. There are soldiers guarding it. They may have gone to the village. Now we can't stay here anymore. Let's go to the village and take a look."

"it is good."

Thanks to their Qinggong skills, they didn't have to fly through the mountains and forests like headless flies, and they soon arrived at the entrance of the village.

When we arrived at the entrance of the village, we saw fog floating everywhere in the village, but it was less foggy than in the forest and the visibility was also higher.

The guarding soldiers were no longer standing at the entrance of the village. They must be guarding the courtyard of that house as Cheng Su said.

The two walked along the road towards the village, paying attention to any sounds in the surrounding grass along the way. Apart from their own breathing, the only sound was the rustling of the weeds under their feet.

When they were almost at the highest house, Lin Lezhi stared at the open door, frowned slightly and whispered, "Don't you think this village is too quiet?"

Xiao Yihuo glanced at Lin Lezhi and said in a deep voice, "Indeed."

They were almost at the door, and the noise of their footsteps should have been heard by the soldiers guarding the yard, but no one came out and no one was heard talking.

The two of them looked at each other with gloomy eyes, and hurried to the courtyard. When they saw the situation in the courtyard, their eyes became even gloomier.

The soldiers who stayed behind in the courtyard fell on both sides of the coffin. One of them was very close to the coffin and fell on his back facing the coffin with a look of horror on his face.

The other one was a little further away from the coffin and fell with his back to it.

There was a fire in the yard, but it had been extinguished.

The two men took a few quick steps to the front of the two soldiers, stretched out their fingers to feel their breath, and found that both of them were already dead, with expressions of fear on their faces, as if they had discovered something terrifying.

Lin Lezhi touched the body of the soldier in front of him, then looked at Xiao Yihuo and said with a sullen look in his eyes: "The body is stiff all over, and the area around the eyes and lips is dark. He has been dead for at least three hours."

"Three hours ago, wasn't that when we were in the Hundred Bone Pit? Who could it be?"

As he spoke, Xiao Yihuo lowered his eyes and thought, "It took three hours to dig the Hundred Bone Pit, and it takes about an hour and a half to go back and forth from the village to the Hundred Bone Pit. If you are familiar with the forest or have some skills, it can be done faster. Anyone who didn't go to the Hundred Bone Pit is suspicious, including the two soldiers who stayed in the Doll Cave, Zhou Yuanliang and Qiao Ying, and then..."

Xiao Yihuo looked at Lin Lezhi, his eyes darkened and he said slowly: "Guo Yong."

Guo Yong behaved very strangely after he went down the well. He fled after seeing the ghost fire. Among the people who ran away, only Guo Yong was not found.

Lin Lezhi said thoughtfully, "Qiao Ying and the others stayed in the puppet cave. If someone left, it would be hard to go unnoticed. It shouldn't be them. The only one who completely disappeared from everyone's sight and never appeared again was Guo Yong. However, it wasn't a human who hurt them."

"not human?"

"Ah."

Lin Lezhi replied softly, then turned the two soldiers' necks over to a position where Xiao Yihuo could see clearly that there were two tiny holes between the two soldiers' necks, and blood was flowing out of the holes.

When Lin Lezhi turned over like this, some blood gushed out again.

"It's a snake."

"That's right." Lin Lezhi put the body down steadily, then looked at Xiao Yihuo and said, "Although it wasn't a human who hurt them, this doesn't rule out Guo Yong as a suspect. After all, the snake only appeared after Guo Yong left. If there is any way to control the snake, it's not impossible to kill people thousands of miles away."

Lin Lezhi turned his gaze to Wu Sanshan's body in the corner not far from the coffin, and continued: "Just like Wu Sanshan's death, it was also a murder thousands of miles away under the careful calculation of the murderer, and the murderer did not need to be present."

"But..." Lin Lezhi looked at the location of the fire and said, "Although the location where they built the fire is not far from here, it is still quite far away. If we want to run, we should run to the door."

As he spoke, Lin Lezhi turned his eyes back to the coffin in front of the corpse, his eyes darkening.

The coffin was closed when they left.

And now, a crack has been opened in the coffin.

Lin Lezhi lowered his eyes and said in a deep voice: "There must be a reason why the two of them came near this coffin."

Hearing this, the two looked at each other, then stood up and looked towards the gap in the coffin.

As soon as he approached, a snake flew out from the gap like lightning, hissing, and bit Lin Lezhi's neck. Lin Lezhi quickly turned sideways, and at the same time, Xiao Yihuo almost simultaneously split the snake in half with his sword.

Then he used his inner strength to lift the coffin lid open. Inside the coffin containing the corpse, there were nearly twenty slender white snakes coiled around.

After seeing the two people, they all arched their bodies in an attacking posture, spitting out their tongues and making threatening hissing sounds.

After seeing the snakes, Lin Lezhi took a step back. He had just said goodbye to a group of snakes when another group of snakes came.

It’s not over yet!

Lin Lezhi tensed his body and stared at the snakes in front of him. He was a little emotionally broken, mainly because he was a little scared and didn't want to fight these things anymore.

Seeing Xiao Yihuo standing nearby, Lin Lezhi had a helpless expression on his face. He gritted his teeth and grumbled, "...Xiao Fox, they were staying well in there. Why did you dig up their nest? Why did you have to show off your skills at this time?"