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

In an instant, everyone present turned their eyes to the person who spoke.

Jiang Lian'an came over with a serious look in his eyes and said, "This morning when I returned to the village, I saw bloodstains in the woods and went to take a look. That location is indeed the only way to the village."

"It must be the murderer. The murderer wants to kill all of us!"

After hearing what Jiang Lian'an said, a soldier beside him immediately shouted in agitation, and another soldier next to him guessed, "Could it be the water ghost from last night?"

"what are you guys saying?"

He Yu, who was reading a book intently, was so frightened when he heard Cheng Su's low voice that he immediately stuffed the book into his clothes, climbed up from the ground and stood up straight.

The soldier who was with Liu Yunhe last night told Cheng Su truthfully about his experience last night.

After hearing this, Cheng Su's eyes darkened.

"General, I have a suspicion regarding the phosphorus powder."

"who?"

Jiang Lian calmed down, took a deep breath and said slowly: "County Magistrate Chang."

"what!"

After these words were spoken, not only Cheng Su, but also the people around him showed expressions of disbelief, while Lin Lezhi on the side showed a look of doubt.

"Why do you say that?"

"I'm not sure either, but County Magistrate Chang has appeared in the place where the white smoke rises, and he was also the first person to discover the Yin Fire. Although the Yin Fire often appears in cemeteries, I said at the inn that there is a condition that must be met for the Yin Fire to appear. General, do you remember what it is?"

Cheng Su stared and thought for a moment, then said, "Summer."

"Yes, it is summer. To be more precise, a heat source is needed. When the weather is hot, the woods will also be very hot and stuffy, so the conditions for the appearance of Yin Fire are met. If this condition can be met, Yin Fire can also appear in other seasons."

"fire?"

"Yes, it was fire." Jiang Lian'an confirmed Cheng Su's guess, "There was a heavy fog in the forest last night, and it was extremely cold inside, which was not enough to cause the Yin Fire to appear. The fact that County Magistrate Chang shouted that there was a ghost and threw the torch in his hand away was very suspicious."

Cheng Su thought for a moment with a calm look in his eyes, and then said, "If that's the case, it's indeed suspicious. He most likely arranged everything first, and then shouted loudly to lure you over, so as to clear himself of the matter."

"It was dark and foggy last night, and the situation was urgent, so it was easy to overlook some clues. I thought I'd better go investigate and make a conclusion."

"You're right. When they get the boat back, we'll go check it out."

After that, Cheng Su looked at the two neatly dressed soldiers beside him and ordered: "The two of you go back to the village along the relics in the forest and light a signal smoke in the doll cave. Make sure I see the signal smoke before the boat arrives."

"Yes, General!"

The words fell.

The two soldiers immediately rushed deep into the forest.

There was nothing important to do for the time being, so Lin Lezhi finally found a chance to rest and took a nap leaning on his luggage.

He Yu hid in a place secretly and read a book.

The more he read, the more solemn his expression became.

An hour and a half later, Deng Yang, Meng Dafeng and his party returned to the island by several boats from the other side of the lake, and smoke slowly rose from the woods.

The direction from which the smoke rose was much closer than Huaifeng Village.

After relying on the smoke to find out the approximate location of the Doll Cave, the group set out from the boat and walked carefully into the woods.

In order to avoid fog at night that would make it difficult to tell the direction, we carved marks on the trees along the way with a knife.

After walking for a long distance in the woods, a man suddenly exclaimed, "General, look over there!"

Everyone looked in the direction Meng Dafeng pointed and found five people lying sprawled out beside a tree, all wearing armor.

"It's Captain Hong!"

Although Hong Mingxu's face was completely black, a soldier next to him still recognized Hong Mingxu because of the different armor he was wearing.

Before the soldier shouted, Cheng Su recognized the people lying on the ground, took a quick step forward and walked up to the five people, and Qingchuan followed immediately.

Seeing this scene, He Yu and his group, who had been with Hong Mingxu last night, clenched their fists at their sides, with guilt in their eyes.

Several people had obvious signs of snake bites on their bodies.

Although there were no signs of snake bites on Hong Mingxu's body, he was the most seriously injured, with burns of varying degrees all over his body. All five people showed no signs of being alive.

Despite this, Qingchuan still did not give up the possibility that there were survivors and examined each person carefully.

When Qingchuan placed his finger between Hong Mingxu's nose, a bright color flashed in his eyes. After checking Hong Mingxu's pulse, he looked at Cheng Su and said, "General, Captain Hong is still alive, but he is too seriously injured and unconscious."

Hearing that Hong Mingxu was still alive, Cheng Su's eyes lit up with joy. He looked at Qingchuan and said, "I don't care what method you use, you must save his life."

"We the people will do our best."

When leaving, Cheng Su asked the soldiers in the army to take the bodies of the dead soldiers with them, and take them back after the case was over.

The casualties on the island were heavy, many soldiers had been killed, and many were missing. Cheng Su carried the unconscious Hong Mingxu on his back, and looking at the tired and panicked people, Cheng Su's eyes became more and more heavy and complicated.

Heading from the boat towards the Baigukeng was much faster than heading towards the village. It took less than half an hour to reach the doll cave.

As soon as they arrived near the puppet cave, the soldiers sent here ran over with panicked looks on their faces.

“General, this is bad—!”

There were already a lot of things pending, and now there was another bad news. Cheng Su's face was extremely dark, and he frowned and asked, "What happened?"

The two people who came to report said incoherently with a look of horror on their faces: "The words...the words on the hole are bleeding."

"what!"

Upon hearing this, Cheng Su immediately put Hong Mingxu aside and handed him over to Qingchuan for treatment, and he went down into the cave as soon as possible.

As soon as I entered the cave, I saw the word "death" hanging on the wall with bloodstains on it.

In the doll cave, there were many white snakes that had fallen to their death, with their bellies bursting. The mice in the cave were gnawing on the snake corpses. After eating all night, their bellies were swollen.

Some unlucky mice also died at the hands of the snakes.

Seeing a large number of people going down into the cave, the rats in the cave, which had been gnawing on the snake's body like crazy, began to flee around the cave, making crazy squeaking sounds.

With gloomy eyes, Cheng Su stepped over the paper doll in front of him and walked to the word "death". He touched the bleeding place with his rough fingers, and the blood on the cloth had dried.

After seeing the blood on the cloth, Deng Yang's eyes widened in horror and he said, "Why is there blood on a piece of cloth? It was fine when I came here yesterday!"

In the rat hole filled with crazy screams, Xiao Yihuo closed his eyes, one ear twitched slightly, then he opened his eyes and looked at the bloody words on the wall and said, "There is nothing behind the wall."

Hearing this, Cheng Su pulled the words off the wall.

There is a wall behind the place with the words hanging, and the wall behind the word "death", in the lower middle part, has obviously been chiseled open and refilled, and the color of the soil looks very new.

When they came yesterday, the soldiers checked behind the cloth and found nothing unusual about the wall behind it.

The blood was seeping out from the wall.

Xiao Yihuo followed the mouse's running route and noticed a fist-sized mouse hole in the corner of the wall. The madly fleeing mouse was drilling into the hole.

When Xiao Yihuo first arrived here yesterday, he found that the cave was filled with the sounds of rats at first, but gradually the sounds disappeared.

But mice all dig holes, so it wouldn't be surprising if they followed the hole to other places, so I didn't take it seriously afterwards.

"Dig it up."

Cheng Su's eyes flashed coldly, and with a hint of anger he ordered the digging to be done.

As the soil on the wall was dug up little by little with a knife, the things hidden inside were gradually revealed to everyone.

When the bodies were first dug out, the soldiers were able to remain calm, but when they dug up a certain part, even the most battle-hardened soldiers could hardly withstand it.

The person who broke through that position was so scared that he dropped the knife in his hand and fell backwards on the puppet beside him.

The puppets were affected by gravity and fell to the side one by one. One puppet even fell directly into the arms of a soldier. The soldier pushed the puppet away and screamed in surprise.

A human face was dug out from the wall.

Cheng Su frowned and approached the face with a torch. The moment he saw the face clearly, Lin Lezhi's eyes suddenly tightened.

The face in the wall had its eyes wide open, staring blankly straight ahead, and its mouth was wide open, filled with dirt.

And the person in the wall was the first person who disappeared without a trace last night.

Guo Yong.