The cub he picked up didn't come with an instruction manual

The silvery white snow is cold and glowing, and there is a mass of flesh and blood piled on the thick ice. The bloody scene is shocking.

"Guiling, don't come here."

Xu Huo hastily drank Guiling away, and seeing the child standing obediently on the river bank, he held back his palpitations, squatted down, and looked at the corpse.

Xue Fei stood behind him in astonishment, her hands tightly covering her mouth.

The light snow of the winter night fell gently, slightly covering up the tragic appearance of the corpse, and Xu Huo felt a little relieved.

He let out a deep breath, still wrapping his fingers with the blue true energy, and pushed away the flesh and blood, revealing the long black hair intertwined with flesh and blood, with some pieces of red clothes mixed under the long hair, which were indeed Tian Yi's clothes.

The clothes were once worn on the bright and sunny Tian Yi, but now they are torn to pieces and soaked in blood.

Xu Huo only felt a pain in his heart, and grief and indignation filled his heart.

After checking again, it was found that the scalp under the hair was completely divided into two halves. Xu Huo couldn't help but look away, looking at Xue Fei with grief and indignation: "Tian Yi... her skin... from the top of her head... is alive..."

Teacher Xuefei shrank her pupils, covered her mouth tightly, and did not cry, but her eyes were filled with tears.

Xu Huo gritted his teeth fiercely and clenched his fist tightly, "I will never let this monster go."

"What happened?" A few people came from a distance, the first to bear the brunt was Jin Yi, who rarely looked anxious.

Seeing the red clothes mixed with flesh and blood from afar, Jin Yi stopped immediately, raised his eyes to look at Xu Huo, his face was frighteningly pale, "Is that her?" There was a hint of tremor in his voice.

Xu Huo nodded sadly, "It's Tian..."

"Shut up." Jin Yi suddenly interrupted Xu Huo's words loudly, and his eyes turned red instantly. He stared at the corpse, his chest heaving violently, step by step, slowly walked forward, and when he came close to the corpse, he stood there. not moving.

His eyes fixed on the bright red in the snow, and his whole body trembled non-stop.

The eyes looking at the corpse were full of despair, and tears fell down.

Xu Huo understood in his heart, and walked towards the lake with Xue Fei on his arm, "You should say goodbye first."

"How did she die?"

Jin Yi's voice stopped Xu Huo's footsteps, Xu Huo paused, "It's a skin-skinning monster, alive..."

"Puff-"

Amidst the heavy landing, Jin Yi sat upright beside the corpse.

Xu Huo couldn't speak any more, and supported Xue Fei to the shore, and the man's heartbroken sobs could be heard in his ears.

Chen Shen came over, patted Xu Huo's shoulder comfortingly, sighed, walked to Jin Yi's side, and helped him up: "Captain, don't be too sad."

Jin Yi trembled more violently, panting heavily, and lay down on the corpse again.

His fingers, which were red from the cold, still rummaged through the flesh and blood without hesitation. After searching for a while, he finally found something, and he raised his wrist.

He held a finger-sized puppet with his fingertips, which looked exactly like Tian Yi's troll puppet.

"Xiao Tian, ​​I knew you would always take him with you." Holding the weak puppet, Jin Yi's tears kept rolling down, and he choked up and said, "I brought back the puppet I sent you. Follow, follow it, follow me too, watch carefully, watch me kill that monster and avenge you, you must watch, must..." His face was twisted and deformed by pain, and his eyes flickered with madness Gaze, "I want revenge, I want to tear it apart, ah——" He suddenly yelled loudly, screaming heart-piercingly.

The cry echoed in the winter night, everyone's heart was heavy, even Gui Ling stayed aside obediently, not messing around.

Only Lan Xiu, who was far away from the lakeshore, seemed to be frightened by the captain's madness, so he didn't dare to come over, and could only watch this scene from a distance.

"Captain!" Chen Shen hugged Jin Yi sadly, "Let's avenge Tian Yi together."

Xuefei held back her sadness, and said loudly: "Jin Yi, don't be sad, Tianyi doesn't want us to be so decadent, I'll go collect firewood..."

This piece of meat was shocking, presumably Tian Yi didn't like it either, Xue Fei wanted to be cremated directly.

Thinking that Tian Yisu likes to be neat and tidy on weekdays, Jin Yi acquiesced to Xue Fei's opinion.

A fire was quickly set up in the snow, and Tian Yi's body was piled up on the fire, where she would be cremated.

The flames were blazing, and everyone was sitting nearby. Jin Yi stood next to the fire and watched silently.

Until the fire became smaller, Jin Yi turned his eyes from the fire to everyone, "Go and complete the task first, I decided to stay alone, and I want to avenge Tian Yi."

"Captain, I'll stay too." Chen Shen firmly supported the captain.

"I'll stay too. We're a team. Of course we will advance and retreat together." Xu Huo also wanted to kill his enemies.

"I'm a teacher, but I can't absolve myself of the blame for not protecting you well, so I also want to stay." At the critical moment, Xue Fei also did her part.

"You all go." In the firelight, Jin Yi's eyes were frighteningly bright, "If you are not alone, how could the monster appear?"

Xue Fei thought for a while, then suddenly said: "Do you feel that this monster is just a sneak attack, and has not faced it head-on?"

"That's right." Chen Shen was deeply moved, "It's like following us and hunting for opportunities."

"Brother." Gui Ling looked at Xu Huo and pouted, "I think it beat two older sisters, so why did it only kill one?"

Although Gui Ling's words were not pleasant to listen to, Xue Fei's heart was touched, and she murmured: "I don't think it will be afraid of the two of us."

"If you can hit it, you have to hide it, unless..." Xu Huo's eyes flashed, "Unless it wants to hide something on purpose?"

"What do you mean?" Chen Shen suddenly came to his senses, "He didn't dare to show up in front of others, because he hid his identity?"

"Hiding identity? There's no need for that, right? Unless we all recognize it." Xue Fei's face suddenly changed, and she looked at the crowd in a daze: "I have a disturbing thought."

Jin Yi's eyes suddenly turned fierce, "Mr. Xuefei, I understand, you mean the monster is right beside us?"

Xue Fei didn't answer directly, but raised her eyes to look at everyone, "What do you think this monster spends time skinning?"

Xu Huo's heart moved, "Have you ever seen Painted Skin? Painted Skin is a monster that wears human skin to pretend to be a human."

Xue Fei said solemnly: "You are talking about a film work, but I think this approach is very similar to a kind of monster in the Netherworld."

"Teacher, are you talking about Ao Yin?"

Seeing Xue Fei nodding, Xu Huo said: "I read in the textbook that Ao Yin is a monster in the netherworld, humanoid, with sharp claws, likes to eat human brains, loves skinning, and can pretend to be a human. And it’s lifelike.”

"It's lifelike? It also likes to eat human brains? That means it's not low in IQ." Jin Yi looked around, with a puzzled expression on his face: "Could it be that Ao Yin is among us?"

Suddenly the atmosphere in the team froze, and everyone was on guard against each other.

But Ao Yin has reached the pinnacle of pretense, so he can't find any flaws from his appearance.

Jin Yi said in a mature way: "Talk to each other, who was with Tian Yi and what was he doing when Tian Yi had an accident."

Up to now, using a simple method of elimination is also a direction.

Xu Huo spoke first, "After Tian Yi left, I stayed with Gui Ling all the time, and we talked by the river."

"Yeah——" Gui Ling vigorously nodded in agreement.

Lan Xiu suddenly said, "You two have a good relationship, will you protect each other?"

"If it's really Ao Yin, it's a lone monster." Chen Shen interrupted and explained, "Besides, I'm also nearby, so I can prove what they said is true."

Xu Huo was a little embarrassed when he heard the words, and he didn't know how much Chen Shen had heard.

"The other way around, who can prove that you have been by the river?" Lan Xiu asked Chen Shen.

Chen Shen shrugged, "I can't prove it, so you can make me a target of suspicion."

Xue Fei said: "Tian Yi and I searched all the way, but we separated halfway. I know I have doubts, and you can also remain suspicious."

At this time, Lan Xiu took the initiative to say: "Jin Yi and I were standing guard nearby."

Jin Yi frowned, and said truthfully, "Lan Xiu, you also left halfway."

So Jin Yi also has a chance to be alone, so it seems that everyone is suspicious except Xu Huo and Gui Ling.

Xu Huo looked at the crowd and said, "If you believe me, I'll find a way to catch the monster."

Jin Yi was the first to say, "Okay, it's up to you."

"Okay!" Chen Shen also agreed, Xue Fei naturally supported it, not to mention Gui Ling, so Xu Huo would try to find out the hidden monster from these few people.

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