Chapter 412 They...were All Drained to Death in the End

"It's going to be a long night and a lot of dreams, so let's go tonight. I've already let the floating light step on it."

In order to avoid disturbing others, only Shen Mingjiao and Fu Guang, the best martial artist present, went over.

Yun Shu pretended to be her and wandered around the building. Because Yunshu's body shape is the most similar to hers.

Fortunately, there are lush trees in the village, so no one is walking around at night, so it is easy to hide oneself.

It turns out that she said it too soon.

Fu Guang held her shoulders and leaned among the trees for a while. About half an hour later, the two of them arrived at the Xizhai area.

Shen Mingjiao stood on a tree, looking at the darkness below. Only through the faint moonlight could she barely make out the layout of the house.

Fu Guang whispered in her ear: "There are about twenty guards down there, in the east and west directions, but the guards are lazy and most of them are asleep."

Shen Mingjiao breathed a sigh of relief. I came here tonight just to test the waters, and I didn’t intend to succeed at once. It's not impossible to hypnotize people here. It's just a lot more difficult. However, she also carried a powerful sweat medicine given by the witch doctor.

She was carried down the tree branch by the floating light and came to the opposite eaves. Just when he stood still, his body suddenly froze.

Shen Mingjiao seemed to hear a strange "hissing" sound coming from her ears, and something cold and slippery was approaching behind her.

For a moment, a chill ran down her spine, and her blank mind was filled with only one thought. No wonder the guards were so lax. It turns out that the guards here are not the ones relying on them at all.

She made a "run" gesture toward the floating light.

Just when the two were about to turn around and evacuate, there seemed to be a black shadow passing by at high speed in the distance, and then there was the sound of heavy footsteps, mixed with the irritable roar of a giant beast.

It was the elephant seen during the day.

When the snakes around the roof heard the roar, they were so frightened that they fled in all directions.

The sleeping guard was awakened by the movement. After seeing the elephant, he did not show much surprise. He just frowned impatiently and continued to close his eyes to meet Duke Zhou.

The elephant slowly came to a meadow, had a hearty meal and left with satisfaction. Only then did Shen Mingjiao notice that except for some stilted buildings, this place was actually very desolate.

It is probably because of this that the elephant often comes to graze, so that the guards guarding it are not surprised when they see it.

But thinking about the flash of black shadow just now, I felt that this was too much of a coincidence. Just when they were in danger, this elephant happened to appear...

Just as they couldn't find the way before, a dark shadow appeared to show them the way.

After waiting for a while, after all the guards fell asleep, the two of them walked over from a forest of weeds.

Shen Mingjiao took out the powerful sweat medicine given by the witch doctor and sprinkled it around those people. He glanced at the rows of connected stilted buildings and thought about starting with the one with the most guards.

The two of them carefully climbed up the wooden stairs. No one can live on the ground floor of a stilted building like this.

Shen Mingjiao took out two luminous beads from her arms. She had pulled them out from the palace's warehouse before leaving. Unexpectedly, they actually came in handy.

The wooden door was locked from the outside, but that didn't stop Fu Guang. Shen Mingjiao pulled a thin hairpin from her head and handed it to her.

Not long after, with a soft click, the wooden door opened.

Shen Mingjiao heard a shallow breathing, indicating that there was someone in the room.

As she got closer, Shen Mingjiao saw someone lying on the bed through the faint light of the luminous beads.

The person on the bed was obviously not sleeping peacefully, and he sat up suddenly when he heard the noise.

"Xiuxiu, it's really you!"

Xiuxiu blinked blankly, thinking she was dreaming, and murmured in a weak voice:

"Madam, why are you here? Were you also arrested by them?"

Shen Mingjiao stepped forward to support her and felt her skinny body. She couldn't help being surprised: "Why are you so thin?"

It had been less than ten days since she disappeared. In such a short period of time, she shouldn't have lost so much weight even if she didn't eat or drink.

Fu Guang found the teapot, poured a glass of water and put it to her lips.

It wasn't until the cold water entered her throat that Xiu Xiu believed that this was really not a dream. "Madam, are you here to save me?"

She took a sip of water and whispered: "That day, I went to the back mountain to pick fruits, and someone covered my mouth from behind and knocked me unconscious.

When I woke up, I was here and I wanted to run away. But there are people watching me every day. The day before yesterday, someone came over and gave me two large bowls of blood.

After that, they forced me to eat various tonic soups. "At this point, she started crying in fear:

"They must have treated me like an animal and wanted to fatten me up before killing me. But when I refused to eat, someone grabbed my neck and forced me to drink it.

It's so scary here, I want to go home..."

Shen Mingjiao patted her bony back soothingly: "Okay, I promise you, I will send you home safely.

But not now, there are some things I have to figure out. "

Xiuxiu blinked blankly: "Really!"

Shen Mingjiao nodded heavily: "Well, we will take you away after we finish the matter."

After confirming that she was rescued, Xiu Xiu finally regained some energy and was able to think of comforting Shen Mingjiao and Shen Mingjiao.

"You don't have to worry. I heard from the people who take care of me that no one will come to collect my blood during this period. Madam, just go about your business and I will eat well."

Shen Mingjiao asked: "What else did you hear?"

Mentioning this, Xiu Xiu shrank her shoulders in fear: "Where is this place?

I heard the guards outside chatting and saying that they arrested many people, and those who were arrested... they... were all drained of blood and died in the end. "

She pointed to this stilted building, "I saw during the day that there were dried blood marks on the walls here... I don't know how many dead people lived there..." The more she talked about it, the more scared she became...

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After leaving this stilted building, Shen Mingjiao pondered what Xiu Xiu had just said.

Why did Qingyao want to marry Xiuxiu's blood? Or in other words, why does it have to be Xiuxiu?

Fu Guang asked in a low voice: "Where should we go next?"

Their main purpose of coming here tonight is to find the Shui Tribe people who are imprisoned here.

Shen Mingjiao looked around: "But there must not be one here. Let's go to the back and have a look."

Xizhai is really big, but also very desolate. Fu Guang carried Shen Mingjiao up to the roof and looked around. It was still pitch black. The two had to find it bit by bit.

At this moment, a wild cat passed by. Shen Mingjiao thought of something, took out dried meat from her purse and sprinkled it on the ground.

The wild cat smelled the smell and hesitated for a while, feeling that the two of them really didn't mean any harm. He jumped over hesitantly and finished the dried meat in a few times.

Shen Mingjiao asked: "Which room here contains people?"

The wild cat raised its head upon hearing the sound and meowed inexplicably.

Shen Mingjiao stared at the wild cat's green eyes until the cat's ears slowly drooped.

Fortunately, this wild cat is not like those snakes. It is just an ordinary cat and is very easy to hypnotize.

Shen Mingjiao asked softly, "Tell me, which room contains the person?"

Wild Cat was at a loss for a moment, and Shen Mingjiao asked several questions.

The wild cat finally seemed to understand, meowed at the two of them, and jumped to a hill to the north. Shen Mingjiao motioned for Fu Guang to follow.

Fu Guang used his Qinggong skills to follow the wild cat, his tone obviously filled with surprise: "How do you know Sister Gillian that it can understand you?"

There was a sound of wind rushing past her ears. Shen Mingjiao covered her ears and explained:

"In fact, many small animals can understand human speech, but they cannot express it, and people who are not close to them will not understand what they express.

Although it is impossible for me to truly communicate with animals, hypnosis can amplify the consciousness in the brain of people or animals, and wild cats are inherently very sensitive animals. However, I tried my luck and did not expect it to really understand. "

The two followed the wild cat around the hill and came to a dilapidated stilt building in the north.

The wild cat meowed at the wooden door in front of him. Shen Mingjiao threw all the remaining dried meat on her body to it.

"Thanks! This is the toll."

At this time, the two of them seemed to hear the sound of iron chains colliding in their ears. Shen Mingjiao listened carefully, and then pointed to a room at the far end: "Over there."

Fu Guang opened the door and said to Shen Mingjiao, "I'll go in first and take a look. I don't know what's inside."

After saying that, without waiting for Shen Mingjiao to refuse, she walked in first.

The sound of the iron chains colliding in the room became more obvious, mixed with a few low wailing sounds, as if someone had strangled the throat. Like the roar of some kind of wild beast, in this silent dark night, it can make people's hair stand on end.

Shen Mingjiao instantly thought of the gloomy ghosts in those strange stories. Perhaps she had been mentally prepared in advance, so she was not too scared at this time, and was vaguely looking forward to it.

But she seems to have always had this personality. I wasn't afraid when I encountered a corpse or something, but I only realized it later.

When she was thinking about this, she had already raised her feet and walked in. No matter how high her martial arts skills were, Shen Mingjiao could not calmly let a little girl stand in front of her.

The two of them came to the house one after another. It was only when I entered that I saw clearly that this stilted building was connected. It seemed that many people were locked up in the room. There was a rotten and moldy smell that made people feel sick.

Shen Mingjiao fumbled for the oil lamp and lit it with a fire stick. She just noticed it. The windows of the house here are all fixed with wooden boards, and only some holes are left at the top for ventilation, so the light from the oil lamp cannot penetrate at all.

When Shen Mingjiao saw the scene in the room clearly with the dim light that came on, she was still shocked and took a step back even though she was mentally prepared.

There were more than a dozen people tied up in the dirty house. Their limbs were tied with chains. Some were tied to pillars like dogs, and some were tied to shelves. They were all so thin that they were no longer human. Sample.

Because he had not been exposed to the sun for a long time, his hair and eyebrows had turned white, and he was so thin. Shen Mingjiao admired his mental quality when he saw her at first sight at night.

However, this was not over yet. Shen Mingjiao turned her head and faced a pair of empty skull eyes amidst the flashing screams.

On the torture rack behind her, there was a skeleton hanging. Judging from the bones, it should be that of a man. The shoulder blades on both sides were penetrated by iron chains.

Shen Mingjiao covered her mouth desperately to restrain herself from screaming on the spot.

At this time, the sound of iron chains colliding could be heard again, and Shen Mingjiao was so frightened that she jumped up:

"Ah! Don't come here... We don't mean any harm!"

"Haha... Who are you...!" A heavy and hoarse old voice sounded,

Shen Mingjiao breathed a sigh of relief. Although the voice sounded terrifying, it was still a living person!

How can a living person be scarier than a ghost?

She looked for the sound and turned around, only to see that it was an old man with a ravaged face. He looked like he was over a hundred years old. He was really lucky to be able to survive in such an environment at such an old age!

She walked forward and asked politely: "Grandpa, can I ask you something?"

Unexpectedly, after the old man saw her face, his expression suddenly changed:

"You... you are the great wizard! You are finally reborn. Our family has hope..."

It’s finally over. I need to fill in the missing chapters in the next two days, otherwise I won’t get perfect attendance╭╮

I have already bought some coffee essential oil patches and plan to work on them until 5 a.m.