Sweet Marriage: A Scholar's Little Wife V5

Mai Ziqi frowned and slowed down, and Yuan Qijue couldn't answer her question, but the fire in front of her eyes seemed to be psychic, and it weakened at a speed visible to the naked eye at the same time as Xiaoyue's voice fell, so surprised that Mai Ziqi almost regarded the clutch as a Step on the brakes.

Mai Ziqi reacted quickly, and in almost an instant, she had already turned off the searchlight while braking.

The night is frightening and creepy.

Xiaoyue's sighing voice sounded from the car, "If there are really people on the mountain, it's too late to turn off the searchlights now. We're going all the way up the mountain, and it's too obvious at night."

In order to buy time, they increased the speed of the car very high. Because it was driving at night, the searchlights were also turned on to the brightest. Such a bright and large light source came all the way down the mountain. If there were really people on the mountain, they might have discovered it long ago.

After being reminded by Xiaoyue, Mai Ziqi also realized the problem, turned on the miniature flashlight on her wrist, and turned on the light to the maximum, "I'll go down and have a look first."

"Stop being a hero at this time." Before Xiaoyue refused, Yuan Qijue in the back seat had already followed Mai Ziqi's example and turned on the flashlight on his phone, opened the car door and went out.

"The situation ahead is unclear, and it's safe for us to be together." Xiaoyue also turned on the flashlight and got out of the car, but Mai Ziqi was left behind instead. She bent her mouth and walked lightly to keep up with the two people in front.

The car stopped not far away, and the three of them soon came to the gate of the temple where they could vaguely recognize the shape. Mai Ziqi's bright flashlight expanded its light, and the charred ruins appeared in front of them.

The fire has been extinguished.

The quaint scenery of the past has vanished, and the entire Qianxin Temple is left with only broken walls and ruins, like a monster dormant in the night, especially infiltrating in the night wind on the top of the mountain.

The three of them had the same horror in their eyes, and even forgot to be on guard.

But there was nothing on the top of the mountain except the sound of the wind.

At this moment, even Mai Ziqi couldn't say to split up and take action. She took out her mobile phone and checked the time, "Let's go to the temple and take a look, and wait until the sky is brighter and the temperature inside cools down before going in."

The fire has just been extinguished, and the broken walls and ruins don't know where they can't hold up. It's too dangerous to go in now.

Xiaoyue and Yuan Qijue agreed, and the three walked around to the back of the temple, and soon found the path down the mountain.

Mai Ziqi had a clear expression on her face, "Those people probably went down from here after setting fire to it, so they didn't meet us. It seems that what Xiaoyue said was right, they should have discovered us early, and simply set fire to the whole building." Qianxin Temple doesn’t leave us any clues.”

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"It's too late to chase now." Xiaoyue knew what Yuan Qijue wanted to say, but she also understood that it was unrealistic at all. Shen Sheng analyzed, "The fire should have been set on our way up the mountain, and they must not be so stupid as to wait for the fire to go out." Leave, so according to the time calculation, those people should have gone down the mountain when we were still halfway up the mountain, and they have long since disappeared."

Disappointment flashed across Yuan Qijue's face when the clue in front of him was cut off, and he stepped back silently to give the two girls a break.

Mai Ziqi and Xiaoyue walked back and forth at the small intersection for several times, the light of the flashlight swept almost every inch of the corner, but in the end they found nothing, not even a decent footprint, obviously the other party could do something like set fire to the temple and destroy the corpses. When things come, the anti-reconnaissance capability will not be weak.

Mai Ziqi sat down on the rock under the tree, feeling a little disappointed, "What can I do, this group of people are smarter than monkeys, we rushed to the mountain in a hurry, and we are already in the hands of others."

After tossing around in the middle of the night, Xiaoyue, who has the lowest physical fitness, has long since passed away. Leaning on the tree and listening to Mai Ziqi's words, she also feels disappointed that she is about to enter a desperate situation.

Can't help but echo in a low voice, "It's more than a monkey. They set fire to the Qianxin Temple, but they treated the forests around the temple so that the fire would not spread to the entire mountain. Temple is to destroy clues"

Physically and mentally exhausted, morale has fallen to the bottom.

Yuan Qijue, who had been silent all this time, stood up from the stone steps, "It's almost dawn, let's go and have a look inside the temple."

Mai Ziqi and Xiaoyue searched around under the strong light of the flashlight, and their eyes were almost useless. Only now did they notice the faint light around them after hearing what Yuan Qijue said.

The two quickly followed Yuan Qijue's footsteps.

Before the final step, who knows if there will be any evidence surviving the fire.

As dawn was approaching, the burnt Qianxin Temple finally looked less gloomy, and the choking smell like charcoal dissipated a lot in the night wind, but it couldn't ease the faces of the few people.

Now that there is no one else on the top of the mountain, there is no artificial danger, Mai Ziqi said, "This temple is not too small, and it is wasteful to search bit by bit. The three of us should search separately. Whether there is any gain or not, we will end up here." gather."

Xiaoyue nodded and said, "Pay attention to your feet, and don't miss the details."

The three of them went in three different directions, Mai Ziqi went to the left, Yuan Qijue went to the right, and Xiaoyue walked straight along the stone path under her feet, and the orderly layout of the temple could be vaguely seen from the dilapidated ruins.

It is a pity to be burned by a big fire.

But Xiaoyue didn't have the heart to mourn the spring and the autumn. She almost held all the patience in her life together, and she walked and watched every step, her head almost buried in the ground.

It's a pity that the only survivors in the fire are ruins and ashes.

She sighed, squatted on the ground and flicked the small mound in front of her with a flashlight, hoping to find something, but before she could completely remove the mound, there was a muffled bang in her ear, as if there was something particularly heavy Like things falling down.

Her heart skipped a beat, and she followed the direction of the sound source to find it.

Xiaoyue saw Yuan Qijue sitting paralyzed on the ground in front of a Buddha statue. His hands were dyed bright red, and a thick charred black pillar was lying in front of him. Fist, fell directly to the ground.

Xiaoyue turned her head to look, and sure enough, there was a fracture separating from the ground at one end of the pillar.

"Yuan Qijue, what's the matter with you?" Mai Ziqi heard the sound and rushed over, and saw Yuan Qijue sitting in front of the Buddha statue in despair, and Xiaoyue standing beside him with an ugly expression.

"Yuan Qijue, what did you find?" Xiaoyue stared at his blood-stained palm, her beautiful long eyebrows were frowned, and there was still a trace of unconcealable panic and fear in her heart.

Yuan Qijue in front of the Buddha statue seemed to be awakened by these two sounds. He slowly raised his drooping head, revealing a pair of scarlet eyes, "Xiao Nuan."

The dry lips moved, and big teardrops dripped from the eye sockets. Yuan Qijue couldn't continue speaking, sobbing, he spread his palms to reveal the contents inside.

The scorched black thing was apparently found in the ruins.

Xiaoyue and Mai Ziqi rushed over to look at the same time, the diamond necklace had been burned badly, and the surface was covered with black lacquered oxides, but Xiaoyue recognized the shape of the diamond at a glance.

Her feet were weak, and she was supported by Mai Ziqi next to her to stand firm.

The appearance of the two made Mai Ziqi completely flustered, "What the hell is this, what's wrong with you two?" She had a ridiculous thought in her heart, but she didn't want to admit it.

Yuan Qijue said in a hoarse voice, "This is Xiaonuan's diamond necklace, a talisman given to her by Xiaoyue, and she even showed it off in front of me, saying it was her lucky charm, so she always carries it with her wherever she goes, but And now it's showing up in the ruins of the fire, you say."

Mai Ziqi also turned pale instantly, and two lines of tears ran down her cheeks.

"No!" Xiaoyue interrupted Yuan Qijue's words with red eyes, "This is just Xiao Nuan's necklace, it can only prove that the person who kidnapped her has been here before, and it can't explain anything else!"

"Yeah, that's not the case, Yuan Qijue, shut your mouth, and I'll beat you if you talk nonsense again." Xiaoyue suddenly thought of something, nodded several times in a row, grabbed Mai Ziqi and asked, "Ziqi, have you found anything along the way?" What, are there any corpses in the ruins?"

Mai Ziqi immediately understood what she meant, surprise flashed across her pale face, and she shook her head hastily.

Xiaoyue went to see Yuan Qijue again, "What about you?"

Yuan Qijue also shook his head. Although he still looked depressed, his eyes were much brighter, and the despair in his eyes was covered by a glimmer of life.

"So Xiaonuan will definitely not be here." Xiaoyue wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, "The group of people must have some intentions to kidnap Xiaonuan. If they wanted her life, they could have done it long ago. Why throw people in the fire?" Here, leave us such an obvious clue."

"Then there are two possibilities now." Mai Ziqi continued, "First, this necklace was left by Xiao Nuan while it was in the middle of the mess, and it is a clue she left for us; second, this necklace is for kidnapping Xiao Nuan. It was dropped on purpose to mislead us."

"What you said." Yuan Qijue looked at Mai Ziqi and Xiaoyue, and suddenly stopped in mid-sentence. The two quickly followed his gaze and looked behind, but found nothing special.

Still only the ruins.

Yuan Qijue pointed to the scorched stone steps and said, "I just saw someone's figure flashing past there."

"Shadow?" Mai Ziqi tensed up, and looked around while maintaining a state of alert. After a while, disappointment appeared in her eyes, and she shook her head at the two, "There is nothing."

Looking at Yuan Qijue again, "Could it be that you are too sad, so you read it wrong?"

Yuan Qijue denied Mai Ziqi's words without thinking, "Impossible, I'm sure it's not a hallucination."

The faint morning light had already fallen, and the unrecognizable ruins behind the fire gradually revealed a clearer outline. Looking far away, there were only strands of ashes blown away by the mountain wind, and there was no one.

Xiaoyue suddenly asked, "Yuan Qijue, did you see a man or a woman just now?"

Yuan Qijue thought for a while, and finally frowned and shook his head, "It's too fast, it flashed by in front of me, and it's impossible to distinguish between men and women."

Before Mai Ziqi and Xiaoyue could open their mouths, he continued, "The three of us have a big goal. We have been turning on the flashlight since last night, and we have a strong sense of presence. With that person's speed and skill, if we really want to avoid We can completely hide our whereabouts, so he must be trying to guide us, and it is too late to catch up now."