After picking up a system

After a long pause, Ling Han asked, "Master Bai, do you still remember how old I am?"

Bai Shiyan didn't know why the topic suddenly jumped. Wasn't he still waiting for Ling Han to explain to him why? Why did it suddenly become a question about age?

Despite his doubts, Bai Shiyan answered honestly: "Nine years old."

Ling Han sneered inwardly, and also let out some words in reality: "Master Lao Bai, do you still remember?"

Bai Shiyan was silent, then suddenly realized something, and remained silent again.

Chi Yi clicked his tongue and said, "I didn't expect that you, a person who has killed zombies before, would be afraid of this."

Ling Han: "After all, I have never seen the soul of a zombie."

The skeleton was floating on the surface, covered with a layer of hazy milky white, which was the soul that Ling Han saw. They were floating and twisting, light but enough to make people tremble.

Ling Han is only nine years old at this moment in terms of physical age. She really can't bear it.

Bai Shiyan changed his hugging posture and let Ling Han's head bury in his chest.

The tribesman came down again and stood two steps away from the two of them.

The empty underground space was interconnected, and the people who had come in earlier were nowhere to be found hiding. The child who had followed them all the way was still in a coma.

Ling Han clung tightly to Bai Shiyan. She didn't want to be a burden, even though she already was.

Following the scent of that person all the way forward, Ling Han felt that the only sound around him was his own heartbeat.

In the dark and damp underground, two people walked silently.

Hu Qi leaned against the earth wall. Not long ago, he had just put down the abducted child when he saw the beam of light appear, so he quickly hid.

Strangely enough, the man didn't jump down to catch himself, but went up again instead.

Hu Qi walked inside again, and used the fire stick to light the communication talisman paper that Master Li gave him. The talisman paper burned quickly and burned out before they came in again. Hu Qi spent the rest of the time praying, praying that Master Li would come quickly and save him from the water and fire.

When Master Li, whom he had been thinking about, gave him the talisman paper, he had already planned to abandon him when it burned. In order to prevent himself from being exposed, he added a deadly poison when drawing the talisman paper, waiting for the talisman paper to burn and take effect. Everyone in this world can be used, but he only trusts himself.

I don't know if it was Hu Qi's illusion, but he felt that it was getting harder and harder to breathe. Although he occasionally felt difficulty breathing underground, this time was obviously different. Hu Qi didn't know if it was because he was too nervous.

His vision began to blur, and Hu Qi knew he was finished.

He suddenly felt resentful and wondered why he was the one being abandoned.

By the time Bai Shiyan and the others reached him, he was already dying.

The tribesmen came forward and fed him something, and his breathing became steady.

Ling Han was curious: "What is that?"

Bai Shiyan: "Something that can keep you alive."

Ling Han's eyes sparkled: This is a good thing that can make me rich!

Bai Shiyan didn't see her look. He asked his clansmen to take the man to report to the police first, while he and Ling Han stayed here.

The two men untied the tied up children. Most of them were in a trance, and Ling Han could not predict what they had experienced.

The bones around were very clean, which was not normal. A rotting corpse would have a stench, but there was no such thing in the cave. The bones were also too clean. It couldn't be that the bones were peeled off from the body alive?

This guess was so terrifying that Ling Han felt terrified.

But I couldn't help but let my thoughts wander. If he really peeled it off alive, how many times did that person experiment before he was unable to peel off the bones completely?

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This case was too serious, so the county magistrate reported it to the prefect, and two groups of people arrived one after another.

Ling Han and Bai Shiyan no longer guarded the cave when the county magistrate arrived. All the surviving children were rescued, and the county magistrate was sweating profusely.

In the past three years, many people have come to report the case. So far, there are more than fifty missing children recorded in the file.

After learning about this incident, his official career was over.

After the children came up, they were arranged to repair together, and the rest of the people moved the skeletons from the cave to the surface one by one. People were silent and angry.

The county magistrate shed tears, he was not a local, he had been the county magistrate for five years. The previous county magistrate had embezzled the people's money, so in order to make up for the loss as soon as possible, he did his best in everything he did, but he was powerless to find the child.

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Surrounding Zhuangzi were parents of children who had heard the news. They were sad but still held out hope.

The detectives imposed martial law and no one could come in.

When the prefect came, he asked the governor to come because he felt that this was no longer a matter he could decide.

The children were taken to the county government office, and their skeletons could no longer be identified.

The parents of the missing children were told not to hold out much hope, as there were less than twenty children left alive.

During those days, there was a constant sound of crying in the county government office. The face of the young and middle-aged county magistrate was full of wrinkles, and he became thin due to the hard work of those days.

The prefect also stayed in the county government office. Hu Qi told them everything when he was tortured on the first day, but everything he said was too unbelievable and had little reference value to them.

After all, talisman paper and masters were not that powerful in their eyes.

Who hasn't consulted a few masters when choosing a location to build a house? There are few real masters, but there are countless quacks who cheat and deceive. However, the three masters of Master Li, who have great abilities, are unheard of.

But Hu Qi said this at the top of his lungs, so what should we do?

The prefect was urged by the prefect to tell the governor. The prefect wiped the sweat from his head. This was simply nonsense. What if all this was a lie by Hu Qi? If he reported it rashly, he would probably end up with a black sand falling to the ground.

But what if everything Hu Qi said is true?

If you don't report it, it will still be a piece of sand falling to the ground. If you report it, it will still be a piece of sand falling to the ground.

The prefect felt that a few strands of his black hair had turned white again.

Because Ling Han and his group were important figures who solved the case and had been staying at the county government office for the past few days, they knew that the family of the child they had met before had come to look for them.

Ling Han looked at the three people in front of him, his gaze mainly on the one on the right. All three of them had expressions of sadness and tears of joy, but this did not mean that they were weak.

Because he wanted to get closer, Ling Han knew a little about the affairs of the Qu Mansion. The Qu family had two sons, the elder brother was good at martial arts, and the younger brother was a businessman. The elder brother won merits on the battlefield, but died in the battlefield after enjoying five blessings. When the news came, his pregnant wife went into premature birth after hearing it.

A year later, rumors spread that their family was a loser and that no one except the eldest son of the Qu family was worth anything. Of course, they did not care about such rumors, as there are always people who are not happy with their lives and cannot bear to see others doing well.