[Blade of Ghost Slayer] as bright as the sun

Cheng, he was born strong again, in the eyes of many people, anyone can be attacked to death by wild beasts, only he can't.

He is the strongest young man in the village.

Qianli stood among the crowd of onlookers with a basket of herbs on his back.The parents of the deceased fell on the corpse and wept hoarsely. The people who heard the news stood in a circle and pointed. The intermittent blood spread from outside the village to the body of the corpse, which was hideous and terrifying.

The adults said that this man was attacked by wild animals outside the village, and crawled back to the entrance of the village dragging his breath.

Qianli doesn't quite understand what it takes for a person to crawl so far without being eaten by wild beasts, but if the adults say so, it must be so.

The girl with black hair and red pupils pushed aside the crowd expressionlessly and squeezed into the center of the venue.She reached out and grabbed the back collar of the deceased's mother to forcibly lift her up, then knelt down to observe the death condition of the corpse.

One Uri Hinata's rude behavior successfully angered the relatives of the victim. The father of the deceased aggressively stretched out his hand and wanted to punch her, but the girl raised her right hand lightly and knocked on the man's wrist. Her voice was very calm, even Some lifeless.

"Is this the first death?"

The villagers were stunned.

The black-haired girl didn't get the answer she wanted, she frowned, and her tone became more lively, at least Qianli could definitely feel that the other party was impatient, "I said, him," she let go of the deceased's father's hand , pointed to the corpse, and repeated the previous question, "Is it the first person to die?"

"Today, if it's spring this year..." The man closest to her swallowed, probably because the coercion on Hinata Iriri was so strong that he forgot what the person in front of him had done, " People have been attacked by wild beasts before, but the last time was in winter..."

The girl with black hair and red eyes raised her head and looked directly into the man's eyes.

The latter subconsciously avoided her gaze, not knowing whether it was because of fear or something else.

Deceiving.

Thousands of miles to think.

Uncle is lying.

If it was just a villager, the corpse in front of him was indeed the first since the beginning of spring this year.But in fact, the surrounding area of ​​their village is rich in herbs, and many herb collectors come here every month, and among them, a considerable number of herb collectors will be attacked by wild beasts.

The adults do not allow the children in the village to speak out about this, because once the unsafe surroundings of the village are exposed, fewer people will come to collect herbs, and the village will lose an additional income.

Sister Hyuga is not a resident of the village, and the adults naturally don't want her to know about it.

The girl with the knife hanging from her waist grinned indifferently.

Qianli felt that this matter should be over. After all, it was not her family who died. Even if someone grabbed her by the shoulder and said to her, "The son of the house in the southeast is dead", she would only learn Wipe away fake tears in the manner of adults, and then continue to do what you should do.

People always hold an arrogant and hypocritical compassion for things that have nothing to do with themselves.

Hito stood up.Qianli turned his head to leave the village, but before he could move his feet, the voices of guests came from behind him.

"Qianli, come with me."

This was the first time Hinata called her name, and Qianli was a little excited.Even though the ghost hunter always has a cold and unfriendly appearance, she still likes her very much, so Qianli happily forgot about the fact that she still needs to collect medicine, and followed the ghost hunter back and forth. to the medical hall.

They retreated to the bedroom in the back yard.

Grandpa didn't care about not going out to collect medicine for thousands of miles. The medical center still has a lot of inventory. If you don't go out for a day or two, there will be no medicine to treat people. Besides, there are not so many patients in the village.Most of the time, the medicines in the medical halls are sold to merchants who come to buy medicines on a regular basis.

As soon as he entered Hinata, he sat on the tatami mat and looked down at Chisato while holding a knife.

Only then did the little girl realize that the ghost hunter had changed into the clothes she was wearing when she found it. The black men's uniform was covered with a bright yellow coat, and the white leggings were tightly wrapped around the bottom of the black trousers, making the girl as thin as a nutritious Bad calf lining is more and more obvious.

"Do you want tea?" Qianli felt a little nervous, "Grandpa made some delicious yokan, let me bring them together."

Hitomi shook his head, "No need."

She has no appetite, especially after seeing the death of the victim.

Qianli didn't care about the other party's rejection, "Then... what does Sister Hinata want to say?"

"That person just lied, right?" A sneering smile appeared on Hikari Hinata's face just now at the head of the village, "Tell me, how many people have died in this village?"

The little girl opened her mouth.

The adults said that we should not tell about the frequent death of herbal collectors in the village.If she said it out, she would definitely be scolded by the adults as soon as Hinata's sister left.

The victim today should have been just an accident. All those who died in the past were foreigners, and basically no one in the village was killed.As long as this secret is kept, the villagers can continue to live in peace.

The benefits brought to the village by the outside herb collectors are really considerable.

The black-haired girl quietly watched Qianli's expression with her eyes half down.

"I..." Chisato subconsciously lowered her head to avoid Ikari Hinata's gaze, "I don't know..."

"Then, does it matter even if someone dies?" The girl's questioning voice came from above her head.

Qianli opened his eyes wide.

"I observed the situation in the village. During the five days I stayed, there were no outsiders, but as far as I know, your village is famous for its medicinal materials. It stands to reason that no matter what time someone comes to collect herbs or Buy medicinal materials." Hiroshiga condescendingly stared at the hair on the little girl's head, "It doesn't matter if you don't say anything. I just want to tell you that if there are fewer and fewer outsiders, sooner or later, people will die frequently in your village."

Qianli knew she was right.The villagers are basically attacked in the off-season when there are not many outsiders, and the beasts that the adults say are cannibalistic. If it is really a hungry beast that attacks passers-by, they will never leave the body intact .

Qianli felt her body trembling.

"Sister Hinata... do you know what the murderer is?"

Since last fall, people have died every day, at first just one person, and later increased to two or even three, and at the most rampant time, there were even five people killed on the same night.

"Ah, I can probably guess what it is," Iniri Hinata said with a bright smile while holding the knife, "Didn't you ask me if there are ghosts in the world?

——"Qianli, the murderer is a ghost!"

无迹

The first victim came last fall.

It was a herb picker.

In order to grab higher-quality medicinal herbs than other competitors, the herbal pickers went up the mountain not long after nightfall.Good herbs always need to be picked in the early morning, and it is too time-consuming to go up the mountain at dawn, and the foreign herb pickers will basically choose to leave early.

Qianli remembered that the weather was not very good that day. It rained at night and the mountain road was slippery. Many people retreated because of the bad road conditions. Only the herb picker insisted on going up the mountain at night.

Then he never came back.

Three days later, someone found his straw sandals on the branches of a tree, and the shoes were stained with blood. The adults said that the man had been attacked by wild animals and died.Taking this as an opportunity, the girl who came with the herbal picker stayed in the village to mourn her lover.

Yirui Hinata frowned: "The lover of the herb picker?"

"Yes, it's said to be his fiancée." Qianli said, "They came together, and they gathered herbs to treat his fiancée's illness—that sister is also pretty, with very fair skin, but she has a strange disease. disease, everyone said she would not live long."

"and then?"

"Then people die all the time," the little girl replied in a low voice. "Sometimes it's one person, sometimes it's several people, some can see corpses, some can only see relics... People die even in winter... The grown-ups say it was eaten by wild beasts...but where do wild beasts come from in the mountains in winter?"

Hinata touched his chin once.

She thought the little girl in front of her was stupid, but now she doesn't look particularly stupid.

At least she could still think that there were no beasts in the mountains in winter.

Not only are there no wild beasts in winter, even if there are one or two wild beasts that do not hibernate occasionally, the frequent attacks on humans are not like wild beasts.For the vast majority of beasts, attacking humans is a thankless task, and the risk is too great. If it is not that there is no food source or they are actively provoked, the beasts will never choose to eat people.

"The herb picker you mentioned, where does his fiancée live now?" The ghost hunter thought for a while.

"died."

"died?"

"I haven't survived the winter, so I died on the hospital bed." The little girl looked up out of the window. She seemed to feel that it was not good to talk about the dead behind her back, and even her voice became weak, "Buried in the wasteland behind the village inside."

Hinata Yirui curled up his index finger a little irritably, and knocked unconsciously on the small table on the tatami.

She originally thought that the problem was the fiancée of the herbal picker, but Qianli said that both of them were dead.The dead cannot become ghosts, and the funeral is during the daytime. Even if the ghosts want to fake death, they will be turned into ashes when they encounter sunlight.

The corpse I saw this morning was undoubtedly the work of a ghost.

Not to mention whether ordinary wild beasts in the mountains can make such a large scratch, even if they can, it must be a beast of a considerable size.While it's not ruled out that the victim hit his back on a hibernating bear, there's probably no reason for the bear to let him crawl that far