The Devil is My White Moonlight

The guards dispersed and searched back and forth, but there was indeed no one there.After more than half a month, except for the side room where the old janitor lives, the other rooms have accumulated a thin layer of dust, and there is really no trace of habitation.

Gu Shun had already learned from Mu Xiyun where Hongyu found the body, and after discussing with Chen Butou, he left a few guards to get the old man out, and put a seal on the door to seal the shop. Take the others out of the city and up the mountain.

Ping County is in the southwest of Yiyun Town, together with Yiyun Town and Qingxi Town, the three towns are like a person with arms stretched out, holding Cuiping Mountain in his arms.The group hurried to the foot of the mountain and walked nearly ten miles along the mountain road, only to find the wreckage of several bullock carts at the corner of a mountain road, with some soft and broken pieces of silver nearby.Due to the recent rain, there were no traces on the mountain road, but careful Gu Shun found dried blood on several rocks in the leeward direction.

"It can be speculated that half a month ago, Wang Ping, together with four nurses and about a dozen children, was going to a certain place to trade." Chen Butou stroked his beard and said: "This road goes north for another three miles, and goes east. It can go to Yiyun Town, and the west can lead to all parts of the Central Plains." Before the words were finished, the sound of horseshoes came, and one person got off the horse and took out a stack of papers from his arms.It turned out to be a portrait of the corpse sent by Qingxi Town.Chen Butou looked at the portrait and immediately recognized that the five corpses found in Qingxi Town were exactly the four nursing homes of Ren Yazi Wang Ping and Ya Xing.

Gu Shun frowned and said: "These five people should have been dug out by the fox after they died here, but how did the corpses get to Qingxi Town?"

Su Yanjun said: "Maybe someone deliberately moved the corpse, what is the purpose of this person?"

For a while, everyone was silent.

After a while, Mu Xiyun broke the silence: "The purpose of the people who moved the corpses can be investigated later. According to the old man at the gate, these five people took a dozen children on the road. How did the kid get to Evian, and where are the other kids now?"

Six hours ago, Gu Qingqiao was dragged to a certain place by that bullock cart.

When he was put into a sack and put on the bullock cart, it was still late in the afternoon, and when the bullock cart finally stopped, it was already pitch black.Judging from the feeling of driving along the way, it should have walked a section of mountain road, a section of official road, and then entered the town.

The bullock cart babbled and entered a house.Gu Qingqiao was unloaded into the courtyard together with the goods on the car, but there was no sound from anyone.Zhang San who arrested him didn't say a word, put the goods on the ground, drove the ox cart and went out.The sound of the wheels gradually faded away, Gu Qingqiao was lying in a pile of goods, he could only hear a few meows from the street in the distance, but no one paid any attention to it.

Lying on the ground for almost half an hour, Gu Qingqiao curled up, his waist and legs were sore, thinking that Zhang San got it wrong?But I felt the ground tremble suddenly, and then there was no movement again.

Gu Qingqiao thought it was his own illusion, slipped out a small knife from his sleeve, and was about to cut open the sack to take a look, but suddenly heard light footsteps.

There was more than one person, but no one spoke, and they seemed to be moving goods.One of them picked up Gu Qingqiao's sack and immediately realized that it was a child, he gave a "tsk" sound, picked him up and left.

A door opened with a "squeak", Gu Qingqiao was lowered, and the sack was opened.He pretended to be dazed, opened his eyes only a small slit, and found that he was put into a small room.

The room is not big, and the dim candlelight seeps in from the outside.Seeing that he hadn't moved, the visitor didn't bother to bother, and quickly walked out of the room, and then the door was closed.One person asked in a low voice outside: "Why are there still children coming in? Isn't that enough?" The other person replied: "Didn't one die a few days ago? Whatever it is, it might be taken away, anyway. "

The voice of the conversation gradually decreased, it should be that the two walked a little farther away.Gu Qingqiao turned around and moved forward based on his impression. The moment the candle was lit just now, he had already seen a large bunk opposite the door, and several children were lying on the bunk.

Gu Qingqiao touched the side of the bunk, climbed up silently, and gently pushed the child closest to him, but the child was pushed sideways, but there was no response.Gu Qingqiao reached out his hand to probe under his nose, but fortunately he was still breathing, but it was so weak that he could hardly detect it.

The four children on the bed were all in the same condition, and none of them could wake up.

If it was the Gu Qingqiao 50 years ago, you can just push the door and go out now. No matter how many people are outside the door, you can at least get out of it.But the effect of the transforming water hadn't expired, looking at his little hands and feet and the little bit of spiritual power in his meridians, Gu Qingqiao sighed, slowly moved to the door, and listened carefully to the movement outside.

I think it was late at night, and there was no sound from outside the door.Gu Qingqiao waited for another stick of incense before trying to gently open the door.The door was not locked, and there was only a hook hanging outside. It was probably thought that a few weak and weak children were not worth taking care of, and the guards outside the door disappeared.

Gu Qingqiao went out quietly.Outside the door is a circle of corridors, and the yard is planted with flowers and plants, like the backyard of some big family.The whole house was quiet except for one room where the light was still on.He walked cautiously along the corridor and tiptoed to the lighted window.

There was no moonlight tonight, Gu Qingqiao quietly stuffed himself into the darkness under the window, and someone in the room said: "This time the commotion is too big, I have deliberately avoided Moyun Mountain, how could it be disturbed?" where?"

Another person replied: "It's because you were not careful enough. Isn't the child's body already buried? Why did it appear in Yiyun Town?"

"I can't figure this out either, and this kind of thing has never happened before. Tell me, could it be that you have provoked some enemies and been targeted?"

"This possibility cannot be ruled out. How many days will it take here?"

"It's almost tomorrow night."

"Okay, you guys pack it up tomorrow, and leave immediately when things are done."

The door opened, and a man in black walked out of the room and looked around.Under the window, Gu Qingqiao no longer appeared.

The man squeezed a sword, summoned a weapon, and went away with the sword.

The lights in the house went out, and after a while, Gu Qingqiao emerged from the flowers under the veranda, and quietly returned to the previous room.

At dawn, the people in the courtyard received orders and began to clean up everywhere.An old servant with a dull expression came to the room of Gu Qingqiao.He was probably not surprised that there was an extra child in the room. After throwing a steamed bun to Gu Qingqiao, he climbed up to the common bunk and fed half a bowl of porridge to each of the unconscious children. out the door.

Gu Qingqiao was eating steamed buns, looking out from the crack of the window.There are not many people in the courtyard, there are only a dozen faces coming and going, so I feel at ease.

Near noon, there was a sudden knock and noise at the door of the outer house.The people in the courtyard paused, quickly piled up their belongings in the corner, and drew out their weapons to be on guard.The old man with a dull expression walked slowly to the front hall to open the door.Gu Qingqiao once again felt the slight tremor of the ground.

After a commotion, some officials began to search everywhere.The three yamen servants opened the courtyard door, walked around the courtyard, opened the door and entered each room to search, completely ignoring the mess in the courtyard and the vigilant people in the veranda, turned around and left the courtyard.

Gu Qingqiao frowned.

Looking at the expressions of those yamen servants just now, it doesn't look like they were bribed or colluded to deliberately let the yard go. Besides, unless all the yamen servants who came here were bribed, who would know who would come to search this small courtyard?The three yamen servants really didn't see anything unusual.

In addition to the two slight tremors on the ground last night and just now.

Gu Qingqiao suddenly realized: In this courtyard, someone actually created a blinding enchantment!

The blinding enchantment is different from the ordinary blinding method.Ordinary blindness is just to make people see a different scene, and then make a wrong judgment. It is ordinary like the white fog maze outside the cave of the fox demon.The barrier of blinding eyes is different. People who enter the barrier of blinding eyes are like entering another dimension, and the five senses are simultaneously confused.If the yamen servant caught a bird in the blinding barrier just now, but the caster wanted him to see a cat, then the animal in his hand not only looks like a cat, but also sounds like meowing. It also looks like soft fur.Because of this, ordinary blinding spells can be cast once, and the formation will remain effective as long as it remains unchanged, while the caster of the blinding enchantment must stay in place.And because it consumes a lot of mana, it is necessary to cooperate with the pre-drawn spirit array or use magic weapons, and at the same time, it also has high requirements for the caster's cultivation.

Gu Qingqiao was both surprised and delighted.The joy is that if traces of the spirit array or the magic weapon can be found, this blinding barrier can be broken; the surprise is that with such a practitioner present, it may not be so easy to rescue these children.He carefully felt the spiritual power in the meridians, and couldn't help frowning.Against a cultivator of this level, he may only have one blow.

On the mountain road, a group of people who found nothing returned to the government office in desperation.It was getting late, so Gu took Mu Xiyun and others to the post office in Ping County by the way.A few people had dinner, and got together again to review the existing clues. Apart from knowing that a dozen more children were missing, there was no progress compared to the previous analysis.

Mu Xiyun was inexplicably annoyed, she cupped her hands and confessed: "I'm a little restless today, and I want to go out for a walk alone to relax." After finishing speaking, she turned and went out.Knowing that he was worried about those children, Su Yanjun didn't blame him, so he stepped forward and told him to go back early.

Ping County is smaller than Yiyun Town, and there are no people on the streets after nightfall, only a little warmth can be seen from the dim lights in front of the windows of other houses.Mu Xiyun walked with his head down for a while, and when he raised his head again, he found that he had unknowingly come to Yaxing's yard again.

There are two guards in front of the door.Mu Xiyun stepped forward to salute and said, "The two officials have worked hard. Can you let me go in and have a look?"

Both of them had seen Mu Xiyun during the day, and when they saw him coming, they knew that it must be related to the investigation, so they didn't feel embarrassed, so they opened the door and let him in.

Mu Xiyun walked slowly around the house.I don't know if it's because the body in this life is a spiritual thing, but he seems to be particularly sensitive to spiritual energy.When I came to this yard this morning, I had a feeling that some places in the yard were different from usual.But there are so many people in the daytime, and I can't even explain this feeling to myself, so I pressed it and didn't mention it.In the silence of the night, Mu Xiyun simply let go of her thoughts and took a closer look.

A faint disturbance of spiritual power came from a corner of the back garden.

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The author has something to say:

small theater:

Gu Qingqiao: The author comes out!How do you arrange this timeline?

Author: It's very simple. When you were loaded into the car, Ah Yun was in the fox cave, and then you went to the trafficker's place. The next day Ah Yun and others also went, that's it!

Gu Qingqiao: Then why didn't you write in chronological order?The part where I go to the dentist should be in the front!

Author: Ah, do you want to adjust to the front?Then we have to separate Ah Yun's play.

Gu Qingqiao: Oh, forget it, my aunt is more important!

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