Her brain gradually became blank. She hurriedly ran out of the floor and rushed down the stone steps, but saw wooden stakes standing on the hillside, and sharp blades stood at the top, blocking the road down the mountain.

"Woom!"

The big black dog bit her pants and went in the other direction, turned halfway through the mountain, and walked out of a road from the thorny bushes and steep slopes. After most of the day, it took to reach the foot of the mountain.

Xi Huanyan stumbled toward the new house next to the village with her powerless body. When she saw the lock on the door, her heart sank to the valley. She carefully wiped off the dust on the lock, inserted the key into the rusty keyhole and turned it.

Click.

With a long creaking sound, she entered the house.

The ignorant light enveloped her body. She stood quietly for a while, calming her tiredness, then washed the pot silently, took half a bucket of water from the outside and poured it into it, and put it on a steaming rack.

The big black dog followed her step by step, just like the time her father died, following her mother's self.

Xi Huanyan looked at the anger and moved the stool to remove the bacon hanging on the beam, cut off the hairy part, threw it to it, and took off the hanging meat again, washed and cut it, put it on the steaming rack.

She lit the dry firewood and stuffed it into the stove. The gradually hot fire light reflected on her body, soothing her chilled hands and feet.

The big black dog was curled up at her feet, and each person and dog were roasting fire at the house covered with thin dust.

Time was quiet like a pool of stagnant water, unable to stir up any waves. She calmly added firewood, and then sat there, watching all the firewood burning out little by little.

The steps outside the door broke the silence. A man gently touched the kitchen. When he saw it was Xi Huanyan, he breathed a sigh of relief. The vitality and complaining sound completely crushed the space to pieces.

"Huanyan, you are back. I'm still thinking about why smoke comes out of cooking fire here!"

This is an uncle from the same village. Xi Huanyan is not very familiar with him, but this doesn't have any trouble.

"When did I die, why not tell me."

"Hey..." He scratched his head, as if thinking about how to speak.

"It's been half a month. That time, the village organized people to go into the mountain to eliminate demons, and most of them died. Your mother and second uncle were both heroes in the village. The patriarch also asked someone to go up the mountain to find you, but they heard that the mountainside was surrounded and they couldn't get in."

"Where is the corpse."

"It was all burning under the wind over the cliff. It was dark, there were wild animals, and it was going to rain again. How could the living people bring out so many corpses and burn them together with the demons."

Xi Huanyan stared at the ash in the stove silently. The uncle from the same village stood at a loss for a while and left quietly.

She got up and lifted the lid of the pot, took out the bacon, put it on the table, finished eating bites, then took a hot shower, sharpened the hatchet in the corner of the kitchen, and left the door.

The wind in the mountains and forests whistled in her ears, and she ran faster and faster, plunged into the redwood forest, and rushed into the bottom of the cliff of the wind passing through the cliff.

After that day, it rained for a long time, and the water from the cold pond overflowed, and the grass seemed to be fertile than before. It grew wildly to the calves, and even the grass on the waist swayed in the breeze, shaking people dizzy.

At the bottom of this empty cliff, her soul seemed to be empty.

How could it be?

Xi Huanyan was at a loss about the fact that she lost her parents within a year. She wandered around the cold pond over and over again, with nowhere to go or anything to do.

Click.

She moved her feet away, and there was a bone under her feet.

Xi Huanyan slowly squatted down and pushed away the grass beside her. Gradually, her speed was getting faster and faster. Obito's thatched grass was thrown aside by her. She tried her best to find the corpse at that time. After searching, the whole world became clear.

The village’s method of dealing with corpses is always burning or burying.

When burning, a layer of black phosphorus powder will be sprinkled, which will burn cleaner and directly turn into ashes.

When buried, a layer of tobacco powder will be sprinkled with. This powder is also called animal repelling powder, which can prevent wild animals from scattering the soil.

At that time, maybe it was too late, so they chose to burn it. Because it was raining, it was not burned thoroughly, leaving some corpses.

Xi Huanyan removed the weeds, and there were traces of two burning piles in front of him, one big and one small.

The big one must be burning piles of demons. The charred and incomplete skeletons of the giant demons are still left on the ground, and the small ones are burning piles of villagers, and there are still some bones left.

Xi Huanyan is not a coroner, and she does not have the ability to restore her way of death through the charred appearance, but she remembers that there was a pendant hanging around her mother's neck, which could not be burned.

She cleaned the burning pile, but didn't see the shadow of the pendant. She searched around again and again without giving up, but still found nothing.

Had someone taken away?

Or didn't die here?

There are three roads when you get out of the wind and cross the cliff. Climb the cliff, go to the north to go around the mountain road and return to the village, and walk through the redwood forest from the south to get out of the mountain.

The first two can be ruled out, one needs to climb and the other needs to take a detour. It is too much trouble, so they can only return the same way.

Xi Huanyan imagined the situation at that time, predicted their path, and walked slowly back, she found a charred tree, under which were some bones and burnt rags, and cracked beast feces around it.

The bones were scattered and there were no scorch marks. She remembered that the uncle in the same village said that the demon-removing team encountered heavy rain after leaving the bottom of the cliff, so if the corpse belonged to the team at that time, it must have died on the way back. The fire burned a little of the clothes and was washed away by the heavy rain, which made the nearby beasts cheaper.

It's at least an hour and a half away from the village. Those people had just fought with the demons and were injured on their bodies. Will they come out in the rain?

A word popped up in Xi Huanyan's mind, Hunter's House.

She was young and her parents were not allowed to go far away, so she was not sure about the distribution of the hunter's house, but she remembered that her father once said that as long as she got to the mountains, there would definitely be a hunter's house within a radius of one kilometer.

Xi Huanyan suppressed her heavy emotions and looked at the big black dog. The black dog seemed to have received some information. She lowered her head and took her back to the redwood forest along the way. She came to a hunter's house. But when she got here, it whimpered and went, like a headless fly.

At first glance, she felt something strange.

More than 20 redwood trees around the Hunter House droop, like feather-like thin leaves arranged in dry and yellow, completely opposite to the gorgeous redwoods outside.

Xi Huanyan became suspicious, held both sides of the tree trunk with both hands, pushed hard, and felt it loose.

The roots of this tree are not deep and have been replanted!

There was no need for tools to deal with such a replanted tree, so she pulled it up as soon as she tried her best.

There was nothing in the tree pit and there was no odor. She dug deeper and still gained nothing.

Xi Huanyan became stubborn and pulled out all twenty-one trees. She tossed for a night and spent half a night, but found nothing.

She pushed the Hunter's House out of exhaustion and lit the candlelight. The orange light illuminated the cottage and gave her a little comfort. She curled up on the wooden bed with her eyes open and could not sleep.

After a long time, she turned over and closed her eyes to recall everything that happened to the day she met the demon. However, before she could recall it, her eyelids seemed to be stuck and could not be opened. Her thoughts fell into the darkness like a slope.

She fell asleep.
Chapter completed!