I am done!

The moment I fell, I almost despaired.

Being caught by the Miao people is a trivial matter, so if Er Pang and the others are implicated, I will blame myself more than death.

thump!

The patrolman on the street was alerted by the sound and ran over with a lantern and a Miao knife in his hand.

They spoke in Miao language that I couldn't understand, but judging from the situation, they were probably calling other Miao people to come and be on guard.

I looked at the increasingly dense crowd on the street with lingering fear. If someone hadn't grabbed me in time just now, I would have been surrounded by those Miao people.

I turned to look at my rescuer. A ten-year-old boy wearing a Taoist robe was squatting next to me. I couldn't see clearly the expression on his face, but most of the time his face was expressionless.

The Miao people who had gathered rushed up and found that what was lying on the ground was just a bamboo bucket made of wooden strips. They thought it was caused by the strong wind, so they dispersed.

After those Miao people walked away, I breathed a sigh of relief: "Qingyun, thank you."

Shang Qingyun shook his head, made a silent gesture to me, and then pointed to the dense grass behind him.

The entire village of Heimiao is hidden in the mountains and dense forests. Except for the houses and streets in the middle, the surrounding areas are all dense forests and weeds. These people never take care of the nearby weeds, so that the vegetation is so lush that it obscures the surroundings of the village.

external environment.

I even thought that these people deliberately left weeds and woods to cover up traces of their existence.

I followed Shang Qingyun into the grass behind me. The grass was so lush and messy that I couldn't even see the road ahead clearly, but Shang Qingyun seemed to be very familiar with the environment here.

Taking me around here and there, in the blink of an eye we passed through the jungle and came to a cave.

Without Shang Qingyun leading the way, it would be difficult to find a cave here.

The entrance to the cave has been covered by weeds and soil, and there is human excrement nearby. It should be the villagers' open-air toilet. The stench is overwhelming, and the sky is filled with flies. Normal people would not think of coming here.

"Oh my god, what the hell is this place? It's so disgusting." I pinched my nose.

Shang Qingyun drew his long sword from nowhere, and with one stroke he opened the sealing earth that half covered the entrance of the cave.

This hole is very narrow, and even a skinny person like me has to tighten my abdomen and inhale to pass through.

Fortunately, the diameter of the entrance to the cave is relatively short, so I can pass through it after a while. Otherwise, I would be really afraid that I would not be able to get out alone and get stuck inside.

I followed Shang Qingyun and jumped down to the bottom of the cave.

There was a very shallow pool below. I couldn't stand upright and slipped to the ground. Then I felt someone hugging me from behind.

Turning around and looking,

It's a mummy!

I was so frightened that I almost screamed. Shang Qingyun returned his hand and pointed at the bottom of my throat. I was immediately unable to make a sound.

After I calmed down, he unsealed my acupuncture points.

"Why are there so many corpses here?" I asked Shang Qingyun.

At the same time, I observed these corpses. These people were all dressed in black Miao clothes, and their death conditions were extremely tragic.

Some were beheaded, some had their hearts and livers ripped out, and some had their hearts stabbed.

What's even more strange is that the wounds on these dead people and the knives stuck in their bodies before they had time to be pulled out were all their own Miao knives.

Some of them were hit by multiple arrows, and the broken arrows were also bows used by the Miao people. The arrows had special barbs, and the arrow feathers were painted with signs like small snakes or insects.

"Civil strife." Shang Qingyun answered me.

"Civil strife?" In fact, looking at this situation, I guessed about the same. These Miao people were obviously killing each other for some reason. No other clues were found at the scene except the weapons of the Miao people.

But it's not a civil strife, not necessarily. It's possible that someone is stirring up dissension.

"Brother Yu, look." Shang Qingyun pointed to the dead body facing the cave wall. It held a dagger in its hand and there were dried blood stains under the water.

Judging from its movements, it must have carved something on the wall with a dagger before it died, but in the end it lost too much blood and died here.

I knelt down and looked at the words this man carved on the stone wall. I didn't have high expectations at first. After all, I couldn't understand the messy cipher text of the Miao people. But what I didn't expect was that the words carved on the stone wall were all standard Chinese characters.

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Some of the words are no longer legible, but I can at least roughly deduce the content from the other remaining words.

These people died in an internal fight decades ago.

It may not be accurate to say that there is internal fighting. The stone wall mentions "We are innocent and everything is unjust." This shows that at least some of the people here, or the people who wrote this paragraph and others who participated in the internal fighting, were recruited by others.

A group that holds one party accountable.

What happened back then was such that this group of people were wrongly accused, and then the Black Miao tribe pursued these people. To be precise, this was a purge.

Thinking of the white bones we saw in the bamboo forest before, there were traitors written on them.

I can basically think of two possibilities. First, the purge itself was an unjust case started by "traitors"; second, these "wronged people" may not be just victims themselves, maybe they themselves are

Planning a rebellion or something else, but being betrayed, not only this group of people were hunted down, but other people were also implicated.

If it is the second case, it seems pointless for us to pursue this matter. After all, this has simply become an old story of Heimiao, and there is no bargaining chip at all.

This is like the Yellow Turban uprising at the end of the Han Dynasty. As a result, a traitor appeared among them, and finally the Han court wiped out the Yellow Turban army. Thousands of years later, you can't expect the descendants of the three Zhang Jiao brothers to settle accounts with the descendants of that traitor, right?

But this trip has at least solved some of the doubts about the bones we saw in the bamboo forest. Now we have a clearer goal, which is to determine the specific cause of the civil strife.

"Qingyun, do you have a mobile phone?"

Shang Qingyun took out his mobile phone, and I took photos of the cave and sent them to Liu Sa: "Let's go back."

After I said that I wanted to go back the way I came, Shang Qingyun stopped me: "It's dawn, let's go here."

I just discovered that this cave actually has a path that connects with the previous tunnel, but this place is difficult to find.

With Shang Qingyun's help, I returned to the tunnel, but Shang Qingyun didn't come with me: "You won't join us?"

Shang Qingyun shook his head, he opened his palm, and a very delicate small flying knife suddenly appeared in his hand, with the mark of Heimiao on it, and the symbol of Tongyuan!

"This is!"

"When someone came to assassinate you, I was chasing him." Shang Qingyun said.

"The sign of Tongyuan. Sure enough, there is a traitor in Black Miao!" But after thinking about it, Shang Qingyun gave me a new idea. Since the opponent can throw knives, as long as I find who in the Miao village has a flying knife, I can find the traitor.

Things became much simpler.

At the same time, all of us are now imprisoned and cannot move freely. Shang Qingyun is separated from us. With his skills, Hei Miao cannot detect him, so we have a support outside.

So Shang Qingyun and I separated, and it was already dawn.

I screamed in my heart. We should have gone back before dawn, because someone would come to deliver food at around six or seven in the morning. If Yu Rumeng came at this time, we would be exposed!

I hurried to the tunnel entrance and looked outside through the crack in the door. If nothing happened, I hurried back.

But I'm still a step too late.

Er Pang and the others have already returned. Several people gathered around, looking sad: "Damn it, where did this salted fish go? He hasn't come back yet."

"You won't leave us and run away, right?" Liu Sa said.

"Fart! Xianyu is not that kind of person! I asked you to keep a close eye on him, but you ran away to chase Niuer, lost Xianyu, and yet you had the nerve to slander him!"

"Why are you chasing after a girl? I was here to get some news. She is married!"

"Could it be that he was caught?" Tao Weiyang guessed.

She was right, I almost got caught.

Ah Hui started to cry: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, little sir! You don't want to die!"

"Cry, cry, cry, cry like a man. Believe me, although Xianyu is clumsy, weak, and has no strength to tie a chicken, except for blah blah blah, he is still very reliable. Let's wait.

.”

How reliable is it?

I was about to push open the door to the tunnel entrance and go up, when the dungeon door opened.

I stopped immediately to avoid being discovered by the other party.

As luck would have it, the way to visit the prison changed today. You Rumeng personally delivered the meal, accompanied by a group of Miao people.

"Take your broken plate away! Even if I starve to death or be hacked to death, I won't eat anything from you! Dog You Rumeng, come here and challenge me to a duel if you can! I can't kill you!"

"Ha." You Rumeng sneered, ignoring Er Pang, looking over their shoulders at my dummy.

The five of them stood side by side in front of the dummy, with its back to the cell door and its body covered with a heavy quilt.

From Yu Rumeng's point of view, it is indeed difficult to tell the truth from the false at a glance. She just thought that I was really sleeping.

"What is he doing?"

"Uh-he's sick!"

"It's a duster!" Liu Sa and Tao Weiyang said in unison.

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Liu Sa, your uncle! It’s true that little Teddy can’t learn magic tricks - a dog can’t spit out ivory from its mouth.
To be continued...