Chapter 159: Gelton Manor 9

The three men searched the snow with torches, but did not find the three people who had gone out earlier.

Although Xu Xinghe took some time to make the torch, Ye Jian and the others did not have to run into the jungle.

"Should we continue walking?" Yang Bingyan asked.

Xu Xinghe stopped, raised the torch and shone it into the distance, then made his own judgment, "Maybe we're going in the wrong direction."

"But we didn't hear any sound behind us." Yang Bingyan turned around and looked back, and then saw Su Qingyun holding a torch with an expressionless face.

"Ah!" She screamed in panic and took the opportunity to throw herself into Xu Xinghe's arms.

"How come there's no sound when you're standing back there?"

Su Qingyun thought, how could a person make any sound while standing? Yang Bingyan was really funny.

But she didn't laugh. Instead, she asked the two of them, "What should we do next? Should we look for it again or go back?"

"Let's go back. It's a bit far from the manor if we go any further." Xu Xinghe made a decision.

The three of them walked back, but after two steps Xu Xinghe stopped and said, "Do you smell a fragrance?"

Yang Bingyan quickly raised her head to smell it. She sniffed a few times and shook her head, "I don't smell it."

Xu Xinghe can smell it, but Yang Bingyan can't. It's likely that there is something edible nearby.

This was Su Qingyun's guess because Xu Xinghe was a gourmet.

What kind of food would it be?

Su Qingyun lowered the torch and shone it on the tree next to him.

Outside the manor, there were huge trees that were as thick as a man's embrace, and there were almost no short trees, which made Su Qingyun's search unusually easy.

Below the trees, there was nothing but piled snow and fallen branches.

Su Qingyun raised the torch again and looked up at the tree trunk.

The snow had stained the branches inky black. The wind blew gently through the trees, scattering a few flakes of early snow. A flake of snow landed with a plop on Su Qingyun's upturned face, covering her eyebrows and eyes.

Su Qingyun quickly lowered her head and brushed off the snow on her face. At this moment, she found a shiny object in the snow. It was very small and prismatic, and was almost indistinguishable from the soft snow.

Soul-soothing bead fragments?

"Are you okay?" Xu Xinghe came over and asked.

"It's okay, it's okay." Su Qingyun patted his face, signaling Xu Xinghe not to worry about him.

Yang Bingyan also looked up at the sky. Like Su Qingyun, her face was hit by the snow on the branches, and she let out a soft cry of "Ouch".

Yang Bingyan was different from Su Qingyun. She didn't wear a hat or scarf, so the falling snow slid down her face and into her neck.

She began to call Xu Xinghe for help, "Brother, brother, help me."

Xu Xinghe passed by.

Su Qingyun took the opportunity to bend down, take off his gloves and pick up the piece of debris.

She rubbed it in her hand. The texture was similar to the one she found in Hunze, except that this one was a little colder.

How could the Soul-Soothing Pearl fragment that Ye Jian wanted be found near the manor, and in such a large forest, and she saw it in a form that had just fallen?

Su Qingyun felt that all this could not be accidental, but she could not unravel the mystery.

She wrapped the fragments carefully and hid them in her glove.

After helping Yang Bingyan shake off the snow, Xu Xinghe turned back and asked Su Qingyun, "Are you okay?"

Su Qingyun nodded at him.

Xu Xinghe held the torch and looked around. He said, "The fragrance is gone." He sniffed hard again, "But there is a smell of blood."

Then he walked in one direction.

Yang Bingyan hurriedly followed.

Su Qingyun stood there without moving.

Because what she smelled was not the smell of blood, but a very complex smell, of which blood was only one of the smells. This smell reminded her of the wax museum in Hunze.

"Ah!" Yang Bingyan screamed, filled with fear and panic.

Su Qingyun ran over quickly and saw a corpse lying in the snow, a corpse that looked neither human nor ape.

"Is this...Mrs. Du?" Su Qingyun squatted down and pulled out the skirt that was pressed down by the extremely ugly corpse.

It was Mrs. Du's gorgeous dress.

Before, Ye Yi had told Su Qingyun that Madam Du had a strong smell of debris on her body. Could the debris that just fell on the snow be from this Madam Du?

How did Mrs. Du die?

Su Qingyun boldly moved forward, wanting to see whether Mrs. Du had just died or had been dead for a long time.

But he was stopped by Xu Xinghe.

"careful."

"How could Mrs. Du die here?" Since she was not allowed to be touched, Su Qingyun decided to investigate the cause of death.

She stood up, raised the torch and looked around. Right in front of where Mrs. Du fell, there were many messy footprints, as if a fierce fight had taken place here.

Su Qingyun walked forward a few steps along the messy footprints and found a cut mark on a tree trunk.

Was it Ye Jian’s Soul-Devouring Sword that cut it?

Su Qingyun wasn't sure.

But Yang Bingyan was certain, "It seems to have been cut by a jeweler's knife." She also said something sarcastic to Ye Jian, "How could a jeweler be so violent?"

After saying that, she glanced at Su Qingyun, making it seem as if Ye Jian and Su Qingyun were a family.

Su Qingyun ignored her and continued walking forward. She saw some clues in a row of chaotic footprints.

Ye Jian and his group were not the ones chasing the group, but seemed to be the ones being chased.

"They must be in danger," Su Qingyun looked at the woods in the night, "We can't go back, we have to go and take a look."

Ah~ Yang Bingyan seemed reluctant. She muttered, "It's so cold outside."

Su Qingyun stretched out her hand towards her. "It's really too cold outside, and you're not dressed warmly, but before you go back, could you also telekinetically fetch a bow and arrow for me?"

"Are you going to look for them alone?" Xu Xinghe asked.

Su Qingyun nodded. She and Ye Jian had a contract, and the contract mark was on her shoulder blades. She had to go.

When Yang Bingyan heard that Su Qingyun was going to look for it alone, she generously took something out of the air for her.

But it wasn't a bow and arrow, it was a spear.

Su Qingyun knew that Yang Bingyan would pretend to obey but actually disobey. In fact, she deliberately asked for a bow and arrow. She did not know how to use a bow and arrow. When she was a child, she would never choose to use a bow and arrow to shoot a disc when playing in the children's park.

But she can use a spear. When she was a child, she often used a long bamboo pole with a net tied to it to pick fruits when she went to her grandmother's house in the countryside. She could always pick the right fruit.

"This is the only one." Yang Bingyan handed the spear to Su Qingyun.

Su Qingyun took it with a look of disappointment, then walked in the direction of the footprints holding the torch and the spear.

"Wait a minute, I'll go with you." Xu Xinghe caught up.

"Let me come too. One more person means more strength." Yang Bingyan said this to Xu Xinghe.

After saying that, she took out a set of crossbows from the air and tied the crossbow quiver to her body.

Su Qingyun, "..." The crossbow is indeed not a bow and arrow.