Chapter 263 The Real Spy
After ten days of registration, sorting and summarizing, the new population register was finally completed.
Ye Li sat in the office of the great elder, flipping through the pages one by one, trying to understand the population situation of the entire tribe.
After reading through the books, Ye Li learned that the total population of the forest tribe was 1,330 people, half of whom were indigenous people and the other half were refugees from outside. Moreover, the refugees had entered the forest tribe at different times. Some had lived there for more than 20 or 30 years, while some, like her, had only lived there for a few months.
In addition, the specific identity of each refugee is recorded in great detail in the register.
For example, Dancai's family migrated from the north thirty years ago. His brother married the daughter of the original inhabitants of the tribe and completely integrated into the forest tribe.
There is also Xue Cun, who moved into the forest tribe five years ago. He was originally a member of a small tribe. When the tribe was destroyed, he fled to the forest tribe with his wife and children.
Ye Li closed the register and relaxed her neck. She said to Xiao Xun, who was waiting nearby, "I've read it all and didn't find anything unusual. I wonder what the murderer wanted by taking the original register. Or maybe it was the Second Elder who did it. He just couldn't stand me taking his position as the Great Elder and wanted to give me a warning."
Xiao Xun walked over, reached out and squeezed Ye Li's shoulders, analyzing the situation for her: "It's hard to say. Xu Jie and the others have been keeping an eye on the Second Elder. The Second Elder has been recuperating in his room lately. He hasn't seen many people and doesn't go out often. He's trying to gather his strength and heal his injuries before coming back to fight you. If Uncle Li in the archives wasn't killed by the Second Elder, then it must be someone else, and the motive for the murder is in the original register. If the original register was destroyed, and the murderer re-registered it this time, he can simply lie and cover up what he didn't want to reveal."
Ye Li flipped through the register again and said, "The interesting content here is the background of each outsider. It seems that the murderer doesn't want us to know his background. But the register contains outsiders with all kinds of backgrounds. No matter what background, it's not surprising. In this case, why hide it?"
"Unless... the other party has done something out of the ordinary, as soon as his background is exposed, we can guess that it is him!" Xiao Xun analyzed calmly.
Ye Li thought about everything that had happened since she came to the forest tribe and said, "Remember that time when I was attacked by the people from the mountaintop tribe and then trapped in the broken tree house by zombies? We were clearly watching those zombies move forward, and you and Li Yuan and the others were trying to build a defense line to eliminate the zombies, but before we could do anything, those defense lines were suddenly burned down, and the group of zombies walked back to the tribe, and just when the fire started, they attacked us!"
"Is the captured person from the mountaintop tribe still in the tribe's dungeon?" Xiao Xun asked.
Ye Li shook his head: "I don't know. After the other accomplice was arrested, I stopped paying attention to these things."
Xiao Xun immediately walked to the door and shouted, "Go to the dungeon and check if the people from the Hilltop Tribe are still there!"
"Yes." The guard under the tree house received the order and immediately ran to the dungeon to check.
Ten minutes later, the guards arrived to report, "Great Elder, the people in the dungeon have escaped! When we went there, the iron bars were open, and the people imprisoned inside are gone. We've already informed Li Yuan and the others, and they're searching the tribe right now."
"Take a few more people to my house and keep a good lookout for Xiaomu and Xixi."
"Yes." The guard accepted the order and immediately left with the remaining guards to the home of the Great Elder.
"It seems that the hidden person is the real spy of the Hilltop Tribe." Ye Li flipped through the population register and said with a firm look.
(End of this chapter)
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