The scene we saw before our eyes was simply hell. We saw many hyena people's chopped-off heads hung on the trees near the hillside. The ground was stained with blood. The headless corpses were piled up like six or seven people high. Flies were flying around and maggots were crawling everywhere, not to mention the disgusting body organs and so on. There were also many scattered limbs around, and some were killed. Their faces were terrified and their deaths were extremely miserable. They must have experienced extremely tragic things in their lives to have such a hideous and terrifying appearance. Their eyes were bulging out, which showed how scared they were at the time.
Encountering a place with so many dead bodies already made Yunwen and I feel uncomfortable. Moreover, the murderer was so brutal and cruel that he even piled the bodies together after their death and hung their heads upside down. It can be seen that his cruelty had reached a horrifying level.
I remember such scenes only in the story of "Lin Hai Xue Yuan". Those mountain bandits would be so inhumane when killing innocent villagers. Now seeing such a real scene, I know that what was said in the book might be true. From this, I also speculated that the other party must be related to the bandits, and the only person I can think of is someone who had been a pirate at sea.
The guy named Peter is the most suspicious. He was once a crew member of the Doom and was also known as the Siren. His style of doing things is probably that of burning, killing, looting, and being cruel. But I don’t quite understand why he killed so many hyenas. What is his intention? Is it just to vent?
Look at these hyena people. Although they are already corrupt, they look like they will not die for more than five or six days. After all, it is a hot summer day now, and they will decay faster. Therefore, we can assume that they should not die for more than seven days. Remember that the cursed Peter had his neck broken and fell off the cliff more than two weeks ago, or let's say half a month ago. However, he returned to the island a week after falling and slaughtered the hyena people. With this scene, what is the point of doing this?
If he came back and sought revenge on us first, we might be able to understand it, after all, revenge is the usual behavior of pirates. But now he has killed thirty or forty unrelated and innocent hyena people and treated them so cruelly. It is really unbelievable and difficult to accept.
Yunwen covered her mouth and nose, squatted on the ground, and vomited continuously. Not only the smell, but the scene was indeed not something a girl like her could accept for the time being.
"It seems that he has returned to the coast, and he has returned a week ago. I just don't know why he killed these innocent people and not us. Let's go, let's leave here as soon as possible." I said.
She shook her head, her face pale. After patting her chest for a while, she slowly calmed down and said in great pain, "No, you see, the dead were rarely wearing armor, and there were no weapons far away from them. They were basically unarmed. This shows that the people killed were ordinary people, not warriors or soldiers in the tribe. From this, we can judge that the hyena people experienced a massacre, but they did not intend to kill the leader and guards. Judging from the means and methods, it was mostly for a deterrent effect."
I seemed to understand what she meant, and immediately said, "Mandatory recruitment!"
Yunwen nodded and said, "That should be the case. He wants to recruit these hyena people as his subordinates, regroup, and use Yingchun's methods, but he doesn't have the tiger head token. You also asked Yingchun to translate before, telling the hyena people not to be manipulated easily. So that guy must have been irritated by the attitude of the hyena leader, so he can only rely on bullying and threats to achieve his goal."
"So you asked me to stay so that we can investigate whether those hyena people have been recruited, right?" I asked.
Yunwen nodded, but finally she couldn't bear it anymore and started vomiting again, and I helped her pat her back.
I have experienced battles and seen scenes of corpses everywhere, so although I felt uncomfortable, I was relatively better than Yunwen. So I asked Yunwen to wait for me there, and I covered my mouth and nose and went forward to see if there were any other clues. I also wanted to know whether the hyena people finally surrendered or found another way.
Of course, this is difficult to confirm. There is only one temporary criterion for judgment. If there are no corpses of armored guards ahead, it means that the hyena people have chosen to submit to the new master, and may be used by the curser next. But if there are many corpses of hyena people wearing armor, it means that they would rather die than obey me. They listened to me and were unwilling to be manipulated by me, and eventually all died in battle.
I walked past the piles of corpses, looking inside to find them. I passed through the valley entrance and entered the hyena people's territory. I walked through another original iron gate and went in. I still remember the first time I came in. There were many hyena people lying nearby, some with their families. Now there are only empty nests, and there is no trace of the hyena people.
Then I continued to look inside, and found the place where Yunwen's face was disfigured through many blacksmith shops on the hillside. There was no figure there, and I could only see some bloodstains on the ground. I sighed, knowing the result.
"A man of insight is a hero. It's not worth it for the whole clan to be destroyed just because of a word from me. Forget it. I can only blame myself for not killing it with one sword. Now there will be endless troubles." I said, shaking my head.
Having said that, there is no need to look for it anymore. I went back and told Yunwen about the situation. Yunwen was not too surprised. I guess it was within expectations. After all, survival is the instinct of all living things, so I can't blame them.
Seeing such a horrific scene, I wanted to help clean up the mess by burning it, but I was afraid that the fire would attract the curser, which would be difficult to deal with. So I could only inform him and return the same way. However, I did gain something. I guess when the hyenas were preparing to set up stalls to barter, the guy suddenly showed up and attacked everyone, so some things were still left outside.
Yunwen also found a large piece of fish paste among them, so she packed it with the lotus leaf next to it and took it away. This fish paste is enough to burn for a long time. Now, the lights in our inn house are often not bright enough at night. Therefore, some of these things are used for offerings, and the rest is enough for our daily needs.
We went back along the same route, Yunwen stayed close to me the whole time. After all, the scene just now was too scary, and we now had to go through a large dark river cave. She couldn't help but hug me tightly, her arms tightly around me, her snow-white skin pressed against my base, her soft body pressed closely against mine, her rapid breathing, and the safe distance that had long been exceeded, all made my heart beat faster and made me hope that this road would be longer.
"Zhou Bo, when we go upstairs later, should we tell Bai Lu and Sister Lingshang about this?" Yunwen asked.
I shook my head and said, "If we tell them now, it will definitely cause them to panic. We are in an unsafe area now, and it will definitely be disadvantageous to cause internal chaos. After we go up, you and I will keep it a secret. When we return to the post station, we will announce the news and be on guard in time. This will ensure our safety. After all, if we really encounter a curser or other troubles on the way, Hu Lingshang is a veteran, and I think her ability to react and come up with countermeasures should be about the same as if she knew in advance. Instead of doing that, it is better to let her not know for now."
"Yes, we are now in the wild, everyone is on edge and will definitely be cautious. If we announce our discovery in advance, it will be easy for people to lose their composure. Just like Sister Bailu, she is timid and will definitely be in a panic, and it is very easy for something to go wrong on the mountain road." Yunwen said.
The two of us made up our minds to keep it secret and proceed as planned.
The curser didn't come to see us for a whole week. In addition, Hu Lingshang seemed very happy along the way, which means he hasn't come yet. Since he hasn't come and doesn't know where we are, it shouldn't be a problem for us to continue walking.
Furthermore, Yunwen also mentioned that when we go to the Jade Emperor Temple, we can also pray for ourselves to avoid constant misfortunes.
With this thought in mind, we returned to the ground, but when we came up we saw Bai Lu and Hu Lingshang with their backs to us, looking at something.
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