Chapter 300 Mr. Ma Jiang Behind
Everyone in the village was very panicked, but they all rushed straight home. No one stopped to ask why the sky suddenly darkened, as if they had already expected this phenomenon to happen.
Then the sky grew darker and darker, until it was practically pitch dark. Now it wasn't just the ink splashing; the entire village seemed to be covered by a giant iron pot, not a single ray of light leaking in.
Finally, Xu Chuchu and Xiao Yu barely found a withered tree hole in the dark and hid inside.
With their current level of cultivation, they should not be afraid of most ghosts and monsters, but they prefer the enemy to be in the light while they are in the dark rather than the enemy to be in the dark while they are in the light.
The two of them huddled together in the tree hole, shoulder to shoulder, neither speaking.
The wind outside was getting stronger and stronger, blowing against the trees and houses, like the screams of wronged souls, which made people feel uneasy.
...but other than that, there seems to be nothing else.
Xu Chuchu and Xiao Yu did not feel any spiritual power, demonic energy or anything else, and there seemed to be no monsters running rampant outside.
But if there was nothing, why would the sky turn dark and why would a hurricane blow?
Is it the natural climate at the foot of Tianshan Mountain?
The two did not act rashly and waited for the night to pass.
After about an hour, the wind began to die down, the sun shone in, and it gradually became brighter outside.
Xu Chuchu and Xiao Yu crawled out of the tree hole and saw that many households had opened their doors and windows, and were talking and laughing with each other, their expressions full of relief.
"It must be a mysterious phenomenon here," Xiao Yu analyzed. "The villagers believe in gods, so they demonize it."
"What do you think?" he asked Xu Chuchu.
However, Xu Chuchu did not answer, but just made a bitter face and gently pointed behind him.
Xiao Yu turned around.
A hideous corpse appeared behind him, hanging from the tree where they had just hidden.
The corpse's eyes and tongue were throbbing, and foam was coming out of the mouth. It was obvious that he died in great pain.
The most important thing is that the body is none other than Mr. Ma Jiang, whom they just talked to!
They had just left when the corpse appeared on the tree where they were hiding?
"That's impossible." Xiao Yu said immediately, "If someone had just hanged themselves here, we wouldn't have been completely unaware of it."
Indeed, with their perception, they would notice even someone passing by, let alone hanging themselves.
Could it really be the work of ghosts? The Seven Warriors?!
Although Mr. Ma Jiang was not normal just now, he didn't look like he was going to die!
"No!" Xiao Yu frowned and changed his words, "This is..."
Before he finished speaking, a large group of villagers gathered around him trembling with fear.
"This, this is Mr. Ma Jiang!"
"So it's Mr. Ma Jiang who died this time... Oh my, someone dies every night. When will these scary days end?"
"Woo woo, even Mr. Ma Jiang has been arrested, who will be next?"
…
Xu Chuchu immediately sensed something was wrong and asked, "What do you mean? Did anyone else die?"
Only then did the villagers notice that there were two outsiders next to the big tree.
Seeing that they were both handsome and thinly dressed, he was immediately in awe.
"Ah, it's the Seven Warriors. Seven Warriors, please spare us!"
"We will definitely serve you even better in the future. Please don't take us away, Seven Warriors..."
No one knew who took the lead, but the villagers knelt down one after another and worshipped the two men as if they were gods.
"Hurry up and get up!" Xiao Yu said, "We are not the legendary seven warriors, we are just passers-by."
Xu Chuchu also said: "Yes, aren't the seven warriors all men? I am a woman!"
…
After much persuasion, the villagers finally became half-believing and half-doubting, but their eyes were clearly timid.
They were outsiders and happened to appear next to Mr. Ma Jiang's body, which was indeed suspicious.
But it's really just a coincidence.
"They're definitely not the Seven Warriors. They're tourists who just arrived," said a young man in the back row. "I saw them enter the village and they even asked me for directions."
Xu Chuchu looked at the young man and found that he was the tall and thin man whom they met when they asked for directions when they entered the village that day.
Fortunately, he testified and the others believed it.
"Could it be that Mr. Ma Jiang really committed suicide? Why did he do that?" asked a villager.
"Yes, he bought some tobacco from my stall yesterday."
At this time, Xiao Yu stepped forward and said, "Mr. Ma Jiang certainly didn't commit suicide. He was strangled to death and then hung on a tree."
In order not to disturb the scene, Xiao Yu did not touch Mr. Ma Jiang's body, but showed the marks on the back of his neck to everyone.
In fact, this is an extremely common and low-end disguised killing method.
First strangle the target to death, then use a rope to drop the target onto a tree or beam to make it look like suicide.
However, if an experienced coroner or constable were to spot the truth, this method could only be used to fool ignorant villagers.
This village doesn't even have a government office, so the murderer is even more unscrupulous in disguise.
Seeing everyone in a daze, Xiao Yu continued, "The deceased died about an hour or two ago, before nightfall, and was hanged here. He wasn't killed by the seven warriors you mentioned."
Everyone was still stunned.
A half-grown child asked, "How do you know so clearly? Did you see it with your own eyes? Or... are you gods?"
Xu Chuchu bent down and gently touched the child's head: "We didn't see it with our own eyes, and we are not gods. We are fortune tellers. We know how to tell faces and we can solve cases."
"Oh, so you are charlatans." The child said ignorantly, and was quickly pulled behind his mother, who kept bowing to Xu Chuchu to apologize.
Xu Chuchu smiled and said she didn't care.
"Okay, now it's my turn to ask," Xiao Yu said. "What did you all mean by 'every dark night brings death'? And how did this dark night come about?"
The villagers immediately rushed to answer, and Xu Chuchu and Xiao Yu didn't hear a word clearly. In the end, the young man answered on their behalf.
"It's like this, you two," the young man said. "There's a legend in our village. Hundreds of years ago, seven warriors stood here guarding Tianshan Mountain for the Queen Mother. Oh, those are the seven stone statues you saw when you entered the village."
"Every seventy years, the seven warriors would descend the mountain, forming a line and wandering around the village and nearby areas. Ordinary people couldn't see them, but if someone misbehaved or did something bad, they would be able to see them."
"If the seven warriors find anyone who can see them, they will kill him. If anyone greets them, they will take him away and become the eighth person."
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