Chapter 366 Brother, do you remember what we saw in the mountains?
Chapter 366 Brother, do you remember what we saw in the mountains?
Magistrate Xu waved to one of the officers:
"Dai Qiao, you are a good painter. Take the head of Xiawan Village to draw the appearance of the person who will pay him."
"It's an adult."
Dai Qiao took the head of Xiawan Village to have his portrait painted.
County Magistrate Xu looked at the people in the yard and asked them one by one which village they were from and when the man disappeared.
The answer is the same as what the woman from Xiawan Village said before.
"Brother, do you think those people were abducted by the Changsheng Cult?"
Qin Jingnian finally understood what was said after listening for a while. He shook his head uncertainly:
"I don't know either, but these people are so careless that they dare to let their family members go without even knowing where to work."
Qin Wan: "Farmers won't be picky if they are paid, let alone a job that pays well. I'm afraid those people will rush to do it."
“That’s true, but with so many people doing the work, even if they weren’t told where they were working, there should be some clues.
Besides, except for the past two months, wages have been paid in the previous few months.
This shows that the so-called master is really making those men work.
With so many people working together, there would be some noise. Could it be that in such a large county like Chizhou, no one noticed it?"
Qin Wan thought her brother's remarks were funny. "That's not necessarily true, brother. If those men were taken to the deep mountains and forests to work, they really wouldn't be... "
Qin Wan paused abruptly when he said this. His body, which was originally leaning against the door panel, stood up straight instantly, with his brows tightly furrowed.
Qin Jingnian noticed that something was wrong with her, "What's wrong, sister? Have you found anything?"
Qin Wan looked at Qin Jingnian with burning eyes:
"Brother, do you remember that before we went to Beijing for the first time, in order to be more certain of finding out who was behind this, our mother asked us to upgrade our abilities before we could go.
For this reason, we went to the back mountain every day to practice our supernatural powers for a period of time. "
"Remember, does it have anything to do with this?"
Qin Wan clapped her hands excitedly:
"It matters. It matters a lot! In order to cultivate our superpowers, we have killed almost all the large wild animals in the back mountain.
For this reason, we decided to go deeper into the back mountain. Do you remember what we saw in the deep mountains? "
Qin Jingnian narrowed his eyes and tried hard to recall his memories of that period.
What did you see?
What did you see?
Just then, it was the turn of an old woman to be questioned by the magistrate.
"Sir, my surname is Wu, and I am from the neighboring Lihua Village.
The family's three sons were all recruited to work, originally hoping to earn more money to support their grandson's education, but in the end all three sons disappeared.
My lord, you must help me find my son, my lord.
Otherwise, I, an orphan and a widow, will not be able to survive, sir, wuwuwu."
The old woman started crying as she spoke.
In order not to delay the progress of the inquiry, the officer next to him mercilessly pulled Old Lady Wu aside.
"Shut up. Go back and cry if you want to. Don't disturb the adults from investigating the case."
After being scolded, Old Lady Wu shut her mouth in dismay, wiped the tears from her face, and just happened to meet Qin Jingnian's gaze.
"It's really you, Old Lady Wu."
The maiden family of Wu, the third daughter-in-law of the old Su family, and Su Mei’s grandmother.
Old Lady Wu knew that Qin Jingnian's current status was not someone a country woman like her could afford to offend, so she didn't dare to talk to him and quickly slipped out of the yard.
Qin Jingnian didn't chase after her either.
Because he remembered.
He and his sister saw a group of men working in the deep mountains behind the mountain.
He also recognized one of the men as the son of Old Lady Wu and Su Mei's uncle.
Of course they thought these men were building tombs for wealthy families.
so…….
"Sister, let's..." Before she could even say the words "let's go to the mountains to find someone", Qin Wan called County Magistrate Xu aside and whispered something in his ear.
When Magistrate Xu heard what Qin Wan said, his eyes lit up and he lowered his voice and asked:
"Wanwan, what you said is true. Have you and Jingnian really seen those men who were recruited to work?"
"I really saw it. It was in late summer last year, around early September. At that time..."
Qin Wan recounted the scene he saw when he saw that group of people, except that he changed the practice of supernatural powers to going into the mountains to hunt.
“I don’t know whether those people are still in the deep mountains.
But I am sure that my brother and I must have seen those people in the deep mountains in early September last year."
"Good! Great!"
County Magistrate Xu questioned the family members of the missing persons for a long time but did not get any clues. Now he finally got some clues from Qin Wan.
Looking at the sky outside, it seemed that there was still about an hour before sunset.
There are many wild animals in the deep mountains, and it is even more unsafe to go into the mountains after dark.
County Magistrate Xu planned to take a few of his men into the mountains early tomorrow morning to investigate the situation.
Qin Wan was thinking that she and her brother had other plans for tomorrow, and she was also worried that Magistrate Xu and his men would not be able to deal with the people from the Changsheng Sect when they encountered them in the mountains tomorrow.
After discussing with Qin Jingnian, the two decided to go into the mountains now.
They are not afraid of the wild beasts in the mountains; it is the wild beasts that are afraid of them.
Fearing that County Magistrate Xu would object if he knew about this, Qin Wan only told Su Mei that she would not go home at night, and then quietly went to the back mountain with Qin Jingnian.
The originally lush forest in the back mountain became withered and yellow due to the drought, as if the vitality had been sucked out.
The mountain was so vast that Qin Jingnian was worried about which direction to go.
"Sister, do you remember where we met that group of people?"
Qin Wan thought about it carefully, raised his hand and pointed in a direction:
"Go that way."
"it is good."
Qin Jingnian grabbed Qin Wan and disappeared into the forest in a flash.
Once you go deep into the mountains, the withered and decayed situation becomes much better.
From time to time, the roar of wild beasts can be heard.
During this period, Qin Wan continued to release his mental power to sense the situation within a few miles.
Sure enough, Qin Wan sensed the breath of a living person.
There are quite a few more people.
Qin Wan's eyes lit up. There must be a ghost in this deep mountain.
Qin Wan asked Qin Jingnian to stop in front of a valley.
Sensing the situation inside the valley, Qin Wan's face showed three parts of solemnity, three parts of amusement, and three parts of surprise.
Even Qin Jingnian, who had no mental power, could sense the unlucky aura with his supernatural powers.
The source of the bad luck is inside the valley.
So the Changsheng Sect is really causing trouble here.
But he didn't know what the specific situation was in the valley.
Seeing Qin Wan open his eyes, Qin Jingnian asked in a low voice:
"Sister, have you seen those people working?"
Qin Wan's face looked a little bad. "Those people... have been killed. There are people from the Immortal Cult among them. The workers have all been turned into puppet monsters."
Qin Jingnian was silent.
Yes, he could sense the breath of bad luck. If they fell into the hands of the Changsheng Sect, those workers would have no chance of survival.
Qin Jingnian clenched his fists:
"Damn Changsheng Cult, when are we going to take action, sister?"
Now that they have discovered it, they will definitely not allow such a big threat to remain in Chizhou."
"Wait a moment, there are other discoveries."
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