Madam let me die

Chapter 25
Entering a lush forest and walking along a damp path lined with weeds, Li Nanke came to Cuihong Mountain.

This is a remote place.

Surrounded by trees, there are strands of coolness in the air.

Thin green leaves hang from the overgrown branches, glinting in the shadow of the sun.It's just reflected on the bloodstains left on the ground, but the pleasant atmosphere is a little more gloomy and chilly.

This is the scene where the three daughters of Lin Jiaoyue were attacked by monsters.

It seemed that he could still smell the remaining bloody smell.

"After discovering Lin Jiaoyue and Wan Yingying at the foot of the mountain, the government and the night patrol led people to search for Wen Jin'er, and it was here that her body was found."

Leng Xinnan said lightly.

Li Nanke carefully observed the blood splattered on the ground, and he could imagine the tragedy of the scene.

Standing behind the crowd, Meng Xiaotu took out a carrot from under her short skirt, looked at Li Nanke, who was imposing, and asked Guo Gang, "Where is this little boy from? The night patrol officer sent by the capital?"

"It's the work of the Dongqi County Yamen." Guo Gang replied.

"What?"

The little girl rounded her star eyes.

The girl couldn't understand that such a small work was so valued by Sister Leng.

Sure enough, being handsome can be popular everywhere.

Even Sister Leng, who usually hates a little boy, has fallen under the other's appearance.

"Although it is a co-worker, this guy is very smart. Without him, we would have almost caused disaster."

Tieniu recounted what had happened and said with emotion. "I realized that this guy is not simple, so I strongly recommend it to Sister Leng, so that he can be so valued. If this guy succeeds in the future, I will have the greatest credit."

Guo Gang rolled his eyes with disgust.

"so smart?"

Meng Xiaotu was very suspicious.

Li Nanke squatted on the ground and carefully observed every bloodstain.

Judging from the distribution of bloodstains at the scene, it is in line with the situation after people were torn apart.At the same time, he also found a blood-stained stone, but it was not stuck in the soil.

If Wen Jin'er hit the back of her head here, it would be really difficult to get up in a short time after suffering such an injury.

Naturally, it has also become the primary target of monsters.

"Lin Jiaoyue and Wan Yingying escaped from this direction." Leng Xinnan pointed to the jungle path on the right. "Because the monster blocked the way, the two girls could only flee in a panic, but unfortunately they escaped to the edge of the cliff."

Li Nanke stared at the path in thought for a moment, then continued to wander around to investigate.

When he came to a tree, he stopped suddenly.

Li Nanke bent down to check, and found that there were some traces of pressure on the trunk about [-] centimeters from the ground. After touching it with his hands, the indentation became more obvious.

"Did you find anything?"

While thinking about it, a clear and lively voice sounded in my ears, accompanied by a fresh and sweet fragrance.

Li Nanke turned his head to look, and the cute girl with a round face in front of him also imitated him and squatted on the ground curiously staring at the tree trunk.The super large cup of milk tea that was pressed by her knees was almost overflowing.

"say something."

The girl's curled eyelashes fluttered one by one, and she was extraordinarily light.

Li Nanke coughed, and just as he was about to speak, Leng Xinnan grabbed the girl by the ear and pulled her aside.

"Go away! Don't disturb Nan Ke's case."

The female boss looked displeased.

Meng Xiaotu rubbed his red ears, and said aggrievedly: "I didn't bother him, I just asked out of curiosity. You still call 'Nanke' and 'Nanke' so close, if you don't know, you can I thought it was you who were on good terms."

"Will you try again?"

Upon hearing this, Leng Xinnan raised her eyebrows and raised her catkin as if to hit her.

Meng Xiaotu was so frightened that she quickly raised her hand to protect her head: "Sister Leng, I was wrong, I know I was wrong, so you can spare little rabbit, I'll treat you to eat carrots."

"Humph!"

Seeing the girl's clothes softened, Leng Xinnan put down her hands and said in a cold voice, "Who cares about your salty radish."

But then she snorted, grabbed the opponent's arm, looked at a light blue tendon rope wrapped around it and asked, "Dragon beard tendon? Where did you get it?"

"I picked it up."

Seeing that Leng Xinnan didn't intend to beat her, Meng Xiaotu breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile.

Li Nanke looked over: "What is dragon beard tendon?"

Leng Xinnan untied the tendon rope and handed it to him: "The tendon rope is tempered by a special plant. It has strong toughness. It will lengthen when exposed to water, and then shrink again."

Li Nanke became interested and played with it in his hands.

But when he heard the woman's last sentence, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed in his mind, and the man looked solemn.

He walked quickly to the tree trunk just now, looked at it with the tendon rope, and then walked towards the opposite tree trunk along the direction of the distribution of the blood stains, and also found indentations on it.

"Is there any water?" Li Nanke asked suddenly.

Leng Xinnan was startled, and handed Li Nanke a water bag that one of his subordinates wanted to bring with him.

Li Nanke poured water on the tendon rope, and sure enough, the tendon rope, which was only about ten centimeters just now, was like a wriggling worm, and gradually became longer, nearly doubled in length.

Li Nanke immediately wrapped the rope around a forked tree branch as thick as an arm.

After a while, the tendons began to shrink as Leng Xinnan said before.And the forked branch also groaned in pain, until it snapped and broke completely.

"Ha~"

Looking at this scene, the man smiled inexplicably.

But there was no smile on his face, instead he had a gloomy look, more like a chill rising from the soles of his feet and heading straight to his celestial cap.

"Miss Rabbit, did you discover this one?"

Li Nanke turned around and asked.

Looking at the man who suddenly became serious, Meng Xiaotu nodded her head and said crisply: "Yes, what's wrong?"

"Where did you find it, take me there!"

Li Nanke said immediately.

Seeing that Meng Xiaotu was still in a daze, Leng Xinnan, who realized that the man had discovered something, shouted coquettishly: "Are you deaf, take us there!"

"okay."

The little rabbit was startled, and hurriedly led the crowd towards the first floor of the jungle.

After the people searched carefully all the way, they soon found two broken tendons of dragon's whiskers in the dense bushes, and even one of them was stained with blood.

"Is it easy to buy?"

Li Nanke asked.

Leng Xinnan nodded: "It's easy to buy. Although this thing is tough, it can be cut easily as long as it has a sharp object. Moreover, after being soaked in water for about three or four times, it will completely lose its toughness and is not very durable. "

Li Nanke stared at the tendon of the dragon's beard in his hand. Judging from the fracture marks and a barb remaining on it, it was obvious that it was cut by a sharper piece of wood.

"So it is, so it is..."

The man paced back and forth, his breathing was a little short, he turned around and said in a low voice to Leng Xinnan and the others. "Search! There must be a trail near here, which can lead to the bottom of the cliff!"

Facts have proved that Li Nanke's guess is correct.

In less than half a stick of incense, someone discovered a very secret path.

But it's not a trail, it's just a rugged road that has been trampled on, obviously the traces left by the previous herb pickers.

Climbing down the trail with difficulty, Li Nanke came to a stone platform about half a meter wide, protruding from the cliffs. The space is so small that only two people can stand on it.

"How high is this place from the ground?"

Below the stone platform are extremely dense vines and pine trees, and there are intertwined branches growing obliquely, making it impossible to see the ground at all. Li Nanke asked Leng Xinnan behind him.

Before Leng Xinnan could speak, Meng Xiaotu hurriedly said, "I saw this stone platform when I came down before, it's probably only a little over two feet."

More than two feet...

That is about seven meters high.

Li Nanke asked: "If you jump from here, what are the chances of falling to your death?"

Leng Xinnan looked down, and her lips parted slightly: "If you are a practitioner, you will be fine, but if you are an ordinary person, the chance of death will be higher if your head touches the ground. If you jump directly, the chance of death is not very high, and there are such There are too many vines and branches, and it is impossible to-”

Speaking of this, Leng Xinnan suddenly understood, and looked at the man next to her with a look of astonishment: "You don't think that..."

"Go to Lichen Temple!"

Looking at the temple in the distance, Li Nanke immediately made a decision.

……

Lichen Temple is the temple with the most incense in Dongqi Town.

It has a history of more than [-] years so far.

The temple is surrounded by green trees, flowers and plants, and it is backed by the continuous peaks of heavy rocks and emerald green, which contains a bit of detachment.

Li Nanke stood in the praying courtyard where the sandalwood was lingering, looking at the huge Bodhi tree in front of him, a little lost in thought.

The Bodhi tree is covered with small bamboo tubes the size of your thumb.

This is the prayer cylinder.

Each bamboo tube is engraved with a name, and there are words of prayer inside, which are wrapped and sealed by red thread.

Leng Xinnan brought over the monks who were on duty at the Qifuyuan on the fourth day of August. One was fat and the other was thin. They were two young monks.Facing the people of the Night Patrol Division, the two looked uneasy.

"On the fourth day of August, Lin Jiaoyue, Wan Yingying, and Wen Jin'er prayed for blessings and offered incense here. Do you remember?"

Li Nanke cut to the chase.

The monastic name of the fat monk is Chang Yu, and the thinner one is Chang Ming.

Hearing Li Nanke's question, the two looked at each other, and Chang Yu was the first to speak: "Report to the official, I remember."

After all, they had asked them for transcripts before, so naturally they would not forget it.

"After the three of them offered incense and prayed, did they hang up the prayer tube?"

"It's on hold."

Chang Yu glanced at the bamboo tube hanging on the bodhi tree and nodded.

Li Nanke turned his head and stared at him: "I want to find the prayer cylinder that the three of them hung on it, is that okay?"

"This one……"

Both monks showed signs of embarrassment.

Not to mention whether it is easy to find in so many bamboo tubes, after all, there are rules in the temple. Once it is hung up, it is not allowed to be taken off for others to see.

"something wrong?"

Leng Xinnan narrowed her phoenix eyes slightly, bursting out with a frightening cold light.

Feeling the coercive power of the girl, the two monks dared not refuse, and quickly shook their heads like rattles: "No problem, I will go find it right away."

After all, he ran to the Bodhi tree.

Leng Xinnan also brought her subordinates to search together.

Only Meng Xiaotu was lazy.

"Eat a radish?"

The girl took out a delicious carrot from under the skirt trimmed with gold silk, and handed it to Li Nanke.

Li Nanke snorted and declined gently: "No, I have a lighter taste."

(End of this chapter)