Food Fairy Lord

Chapter 4 The Empty House
When he came to the door, Pei Ye tapped the beast ring lightly. Only then did he remember to look down at his own image, and he couldn't help but laugh.But there were more times when I was practicing boxing than this embarrassing time, and it didn't hurt to give Uncle Lin a joke.

After laughing, he raised his head and waited quietly, but the time passed by every minute, and no one came to answer the door for a long time.

Uncle Lin likes to do everything by himself, so there are no domestic servants such as porters and grooms in the house, but according to his keen five senses, he should be able to hear.

Pei Ye knocked several times, but seeing that there was still no answer, she simply jumped up, climbed over the courtyard wall lightly, and came to Lin Lin's bedroom, only to see a candlelight passing through the heavy rain curtain.

Uncle Lin didn't sleep?Then why didn't you answer the door?
Pei Ye frowned and walked over, but the door of the bedroom was open, Pei Ye knocked lightly on the door frame: "Uncle Lin?"

However, there was no one answering in the room, Pei Ye probed and saw that there was no one there.

Frowning even more heavily, Pei Ye walked into the room and saw that the quilt was lifted and the candle was on in front of the bed, she lowered her head, and the shoes in front of the bed were not on.

But when he turned his head, there was only a scabbard left on the sword hanging by the bedside.

Heart tightened, Pei Ye looked around and found that the flint was placed far away, and the candle in front of the bed was obviously lit by Lin Lin with his true energy.

Pei Ye could almost imagine the scene where he suddenly woke up, flicked his fingers to ignite the fire, and then rushed out with his sword drawn.

What's the rush?
As soon as this question came to his mind, he blurted out an answer that made his heart skip a beat: "Lin Jue!"

Lin Lin lost his wife in his early years and only had one daughter, whom he loved very much.The girl's name is Lin Jue. She is about the same age as Pei Ye. She is quite gentle and lively, but her left arm is congenitally disabled. There is only a lump of flesh where the hand should be, which is very distressing.

He still remembered that Lin Lin said that if Lin Jue was not flawed, he would be a very good martial arts seedling.

Now thinking of this possibility, Pei Ye didn't care about the defense between men and women, and rushed to Lin Jue's room, but his heart sank - Lin Jue's room door was also open to the outside, and there were no candles in the room.

Pei Ye lit the candles in the room, the room was empty, the girl's quilt was lifted, and the shoes were still placed in front of the bed.

Lin Lin may have heard some evil noise in the middle of the night, grabbed the knife and got up to check, but a frail 17-year-old girl was awakened by a terrifying sound in her sleep, would she lift the quilt to look for it?

So the root cause was Lin Jue, she went out for some reason, and Lin Lin's five senses were sharp, and when she heard something was wrong, she got up to rescue her daughter.

Then why did Lin Jue push the door out wearing obscene clothes and bare feet?
A sense of familiarity came to mind immediately, Pei Ye lowered her head, isn't this just like... herself?

A shiver climbed from the tailbone all the way up to Tianling, and Pei Ye shivered.

What is going on?

Pei Ye wanted to ask Lao Xiangzi carefully, and wanted to study the source of the fire talisman on the forehead, but Lin Lin's family was in danger, so he had no time to look at him at this time, so Pei Ye ran back to Lin Lin's room, turned over a sword and came out , starting with the heavy weight, feeling a little more at ease, Pei Ye tried hard to identify the vague traces, looking for the traces of the two.

Lin Jue's footprints only extended a short distance outside the door, and then the ground turned into the bootprints of a man, who was obviously kidnapped.There is still four or five feet away from the fence, but the man jumped up flat with Lin Jue on his shoulders, one step beyond the courtyard wall, followed by Lin Lin's footprints.

Pei Ye also climbed out of the courtyard wall, but there was a field outside the wall. At this time, the current was turbulent, the soil was soft, and there were crops blocking the view. It was too difficult to track.

Although Pei Ye was anxious, she still tried her best to calm down and think carefully: Since Lin Jue sleepwalked out of the same place as herself, did they go to the same destination?At that time, he had just left the north gate of the city, and Lin Jue might also be going to the north of the city.

According to this general direction, I searched for traces bit by bit. After a long time, I finally found a path going north. Pei Ye followed the path, and when he left the field, it was a river beach. The footprints here were much more obvious. Both of them flew across the river, but Pei Ye didn't have such skills, so he leaned over and swam.

After crossing the river, there was a plain, and the traces became more and more obvious, but a phenomenon that disturbed Pei Ye's heart also emerged: the kidnapper was carrying one person and still walked evenly, as if he had enough strength.And Lin Lin held his daughter dearly, and the urgency could be seen from her footprints, but she was still thrown farther and farther despite trying her best to catch up.

Pei Ye had no real energy, so he could only rely on the strength of his legs to run through the rainy fields, and he was much slower than the two of them.

Finally, when it was almost Mao's time, the rain became weaker and the cock crowed. Pei Ye came to a forest and disappeared here.

There was silence in the forest, there was no sound of fighting, and a faint smell of blood entered the nostrils.

Pei Ye held down the hilt of his sword and walked in slowly.

The forest was small, so Pei Ye didn't have more time to prepare, and a bloody corpse came into view.

It was Lin Lin.

The place was empty.

Pei Ye came to the body, and an unsheathed steel knife fell next to it. It was the one Lin Lin often wore. There was no blood on the blade.

The face that was calm and self-possessed was pale and distorted in a strange way. The eyes were red and bulging, and there were two tear stains on the cheeks. The remaining expression was like anxiety, anger, disbelief, but more of it was pain.

Pei Ye paused for a few breaths on this face, pursed her lips and looked down.

Lin Lin was wearing white pajamas that were stained red with blood. There were nine claw marks on his left and right arms, chest and abdomen, and legs. Some were cuts and some were stab wounds. The fatal part was on his neck, where two huge blood holes were left. .

Pei Ye slowly squatted down and inspected the wounds.

The claws of wolves and leopards are not so sharp, nor are they so long.The tiger's teeth can leave this bite mark, but it is also not used to fighting with its claws. These beasts hold their prey down and bite it to death without leaving so many claw marks, and they don't leave any hair behind.

More importantly, even if there were five tigers, they would not be Uncle Lin's opponent.

Maybe there are no wild beasts. There are some strange weapons in the world that look like sharp claws and can be worn on the hand.

But Pei Ye quickly refuted this guess, not only because of the real bite mark on the neck, but also those indistinguishable paw prints on the ground.

Pei Ye pushed aside Lin Lin's clothes with a heavy expression, revealing a blackened palm print on his chest and abdomen, half of which had been cut open by claw marks.

Pei Ye's complexion changed, and he gently pressed his palm prints. The bones and flesh underneath were as soft as mud and water.

Uncle Lin received this palm first and then encountered the beast.This palm broke four of his ribs and almost completely shattered his internal organs. If he really faced a tiger at this time, he would probably be unable to fight it.

A very thick and vicious palm.

But what really made Pei Ye's heart sink was the location of the palm's strike - right in the abdomen, impartial, and the whole corpse had no man-made scars other than that.

(End of this chapter)