twin moon

Chapter 19 Act Two

Among the grass and trees filled with an unpleasant smell, several mutilated corpses dressed in the black armor of Ye State's boat master were covered with maggots, flies and ants.Not far away, a team of dozens of people was working together with the army, back and forth to gather the scattered corpses in one place for identification and identification.Right now, the faces of the soldiers are all covered with a layer of sackcloth moistened with salt water, but it is still difficult to resist the pungent rancid smell coming into their noses.

"General, except for the part that was swallowed by the galloping wolf, all the remaining body parts have been found. There are eight people who can be clearly identified, and they should be the cavalry team that disappeared before."

A young clerk took a metal object the size of half a palm from his hand with a tray, and turned around to report to the Captain Xiaoqi who led the team into the mountain.The man with a bushy beard took out a small handkerchief from his pocket, lifted the metal object from the square plate held by the other party, held it up in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully.

It was cast from a single piece of pig iron, the whole body was jet-black, and it was heavy to the touch.It is surrounded by a ring of concave-convex wing feather pattern lace inlaid with silver, and there are still a few obvious tooth marks on it.The small characters on the back of the iron plate record the name and military number of the owner of the iron plate in detail. On the front is an eagle head with a hooked beak and round eyes. Below the eagle head, there are eight strong and straight characters engraved:

"Treading the wind and waves, the falcon soars and strikes."

"It really is the iron card of my boat master!" Captain Xiaoqi snorted heavily, "Damn it, those two galloping wolves appeared at the right time, and they didn't even leave a single one alive!"

"Excuse my subordinates for talking too much, isn't this galloping wolf supposed to have been expelled into the bitter cold land in the north more than a thousand years ago? Wanzhou is located in the southwest. Where did these two giant beasts come from? Could it be that the rebel mountain people who were hanged by us before secretly raised them in this deep mountain?"

"This time I'm here to find someone, and I'll talk about other things later. Could there be any other clues found on the corpse?" The captain did not show any agreement with his subordinate's bold speculation, and frowning hastily responded. asked again.

"The subordinate has ordered Wu Zuo to search all over, but found nothing."

The official didn't dare to say anything else, so he had to bow his hands again.However, Captain Xiaoqi on the opposite side seemed unwilling to close the case. His gaze jumped left and right a few times, and he landed on the she-wolf who was full of feathered arrows all over her body:

"What's in the stomachs of the two beasts?"

"The wolf cub was dead, so the subordinate ordered someone to cut it open, and the belly was empty. But this big one—it's a bit difficult to deal with."

The Shili looked with some fear at the huge monster on the ground that was seriously injured, and had already been tightly bound by several thick ropes to its claws and neck.Because of the tension, his breathing couldn't help but become heavy.

"Why, this female wolf gnawed on the corpses on the mountain for several days, don't you plan to take out the bones in her belly so that your comrades can be buried with their entire corpses?!"

The captain glanced sideways at Shi Li, his eyes were even more fierce than the man-eating beast in front of him, so frightened that the other party shivered immediately, and couldn't speak for a while.

"General, this, although this female wolf has died not long ago, she is still dying. No one, no one dares to approach easily."

"A bunch of trash!"

The man with the beard yelled angrily, raised his hand and pulled out the gleaming white iron long knife from his waist, pushed away the servants in front of him, and walked quickly towards the she-wolf.

The female wolf seemed to feel the approaching murderous intent, and instantly stretched the ropes tied to her body straight.But the rope had already been driven into the ground with a half-foot-long steel nail, even if he was not injured at the moment, it would be difficult to break free.But even so, the trapped beast still bared its bloody fangs, barking menacingly at the man who was approaching him, spitting everywhere.

Captain Xiaoqi was not afraid of the bloody mouth that might bite him at any time, so he squatted down in front of the she wolf with a knife, and even the official who was watching from a distance couldn't help pinching for him. sweat.But I don't know what trick the man used. After whispering to the giant beast in front of him a few times, he actually stopped struggling very quickly, like a domesticated domestic dog, obediently lying in front of him. .

Du Weixuan was about to draw a semicircle in the air with the long knife in his hand, and chopped off the she-wolf's head in the blink of an eye.Then he swung the knife and cut the rope tied to the wolf's body, held the sharp knife upside down and slashed open its belly, and groped among the steaming, still twitching muscles and internal organs with his own hands.

Under the terrified gaze of the soldiers, the man pulled out all the broken limbs that had been digested in the wolf's belly for several days.Most of the minced meat and broken bones mixed together were beyond recognition, but among them was a small cortical sac that tied the mouth of the bag tightly, which was still intact.The captain picked up the pouch, and threw it to the official beside him:
"This thing is obviously not a common thing on the soldiers of my boat division. Find out what is in it."

The small sac with blood and mucus directly hit Shili on the bridge of the nose, but he didn't dare to dodge. He just held it with both hands and handed it over to him for identification. It took only half a stick of incense to have the result.

"General Luo, that pouch is full of herbs picked from the mountains. The eight dead soldiers were all fatally bitten, and I don't know who these herbs were intended for."

"Bring it to me."

The bearded man's face darkened, as if he had expected such a result.The official quickly presented the withered herbs to him on a tray.

"This is obviously a hemostatic wound medicine that hunters in the mountains would use! Sure enough, as I expected, besides these cavalrymen and two galloping wolves, there were other people on the mountain when the incident happened! Keep looking, and you will die To see the corpse!"

Lieutenant Xiaoqi bent over after speaking, and started to survey carefully on the hillside with the soldiers.After being washed by the heavy rain a few days ago, the soil on the mountain had already become extremely muddy, and it was difficult to leave any traces, but even so, he still noticed some clues.

"See these weeds lying on the ground?"

The official didn't know what the general wanted to say, but he didn't dare to evade the answer, so he could only bite the bullet and said, "Please excuse my stupidity. Aren't these just some common weeds?"

"The grass hasn't been repeatedly trampled and crushed. It's not like when the soldiers fought fiercely with the galloping wolves. And judging from the direction in which the blades of grass fell, it doesn't look like the people who left the traces were trying to avoid the galloping wolves. The wolf fled all the way up the mountain, but fought and retreated from a higher peak, and finally died here!"

The captain frowned, and continued to climb up to the top of the mountain with the sound of roaring water, and soon found a large field of weeds that had been trampled to pieces in front of the cliff on the east side of the mountain.

Large pieces of fallen grass leaves seem to have covered the earth with a layer of coir raincoat, blocking the violent erosion of the heavy rain.Finally, a few well-preserved footprints were exposed under the blades of grass covered with black blood.

"This is where the cavalrymen and the galloping wolf met for the first time! That beast followed all the way down the mountain, presumably to avenge its own cub...but the one who killed the cub seemed to have something else Its people... the cavalry also followed these people to climb up this mountain, and blocked their way... There are two lines of fuzzy footprints near the cliff, which seem to be smaller than adults and weigh less There are quite a few... It should be the two children that the old witch said! One of them seems to be injured, and the steps are different... They jumped off the cliff!"

The captain gently touched the messy footprints on the ground with his fingertips, carefully distinguishing them.Following these clues that are almost indecipherable to ordinary people, he actually slowly deduced the whereabouts of Jiang Yan and Ning Yue!

Shi Li stood on the edge of the cliff, looked down at the water pool under the abyss: "Then shall we continue to chase?"

The man with the beard shook his head resolutely: "[-]% of the streams on Leiyin Mountain will flow into the Zhihe River. Anywhere along the way can be used to go ashore and hide. Even if these two children are still alive today, we will There is no trace at all.”

"But I have been searching for such a long time, and I have spent a lot of energy but found nothing. How do you plan to explain to Lord Overseer after the general returns?"

"You don't need to worry about this matter. Can the Lord Overseer relegate me to patrol the camp again?! Pass my order, and all the soldiers will go down the mountain immediately and return to the camp at Zhihedu!"

There was suddenly a trace of resentment in Captain Xiaoqi's tone - he was Luo Jianli who escaped from the shipwreck last winter.He was severely punished because none of the hundreds of elites on the Tiger Head Flying Fish survived. He was demoted to the third rank by Qi Shouyu, Marquis of Jinghai, who served as the warlord of the boat division, and he was no longer the all-powerful commander.

However, the Shili didn't know the reason, but he didn't dare to ask more, so he had to leave in a hurry.

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