There were still patients in Liangchi Medical Center, and they were also thinking about Guo Qi's whereabouts, so they returned to the medical center first. Su Yanjun and Mu Xiyuan, accompanied by Gu Shun, went to the west of the city.

On the way out of the city, the three passed by a courtyard wall with gray tiles. The walls of the courtyard were not high, and a phoenix tree sprang up from the courtyard, palm-sized green leaves barely grew on the branches outside the wall, but only scorched and tangled branches remained in the half of the wall.

Mu Xiyun stopped and asked suspiciously, "Is this the Shantang?"

"Yes." Gu Shun replied. He followed Mu Xiyuan's eyes to look at the dead tree, and took the initiative to explain: "About two months ago, a fire broke out in the shantang. It is said that a child played with snow and wet his clothes, so he covered his robe on the charcoal fire. Baking on top, unexpectedly caused a fire."

"Indeed." Su Yanjun also heard about this matter: "The fire was so bad that the four children in that room were not spared."

A small life just went away with a fire, and the fragility of life makes people sigh.

Mu Xiyuan glanced at the courtyard, a tall and thin man was talking to the old man in Shantang. For some reason, his back was very familiar.

Mu Xiyun's heart skipped a beat, as if something was wiggling outward, and a desire to go in and take a closer look arose spontaneously.

Su Yanjun and Gu Shun had already walked for a while, and seeing Mu Xiyun still stopped in place, they reminded aloud, "Junior Brother Mu, what's the matter?"

"Ah, it's nothing." Mu Xiyun took two quick steps to catch up, and the three of them walked out of the city together.

After a while, a figure flashed out of the door of Shantang, staring at the backs of the three for a long time, thoughtfully.

Going out of the city and going up the mountain, there are mostly bamboo and pine trees on Cuiping Mountain, and occasionally there are a few camphor trees and ginkgo trees. There are many shrubs under the tree, and dead branches are everywhere. It is indeed a good place for people to gather firewood.

Gu Shun led the two of them in for about half a mile, then pointed to an empty space in the forest and said, "The body was found here."

The clearing in the forest was not large, the weeds on the ground were crushed, and a hatchet was thrown at the edge of the clearing. was afraid that the old man Wang who found the body in the morning had thrown it in a panic. There was no blood on the grass or hatchet.

"After the body was found today, Zuo came to do an autopsy and carried the body back. There are only two arresters in Evian Town. My master is old. He suffered from a cold some time ago and is currently recovering from illness at home." Gu Shun explained. : "At present, I just let the officials surround this place, and don't let the townspeople approach, and it's too late to investigate. If the two immortals don't dislike it, why don't we scatter around here and have a look?"

"Alright." Su Yanjun nodded and said, "Let's look for it separately, everyone be careful. If you find anything, send a signal."

The three split up.

Mu Xiyun walked along the bushes to the depths of the woods, paying attention to her feet as she walked. In the mountain forest in March, the green grass has already covered the soil. Under the sunlight, the air after the rain is filled with the clear woody fragrance of camphor trees. If such a terrifying case had not happened, it would have been an outing for children. spring.

Thinking of Zhiyuan, images of a group of children suddenly appeared in Mu Xiyuan's heart, the children of the shantang running with Zhiyuan.

Although the child in his impression was an old man more than fifty years ago, the charred plane tree he saw just now always made him feel faintly uneasy.

Before she could regain her senses, Mu Xiyun suddenly heard Gu Shun shout, "Here! There is something!"

Mu Xiyun hurried over, and Su Yanjun also rushed from the other direction. Gu Shun was half-bent, looking at a bush. The bushes in the mountains and forests are thorny, and when people walk by, their robes are often hung. saw a small piece of cyan fabric hooked on the thorny bush, embroidered with a half-return pattern on it. Judging from the color and texture, it was very similar to the fabric of the shirt on the child's corpse in the government office.

The three straightened up and looked around. This is deep in the forest. What is a child doing here alone? Could it be that he was being chased by wild beasts and panicked?

Gu Shun put away the fabric, and the three looked around again, but found no other clues, so they had to go back to the government office first.

Back in the small room of the morgue, Gu Shun took out the fabric and compared it with the child's clothes, it turned out to be a piece torn from the child's left sleeve.

Gu Shun pondered: "According to the hanging height of the cloth, it should have been torn off by the child in a hurry. If we assume that he was running forward at the time, then the direction of running should be down the mountain."

"Then," Su Yanjun pondered, "he went from the mountain to the outside of the mountain."

"But, it's very strange." Mu Xiyun's eyes were a little confused.

"What's strange?"

"This child ran out of the mountain and fell into the clearing not too far. If he was chased and then killed and digging his heart in the clearing, there must be a lot of blood on the ground. But we didn't see any blood just now. blood."

"But it's impossible for him to run into the forest after being killed and digging his heart!" Gu Shun's face turned pale at the thought of such a terrifying scene.

"It's really possible." Mu Xiyun pondered: "What if the child was put into the open space after being killed and digging his heart?"

"But what's the purpose of this? Could it be that it is a cult ritual?" Su Yanjun shook his head, feeling that there was something strange about this matter.

It was getting late and there was no clue about the case. The three agreed to go to the place where the corpse was dumped tomorrow morning to investigate, and Su Yanjun and Mu Xiyun returned to the hospital together.

Liang Chi had been busy in the hospital all afternoon, and the two told him about the investigation in the afternoon. Liang Chi sighed: "I saw the child describe it as terrifying in the morning, and I lost my mind for a while. But the deceased is dead, and I don't have the ability to investigate the case. I reported the situation to the head in the afternoon. The head means, Mo Yun The mountain is an immortal family stationed in town, and it is incumbent on such matters. Junior Brother Su was in charge of some of the mundane affairs in Tianliang Peak, and Junior Brother Mu also had to experience things when he went down the mountain, so the two of you worked hard and stayed for a few more days to assist the government."

"Senior brother doesn't have to be too modest," Su Yanjun said with a smile, "Since the teacher's order is like this, we should stay for two more days to contribute. Can that senior nephew Guo Qi be found?"