Chapter 968 The Mayor
"Brother Ouyang, in this world we can only survive by working together." Miao Qing's tone sounded like he was doing the best for the other person.
But Ouyang Huanbin ignored him at all, his vigilant eyes swept over everyone, and then he seemed to have made up his mind, turned around and ran downstairs, the sound of footsteps getting further and further away.
The third floor is similar to the second floor, except that there are fewer rooms. The corridor is paved with a dark floor, which makes a tooth-breaking crunching sound when you step on it.
Every door is closed. According to everyone's investigation, these doors have shown no sign of being opened recently. The handles are covered with dust, and there are no signs of dragging on the ground in front of the door.
Huaiyi stood up with a strange expression and looked deep into the corridor. At the end was a wall with a gray oil painting hanging on the wall.
"Where did the body go?" The fat man couldn't help asking.
Everyone fell silent. Perhaps only the dead Liu Hui could answer this question.
The group finally left, walked out of the manor, and came to the town to look for clues.
Walking on the street, the depression of the whole town cannot be concealed. There are very few shops open and the signs are dilapidated. From time to time, some dull-looking people squat on the street corners, their lips moving, unclear. What are you talking to yourself about?
But without exception, the people here seem to have an instinctive rejection of strangers. They walked for a long time, but no one was willing to receive them, even if they paid.
The last time, before they could explain their purpose, the boss drove them out with a steel fork.
"They don't hate us, but they are afraid." Jiang Cheng said: "They are worried that contact with us will cause trouble. They want us to leave here as soon as possible."
Miao Qing looked at the bags not far away Holding the steel fork, the shop owner with a strange expression turned around and added Mitsuru said: "They are afraid of Dacorossa Manor. As the tramp said, we carry that smell with us."
"But..." The fat man looked around nervously. , muttered: "How come there are no crows following us this time?"
Bai Xiaojie also nodded, "Yeah, it's strangely quiet today."
As soon as she finished speaking, a burst of footsteps came from the corner of the street. They were four men, wearing shabby uniforms. Like the law enforcers here.
The four people stared at them, and the atmosphere instantly became tense.
"Please come with us." The leader was a man with a mustache. His eyes were as sharp as an eagle, but his rough skin and shabby clothes showed that his life was not satisfactory.
"Who are you?" Miao Qing asked calmly: "What crime have we committed?"
It was obvious that he still had questions to ask, but as the man behind him took out his weapon with an expressionless expression, Miao Qing wisely chose to compromise, "Don't be rude. If you have something to say, we are all good people."< br>
The four men escorted them through half of the town, and finally came to a building. This building looked more luxurious than the nearby houses, like an office building.
They were taken to an office. As soon as they entered the door, everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them. Ouyang Huanbin, whom they had not seen for a long time, was tied to a bed and his mouth was gagged. The terrifying thing is that both of his legs disappeared from the knees down, the white sheets were stained with blood, and his body was twisted in pain.
Just when Jiang Cheng realized that he had been ambushed and wanted to deal with the leading man with a mustache, an elderly man stood up from his desk and hurriedly explained: "Don't misunderstand, it's yours Our friend was injured and we rescued him.”
Jiang Cheng couldn’t listen to this, their fighting power was so great. But these men who were obviously malnourished could not compare. Jiang Cheng controlled the leader's mustache in a few moves. Huaiyi got rid of the one behind him, and then guarded the door. The fat man relied on his physical advantage to use his body to kill the remaining men. The two men were pressed against the wall, unable to move. After a while, the two men began to roll their eyes and suffocated.
Miao Qing was frightened by this series of cooperation. He had no idea what these people had gone through to achieve such tacit cooperation.
As soon as Jiang Cheng let go, his mustache, which was strangled with only half a breath left, fell to the ground.
“Who are you and what are you doing to us?” Jiang Cheng found the weapons on Mustache. Fatty and Huaiyi also held the weapons seized from several half-dead men in their hands. He looked at the old man warily.
"I am the mayor." The old man looked calm, but not only that, there was a hint of surprise in his eyes as he looked at the people, "I know what happened to you, and I can help you."
"Why did he become like this?" The fat man held a weapon and yelled very loudly, looking very powerful.
"Your friend was attacked by crows, many, many crows." At this point, the old man's face looked a little ugly, as if recalling the scene at that time, "The crows knocked him down, and they ate his calves. All that's left is the bones."
"You people carry a curse, and you will never be able to leave until the curse is lifted. This is what will happen to him if he leaves this town rashly." The old man looked at Ouyang Huanbin on the bed and explained: "We found him on the only bridge leading to the outside world in the town. All the crows were gathered there. "
Jiang Cheng walked over to check Ouyang Huanbin's injury. The old man didn't seem to be lying.
And Ouyang Huanbin seemed to have gone crazy at this time. When he took off the gag cloth, he screamed like crazy, making meaningless noises. Soothing him was ineffective, so Jiang Cheng had to put his Gagged.
"What can you help us with?" Jiang Cheng turned to look at the old man.
When the old man saw that the mood of several people had stabilized, he waved to them to sit down and asked, "How much do you know about Dacorossa Manor?" The old man sat back on the chair behind the desk.
Hearing this, Jiang Cheng took out the book and placed it on the table. The meaning was self-evident.
The old man shook his head, "The records above are not all true. The history of Dacorossa Manor is much more complicated and darker than you think."
The old man took a deep breath and looked out the window with slightly cloudy eyes. His thoughts began to go backwards. "It was a terrible era. It was so terrible that you can't understand it at all." The old man's lips trembled slightly. , "People at that time blamed all disasters on witches, saying that they could never be forgiven."
"Witches were hunted and killed in large numbers, but soon, people became more and more crazy, and they became red-eyed. , the definition of witch became increasingly blurred during the massacre, and in the end, even a woman with a mole on her chest was identified as a witch and tied to a tree and hanged alive.”
"No one trusted anyone, so they reported each other, and more and more people were implicated. At this time, some kind-hearted people stood up and began to use their own abilities to help these poor women in private." (End of Chapter)< br>