I use my daughter's body to cut down the rivers and lakes

Chapter 329 Ghost Town
After Liu Qi and his party finished their meal, they replenished some water and dry food at the tavern and then set off again.

As the sky gradually darkened, Liu Qi decided to rest for a night at a nearby post station, so everyone rode their horses towards the post station.

"Uu——"

Liu Nineteen, who was running in the front, suddenly reined in his horse and stopped. Then, without waiting for the horse to stop, he somersaulted into the ground, drew out the dagger in his hand with a "clang" sound, and looked around vigilantly.

Not long after, Liu Qi rode over on his horse, and just as swiftly rolled over and landed on the ground, then passed by Nineteen and came to the front. As he looked around, his eyes narrowed slightly.

There were more than a dozen corpses lying in disarray on the official road in front of him. Judging from the faint smell of blood in the air, these people had been dead for at least an hour.

"What's going on?" Xu Yongding also followed on horseback. When he saw the corpses on the official road, he was shocked. Then he quickly dismounted and trotted towards the nearest corpse.

After all, Xu Yongding had worked as a county lieutenant for many years. Although he was not a formal coroner, he was still able to perform a simple autopsy.

Liu Qi watched his father examine the body with a serious expression, then turned to Nineteen beside him and said, "Tell my mother and the others not to come over yet."

Upon hearing this, Nineteen nodded slightly, put his sword back into the sheath with a stern face, and slowly retreated to meet up with Tao, Zhou Mi and others who were about to come forward.

Just as Xu Yongding had begun to examine the third body, Gongsun You stepped closer. She glanced at the bodies on the ground and then whispered, "Do you smell a strange fragrance?"

Liu Qi replied in the same subtle voice: "It's exactly the same as what I smelled in the tavern before, and these people..."

Liu Qi pointed at the corpse in front of him, and then continued, "The same goes for the group of people we met in the tavern."

"Huh!" Just as Liu Qi finished speaking, a voice of surprise suddenly came from Xu Yongding, who was examining the corpse in front.

Then Xu Yongding moved away several corpses piled together at his feet, revealing a tall corpse at the bottom.

At this time, Liu Qi and Gongsun You had already walked closer. Just by taking a look at the corpse, Liu Qi recognized that the tall corpse was the burly man who had begged for mercy in the tavern before.

This person must be someone who values ​​his life, otherwise he wouldn't be so humble in front of Liu Qi in the tavern.

But the other party probably didn't expect that Liu Qi, the evil spirit in his eyes, didn't do anything to him, but instead lost his life inexplicably in this wilderness.

Liu Qi thought, it would be better to die in her hands.

After carefully examining the tall corpse, Xu Yongding stood up with a gloomy face. After shaking his hands, he said to Liu Qi solemnly, "These people have many wounds of varying depths and are very messy. It seems that they were besieged and died because they were outnumbered."

As he spoke, Xu Yongding looked around, and with the last rays of the setting sun, he saw the surroundings clearly. He then raised his hand and pointed at the messy footprints around him and said, "Looking at these footprints, there must be at least 70 or 80 people!"

Liu Qi did not say anything after hearing this. She just walked forward and looked at the tall corpse carefully. After a moment, she said softly, "This man's martial arts skills are roughly between second-rate and first-rate. If he is just an ordinary bandit, even if there are hundreds of people, it will be difficult to stop him."

Liu Qi pondered for a moment, then raised his hand and waved it lightly over the corpse. A strong wind swept towards the corpse, instantly tearing its clothes into pieces, revealing a body covered with scars.

Liu Qi only took a look at the wound marks, frowned slightly, and then said in a deep voice: "Dad, please go and take a look at the weapons in the hands of the other corpses."

Although Xu Yongding was a little confused, he still followed his daughter's instructions, turned around and checked the weapons left beside the other corpses one by one, and then picked up one of the intact weapons and brought it to Liu Qi.

Xu Yongding held a long sword in one hand and said solemnly: "These people are all using standard long swords. They are not simple people!"

Liu Qi glanced at the blade and then quickly retracted his gaze, then said calmly: "This fat man was killed by himself. The fatal wounds on his body were all caused by this type of long sword."

"Ah?" Xu Yongding looked surprised.

At this moment, Liu Qi's eyes suddenly narrowed, as if he had thought of something, and then he said to his father and Gongsun You beside him: "You step back first."

Upon hearing this, Xu Yongding and Gongsun You did not dare to be careless and both retreated until they returned to Tao and others.

Before the anxious Tao could ask her husband what had happened before, everyone suddenly felt a breeze blowing towards them.

He looked up involuntarily, and saw the wind and sand flying in front of him. Liu Qi's slender figure was looming in the flying dust, and around her, more than a dozen corpses were floating in the air.

Seeing this scene, even the calmest Gongsun You couldn't help but look horrified.

What...does she want to do?
Liu Qi was certainly not playing with the corpses, she was just very curious about what was hidden in these corpses.

There was a flash of coldness in Liu Qi's eyes, and in an instant, countless sword energies burst out from behind her, instantly tearing the surrounding corpses into pieces.

This bloody scene made Tao unable to help but lower his head and cover his eyes with his sleeves, not daring to look directly at it!

At the same time as the corpse was shattered, a light green light shield suddenly spread out from Liu Qi's body, and when it touched the corpse fragments, it crushed them into powder!

The corpses floating around were swept away in an instant!
Liu Qi narrowed her eyes slightly, she caught a glimpse of the last trace of crimson in the air, suddenly raised her hand and bent her five fingers slightly, a strong wind instantly swept out from her palm.

As Liu Qi's outstretched right arm dropped back to his side, all the noise around him instantly fell silent.

Liu Qi placed his right hand in front of him and slowly spread out his five fingers. In his palm, he saw a bright red object the size of a grain of rice floating.

At the same time, Liu Qi felt a tingling sensation in her left wrist. She narrowed her eyes slightly, and suddenly raised her left hand in front of her body. The palms of her two hands crossed up and down, and the red object the size of a grain of rice instantly fell into the palm of her left hand!
But the next scene was far beyond Liu Qi's expectations!
I thought the crescent moon would swallow up the crimson thing, but apart from the constant tingling sensation at the crescent moon mark, it did not produce an irresistible suction force like before to swallow up the tiny thing in the palm of my hand.

It can cause Crescent Moon to resonate, but Crescent Moon has no intention of swallowing it.

This was the first time Liu Qi had encountered such a situation!
Moreover, the shape of this crimson object was not fixed. It looked like a ball of powder or a liquid. Liu Qi did not feel any trace of energy in it, but no matter how she used her true energy to grind it, the little thing remained the same.

Just as Liu Qi was looking at the object in his hand with a serious gaze, footsteps were heard behind him.

Her eyes narrowed instantly, and then she clenched her five fingers and grasped the bright red object in her palm. As she dropped her hand to her side, she turned around and looked at Xu Yongding who was walking towards her.

Xu Yongding suppressed his worry, and when he saw Liu Qi looking back, he immediately asked, "Fang Fu, what happened just now..."

Liu Qi interrupted his father and said, "Nothing. I just accidentally noticed that there seemed to be something foreign in their bodies. I wanted to find out, so I resorted to this desperate measure."

As he spoke, Liu Qi looked around the empty official road and then said softly, "Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, is better than leaving the body here to be eaten by wild beasts."

Xu Yongding looked at Liu Qi's calm face for a long time without saying anything.

He really wanted to say that the nearest town was not far away, and he could send someone to notify them, and someone would come to collect the body soon.

Not falling into the beast's belly is certainly a good thing, but leaving no body behind is too much... However, the one who did this was his own daughter, so no matter how much Xu Yongding complained in his heart, he didn't dare to say it to her face.

Seeing this, Liu Qi lowered his eyes slightly, and then said softly: "Dad, it's getting dark, let's set off."

Hearing his daughter calling him dad, Xu Yongding's confusion instantly disappeared, and then he nodded with a kind smile: "Okay!"

Sometimes you shouldn’t be too serious in life!
Xu Yongding sighed secretly in his heart.

The place where the bloody incident took place was less than half an hour away from the post station, and Liu Qi and his party finally arrived at the post station before dark.

Late at night, a window of the inn suddenly opened, and then a stream of dark shadows filed out.

Liu Qi stepped on the dry weeds, making a slight noise.

She did not leave immediately, but turned her head and said to the shadow beside her: "Come out."

As soon as he finished speaking, a graceful figure walked out slowly, revealing a cold face under the faint moonlight.

Gongsun You's small nose wrinkled slightly, and then he said coldly: "Since leaving the murder scene, you have been carrying a strange fragrance, Miss Liu, it seems that you must have discovered something at the murder scene!"

"Gongsun Yan, have you heard a saying?" Liu Qi retracted his gaze and said calmly, "The more you know, the faster you die!"

When Gongsun You heard Liu Qi calling her Gongsun Yan, she instinctively wanted to refute, but Liu Qi's next words made her feel a chill on her back, and her right hand instantly climbed onto the hilt of the sword.

Liu Qi glanced at the long sword in Gongsun You's left hand, and then said calmly: "Don't play with your broken sword in front of me. Even the old Gongsun You is not qualified to draw the sword in front of me."

After saying that, Liu Qi suddenly leaped up and flashed towards the official road.

Seeing this, Gongsun You ignored the fear that had just arisen in his heart. He gritted his teeth and flew into the air, following behind Liu Qi.

The two men walked one after the other and soon arrived at the place where the bloody crime had just occurred.

Gongsun You had just landed and hadn't yet stood firmly when he saw Liu Qi in front of him suddenly change direction and leap towards the woods beside the official road.

She came to the place where Liu Qi had just stood, and hesitated for a moment, but when she saw Liu Qi's figure disappear into the dense forest, Gongsun You gritted her teeth and followed him.

There were not many people on the official road today, and most of the footprints left at the crime scene were well preserved. It did not take Liu Qi much effort to find out the route the others had taken to leave.

After passing through the dense forest, Liu Qi embarked on a rugged path. Although the traces on the road were becoming increasingly scarce, the two corpses that appeared along the way had already proved that Liu Qi's direction was correct.

Finally, Liu Qi came out from a bush as tall as a person, and saw a huge rock protruding high in front of him.

Liu Qi tapped his feet lightly, jumped up, and landed lightly on the boulder, looking forward.

Below the boulder was a not-so-steep slope, and after passing the slope, there was a town that looked like a sleeping giant, curled up in the valley.

rustling...

There was a slight noise behind him, and then a figure emerged from the bushes.

"Liu Qi, what on earth are you…" Gongsun You came forward breathlessly, and when he was about to question Liu Qi, his nose suddenly twitched slightly, and then his pupils shrank suddenly, and he looked towards the town below the slope!
Under the thin moonlight, the sky above the entire town appeared an eerie crimson color.

"Hiss——" Gongsun You took a breath of cold air, and then asked in a deep voice, "What on earth is going on?"

Liu Qi had already sealed her mouth and nose, but the extremely rich fragrance still seeped into her nose bit by bit.

What a weird thing!

Liu Qi lowered her head slightly, and as she spread out her left hand, a spot of bright red flashed out from the palm of her hand and disappeared into the night in an instant.

At this moment, Liu Qi felt a violent aura coming from his side, and then turned his head to look, only to see Gongsun You curled up with his hands clasped together, his body trembling from a slight tremor to a distance visibly shaking with the naked eye!
Is this a trick?
Liu Qi raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Roar--"

Gongsun You suddenly straightened his body, then let out a long roar like a wild beast, then moved and ran straight towards the town at the foot of the mountain.

Liu Qi narrowed her eyes slightly, put her hands behind her back, and jumped up to follow Gongsun You.

At the entrance of the town, a tall stone archway looked extremely strange and terrifying under the crimson light fog.

Liu Qi walked straight into the town without stopping. Everything in front of her was instantly covered by the diffuse red fog. At the same time, she was surprised to find that her perception range seemed to be suppressed by the red fog.

Liu Qi didn't think much about it. She looked at Gongsun You's staggering figure in front of her, who was about to sink into the red mist, and then leaped forward.

boom!
Gongsun You knocked open a house, and several staggering figures inside froze instantly.

"Roar!"

When Liu Qi arrived at the room, he could already hear roaring and fighting sounds coming from inside.

As the smell of blood mixed with a strange fragrance rushed into his nose, Liu Qi slowly stepped into the yard, only to see Gongsun You standing in the middle of the yard holding a sword, with three corpses, two large and one small, lying around him. Judging from the clothes of the three, they should be ordinary people living in this house.

Liu Qi withdrew his gaze from the young and pale face, and then looked at Gongsun You.

Gongsun You slowly turned around, his eyes filled with ferocity, but a flash of light flashed in his eyes for a moment, and then a look of struggle appeared on Gongsun You's face.

Liu Qi shook his head upon seeing this, then flashed forward and in the blink of an eye he was in front of Gongsun You. He lightly tapped Gongsun You's brow with one finger.

boom!
The light green energy expanded instantly, engulfing Gongsun You's body. At the same time, a red mist of a human figure emerged from behind Gongsun You, and then quickly dissipated between heaven and earth, turning back into the red mist that filled the surroundings!

"I...what's wrong with me?" Gongsun You held his head and shook it continuously.

Liu Qi glanced at the corpse on the ground, and then said softly: "You are in big trouble, you have killed someone!"

(End of this chapter)