Card Room

Chapter 496

After all, Ye Qi and Shao Qingge are not real robbers. Ye Qi felt relieved when he saw the man shaking, "Don't be afraid, we don't want to kill you. It's just that I'm hungry these days and I'm looking for something to eat." After scanning the cellar, I found that there was quite a lot of inventory in the cellar. There were several bags of sweet potatoes, as well as pickled pickles and dried buns.

Shao Qingge also saw this, and could not help but pat his shoulder with a smile.

The man said with a bitter face, "You, since you only look for food, I will give it to you, and ask the two heroes to spare me a life! Leave me a little, don't take them all..."

Shao Qingge said, "Relax, you cannot save so much food. We can't take it away. Besides, are you carrying these things on the road, aren't you tempting others to fight for it?"

He pretended to be deliberate, lowered his head and thought for a while, then smiled and made a suggestion, "It’s better to have our brother stay with you as a companion. If you meet someone for robbery in the future, the three can handle it. What do you think?"

The man was stunned. "Stay, stay?"

Ye Qi looked around the cellar with a look of admiration. "My brother is right. It's quite spacious here. We two outsiders have no place to live, so we live in the cave with you." Turned around to find a place, and laid some hay to make two simple beds, which meant "to stay here".

the man"……"

Not to mention robbery in the house, but also occupy his nest, these two people are too much.

But the two fists are invincible, and the two are armed with martial arts at a glance, and they didn’t want his life to take away the grain directly. It’s much better than the bandits who hit his shop a few days ago. …For the first time?

The man's eyes were spinning dimly, apparently wondering what to do.

Shao Qingge wanted to violently subdue him, forcing him to cooperate with the investigation. However, although this person has a rather disguised personality, his mind is very clever. If the two keep pressing him, maybe this guy will stab him in the back, or run away in the middle of the night. If you want him to really cooperate, maybe you can change the way.

For example, let him treat them as friends and talk quietly?

Thinking of this, Shao Qingge said softly, "Don't worry, we have no grievances with you, and there is no need to harm your life."

Ye Qi and Shao Qingge are connected to each other. Of course they know Shao Qingge's thoughts and immediately cooperate with the tunnel. "I just grabbed you just now. I was afraid that there were gangsters hiding in this cave. After all, there was famine everywhere. Many people went crazy. It’s just as unreasonable. The silver and food brought by our two brothers were also robbed by the people in your town."

Leaflet is witty, so that you can find an excuse to investigate the location of the gangsters in the town.

The man was stunned by the two of them, but noticed that their tone was softening, unlike the brutal robber, the man no longer resisted, he bit his teeth and said, "Well, you live temporarily I'm here, but don't go out and be found, otherwise, these things I saved will be robbed."

Ye Qi nodded. "I know. We are going to starve to death. Can you find something for us first?"

The man turned to find some sweet potatoes.

Because roasted sweet potatoes easily emit a fragrant flavor, he found a way to make a temporary stove in the underground cave, use the saved coal to fire, and cook the sweet potatoes in the pot to cook. a few days. The remote location of his yard, combined with the concealment of the underground cave, made it difficult for the attention of outsiders.

Shao Qingge saw that he was busy with hot sweet potatoes, so he went to sit next to him and asked, "What is your brother's surname?"

The other side said, "My name is Ren Yuan."

Shao Qingge smiled and said, "My name is Shao Xiaoge, this is my brother Shao Xiaoye."

Ye Qi "..............."

Why do you need my last name every time? Can't you surname Ye?

Ye Qi’s vomiting was received by Shao Qingge with his heart and soul. The man looked at him with a smile and did not intend to change his mind. He continued to write a serious story. "Our brothers are doing business outside. This year there is famine everywhere, and our family is half It was also robbed by a group of thieves a few months ago. We finally escaped and stopped all the way. As a result, we walked to your town, and the silver and dry food on our bodies were also robbed by a group of people."

Ren Yuan's sympathetic face gritted his teeth and said, "It must have been robbed by the group of Hounds!"

Ye Qi and Shao Qingge looked at each other.

——The key clue finally appeared.

Hound, this organization is a brutal organization that made a living by beating homes and eating human flesh twenty years ago. Chu Huaying was looking for a surviving homeless man in the town. The homeless man also mentioned this organization.

Ye Qi immediately asked with interest, "Brother Ren knows where these people are? The package I brought with my brother was robbed by them, and I want to get it back. There are a lot of valuables left by our mothers. thing."

Ren Yuan shook his head hurriedly, and said, "I advise you not to go. The hounds are brutal, and there are many people. You two can't beat so many of them. When you go, you will only be caught and treated as human... "At this point, he seemed to realize that he had said what he should not have said, and immediately shut his mouth in vain.

Shao Qingge frowned, and continued to ask him "human animal? What is that?"

Ren Yuan gritted his teeth and refused to say more. He lifted the lid and pulled out two hot sweet potatoes. He said, "The two should eat something first. This is the sweet potato I cooked yesterday night, and some dried radishes. , Just eat together."

Since Ye Qi and Shao Qingge set themselves up as "hungry for several days", in order to avoid his suspicion, the two had to take the food, pretending to be very hungry, and swallowed.

Shao Qingge couldn't help frowning just after taking a bite. This was the most unpalatable sweet potato and dried radish he had ever eaten.

Sweet potatoes are half-ripe, hard-bodied and tasteless, and for a long time they don’t have the sweet taste of normal sweet potatoes; let alone dried radishes, it is like chewing wood.

Turning his head, Ye Qi ate with relish. Thinking of his experience of eating leaves alone in a nightmare secret room, Shao Qingge couldn't help but feel a tingle of pain-when will such a day come to an end? Open your eyes, there may be bugs in front of you, it may be zombies, wolves, and now it has been sent to the world of famine.

The challenger is like a chess piece at the mercy of someone, which feels terrible. The answer to the puzzle must be found as soon as possible and there is a way to go back.

Thinking of this, Shao Qingge took out the sapphire necklace card from his arms, his fingertips flashed, and a fine necklace appeared in his hand.

Shao Qingge handed the necklace to Ren Yuan, and whispered, "Brother Ren, this is the only piece of jewelry left by our brothers. The family was robbed, and now we are fleeing here, the parcels and dry food are all robbed by the gangsters in Qingfeng Town Let's go. We are not ruthless and innocent people, eating your food and living in your burrow can only use this thing as a reward."

Ren Yuan looked at the necklace with a surprised face. It was a gem that he had never seen before. Even in the dimly lit cave, it would definitely be worth the price? It seems that these brothers were originally children of the rich family, and now that they are in trouble, the treasure is robbed, not to mention, and they are hungry to eat sweet potatoes with him. It is really miserable.

Shao Qingge found that Ren Yuan apparently relaxed his vigilance, and the sapphire necklace's "increasing favorability" function seemed to be working. Last time in the secret room, he carefully copied one before sending out the necklace, and now it comes in handy again.

Ren Yuan took Shao Qingge's necklace and asked curiously, "This chain is really beautiful, must it be expensive?"

Shao Qingge smiled and said, "Our family is in the jewelry business. We created this piece of jewelry by ourselves. When the famine passes, my brother can exchange it for some silver coins and renovate your shop."

Ren Yuan wanted to quit, but he felt that he had rescued the brothers in distress, and it wouldn’t be too much to get some compensation? So he accepted it happily.

Shao Qingge was already in the business field, and he was very capable of observing and observing the situation. When he saw the other party's slack expression, he immediately asked, "By the way, what do you mean by the hound and human animal just now?"

After hearing the word "human animal", Ren Yuan's face was still pale. He was silent for a moment before he lowered his voice and shivered and said, "Brother Shao, this is a long story..."

Ye Qi hurriedly said, "Although you say, we can't get out anyway, there is time to listen to you, the more detailed the better."

Ren Yuan sighed and said, "This year's drought has been three months, and the grain harvest is not as good as before. Many people in the town are not able to eat enough. Everyone has to rely on storing grain for a few months, thinking that there will be disaster relief in the state. When the grain is delivered, the mayor will also find a way, and the result is that after waiting for a long time, there is still no relief food."

"Gradually, the town was in chaos. At first, a few scattered people came out to rob and go to some people who were bullied by orphans and widows. Then, more and more, the robbers formed a gang, I grabbed the food from most of the people in the town, then went to the nearby mountain to occupy the mountain as king and built a cottage."

The mountain behind the woods? Isn't it just the mass grave two decades later?

Ye Qi and Shao Qingge's minds popped up with an idea at the same time-Is this why the murderers committed all those people to the mass grave?

Ye Qi asked, "The cottage you are talking about is the hounds organization?"

Ren Yuan shook his head. "No, this cottage was set up by a group of Wuhe people. It was a mess, and no one was convinced. Later, they all messed up and killed each other. It is said that a few people cut in the night before long. The dead gangsters ran away with gold and silver treasures, and there were corpses everywhere on the mountain."

Shao Qingge asked "what's going on with the hounds organization?"

Ren Yuandao, "It was an organization that some people in the town secretly set up a few days ago. They wear masks every time they go out. No one can see their true colors. They will lead a dog and smell people. , So the people in the town called them hounds. Not only would they **** food, gold and silver jewelry, they would also **** people away."

Ye Qi pretended to be surprised and said, "Catch people? That's what you said...human animals?"

"Yes. They grabbed people and were housed in the largest pigsty in the town, eating human flesh and drinking human blood!" Ren Yuan said with a pale face. "That night, I and I went out for a small solution and heard the alley outside. There was a scream of a child, and I secretly glanced through the cracks in the door. I saw them take the child away and said that I went back to cook the wine at night."

Ye Qi and Shao Qingge "..."

It seems that the brutal methods of this mysterious organization were actually heard by many people who survived.

However, the people of the Hound Organization also know that this practice is utterly innocent, and they will wear masks when they act at night. No one can clearly judge who these people are.

It is for this reason that the "Ghost Suicide Case", which began many years later, is easier for people in the town to accept-after all, many people did do some things that were not as good as animals in the famine year, and lived by eating the same kind. Going down, it seems that the revenge suffered by Li Gui is justified.

Therefore, even if there are many people in the town who disappeared inexplicably on the eve of the Mid-Yuan Festival, no one went back to the roots to find out. They were more willing to believe that it was a retribution of reincarnation—a retribution from Li Gui.

Who will be the "ghost" 20 years later?