Uncle Xiaofu had clues as soon as he arrived. Not only did he determine that the cause of this case might be that Yiyi accidentally made a wish to the evil god of evil words, he also suggested that he had seen this scarecrow before.

Everyone couldn't help but sigh, "We are all old men, and Youlian is reliable!"

"But what I see is not a scarecrow."

Wu Yifu's next speech shocked everyone again, "Didn't you say you've seen a scarecrow before? Why isn't it a scarecrow again?"

"I have seen a scarecrow in this form, but it was carved out of stone." Wu Yifu explained, "The size and style are exactly the same...a scarecrow carved out of stone."

Yin Hou and Tianzun were both curious and asked him what happened.

Youlian said, "It happened a long time ago, Bailian Mountain..."

As soon as You Lian stood up, Yin Hou remembered it and asked, "What about the bandit village in Bai Lian Mountain?"

Speaking of the Bailian Mountain Bandit Village, everyone here has heard of it.

Bailian Mountain is a famous bandit mountain. At that time, many bandits committed crimes on the mountain. However, the terrain of Bailian Mountain was easy to defend and difficult to attack. Many generals brought their soldiers and horses to suppress the bandits, but they all ended up in the mountain.

But Youlian succeeded...Youlian is famous for killing bandits in Bailian Mountain.

At that time, he brought a very small number of troops into the mountains and wiped out all the bandits without a single blow... And there are different opinions on how he eliminated the bandits.

Because these bandits were not captured or driven away, but all died in the mountains.

As for the cause of their death, there are many rumors... Most people tend to believe that Youlian poisoned her, but Youlian never used poison in battles. In addition, Wu Yifu himself didn't like to mention this matter, so it has always been a mystery.

Now that Bailian Mountain is mentioned today, everyone’s curiosity has been aroused.

"There must have been tens of thousands of bandits on Bailian Mountain at that time." Yin Hou asked Youlian, "You only have 500 troops. How did you kill all the bandits?"

Seeing the admiring looks from everyone, Youlian smiled slightly and replied, "I told you then that I didn't kill the person."

Yin Hou folded his arms and looked at You Lian. Indeed... when he asked You Lian, You Lian said it was not him, but the bandits were indeed wiped out after he entered the mountain...

"When I took my men to Bailian Mountain to suppress bandits, my original plan was to plant a large number of thunderbolts on the cliffs halfway up the mountain and blow up the mountain directly. However, the mountain did not collapse, but a cave was blown up.

There is a very grand ancient tomb." You Lian explained, "I thought maybe Hongtianlei didn't bring enough, so I asked my men to go back and bring more. While I was waiting, I took a few of my men into the ancient tomb first.

Take a look at the tomb. Bailian Mountain is not a geomantic treasure land. Logically speaking, it is unlikely that there is an ancient tomb. The cemetery is so strangely located on the mountainside. The interior of the tomb is indeed quite impressive. I couldn’t figure out which one it was for a while.

A tomb from the same era. But there is one thing that is very unusual... such a well-built tomb, but there is not a single burial object in it, and there is only a stone coffin in the empty tomb chamber."

Everyone was curious to see Gongsun - what kind of funeral custom was this?

Gongsun also heard about it for the first time.

"I have a subordinate named Shi Hao. He is a ruthless rough man with no taboos. When he saw that there was nothing in the tomb, he opened the sarcophagus and said that there might be burial objects such as gold and jade. But there was nothing in the coffin.

There are no bodies…”

"Is it an empty coffin?"

You Lian shook her head, holding the scarecrow in her hand and said, "In that normal-sized sarcophagus, there is only a small stone scarecrow. The size and shape are almost exactly the same as this one."

Everyone is confused - what kind of configuration is this?

"At that time, I thought that this might be a tomb of doubt, but Shi Hao disagreed. He said that it would be fine if the tomb of doubt could just put a suit of clothes... Not only that, he also took out the small stone sculpture and took it away.

Already."

"Just take it away like this?" Zhan Zhao felt it was inappropriate - just take away the things from the ancient tomb of unknown origin like this?

"It has been said that he is a rough man with no inhibitions. He thinks this thing may be some kind of treasure, and he plans to take it to his friend who is doing antique business to see if it is worth it." Youlian continued, "We will camp in the mountains that night and wait.

Backup sent Hong Tianlei... I remember it very clearly, it rained heavily that night."

When You Lian talked about the past, she could still hear the sound of rain in the dark forest that night, "Shi Hao kept holding the stone man and turning it over and over, as if he was possessed by a demon. Many people tried to persuade him at that time.

, this broken stone sculpture is not a valuable thing at all, but Shi Hao said with certainty that this thing might be a treasure. Some older sergeants are more superstitious, saying that there must be a monster when things go wrong, and this stone sculpture is so solemnly hidden.

In the sarcophagus, it doesn’t matter whether it’s valuable or not, as long as it has any other uses. Some people speculated that it might be some kind of sacrificial witchcraft or something used to pray for blessings? Everyone encouraged Shi Hao to make a wish and see.

Can I make a fortune?"

After hearing this, everyone roughly guessed the direction of the story...

"Shi Hao was an eccentric person at that time. He was originally a very noisy person, but he was unusually quiet that day. He didn't drink or sleep, he just stared at the stone sculptures in a daze. People in the audience asked him to make a wish.

He stared at the stone sculpture and said, 'Then let all those bandits die.'"

Everyone frowned - this sentence sounded a bit weird.

"I didn't think much about it at the time." You Lian sighed softly, "The next morning, Hong Tian Lei was sent, and we were ready to continue blasting the mountain... But when we counted the number of people, we found that the stone pickaxe was missing."

Everyone felt that the story was beginning to develop in a scary direction.

The fourth son has already slipped into Yao Changtian's arms.

"Because the mountain was about to be blown up, we were all worried that Shi Hao might have gotten lost while going up the mountain in the middle of the night or fallen into a pit, so we had to look for him before blowing up the mountain." You Lian said, "While we were looking for him, we were

I discovered another strange thing - the mountain has become very quiet, there is no sound at all. Bailian Mountain has a large structure with a large upper part and a small lower part, so it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. We are on the yin side of the mountain, and most bandits live in the mountain.

The sunny side. Because there are many rocks on the top of the mountain, shaped like blossoming lotus flowers, but the mountainside is pulled inward, a bit top-heavy. My plan is to blast the thinnest places from the yin side of the mountain, causing rocks to fall or landslides... Install the Boom Sky

To make thunder, we first dig a hole in the rocks, and then bury it and light it. We specially choose a rainy day to do this work, so that we can use thunder to cover up the sound when the mountain is blown up. But we still put in many spies during the whole process of blowing up the mountain.

Monitoring the bandits’ every move to avoid being discovered by them.”

Zhao Pu felt that Youlian's tactic might really blow up the mountain and destroy the bandits.

"But the silence in the mountains that day... was an abnormal kind of dead silence." Youlian recalled the situation at that time. "At first we thought we had been discovered by bandits, and they set up a trap to prepare the driver to ambush us. But by noon,

There is still no one in the mountains, and large numbers of crows are beginning to circle overhead."

"Are all those bandits dead?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Youlian nodded, "I took people up the mountain and found that there was not a single living person on the mountain. Not to mention the living people, even the chickens and ducks raised by the bandits were all dead."

"Did you find the stone pickaxe?"

You Lian then shook her head, "Shi Hao has disappeared since then and has never appeared again. I led people to search almost the entire Bailian Mountain, but Shi Hao disappeared together with the stone sculpture."

"How did those bandits die?" Gongsun was curious.

"This is the most evil thing, and it's also the reason why I won't mention it much in the future." Youlian spread her hands helplessly, "It looked like these bandits all fell to the ground and died suddenly, and most of them remained in the same state as when they were sleeping.

It can be seen that they all died last night. Later, I specially found a few gangsters to conduct autopsies... The result was that these people had no external or internal injuries, let alone poisoning, but they were dead... and the cause of death could not be found.

.”

Everyone frowned—did the collective die so inexplicably?

"What's even more bizarre is that there were several other bandit villages nearby, and similar things happened." You Lian said, "All the bandits died overnight... but the scale of these bandit villages

None of them are as big as Bailian Mountain, and in those days there was chaos and war, so naturally no one cared about the death of a few bandits. But then I passed by a village and encountered a similar thing."

"Village?"

"Yes." You Lian nodded, "The village is quite small, probably only a few dozen households... One day there was still smoke coming from people's kitchens, but the next day it was completely silent. When I was passing by with people, I found that there were only a few dozen households at the entrance of the village.

Someone used red paint to draw a scarecrow-like symbol on the boundary monument."

As she spoke, Youlian shook the scarecrow in her hand, "It's very similar to this one... At that time, I remembered the missing stone pickaxe and the scarecrow stone sculpture."

Everyone frowned—could there be bandits in the village?

You Lian shook her head, "The village is full of old, weak, women and children, there are no bandits at all."

"So those who died were all innocent people?" Zhan Zhao felt that things had changed. Those who died before were all criminals.

"But since then, I have never encountered anything like this again, neither the stone pickaxe nor the scarecrow, until today." You Lian looked at the scarecrow in her hand.

Everyone also looked at the scarecrow.

"It's been a long time since it happened in the blink of an eye." You Lian sighed with emotion, "I don't know why this scarecrow appeared in Kaifeng City."

"But it sounds like this." Yin Hou said, "Back then, it sounded more like a curse from an evil god. After all, so many people died overnight and the cause of death could not be found. Now it seems more like man-made trouble, and the dead are not dead.

Were they all stabbed to death?"

Tianzun also agreed, "The evil-speaking spirit should be like Bailian Mountain. The one in Kaifeng City looks more like a serial killer."

After Wu Yifu finished speaking, he sat there in a daze.

Zhan Zhao knew him well, so he tugged on his sleeve and asked, "Uncle Xiaofu, what else have you thought of?"

Wu Yifu hesitated for a moment, as if he was not sure, "I remember... I actually saw something in the woods that night."

Everyone was curious - what did they see?

"It appeared in the sky." Youlian said, "We were taking shelter from the rain in a cave late that night. After the rain stopped, it was extremely hot and stuffy. I walked out of the cave to get some air, and saw someone in the forest.

The figure from behind looked like a stone pickaxe. But the figure quickly disappeared... I took a few steps forward, and at this moment, many lotus flowers appeared in mid-air in the dark woods."

"lotus?!"

"Yes." You Lian nodded, "It looked a bit like a mirage, a flickering light and shadow... but it quickly disappeared."

Everyone felt that the situation of witnessing Youmeng Lotus Pond was similar to what Dean Lin said before. Kaifeng City was also very hot that night.

"Looking back now, it seems like I was dreaming." You Lian was not sure whether she was dreaming or really seeing it.

Everyone touched their chins - this is so weird.

"There is another strange thing." You Lian said, "Didn't we go up the mountain the next day and find that all the bandits were dead?"

Everyone nodded.

"But we didn't find the money."

Youlian also confused everyone with one sentence - money?

"That's right." Zhan Zhao understood, "More than ten thousand bandits have gathered. There should be a lot of gold and silver treasures they stole on the mountain!"

"That's right." You Lian spread her hands, "But the strange thing is that all the treasuries on the mountain are empty. We even dug underground and couldn't find a single copper plate."

The more people listened, the more bizarre they felt - what on earth was going on? Bailian Mountain and Kaifeng Mansion were thousands of miles apart, and strange scarecrows appeared on both sides. Is there any connection between the two things?
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