"Because when Shao Xin discovered the incident in this village last night, the city gates of Hulan Motuo had already been closed. Therefore, when Flander and I came here again to investigate, we couldn't contact the Spirit Hall within the city.
However, based on my deduction, the Spirit Hall in Hulan Motuo likely knows about this situation, because the other five villages that were attacked by evil spirit masters have already been cleaned up; at least the villagers' bodies were cremated and then collectively buried.
Flander told me that he would report the situation here to the Spirit Hall after entering the city. After all, as you can see, this village is basically surrounded by this pine forest, very remote. If we don't report the situation here, it's possible that no one outside or outside will know what happened for at least a week."
"Let's not worry about the Spirit Hall for now. Tell me about the location first. Where are those five villages located? Are they all south of Hulan Motuo like this village?"
"Generally speaking, these villages are all located south of Hulan Motuo City, but 'south' only refers to their geographical location. In reality, besides being in remote areas, these villages don't have much in common."
"I understand. Let's get out of the car, Xiao San. We'll walk into the village."
"Hmm? Why?"
"To take a closer look at the crops and farmland. When I used my soul tool for remote reconnaissance, I sensed that this village was relatively poor. We need to confirm it now."
As he spoke, Oschin jumped directly from the path worn by the villagers onto the wheat field beside the road.
Although in his previous life, Oschin was a complete city kid who had basically never seen farmland, after coming to Douluo Continent, he lived in a village for a long time and was very familiar with farmland and crops.
After carefully observing the still green wheat seedlings in the field and poking at the soil with his foot, Oschin was basically certain of his guess: the villagers in this village were probably not wealthy, at least not in terms of grain harvest. Because both the thin, yellowish wheat seedlings, clearly lacking nutrition, and the loose, clumped soil told Oschin that the autumn harvest from this wheat field would be very limited.
Knowing this, and combining it with what he saw when using the tracked soul-guided detection robot to enter the villagers' homes, Oschin was basically certain that the evil soul masters' massacre of the village was purely because they needed the villagers' blood, and not for any other reason, including wealth.
Outside the wheat field, Tang San, who had pulled Oschin up, asked somewhat doubtfully after listening to Oschin's analysis, "What's the use of knowing that those evil soul masters massacred the villagers not for food or wealth?"
"Confirming that the evil spirit master's massacre wasn't solely due to this reason isn't very meaningful. However, if the conclusion was reversed, and the evil spirit master's motives for slaughtering the villagers included food or wealth, then that would be a meaningful clue.
We're here to find the evil spirit master's whereabouts or identify him, so anything unusual in this massacre is worth our attention, as those anomalies might contain crucial information for finding the evil spirit master.
Think about it: if the evil spirit master who committed this massacre drained the villagers' blood and also took their wealth or food, wouldn't he or they need a place to store these items? Finding a fixed place to store items with specific needs is much easier than finding a person.
However, it's clear our luck isn't good. Our target evil spirit master only needs the blood that he'll likely use on the spot; we can't use the method of finding item storage to find this demon."
"I see. Does that mean our current search is unlikely to yield any valuable clues?"
"Who knows? Let's go to the threshing ground first."
Upon entering the village, Tang San and Oschin smelled a faint stench of rotting corpses, so they wore their soul-guided masks to block out the pungent odor. However, they quickly discovered that examining the corpses would present them with far more than just the stench.
The corpses were concentrated in the threshing ground, so Oschin and Tang San inevitably stepped on the densely packed bodies as they moved. Furthermore, their movements caused swarms of flies to rise from the corpses. The sensation underfoot combined with the scene before them caused the two, who were already barely suppressing their fear and discomfort, to begin to crumble.
Ultimately, Oschin was the first to rush out of the threshing ground.
"Although I know we should examine these corpses carefully, I must admit I can't. Even through the mech, my hands tremble when I touch the villagers."
"I'm alright. I've already examined a few of the outer corpses. Although I don't like the feeling, I think I can continue. It's just that there are too many flies. Their presence makes it impossible for me to concentrate on examining the villagers' bodies.
Theoretically, I could prepare some medicine to repel these annoying creatures, but considering this is an open area, the medicine's effect will likely be very limited."
"Flies aren't a problem; sonic soul tools can handle them. But the examination of the corpses is entirely your responsibility. I'll go to the open space in the center of the threshing ground to check the evil soul master's footprints and see if I can analyze any useful information."
"No problem."
"Put on your soul-guided helmets and turn on the soundproofing. Next, I'll use a drone (which has already been recovered and its functional bottle replaced) carrying a sonar soul-guided device to the center of the threshing ground to release infrasound. This kind of sound wave is also harmful to the human body, so we need to stay away."
As he spoke, Oschin's hands moved, and after explaining the precautions, he completed the settings for the drone and sonar. Shaking the control tablet in his hand, Oschin led Tang San and Zhao Wuji back to the edge of the village after the drone took off.
After confirming through the control tablet that the drone was hovering at the position Oschin had set, Oschin decisively pressed the sonar's activation button.
Soon, as the sound waves, imperceptible to humans, spread, the three of them saw a black cloud rising from the threshing ground in the center of the village.
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