Hearing his question, Xiaoxue did not answer, but said calmly: "I said, you have never understood me. There are some things that I advise you not to pursue because it will not be good for you." This evasive answer made people feel uncomfortable.

Brother Yelu Xiu was very curious, but he heard her say, "If I hadn't brought you here on purpose today, do you think you would really be able to detect the connection between me and [Shadow Hall]?"

Brother Yelu Xiu raised his eyebrows. Did she mean that she brought her here deliberately and let him know the connection between her and [Shadow Hall]?

"What's the meaning?"

"I'm letting you know that I naturally have something that I hope you can help me with. If this matter is solved, it will be a good thing for your country, the Liao Kingdom, the Song Kingdom, and the whole world!"

"Oh, I'd love to hear the details!"

"Follow me," Xiaoxue turned and walked into the hut. Brother Yelusiu followed her in.

The furnishings in the thatched hut looked no different from those of ordinary poor people, including simple tables, chairs and earthen kang. Xiaoxue walked to the kang and pressed an inconspicuous place on the kang, only to see that the earthen kang was divided into two halves in the middle.

, a row of stone steps is exposed below. Xiaoxue comes from

She picked up a lantern on the table and lit it, handed it to Brother Yelusiu, and took the lead. Brother Yelusiu followed her, and just as she descended a few steps, there was a sound above her head, and the separate earthen kang had been closed, but because of the

With the lantern, he could still clearly see the stone steps under his feet.

After walking up dozens of steps, the surroundings became darker. Except for the dim light from the lantern in his hand, I couldn't see my fingers. Through the faint light, Brother Yeluxiu saw Xiaoxue walking forward as fast as flying. In such darkness,

However, she could see everything around her clearly without any need for lighting. This made him more and more curious about what happened in the past few years that he had not seen her.

"We're here," Xiaoxue, who was walking in front, stopped, and brother Yelvxiu stopped accordingly. Under the light of the lantern, he saw a stone door in front of him. Xiaoxue turned the lion's head pattern carved on the stone door, and the door opened.

As soon as the door opened, a blast of cold air rushed in. Inside the stone door was a large ice cellar. Two huge luminous pearls were inlaid on the wall.

Relying on the light emitted by the luminous pearl, Brother Yeluxiu saw the situation in the ice cellar clearly, and immediately took a breath. There were dozens of transparent ice coffins placed in the ice cellar, and there were people lying in each ice coffin.

There was a person lying there, or rather, a corpse lying there. To be more precise, it was a mummy!

As soon as he saw the appearance of those mummies clearly, he immediately understood the meaning of Xiaoxue's previous words?

"You came out this time just to investigate this matter?"

"That's right!" Xiaoxue nodded. Originally, she didn't have to take action in this matter. But these two people didn't provoke others, but they provoked people from the Yang family, and almost hurt Jiu Mei's life. The only thing she can't tolerate in the world is

Someone hurt someone from the Yang family, let alone her beloved sister.

"What did you find out?" Brother Yelvxiu blew out the lantern in his hand, walked to a stone bench in a corner far away from the ice coffins, and sat down on it.

"These deceased people all have several things in common!" Xiaoxue walked over and sat across from him, "First, they were all women, aged between 10 and 18 years old; second, they were all unmarried and... virgins

;Third: I have examined their corpses, and without exception, all the blood has been drained from their bodies, and... they were alive and conscious."

Xiaoxue felt disgusted and angry when she thought of that situation. "It's like a 'vampire' did it!"

Confusion flashed across Brother Yelvxiu's face, obviously he didn't understand what a 'vampire' was? Literally, it should be a blood-sucking ghost, but he had never heard of it.

Knowing the doubts in his heart, Xiaoxue explained, "'Vampires' are a kind of creature between the dead and the living. They have no temperature, no heartbeat, and no sense of taste. They never appear in the sun, because the sun will destroy them.

.They make a living by sucking blood, especially human blood. If the person bitten by them drinks their own blood when they are about to die, they will transform into their own kind. However..."

She stopped, frowned and thought, but vampires are legendary creatures in the West and cannot exist in the East, and vampires do not appear in the sun. "Besides, these dead people all died on the night of the full moon. And with blood

It is impossible for a vampire to make a living by killing people and sucking blood only on full moon nights. The most important thing is..."

"This murderous devil only appeared five years ago," Brother Yeluxiu continued. "If it is really the 'vampire' you mentioned, then why did such a horrific case never happen before this murderer appeared?" Logically speaking,

, no one will forget such a horrific thing, but whether it is the Liao Kingdom or other countries where such cases have occurred, young women began to die one after another five years ago."

"You are right, it is not a 'vampire', and such a thing does not exist! But I once heard a story. In a far away country, there was a woman who killed young people in order to keep her appearance beautiful forever.

girls, drink their blood, and use

Bathed in blood. Before she was exposed and executed, she had killed more than two thousand young girls. Legend has it that when she died, she was already seventy years old, but her appearance was like a flowery girl of fifteen or sixteen years old. So, I think,

Could this murderer also be using such evil magic?"

If five years ago, the murderer was still a beautiful woman, she would naturally not think about maintaining her appearance all day long. However, as time passed, or due to some kind of stimulation, she suddenly began to fear that her appearance would disappear, so...

When she found out about this evil, she...

"Do you think the murderer is a woman?" Brother Yeluxiu interrupted her thoughts and said what she wanted to say, "This is not impossible. Some women will indeed do terrible things to keep their appearance unchanged.

, but can drinking the blood of young women or bathing in blood keep the appearance unchanged? No one can say for sure, but there is no guarantee that someone will not believe it and try it.

"I guess so, but the murderer is not the same person!" You know, arresting people, imprisoning them, bleeding them, and finally abandoning their bodies may seem simple, but it is definitely not something that one person can do. Especially there are many officials among the dead.

The home of a young lady, a daughter of a wealthy family, is extremely well-guarded. It is impossible for one person to capture a person without being noticed while being surrounded by guards.

"Could it be that you have seen them?"

Xiaoxue nodded: "They once wanted to attack Jiu Mei, but I noticed it, but unfortunately they escaped. Last time I set a trap and wanted to catch them all, but 'Qin Beast Sheng' ruined the plan and let them escape again.

!They are a man and a woman. The man looks like a seven or eight-year-old child, but his voice is that of an adult man.

The two often disguised themselves as their grandparents and asked for money on the street as beggars. I asked some maids and friends of the deceased before his death, and they all said in unison: "The deceased once encountered a pair of grandparents begging for food when he was on the street."

, some gave each other money, some scolded each other, these women disappeared that night, and what appeared afterward were corpses one after another!' However, the government obviously did not count these grandparents and grandchildren as suspicious persons.

"

That time she heard that the same thing happened in the town where "Qin Beast Sheng" was located, so she rushed there and wandered around the streets every day just to attract attention. But Brother Yelu Xiu followed her every step of the way, making her

There was a snag in the plan. She knew that if Brother Yeluxiu didn't leave, the two of them wouldn't attack easily.

, so she deliberately let people release false news to lure Brother Yelvxiu away. Sure enough, as soon as he left, they appeared, the same begging pair of grandparents she met in the restaurant that night. But those two people

Never in their wildest dreams did they expect that she would see through their seemingly flawless outfits at a glance.

The frightening look she felt on the street before must have been one of the two murderers. She pretended to be afraid just to make them think she was an ordinary woman, no different from the people they had attacked in the past. At that time,

She had already set up a dragnet inside and outside the inn, waiting for them to show up and take her away to the place where they kept the captured but unkilled woman. In this way, both the person and the person would get the loot, and both the murderer and the

Let the woman who has not yet died escape the murderous hands.

Unexpectedly, fate is not as good as humans, but Cheng Yaojin shows up halfway, disrupting all her plans and allowing the cunning murderer to escape again. The important thing is that now that she has alerted the snake, she can no longer act like before.

They have been used as bait. To catch them, we have to find another way, and this way requires the help of Brother Yelvxiu.
Chapter completed!