thing. "He waved his hand and said subconsciously.
As soon as he said that, he silently rolled his eyes, only to feel that his seven orifices had ascended to heaven.
Xuan Min: "..."
The room was even more empty than Xue Xian had imagined. To be precise, the whole room was almost empty, not to mention tables, chairs, desks, and even a stone pier where people could sit. Taking advantage of the faint light leaking in from the skylight, Xue Xian walked around the four walls.
Compared with the empty center of the room, the four walls are more famous. I saw some semi-circular iron hoops the size of palms were nailed on the wall densely or sparsely. Both sides were nailed into the stone wall, and a small curve was arched in the middle.
Two such iron hoops are always nailed side by side, and then separated by a distance of one person's width, and then two side by side, so that they are usually nailed on the four walls for a full circle.
Xue Xian stared at the iron hoops for a moment, and saw some scraped hemp ropes on several of them. Only then did he understand the function of the iron hoops. It was probably that the corpse carpenters would take care of the corpse when they were resting here. The dead body was placed against the wall, and then tied to the iron hoops at both ends with hemp ropes to tie the body against the wall.
On the one hand, it can prevent the corpse from falling softly to the ground, and on the other hand, it can also prevent the corpse from rising.
It's just that Xue Xian's footsteps stopped quickly.
I only saw a trace of blood on the iron hoop in front of me, and I don't know if it was smeared or splashed in a hurry. The only problem is that the blood is wet and sticky, and it looks like it has just been left.
Xue Xian didn't lift his head, reached out and patted Xuan Min, and pointed at the iron hoop in front of him, motioning him to look at the blood.
Xuan Min frowned slightly, and quickly opened it up again, he tapped the corner of the house he had just touched.
Xue Xian glanced along his fingers, and vaguely saw a length of hemp rope and some paper balls coiled on the ground. He just thought that it was all the debris left by the corpse carpenter. He didn't think there was any problem, so he didn't take a closer look and walked away.
But since Xuanmin pointed it out, it means it's not that simple. Xue Xian thought for a while, but couldn't think of a reason, so he obediently stretched out his hand, palm facing up in front of Xuan Min.
Xuan Min was stunned for a moment, but he still raised his hand and wrote something in his palm.
"Move the formation." After all, the palm of the hand is not as easy to understand as it is to say it directly, and it is not convenient to write too complicated, so Xuan Min wrote three words succinctly and comprehensively.
What was the name of this formation, it was no longer a matter of scrutiny. Anyway, after Xuan Min wrote this, Xue Xian already knew its function - just like the way that Lian Jiangshan disappeared in an instant, someone in this room once borrowed the formation and transferred it on the spot. before chasing.
Thinking back and forth, most of the people who escaped here were the people Xue Xian was chasing.
only…
Xuan Min wrote on Xue Xian's palm again: More than one person.
Xue Xian simply walked up to the seemingly inconspicuous hemp rope and paper ball, and squatted down. The smell of corpse that had accumulated on the ground for many years was even more unpleasant, Xue Xian couldn't help but frowned and covered his nose and mouth.
When he got closer to the ground, he realized that someone had drawn a circle with blood on the ground, the hemp rope was coiled around the head of the circle, and those paper balls were talismans soaked in blood and dried. Pressed around the circle of blood.
In addition to this, Xue Xian also saw several other things—
Just beside the seam in the corner of the wall outside the blood circle, a few slender needles rolled down, and the needles were still stained with dark bloodstains, which were almost integrated with the ground.
There are too many uses for this kind of slender silver needle, but in such a wet environment of the corpse shop, Xue Xian only thought of one of them in connection with the "sudden disappearance" mentioned by Lu Tianqi earlier—
Some warlocks, in certain situations requiring risk, will replace them with corpses.
The so-called corpse general is to do some hands and feet on the corpses of deceased people, so that they "return to life".
At the critical moment, when the silver needle was pulled out, it became a corpse again, and the dead would never appear in the results of Lu Nianqi's help.
If this is the case, it is self-evident who is the warlock behind the back.
Now that he's caught up to such a situation, it's only a few steps away from seeing the culprit, so Xue Xian naturally won't stop there. He simply grabbed Xuan Min's hand next to him and wrote in his palm: Can it still be used this time
Xuan Min replied: Chase
Xue Xian nodded.
Xuanmin understood and wrote: The formation has been destroyed, but it can be restored.
Writing, he drew a line on his finger, squeezed out some blood, and dripped on the paper balls in a strange order.
A few muffled blood drippings fell, and I saw the original