Chapter 174 Maya’s hometown

"Qilihe Village originally had only one hundred households, with a population of less than 500. It was originally very poor and it was not suitable for farming. The villagers make a living by fishing and will also go to the hills to make some wild game, but the mountain is too small and there are few wild animals inside.

Thirty years ago, a villager picked up a piece of ore on the mountain, and from then on people know that there are rich gold mines in the hills.”

The fine gold mine is the resource that the empire needs the most, with extremely high value and is the favorite of all magicians and alchemists.

Since the mine was discovered, a large number of people came to Qilihe Village, and the villagers' lives were getting better and better. In the Mayan Empire, they naturally had to replenish the local villagers.

At its peak, Qilihe Village had more than 6,000 people. The villagers became very rich by relying on this fine gold mine. But twenty-five years ago, strange things began to happen one after another.

First, a corpse happened to the person in the mine. The body was a miner in the mine. No one cared about this kind of thing, but the mine was not exhausted or crushed to death in the mine. It was covered with tiny wounds and was murdered.

Local officials, sheriffs and others have visited the scene, but they can't see how the wounds are formed. They are all fine scars, which are one-quarter of the size of a finger.

From this day on, several people will die every day. At the most, dozens of people will die a day, but no one will see any beasts appearing around the mine. Moreover, the claw marks of the beasts will definitely not be so small.

Various rumors are flying everywhere, some say it is a miracle, and some say it is a murder, with the purpose of obtaining the pure gold mine alone.

There are not many people who believe in the former statement. Since people have discovered the mine, God should not intervene. Although the fine gold mine is precious, it has been discovered everywhere in the mainland.

As more and more people die, no one is willing to go up the mountain to mine again. In the first and second months, the death toll rose to more than 2,000.

The fine gold mine is one of the important resources of the empire. The Mayan Empire sent a group of strong men, composed of an intermediate magician and three martial saints. The four strong men lived on the mountain for seven days, but died still, but nothing was discovered.

Finally, the mage asserted that this series of deaths was caused by a small earthly monster.

This statement was sensational, and everyone knows it.

The monsters will not leave the Demon Realm Forest. Qilihe Village is not far from the Demon Realm Forest, only ten kilometers away. However, it is still impossible to have a monster, that is, it is dozens of kilometers to enter the Demon Realm Forest, and it is impossible to see the monsters.

In the end, the matter was left unresolved, and the mage's judgment was overturned. As for what kind of creature the murderer was, there was no way to find out. He had to give up this fine gold mine, and only those desperate mercenary groups would occasionally appear here.

All the miners evacuated, but death was not far from the small village. The people in the village began to die, and fear spread throughout the small village like a plague. Even a small town thirty kilometers away from here.

The village chief, who had already become rich, began to move away one by one. In a few days, Qilihe Village became an unmanned village.

At that time, Maya's family had only three parents and Liya. She became the only family in the village that had not moved away. It was not that she didn't want to move, but that in the past few days, Maya's mother was about to give birth and she couldn't move away at all.

Maya's mother's condition was not very good. The pain had lasted for seven days and seven nights, but she couldn't give birth to Maya. The family stayed in the bedroom, brought food, and prepared to wait for Maya to be born. She immediately left the village.

Maya was not born, but the water in the room had been drunk, and during the production process, a lot of geothermal water was needed. Maya's father had to walk out of the bedroom, but he never came back.

With Maya's father silently dead, Maya was born. At that time, Liya was already panicked. Her mother bleeded heavily after giving birth to Maya. At that time, Liya, who was still a little girl, didn't know what to do.

When Lu Lingfeng arrived, Ma Yadi's mother had already died of excessive blood loss. Lu Lingfeng took her two sisters to leave Qilihe Village and never returned.

After listening to Maya's statement, Ferleg said: "The first stop is to go to Qilihe. I want to see what it is. It is unlikely that monsters will not run out of the Demon Realm Forest."

Maya hesitated for a while and nodded. She left her hometown since she was a child, had no impression of Qilihe Village, and she did not have any homesickness.

However, she also wanted to find the answer to this strange thing, and at least she could find the murderer who killed her father to comfort her father's spirit in heaven.

Farewell to his family and teacher Beca, the two walked west. They didn't set out with the army, and there was a hurricane, which was very fast. They used to take a journey of one or two months and within ten days, they finished it. This was not the speed of the journey.

Anyway, it's a travel mission, so there's no need to hurry.

In front of me is a piece of broken walls and broken rafters, and weeds are overgrown. Who would have thought that thirty years ago, the life here was once the Mayan Empire and the largest gold mine.

"Do you still remember where your home is?" Ferleg asked. Twenty years have passed, and it has long become a barren mountain and ridge. It is thirty kilometers away from the nearest village. The small village back then only has broken bricks and tiles left.

Maya smiled and shook her head. She had just been born at that time, but she didn't know which house she was. Moreover, these houses had already collapsed and bricks and stones were mixed together. Even if she knew, it would not be easy to tell it.

Besides, there is no point in doing this, everything is over.

From the entrance of the village, you can see Qili River not far away. The river surface is about fifteen meters wide, the water volume is not very large and very stable. It is said that the water is very deep, and small boats can be taken on the river surface. In the original Qili River Village, this small river relied on this small river to support the whole village's old and young.

You can still see it now. The small dock has already rotted and cannot see a ship.

"Is it that hill?" Ferlig said, pointing to the peak south.

"It should be right, it seems that there is only this mountain here." Maya said, and she didn't know where the gold mine was.

"Let's go and have a look." The hurricane ran towards the hill not far away.

At the foot of the mountain, there was a huge sign. The wooden boards used to make the signs were already a little rotten, and the words on the sign were still vaguely visible. It was simply saying that there were monsters on the mountain, and people should not go up the mountain, otherwise they would die. The following sign was a public security club.

Walking halfway up the mountain, Felleg turned around and asked, "Is there anyone here now?"

"It should be. It is said that many magicians will come here in person to collect some gold ore, but there is much less ore. Only when you go deep into the mine can you find some.

Many mercenaries came to try their luck, and most of them died here. It seems that decades have passed, and the monsters here are still killing people." Maya said, all these are the news heard from her sister Leya.

Liya has lived here since she was a child and has a deep memory of the small village.

"What's wrong?" Maya found that Ferig seemed to be looking for something.

"Please look at the ground. It seems that there are footprints on the ground. The plants on this mountain are lush. If no one leaves, the footprints will be covered up by the newly grown grass." Felleg said.

After hearing Filigo's words, Maya looked carefully and found that it was true. Not far away from the front, she found a row of footprints, which appeared and disappeared from time to time. It seemed that it had been a while.

If Filig's judgment is correct, the person who goes up the mountain should be within half a month, five to ten days ago.

"There are no footprints to go down the mountain." Maya said after observing for a while.

Ferlig nodded and patted the hurricane's neck, and the speed immediately increased a lot. However, the wind beast was not suitable for mountain roads, Ferlig still felt it was a bit slow.

When they were almost at the top of the mountain, the hurricane stopped and the two jumped down and walked forward quickly. The camp was gone, the tent fell to the ground, and there were several black scorched wood burning from the bonfire around.

In the middle of the camp, there were two corpses. The corpses had begun to corrupt. A large group of fighting flies were flying beside the corpses. The two ran all the way, and the fighting flies flew around.

Filig first blessed himself with a magic shield and then emitted a small storm. Unfortunately, the stinky smell came from the corpse, and the stinky technique could not blow away the stinky smell, so he could only slightly reduce the smell.

Maya covered her nose with her left hand and her right hand holding a sword to protect her. It seemed that there was no danger here, but in the wild, anything could happen. Teams of more than two people must have a clear division of labor.

The two have been together for quite some time, and there is no need to explain at all, and they each perform their own duties.

The corpse was still wearing armor, with neck, no obvious scars on its body, and small holes were covered with their faces, and the opening of the hole was already festering. The pupae of the fly crawled in and out of it, looking extremely disgusting.

Fortunately, after seeing too many corpses, Ferlig didn't care about these things. He took out the broad sword and cut the armor on the corpse, and his body was covered with the same small holes. Unfortunately, it took too long, so he couldn't see what the wound originally looked like.

The two withdrew dozens of meters away, and Ferlig said: "It should be the kind of injury you mentioned. The corpse is rotten relatively high, and it should be more than seven days. The original appearance of the wound can no longer be seen."

Maya nodded, looked at Felge and asked, "Do we still want to continue?"

"certainly.

"Felig nodded firmly. This kind of thing looks strange. Even the strong are unwilling to come into contact with such things. Therefore, the strong people sent by the Mayan Empire just checked it out quickly, and finally made an unreasonable judgment and left.

However, from the analysis of that matter, the murderer seemed to not attack the strong. The four strong men lived in the mountain for seven days and had nothing to do, but people still died constantly, which was a bit unreasonable.

With the abilities of the magician and the Martial Saint, no matter how many movements there are, they cannot escape their ears and ears within a thousand meters.

"Is it a human or an animal? Or a monster?" Maya asked.

"There is almost no possibility for the monster, so there is no need to mention the reason.

The possibility of human beings is also very small. When I came here to check out the magician. Even the Dharma Saint could not kill and escape silently. At least there would be some traces to be found. The possibility of animals is the greatest." Ferlig said after thinking about it.
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