After turning the strand of black hair into ashes, Gu Juan lowered his head to Ling Yin and asked, "Did the residents of the town drive to the threshing floor?"

"When I returned to my master, the slave and maid had driven everyone to the threshing floor in the west of the town, and no one was left behind, whether men or women, old or young, pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep, and now Bai Ye was guarding there. ”

She paused at this point, and her voice suddenly lowered, "A small number of people grabbed the murder weapon to resist, and the armor soldiers under the command of the slave maid knocked them unconscious, and then carried them over. ”

Gu Juan was noncommittal about her approach, but then asked, "Did you find the woman with the leg injury?"

"This ......," Lingyin hesitated obviously, "The slave has not been found yet, and the strange thing is that in addition to sending out the paper men under his command, the slave and the maid also released a lot of paper luans and paper rats, and searched the entire town from the air and the ground without leaving any dead ends, but no trace of that woman was found." ”

Gu Juan pondered silently for a moment, and walked towards the west of the town first, "I know, these hairs are hidden too deeply, and even I can't capture its true form for a while, so now I can only look for clues from those townspeople." ”

After tea time, he was already standing on a stone mill in the threshing floor, his eyes swept over the faces of one small town resident after another with frightened and frightened expressions, and he did not speak for a long time.

He was feeling strange now, a strange feeling that he couldn't really see it.

When he looked at each individual person, even if he had a burning ghost face in his eyes, he couldn't find out that there was any disharmony in them, and one by one they were really ordinary people who were scared and trembling by the faceless paper man.

From this point of view, the people in this town should be normal, or poor people who are suffering from strange incidents.

And the strange incident that frightened them was that he and Lingyin, and perhaps added the white night hidden in the darkness, revealing only two green eyes.

But if he looked at it from another angle, when he didn't look at any single person, but focused on the whole group of people, he suddenly felt a strange aura rushing to his face.

Gu Juan searched in his mind and finally found a suitable word to describe this aura.

That's gluttony.

One word to eat, two words to be greedy, three words to eat all the time.

You have to eat everything, you can eat anything, you can't eat enough, you can chew everything deliciously, as long as the hunger comes up, no matter what it is, you can chew it raw and swallow it.

He silently stared at the strange and strange group in front of him, and remembered the strangeness of the town that Zhu Chong had said.

They fished from the well from morning till night to eat, and all they fished out was something like long black hair.

This is worth his divergent thinking and more in-depth thinking.

Gu Juan simply sat down on the stone mill, took a bottle of soju handed by Lingyin, opened the lid and took a sip, letting the spicy liquid slide through his throat, and a hot wire went straight into his abdomen, and then a light suddenly flashed in his mind.

He thought of two possibilities.

First, it is very likely that he stepped into the battlefield of two aliens, one of which is related to those wet and greasy long hair, while the other alien does not know how to control these townspeople, and feeds on these long black hair every day, consuming its power little by little.

Another possibility, that is, there are no other anomalies, only the long black hair, which is "breeding" these townspeople, or treating them as its own hosts, and in this way burrowing into their bodies, and finally achieving the purpose of replacing them, just like the human-headed snake vine he once saw in the wilderness, except that this thing does not only take human heads like snake vines, but does not waste anything from head to toe, it wants them all.

Gu Juan stretched out his hand and whispered a few words in Ling Yin's ear, and a moment later, two paper warriors escorted one of the strongest townspeople to the front of the stone mill.

He nodded, and without hesitation, one of the paper warriors raised his paper-thin knife and slashed it across the townman's arm.

A thin red thread suddenly appeared, and blood gushed out.

A layer of cold sweat broke out on the townman's forehead, and he screamed and struggled violently, but he was firmly held down by the two paper figures, and he couldn't move a bit.

"Bandage him to stop the bleeding, and give him twenty taels of silver for nutrition. ”

Gu Juan frowned slightly, and with a slight lift of his hand, several more strong townspeople were brought up.

A moment later, the men all had a silver ticket in their hands and were escorted back into the crowd.

"Except for the fact that these people's stomachs have not been dissected to check the stomach pouch, blood has been seen in other places, but there is no trace of the presence of those black hairs, and if you want to confirm further, you may have to cut open their stomachs and take out the stomach pouch to see if there are any traces of those hairs inside......"

"Although I have the nickname of the pupil of the West Ladder and the eye of the super, after all, I can't shoot a real X-ray in my eyes, I can't shine on the internal organs of these people, and I can't observe the real situation in their internal organs, which is a little difficult. ”

He was just a laboratory researcher, not an operating surgeon, and with the physical condition of these townspeople, coupled with the current sanitary conditions, if a person's stomach was really dissected and examined, even if the wound was sewn up and pulled back to life, it would inevitably lead to a serious illness, and even lose labor and become a waste.

It would have been nice if they had become Hearsay characters, and he would have no psychological burden even if he killed all of the townspeople, but in the face of uncertainty about everything, it seemed a bit inconsistent with his principles.

The hesitation only lasted for a short period of time, and before he finished drinking the bottle of wine, Gu Juan was already relieved......

If you don't want to do it, you don't do it, just follow your own wishes, if one method doesn't work, then change another, anyway, now he is looking for trouble with this alien, not that he wants to escape his life under the threat and oppression of the alien, under the constant monitoring of him and a group of subordinates, as long as there is any abnormal movement in this thing, it will definitely not escape his eyes.

Gu Juan then turned his gaze back to the "momentum" formed by all the townspeople gathering together, slowly stood up, and clearly transmitted his voice to everyone's ears.

"This official is the Great Wei Ti Riding a Thousand Households, a few days ago he was investigating and investigating a certain case of rebellion, and he followed the clues all the way to find you here, according to my current opinion, what you gang have committed is the heinous crime of gathering a crowd to rebel!"

An old man with white hair walked a few steps with the support of the young man beside him, and said tremblingly, "This lord, all the people in this town are obedient people who are loyal to the monarch and the country, and it is absolutely impossible to gather a crowd to rebel. ”

Gu Juan's face turned cold all of a sudden, and when he spoke again, his voice was as cold as the howling cold wind of a winter night, "How is it impossible, you turn your head and look back, are they gathering now!?"

The old man subconsciously turned his head and glanced back, and when he saw the townspeople who were forced to stand here by the paper man armor, his expression suddenly stiffened, and he didn't know what to say or what to do.

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