Chapter 63: Peeling off the cocoon
The team hurried on, fearing that the cavalry would turn around and chase them. They did not stop until it was dark, and then they cooked.
The windows and doors of the RV were closed and locked, the privacy curtains were all drawn, and the four of them sat together and whispered.
Lin Youcai: "I was almost scared to death today! The moment I lifted the straw curtain, my heart almost jumped out! When I saw the RV turned into an empty, dilapidated wooden carriage, I almost collapsed!"
"Who isn't? I thought I was doomed today!" Shen Xianglan sighed.
"What did it mean when it turned into a broken wooden carriage?" Lin Xianwen looked confused.
Lin Zisu's face was full of questions: "A broken wooden carriage? Dad, what did you and that soldier see? He took one look and then went to look at the next car!"
Lin Youcai looked around the RV. "I lifted the straw curtain and saw that it was not an RV, but a very simple wooden frame carriage. There were wooden boards underneath, and a rectangular wooden frame covered on the boards. The roof and four sides were covered with straw mats."
Lin Zisu opened her mouth wide, "Ah? When I lifted the straw mat, what I saw was not the outside of the RV! How could it become like this! "
The three of them looked at her. Lin Zisu said, "When you came back and said you wanted to search the vehicle, I quickly clicked on the word "hallucination" that popped up on the display. Time was urgent, so I didn't think too much about it. I guess it was caused by the RV. I didn't expect that "hallucination" means showing people a fake scene. 666..."
Lin Xianwen: "This RV... isn't it alive? Does it have a conscious system?"
Lin Zisu shrugged and spread her hands. "I don't know! Otherwise, you can call it and see if it responds to you!"
"Isn't this your RV? I can't even open the door! How can I shout at it?" Lin Xianwen looked at her sideways.
Lin Zisu: "I called out to you a long time ago, but there was no response!"
Shen Xianglan breathed a sigh of relief, "Stop talking nonsense! With this function, I won't be afraid of being searched or exposed in front of outsiders!"
Lin Youcai nodded, "With this function, I can feel more at ease."
Lin Zisu: "Dad, this cavalry looks very anxious! Who are they looking for?"
Lin Youcai recalled the portraits of the people in the portraits. "The cavalry showed us four portraits, at least more than ten, so the people they were looking for must have been more than ten. There were both men and women in the portraits, more men than women, and they were all young people."
Lin Xianwen: "20. I counted them. Each of us took a portrait and compared it with our appearance. There should be 20 people they are looking for!"
Lin Youcai looked at the three people and said, "They really look anxious! When we went over to negotiate, I specifically mentioned that Tao Mingyuan and I were scholars, but the cavalrymen were not interested. They asked us who we saw. I said that we didn't meet any pedestrians along the way, but we met an old man and two children yesterday morning. They gave us a bag of food and wanted to join us! The cavalrymen didn't react at all and didn't want to ask any more questions. They took out the portrait and asked us if we saw the person in the portrait!"
"It seems like they are really in a hurry to find someone! I thought today was over! Soldiers and bandits, soldiers and bandits, the soldiers in ancient times are not the soldiers of today. If you meet them, you will definitely lose a layer of skin! They are in a hurry to find someone and don't want to waste time on us. If they can't find anyone, they will leave, and we will escape!" Lin Zisu took out a hairpin, "Dad, did you see this hairpin in the portrait?"
Lin Youcai took a look and shook his head: "I have no impression! All hairpins look the same to me!" Thinking back, "The first portrait is of a young woman, and her hairstyle is... how to describe it... anyway, it's just a hairstyle with jewelry inserted. I really didn't notice whether there was this hairpin or not."
Lin Xianwen looked at his sister, "You don't mean to say that the people they are looking for are the pile of corpses you found in the bushes in the wild the night before yesterday!"
Lin Zisu: "I guess, it might be. First, I picked up this hairpin a few meters away from the pile of corpses, it might belong to someone; second, the first corpse I saw was a young female corpse, so it fits the description of a young woman; third, this golden hairpin is inlaid with gems and is well-made, any one of them is not something that ordinary people can own. Fourth, a team of nearly a hundred cavalrymen are looking for someone in a hurry, they are definitely not ordinary people; fifth, although we don't know how many corpses there are, the cavalrymen are looking for 20 people, which is barely enough!"
Lin Xianwen touched his chin: "After your analysis, I feel that some noble went out. Among the 20 people, most of them were guards and maids. A master, whoever he met, all were killed! Fuck... Why do I feel that we have analyzed the truth!"
Shen Xianglan: “…That makes sense.”
Lin Youcai's face turned serious. "That seems to be true. So the question is, who did it? Who has the courage and ability to kill a team of more than ten guards?"
Lin Zisu: "Ordinary people don't have the courage or the ability to take on more than a dozen professional guards with kitchen knives? At least a hundred refugees will have to attack together!"
Lin Xianwen: "There is another point. There is no war here! We have been walking for more than half a month and have not seen any war. The county town still allows people to enter, and there are not many refugees."
Lin Youcai: "The word on their flag is Ling! So we must have reached the territory of King Ling!"
Shen Xianglan: "What's the point of analyzing so much? We can't even protect ourselves! Fortunately, it was a false alarm today!"
Lin Youcai frowned, his heart began to beat fast again. "Why is it useless? Apart from those three people, we didn't see any other passers-by on this stretch of road! Don't you think it's a big problem?"
Lin Zisu: "Then there is only one truth!!"
Lin Xianwen: "There are gangsters!!!"
Lin Zisu: "Yes, and there are quite a lot of people! Didn't the old man say that the village was massacred? Of course, these three people are suspects, so we only believe half of what they said. Let's make an assumption. The bodies in the bushes are the people the cavalry is looking for. There is no war here at the moment, so they can only be killed by bandits. If it was done by bandits, there must be a large number of bandits. If there are a large number of bandits here, the authorities must know about it! Even if the authorities don't want to care and usually turn a blind eye, now that something has happened to the noble, the first thing they think of is these bandits! So shouldn't they just go find the bandits? There's no need to rush and look everywhere!"
Lin Youcai and Shen Xianglan were a little confused when they heard this, but Lin Xianwen suddenly realized, "A large number of bandits!!!"
Lin Zisu: "Yes! The world is in turmoil, and there are wars everywhere! The army will look at the situation and needs and decide whether to recruit or suppress the bandits! There should be a large number of bandits wandering here!"
Lin Xianwen: "They cleared out all the nearby villagers and pedestrians on the road! Or rather, they killed them all! So we didn't meet any other passers-by along the way!"
Lin Youcai said in shock: "Then our team is just the lambs to be slaughtered walking under their noses!!!"
Shen Xianglan felt her hair stand on end and rubbed her arms quickly, "Don't scare me!!! You are just guessing!! This... this..."
"Knock, knock! Knock, knock, knock!! Fourth Aunt, Fourth Uncle, Zi Su, Xian Wen!! Time to eat!" Lin Qiuyue lifted the straw mat, knocked on the car door and shouted.
The four of them were so engrossed in their conversation that they were startled by a sudden knock on the door!
Lin Zisu patted her chest and said, "Hey, I'm going! Let's go! Let's eat first!"
"Let's go and have dinner! After dinner, I'll discuss it with them!" Lin Youcai opened the car door and got out first.
Lin Zisu was the last one to get off the car. After closing the door, she saw two children not far away staring at her. When they saw her looking back, they immediately turned around and went back to play.