Chapter 112: Traitor

Ying Shuiwang said with a heavy accent: "These two days, our island hasn't been right. I don't know where so many snakes ran out from. They are everywhere in the fields. A few even drilled into people's houses. The elderly all say it's a heavenly punishment. We sometimes have these black snakes in our fields, usually only eating field mice and frogs. I didn't expect that this time they actually ate people!"

As he said this, he took out the bamboo basket he carried with him: "I have a few more here, do you want to check them too..."

Qi Fei confirmed with Ying Shuiwang again: "Your island shouldn't be big. Haven't you heard of any family having an accident or going missing?"

Ying Shuiwang shook his head blankly: "This, this is really not."

Qi Fei stood up straight and took a deep breath: "We don't believe in heavenly punishment, only evidence. Let's go, then let's go to Jiangting Island."

The reason Nancheng is called Nancheng is the meaning of the south of water and wood. This "water" is the Ying Jiang. Jiangting Island is on this Ying Jiang, a veritable river island. More than a thousand households on the island are all surnamed Ying, which is different from other places in Nancheng.

Traveling from Nancheng city to Jiangting Island requires taking a ferry.

Fortunately, this ferry can carry cars.

When the ferry was about to arrive at Jiangting Island, the test results for the remaining few snakes were also sent over. Sure enough, bloodstains were found more or less in the gaps of the scales of these snakes. According to the preliminary test results of the blood samples, a part of the blood was consistent with the DNA of that finger, but the blood on these snakes belonged to different people.

"And, a part of the blood confirmed to have a kinship..." Wu Shanqiu looked at the results, the more solemn her expression became. "However, the DNA of these people is not recorded in our system."

"Kinship?" Qi Fei's heart sank when he heard this. That nerve about the extermination of the family jumped suddenly. If these people were not injured but dead, that would be a major matter.

The car got on the island. Under the guidance of Ying Shuiwang, they came to the place where the snakes were found.

This was a piece of farmland. The wind on the island was much stronger than in the city, especially standing in the fields, the sound of the wind was whistling in his ears, and he had to shout to talk face to face.

Because it was just early spring, this field was only plowed and not yet sown. At first glance, there was no difference from ordinary farmland. However, Qi Fei soon discovered the abnormality, because as long as he stood in place and observed, before long, he would see snakes drilling out of the soil. Walking a few more steps, there were even snakes frozen to death on the ridge because of the sudden spring cold.

Logically speaking, snakes would find a place to hibernate when entering winter. These snakes running around seemed to have come out from a warm place without precaution and suddenly died of cold.

"Logically speaking, the Awakening of Insects hasn't arrived yet, and these snakes and insects haven't come out. I don't know where these snakes ran out from," Ying Shuiwang said on the side.

Qi Fei picked up a dead snake and checked its belly. Sure enough, there were bloodstains in the middle of the white scales. Walking a few steps, he grabbed another one, and it was still the same. One can imagine that these snakes had crawled in fresh blood. According to the degree that so many snakes were stained with blood, the amount of blood at the scene would not be small.

"It seems that these snakes came from the crime scene." He looked around. This Jiangting Island is not big, not small. It is not simple to find where these snakes came from.

"Is this snake only in this field?" Qi Fei asked.

Ying Shuiwang pointed to the circle around: "Where is it, it's all in the fields within a radius of ten miles!"

The wind on the island blew people's scalps numb. Qi Fei scratched his head and continued to look at the ones he could find at his feet one by one.

He vaguely heard a "rustling" sound in his ears, as if someone was shaking a sand hammer. He looked in the direction of the sound and saw a rattlesnake coiled not far away, shaking its tail, staring at them straight with those pitch-black eyes, sending out a dangerous signal.

"Hm? In our Nancheng place, there will be rattlesnakes? I have lived so long and have never seen this thing in Nancheng." Qi Fei said.

Being told by Qi Fei, Wu Shanqiu also discovered the abnormality: "Brother Fei, look closely, the snakes in this field don't seem to be the same variety. There are all kinds of them. Is that a bamboo green snake? Eh? It's as if someone poked a snake nest!"

"Hm, although I don't understand snake species, I think there shouldn't be so many snake species on this small island, right?" Qi Fei said, calling Ying Shuiwang. "Is anyone on your island raising snakes?"

Ying Shuiwang denied immediately: "We have people raising fish and shrimp here, but no one raising snakes. Snakes are not considered good things here."

Qi Fei noticed an old man leaning on a cane standing by the field for a long time, watching their every move, seemingly very interested in this matter.

"Do you know that person?" Qi Fei asked Ying Shuiwang.

Ying Shuiwang looked, immediately lowered his head, and said: "Sigh, this is our clan leader, Zong Bo. If he knew I brought you here, he would scold me."

Ying Shuiwang said this, and Qi Fei became even more curious, ignoring the obstruction and walking toward Zong Bo.

"Shuiwang, you are confused!" Sure enough, as soon as Zong Bo saw Ying Shuiwang, he poked his cane and scolded him.

This Zong Bo seemed to have great prestige, and Ying Shuiwang didn't dare to talk back at all.

Qi Fei explained for Ying Shuiwang: "Old man, we are from the Nancheng Police Station. We suspect that these snakes may be involved in a murder case, so we came to investigate. There are suddenly so many snakes on the island, don't you want to find out what happened?"

"Snakes ate people?!" The old man's turbid eyes opened wide. It seems Ying Shuiwang didn't tell him about this. However, the old man soon had his own explanation: "This is God warning us. If we indulge the younger generation to betray their ancestors, we will be punished! This matter can only be solved by ourselves. You can't help, you can't help! Go back!" The old man's attitude was unexpectedly firm.

"Old man, what era is this? There is no heavenly punishment. We still have to believe in science," Wu Shanqiu said very directly.

Sure enough, this sentence stimulated the old man, who knocked his cane and taught: "Do you know why we have been surnamed Ying for generations on this island? It is because the legend says that there was a big snake eating people and causing chaos in this Ying Jiang. Later, God sent Ying Long to kill the big snake. Although the big snake died, its disciples and grandchildren were still there. Ying Long turned into a snake catcher and stayed on Jiangting Island to catch and kill these snakes. Later, this 'Ying' became our current surname."

Everyone of course just listened to these legends and monsters. However, Qi Fei was curious about the betrayal of ancestors the old man mentioned and immediately asked Zong Bo why he said so.

The old man heard this, and his cane pointed to a place far away near the ferry landing. There was a courtyard surrounded by earth-yellow high walls: "Our village has a traitor named Ying Shuigen, can we not be punished by heaven!"