As he said this, Zhang Lan couldn’t help but sigh.
Tao cultivation is fraught with danger. With insufficient cultivation, once one encounters danger, life and death are unpredictable.
Mo Hua heard this and nodded in agreement.
Zhang Lan looked at Mo Hua and added, “If you see anything you like, you can take it first. This time you’ve made great contributions, and the Taoist Court will definitely reward you handsomely. It’s only right for you to take some things.”
Mo Hua thought for a moment but still shook his head, “Forget it, most of these items belong to innocent people who died unfairly. Let’s take them back and register them first. Being able to confirm their identities would at least provide some closure for their families.”
Zhang Lan looked at Mo Hua, nodding with approval.
Mo Hua looked around the cave once more, then suddenly felt something odd:
“It seems that the goods of Kong Sheng’s merchant caravan are not here.”
“Aren’t there those pills?”
Kong Sheng’s caravan dealt in pill trading.
Zhang Lan said that, then suddenly his heart skipped a beat, “No, that’s not right.”
He walked to a corner, picked up several bottles of pills, opened the lids and sniffed them, frowning involuntarily:
“These are old pills, the fragrance is very faint, they are not recently looted.”
Since they traded in pills, it would be impossible to sell old pills, and even if they substituted inferior products for good ones, it could only be a small portion of them.
Most of the pills would have been made within the last six months.
Newly made pills have a strong fragrance, but the scent of old pills gradually fades away.
All the pills in this cave are old with a weak scent.
This means that these sin cultivators have not robbed any pill-trading merchant caravans recently.
“Impossible…” Zhang Lan voiced his confusion, “Could it be that they have consumed all these pills?”
After thinking for a moment, he denied his own guess:
“With twenty or thirty of them, even if they ate pills like rice, they couldn’t have consumed them all in such a short period of time.”
Upon hearing this, Mo Shan pondered for a moment and said, “Before we arrived, there wasn’t much of a bloody smell in this valley.”
This meant that this group of sin cultivators wouldn’t bring people here to kill them.
Furthermore, according to what Bald Tuo himself said, when they killed and robbed people, they usually did it on the spot: they killed people and then looted the goods.
When Kong Sheng’s caravan was robbed, there wasn’t much blood at the scene, just signs of a struggle and no evidence of a massacre.
If they had been eaten by monster beasts, the scene would have been far more bloody.
For a moment, all three felt profound confusion.
Logically, Bald Tuo should have robbed the caravan and taken the pills before killing the caravan’s cultivators right there.
Kong Sheng should have died along with the merchants.
But looking at it now, Bald Tuo and his group didn’t rob that caravan, so naturally, they didn’t kill Kong Sheng either.
So where did that caravan go?
And Kong Sheng, is he dead or not?