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All of them were extremely nervous. Suddenly, they saw a person appear in the village, not only was the flashlight aimed at the old man, but he also raised his gun one by one. Following the sound of the bolt, the old lady shrunk into a corner.

However, when we clearly saw who it was, Li Shujie immediately raised his hand, signalling for everyone to not be nervous. He then led me and a few people from the special task force towards the old lady.

Li You Jie walked up to the old man and said in a very friendly manner, "Old man, don't be nervous. We aren't bad people. We were sent by the government to deal with the matters of Mount Yan. I didn't scare you just now, did I?"

The old lady let go of the arm that was in front of her and carefully sized up Li Youjie and the martial police soldiers behind us. Only then did she come back to her senses and excitedly said, "This is great …" "You are finally here. If you don't come soon, I'm afraid that we old bones won't be able to live for much longer …"

At this time, Li Shujie spoke again, "Old man, after the incident at Great Yan Mountain occurred, this West Head Gully's people should have already moved away, right? How dare you, old man, stay in this village? "

"It's not that this old woman doesn't want to leave, it's just that I have an old companion who is half-dead and lies in bed everyday, unable to walk on the ground. The two of us don't have any women, and we don't have anyone to take care of us, let alone move to a place to live. So we stayed in the village."

So that was the situation. After a while, I asked again, "How many people are still in this village?

"There should be about six or seven people left. Most of them are old people. They couldn't walk anymore and didn't want to leave home, so they stayed behind …" "This is good. Since you guys are here, we don't need to move out anymore. We don't need to go around …" The old man said with a bit of joy.

After pondering for a moment, Li Rujie asked again, "Then where do those old people live? Do they live separately, or live together?"

"They're all living separately. Old Liu has his head at the east end of the village. Old Zhang, my wife and I are at the west end of the village. In the middle of the village are two or three families …" The old man said again.

Li You Jie pondered for a moment, then said, "No way …" Right now, we need to gather all of the people in the village in one place, and then I will send people to protect you guys. The next day, at dawn, all of us will attack the Great Yan Mountain and search for the things that would harm us. "

He then continued, "I will have to trouble you to show us where those people live in the village so that we can bring them out. Also, there is a place in this village that is quite spacious, and we have a lot of people here this time, so we must live together. This way, we can coordinate our actions."

"No problem. I'll bring you guys over. As for the place to stay, there's a large ancestral hall in the village and a courtyard. It shouldn't be a problem for you to live in there …" The old man said with a bit of excitement.

Soon after, Li Shujie expressed his gratitude to the old man and immediately sent a few armed police soldiers to assist the old man in finding those people who had stayed in the village.

As for us, we followed the elder's directions and led the rest of the people in the direction of the village's ancestral hall.

The ancestral hall was not locked. Other than the three soldiers who followed the old lady to find the people, just in case, Li Youjie also sent two people from the special task force to accompany them.

The remaining twelve of us went to the ancestral hall of the village.

After entering this courtyard, we discovered that it was indeed as the old man had said. It was truly extraordinary in size. It was at least 200 square meters, so it shouldn't be a problem to keep the rest of us here.

As a precaution, the military police chief brought three armed police soldiers to take a walk around the ancestral hall. He came back to tell us that this place was quite safe and that the ancestral hall only had a few memorial tablets, but other than that, there was nothing else.

"Yes." Li Rujie replied, then made everyone set up camp in the courtyard. They even arranged for people to take turns to stand guard, alert of anything that might happen.

Naturally, no one could live in the ancestral hall. The densely packed ancestral tablets all looked scared out of their wits, not to mention the fact that they couldn't even stay inside.

Therefore, we can only stay in the courtyard. This time, we have sent out a large group of people to prepare things to camp out in the wild. There must be tents there, so after a short while, several tents are set up in the courtyard.

As soon as the construction of the tent was completed, the few armed police soldiers brought the villagers who had yet to move out of the West Head Valley.

All of them were over sixty years old, and there were some problems with their bodies. The wife of the old lady we met just now was really paralyzed, having been carried here by an armed police soldier.

The courtyard of the ancestral hall is big enough, but we can't have so many elders living in tents with us.

Although it was a scorching summer day and the weather was extremely hot, they were currently in the mountains. Every night, the air would turn cold, and these elders would definitely not be able to withstand the cold.

However, there was a rather large courtyard next to the ancestral hall. It seemed to be a village committee, and it was slightly smaller than the ancestral hall. There were quite a few empty rooms, so Li Run Jie arranged for the seniors to live next door to the village committee.

The people on duty at night could also make it to the yard next door. This way, it would be relatively safer.

All of Li Renjie's thoughts were laid out in detail, and those seniors also agreed to it.

The arrangements have been made. We let most of the old people go to the village committee to rest, but we left the old lady we just met behind because we still have some questions to ask that old man.

That old man was very welcoming of our arrival, so he naturally spoke without reserve.

After most of the people had rested, I sat down in the courtyard with the other members of the special task force and started to inquire about the barbarians from the Great Swallow Mountain in detail.

Li Shujie first cleared his throat and asked, "Old man, can you tell us in detail how those three people from the village died?"