Gu Chen stood where he was, lifted Wu Xiufen who was behind her, and looked at me.
I explained: "Ms. Mary said that there is a village near Dongxing City called Wanghu Village. In Wanghu Village, people who die normally use yellow paper, while those who die in vain use black paper. But I think you have all noticed a detail, When Wu Xiufen came out of the house, she burned yellow paper all the way, and she only burned black paper later."
Wu Xiufen's body kept falling, and while supporting Wu Xiufen's body, Guan Zengbin said to me: "I have indeed seen this, but Wu Xiufen may be trying to deceive others. I am afraid of meeting villagers on the road. Burn yellow paper, and burn black paper when you get to the mountain and know that no one is on the mountain.”
I looked at Wu Xiufen behind Gu Chen, and said slowly: "This is indeed a possibility, but have you ever thought about another possibility? The two people she wants to remember are basically two people, but, One died normally, but the other died abnormally."
"You mean, two people died?" Gu Chen said, "But if two people died, then who is the other person?"
I sighed, looked at Wu Xiufen behind Gu Chen, and said, "I don't know, but this matter may be related to the case we want to investigate. Of course, we have to make great efforts to investigate this matter, unless you Wu Xiufen behind her suddenly opened her mouth to tell us the truth of the matter."
Naturally, my lame joke did not make the two of them laugh, but made the atmosphere a bit awkward for a while.
Guan Zengbin said unhappily: "Don't you think this joke is too cold in such an atmosphere. If Wu Xiufen speaks, I don't think it will scare the shit out of you kid."
"I am not afraid of the living, but I am afraid of the dead..."
I was about to continue what Guan Zengbin said, but at this moment, I suddenly heard a woman coughing. This cough was hazy, making me feel like someone was watching us in the dark woods. And Gu Chen obviously heard the cough, and after looking at me, the two of us looked at Guan Zengbin at the same time.
"What do you mean, it's not me." Guan Zengbin stood where he was.
All three of us heard this coughing, and we could tell that it was a woman's coughing. But, on such a dark mountain, there are only three of us, no, to be precise, there are only four of us. If this cough was not from Guan Zengbin...
At this moment, Wu Xiufen's head was resting on Gu Chen's shoulder, and Gu Chen could have an "intimate contact" with the corpse just by turning his head. The three of us stopped in our tracks, trying to listen carefully to where the cough sound came from, and whether the cough came from Wu Xiufen behind Gu Chen.
Could it be that Wu Xiufen really came back to life
Quietly, it seemed that they could feel the breathing of the three of them.
Once, twice, the cough gradually turned into a sharp laugh.
The "giggle" laughter was like the laughter when someone was tickling, and gradually turned into the sound of a spatula scratching the bottom of the pot. The sound became louder and sharper each time. And this voice obviously didn't come from Wu Xiufen's mouth.
I immediately raised the flashlight in my hand, illuminating where the sound came from.
And I have heard this voice more than once, this laughter is the signature laughter of a murderer who has escaped from me many times. The scalp of the person who heard this voice went numb, but I shone the flashlight around, but I didn't see anyone.
"Murderer!" I yelled.
Hearing this, Gu Chen immediately untied the rope that tied the dead body on his chest, and laid Wu Xiufen's body flat on the ground.
And this voice is sometimes sharp, sometimes weak, so ethereal that people don't know where the exact direction is.
"This way!" Gu Chen's voice was heard when I was still shining the flashlight around me. And following Gu Chen's shout, he himself has already chased in one direction. Seeing this, Guan Zengbin and I immediately chased after Gu Chen. In the process of running, I can still hear that high-pitched laughter.
It's just that the laughter is getting farther and farther away from me.
I don't know why the murderer came here, and I don't know what connection the murderer has with Wu Xiufen. I only know that as long as the murderer can be caught, everything will be fine. But the murderer has always been a person who can move quickly at night and is not affected by light.
And I can't do that at all.
In less than a few minutes, in the ups and downs of the flashlight, I finally lost Guan Zengbin and Gu Chen. Holding on to a tree, I gasped desperately, feeling like my lungs were about to cough out. Use a flashlight to illuminate the surroundings. Wherever the light reaches, there are tall trees that have just sprouted new buds.
Under the illumination of the flashlight, the tall branches look like monsters with teeth and claws.
I rubbed my eyes, thinking that I lost a few people anyway, so it's better to go back to Wu Xiufen's side and wait. But when I walked about ten steps, a hand suddenly stretched out in the darkness and dragged me directly. I was startled in my heart, but felt relieved because the hand was very rough.
"Gu Chen?" I said, "Why are you here?"
Gu Chen said, "I followed the murderer all the way to the vicinity of the tombstone, but the figure disappeared into the darkness in a blink of an eye. I searched around for a long time, but I didn't see anyone, so I waited for you here. Where's Guan Zengbin, isn't he with you?"
I frowned, looked at Gu Chen and said, "You also know my physical fitness, I was the last one to run, but the question is, isn't Guan Zengbin with you?"
"No, isn't she with you?" Gu Chen said.
Hearing Gu Chen's words, I suddenly had an ominous premonition in my heart.
"Call!" I said.
As I said that, I hurriedly called Guan Zengbin, but when the voice of "the user you dialed is temporarily unavailable" rang, my heart was already half-cooled.
"Can't get through?" Gu Chen looked at me with an urgent tone.
"Yes." I said, "I can't get through temporarily, which means that someone hung up the phone. And if it was Guan Zengbin, he would never hang up on me. The time I dialed is not long enough for the system to think The extent to which users won’t pick up. Well, there’s only one explanation.”
Gu Chen's voice was soft, as if he had no confidence in what he said: "You mean, the phone was hung up by the murderer."
I nodded, feeling my whole body trembling: "In other words, the murderer is likely to control Guan Zengbin. And the murderer has always been a ruthless person. If we can't find Guan Zengbin as soon as possible, then Guan Zengbin is very There may be dangers... ”
Gu Chen punched the tree, causing the small tree next to him to shake.
"Where did you chase the murderer?" I said to Gu Chen.
Gu Chen illuminated the distance with a flashlight, and then said: "Near the tombstone. This figure is like a ghost in the dark. There are many trees on this mountain. If you don't walk along the path, the gnarled branches and the stones under your feet It will catch you off guard and get injured, but the murderer is not affected at all."
"Tell me, is there really someone who can adapt to this dark environment?" I asked, "Humans are not nocturnal animals."
Gu Chen said slowly: "I don't know, but this murderer is indeed not affected, maybe there is such a person."
I finally understand at this moment that some people are really born for darkness. Man is not a nocturnal animal, but man can transform himself into a nocturnal animal.
When Gu Chen and I were talking, I never stopped calling Guan Zengbin's phone. At the beginning, it was just being hung up by someone, but now, it has reached the point where the mobile phone is turned off.
"Guan Zengbin, I'm afraid the murderer really took him away." I said.
"What should we do now?" Gu Chen said, "When you dialed the phone, we didn't hear the ringtone, which means that Guan Zengbin is far away from us. The murderer is probably no longer here. The mountain is so big. Just the two of us, I'm afraid there is no way to find it."
I am very anxious in my heart, but my reason tells me that now is not the time to panic, the more critical the moment is, the more calm you need to be, if anxiety can solve problems, then anxiety patients are the most problem-solving people in the world up. I took a few deep breaths, trying to calm down my frantically beating heart.
"You are right, the night is the murderer's best tool. In such an environment, we have no way to catch the murderer. Now go back and call people! Calling everyone is to turn the mountain over , and find Guan Zengbin!"
I tried my best to suppress the anger in my heart, and slowly said to Gu Chen: "Carry Wu Xiufen's body down. The villagers said that the reason why they dare not come to the mountain is that it is haunted. Now it seems that the murderer may be this ghost. Wu Xiufen The relationship with the murderer must be unusual, check, check carefully."
Gu Chen nodded.
I said again: "Until now, Sister Mary has not sent me the fourth story, which means that the murderer has not had time to post it on the Internet. It is now around ten o'clock in the evening, and it takes four hours to drive to Dongxing City." About an hour, that is, two o'clock in the morning, the murderer must have been unable to go back to commit the crime."
After a while, Gu Chen and I finally reached the place where Wu Xiufen's body was put down. But looking at it now, there was nothing on the ground, it was empty.
"Before, we put the corpse here, right?" Gu Chen said, "A dead person, why did he just say that he disappeared? Could it be that he was taken away by wild beasts on the mountain?"
I looked at the empty ground and said slowly: "Where is there any beast on the mountain now? It's the murderer..."