"It's the murderer." Gu Chen said, "With the murderer's speed and familiarity with this place, this period of time is enough for him to return. But what does the murderer want a corpse for?"
I shook my head, looked at Gu Chen and said, "I don't know, but Wu Xiufen must be of great significance to the murderer. There are many things we don't know now, who the murderer is, why the murderer killed, and how important those bowls are to the murderer." In the end, what does it mean."
I looked up at the sky, among the overgrown branches, the sky was split into irregular shapes. It's like a birdcage between heaven and earth, and we are all birds that can't fly out of it.
"It doesn't matter whether we can get the answers to these questions, but we don't have much time. According to the murderer's habit of killing, if the murderer wants to do something, it will be tomorrow night at the latest. In other words, from ten o'clock now to tomorrow At ten o'clock at night, we only have one day."
There is only one day, which is still the best estimate. Because I have no way to determine whether the murderer will brutally kill Guan Zengbin while we are talking. All I can do now is pray that Guan Zengbin is fine. And this can only depend on Guan Zengbin's life.
"Go!" I said to Gu Chen.
Before going down the mountain, I called the village head, and at this time, the village head was waiting for us to go home, so I didn't fall asleep. After picking up the phone, I said straight to the point: "Village Chief, Guan Zengbin is lost in the mountains, and his cell phone is disconnected now. I'm afraid she's in danger. You should immediately arrange some young adults to search the mountain. It's fast."
Hearing my words, the village chief said, "This mountain, the villagers really dare not go there, because this mountain is always haunted at night..."
I'm not in the mood to listen to the village chief's excuses at the moment, so I just said coldly: "Village chief, I'm telling you about this matter in a very serious tone, it's a matter of death. I don't care what method you use , When I return to the village, you must find twenty people to search on the mountain, do you understand?"
After finishing speaking, I didn't give the village chief a chance to speak, so I hung up the phone directly.
The village chief is in his fifties this year, and I am still a young man in his twenties. It is indeed inappropriate for a young man in his twenties to speak to an older person in this tone. But now it's an emergency, and I can't discuss it with him. What I want is absolute execution.
And presumably, the village head didn't dare to neglect at this moment.
Gu Chen and I walked quickly into the village, and at the end we had already trotted, and we came to the entrance of the village all the way.
Gu Chen looked at me, wanted to say something, but didn't speak.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
As Gu Chen followed me forward, he said, "I've never seen you with such good physical strength. I've been running for 20 minutes. You look like a normal person. Besides, your way of talking I have never seen such a tone before. You must be emotional."
"Emotional?" I didn't stop, but my heart skipped a beat.
Gu Chen said slowly: "I can tell that Guan Zengbin seems to be interested in you too..."
I waved my hand and said, "If you were arrested, I would do the same. Let's not talk about this matter. We don't have much time now. If we are still dawdling in these places, when will we be able to arrest Guan Zengbin?" Rescued? Time is life, every minute you linger, Guan Zengbin will be in danger for every minute."
And when we walked into the village entrance, we saw that the lights of every house had been turned on, many people were watching at the gate of the courtyard, and the sound of dogs barking was everywhere. I understand that the villagers of Xingdong Village will not be able to sleep well tonight.
A young man at the entrance of the village saw us and shouted: "Comrades, the village chief asked me to wait for you here, and he asked me to tell you that he is waiting at home."
I glanced at Gu Chen, and then said: "You see, in many cases, a little toughness will have unexpected effects."
When we walked to the middle of the village, we saw the village chief wearing a long coat and long johns, gathering many young people. Seeing my uneasy expression, the village head came up to meet me and said, "Brother Wu, what happened in such a hurry..."
I looked at the group of more than 20 people and said, "There is a 20-year-old girl who was taken away by bad guys on the mountain. She is what you call a ghost. I think, as a man, I can't Tolerate such things happening. Even if there are ghosts on the mountain, what are you two dozen old men afraid of? Go up the mountain and look for them!"
For things that are not my own, the fun of participating has dropped sharply, but as the saying goes, there must be a brave man under a big reward. People, the villagers became a little excited when they were rewarded with two thousand yuan.
Human nature has always been like this, without exception. But they can't blame them, after all, they have never met Guan Zengbin, and they don't know who Guan Zengbin is. For them, Guan Zengbin's life and death are nothing more than a few words in the newspaper.
While speaking, those young men went up the mountain mightily.
I said to Gu Chen: "Using these people is also a tactic to delay the attack. Call and send people over immediately. If the murderer who can make a sharp laugh is the so-called ghost in the villagers' mouths, then he must have transportation to go to the city. Send people to block several nearby streets entering Dongxing City."
Gu Chen didn't dare to neglect and did it immediately.
I handed the village chief a cigarette, and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry for the tone on the phone, but I'm also impatient. Human life is at stake. I hope you can understand."
The village chief waved his hand and said, "Understood, there is nothing difficult to understand. If my wife gets lost, I'm probably more impulsive than you."
I smoked a cigarette and said, "What unclean thing is there on the mountain that makes you afraid to go up?"
The village chief tightened his clothes, and said while smoking a cigarette: "I didn't want to talk about these things at first, but you said that I am also a party member. It's really hard to spread these ghost stories. But many villagers in Xingdong Village have seen them. , I heard it all, so many things that the eyes see, can't it be fake?"
"Then what did you see?" I asked immediately.
The village head said: "At the beginning, it was the children in the village who said it. You also know that the children in the village have nothing to do. They just run around in the mountains every day. Although every household prohibits it, children are naughty. There is no way. At the beginning, some children said that they heard a woman crying on the mountain."
I have heard murderers laugh and I have heard murderers cry. When the murderer kills, he always uses that kind of sharp laughter as a sign, but when I was in the sewer, I did indeed hear the murderer cry. The murderer is a person with multiple personalities, and we cannot be sure who the murderer was when he did these actions.
The village head continued: "At first, I thought it was Wu Xiufen."
As he spoke, the village chief shook his head: "But no. Speaking of which, most of these children also went to see Wu Xiufen burn paper because they were curious. It is normal for Wu Xiufen to cry about her wife. But the children said It wasn't Wu Xiufen, if it was Wu Xiufen's voice, they would have heard it."
"Not Wu Xiufen?" I asked.
"No." The village head sucked on the cigarette, and the smoke came out of his nose: "At first we didn't take it seriously, but then an adult went to the mountain to cut firewood at night, and he heard a woman crying. He ran back quickly. Later, some people didn’t believe in evil and went to the mountain at night.”
"Sometimes it's like a baby crying, sometimes it's a man's laughter, sometimes it's a variety of voices." The village chief looked at the mountain from a distance and said, "Until someone saw a female ghost next to the tombstone on the mountain. Then The villagers said that the female ghost was a human head, crying at the tombstone."
I frowned: "One head is crying at the tombstone? Zhang Qiang's tombstone?"
The village chief nodded heavily, and said: "That head is suspended in the air, with long hair, and the place where the villager hides is facing the side face of the female ghost. The female ghost was crying at first, but then a man came out of her mouth voice, and then the voice of a little girl. It's like there are many people, but there is only one head."
"The weirder thing is." The village chief took two puffs of his cigarette, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, and then said: "They seem to be having a conversation, talking about life, death, and deep sleep. The villager was staring blankly behind the tree, but at this moment, the man suddenly turned his head to look at the villager."
"What happened after that?" I asked, "Did you see that female ghost's face clearly?"
The village chief shook his head: "Later, the villager came back with a serious illness. No matter how you looked at it, he couldn't see it well. After looking for a yin and yang, he said that he was frightened away. It's strange to say that he cast a spell later, That’s enough. Then the villager told about what happened on the mountain, and he said it with his nose and eyes, plus the voice that he could always hear before, so the news of the ghosts in the back mountain spread.”
After hearing what the village chief said, I already had such an answer in my heart.
The village chief said again: "So no one dares to go to the back mountain, except for Wu Xiufen who has been burning paper every day for 30 years. By the way, Wu Xiufen should also come down from the mountain at this time. You should have met her Ah, where is Wu Xiufen? Could it be..."
Seeing my gloomy face, the village chief choked back what he said later.
I said coldly: "Wu Xiufen is dead, if we don't hurry up and find Guan Zengbin, she will die too."
"Wu Xiufen is dead?" The village chief couldn't accept the situation for a while: "But she has been in the back mountain for more than 30 years, and she has never had anything to do. Could it be that female ghost did it?"
I shook my head and said, "It's not ghosts, there are no ghosts in this world, it's people."
"people?"
The voice of the village chief hadn't finished yet, when Gu Chen shouted, "Wu Meng, I can't get anyone to come..."