When the village woman looked up, she breathed a sigh of relief.
She had already walked out of the alley, and the sound of pouring water just now was the sound of someone fetching water from a common well in the village outside the alley.
The panic expression on the village woman's face faded, and a bright smile appeared on her face, and then she carefully looked at the man who was drawing water by the well.
The person's back was facing her, and he couldn't see clearly, but he could only vaguely recognize that the figure belonged to a woman.
The village woman had a smile on her face, and was about to get closer and say hello to the other party to relieve her previous tension.
Just when the village woman was about to approach, the man by the well threw the wooden bucket in his hand into the well water again, and then filled a bucket of water with difficulty.
After filling up the well water, the man looked at the well water in a strange way, and then...
Wow!
She dumped the well water, laboriously pumped up a bucket of water, continued to watch the well remain still, then poured it out again and continued to pump up a new bucket of well water.
It has been in this cycle.
It looked like he was digging up well water over and over again, as if he was looking for something, but every time he poured out the well water, he couldn't find it.
Seeing the strange behavior of the man by the well, the village woman couldn't help shouting, and enthusiastically stepped forward to help dig the well water together.
After getting closer, the village woman could see the other person's appearance clearly. The man was wearing a tattered robe, as if he took a few rags and rags thrown away by others, and wrapped them around his body a few times to treat it as clothes. The strange thing is that even the head was tightly wrapped in ragged clothes, and the person kept his head down to dig well water, so he couldn't see his face clearly for a while.
The village woman began to show a suspicious expression on her face, and she took the initiative to talk to the man, but the man who fetched water remained silent.
With the help of one more person, it was much easier to dig the well water this time. Together, the two of them quickly pulled up the bucket. The village woman looked down into the bucket curiously, wanting to see what the other party was looking for in the well water. A peek into the barrel and it turns out...
ah! !
There was a terrified scream, like a mirror being smashed, breaking the peace of the village. !
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"What's going on? What's going on!"
"damn it!"
"Where is the call coming from?"
Originally dispatched collectively, everyone was on guard against all parties who were looking for clues in the village. When they heard the screams coming from above the village, they all changed their colors. .
Soon, someone found a clue.
Someone who happened to be looking for clues near the well water discovered the source of the sound immediately, so they rushed to the scene immediately.
When they arrived, they saw no other people or villagers at the scene except for a wooden barrel that was overturned on the ground and the water had run out.
It didn't take long for people from all walks of life to gather at the well, but these people searched the surroundings in a sweeping manner, but found nothing suspicious.
"Look outside the village, those villagers ran back to the village again!" At this time, someone on the roof pointed to the outside of the village and shouted.
"Bastard! Could it be that you returned without success tonight!"
"What the hell is hiding in this village! I hate this kind of running around, playing hide-and-seek!"
"Without these villagers, we will never find our way up the mountain!!"
The tempers of these people trapped in the village were ignited, and one by one began to show impatience.
Being played like a monkey for a long time, seeing that the opportunity to practice is in front of you, but you can only look at it, and if you can't touch it, anyone will feel irritable.
…
On the other side of the village, Fangzheng did not follow those people, and ran around in the chaotic village.
Fangzheng already knew the result when he heard the screams from above the village, and tonight must be another day of failure.
He jumped onto the roof and quietly watched a large number of cultivators gathering towards the wellhead of the village.
At the same time, I also noticed that the villagers who were originally harvesting crops outside the village were the same as the day before. After hearing the screams from the village, they all rushed to the village immediately, and then these The villagers were in chaos and commotion, and a large search was launched in the whole village.
Everything is repeating the scene that happened last night.
After a burst of angry cursing, all parties had to disperse, preparing to continue searching for clues from other aspects.
"Tomorrow we will be guarding near that well. I don't believe that there are so many of us, and we still can't catch the ghost thing that is making trouble in the dark!"
"That's right, this time we can't say that we have no clues at all. At least we have grasped where the screams came from. We are getting closer to the truth time and time again!"
Everyone started to simmer with anger.
"A huge opportunity is right in front of us, and it's close at hand, but we have wasted too much time in this village. If I really angered me, I would just burn this ghost village down! This village is purely a waste of us time!"
"If you burn the village to death, it is equivalent to burning the homes of these villagers with a fire. The homes are gone. What if the villagers who helped us open the road cannot wake up at night? Are you going to commit suicide or sacrifice to the sky? Shall we take your body to open the way?"
"Bastard! This won't work, and that won't work! If you can't find out the truth tomorrow, will you keep guarding such a dilapidated village forever?"
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The moon sets and the sun rises.
The sun rises and the moon sets.
third day.
A villager screamed, breaking the tranquility of the village again.
People from all walks of life who stood guard near the wellhead of the village changed their colors collectively, because the screams this time were not near the wellhead, but elsewhere.
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day four...
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fifth day...
Everyone had to accept the fact that the murdered villagers appeared randomly and did not cycle at the same fixed location.
This village seems to have given birth to its own consciousness, and it can always perfectly avoid the ambushes of all forces.
And in these days, some people have exhausted their patience and left this "Xanadu" world under the grave, looking for opportunities in the blessed land, and there are also newcomers who continue to enter this world.
The newcomers replaced the old ones, and there were many new faces.
The size of the population has also increased several times.
There have been more masters and strong men.
On this day, the leaders of various forces, or the strong ones, finally decided to put aside their selfish interests first, and planned to gather together to share their information and prepare to join forces to attack this village.
daytime.
In the middle of the village, there is an open space for drying grains, where hundreds of people can be seen gathered together.
"Let me first share a detail I have concluded. I don't know if you have noticed that although villagers are missing every day, the total number of villagers in the village has never changed!"
"I think it's not so much that the village is repeating the past scene, but it's like a video tape, reproducing the different death methods of each villager in a certain period of time in the past!"
(end of this chapter)