Creepy, chills all over.
Apart from these two words, He Mingde didn't know how to describe his current feeling.
From the moment Lu Chu said that sentence, his whole body seemed to be tightly held back by invisible hands, and in the cramped and narrow space, his heart beat clearly as if it was about to jump out of his chest.
"Plop-plop-"
No one dared to breathe loudly.
Even Song Gui, who has always been lazy, breathed lightly, without blinking his eyes, not knowing where to look.
Li Jiapeng simply trembled and closed his eyes, as if accepting his impending fate.
Dead or Alive.
After another moment, Li Jiapeng finally couldn't stand it anymore. He suddenly arched up and started to scream and roar, and tried to climb from the back seat to the front to control the steering wheel in Qi Li's hand, shouting while moving: "Stop! Stop! We will die !It's going to die! It's going to die! It's going to kill us! Kill us!"
Qi Li was extraordinarily calm, and Li Jiapeng, who had fallen into madness, did not succeed and took control of the steering wheel.
After a while, Qi Li found a safe place and quickly stopped the car.
"Get out of the car," he said.
Everyone immersed in the cramped atmosphere heard the words and got out of the car one after another. During the period, Li Jiapeng grabbed He Mingde's sleeve tightly, his voice trembling, trembling from time to time: "Chengzi, Chengzi..."
He Mingde couldn't believe it either, he patted Li Jiapeng on the shoulder and comforted him, "Calm down."
In fact, he himself couldn't calm down.
Lu Chu sighed: "Don't worry, we are safe now."
Li Jiapeng didn't believe it, he tried to overcome the trembling feeling, and said to the surrounding air: "I don't know anything now, I just want to live a few more days, Chengzi, if you can hear me, please let me go..."
Lu Chu comforted him: "Let's go back to the car. Since it wants to know the truth, it's normal for it to follow us. Didn't we have guessed about this before?"
Yes, Song Gui joked before, "Maybe it has been with us all the time, and maybe it will be interested in voting for it."
But guesses are guesses, even if you know that at least 99% of the guesswork is true, as long as no one reveals its existence, the sense of fear will not be so heavy, and it will be so oppressive that you can't breathe.
Everyone knows it's following them.
But no one has confirmed this guess with facts, so they can deceive themselves in the bottom of their hearts "this is a joke, how can it really be around".
Until Lu Chu said that sentence.
All self-construction and self-persuasion are broken and collapsed in an instant.
This time, instead of being a bystander, Song Gui persuaded Li Jiapeng with Lu Chu, because he slowed down everyone's progress, and they would only be more dangerous. Li Jiapeng fell into a panic, and He Mingde felt uncomfortable, but he still supported Li Jiapeng to comfort him, and finally took him into the car.
In the car, Li Jiapeng's voice was hoarse: "Is it always there?"
Lu Chu said honestly: "Sometimes, sometimes not, maybe sometimes I left for a while, maybe it's just that the smell is relatively weak, I didn't notice it."
This smell was around them before the village chief passed away, but Yang Cheng had just "died" at that time, and Lu Chu's energy was focused on other aspects, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
In fact, there are other fragmentary details pointing the finger at Yang Cheng, but there are too many intermittent interludes, and the explanation is complicated and unspeakable, it is better to directly present the simplest truth.
As for Song Gui's judgment, since he doesn't want to talk about it and just wants to watch the show, let him watch it. It's just that Lu Chu will let him know that he is not the only one who wants to screen his teammates.
The car was still bumping, and Li Jiapeng fell asleep after being extremely tense. He Mingde rubbed the center of his brows, feeling extremely tired, both physically and mentally. Song Gui looked out the window and didn't know what to think, Qi Li drove the car calmly, and Lu Chu sorted out the clues in his mind.
Nobody asked any more questions about the smell.
———
They didn't know Cui Meier's address, but according to Grandma Lu's words, Grandma Lu once chatted with an old man of the same age in the community, and then met Cui Meier's mother, and learned that she was out shopping for vegetables.
Naturally, she had to go home after buying groceries, so her home should be nearby.
Grandma Lu and the village head's wife don't remember Cuimei'er's name, and she doesn't even remember her father's name. After all, she moved out twenty years ago, but Grandma Lu told them that Cuimeier's father's surname is Liu .
A few people first found a hotel near the community to live in, a large suite, and the five of them lived together as much as possible.
After that, several people asked separately if there was anyone surnamed Liu nearby.
He Mingde was worried that Li Jiapeng would act alone, so he teamed up with him, while Song Gui, Lu Chu, and Qi Li acted alone.
A few hours later, several people gathered at the hotel.
He Mingde said: "I have three people with the same surname, age, and living time. As for whether they came from the village, ordinary neighbors will know too well."
Qi Li said: "Two."
Song Guidao: "One."
Lu Chu smiled: "Two, one of them said that he moved here with his family from a poorer village."
Song Gui patted Lu Chu on the shoulder: "Yes, let's go to this place first."
They were very lucky. There happened to be someone in that family. After some inquiries, it was found that this person had indeed moved out of the village where Lu Chu lived 20 years ago.
Lu Chu asked politely: "Excuse me, is Cui Meier your daughter?"
The old man's face changed when he heard this: "Yes."
Lu Chu and Qi Li looked at each other and said, "That's right, we have something to ask her, does she have time?"
Hearing this, the old man glanced at Lu Chu and said, "Forget it, you are the grandson of old man Lu, I believe you are not a bad person, you can come in first."
The old man brought tea to several people: "I haven't seen my daughter for several years."
Lu Chu asked: "Can you tell me the reason?"
The old man hesitated to speak, and finally sighed: "Forget it, let me tell you, this matter is quite big, everyone in the neighborhood knows it, and now it is a joke, and you can know it from others without asking me." .”
"Although I don't know what you're looking for with my daughter, I haven't seen her a few years ago. I can't control her anymore. Twenty years ago, I wanted to be with a man who had a wife and moved. I didn't break up with them, and then nothing happened. A few years ago, I was in my thirties, with a husband and children, but took the family money and ran away with other men. Before leaving, I even cheated the neighbors around. Said that I was going to the hospital... Now that I'm here... Even if I fill in all the money she borrowed, I can't stop the neighbors' mouths."
After hearing the first few sentences, Lu Chu looked at the other people calmly.
The old man got up to turn off the boiling water on the gas stove.
Lu Chu took out the photo, which was a photo of Cui Meier and Guo Jianping. After deliberation, he tore off the half of Cui Meier neatly. When the old man came back, he only took out the photo of Guo Jianping and asked the old man: "What is this?" Do you have any impression?"
The old man just glanced at it and said: "Yes! Isn't this the man who has a wife who lied to Cui Meier?"
really.
"Then did he come to look for Cui Meier later?"
"Yes, I have a deep impression of this kid. He looks like a good man, but his character is not very good. Before we moved, he came to find Cui Meier and said that his wife ran away with someone else and wanted to be with Cui Meier. , we didn't agree, so we dragged Cuimeier to City A, unexpectedly after a while, he came again. I was busy with my career at that time, and I basically lost contact with the people in the village, and Cuimei I insisted on it, so I just wanted to see it before talking, but I didn't expect that this young man would go away later, and he had already married again at that time."
"Do you know how Guo Jianping got there?"
The old man shook his head: "I'm not sure. After all, I have moved out of my household registration, and the village is tightly guarded. I only heard that it was a sudden death."