A strong smell of blood came from the alley outside the courtyard. Fang Zhi couldn't help frowning, his heart tightened. He followed the others two steps forward and finally saw the scene around the corner. He stumbled and fell to the ground. Fortunately, Gu Xizhou, who was behind him, gave him a hand, so he didn't fall to the ground.
The first thing that catches the eye is the blood dripping all over the ground. The blood splatters on the white walls, including the mottled blood on the uppermost ceiling. The whole ground is a pool of blood.
Looking down the pool of blood, the first thing that came into view was a dead head, and then Gu Xizhou looked further afield. The broken limbs were scattered on the ground, and the large and small pieces of minced meat were randomly discarded.
Seeing this scene, the faces of the people around were pale, as if they had seen their own future.
Xie Wenhuo's face turned pale when he saw the corpse in the alley. It was the first time he had seen such a tragic way of death. The body parts of the man who left last night were scattered around, his stomach was torn open, and pieces of his internal organs fell all over the floor. , the bloody smell of the nose could not dissipate for a long time, the only thing that allowed them to determine the identity of the man was the blue and white school uniform on him.
In the crowd, a girl in a white coat burst into tears. She seemed frightened by the scene. She staggered back and leaned against Xue Xiao, the only woman, to seek comfort.
Gu Xizhou looked calm. Although the scene in front of him was terrifying, it was not enough to scare him.
"The size of the body is wrong," Si Yu said calmly at this time, "less."
Gu Xizhou heard the words and looked at the past carefully. Although there were many scattered corpses, when combined, the flesh on the ground could not reach the size of an adult's body. At least one third of the corpse was missing. Meat.
The eyes of the people around him fell on Si Yu. Although Si Yu was seventeen or eighteen years old now, he couldn't hide his handsome face. Noticing the condition of the corpse, they didn't have time to think about these issues just because they saw the tragic situation.
When the girl who was crying just heard this, she cried even more fiercely, "Sister Xue, will we all be eaten?"
"No, this time, including the dead, there are a total of eleven people, and three of them are newcomers, so it won't be too dangerous." Xue Xiao was still calm, although his lips were a little pale, his words were very organized. .
The girl kept crying, and one of the men sneered: "Can you live by crying? Who do you think will sympathize with you?"
When the girl heard the words, she gradually stopped crying.
"Did you find anything last night?" Xie Wenhuo asked.
"No." Gu Xizhou shook his head and said lightly, "Have you found anything?"
Xie Wenhuo shook his head and said solemnly: "No, it seems that we still need to collect information in order to know the ultimate purpose of this mission world."
"Well." Si Yu nodded and said warmly, "Separately or together?"
Xie Wenhuo thought for a while and said: "Let's stay together, there is a care, this time the world is much bigger than the previous task world, let's be safe together."
Others also expressed their wishes one after another, and finally the ten alive decided to act together.
The mother of the student played by Gu Xizhou was at home. At this time, the woman had just finished washing and drying the clothes, and was sitting on the steps of the yard choosing vegetables.
Gu Xizhou took three steps and two steps to help. The woman in the canvas shirt was obviously a little happy, "Cub, why are you so obedient today? Don't you go out to play?"
Si Yu next to him took over the conversation and said, "Aunt Wang, Li Ming and Liu Shurong disappeared some time ago, and we were also afraid, so we didn't go out, just wanted to ask you, have they found them?"
Hearing the words, the woman sighed helplessly and said, "Isn't it true, Second Youngest Li and Third Youngest Liu were so anxious that they hurried back, but after searching for several days, they didn't see anyone."
"You said that these two big boys will disappear when they don't see it?"
"Then why do you think they disappeared?" Si Yu asked.
"Should they be abducted and sold? Here, many parents are not at home, and it is inevitable that the elderly cannot take care of them. In the past, there were people who disappeared suddenly and could not be found. said, as if it were commonplace.
After the woman finished choosing the dishes, she said to several people, "You can stay in the yard, it's safe."
After speaking, the woman took the dustpan and walked into the opposite small kitchen, leaving Gu Xizhou and others behind.
"Human trafficking, this is a clue!" one of the men said anxiously.
Gu Xizhou glanced at the man, ignored him, and said to Xie Wenhuo indifferently: "She shouldn't know much, this is definitely not abduction."
The man who just spoke became anxious and asked, "Why not?"
"Trafficking of people is usually done by young women, or young girls and boys. Once they are 12 years old, the chances of men being abducted are very low. The first is that children after the age of 12 have already recorded, and The physical characteristics of men and women are different, the twelve-year-old boy is quite strong, not to mention that the two missing now are young men of seventeen or eighteen years old."
"Seventeen or eighteen-year-old young men are when they are physically strong, and no one will buy a boy of their age." Gu Xizhou explained lightly, and these judgments happened to come from the materials he had read some time ago.
"It makes sense..." Xie Wenhuo said.
They asked around and found that the parents of the yard didn't seem to know much about this matter, and they agreed that it was a trafficking incident.
"We can't get any useful clues from them, we just have to go out and have a look."
They were about to go out together, but some of the parents at home didn't seem to care. Seeing ten of them together, they felt that the traffickers were not so bold. When they heard a few people were going out to play, they just waved their hands to let them pay attention to safety.
The alley where the corpses were placed was the only way for them to leave the yard. Gu Xizhou stepped on the pool of blood, and his attitude was very cold. He was the first to go out, and the people behind had shadows on the alley, and his face was very cold. Turning white, looking at those corpses seems to be fainting at any time.
The three of Gu Xizhou went out first, followed by Xie Wenhuo and his wife Xue Xiao. The relationship between the two was very good. Gu Xizhou saw Xie Wenhuo holding his wife across the pool of blood together, and kept comforting his wife. Xizhou could clearly hear Xie Wenhuo's nervous heartbeat, and could see that the calmness on Xie Wenhuo's face was pretending to be a disguise to appease his wife.
Xie Wenhuo, as the core figure in the team, after he came out, the others also endured their fear and nausea one after another and left the long narrow alleyway in the yard.
Walking out of the alley, the town came into view. This town is not big, on the contrary, it is very small. There is only one street. At this moment, all the shops on the street are closed, and there is no one on the road.
Gu Xizhou was helpless: "There is no one at this time."
"Well, come out later," Si Yu looked up at the sun in the sky and continued, "The sun is good today, we will come out after lunch, there must be someone there."
Xie Wenhuo was a little surprised and asked, "How can you be sure that someone was there at that time?"
Si Yu pointed to the edge of the street, and said lightly: "Although this town is close to the scenic area, it is similar to other rural areas. There are more elderly people, and there are more elderly people in our yard."
"Well." Xie Wenhuo frowned slightly, but Si Yu's words were not wrong. Eight of the remaining ten people were left-behind children, and only two families had one parent at home. "But what does it have to do with this?"
Gu Xizhou took over the conversation and said, "It's very free after lunch, and the sun is shining, the elderly will come out for a walk. At this time, they usually cook lunch for their children, and there are naturally no people on the street."
"Makes sense." Xie Wenhuo nodded.
Several people returned without success. After lunch, the sun was shining warmly on them. At this time, it was just right and very comfortable. Several people went out again.
Sure enough, there were many elderly people on the road at this time, with their hands behind their backs, walking forward slowly step by step, chatting while walking.
The town is not big, and many people know each other. Gu Xizhou and the others are only a few steps away from the town, and everyone along the way greets them and calls them by their names.
The old man: "You mean Li Ming and Liu Shurong? I heard that the parents of both of them have come back and are looking for someone in the town. They said that when they came back, they scolded the old mother and father at home. I don't see them doing it properly."
"Such an old child, lost, how can you blame the old man?"
"Do you know where Li Ming and Liu Shurong's parents are?" Gu Xizhou asked.
The old man pointed to the mountain next to him and said, "Organizing people to patrol the mountain!"
Gu Xizhou's eyes shifted to the Narrao Mountain. The mountain was high and straight, and the mountain was steep. The lush trees covered each other, and dogs could occasionally be heard barking in the mountain stream.
"Wang Wang Wang!"
The old man shook his head and said, "Did you hear the dog barking? After the children of these two families disappeared, they asked the young and strong young people in the town to help with the family dog to search for the mountain on Muguan Mountain. God, there is still no one, I am afraid that he is no longer in our town."
After Gu Xizhou and the others thanked the old man, their eyes fell on the mountain.
"Wang Wang Wang!"
"Wang Wang Wang!"
"Wang Wang Wang!"
The dog barked constantly, Xue Xiao walked with the timid girl, the girl was holding a wooden stick as a cane, and the whole person was panting to climb the mountain with them until they walked halfway up the mountain, Gu Xizhou and the others finally met someone.
The man walked in front, Gu Xizhou took two steps forward and shouted, "Wait for us!"
The dark-skinned man in front turned his head and saw Gu Xizhou and the others frowning and said, "How dare you kids go out? Aren't you afraid of being kidnapped?"
Si Yu pointed to the people behind him and said, "We came together. The bad guys didn't dare to touch us. We also wanted to come and help. Do you have any clues to find Li Ming and Liu Shurong?"
The dark-skinned man shook his head, obviously he also knew Gu Xizhou and the other children in the town, and said, "Oh, I haven't found it yet, the parents of the two families are crazy."
"Let's help too!" Si Yu said very enthusiastically, the dark-skinned man sighed helplessly, seeing a few people with a firm attitude, agreed to let them help.
They searched for it for a while, but there was still no clue. Instead, they learned about the disappearance of Liu Shurong and Li Ming from the residents of this town.
After school, the two of them did not go home with the rest of the army. Since their parents were not at home, their grandparents could not control the two children at all. After school, the two went directly to the only Internet cafe in town to play games at night. During this period, both grandparents and grandparents came to look for their two grandchildren, but they were scolded by two students instead.
After the two had played enough games, at about one o'clock in the morning, the two returned the deposit and left the Internet cafe to go home, and then disappeared.
"Then why are you looking for people on this mountain? Are they more likely to be in the town?" Gu Xizhou said.
The dark-skinned man chopped off the weeds in front of him with a sickle, "There are a lot of people in the town, and everyone has helped to find them, but no one has seen the two children. There have been several missing children in this mountain, so the parents of the two families think it is It’s not that the child leaves the Internet cafe at night and suddenly thinks of playing in the mountains, but at night…”
The man didn't finish his words, but Gu Xizhou already knew the meaning of the man's words. The children around here all live in the town. This mountain is very close. Obviously, this mountain has a special meaning for the children here. Most of the playing time is spent here, and the missing two people will climb up the mountain stream in the middle of the night and fall off, so that they disappear.
After all, the mountain in front of them was indeed tall and large, towering into the clouds.
The man glanced at the scorching sun hanging in the sky and wiped the sweat from his forehead. As they walked, they met another team. There were three teammates, and each of them brought a dog.
"How is it, have you found anything?" The dark-skinned man asked when he saw the three.
The three of them shook their heads, "No, we've almost rummaged all over the mountain, but we still haven't found anyone, so the two of them believe that the child is on the mountain. Everyone knows that it must be gone, but everyone knows it. It's hard to say no help."
The man continued: "Today is the fourth day. I have seen this mountain, and there is no one left. Maybe I have left the town."
Gu Xizhou observed the mountain. Although the mountain was steep, there were no giant rocks on the way up. The disappearance is certainly not because of the problem of climbing a mountain.
Gu Xizhou was observing when he suddenly heard a dog barking.
"Wang Wang Wang!"
"Wang Wang Wang!"
The three dogs rushed towards them like a madman, their mouths kept making fierce roars, and their cracked mouths showed sharp fangs.
"Fuck, beast, be quiet for me!" The dog owner held on to the dog leash in his hand, his body was half pulled up by the dog owner, but he still didn't forget to howl at a few people, the vicious one seemed to want to bite directly die like they do.
"What crazy! Fuck!"
"Damn, these beasts, no matter how fucking screaming, I will stew you to eat dog meat today!"
A few seventeen or eighteen-year-olds were not afraid to see dogs, but the timid girl cried again, hiding behind Xie Wenhuo and Xue Xiao, and cried, "I'm afraid of dogs, you pull Stop them! Don't bite me!"
The four men held the guys in their hands and beat the dogs violently. The dogs barked and barked, but the vicious gazes of the people staring at Gu Xizhou did not diminish at all.
"Ow ooh..."
The three dogs were beaten to the ground, but they still showed their fangs and roared threateningly at Gu Xizhou and the others.
When the three loyal men saw the girl who was frightened and cried, they apologized apologetically: "I'm sorry, this dog doesn't usually do this, it scared you."
Gu Xizhou shook his head. They said a few words, but they couldn't bear the constant barking of the three dogs, so they separated from the four and went down the mountain.
After going down the mountain and returning to the town, the girl was still a little frightened. When she saw a dog in the distance, she shouted and walked around until Gu Xizhou and the others returned to the yard.
Those dogs were barking at them from far away, and if they weren't on a leash, they would have run directly to them!
When they passed the alley again, they thought they would see the tragic state of the corpse, but when they came back again, the corpse had disappeared, and the blood on the white wall had disappeared.
Seeing this, the girl who had been crying asked in a low voice, "The body is gone, where did it go?"
Xue Xiao said lightly: "It's normal, you won't feel strange when you see it more in the future."
Without the corpse, when they came back, the pressure was much less than when they left.
Every family in the yard is cooking and cooking. Only the man who died yesterday was all grief-stricken. The two old people were calling the young man who was working far away at home, telling them that the child was missing. .
"The boss is gone, what kind of work are you still doing? Come back quickly, we two old people have bad eyes and can't find anyone!"
The two old people cried so hard that their hearts were broken.
The person on the other end of the phone also seemed to be in a hurry, and said anxiously, "I see, I know, come back this afternoon! Find someone to help you find the child first!"
…
A few people gathered in Xie Wenhuo's room. They were tired from walking all day today. They sat together by the bed in twos and threes. Xue Xiao felt helpless and said, "I don't seem to find any useful information."
Si Yu glanced at Xue Xiao and said softly: "It's not that there is none. The three dogs just now felt a little strange."
"Why is it strange?" Xie Wenhuo asked.
Gu Xizhou answered his question, "The three dogs have been barking wildly since they saw us. I found that on our way back, every household had dogs to guard against theft, and the families next to us also had dogs. I don't know about you. Have you noticed?"
Fang Zhi put down the water glass in his hand and said abruptly, "Yes, we don't have a single dog in our yard! None of the thirteen families has a dog! Every family in this town should have a dog to watch the house!"
When Xie Wenhuo heard Fang Zhi's words, he frowned and said, "It seems to be the case."
"Do you think this mission world is about dogs?"
"I think so." Si Yu nodded.
"Okay, then first determine the reason why there are no dogs in our yard!" Seeing this, Xie Wenhuo agreed with the opinions of the three of Gu Xizhou after considering it for a moment.
Gu Xizhou was the first to go out and found the 'mother' who was cooking and asked, "Why don't we have a dog in our yard?"
Hearing the words, the woman who put the vegetables in the pot said in a stunned manner, "I raised it before, but weren't you afraid later?"
Gu Xizhou froze for a moment and asked, "Afraid?"
How can you suddenly be afraid of dogs since you have raised dogs before
The woman said while cooking: "Have you forgotten this? It's not because of the dog from the city. Last year's National Day, the white dog came back with the family next door, and it bit you when she saw you little cubs. They were all bitten, and then the family came back to see it, and that’s how I helped you kill that vicious dog.”
"The family surnamed Tian was very unhappy. They lost some money and vaccinated your thirteen children. After confirming that the dog does not have rabies, we will feel at ease."
Gu Xizhou asked, "Which family is it?"
Woman: "I made a lot of money in the city. When I came back last year, I took the old man from my family to the city."
"After the family left, you cried when you saw the dog at that time. There seemed to be seven or eight dogs in the yard at that time! You children were scared and went to buy rat poison to poison the dogs."
"Originally, you were afraid, so you should just send the dog away. After all, they have kept a little friendship for us for so many years, but I didn't expect your children to be so afraid. When we come back, only the dog's body will be left. "
"Later, I saw you in the yard because of the psychological shadow left by that evil dog, and every family in the yard stopped keeping dogs."
The woman sighed and said a few words, not caring, but said lightly.
When I heard the news, Gu Xizhou and the others got together again, and they got the same news. Last year, nine dogs died in this yard on National Day. One was the one that came back with the Tian family who had moved away, and the other died. It's eight guarding dogs.
Xie Wenhuo heard the news, including National Day and dogs. At this time, his eyes on Gu Xizhou and the three of them changed, and when he made up his mind, he would often ask the three of them for their opinions.
"It seems that it has something to do with dogs." Xie Wenhuo frowned.
"Then we already know the cause of the dog's death, can we just leave?" The girl who had been crying finally showed a different expression at this moment, and looked at everyone with some expectation.
"It's not that easy." Xie Wenhuo said lightly, "But now, compared to finding the three missing people, our direction is one step further. The Tian family lives in the innermost house in the yard. Let's go in and have a look!"
With the clues, the others seemed to relax a little, and hoped for leaving, so a few of them walked to the door of the Tian family.
The doors and windows were closed, and after the family left, they locked their own house, and all of them were in trouble.
"This door..."
Xie Wenhuo stared at the gate in embarrassment, making a difficult mistake.
"Let me do it."
Gu Xizhou heard Si Yu say indifferently, and then the man bit the black wire clip on his mouth and twisted the door lock for a while, and the door opened with a 'click'.
Gu Xizhou: "..."
Fang Zhi: "..." You are very skilled!
Seeing that the two of them cast suspicious glances at him, Si Yu shrugged indifferently and said, "This is a must-have skill."