"Did you hear the dog barking when I came in?" Gu Xizhou pointed to the alley at the door, "With this alley as the boundary, the poisoned dog can protect the people in the yard."
"The new guy who died on the first day, because he left by himself, the dog in the yard didn't bark, and we didn't hear the bark that night." Gu Xizhou said, "And the little sea who died the next day, I guess he was pushed out by 'Xiao Hua' instead of going out by himself, so the dog in the yard barked that night."
Fang Zhi nodded: "Yes, I remember last time Brother Gu, you said that you only saw a pair of eyes. The dead white dog can't come in outside, while the local dog inside has been guarding the yard!"
Gu Xizhou nodded and said, "The woman told us just now that the Tian family has a daughter who is about eight years old. She has been living in this yard since she was a child. Eight years ago, she disappeared while looking for a dog. I suspect that the girl was looking for this Satsuma. Yeah, and she's not missing, quite the opposite, she's dead on the mountain."
"The name of Xiaohua is proof that Tian is in his heart - it is painting."
"So I guess this small painting should be the girl who disappeared back then."
Xie Wenhuo was stunned when he heard Gu Xizhou's words, and muttered to himself, "Tian is in my heart? Painting..."
"That's right, Tian Zai's heart just happens to be a painting, so she is called Xiao Hua, and she has been able to see a lot of dogs because what she sees is different from us. She can see the other eight dogs in the yard."
Because of Gu Xizhou's words, the people in the team immediately looked into the pitch-black yard, as if there were many dogs in the yard wagging their tails, squatting on the ground and looking at them.
Si Yu looked at Gu Xizhou suspiciously.
With that look, Gu Xizhou can translate it for him: When did this guy get smarter
In fact, Si Yu's heart: I suspect that you are Xiao Hua himself!
"You said those dogs are actually protecting us? But it's these children... who poisoned them... They still protect them like this?!"
Xue Xiao heard the whispers of the people in the team, she sighed and said softly: "Dogs are different from people."
Si Yu retracted his gaze on Gu Xizhou and said to the others, "It's not too early. Let's go back to the room to rest first. Now that we have determined the direction, we will make another call to the Tian family tomorrow."
"But... we still have one person... who didn't come back!"
Hearing this, Si Yu raised a contemptuous smile at the corner of his mouth, looked at the man who was speaking and asked, "You are going to save him."
"No, no, I'm just..." The man's eyes fell on Gu Xizhou, and he took two steps back before speaking.
Si Yu said coldly, "Look at what others do? To be a good person, you can go by yourself and die as you wish."
That person was so mercilessly criticized by Si Yu, his face was very ugly.
In the second half of the night, Gu Xizhou was lying on the bed and fell asleep in the room. Fang Zhi, who was next to him, saw that Gu Xizhou came back, his heart fell back into his chest, he lay on the bed and stared at the ceiling, and fell asleep after watching.
Instead, Si Yu sat on the bed silently, staring at Gu Xizhou for a long time.
Gu Xizhou opened his eyes and asked him, "What are you looking at?"
Si Yu said softly, "See if you are human."
"Do I need to recite the core values of socialism again?" Gu Xizhou winked at him, splitting his mouth, revealing two small tiger teeth.
Unexpectedly, Si Yu said, "Okay."
Gu Xizhou: "..."
Gu Xizhou rolled over and sat up from the bed and recited: "Prosperity, democracy, civilization, harmony, advocacy of freedom, equality, justice, rule of law..."
After listening to Gu Xizhou recite the core socialist values, Si Yu seemed relieved, covered the quilt and lay on the bed.
Seeing this, Gu Xizhou said, "Do you really believe it? What if the ghost also recites the core values?"
Si Yu didn't have any expression when he heard the words, lying on the bed and turning his back to Gu Xizhou, whispered something boring.
…
The next morning, everyone in the team was a little tired and got together just after breakfast.
The men who were scolded by Si Yu yesterday were also in the crowd, looking at them eagerly.
Si Yu said coldly: "What do we do? Call the Tian family to confirm Gu Ran's guess yesterday, and ask them about the situation at the time."
Xie Wenhuo was a little tangled. He and Xue Xiao spoke in low voices, as if they didn't hear Si Yu's words. The same thing happened to the others next to them, lowering their heads and pretending that they didn't know.
In the mission world, don't make phone calls casually, don't say whether there is a signal or not, even if there is a signal, the person who is called and received is a ghost, and no one knows.
Gu Xizhou glanced at these people indifferently, took out his mobile phone in his bag, and dialed the phone number from yesterday.
After a few busy tones, someone answered the phone.
"Hello, who are you looking for?"
"Hello Mr. Tian, I'm a policeman and I want to ask you something." Gu Xizhou said.
The man's voice on the other end of the phone was a little choked, "Hello, comrade police! Is my daughter missing?"
"It's really related to your daughter, but we can't be sure if it's not her. I want to ask about the situation back then. The more detailed the better."
"Okay, ten years ago, my freight company was just starting up, and my wife was also helping the company. At that time, she was pregnant and was unwell. We didn't have time to take care of our daughter, so we sent her to the countryside for foster care with grandparents. At that time, my daughter was She has been living in the country for two years. She said that she saw other people in the yard with puppies, and she was envious, so I bought a puppy for my daughter that summer..."
"Is it a Samoyed?"
"Well... it's a white Samoyed, that dog died last year... Xiaobai has been disobedient at home and likes to bite things. My relatives asked us to send the dog away or lock it up, but we didn't agree. To be honest, my daughter Lost, our husband and wife have always felt guilty, and sometimes we think that if we hadn't sent our daughter to the countryside, she would not have been lost."
"It was also summer that day. I took the free time and sent the puppy I bought to her in the countryside. She saw that the puppy liked it and asked me how to take care of the puppy. After I went back, I bought two books for her. Dog's book, but I heard the bad news within a few days... My daughter is missing."
"It was said to be chasing the dog, but I guess it wasn't."
Gu Xizhou: "Why?"
"Um... The Samoyed that died last year... In fact, my family found it in the trash after my daughter disappeared... We searched everywhere and couldn't find her. To be honest, I was very angry at the time, and I blamed myself for buying a dog for my daughter... "
"But then my wife was looking for Xiaobai in the trash can, her legs were broken, and her body was all wounded, her head was hit by a stone, and her whole body was covered in blood. When she saw my wife, she wailed. I was on the verge of death, and it made people's hearts break. I guessed at the time that when someone kidnapped my daughter, Xiaobai bit the person, but at that time Xiaobai was a puppy, and he was definitely not the opponent of the traffickers. Throw it in the trash can."
Gu Xizhou: "Have you asked the children in the yard if they have seen your daughter?"
"I asked, of course I did, but they said that they went to the mountain early that morning to play, and they played until the evening, and they hadn't seen my daughter."
Gu Xizhou: "Well... they are all children of the same age, why didn't they bring your daughter with you?"
"...I can't say why, but those kids don't like to play with my daughter very much. It's weird anyway. I came back a few times and brought her a lot of food and asked her to share it with other kids, hoping to make their relationship better. , but I saw that the child in Li's family not only refused my daughter's food, but also pushed her. The boy turned his head and told his grandma that my daughter was stupid and would fall down when she walked. His grandma kept laughing. To be honest, I was very angry at the time, so I went up and scolded the boy."
"The boy just stared at me and scolded me when he opened it. Anyway, it was ugly and uneducated."
"Why haven't you changed your phone for so many years?" Gu Xizhou asked.
"Eh? Does this have anything to do with my daughter?" The man on the other end of the phone was stunned.
"Just ask casually."
Man: "… Uh, actually, I have changed a lot of numbers, and I keep this number because my daughter often used her grandfather's landline to call me when she was a child, and she has this phone number on her back... I think in case she has a future One day she called me... I got it right away."
"..." Xue Xiao heard the words of the man on the other end of Gu Xizhou's mobile phone amplifier, and her eyes were red. The man's words almost proved Gu Xizhou's judgment. There was a girl in the Tian family who went missing, and this girl did not have a good relationship with other children in the yard. to pave the way for her disappearance.
After hanging up the phone, one of them murmured, "Is the girl in this yard responsible for the girl's disappearance?"
"It should be."
"But why? Why do those kids do this? How old are they? Eight years ago, their oldest was ten!"
Si Yu said coldly: "They can poison the eight dogs in the family, what do you think they dare not do?"
Jealous of her parents, jealous of her dog, jealous of all the things she has that they don't have, and at the same time they reject the girl's courtship!
One of the teammates was completely incomprehensible, his face turned pale, "This..."
The people around said numbly: "Then what should we do now?"
Si Yu frowned and said, "First find a way to find the girl's body."
After a few days of exploring the mountain, Xie Wenhuo was familiar with the path on the mountain, and quickly climbed to the top of the mountain.
"In such a big mountain, where can they bury that girl?" Because the mountain is so big, no one who has been patrolling here recently has found the missing person, not to mention the bodies buried in the soil, Xie Wenhuo said. Frowning, "You can't hollow out this mountain, can you?"
"A person disappeared yesterday, along with Xiaohua." Si Yu suddenly said, "Do you remember the area when you last saw him?"
"I saw it." Xue Xiao heard the words and took everyone to an area.
Because it was dark, Xue Xiao could only reluctantly point out the approximate location with a big rock on the ground. The others nodded and started digging inch by inch.
Fang Zhi waved the shovel in his hand and searched hard. Because the area was very vague, they could only search for a large area and dig out with this as the center.
The sun was very strong at noon, Gu Xizhou leaned against the shade of the tree and took a short rest.
Digging and digging, Xie Wenhuo suddenly made a movement, and the voices of those people trembled. They dug up the body of the man who disappeared with Xiaohua yesterday!
The corpse was buried upright in the soil, and the surrounding people immediately surrounded it, and then they dug up a total of five corpses with varying degrees of corruption in this area.
And in the middle of these five corpses, they found a very small corpse, just when they dug it out—
All the dogs in the town barked, up and down the mountain, barking at the same time.
"Wang Wang Wang!"
"Wang Wang Wang!"
Gu Xizhou saw a dog running from a distance, its rotten body changed, gradually more blood and fur.
It can be seen that its owner loves it very much. Its hair is white, and it sticks out its tongue and gently licks the bones of the girl on the ground. This is the first time Gu Xizhou has seen it in the daytime. It silently dragged the corpse. to the town.
"This is... the girl from the Tian family?" The people in the crowd looked at the clothes on the skeleton and said.
The fluffy dog barked twice and nodded frantically, as if to say yes!
It tilted its head and looked at Gu Xizhou, then its body shattered and turned into a half wooden door in front of them, but the people around didn't seem to see it, Gu Xizhou heard a clear child's voice: "Xiao Bai, You are so annoying, I don't want to leave like this... but forget it, thank you for staying with me for so long."
The voice fell behind, Gu Xizhou saw the missing door and the other half slowly appear, he did not hesitate, and opened the door directly.
As soon as he opened his eyes, Gu Xizhou heard the barking of a puppy.
"Wang Wang!"
The voice was small, it was a puppy.
A pair of small hands hugged him, Gu Xizhou saw a lovely smiling face, a dazzling smile, pure and pure.
The picture changed quickly. Gu Xizhou saw several children in the yard appear. The puppy was lying well in his own nest. Suddenly, several children grabbed it into his pocket. It barked twice.
"Hmph, don't let us play with this dog, we want to play!"
"Yes, yes, she will definitely cry again when she goes back, hahaha!"
A few children whispered, Gu Xizhou could not see the situation outside, but he could hear the sounds around him, and he should be on the mountain now.
Suddenly, the sun was a little dazzling, and Gu Xizhou's eyes hurt in panic, and the dog was released by several children.
Pain pulls back Xizhou's attention.
A child was holding the dog's tail with his hands, and seeing that it couldn't walk, he laughed, as if he thought it was something very interesting.
These children picked up branches from the ground and hit the dog. The puppy barked and shuddered in pain. Just when it was desperate, a soft voice rang in its ear.
Gu Xizhou looked at the girl.
The girl who came over pushed one of the boys in an atmosphere, and said angrily: "Li Ming, why are you bullying Xiaobai!"
"Oh, not only did I bully him, but I also bullied you!" The child named Li Ming pushed the girl who came to the ground with his backhand, and then instructed the other companions to continue beating the dog.
"Hahaha, your parents gave birth to a little brother, I don't want you anymore! I just threw you away!"
"That's right, what's the big deal, do you think they really love you?"
The little girl got up from the ground, picked up the stone from the ground and threw it at Li Ming, "Your parents don't want you!"
The boy didn't expect the girl to resist, his eyes were red with anger, as if he was going to kill someone.
They bullied the girl just like they bullied the dog just now. They drove and beat her with branches. The girl stumbled and rolled halfway up the mountain and was blocked by a tree. When the children chased after them, they saw blood all over the ground. know something is wrong.
I don't know who had the idea. They planned to bury the girl. The puppy tried to stop the children after seeing it, but was kicked away and one of its hind legs was broken, but the puppy didn't give up. It was in pain, biting a child's trousers, hoping to stop their behavior.
"Ow... Ow!"
The dog whimpered at the girl who was about to be buried.
Gu Xizhou followed its line of sight, and Gu Xizhou looked at the girl in surprise... She wasn't dead yet, but the children didn't find it, they continued to fill the soil, and eventually the girl was buried.
Buried alive.
The puppy climbed down the mountain to ask for help, but was seen by passers-by and thrown into the trash can.
In the blink of an eye, Xiaobai has been taken back to the city for treatment. He is almost back to normal. He tried to run away from home several times, but he was found. Later, when no one was at home, the doors and windows were closed, and he could not leave at all.
I don't know how long it took, the National Day family brought it back to town again. It didn't recognize this place for the first time, but when it entered the yard, it smelled a familiar smell!
"Wang Wang Wang!" It was them, they buried the little master!
"Wang Wang Wang!" The little master is here!
"Wang Wang Wang!" Let them take me to find the little master! I'm going to dig her out!
The dog knew that he was going to leave, so it bit the rope that day, and it bit the Li family's children, hoping that they could take it to the little master and dig the little master out.
It didn't understand what death was, and it naively thought that as long as the girl was dug out of the ground, the little master could continue to accompany it.
Gu Xizhou saw the scene where it was beaten to death, the dog was biting and refused to let go, it wanted to see his little master.
At the moment when the dog died, Gu Xizhou heard the sound of the chain sliding again.
Gu Xizhou sighed a little, but in a blink of an eye he had returned to Si Yu's luxurious villa.
The dog's wish was simple - for its little owner to come home.
After Gu Xizhou and the others dug up the corpse, the dog dragged the corpse to the town. When someone recognized the girl, its body immediately dissipated and turned into a wooden door, and that voice... It was the girl from the Tian family, she always wanted to know Dad doesn't like her anymore.
If possible, Gu Xizhou would like to tell her that her father has not changed his phone number and has been waiting for her call.
When Gu Xizhou returned to his senses and saw Fang Zhi, the boy's eyes were red and his mouth was open, but there was no sound.