"What's the smell?" Yu Yizhou and Xiao Nan frowned, couldn't help retching, and asked the three people beside them in a low voice.
"Corpse smell." Gu Xizhou said casually.
When he saw that the two of them were about to scream with terrified expressions on their faces, Gu Xizhou immediately put his index finger between his thin lips, made a silent gesture, and warned, "Don't scream, be careful of being caught by that old man. I heard, it may be something like a dead mouse, this smell is quite strong, you can bear it for a while, we will find out if there are any clues and go."
The two were silent and nodded.
There were no windows or lights in the house, so the light couldn't get in at all, so there was not only a strange corpse odor in the whole house, but also a damp musty smell.
In the room they were in, there was a square black wooden table. The surface of the old table was badly worn. Gu Xizhou touched it with his hand, and the palm of his hand was covered with ashes. At the same time, the table creaked and the table shook. .
The bowls and chopsticks on the side were also covered with a thick layer of ash, and the vegetables placed under the cabinet rotted and deteriorated.
Obviously the things here have not been used for a long time, Gu Xizhou was silent for a moment, and a few people exited the room, as if they were thieves, and crept into the next room.
In this room, an old-fashioned color TV is displayed, a radio is placed next to it, and a wooden bed with sheets and folded quilts is placed on it.
"Listen, there seems to be a sound?" Xiao Nan said in a low voice, tense.
Several people stopped and listened carefully for a while, and there was indeed a sound in the room.
It seemed like something was moving around the room.
Xiao Nan stepped back in fear and took a small step towards the door.
"what!"
"What's wrong?" Shi Yu asked.
"Something soft hit my foot." After Xiao Nan finished speaking, he looked down and found that it was a false alarm. It turned out that it was a mouse that hit him.
Si Yu said solemnly, "Don't make a fuss."
Xiao Nan was a little embarrassed, and his face turned red. Speaking of which, he had already experienced the mission world several times, but now he is not as good as the newcomer Yu Yizhou.
"Squeak."
"Squeak."
The mouse ran away from Xiao Nan's feet in a hurry and drilled down the corner to the bottom of the bed.
"Guess there's something under the bed?" A few people didn't blame Xiao Nan, but Gu Xizhou looked under the bed, thought about it, and asked.
"Just look at it and you'll find out."
Gu Xizhou didn't take Si Yu's words, but he directly used his actions to prove his approval of Si Yu. He lifted the sheets with his hands, and then Gu Xizhou saw the corpse of an old man lying on the ground that had been rotten for a long time. The mouse just now was in the old man's chest. , screaming.
"What's down there?" Yu Yizhou asked in a low voice with an angry voice.
Gu Xizhou turned his head and took a deep look at a few people, then moved aside to let them see clearly, "See for yourself."
"Ah, yes, it's him!" Yu Yizhou and Xiao Nan opened their mouths. Although the corpse was decomposed, the whole picture could not be seen, but the dark blue vest they saw the old man wear yesterday.
"He died?" Yu Yizhou muttered.
Gu Xizhou was noncommittal, but instead said: "As expected, the door is on him, and it's not surprising that he died."
Si Yu was silent for a moment, showing a thoughtful look.
"Xu Hao told us about the butcher that it should be true. The family of the butcher's death this morning confirmed what Xu Hao said, and the butcher must have something to do with Mrs. He's disappearance.
"But why didn't the door appear? We must have missed something, and Xu Hao may have something to hide from us." Si Yu frowned, touched his chin, and pondered.
"The old man is not here, let's go find Xu Hao again." Gu Xizhou turned around and put down the sheets, he thought for a while.
Gu Xizhou was about to close the door of the old man's house when he felt someone poke his hand. Gu Xizhou turned to look at Fang Zhi, only to see Fang Zhi's face turning pale and pointing to the back of Gu Xizhou.
Gu Xizhou took a deep look at Fang Zhi, and when he turned his head, he saw the old man at the door.
The old man smiled and looked at them with a kind smile, but this kind of kindness in the eyes of others is not kindness, but an indescribable strange feeling, "Are you messing with my door?"
Hearing the old man's question, Gu Xizhou heard Xiao Nan, Yu Yizhou and the others gasping for air, and did not dare to speak.
"Oh, I see your door is not closed, so close it for you." Gu Xizhou said.
Si Yu next to him also replied: "Yes, we came to you to ask you if you have any other clues. As a result, no one answered the door and found that your door was not closed."
"Really?" The old man grinned.
Xiao Nan, Yu Yizhou, and Fang Zhi heard Gu Xizhou and Si Yu singing and talking nonsense with their eyes open. They didn't react for a while, and they saw the old man squinting and turning to look at them, "Is that so?"
Three people: "… "
"Ok?"
"Yes, yes! That's it!" The three of them said in unison, and the chickens nodded their heads in a rice-pecking style, almost swearing to God.
The old man hummed, seeming to believe their words, and at the same time replied: "There are no other clues."
Si Yu raised his eyes and glanced at the old man. The old man was holding a black plastic bag in his hand. He couldn't see what was in it. He pointed to the pocket and asked, "What's in it?"
The old man generously opened the pocket directly, revealing the contents for everyone to see.
Xiao Nan was already about to faint when he saw the old man, but when he saw the bloody things in his pocket, his eyes widened and he passed out.
"What's the matter with the young people now? I'm not as good as an old man. Haven't seen pig trotters?" The old man said speechlessly.
Si Yu glanced at the bloody palm, and explained blankly, "He fainted."
Holding the fainted Xiao Nan back to the demolition office, Fang Zhi patted the man's cheek with his hand. After about ten minutes, Xiao Nan woke up from the fainting. His face was pale and there was no trace of blood. Gu Xizhou handed him a cup of hot water. water.
Xiao Nan took it over tremblingly, took a sip of water, and asked in a low voice, "I, what should we do now?"
Gu Xizhou glanced at him and said, "You are an old man anyway, and you need someone less than a newcomer to carry you back, are you embarrassed?"
Xiao Nan couldn't help complaining: "There were dead people in the world before, but nothing like this! They eat people!"
From the look on Xiao Nan's face, he was obviously very scared.
"Okay, since you're awake, we'll go directly to Xu Hao and ask him if he remembers anyone else." Si Yu waved his hand to interrupt Xiao Nan's explanation.
Leaving the demolition office, on the way there, it was noon, and there was no one at the food stall.
After walking for a while, Gu Xizhou suddenly stopped and frowned.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Nan asked.
Gu Xizhou: "Why is the door of the butcher's shop open? Isn't the boss already dead?"
Everyone thought it was strange, but they didn't think much about it, they went directly to Xu Hao's house.
"Xu San'er, come out for Lao Tzu, damn, steal my wife's bra, you don't want to live anymore? Come out for Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu must kill you today!" At this moment, a man in factory clothes was standing at the door and yelling .
"If you give it, I will kill you today! You kill a thousand knives!"
There was a woman next to her who was particularly aggrieved with tears in her eyes, grabbing the corner of the man's clothes, "Husband, when you're not around, he bullies me!"
The woman's voice seemed to be able to squeeze out the water. Gu Xizhou glanced at Wang Chunjiao strangely. Is this Xu Hao bullying her? That day, he saw Wang Chunjiao chase Xu San'er with a kitchen knife with his own eyes.
This man seems to be Wang Chunjiao's man.
"I really don't have one. I and the others stole a pair of panties. I didn't steal a bra!"
Xu San'er's voice came from inside, and he quibble.
"I really didn't steal! If I stole, I stole it, and if I didn't steal, I didn't steal!"
"You also said that I must kill you today!" The man roared.
Xu San'er saw the people from the demolition office coming, and continued to press the door of the house, and even asked Gu Xizhou and the others to help.
After they persuaded the two of them to leave, Xu Hao came out of the house in embarrassment. His face and hands were full of scratches from women. He gave Wang Chunjiao and his wife a vicious look, and spat on the ground. .
"Bah, I didn't change my name, I didn't change my surname, I just stole the underwear, that's the underwear!" Xu Hao looked righteous and awe-inspiring.
Yu Yizhou next to him laughed and glanced at Xu Hao. The man had to explain that he didn't steal. Seeing his appearance, the two couples took care of him.
"Damn it, Baba! Someone else must have stolen it. I didn't steal anything at all yesterday!"
Gu Xizhou glanced at him and asked, "It's alright, it's alright, if you don't change your name, you don't change your surname, if you don't steal those things, can they come to you?"
Xu Hao heard the words, the arrogance just now disappeared, this is a typical wolf coming, and now whenever someone drops something in the village, the first thing that comes to mind is him.
Gu Xizhou continued: "Are you hiding something from us? Now that the butcher is dead, you..."
"He's dead?" Xu Hao was stunned for a moment. He didn't seem to know about the butcher's death. He showed a bewildered expression, and then he rolled and crawled straight to the butcher's shop.
Gu Xizhou pointed at Xu Hao, "Follow him."
The crowd nodded.
Walking through the gravel road, Gu Xizhou and the others walked all the way, only to see Xu Hao slumped on the ground, looking ahead in horror.
Gu Xizhou turned his head and followed his line of sight. There were several women standing in front of the butcher shop buying vegetables, and there was a person in the butcher shop, to be precise, the head of a human pig, and the head of a pig they saw this morning. Just fit together.
Just when Xiao Nan and Yu Yizhou were stunned, Gu Xizhou said silently: "Pig-headed body, is this a mockery of him being a pig-brained?"
Gu Xizhou didn't notice that at this moment, Si Yu turned his head and gave Gu Xizhou a deep look, silently reciting what Gu Xizhou just said.