"Ah!!" She screamed in horror, Mu Xinsi didn't care about anything else, grabbed the clothes and staggered towards the outside. Before she ran to the door, she felt something under her feet, slipped suddenly, and threw herself towards the ground. He got up and fell heavily to the ground.
Fortunately, she was holding the soft clothes in her hand and did not fall to her head, but she still heard a crisp cracking sound from her ankle.
"Ah—" Mou Xinsi screamed in pain.
"Mu Xinsi, are you alright??" He Huaian, who was guarding outside, heard Mu Xinsi's screams and asked anxiously, "What's the matter with you?"
"Hair... hair..." Mou Xinsi screamed.
"What hair? I'm in?" He Huai'an asked anxiously.
"Don't, don't, I'm not wearing clothes." Mu Xinsi was dying, but she still wanted to save face, "You wait, I'll come out by myself later..." She turned over with difficulty and looked at the ceiling above her head, which was empty. , not at all the horrific sight she had just seen.
Her ankle seemed to be sprained, and Mu Xinsi struggled to get dressed and limped out the door.
Seeing Mu Xinsi's embarrassed appearance, He Huaian hurriedly asked her what happened.
"I seem to have seen something strange." Mou Xinsi said vaguely.
He Huai'an said, "What?"
"Maybe I misread it." Mu Xinsi shook her head.
He Huai'an wanted to ask again, but Mu Xinsi ignored him, turned and staggered towards the house. He Huaian looked at her back with a worried look.
Lin Banxia, who was sitting in the main room, waited for Song Qingluo, who came home late, and then told him what happened in the courtyard today.
Song Qingluo went to check the coffin, including the people who died in the coffin, and finally came to an unpleasant conclusion. These people locked in the coffin were most likely starved to death. Inside, because he found a few light tooth marks on the side of the coffin again, he thought he was hungry, so he let out his mouth.
They didn't dare to tell the village chief this conclusion. After all, the village chief's current mental state is not good, and knowing this matter is harmful and unhelpful.
Because of what happened today, everyone was not interested in having dinner, so only Lin Banxia, Song Qingluo and He Huai'an appeared on the table. Song Qingluo asked Mu Xin about people, and He Huai'an said that she accidentally put her foot in the shower. Twisted, resting in bed at the moment.
"What happened?" Song Qingluo asked, "Why did you twist your foot suddenly?"
"I don't know, she doesn't seem to be in a good state of mind." He Huaian said, "Maybe she is ill."
Song Qingluo frowned slightly: "Pay more attention to her."
He Huaian nodded.
After dinner and a simple wash, Lin Banxia went to bed. The structure of this room was actually somewhat similar to his previous bedroom. There was a tall closet next to the bed. Half of the doors in the closet could not be closed, so they opened it. a gap. Lin Banxia should have been a little sleepy, but tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.
Song Qingluo lay beside him and asked him softly what was wrong.
"That wardrobe is dark." Lin Banxia said, "It's a little uncomfortable to look at, as if... I've seen this scene before."
Song Qingluo: "..."
Lin Banxia: "Why do you look like that?"
Song Qingluo said, "I'm just thinking."
Lin Banxia: "What do you think?"
Song Qingluo: "Would you like to tell you, where have you seen it?"
Lin Banxia thought about it for a while, and said, "I don't want it anymore. What if I think about it and I'm even more afraid." Then she got up and pressed the gap of the cabinet with a stool, which made her feel much better. After a while, there was an even sound of breathing.
Song Qingluo thought to herself that you were going to be mad at your house number. She finally tried her best to frighten you so many times, but when she realized it, she happened to be away from home. Thinking about it carefully, it was a bit miserable.
As night fell, the village fell silent.
Lin Banxia, who fell into a deep sleep, was awakened by a loud noise. He opened his eyes hazy and found lights flashing outside, accompanied by the noise of people. He glanced at the time, it was only two o'clock in the morning, and it was still early before dawn. Song Qingluo, who was beside him, disappeared. Maybe he was woken up earlier than him and had already gone outside.
Thinking like this, Lin Banxia put on a coat and planned to go to see what was going on outside. Just as she walked to the door, she saw Song Qingluo pushing in.
"What's wrong?" Lin Banxia asked vaguely.
"It's alright, it's the village chief who had a conflict with his relatives and quarreled outside." Song Qingluo said, "Let's not go out, it's not good to be seen by them."
Lin Banxia listened to the fierce quarrel, and hesitantly said: "The quarrel is so fierce, it won't happen, right?"
Song Qingluo said, "The village chief said it's nothing."
"Alright then." Lin Banxia lay back on the bed again.
He Huaian and Mu Xinsi, who were sleeping next to them, were also awakened by the quarrel. He Huaian woke up slowly, and when he was debating whether to go out and have a look, the sound outside had stopped. He looked dazedly at Mu Xinsi, who was sleeping on the next bed, and found that she was curled up in a ball. He asked in a low voice, "Xiao Si, are you alright?"
"It's okay." Mu Xinsi answered vaguely.
Hearing her voice, He Huaian felt a lot more at ease, closed his eyes and fell asleep again.
However, Mu Xinsi couldn't fall asleep. She had been half asleep in the first half of the night, and after squinting for a while, she was completely drowsy by the noise. Originally, her body was already extremely sleepy, but her nerves were tense, and countless bizarre pictures were swirling in her mind, making her unable to sleep.
The harsh noise made her feel a burst of irritability in her heart, and she forcibly buried her head in the quilt, trying to resist the annoying sound.
I don't know how long the noise was, the noise outside finally subsided, and the lights in the whole yard were dimmed, and once again lurked in the deep night.
Mou Xinsi closed her eyes and forced herself to fall asleep.
But before she fell asleep, her ears caught a strange noise... Da Da... Da Da, someone was knocking gently on their door. The sound was too low and too weak, reminding her of the coffin that was knocked during the day.
"Is there... who is outside?" Mu Xinsi asked in a trembling voice.
no respond.
Da... Da... Da... The sound continued, again and again, as if hitting on Mu Xinsi's already fragile nerves.
"Who is it? Can you stop playing pranks!" Mu Xinsi finally couldn't stand the torment of the voice, she sat up from the bed with a swipe, bit her bloodless lips, and walked to the door. The door of their room is the most common wooden door in the village, it is not very strong, and there is even a gap where it meets the door frame, and you can see the scenery outside the door. When she checked in yesterday, Mou Xinsi was still complaining that the crack was leaking, but she didn't expect that today, the crack made her feel grateful - at least, she could look outside through the crack.
After the noise just now, the yard has returned to darkness and silence. There is no rain tonight, but there is wind. The wind passed through the crack of the door and blew on Mu Xinsi's cheeks. She felt a little cold, so she gently hugged her chest with her hands. Her eyes, through the narrow crack of the door, barely saw what was going on outside. No one was standing outside her door, but the voice clearly came from the door panel.
An ominous feeling made Mu Xinsi look away. A thin layer of white sweat formed on her skin. She didn't see anything, but she felt an indescribable fear, as if in the dark. , there is an unbearable answer waiting for her to reveal, as long as she knows, the ending will be madness.
The voice continued, but Mu Xinsi had no intention of exploring it. With a blank face, she slowly returned to the bed, and forcefully wrapped herself in the quilt, staring silently at the wooden door that was still making noises.
Time seemed to freeze on her.
At that time, the faint knocking sound was like a sharp knife, slicing down Mu Xinsi's skin, cutting open her skull, down her spine, and down to her coccyx. She even had a weird illusion, the surrounding space began to distort, and all the sounds she heard were separated by a thick membrane.
When will it be bright, will it still be bright? Mou Xinsi opened her eyes and waited desperately.
He Huai'an slept peacefully until dawn, his alarm clock sounded at 6:30 in the morning, and the familiar music woke him up from his dream. He opened his eyes, yawned lazily, and slowly got up from the bed as usual.
However, when his eyes touched the other bed in the room, he was startled by the person on the bed. He Huai'an took a closer look, only to realize that it was Mu Xinsi sitting on the bed, wrapping her body with a quilt, her face Expressionless and pale, at first glance, it looks like a puppet made of plaster.
The appearance of Mu Xinsi made He Huaian's heart skip a beat. He hesitated, "Xiao Si... Are you alright?"
Mu Xinsi heard his voice and turned her head to look at him expressionlessly.
He Huaian was a little hairy at Mu Xinsi's eyes, and he said in a trembling voice, "Xiao Si, what's the matter with you?"
Mou Xin thought, "Have you heard, what sound?" Her voice did not fluctuate at all, which made He Huaian feel uncomfortable. He tentatively asked, "What sound?"
"Someone is knocking on the door." Mou Xinsi said, "Someone is knocking on the door."
He Huai'an said with a strong smile, "Yes... Is there?" He didn't hear anything.
"Yes, listen." Mou Xinsi grinned, showing a creepy smile. She raised her finger and made a shush gesture, "Listen, I've been knocking all night, and I'm still knocking..."
He Huaian realized that something was wrong with Mu Xinsi, so he quickly put on his clothes and asked Mu Xinsi to go out with him to see Song Qingluo, but Mu Xinsi refused to move. She shook her head and stubbornly said that the things outside the door were still there. At, still knocking on the door, she didn't want to go out, she was afraid.
In desperation, He Huaian had no choice but to decide to go out and call Song Qingluo and the others over. He hurriedly walked to the door, opened the wooden door, and was about to take a step forward, but suddenly stopped.
A pair of hanging feet appeared in front of He Huai'an's eyes, swaying slightly in the morning wind. He raised his head and saw the face of the owner of the feet, which had become bruised and bruised, hanging from the hanging beam.
Someone died.
He was just hanged on the hanging beam outside the house, his feet were blown by the breeze, and smashed on the fragile board again and again—this was the knock on the door that Mou Xinsi heard all night. He Huaian was taken aback by the sudden appearance of the corpse in front of him, and he took a few steps back and fell directly to the ground. His face was ashen, he looked at the corpse at the door, and then glanced at Mu Xinsi, who was staring blankly, feeling a cold air running down his back and into his head.
"Look, look, he really is knocking on the door." Mu Xinsi, who was originally silent, laughed loudly, she clapped her hands, and said in a cheerful voice, "There is really someone outside the door, it's not that I'm hallucinating. Well, I'm not crazy!!"
He Huai'an didn't say a word for a long time. He sat on the ground for a long time, until his whole body was chilled by the wind, then he stumbled to his feet and said in a low voice, "Xiao Si, you are waiting here... I'll call Song
mr them. "
Mou Xinsi didn't speak, and continued to smile.
He Huai'an ran out of the room in a panic, and with a look of panic, found Song Qingluo and Lin Banxia who had just woken up. As soon as Lin Banxia got dressed, she saw He Huaian rushing in disheveled, her eyes full of horror, and said, "It's not good, Mr. Song, something happened—"
Song Qingluo said, "What's wrong?"
"Someone was hanged at our door!" He Huaian reluctantly calmed down. He had actually seen a lot of dead people, but what frightened him the most was not the hanged person, but Mu Xinsi's state. Said, "Mu Xinsi's situation is not quite right, I don't know what happened to her."
Song Qingluo said, "Go and have a look."
The group returned to He Huai'an's residence. The corpse was still hanging by their doorway, swaying gently with the wind from time to time. At first glance, it seemed as if a human was still alive. As someone who had collected corpses for a long time, Lin Banxia knew that hanging was not a comfortable way to die. Usually, people who were hanged would experience extremely painful suffocation for several minutes. The appearance of this person in front of him completely conforms to the characteristics of hanging.
"Remove the body first." Song Qingluo said.
"Okay." He Huaian nodded.
"Mu Xinsi, are you alright?" Lin Banxia entered the room and saw Mu Xinsi huddled on the bed, wrapping her body with a thick quilt. When she heard Lin Banxia's question, she just raised her eyes. He spit out a vague sentence: "It's okay."
Song Qingluo also entered the room. He saw Mu Xinsi's appearance and did not speak. He slowly stretched out his hand in front of Mu Xinsi. In his palm, there were two dice, one black and one white. The intention is already obvious.
"No, I don't want it!" Mou Xinsi, who had no spirit at first, saw the two dice, as if frightened, and backed away suddenly, "Mr. Song, I'm not crazy - I don't need to test inspiration-"
Song Qingluo said softly, "Don't be afraid."
"I don't want it, I'm not crazy, I'm fine..." Mou Xinsi burst into tears and refused to throw the dice, as if the thing in Song Qingluo's hand was not a dice, but some kind of weapon to kill.
Song Qingluo was silent for a moment, then said, "You never want to die here."
Mu Xinsi sighed abruptly.
Song Qingluo said, "Come on."
Mu Xinsi stretched out her hand tremblingly, pinched the two dice, and then gently threw the two dice on the bed board amid the cry of collapse. The dice roll and it settles - 9 for black, 8 for white, 89 points.
Even though Lin Banxia wasn't sure, he also knew that this value was very high, but Mu Xinsi laughed, she said, "Look, Mr. Song, I'm not crazy, I'm fine, I'm not crazy. "
Song Qingluo took back the dice, and the next sentence was to He Huaian: "You will send her out of the village before noon today."
He Huaian said, "Is this... so urgent?"
"Look at her current state." Song Qingluo said coldly, "Can she survive tonight?"
He Huai'an couldn't refute.
"Let's go, Banxia, check the body with me." Song Qingluo ignored the two and called Lin Banxia out of the house.
The two were at the door and did a simple inspection of the body, but no matter how you looked at it, this person seemed to have committed suicide, and there was no trace of external intervention on his body. Lin Banxia said, "Do you want to notify the village chief? This person is the village chief. You should know."
Song Qingluo said, "I'll go find him."
After saying that, he went out for a while, and came back soon, saying that the village chief was not at home, maybe he went out in the middle of the night last night, and he has not come back yet.
Lin Banxia said worriedly, "Then what should I do now, just leave him here?"
"Take it to the main room." Song Qingluo glanced at her watch, "Let's have breakfast first, and then talk about the rest."
So the two calmly went to have breakfast. Of course, they also asked He Huaian and Mu Xinsi if they wanted to eat before eating. The two of them obviously had no appetite. After Mu Xinsi learned that she was going to be sent away, she quieted down, didn't laugh, didn't speak, and just huddled on the bed in silence, not knowing what she was thinking.
He Huaian was also a little hungry, but he was worried about Mu Xinsi and didn't dare to leave her alone, so he said he would eat later.
The breakfast was simple compressed biscuits accompanied by mineral water. There was not much to eat, so they could only eat it sparingly. Song Qingluo had a poor appetite and stopped after only two bites. Lin Banxia was afraid that the remaining few days would not be enough, so she didn't dare to eat more.
"Go to the stream and see." Song Qingluo said, "I went out yesterday afternoon and met the girl we saw in the funeral procession that day."
Lin Banxia said, "The one holding his head?"
"Well." Song Qingluo said, "She told me the exact place where my former colleague died, and I want to go and see."
Lin Banxia said, "I'll come with you."
"Okay." Song Qingluo agreed.
Before the two went out, they went to see He Huai'an and Mu Xinsi again. Compared with just now, Mu Xinsi's condition was a little better, and he began to try to get out of bed. He Huaian sat next to him and lowered his head to take notes. If it wasn't for the corpse at the door that had just been disposed of, the atmosphere would have seemed harmonious.
"Come on, pay attention to safety." He Huai'an said, "I'll send her away when it's a little brighter, but it looks like it's going to rain soon. Remember to bring rain gear."
"Okay." Song Qingluo said, "You don't have to rush back when you send her back, safety comes first."
He Huaian nodded and watched the two leave. At this time, the sky outside the window became gloomy again. It was already morning, but people couldn't feel the arrival of dawn. The howling wind rolled the leaves and blew against the weak windows. He Huaian glanced at the quiet Mu Xinsi. , got up and closed the door.
Song Qingluo put on her raincoat ahead of time before going out with Lin Banxia.
On the way to Xiaoxi, Lin Banxia casually asked about the dice, and said how the value of the dice should be determined.
"As I said before, the dice refers to the degree of mental pollution, so 1-6 means the mental state is excellent, and 96-100 is the danger value of the brink of collapse. As long as the number exceeds 96, it means that the person's mental state is far away. The collapse is not far away, in this state, all kinds of hallucinations are very likely to occur, and at the same time, extreme things will occur." Song Qingluo explained casually, "Besides, there are other things that are playing on people now. Influence, in Mu Xinsi's state, if he stays here any longer, his mental value may break through the dangerous value tonight."
Lin Banxia snorted and asked again, "Why don't I use dice?"
Song Qingluo said calmly, "Because I don't want your mentally retarded identity to be exposed to others."
Lin Banxia: "..."
Song Qingluo: "Just kidding."
Lin Banxia twitched the corners of her mouth and let out a cooperative haha.
When they were talking, the two had already reached the stream and saw the stream that the villagers were talking about. No, it was more like a river than a stream. This seems to be a mountain spring that flows out of the deep mountains, but because of the recent abundance of rain, the water volume has increased greatly.
Song Qingluo walked to a few bare stones and said, "Hao Yongnian drowned here before."
Lin Banxia looked at it and said, "The water is not deep, how could you drown."
The two were talking, but footsteps were heard beside them, Song Qingluo winked at Lin Banxia, and the two tacitly hid in the woods beside them.
After a while, a little girl carrying a pole appeared in the path in the forest. The girl was young and thin, but she was carrying two huge water jugs. She skillfully walked to the side of the stream, taking her time. Fill two pitchers with water from the stream.
"Hey, it's her again." Lin Banxia whispered, "We really have a fate."
"Yes." Song Qingluo said.
"Do you want to go out and say hello to her?" Lin Banxia asked.
Song Qingluo thought for a moment, then nodded: "Exactly, I have something to ask her."
After speaking, the two of them got out of the bushes. The little girl was looking down to fetch water. When she heard the movement behind her, she turned around and saw two big men. She was startled and almost didn't cry out.
"Hello." Song Qingluo said softly, "I saw you yesterday afternoon."
The little girl fixed her eyes and said, "Oh... it's you." Seeing Song Qingluo, her cheeks were half red, and she gently tucked her hair behind her ears, "Why did you come to the stream."
Song Qingluo didn't answer and asked, "Isn't someone dead here? You still fetch water here?"
"That can't be helped." The little girl said, "This is the only source of water in the village, and you can't drink the water here."
Song Qingluo said, "My name is Song Qingluo. This is my friend Lin Banxia. What's your name?"
The little girl said, "I... My name is Jiang Ruonan." She glanced at Lin Banxia, "You and your friends... are you not leaving? We really can't stay in this village any longer."
Lin Banxia said, "Do you know anything?"
Jiang Ruonan didn't say a word, but with a hesitant look, he had already given Lin Banxia the answer. Seeing this, Lin Banxia hurriedly said: "We have no ill intentions, we just want to help the village solve the problem. If you know what to say, let us know. What if those little things can give us clues?"
Jiang Ruonan was still a little hesitant, Song Qingluo said softly: "Forget it, Banxia, she doesn't want to say don't force her, she's just a little girl..."
Lin Banxia was stunned when she heard the words, thinking that this was not Song Qingluo's indifferent style, but when she heard Jiang Ruonan speak weakly, she said, "I did... see something." She Picking his fingers, his voice became lower and lower, "I saw your companions drown in the stream with my own eyes."
The author has something to say:
Lin Banxia: How can I prevent others from discovering my special mentally retarded status
Song Qingluo: Are you pretending to be afraid
Lin Banxia: Oh, oh, what is this, woo woo people are so scared, woo woo woo.
Song Qingluo:…
Lin Banxia: Why don't you look good
Song Qingluo: Actually, your mental retardation is not bad at all.
Lin Banxia: …
Change a bug, there is no 0 on the dice, only 1-100