After listening to the old man's words, Brother Dong also felt a little incredible: "How can those people on the mountain be sure that you will definitely fight with the police?"

"Because they hold on to our life. The old man smiled bitterly: "Before we went up the mountain, they had a detailed understanding of our family situation, there was once an old man, thinking that he missed his grandson too much, and was ready to sneak away in the middle of the night, but was discovered by the people on the mountain, and after a few days, the old man's child, a family of three, was all caught here, and was buried alive by the people on the mountain, the old man couldn't stand the stimulation, and went crazy on the spot." ”

"Killed?" Yang Tao had an expression of disbelief: "Just for such a thing, three lives?!"

"That's right, I saw it with my own eyes. The old man nodded: " The group of people on the mountain did this, but also to let the rest of us break the idea of escaping, after all, we are all a group of old people in their last years, who can fight them, in addition to these persecuted, there are also some old people who really have no way to live, if they leave the mountain, they have to go back to pick up waste, live in bridges and caves, compared with that kind of life, they would rather survive here, although they are not good, but at least they can live, like this kind of lonely old people who have no hope of living, they have already lived enough, and they are naturally not afraid of death. ”

"How many people have you seen on the mountain?"

"Many, maybe five or six, and one of them was a blue-eyed foreigner. The old man thought for a moment: " By the way, on the night they killed, a man told us, he said that a large part of the people on this mountain are wanted criminals who have to be shot when they see the light, so they don't care if there will be one or two more murders in their hands, and they also said that we are old, and they don't want to kill more, but let's not find ourselves unhappy, this time, my son also took a lot of effort to find the village where I am, but the two of us have just met, and you came, so when you entered the house, I mistook you for people from the mountain。 ”

After listening to the old man's words, I thought about it carefully and said, "You just said that the person who escaped last time was discovered just after walking a short distance, and do you think that they found out that your son was here so quickly, does it mean that there are people watching you in this village?"

"That's right. The old man nodded: "In this village, there are indeed their people, and the commissary in the village is run by people from the mountains." ”

"!" Yang Tao listened to the old man's words, recalled, and then looked at Brother Dong with some fear: "I remember, the last time we came to find someone, there was nothing to gain overnight, the next morning, it was I went to the small shop to buy something, the owner of it, is a person in his thirties, very kind face, I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, now I think back, the owner of that store is the only one I have seen in this village who is still young!"

"Are the people in the store fixed?" I continued.

"It's not. The old man shook his head: "In that store, there are generally three people, except for the leader who will occasionally change shifts, and the rest of the people, every ten days and a half months, will change, the things in that store are not sold to us, and those people don't let us get close, so I don't know very well." ”

After listening to the old man's words, I nodded slightly: "Usually people from the mountains come to pick up guests, where do they meet?"

"Guest?" the old man was stunned by my question: "What guest?"

"You're starting to play stupid again, aren't you!" Zhou Tong listened to the old man's answer, and suddenly became anxious: "What kind of work are the people in the mountains doing, you don't know?!"

"I really don't know. The old man shook his head: " When those people picked me up, they just told me that if the police came, we would have to follow and fight, but they never said anything else, and on the second day of every month, a truck would come to the entrance of the village, and the car would be loaded with food and pickles, and let each of us get it by ourselves, and besides that, no one had ever taken care of us, including the people in the store, and if no one escaped, they wouldn't communicate with us at all, and I was a very timid person, and I never spoke to them in the past two years. ”

I thought about it for a while, and felt that what this old man said might not be a lie, after all, these old men came here, they were all coerced and abducted for various reasons, and Zhai Yinglin's gang naturally didn't need to explain their affairs to them clearly, so they continued to ask: "In the two years you have been here, have you ever seen strangers coming in and out of the village?"

After listening to my words, the old man thought about it seriously: " Yes, about half a year ago, there was a stranger here, and after those people entered the village, they also wandered around and inquired blindly, but the people in this village were all in a unified voice, and we really didn't know anything, so those people in this village, they didn't inquire about anything, and then they left, and then the people who came after that were you, after you left last time, those people gathered us together, asked about your situation, and asked what you all said to us. ”

"No?" I was a little surprised: "Have you seen two groups of people in the past two years?"

"That's right, there are only two groups of people. The old man nodded: "According to the meaning of those people on the mountain, in fact, we are not allowed to contact each other, but you also know, the old man, what he is most afraid of is loneliness, so we usually like to bask in the sun together, chat or something, and then those people on the mountain found that they couldn't stop it, so they acquiesced to this behavior, but other than that, I really haven't seen anyone else." ”

"What about the forks in the road outside the village, do you know where they lead?" I asked again.

"I don't know. The old man shook his head: "We are in this village, to put it bluntly, it is like squatting in prison, the scope of activities is very limited, and we can't leave the village at all. ”

After listening to this old man's words, I didn't say anything again, I kept staring into his eyes while he was talking, and I couldn't see any signs of lying, but after listening to this answer, I was also a little depressed, it seems that with these old men, we can't get any useful clues.

After listening to this old man's words, Brother Dong frowned and thought for a while, and didn't say anything else, pointing at him: "We came to see you tonight, and we can't let anyone know, understand?"

"Don't worry, even if you don't say this kind of thing, I won't spread it, and if it gets out, it won't be good for my children!" the old man looked at his son and swore a promise.

"Brother Dong, what should I do next?" Yang Tao asked sideways.

"Take a picture of his ID card, and then we'll withdraw it!" Dong Ge pointed to the old man's son and looked at him: "If you lie to me, I don't need to say the consequences, right?"

"I can't afford to mess with you and the people on the mountain. The old man nodded repeatedly.

……

After we all left the old man's house, we found an empty yard with no one and hid in a half-collapsed house and talked.

Brother Dong held a cigarette and looked at me: "What do you think of the old man's words just now?"

"You can't disbelieve, and you can't believe it all. "It's very cold in this room, and the cold wind is also wrapped in large snowflakes pouring into the house, so cold that I keep rubbing my palms:" At the beginning, the two of us were picked up from this village by Daxuan, so in this vicinity, there must be an entrance to the casino, since the people on Zhai Yinglin's side, claiming to be from the mountain, I feel that their casino, Bacheng is in a nearby mountain, and the old man just now, either really didn't know the casino entrance, or was afraid of retaliation by the mountain people, did not dare to speak, now it seems that Zhai Yinglin's casino, there should be many entrances, and our village, is only one of them, and it is also an incommonly used one, it is very like a backup exit that will be enabled as a last resort, otherwise they would not gather so many people, what to say to block the police to stall time. ”

"Well, that's right. After listening to my words, Brother Dong nodded approvingly: "Let's go together, I feel that Shenglitun here is not like an entrance, but more like an exit, and it is also an emergency exit for survival, so they will spend so much money, and here they are repairing the maze, that is, raising a group of old people who are in their old age, and it is estimated that they are doing all this, just because they are afraid that one day the comfort nest will be raided by the police, so the village and the maze here are used to confuse the police and give them time to escape." ”

After listening to Brother Dong's words, my heart also became a lot more transparent: "Since Zhai Yinglin wants to make a trap for us, he will naturally not lead us to the main entrance of the comfort nest, and the reason why he chose the place to meet here must be very sure, and he is sure that we will not find the way into the mountain." ”

"Then what should we do next?" Shi Yigang interjected and asked.

Yang Tao thought for a while: "I feel that if we want to enter the mountain, there is no way. ”

"You say. Dong Ge looked at him.

"Didn't the old man say before, they are in this village, they can only contact two groups of people, first, the group of monitors in the store, but he also said, the group of people on the mountain, all of them are wanted criminals with things hanging on their bodies, so I think, we can't forcibly arrest the people in the store, not to mention that they will definitely resist fiercely, even if they don't resist, it is estimated that in their mouths, it is difficult for us to get the information we want, so that we can only startle the snakes, and the other group is the truck that comes to deliver food at the beginning of each month, I feel that it should be much easier for us to start from this side, because a person who delivers food is always much easier to deal with than an outlaw。 ”

"What if this person who delivers food is also from the mountain?" Zhao Huaiyang interjected and asked.

"Even if the people who deliver the grain are from the mountains, they can't grow the food themselves. Yang Tao smiled and continued: "Even if the truck driver doesn't admit it, we can also check up layer by layer according to his source of goods to find the person who provides food, and then we go through him to find the person who checks out, and then from the person who checks out, and then then go up to the clues, although this method is more cumbersome, but it is relatively safe, and the success rate will be improved a lot." ”

After listening to Yang Tao's words, Brother Dong looked at me: "What time is it today?"

I pulled out my phone and looked at it: "Four." ”

"This method is feasible, but there is not enough time, now that Zhai Yinglin has got what he wants, we don't know his next plan yet, and I definitely can't give him another month to prepare." Brother Dong heard that it would be nearly a month before the next car to deliver food, so he immediately waved his hand and refused, and after a cigarette burned out, he put the cigarette butt in his hand into the snow next to him: "Prepare, let's go to that store and forcibly take people out." ”

"Brother Dong, in this way, our intentions will all be exposed! If this matter is messed up and they have precautions, it will be even more difficult for us to find someone. Yang Tao looked at Brother Dong: "You have thought about it!"

"There's nothing to think about, since Zhai Yinglin dares to do a trick for us, and that old man knows about us coming to find someone a few days ago, then Zhai Yinglin must know that we are also looking for him everywhere now, so our intentions are not exposed or not exposed, since sooner or later we have to tear our faces, then we will start first, otherwise they will smack the smell and remove the people from the store, we can only become more and more passive." ”