Chapter 54: A Family of Three (1)
I quickly typed a message to HQ asking if there were any surviving villagers. If someone had left Wangxing Village before the whole village had been quarantined, perhaps we would have been able to find a few survivors, so that we could learn a lot about the specific situation at that time.www.biquge.info
Xiao Chen quickly replied to me that the file did not show any survivors, and that the local public security bureau had not received any reports of missing persons after the disappearance of the entire village in Wangxing Village. With the exception of a few people who have been working and going to school all year round, all the permanent residents of Wangxing Village disappeared before December 31, 2016.
Although there may be other survivors, after ten years, they have either escaped or started a new life, and there is no trace of them. This left me feeling extremely frustrated, and a little worried: So where did the owner of this house go?
On the wall of the bedroom on the second floor hangs a wedding photo, in which the young couple smiles very restrainedly and formulaically. The girl was not particularly good-looking, with single eyelids, thin eyebrows, drawn up, and an ordinary and delicate face.
The boy was similar, with a hairstyle that required a lot of wax, a round face, a mustache, and a striped short-sleeved shirt. It's not handsome, it's a bit like the vendors selling oden outside our military district.
In Wangxing Village, seeing photos is a very strange experience. Most of the time, I can only see a faceless light. There was no specific clothing, no specific expression, just a white, flowing light. But when I look at them, listen to them talk, and watch their small movements, I still unconsciously experience them with human emotions.
I think it's like watching cartoons as a kid and feeling sad about a lion cub losing its father.
But when this faceless and void light has a face, reality will hit me like a wooden stick. This is a living person, a person as ordinary as I am. They have expressions similar to mine, they don't shine, they don't have anything special. They have their own thoughts, and they have plans for the future that are not so grandiose.
The two people in the wedding photo just looked at me quietly, as if to say to me, they've been here. Then they lost themselves and didn't know where they went, and no one came looking for them.
This suddenly gave me a heavy sense of mission. I need to find out exactly what happened in Wangxing Village. I want to know the final fate of the villagers. Where are they and what is really going on with them? I want to find them, so that these ordinary people can have a tombstone, a final resting place.
I looked at the two ordinary faces in front of me, no matter how I looked at them, they were a very ordinary little couple. They have a child who is still babbling, and they plan to raise some free-range chickens in their backyard to subsidize the family, and everything is so ordinary that it can't be more ordinary.
One day they packed up and left the place, intending to stay outside for a while and then return, but they never looked back.
I checked the bedroom again and opened every drawer with tools. I found the Hukou book, but I didn't have a bank card. The ordinary-looking young mother was named Deng Qi, and she had a two-year-old son.
While I was carefully inspecting the contents of the room, I suddenly heard a noise downstairs.
I hurried downstairs and saw two lights standing in the doorway. Correction - Three lights, the light that the woman still has in the shape of a child in her arms. The child was writhing violently, and his fleshy little hands were pushing against his mother's face.
"Why are you so late?" The woman was still wearing slippers on her feet, and she looked at her husband with some concern.
"I can't stay in this village." The man's tone was impulsive, with anger that was terrified to the extreme, "Damn, if we stay any longer, we're going to die." β
His words frightened the child in the woman's arms, and the baby cried out with a "wow". "Oh, what are you talking about?" The woman slapped him on the shoulder, then hurried to coax the child, whispering some meaningless words of comfort to him.
"Don't you know?" The man stretched his neck, and suddenly lowered his voice and said to her, "The one in the east of the village, Mrs. Hua, ah, it's her." Disappeared the other day. Disappeared into thin air, nowhere to be found. Her son is crazy! β
"Oh, Zhang Mingde, that bastard, he's just pretending." The woman waved her hand and tried to pull her husband to sit down. "Come on, come on, drink saliva, and tell me what crazy you're doing today."
"I'm not..."The man just raised his voice, I don't know if he saw the expression on the face of the child or his wife, and lowered it again, "No, but the old lady is really gone!" It's gone for some reason! β
"Oh, don't talk about it, it's weird to hear." The woman grumbled, covering the child's ears and turning away.
"Then I heard that the Zhuang Zhuang of Second Aunt Bai's family fell ill last night." The man continued, scratching his arm vigorously, "I ran to see it, and her house is gone." β
"Huh?" The woman turned her head and asked in some surprise, "Where did Aunt Bai go?" β
"I don't know!" The man slapped his thigh, then quickly leaned down again, busily coaxing the child who began to cry again. "I snuck into her yardβ"
"Oh, how do you do this!" The woman slapped him again, and the man said, "Oops! With a sigh, he gasped, "Be careful, there's a rash there." β
He snorted and took two breaths of cool air, "It really fucking hurts..."
"Fuck it!" The little baby in his arms happily learned, and the man's light quickly reached out to cover his mouth, "Oh, little ancestor, what are you not good at, learn this." β
A young couple coaxed the child for a long time, arguing in a low voice, and then the man remembered the previous topic: "Let me tell you, I ran to Aunt Bai's house and found that their house was empty." β
"Nonsense, you've said it all."
"No," the man said in a hurry, and roared in a hurry, "the ground is full of blood!" Oops, it scared the hell out of me. I ran out right then. β
"How can there be blood?" There was some fear in the woman's voice. She reached out and slapped her husband on the shoulder, "Eh, I'm telling you, don't lie to me." β
"Oh, where is this time to lie to you." The man's voice made people feel like he was crying and laughing, "Daughter-in-law, let me tell you, let's go quickly." Go to your mother's house and stay here for a while, I really don't dare to live here anymore. If you live any longer, you're going to die here. β
"Oh, how can you just leave." The woman waved her hand, "You are a big man, why are you so daring?" β
"No," the man argued, "you think we have so many chickens!" Do you want to be like that? β
At this moment, the woman stopped talking, and looked back at the backyard with some trepidation. Then he turned his head and asked tentatively, "That... Why don't you go to your mother's house for a week? β
"Oops, the best the best." The man sandwiched the child in the crook of his arm and bowed to his wife.
"But I can't go today, I will go tomorrow. I'll give my mom a call. β