Chapter 32 "Receiving the Task"
I took the file bag and opened it without saying a word, it contained the route of the previous police search in the mountains, and some basic information about Xu Jiahui, and then a few photos, I was curious, so I took out the photos and looked at them, it didn't matter, and the whole person was suddenly not good.
Just because there is a corpse on the photo, it should be in the primeval forest of Horn Ditch from the background, and their death is very terrifying, the flesh on their bodies is shriveled, and their eyeballs are gone.
At that moment, I asked Uncle Li and them to take a look at each other, it was obvious that Uncle Li and they were no better, their faces turned a little whiter, and they seemed to be frightened by this miserable appearance, and I turned my head to Xu Hui and said: "What about the information, let's take it back to study, you are right, these are really helpful to us." β
Xu Hui was a little anxious when he saw it, and hurriedly asked me: "That little road leader, when are you going to leave?"
"Early tomorrow morning!"
Without thinking about it, I said directly: "Today is definitely not going to work, we still need to prepare some things, but you can rest assured that since I have accepted your commission, then I will do my best." β
After saying that, I got up and said goodbye to Xu Hui and took Penghui and them away, and when we went home, it was already noon, and before we had time to rest, Uncle Li didn't say a word, so he pulled me out and said that it was to collect equipment, thinking that we were going to drill a ravine after all this time, and it was also the kind of primitive pine forest that had not been developed.
These are not the main ones, what to say about this guy who works can not be sloppy, as for the weapon, there is no need to prepare, there is a knife from the white tomb to defend yourself, although I can't see the material of this knife, but it can definitely be regarded as a treasure knife, cut gold and jade, dare not say it, but it can still be done, let alone me, even Uncle Li and Peng Hui, a well-informed existence, can't say the origin of this knife, so I can only do it first.
It is undeniable that this knife is indeed stained with the blood of many people, and it has been buried in the blood groove for more than 2,000 years, and it is still glowing with a strange dark red color, which is drunk from human blood, and a dignified killing intent is seen from the blade.
Uncle Li also asked someone to get a collection card for me at the official house, so it was a lot easier to bring a knife out, and then purchased a lot of equipment that was only used in the inverted bucket, such as Luoyang shovel crowbar and the like, anyway, Uncle Li who could use it was neat for me, this mess added up to a whole trunk, there was no way that the equipment last time was lost in the Qinling Mountains, this time I can only prepare from scratch, and when I check out, I also have a pain in the flesh for a while, this fucking thing cost Lao Tzu tens of thousands, think about it, I can only grit my teeth and admit that after all, we went into the mountains to play with our lives, in Uncle Li's words, equipment can save lives at critical momentsγ
So there was no word all night, and we set off as scheduled at about four o'clock the next morning, and when I left, I handed over the bank card with five million to Uncle Li, after all, we went to the mountains with our lives, whether we could come out alive or unsolved, in case I couldn't come back, the money could also be used for grandpa's pension.
We drove Uncle Li's off-road vehicle, and Zhang Qian served as the driver for the time being, in fact, I didn't agree with Zhang Qian at first, but no matter how I persuaded this woman, she had to follow, and I had no choice but to agree, okay, if you are willing to follow, then come!
Fortunately, the road is not far from two hours we arrived, and after entering the mountain, we walked along the 017 county road to the end, and then according to the pre-planned route into a small road next to the road, this road can be said to be very difficult to walk, there are more than half a meter deep soil pits everywhere, the car will be stuck in this road if you are not careful, so we are worried all the way over, so we have been on this road for more than an hour, and finally came to a small local village called Liudaogou.
This village is also where Xu Jiahui and her sisters first entered the mountain, because we couldn't figure out the situation here, so we didn't dare to venture into the mountain, but planned to find a villager's house to eat first! After all, this place is relatively remote and there is no restaurant or the like, but fortunately, at this point in time, when the villagers get up early to cook, every family smokes, smells the fragrance of the food, and I screamed angrily, and then we came to a house that looked a little richer, and we were received by an eldest sister surnamed Yang, who heard that we were strangers and couldn't find a place to eat, so he left us without saying a word, and hurriedly beckoned us into the house.
After we sat down, the eldest sister poured water for us and asked, "Little brother, why did you come to our village?"
I pondered for a moment before saying, "Oh, we're here for a tour, and the road is not very familiar, so somehow we took a detour here." β
The eldest sister said, "No wonder! I said why did you come to our village!"
I was stunned for a moment to see what it meant, the eldest sister obviously had something to say, and immediately I asked her what she meant, why did it sound as if outsiders could not come to their village, and the eldest sister said while holding the food: "Don't ask! After you finish eating, you can leave quickly! It's not that the eldest sister is really for your good, our village has not been peaceful recently." β
Not peaceful?
I was interested at the time, so I asked the eldest sister to explain what was going on, and the eldest sister was reluctant to mention it, but then I heard me say that if she doesn't say it, we won't leave.
Then he sighed and said, "Hey...... It's not the trouble of those dolls half a month ago. β
Half a month ago?
How many dolls?
In fact, at this time, I have already guessed some in my heart, if my guess is correct, the eldest sister said that the few descendants should be Xu Jiahui and them, and sure enough, before I opened my mouth to ask what the eldest sister said later, it confirmed my guess.
Eldest sister: "It was only half a month ago!" Three young men and two girls came from outside, from their appearance should be students who are studying, a few people also ate at my house that day, after eating a few people without saying a word and ready to enter the back mountain, I saw that they were going to enter the mountain when they stopped them, and warned them that they could not go to the back mountain, but no matter how they persuaded them, they just didn't listen, and ran in while I was not paying attention, and it was too late when the other villagers in the village arrived, so a few dolls went in and never came out, if it weren't for the police to find the bodies of several of them, we didn't know that they were deadγ β
In order to make the eldest sister say more detailed, I deliberately pretended not to believe it, and sure enough, the eldest sister saw my expression and immediately got angry and said directly: "I said why don't you believe it, our village has not entered the back mountain since ancient times, and whoever goes in will not end well, for example, a few years ago, Li Daring in our village drank too much and did not believe in evil, so he had to go into the back mountain to see what could not be stopped!" In the end, he could only go, but when he came back the next day, we were dumbfounded, Li Bold actually seemed to be a different person, it was okay that day, we were at most puzzled that Li Bold was fine, but within a few days this person died, and when he died, he was skinny and skinny, and more than 100 catties of big living people were left with dozens of catties, and the hair of people in their forties was all white, and then the old people in our village said that Li Dang was going to the back mountain to offend the mountain god, and was taken away by the mountain god and warned us, don't go to the back mountain in the future, so our village has been quiet for a few years since that incident, until these students sneaked in, and something strange happened in our village againγ β
I asked, "What's weird?"
The eldest sister whispered: "But it's evil, that is, what happened in the past two days, the day before yesterday in the middle of the night I don't know what happened, all the dogs in our village suddenly barked for no reason, I was curious and glanced out, this look doesn't matter almost scared me to death, there was a black shadow floating in my yard at that time I was stupid, and then the black shadow slowly floated away, after a long time I came to my senses, and the next morning when I went to the backyard to feed the chickens, only to find that our chickens are all dead!" Later, I learned that not only did our chickens die inexplicably, half of all the chickens in the village died one night, and all of them were sucked dry blood, and what was even more strange was that I was not the only one who saw the black shadow, but several people had already seen it, and some people said that it was the children who stole away from the mountains and provoked the mountain god before they were retaliated. β
Mountain gods?
To tell the truth, I am simply speechless to this eldest sister, not to mention whether there is a mountain god in this world, even if there is an existence to ensure the safety of one party, how can it harm the common people!
However, I have a strong interest in this dirty thing that plagues the villagers, and besides, these strange things only happened gradually after Xu Jiahui and her accident, so I guess there should be some necessary connection between the two.
Thinking of this, I asked the eldest sister if she could take us to see the corpses of the dead chickens, and the eldest sister did not hesitate to say okay directly, and then took us to the backyard, the eldest sister said that these chickens are all raised by her, most of them are hens and few roosters, in order to lay eggs to subsidize the family.
In this way, we talked and walked soon to the backyard and walked straight to the front of a pile of dead chickens, it was obvious that the eldest sister had not come to deal with these dead chickens urgently, more than 20 dead chickens were piled together, Peng Hui squatted down to check carefully, and after a while he was a little surprised and said: "It shouldn't be dirty, it looks like ......."
Zhang Qian continued: "I was bitten to death by an animal." β
Speaking of this, she raised her beautiful chin and said to me: "You are also the descendant of the Xieling lineage, and you must also know that whether it is a ghost or a corpse, wherever they haunt and live, they will leave a little bit of yin qi more or less, and at the moment there is no yin qi in this place, so I dare to conclude that eighty percent of the domestic animals in this village were attacked by animals in the mountains." β
Animal?
It should be that this bitten wound was indeed injured by an animal, but what animal can only suck blood and not choose to eat meat? Anyway, I agree with Zhang Qian's point of view.
At this time, the eldest sister asked with a suspicious face: "Little brother, what are you doing? What do I think when I hear the meaning of your words, you already know what is harming our village." β
Looking at the appearance of the eldest sister, I should also see something, since the words are said to this point, I will no longer hide it at the moment, and after consulting the consent of Peng Hui and Zhang Qian, I said to the eldest sister: "Eldest sister, tell the truth! We are here specifically to deal with the affairs of those students, and there is a good chance that the attack on livestock in your village is related to this case." β
I'm afraid that the eldest sister won't understand, so she explained it in an easy-to-understand way: "Hmm...... Let's put it this way, we're in charge of dealing with paranormal events. β
The eldest sister seemed to understand this time, her face suddenly leaked with joy, and she hurriedly beckoned us into the house to eat, but she was trotting to call the village chief, now we are not polite to see that the eldest sister is so enthusiastic, and it is not easy to refute the face of others, and we are indeed hungry, that is, after we have just finished eating and drinking a glass of water, Sister Yang led an old man who looks like he is around seventy years old and came back.
Through the introduction, we learned that the old man is the village chief of this village, and the village chief was very happy to hear that we could solve the strange things in their village.
Although the main purpose of our entry into the mountain is to find the missing Xu Jiahui, there must be an inseparable relationship between the two things, so for now, it is important to find out what it is first, and it is important to make trouble in the village, so that it will also help us a lot in our next plan.
Although this old man is respectful to us on the surface, no one knows what he thinks in his heart, and in fact, he does not complain about others, after all, we are here for our age, let alone outsiders, if it had been a month ago, I am afraid that even I would not have believed it.
So in order to eliminate doubts, I let Peng Hui miss a hand, this trick is really good to make Peng Hui also very cooperative, and immediately urged the Taoist spiritual power to demonstrate, the old village chief and Sister Yang were dumbfounded, and then they were ready to kneel down and kowtow and said that they have eyes and do not know masters, and ask us to help their village solve the strange things that have come for many days.
Penghui and I hurriedly supported the village chief and the eldest sister to tell them not to do this, we take care of this matter, you can rest assured, and then I asked the village chief about the back mountain, now we can basically determine that the beast that bites the livestock to death in the middle of the night should be from the back mountain, since it is best to deal with this thing, it is best to know more about the history of this, I heard me mention the old village chief of the back mountain was stunned.
While smoking a dry cigarette, he said, "Oh, is this the back mountain...... To tell the truth, the old man really knows something, according to the words handed down by the ancestors, our village was brought out of it at the earliest. β
According to his recollection, they first lived in the back mountain, probably in the Qing Dynasty during the Jiaqing period before moving out, as for why they moved out, the ancestors did not say, just warned the descendants of all the descendants in the village must not enter the back mountain, if someone violates the group training and does not listen to the advice into the back mountain, then the consequence is that there is no return to the end of the catastrophe, as for what exists in the depths of the mountain, no one knows anyway, it is particularly evil.
We unconsciously glanced at each other, and we both saw the surprise in each other's eyes this time, what we didn't expect was that such a small village with a population of only three or four hundred still has such a little-known history.
Peng Hui said: "Okay, these are not the point, the most important thing is that the beast will come tonight." β
Speaking of this, Peng Hui turned his head to the village chief and said, "If you want to catch that beast, I need your cooperation." β
Old village chief: "You can say it, Xiaodao chief, I am grateful that you can help our village chief, and we will definitely do our best to cooperate with you." β
I asked Penghui, "Do you have a way?"
Peng Hui didn't answer me but smiled and didn't say anything, and then asked the village chief to tell the villagers to tie all the remaining chickens in the village with ropes to tie their feet and mouths, and then all of them gathered at the entrance of the village to be of great use at night, and they didn't have to worry about the rest, and warned everyone not to care about any movement outside at night, don't come out to see, otherwise you will bear the consequences.
The old village chief could only nod hurriedly, and left directly after writing down Penghui's words, and then we temporarily borrowed and lived in Sister Yang's house to help the villagers, and now it was still early at this point in time, so I simply walked around the neighborhood, and waited until noon when we returned to the eldest sister's house because there was work to do at night, so I found a place to sleep, no way, I was born weak and Peng Hui can't compare, the yang energy on the body will be weakened if I don't sleep well, and it's not good to go out at night to care about what to do, and it's possible to be possessed by a little ghost at all, and it's really a big joke at that time.
Four or five hours have passed since I slept this time! I was called up by Zhang Qian at five or six o'clock in the afternoon, when the sky was already slightly dark and the sun was setting, and this time point was also the time when yin and yang alternated between heaven and earth.
"Wake up and eat something, we'll have work to do in a while." Penghui said
I only reacted to what he said, and immediately took two bites casually, took a knife, and walked to the entrance of the village with Penghui.