"Asleep?"

After Lu Chen took a shower, he trotted all the way and pushed the door into the house, the wind was blowing outside, and the jujube trees in the yard rustled under the wind. Putting the soap back on the table, Lu Chen glanced at Qian Duoduo, curled up and snored softly, turned off the electric light, walked to the side of the bed and lay down.

Whew-

Qian Duoduo, who was still snoring and falling asleep, suddenly opened his eyes and sat up within a second of his accidental touch on the other party's arm.

"No... No.!! ”

Qian Duoduo whimpered and begged for mercy, hugging the quilt covering his body and trembling.

Is this sleepwalking? Lu Chen, who was taken aback, looked at Qian Duoduo, who looked like he had a sudden hysteria, and propped up his elbows to get up and get closer to check. But as soon as he sat up, before he could bring his head closer, the other party screamed as if he had seen a ghost and moved towards the bed, intending to move away from him.

"Hey, be careful!"

As soon as he blurted out the words of the reminder, Lu Chen saw that Qian Duoduo had suddenly disappeared from a year ago, followed by the muffled sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.

"Hey, are you alright?"

What the hell is going on here? Lu Chen turned over and climbed to the edge of the bed and stretched out his hand to the person who fell to the ground. But the other party didn't appreciate it, and it was still like seeing a ghost, whimpering, struggling, and begging for mercy.

"Don't! No! I don't want to! Let me go! ”

"A lot of money! Sober up! A lot of money! I don't know what happened, I don't know what the other party is afraid of, but Lu Chen clearly felt that the other party was not sleepwalking.

"Don't come here! Please spare me!! ”

"What the hell is wrong with you?! Be sober, I'm Lu Chen! ”

Turning over and getting out of bed, Lu Chen ran to the wall barefoot and groped for the lamp rope, thinking that when the room was lit up, the other party might not be so scared anymore. With the soft sound of the "pop" power switch being moved, the light bulb hanging on the roof did not sting and shining, and the room was still dark.

There's a power outage?! Lu Chen was anxious and strange, he was fine before going to bed, and he didn't receive any news of a power outage today.

Regardless of the urgency, Lu Chen walked to Qian Duoduo's side, regardless of the other party's struggle and resistance, and pressed it into his arms.

"I'm Lu Chen, Lu Chen!" Lu Chen kept chanting his name, feeling that the person in his arms was slowly struggling to giving up and hugging him.

"Lu Chen? Lu Chen! Help me, daddy!! ”

Father?! Lu Chen felt his heart suddenly beat half a beat slowly, why was he so afraid of his father, could it be domestic violence? But he didn't have any injuries on his body. That's again because....

Like stroking a kitten, he comfortingly caressed An Xia's back, and let the other party sobble in his arms.

Tightly tied in each other's arms, feeling the tenderness of the other party's arms, Qian Duoduo slowly relaxed and stopped crying.

"Are you feeling better?" Slowly letting go of his embrace, Lu Chen asked softly, for fear that something was wrong and would make the other party emotional again.

"Hmm." Because he cried too much, although the tears stopped, his body still couldn't stop twitching one after another, making the words come out with a trill.

"Are you really okay?"

After waiting for a while and seeing that the other party did not answer, Lu Chen carried Qian Duoduo back to the bed with the quilt, and then turned over on the bed himself.

"Lu... Lu Chen. Qian Duoduo twitched and shouted Lu Chen's name.

"Huh?"

"Yes . . . No... Rise. Convulsions apologetic.

"It's fine!"

Looking at the other party who still refused to lie down, Lu Chen suppressed his curiosity to ask. Patted the pillow and lay down on his own.

"Go to sleep, it's late. No matter what you do when you're at home, you're safe with me. Sleep in peace. ”

The other party's words seemed to have a spell, and after Qian Duoduo lay down on the bed again, he quickly fell asleep and had no nightmares.

Driving all the way, Chen Xiao and the others came to Sixiang Village, located in the eastern suburbs of City C, which was a house built by the government for the relocation of villagers in the previously uninhabited village.

Through the arches of colored glazed tiles, the only small second floor in the village, a building used as a government office, comes into view.

"This is it." Chen Xiao got out of the car and walked towards the government building.

The two were greeted by a young woman in her thirties, dressed in a black gauze dress, and exuding an intellectual temperament that made it difficult to associate her with the peasants who had been dealing with the yellow earth here all year round.

"You're Village Chief Li, right?" Chen Xiao walked a few steps briskly and greeted the other party.

"Oh, I'm not, I'm the village chief's daughter. My dad was sick at home, so he told me to wait for the two of you. The woman smiled cheerfully and led the two into a small courtyard at the western end of the village.

"Hello, Village Chief Li." As soon as he entered the door, Chen Xiao shook hands with Village Chief Li familiarly, and asked the purpose of the trip after a few words.

"Excuse me, are you from xxx village?"

"No, I'm from Henan." The middle-aged man said.

Well? No, the people in this village I found should have been relocated from there, why did this village chief say that he was from Henan.

The old man spit out a smoke ring and looked at Chen Xiao through the smoke, "You're talking about the previous Village Chief Li, right?!" ”

Well? Before...? Chen Xiao looked at the other party suspiciously, waiting for the other party to continue to speak.

"I only took over as the village chief in February last year," Seeing that the other party just looked at him and didn't ask, the old man flicked off a long piece of smoked cigarette ash and continued, "The previous Lao Li seems to be the person from the village you said." ”

"Where is the other man now?" After listening to the other party's words, Chen Xiao became excited, and sure enough, he checked correctly, as long as he found the people in that village, many questions could be answered.

"He's dead."

"What?!" thought that the tip of the iceberg had finally been lifted, but before the two had time to celebrate, they were directly knocked off the cold cliff again.

"Sudden illness and death. Alas, pitiful! The current village chief Li sighed and extinguished the cigarette in his hand.

"That.. Is there anyone else in their family? ”

I have to accept the desperate fact here, but Chen Xiao still doesn't want to die, and I don't want the clues he has worked so hard to find out are so easily broken.

"His son went to work in Guangzhou and didn't come back for several years. The eldest daughter also got married and went to the city. A little daughter was left behind. ”

Chen Xiao's eyes lit up again. "Can you take us to meet her little daughter?"

"Okay, yes, that's it, I don't know if she's off work, it's pitiful, since his father left last year, this girl has lived alone."

Speaking of Lao Li, speaking of the Li family's girl, the current village chief sighed with emotion, when he came here five years ago, he was almost penniless, and he couldn't find a place to work, so he almost slept on the side of the road to ask for food. At that time, the village elder Li had always been kind to him, if it wasn't for the other party taking such care, I really couldn't imagine what kind of downfall he would be now.

The youngest daughter of the Li family is also very polite to everyone, she is a top student of a university at a young age, and now she seems to work in a Sino-foreign joint venture... It's a good girl.

The sound of a dog barking was heard not far away, and the current village chief quickened his pace and walked towards the sound of a dog barking.

"That's it in front, this dog is Lao Li's family."

At the intersection, the courtyard of the Li family was at the corner of the alley, and the current village chief stepped forward and knocked on the door and shouted.

"Cui, I'm your Uncle Li, I'm here to open the door. Cui, are you not at home?! ”

shouted for a long time, and the village chief felt that his hand was hurting when he slapped the door, and retracted his hand to look at Chen Xiao and the two.

"Li Cui doesn't seem to have come back yet, why don't we come back later?"

"That's all it can be."

When everyone turned around and was about to leave, the door of the farmer opposite the Li family opened, and a chubby aunt walked out with half a basin of water.

"Yo, Aunt Wang, is this just finished eating?" Village Chief Li is familiar with each other's chatter.

"Yes, Xiao Li, what are you doing here? And these two?"

"Oh, this is someone from the city government, saying that he wants to find Lao Li for something, this Lao Li is gone, he originally said to meet Xiao Cui, but this is not a long time to shoot, Cui doesn't seem to be at home."

"Oh, that's not right." Aunt Wang, who was on the other side of the door, denied the village chief's words, and walked to the door of Li's house and patted the door with a bang. "Cui didn't go to work today, I saw it before dinner."

"Cui, Cui came out and opened the door!" Aunt Wang shouted loudly, and the barking of the dog in the courtyard of the Li family did not stop, and the more they barked, the more fierce they became.

"Bang" !!

There was a loud noise from the courtyard of the Li family, and before the people outside the courtyard could think about how it was made, a black nose appeared at the crack of the door of the courtyard of the Li family.

The owner of the black nose kept barking, banging on the courtyard gate, and kept wandering around the yard looking for a way to escape.

"It doesn't seem to be Li Cui's dog?"

Through the crack in the door, Aunt Wang saw clearly that the dog that had been wandering around the yard was a yellow dog with a black back.

Isn't the Cui family's dog a black-gray husky? How did the dog get in?

"What's on the dog's mouth?" Xu Zhe, who had been standing silently on the side, suddenly opened his mouth and reminded everyone to look at a dog in the yard, "Do you think the dog on its mouth looks like blood?" ”

Hearing someone say this, everyone once again opened the crack in the door to see your dog, and sure enough, the yellow hair of the dog's mouth was dyed with red liquid, and the liquid felt very wet, and the hairs on the side of the dog's mouth were beating willows one by one.

"Look at the doglegs!" Someone else has made a new discovery.

When the dog's back was to the gate, there was also a patch of red on his left leg.

"Get out of the way, I'll kick the door open."

Smelling the strange feeling in the air, no matter how much they shouted, no one came out to open the door, and the wolf dog with "blood stains" on his body kept looking for a way out, everything made a few people outside the door raise their hearts, and they wanted to know what was going on in the yard.

"Bump! Touch! ”

Chen Xiao kept banging the wooden door with his body, and the wolf dog in the yard barked even more violently after being frightened, and kept spinning around the yard, and even jumped high a few times to escape directly over the wall.

The loud sound attracted many villagers, and everyone pushed open the door of their house to check the source of the sound, and watched what happened to the Li family.

The sturdy wooden door finally loosened, and Chen Xiao still hit it vigorously despite the sore shoulder. Finally, with the sound of wood breaking, Chen Xiao only felt that the body that had been knocked out suddenly lost its strength and fell forward with the door.

The wolf dog in the courtyard also saw that the door that imprisoned his old dragon opened, and he tensed up his whole body to speed up and jump, and Xu Zhe, who was standing outside the door, didn't even react, the huge wolf dog had already appeared in mid-air and pounced on him.

Someone in the crowd of onlookers let out a frightened and surprised sound, Xu Zhe only felt that his body was dragged away by Chen Xiao and taken into his arms, and the wolf dog also took the opportunity to rush out of the crowd and disappeared far away.

The yard was a mess, debris and flower pots were scattered by wolf dogs, the doors of the houses were wide open, and the smell of blood came out of the back room.

Why does it smell so much blood?? The bad feeling became stronger and stronger, and Chen Xiao didn't care about the other few steps and rushed into the house. The white-tiled floor was clean, and the long-haired girl in pink loungewear was lying on her back, her neck, face, arms, all the exposed parts were blurred, and the jagged wounds seemed to be caused by some tearing and gnawing. Not far from the girl, a large gray-black dog was also covered in blood and lay motionless on the ground.

"Lee. Li Cui!! Aunt Wang, who ran into the house behind her, sat on the ground with weak legs the moment she saw the corpse on the ground.