The passage does not know how deep it is.

It's quiet, cold, dreary and oppressive.

A frail old man with no legs was lying on the ground, speaking weakly, as if he was expounding his life, more like he was explaining his last words.

Seeing that the old village chief was still talking like this, I blamed myself in my heart, and I shouldn't have asked him so many questions.

"Village Chief, don't talk! Have a good rest, I'll carry you away and go to the hospital for treatment. I said in a suffocating voice.

The village chief shook his head slightly, and said weakly: "Xiao Yan, you let me finish my words...... Xiaoling is a good child, she has been very well-behaved since she was a child...... Even though she's changed now, I still don't believe she's going to do anything unreasonable...... She's so pathetic......"

"I understand...... She was a good child and the pride of the village......"

"No...... She's a good boy even if she's dead...... Otherwise, you wouldn't have saved me, an old man, and you didn't hear her cry...... She cried so pitifully, it was heart-wrenching......"

"Xiao Yan, Xiao Jiao, you promise me that you must find the real murderer who killed him...... And also...... You must tell the second master and let him surpass her...... Let her be reincarnated well......"

At this time, the old village chief suddenly grabbed my hand and said, "That murderer, no matter who he is, is unforgivable!" ”

"Village Chief, who made you like this?" At this time, Liu Xiaojiao, who had been silent, asked.

"I don't know...... It's too dark to see clearly...... That man had a lot of strength and smashed my leg......"

"Is it a camel?" I asked.

The old village chief shook his head and suddenly said: "This place is the tunnel dug by the officers and soldiers when there was a war in the past, and it leads directly to the centipede ......."

It turned out that at that time, there was a group of bandits living on Centipede Ridge, who occupied the mountain as the king, often did some murderous and oversold goods, and regarded human life as a mustard, and the villagers who lived nearby were deeply affected.

Later, when the whole country was liberated, the robbers were ordered from above, and an army was ordered to suppress the bandits.

But Centipede Ridge is a pass that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the army has not been able to take it for a long time, but has lost many soldiers. Later, someone came up with a way to dig a tunnel that went straight to the hinterland of Centipede Ridge.

And this tunnel was formed under that circumstance, and in the end the bandits were defeated and the army retreated.

However, at that time, the society had not yet completely stabilized, especially in Xiangxi, where bandits ran away wave after wave, and even more bandit armies colluded with bandits, poisoned the people, and did some things that hurt nature and reason.

This hidden tunnel became the last hiding place for the villagers, and whenever bandits entered the village, the villagers took refuge in this tunnel.

That's why there is so much firewood, iron pots, and stoves in it.

What started out as a tactical tunnel, then gradually evolved into a place of refuge, and finally social stability, and as the older generation left one by one, few of the new generation knew about the existence of this tunnel......

At the end, the old village chief sighed faintly and said softly; "Perhaps...... This is where I die......"

"Village chief, how can you die, don't say stupid things, the kid will carry you out, I ......"

I opened my mouth and wanted to say something, but Liu Xiaojiao pulled my clothes, shook her head and said softly: "Tianyan, we tried our best, he is just returning to the light now, and he can't be saved!" ”

"How is it possible, you just said that he is still alive." I don't believe it, said loudly.

"You calm down, I don't want the village chief and his old man to die, it's just ...... You should understand that no matter who is injured, the chance of survival is very slim, not to mention that his health is already poor, and he can hold on until now, all of his extraordinary willpower...... We...... I have done my best. ”

"But ......"

I looked down at the old village chief, and saw that his mouth was still open and closed, and a faint sound came out of his throat, but it was not as clear as before, and finally it became a gurgling sound like a blister.

His eyes were wide open, but under the beam of the flashlight, it was obvious that his pupils were gradually dilating, losing their proper color and becoming dead fish eyes.

"This ......"

I really don't want to believe that the village chief, who had been talking to us so well, has suddenly become like this.

He's dying.

Gradually, he died......

His mouth was open and he was breathing heavily, and we could clearly hear his chest cracking as he breathed.

He lost consciousness, and his breathing gradually became weaker, but he was still breathing.

This continued for several minutes, until finally his mouth was open and no more breathing could be heard.

The old village chief, he's dead!

Completely devoid of the features of life, the last expression on his face was a smile, a complicated one; His eyes were open, but colorless; His mouth was open, but he was not breathing.

I've heard of people who are dying and have recorded how they felt when they died, but alas, I haven't seen that record.

Looking at the old village chief's death now, my heart feels like being pressed by a mountain, and I feel very uncomfortable.

It's not the first time I've faced death, but this time it's the deepest.

It turns out that death can be so slow, so slow that it makes people feel depressed.

I can't imagine myself in the future......

If that day comes, I'd rather choose a happy death than have my dearest loved ones watch me linger for the last few minutes.

I was silent, but my breathing was very short, and so was Liu Xiaojiao.

Ten minutes passed, and I didn't know what was going on in my mind at all, as if it was blank, and it seemed like I was thinking about a lot of things.

Finally, I came back to reality.

And Liu Xiaojiao came to her senses one step ahead of me, she trembled and reached out to wipe the village chief's eyes, and she didn't know where she took out a coin and put it in the village chief's mouth.

"Village chief, you can leave with peace of mind, we don't have copper coins on us, so we have to use silver coins."

He tried to close the village chief's open mouth, but no matter how much she pushed the latter's jaw, she couldn't close it.

Seeing this, I pulled out a stone bar from the mud wall on the side and put it under the back of the village chief's head, which made the village chief's mouth slightly closed.

Taking a deep breath, I suddenly wanted to smoke for some reason, but I didn't have a cigarette on me, so I had to give up.

"Tianyan, do you remember what the village chief said just now?" Liu Xiaojiao looked at me and suddenly spoke.

"What do you mean?" I swallowed a mouthful of saliva, only to feel the smell of blood in my mouth, and asked with a frown.

"It's the one who caused the village chief to become like this!"

"Don't think about it, this person must be a camel, this person is really inhumane, and he can actually do it to the village chief. And the means are so cruel, he burst his legs but don't kill him, let him die slowly! ”

I clenched my fists, gritted my teeth and said: "He was the one who framed me in the first place, if this person is not removed, Lao Tzu will not be surnamed Lao, it is too fucking hateful." ”

"Resentment and resentment, but you can't be impulsive, even if everything is done by him, you can't execute his life privately, after all, it is now a society under the rule of law......"

"Privately? Aren't you with me now? I looked at Liu Xiaojiao and said suspiciously.

Liu Xiaojiao was stunned for a moment, nodded after half a ring, and did not say anything else.

"The girl named Satsuki we rescued from the dirt slope, she must have a problem, and now I don't know where she ran to, let's go!"

I cleaned up my mood, greeted Yan Xiaoying, no longer paid attention to the corpse of the old village chief lying on the ground, and walked towards the depths of the passage with a flashlight.

Liu Xiaojiao quickly caught up from behind and said softly: "You tried it with a red rope dyed with black dog blood before, and you didn't find any problems!" ”

"The red rope is stained with water, the power is not as good as before, it can deal with ordinary ghosts, if she is changed by Xiaoling, it will be useless."

"I still don't believe that Xiaoyue is Xiaoling's change."

"Perhaps, as the village chief said before, this passage goes straight to Centipede Ridge, which means that we can leave this place along this passage. As long as you leave here and meet Xiaoying and the second master, everything is easy to say. ”

I am very sad about the death of the old village chief, and the two may not have met much in the past two days.

But he gave me the feeling of an old man.

However, sadness is sadness, and the remaining road still has to be walked, and sometimes sadness and sorrow must not be too superficial.

During this time, I have experienced many life-and-death crises.

It's not easy to look down on this kind of thing, unless you don't have care and attachment to the world to be so ruthless.

Sometimes, looking down on life and death is not strong and brave, but a sign of ruthlessness.

What the village chief said before he died made me have a lot of doubts in my heart, but he firmly believes that Xiaoling is not what the second master said, she has become the embodiment of hatred and viciousness.

Maybe flooding the village wasn't what she wanted?

Otherwise, why did she save the village chief from which water ghosts?

Maybe she couldn't help herself, otherwise why would she be sad and crying?

I agree with the words of the village chief, ghosts are not all heinous, and all bad things are done.

The world is afraid of ghosts, which is the fear of the unknown; In fact, ghosts are more afraid of people, because many things are born from the evolution of people, and without humans, how can there be ghosts and ghosts? It doesn't even exist in the Netherworld, does it?

Therefore, if we say that ghosts are evil, then are not human beings the root of all evil?

Of course, right and wrong, justice and evil are all judged by each other, and there is no absolute right or wrong in the world.

However, the murderer of Xiaoling and the old village chief, his actions have reached the point of heinousness.

In a sense, he's a madman!

And for a madman, it is natural that he cannot rationally judge what he is doing is right or wrong, because what he has done is beyond this category.

Blindly indulging in right and wrong cannot escape from it, and it will only make people sink and unable to extricate themselves.

Whatever I do, no matter what everyone else does, I do with my heart!

That's enough.

People go to the empty building, the leaves fall and turn into mud, the matter is a foregone conclusion, and it is useless to think too much.

The passage is silent and deep, and the further you go inside, the more depressed you feel.

It felt like a step by step towards the abyss of hell.

Click!

Only the sound of footsteps and our heavy breathing echoed, and nothing else.

I don't know how long I walked, it seemed like an hour, it seemed like hours, my body was already starting to weaken, and my spirit was tired.

In the past two days, I haven't rested well at all, and I feel really bad in a state of nervous tension all the time.

The passage is single, there is no fork in the road, before Xiaoyue went inside, it stands to reason that we should be able to meet her if we go on like this.

But after walking for so long, I didn't even see her shadow.

This makes us even more suspicious of her, if she is really changed by Xiaoling and does not harm us, then I am afraid that we will pursue the murderer.

During this period, Liu Xiaojiao once again found traces of someone walking through this passage not long ago.

After walking for half an hour, I could no longer hold on to the collapse of the ground, the feeling of severe lack of oxygen made my head buzz non-stop, and the sky was very uncomfortable.

After sitting on the ground and resting for more than ten minutes, the situation improved slightly.

But at this moment, the flashlight ran out of power, flashed a few times and went out completely......