Chapter 20: Suspicion in the Woods

It was not long after dark, but the moon was completely obscured by dark clouds, and it was very dark. We all have a flashlight, five people together, a lot of courage, and I have long been used to looking for the police, now two policemen are around, although one is not so reliable, but I still feel very down-to-earth.

The village is particularly quiet in the night, with the occasional dog barking, and after less than ten minutes, the houses gradually thinned out, and in the end, only grass and dense woods remained.

This is the distribution of Dingyan villagers, there were many people in the east of the village earlier, but because the east side is too close to the mountain pass, often disturbed by wild beasts, in addition to the highway in these years, the tourists who come to play are from the west into the village, in order to make money for tourism, the people in the east of the village have moved to the west one after another, and this place is slowly deserted.

I also walked this road in the morning, and at that time I only felt that the old country road paved with bluestone was very familiar and nostalgic, carrying the memories of childhood. But at this moment, I always felt that something was watching over us in the dark thorn bushes on both sides of the road, and it made my heart flutter.

The fear grew, and slowly, I felt like a person or a strangely shaped monster when I looked at everything, but I didn't dare to shine a flashlight. My nerves tensed, but when I saw that no one else noticed anything unusual, I knew that these were all delusions. But the more I thought about it, the more active the thoughts in my mind became, thinking of the appearance of the ghost mandrill described by the Taoist priest in the morning, I actually made up countless kinds of ghost mandrill horror in my mind, the more I thought about it, the more scared I became, and unconsciously, my back was already wet with cold sweat.

Just when I scared myself half to death, the Taoist priest walking in front of me suddenly stopped, I didn't react for a while, and suddenly hit him on the back, almost knocking him down.

I was already nervous from what I had made up in my head, and when he stopped, my heart suddenly lifted, and I was about to ask what was going on, when I was hit the back.

I suddenly stumbled and almost fell, but fortunately I was supported by the Taoist priest, I looked back and found that the person who hit me was He Xiaoyi.

Since just now, she has been rubbing behind us, intentionally or unintentionally, and I know that she is sure that we have a problem, so she follows us to prevent us from playing tricks, but I don't bother to meet her in general. I bumped into the Taoist priest because I was distracted by fear, but I didn't expect her to bump into me too, which is a little strange.

"Hey, can you walk, why did you stop all of a sudden, do you know that if you drive, it will be a rear-end accident?"

Hey, I didn't have time to settle accounts with her, but she came to point at me, and suddenly I was so angry in my heart, I just wanted to sarcastically say a few words to her, but I heard the Taoist priest shout: "Shut up, don't talk!" ”

The Taoist priest had a quarrel with her just now, and laughed at her for being a yellow-haired girl who didn't have any hair, she was already unhappy with the Taoist priest, but now that she was reprimanded, she was suddenly unhappy: "What, it's obvious that he's wrong, and he won't let him say it?" Do you know that with your attitude towards mistakes, you will only go further and further down the path of making mistakes in the future, and then it will turn into a crime......

"Shut up and don't talk!"

Niu Gang, who was walking side by side with the Taoist priest, also scolded in a low voice.

He Xiaoyi, who was teaching me and the Taoist priest all the time, was stunned for a moment, she didn't expect Niu Gang to scold her, and a mist suddenly rose in her eyes, looking aggrieved.

I really can't do anything about this woman, looking at her aggrieved appearance, I couldn't say anything I wanted to scold her, I shook my head and ignored it, and asked the Taoist priest what's going on?

As I spoke, I squeezed forward and found that the faces of the Taoist priest and Niu Gang were not good-looking, the Taoist priest was fine, but his brows were tightly locked, while Niu Gang's entire brow was about to wrinkle into his nostrils.

"Be quiet, there's movement ahead!" As he spoke, the Taoist priest pointed to the front of the bluestone path. Following the direction of the flashlight, I squinted my eyes and looked closely, and found that about forty meters in front of us, there seemed to be a white figure.

This time we came out using an ordinary flashlight borrowed from a relative's house, the effective lighting range is only about 20 meters, beyond this range, we can only roughly illuminate an outline, and the position of the white shadow is just at the very edge of the divergent flashlight, even the outline is a little difficult, you have to squint your eyes for a long time to barely see the outline.

"I said, is your grandmother wearing white clothes in the morning?" The Taoist priest asked me as he stared ahead, but his tone sounded strange.

"It's not! My grandmother is Miao and never wears white! Looking at the white shadow, I also felt a little hairy in my heart, and suddenly I had a sense of foresight.

"Damn, it's not your grandma, who the hell is going to come here at night and pretend to be a ghost when he's full and has nothing to do?"

I said in my heart that I didn't know, so I said to him: "Could it be because Uncle Yang died and there are villagers to worship?" Our custom is like this, the incense candles and paper money burned during the day are counterfeit money, and there is no way to use it below, so it must be burned when it is dark to be useful. ”

The Taoist priest shook his head when he heard this: "Impossible, if it is really from the village, we have been tossing here for so long, how can they have to respond when they see the flashlight, right?" But look at the white shadow, we've been taking pictures of it for so long, it hasn't even moved, and it definitely won't be a villager. ”

I felt a chill in my heart, and my heart was right, but if it weren't for the villagers, would it be......

The Taoist priest's face also changed, and I knew that he wanted to go with me, so he asked, "How is it, do you have a way to deal with it?" ”

I thought that it should be easy to deal with a ghost with the skill of a Taoist priest, but I didn't expect him to shake his head solemnly: "I don't know, the distance is too far, the spiritual sense of the Taoist master is not so powerful, it may be a human or a ghost, but since we can all see it, it means that it is intentional, whether it is a human or a ghost, it is not a good bird." ”

While we were talking, Niu Gang also heard us, but he didn't interject. I thought he heard us talk about ghosts, thought it was nonsense, and disdained to participate as a public official, but when I looked at him, I realized that his face was pale, his forehead was full of beads of sweat, and his eyes were staring at the white shadow.

"Officer Niu, are you alright?"

My voice woke him up from his stupor, and he looked at the Taoist priest with a solemn face: "Dao Chief, that thing, it's really ......."

Officer Niu looked at the Taoist priest with a trace of awe in his eyes at this time, and his words were extremely polite, as if he had discovered something.

The Taoist priest was flattered, a little stunned, and waved his hand: "It's hard to say, it's hard to say, you have to get closer to judge what it is!" ”

After listening to the Taoist priest's words, Officer Niu stopped talking, but he could see that he had something to say, and he seemed to have some concerns.

I wanted to ask him if he had found something, but at this moment, He Xiaoyi, who came to the front at some point, suddenly interjected: "Don't talk nonsense, where did the ghost come from in this world?" In my opinion, someone must be pretending to be a ghost, maybe it has something to do with the murder, let's go over and catch him, maybe we can find a clue. ”

Saying that, this mentally handicapped girl was confidently ready to catch Bai Ying, but fortunately she was dragged by Officer Niu.

Officer Niu's face was gloomy and frightening, He Xiaoyi looked puzzled, and just wanted to ask, but was frightened by Niu Gang's face.

Niu Gang glared at her, and scolded with palpitations: "Don't come nonsense, do you know what I just saw?" The shadow, the lower half of the shadow's body is completely empty, and, if you look closely, it is clearly floating in the air, and it is definitely not a person! ”

Even if I was prepared, Niu Gang's words still made my heart tremble, I hurriedly looked at it carefully, and sure enough, the proportions of Bai Ying's whole body were very strange, I was still wondering before, after he reminded me like this, I suddenly found that it was because there was no lower body.

And with the treetops on the side of the white shadow as a reference, it is obvious that the white shadow is floating in mid-air as he said, because the black background and the ground are connected together, we didn't notice it at all, and Niu Gang has been engaged in criminal investigation work for many years, and he has observed more carefully, and he found that something is wrong.

Listening to Niu Gang's words, He Xiaoyi also turned her head to look, I saw that her face changed, and obviously saw that something was wrong, but she still didn't want to admit that there was a ghost, and defended: "Maybe, maybe the white woven bag was blown by the wind to the treetops and hung up, there can be no ghosts, let's not scare ourselves." ”

She didn't have any confidence in what she said, and I'm afraid she didn't even believe it. At this time, Sister Bailing spoke: "She also has a point, we have to go through there if we want to enter the mountain, guessing here is just to scare ourselves, it's better to go over and see, even if it's really a ghost, isn't there still this Taoist?" ”

Sister Bailing is reasonable, grandma's whereabouts are unknown, we must seize the time to find it, otherwise I don't know what else will happen, although the Taoist priest is not very reliable, but now we can only break through.

After making up his mind, the Taoist priest took the lead, and the five people slowly walked towards the white shadow.