While we were discussing, the phone in my brother's pocket suddenly rang, and I took it out and looked at it, showing Zhang Guoguo.

"He called." My brother was stunned for a moment when he saw the name, his brows furrowed, and he answered the phone and asked bluntly, "What do you want to do?" ”

"Don't be so serious." A voice came from the other side: "I just wrote a poem, do you want to listen to it?" ”

"Where's Guoguo?" My brother's tone was cold.

"She's fine, don't worry." He said: "I have no merit in this person, that is, I will do it according to the plan, since I have agreed with you." ”

"Then what are you calling for?"

"Oh yes, I just called to tell you that if you go to school, don't interfere with my two friends, or you will bear the consequences."

When my brother heard this, his expression was stunned for a moment, and then he asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"The meaning is already clear, you don't go to school, go around the village, look at the scenery, and when things are done, it's over."

My brother didn't speak, but hesitated for a moment and asked, "Do you know if we went to school or not?" ”

"I don't know, but don't forget, as long as you dare to go, my two friends will know, and I have already told them, as soon as you see you appear, call me to inform me, this little girl's life is not guaranteed."

“。。。” My brother was silent for a moment and said, "Got it." ”

"Look, we're still talking about it, I've written two new poems, do you want to...

"No thanks." Before he could finish his sentence, my brother hung up the phone.

Seeing this, Liu Xin said uneasily: "Then what now?" Do we still go to school? ”

"Of course." My brother affirmed: "It's just that you can't break in now, you have to find a way to sneak in, where else can I get in this school besides the gate?" ”

At this time, Wang Deng said weakly: "I know... I've lived here for so many years, and I still know better than you, there is a hole in the back of the school, which was dug up secretly by someone trying to escape during SARS, and it hasn't been filled in until now, so maybe you can go in there. ”

I saw that he was weak when he spoke, and I was afraid that he wouldn't be able to hold on for long, so I hesitated and asked him, "Can you still hold on?" ”

He took a deep breath, forced his composure, shook his head and said, "I'm fine, don't worry, I'll leave when I send you to the back of the school, I won't go in." ”

After speaking, we began to move forward, and Liu Xin put Ma Long's body back in the courtyard for convenience, and then caught up.

On the way, Wang Deng told us that the people in the village had actually become abnormal since five years ago, that is, after the group of people wearing grimace masks came.

The Grimace Mask Man didn't know if it was true or not, and the villagers had no choice but to believe them, they said that they could help the village get rid of the curse, but in Wang Deng's opinion, they were the curse.

"My mother was a psychic person, what everyone calls a goddess." Wang Deng said: "When the group of masked people came over, she told me that these people were not clean, and there was a black gas covering them, and I was afraid that they would harm the people in the village. ”

"But the villagers were so frightened by these strange diseases that they heard that there were people who could help them, and no one listened to my mother's advice, so they all chose to believe these people, and from then on, they began to go to school every week with some strange things, and no one was allowed to enter, and no one knew what they were doing."

"But the strange thing is that the sickness in the village does seem to be getting better, and there are very few more sick people, and everyone is grateful to them, and therefore no one believes my mother, until a month ago, they told the people of the village that the root of all this curse is coming, and that now is the best time to get rid of it."

"Let me guess if they mean us when they say the roots?" I heard that.

"Yes!" Wang Deng nodded in agreement: "And those masked people also sent each of us a photo of you at the beginning, so that everyone should remember your face, and after reading it, they all burned it." ”

"Burned?! Not a single one left?! My brother was stunned when he heard this.

"Of course not." Wang Deng said, took out an old photo from his pocket, and said: "Everyone was burned, including me, but my mother didn't know how to use it, so she left one, and it was the only one." ”

As he spoke, he handed over the photo, and I hurriedly took it to look at it, and my brain suddenly exploded.

This is an extremely old photograph, so said because it is yellowed and wrinkled, and it is estimated that it has been left for at least twenty years.

But the strangest thing is that there are three people in the photo.

Standing on the far left is me, on the right is my brother, and in the middle there is a person standing in the middle, this person is holding me and my brother's shoulders, looking at the camera and laughing, including me and my brother, also looking at the camera and laughing.

This face is so familiar to me that it is impossible to forget it, because the person in the photo is my father!

"This... How is this possible. "I looked at the picture and my head was buzzing and blank.

My brother was also stunned, and he looked at me and looked at each other, and no one knew what was going on.

Liu Xin glanced at it, and immediately frowned: "No, if this photo has been in place for a long time, then why do you in the photo look about the same age as now?" ”

"You were not when you were young ... My father is gone... So where was this photo taken? The faceless man saw the photo and immediately grasped the center of the problem.

Wang Deng was stunned when he heard this, and asked rhetorically: "When you were young, your father was gone?" ”

I nodded heavily and said, "I can't say that I was a child, it's been almost nine years since I was a child... But the problem is, I don't remember when I took a picture like this with my father! We in the photo are obviously what we look like now! ”

My brother didn't speak on the side, he didn't know what he was thinking, his expression was solemn, my mind was a mess, looking at the photo, the whole person had no clue. 、

At this time, my brother suddenly said: "Tu Qian, do you know what is the strangest thing about this photo?" ”

I looked up at him with a feeling of unease.

"The strangest thing about this picture is not us and my father, but... Who filmed it? My brother looked at me with a very complicated expression in his eyes, and he couldn't tell whether he was flustered or suspicious.

His words, almost like a slap in the head, I was stunned in place, pinching the photo and staring at it, my head began to sweat, if the photo of us and my father is no longer normal, then this photo is from someone's hand, it can only be said to be weird.

"Regardless of the content of the photo, think about it, who is most likely to stand in front of us and take pictures of the three of us at the same time?" My brother suddenly grabbed me by the shoulder, his tone almost panicked.

I was frightened by him, and I panicked, and I could only show up in front of us, and only one person could take pictures of the three of us at the same time.

At that moment, a picture flashed in my mind, and the whole person almost trembled: "The person who took the picture... It's the mother... ”

My brother grabbed my shoulder and felt some pain from the exertion.

Seeing the solemn appearance of the two of us, Liu Xin came over and said: "Maybe you are too worried, this photo may have been processed on the Internet, and now the retouching technology is so powerful, it is difficult to ensure the authenticity of a photo." ”

"But looking at the appearance of this photo, it doesn't look like it's fake, it's been at least about 20 years." The faceless man was puzzled.

"You don't understand, if you want to make fake things now, let alone twenty years, fifty years can be, if it was really twenty years ago, then how old are you two guys, how can you take this photo, is it possible to travel through the past?" Liu Xin retorted: "It's just a photo, maybe it's just that the grimace deliberately wants to make you have a delusion, don't worry too much." ”

I know that Liu Xin wants to comfort us, but with the photo, the texture and sense of age are very real, and it is difficult for people to think that it is fake.

At this time, Wang Deng suddenly pointed to the photo and said, "Is this person really your father?" ”

"What do you mean?" I looked at him suspiciously.

He frowned and said: "You just said that it has been nearly nine years since your father died, right, if the person in the photo is really your father, then I saw him when I was a child." ”