The little boy's smile seemed to freeze on his somewhat pale face, and he looked at the smiling man in front of him, and swallowed involuntarily.

"Brother... Brother. Eventually, he gave in.

Xia Min nodded with satisfaction, patted the little boy's shoulder, and got up with a look of approval: "Good boy, really good." ”

"Then can you tell my brother why we suddenly got lost? Do you know what's going on? If you know, can you tell your brother? ”

Xia Min is kind and seductive, like a human trafficker.

Although Xia Min looked amiable, the little boy had no doubt that he would really smash his head, and even worried that if he said the wrong word, he would be executed on the spot by this man.

This made the little boy feel a little aggrieved.

It shouldn't be like this, it shouldn't be, I'm a ghost, why should I be afraid of someone... No, Iron Pillar, you can't be afraid, this man will end up being eaten like everyone else!

The little boy finally mustered up a little courage, stubbornly raised his head, and looked directly into Xia Min's eyes.

Then, two seconds later, he voluntarily vented this bit of courage.

But... He's really scary...

For no reason, a sense of shameful frustration rose in Tiezhu's heart, and then he lowered his head, not knowing what to say for a while.

The scene fell silent.

Xia Min raised his eyebrows, he naturally never treated this little boy as a human being, but he was really curious about what was going on.

With a move in his heart, Xia Min looked suddenly enlightened, and asked in surprise: "Little friend, can you take us out, can we just follow you obediently?" ”

Tie Zhu raised his ignorant little head, rolled his eyes, and then nodded, with an affirmative face: "That's right, I know the way, just follow me!" ”

After saying that, he jumped forward with his little ass twisting his meat.

Xia Min looked at the somewhat proud iron pillar, and while turning his head and motioning for Han Lin to follow, he said to Han Lin, "Is it cute?" IQ changed. ”

Along the way, the two did not encounter the familiar crooked-necked tree again, and the scene on the side of the road finally became unfamiliar.

Well... Unfamiliar... Although the two of them didn't hit the wall again, they were also not walking in the direction of the highway.

Han Lin touched Xia Min with his elbow: "This kid is not human. ”

Xia Min nodded: "I know, I also know that this child has been dead for I don't know how many years." ”

"How do you know?" Han Lin was a little puzzled.

Xia Min said as a matter of course: "Where can I find such innocent children now, now these bear children are fine." ”

Han Lin thought about it, and said one thing, indeed.

"That's... You're still following him? Han Lin was always confused by Xia Min's decision.

Xia Min looked at Han Lin strangely: "Then what's not?" Don't you follow him, and continue to swipe WeChat steps there? ”

"I mean... You're not afraid... Did you encounter something strange? Han Lin was a little worried.

Xia Min patted Han Lin on the shoulder and said earnestly, "You are already a mature spirit, you should learn to socialize more." ”

"That's not what I meant..."

"That's right." Xia Min suddenly remembered something: "Can't Ling recognize Ling at the first time, or is this kid just a heartless eye?" ”

Han Lin shook his head and said with some uncertainty: "It stands to reason that Ling can feel Ling, but my current state is very strange, I no longer rely on resentment as my source of energy, my current state will be closer to people, but ordinary people, if I don't want to, they can't see me, and Ling can see me, maybe he treats me as a person, right?" ”

Xia Min nodded thoughtfully, but soon looked at Han Lin's face with a suspicious expression.

Han Lin blushed a little when Xia Min saw it, and couldn't help but say, "What are you looking at?" ”

Xia Min retracted his gaze, and his tone was quite resentful: "Then why doesn't he call you Auntie." ”

Han Lin: "??? ”

"You look older than I am."

“？？？”

"I haven't put on the double eyelid patch today."

“？？？”

"kid, cute Jill."

“……”

The three of them walked back and forth for about half an hour, and finally walked through a small forest and came to... Another village?

"Little friend." Xia Min took a deep breath, slowly walked forward, and leaned over: "Are you kidding your brother, huh?" ”

Tie Zhu took two steps back, and dared to squeeze out a nondescript weird smile at Xia Min, then turned around and ran, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

This village looks even older than Han Lin's village, and the ancient architectural style Xia Min has only seen on TV, the kind of farmhouse style before liberation.

The village is supposed to have been abandoned, with no signs of human activity.

Broken walls were everywhere, in many places the walls were breached, the wooden doors were visibly decaying, and many of the rooms looked crumbling, as if they would collapse at the slightest push.

Numerous unnamed insects and layers of cobwebs are tangled in dozens of houses.

There is a river in the middle of the village, but it has long since dried up, revealing a silted riverbed, and the stone bridge over the river breaks in the middle, and the fracture is full of traces of erosion.

Xia Min looked at the direction in which the iron pillar had disappeared, groped his chin, and frowned.

At this time, Han Lin's face was a little unnatural.

Xia Min noticed this and asked curiously, "What's wrong?" ”

"Why... Could it be here? ”

Xia Min was a little surprised: "Have you been here?" ”

Han Lin shook his head: "No, I know here, it should be said that the children in our village know here." ”

"That..."Xia Min was a little unsure: "That kid was from your village just now?" ”

Xia Min wanted to say a few witty words, but saw Han Lin's serious face.

"Perhaps... Indeed, he used to be a person from our village, looking at the clothes he was wearing, the style of the nineties. ”

Seeing this, Xia Min put away his joke and said, "What's the matter?" ”

Han Lin searched for his childhood memories and slowly spoke: "When I was a child, there were a lot of traffickers, and there were always a few children in the village who disappeared inexplicably every year. ”

"Sometimes you can catch human traffickers, and at that time human traffickers were the most hated people, and if a human trafficker was caught in a village, basically even if the police were killed, they would not care."

"But some of the traffickers were caught, the children were returned, and some were not so lucky, and they did disappear."

"At that time, although family planning has been implemented for more than ten years, in fact, there are still many people in rural areas who give birth because their first child is a daughter, and their sons are registered with their families, and daughters cannot pay fines and are registered with relatives.

"Because there are many children in the house, it is difficult to manage, and adults will scare children, saying that there are many traffickers outside, and there is an abandoned village not far from the village, and there is a female ghost in it, who specializes in naughty children, and when she is fascinated, she will follow and never come back."

"We all heard this story when we were kids, and we were all scared for a while, and we were honest for a while, and then when we grew up, we all thought it was fake, until one of my best friends when I was a kid also disappeared."

"It's the kind of sudden disappearance, the family is sure that there are no traffickers abducting and selling, and besides, traffickers are generally looking for young children who don't remember, and rarely arrest eleven or twelve-year-old children."

"One second I said I was going out to fetch water to cook, and the next second there was only one bucket left on the ground."

"It was winter, and the adults called their neighbors and followed the footprints until they found the abandoned village, and when they turned around, they couldn't find anyone, and the footprints disappeared out of thin air in the middle of the village."

"The old man in the village called Mr. Feng Shui at that time, saying that the female ghost in the village was restless again, and if she couldn't calm her grievances, she would harm more people."

"Soon after, I went to junior high school in the city, and I don't know what happened after that."

Han Lin's eyes carried a hint of apprehension: "It seems that the people who have disappeared over the years have become something else?" ”

Xia Min listened quietly and asked, "Over the years, have there been many missing children in the village?" ”

"A lot."

Han Lin nodded: "And... This village has been around for a long time..."

Xia Min turned his head and looked at the still peaceful abandoned village, and suddenly felt a wave of malice permeating the air.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, blowing up the yellowed and blackened cloth hanging in front of the door, like a line of mourning processions.