Chapter VII: Manslaughter
One day a few years ago, the hunter and his youngest son were playing hide and seek in their own crops, but when it was the youngest son's turn to hide, the hunter could not find him.
Not bad!
No matter how much the hunters shouted, or searched the entire field and the vicinity of the hut, they could not find any trace of the younger son.
Of course, he thought of his missing second son, and he also thought of the advice of the other hunters.
So, the old hunter went into the house and got a shotgun that had been dusty for many years, and wanted to go into the mountains to find his younger son, but when he went out, he saw that something seemed to be moving in the crops......
At that time, the sky was already dark, and the sunset reflected the red of the crops, and in the middle of the crops, there was a humanoid thing jumping, all at once, stiff, very infiltrating.
The old hunter had lived in the mountains for a long time, and he had seen a lot of evil things, so he stabilized his mind and aimed with his shotgun, and then he saw clearly that this was in the crop field under the sunset, and it was actually ...... It turned out to be a scarecrow who was originally nailed to the crop field to prevent birds and beasts!
Scarecrow indeed! Jumping in the sunset is very wicked.
The old hunter thought of the advice of the other hunters again, and thought that this scarecrow might be related to the younger son, or even the second son and his wife who had been lost before, and he had to take a closer look at it now.
Before he could take a closer look, the scarecrow stumbling in the field seemed to have spotted the old hunter and jumped at the old hunter, as if a wild beast had discovered its prey.
Seeing this, the old hunter gritted his teeth, and after scolding "evil", he raised his shotgun and hit it, but he didn't want to, this shot was over, and the scarecrow ...... The scarecrow spurted blood!
The old hunter was stupid, because he thought of a very frightening possibility.
He ran to the scarecrow spurting blood, picked up the straw and looked at it, and sure enough, he saw the scarecrow in the middle ...... is curled up with his little son......
At that time, his youngest son also had a thumb-sized bloody bullet hole in his head, which was the result of a shotgun bullet.
The old hunter actually killed his youngest son by mistake!
After Shen Li finished described, I took a deep breath and looked at the wooden house at the end of the mountain.
"It's because of hide and seek, the youngest son hides in the scarecrow, trying to scare the old hunter, right?"
"That's exactly what the later report did.
But Jiang Wangsheng, think about it, how could a child have the courage to get into a scarecrow?
And even if the kid had the guts, he would have come out of the scarecrow when the old hunter was crying out in a hurry, right?
But the boy didn't, but continued to run towards the old hunter in the guise of a scarecrow, don't you think, that's very wrong? ”
"Shen Li, do you want to talk about that scarecrow...... Incredible?
Aren't you a materialist, an atheist? ”
I asked rhetorically, but I thought of 'Tan Ling' who showed his true face in the detective agency, and to be honest, when I saw the face behind my head of 'Tan Ling', the atheism in my heart was already shaken......
"I didn't say the scarecrow was evil, I just said something was wrong."
Shen Li shrugged, but stopped again, and a pair of star pupils looked straight to the side of the mountain.
I looked along and saw that in the night on the side of the mountain, on the side of the wooden house, there was a field of crops surrounded by a wooden fence, and in the middle of the field, there was also a scarecrow that drove away birds and beasts......
The moonlight was faint, and the scarecrow swayed in the wind, and its head in rags swayed from side to side, as if it was about to break away from its body and fall to the ground.
Thinking of the case that Shen Li talked about just now, I couldn't help but feel a little hairy in my heart.
This scarecrow, should there really be any chaotic power? Could it be that it is the relatives of the old hunter who have had accidents one by one......
Thinking about it, Shen Li opened his mouth again, but his eyes no longer looked at the crop field, but looked directly at the wooden house behind the crop field.
"Why do you still have a scarecrow......
After saying that, Shen Li quickened his pace and trotted towards the wooden house, and of course I understood what she meant.
Since the youngest son of the old hunter was killed by the old hunter by mistake because he got into the scarecrow, then the old hunter should never want to see the scarecrow again, right, how could he still set up a scarecrow in this crop field?
Puzzled, a familiar voice suddenly sounded from my body, of course, it was the silent Jiang Yunliu all the way.
"Once the blood curtain is revealed, the demons in the dark will manipulate people's hearts~~"
"What do you mean?"
There was no answer, just such a sentence, and the voice of Jiang Yunliu in my body fell silent again.
didn't have time to think about it, so he followed Shen Li, who was running towards the wooden house, ran to the wooden house with her, and stopped in front of the wooden house together.
Yes, we didn't communicate, but we all stopped in front of the hut, because the hut in front of us was half-closed......
Yes, the door of the hut was not closed, but half-hidden, and it was pitch black with no light.
Of course this is not right, this is a mountain field, and behind the wooden house is a deep mountain, who can guarantee that there will be no wild beasts in the deep mountains taking advantage of the dark to go down the mountain?
So when you live in this mountain wilderness, when you rest at night, of course, you will close the door, but at this time, this wooden house is half-closed, why?
Is something going on?
Suddenly, my mind suddenly flooded up, in the detective agency, Jiang Yunliu put forward the second sentence after the information.
"Your Excellency, you have to be quick, because something is already happening~~"
I felt a sense of foreboding in my heart, and while staring at the half-hidden door of the wooden house, I walked over vigilantly, until I reached the steps in front of the wooden house, and Shen Li, who was following me, stopped me.
I looked at Shen Li puzzled, Shen Li pointed to our feet, I looked down, and saw that there seemed to be a string of debris falling on the steps under our feet.
Yes, a bunch of debris stretched from the door of the hut to the bottom of the steps.
I took out my phone, turned on the powerful flashlight and shone it, only to see that the debris on the steps was some messy broken straw......
frowned, and followed the broken straw to the door of the wooden house, until in the light of the powerful flashlight, it was found that in the dark corner of the wooden door of the wooden house, at the end of the extension of the broken straw, there seemed to be a person lying down......
Without waiting for me to react, when I used the light of my mobile phone to illuminate the person lying in the corner of the wooden house, Shen Li went directly into the wooden house door.
I was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized why Shen Li was so decisive, because I found that there was a smell of blood in the door of this wooden house, which showed that the person lying in the wooden house was probably injured.
Hurriedly followed Shen Li, took a few steps to the person in the corner of the wooden house, and when the flashlight shone, he saw that the person lying on the ground in the corner was an old man with a wrinkled face, and the old man was really injured.
Not bad! The old man's abdomen had a two-finger-thick blood hole, which was constantly bubbling out.
Only then did I see that Shen Li had taken off her windbreaker and asked me to help her lift the old man's waist and abdomen, so that she could bandage the old man, and at this moment, at the same time as I lifted the old man's waist and abdomen, the old man suddenly opened his eyes!
Yes! The old man opened his eyes suddenly, staring at the window on the side of the wooden house with a pair of bloodshot and panicked eyes, one hand raised into a fist, and a hoarse repetition of a word in his mouth.
"Ghost ...... Ghost ......"
I frowned, but the old man fainted after uttering a series of 'ghosts,' and his raised and clenched fist fell to the floor.
It's just that when the old man's hand fell on the floor and his fingers spread out, I found that what the old man was holding in his hand was actually a handful of broken straw, which was exactly the same as the broken straw on the floor that extended to the outside of the door......
In other words, just now, the old man was holding this broken straw and repeatedly shouting 'ghost'......
I was inexplicably uneasy, so Shen Li asked me to guard the old man, took the mobile phone in my hand, and searched the wooden house with a powerful flashlight, until I found a kerosene lamp on the wooden table in the center of the wooden house and lit it.
The lights were like beans, slightly illuminating all parts of the wooden house, and I couldn't help but glance around, and my whole heart cooled down little by little.
Because I found that in the rest of the wooden house, there was no straw at all, and even the bed was only a wooden bed, and there was no straw......
So, where did the broken straw that stretched out of the door of the wooden house to the place where the old man fainted and was dragged by the old man in his hand come from?
Why did the old man grasp the broken straw and repeat the word 'ghost' after a moment of soberness?
Suddenly, an absurd answer appeared in my heart, and Shen Li, who was at the wooden table, looked straight out of the window of the wooden house that the old man was staring at when he was awake just now.
"Missing ......"
I felt a sigh in my heart, put down the old man and got up to look out the window, only to see that the window was facing the crops in the wooden fence under the moonlight.
And at this moment, in the fields under the faint moonlight, the scarecrow that shook in the wind when we came was gone......