Chapter 37: Outliers
It was late at night.
There was such a fuss just now, and several people were in no mood to talk.
It was also unrealistic to find a bed to sleep in, so everyone decided to spend the night at the dinner table.
"Duan Xu, do you want to go to the toilet?" Zhao Wei suddenly asked.
Duan Xu glanced at him and nodded.
The two walked towards the backyard.
"You ......" Zhao Wei didn't seem to know how to speak, "Anyway, thank you for taking the risk to come to me in the woods tonight." ”
Duan Xu shook his head: "I have my own reasons. ”
Zhao Wei took Duan Xu's words as a politeness, he patted Duan Xu's shoulder and said, "I can see that you are a good person." But in this kind of place, it is difficult for good people to be rewarded. Hua Jiyun helped you with her lifespan, you miss her love, and I can't see her being wronged, I can understand this. Chen Xinyue suddenly started beating people, but it was ...... Do you really know Hua Jiyun? Aren't you afraid that your kindness will affect you? Hurt everyone? ”
Duan Xu looked at him quietly and asked, "What happened to Hua Jiyun's body?" ”
Zhao Wei glanced in the direction of Hua Jiyun and said in a low voice: "You are the one who drove from the real world, right?" ”
Duan Xu nodded.
Zhao Wei's voice lowered a little more: "Not only you, but also me, we are all here, but there is one person who is an exception." ”
"Half a year ago, the train arrived at a station called Paradise Valley, and that time, there were four senior passengers involved, each of whom had more than 2,000 days of life, but in the end, ...... Not a single one came back alive. The train was waiting outside Paradise Valley, and we all thought that the regiment was extinguished, but unexpectedly, at the last moment, a person came out of Paradise Valley. Zhao Wei stared into Duan Xu's eyes.
"Hua Jiyun?" Although he guessed the answer, Duan Xu couldn't believe it.
"That's right, it's her." Zhao Wei confirmed Duan Xu's words, "Hua Jiyun...... It wasn't someone who picked up the train from the real world, she was at a stop on the way and got on the train on her own. ”
Zhao Wei's voice was full of doubts, and he continued: "Moreover, each of us can only have one knot at most, and only when the knot is lost at a certain station, or the knot is broken, can we get one again. And Hua Jiyun, she has four. Her knot was the knot of the four senior passengers who had been on the mission to Paradise Valley. ”
"Duan Xu, don't you think there's something wrong with her now?" Zhao Wei stared at Duan Xu tightly.
Duan Xu turned his head and looked in the direction where Hua Jiyun was, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Speculation can't be a reason to hurt her. ”
"Aren't those four knots still evidence?" Zhao Wei asked helplessly.
Duan Xu turned around, looked at Zhao Wei, and shook his head: "Count it with you, count it with me, don't count it." ”
Zhao Wei sighed lightly: "Forget it, let it be, I can only remind you, don't get too close to Hua Jiyun, she has already been to the station twice, twice!" She was the only one who survived both times, and I didn't want our stop to be the third. ”
Zhao Wei slowly walked away and returned to the house.
Duan Xu stood alone in the backyard, looking up at the night sky with sparse moonstars, not knowing what he was thinking.
……
Why should he help me?
Hua Jiyun sat alone on the slope, bathed in the moonlight.
The strange origin made Hua Jiyun receive everyone's attention and alienation from the first day she got on the bus.
It was a very contradictory emotion, they wanted to know what the secret was about the woman who got into the car from the "story", but they didn't want to get too close to her.
Actually, if it was just that, maybe it would be better?
Hua Jiyun often thinks about that question.
But as the situation progressed, and after the revelation that she had and could use the four knots, everyone's attitude towards her changed again.
And the moment when malice reaches its peak, it is the moment when she survives the second mission.
That time, at the moment of boarding the train, Hua Jiyun could clearly feel everyone's fear, disgust, vigilance, and jealousy of her......
She is not very old in the first place, if she can afford so much malice?
Dodging, forbearing, and being obedient became Hua Jiyun's only choice.
She had to show everyone that she was harmless in order to be treated in the slightest bit of normalcy.
But despite all the things she's been doing, things haven't been going for the better.
She is a living curse, and may even be the embodiment of a terrible ghost on the train, a rhetoric that has been circulating on the train for a long time.
Curse? Whoa? Everyone is guessing what she is, but only Hua Jiyun herself knows what she is.
She can't explain it, she can't explain it, she can only unleash her kindness in vain to everyone around her, even though it is never reciprocated.
This time, however...... The unexpected happened.
She just let herself suffer some losses and pay more days of life as usual.
Everyone is used to it.
Even Hua Jiyun herself is used to it.
But she didn't expect that this simple "care" was remembered by a newcomer.
Compared with being sad and moved, Hua Jiyun felt more emotions, but she was at a loss.
It was already late at night, and she was still sitting on the dirt slope of the village infested with evil ghosts.
I don't know when it began, ghosts are no longer the thing that Hua Jiyun fears the most.
She looked up at the glittering night sky and whispered, "Moon...... Are you real......"
……
Day 2.
"Yikes! Who are you? Why are they all in my house? ”
Ah Yun's voice made people quickly wake up from their sleepiness.
Before Duan Xu could explain, he saw a villager running to the door in a hurry, and said breathlessly: "Ah Yun, it's terrible!" The village chief is gone! ”
"Grandpa the village chief?!"
Ah Yun's face changed, and he rushed out of the door in a hurry before he even had time to wash.
"The village chief?" Duan Xu and the others had their own thoughts in their hearts, and Zhao Wei immediately said to Ah Yun: "Ah Yun girl, let's go together!" If there are many people, it is easy to help find them. ”
Ah Yun didn't have time to turn back, but the voice came: "Okay! ”
Several people ran out with Ah Yun.
Looking at the sky, it should be more than seven o'clock in the morning, but the villagers of Huai Village have all gotten up.
I don't know if this was the way it was, or I was awakened by the news of the village chief's disappearance.
In a word...... Without these three words, it is extremely sensitive in Huai Village.
After all, there is a missing person in Huai Village, and his name is Xie Hua.
In the end, although Xie Hua was found, he lost his life very strangely.
Every villager hoped that the village chief would just get up early and go out for a walk, but after searching the whole village and still finding nothing, everyone could only think of one place.
The tree hole where Xie Hua's body was found - the tree hole of the locust tree in the back mountain.
Duan Xu and the five of them followed nearly a hundred villagers to the back mountain, and as soon as they climbed halfway up the mountain, they heard someone screaming in front of them.
"It's the village chief! The village chief is here! ”