Chapter XXXVI: Conflict

"Zhao Wei!"

When despair was about to engulf Zhao Wei, a man's voice rang out outside the woods.

"Zhao Wei! Are you in the woods? ”

"Zhao Wei!"

It's Duan Xu, Wang Changhe, and Chen Xinyue!

They're coming, they're all here to save themselves!

It was difficult for Zhao Wei to tell what he was feeling in his heart at the moment, and the joy of being in a desperate situation emptied the fear in his brain in an instant, Zhao Wei shouted desperately: "I'm here!" ”

Soon, the sound of their footsteps came closer.

The glow of the flashlight shone on Zhao Wei's face.

"Zhao Wei, why are you here? What happened? ”

Chen Xinyue squatted next to him and asked.

Zhao Wei then remembered that there was an unknown village chief not far from him, so he quickly grabbed Chen Xinyue's hand and shone the light of the flashlight over there.

However, at the moment there was no one there.

"What's wrong?" Wang Changjiang asked a little nervously.

Zhao Wei looked around in disbelief, and said in a low voice: "It's the village chief, after I woke up, I found that he seemed to be looking for something in the woods, and it was probably looking for me!" ”

At this time, Zhao Wei saw Duan Xu walking over, he half-squatted on the ground, and after a few glances at the ground, he stood up again.

"There are people here who have been there." Duan Xu turned his head to look into the gloomy woods, "He just left." ”

"Don't you make a fool of yourself and say something you're not sure about, but what is the effect of creating panic?" Chen Xinyue stared at Duan Xu and said dissatisfiedly.

Duan Xu turned his head and glanced at him: "If you think that trace science is a mysterious discipline, then I have nothing to say. ”

Meng Yue came to Duan Xu's side and asked in a low voice, "Have you studied traces?" ”

"Yes." Duan Xu obviously didn't want to talk about this topic more.

He glanced at the crowd and said, "Let's talk in a different place." ”

No one objected to this proposal, and soon, under the guidance of Hua Jiyun, the group came to Ayun's farmhouse.

Ah Yun seemed to have fallen asleep, after all, it was not early now.

Duan Xu and the six of them didn't make any noise, they gathered at the dining table on the first floor, and were about to figure out what had just happened.

"You mean, you also met that tour guide Gao Lan when you entered the mountain?" Chen Xinyue's face was full of surprise.

"That's right, it was Gao Ran who took me and Meng Yue into Huai Village." Zhao Wei nodded.

He was not a newcomer after all, although he was scared just now, he quickly stabilized his emotions and began to sort out the whole story with everyone.

"Me too." Duan continued.

"I ...... Me too......" Hua Jiyun raised her hand tentatively.

"In this way, Gao Ran is undoubtedly the ghost, the story he told us when he entered the mountain, and the villagers who died in the hollow of the locust tree in the story were also done by him." Meng Yue said in a low voice.

"Did you find any information about the villager who died in the hollow of the tree?" Zhao Wei asked.

Wang Changjiang glanced left and right, and said: "I found out something, the person who died in the tree hole, his name is Xie Hua, he is an orphan who grew up eating hundreds of family meals, he went to the city when he became an adult, and when he came back, he got a sum of money from somewhere, and he used that money to contract an orange grove in the back mountain." ”

"Xie Hua's wife and daughter are still in the village, and we can go to his house tomorrow to check carefully." Chen Xinyue squinted his eyes and said.

"Wait, Gao Ran's story says that the people in the village are unwilling to investigate Xie Hua's death, but what about his wife and daughter? They didn't object at the time? Meng Yue wondered.

"Huh," Chen Xinyue looked disdainful, "They dare to have opinions?" ”

Meng Yue opened her mouth and didn't speak again.

"Locust Tree ......"

While everyone was silent, a small voice suddenly appeared.

Everyone turned their heads in unison, and the person who made the voice was none other than Hua Jiyun.

"What do you think of?"

Duan continued to ask.

Hua Jiyun looked straight ahead, her pupils were pure black, and in front of her was Meng Yue, but her eyes seemed to penetrate Meng Yue and looked somewhere outside the house.

This feeling was extremely weird, and it made the people in the room feel a wave of physiological discomfort.

"He sold the locust tree ......"

Hua Jiyun's voice was different from the timid just now, and it was a little more low and hoarse.

"Smack!"

A loud slap suddenly slapped Hua Jiyun's face.

Her strange state was quickly shattered, and the left side of her face quickly turned red.

The hot pain filled her eyes with fear and grievance, and she looked at Chen Xinyue evasively, not daring to speak.

"Don't look with your damn eyes! You're trying to summon the demons and kill us, aren't you? Yes? Chen Xinyue stared at Hua Jiyun condescendingly, his eyes were red, and he was panting.

His movements were so fast that Duan Xu, who was on the other side of the table, didn't have time to react at all, and the slap fell on Hua Jiyun's face.

"Why did you hit her?"

Duan Xu stood up expressionlessly.

He stared at Chen Xinyue and leaned forward slightly.

Chen Xinyue glared back at Duan Xu without showing weakness, and said with a sarcastic face: "What? Want to get her out of the way? Do you know what she is to stand out for her? Got a crush on her? Want to be a hero to save beauty? ”

"Lao Tzu tells you that she ......"

"Pong-"

Before Chen Xinyue finished speaking, he saw a wooden bench common in the countryside fanning towards his right cheek.

No one would have imagined that Duan Xu would suddenly make a move, and he would do so quickly and so ruthlessly!

He directly picked up the bench under his buttocks and picked it up without saying a word.

Chen Xinyue's right cheek was firmly hit by a bench, and he fell to the wall dizzily, and his right cheek quickly became red and swollen.

"Ahem...... Phew......"

Chen Xinyue leaned against the wall and spit out a bubble of bloody saliva.

The strange thing is that instead of getting angry, he suddenly laughed.

"Hey...... You hit me......"

He crouched down and picked up a tooth from his saliva.

"You fanned out one of my teeth, Duan continued......"

Chen Xinyue exaggeratedly opened his lips with his hands, revealing the upper teeth bed that was missing a tooth.

"See? Remember what I look like......"

Chen Xinyue pinched his teeth, walked to the door with a stagger, and glanced back at Duan Xu: "Remember me, Duan Xu, hehe......"

He smiled and opened the door, and into the night, where he was soon gone.

"So, it was Xie Hua who moved the idea of the old locust tree, which caused some kind of curse of the thousand-year-old tree, and this curse was fed back to the villagers, and then killed himself, right?" Duan Xu put down the bench and sorted out a logic as if nothing had happened.

It was only at this time that Zhao Wei and the others reacted to what had happened in just a few tens of seconds.

Everyone's eyes fell on Duan Xu's face.

Hua Jiyun was even more weird, she didn't cry when she was beaten just now, but at this time she unexpectedly dropped a tear, her expression was still blank, obviously she didn't notice anything on her face.

"Maybe, that's the case......"

Meng Yue subconsciously replied, the picture in her mind was still repeating the violence of that moment just now.

Calm and arrogant, decisive and ruthless......

The continuation of this moment completely subverted Meng Yue's understanding of him on the train.