The group continued to walk forward, and soon saw the old money that had turned back, and he looked a little impatient and quickly glanced at the crowd and said in a weird manner: "There are no fewer people this time?" It would be interesting if I lost someone again this time! ”

After hearing this, Chen Erxi immediately stepped forward and said with a smile: "No, no, it's all here, everyone is together." After speaking, he didn't react when he saw Lao Qian, so he walked to Lao Qian's side and continued to ask, "Uncle Qian, you have been in this forest for so long, have you encountered any strange things?!" ”

"Strange things? What's weird?! ”

"I'll tell you! I just met the monster, and in the woods just now, the guy grabbed me by the shoulders behind me and tried to eat me! ”

"Ate you? Is it going to be you? ”

"That'...... Not really, but when he stood behind me, he drooled, at least a head taller than me, and the saliva dripped into my hair! It's disgusting to think about."

Lao Qian's face was half open, and he looked at Erxi blankly, and he didn't say anything for a while.

"What? Old money, do you know this guy? Zou Lianwen saw that something was wrong with Lao Qian, and took the lead in asking.

"Ahh That guy was here twenty years ago, when the deserted village was just starting to have strange diseases, but ...... But it's been a long time since I've been out......"

Hearing this, everyone was obviously a little panicked, Li Jing swallowed her saliva and clenched her fists tightly with both hands; Wang Leilei, who was standing beside it, looked at Zhai Yong, then at Li Jing, and hugged Li Jing's arm tightly; Zhai Yong silently clenched the wooden stick he had just picked up, lowered his head and stopped talking; Zou Lianwen opened his mouth nervously, but in the end he didn't say a word; Chen Erxi was like a duck struck by lightning, and he was directly stunned on the spot.

"Twenty years ago, what was the strange disease in the deserted village? What does the monster just now have to do with this strange disease? Zou Lianwen finally broke the silence and asked first. Li Jing also seemed to suddenly remember something, and hurriedly pulled Wang Leilei, who was still in a daze, to move two steps away from Chen Erxi's side. And Chen Erxi's eyes were already full of tears, as if as long as he moved slightly, the tears would burst, and he looked at Lao Qian intently, hoping to get an answer from his mouth.

"Twenty years ago, there were children who disappeared from the village for no apparent reason. One day a child did not come back after dark, and then the adults in the village went out to look for the child, but the next day during the day, the child was not found, but a villager also disappeared, and then everyone went to look for the villager, and finally found that the person had drowned on the edge of the pond behind Xiling Mountain. ”

"And how did he get to the pond?" Wang Leilei asked curiously.

"Who said he ran into the pond? He didn't even go into the pond, he died on the edge of the pond! The water on the edge of the pond was so shallow that it barely reached your ankles. He drowned in that shallow water! Everyone thinks that this person is infected with some strange disease, or has fallen into evil spirits, so that he will be like this. Since then, people have often disappeared at night and died the next day on the edge of the pond, all by drowning. Maybe it's because the people who started dying have a better relationship, and they have more frequent contact on weekdays! The theory of strange diseases became more and more popular in the village, and then there were fewer and fewer people in the village, and people began to move out of the village. Eventually, the village became a deserted village. ”

"That'...... You were already working as a ranger here? Aren't you afraid of being infected with a strange disease? Wang Leilei hid behind Li Jing and asked cautiously

"What do you say?! I'm a party member! Lao Qian was stunned for a moment, and then replied angrily to Wang Leilei. After speaking, he also rolled his eyes proudly at Wang Leilei. Everyone didn't expect that this old man in his fifties was still "proud on the surface and delicate on the inside", and they were stunned for a while. But at this moment, strange things happened again, and the fog in the forest rose again, and the gray mist slowly drifted from all sides and surrounded several people.

And Wang Leilei, who was standing in the middle of several people, was the first to discover the problem: "This is not fog!" It's smoke, and it has a pungent smell! Hearing Wang Leilei say this, everyone covered their noses with their hands. Then there was the rustle of someone walking on the leaves from the woods, and Lao Qian's face changed greatly after hearing this, and he looked extremely nervous, and he shouted loudly to the surrounding woods: "Hurry up!" Let's go! Stay away from here! This is not the place for you! Come on! ”

Then the rustling sound grew farther and farther away, and gradually faded away. Lao Qian's expression gradually relaxed, he sighed and muttered quietly, and then shouted to everyone: "Don't be afraid, this is not fog, someone has burned the leaves!" Stand still, wait until I go to the neighborhood and put out the fire, and I'll be back right away!" Then he went into the woods and disappeared.

Looking at Lao Qian's gradually disappearing back, Wang Leilei tugged on Li Jing's sleeve and whispered to him: "You say, can Lao Qian get to know the monster that ignited the fire?" ”

Li Jing stared at Wang Leilei with wide eyes, and she asked in surprise, "How can you have such an idea?" Do you see anything? ”

"No...... I didn't see anything, but just now Old Qian muttered something 'what a worry-free guy' and then walked into the woods, and I wondered, could they know each other, or that the 'monster' was not a real monster but a person? ”

Hearing this, everyone fell silent. Does Lao Qian really know this "monster"? If so, what kind of relationship do they have? This "monster" appeared at the same time as the strange disease of the deserted village twenty years ago, so is there any connection between this "monster" and the strange disease of the deserted village? Was it the "monster" who brought a strange disease and infected the villagers? Everyone seems to have thought about this problem, and they are starting to feel a little uneasy.

It didn't take long for Lao Qian to come back, and when he found that everyone was looking at him with sharp eyes full of vigilance, Lao Qian seemed to sense everyone's thoughts, so he found a tree stump and sat down, and escaped from his arms A small stainless steel wine jug, opened it and raised his head to drink it all, he wiped his mouth with intent, put away the wine jug, and slowly said to everyone: "I know what you think!" You think I'm in league with that monster, do you? I'll tell you, I met him twenty years ago, when a strange epidemic began in the deserted village. It was the first time that someone had gone missing in the village, and I helped the villagers find someone, and I saw him from a distance near this wood, and he was in the distance, poking his head out from behind a tree...... We looked for him nearby, and many villagers thought that he was the ghost of the missing child in the village, but he was never caught, and he always hovered around us like a ghost, occasionally igniting leaves and emitting smoke. But after the villagers moved away, he disappeared, how could he ...... Why are you running out again now?! ”

Lao Qian raised his head and looked at everyone blankly, as if he was a little frightened. And at that moment, the rustle of feet over fallen leaves was heard in the woods......