Because Gou Zesheng mentioned the abandoned path, the scene fell into a dead silence for a while, and the faces of everyone present were not good-looking, as if they had touched some terrifying existence.

Even Wang, who had been shouting that he had to find Old Man Bai just now, had a look of surprise and hesitation on his face.

Bai Qiuluo frowned slightly, pulled Chen Ping's sleeve, and asked softly, "Mother, what's going on with the abandoned path?"

Bai Qiuluo's words seemed to make Chen Ping feel surprised, and she glanced at her with a slightly pale face.

However, thinking that Bai Qiuluo had injured his head before, and he didn't remember many things before, he explained the existence of that path to her in a low voice.

It turned out that the path had died many years ago, but anyone who passed by the girl's house and daughter-in-law from that path would have an accident, at first just fainted, and then inexplicably lay on the side of the road and woke up, with traces of passivity, and then began to make trouble.

But anyone who walks that path will have more or less accidents, either they fall while walking, or they suddenly faint, or they get lost in it and can't get out, and in serious cases, there are two or three girls who died in a day.

At that time, the village Li Zheng suspected that someone was pretending to be a ghost, and brought a lot of sturdy men to search, but found nothing, but a group of searchers came back with a lot of injuries.

The inexplicable accident and the path of the dead, plus this road is another road to the mass grave, later everyone regarded this road as a bad place, and this abandoned path became a forbidden place in Xiaoxi Village, and no one set foot here again.

And the people in the village will also warn their children not to play on that road, and over time, everyone will forget that road exists.

No, it's not that I forgot, it's just that the place is too weird, so everyone is reluctant to mention it again, otherwise it wouldn't be Gou Zesheng, and as soon as he said it, everyone's faces changed greatly.

It's a long story, but in reality, it's only a short moment, and Bai Qiuluo's eyes flashed with surprise after hearing it.

She didn't know that Creek Village would have such a magical place.

At this time, everyone finally came back to their senses, and they talked about it one by one.

"How can a child know that place? That's not right. ”

"Could it be that the three old men of Bai said it? Tell him not to go there? ”

"How long has the dog been left in Bai Laosan's house? Have you forgotten that except for the first batch of children, don't we all explain and not talk about the later children? ”

Children have a lot of playfulness and curiosity, and the more adults say they can't go, the more they want to go, so except for the children who will go to that path at the beginning, and the children born later, the people in the village will not specifically advise them, so as not to make the children curious because of deliberate reminders, which is counterproductive.

"Xiao Sheng, tell uncle, how did you know that way?" Li Zheng asked with a serious face.

Because it was deliberately abandoned, the road had already been covered with withered grass and weeds, and now it was standing at the intersection, and the road could not be seen at all, and everyone would not pay attention to it.

I'm afraid the grass there is higher than Gou Zesheng, and Gou Zesheng will know that road, which is really strange.

"I ...... I also found out by accident. Gou Zesheng swallowed his saliva and explained in a low voice.

It turned out that Gou Zesheng broke into that path by accident, when his parents were dead, and his children had no place to earn income and food except for the usual support from everyone.

So at that time, Gou Zesheng would jump in the mountains and rivers in Xiaoxi Village, dig out some bird eggs, fish or something, come back to eat, and get some food for himself.

Although it is very difficult, and it may not be possible to get it every time, but it is good to let Gou Zesheng do some work by himself.

And Gou Zesheng accidentally broke into that path when he was looking for food.

Gou Zesheng found a waterhole in the middle of the path, and found that there were many fish in it, so he happily tried to catch two of them.

Later, he found that almost no one in the village knew about it, so he regarded it as his secret place, and when he had nothing to eat, he went there to catch fish and pick wild fruits to eat.

Because of this, Gou Zesheng did have a good life for a few days.

However, the good times didn't last long, and it didn't take long for an old man to find out that something was wrong with Gou Zesheng and asked him.

The old man was usually very kind to Gou Zesheng, he asked, and Gou Zesheng also said.

The old man was so shocked that he could not go there again, and told him what was secret.

No matter how bold Gou Zesheng was, he was still a child in the end, and he was afraid that something would really happen to him, and he wouldn't even have a corpse collector at that time, so he didn't go back later.

If he hadn't really found Old Man Bai this time, he wouldn't have said it.

Bai Qiuluo looked at Gou Zesheng distressed when he heard this, "Xiao Sheng, don't worry, my sister promises that she will never let you suffer again in the future." ”

When she said this, Bai Qiuluo was naturally extremely sincere, but none of them thought at this time that the reality came too quickly and suddenly, and she broke her promise so irresistibly.

"I know, I'm sure my sister will always be good to me." Gou Zesheng smiled warmly at Bai Qiuluo, and said in a low voice, his eyes were full of satisfaction.

Then Gou Zesheng looked at Li Zheng and said: "Uncle Li Zheng, now I have found everywhere in the village, only if I haven't been there, I will remember to come there, otherwise let's go over and have a look."

Li Zheng was slightly silent when he heard this.

The villagers on the side opened their mouths.

"Lizheng, you can't go there, but if you go, you'll die."

"It's just, it's too weird there, it eats people, who dares to go."

"It's an ominous place, and no one who goes will end well, so don't go."

Everyone, who says anything you say to me, is against it.

The men present were all about the same age as Bai Zixin, and when the strange incident happened, they were fifteen or sixteen years old, and even the girls who died were their playmates, and some of them were ready to say goodbye.

Therefore, everyone is very secretive about that place, and they are also extremely afraid.

Seeing this, Gou Zesheng suddenly became anxious, and hurriedly said: "No, there are more weeds there, in fact, there is nothing to be afraid of, if there is really something, then I have been there so many times, why didn't anything happen?"

He was very nervous about the old man's safety, so he didn't want these people to give up.

There was silence.

Later, a villager muttered, "That place is very evil, some people go there without trouble, and some people do." It's your luck that you're okay when you go, but no one can guarantee that all of us will have as good luck as you. ”

These words can be regarded as speaking everyone's hearts, and the scene suddenly fell silent again for a while.

In the midst of this dead silence and apprehension, Li Zheng spoke.

"We all understand Xiao Sheng's thoughts about looking for Old Man Bai, but that place is really weird, and everyone is here to help, so I can't ask for everyone's consent to find someone inside."

Li Zheng's words are also reasonable and irrefutable.

"But in the end, I am the Lizheng of Xiaoxi Village, and I can't ignore a good villager if he loses it, so now let everyone choose for themselves. Those who are willing to go into the path with me to find people stand behind me, and those who do not want to go stand still. ”

Everyone looked at each other hesitantly, and soon made a decision.

There must have been about thirty people present to help find people, but less than ten people stood behind Li Zheng.

Although most of the people who didn't go, these 20 people still felt that their faces were hot and uncomfortable.

Because it proves their cowardice and incompetence.

Fortunately, it was dark, and the torches were shining red on everyone's faces, so they couldn't see them blushing.

Someone shouted: "Lizheng, it's not that we don't want to go, it's really that place is too evil, we ......"

"I understand everything, I don't need to explain." Rizheng interrupted him.

"Okay, it's getting late, so if you don't go, let's go home and rest first."

"Hey, then we'll go back first, you ...... Be careful. The reluctant to go whispered a reminder and hurried away.

After all the people who were going to leave left, the rest of the people were Bai Zixin's family, Lao Bai's family, and Li Zheng and the people behind him combined, a total of about twenty people.

Li Zheng looked at the crowd, including Bai Qiuluo and a few other women, and took a deep breath: "Let's go, go to the path." ”

"Aunt Wang, we have to talk about it first, if we can't find Uncle Bai on this trip, then we won't look for it today, and we will go to the city tomorrow morning to report to the official." Li Zheng took two steps and stopped to say to Wang.

Wang's face was not good-looking, but he didn't make any more trouble, and nodded in response.

Although she is domineering and unreasonable, she also knows that today's matter is considered to be benevolent and righteous, after all, he is willing to go to the abandoned path to help find Old Man Bai, and if she wants to make a request, she is too much.

If you really want to annoy Lizheng, it's not good for him to leave now.

The group came to an abandoned path.

Bai Qiuluo raised his eyes and saw that under the illumination of torches and oil lamps, the abandoned path was already lush with weeds that were taller than people, and the darkness in the distance looked like the mouth of a beast that wanted to devour people, which made people feel afraid when they looked at it.

Everyone stabilized their minds, Yuri Zheng and Bai Zixin walked in the front, separating the weeds one way, lest the torches ignite the weeds, and a group of people followed and walked inside.

The weeds that are taller than people are also a circle around the periphery, and after walking more than ten meters, there are no weeds taller than people in front of them, and there are weeds on the ground, but they are not as difficult to walk as before.

"Old man Bai, are you there? I heard a response. ”

"Dad, I'm the third, aren't you here?"

"Grandpa, grandpa, you're not there."

A group of people each opened their mouths to shout Old Man Bai, and the huge shout spread far away in the night, startling countless birds.

After everyone walked away, Gou Zesheng, who was walking in the middle, suddenly had an urgency, and everyone stopped to wait for him, and let him go to the side to solve it.

However, it didn't take long for him to hear a shrill cry.