Chapter Sixty-Eight: What Is the Truth?
When Qin Hanmin woke up, it was already noon, and he found that he was lying on the ground on all fours, his head was particularly painful, and when he touched it with his hand, he found that there was a scabbed wound on his forehead.
He hurriedly got up from the ground, shook his head, and then remembered the events of last night, and looked up, there were ravines and mountains and lush trees in front of him, which looked extremely familiar, but the moment he turned to look back, he was dumbfounded, and the temple that disappeared last night stood quietly behind him at this moment
What's going on! Was last night's incident just a nightmare? Qin Hanmin tried his best to recall what happened last night, but his brain was blank, and he couldn't think about anything at all.
He just stood still, staring at the dilapidated temple, until a series of birds chirped in the valley, and then he reacted.
And at this moment, he suddenly remembered a series of terrible and strange things that happened last night, and everything was real, not a dream, because the injury on his forehead was the one he fell while running last night
Thinking of this, he immediately ran into the temple, but when he entered, he was dumbfounded, because there was nothing left in the whole temple except for some luggage piled up on the ground, and his fellow villagers were now nowhere to be found, and they had disappeared
Qin Hanmin suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart, he immediately stepped forward to check all the luggage, and found that the water, food, flashlights, ropes, folding sapper shovels and other items in the luggage were all missing, which proved that his fellow villagers had not left here, so where did they go?
He looked at the luggage on the ground, and couldn't help but panic, and secretly summed up in his heart: "Could it be that they went out to find him together after they found out that they were gone, if this is the case, it will be even more unreasonable, he is lying in front of the temple gate, it is impossible for them not to see, unless they are all blind, so there is only one explanation, something happened!" They're all in trouble! ”
Thinking of this, Qin Hanmin instantly felt a chill quickly rise from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, and he fell to the floor without standing firmly, and his body shook into chaff at the same time.
In the next few days, Qin Hanmin almost turned over the nearby mountains, not only did he not find any trace of his fellow villagers, but he did not even find a trace of clues, and several big living people disappeared without a trace in just one night
Qin Hanmin searched hard for several days without results, so he simply lived in the temple directly, continued to search during the day, and waited for them to come back at night.
Every night he hoped that when he woke up, he would see all his countrymen appear in front of his eyes, even their ghosts, and he even hoped that the terrible and strange thing that night would happen again, so that he could know what happened that night!
Qin Hanmin stayed in this temple for a month, until all the dry food was eaten and the water was drunk, and he couldn't see his fellow villagers again, and finally he could only return to Liusha Village along the road
In the following decades, he couldn't remember how many times he went to the ruined temple in Qinling, he only remembered that once he lived in the ruined temple for more than half a year, but he never found any trace of his fellow villagers.
The whole thing was so unbelievable that to this day, he still hasn't figured out what happened that night, where his countrymen went, whether they were alive or dead
Qin Hanmin said that this matter has troubled him all his life, if he could have disappeared at the beginning, he would not be as alive as he is now, he only wants to know the truth on the day he dies, so that he can die blindly
After Qin Hanmin finished talking about this, his tears fell down and his whole person became much older all of a sudden.
In the end, he simply began to babble nonsense, repeating a sentence in his mouth: "What happened that night, what happened?"
Seeing him like this, I was really worried that he would go crazy, so I quickly comforted him a few words, but he didn't seem to hear it, he ignored me completely, just kept chattering on his own, and finally I really couldn't help it, I could only gently pat him on the back of the head, knock him unconscious, and then help him back to the kang to lie down, and then I turned around and went back to the room.
After returning to the room, I first checked the woman's condition, she was still unconscious, but her face was obviously much better, I covered her with the quilt, and then sat back at the table, made a cup of strong tea, and began to drink it while thinking about what Qin Hanmin said.
What Qin Hanmin experienced was actually very similar to what Song Laodao had said before about Pingyao's ghost collision, the only difference was that Song Laodao encountered a dog's head and dog meat, while Qin Hanmin encountered a pool of blood full of severed limbs and a pool of blood full of hair.
At the beginning, Song Laodao said that the scene he saw must have been done by a ghost, and I was skeptical at the time, but just now after listening to what Qin Hanmin said, I was even more sure of my previous thoughts, this matter must be someone secretly playing ghosts, and it could never be a ghost.
First of all, it is absolutely not accidental to say that what happened to Song Laodao and what happened to Qin Hanmin can be so similar, because I have never heard of any ghosts, and they can do the same thing in two different places, or that two ghosts will use the same means to kill people, which is impossible when you think about it.
But if both incidents were man-made, it would be much easier to explain. Suppose there is a drug or some kind of illusion in this world that can give people that terrifying hallucination, and its purpose is to kidnap and kill, then these two events are clear.
Secondly, what happened to Qin Hanmin and Song Laodao was very likely to be done by the same person, or it was caused by the same illusion, Song Laodao and several of them back then, if it weren't for his master Qilin Zhenren fighting desperately with the woman in red, they would definitely die at that time, and the final result was that there was no corpse at all, and they became missing persons.
So the reason why Qin Hanmin didn't die is probably that the murderer behind the scenes deliberately let him go after arresting the rest of the people, so that he mistakenly thought that there were evil ghosts in this mountain, so that even if the police investigated the matter and Qin Hanmin's confession, they would not continue to investigate, and the murderer could continue to get away with it
Of course, this is just my speculation, and there are many things that don't make sense, but I always believe that these two incidents were not the work of ghosts.
When I thought of this, it suddenly occurred to me that if there really was such a powerful illusion in this world, would the strange incident I encountered in the underground passage also be confused by some kind of illusion?
Then I dismissed the idea, if it was an illusion, I would not have been able to find the missing investigator, let alone come to Liusha Village, unless I was still in this illusion and had never woken up, but it was simply impossible
I couldn't think of a reason to think about it, and finally I didn't think about it anymore, maybe it was the reason for drinking, and at this moment the internal injury attacked, and there was some faint pain, so I quickly closed my eyes and breathed, and used exercises to heal.
The next day the woman still didn't wake up, I changed her medicine, I went out to find a little ghost, this guy didn't know what he was stealing in the past two days, and his body looked fatter than before.
As soon as it saw me, it jumped into my arms, and after we had expressed our affection for each other, it slipped into the village again, presumably running away to steal from other people's food.
On the afternoon of the third day, I had just finished practicing a set of boxing in the courtyard when I heard the sound of a broken water cup in the house, and I hurriedly ran back to the room to check, and found that the woman did not know when she woke up, and the broken water cup on the ground was probably accidentally broken when she drank water after waking up.
I asked her not to move, and then I gave her a new glass of water, and after she drank the water, she looked at me suspiciously, I knew why she was puzzled, and seeing that she was in good spirits at this time, I told her everything before and after, and she frowned when she listened.
After I finished speaking, she kept thanking me, saying that when she got better, she must repay me well, and make me a cow and a horse.
I quickly interrupted her and asked her what was going on and why she was locked up, and then she told me how she had been arrested.
She said that her name was Liu Lifang, an investigator from the intelligence team of the Tantric Bureau, and that after the mass death of livestock in Wujiazhuang, she and three other investigators rushed to Wujiazhuang as quickly as possible and joined Wang Jinming.
On the same day they entered the village, and began to go from house to house to inspect the dead animals, until in the evening, they found that there was a family whose courtyard was not only devoid of animals, but the whole courtyard was empty, and the four of them thought it was a little strange, and immediately decided that she should stay outside, and the other three sneaked in to check it.
As a result, Liu Lifang waited outside for a long time and didn't see them come back, she was in a hurry, so she also sneaked in, but strangely, there was no trace of them in the house at all, and she checked around the courtyard again, but still found no trace of the three investigators
Liu Lifang stood alone in this dark courtyard, and couldn't help but be a little scared, especially the black room, which seemed to be a devil's big mouth, which could devour all the people who entered this house.
However, I don't know why, Liu Lifang always felt as if something was calling her in the house, and she walked to the house with a ghost.
Just as she was about to enter the house, she suddenly had a bad premonition in her heart, so she called Wang Jinming before entering the house.
However, just as the phone was answered, before she could speak, four or five people suddenly rushed out of the room, one of them was a man in black, who sprinkled some white powder on her, and then she didn't know anything.