Chapter 36: The Man with a Bad Face

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The smell of firewood smoke kept stinging Li Xumu's nose. Li Xumu struggled to prop up his eyelids, and only the firelight was beating in his blurred vision.

I still remember going to No. 180 of Golden Leaf Village before and found a cellar, and after entering, it was attacked. Li Xumu fell to the ground at this time. The side of his face was pressed against the cold earth, and his neck tried to prop up his head, but there was a pain in his head.

As his vision cleared, he found that it was pitch black, and only a small bonfire was crackling. Looking around, the previous iron buckets were glowing with fire, and it was obvious that he was still in the cellar.

Two men sat by the campfire, holding a wooden stick in their hands, dressed in some kind of mouse-like creature on it, grilling in the flames.

Li Xumu moved a few times, found that his hands and feet had been tied to death, and when he looked closely, he found that one of the people next to the bonfire was the rotten face man who attacked him, and the other was Ah Fang.

Ah Fang smiled and raised the wooden stick in his hand, stared at the charred food on it, took it into his mouth, and bit his teeth to pull it off the stick.

Fong squirmed her mouth, her teeth rattling the bones of her food, and a tail still wagging outside her lips as she chewed.

The rotten face man stretched out his finger and wiped the scorched black on Ah Fang's mouth, and said vaguely, eat slowly, don't get hot. And Ah Fang smirked and ate his tail into his mouth like sucking noodles.

This strange scene was all in Li Xumu's eyes, and his fingers carefully broke free from the rope, for fear of making a sound. While trying to pull his hand out of the rope, he maintained the unconscious posture of his body just now, stared in the direction of the bonfire, and carefully observed the every move of these two people, just when everything was going on in an orderly and quiet manner, suddenly a face floated in front of him from top to bottom, just hitting a face-to-face.

The whole face was horizontally in front of him, and the sparse and withered hair on one side covered half of the face, leaving only the bottom half of the face, staring at him motionlessly like dead eyes. Li Xumu quickly sat up with a sigh. I froze down, and found that it was the little girl with a deformed neck who bent down and looked at herself face to face.

The noise also alarmed the two people around the campfire.

"Xiao Xi come here."

The man with the bad face called the little girl to his side, pulled out a dagger, and slowly approached.

Li Xumu got up suddenly, the place where his head would be hit caused a burst of pain, and as the rotten face man gradually approached, Li Xumu tried to stand up, but because of the loss of balance of the bound hands and feet, he fell to the ground again.

The man with the rotten face was already standing in front of him at this time, and his two protruding eyes looked down.

Li Xumu closed his eyes tightly, knowing that he had no power to fight back at this time, and he had to wait for death. The rotten face man held the dagger, and the tip of the knife rushed towards Li Xumu and bent down.

Hearing only a click, Li Xumu didn't know which part of his body was cut off.

But after waiting for a long time, there was no strange feeling on his body, and when he slowly opened his eyes, he found that the rope at his ankle had been cut. Li Xumu looked at the rotten face man squatting in front of him incredulously, and he then stretched out his dagger to cut the rope at his wrist.

"You're not going to kill me?"

Li Xumu moved his wrist and sat on the ground with a shocked expression, not daring to act rashly.

The man with the bad face did not reply, but turned around and walked back to the campfire, stretched out his hand to stand up and slowly pressed his face to her cheek, since there were no lips, two rows of teeth touched the abscess on Ah Fang's face, and Ah Fang grinned, as if revealing a happy smile, and turned to pout and kiss the teeth that leaked on his face.

is such an ordinary kissing action between men and women, but at this time, such two people interpret another strange scene. Li Xumu couldn't bear to look at it directly, but it didn't seem like a ghost to these people. The little girl lay silently in a corner beside her, looking like she was going to rest, but her head resting on her neck could not lie on her side.

"Go ahead, let's get started." The rotten face man touched Ah Fang's head. When Ah Fang heard this, he walked to the exit of the cellar and climbed the ladder leading to the outside.

After Ah Fang left, the rotten face man turned to face Li Xumu.

"I don't kill you because you're not from this village." The voice was hoarse and terrifying.

Even if the rotten face man didn't attack him just now, Li Xumu was still very vigilant, after all, he was hit on the head by this strange man before, and he still had a faint pain until now, and he still didn't know what kind of medicine this person was selling in his gourd.

"Are you a human or a ghost?" Li Xumu sat on the rock wall of the cellar, cautiously observing the other party's every move.

The Rotten Face Man just smiled and said, "I wish I had been one of these two." If that's the case, there's no need to live in hatred and darkness like no one is now. But days like this ......"

"Soon it's over....." The man with the bad face lowered his head, and although he couldn't see his expression, he could feel that he was in a deep painful memory at this time. The muscles and skin of the face have been damaged for some reason, and any expression has been lost, and all the joy, anger and sorrow have turned into a hideous and terrifying skull face with rotten flesh. Without eyelids, he even needs to stare at his bulging eyes even when he sleeps.

Li Xumu recalled the photo of the three of them, looked at the little girl sleeping in the corner, and the intimate behavior with Ah Fang just now, this rotten face should be the child's father. Since none of them are ghosts, it means that the little girl did not die in that fire, and all the weird events in the village are all from this person?!

So the clue to No. 180 of Jinye Village, and everything you have experienced now, is just to show yourself such a true image?! In other words, this subject is not as complicated as I thought, and there is no such thing as a ghost.

If it was just simple revenge, then why was Mo Ru, who had nothing to do with this matter, dismembered and died tragically? Judging from the experience described by Leng Jie, the bloody footprints in the bedroom should have been left by the rotten face man and the little girl. Could it be that like Ah Fang, the spirit of this family has a problem? Already killed people for revenge without blinking? If so, why didn't you kill yourself decisively? Li Xumu observed that the rotten face man at this time was still sane.

Thinking of this, Li Xumu's brain was dizzy, and he had not recovered from the previous blow, and now he felt dry mouth and unbearable hunger. After coming to Jinye Village, there was still no water, and even saw the rats barbeconing in the bonfire, and the stomach was gurgling. The rotten face man saw Li Xumu's needs, so he brought a tea jar.

Li Xumu's eyelids trembled, but he didn't expect that the other party not only didn't kill him, but also handed him water. Li Xumu faced his terrifying face, hesitated for a while and then took the teapot.

The bottom of the teapot was charred and blackened, and the water inside was still steaming, apparently just boiled.

"Thanks... As soon as the tip of Li Xumu's nose approached the tea jar, he smelled a foul smell, and his eyes glanced inside, and he found that the water inside was dirty. Li Xumu hurriedly put down the tea jar, and was afraid, glad that he was not in a hurry to drink it. In this water-scarce village, it is hard to imagine where this tank of water came from.

The rotten-faced man looked at it, then took the teapot up, put his teeth on the mouth of the cup, and drank it all in one go, and since he had no lips, the water flowed out of his teeth and spilled all over his body.

"I don't know where you're from or why you're here. I'm curious how you found this cellar, because no one will come to this place, and everyone in the village considers this place a plague place. Starts knocking you out and thinks you're a villager. The reason why I didn't kill you is that I have a purpose. I just hope you can bring out the ugly deeds in this village. ”

"Because tonight, there won't be any more people in this village!"

Li Xumu shuddered when he heard this. What kind of hatred did this man go through to kill them all!?

The rotten-faced man stared at the teapot in his hand, ignoring Li Xumu's surprised expression and continued: "Now that I think about it, the dismembered girl also came with you." But there is no way to do it, she can only blame her for her bad luck and appearing in the wrong place. This revenge plan has been in the making for a long time, and the person who appeared in that girl is a part of my revenge steps, and it should be the owner of that family who died. I'm going to send a message to the others in the most horrible way possible! I'm going to make all of us live in fear until the end of their lives! Let them also experience what it is like to live in the cracks of fear!! ”

The man with the bad face became more and more agitated, and threw the teapot on the ground at once, but also woke up the little girl sleeping in the corner. The rotten face man took a sharp breath, realized something, and went to pat the girl on the back, and his emotions gradually calmed down.

Li Xumu didn't dare to relax his vigilance at all, although judging from the various reactions of the rotten face man just now, he really didn't mean to kill himself, but in the face of such a sick family, he still had to give priority to escaping.

"You mean to kill all the villagers?!" Li Xumu couldn't believe it, the person who wanted to harm the little girl was the one who started with Qiao Ye, and most of them were helpless and blindly followed. The level of such hatred is somewhat paranoid. Besides, how can you do it alone?

The Rotten Face pointed to his head, his tone manic again. "You don't think you should have harmed me like this?! Drove my wife crazy, and now you're going to kill her, don't you think you should kill them all!? Shouldn't a child's childhood be spent in this dark cellar full of stenching grounds!?? ”

The Rotten Face gasped for breath with excitement, sounding like his lungs had been damaged, and rattling with each breath. Due to the overexcitement, it caused a burst of coughing, and as a mouthful of phlegm was coughed up to the ground, the breath gradually became even. Li Xumu stared at the phlegm and found that it was blood-red.

The Rotten Face Man calmed down and continued, "Do you think these villagers who can't be called human deserve sympathy?!" No! No, what I'm going to talk about next is the reason why I lived to get you out of here and take everything with me. ”

"You can also see what the water I usually eat and drink looks like. The village of Golden Leaf was indeed cursed, and the continuous drought left everyone suffering famine. It's just that the reason is not that child. It's the villagers who have long since lost their humanity...! In this state, how long do you think the only remaining people will last? With just one well, it will not be until now... Most of their food sources come from....human flesh! ”

As soon as these words came out, Li Xumu's hairs stood up, and a chill swept through his body.