When I heard the person on the other end of the phone say this, I felt a chill in my heart.

Non-existent? What does this mean? So who are those villagers we have seen for so many days, and are they living in a fake village?

But the police uncle couldn't have played such a joke on me, and I realized that the problem was serious.

I don't know how I hung up the phone. Xu Yifei next to me saw that my face was not good, so he asked me what the police said.

When he heard me say that the dumb village did not exist, he was also shocked.

I couldn't help but glance at Lao Qin's small courtyard next to me - now one thing is certain, Lao Qin is lying!

He said that Qingfeng Zhai Village was renamed Dumb Village, that there were only about 100 people left, and that the village was managed by Bouldering Village, which was all very fake.

At this moment, I smelled the familiar smell again, the unpleasant smell mixed with the smell of medicine, the smell of burning sassafras.

The smell came from Lao Qin's yard.

I leaned my face closer to the big iron gate and squinted one eye into the courtyard. Sure enough, there was a trace of smoke slowly drifting out of one of the rooms.

Xu Yifei sniffed twice and said, "Ping'an, have you smelled it, in addition to the smell of smoke here, there seems to be a fishy smell!" ”

After he said this, I also realized that there was indeed a fishy smell in the air around me.

After a little thought, I made up my mind that I had to go in and have a look. I have a faint feeling that this small courtyard may be hiding clues to uncover the secrets of the dumb village.

"I'll go in, you stay away from the outside, give me the wind. If Lao Qin comes back, call me immediately. ”

"Is this okay?" Xu Yifei seemed to be a little scared.

"I said okay. Look at it! ”

Xu Yifei looked at me and said, "Then be careful!" ”

I didn't say a word, glanced at the low wall more than a meter high, and climbed the wall with both hands and feet.

Jumping into the yard, I went straight to the main house where the smell of smoke was emitting.

At the moment, the doors and windows of the house were locked, and there were thick curtains, so there was nothing to see in the house.

I leaned against the crack in the window and sniffed inside, and the faint fishy smell came from this room.

After going around the house, I couldn't think much more, so I picked up a brick from the side, shone it on the windowpane, and smashed it. A hole was smashed out of the window. I cautiously reached in and fumbled for the latch open.

I pushed open the window and tore the curtain open with my backhand, and everything in the room was exposed to my vision.

For a moment, I felt dizzy—

In the middle of the room, under the beam, a man was hanging. His back was to me, naked, dangling in the air.

When I looked at it again, I realized that it was not a person, but a complete human skin.

From the hair to the ankles, the whole beard and the whole tail.

I couldn't accept such a heavy style of painting for a while, and my legs and stomach immediately turned tendons, and I almost sat on the ground.

Looking at the sparse gray hair on the human skin, I am sure that it is Lao Qin.

Lao Qin was killed?

I understood at once that there was something wrong with the fat old man I saw in the village yesterday - hair!

Now that I think about it, he actually has a fashionable chestnut-colored curly hair, which is clearly the hair of the missing little man Chen Nan! No, it's not just the hair, it's Chen Nan's human skin!

The fat old man is wearing Chen Nan's human skin!

The reason why his face is so flat and smooth is because Chen Nan's skin is too small, and his fat body stretches the skin open after putting it on.

My heart trembled.

At this moment, under the hanging old Qin skin, there is a pile of grass and wood ashes that have just been burned.

I understood everything in my head.

I turned around and tried to climb the wall, only to find that I was already frightened and weak. I slapped my face hard to calm myself down. Grabbed it with both hands, and then rushed up to the wall.

Xu Yifei outside saw me coming out, ran over and shouted, "Slow down!" ”

I jumped to the ground, my feet limped, and I landed on one knee. Xu Yifei hurriedly helped me up.

"Are you alright?" He asked with concern.

I waved my hand, gasped and said, "Something is wrong!" ”

Xu Yifei was a little dumbfounded, probably hadn't seen my footprints messed up in one step.

"Hurry up...... Hurry back and ......."

I pulled him along the way he had come, and ran for his life outside the village.

While running, I kept calling Director Qian, but I couldn't get through.

Ran out of the bouldering village in one breath and climbed up a dirt slope. Xu Yifei really couldn't run, so he sat on a flat stone on the side, panting heavily.

"Well, no, I must rest for a while......," he said, "and tell me quickly...... Finally...... What's wrong? ”

I waved my hand, and it took a long time for my breath to catch evenly.

"In the house just now, there was Lao Qin's human skin!" My teeth chattered as I spoke.

Xu Yifei was almost scared to death, grabbed my arm, and his face changed color.

"What did you say?"

I repeated what I had just seen in the house.

Xu Yifei was about to cry.

"Not only that, but those villagers in the Dumb Village are actually wooden people wearing human skins!"

This time Xu Yifei was silent, and I didn't turn my head to look at him, but I could fully imagine his expression at this time.

"Do you know why they burn sassafras every day? So that the human skin on their bodies would not rot and become worms. ”

"You see that their feet are all wood, but in fact, their whole body is wood, which is why they are so light and run so fast."

"When skinning a person, the fingers and toes are easily damaged. So they had no skin on their hands and feet, and there was wood exposed, so they all wore gloves. ”

After saying this lot in one breath, I knew that Xu Yifei's heart must have collapsed at this moment.

It took him a long time before he said with a crying voice: "How did the wooden people live, what are they going to do?" ”

I shook my head.

"I don't know. But it's certainly not a good thing. ”

"So what do we do now?"

"Hurry back and tell Qian Dao them."

Xu Yifei nodded, and shook his head again: "But without Lao Qin to lead the way, we can't go down the mountain!" ”

"Let's move to the bouldering village first, and then make plans."

Saying that, I stood up, picked up Xu Yifei, who was already a little paralyzed, and continued to rush to the dumb village.

We raced through the mountains, through the valleys, and climbed the peaks. Seeing that after crossing this mountain, you will arrive at the dumb village.

At this moment, I stepped on a loose stone, and suddenly my feet slipped, and my body lost my center of gravity, and I rolled off a cliff next to me.

"Peace!" Xu Yifei's screams came from above his head.

The moment my body hit the ground heavily, my eyes went black and I lost consciousness......

In a daze, I felt like someone was pushing me. One of the spirits woke up, and when I opened my eyes, I saw two people, an old man and a young man, standing in front of me.

The old man was in his seventies, his beard was white, and his black face was furrowed. Next to him stood a little boy of five or six years old.

I was shocked – it was the boy who had been playing with the hearse in the woods that night!