There was an uproar among the villagers, and there was a lot of discussion.

An old man walked out of the crowd and asked in a trembling voice, "How so?" Village Chief, how could you kill someone? When Zhang Tao disappeared, you were more anxious than anyone else, you ...... How...... How is this possible? How could it be that you killed him? ”

"yes, yes." The villagers echoed the call.

"Let's be quiet!" The old man waved at everyone.

After the crowd quieted down, the old man looked at Jiang Tian and Shen Sen, "Next, I'll tell you everything." ”

"Okay."

"You say," the old man pointed to the villagers, "how many people are there?" ”

Jiang Tian roughly counted them and replied, "About twenty or thirty." ”

"Thirty-two! Thirty-two! That's the number of people in our whole village. The old man said excitedly.

"The plague." Jiang Tian said softly.

"Yes, the plague!" The old man's tone became decadent, "Twenty-six years, our village should have been forgotten a long time ago." The plague 26 years ago cost us almost all of our loved ones. We have seen through life and death, and we have long been indifferent to everything else. For twenty-six years, we have been living in peace, growing old slowly, and even preparing a coffin for ourselves early, just waiting for one day to leave quietly. ”

When the villagers heard this, they all sighed and wept.

"But why should this place of peace be remembered and coveted?" The old man's voice suddenly raised a few points, "Two years ago, the boss of Blue Ocean Company somehow learned about our village, and also learned about what happened in the village before. So they sent Zhang Tao over, wanting to buy the land here to grow roses and develop tourism by the way. ”

He came in a hurry, thinking that we would agree, who wouldn't want to make a lot of money. However, I refused. I said that we have become accustomed to a peaceful life, half of our bodies are in the ground, we can't afford to toss, and we are not interested in money without money. So they used a lot of connections to grind hard, and in the end they really had no choice, so they threatened me, if I didn't agree, they would bring people here and cut down all the trees on our mountain, and it would be a big deal to lose money. ”

"I really didn't expect this kid Zhang Tao to be such a person." The old man said angrily, "It's a shame that we're so good to him." Village Chief, why didn't you tell us these things at the time? ”

"I'm sorry." The old man bowed deeply to the villagers, "I don't tell everyone because I want to handle this matter myself and try not to affect everyone's life." Later I pretended to say yes to them. Zhang Tao was very happy, thinking that he had completed the task, so he went to the mountain to inspect the environment by himself. I took a fruit knife and secretly followed him up the mountain. And when it came to night, while he was sleeping, kill him. ”

The old man looked at his hand, "I don't know how many times I stabbed him that day, I just remember that I stabbed him like a madman." Zhang Tao woke up in pain and struggled desperately. I don't know where I got the strength to hold him down and stab him until his chest was thin.

The old man's eyes were red, his expression was hideous, as if he had fallen into a demon, and his hands repeated the action of stabbing things.

Everyone present gasped.

After a while, the old man's mood stabilized, looked at the crowd, and smiled apologetically, but it was shocking.

"I regret killing him. But I also understand that if people know that I killed Zhang Tao, our village will definitely be even more unpeaceful in the future. So although I regretted it, what I had to do more was to hide the fact that I killed him, so I thought of Ghost Valley. ”

"In order not to make people see that he killed the deceased, you cut the body into two pieces, threw the lower half of your body from the mountain into the ghost valley to feed the wolves, and hid the upper body with the knife wound." Jiang Tian followed the old man's words.

"Yes." The old man nodded, "The hole in the cliff wall is just an entrance, on your way up the mountain, there is another entrance to enter the cave, this is what I found when I was young when I went up the mountain to collect medicine, but I covered it up, you can't find it." ”

But then I realized I was wrong. After Zhang Tao's death, the village became more and more famous, more and more people attracted more attention, more and more people came to travel, and one after another came to invest. But I can't go back. So, come one, I'll kill one! ”

"As for Xu Jiang, I didn't cut off his body because I saw that his family was very powerful, and if his body was found, he would definitely not give up. If they find out my secret, it's all going to be ruined. So I made up my mind that now that the rumors had spread, there was no need to continue to cover them up, and just let these people disappear forever. Actually, it's very tiring to cut the corpse, and I just saved some effort. ”

The old man's tone was calm and unfazed, but the villagers all showed expressions of disbelief and horror, and they couldn't help but take a few steps back.

"So, yesterday I tested you and said that you wanted to invest, and you started to kill, right? You also broke our rope, right? ”

The old man laughed, which was a tacit acquiescence.

"You're amazing, hehe!" Jiang Tian sneered a few times, "I killed so many people and I didn't find out." But just because you want to live a peaceful life, can you kill nine innocent people? In your eyes, human life is so worthless? ”

"What do you know about a little kid?" The old man became agitated, "Do you know what we want?" ”

"So, do you understand?" Jiang Tian suddenly looked at the old man with pity and shook his head.

"What do you mean?"

"Don't you understand? Well, I'm telling you, you're wrong, ridiculously wrong! The so-called peaceful life is only what you want, not what you people in the village want, understand? From beginning to end, you're just living in your dreams, do you think what you want is really what you all want? ”

"Or take a step back, even if all of you crave peace, would your villagers want to kill people to regain lost peace? You look at them, look at them in front of you, look at these thirty-one people, can you see that they are grateful? Can you see how grateful they are to you? Have it! Jiang Tian angrily pointed at the villagers and shouted.

The old man was stunned, and after a long time, she looked at the villagers with difficulty.

Their eyes are complex, some are surprised, some are afraid, some are regretful, some are regretful, some are incredulous.

Except for the ...... Grateful.

"Man has the right to forget the past, man has the right to choose peace, man has the right to die peacefully, but man has no right to control the life of another person, let alone the right to deprive others of their lives at will in the name of nature!"

The old man went limp and sat down on the ground.

"It was you who turned the village into a ghost village."

Suddenly, a fruit knife slipped out of the old man's cuff, and by the time people reacted, the old man had already put the knife against his heart.

"I know there will come a day. As soon as I heard the siren, I made up my mind that I didn't want to live until tomorrow. Thank you, lad, I was wrong. ”

Suddenly, the knife was sent into the old man's heart.

The old man fell to the ground, and the blood quickly stained the old man's shirt.

"Ahh Zhou Hao and Chen Jiao were so frightened that they hurriedly covered their eyes, Ni Gang hugged Geng Yan and turned his head, while Geng Yan looked at the old man's corpse and sighed lightly.

The villagers also sighed and wept.

The old man's expression was calm, and perhaps for her, death was a belated relief.

But what about the nine? What about the nine families? Is it only because of the unshirkable investment task that nine lives should be "lost"? Is it unstoppable that nine families will be "broken"?

Is all this to blame for the old man's overly stubborn insistence, or to blame those equally stubborn "dirty hands"?

Who is to blame, and who can be blamed?

In the hearts of this group of "mountain people", they do not belong to this bizarre world of flowers, they believe that this corner forgotten by most people is truly their own paradise.

And for those "city dwellers", this place has become a delicious cake that everyone wants to get a piece of because of its huge commercial interests.

Which is right? What's wrong?

Unknown.

It's just that when they are all fighting for this piece of nature, they forget to ask this land if they are qualified.