I turned my head to look at him, "What did you say?" ”

At this time, Fat Dahai's face was full of nervousness, and he subconsciously took two steps back, distanced himself from the old cat's tent, and then whispered: "Rumors...... It's all true. ”

I asked him, "What rumors?" ”

Fat Dahai was silent for a while before he spoke: "All the people who enter this village will become puppets in the hands of craftsmen, no one can escape, everyone will ......"

When he said the last half of the sentence, his eyes swept over everyone one by one, causing Mia and Xiao Jiu to panic.

Seeing them like this, I couldn't help frowning, but Li Huaishan actually said cool words on the side: "I have long advised the old cat to be put into the mountain and not to enter the mountain, you see, what am I talking about, this time they are all suffering." ”

I glanced at Li Huaishan: "Now it's a fart to say this." ”

After speaking, I raised my chin towards the old cat's tent again: "Everyone dismantle the tent, use a sleeping bag if you have a sleeping bag, and cover two pieces of clothing to keep out the cold." In short, everyone must be guaranteed to appear in my field of vision. ”

Hearing me say this, the grasshopper immediately began to dismantle his tent, and Mosquito, Mia, and Xiao Jiu also started to do it one after another, except for the mine and the fat sea, the two of them seemed to be frightened, and they remained in place in a daze, motionless.

I stepped forward and patted Fat Dahai on the shoulder, Fat Dahai seemed to be frightened, and his neck shrunk, but fortunately he recovered quickly and looked back at me.

I lit a cigarette and stuffed it into his mouth, leaned my back against the courtyard wall, and said to him in as calm a tone as possible, "What the hell does the post say?" ”

Fat Dahai was silent for a while before he spoke: "The post said that anyone who enters a deserted village will become a craftsman......"

Before he could finish speaking, I waved my hand: "You have already said this sentence just now, I am asking you, what the post said from beginning to end, and how much you can remember, tell it." ”

Fat Dahai's wrist was still shaking, and he shook the cigarette ash on his shirt several times, and it took him a lot of effort to suppress the tension in his heart and tell me something about the post.

The main content of the post is probably to say some strange things that happened in the early years of the deserted village, regardless of the fact that the fat sea is probably too nervous, it is not clear, and many places are even inconsistent, and the donkey's lips are not the horse's mouth.

However, there are a few things that he said quite reliably, and I listened more seriously.

The post said that the local shadow puppet show is different from the outside, most of the foreign shadow puppet shows are the curtain on the top, the people are below, and the line or pole used to support the puppet is also under the curtain, but the local shadow puppet show is the opposite, the curtain is below, the person is above, and the support rod on the puppet body also hangs down from the top of the curtain.

It is said that the dolls made by the locals were very spiritual and looked like they had life, so they were sought after by many dignitaries at the time, and despite the remoteness of the village, there were always many visitors.

But then there was a Luo Di Xiu who strayed into this place, lived in the village for a while, probably also made by heaven, and one night he got drunk, pretending to be brave to go to the puppet workshop to see what was going on, and found that the dolls in the village were made of dead human skin, and he also heard the puppet craftsman say that only the puppets made of human skin can be brought to life.

As for how Xiucai left the village and how he spread the matter, Fat Dahai didn't say it clearly, he just said that since then, the rumor that every puppet in the village will kill one person has spread nearby, plus the living habits of the local people are already a little weird, and the surrounding dignitaries are also very worried when they hear this kind of words, and gradually, there are fewer people who come to the village to watch shadow puppetry, plus in those years, it was just in time for the invasion of the Bagua Alliance, social turmoil, and the locals lost their main source of income, and they couldn't find other livelihoodsFor the first time in more than 100 years since the establishment of the village, there has been a phenomenon of starvation to death.

Initially, people did starve to death, but after the first person starved to death, people in the village began to disappear often, and in a very bizarre way.

There was a couple who shared the same bed, and when they first lay down at night, both husband and wife were still in bed, but in the middle of the night, when the husband got up at night, he found that his wife's bed was empty, and he did not know where he had gone.

In addition, there was a pair of brothers who went to fetch water, and when they walked halfway, the elder brother suddenly disappeared, but obviously at the last moment, the younger brother was still chatting with the elder brother, and the elder brother who was walking behind disappeared after only turning his head.

There are many more examples like this.

At the time of the disappearance of these people, the puppeteer in the village was busy, and he had to be busy until late every night, and the villagers were curious, and someone peeked over the wall into the craftsman's house, and saw him cut off a large piece of skin from a man, and concentrated on tying up the puppet under the moonlight.

And the person who let him take the skin was a widow who had just disappeared a few days ago.

Many villagers rushed into the craftsman's house, destroyed his dolls, dug up an old tree in his backyard, and dug up more than a dozen corpses from the foot of the courtyard wall.

The villagers were furious and wanted to execute the craftsman using the ancestral method.

Before dying, the craftsman said to the villagers that he killed people and made dolls so that others could survive in this catastrophic year, many years ago, he made a contract with Grandpa Diling, as long as sixteen people were tied every year, the village could live smoothly, there were many people who came to the village to watch the play in the early days, he had money, he could hire people to other villages, counties, and get some homeless people to make dolls for him, but now he is poor, so he can only do it to the village, he said, if the people in the village want to live, they must let him continue to do, This year, he has already made fifteen dolls, and there is still one one left, as long as he pierces another one, the people in the village will live until the next year.

Unfortunately, the last puppet still failed to pierce it, and the angry villagers dug a pit under the cliff and buried the craftsman alive.

Beginning the day after the craftsman's death, the village began to disappear in large numbers, and every time a person disappeared, there would be an additional puppet in the craftsman's house.

Until all the 333 people in the village were gone, and on the clay kang of the craftsman's house, a full 333 human skin dolls were placed.

Legend has it that the ghost of the craftsman returned home that night, and when he saw the doll on the bed, he shook his head dissatisfied.

He said to something outside the window, and Grandpa Di Ling told him to tie enough nine hundred and ninety-nine human puppets, otherwise, his soul would be trapped in the village forever.

This set of so-called legends is nonsense when you hear it.

Let's not mention that since the people in the village are all dead, who else can know what happened back then, let's just say that in the 80s, there were obviously people living in this place, how did they get to the post, as early as the years when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded, the people in this village died.

But there is one thing I have to admit, the old cat's death, which has disappeared under our noses, seems to correspond to some of the content in the post.

When Fat Dahai said this, Li Huaishan was also listening, and when Fat Dahai finished speaking, he turned his head and asked the grasshopper: "Have you all read that post?" ”

The gnats stopped what they were doing, their expressions were still a little trembling, but their tone was quite calm: "I should have seen them all." ”

After saying that, the grasshopper stood in the distance, staring at me and Li Huaishan in a daze, as if he wanted to get some comforting words from our mouths.

I noticed the gnat's eyes, but I'm a person who only tells the truth, and comfort means lying a lot of the time, so I can't give him what he wants.

Li Huaishan ignored the gnats and turned his head to look at me: "Do you think what is written in this post is reliable?" ”

I folded my hands, pondered for a long time, and then shook my head: "What's in the post...... It was written by people, and the death of the old cat was also artificial. ”

Li Huaishan: "What do you mean...... Someone killed him? ”

When the word "human" was spoken, Li Huaishan deliberately accentuated his tone, and the mosquitoes and Mia in the distance all put down their work and looked at us.

I swept everyone present with my eyes and said to Li Huaishan: "Someone has set up a game in advance and has been waiting for us to jump in." No, it should be said, waiting for them to jump in. ”

As I spoke, I raised my hand again and pointed at everyone present.

The death of the old cat is definitely man-made, evil killing, it will not take so much effort to deliberately dress up the deceased like that.

This murderer may be hiding in the village at this moment, perhaps, among the people in front of him.

I don't know who he really is, but I can vaguely realize that this guy has a very deep Taoism, and he has never shown up, as if he just wants to play a game of cat and mouse with us, and by the way, touch the bottom of me and Li Huaishan.

At that moment, the mine suddenly stood up, and he shook his arm desperately at me like crazy, as if he was going to rush up and strangle me to death, waving his arm wildly, and screaming from his mouth: "There are ghosts! Ghosts! The old cat was killed by a ghost! ”

Seeing that this guy had completely collapsed, I didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, so I made a color at Li Huaishan, Li Huaishan understood, quickly walked behind the mine, and slashed a knife on his neck, and the mine didn't have time to snort, and fainted.

The grasshopper looked at the mine that had fallen to the ground, then looked at me again, and said, "The fog outside the village is also ...... Is it artificial? ”

He seemed too nervous to organize his words properly, but I understood what he meant, and said noncommittally, "The fog is an illusion, and it's hard to say how it came about." ”

After saying that, I crossed my fingers, dragged my cheeks with the back of my hand, and frowned as I looked at the grasshoppers.

The death of the old cat is probably just the beginning, and there will definitely be other victims in the future.

But who will be the next person?

(End of chapter)