Chapter 44: Script
I took a deep breath and continued.
"That's what to do and what not to do."
"You remember, the first person to die, flesh turned into a butterfly, I think this should be the witchcraft, but, I don't think we can do witchcraft, in other words, after the old lady left after telling this story, we people changed."
"Someone suddenly learned the magic of witchcraft and used it, I think this person is the woman who lives with 'Tomie', this should be the reason for her death, you remember, she has a lot of bugs on her body, and then she still has a witch doll in her hand."
"It should have happened when she played tricks on the second person."
Everyone nodded, and I continued.
"Next is the one who stole things, I think it should have something to do with his greed, because one of the people who came with me before he said the word 'greed' to me before he died, I didn't know what it meant at the time, and now it seems that I should not be too greedy."
"And this death also has a prototype in the story, that is, the servant who was greedy for money and framed, and he also committed suicide because of greed."
"After that, the person who killed Komizaki was the one who killed her, and her way of death was to jump into the well, which corresponds to the sinking pond of the pregnant concubine, although I don't know what the reason is."
"And Boss Lan's death corresponds to Guo Taigong's broken bones and his death, and I don't know the specific reason."
"In the end, there are two people who were burned to death by the fire, and they correspond to Guo Gongzi, who was also burned to death by me."
I paused, then said.
"So, what happened to us is closely related to the story told by the old lady, and it is consistent with the reasoning of one of you before, that everyone died because of what they did, and I think the main reason why I was not able to leave the courtyard before was that the curse had not been fully fulfilled."
"When I was leaving, there were only three things that happened: death from the bite of ten thousand insects, death by hanging, and death by broken bones, so I would be trapped here, and after all the curse signs had happened, I could leave, because everything that the old lady wanted to show us was done."
"Do you think my analysis makes some sense?"
Everyone thought in silence, and then they all nodded.
After that, Xiaomei looked at me and said.
"You mean, when the old lady mentioned the curse of a hundred years ago to us, she actually wanted to kill us."
I shook my head and said.
"No, I think, on the contrary, she wants to save us, she wants to tell us what we can't do, but, for some reason, she didn't tell us directly."
At this time, a man was in the right way.
"Officially, my name is this."
As he spoke, he held up a piece of paper with three words written on it, "An Jiuge", and then he continued.
"You can call me 'Nine Songs', and I think 'Bashan on a Rainy Night' is right, and that old lady may be hinting at a way to escape from here, such as the river lantern."
"In the story, the only soul that escaped from here in the end was that Guo Gongzi, although the body should be dead."
As soon as he said this, I thought about it, except for Guo Gongzi, the only thing left who didn't know life and death was the child in the belly of the pregnant concubine.
Then, he suddenly turned to look at me and asked.
"You just said that you don't know the cause of death of a few people, I may know one, most of Lan Lao's deaths are due to his pride, he thinks too much of himself, he doesn't listen to other people's advice at all, when we leave here and encounter ghosts hitting the wall, everyone suggests retreating, but he insists on cracking the ghost hitting the wall."
"As a result, it looks like it's cracked, but it angers the ghost who intercepted it, otherwise those two people wouldn't have died."
"Don't you think that this character and behavior are very similar to Mrs. Guo in the story?"
I nodded, then said with a sigh.
"It seems that I may have thought one thing wrong, I always thought that the people who came with me would die because they violated the four taboos of Biluo, as well as the taboo of Halloween, but now it seems that this is not the case, and most of their deaths are also related to the 'Hundred Years of Curse' here."
The eight people who came with me before, now there are only me, Situ Xiaozhu and the eccentric Sisi and the group leader, and among the other four people who died, Qianxue died because of the curse of the river lantern, and now that I think about it, she should die of "greed", just like she told me when she finally died.
Because people are "greedy" not only for money, don't forget that there is a saying called "greedy for life and afraid of death", Qianxue died of "greedy for life", but the way of death is very different from the dead guy, as for He Mingrui, I think it's the same, if you don't want to die, you will kill me desperately, it should also be a kind of "greed".
However, what I'm worried about now is another thing, that is, if you don't "greed", you won't die?
The answer, of course, is no, if the people I just analyzed that night died according to the cursed death, died by the curse, but what about the people who were killed by these people?
What are these people doing wrong?
For example, the first person whose flesh and blood turned into a butterfly, he was a victim of the "Hundred Years Curse", even if the curse helped him avenge, but what use was it? He's not dead yet.
So, obviously, this matter is definitely not as simple as avoiding the curse and everything will be fine.
Thinking of this, I sighed and said.
"You guys should stay here for the time being, I have something to do, and I'll be back later."
With that, I stood up and walked outside.
I'm going to go to that little building again before dawn, I want to see at least all the rooms on the second floor, I'm going to figure out what the village is going to do, I've been skeptical of everything since I came here.
"I'll go with you."
Xiaomei ran to my side and said.
I shook my head and said.
"If there are too many people, they will be exposed."
After saying that, I left straight away, and now, I can't trust anyone, including this Xiaomei who was saved by me.
The whole village was quiet, and the four-eyed owl didn't know where it went, but I didn't see it anyway, so I cautiously went to the back door of the small building, and then opened the lock with ease.
This time I didn't wander around the first floor, but went straight to the second floor.
I've been here once, so I'm familiar with the room, and I went to the room with pictures on the walls, and I was relieved to find that the photos were still the same, indicating that no one had been here since I came in before.
Actually, I was so worried that as soon as I pushed the door open, the ghostly old lady was sitting inside waiting for me.
So, I re-locked the room and walked to a new one.
There are portfolio-like things all over this room, some of them are very old, I picked one up and looked at it, it was about people's biographies and stuff, including names, dates of birth, personality traits and whatever, very detailed, I don't know what it was for.
I flipped through a few, and found that these files were stored in chronological order, so I found the latest part, and it turned out that the latest was also more than 20 years ago, and there was no information about us people and Xue Zhen.
"Didn't it stop recording more than twenty years ago?"
I muttered a little suspiciously, but it didn't help me, so I flipped through it and left the room for the next one.
As a result, I saw something unexpected in this room, there was a printer in this room, and there were a lot of scattered photos next to the printer, and it seemed that the photos posted on the walls of the room were printed from here.
"There's a real way to connect with the outside here."
Seeing this scene, I am even more convinced that there is a channel to communicate with the outside world.
I flipped through the pictures and left the room and entered the last room on the second floor.
This time I was finally shocked by what was in the room.
Because there are dense "scripts" in the room, yes, they are scripts similar to movies or plays, and of course what really surprised me was the content of the script.
I think I'm finally going to uncover the truth about this village.