Chapter Eighty-Four: The Mystery
The old man's words were unreasonable and unconventional, and Long Yang felt a little abnormal and a little uneasy in his heart.
The old man still didn't look back, but walked straight on. Long Yang had no way back, so he could only follow the old man and move forward.
The road ahead became more and more rugged, with strange rocks and strange birds chirping. Long Yang remembered that he seemed to have avoided nearby yesterday, but he didn't go deeper, could it be that there was a secret of an invisible person in it?
Long Yang had been secretly on guard, and the old man in front of him seemed to have no scruples until he approached the fork in the road.
"There are two paths here, you choose one." The old man stopped at the fork in the road and said to Long Yang.
"What are you?" Long Yang was very puzzled and couldn't figure out the identity of this old man.
"Here are two intersections, one life and one death, you can choose one by yourself." The old man was still expressionless, and let Long Yang choose for himself.
"What's going on?" Long Yang sensed that the danger was gone, and took a step closer to the old man and asked.
"It's okay, one goes east, the other goes southeast, choose to go quickly." The old man's words are indistinguishable, as long as the result of choice.
"I'm going southeast." Long Yang pointed with his hand and headed in the southeast direction, which was also the direction he headed for Wuwei City.
"Good! Now you and I are going our separate ways, unrelated to each other, huh! The old man flicked his sleeves and walked towards the eastern road with his hands behind his back.
The old man is gone, but Long Yang has not left the fork in the road. He was hesitating, it was the old man who forced himself to choose the path, and he had to choose just now. Do you take the southeast road or go east with the old man? Long Yang was unable to make a decision for a while.
Nameless Town is indeed not a ghost, it is man-made. As the saying goes, ghosts are not scary, but scary people. Since you are staying here, let's investigate it thoroughly. Long Yang resolutely walked towards the east, and the direction in which he went was the direction in which the old man was going.
Long Yang moved quickly in the darkness, hoping to keep up with the old man's footsteps.
After advancing for nearly three miles, there was still no old man. What is the identity of this old man? There seems to be nothing suspicious, why is there a sense of danger tonight, and why is the feeling of danger fleeting?
Long Yang searched nearby, and according to the speed of the old man, the fastest was around here. In the woods on the hill in the distance, a bright light flashed and went out, but it did not escape Long Yang's eyes. Longyang quickly approached, and the trees here grew exceptionally luxuriantly, hiding the hill in total darkness.
How can there be light in such a remote place? It should be a place for the elderly. Long Yang positioned the position of the bright light halfway up the mountain, and cautiously ascended the mountain from the foot.
The hill is not high, but there are many trees, there is no road at all, and you can only grope your way through the trees. Fortunately, Longyang grew up in the mountains since he was a child, and he is familiar with the environment on the mountain, so there are not too many difficulties and obstacles.
After a while, Long Yang came to the nearby area where there was a bright light, and he was not familiar with the situation here, so he had to look for it slowly. Long Yang relied on his special eyesight to explore in the dark woods, and almost all the locations on the mountainside were found.
Long Yang remembered that the place where he saw the light was this location, why there was no trace at all, Long Yang scratched his head.
Just as Long Yang was thinking to himself, a bright light appeared behind him again, like opening a door in the dark. Long Yang bowed his body vigilantly and hid himself in the dark.
It's really a door, but it's a stone door. Originally, there was a cave halfway up the mountain, and the stone gate was the door of the cave, and the light shone out from the cave.
A figure walked out of the cave, it was the old man.
"Old man She, what about the foreign child you are talking about?" A tall man said at the entrance to the cave.
"That kid is on the older side and not the person you need." The old man replied.
"Now there are not enough children to count, so the older ones are." The man continued.
"I don't think he meets your requirements, and I've let him go." The old man was frightened and did not dare to make a mistake.
"What? Whoever lets you make your own decisions, there will be a next time, you don't want to have your grandchildren again. ”
"Yes, yes." The old man replied resignedly.
"Here you go!" The tall man threw out a child, and the old man quickly caught it, it was the grandson of the old man.
The child did not make a sound, as if he had passed out.
"Thank you!" The old man hurriedly went down the mountain with the child in his arms and left.
"Rubbish!" With a shout, the stone door closed.
When the old man went down the mountain, there was no more movement at the stone gate, and Long Yang leaned out. Why do these people catch children? Could it be that the old man is their accomplice? At the moment these are all mysteries.
Long Yang came to follow this time, and the only thing he knew was that the old man's surname was She, and he knew the people in the cave.
Long Yang quietly came to the cave, the stone door was closed tightly, and there was no abnormality to be seen from the outside. Moreover, there are also plants and trees growing on this stone gate, which seems to have been mined naturally. If you don't know the situation in the cave, you can't act rashly, startle the snake, and you must start from Old Man She.
Long Yang made a hidden mark here, and then immediately went down the mountain, he wanted to catch up with Old Man She and ask for an explanation.
Old man She is not simple, he used to look like a sick old man, but now his legs and feet are not slow, and he has walked such a long distance in a while, and he also holds a child.
Long Yang chased to the town and found the figure of the old man in front of him. He trotted all the way, not looking old, and from time to time he looked down at his grandson in his arms. Seeing the old man's anxious appearance, Long Yang couldn't bear to stop him at this time. Ay! I'll talk about it when he gets home.
After the old man entered the town, he suddenly stopped running, and instead walked slowly with his grandson in his arms. He was afraid that someone in the town would see him and suspect him.
When he got home, the old man pushed the door into the house and immediately put his grandson on the bed.
"The grandson is finally back." The old woman cried.
"I'm coming back."
"How do you say we're going to live! It's been twice. Let's run. ”
"Run? Where to flee? Have you forgotten what happened to those who went out to report the crime! ”
After checking, the old man found that his grandson was unharmed, and he was a little relieved.
"Then you can't bear to let other people's children be taken captive?" Long Yang pushed the door into the house and asked directly.
"Why are you back again? I'm not letting you go! The old man was very surprised to see Long Yang come to his house again. Through Long Yang's questioning, he saw that Long Yang already knew something, and immediately stood up on guard.
"The first time I came back, I saw that you were in trouble, and I wanted to help you. I'm coming back this time because you're very abnormal, and I want to help children. Long Yang didn't care about the old man's performance at all, and talked eloquently.
"What do you know?"
"I know you're colluding with outsiders to steal the children in town." Long Yang hit the heart of the old man, and if he wanted to say it, he would get to the point.
"Hey! Child, you misunderstood me. It seems that you didn't go southeast, but chose to follow me. It seems that my good intentions have been in vain. The old man sighed deeply and sat down on his stool. He waved at the old woman to get out of the way.
"I know you've kept letting me go for my own good. But you can't trade the children in the town for your own grandchildren, they are all the same children, how can you bear it. Long Yang continued.
"You're in the cave too? Not good! The old man ran out of the house without warning.
Long Yang didn't think twice about it, and immediately jumped out of the house to prevent the old man from escaping.
The old man's figure did not stagnate at all, and he was faster than he had just returned, and he headed straight out of town. Although Long Yang was surprised by the old man's speed, he did not relax at all and followed the old man closely. He wanted to see where the old man was running and what his purpose was.
The old man did not run to the east, but to the southeast, which was the direction chosen by Long Yang. After running for five or six miles, the old man finally stopped.
"What the hell are you going to do!" Long Yang also arrived.
"As soon as you follow the cave, they will find you. The matter is urgent, not much to say. If you believe me, you can go out and help me report the crime, and I will deal with this side of the matter. The old man said anxiously to Long Yang.
"Why should I believe you?" Long Yang suspected that the old man had another purpose.
"Believe it or not, you have to leave immediately, and if you don't, it's too late. And with your skills, you can completely escape from their pursuit. The old man's expression didn't look like a fake, but he didn't explain to Long Yang, and Long Yang couldn't leave.
At this moment, there was the sound of hurried running footsteps behind them, and there should be four people listening to the sound.
"Oh no, they're coming after you. Hide quickly, and I will lead them away. The old man pushed Long Yang deep into the grass, turned to the east, and ran away from here.
Long Yang wanted to continue to catch up, but considering the people coming from behind, he endured it and lurked in the grass without moving.
The people from the rear found that Old Man She was running to the east, changing his route in advance, and did not pass through Longyang's hiding place. But Long Yang saw that there were four figures, very fast, fast as the wind, and extraordinary.
Looking at it this way, Old Man She didn't lie, someone found Long Yang and then sent someone to track it down. Old man She ran out of the house in order to lure Long Yang to this place to hide, and then persuaded Long Yang to leave again. At this point, the more Long Yang wanted to know what happened, that is, to report the case, and also to have a reason to report the case.
The artist was bold, and Long Yang decided to take another risk, and he hung far behind the four figures to see who they were.
The four figures stopped, because they had caught up with Old Man She. All four of them were wearing black robes, and even their faces were covered, so that they could not see their faces.
"Old fellow, what are you running!" One of them shouted.
"I, I'm chasing that kid from a foreign country." Old Man She was out of breath and coughed repeatedly, just like the two of them just now.
"Where did he go?"
"Ahead!" Old man She stretched out his hand and pointed to the east.
"Even you, the old look, also want to chase people, the third and fourth, you chase forward."
"Yes, Boss." After the two figures agreed, they immediately rushed away.
"Old fellow, you go back to the cave with us, the Lord has something to ask you." The man known as the Boss continued.
"Okay, ahem, okay." Old man She followed behind the two of them, with his hands behind his back, still coughing.
Long Yang was about to get up and continue to follow, when he suddenly found that the old man's hands behind his back were shaking behind him. It seems that the old man knew that he was coming again, and was reminding himself not to follow again.
If you don't follow, you can't know the mystery, and if you go with him, it will bring danger to the old man and his family, weighing the pros and cons, Long Yang decided to report the case first, and then come back to solve the matter.