"Could it be that they already knew the murderer, and they were acting with us for most of the day?!" The old knife muttered in his mouth and scolded "Ge Laozi".

I nodded slowly: "It's possible." But the question is not the case itself, but this, this Cai Zhiheng - or He Jun, what are their intentions? ”

"Hinder us...... They are trying to get in the way of our case. Cheng Cheng had a contemplative look on his face, and his fingers tapped on the bed board under him, "Since we entered this town, Cai Zhiheng, He Jun, and even Chunzi, they have been constantly looking for all kinds of excuses and using various means to hinder us from investigating Qiao Zhenbang's case. Or procrastinate us, or put obstacles in our way, or even use the vicious case that happened a few days ago to attract our attention...... The purpose is to give us no time or heart to investigate the Qiao Zhenbang case in depth - think about it, is that the case? ”

Everyone showed thoughtful looks, and in the end, they unanimously agreed with Cheng Cheng's speculation.

The old knife was even more inspired: "No wonder, Haruko was going to say those strange things just now...... Why can't you go out when it's dark, I think it's also a suspicious tactic! Hmph, it must have been instructed by Cai Zhiheng, this old boy's smiling appearance is just a smiling tiger! He wanted to make us suspicious and afraid to act at night. Bah, Ge Laozi! The more they don't let me investigate, the more I want to investigate—we'll start working at night as soon as we're done with our meeting! Especially the small western-style building of Qiao's family, we were fooled by the murder case of what the hell Cai Zhiheng used, so we were all concerned about helping this old boy solve the case, and we didn't carefully investigate the small western-style building at all. ”

When Lao Dao finally talked about the small western-style building, his eyes looked at me, and I immediately understood: this guy wanted to investigate the strange portrait hanging in the living room of the small western-style building again.

Lao Dao's proposal was immediately responded to by Li Yi and Zhou Ou, and Li Yi patted the bed board sitting under his buttocks: "Anyway, we have been sleeping non-stop during the day since yesterday, first in that **, and then here in the morning, I have slept enough, Lao Tzu is very energetic now!" Brother Dao, I'll vote for you! ”

Zhou Ou also agreed, but was glanced at by Cheng Cheng: "Agree with your size, did you ask you to vote?" As soon as you go out in the field, you will be unorganized and undisciplined? ”

Zhou Ou was counted down by his section chief, and he was immediately stunned, and Cheng Cheng suddenly lowered his voice and asked me: "Aji, I see that you have been closely observing all the townspeople who have been in contact with us all the way, how is it, do you see anything wrong?" ”

The people here, after experiencing the thrilling and strange events that happened along the way (especially the Dahuaishu Village incident), their nerves have always been tense, and now listening to Cheng Cheng's question, all of a sudden, the atmosphere in the room became tense, and the room was quiet all of a sudden, as if everyone was holding their breath at the same time.

Everyone looked at me with eyes, expecting me to answer.

"Don't be nervous, everyone." I raised my hands slightly and made a downward motion, asking everyone not to look like they were all soldiers, "Team Cheng is right, after passing through the bus and Dahuaishu Village, I did stay vigilant all the way. However, according to my observation, at least this Chunzi girl, as well as Cai Zhiheng and He Jun, should be the same as us, they are all big living people - only the murder suspect Niu Chunhua looks a little strange. ”

The originally relaxed look on Li Yi's face suddenly tensed up again: "That fat woman is not a living person?" Damn, or if I handcuff her, will she hate me? And Brother Ji, can you talk and don't always turn around, I was shocked, I was about to be scared out of heart disease by you along the way. ”

The old knife couldn't help but laugh: "Isn't this thing you rushing to do?" ”

Li Yi cried and said with a sad face: "Didn't I torture anyone?" is always tortured, and it is rare to have a chance to torture others, right? ”

"This is not a chat, that Niu Chunhua will not turn into a female ghost in the middle of the night to seek revenge on you." I comforted Li Yi, turned my head to Cheng Cheng and Lao Dao and said, "Cheng Team and Lao Dao are right, the people here are indeed very strange, they seem to be hiding something, but I don't think it's just covering up for Qiao Zhenbang - because I think it's not only the people in this town who are strange, but the town itself also makes me feel weird." For example, this terrible gloomy sky, and, as we saw just now, it was only a few o'clock, and the town was actually dark, and it didn't look like an inhabited place. ”

Lao Dao took over the conversation: "I think, we still have to start with Qiao Zhenbang's case now, if we can catch Qiao Zhenbang, maybe other doubts will be solved by the way." ”

"I agree." Cheng Cheng nodded, and then asked again, "However, although this town is not big, it is no problem to hide one or two people, without the guidance of the locals, we don't know where to find Qiao Zhenbang." ”

At this time, Liu Haijun, who had been sitting silently on the side and had not spoken, suddenly spoke: "Team Cheng, it's really easy to hide alone, but didn't Qiao Zhenbang drive a luxury off-road?" It's not easy to hide such a big car, right? ”

That's right, you can't get to this town without a car, and we didn't notice anyone abandoning it along the way.

Of course, I also considered the possibility of driving the car down the cliff on the side of the winding road, but the shoulder wall of more than 30 centimeters high was built on both sides of the winding road, and in some dangerous sections, we all stopped the car and used a strong flashlight to search the cliff under the mountain road, however, Qiao Zhenbang's car was not found.

Therefore, there is a great possibility that Qiao Zhenbang drove the car directly into Blackwater Town, so it must be much easier to find a car than to find a person.

Cheng Cheng clapped: "Everyone goes back to their rooms to rest first, at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, we will gather on the first floor to find Qiao Zhenbang's car - Xiao Li and Xiao Zhou will stay behind tonight, no problem, right?" …… If it's no problem, just do it! ”

According to Li Yi's temperament, he must want to set off immediately, and he didn't want to stay for a second, but he asked him to stay in the city by name, he glanced at me and Lao Dao, and saw that we had no plans to stand up for him, so he had to keep his head silent.

Of the three rooms on the second floor, Cheng Cheng and Liu Haijun lived in the middle one, Li Yi and Zhou Ou lived on the left, Lao Dao and I lived in the rightmost room, and the stairs up and down the road were next to Li Yi and Zhou Ou's room, which was the leftmost position of this small building.

……

"Aggie, what's on your back?"

When I got back to my room, I wanted to change into clean clothes before going to bed, because I have been feeling a little itchy on my back lately, and I thought that maybe it would be nice to change my clothes, but who knew that as soon as I took off my shirt, the old knife on one side exclaimed!

"What's on my back?"

I asked, turning my head to see my back, but I couldn't.

"It looks like a tattoo...... When did you get the tattoo? ”

"I don't like tattoos, how can I get them? What the hell is going on in my back? ”

"Wait......"

I didn't find a mirror in the house, so Lao Dao took a photo with his mobile phone to show me, and when I looked at it, I suddenly felt a chill hit!

The moment I saw the photo, I immediately subconsciously scratched the place on my back with my hand, as if something like a leech had bitten on my back, and I was also chilling!

I saw that a blue-black color block appeared on the part of my vest near my waist, like that kind of cyan tattoo, and the shape of the color block was very similar to the tail of some kind of reptile-

Turtles, lizards, or...... Snake!

But I have seen the strange scar on Qiao Zhenbang's body, and the appearance of the scar is also very similar to a big black snake hovering on the ground, the upper half of the snake jumping high, and the snake's mouth is wide open, and it wants to choose someone to devour!

I was very impressed by this pattern, and when I saw the photo taken on Lao Dao's mobile phone, and compared it with the black snake scar in my mind, I immediately saw that the half of the tail that appeared on my back was not part of the lower half of the snake's body that was black entrenched on the ground?!

My whole person is suddenly bad!

There really is an illusion of being entangled in the body of a snake!

For me, who hates cold-blooded reptiles, it was extremely disgusting and terrifying!

In addition, both versions of "Black Town" have written the same plot - there is a mysterious person who tells the protagonist Jolo that he must go to Taiping Town, otherwise, he will die from the "big snake"!

And Qiao Zhenbang also told me that the plot in "Black Town" has become a reality! And on his body, there is also a scar-like "big snake" pattern!

Now, the "big snake" has appeared on my back!

This is, why?

Could it be that Lao Dao's previous guess was correct: among the six of us, there must be one person who corresponds to the protagonist in "Black Town" - and the protagonist in the book actually refers to me?

"That's right! Books, what about my books? ”

After I arrived in Blackwater, I found a canvas satchel, put the strange "Blacktown" in the bag, and carried it with me at all times, at this time I immediately opened the satchel, and the old knife also came over, and opened "Blacktown" with me-

One! Slice! Empty! White!

The words that appeared on the pages of the book before have all disappeared again!

"Your book was dropped? How so?! The old knife was shocked.

"Don't worry!" I took a deep breath and pressed my pounding heart, "Wait a minute......

I paid close attention to this satchel, and I also had Li Yi, Lao Dao and others around me, for pickpockets, the eyes of the two of them were more vicious than mine, and the only one who could steal from me was Chunzi, Cai Zhiheng and He Jun, I thought about it, there should be no such possibility...... As for that Niu Chunhua, I have always kept her three meters away, and it is even more impossible to attack me.

Although the old knife didn't know what was going on, he didn't dare to breathe when he saw that I was so nervous, and the two of us stared at the blank book in our hands with four eyes, and no one spoke for a while.

"Whew-"

I felt a gust of wind pass behind us, circling behind my ears, and when I reached out to touch it, it was long gone......

Before I could put down the book, words suddenly appeared on the page in front of me!

It was still as if it was typed out on the spot with a typewriter, one by one square Chinese characters, typed on the blank page:

[Today's side becomes a permanent secret,

See each other in the future only in a dream.

The rooster crows, and the wheel crows;

Woe, there is no one to replace you.

The rooster Naruto wakes up, everyone wakes up, and only you sleep;

Say goodbye with tears, and from now on yin and yang are separated.

Happy family eats happy meal, bad family has no way to cry!

Sorrow and pain!

Alas! 】

Lao Dao frowned when he saw it: "It was still a paragraph before, Lao Tzu can still understand it, what kind of book is it now?" Messy, what do you mean? ”

I stared at it a few times and replied, "It looks like a ...... Funeral song. ”

"Funeral song?"

"In many places, there is a custom of singing funeral songs to mourn and say goodbye after death. According to custom, when a person has lost his breath, he fires a gun or fires a cannon to see the deceased on his way. After hearing the news, the blood relatives rushed to the bereaved home, saw the deceased, said goodbye, and then asked the Taoist priest or shaman to chant the sutra to surpass the dead. After the deceased is buried, wine and meat are placed next to the coffin, and the father who presides over the funeral is invited to sit on the table, and the guardian sits on the ground. Sing a part, weep bitterly, and sing from the evening to the dawn of the funeral. ”

"This book is written with the lyrics of this Rausch funeral song?"

"Well, it should be one of the lyrics - hey, and the words!"

At the end of the page, another text appears:

[Welcome.]

……

Tai ping. 】

The old knife slapped his thigh: "I was right with you before, right?" See, this ghost place is really Taiping Town in the book! ”

I had a faint itch on my back again, which made people desperately want to scratch - I now begin to understand why Qiao Zhenbang has such a terrible and weird scar on his chest, it turned out that it was not composed of scars with a black snake pattern, but a black snake tattoo appeared first, and then because of the itching, Qiao Zhenbang would scratch with all his strength until the skin broke and the blood flowed, and then the wound was scratched again before the scar was formed, and so on, which caused the layers of scars that looked extremely disgusting!

The itch on my back became more intense, I quickly closed the book and put it on the bed, grabbed the quilt on the bed with both hands, gritted my teeth and said to the old knife: "Old knife, let me tell you the origin of the tattoo on my back." ”

I started with the black snake scar on Qiao Zhenbang's body, to the description of the "black snake" tattoo in the two versions of "Black Town", and finally to the itch on my back, as well as my speculation-

I might be the stand-in for the main character of "Black Town", Jolo!

When I finished speaking, the itch on my back suddenly disappeared, as if it had come suddenly.

I breathed a sigh of relief, trembling all over, a few drops of sweat fell from my forehead to my arms, and there was a tingling sensation.

The old knife held me up: "Then aren't you very dangerous now?" ”

"On the contrary, I'm more worried about your situation." I took a deep breath and recovered all my strength, "Even if I have a vision on me, if I really am the protagonist of "Black Town" Jolo, then I will definitely be the last person to die - without that book, the protagonist died first, right?" ”

The old knife grinned: "That's the same." ”