Chapter 13: An Unexpected Hearsay
Just as Xiao Mo thought, not only did he suspect the content of the village chief's accusations against them, such as Wang Zi, the unkind monk, Wen Qiayun, and even Li Shuai felt that the village chief was suspicious.
The untrustworthiness of the village chief's words is mainly expressed in three aspects.
The first aspect is his description of the box.
Li Shuai sneaked into the village chief's house that night and saw the greed and surprise on his face when facing the box. And the conversation between the village chief and his wife that night, Li Shuai also heard it without a trace, compared to his wife, it can be said that the village chief is the one who longs for the box the most.
But in the village chief's description of them, he rarely mentions himself, and only brushes the story of himself, and makes it an understatement that he just likes the meat in the box.
This was completely inconsistent with the greed and ecstasy he had shown when he faced the box that night.
In addition, there is another illogical place, and that is the village chief's description of his wife. According to the village chief, his wife did not listen to his advice and turned over the box he had hidden while he was not at home, and then opened it.
If it's a child, or someone who doesn't know the power of supernatural things, maybe it can do it. However, the village chief's wife had been attacked by the ghosts, and if it hadn't been for the timely rescue of the escapees, his wife would have been killed by the ghosts.
How could such a person who had personally experienced horror not understand the power of it, and because of a trace of curiosity in his heart, he would boldly open the box?
What's more, she not only opened the box, but also ate the unexplained piece of meat placed in the box raw. If that piece of meat doesn't have psychedelic abilities. Then the village chief is talking nonsense.
The second aspect is the ambiguity of the village chief in describing the incident 20 years ago.
Although the village chief revealed their identities in one word, it was quite shocking to them. But about the incident that he said happened 20 years ago in the wilderness village. But in their hearts, they were somewhat unconvinced.
Although the village chief said that he had a nose and eyes, he was very vague on some issues.
For example, in the description of the ghost's abilities. The village chief described the appearance of the ghost creature in great detail, but did not mention half of the ghost's ability. When they asked about this, the village chief said that he had not seen it on the grounds that he was so scared that he fled in a panic.
However, this approach of the village chief was not impossible at that time, after all, most people subconsciously turned around and fled.
Then there is the village chief's response to the recent skinning incident. Table xiàn is too calm. Think about it, since the events of 20 years ago left such a deep impression on him, when something like this happened again. He was definitely more terrifying than anyone else. Not only him, but even Xu Laohan was very calm, as if his wife had not died in the previous incident.
Otherwise, he and her wife are not in a good relationship. He was not impressed by his wife's death. But this situation is obviously very different from the village chief's description.
And the village chief learned 20 years later. When the exact same tragedy is about to be staged again, he should be suspicious of the box in his hand. After all, the escapee who was the exorcist had warned him at that time, but the real situation was that he was not vigilant about the box.
As for the third aspect, there is the reference of the village chief to the solution of the incident.
In that incident 20 years ago, there were six escapees, all of whom had an exorcist. And they all entered the village as a city inspection group, which has to be said to be too coincidental.
Because the village chief said he was not involved at the time. So he just knew that three of the six people had died, and then the exorcist gave him the box and told him to keep it safe. And when the village chief described these people, he said that the dried corpse could not do anything to them, but every time the dried corpse escaped.
But this situation is obviously not abnormal, after all, they are not proactive when facing ghosts. Of course, they can't say what the supernatural event was like 20 years ago, and maybe they can really fight against ghosts.
So the real contradiction is, since those six escapees have an advantage over ghosts, how can they still die in the end? It is not excluded that the sneak attack of the ghost thing, but the ghost can succeed in one sneak attack, and the sneak attack can succeed in two sneak attacks, can it still succeed in three sneak attacks? Are they a bunch of 2Bs?
And if you think about it as an escapee, they will never leave such an important box to the villagers. Even if it is left to the people in the village, at least it must be explained in detail what is inside, how terrible and terrible it will happen when it is opened, and explain these words clearly.
Since there was no prompt, or foreseeer, they had to leave the box behind, and the chances of the event being forcibly arranged were slim to none.
However, the above three aspects, combined with what Li Shuai overheard that night, a conclusion that was not so surprising appeared.
"I remember the village chief saying that night that their family would finally have a good life with this box, and so on.
So from this sentence alone, it is not difficult for us to analyze that the village chief only got the box recently. As for the incident that happened 20 years ago, most of it must have been made up by the village chief, but judging from the fact that he can tell us who we are, he must have some understanding of the curse. “
After some discussion and analysis, Xiao Mo finally made the final conclusion.
Wang Zi nodded, and at this time echoed and said:
"It's actually easy to think of, because since the village chief's wife had opened the box 20 years ago, how could it be that nothing had happened for so long?"
"Haha, but then again, the village chief's level of storytelling is really good." Li Shuai laughed twice, not knowing whether this was a compliment or ridicule.
"Although there is a good chance that this is the truth, but just in case, we still have to walk around the village as much as possible for a while. There are not many people in the village, so I don't believe that there are not many old people. Wang Zi reminded everyone again, just in case.
After that, under Widow Li's incomprehensible gaze again, everyone left Widow Li's house again, separated in pairs, and went to visit the other villagers in the village.
There are two main purposes for this kind of visit, one is to ask if the incident mentioned by the village chief happened 20 years ago, and the other is to inquire about Widow Li, after all, this Widow Li also looks very suspicious.
The men divided into three groups and traveled almost the entire village, asking them in detail what they wanted to know.
As a result, the village chief really made arrangements in advance, but to deal with the villagers who were not highly educated, Wen Qiayun, Xiao Mo, Wang Zi and others used some interrogation skills, and the villagers explained without knowing it.
As it turned out, there had been no murder and skinning in the village 20 years ago, but it was true that about two-thirds of the people had left the village, and it was the village chief who took the lead.
What's even more interesting is that this village chief is not a native of Yuanye Village, nor is he from the other five villages, but belongs to the same foreigners as them. But because he married the daughter of the previous village chief and had a certain ability himself, the new village chief fell on his head.
After he became the village head, he brought certain benefits to the village, at least the harvest was much higher, and some villagers also went to live in the city under his guidance.
It's not that the villagers don't want to go to the city, but they don't dare to go, and they don't know what they can do if they go outside. But with the guidance of the village chief, after all, the village chief is a foreigner and has many friends in the city who can help these displaced villagers.
"Did any of these villagers who left the village come back on the way?" Xiao Mo asked an old lady in the village.
This old lady's hair has completely turned gray, and she looks like she is 70 years old, when she heard Xiao Mo's question, the old lady's face showed a rich gloom:
"Hey, my son, daughter-in-law, and little grandson have all gone outside, but after so many years, no one has come back to see me.
But it's okay, as long as they're doing well, I don't have to worry about my wife. “
The old lady's words made Xiao Mo's heart sour, thinking about it, he hadn't been in contact with his family for a long time, and he didn't know how his parents' health was, whether they were still as tough as before.
Seeing that Xiao Mo didn't speak for a while with red eyes, the old lady suddenly muttered to herself at this time:
"I don't know what's going on lately, there are always outsiders coming."
"Why, are there any other outsiders besides us?" Xiao Mo asked under pressure.
"I don't know, anyway, when I was walking in the north of the village that day, I saw a stranger. I don't know what I'm doing, sneaky. (To be continued......)