"I don't know where the three of you came from?" The middle-aged man invited us into the room, "Please be seated." ”

On a simple wooden bed with a thick mattress, a middle-aged woman wrapped in a military coat sat at the head of the bed and nodded to us. Chang Yan and Chang Miao sat on the square bench on the edge of the wooden table, and on the table, the flames on the kerosene lamp swayed with the movements of the two.

"We're from K City." With that, I sat down at the wooden table.

"K City, that's far enough." At this time, the middle-aged man came out of the kitchen with a kettle, "Come on, come on, drink some water, you're tired." As he spoke, the man placed three cracked clay bowls in front of us and filled them with water.

"Small place poor, nothing to entertain. We rarely have people in Styx Town, so I wonder what happened to the three of us? The woman sitting at the head of the bed smiled embarrassedly at us, and then walked over to a few of us.

"We are here to visit a relative, he lives in Styx Town, his name is Wang Huan, I don't know if you recognize him." I asked bluntly.

The husband and wife looked at each other and smiled, and then the man said with interest: "Wang Huan? Both of us are called Wang Huan. Don't look at our place called Styx Town, in fact, we only have 80 people here all year round, and all of them here are surnamed Wang, and those named Wang Huan account for more than half. I don't know if this relative of yours is a man or a woman, what the family name is, maybe we can provide you with the location of their home. ”

“.... Ahem, what do you mean? Hearing what the middle-aged couple said, the water that Chang Yan had just drunk squirted out and said, "You mean that half of the people in this town are named Wang Huan?" Holy shit, which ...... are we going to save?"

I elbowed Chang Yan and motioned for him to stop talking, then I changed the subject and asked, "By the way, you just said that the population of this town is maintained at 80 people all year round, why is that?" "Although I have seen the introduction of the population of Stygian Water Town in my notes before, it is only a passing mention. I think if we can get to the bottom of the matter, it might help us in this mission.

"Speaking of which, it's very evil, and it's been like this since birth." Talking about this question, the man's voice was lowered a lot, "I don't know why, here, every time a new life is born, someone is destined to die immediately, so the number has not changed." I heard the old man in the town say that someone had offended a master before, and as a result, the whole town was beheaded by that person. ”

"Don't talk about it, it's weird to listen to it at night." The woman slapped the man, and her body unconsciously shook.

"So, once the town hears that someone's daughter-in-law is pregnant, they immediately become panicked, and they don't want to be the next person to die." The man ignored the woman's words and continued.

"Then do you know that there is a family that has a pregnant woman who is about to give birth recently?" I pressed on.

"Zhendong Tou'er Wang Erniu and his daughter-in-law are almost ten months pregnant, and they should be born in the next few days. I don't know which family is about to have a funeral, heck, it can't be me. The man patted his chest and said.

"Bah, don't talk nonsense." The woman glared at the man, "Are you in a hurry to reincarnate?" Then the woman looked at the three of us and said, "Is there anything else, it's okay, we're going to sleep." Obviously, the conversation just now made the woman not very happy.

"Last question, where is that Wang Ergou's house?"

"The last one to the east." The woman said angrily.

"Excuse me, thank you." The two brothers Chang Yan and Chang Miao and I walked out of the house, and then we heard the door behind me slam shut.

"Phew, what an attitude." Chang Yan spat on the ground, "If it weren't for something important, Lao Tzu wouldn't have come to a place where this kind of bird doesn't." ”

"That's it!" Chang Miao echoed behind him.

......

"What to do, where to go now? There are so many people named Wang Huan here, which one should we save? Back in the car, Chang Miao said while wearing his seat belt, and it could be heard from his tone that he had no hope for this mission.

"Let's go, let's go to Wang Erniu's house in the east of the town." I started the car and headed east.

"We're looking for Wang Huan, what are you doing at Wang Erniu's house?" Chang Miao, who was sitting in the back row, asked.

"Didn't you hear that man just now? The population here is maintained at 80 people all year round, and when someone is born, someone dies immediately. Since we can't find who Wang Huan we want to save, then we might as well boldly assume that this Wang Huan will die because Wang Erniu and his daughter-in-law gave birth to a child? Anyway, we have five chances, so we might as well take a gamble first. I said.

"It makes sense, but even if we find Wang Erniu's house, what are we going to do? Prevent him from having a child? Chang Yan asked.

"If that's the case, there's probably only one way we can do it." Chang Miao poked her head out from behind and said.

I haven't thought about Chang Yan's question before, indeed, even if we find Wang Erniu's family, do we really have to find a way to prevent the birth of his child? It doesn't seem humane to do so. "Don't worry about it for now, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and then we'll talk about it." I muttered to myself.

Despite the fact that this town has only 80 inhabitants, however, the area of the town is really large. No, it's not so much big as it is empty, and the car has been driving for a long time, and it only passes by a few families.

"Fuck, no wonder it's called Styx Town, it's so big, when will it be opened to Wang Erniu's house." Chang Yan whined impatiently.

"Brother, look there." Suddenly, Chang Miao pointed forward. Looking in the direction of Chang Miao's finger, a faint firelight flickered in his sight, and then a burst of light smoke floated up.

"Holy shit, isn't it, people in this town like to sit outside and smoke in the middle of the night?" Chang Yan exclaimed, his voice trembling a little. As I drove the car closer, I saw an old man sitting on a stone, holding a cigarette stick and smacking dry tobacco. And this old man is the mute old man we saw before!

"Isn't it! Ghost hitting the wall?! Or does this old man teleport?! At this time, Chang Yan almost screamed when he spoke.

"Look at the time!" I said to the two of them.

"Eleven half-past ......" Chang Miao slumped back into his seat, "Isn't the first opportunity over before it starts?" ”