Chapter 18: Meeting in the Mountains
If it was just an ordinary box, Wen Qiayun would naturally not care so much.
The main thing that really caught her attention was that the style of the box was exactly the same as the box of the village chief's house. The only difference between the two is the size.
Wen Qiayun shone a flashlight again with some uncertainty, and then she tried to recall the box at the village chief's house, but no matter how she compared, the two boxes were the same style.
If the village chief's box is an ordinary box, then there are several similar styles in the village. After all, in such a small village, maybe the carpenter work in the whole village comes from the same person.
But the problem is that the box of the village chief's house is not ordinary, according to the bad monk, it is a magic weapon with sealing ability. Although she didn't know anything about magic weapons and the like, she estimated in her heart that it shouldn't be the same.
Wen Qiayun didn't get too deep into this issue, after all, the box was in front of her, and it was not locked, so she could completely open the lid and take a look.
If it contains daily necessities such as clothes, it means that it is an ordinary box. But if there is nothing in it, or something strange, then it is more or less a sign that the box is not ordinary.
It's easy to say, but when Wen Qiayun set out to do it, he fell into a dilemma for a while.
When Xiao Mo told her some knowledge about curses on the bus, he repeatedly emphasized that caution was the most.
No matter what the moment comes, caution is essential. Because prudence is the medicine to dispel curiosity. This sentence was originally written by Lao Gao to Xiao Mo, and Lao Gao's original words were that more than sixty percent of the victims and escapees in the incident died of their own curiosity.
Later, Zhang Tianyi's caution also made Xiao Mo understand that in an incident, curiosity can be lost, especially when facing unknown choices alone, if you are not threatened by your life, then the best choice is to give up.
Every time a new person comes in with these experiences, Xiao Mo will take the trouble to talk to them. But nine times out of ten, it won't attract much attention. I almost forgot about it.
But Wen Qiayun is a delicate woman, she doesn't just listen, but also deliberately uses pen and paper to record some key things, and looks at them repeatedly. Go remember. Until she was sure she had almost memorized everything.
"Forget it. Let's go back first, as for when to sneak in and open the box again, let Xiao Mo and them decide. ”
Wen Qiayun finally triumphed over curiosity. She shook her head away from the box, and then searched the bedroom carefully, not missing a single corner.
Xiao Mo didn't know that Wang Zi, Wen Qiayun and the others were all acting separately. In comparison, he and Li Shuai are the most leisurely group, not only did they encounter any danger, but they were also able to lie on the bed and think like now, which has to be said to be a bit unbelievable in the incident.
Xiao Mo didn't sleep because he was thinking about the problem, but because he couldn't sleep, he had to think about the problem. The air in the room was very stuffy, and his clothes were soaked with sweat, and his whole body was very sticky.
"Whew...... Whew......"
Of course, Li Shuai's snoring is also a big reason why Xiao Mo can't sleep, this guy eats and sleeps well every day, unless it is a hard arrangement for him, it is rare for him to have insomnia.
Xiao Mo smiled bitterly, he couldn't yearn for this kind of body.
He had been thinking about this incident before, thinking about the various "abnormal" phenomena that had occurred in the village since the beginning of the incident.
For example, where did the village chief's box come from? What exactly does that box do? Which sentence of the village chief is true and which sentence is false?
Why does the village chief's wife rot as soon as she leaves the box, and is she a human or a ghost?
Why is Widow Li mysterious, what is the basket she carries when she goes out at night, and where does she plan to go secretly? Does she also have a box at home?
What about the murder and skinning in the village, and where did the flesh and blood of the dead go?
What is the identity of the outsider mentioned by the old lady? Why sneak into the wilderness village.
There are many mysteries like these, and it's hard to say that they won't continue to grow.
Xiao Mo felt that for a small village with only a hundred people, the appearance of so many mysteries was a very suspicious thing in itself.
Fortunately, the core part is focused on the village chief and Widow Li, so as long as he finds a way to overcome these two, then many problems can almost be solved.
"Hey." Xiao Mo exhaled hot air dullly, and no longer continued to nest on the bed, turning over and coming to the ground.
He lit the oil lamp on the table with a lighter, and after looking at the windless automatic oil core for a while, Xiao Mo got up and walked to the door, and then pushed the door and walked out.
Although the air outside was slightly better than inside the house, it was also very stuffy, and the heavy cloud overhead had reached the point of being strong, and the rainstorm would fall before dawn.
The village chief lit a dim oil lamp and sat quietly at the table in a daze. On the table was the mysterious box.
The village chief didn't know what he was thinking, and his face was full of sorrow, but at this moment his wife came in from the bedroom on one side, also carrying an oil lamp in her hand, which shone faintly.
At this time, she had completely recovered to normal, and she looked like she was only about forty years old, and she did not look half old.
"Why don't you sleep so late?"
The village chief turned his head, looked at her coldly, and then said:
"What should we do?"
"What to do, aren't we doing well now, you see I'm forty again." The village chief's wife was fanatical and unimpressed by the village chief's words.
"I mean, what to do with those outsiders, not only do they know about the killing of people in the village, but they also know about our boxes, and I suspect that they were the ones who did it last time the boxes disappeared. It is not known how they did it, but the box did appear in their hands the next day. ”
"We don't provoke them, and they won't provoke us if they want to."
The village chief's wife didn't seem to have any scheming, but just such a simple sentence made the village chief suddenly recall something terrible, and his whole face suddenly turned pale.
When he looked at her wife again, his eyes were filled with deep fear.
"The footsteps have stopped, and it looks like we've arrived at the place." The unkind monk grabbed Wang Zi and reminded him in a low voice.
Wang Zi was tired enough, he didn't expect that Widow Li to be able to walk so well, and she was really bold enough to dare to walk into this deep mountain and old forest in the middle of the night.
"To be on the safe side, I think we'll find a place to hide. I didn't think that the two of them would be driven down the hill before dawn, and then we would search around here again, and there would be no problem. ”
The unkind monk thought about it and felt that Wang Zi's mention was good, and they really didn't need to go deeper now. So he left a mark around him, and then he found a nearby leafy tree, climbed on it, and hid.
Widow Li didn't seem to be too familiar with the place she was going, so she searched for a long time nearby, and then heard her call softly:
"Chen Cheng? Temporary? ”
After Widow Li called twice, the sound of weeds being trampled on in the mountains and forests was heard, and then a figure walked out from the side.
"Little Cui'er?"
"Uh-huh." Hearing this thick male voice, Widow Li immediately responded excitedly. But before she could pass, she heard the male voice threaten in a loud voice:
"You think I can't see it if I'm hiding in the weeds!"
As soon as the words of warning fell, the man walked to one side, his steps extremely heavy. Perhaps he thought that the man had really discovered himself, so he heard a series of footsteps fading away from the weeds on one side.
Although Widow Li could not see anything, she could hear it clearly, and knew that she had been followed all the way, and she asked the man in shock:
"Someone stalking me? Is it a woman? ”
"No, a man, run away." The man didn't seem to care about the stalker, so he ignored it and led Widow Li around the two trees and into a very secret cave.
And the stalker who ran away earlier cursed viciously on his lips as he ran:
"Widow Li, that really has someone, okay, okay, then let me die!" (To be continued......)