Mandan woke up and saw that everyone was in a mess, and after inquiring, he learned that it was Hongban's daughter who had lost it. She and Hong Ban searched for several days in the front and back mountains, becoming more and more desperate day by day.

In the days that followed, Hong Ban and his wife seemed to have lost not their daughter but their souls, and they didn't know what to do. The wife cried all day long, blaming herself for not taking a good look at her daughter, and even had some insanity. Hong Ban comforted that there would be more in the future, and his wife shouted: "I can't have children anymore, how can there still be?" ”

In order to comfort Hongban's wife, Mandan offered to go around with her every day, because she would only become normal when she was looking for her daughter. Mandan felt that a little girl who was less than five years old was unlikely to go to the neighboring villages, and these villages had never heard of traffickers, and most of the traffickers were stealing boys. So she thinks it's probably still in the mountains.

On this day, Mandan and Hong Ban's wife went to the back mountain to look for him, and Hong Ban continued to inquire in the neighboring village, hoping to have clues. When Hongban returned in the evening, his wife and Mandan were still not at home. He went to the back mountain to look for the two, but after searching for more than half an hour, he didn't find them, so Hong Ban had to go home and wait first.

The night was getting deeper and deeper, and Hong Ban couldn't hold his breath anymore, so he found the village chief again and asked him to call a few people to help find it. First looking for his daughter, and now his wife and apprentice are missing, and the village is beginning to panic. It didn't take long for everyone to find Mandan in the back mountain, she was unconscious in the barren mountain pass, her head was blurred with flesh and blood, and there was a big bloody stone not far away, and there were many traces of rolling on the ground.

Following the traces, Hongban's wife was lying prone in a patch of weeds, arms outstretched at her sides. Hong Ban was so frightened that his soul was gone, and he didn't dare to turn over his wife's body immediately, but first trembled and touched his wife's arms and hands, the tentacles were cold and stiff. Hong Ban's eyes were black, and someone next to him turned his wife over, seeing Hong Ban's wife's eyes wide open, her face was covered with blood, and she had already swallowed her breath, and Hong Ban suddenly fainted.

When Mandan woke up, she was in a very bad mental state, yelling and saying things like "let her go" and "you bastard". Two days later, she could communicate normally, and when she heard that Jiang Hongban's wife had died tragically, she burst into tears. said that the two of them went to the back mountain to find Hong Ban's daughter, and met a dark shadow in the mountain from time to time, the two were very happy, thinking it was their daughter, but they didn't expect that a girl less than five years old could survive alone in the mountain for more than ten days.

The two were attracted by the dark shadow to a certain mountain col, only to find that it was not a little girl, but an adult. Then the shadow suddenly turned around, and it was an ugly man, with long and unkempt hair, and his facial features could not be seen clearly, and he was wearing old black clothes. This person moved very fast, picked up the big rock and knocked Mandan down first, and she didn't know anything.

There had never been such an incident in this village, and the village chief hurriedly reported to the town, and sent militiamen with guns and dogs to search and patrol the back mountains every day. It lasted for two months, not to mention the black shadow, not even a black cat was found, and the ugly man never appeared again.

Hong Ban was very depressed, his daughter and wife had accidents one after another, one did not see anyone alive or dead, the other died tragically in the barren mountain, and the apprentice Mandan suffered a serious head injury, and his body is still very weak. He didn't understand why life had become like this, so the village chief had to comfort him, saying that people could not be resurrected after death, and that his daughter would always be alive as long as she did not find her body for a day.

Mandan's body gradually recovered, and she took on the burden of the Hong family. Cooking every day, sewing and mending, managing the inside and outside, she has become a hostess. The village chief also privately approached Hong Ban and asked Mandan if he had a good impression of him, so he simply got married. Hongban disagreed, although Mandan was very good to him, but the cause of his wife's death and the whereabouts of his daughter were not found for a day, and it was impossible to have any more family.

Although two months have passed since the incident, Hong Ban still feels guilty, and always feels that there must be a reason why he woke up unsettled on the night his daughter disappeared. In the middle of the night, he often ran to the front and back mountains alone, and he didn't know if it was to find someone or what, but he always felt that he could gain something. Mandan disagreed, saying that it was too dangerous for him to do this, and that it would be difficult to say the consequences if he encountered that ugly attacker again. In Hong Ban's view, Mandan is not just an apprentice, but actually similar to half a wife. But there was anything else to listen to, but this advice could not impress Hong Ban, and he often slipped out quietly.

Because of the practice of witchcraft, Hong Ban has the ability to have night eyes, although not as powerful as cats, but he can also see things quite clearly at night. In the middle of the night, he came to the back mountain again and wandered aimlessly. I don't know how long it took for him to find that he had turned to the vicinity of Hong Xia's grave.

Kneeling in front of his sister's grave, Hong Ban wept, hoping that Hong Xia would bless him to find his daughter. At this time, the mountains were dark and gloomy, except for owls and some strange bird calls. Hong Ban sat for a while, preparing to go home, when suddenly he remembered the Burmese methods taught to him by Mandan before, which included spiritism and spiritualism. Because of the occurrence of the Hongxia incident, Uncle Hong was sad, so he put away all the masks and witch knives and never used them again. Therefore, Hongban has no psychic tools, and it is very difficult to exorcise evil spirits for the villagers.

Now, Hong Ban subconsciously recited the Psychic Mantra in the Burmese Dharma, and after just a few minutes, he felt that there seemed to be someone standing behind him. He hurriedly turned around, there were only weeds blown by the wind in the mountains, and there were no people. Hong Ban continued to chant, and after two times, a faint voice in his head said: "Southeast, four thousand steps......"

The voice was that of a young girl, and Hong Ban felt a little familiar, as if it was the voice of Hong Xia when she was a child. He hurriedly pressed the voice and walked in the southeast direction. Barren mountains are not like woods and plains, there are cols, slopes, rock walls and cliffs. Hong Ban walked less than a thousand steps before he was blocked by the rock wall, so he had to go around far away, return to the position where he had been blocked just now according to his memory, and continue to walk southeast.

The road became more and more difficult, and Hong Ban recited the spirit attraction spell as he walked, and counted about two thousand steps or so to the edge of the cliff. Hong Ban suddenly had a strong feeling, as if he felt that his daughter was nearby, but he couldn't see it. Hong Ban walked on the edge of the cliff, which is a very dangerous behavior, if he slips and falls, he will end up like his father, and die tragically under the cliff.

But Hong Ban was not afraid at all, he felt that his daughter and wife were not alive, and he was equivalent to half his life, and there was nothing to be nostalgic for in this kind of life. Nearby, he tore off two long rattan sticks, twisted them into ropes, tied one end to a tree, and tied the other end around his waist, and with the strength of the rattans, slowly slid to the edge of the cliff. After several positioning attempts, Hong Ban finally stopped somewhere, because the induction was strongest here.

Hong Ban stepped on the edge of the cliff with his feet carefully, and he didn't dare to breathe, for fear of rolling down if he had an accident. There was already a nearly forty-five-degree angle here, and if there were no rattans, it would have slid down long ago. He looked around and saw a protrusion in one place, which was all made of rubble. He stepped over lightly, and used his hands to remove the rubble from this side, and gradually smelled the stench of corpses. Hong Ban's heart was beating wildly, and he seemed to hear his daughter crying clearly.

Eventually, all the rubble was peeled away, revealing a small pit in which lay a highly decomposed corpse crawling with all kinds of bugs. Although she can't see her facial features clearly, the clothes on her body are obviously her daughter's. Hung Ban burst into tears and howled like a beast.

Putting his daughter's bones on the ground, Hong Ban sat dumbfounded. The voice that guided him here was naturally Hong Xia's Yin Spirit. She has small steps, so she says four thousand steps, while Hong Ban is an adult man and walks three thousand steps. Although Mandan had previously claimed that his wife was attacked by an ugly and mysterious man, Hong Ban felt that the death of his daughter was unlikely to be the man's doing.

Because it is obvious that there is only one possibility to bury the body of the daughter in such a dangerous position on the edge of the cliff: fear of being found. If that ugly man kills like a beast and doesn't care after killing his wife, why did he have to bury his daughter there after killing him? Even if you throw it down from a cliff, you will end up somewhere, and the villagers and militia will find it sooner or later when they search the mountain. But buried on the edge of the cliff, not to mention people, even dogs dare not look for it. No one would have been able to descend that steep slope without a rattan tie.