It was already evening when I woke up, and the wind and sand on the desert swept the cold air into the earthen house, Linghua hurriedly put down the thick curtain, and there was no light in the house.

At this time, the silent manager brought dinner again, only two large bowls of white porridge and a few pieces of pickles, Linghua took food from the baggage, and the two of them used some pastries after eating the steamed buns and pickles.

When the night came, they didn't feel sleepy, staring at each other in the dark earthen house.

Heng Gu climbed onto the dirt bed first, and nested himself in the corner against the wall with his back to the outside: "Linghua, I'm not moving here, you come up and rest, if I trespass, you can kick me and beat me." ”

Linghua smiled: "How could I beat you?" ”

She sat down beside Henggu on her legs, rested on her knees, and covered herself with the quilt after a long time. Henggu heard her voice, sat up and squirmed for a while, and then lay down again.

It was late at night, and the sound of "cooing" birds came from a distance, and Linghua couldn't hold it anymore and lay down. Henggu silently turned to look at her, his obsidian eyes shining in the dark night.

Linghua felt his gaze and suddenly became nervous. The two of them lay stiffly and flat, separated by a long quilt.

The night was silent, only the sound of the man's breathing was intertwined with her own breathing, and she used her afterglow to look at Henggu's face, how to look at it and feel awkward.

She didn't know where this awkwardness came from, obviously the two stayed together all day, and now they were uncomfortable sleeping in the same bed.

Just stretched out his legs to get out of bed and sit on the bench, but heard Henggu say, "Why don't we chat?"

Linghua's legs retracted into the quilt: "The desert night is cold, so you will cover it with a quilt when you are cold." ”

Heng Gu said "not cold", and then touched Linghua's hand, and he relieved himself when he felt warm. He withdrew his hand and exhaled: "Linghua, tomorrow I will work with them, I don't know what will happen here, you have to be careful." ”

Linghua turned over, lay on his side and looked at Henggu's face, also worried: "I'm in this courtyard, at most I can chat with He Yue." It's you, pay attention tomorrow, don't trust others easily. Now we don't know much about this place, so it's better to see more and talk less. ”

Heng Gu also turned sideways to face her face, and said with a smile: "I know, does 'sister' have anything else to explain?" ”

At this time, Linghua thought to himself, and did not pick up. She pondered He Yue's words today: "Henggu, He Yue said that the people who came here are all doing great things, and they are also doing hard labor here, which shows that their own conditions are relatively difficult. ”

She suddenly understood something, and looked at him with burning eyes: "It turns out that this is the reason why these people are attracted here. ”

Heng Gu was stunned for a while, and he suddenly said: "I understand!" These bad guys take advantage of the lie that Jieping Town can make a lot of money, lure these poor people here, and then trap them! The Liu Chengyan you are looking for also wants to leave Cloud City for this reason, maybe he is also in a corner of the town. ”

Linghua nodded Henggu's lips: "Be quiet." You're not entirely right, these people have seals on them. It is true that he was deceived into having a yearning for Ping Town, and it is also true that the people behind him used the seal to teleport the people over.

It's not so much to lead the people here and trap them, but to forcibly bring them here after choosing the target, and they can't get out and can't turn back. ”

Heng Gu sighed in a low voice: "Maybe their original idea was to live a good life, who knew that it would end like this." ”

This is the genius of the people behind it, even if these people disappear without explanation, they can also know from the mouths of the people around them that they are going to pick up the town of Pingzhen, and they can use the reason of population migration to confuse the public.

If it weren't for the red light, I'm afraid the disappearance case would have been unsuccessful. Just why...... Is it so obvious? Are they not afraid that others will find out, or are they deliberately trying to cause panic? ”

Linghua propped himself up, and his thinking became clearer: "Speaking of which, we still don't know how these people were chosen, if they have been in the new second room, I am afraid that they will not get any news, and they will have to go to other rooms to investigate." I look at Zhuo Zhuo......"

She was about to continue to say something, but suddenly Henggu covered her mouth: "Someone." ”

Linghua and Heng Gu glanced at each other, stepped on the ground with a very soft voice, slowly opened the bottom corner of the thick cloth curtain, and squatted down to look at the courtyard.

A monster with a human face and a sheep body walked into the courtyard with a lantern in its mouth, and the candlelight, which was dimer than the moonlight, faintly illuminated its face, and it was the messenger of Jiao who bluffed people with an empty kettle during the day.

The messenger's eyes were misty, his nostrils widened as if he yawned, and the sheep's hooves "clicked" on the ground, making a muffled sound.

He walked around the courtyard, not as if he was not afraid of any disturbances from the people who lived here, but just walked through the motions of routine and hurried away.

Linghua watched him walk away, waited for a moment, and lowered the curtain after confirming that nothing else had happened. She stood up with Henggu's arm on her feet, and suddenly felt a hard thing against her waist.

Linghua was surprised in his heart, and immediately reached out to touch it, and as soon as he touched the thing, the hard object shrank for a moment, as if it would slip away, and disappeared all at once, leaving only a room of sweet and greasy aroma.

Henggu smelled the smell and said in surprise: "What kind of smell is this?" It's Sun Lianran?! She's alive again? ”

Linghua twisted her fingers, her fingertips were stained with something sticky, she put it under her nose and smelled it, it was the familiar smell of carrion.

Did Sun Lianran really come back to life?

She said uncertainly: "This breath does look like Sun Lianran's, but I just touched a hard object, it feels slippery and hard to the touch, there is no temperature, it is very cold, and it is stained with sticky rotten blood, it is not like something on her body." ”

When Heng Gu heard this, he found the old clothes that had been wiped on the table in the dark, and found a piece of clean noodles to wipe Linghua's hands with the light that was better than nothing: "But Yin Tianwu went to find 'meat' for her, maybe now Sun Lianran is not what she used to be." ”

Linghua wiped her hands and sat on the bench: "Whether she is Sun Lianran or not, if she can easily enter our room, she is not a person who can be taken lightly."

Here you have to cheer up the spirit, the Jiao messenger is a goat monster, and Zhuo Zhuo is a bear demon...... It's not a peaceful town, and we can't all sleep at night. ”

She pulled Henggu to the side of the bed and put her quilt on him: "You still need to go to work with other men tomorrow, I will be on duty tonight, you can sleep." ”

Henggu took Linghua's hand and lay down: "Then you wake me up in the middle of the night and replace me." Then he closed his eyes.

The next morning, before the rooster could crow, the sun rose in a hurry, and the warm sunlight shone into the earthen house through the gaps in the thick curtains.

Suddenly, a majestic and mellow voice shouted at the door: "The new Ling family boy, come out to work!" ”

Henggu heard the voice, and a spirit sat up, rubbed his bloodshot eyes, and rolled over and got off the dirt bed.

Linghua followed him, opened the curtain and walked out of the room, and saw a young man with a strong body and shiny dark skin.

He smiled innocently at the two of them, revealing eight big white teeth: "What year am I, I am He Yue's brother." The confinement sister said that she had a good chat with them, and asked me to help them. ”

Linghua heard that he was speaking in dialects, and when he saw that He Nian was honest and simple, he said with confidence: "My brother and I have just arrived, and we rely on Brother He Nian to take care of us." ”

He Nian smiled and said, "This is nothing", led Henggu outside, and was about to go out, but he heard someone in the yard shouting hoarsely-

"Ahh There are monsters, there are monsters! Ahh

Linghua was startled and heard the sound from the earth house opposite He Yue, so he and Henggu quickly ran to the source of the sound.

Entering the house with a curtain, an unkempt, thin and sallow woman pointed to the air and screamed: "There is a monster, it is going to eat me!" You're going to eat me! ”

Linghua looked around and saw nothing abnormal, and stepped forward to comfort: "It's okay, it's gone, and it won't come again." ”

The woman turned her head to look at Linghua, her face covered with tears, her cheeks sunken and withered, as if she had been drained.

She was so excited that she tumbled off the dirt bed and fell to the ground.

Unable to seem to get up, she cried out in horror: "No! It's coming, it's going to keep coming! It ate me, and I was dying...... Flee away...... It's hell here......"

"Why does it want to eat you? What do you see? Linghua frowned, and was just about to squat down to help her up, when a pair of rough hands pulled the woman's hands away.

"Sister Ling, be careful! This woman who cries and cries all day is crazy, you don't care about her. He Yue dragged Linghua to her side, "She gets sick once a month, and she will be fine in a few days." ”

He Nian also echoed: "That's it, this girl's brain is not good, so stay away." ”

The woman was still crying and shouting, she lay on the ground and tried to raise her head, saying over and over again: "There are monsters, there are really monsters, why don't you believe me?" It's coming to eat my brain, and I'm going to never wake up for the rest of my life! ”

Several black-clad and masked men heard the noise, walked quickly into the small courtyard, and silently grabbed the yelling woman. The small earthen house was crowded, and He Nian took Linghua and Henggu out of the door.

When the woman saw Linghua gone, she shouted, "I'm not crazy, there are really monsters!" The more I am eaten by it, the weaker I get, and so will you! Run! ”

The silent men seized the woman, gagged her, tied her wrists, and escorted her out of the courtyard gate.

"What she said seems to be true, she has indeed become thinner and thinner in the past few months, and she can get out of bed in a few days, and yesterday she suddenly went down to the ground to sew clothes, which startled me." He Yue whispered to He Nian, He Nian patted her, and she immediately stopped talking.

A man went to the woman's earthen house, packed her things into rags, and beckoned to He Nian and Henggu.

He Nian hit Henggu's forearm with his elbow: "Let's go, he called us." ”

Heng Gu turned around and glanced at Linghua, and said in a low voice, "Come back." ”

Then he walked out of the small courtyard with He Nian.

This matter is a bit paradoxical, Linghua pulled He Yue into his room and asked, "Has that woman always been like this?" ”

He Yue nodded: "Yes!" She came before me, and it was normal at first, but now the hysteria is getting worse. ”

Linghua raised her eyebrows: "How do you know it's hysteria?" Has a doctor seen it? ”

He Yue pointed outside: "It was Zhuo's envoy who said she was hysterical." I took her out just now to go to Shangzhen Western Medical Center, and I came back in less than three days. ”

She pursed her mouth, a little jealous: "But we don't dare to get sick, only the messenger and special people can go to the hospital to see a doctor, and those who are responsible for other people's illnesses don't care at all, so let us fend for ourselves." ”

Linghua naturally didn't believe the prevarication of hysteria, and she was about to ask about the medical hall, but she saw Zhuo Zhuo walking in.

When he saw He Yue also there, he didn't pay much attention to her, and said to Linghua: "Miss Ling, I have arranged an errand for you, come with me to work." ”

He Yue was very envious when she heard this: "Envoy Zhuo, can I go out with Sister Ling?" ”

Zhuo Zhuo glanced at her: "No, sew the clothes in the courtyard steadily, don't think about anything else." ”

Linghua followed Zhuo Zhuo on the narrow dirt road, and the yellow mud walls on both sides were towering and heavy, blocking the sunlight projected from the side.

Zhuo Zhuo walked slowly without saying a word, Linghua followed him for a distance, saw that there was no one around, lowered his head and said, "Did you eat meat last night?" ”

Zhuo Zhuo's back stiffened, paused and continued to walk slowly: "No." ”

"Why don't you eat it? It's a door-to-door meal. Linghua lowered her head and walked forward with the hem of her skirt, almost hitting Zhuo Zhuo's back.

He took a deep breath, "So you shouldn't come back." Whatever your reason for coming, you will only be buried on the hillside. ”

Linghua chuckled: "Do you think I don't know?" I woke up from the pile of corpses and saw the faces of each corpse clearly. They were cold and stiff, and only the breath of death permeated every corner of my hair.

You gave us a chance to live, I could have escaped, but I still chose to come, do you know why?

For I am looking for my friend, and we will come together, and we will go back together. I also want to give half of this hope of life to my friends.

After all, this is a life, seeing him disappear, how can he be worthy of his conscience if he can save it but can't save it? ”