Chapter XXIII. Bottomless wells

Xiaomei, who was already dead, walked slowly forward like a walking corpse, but she was breathing. It's just that I don't know if she still has a heartbeat, we really want to know the answer, but except for Du Lei, no one has the courage to touch Xiaomei's heartbeat. Although Du Lei dared, we stopped him from doing it, because it didn't make any sense.

At this moment, the sky was gray, as if it had been pressed with a dense layer of lead.

Our group followed Xiaomei not far away, and everyone's hearts were a little nervous. But after following for a while, we looked around and found that there was not a single villager around, as if in a certain characteristic time period. The people of this village all ran to the other side of the square.

"Where are we going with her?" It didn't take long. The uneasy expression on Li Zheyu's face became more and more obvious. His wife Xin Meng's face was even more ugly than his.

Du Lei shook his head and replied, "I don't know, but aren't you curious about this dead little girl at all?" ”

Li Zheyu said, "I just want to know what is the point of us doing this? ”

Shen Xiaoxi groaned, "This girl doesn't have a mind of her own, and according to reason, she should be walking around." But why did she walk the route? It's very regular, and I feel like she's going somewhere. ”

Xiao Qicai took a sentence and said, "This question is also what I want to know." Assuming that Xiaomei has a terrifying corpse transformation after her death and loses her consciousness, she shouldn't know the way. But when she just walked, she could tell where there were pits and obstacles under her feet! Does she have a mind or not? If so, why can't she see us, and if not, why does she know the way? ”

Xiao Qicai's words seem to go around in circles, but if you think about it carefully, I think what Xiao Qicai said makes a lot of sense. Because Xiaomei obviously walks with "memory". So is it possible to assume that Xiaomei's brain has died, so she has lost the normal cognition that ordinary humans should have. But there should be something else in her body, with memories of this village, but what it is, it is impossible to know for the time being. In short, I don't think there is another soul attached to Xiaomei, as I said earlier, there is a big difference between Xiaomei and the situation of borrowing a corpse to return the soul.

……

While we were talking, Mei had already walked to the ancient well near the armillary sphere. Then, Xiaomei stopped and stood motionless. When we looked at it, we all frowned.

"Why didn't she leave?" Demonic blood.

"Did you remember something?"

"She doesn't have a mind of her own, how can she think of anything?"

"Shhh

……

For a long time, Xiaomei's hand, holding the edge of the ancient well, suddenly jumped into the well, and actually jumped into the well in an instant.

We collectively looked at the corners of our eyes straightened, and we couldn't speak for a long time.

After a while, we all ran over as a group, carefully surrounding the well, and casting our eyes into it. The inside of the well is black, I don't know how deep it is, I can't see it really, and if I smell it hard, I can smell a strange smell of rot in the well, which is a bit similar to the smell of rotten eggs in the sewer, and I don't know how long this well has been here, it is estimated that the well is full of bacteria and viruses!

We watched for a long time, and Du Lei said, "It's too dark inside, I don't know how deep it is!" ”

I wondered, "If there was water under this well, we should have heard a 'poof' just now, but did any of you hear it?" ”

Everyone shook their heads.

Xiao Qicai said, "So this can only prove two points, first, there is no water in this well at all, or second, this well is too deep, so deep that after Xiaomei falls into the well water, the sound can't come up!" ”

We looked down again, and I said, "This well is indeed very deep, but is there a secret of this village hidden under this well?" Is this possible? ”

Shen Xiaoxi said worriedly, "I just want to know now, could Feng Tiansong just go down this well, otherwise why would the whole village be searched, but I just couldn't find it?" ”

I said, "Anyway, this well is very strange, we just need to ask everyone in the village, and we'll be fine!" ”

"Will anyone be willing to tell us?"

"Just try it and find out!"

……

Subsequently, we knocked on the doors of nearby houses, and the first two knocked for a long time but no one answered. When I knocked on the third room, out of the door came a bald man of thirty years old, with gray shoulders on the upper body and a pair of modern hiking pants on the bottom. When we look at it, it feels very incongruous.

Li Zheyu immediately asked, "Brother, your pants...... Where did it come from? Do it yourself? ”

The man scratched his bald head suspiciously, stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction, and said, "I bought it in the square over there, and I bought it if someone sold it." By the way, do you guys have something to do with me? ”

Li Zheyu still wanted to speak, but I felt that there was no point in him entangled in that pair of pants, so he hurriedly took the first step and said, "The well in the village, please ask, is there any water in it?" We want to get some water to use! ”

As soon as the man heard this, he immediately changed his friendly attitude, looked at us very vigilantly, and said, "You'd better not approach that well. ”

My mind moved and I asked, "Why?" At this time, the eyes of Du Lei, Xiao Qicai, Shen Xiaoxi, Yu Mubai and others were also motionless and staring at the changes in the expressions on each other's faces, hoping to find some clues from here.

The man didn't like to answer, and only said ambiguously, "Anyway, don't go over." It's for your own good. ”

Later, this person couldn't withstand the repeated requests of the two girls, Xiao Qicai and Shen Xiaoxi, and finally said, "Regarding that well, there has always been a saying in the village, called 'bottomless well', and anyone who jumped into it never came back. So if you don't want anything to happen, it's best not to go near the well. Otherwise, if there is anything, you are responsible for it! ”

With that, the man turned around and walked back into the house again.

We were soon back near the well.

Shen Xiaoxi questioned, "Is this well really that deep?" I'm not convinced. ”

Du Lei kept walking around the well, saying as he walked, "Otherwise, let's find a way to go down and have a look, and we will know how deep it is!" ”

When it came to going down, everyone stopped talking.

Because everyone knows that this well is likely to contain great risks. Going down the well is certainly not a problem, the question is, who will do such a dangerous thing?

Du Lei's knife-like gaze slowly swept over our faces, Yu Mubai, Li Zheyu and others all lowered their heads, and I was also extremely uncomfortable by Du Lei, but now is not the time to be reckless, when you can't predict the situation in the well, it's just a reckless man's practice.

Du Lei just wanted to be this reckless man, so he quickly sneered, as if expressing disdain and sarcasm for our "cowardice", Du Lei said, "Find a rope or something, I want to go down." ”

At this time, I found that there seemed to be a vague small text on the wall of the well by the wellhead, as if someone had carved it with a sharp object. Because the font is too small, I didn't notice it before. And when Du Lei said that he wanted to go down, I happened to turn my eyes to the dark well again.

Looking at it from where I am now, I saw the small print. I didn't answer Du Lei's question, I walked straight over, bent down and looked at it intently, and suddenly my body shook, and said, "Come and see, this place is engraved with a word, does it look like a Shen character?" ”

Everyone was firmly attracted by my words, and for a while no one paid attention to Du Lei's question just now, even Du Lei himself came over to take a look.

"It really seems to be a Shen! I'm a little vague though! ”

"It's Shen!" Xiao Qicai said with great certainty, "This trace is a little familiar, it seems to be like Feng Tiansong's words!" ”

I thought about it for a moment and said, "Let's look around this well wall and see if we can find any other clues!" ”

Later......

Yu Mubai suddenly shouted, "There is a Jiang character here!" It's pretty much the same as the handwriting just now! ”

Xiao Qicai also said quickly, "Huh...... I also found out that there is a vague Du ...... here."

I stood up from the ground with a clear heart, and said, "That's right, this word must have been left by Feng Tiansong." Why is the font blurry? There are two possibilities, one is that Feng Tiansong saw some shocking scenes at that time, so he was terrified, and his hands were a little shaky when he was engraving; Another possibility is that the light was too dark at that time, and Feng Tiansong's eyesight was affected, so he didn't pay so much attention to the lettering. ”

Shen Xiaoxi walked over, looked at me, and said, "Do you think Feng Tiansong must have been here when he disappeared that night?" ”

I thought for a moment and said, "I can't be sure, I just think that Feng Tiansong was here at that time and wanted to leave us some information based on what Xiao Qicai just said!" ”

Shen Xiaoxi said very calmly, "What if this word wasn't left by Feng Tiansong?" What if someone deliberately targeted us and led us down the well? ”

I was about to speak, when suddenly I saw that someone seemed to be staring at us in the direction behind me. Because I feel that someone doesn't know where to hide, and they just run through somewhere with a "bang".

Anyway, I can't describe it, it's very strange, but someone must be watching us secretly. But when I turned my head, I didn't notice anything, and the village behind me still seemed empty and gloomy. This feeling makes me very uncomfortable and passive, and at the same time, I also feel that Shen Xiaoxi's words are not completely unreasonable, if someone is dealing with us in the dark, who dares to say that there is no such possibility?

Xiao Qicai walked up to Shen Xiaoxi at this time, confronted her-for-tat, and said very unconvinced, "Whether this is left by Feng Tiansong or not, this is the only clue we have found so far!" As his woman, isn't your attitude a little too cold? Don't you want to find him quickly? ”

Shen Xiaoxi said, "Of course I want to find him quickly." But in this situation, I have to think more and think further to ensure the safety of our people now! ”

Xiao Qicai's tone increased, "You don't believe that this is left by Feng Tiansong?" ”

Shen Xiaoxi was also not to be outdone, "This clue alone is not enough to prove that Lao Feng has been here!" ”

I felt that the atmosphere was starting to develop in a bad direction again, so I hurriedly interrupted them and said, "Whether this is left by Feng Tiansong or not, we must discuss the best plan as soon as possible, whether to go down the well or not, or, who has a better idea, hurry up." Otherwise, if it continues to drag on, I'm afraid that Feng Tiansong is likely to have ......."

I didn't go on with this, but everyone knows that if someone in the team starts to die, it is likely that the momentum that has been built up with great difficulty will collapse again!

At this time, I think we are not afraid of strange things, what we are afraid of is that some people can't bear this kind of psychological pressure, so they lose the confidence to live, which is the most terrible!