There was originally an ordinary family in this village, and the wife went early due to dystocia, leaving only the father and daughter to rely on each other. Although life is a little harder, the father and daughter are happy and live well, because there is only such a relative, and this father treats his daughter as a treasure and does his best to treat her well.

One day, a man from the village, dressed in a black robe, who claimed to be a witch doctor who served the gods, went to the back mountain and built a small hut for himself, and stayed there. This small village is relatively remote, the people are simple, of course, it is difficult to hear that it is ignorant and closed, although at first the villagers were also skeptical, but soon after the village suddenly spread the plague, many villagers have a high fever and vomit and diarrhea, some people remembered the witch doctor, so they invited him to see if he could be cured.

The witch doctor inspected the village, and after an hour he developed an antidote, distributed it to the villagers, and after eating it, he no longer had a fever or vomiting or diarrhea. The witch doctor also said that there was a problem with the water in the well in the village, and that he had sprinkled the antidote so that he could drink it with confidence in the future.

Sure enough, there were no more problems with drinking water after that.

After this incident, the villagers who did not believe at first now believe in the witch doctor's words, believing that he was given by the gods to the village doctors, and often sent him some fruits and vegetables. When someone in the village is sick, they will go to him and ask for a pair of herbs.

After half a year of such peace, people began to disappear in the village one after another, at first just one person disappeared, everyone thought that he was in distress in the mountains and fell off the cliff, and they didn't pay too much attention to it, and then more people began to go missing, at most, three people disappeared in one day, and the missing people were old and young, mostly young children. This aroused the vigilance of the villagers, and they organized people to look for it, but there was no result.

One day two months ago, the old man's daughter went up the mountain to collect mushrooms, but did not come back in the middle of the night. The next day, he asked the people in the village to help find him, but there was still no result, everyone knew that he should be missing as before, and persuaded him to give up, but the old man was willing to listen, he only had this daughter, this is his life!

When he asked the villagers to help him, he was impatiently refused, and when he saw that the villagers did not help him, he went up the mountain to look for him every day. Someone else may have given up, but the old man still insisted on looking for more than a week, and still didn't find his daughter.

The old man kept looking for tea and rice like this, and his body couldn't bear it and fell ill.

In desperation, he had no choice but to go to the wooden house that the witch doctor had built on the back hill to ask for a pair of medicines.

He prepared some vegetables and fruits, and when he came to the door and knocked on the door, he found that the witch doctor was not at home, and he did not dare to trespass, so he sat in the courtyard and waited.

After sitting for a while, he coughed so badly that he wanted to go to the kitchen and boil a pot of water to drink, so he went to the well and prepared to fetch a bucket of water.

There was a small wooden barrel on the side of the well, and the old man bent down to get it, and suddenly froze, and there was a small jade pendant lying on the ground by the well.

The jade pendant was last year's daughter's birthday, he saved a long time, only to buy a jade pendant for his daughter, is a small Bodhisattva with kind eyebrows, turned over and engraved two words "peace" on the back, as a birthday gift to her.

But how could his daughter's jade pendant fall in such a place?

At this time, the witch doctor returned, and the old man held the jade pendant with trembling hands and asked the witch doctor what was the matter, but the witch doctor just impatiently threw him out, saying that he did not know why he had this.

The old man was terrified, and when he got home, the more he thought about it, the more wrong it became. So, he went up to the mountain every day to eat and sleep in the camp, and after more than a month, several people disappeared one after another, and he found that those missing people had all gone to a common place before they disappeared, that is, the witch doctor's house, sometimes to ask for water, sometimes to ask for medicine, and never came out after entering the courtyard, and most of them were after the evening when it was dark.

Several times he went in to look for the witch doctor while he was out, but the cabin was empty, and there was no sign of the missing people.

The old man told the villagers, but the villagers didn't believe him, and everyone who went to get medicine went to his house, and there was no trace of anyone, and they all said that the witch doctor was not a person who would do such a thing.

He took out the jade pendant again, and the villagers said again, it may be that your daughter fell on the mountain and happened to be found, but it doesn't prove anything.

Some people even said that the old man went crazy because he lost his daughter.

The old man saw that no one wanted to believe him, he only felt very cold, but there were still people in the village who disappeared one after another, struggling for a long time, in order to find his daughter, and in order not to have more innocent villagers missing, so he killed the chicken and took the chicken blood and smeared it on his face as a tragic evil spirit, and when it was almost dark, he hid under the big willow tree on the side of the road leading to the back mountain, and found that someone had to go up the mountain in the evening or someone who had not returned home too late, so he came out to scare him, so as to drive the villagers not to approach the back mountain at night.

It doesn't matter if the villagers don't believe him, he just wants his daughter back.

Sure enough, after he pretended to be a ghost to scare, the people in the village were panicked, just like the aunt Wang explained, every household closed at night, and did not dare to stay in the back mountain until the evening before returning, and there were many fewer missing people in the village, and only one person disappeared this month.

The witch doctor also noticed that fewer people had been caught recently, so he made an inquiring about it, and when he heard that the village was haunted, he was suspicious, and he went to the big willow tree to find out.

Such a small village is most afraid of gods and ghosts, and no one will look carefully at the ghost's face under the panic, the witch doctor was indeed frightened by the old man at first, but after a closer look, he found that the evil man was just an old man pretending, and in a fit of rage, he wanted to take the old man's life.

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"Then why did the witch doctor arrest the villagers?" asked Weaving Dream with a surprised expression.

The old man shook his head again and said, "I don't know, I really can't find where the missing people are, the house is empty, but I saw the villagers go in and don't come out." I'm really not lying, I'm not crazy!"

Seeing that he was excited, Weaving Dream hurriedly comforted: "We believe in you!"

The old man said with a sad face: "Alas, it's useless to believe me, I don't even know where my daughter is, and I don't know if she's okay now...... Hey, I'm ...... I'm sorry for the child, mother......"

Zhu'an pondered and guessed some possibilities. But the witch doctor is ...... with the vanished living The combination of this information really made him have bad associations.

But he still comforted him gently: "Uncle, don't worry, your daughter must be fine, we have written down what you said, and we will definitely help you get your daughter back." ”

After a few more words, the two men left the old man's room and sat in the courtyard.

Weaving Dream then asked: "Is there anything you can't say to the old man?" The two of them have been getting along very tacitly during this time, and they must have thought of something just now, but they didn't say it, they must have taken care of the old man.

Zhu An nodded, and said in a low voice: "The timing of these things is too coincidental, and it's hard for me not to think of using a living person to test medicine......

A terrifying and disgusting look appeared on Weaving Dream's face, "A living person tries medicine?!"

According to the records of ancient medical books, in some Miao tribes in southern Xinjiang, the physician is also called the witch doctor, that is, the wizard and the doctor, who is a person with dual identities, who can pass through ghosts and gods, and also medicine, mainly to pray or use some medicine to eliminate disasters and cure diseases, but there are also a small number of tribes who believe in evil gods, and will sacrifice living people as sacrifices to refine the elixir, or test the medicine with the living...... If he was really a witch doctor from southern Xinjiang, it was very likely that he had come here to grab live people to test the medicine. ”

Weaving Dream shrunk her neck, "This is too cruel!"

Zhu'an nodded, and then said: "There are some ways of diagnosis and treatment in witch doctors, but they are more superstitious and ghostly, that is, people do not take medicine when they are sick, and only rely on praying to the gods for healing. His brow furrowed, "And I'm now very suspicious of the cause of the plague that suddenly spread in the village after the witch doctor came......

"Huh, you mean it was a planned plague, or poisoning?"

Zhu'an continued to speculate: "The timing of the incident is too coincidental, as long as the design is successful, he can use this incident to make the villagers let down their guard against him, or even convince him." ”

"Well, it is indeed suspicious to say this, that madman himself poisoned the well water, and in order to pretend to be kind to detoxify the villagers, he directed and acted in a scene, just to pave the way for the later arrest of the living people to test the medicine!

"For now, we can only find the missing villager first, or the place where he is hiding......"

"Well, so many people will definitely not be able to deal with it all in a short time, as long as there is evidence, the villagers will definitely understand it at a glance. ”

"This old man also loves his daughter and has good intentions, although the method is a little stupid, but it works. ”

Tossed for most of the night, it was almost dawn, Zhu'an wanted to let Weaving Dream rest for a while, but before Weaving Dream could sleep, suddenly a large group of villagers rushed into the old uncle's house in a noisy.

"The witch doctor said this old man was the one who pretended to be a ghost!

Some villagers rummaged around the house for a while, took a few small cans from the kitchen, ran out and excitedly showed them to everyone, "Look! There are many jars of blood hidden in his kitchen! It must be used to pretend to be a ghost.

"Maybe he took people and ate them!"

"Surely give me back my child, you man-eating monster!"

The two rushed out to see that it was the witch doctor who first attacked the old man to reverse right and wrong, and incited the villagers to arrest him.

The old man saw that these villagers were all angry and excited, and he felt cold and couldn't argue.

Someone rushed up to tie him up, and Weaving Dream rushed over to protect the old man, and defended: "He didn't arrest anyone! He was saving you! Wake up, the witch doctor lied to you! It was the witch doctor who caught you! You were deceived!"

But the villagers were so angry that their eyes were fanatical and red, and they couldn't listen to Weaving Dream's words at all, and told her to get out of the way......

Seeing her desperately protecting herself, as if he had seen his daughter, the old man felt warm in his heart, and said with concern: "Get out of the way, thank you, if you can find Xiao Yun, please help me tell her that her father has been looking for her and has never given up on her!"

Some villagers came up and rudely pushed away Weaving Dreams, and Zhu'an hurriedly protected her, and many villagers surrounded and dragged the old man away.

Weaving Dream felt uncomfortable, looked at Zhu'an aggrievedly, and rubbed her hair soothingly, "Weaving Dream, you follow and watch, if there is something, save the old man, pay attention to safety! I'll go to the Tibetan place now, and I'll come back as soon as possible." ”

Zhu'an's voice was very calming, and Weaving Dream cheered up and nodded and followed.

Zhu'an also quickly swept towards the back mountain, if the witch doctor didn't start to act for more than half a year after he came, and the people who went in didn't come out again, but there was no trace in the house, then there was only one possibility to hide so many people.

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Weaving Dream followed the crowd until she reached a clearing in the middle of the village, where she stood lightly on the roof, with a string of silver chain rings on her right hand, and the bracelet was attached to a ring on her middle finger, and three bells were tied to the bracelet, which was very delicate and beautiful.

The group of villagers pushed the old man to a pillar and tied him, and a man with the appearance of an obese village chief stepped forward and greeted the villagers and said loudly: "Villagers, our village has been harmonious and loving each other since it was built, but in the past half a year, people have been missing, and everyone is very scared and worried, but now the truth has been revealed, if it weren't for the witch doctor who was so worried about our lives that he couldn't sleep last night and came out for a walk just happened to bump into this old man pretending to be a ghost and scared to save him, we would still be kept in the dark!" It is really frightening and outrageous that such a thing can happen in our village! There is such a demon in human skin hidden in our village, he pretends to be a ghost, does many evils, and is a man-eating monster! We have also found a jar of blood in his kitchen, and everyone has stolen it! Since this demon has been caught, we will now eliminate the harm of the people and burn him to death!"

"Burn him, burn him!"

"Burn this demon!"

As if the oath of a group of cultists, the villagers followed the demon and shouted and burned him to death.

The stupid villager who would rather trust an outsider than her own villager is disgusting!

Weaving Dreams' eyes flashed with coldness, and her black hair and red clothes kept flying in the wind.

The villagers soon brought a lot of dry firewood and piled it around the old man, and a villager came over with a torch, and the old man was very cold, and no longer thought about justification, and closed his eyes in despair.

"Ding......

Suddenly, there was a crisp sound of a bell in the air, and no one could see what it was, and the villager with the torch suddenly fell, and the torch snapped and fell to the ground.

Weaving Dream flew in front of the old man, raised his right hand to his left shoulder, and said coldly: "Whoever dares to take a step forward again, I will kill whoever he wants!"

Everyone was shocked, and the village chief stood up angrily and asked dissatisfiedly: "What does it matter to you to punish the evil ghosts who eat people in our village, and where did the girl come from to make trouble! Get out of the way!"

A villager who had just seen her at the old man's house took the opportunity to shout: "She has been protecting the old man at his house just now, and she must be in the same group as this evil ghost!"

"Arrest her and burn her too!"

"Yes, burn her to death!"

Hearing this, Weaving Dream sneered, "Then you can try it!"

The villagers' faces became suspicious, and they hesitantly surrounded her, but no one dared to be the first to make a move.

Seeing this, she raised her hand, as if there was a suction force in her palm, and the fat village chief was dragged towards her, and she grabbed him by the neck with one hand and lifted him off the ground, and spoke in a very flat tone, as if she was just talking about what the weather was like today.

"I like to burn people, don't you?"

The village chief had already been scared half to death, shook his head in fear, and said tremblingly, "No...... Don't kill me, don't kill me!"

The girl in front of her is very beautiful, but at this moment she is like a rakshasa who asks for her life, so beautiful that people are frightening.

The villagers retreated in fear, and the tied old man was so surprised that he was speechless at this scene.

"You disgusting ants, what's the use of keeping your eyeballs? I can't see right and wrong so clearly, I really want to dig it out and see what the man-eating demons in your eyes have harmed you!"

Weaving Dream slowly raised his other hand and probed into the village chief's eye socket, the village chief's face suddenly turned pale, and he screamed in fright!