Chapter 229: Crying at midnight

But there were more than twenty people in this seemingly abandoned ancestral hall.

These people had dark complexions and were dressed in tattered clothes.

The sound of their footsteps caused everyone kneeling in the secondary ancestral hall to turn around.

People kept coming to the ancestral hall from the surrounding area.

The man who was chasing Zhou Wei and Du Nuo just now arrived at the ancestral hall, suddenly shouted, turned around and ran away.

Du Nuo looked at this strange scene and took a step back, saying, "What should we do now?"

Zhou Wei noticed that more and more people were appearing around the ancestral hall, so he made a quick decision, "Let's leave here first, meet up with the others, and tell them about the situation here."

"If I'm not mistaken, these people should be those who died suddenly in the village. I just don't know why they are still able to move."

"If we find the reason, we may be able to solve all the secrets."

Dunuo was tired and scared, and his mind was blank.

Having lost the ability to think, he naturally did whatever Zhou Wei said.

Not long after the two left, He Nan and An Chuning also followed an old woman to find the location of the ancestral hall.

The old woman kowtowed repeatedly towards the ancestral hall; her mouth moved but no sound came out.

After An Chuning saw the scene in the ancestral hall, he was stunned and a chill ran from his tailbone to the top of his head.

Even though she knew that these people were all extras in disguise, the gloomy weather, coupled with their weird expressions, made her lose the courage to take another step forward.

"Chun Ning, look, is there a little doll placed in the middle of the ancestral hall?"

He Nan was also a little scared, mainly because he was worried that these people would suddenly get up and chase them.

Following the direction in which the old woman kowtowed, he saw a smiling clay doll placed in the center of the ancestral hall.

The corners of the doll's mouth are almost reaching its ears.

He didn’t know if it was a psychological effect, but he always felt that the clay doll was watching them.

An Chuning followed the direction that He Nan pointed and saw the clay doll.

Just as she was about to see more clearly, the old woman who was kowtowing on the ground began to tremble all over as if she had been electrocuted.

The two took a step back.

I watched the old woman trembling as she stretched out her hand towards the clay doll in the middle of the ancestral hall.

An Chuning felt sorry for the old woman and was about to go forward to help her up, but the old woman closed her eyes and lay on the ground motionless.

After the old woman closed her eyes, the people who were slowly walking towards the ancestral hall changed direction and moved towards the two of them.

"Run!" He Nan shouted, turned around and ran.

An Chuning staggered to catch up quickly.

They are like headless flies, turning around at every turn.

Coincidentally, they ran into Du Nuo and Zhou Wei who were looking for them.

Before Du Nuo could say anything, he caught a glimpse of the people behind them and cursed, "Fuck!"

The two of them also joined the group of escapees.

Not long after running, he ran into Ana Shen and Jian Xing.

The six people ran blindly. Unfamiliar with the terrain, they ran into a small woods. After passing through the woods, they saw a house in the woods.

Without caring about anything else, the six people ran into the house.

Jian Xing saw the coffin placed in the main room at a glance.

Dunuo looked at the villagers approaching from behind, then looked at the mourning hall in front of him. He gritted his teeth, turned around, picked up a stick, and blocked the door of the yard first.

He Nan walked towards the coffin carefully, and when he saw that it was empty, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hey!" A voice appeared above their heads and all six of them were startled.

Du Nuo was frightened and looked up. Seeing the two people on the roof, he was quite surprised: "Yilun! Xiuyuan, why are you here?"

Lin Xiuyuan glanced outside the yard and said, "There is a staircase on the left. Let's go up and hide first."

The six people looked back at the courtyard gate that was about to be knocked open, and quickly did as Lin Xiuyuan said.

After reaching the roof, the four men, Lin Xiuyuan, Jian Xing, He Nan and Zheng Yiluan, worked together to bring the stairs to the roof.

The door of the yard was knocked open by the "dead" villagers the moment the stairs completely reached the roof.

The villagers were circling around the house.

Dunuo released his strength and sat down without caring that he was wearing white pants.

The same goes for others.

Seeing that everyone had rested enough, Lin Xiuyuan asked, "Did you find anything in the houses you visited?"

Ana Shen repeated what the little girl said.

Henan talked about the clay dolls in the ancestral hall.

Zhou Wei: "The family we went to had only one middle-aged man. We didn't ask anything. When he saw us, he took out an axe and chased us to the ancestral hall. He didn't dare to get close to the ancestral hall and ran away when he saw it."

An Chuning: "The old woman kept kowtowing to the clay doll in the ancestral hall, as if she was asking for forgiveness."

Lin Xiuyuan frowned slightly. The information from everyone was too confusing and he had no clue when putting them together.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Zheng Yilun told him about his experience with Lin Xiuyuan. "We were originally going to chase the old man, but after we got out of the yard, Xiuyuan changed his mind. We turned back and checked the house. Guess what we found?"

"What? What?" Dunuo asked impatiently.

"We found out that this family was very wealthy and they had a box of cash in their home."

Jian Xing: "This house is shabby and doesn't look like a rich family's. Where did they get all the money?"

"I don't know." Lin Xiuyuan replied.

"From a discarded notebook, I saw some similar to the ones used to record the number of employees on the construction site. The handwriting on some of the names was blurred and I couldn't see clearly."

"I feel that if I can figure out the names above, maybe I can find out why these people died suddenly."

Shen Jingwen made a guess: "What do you think? Is there a possibility that this village is the kind of village that favors boys over girls? They deal with all the daughters they give birth to. Isn't this a plot in novels? The resentment of women can gather and kill people."

Du Nuo: "But if that's the case, then there should be a place to deal with these women. We were chased by the villagers just now and walked around the village for a long time, but we didn't find anything like a tower, a river, a well, etc."

Jian Xing: "Jingwen's statement is in one direction, because the little girl we visited kept saying that she was in pain and her hands and feet were broken. Now we need clear evidence to prove that the villagers are torturing these women."

Zhou Wei also nodded in agreement. "There is a bad saying among the people that if you torture a woman to death, she will be afraid and will not reincarnate again."

An Chuning: "We can't rule out this possibility, because the clay doll in the ancestral hall is in the image of a girl with two braided pigtails."

When Ana Shen and Jian Xing heard An Chuning’s words, the image of the little girl instantly appeared in their minds.

Both of them felt their scalps tingling.

"Tell me again, what does that clay doll look like?"