Chapter 161 Chapter 161 Li Baili nodded,...
Li Baihe nodded, her face unchanged, and replied calmly, "I found it, it's gone."
Lao Cao was stunned for a moment, and was horrified: "It's gone? I was just one step late, how could such a big living person die?"
Li Baili shook her head: "Not a human."
Lao Cao groaned, patted his chest, breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's all right."
Others were still a little confused.
Li Baihe asked: "Think carefully, do you really know that person?"
People thought about it and their faces suddenly changed: "Oh! The Liu family used to have a second son, but he was dead. How come he is resurrected? Don't mention it, it looks quite real."
"I remember talking to him, but when I think about it, I only walked one way at that time and didn't talk to anyone at all."
"When he was here before, I thought I had asked him for help when I was working, but when I thought about it carefully, he was not among the people who helped, but I actually thought he was there!"
Seeing that the crowd was about to panic, Li Baili waved her hand and said, "It's nothing to worry about now. Go home and have a rest. You are tired today. We can talk about it tomorrow if there is anything else."
Everyone nodded, and they all felt that they should go home and have a good sleep. Lao Cao also agreed: "It is indeed time to go home and sleep. It is so dark now. If we don't go home now, we won't be able to see the road clearly!"
"Then you guys go back," Li Baili nodded, holding the dog leash with one hand and pulling Li Hanshuang with the other, "It's time for us to go back too."
"Do you need me to find someone to take you there?" asked Lao Cao.
"No, thank you." Li Baili waved her hand.
If someone really wanted to send them home, they would probably have to come down the mountain and send the person home. It would take a long time to go back and forth like this. How could they sleep?
Lao Cao nodded: "That's right."
Xiao Cao waved: "See you tomorrow!"
"See you tomorrow!" Li Baili waved.
Everyone dispersed. Li Baili and Li Hanshuang returned home with a dog. When they got back to the villa halfway up the mountain, Li Baili handed the rope to Li Hanshuang. Li Hanshuang held the rope and asked, "Where is it tied?"
"Let's just find a place." Li Baili waved her hand and answered casually, feeling particularly tired today.
Li Hanshuang walked around in the yard, tied the rope to the tree trunk, made a cage for the dog, put the dog in it, and suddenly asked in confusion: "Is it really not going to run away?"
The dog in the cage's eyes lit up.
Li Baili waved her hands and yawned: "Why don't you find a way to prevent it from escaping?"
The black dog's little ears drooped quickly.
Li Hanshuang nodded, dealt with it, and walked to Li Baili: "It's getting late, let's go to rest?"
Li Baili nodded.
The next day, when Li Baili and Li Hanshuang arrived on the street, Lao Cao had already sent people to wait for them.
"You two are finally here, come with us!" the two men said to Li Baili and Li Hanshuang.
"What happened?" Li Baili asked.
"I heard that one day when he woke up in the morning he suddenly found that someone was missing from his home." The two people answered.
As they talked, they brought Li Hanshuang and Li Baili to Lao Cao. Lao Cao clenched his fist and said to them hurriedly, "It's great that you are here! I will take you to that house now! You should have known the situation on the way, right?"
Li Baihe hesitated: "About the same?"
Lao Cao took them to the house where one person was missing: "It's here!"
Li Baili and Li Hanshuang took a look outside before following Lao Cao into the house. The furnishings in the house were very simple, with few pieces of furniture that were worth looking at, but it also made the house feel very spacious.
There was a bed inside, on which lay a person, looking dying. Next to him was a stool, on which sat another person, holding a bowl of water and wiping tears.
Looks very sad.
The person wiping tears saw someone coming, stood up, put the bowl in his hand aside, and found that it was someone he knew, and immediately cried to them: "You are finally here! I was so scared last night! I didn't expect that things are not over today!
This is so terrible! We only have one son! What if we lose him? Please! Please save him!"
Lao Cao had obviously seen it all, and waved his hand and said, "It's no use looking for me, I brought someone useful here."
The crying person immediately looked at Li Baili and Li Hanshuang and knelt down with a plop: "Please save her!"
Li Baili took a step back, her expression somewhat alert, her face a little pale from the cold, and approached Li Hanshuang, saying to the person who was crying, "Explain the matter clearly first."
The man was stunned, nodded, wiped his tears and said: "Last night we went home to sleep, and woke up in the middle of the night. Suddenly, I saw a dark shadow flashing through the house. I chased it out but didn't see anything, so I went back to sleep. But suddenly I found that someone seemed to be missing from the house, so I searched everywhere, but couldn't find it, couldn't find it."
He couldn't help crying again.
"What does the missing person look like? How old is he? What's his name? What was he wearing? Which direction did he go when he disappeared? What time? Where do you think he might be?" Li Baili asked in rapid succession.
The person on the other end was stunned for a moment, and then took a while to answer.
Li Baili nodded and asked again: "Did the person who fell ill fall ill before or now?"
The other side sighed: "I found out that there is one person missing from the family, that's it."
"Then do you want to go find someone together?" Li Baili asked.
The man opposite frowned, looked back at the person on the bed, sighed and said, "I'm afraid not. If I leave, there will be no one at home. What if something happens to this person?"
"Then you just wait for our news at home." Li Baili nodded, turned and walked out.
Lao Cao followed beside him and asked, "Where did the news come from?"
"Go find it now!" Li Baili looked at him, a little surprised, and replied.
"Then," Lao Cao rubbed his hands and hesitated, "How do I find it? I don't know."
Li Baili smiled and said, "Let's find as many people today as we did yesterday. Except for the two people in the room just now, find all the people we can find. Let's go to the places you searched yesterday and look for them together. We two will also help you. Remember to call us if you need anything."
"Okay, okay!" Lao Cao nodded repeatedly and left happily.
Soon, the crowd gathered again and people were whispering. Lao Cao waved his hand and they quieted down. Lao Cao told them what had happened.
They nodded and understood, but for a moment they didn't know whether they should be relieved and be thankful that the incident didn't happen to them, or be cautious and alert to prevent it from happening to them, so they all frowned and sighed.
Lao Cao waved his hand and asked them if anyone was unwilling to go. A few people said that they were not feeling well and might not be able to go. Lao Cao agreed and asked them to gather together.
"Why don't you just get together with those two families where one person is missing so that you can take care of each other to avoid losing someone else. It's safer with more people, and it will be easier for us to find you. Do you hear me?" Lao Cao said loudly.
Those people nodded, and Lao Cao asked them if they knew the road. They all said they did. Lao Cao nodded, waved his hand, and told them to go quickly, and they left the crowd.
There were still some people who didn't want to leave, so Lao Cao asked them if they had anything with them, such as food, drinks, hoes and shovels, in case they encountered something on the road. They wouldn't starve to death or die of sleepiness.
People looked at each other, some went home to take things, and some were still standing there, either having brought things when they came, or waiting for those who were going home to bring them what they wanted.
After waiting for a while, there was nothing to prepare, so Lao Cao waved his hand and asked them to go up the mountain in groups of three or five and not to separate. After going up the mountain, they should look for the road they had taken yesterday. If they found nothing, they should come back to report, rest for a while, and then go with others to look for other roads.
Everyone agreed, and after searching for a long time, someone suddenly shouted, "There's a pit here! There seems to be someone in it!"
Li Hanshuang and Li Baili walked over and took a closer look. There seemed to be a figure inside, but it was very strange because it was pitch black inside and they couldn't see clearly. The figure was just waving outside, and it was very stiff and weird, not like a living person.
No one around dared to go down. They just looked at each other and quietly moved away from the edge of the pit to avoid accidentally falling in and being unable to get up.
Lao Cao asked Li Baihe: "Should we send someone down, or ask if there is anyone inside? We have searched everywhere else, but there is nothing. I am afraid it is in here."
He looked around and whispered, "Since that family said they saw something taking their family away at night, I'm afraid this is the nest of that thing.
It's broad daylight now, and the thing is probably still inside. If ordinary people go in, they may never come back. If we alarm the thing inside, it will come out, and there are still many people outside! What should we do then?"
Li Baili glanced at him and said, "Since we can't find it anywhere else, it's most likely here. My friend and I will go downstairs. You guys wait outside."
Lao Cao smiled happily and promised: "We will definitely wait outside!"
Li Baili warned, "Keep a close eye on them this time. Don't let them run around. Otherwise, if they get lost, they'll have to come back to look for them, which will be even more troublesome!"
Lao Cao nodded repeatedly and replied, "We know!"
Li Baili was skeptical. She wrapped the dog leash around her wrist twice to prevent it from accidentally falling off. She waved to Li Hanshuang, "Wait for me near the cave entrance. I'll go in and take a look."
Li Hanshuang nodded, went down the cave with him, and stood where people outside could see her. She waited for Li Baili to come back after she went in. Then Li Baili walked deeper into the cave alone.
It was as dark inside as it was outside, but there was indeed a figure not far away still waving.
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