"School is about to start. This is the information I prepared for you. Are you sure you want to study?"
Boss Lu looked at Xu Ying and asked seriously.
Xu Ying's face was cold, and she nodded without letting anyone know she was being rejected. "Yes, I'm going to school. What was that girl's name that day? She's in this school, right?"
When Boss Lu heard Xu Ying mention Xu Yi, he said, "She's just a customer in my cake shop, not someone special. Why do you take it to heart?"
Yingying, for so many years, you are the only one in my heart. Otherwise, I wouldn't try so hard to get you... Do you really want to go to school? Will your body be unable to handle it?"
When Xu Ying heard this, a bright smile appeared on her face, "Okay, okay, I know, I know my own body and I know how to handle it, don't worry.
Also, I won't do anything to her, I'm just curious about school life, don't worry, I can handle it."
Boss Lu could only nod and agree: "Okay, then contact me if you have any questions."
…
After lunch, Xu Yi felt a little sleepy and was playing leisurely with Da Zhuang when suddenly there was a hurried knock on the door.
"Who is it?"
Zheng Yibai's familiar voice came from the door: "Boss, it's me, open the door quickly, I have something urgent to talk to you about."
Xu Yi opened the door, and Zheng Yibai looked anxious. "Boss, that place was wrong last time. I wanted to go and pay my respects to my master today, but that village is gone now."
"What does it mean that everything is gone? The village is gone too." Xu Yi was a little confused.
“The village is still there, but the strange dog’s body and the two men are gone.
No trace was left, as if they never existed in the first place." Zheng Yibai finished speaking and handed the phone to Xu Yi.
"This is a photo I took, take a look."
Xu Yi took the phone and examined it carefully. The more she looked, the more shocked she became. "How could this be? Did someone go there before? Why was it cleaned so thoroughly? Or was it done by someone behind them?"
After thinking for a moment, she said, "Let's go and take a look."
Xu Yi packed up simply, carried her bag and followed Zheng Yibai out the door.
Sitting in the taxi, looking at the scenery outside the window, Xu Yi recalled countless possibilities in his mind.
It is really unlikely that the old man and the young man could turn the people in the village into that state without being known to outsiders, as there was no powerful force behind them.
This was something she had neglected.
Who is it?
Boss Lu happened to pass by with his girlfriend that day. Could it be him?
Thinking back to the recent events, the people behind them were hiding very deeply, but I always felt that they were inextricably linked to her.
And there’s Boss Lu’s girlfriend who appeared out of nowhere. The way she looks at people always makes people feel uncomfortable.
Zheng Yibai was rare in silence along the way, with a frown on his face, thinking about what was going on.
"Boss, how could it be such a coincidence that we just came out of the village that day, and Boss Lu happened to run into us there. Did he do this?
Or was he the one behind that grandparents? But why did he make so many puppets? Did he want to control the capital?
Xu Yi glanced at the driver and glared at Zheng Yibai.
When the taxi driver heard what Zheng Yibai said, his curiosity was instantly piqued. He asked with a gossipy look on his face, "What dolls? What village? Are you talking about that scary village? I heard from a friend that the village is very scary. There are lifelike dolls everywhere. If you are not careful, you will be entangled by them."
"Master, do you know this village?" Zheng Yibai started chatting with the driver.
The driver, with a gossipy face and a reputation for being audacious, said mysteriously, "I haven't been there. My friend's friend told me it's scary, filled with lifelike puppets. They even move on full-moon nights and line up to run to the top of the mountain."
Zheng Yibai became interested. "Line up and run to the top of the mountain? Such a weird thing, the higher-ups don't care?"
The driver continued: "The police came several times, but they didn't see anything strange. Then the matter was left unresolved. The story became more and more exaggerated, with all kinds of rumors.
Some say that some people are refining corpses in the mountains, some are pretending to be ghosts, and some say that it is actually ghosts that have entered dolls to scare people. There are all kinds of theories.
I've been driving a taxi for so many years and have seen all sorts of weird things. I guess it's just some little devils occupying that area, deliberately making some noise to avoid people coming in and disturbing them."
"Master, you've got to say that. Your analysis makes a lot of sense, and you're so brave. I admire you." Zheng Yibai agreed.
The driver was a little embarrassed when he heard the compliment, "I'm just a brave person. I've even taken people to a cemetery in the middle of the night before."
Seeing a familiar place, Xu Yi said: "Master, just drop us off in front."
The driver was very curious about the conversation just now. He wanted to go and see if the village was as strange as his friend described.
He asked, "You really don't need me to take you up the mountain? I want to go and take a look, too."
Xu Yi quickly refused: "Master, it's better not to go near that village. It's really dangerous. This talisman can keep you safe. Make sure you get some rest recently."
After handing over a talisman and paying the fare, Xu Yi and Zheng Yibai got out of the car.
Zheng Yibai waved to his master and said, "Master, you must keep this talisman. It will be beneficial to you. Thank you for giving us a ride. See you later."
The driver casually put the talisman in the drawer, waved to the two men, stepped on the accelerator, and drove away.
The two of them walked into the mountains in silence and soon arrived at the village they had visited some time ago.
I walked into the village as if I was familiar with the place. There were no strange dolls anymore, only old houses with their mouths wide open, as if silently telling something.
The fighting during those days is still vivid in my mind, but now that weird and scary feeling is gone.
"Let's go and check out the house of the grandparents and grandchildren." Xu Yi walked around the room where they cooked, but found nothing.
Looking at the familiar dilapidated gate and the charred land in front, a very strange feeling spread in my heart.
"That day, both the grandfather and the grandson survived, right?"
"Yes, he is not dead." Zheng Yibai patted the crumbling door and replied.
Xu Yi carefully searched the house of the grandparents and grandchildren, but found no traces.
The grandparents and grandchildren seemed to have never appeared and disappeared out of thin air.
Xu Yi analyzed: "Someone must have been here and cleaned up the traces here, or dealt with the grandfather and grandson as well."
Zheng Yibai nodded, becoming increasingly suspicious of Boss Lu, who happened to pass by that day. "Boss, didn't Boss Lu say he lived in the mountains? How about we stop by and pay him a visit?"
"Okay, let's go and take a look." Xu Yi said.
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