Chapter 48

The villagers’ faces were full of anxiety, their eyes seemed to be flashing with fire, their throats were hoarse, as if they were holding a bag of stones, and their tone of voice was vague, as if they were about to spit.

They were all stunned for a moment, and then looked at each other.

The two of them fell silent at the same time.

The villagers’ inquiries were not answered.

After the villagers looked at each other, some of them went to find the village chief, hoping that the village chief would come to deal with this matter. If the village chief could let them get medicine to treat the disease, it would be best.

The rest of the villagers continued to block Xiaomai and Green, making sure they couldn’t leave easily.

It seemed that everyone except them thought that once they were allowed to leave, they would disappear immediately.

The village chief heard that there was medicine that could cure the disease spreading in the village, so he rushed over quickly. Because he was moving so fast, he had to use a cane, and his legs and feet were still a little inconvenient, almost like a cripple.

He appeared in front of the two people quickly.

His face, as yellow as orange peel, was covered with wrinkles, and a hot red color gradually spread in the gaps between the wrinkles. He was excited and excited, and his body was a little hot.

This hot red color was a very normal physical reaction for him.

However, because there were a lot of things going on recently, he thought he was a fair village chief and had to take care of many things, which made him very tired physically and mentally, showing a paleness of dying.

That kind of paleness is a barrier between the dead and the dying.

One step forward is the territory of the god of death, and one step back is the blessing of the god of life.

The village chief has two yellow eyes, like two fishing lines, with two bronze buttons hanging on them, staring at them, and his whole body is like a long-dead zombie that just stood up from the coffin.

He stood in front of Xiao Mai and Green, and his whole body exuded a stiff, rotten breath, as if the god of death had deliberately arranged a quagmire and swamp to annoy the living.

Maybe his original intention was to take everyone alive, but today, it is hard to say whether his thoughts are the same as before.

People's hearts are always changeable.

"I heard that you have a way to cure the disease in the village, right?"

The village chief looked at Xiaomai, then at Green and asked.

Xiaomai grabbed Green, wanting to protect him and hide him, but a person was powerless in front of this group of people, and even seemed too small.

Just like an ant accidentally fell on the head of a whale, no matter how hard it struggled, it could not escape, because there is still the sea beyond the surface of the whale, and the sea is boundless.

"We don't have that method."

Xiaomai replied.

He was very alert, his two eyes were like flashlights at night, although they did not reflect light, but they were enough to illuminate things hidden in the dark, and those who were scanned by his eyes could not help but dodge.

Just like a cockroach hiding in the dark, once the light is turned on, it will hide back into the darkness of a deeper corner.

"You have already used that method, and everyone knows it."

The village chief smiled, trying to look kinder, but it didn't work.

Because the corners of his curved mouth looked particularly stiff, as if a kindergarten picture was drawn incorrectly, and an angry child cut it twice with scissors, leaving an irregular mark.

It was a mark that made people vomit when they saw it.

Normal lips should be red and bright, like petals covered with dew in the early morning, but this standard cannot be used to require the elderly, so the lips of the elderly are usually darker.

But the village chief's lips are a deeper red than red, and the color will turn black when it goes deep, so the two thin lips are just like a layer of fish oil and stove ash.

This superficial color plus the stench emanating from his gradually decaying body simply forced people to stay away from him.

He seemed to know nothing about this, and he was still laughing. When he laughed, his face looked like a broken wooden board.

While making crackling sounds that normal ears could not hear, more cracks spread out, and in the dark that could not be seen by open eyes, it rotted away little by little.

"But we have run out of ways."

Xiao Mai answered with extreme caution.

But it was this vigilance that betrayed him, he was too vigilant.

The village chief looked at him and thought, if he said nothing and did nothing, then perhaps, other people really would know nothing.

But he was so vigilant that people couldn't help but wonder if he was hiding some secret.

The village chief put his hands on the top of his walking stick, and poked the ground twice with it. The sound of the stick was not loud, but it could be heard by all the nervous people gathered here.

"I'm afraid you are lying to us. The real way to save us lies in this outsider.

No matter how you protect him, it will be useless. It's better to let him hand over the things now, and we can still live in peace."

The village chief looked at Green with his eyes like yellow buttons.

Green glanced at Xiaomai beside him, and the village chief immediately said: "If you don't want to say it, then I will arrest you separately. What do you think?"

Xiaomai shook his head at Green.

Green was not sure what he meant, so he didn't say anything.

The village chief arrested them all and locked them in two rooms. Before locking them in, he searched Green and found a small white bottle in his pocket.

Xiao Mai was already locked in the room at this time and didn't know what was going on. Green watched the villagers open the small white bottle and pour out some white powder from it.

When the wind blew, the powder flew onto other people's faces and into their eyes. They couldn't help but rub their eyes and cough, and tears flowed from their eyes, like crocodile tears.

"It can't be wrong. This must be the medicine that can cure the disease. Let's put this medicine into the water quickly. As long as this thing enters the water source, all of us can be cured."

The villagers quickly tightened the lid, held the bottle in their hands, and shouted to the village chief.

The village chief nodded in agreement and told them to take their things.

They took their things and ran away.

Green was pushed into the room next to Xiao Mai.

The door of the room was locked, and the window of the room was so high that when he squinted his eyes to look out of the window, the light coming in seemed to come from heaven.

The village chief stood outside the house and said to them: "Since you did not resist strongly and cause serious casualties to other people, I can give you one day to stay in there.

After one day, if you are still stubborn and unwilling to explain the situation, we will not be polite to you. Now we are just locking you up, but it's nothing.

Maybe you can't feel how tolerant we are now.

You will know when the time comes."

The village chief left after he finished speaking, leaving only some villagers to guard outside the door to ensure that even if they climbed out of the window, they would be discovered immediately and locked back.

Green waited in the room for a while. The room was very quiet. The people outside hardly spoke except for walking and breathing.

Xiao Mai asked him through the wall: "What should we say?"

"It doesn't matter what we say. They may not believe it. And even if we tell them everything, they are unlikely to find the third pill. They can't find it, so it's not our fault."

Green replied.

"Then can we say it?"

Xiao Mai asked.

"No one forbids us from saying these things. Even the person who gave us the medicine didn't ask us to do so. Even if we say it, we won't be condemned by God. Don't be afraid."

Green comforted him.

He was silent for a long time and laughed.

The villagers outside knocked on the door.

"Don't collude with each other again. If we catch you again, we won't be polite to you."

The villagers whispered through the door.

"We have something to say."

Xiao Mai replied.

"You are prisoners now, and you are not allowed to talk casually."

The villagers were a little impatient.

"But before the village chief left, he told us that if we didn't say anything, he would show us a hard time tomorrow. Are you deliberately not asking and letting us suffer tomorrow?"

Xiao Mai asked loudly.

The villagers were silent for a while, and then with a bang, they opened the door of Xiao Mai's room and dragged him out.

"You want to talk, right? Okay, then let's talk slowly."

The villagers grabbed Xiao Mai's clothes, surrounded him in the open space outside, and stared at him.

"You actually just want to kill people to silence them. Why should you say it earlier? Why pretend to be a good person? People who don't know think that they can survive by saying something.

Since you want to kill us anyway, there is nothing to say."

Xiao Mai snorted.

The villagers raised their fists to hit him, feeling that they were being fooled.

Green sensed something was wrong in the room, and shouted to the outside: "Maybe the village chief will ask us to do things that cannot damage the appearance. If you hurt my friend, you will be responsible for it."

The villagers walked out of the room angrily, waving their fists and asked: "What responsibility can we take? What can you do? I still don't believe that the village chief will side with you."

"Didn't the village chief say at the beginning that this place was contagious and was fenced off? Maybe some clergymen think this is a place abandoned by the gods. In order to please the gods, the village chief may want to perform a sacrifice.

Do you think that a complete sacrifice and a sacrifice that has been damaged by someone will have the same role in the sacrifice?"

Green asked.

The villagers outside were speechless for a moment, and could only angrily drive Xiaomai back into the house and lock him up, and by the way, they found a rope to tie him up.

"If you make trouble again, we will gag you. Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you have a life-saving talisman. We will not be polite to you."

The villagers said to him with their hands on their hips.

The door of the room slammed again.

"Is there really a God in the world? If there is, why didn't he save me? Am I not a devout believer?"

Xiaomai huddled in the corner of the room and muttered to himself.