"You're bringing fewer and fewer chickens these days. You only brought one this time?" Huang Er's mouth was full of oil, and he had a toothpick in his mouth. "It's not even enough to fill my teeth."
As he spoke, he picked his teeth and complained about the roast chicken that had been eaten down to a pile of bones. Mingmei, sitting opposite him, just sat there quietly and didn't listen to his complaints.
When the two people opposite her fell silent, Mingmei spoke up calmly: "Didn't you two go down the mountain for a treat yourselves? Didn't you eat your fill last night? Not only did you kill most of the chickens in the village, but you also scared the idiot in the chicken coop to death."
Speaking of this, Mingmei could only sigh that they were lucky. Lu Xiaoyao and the others had gone up the mountain early today, otherwise, if they had discovered this, there would probably have been another uproar.
Mingmei glanced at the two who looked guilty after she had spoken, then changed the subject and said, "But you two are quite alert. That idiot just said something about ordering some things and you started making a move."
"What? What did that idiot say?"
Huang Er's eyes widened suddenly, his turbid pupils now turning into the vertical pupils of some kind of wild beast, as if he was completely unaware of this. However, upon hearing Mingmei's words, he realized something was wrong and asked urgently, "What exactly did he say?"
"Hmm...it seems they're saying a lot of people in the village are gone, missing." Mingmei tapped a finger lightly on the table in front of them, then added, "I've said it before, if you're going to wear human skin and act like one, at least act like one. You know what will happen if someone ever shouts 'You're not human.'"
With a bright smile, she looked at the "non-humans" in front of her who had long harbored rebellious intentions and had done many things behind her back. In her heart, she had already written the ending for them.
"Then why did you guide these people up the mountain?"
Unlike Huang Er, the guy disguised as Wang Laosan asked about something else: "Those guys don't look like simple characters."
"It's nothing. Those people are just Wang's daughter's classmates. They came to visit during summer vacation, but the timing just didn't work out."
Mingmei sighed softly, "Who knew that Wang Laosan would come up the mountain looking for her when her daughter returned that day, and be seen by the villagers?"
As Mingmei spoke, she stared at "Wang Laosan" and asked, "How did you dispose of Wang Laosan's body? You didn't hide it in this temple, did you? I've said it before, this is my territory, and I hate bloodshed."
Seeing Mingmei's cold and intimidating expression, "Wang Laosan" and Huang Er grinned and said, "How could that be? Same as before, but this time we didn't have time to dig a hole, so we just hung them on the tree. Those resentful and dishonest guys deserve to be left to rot in the wilderness!"
...
The rain was getting heavier and heavier. Lu Xiaoyao held tightly to the umbrella that was about to be blown away by the wind and followed Julian and the others all the way down the mountain.
"oops!"
With a slip, Lu Xiaoyao was caught by Julian, who grabbed her waist to steady her.
"Hold on tight." Immediately afterward, Lu Xiaoyao's umbrella fell from her hand, and she was soaked to the bone. But her hand was now tightly held by Julian's. "We can't be as slow as we are during the day."
Where are we going?
"Enter the village."
Julian spoke these words on behalf of Mu Chen, who was walking ahead.
"Huh? Why?"
"The village was very quiet this morning."
Although Cuihua came to make trouble, Mu Chen and Julian felt that something was wrong in the village before they went up the mountain. Mu Chen reminded them that there were many chickens in the village when they entered yesterday, but there was no crowing of chickens this morning.
"Huh? That's the reason?"
While marveling at the two men's observational skills, Lu Xiaoyao also felt that going down the mountain under the cover of darkness for this matter was perhaps making a mountain out of a molehill.
“There must be other secrets in the village.” Mu Chen noticed that the two people behind him had slowed down, so he slowed his pace slightly to wait for them to catch up.
That's when I overheard their conversation.
Then Mu Chen added, "Besides, we don't even know if we'll be able to live to see tomorrow."
As soon as Mu Chen finished speaking, a sudden gust of wind blew through the mountains and forests, causing the trees on both sides of the mountain road to rustle. Then, to Lu Xiaoyao and the others' horror, they discovered that the orange flame that had been burning on their torches had rapidly diminished as the wind blew. Then, a strange blue-green flame appeared on the torches, illuminating the surroundings once again.
At that moment, the rain stopped.
...
"Look, doesn't this mural look familiar?"
During the day, Wang Wenfei's attention was focused on Wang Laosan, and she wasn't particularly drawn to the mural. However, now that she and Merita had come in and were secretly observing everything, Wang Wenfei felt a sense of familiarity.
"This mural looks kind of familiar..."
By the light of Wang Wenfei's torch, Merita stared at the murals covering the walls. "Even though it's not the first time I've seen them, I'm still amazed. These paintings are truly magical. The landscapes and figures are all so lifelike."
"Yes, this painting... isn't it depicting our village?" As Wang Wenfei stared at the mural and realized what it depicted, a chill ran through her, making her shiver.
Just as Merita was about to touch it, she was startled by Wang Wenfei's words and quickly took a step back, staring at him with suspicion. "Are you sure?"
"This...is my home, and this road...isn't it the road leading to the inn? Didn't you take this road when you entered the village this afternoon?"
When Wang Wenfei pointed to her own house, Merita didn't realize it yet, but the road she pointed to next, with its familiar scenery on both sides, was the very road they had traveled.
“This…here!” Now, without Wang Wenfei pointing, Merita recognized a courtyard at a glance. It was the same place where she and Lu Xiaoyao had gone to buy groceries earlier.
Why is there a map of the village drawn here?
Merita was puzzled, and Wang Wenfei was even more confused. The next second, Merita's gaze swept towards the corner of the mural, and her face instantly turned pale!
"The person is gone!"
"What?"
Merita grabbed Wang Wenfei's wrist, which was holding the torch, and before Wang Wenfei could react, Merita brought the torch close to a corner of the mural, which was a field.
All she heard was Merita saying in terror, "During the day I... I saw people standing in this field..."
At this moment, where can one see a human figure in the field?
As if remembering something, before Wang Wenfei could ask again, Merita used the torch to illuminate the scenes she had seen during the day one by one, repeatedly saying, "Here, here, the children are gone too, the old man under the tree... the old man is gone too, and there was smoke from the chimney! There's no smoke from the chimney!"
"Mereta, calm down, explain carefully what exactly happened... Be careful!"
Just as Wang Wenfei was about to tell Merita to calm down, she turned to the side and suddenly saw a hand appear behind Merita!
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