The fifth copy
Although half of what Li Dahu said was false, he was still a coward. Under Du Ming's intense gaze, he wanted to pour out his heart and tell everything.
From Li Dahu, Du Ming learned that Wang Po lived in a separate house at the west entrance of Xiaokan Village, far away from the villagers, and had only one daughter in the family.
"Her daughter." Li Dahu shook his head, unable to put it into words.
This has nothing to do with Du Ming.
He set out from Li Dahu's house and walked for half an hour to the west entrance of the village. In the distance, he saw a red brick house with a mud wall surrounding it, looking dilapidated.
Before he could get closer, a woman came out of the house. She was nearly two meters tall, with broad shoulders and a thick waist. She was wearing a work apron and holding a powder compact in her hand.
Seeing Du Ming, she screamed and shyly ran back to the house, shouting as she ran: "Mom, mom, there's a man! There's a man!"
Du Ming: “…” He suddenly started to back down.
After a while, Wang Po came out. Squinting her triangular eyes, she immediately looked Du Ming up and down, as if she were weighing a piece of pork.
Fortunately, he was normal. After taking a look at him, Wang Po asked, "Is there something wrong?"
Du Ming nodded. "Uncle Li told me that you are well-informed and knowledgeable, so I came here specifically to ask you something."
When someone praised her, Wang Po couldn't help but raise her chin proudly. "Then there's nothing I, Wang Po, don't know. Tell me, what do you want to know?"
Du Ming said, "It's about this thing in our village where people keep hearing these crackling sounds. Do you know about it?"
"I heard..." Wang Po said as soon as she opened her mouth. Just when she was about to tell the second half of the story, someone behind her pulled the back corner of her clothes.
It was her daughter who had been unmarried for three hundred years.
Suddenly, the subject changed. "If you say I know, I know. If you say I don't know, I don't know either. It depends on what you mean."
Du Ming raised his head and met Wang Po's daughter's fixed gaze, and smiled.
Ten minutes later, Wang Po and her daughter sat opposite each other, each with a big bag on their heads. They had serious expressions and stiff postures, like little cabbages being scolded by the landlord, looking extremely pitiful.
Du Ming drank his tea leisurely, "Can you tell me now?"
Wang Po nodded frantically, with a strong desire to survive.
"Then tell me."
Wang Po recalled for a moment before finally telling the story: "The origin of this matter must be traced back to more than two hundred years ago."
"More than two hundred years?!" Du Ming was shocked. Didn't Li Dahu say one hundred and forty or fifty years? How come when it came to Wang Po, it suddenly jumped to two hundred years?
This time span can't be wrong, right?
When Wang Po saw Du Ming's expression, she knew that he had been deceived by Li Dahu again.
"Don't listen to what Li Dahu says. He keeps saying over a hundred years. Isn't it because he has rheumatism and is counting the days until the time comes to attack the devil..."
At the last word, Wang Po suddenly stopped talking and mumbled over it, but Du Ming could hear what she hadn't finished.
I guess Li Dahu wants to ask for compensation, so he is counting the days.
"Okay, go on." Du Ming returned to the topic.
"Do you know Liu Rui from Xiaokan Village?"
Du Ming shook his head.
"He is a famous gangster in our village. He hangs around the village on weekdays and does no real work." Speaking of Liu Rui, Wang Po was so hateful.
She only has one precious daughter, but this guy keeps saying that her daughter is ugly and can't get married. How can you not be angry?
Although Liu Rui was a thief, he only stole from other villages and never from his own village, so the villagers tolerated him.
"Liu Rui never steals from villagers, but for some reason he stole into the Zhao family that day. It would have been fine if he had just stolen, but Zhao Chang even caught him."
"The fight between the two was so intense." Wang Po seemed to be able to remember the scene when she talked about this.
Du Ming: "What happened next?"
"Then, this horrible thing happened."
"Zhao Chang unexpectedly died that night. His wife cried so hard and insisted that Liu Rui pay with his life. But it was just a fight, not murder, so how could he pay with his life?"
"The village collectively gave some subsidies and helped bury the person in the back mountain."
Wang Po sighed at this point, "If the matter could have ended here, it would have been a conclusion. But Zhao Chang's wife said that every time she went to the grave, she could hear a crackling sound. She felt that Zhao Chang was unwilling to die and came to take his life."
"Anyway, it's creepy."
This is the overall incident. Wang Po told all the information she knew, and Du Ming summarized it himself after understanding it.
The incident was caused by Liu Rui and Zhao Changwei, and it is estimated that they are closely related. In addition, this incident lasted for more than two hundred years, which is a long time.
You discovered the doubts and gave them some thought.
Du Ming: “!”
Inspiration suddenly flashed through his mind, and he urgently asked, "Where is Zhao Chang buried?"
Wang Po: “?”
After a while, she seemed to have thought of something and shouted, "You are not going to dig up someone's grave!"
Du Ming didn't answer and ran away.
In the dense forest behind the mountain.
A man squatted in front of a grave with a panicked expression. He quickly threw paper money into the brazier with his right hand and watched the paper money burn into black ashes and fly in the wind.
Suddenly, footsteps were heard behind me.
"Who is it?" Liu Rui turned back in fear. When he saw a tall dark figure, he couldn't help but screamed: "Ahhhhhh——"
"Why are you yelling?" Du Ming lit the tinder, revealing his handsome face in the darkness.
Indeed, it was dark as soon as he left Wang Po's house. By this point, Du Ming was basically certain that this incident had a lot to do with time.
He was not sure about the specific cause and effect between the two, so he planned to go to Liu Rui. But when he arrived at Liu Rui's house, he saw him running towards the back mountain with a stack of paper money in his hand.
Du Ming followed behind calmly, listening to the other party cursing and apologizing in front of Zhao Chang's grave.
It can be basically confirmed that Zhao Chang’s death has nothing to do with Liu Rui.
So why could Liu Rui also hear the crackling sound?
Liu Rui, frightened to the point of feeling cold, shouted in anger, "Who are you?"
"I'm here to investigate." Du Ming took out his service gun from his pocket.
As soon as he saw the gun, Liu Rui immediately changed his expression and said flatteringly, "So it's the boss."
He pointed at the grave and said, "Zhao Chang's death has nothing to do with me. You must investigate this clearly."
"It really had nothing to do with me. It was just a fight, how could he die? I even went to the outpatient clinic at the time, and the doctor said my injuries were worse than his."
Du Ming interrupted the other person and asked, "When do you usually hear the crackling sound?"
Liu Rui said: "Basically, it's time to come here and take a look."
"I'm just taking a look around. I'm definitely not feeling guilty or anything."
Du Ming interrupted again: "Can you hear it every time you come here?"
Liu Rui recalled and shook his head, "Not really, it seems that I can only hear it at night?" He really hadn't thought about it until the man mentioned it. Now that someone mentioned it, Liu Rui felt that the time point was really different.
It seems like every time it's dark, like...now.
“Click, click, click…”
The familiar voice sounded again, and Liu Rui stepped back in shock. His lips trembled as he said, "Right...right now! Right now!"
Another person present felt that the voice sounded familiar. He listened carefully for a while and suddenly realized what was going on.
This is clearly the sound of fingernails scratching at the coffin lid!
"Dig quickly! Save people!" Du Ming kicked Liu Rui, and the two of them quickly started digging the grave.
About a quarter of an hour later, Zhao Chang's coffin was finally opened.
Zhao Chang, whose face turned purple and who thought he was going to experience suffocation again, didn't even have the energy to curse.
In less than half an hour, everyone in the village knew that Zhao Chang had come back to life, and they all looked at Du Ming as if he were a god.
Some people even wanted Du Ming to see if their ancestors were still alive, but Du Ming politely declined.
Zhao Chang, who was trapped in the coffin, was diagnosed to be suffering from severe diabetes coma, which led to a state of suspended animation. Therefore, after waking up in the coffin, he frantically scratched the wooden board with his nails, which was the origin of the crackling sound.
Du Ming stood in front of Zhao Chang and took a strange-shaped stone from the man. He heard the man say, "Thank you for saving me."
【You received a strange stone.】
Du Ming's eyes flashed and he accepted the thank you gift.
The special energy magnetic field that had been surrounding Xiaokan Village finally had a gap. As soon as Du Ming walked out, he saw his team members and several other groups of people.
Shao Feizhu and the other two were a little excited when they saw him. Li Gao even patted his shoulder vigorously and said, "Thank goodness you're okay, kid. You didn't know that we couldn't enter the village right after we crossed the stone tablet."
"The captain was worried that something might happen to you, so he didn't dare to leave."
"Thank you." Du Ming thanked him.
"polite."
A few people were talking over there, and the other group couldn't stand it anymore. One of them walked up to Shao Feizhu and said, "Since the people have come out, it seems that everything is fine. Let's go first."
"Okay, Captain Xu, please come over here." Shao Feizhu greeted them and watched them walk away.
The Xiaokan Village incident was successfully resolved, and after completing the final finishing work, everyone returned to the alliance.
Although Du Ming was the only one involved in this, the credit was still given to the team. The other three also received a lot of points.
As the team leader, Shao Feizhu felt the most embarrassed about this and insisted on taking Du Ming and others to the cafeteria for a good meal.
Du Ming wanted to refuse, but Li Gao stopped him. "Hey, this opportunity is rare, so you should let the captain pay for it. I tell you, the food in the cafeteria, the one at the second window is the most expensive and the best."
The Alliance's cafeteria was on the first floor of Building A. It was lunchtime when the four of them went there, and there were many lines waiting to get food.
Du Ming was pulled towards the second window. With a glance, he saw the man with black energy coming out of his body again.
This time, she didn't wear a veil, but a hoodie, revealing her fine black hair and overly bright lip color.
Like a demon that devours human blood in the night.
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