Chapter 109 Chapter 109
Li Qingshan watched Guihua and Taylor leave, and planned to go to the yard of his residence to check the situation immediately.
If what Guihua said was true, the others were going to look for him and should be on the way. If he returned to his residence, he would not run into others.
If what Guihua said was false, the others did not plan to look for him, and he returned to his residence, nothing would happen.
Li Qingshan walked quickly.
Before he walked far, Taylor suddenly called him from behind, ran over in a hurry, frowned, blushed and said: "Why don't you come with us?!"
Li Qingshan frowned and looked at him carefully, sneered and said: "Didn't we agree on it? Why are you going back on your word now? Are you here to cause trouble for me?"
Taylor was stunned for a moment, and said stupidly: "No, I don't mean that! I'm just worried about you."
He lowered his head and looked aggrieved.
"Where's Guihua?" Li Qingshan asked with a frown.
Taylor raised his head and said happily: "He was keeping watch for us on the road. He said that as long as you agree, we can leave immediately and it will save us all trouble!"
Li Qingshan sneered: "So I'm the one holding you back!"
Taylor quickly waved his hands, widened his eyes and said: "That's not the case! I didn't mean that!"
Li Qingshan smiled slowly: "That's good! I also plan to go with you, but I think it's too dangerous to go together. Why don't you go by yourself? I'll follow you?"
Taylor was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect him to say that. He hesitated and frowned: "This is not good! If something happens, we won't know!"
"Don't you believe me?" Li Qingshan looked at him and asked.
Taylor was a little flustered, and quickly waved his hands and said, "No! I believe you! I'm leaving now!"
He turned around and ran for a distance and said, "You must come!"
Li Qingshan raised the corners of his lips, waved his hand, and said nothing.
Taylor ran away.
Li Qingshan contacted Taylor secretly and asked him to come back immediately.
Taylor was walking on the road with Guihua. After receiving Li Qingshan's notice, he immediately smiled and said, "I remembered that I have something very important to get. I will go and come back soon. You wait for me here."
After saying that, he turned around and ran away without waiting for Guihua's consent. Guihua screamed and wanted to hold him, but the distance was too far, so she had to stomp her feet on the spot, frowned, and walked back and forth anxiously, waiting for him to come back.
Taylor appeared in front of Li Qingshan, his face was as white as jade, but he was just panting slightly, and smiled and said, "Why? Suddenly you can't bear to leave me?"
This was of course a joke.
Li Qingshan shook his head and pulled his hair. Seeing that he did not dodge or evade, but was just a little surprised, he widened his eyes, retracted his hand, and said with a smile, "The osmanthus is fake."
"How did you tell?" Taylor blinked and asked curiously.
Li Qingshan smiled and said, "Not long after you followed him, a new Taylor came back and asked me to go with you. If it were you, you would definitely not do that, so that must be fake, and I rejected him.
I thought about it, everything was real before you left me, and suddenly it became fake when you came back. What happened in between? Obviously, leaving is a node. When
one person leaves another, the one who leaves may be replaced by a fake.
But I think the real one should still exist, but it just didn't come back to find us, otherwise other people can't be indifferent. If anything happens to them, although we can't hear any sound here, we may still get some news.
According to this idea, we can find that once we start When Osmanthus first appeared in front of us, she had many flaws.
When she left, she was obviously afraid of us. How could she come back suddenly? She was so close to us and asked to go with us and leave everyone else?
If what the fake Osmanthus said really happened, Osmanthus should be even more afraid of us and would not come to find us. Even if she did, she would not let us go to the mountains.
Because the mountains may not be safer than here, we are not familiar with it, and there are no people. Isn't it? "
Taylor believed his words without hesitation, sighed, and said with some regret: "I thought people really came back!"
Li Qingshan patted him on the shoulder and smiled: "It doesn't matter, there are always other ways to know what happened."
Taylor nodded.
The two returned to the yard to rest. The others were lazily wandering around, some resting in the room, some walking around in the yard to digest their food, or finding a place to sit, as if they were getting some fresh air. They were very calm, with no angry expression on their faces.
Li Qingshan walked beside Taylor and whispered to him when he entered the room, "Look!
Sure enough, what the fake Guihua said was fake. If it was true, they would have attacked us in groups a long time ago. What would they be waiting for? It would not be like this now!"
Taylor nodded, closed the door and smiled, "Thank goodness you thought it through. Otherwise, maybe both of us would be in trouble."
Li Qingshan smiled and sat next to him, "If it was you who stayed, you would know."
The two chatted casually, lay on the bed, and prepared to take a short nap. They wrapped themselves in quilts, pressed their pillows, closed their eyes, and soon fell drowsy.
The old servant appeared at the gate of the yard and said to everyone, "Excuse me, everyone. It is customary for us to take a nap here according to the master's rules.
If you want to take a nap, you should go to the room and lie down. If you don't want to take a nap, please leave the yard. It's best not to stay in the house, so as not to make noise and disturb the master's rest. The master will be unhappy."
Beiji frowned and asked, "But I'm not sleepy now, and I want to eat something. Can you stay in the room without going out, but not taking a nap? I won't disturb others!"
The old servant smiled and said, "Yes, but you can't leave the room during the lunch break, otherwise the servants will see you, and they will be afraid that the master will know, blame them, and do bad things to you."
Beiji nodded quickly, sneaked into the room and closed the door, showing with his actions that he would never leave during the lunch break.
Guihua hesitated and asked, "When does the lunch break end? I can take a lunch break, but I can't take a lunch break all the time!"
The old servant smiled and said, "The lunch break is not long, only one hour, starting at two o'clock and ending at three o'clock!"
Guihua nodded doubtfully, went into the room and said, "Okay, I'll take a lunch break too."
The others looked at each other and gave their choices one after another. Ruoji
asked, "If we don't take a nap and have to leave the house, where can we go?"
The old servant smiled and said, "You can go anywhere in the village.
Just come back before dinner time. If you don't come back before the night rest, the house will be closed and will not be opened even if someone knocks, because everyone has to rest at night."
Ruoji asked tentatively, "What if I accidentally leave the village and walk home?"
The old servant smiled and said, "It's okay! As long as you can walk out, you can walk any way." When he smiled, his face had deep wrinkles, like a bun with bad intentions. If it was poked, black pus would flow out. Ruoji
nodded, no longer questioning.
After a while, there were banging sounds outside the yard, like someone knocking on a gong as they passed by. The person outside shouted the time at the top of his voice and walked away.
It sounded like two o'clock.
Li Qingshan just felt that his sleep was disturbed. It was a bit noisy outside the door. He covered his ears, turned over, and leaned tightly against the pillow, closed his eyes, and planned to continue sleeping.
Suddenly, there was a heavy sound of footsteps outside the yard, like the footsteps of a person with a broken leg dragging.
The sound came in waves, like a person walking and stopping, and it took a lot of effort to walk in. The more he listened, the more permeating it became.
Li Qingshan couldn't fall asleep for a while, and woke up immediately, but he was still unwilling to open his eyes. He just lay on the bed, raised his ears and listened to the movement outside.
The person outside the door walked to an occupied room at the edge and stopped for a while. Li Qingshan felt vaguely that the person would not move, or had already left, so the person raised his hand and banged on the door.
The knocking sound was very loud, like a sudden thunder in a sunny day.
Li Qingshan clearly heard someone shiver in the room not far away, causing the wooden bed to creak, as if someone was screaming in fear.
Some people also started swearing, with a bad temper, swearing, and loud voices, and were not polite at all.
The knocking sound outside stopped for a while, and without waiting for someone in the room at the edge to come out and open the door, it immediately moved to the door of the room where the swearing came from and knocked on the door.
"Who is playing tricks outside? Didn't we say we should take a lunch break at this time? Why are you knocking on the door?" A very loud and angry man's voice came from the room where he was cursing just now.
There was a loud creaking sound from the bed in the room. It was probably the person who was lying on the bed got off the bed and rushed to the door with heavy steps in anger to open it. With a bang, the door was opened. There was no knocking sound during this period.
Just when Li Qingshan thought that there would be conversation outside, there was a sharp scream from a man outside. The sound was very miserable and almost unrecognizable. It seemed that he was scared to death.
Li Qingshan's throat tightened and he frowned. He realized that something was wrong, but he didn't know the specific situation.
There was a bang outside the door, followed by a clear chewing sound, like someone was eating something.
A very vague and familiar voice sounded outside.
"Brother and sister, why don't you remember me? Can't you hear my footsteps? Then open the door! Open the door, you can see me and recognize me!" It was the voice of a young girl, laughing, chewing and swallowing.
At the same time, a smell of blood squeezed in from the crack of the door.
There was another knock on the door, but this time the knock was mixed with the smell of blood and chewing sounds, and the sound of footsteps dragging on the ground was not so obvious, as if the person outside was crawling on all fours instead of walking on two legs.
The knock was much lower, about the position that a person could reach by raising his hands on the ground.
Bang bang bang!
Bang bang bang!
"Open the door! Open the door! Kind brothers and sisters," the young girl said with a smile outside, "I need your help!"
This time no one in the room responded, everyone was very quiet and kept silent.
The young girl knocked on one door, then the next. No one opened the door at first, but after a while, it seemed that someone in the room couldn't hold back, and after hesitation, he opened the door.
Li Qingshan could vaguely hear the sound of them whispering in the room.
"Although the old servant told us not to go out, who knows whether this is for our own good or for theirs?
It would definitely be dangerous to go out now, but if we don't go out now, it will definitely be more dangerous in the future. We have no choice.
This is an opportunity. As long as we open the door and control the man outside, maybe we can get some evidence that the people here have committed crimes. We can use the evidence to threaten them, and they will definitely listen to us and let us leave. This is good for everyone!"
"You're right!"
Their rooms were very close. After communicating and discussing with each other in a strange way, they opened the door together and rushed outside. They screamed at the same time.
Then there was a long series of cries for help, howling and chewing sounds, mixed with the laughter of a young girl, who seemed to be very happy.
The young girl continued to knock on the door, but no one opened it.
Soon, the young girl knocked on the door of Li Qingshan's room.
The young girl lay on the side of the door, tilted her head, and looked inside through the crack of the door. Her eyeballs moved along the ground, as if she could get in at any time. The smell of blood was much stronger than before.
The knocking sound was much lighter than before. The young girl smiled as she looked inside through the crack of the door, "It's you. You don't want to help find me, but you still want to fight with others, right?"
Li Qingshan did not answer.
Taylor's bed suddenly made a sound. He should have been lying on the bed with his eyes closed and sleeping. Whether he was really sleeping or pretending to sleep, he should not have gotten up.
Li Qingshan immediately looked over and found Taylor with his eyes closed, looking a little confused.
The young girl smiled outside and said to Taylor, "Good brother, come and open the door quickly! I will take you to a safe and warm place, so you don't have to worry anymore!"
Taylor got out of bed and listened, nodded, and was about to go to the door. It seemed that he was really going to open the door, muttering, "Open the door, open the door, open the door!"
Li Qingshan didn't care about much, and rushed over to grab him, pulled him back, pressed him on the bed, shook his shoulders and asked, "What's wrong with you? Wake up!"
At the same time, Li Qingshan tried to see the situation from Taylor's perspective and found that what they saw was completely different.
In Taylor's perspective, the young girl who pulled him back to the bed, held him down and shook him was grinning. She had long black hair that fell behind her and was standing barefoot. Her feet were red, swollen and bloody, as if she had walked a long way but had not received treatment.
"Don't worry, I won't kill you here, but it would be so boring to kill you," the young girl in Taylor's eyes laughed, "I want you to watch your best friend die. Do you know how I got in? I replaced his position!
So I was in the room and he was outside the room. He violated the village's rules and he was going to die. Even if I didn't kill him, everyone in the village would kill him. You can't escape and you will definitely die here! What a happy future!"
The young girl laughed.
Taylor stood up suddenly.
He heard someone knocking on the door and crying outside: "Open the door! Open the door! It's so scary outside, there are blood and corpses everywhere. Do you think a servant will come and see me and chase me out? I will definitely die if I go out! Please save me, open the door!"
The crying outside the door that Taylor heard was all Li Qingshan's voice.
The sounds that Li Qingshan heard outside the door were all the young girl's triumphant laughter of success.
Li Qingshan pressed Taylor tightly and said to him: "Wake up! Take a good look at who I am!"
In Taylor's eyes, the young girl who trapped him in front of him glared at him fiercely and said: "If you dare to open the door, I will tear you into pieces! You can try it!" Taylor
looked at the young girl's face and struggled for a while. He felt that the other party's strength was not very strong, but the touch was very strange. His body didn't feel it, and now he was touching a stranger.
He frowned and thought: Strange, if it was Li Qingshan, would he really do something like crying and knocking on the door outside, begging and shouting for me to open the door? It doesn't sound like Li Qingshan, but more like a trap, the kind of trap that uses a trained voice to try to deceive me.
Taylor took a deep breath when he thought of this.
The young woman outside the door realized that she couldn't take the person away, so she snorted and said uninterestedly, "How boring! I'm leaving!"
There was a rustling sound outside the door, and Li Qingshan thought the young woman was leaving now. However, when he relaxed a little, the young woman came back and said to him through the crack of the door, "I'll come to see you again!"
After that, the young woman let out a string of silver bell-like laughter and dragged the body away.
Taylor rubbed his eyes and realized that the person in front of him was Li Qingshan. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Fortunately, I didn't really open the door."
Li Qingshan smiled and whispered, "Yes!"
After the lunch break was over, Li Qingshan opened the door as soon as possible and looked out. The corridor outside was full of blood. In addition to the blood splashing out from the injuries of the living people who had just died, there were also drag marks left by the young girl crawling on the road while dragging the corpse away. It was made up of blood and fallen hair.
Li Qingshan took a tentative step outside. No one suddenly ran out and yelled at him to stop him. He waved to Taylor, carefully avoided the blood on the ground, walked out along the drag marks, and searched all the way out. The
drag marks disappeared when they reached the small woods.
Li Qingshan sighed as he looked at the marks on the ground, and found a stone to sit down and rest. As soon as he sat down, the old servant and Ruoji came out from inside, and Li Qingshan stood up suddenly.
"How did you get out from inside?" Li Qingshan looked at them and asked in confusion.
Ruoji looked at Li Qingshan and Taylor in surprise: "Aren't you supposed to be taking a lunch break? Why are you here?"
Li Qingshan sighed and said: "The young girl went back and someone opened the door. She seemed to be dead. The body was dragged away and came here along the blood. There are no traces, so they are resting here temporarily."
Ruoji was stunned, patted his chest and said: "It sounds terrible and dangerous. Fortunately, I wasn't there!"
"Then what are you doing here?" Li Qingshan looked at them. They were holding baskets with some mushrooms and grass in their hands, and asked again.
"I don't plan to take a nap, and I don't know what to do," Ruoji said, holding her basket. "It just so happens that the old servants are planning to pick some mushrooms and wild vegetables here during the nap to make soup and stir-fry for us in the evening, so I came along!"
Li Qingshan nodded and asked, "Did you hear anything in there?"
Ruoji shook her head, "It's very quiet in there, with trees and shade everywhere, and it's very cool. The leaves rustled in the wind, and I didn't hear anything else." "
Did you see anything?" Li Qingshan asked.
"No, there were plants everywhere, blocking out the sun," Ruoji shook her head, "I didn't even see any rabbits, but there were a lot of insects."
Li Qingshan nodded thoughtfully.
"Are you going to go back with us or stay here?" the old servant asked.
"I have a question, can you answer it for me?" Li Qingshan looked at him and asked.
"I can't guarantee that I know the answer, but I am happy to answer your questions," the old servant said with a smile, "Ask it."
Li Qingshan opened his mouth, but before he could make a sound, he suddenly felt something was wrapped around his neck, strangling him. He lowered his head and touched his neck, and felt a hemp rope around his neck, but he couldn't see the rope.
At the same time, Taylor, who was standing next to him, had the same symptoms as him, so he looked at Taylor, and Taylor looked at him.
They both clearly saw a red mark like a braid on each other's neck, as if something had just been pressed here.
The old servant looked at their necks and smiled, "You seem to be entangled by the souls of the dead."
"Is there any way to solve this problem?" Li Qingshan looked at the old servant and asked.
"Of course there is! But," the old servant lowered his eyes, thought for a while and smiled, "I only know that if I want to get rid of the entanglement of the souls of the dead, I have to find their bodies and let them rest in peace. Unfortunately, I don't know how to let the souls rest in peace."
"What does this mark mean?" Li Qingshan touched his neck.
"This means that the soul of the dead has recognized you. The soul can find you anywhere and appear beside you," the old servant said with pity, looking at them, "If you can't let the soul rest in peace, you will die in seven days at the latest."
"Are the marks predetermined?" Li Qingshan suddenly asked.
"No," the old servant whispered, "It is said that the marks on the living body are more or less related to the way the deceased died. Perhaps you can start from this aspect."
Li Qingshan nodded, looked behind them and said: "Thank you, we won't go back for the time being, I want to go to the grove to take a look."