"I missed my only chance to save her."

The old man lowered his head, his words full of self-blame and guilt. After a long while, he continued, "A month later, I went to the door again to see if the girl had been found."

"I knocked on the door for a long time, but no one answered."

"I walked around to the side and saw that the glass on the window was broken. When I looked through the window, I found that the girl's mother had fallen at the window entrance with one of her hands on the edge of the window."

"She seemed to want to get out, but the room was built like a prison, and the windows were very narrow, so she couldn't get out at all."

"I found a farm tool and smashed the lock on the wooden door. The door built by the girl's father was very sturdy. It took me several minutes to open it."

"There was a faint stench in the room, the tables and chairs were overturned, the food was scattered all over the floor, the girl's father was lying at the door, and the other side of the door was covered with deep scratches."

"He must be in pain..."

"I called the police and an ambulance, and when I was about to go back to the village to call for help, the door of another wooden house next door suddenly opened."

"The second girl of the Zhu family, the well-behaved and sensible little girl, walked out of the house."

“It was only when I saw the key in her pocket that I suddenly realized the door was locked from the outside!”

"There are almost no outsiders coming into this mountain valley, and the villagers avoid the couple as much as possible, so it is even more impossible for them to come and poison them for no reason."

"In that situation, I could only think of one murderer, the youngest daughter of the Zhu family."

"I looked at the little girl and suddenly felt very strange and even a little scared. I still don't understand why the little girl did that."

"She may have done it for her sister, or she may have seen her own future from her sister's experience. You know, the little girl also has a slight deformity, but it's not very obvious."

“Perhaps, she is protecting herself?”

"And what happened next was even more horrific."

"When the girl saw me, she wasn't scared or panicked. She just walked towards me like she usually does."

"She raised her delicate face, looking well-behaved and sensible, but what she said made me break out in a cold sweat."

"She told me in a very calm tone, without any emotional fluctuations, that her sister was buried in the peach forest a few weeks ago and she hoped I could help her find her sister."

"I really wanted to tell her that once a person is buried in the ground, it means death. I tried to explain to her the meaning of death, but she laughed happily. She told me that people will become other things after death, and her sister has never left!"

The old man grabbed his own hand very hard. When he thinks back to that time, cold sweat still breaks out on his forehead. "I didn't know how to communicate with the child, so I ran back to the village alone, called a few young people to guard the peach forest, and then waited for the police to come."

"What followed was a long investigation. I told the police that there might be a body buried in the peach forest, but the police did not find Zhu Xinrou in the peach forest."

"They tried to use the little girl as a breakthrough point, but the girl refused to communicate with anyone, as if she had suddenly become mute."

"Out of guilt for Zhu Xinrou, I did not testify against her sister. In my opinion, that couple is indeed unworthy of being their parents." The old man's voice was a little bitter. "That couple often beat their own children. When the refugees from Coffin Village wanted to execute Zhu Xinrou, they not only did not stop them, but even acquiesced. If it weren't for the people of Baijia Village who couldn't stand it, that kind of inhumane tragedy might have really happened."

"Apart from the little girl, you should be the biggest suspect, right? Did the police tell you anything?" Chen Ge looked calm. The whole case was pretty much what he thought.

"I concealed some things about the little girl, but the police were not so easy to fool. They followed the clues and found out a lot of things. One of the police officers, named Yan, seemed to know the truth, but he didn't say it." The old man looked at the coffin and recalled the scene at that time: "He was not very interested in the poisoning case. Instead, he asked me a lot about the coffin village. After taking a lot of notes, I was released."

"The little girl was taken away by the police, and I moved to the county to live with my son. But I don't know what happened. Every night I could hear Zhu Xinrou's voice. She kept shouting, 'Save me, save me.'"

"I asked my son and daughter-in-law, and they said they didn't hear anything. The two adults were fine, but my grandson, who just started kindergarten, would often point under the bed and in the cabinets and shout, 'Spider! Spider!'"

"My son and daughter-in-law searched the whole house but didn't see any spiders. I thought this might be related to Zhu Xinrou, so I simply contracted the peach orchard and moved into the wooden house, hoping to find Zhu Xinrou's body and bury her in peace."

"I am old, and I don't know how many years I have left to live. Now I have two wishes: one is that my children are safe and sound, and the other is to find Zhu Xinrou."

The old man stood beside the coffin, holding a black robe in his hand. He had prepared everything. His voice became lower, as if he was talking to himself: "Whether we can find it or not, this coffin can always be used."

"Uncle, don't be so pessimistic. We already know the exact location where the body is buried. We can call the police tomorrow and find Zhu Xinrou's body."

If you do something like digging up a body yourself, it is easy to destroy the scene and damage the body, so it is best to hand it over to the police.

"It's no problem to hand it over to the police, but I want to confirm it first. When the case just happened, I told the police that there was a body hidden in the peach forest, but they didn't find it. I'm afraid there will be another accident this time." The old man held the lamp and picked up the hoe.

"Okay."

The rain outside had become much lighter. Chen Ge, carrying his bag, went into the peach forest with the old man and found the peach tree in the center.

They dug near the peach tree for a long time but did not find Zhu Xinrou's body.

"That shouldn't be the case." Chen Ge felt that there was no need for Zhu Xinrou to deceive him. After all, everything he did was for her good.

"Oh, it seems not here." The old man's words were filled with deep disappointment.

"Wait a minute." Chen Ge looked at the dead leaves of the peach tree, took out a skull crusher from his backpack, and smashed it on the trunk.

The peach tree was not very thick, and its branches began to shake.

"The roots of this tree seem to be dead, and there may be nothing underneath the tree."

The two men worked together to dig up the soil around the peach tree and then pushed down the trunk.

Right below the tangled roots of the peach tree, there was a hole covered in spider webs and a pair of barely recognizable women’s feet.

“It’s right here!”

Zhu Xinrou was stuffed vertically into the soil headfirst, with the roots of the peach tree above just covering her body.

“Save me…”

When he saw the body, Chen Ge's black phone vibrated slightly. He took a few steps back and swiped the screen to check the new information.

"Lucky ghost patron! Congratulations on triggering the three-star horror scene Living Coffin Village Trial Mission! This scene is extremely dangerous! Please choose whether to accept the mission within one week!"