Yang Hong's heavy body fell to the ground unconsciously, raising a huge cloud of dust.
There was a hole in his head that was smashed by the hoe, and blood was oozing out, soon soaking the small patch of soil under the back of his head.
Seeing the man fall down, the couple's faces lit up with joy.
The woman walked over quickly, bent down, and observed nervously for a while.
As a large amount of blood was lost, Yang Hong's face became paler and paler, and his lips began to turn blue.
The man took a deep breath, threw the hoe aside, lowered his head and asked in a low voice: "What happened?"
The woman carefully stretched out a finger and placed it under Yang Hong's nose. After a pause, she raised her head excitedly and said, "There's still breath!"
"I'm controlling the strength." The man grinned, with a simple smile on his khaki face, "Alright! Tie him up first and cover his mouth tightly. We'll secretly replace him at night..."
The woman nodded vigorously.
When she lowered her head again, she saw Yang Hong's pale face, and a trace of pity flashed in her eyes.
...
...
However, thinking of her less than three-year-old puppy, she gritted her teeth, and finally hardened her heart. She grabbed Yang Hong's shoulders and dragged him away.
While dragging, Yang Hong's cell phone fell out of his coat pocket.
"What's that buzzing sound?" The man lowered his head and looked around, looking for the source of the sound.
The woman picked up the phone that had fallen to the ground: "It seems to be this one."
"What is this?" The man grabbed the phone and saw a line of words on the main screen: Incoming call: Shen Guang
The man was illiterate and did not recognize the word "Xin Guang". He only knew that someone was calling this unlucky guy, so he hung up.
"City people's stuff is just great!" The man touched the smooth metal shell of the phone curiously and was full of praise.
Then he put the phone in his pocket.
After a while, the cell phone buzzed in his pocket again, but the man ignored it.
Anyway, I'm not looking for him.
…
Xin Guang walked quickly and walked back and forth several times along the road leading to Mr. Peng's house, but still couldn't find where the person was.
He was an athlete, over 1.9 meters tall, with a broad back and a strong physique. He looked like a martial artist. The villagers he met on the road would hide aside when they saw him from afar.
Even those who did not hide looked at him fiercely, with sticks in their hands, as if they would fight him with their peasant weapons if he opened his mouth to speak.
Xin Guang had to give up the idea of asking a villager for directions.
Halfway through the journey, he called Director Zhao.
What if Yang Hong has already changed lanes and caught up with the main force?
"You mean Yang Hong? He hasn't come back yet. Didn't you go looking for him?" Zhao Yi's surprised voice came through the microphone of the mobile phone.
"Hasn't returned yet?" Xin Guang was even more surprised when he heard this. "I didn't see him along the way. I even went around the old house. Where else could he go?"
"That guy is not honest. He might go to someone else's house to find the toilet in a hurry. You can give him a call and ask. By the way, do you have his number? Do you want me to send it to you?"
"No, I have his cell phone number."
After hanging up the phone, Xin Guang found Yang Hong in his mobile phone’s contact menu and dialed the number.
——No one answered.
Xin Guang didn't believe it and dialed the number several more times, but still no one answered.
Did this guy deliberately not answer his call?
It shouldn't be possible.
He didn't know about others, but he had known Yang Hong for a long time and knew him quite well. Although this guy was a bit sharp-tongued, he would not do something like deliberately ignoring the phone.
Did something happen?
Xin Guang's heart sank, and he asked several households on the way back.
During the day, most of the men in the village work in the fields, and most of the people who stay in the houses are women and children.
Although the women disliked outsiders like these people, they did not dare to swing hoes to scare them like the men did.
Xin Guang looked "fierce" and had a strong aura. He stood at the door like a door god. When the women heard him describe Yang Hong's appearance, they all shook their heads decisively and said they had never seen him. After Xin Guang left, they quickly closed the door.
Until he came to a house with its gate tightly closed.
Because the men were working outside, the doors of the yards of the houses nearby were open, except for this one, which had its door tightly closed.
Xin Guang was tall, and he could see through the low fence that the hostess of the yard was shoveling dirt near the gate, with a guilty look on her face, as if she was trying to hide something.
A three-head-tall little kid was standing in the middle of the yard, staring blankly at the woman's busy back, without crying or making a fuss.
The man was pumping water from the well. There was an old-fashioned porcelain basin under the water outlet, with a dirty sweatshirt in it.
From a distance, it seems to be the daily life of a farming couple.
Xin Guang watched silently, but he felt inexplicably uncomfortable in his heart.
Especially when the man finished wringing the clothes, the water that poured out was actually red!
Is that blood?
Was this family hiding in the yard and killing chickens just now?
After the woman finished shoveling the soil, she looked up inadvertently and met the eyes of Xin Guang who was standing outside the yard.
She was stunned for a moment, as if she had thought of something, her face turned pale, her facial features twitched, and she condensed into an expression of fear, and suddenly screamed: "Ah ...
Xin Guang: “…………”
Does he look fierce and evil?
Little did she know that the woman remembered that he was one of the strangers and was worried that he would find out what she and her husband had just done.
After all, his companion was still tied up and unconscious in the house.
The woman quickly threw down the shovel, looked panicked, turned around and rushed into the room.
"What are you looking at?" The man who was washing clothes over there stared at him with an unfriendly expression.
"I'm here to ask someone, and then I'll leave." Xin Guang thought that his sudden appearance scared the other person's wife, and said awkwardly, "Brother, have you seen..." He raised his hand and wanted to describe Yang Hong's appearance.
The man interrupted him impatiently: "No! I didn't see it!"
Xin Guang: “…”
Not until he was some distance away from the house did he unable to help but look back.
The hostess had come out of the room and was standing next to the host. The couple were talking.
Everything seems to be in harmony.
Xin Guang shook his head and suppressed the strange feeling in his heart.
…
He went door to door asking and called Yang Hong from time to time.
However, everyone said they had never seen Yang Hong, and every call he made to the other party was hung up mercilessly or no one answered.
It was not until Director Zhao called him and asked him if he had found the person that Xin Guang realized that Yang Hong was really missing.
Although it has only been two hours since we lost contact.
As soon as Jing Cheng and Qin Yan walked out of the room, they met the burning gazes of everyone in the program crew.
He paused and glanced at everyone: "Why are you all looking at me?"
Queen Mao said anxiously, "Xiao Jing, Mr. Yang Hong is missing!"
Jing Cheng: “?”
Zhao Yi came over and said seriously, "He went to the toilet this morning and hasn't come back yet. His phone is unreachable. Mr. Xin Guang asked many people, but no one saw where Yang Hong went."
An Qi muttered quietly, "This guy never listens to instructions. I told him not to act alone, but he insisted on being alone. Now he has disappeared without a sound, causing everyone to worry about him... He is really a piece of shit."
Fu Le nodded and said with approval: "You are right."
An Qi: “…” This kid’s ears are so pointy?
Xin Guang's expression was not very good. "I just called the police. They said that Bijia Village is too remote and the road is not easy to walk. It will take them at least 3 hours to get there... and Yang Hong lost contact in the village. They don't think Yang Hong is really missing... What should we do now?"
Professor Fu said in disbelief: "Three hours? Isn't there a police station near Bijia Village?"
"This... really not." The young village official raised his hand silently. After learning from the staff that Yang Hong was missing, the young village official rushed here quickly from home. He was very anxious at this time. Although he had only been in Bijia Village for more than half a year, he knew very well the characters of the villagers here. Although they all looked honest and simple on the surface, they were actually ruthless characters inside.
Fu Le, however, had a strange train of thought. He touched his chin and said, "Huh? Can we call the police now? I thought the police wouldn't accept a case of a missing person for 24 hours. Isn't that what they always do on TV?"
Professor Fu explained kindly: "That's a rumor. In most cases of missing persons, the police will be dispatched immediately."
Yan Xiu watched for a while, then suddenly said: "Everyone, don't worry, listen to what Taoist Jing has to say, I think he should be able to help us find Yang Hong."
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone's eyes turned to Jing Cheng again, with hopeful expressions.
Jing Cheng: “…”
My shoulders suddenly felt heavy.
Qin Yan stood behind Jing Cheng with his arms folded, and glanced in the direction of Yan Xiu with an unfriendly expression.
Yan Xiu seemed not to notice Qin Yan's "vicious" look, and continued with a smile: "I believe Master Jing can do it, right?"
Jing Cheng was silent for a moment, then said, "If he wears the amulet I drew, nothing serious should happen."
Hearing this, Xin Guang coughed violently, and everyone's attention was drawn to him.
"..." Xin Guang said with a sullen look on his face, "Yang Hong doesn't seem to be wearing an amulet."
He accidentally saw Yang Hong throwing the amulet out of the window last night and wanted to say something to him, but the other party looked disdainful. He knew it would be useless even if he said anything, so he had to give up.
Jing Cheng frowned deeply. He had a guess in his mind and couldn't help asking, "Did he throw it away?"
Facing Jing Cheng's sharp gaze, Xin Guang didn't dare to lie and answered honestly: "It seems so."
Sighs of people were heard in the central hall of the old house.
He even dared to throw away the life-saving talisman of Taoist Jing! Yang Hong was afraid that he was really in danger.
Now even Zhao Yi began to condemn Yang Hong: "This guy is really... Alas!"
Xiao Qu muttered gloomily: "This is 2,000 yuan..."
Qin Yan looked at Jing Cheng's expression and whispered, "Do you think anything will happen to him? Otherwise, let's just break the contract and leave. It's just a few million in breach of contract fees."
He checked the crew and found out that someone had an accident last season. The person is still lying in the hospital and it is unknown whether he is alive or dead.
They were just happily recording the show, but it wasn't enough that someone was asking for trouble, and now it seems Jing Cheng is going to be implicated.
How is this possible?
Jing Cheng gritted his teeth, thinking that these people could really cause trouble for him. He didn't want his 2.4 million to fly away like a duck. Moreover, he couldn't sit idly by when it came to matters of life and death. After thinking for a moment, he said, "We have to find the person no matter what happens."
Qin Yan raised his eyebrows and said, "What if something really happens? I'm afraid they will still blame you."
Jing Cheng looked at Qin Yan and said seriously: "If he's alive, I want to see him. If he's dead, I want to see his body."
Qin Yan looked at him steadily for a while, and finally sighed helplessly and said, "Okay, whatever you want."
Just consider it as a good deed.
…
That evening.
Jing Cheng brought Qin Yan out of the old house quietly.
The sacrificial ceremony was held in the middle of the night. It was only eight o'clock in the evening, and every household was very quiet, and many residents had already turned off the lights.
Jing Cheng was holding a stack of yellow talismans in his hand. The yellow talismans were magical, and the runes on the talismans glowed red, which was particularly conspicuous in the dark night.
These are eighteen Five Thunder Talismans, drawn with Qin Yan's blood and cinnabar.
Jing Cheng found the center of the Eighteen Dark Ding Formation - the big pit that almost tripped him.
Although he looked down on Mr. Peng, sometimes he had to admire his methods in some aspects.
The center of the formation is the key to breaking it. Generally speaking, the person who sets up the formation will set the center of the formation in an inconspicuous place, but Mr. Peng did the opposite.
Normal people would often take a detour when seeing a big pothole on the road. The eye of the formation is in the big pothole, obviously to prevent people from getting close to it.
Although it is conspicuous, it is more conspicuous for the purpose of protecting the formation.
Unfortunately, he met Jing Cheng who walked without looking at the road.
"Help me keep an eye on the surroundings." Jing Cheng jumped into the pit and looked up at Qin Yan, "Drive away anyone who comes."
"No problem." Qin Yan said.
Jing Cheng took out eighteen talismans and placed them in a circle around the pit.
Then he stood in the center of the pit, closed his eyes, made hand gestures with one hand, pointed the other hand toward the sky, and chanted a spell: "One step to move the sky and thunder, two steps to connect the earth and water, three steps to release thunder and fire..."
As the spell was recited, the eighteen talismans placed on the ground became brighter and brighter.
After a while, after a few "whoosh" sounds, all the talismans rose up spontaneously, corresponding to eighteen directions, densely surrounding the top of the pit.
“Boom boom—”
Qin Yan looked up suddenly, his eyes widened in disbelief.
Countless lightning bolts suddenly appeared in the sky above Bijia Village like a mighty army.
Accompanied by the rumbling thunder, silver snake-like lightning suddenly struck down.
The sky suddenly became as bright as day.
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The author has something to say:
The spell is the Five Thunder Spell.
It’s too long and doesn’t take up any space in the article.
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