Chapter 177

Leyuan whispered to the car owner, "They want to keep you here to pay for food. Ask them if they have seen anyone go to the vicinity of Boss Liang's house to investigate?"

The car owner asked the child, "I'm not hungry yet. Let's not talk about eating. I have something to ask you. If you explain it clearly, maybe I will consider going to your house for a meal later. You can all have a midnight snack, right?"

The children looked at each other and smiled, "Sure, sure, it's good to have a midnight snack, but you have to go to bed early after eating it, otherwise, you won't be able to get up the next morning. You have to be careful and don't drink too much at night, otherwise, you won't know where you are when you walk out the door after eating, and it would be even worse if you took the wrong road."

The car owner asked: "What if I have a late night snack and drink too much, won't you take me back to my place?"

The children all shook their heads: "We are children, we can't go out casually. It's okay during the day, everyone is here, and it's safer in the village. But at night it's dark, the road is not very bright, and there are not many people. If something happens, it's all over. So, the adults don't allow us to go out casually at night, even if we are sending someone off. They say they will handle it, and most of us don't go out."

The car owner nodded: "Then I'll think about it carefully."

The child chased after him and asked, "Ah! You just said you wanted to ask us something. What was it?"

The car owner asked, "Did you see any strangers around the house over there?"

The child said, "No, only you three came today, and you are all strangers. Does it count? However, you shouldn't be asking about your own affairs! Although we are young, we still know about such things. Do you suspect that there is something wrong with the house? We don't know. We usually don't go in. The door is locked and we can't go in."

The car owner nodded and asked, "Do you know anyone who lives there?"

The child laughed and said, "We are too young. The people who know the people in there are all elderly people. Because the people in the house moved out a long time ago. It is said that many people in their family have separated and don't live together, let alone come back. How can we see each other?"

The car owner asked, "How much do you know about that family?"

The children all shook their heads: "We don't know. We can only go home and ask others. Only those who are old enough to tell us can tell us. However, they may not be willing to tell us. You don't have to know, right? Even if you want to know, why not ask the person you are with? He is the one who lives in the house."

The car owner nodded: "Okay, let's go."

The children asked noisily, "Can you buy us a bag of candy? We want to share it. After all, we have been talking for so long."

The car owner didn't want to get involved with them, so he nodded and agreed, then followed them to the nearby canteen, bought a bag of candy from the canteen owner, handed it to them, and said to them, "After you eat the candy, don't keep following us. We have other things to do. If you keep doing this, you won't get a bag of candy, not even a single piece of sugar."

The children all nodded and waved to them: "Goodbye! Come to our house for dinner when you have time!"

The owner and Paradise walked away, and the owner asked, "Are you okay?"

Leyuan looked very unhappy, but he managed to remain calm. He smiled at the car owner, but it looked like he was forcing a smile and his mind was not on his own. He muttered, "I have something to do. If I stay any longer, I won't be able to bear it. They are too noisy."

The car owner patted Leyuan's shoulder with sympathy and said, "Thank you for your help. Next time, I'll handle this kind of thing. You can go a little further away and rest. Come back after I finish asking questions."

Leyuan sighed: "Okay, we'll talk about it next time. I hope there won't be a next time. This kind of thing is really too disgusting."

The car owner said: "If you do this every time, there will definitely be no better time next time."

Leyuan asked: "Do you think they are telling the truth or lying when they say there are no strangers around the house?"

The car owner said: "I hope it's true, but I don't rule out the possibility that it's a lie. Children always think that what they imagine is real. It's also possible that they didn't see it, so they don't know and say it doesn't exist."

Leyuan said, "Let's assume that what they said is true. They said someone died. What do you think is going on?"

The car owner said: "Either those people saw something and got scared, or the kids said it on purpose to scare us. They hope we can go to their place for dinner, give them a lot of money, and beg them to take us away. It is also possible that they put drugs in the food. After all, they said that those people thought their food tasted good.

It is not impossible that there are hallucinogenic mushrooms. As we all know, mushrooms are delicious. Hallucinogenic mushrooms are something that we have never tasted before and may be even tastier. Most people cannot tell the difference. Those who can tell the difference do not eat with them and do not care at all. They just watch them eat. When they have eaten, they will have an attack at night. They cannot distinguish between dreams and hallucinations, which is more conducive to the fermentation of fear. "

Paradise said, "It's still early, we just got here."

The car owner nodded: "Okay."

Leyuan sent the car owner to his residence, looked at the sign, and then went in by himself. He waved to Leyuan, who nodded, turned around and left. Passing by a small woods, he heard a sound inside and walked in for some reason. He didn't see anyone, but he was used to it. He could hear the sound but not see anyone. Maybe it was an illusion, or maybe something was playing tricks on him.

It doesn't matter whether it's an illusion or a ghost. Anyway, I'm not injured now. It's just an appetizer and there's no need to care too much. If those invisible beings wanted to provoke people, then they did it. Maybe no one has seen them for too long, so it's understandable.

Paradise took two steps in the grove and prepared to leave. It was eerie in here, and the light was darker than outside. There was mud under my feet, and the mud was very soft, as if there was a pool of water underneath, or a rotting corpse. It slowly emitted a fishy smell, and my nose was so shocked by the smell that I could hardly smell any other smells. It became more and more nauseating.

Leyuan heard someone vomiting, and behind him, it was a woman's voice. He turned around and found that there was no one there.

He lowered his head and carefully examined the ground. There was an extra footprint on the ground, but there was only one. No matter whether it was a normal person with two legs or a disabled person with only one leg, this footprint was quite strange. If there were two legs, there would be at least two footprints. If there was only one leg, there would be a reason. It was impossible for there to be just one footprint, alone on the road with nothing around.

Unless someone was hiding in a tree and accidentally fell down, and in a hurry, he stepped on the ground with one foot and quickly hid himself again. Leyuan followed this thought, looked up, and saw a black shadow flash into the woods in the blink of an eye and disappeared.

Leyuan blinked, not knowing if he had seen it wrong. He walked over to take a closer look at the footprints, but they were gone. Leyuan stood there, feeling a little annoyed. He walked around for two steps, but felt that he could not find anything. He turned around and left. He felt something heavy on his shoulders for some reason and frowned. A child ran in with his fists clenched. When he saw Leyuan, his face turned pale, he let out a cry, and ran away.

He looked very scared, and when he looked at Paradise, his eyes were not on the people's faces, but on Paradise's back, as if, on Paradise's shoulders, there was a person riding, whom Paradise did not see but the other side saw, and that person scared the children away.

The park took two steps at a time and pressed the child's shoulders. The child was so scared that he started crying. One hand was still clenched into a fist, and the other hand was waving and shouting, "Don't come over! Don't!"

Le Yuan asked, "You looked at me! What did you see?"

The child closed his eyes tightly and said, "You, there is a person on your back, black, with messy hair, and you can't see his face clearly. He stinks, and his body is bleeding. His feet are black, and he is stepping on you and is facing me!"

Leyuan looked behind her, but she didn't see him. Suddenly, a strange smile appeared on the child's face. He looked at Leyuan with his dark eyes and said hoarsely, "Actually, if you want to see him, there is a way. I can tell you a way. Bend down and look back between your legs, and you will be able to see the person you want to see. However, it is dangerous."

Leyuan turned around and stared at him and asked, "What did you just say?"

Those words don't sound like something a clueless child would say. If the child didn't know nothing, how could he be scared away and cry at the first sight?

This is not normal!

Leyuan stared at the child closely. The child was stunned for a moment and burst into tears: "I don't know! I didn't say anything just now! Don't ask me. I'm scared."

Leyuan let him go, and the child threw the hand that was clenched into a fist far away, turned around and ran away. Leyuan then saw that the child was holding a dead sparrow in his hand. The sparrow's body was soft and cold. There was a little body temperature of the child's palm on the surface, but when the wind blew, that little bit of temperature quickly dissipated, as if it had never been alive.

A group of strong young men from the village walked in, accompanied by crying children and women with wide eyes looking for trouble. They were wearing rose-red clothes and looked nervous.

As soon as they saw the paradise, they came over and surrounded the people.

"You are the one who just came to the village today? Who allowed you to come here? Don't you know that this is a place where people in the village will not come and go casually? There are no crops and no guests here. What are you doing here? Tell me!"