Chapter 112 Chapter 112
The village is isolated from the outside world, but the police station to which the village belongs is not isolated from the outside world. They have already received information about the strange live broadcast and also know that the city is transferring police officers to establish a strange response department.
However, as a small city, the newly established strange response department only has three people. After the police passed the alarm message to them, two of the three people in the entire department were dispatched, and the remaining one stayed in the headquarters to prevent other accidents from happening while the headquarters was empty.
One of the two members sent out was a young man in his early twenties, and the other was just over thirty years old with a few years of experience. The two drove to this remote village as soon as possible.
As soon as I arrived at the village entrance, I saw a scarecrow standing at the gate, with a look of fear on his face.
"Get out of the car." said the older policeman, he tightened his weapon in his hand and quietly entered the village with his junior.
The village was very quiet, with no sound. The two of them walked forward carefully, sticking to the wall, and saw two figures on the road ahead. When they got closer, they found that they were both scarecrows.
"The police were informed that people had turned into scarecrows, and this trait could be transmitted if touched," said the young police officer. "They must be villagers in the village."
"How should we deal with this kind of thing?" The older police officer frowned. "Find the source? Who is the source?"
"Hey, there's crying."
The older police officer looked in the direction the younger officer pointed and saw a pile of straw, which was what was left after the rice was harvested, but at this time, he could hear faint cries coming from inside.
The young police officer approached quietly. His senior waved his hand to him. The young police officer nodded to indicate that it was okay. Then he said softly to the straw stack: "Is there anyone inside? We are the weird response department..."
He paused for a moment, thinking that the villagers living here might not have any idea about the newly established weird response department, so he changed the topic and said, "We are the police, and we are here after receiving a report."
The crying inside became quieter. After a while, a middle school girl pulled a crack in the straw and peeked out quietly: "Are you really the police?"
Both men were wearing police uniforms, and the young police officer took out his ID to show the little girl.
Li Pandi couldn't tell whether the ID was real or fake, but she recognized the other party's clothes, so she immediately believed their identities and crawled out crying.
"What exactly happened here?" asked the young police officer.
Li Pandi sobbed as she recounted the entire story without hiding anything, even telling what she had said to the boy last night.
She was so scared that her brother turned into a scarecrow, and her parents also stood in the field. Her sister took her and ran away. In order to lure away the people who were chasing them and gradually turned into scarecrows, she hid her in the straw pile and shouted to lure them away.
There were five people in the family, but within one day, she was the only one left.
The reason was simply because of her words "I wish my brother would disappear."
The young girl blamed all the sins on herself. She covered her face and cried, feeling so remorseful that she was almost heartbroken.
"It's all my fault. I will never say my parents are partial again. I'm sorry, I was wrong." The girl lay on the ground covering her face. "Let them come back. Let me become a scarecrow..."
The young police officer looked at his senior, he didn't know how to persuade the kid.
The older police officer sighed, walked up to the little girl and said, "It's not your fault. Recently, weird things have appeared in the world. Weird things are monsters, which you can think of as goblins and ghosts. They like to harm others, and you are just an excuse for them to act. Even without you, they will find others, make wishes to them, and then take the opportunity to cause trouble in this village."
Li Pandi raised her head and looked at him with tears on her face: "But my brother was the first one to turn into a scarecrow, and my parents...if it weren't for me, they might still be alive..."
The older policeman's lips moved, but he didn't say anything in the end.
He didn't know whether the girl's sister was safe now, nor did he know whether the people who turned into scarecrows could turn back to their original appearance, so he couldn't guarantee anything to the girl. In addition, he was not sure whether they could really escape if the girl hadn't made a wish.
He was not sure of anything.
Finally, the older police officer patted the girl on the shoulder and said, "Hide well and don't move. We will find a way to solve it."
"My sister..."
"We'll find her and tell us how old she is and what she's wearing," the young officer said.
They will try to find it, whether it is a person or a scarecrow.
Li Pandi cried and told them her sister's appearance. When she saw the two people leaving, she wanted to follow them, but was persuaded to come back.
Screams were heard in front of the village. The young policeman immediately pushed the girl to hide in the straw pile again. He and his senior held their guns tightly and continued to move forward.
When they were almost at the center of the village, two men ran by quickly. Behind them was a woman whose half body had turned into a scarecrow. She ran after them crying, "Don't leave me, save me..."
"Don't come over here! You've turned into a monster, get out of here!" the man in front angrily scolded his wife who had turned into a scarecrow behind him.
There was a trace of confusion in the woman's eyes. Half of her brain had begun to turn into straw. Her thinking became very slow. She didn't know why her husband and brother would scold her. She was obviously the same as before. No, she had changed. She...what had she become?
Very scared and terrified, hoping that they could comfort her, the woman subconsciously wanted to seek help from those close to her in fear.
They are the people closest to you.
"Quick!" the older police officer urged, "Stop her!"
"Stop! Stop chasing me or I'll shoot!" The young police officer raised his gun. Although his hand was raised, it was shaking slightly.
After transferring to the paranormal response department, they had a gun permit. However, the young police officer was a rookie. Although he had been trained before, he never thought that the first time he would pick up a weapon and point it at someone at work would be an ordinary villager.
No, this villager is no longer ordinary.
Just as the young police officer hesitated, a gunshot rang out.
The young police officer looked back at his senior in astonishment. The older police officer held the gun lightly with his hand and looked calm, but there was sweat on his forehead, indicating that he was also in a state of anxiety.
The bullet did not hit the half-scarecrow woman's vitals, but hit her calf. It was not even her intact leg, but the leg that had turned into straw.
The bullet passed through the straw, making a small black hole, and then the straw quickly squirmed to fill the gap. The woman continued running forward, not affected at all.
The older policeman gritted his teeth, said sorry, and fired again.
This time, he hit the woman's leg which had not yet turned into straw, and the woman fell to the ground with a wail.
The two villagers in front stopped running. They watched the woman wailing and crying on the ground, and then she gradually turned into a scarecrow.
"Mad." The husband wiped his sweat, "Finally you stopped chasing me."
"Why did you come just now? Half of the villagers in our village have been turned into scarecrows." The man who was the younger brother started to complain.
The young police officer frowned slightly. They arrived without delay within half a minute after receiving the message. It would take time to drive here, and they couldn't teleport.
"You are safe now." The older policeman has been in this line of work for several years and has seen all kinds of people. He pretended not to hear the man's complaints. "Leave the village now. As for the other villagers..."
Before they could finish their words, they saw a boy wearing a straw hat walking out of the house in front of them, standing on tiptoe happily with his hands behind his back.
"Huh? How come you two are still okay?" Qin Xiaocao tilted her head, then looked at the female scarecrow lying on the ground, and pouted, "What a failure, I didn't even catch them."
When the two police officers first saw the boy, they immediately thought of the "boy in the straw hat" mentioned by Li Pandi just now, and pointed their weapons at each other.
Qin Xiaocao, who was being pointed at by a gun, slowly turned her head, and the two police officers finally saw the boy's face clearly.
At first glance, he looks like an ordinary boy with a delicate and cute appearance, but upon closer inspection, the texture of his skin is very much like straw, and the color is also tends to be withered yellow. The little black hair exposed under the straw hat is in pieces, like strips of black linen.
This is not human.
"Well, two nice guys are here." Qin Xiaocao took out a sickle from her waist. "Since you are here, why don't you all stay? A village full of scarecrows sounds wonderful, doesn't it?"
The two men next to them saw that the situation was not right and turned around to run. Qin Xiaocao didn't even look at them, raised her hand and threw the sickle out, which cut the arms of the two men. Then, starting from the wound, they began to transform towards the scarecrow. In just a few seconds, they turned from people into scarecrows and stood stiffly in place.
The older officer opened fire at the same time Qin Xiaocao did, shooting the boy in the arms, body, and even in the head. The bullets penetrated Qin Xiaocao's body and penetrated into the ground behind him, leaving several holes in the boy's body.
But soon, the straw around the hole began to move and heal the wound. Qin Xiaocao returned to her original appearance, and even the gap in her clothes on her chest disappeared.
The bullets had no effect on him.
"Let's go." The older police officer said to his junior with cold sweat on his face, "Contact Heng City's weird response department. We can't handle this."
In fact, when Li Pandi first told them about her encounter with the boy, the older police officer felt something was wrong, but he was still not sure and decided to wait and see the situation first.
The situation turned out to be much worse than he expected.
The headquarters has sent a message that if you encounter a weird person who has a high IQ like a human and can communicate, and if the other party has malicious intentions, try not to fight and make sure to send the message first.
The older police officer had never faced the weirdness directly, and even the video of the weird live broadcast was a recorded broadcast sent from above. He did not take the matter seriously enough, and his arrogance and negligence led to the current result.
No, he was not the only one who was arrogant and negligent. The newly established weird response department in this small city had a total of three people, and they all underestimated the terrifying extent of the weirdness.
I hope it's not too late to mend the situation.
"I'll block you, run!" the older police officer shouted.
"Don't be nervous." Qin Xiaocao said with a smile, "I'll wait for your help. Let more people come over. You can never have too many toys~"
The Straw Boy smiled very confidently.