"Mr. Chen, you guys should eat first. After you have had enough, go to bed early. Once you have rested up, I will arrange for Sang Yi and Yan Shan to take you out early tomorrow morning!"
Sure enough, after a while, Tou Ren Li brought a few women and brought rich food and water. The food was even more abundant than what they had received yesterday.
"After you finish eating, you can all rest here. I'll make two more rooms for you to rest!"
Even Tou Ren Li did not ask them to rest separately, and let them all stay in their own homes to rest.
After completing the arrangements, Tou Ren Li left, apparently he had other things to do.
"Brother Xiaobao, are these foods and water poisonous?"
Looking at the sumptuous dinner, many people swallowed their saliva secretly. Today they were not only frightened, but also climbed the mountain road. Many people were already hungry. Now seeing such a sumptuous dinner, many people immediately felt hungry.
"Let me take a look!"
Chen Xiaobao took a quick glance and knew that many people were hungry.
If I don’t eat or drink tonight, and tomorrow morning, I’m afraid I won’t be able to climb the mountain road or leave the village. Chen Xiaobao could only check the water.
"This, this, and this. These three have been drugged. The others are fine and can be eaten. When you're done eating, quietly pour out some of these three foods to avoid being discovered!"
When Chen Xiaobao checked, he found that some of the food was indeed drugged, so he picked these foods out directly.
"There's something wrong with these bastards!" Ge Qiang said angrily.
"Let's not talk about this for now. I'm almost starving. It's hot and humid at noon, and I haven't eaten much!"
A burly, dark-skinned man next to him said.
He is also a driver, his name is Zhang Yong.
"Could it be possible that Li Dayong was killed by someone from Lijiazhai?"
A female staff member suddenly said.
After these words were spoken, several people who wanted to eat suddenly stopped, their eyes flickering.
The people in Lijiazhai didn't want to let them go at all, and today they dared to fire guns to stop them from leaving. Maybe Li Dayong was really killed by the people in Lijiazhai.
"If Dayong was really killed by the people of Lijiazhai, do they want to kill us too?" Ge Qiang said with a grim expression.
When he said this, the others also became afraid.
"Lijia Village worships a thing called a mountain god. It is said that this mountain god eats people. In the past, people would disappear in Lijia Village every year. Sometimes they were tourists from outside, and sometimes they were locals!" Chen Xiaobao pondered for a moment, and decided to tell everyone the truth he had learned. "It is said that this time the mountain god was angry, so people died in Lijia Village, and they are the two people whose funeral we are attending today!"
"But with just these two people, I don't think they can satisfy the mountain god's appetite!"
"I suspect that the people in Lijiazhai want to use us as sacrifices to the so-called mountain god!"
After Chen Xiaobao finished speaking, Bai Xiaoli's pretty face turned pale with fright.
"Oh my god, how could they do this?"
Bai Xiaoli murmured.
"What era is this? They are still so superstitious!"
Zhang Yong's face changed and he swallowed the food in his mouth hard, feeling that the food had no taste.
"Expert Chen, is what you said true or false? How did you know these things?" Ge Qiang questioned. Although he also thought that there was something wrong with Lijiazhai, he still didn't believe that the people in Lijiazhai dared to kill so many people.
They are not tourists who have come from all over the country. They are people from the plantation at the foot of the mountain. And there are so many of them. So many people are missing, it must be a huge case.
Could it be possible that Lijiazhai could conceal the news?
"Today, people from Lijia Village went to a funeral. More than a hundred people got lost outside the village. I followed Yanshan and the others out of the village to look for them. Yanshan told me this!"
Chen Xiaobao briefly explained what happened today.
"What should I do? What should I do?"
When they heard that it was someone from the village who told Chen Xiaobao in person, the others immediately panicked.
It seems that these are the people from Lijiazhai, and they really want to sacrifice them all to the so-called mountain god.
From this perspective, even if Li Dayong’s death was not caused by the people in the village, it was definitely related to the so-called mountain god. As for the road collapse, it was either caused by the people in Lijia Village or the so-called mountain god.
The purpose is to prevent them from leaving Lijiazhai.
"It's too dangerous to walk at night. We can rest for a night and gather our strength. When everyone in the village is asleep before dawn tomorrow, we can quietly leave the village and take the mountain road to leave!"
Chen Xiaobao told us about his plan.
Before dawn tomorrow morning, when it is almost daybreak and the people monitoring them outside are less alert, they will quietly leave Lijiazhai and take a detour to leave.
As long as they escape an hour or two in advance before the people in the village notice them, the people in the village may not be able to catch up with them.
"Okay, we'll listen to Expert Chen!"
No one had a better idea, and they thought that what Chen Xiaobao suggested might be feasible.
The group of people then began to eat and drink. After they were full, they quietly poured out the drugged food and prepared to rest. They wanted to regain enough strength so that they could escape tomorrow.
“What’s that smell?”
Just as everyone was about to return to their room, Zhang Yong suddenly sniffed.
Chen Xiaobao also smelled a scent similar to a faint fragrance.
"It's mugwort incense. Many people in the mountains use it to repel mosquitoes. There are many big mosquitoes in the mountains, and they bite people very fiercely. You can't live without it!"
Ge Qiang said, "I had this smell last night too!"
Chen Xiaobao sniffed carefully and found that it was indeed the fragrance of burning mugwort. This smell did have a certain effect in repelling insects. Chen Xiaobao also smelled this smell when he was sleeping last night.
"Rest and be alert at night. I will call everyone before dawn!"
Chen Xiaobao confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the mugwort and asked everyone to rest.
Everyone nodded, and two or three people in each room began to rest with a worried look on their faces.
"Brother Xiaobao, will we be okay?"
Bai Xiaoli asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, nothing will happen. Go to sleep. We still have to walk the mountain road early tomorrow morning!"
Chen Xiaobao comforted Bai Xiaoli.
Bai Xiaoli nodded and snuggled in Chen Xiaobao's arms. She couldn't sleep at first, but after a while, she slowly fell into a deep sleep.
Chen Xiaobao was thinking about the matter of Lijiazhai. He didn't believe in any mountain gods at all. There couldn't be any mountain gods in these days. So what exactly was this mountain god behind Lijiazhai?
As he was thinking, his eyelids gradually became heavier. Just before he was about to fall into a deep sleep, he suddenly realized that something was wrong. He was too sleepy. It was impossible for him to be so sleepy when encountering such a thing.
No, there's something wrong with that mugwort smell.
Chen Xiaobao realized that something was wrong. Just as he was about to mobilize the spirits of hundreds of ghosts to fight against the sleepiness, his eyelids drooped and he fell into a deep sleep.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
