Chapter 46
"Don't be afraid, grandma." Lu Jiamu immediately said sincerely, "I just saw it clearly, it's not a ghost at all. It's either an unknown creature or a wild man, coming here through the groundwater."
"Don't worry, our program team will definitely use the most professional methods to give you a scientific explanation."
The others had already helped the old lady up from the ground and away from the well.
The old lady felt relieved when she heard him speak so confidently. She patted her chest and said, "Get rid of this thing quickly. It's too scary."
"The groundwater is complicated, and I scared it away. I can't do anything now. I have to wait for professional equipment." Lu Jiamu replied, "Do you know where the idiot in the village usually lives?"
The old lady gasped and replied, "Of course I know. Why do you ask?"
"It's like this. Today the village chief said he looked very pitiful and hoped we could make a film to raise donations to get him admitted to the hospital, so we wanted to go see him."
"That's a good thing. He's been tied up in the deserted house. I'll take you there right now."
The old lady probably didn't have anyone to talk to her normally, so she now wished she could know more than outsiders.
Seeing that Lu Jiamu and others were interested in the fool, she started talking again.
From the old lady's description, several people learned that the fool was not a native of the village, but a foreigner who came from nowhere one day. He was crazy when he first arrived, and no one could understand what he said.
Later, perhaps he was irritated by the well ghost in the village, and he kept shouting about ghosts every day.
The village chief felt sorry for him because he was alone and would die if he ran into the mountains, so he kindly took him in.
But because the idiot was crazy, he would attack and hurt people at any time and always ran around outside, so they had to tie him up with an iron chain and send him food and water every day.
The old lady finally sighed and said, "I guess you city people don't like the way we mountain people do things, but there is really nothing we can do."
As they were talking, they had already arrived outside a shabby house without even a window.
The old lady bent down and looked inside between the few sparse wooden strips nailed to the door frame: "It's already closed."
She shouted, "Fool!"
Lu Jiamu also moved closer and leaned over to look inside along the sparse wooden strips.
The dark, damp, shabby house had no ventilation at all, and there was a disgusting smell mixed with moldy wood and smelly excrement.
There was some dirty, damp straw scattered around the room, and a man was sitting on it with his back to them. His right hand was deformed, and a large iron chain was tied to his left wrist.
Hearing someone calling him, the man immediately jumped up from the ground excitedly, drooling as he rushed to the door. Then, because he was bound by the chain, he fell heavily to the ground, but he kept yelling, "Food, I'm hungry!"
ah……
It seems like it's a bit silly indeed.
Lu Jiamu held up his glasses and asked with a smile, "Are you hungry?"
The man raised his face and chuckled: "Hungry!"
"Then answer our questions first, and we'll give you food right away." Seeing that he looked in good condition, Lu Jiamu asked, "Why did you suddenly come out today? Is there anything you want to say to us?"
The man became confused for a moment, as if he had forgotten about running out and overturning the dining table today.
"Are you running out because you are too hungry today?"
The man drooled and didn't respond.
"Where is the ghost you were talking about today?"
The man's eyes twitched, and then he seemed to be suddenly stimulated. He stared at them with wide eyes, struggling and roaring in fear: "Ghost! There is a ghost!"
Lu Jiamu began to persuade him again: "Are you talking about the ghost in the well? We have seen it today and will take it away soon."
The man swung his hands frantically, trying to attack them with the dirty straw: "No! No!"
"Isn't that a ghost in the well?"
The man's eyes were bloodshot: "You knew?! How did you know!"
Lu Jiamu stared at him and smiled: "Yeah, I know."
“Ghost!” He waved his arms crazily a few times and began to twitch and scream, “Ahhhhhhh…”
"What's in that well? Is it a small animal?"
Lu Jiamu responded with a burst of crazy banging and screaming, and the man's intact hand was almost smashed to pieces on the ground: "Ahhh! Ah!"
The old lady crossed her arms and smacked her lips. "This idiot is always like this. I don't have the key to the big lock. Do you think you can take pictures outside? If not, I'll go call someone."
I have to say that this old lady is really simple and honest. She doesn't think about what would happen if she tied a living person in a pigsty like tying a monkey.
I can imagine what kind of title those people would give if they saw it: Why are there howling sounds coming from the villagers' homes every night? Why was a middle-aged man imprisoned in a deserted house for many years? Is this a distortion of morality or a loss of human nature?
Lu Jiamu turned around and glanced at Yu Leng.
When the man inside rushed over and struggled, the strong smell in the room began to drift outside. Yu Leng had already dodged with a frown and pinched nose.
When he met Lu Jiamu's gaze, he shook his head.
Lu Jiamu stood up and said, "No need to call for help. It seems that today is not the right time to continue provoking him. Let's go back first."
The old lady nodded: "Okay. Let's go back first."
A few people said goodbye to the old lady and went to the village chief's house.
When there was no one around, Yu Leng said, "I didn't see anything else just now, but I felt that he was very hungry and scared."
"Although he just said that the ghost he was shouting about was not a well ghost, the one in the well didn't look like a living person." Wang Biao frowned, "Could he be just talking nonsense?"
"It's possible." Lu Jiamu nodded, "He is just a foreigner."
At the beginning, because of what the program team and the villagers said, several people had a preconceived notion that the ghost the crazy man was shouting about was the well ghost.
But when Lu Jiamu mentioned the well ghost, he disagreed.
There are only three possibilities: the man is simply so crazy that he has lost the most basic cognition, and he just couldn't understand what Lu Jiamu said.
The ghost the man was talking about was the one he saw before coming to the village, and it was now wandering outside the village.
The ghost was in the village, and the man knew who it was, maybe even more than one, which was why he was so frightened.
"But no matter what, we'd better not alert the villagers before we figure out the situation. Let's just pretend that we are just filming a show."
When a few people returned to the village chief's house, the people from the program crew also came back.
When Xiao Liang saw them, he raised his delicate eyebrows and asked, "Where have you been?"
Lu Jiamu raised his hand to cover his stomach, his face was haggard: "I just vomited, I feel much better, so I want to go out for a walk."
Wang Biao also nodded: "I just had diarrhea, and I saw that he wanted to go out for a walk, so I followed him and took a look at the well that the villagers mentioned in advance."
No matter what, they are all contributing to the program team, not like being passive. Xiao Liang couldn't figure out why they were doing this, and asked suspiciously: "So what did you find out?"
Lu Jiamu reported truthfully: "When we passed by, something suddenly jumped out of the well. It was too fast and we couldn't see it clearly."
Xiao Liang asked: "Did you take pictures? Did you set up a camera at the wellhead?"
Several people have knowledge blind spots in this area, and they are still a little uncomfortable with turning to electronic devices for help when encountering such things.
Lu Jiamu shook his head: "I was just wandering around and didn't bring any equipment. I was just about to come back to get it."
Xiao Liang agreed with him: "Let's go with that one."
Lu Jiamu entered the room and picked up his equipment, then asked, "Aren't you guys going out to film? Why are you back so soon?"
When the security guy heard this, he spit and cursed: "What kind of scenery are you taking? I didn't see clearly when I came here. I just saw that there might have been a forest fire behind the mountain. There is a large area of black charred, and several places have collapsed. The whole road is blocked and you can't walk far. Even with this, you still want to do tourism?"
Xiao Liang put on the bag and said, "It's true that it doesn't look very good, but we didn't come here for tourism."
As soon as the group came out of the house, the village chief, who was lying on the rocking chair, suddenly said, "Oh, I forgot to tell you something just now. We have a curfew here at night, so don't go out."
Xiao Liang asked: "Why?"
The village chief waved his arms and said, "That's right. It's very dangerous to go out at night. There are animals and sometimes underground fires."
The security guy sneered unhappily: "I think you want to say that there are ghosts outside at night?"
The village chief rocked his rocking chair twice, looking very unhappy: "What are you talking about? Scientific values are popular nowadays, how can an old man like me be so feudal and superstitious?"
Xiao Liang tried to smooth things over: "The village chief might be worried that we might run into some wild animals in the mountains if we run around at night. He has good intentions."
The village chief shook the tobacco leaves and said, "It's a little late now. Don't run around at night."
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