Chapter 49 The First Death
run?
...Why are you running?
In the black and white video, the well ghost's big mouth continued to open and close.
The others obviously hadn't discovered its intention yet, and they looked at it in confusion as it repeated the same action.
Xiao Liang thought it might be exploring the camera, so he turned on the high-speed viewing again. After the picture was distorted for a moment, it became the well ghost's lips moving back and forth.
After a while, the well ghost suddenly tilted its head and crawled back into the well in fear.
Look at the video time in the lower right corner of the screen. This is what happened a few seconds before they came over. After the well ghost entered the well, he never came out again.
It's still in there now.
Several people immediately turned their eyes to the well, either in fear or scrutiny.
A pale, swollen hand with some hair tangled around it had stretched out from the well.
However, it didn't rush to crawl out this time. It just revealed a dark and wet head: "Ahhhh!"
Xiao Liang suddenly felt a tingling sensation on his scalp and goose bumps all over his body, and he wanted to hide back.
Seeing that he seemed to have most of the situation under control and the hope of all the villagers was revealed, Lu Jiamu immediately turned around and rushed to the well, trying to catch the well ghost.
The well ghost let out an "ah" and immediately loosened his hands that were holding the edge of the well and shrank back into the well.
With a "plop" sound, Lu Jiamu missed again and had to stand at the edge of the well and look inside.
There was only a faint flickering light in the well, and the well ghost had disappeared without a trace.
You run really fast.
Xiao Liang asked in a low voice: "Brother Lu...how is it?"
Lu Jiamu pointed a finger and started talking nonsense with his eyes open: "It's a wild man from the mountain, hiding in the well. Like the wolf boy."
When Xiao Liang saw that the well ghost was actually actively hiding from them, his fear was relieved a lot and he believed what Lu Jiamu said.
Although this behavior pattern is really similar to Sadako, its true appearance has been captured by the camera, and we can find that it seems to just be ugly and is actually very clumsy.
However, considering the speed at which it escapes when it takes up its home turf in the well, it would probably be very difficult to catch it.
Lu Jiamu immediately changed his strategy, softened his voice, and said to the well with a warm smile: "Come out soon, we won't beat you or arrest you. We are all good people."
There was no movement at the bottom of the well.
Lu Jiamu said again: "Are you afraid of us? Then I will stay away and you can come out, just like we did just now."
After he finished speaking, he slowly stepped back and returned to the people behind him.
The well was quiet for a moment, and then the pale, swollen hand grabbed the edge of the well again. The well ghost climbed out of the well little by little.
Xiao Liang's eyes widened in shock, and he gave Lu Jiamu a thumbs up: "Brother Lu, you really have an affinity for animals."
Lu Jiamu smiled but said nothing.
The well ghost crawled out half of its body, hung its belly on the edge of the well, stretched out its hands and pointed at itself: "Ah!"
The cameraman has excitedly turned on the camera, ready to record this precious video of communicating with the savages.
Lu Jiamu asked: "You?"
Jinggui nodded vigorously.
"You what?"
The well ghost's hands slid vigorously as if it was swimming, and then its fingers started doing finger exercises in front of it, making it difficult to understand what it wanted to express.
Lu Jiamu stared at it for a while, but was unable to successfully decipher its meaning.
"You can't speak?"
The well ghost shook his hair: "Ah!"
Lu Jiamu pinched his chin and was about to ask the diary for help to see if the diary had any ideas when a terrified scream suddenly came from a distance: "Ah!"
The well ghost shuddered and stopped performing finger exercises for them. He slid into the well without hesitation and disappeared without a trace again.
After a few seconds of silence, the screams resounded throughout the already small village: "Someone's dead! Someone's dead! Help!"
Something happened? Several people's faces suddenly turned gloomy.
Wang Biao took the lead and said, "Let's go and take a look."
When they left the well and rushed to the farmhouse where the sound came from, a circle of villagers had already gathered outside the farmhouse.
A young girl sat on the ground in fear near the door, shouting, "Help! Help!"
Wang Biao walked in front and pushed the villagers: "Make way, make way."
When they squeezed to the innermost part, they saw blood all over the room through the open door.
In the pool of blood in the middle of the room, there lay an old headless corpse, and its head was hung high on the beam with a rope.
From its distorted face, one could tell that this was the talkative old lady who had led them the way yesterday.
How could that be?
"Wuwuwu." The girl sitting by the door cried and grabbed Wang Biao's ankle, "Help!"
Seeing this tragic scene, Xiao Liang covered his mouth with his hands in horror, and then subconsciously shouted: "Call the police!"
The surrounding villagers turned to look at them at the same time, which scared Xiao Liang.
The villagers' expressions showed fear and deep distrust.
Xiao Liang realized that this was a desolate mountain area, and immediately said, "We have a satellite phone! We can make a call!"
She hurriedly took out the satellite phone from her backpack, but found that there was no signal on the satellite phone. She thought the phone was broken, so she tapped it with her hand, but there was still no signal.
At this time, one of the villagers said sinisterly: "Where are the police here in the wild mountains? Usually when something happens, it is the village chief who helps make decisions."
Xiao Liang said uneasily: "But this is a vicious incident."
The old lady inside had her head chopped off, and it was obvious that she had been killed by a vicious and brutal criminal. This was no longer a simple family affair in one village.
The villager asked: "Just now I saw you were not coming from the direction of the village chief's house, where did you come from?"
Xiao Liang hurriedly explained, "We are investigating the well ghost. We put the camera last night and came to pick it up this morning. Do you want to see it?"
The villagers shook their heads silently, but the vigilance in their eyes was real.
"I heard that she led the way for you yesterday?"
"right."
When the atmosphere was awkward, the village chief finally arrived and the villagers made way for him.
He was also shocked when he saw the scene inside the house.
The villagers glanced at the strangers and said, "Village chief, they said they just came out to look for the well ghost."
The village chief nodded: "Yes, that's what they said this morning. It's about the same time we'll be back."
After the village chief said this, the villagers' guard dropped a little.
Lu Jiamu has already taken the initiative to propose: "Village Chief, we are all special investigators invited by the program team. We are proficient in various matters. If you still trust us, can you let us in to assist in the autopsy?"
Xiao Liang looked at him in fear: Don’t talk nonsense, we are not forensic doctors, how could we know that?
But the village chief hesitated for a moment and agreed: "Okay. You city people should be more knowledgeable."
A group of people followed him into the crime scene.
In the first world, several people have become accustomed to seeing corpses and have learned the autopsy techniques for various strange deaths, so they are not panicked now.
Lu Jiamu first went to the fallen body and took a look.
The cross section of the neck is unusually neat and smooth, as if it had been polished. This is not something that can be achieved with an ordinary knife.
The village chief had already asked someone to take down the head hanging from the beam.
Lu Jiamu moved a chair and stood up to observe the rope on the beam.
It was just an ordinary piece of hemp rope. There didn't seem to be anything strange about it, and its height was so high that the old lady couldn't reach it even if she moved a chair and stood on tiptoe.
Although there was a lot of blood scattered in the room, it was messy and disorganized. It did not splash high, but the scattered locations seemed to have signs of walking, as if the person was walking back and forth while slowly spraying.
The old lady's death was very strange, but after analyzing what he saw one by one, Lu Jiamu still gave a seemingly scientific explanation: someone attacked the old lady from behind, and then tied her head with a hemp rope and hanged her high up.
The village chief was frightened and nodded his head: "You city people still know more."
Lu Jiamu asked: "What is this rope used for? Why is it hanging here for no reason?"
The village chief was at a loss: "I don't know."
He looked at the girl who was sitting by the door: "Do you know when your grandma died? Did you hear any noise?"
"No...no..." The girl cried and shook her head, "Grandma was fine last night. She became like this as soon as I came out this morning."
A villager suddenly said, "This has never happened here before. Our village has always been under curfew. Village chief, are you sure that everyone stayed in their rooms last night?"
The village chief suddenly remembered that the security guard came to him early this morning and said that he was locked outside by his companions.
Now that I think about it, it seems that those outsiders did not all stay in the room obediently as he said.
But before the matter was clear, the village chief did not want to cause panic by suspecting others without reason, so he made a brief decision and said, "I can confirm that everyone is in the room safely."
The villagers nodded.
After everyone dealt with the scene, they still had no idea what was going on.
The villagers invited the group back to the village chief's house, asked them to stay put and not run around, and warned them that it was dangerous outside, but they did not tell them about the subsequent communication.
Because he was kept in the dark, Xiao Liang paced back and forth in the room anxiously, fiddling with the satellite phone over and over again, but there was still no signal.
"There was a signal yesterday! Why did it happen at this time?"
She looked at her companions and said, "Someone's dead. We can't stay here any longer. We won't do the show anymore. I'll report to my boss when I get back."
Lu Jiamu asked knowingly, "Why? Doesn't it add a touch of suspense now? Wild people in the wild mountains, murders at midnight. If we can solve the case, the show will definitely be more exciting."
"Don't you understand yet?" Xiao Liang was anxious and terrified, pointing outside, "They must think we killed him! Look at the look in their eyes!"
The security guy said: "No way? What does this have to do with us?"
"They just asked us when we came out, and whether we were led by the old lady yesterday. What's the point of this? Maybe this has never happened in the village before, but it happened when we got here, so they blame it on us."
"Even if they don't think so, it means that there is one or more deeply hidden perverts in this village, and their methods are extremely cruel. And we don't even know who they are."
"There are always unruly people in remote areas. This is a lawless place. They have the final say on everything." Xiao Liang put on his schoolbag. "No matter what, I don't want to stay here any longer. If I stay any longer, I might get into trouble."
Lu Jiamu said: "But we can't get out by ourselves. This place is too far from the highway."
"We know the bus schedule. We can just walk out slowly. Or we can go outside first and wait for the satellite phone to get a signal, then we can go and ask for help. Are you going or not?"
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