Chapter 53 Children
At this critical juncture, someone lost a child, and they all knew that the subtext was that a child had died, but the body had not been found yet.
The villagers over there shouted around the village for a long time but received no response, so they had to call on more villagers, but the child was still not found until noon.
Seeing that lunch time was approaching, the village chief's wife prepared some simple food.
Xiao Liang was still feeling sick from what happened the night before and couldn't eat. Lu Jiamu and the other five knew that their peaceful time might not last long, so they tried to eat more in preparation for the days when they couldn't eat.
The photographer had never experienced famine, so he put the steamed bun down in disappointment. He didn't understand why such a tasteless combination of steamed buns, porridge and wild vegetables could make them eat with such appetite and taste like they were delicacies from land and sea.
It was almost time for lunch and the child showed no sign of returning on his own. The villagers then realized that something serious was going to happen.
The child's mother heard from someone that her child had led a few strangers the day before, so she hurried to the village chief's house. As soon as she entered, she knelt on the ground and cried, "I beg you, please tell me where you took my child!"
She said this as if in her heart she had completely determined that they were not good people.
Lu Jiamu had already cleared the plate. He wiped the corners of his mouth and looked back at her. His expression turned into a kind of empathetic sadness: "Sister, don't worry. Although we did see him yesterday, we really didn't take him away. Why would we take a child away?"
As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed at Xiao Liang: "We are also very timid. Because of what happened in the village, we were all very scared. We wanted to leave yesterday, but we got lost and didn't leave. We didn't go out last night because we were afraid of encountering something. If you don't believe me, ask the village chief."
The woman wiped her tears and asked, "Where did you go yesterday?"
Lu Jiamu thought about it and briefly described the route they took yesterday without hiding too much.
When Lu Jiamu talked about the abandoned stilt houses built along the mountain, a feeling of confusion emerged in everyone's mind.
It seemed that if no one mentioned it, they would have forgotten that such a building had ever existed. But even when Lu Jiamu mentioned it, they thought about it for a long time before vaguely remembering that there was indeed such a building, but they could not think of the specific details.
The woman looked at the other villagers and asked anxiously, "Will my son take that road again at night?"
"It's possible." A tall and strong villager said, "Let's go and take a look first. Outsider, come with us."
Now the pattern of death has not been figured out yet, and they don't want the production team to stay with the security guy for too long. Because that means that if they go out, the production team will not be the same as before.
Lu Jiamu looked at Xiao Liang and the photographer and said, "Since we haven't left yet, let's continue recording. Maybe we can use it as material."
The photographer put down the steamed bun with a lack of interest and went into the house to carry out the camera.
Since no one in the village could remember where the stilt house was at the moment, they had to ask a few people who had been there yesterday to lead the way.
A group of people came to the stilt house built along the mountain with great enthusiasm.
The stilt house was still as dilapidated as it was yesterday, with weeds growing everywhere. The door and windows were sealed tightly with wooden bars, and the hole that Coleman had hammered out yesterday was still there, not restored.
The only difference was that there were bloodstains on the jagged wood stumps.
Lu Jiamu noticed the bloodstains immediately.
The child had just brought them here yesterday, and he died here today. It seemed expected.
He was afraid that the villagers would change their attitude soon, so he immediately changed his expression and shouted preemptively: "Be careful, there are wild animals in there!"
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