While I was arguing with the Wei family members, Wei Shengnan's voice calling for Song Laosan continued to echo from within the bushes.
The analysis by the Wei family members left me somewhat confused.
He's right.
In the records I have read, all the evil spirits and heretics that can lure people to their deaths have a special method.
But I have never seen anything like this before.
As the Wei family members said, if the thing in the bushes is really some kind of evil spirit, then its tricks are too low-level. If it really wanted to deceive people, it would at least say a few more words, instead of just repeating "Song Laosan" over and over again like a broken record.
Wei Shengnan's situation is really too strange. Seeing that the Wei family members insisted on going to check, I thought for a moment and said, "It's not that you can't go in, but you have to listen to me. If you find that something is wrong, the two of us must leave immediately!"
The Wei family member nodded seriously: "Don't worry, I'm just worried about the young lady's safety, but I'm not foolish enough to risk my life. However, since I've received a favor from the Wei family, even if there's only a one percent chance, I must treat it as a one hundred percent chance!"
Upon hearing the Wei family member's reply, I took a deep breath, parted the bushes, and went inside.
These glowing weeds were taller than me. I couldn't see anything while walking through them, and the light was so bright it hurt my eyes. So I gently brushed aside the grass blades and walked toward the direction from which Wei Shengnan's voice came.
I heard Wei Shengnan's voice outside and felt that she was only a dozen meters away from us, but after entering the bushes and walking a long distance, I still couldn't find any trace of Wei Shengnan.
Moreover, her voice always seemed to be just out of reach of us, as if she were hiding right in front of us, but we just couldn't find her no matter what we did.
"Song Laosan!"
"Song Laosan!"
"...!"
Wei Shengnan's calls continued to echo in the grass ahead.
I was unsettled by this strange phenomenon, so I raised my voice and shouted, "Wei Shengnan, can you hear me? If you can, please answer me!"
After I shouted that, there was suddenly no sound from the bushes in front of me.
I stood in the empty, silent grass, and suddenly felt a chill: "Something's wrong, retreat!"
The Wei family members were still somewhat unwilling: "Mr. Duan, now that we're already inside, why don't we move forward a little further?"
“When we were outside the bushes, Wei Shengnan’s voice was already far away from us. Even after we went deeper into the bushes, the voice still seemed to be there and then gone. It’s like something is luring us into the bushes!”
I grabbed the arm of a member of the Wei family and turned to walk back: "I don't know what's going on inside, but that sound definitely didn't come from Wei Shengnan!"
"Wei Shengnan!"
"Wei Shengnan!"
"Wei Shengnan!"
"...!"
Just then, another voice came from behind.
But it wasn't Wei Shengnan's voice anymore; it was my voice.
Even I was startled when I heard the voice, because it sounded so much like my own voice, almost exactly the same.
Upon hearing the voice behind them, the Wei family members were immediately startled: "Mr. Duan, what's going on?"
“I’m not sure either, but there’s definitely something that can mimic speech hiding in the bushes here.”
I felt a chill run down my spine as I listened to the sound behind me, and I quickened my pace: "It's mimicking my voice now, so it must have heard me call out Wei Shengnan's name just now. This means that Wei Shengnan was very likely on shore with Song Laosan, but they got separated in this area, or Wei Shengnan called out Song Laosan's name and this thing learned it."
The Wei family member paused, "Doesn't that mean the young lady might be hiding in these bushes?"
"According to normal thinking, no one would venture into grass that's taller than a person, because no one knows what dangers might be there. I think Wei Shengnan and the others were probably just passing by."
After explaining the matter to the Wei family members, I stopped in my tracks and looked seriously ahead.
Seeing that I wasn't leaving, the Wei family member turned around and asked, "Mr. Duan, is there something we've overlooked?"
"We're trapped! We were moving very slowly when we entered this patch of grass, but we're moving very fast when we're coming back. We should be at the edge by now."
I parted the grass in front of me with my hand, looking at the lush green grass: "We've fallen for that thing's trick! Use your knife to cut this grass, keep moving forward in a straight line, we need to get out of here quickly, if we delay any longer, we might not be able to get out!"
"Wei Shengnan!"
"Wei Shengnan!"
The sound came from behind us again, the volume almost unchanged, as if someone was shouting those words from behind our backs.
Upon hearing my command, the Wei family members drew their knives and began hacking at the bushes in front of them. I stood behind them, ready to respond to any unexpected situations that might arise.
We had only gone about five or six meters forward when the Wei family members in front of us suddenly stopped.
Standing behind him, unable to see what was happening in front, I asked, "What happened?"
The Wei family member swallowed hard, took a step to the side, and parted the grass with his hand: "Mr. Duan, look at this!"
A section of the grass in front had been crushed, the blue plants had turned red, and liquid was flowing down the grass stalks.
This is blood!
In the gaps between the collapsed grass, some broken bones and pieces of meat could still be vaguely seen.
I caught a glimpse of something in the grass nearby, bent down and picked it up.
It was a piece of black cloth.
"These are fragments of the clothes worn by the people from Ping'an Village!"
The Wei family members immediately recognized its origin: "Could the blood we saw in the open area at the beginning be this person's?"
I picked up a small piece of bone fragment with muscle attached: "To be able to grab a living person dozens of meters away and shred the body to this extent, this thing in the bushes is more difficult to deal with than I thought! Forget about here, clear a path immediately!"
As soon as we finished speaking, we both raised our knives and began cutting the grass in front of us.
As we continued chopping, the sound that had been behind us suddenly shifted to our left.
The Wei family member looked over there and said, "Mr. Duan, did you notice that the voice has changed position? Are we going in circles?"
I glanced at the trails we'd left from cutting grass: "No! We've been walking in a straight line the whole time. It's not that we went astray, it's that thing, it's coming!"
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