Special Incident Investigation Division

It is not resolved in this way. Both of us hope with the greatest sincerity that we can live in peace and even benefit each other. I believe the biggest problem between us is the lack of communication.Village Chief Zhang, I hope you can tell us the truth, why on earth do you believe that there is a terrible curse on the silver jewelry?Everyone has received a scientific education. I don't believe that just an old legend can convince so many people in Sha Village that they are even willing to risk their lives. "

The faces of the three people in Zhang Village changed when they heard the words, and the room was silent for a while. After the three people made eye contact, Village Chief Zhang heaved a long sigh and finally said: "Director Tang, Section Chief Huang, Professor Wang, In fact, even if you don’t ask, today we intend to clarify everything. As Director Tang said, both of us hope to solve the problem, not create it.”

"The curse on the silver jewelry has never been just a legend for us in Sand Village."

"Since there are genealogical records in Sand Village, seven people have died strangely every 22 years. The ways of death are all kinds of strange, only one thing is the same. The dead people died without warning, and they died on the same day. This situation It didn’t end until 24 years ago, and there were supposed to be seven people on the same day that year, but when that day came, we waited in fear but nothing happened.”

"The disappearance of those of us who knew the existence of the curse was a big stone on our heads. After the day passed peacefully, we didn't feel at ease. At first everyone wondered if we miscalculated the time, maybe it wasn't that One day. But the days passed, the whole year passed, and nothing happened. At that time we were all crazy, everyone thought the torture was finally over."

"Actually, the last time the curse happened, I was a child, just the age to love to play, but that day my parents locked me in the house and didn't let me go out anyway. They didn't say the curse to me at that time. I actually can’t figure out whether they locked me up at home because they were worried that I would be chosen to die by the curse, or that I would see those people die.”

"In fact, these are meaningless. On the day when the curse came, everyone in the village did not go out. Everyone shut themselves at home, doing nothing but eating and sleeping, and quietly waiting for the bad luck to come. Cursed The choice is irregular, men, women, old and young are all possible, healthy or sick, no matter where you hide, inside or outside the village, when the curse falls, there is nowhere to escape."

"That was probably the most memorable moment in my life. At that time, our family was having dinner, and my grandpa suddenly spurted blood from his mouth, and fell to the ground convulsing all over, and soon lost his breath. At that time, my grandpa I am not very old, about the same as me now, and my body has always been quite strong. At that time, I didn’t know what life and death were, and that was the first time I faced the death of a loved one, and I was not mentally prepared at all.”

"He was right in front of me, the whole table was sprayed with blood, and the food on the table was stained red. I was completely frightened and stupid, and then I found out that my face was also sprayed with blood. My mother hugged me without saying anything, just hugged me. My dad and the others looked calm, or rather numb. They cleaned up my grandfather's body, and our family continued to sit in the house , quietly no one spoke."

"After twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, my dad found a white lantern from the house and hung it on the eaves outside the door. Their emotions at that time were like grief and relief. After doing this, they seemed I just came back to life, and my mother drove me to bed to sleep. After going out the next morning, I found other white lanterns in the village that were exactly the same as the ones hanging under the eaves of my house. Including my house, there are seven lanterns in total. Lanterns. At that time, I didn’t understand what was going on, but after the funerals of the seven people were finished, I gradually learned the truth of the matter from various channels.”

"That was the only time when the curse fell on me, but just this one time was enough to make me unforgettable in my life. On that day 24 years ago, the village was the same as any other day in the past. Everyone shut themselves up. At home, waiting for the choice of fate. At that time, I realized the feelings of my parents and the others, the fear and anxiety of being unable to do anything in the face of death, people who have not experienced it will never understand."

"Actually, during that whole year, those in the whole village who knew the truth about the curse were worried about gains and losses, and the shadow of death was still lingering."

98. Mysterious Silver Jewelry (23)

Village head Zhang's expression was very complicated, and he continued: "Twenty years have passed, knowing that nothing happened on the date two years ago, we are the ones who really put our hearts in our stomachs. We all thought this The curse that has plagued our entire village for thousands of years has finally been lifted, and we are free like ordinary villages. We have not told the next generation about this matter, and it is enough for us to bear these things. Now that the matter is over There is no need to let the children suffer the same inner suffering. It is an accident that some villagers found cultural relics and reported them.”

"The child is not very old. He was born several years after the last curse. He didn't know about the curse before. We didn't talk about it before. Because of this, after he discovered the cultural relic, he didn't think about it. Discuss with people and report directly.”

Village head Zhang couldn't help but sighed as he spoke, "I knew this would happen, maybe we should have told the juniors about this legend, and made them feel a little worried. After we knew that he found the cultural relics and reported them, it was already too late , the archaeological team will arrive soon, and we can't stop you from excavating without a legitimate reason. It's also because we were skeptical about the curse at the time. On the one hand, we suspect that the curse may have been lifted, and it won't have any impact even if the ancient tomb is discovered. , On the other hand, we are also worried that the nightmare will come to the village again."

"This is why whenever there is time, people in the village always go to the excavation site to watch the excitement. In fact, everyone is so interested in archaeology, but they are just worried about the curse. After the silver ornament was unearthed, we It’s like my heart is falling apart.”

"It's the same feeling that the ghost we thought we had got rid of has appeared again. We seem to have returned to the time 24 years ago, worrying about gains and losses, wondering if death will suddenly come to the village again inside."

Tang Feng frowned and asked, "Mr. Zhang, I would like to ask, how do you know that the deaths in the village every 22 years are due to silver jewelry?"

Village head Zhang replied: "That piece of silver jewelry, the preparation said that the patterns on the silver jewelry are recorded in the genealogy of several clans in our village. When we see the patterns on the silver jewelry, we know that the silver jewelry is an item that causes curses." According to the genealogy records, there is a large tomb outside the village, in which the enemies of our ancestors were buried. Before he died, he cursed our ancestors and their descendants, and the cursed items were buried in the large tomb.”

"There are seven clans born and raised in our sand village, which are the descendants of the seven ancestors. Every 22 years, the curse will come, and one person from each of the seven clans will die. Of course, because our clans have mutual Because of the marriage, it is actually difficult to tell who is the descendant of which family, and the target of the curse is chosen by blood rather than surname, so in fact, after the death of the curse, there are cases where more than one person with the same surname dies."

"In addition, there is a sentence recorded in the genealogy, do not let the cursed object reappear, otherwise the terrible curse will break out completely, and all people who are related to the seven ancestors will be cursed to take their lives. In fact, the seven of us The people of this clan didn't live here originally, and they didn't live together at all, and the ancestors all moved here to build a village in order to guard the cursed items in the tomb."

Huang Tianrui asked: "Then, does your genealogy record how the curse will erupt after the cursed object is unearthed?"

Village head Zhang shook his head and said: "No, the genealogy only says that the curse will take away the lives of all the descendants of the seven ancestors, and nothing else. We have also searched in the ancient books handed down by the old people in the village. , did not find any content related to the curse. However, based on the situation of people who died every 22 years in the past, we speculate that there are various forms of death. It's a creepy way. We didn't investigate the cause of my grandfather's death at the time, but I guess if an autopsy was done, he should have died of a normal illness."

"This is why everyone was so excited after the death of the Liao family's baby. We don't know that there is nothing unscientific about the cause of his death. But in the past 1000 years, our village died suddenly every 22 years. people, the cause of death is also reasonable.”

"It was never their cause of death that was unexplained, but their death itself."

The three of Huang Tianrui also fell silent for a while. If what Village Chief Zhang said is true, they can fully imagine the torment and fear that the villagers of Sha Village have lived in for more than 1000 years. It can also be understood.It's just that even if Huang Tianrui doesn't