I survive in a high-risk world by writing essays

Strange seams...well, I don't know anyway.

In fact, what happened to Ma Zhi's mother and son is not difficult to guess.

How should I put it, because human ignorance is always similar.

When I was exploring local rumors in different places, I went to many rural villages, met really simple and kind people, and met many people who were purely bad.

All of these are also clichéd plots in literary creation, and can be said to be quite common.

Some of these evils are produced due to lack of education, some are for selfish desires, and some are pure nature.

"Then what are you going to do?" I glanced at the bright colors looming in the sky, squatted down and looked directly at the pale Maeda Mio, and Maeda Kaname who stared at us with a pair of black eyes, "I want to leave this place." A village? If it’s just like this, it’s just a matter of convenience, but..."

"Since you can come out to find food at night, it means that you have no chance to escape." Although it was a little impolite to ask, I paused and asked, "Before this, have you tried to escape?"

Maeda Mio suddenly fell silent.

"Yes." It was Ma Zhiyao who had been quietly staying in her mother's arms without saying a word, "There was an uncle who said he would take my mother and me to escape."

I seemed to have a premonition and asked, "And then?"

"I failed to escape and was found. I never saw that uncle again." The child's voice was soft and quiet, as if he didn't know what fear and sadness were.

"That uncle, does he have a lot of beard and scars around his eyes?" I asked again.

Ma Zhi nodded.

At the moment when the known clues were connected in series, a thought arose in my heart that it really was so.

So the known clues now are that when Dengben Jiandou went to the source of Xuyuchuan again a year ago, he may have strayed into Shancun like us now, and got to know Mazhi mother and son.Then, as Ma Zhiyao said, after learning about their experiences, Tomoto Kento wanted to take them out of the village.

And judging from the words of the proprietress of the fruit shop, Dengben Jiandou did not only come to Shancun once, but planned for quite a long time.On the day he was about to make his move, he probably told his wife about it before leaving the house and going into the mountains, and told her to leave Tottori as soon as possible if he couldn't come back.

The next thing is that he failed to escape, was discovered by the villagers of Shancun, and Deng Ben Jiandou disappeared... It has been a year, and it is very likely that he has indeed died.

I stood up straight, glanced at the four young children who followed me with complex and different expressions, who might not have seen many such things, and asked their opinions, "Then wait until we go there tomorrow. After the source of Sichuan, take them with you when you leave?"

Knotweed opened his mouth, "That Mr. Dengben..."

"Then be it," said Briar.

Neither Fuhei nor Junpei had objections.

To be on the safe side, I asked Jiao to stay and take care of Ma Zhi and her son, in case any accident happened before we came back.

Then we went back the same way and turned back through the window to the room where we were staying.

On the way to Huqiu, I realized that Xia You didn't seem to have said a word on the way, and was too quiet.But considering that his mana has not recovered yet, I'll take it as he is hurrying to recover his mana.

When we went back, it was not long before dawn, and probably no one could fall asleep.

"The position of the piece of paper has moved." Wild Rose's gaze was fixed, and it fell on the small piece of paper on the doorknob before I went out.

I followed her words and saw that the position of the piece of paper on the doorknob was different from before we went out.

"Probably already knew that we left the room at night."

Although we all knew each other well, the owner of the house warmly greeted us for breakfast in the morning, and then the middle-aged man surnamed Ge Tian came over on time and took us to the cave at the source of Xuyu River as promised.

The cave is still some distance away from Shancun. After leaving the village, we walked along the mountain road for almost an hour to arrive.

The same as what I saw when I came here to explore the source a few years ago, there is a narrow river in front of this cave, and the water flowing out of the cave flows down the river, and the entrance of the cave is relatively difficult to climb.

I distributed the flashlights I had prepared to everyone and told them to be careful and pay more attention to their feet.

Because the only place to stay in the cave is a stone platform path dug close to the arm, if you want not to fall into the deep pool, you have to stick to the stone wall.

After arriving at the cave, Ge Tian was unwilling to go forward and go deep into the cave, so the first one was Knotweed who volunteered to explore the way, followed by Junpei, Fuhei, Wild Rose, and Ryoko and I were at the end.

"It's here." When I said this, I felt like I was doing a bunch of side missions inexplicably in the game, and then finally came to the end of the main mission, quite a bit of "finally ending". a feeling of.

Obviously at the beginning, I just accepted the main task of [Send four students to the source of Yuchuan].

This trip is really not easy, I hope everything goes well in the future.

Just at this moment, I suddenly felt someone approaching behind me.

A pair of hands was about to touch my back and push hard, but Ryoko who was walking behind me had already amputated those hands. When I turned around, what I saw was Ryoko pinching the throat of the middle-aged man Ge Tian with one hand, pulling him away. Lift above the pool with your feet in the air.

"Why did you attack us?" I shook the flashlight, and when I saw the frightened and ugly face of the middle-aged Ge Tian, ​​I spoke slowly.

"Yes, I'm sorry! I'm obsessed with ghosts, please forgive me!" Ge Tian cried and begged for mercy, struggling in the air with all four limbs on the ground.

Of course, I will not soften my heart because of this kind of ugly begging for mercy or something. After thinking about it, I asked him the question I asked him at the beginning, "Do you know Dengben Jiandou? You have a beard and a scar near your eyes. "

"No, really not!"

Are you still refusing to tell the truth?I bent my lips and showed a kind smile, "It seems that you really want to go swimming in the deep pool, then I will satisfy you, Ryoko..."

Ryoko's hand moved down by more than twenty centimeters.

"Wait, wait! I remembered, I remembered!" The middle-aged Ge Tian quickly changed his words.

Next, I heard clues from his mouth, which completely completed what Toben Kento had experienced in this village known for its kindness.

Ge Tian said that he was the one who led Dengben Jiandou to this cave more than a year ago.

That is, he didn't have any intention of killing people, but just wanted to earn a guide fee.

However, Deng Ben Jiandou, who stayed in Shancun for a few days, also encountered Mazhi mother and son inadvertently, just like us.After learning what happened to Ma Zhi's mother and son, Kento Tomoto made the decision to rescue them from the cannibal village.

Then, on the night when they fled the village with Mazhi mother and son, their tracks were discovered by the villagers.

Deng Ben Jiandou was beaten to death, and Ge Tian dragged his body and threw it into this deep pool.

After I finished listening, I didn't say anything, I closed my eyes and didn't want to see that ugly, tearful face in fear.

Only no regrets.

"What about Ma Zhi Mio and Ma Zhi?" I didn't even notice that when I spoke again, my voice was indifferent as if I was talking to a dead person.

"Maeda... Mio's husband is a strange man from outside, called Maeda Kazuhiro..." Ge Tian said tremblingly.

More than ten years ago, there was a very serious curse and murder incident in Shancun. At that time, they lived in the mountains and didn't know who to turn to to solve these problems. They saw the villagers die one by one. At this time, it was a passerby, Ma Zhi. Yixun helped their village get rid of the curse of chaos.

Ge Tian said that Mazhi Yixun claimed to be a curse master, and stayed temporarily after solving the strange death in Shancun.

Later, she fell in love with Mio, a girl who grew up in the village, and they got married under the witness of the villagers of Shancun.

But the good times didn't last long. When Mazhi Mio was pregnant, a person in the village was dying of a terminal illness. The ignorant villagers didn't know that it was a terminal illness, and thought it was a curse, so they asked Mazhi Yixun to help them solve the so-called curse. .

And of course, the spell couldn't cure the terminal illness, and the terminally ill person died soon.

If it’s just like this, it’s okay, the problem is that the family of the person who died of terminal illness thought it was Ma Zhi Yixun who was unwilling to do his best to save people, so they spread rumors everywhere that these curses were actually brought by him. Before coming here, so many things had never happened in Shancun. As long as he died, there would be no more curses.

The villagers of Shancun believed it.

At that time, Ma Zhi Mio was pregnant. In order to protect his pregnant wife, Ma Zhi Yixun had no choice but to give up resistance and was caught by the villagers.

He probably never thought until he was caught that the villagers who usually greet each other in a friendly manner would actually threaten him with his wife overnight as if possessed by an evil spirit, and then throw him away. Into the deep pool of the cave.

——What I heard was such a true story that would be considered absurd even in novels.

"Sake, kill him?" Ryoko asked, holding Ge Tian's hand steadily, the middle-aged man's ugly face was swollen purple due to lack of oxygen.

"...Let's put it down." I said, no longer looking at this middle-aged man who grew up in a decaying village, and walked forward groping the stone wall.

[Why not kill him. ] Xia You, who hadn't made a sound for a long time, spoke at this moment, [Do you think people like this shouldn't die? ]

"There are still children here."

"Besides, how many people like this can be killed just by killing?" I asked softly, hearing my calm voice echoing slightly in the cave, "I knew a long time ago that this world is full of such things. "