sunk in yesterday

cemetery?

Guan Yuzhou shook his head decisively: "I haven't seen it."

Xia Zhuo briefly thought about it: "Since the old lady said that dozens of people died so that only the two of them were left, how could there be no graves? If I say that so many people died, there should be a special place for burial, at least one You should be able to see a cemetery as big as a football field. But you can see that this place used to be all fields, where did the cemetery come from?"

Guan Yuzhou turned his head and asked the siblings who had been listening to their conversation: "Are you from the village?"

Seeing that he suddenly asked about himself, Baby Fat nodded hastily: "Yes, my brother and I were born in the woods behind the village, and we haven't seen any places where people are buried... But if you can't see it from the outside, it's possible They filled up the soil or buried people in their own yards."

Xia Zhuo was stunned for a moment, and felt that Baby Fat's words were very reasonable.

But then a more absurd guess flashed by: What if there were no corpses in the first place?

What the aborigine said at that time was "Never come back again", and the same sentence was also included in the words read by the little ghost last night. The voices of the exact same lines overlapped together, as if to give them a very important reminder.

By the way, there are photos!

He reached out his hand to Guan Yuzhou: "Have you brought out the photos from last night?"

Guan Yuzhou handed over the three neatly folded pieces of paper in his pocket.

It seems that the number of people in the family portrait is quite large, but after careful analysis, it is actually decreasing.

The two two-inch photos clearly show that the old lady's husband and one of the children are missing. If it is true, as it implies, every missing child must lose an adult, then this is simply a one-to-one equivalence exchange……

No, the latter obviously only lost one child.In the family photo, her daughter and son-in-law both disappeared, but so far only one of the children in it has disappeared. Is there something wrong or is his guess wrong from the beginning?

"Well……"

Seeing that he suddenly frowned and closed his eyes, Guan Yuzhou stopped and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xia Zhuo shook his head: "Head hurts."

Seeing that his feet were floating, Guan Yuzhou quickly stopped him: "Don't think about it, just relax."

Baby Fat also seemed to notice something wrong with Xia Zhuo's body, and suggested: "Why don't you find a place to rest for a while? My brother and I just happened to go nearby to see if there is anything to eat."

Now the four of them have reached the station entrance at the head of the village, and the erected wooden shed can barely cover some rain, so Xia Zhuo sat down here.

Guan Yuzhou settled him down, looked at the two sisters and asked, "Go by yourself?"

"Don't worry, we can't fight but we can hide. As long as we don't meet dreamers like those people just now, everything will be fine." Baby Fat clenched his fists, full of energy: "Leave today's lunch to the two of us!"

Watching the two walk away lightly, Xia Zhuo leaned against the wooden wall behind and said with emotion: "It's nice to be young, and you're full of energy even without breakfast."

This is something that people in their seventies and eighties would say, Guan Yuzhou said helplessly, "Aren't you only 25?"

"Really? How do you know?"

Guan Yuzhou glanced at him after two seconds: "It's calculated."

"Wow." Xia Zhuo put on an expression of "You're so amazing", but didn't pester Guan Yuzhou to do the math for himself. That frivolous look didn't seem to take the other party's words seriously at all.Before half of the day had passed, he had already started to feel weak in his hands and feet, and now he didn't bother to tease Guan Yuzhou anymore, so he just tilted his head and closed his eyes to rest without saying hello.

Guan Yuzhou stood at the air vent, half of his body facing Xia Zhuo, and half of his body facing the barren field.

The tunnel from a distance had become a black hole the size of a fist, and it would be extremely dangerous for them to leave on foot without a car, so the idea of ​​leaving the village only came up for a moment before he dismissed it.

This dream is not difficult.

Indeed, in terms of the kid's aggressiveness and the compactness of the plot, the dream may be the reason why someone entered it for the first time, and so far everything is fine.

Judging from yesterday's situation, the kid in the tunnel is afraid of light, and it is relatively safe in broad daylight like now.If you want to do anything, you can only wait until night to see.

He looked away from the misty and rainy open space, and his gaze stayed on Xia Zhuo who was sitting on the waiting chair.He looked at it for two more seconds, and suddenly stretched out two fingers to test the opponent's breath. When doing this, his arms trembled imperceptibly.

The air current hit the fingertips, causing his eyebrows to move slightly, and his chest to rise and fall.Just as he was about to withdraw his hand, his wrist was held by another cool hand.

Xia Zhuo's eyelashes trembled. He didn't care about Guan Yuzhou's surprised expression. He just rubbed his temples and said hesitantly: "I suddenly remembered that when I was sitting in the car and hadn't entered the tunnel, I saw a wire. rod."

Guan Yuzhou knew when it was, at that time Xia Zhuo turned his head to look at it, but when he asked a question, the other party only answered that he was looking at the wire.

Xia Zhuo let go of Yuzhou's hand, put it on his stomach and pressed it. After feeling pretty good, he continued: "At that time, I saw a child hanging on the wire, shaking. But when I turned around, There was nothing on the wires, so I thought I was reading it wrong."

Guan Yuzhou couldn't help frowning after hearing his description: "Hanging on the wire?"

"Rather than being hung on it, it's better to say it was hanged." Xia Zhuo's expression became a little indescribable, "I just thought about it carefully, that child seems to be dressed like Lailai in that family's house..."

Guan Yuzhou would never think that Xia Zhuo was talking nonsense.If Xia Zhuo had seen the "swinging" child on the wire before, it was Lailai, then what they saw yesterday and this morning was a dead person.

He remembered that when he was catching the little girl who fell under the wall, the other person's body was so light that it seemed weightless - he had had this kind of vague guess at that time.

Does the old lady know about this?

Guan Yuzhou felt that she should know, because she knew that her granddaughter was dead, so she would hide something from them and not tell the truth.

He saw Xia Zhuo's hand resting on his stomach, and asked softly, "Do you still want to vomit?"

"You are so gentle all of a sudden, classmate Guan." Xia Zhuo glanced at him with a half-smile, and the corners of his mouth curled up a little.

Sure enough, it will be better if you take the initiative to touch others than when others touch you.He twirled his fingertips and exhaled a foul breath: "I don't want to think about it now."

If I don't think about it now, it means that I was really uncomfortable before, Guan Yuzhou pursed his lips and said, "Sorry."

Xia Zhuo was amused by this sentence of apology, and he grinningly freed up a hand and tugged at Guan Yuzhou's sleeve: "It was my initiative, so why are you apologizing? Besides, you are not happy when I touch you? "

Guan Yuzhou didn't speak any more, and there was silence between the two of them again.

No one answered the teasing words, and Xia Zhuo didn't feel embarrassed.Listening to the sound of dripping rain, he yawned and closed his eyes again.

Who knows that this time when he closed his eyes, he really fell asleep leaning on the wooden board behind him. I don’t know if it was because there were still noises around him at dawn. He didn’t dream of anything weird. When Guan Yuzhou woke him up again, the time had passed nearly an hour.

He closed his eyes to where Guan Yuzhou was standing, and when he opened his eyes, Guan Yuzhou was still there, as if he had never sat down to rest during this period of time.

But Xia Zhuo didn't ask specifically, he saw the siblings not far away running back empty-handed.

This dream was special, and it meant that there was a famine in the village, and the villagers ate up almost everything that could be eaten, so it would be confusing if they found something.However, compared to before leaving, they moved a little more hurriedly and looked a little flustered.

Xia Zhuo thought that something dirty was encountered on the road, and he glanced at the back where they couldn't see anything in confusion.

Before he could open his mouth to ask, Baby Fat supported his knees, gasped and pointed to the mountain in the northwest: "We...we seem to have found a cemetery!"

According to their description, the cemetery was built on the hillside. Because the surrounding trees cover it too much, and because the soil keeps sliding down in rainy days, it is impossible to see it at the foot of the mountain.

On the way there, Baby Fat's face was a bit ugly, and he spoke intermittently: "It's just a guess of my brother and I...but..."

Guan Yuzhou asked, "But what?"

The baby's fat face was wrinkled: "But I think it's scarier than ordinary cemeteries... Oh, I can't say it, it's weirder than the cemeteries I usually see... No, not some, but many..."

Guan Yuzhou interrupted: "Take me to have a look."

Due to the terrain, the fog on the mountain is thicker than that in the field, sticking to the tree trunks and branches and leaves, making the whole forest white.

The siblings couldn't remember the specific path they took last time, but only the general direction.

Guan Yuzhou walked in front of Xia Zhuo to open the way, and with each step, he could step down the soil on the soles of his feet by one or two centimeters.

There was a rotten smell in the air, and some trees had turned black. Too much water had soaked their roots until they became soft, and they couldn't continue to grow without sunlight all day long.

The bark on the small tree that can be held with both hands has been torn clean, and the pitted ant holes are exposed to the view, and only a pool of disgusting mosquito corpses are left.

This muddy upward road has not been mined, but there are traces of people coming.There are no leaves where people can reach, not even a single weed on the ground. It is obviously a suitable environment for the growth of mushrooms, but there are only dirty muddy water and broken stones that cannot eat.

Xia Zhuo panted heavily: "Why do you two want to come to this kind of place to find something to eat? The hairs are all pulled out."

Baby Fat said: "Because I smelled food before... on this hillside."

"Oh..." Xia Zhuo responded, and his eyes began to darken again.He stopped and supported the tree to take a breath, but unexpectedly, just as he relaxed a little, the tree was pushed to the side by him.

He withdrew his hand, wiped his face and asked, "How long will it be?"

Guan Yuzhou looked back at him without taking a breath: "I will carry you?"

Xia Zhuo shook his head quickly: "Don't, don't, it won't be good if you spit on your shoulders."

Baby Fat began to sniff the air left and right: "Soon, it should be around here—"

She hadn't finished speaking when suddenly there was a trivial sound and a muffled groan behind her.The siblings looked back together, only to see that Xia Zhuo was leaning back, and Guan Yuzhou's outstretched hand was still half a meter away from him.

Baby Fat exclaimed, "Hurry up and protect your head!"

This slope is full of tree roots and stones buried in the soil. Who knows where it will hit if it rolls down.

Xia Zhuo didn't know how to shake his head twice before he floated away. After the black clouds in front of him cleared up, his body had rolled backwards uncontrollably.For a moment, he didn't know whether to hug his head or try to hold Guan Yuzhou's extended hand, but in the short moment he thought about it, he had already sat on his buttocks in the mud, and rolled down twice with a grunt.

What surprised the siblings even more was Guan Yuzhou's actions.

When seeing Xia Zhuo fall, Guan Yuzhou had already rushed over, and the muddy water splashed under his feet, and the splash was almost half the height of a person.

Just when Guan Yuzhou was about to grab Xia Zhuo's clothes, Xia Zhuo stretched out his hand to the ground and stopped firmly.

The former suffocated, quickly took off his coat and wiped his face: "Can you stand up?"

Xia Zhuo's expression was a little weird, it didn't seem like she was broken, but she seemed a little surprised.He got up from the mud, holding a dirty doll in his hand.

When he rolled down the slope, he tried to grab something randomly, whether it was a tree root or a stone, but unexpectedly, he caught a hard object embedded in the soil.This area not only pulled the pot out of the mud, but also poured out what was stuck in the mouth of the pot.

The doll in his hand is stitched together with cloth, and it can only be seen from the outline that it is in the shape of a human.

Xia Zhuo rubbed the mud on its face, and found that the facial features on it were all painted with red paint, and a line of small characters was also written in red paint on the back of the doll—Second son Wu Zao, may he rest in peace forever, sinking here, The soul returns to heaven.