sunk in yesterday

Seeing this, Xia Zhuo finally figured out what he couldn't figure out before.

Guan Yuzhou raised his finger and pointed to the record that Xia Zhuo found, and said: "The children who were killed will leave revenge, and they will not be reincarnated until they kill the adults who took them out of the village to kill."

However, there were many droughts and the scorching sun at that time, so the little ghost had no place to hide, but could only hide in the tunnel.However, seven days after another, they gradually forgot their revenge goals and were tortured by hunger.In the end, a car full of people passed by slowly, and they jumped on it without hesitation.

And Xia Zhuo and the two passed through the tunnel when they came, and the bumps along the way were mostly caused by the car wheels running over the bones or luggage, which made it more wobbly than driving on the bright road outside.

"Wow..." Jian Ran was shaken by the wind passing through the gap: "So when that car drove through the tunnel, the kid inside got on it? Then..."

When she said this, there was another point she couldn't understand: "But during this period, didn't some people go out of the village to bury their children? Why did they come back safely?"

"It's a good idea," Xia Yan glanced at her. "Didn't it mean that the living children of my family can see the younger brothers and sisters who were taken out lying on the adults? When these people come back, the children they killed will lie on the adults." The adult can’t see the little ghost in the tunnel and the child on his back, but the little ghost and the child on his back can see each other, so when the adult passes through the tunnel, the little ghost and the child start a conversation.”

Jian Ran was at a loss: "...What are you talking about?"

Xia Zhuo coughed, and imitated the child's voice and said: "The little ghosts asked: Hello, newcomer, can we eat your mother? The child replied: No, she is my mother. The little ghosts said: Your mother killed you. Why do you still protect her after leaving you?"

He played the two dialogue roles in a cadence, and lowered his voice specially when he said this: "The child answered: because I want to kill her with my own hands."

Jane listened to his nonsense in a daze: "This is the reason why these people can come back safely?"

Xia Zhuo only cares about making wild guesses, regardless of the accuracy.So he spread his hands and threw out two words irresponsibly: "Probably."

Guan Yuzhou smiled because of one of his performances: "It's just a day or two more life."

Jian Ran digested the content for a while, and asked in a daze: "Then what are we going to do now?"

Guan Yuzhou avoided Xia Zhuo and turned the book backwards to the last page, revealing half of the torn leather paper, and the other half of the missing content was in Guan Yuzhou's pocket.

The record date in the upper right corner stopped at the end of March, and the handwriting was crooked, and it became more and more scribbled from top to bottom, as if someone wrote it down in a hurry with great fear.

[No one can leave here, the village has been cursed, we shouldn't have passed that plan in the first place... It would be nice if we stopped her that night...]

Jian Ran struggled to distinguish the content of the handwriting: "...that night?"

Guan Yuzhou nodded lightly, and turned the pages forward a few more pages, revealing the impressive "March [-]th" in the upper corner.The handwriting on this page is different from the previous ones. The red fountain pen is a bit difficult to use, and there are only sunken scratches left in many places, which only adds to the weirdness under the illumination of the flashlight.

[Mrs. Wang took the child out of the village in the morning, picked up a bird on the way, and made soup to drink.No one dares to move the chopsticks first, and stop and eat for a meal until dawn... What's the matter, it shouldn't be, it shouldn't be...]

"Sure enough, birds are also written here." Xia Zhuo said: "Didn't Lailai say that her mother and some aunt changed their children and took them home, and cooked a pot of bird broth at night? The dead body of the child was dug up in the soil."

Jian Ran's complexion was very bad: "... I can't stand it anymore."

On March [-]th, the rain miraculously fell, moistening the long-dry land.The women in Liu Village were overjoyed, and rushed to bury the last batch of seeds against the rain, hoping to use the rain to grow the crops, even if they gave birth to a small seedling.

People who hadn't known the taste of meat for several years suddenly found a way to fill their stomachs. On March [-], people who went out of the village to "play" with their children in the rain "intentionally or unintentionally" dug up the corpses that hadn't completely rotted in the mound. On this road of no return that has just been opened.

On March [-]th, someone said that they saw the window open at night while half asleep and half awake, and a boiled child was lying outside the window, screaming hungry and asking, "Why do you want to eat me?"

On March [-]th, the rain still did not stop. The person who had the same dream came to Mrs. Wang's house, but she saw Mrs. Wang was haggard and vomiting.

On March [-]th, Mrs. Wang died—in a pot that had just been lifted at home a few days ago. The body was found by a neighbor next door who also smelled the smell of meat.

Until the end of March, anyone who had eaten meat was going nuts.This matter was immediately brought to the forefront and became the number one problem that the few remaining women urgently wanted to solve.During this period, the population decreased rapidly, until last year, the remaining dozen people thought of a solution, and successfully implemented it.This method was recorded on the kraft paper, which was sandwiched on the last page.

[Their bodies are gone, we return their bodies.

Their grievances cannot be dispelled, and we offer sacrifices.

Red lacquer calms the soul, and it will be buried in seven days, so don't give birth. ]

"Is it gone?" After that, there will be no content, but after reading this short paragraph, Xia Zhuo always feels that there is still something missing.He casually turned to the last page of the book, and found that the last page was not blank.

On the A4-sized page in front of me, the same sentence was written densely in red pen - I didn't kill the child.

[I didn't kill the child I didn't kill the child I didn't kill the child...]

Rather than saying it was red ink, it was better to say that half of the paper was splattered with blood, as if it was written by a person hanging on his last breath before dying. It is not difficult to see that the owner of the handwriting was almost in a state of madness at this time.

Xia Zhuo suddenly thought of the broken red fountain pen at the foot of the bed, and after a brief association, he probably understood who wrote the last page.

Guan Yuzhou was silent for a moment, and then slowly said: "In addition to paying attention to the right time, place and people during the war, food and grass also directly determine the success or failure of the war. There are often cases of troops withdrawing halfway or losing cities when food and grass are not enough, especially when the dynasty changes. The population loss of the people is the largest. According to records, the highest survival rate was one-tenth of the population at that time, do you know why?"

After reading the records for so long, Jian Ran can guess without knowing it.These are black histories that are not written in history books. Of course, she has never learned it, so she answered in a daze, "Because there is no food, the army...cannibalizes people?"

"The world is in chaos, agriculture is backward, but the number of military supplies is huge. Wherever the army goes, there is no grass growing, and there is not enough food, so they go to the villages to rob. Gradually, some people starve to death, and they begin to eat human flesh, and finally directly evolved into Kill people and eat meat." Guan Yuzhou said flatly: "It's the same here, people are going to starve to death, everyone has long forgotten moral civilization, if you don't eat, you will die, if you eat, you will die, so why don't you have a full meal before you die? It's like a war When killing people is like killing domestic animals, the conscience will not feel bad, let alone be condemned."

"So even if you know you will die, you still can't help it." Xia Zhuo didn't feel much after hearing what he said, and asked another question: "What did you just go out for?"

Just now, Guan Yuzhou only needed to go to the main room and bring in the notebook, even if he brought more woven bags, it wouldn't take that long.Besides, although the house was broken, it wasn't broken to the point where the rain leaked from the top of his head. Just judging from his damp hair, he knew that this man had gone out for a trip.

Guan Yuzhou smiled: "Do you know why this family not only painted red paint on the outside, but also painted a circle inside the house?"

Xia Zhuo thought for a while: "To stop dirty things?"

"Ah, before coming here, Xiaoshu and I went to other households to look for supplies..." Jian Ran interjected at this moment: "There really isn't any painted interior in other houses."

"On the one hand, it is to prevent the little ghosts from outside from entering, and as mentioned in the book, it is to calm the soul." Guan Yuzhou glanced at the window: "If you want to isolate foreign objects, you need a completely closed room. The left and right sides of the main room There are two rooms in total, the one we are on is on the right side, the line painted on the paint is pressed directly in front of the door, but the line at the other end is hidden in the door on the left, which means that the place where the old man on the left sleeps is also Within the circled area, the room we are in is not protected."

Xia Zhuo understood: "She is afraid that Lailai will leave the house."

Guan Yuzhou shook his head: "This is only the superficial reason."

What is the underlying reason?

The first conversation they had with the old lady came to Xia Zhuo's mind, and he remembered that there was a whole sentence in it that made people feel strange.

When she said "it has left", who left? "I'm not going to die", why do you think you're going to die? "It's enough for Lai Lai to be around." What does it have to do with Lai Lai if she dies?

The answer seems obvious.

As long as there is the soul of the child in the family, other little ghosts will not come to devour her.

She needs Lailai, or rather—she needs a talisman.

Xia Zhuo probably expected what Guan Yuzhou did before he went out.He paused for a moment, and suddenly felt a chill in his heart: "So, in order for her to survive, she chose to treat her daughter as a scapegoat? She said at first that there was no room, and then she agreed to let us come to this room. The reason Do you want us to die for her to alleviate the resentment?"

So many things have happened in the village, and the villagers are not fools, so they naturally understand the rule that one life is worth one life.

Killing a child requires an adult to offset the crime.But they have to do it - if the child does not die, then it is themselves who are threatened.They can continue to have children in the future without their children, but they will die if their children are gone.

It's not hard to think of the tradeoffs between the two.

But the ridiculous thing is that the people in this whole village may have been dazzled by the first fool, and the old lady in this family is a fool among fools.

Jian Shu pushed her glasses, "I remember... Lailai mentioned that her mother was hesitant when she took her brother out, maybe her memory went wrong after her death, or what the old lady said after she took her back The words made her change her memory?"

Xia Zhuo answered: "So the one who took my younger brother out at the beginning should be the old lady in the house. Didn't the kid just mention 'Grandma' outside the window?"

"I understand!" Jian Ran slapped her head: "Since children and the elderly should be eliminated, there is no reason for their family to let the young mother leave the village to die before the old lady!"

"Yes, so the kid actually came here not to look for Lailai, but the aborigine." Guan Yuzhou said, "In order to save his life, the old man specially left his daughter in this room, and went to the painted room with the amulet in his arms Here, I hope that one life will be worth one life, but unfortunately, in the end, none of them can escape."

I'm afraid that the sentence "I didn't kill the child" was left behind by Mama Lailai who was locked in this room before she died.

The reason why the long rain couldn't stop was because Lai Lai's dead brother still had resentment.When Lai Lai asked when the rain would stop, would it be possible for the old lady to answer "It will stop when I die"?

Of course she wouldn't say it.

When the old lady saw her granddaughter, she should have been panicked and shocked.Her granddaughter left the village unaccompanied, and stood in front of her unscathed. Except for the marks on her neck, she appeared to be a completely alive person.

She hesitated whether to let her granddaughter into the house or not.But soon she figured it out, as long as she could keep her granddaughter in the house, it would be equivalent to sheltering the whole house in it, and she would be safe. She must keep her granddaughter's uncomplaining soul. The line was drawn, calming Lai Lai's soul that should have been reincarnated seven days later.

"You guessed it a long time ago?" Xia Zhuo looked at the man beside him, seeing that he didn't refute, his eyes couldn't help but fell on the top of his slightly damp hair again: "So you were just..."

Guan Yuzhou nodded: "I opened the door outside the courtyard."

Now, the original red paint formed a complete line and was broken.The seven days have come, there will be grievances for grievances, and revenge for revenge.

The heavy wooden door opened a crack, and two different palm prints fell on the ground.

Dang, Dang.

There was a gentle sound of small drums in the main room.