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The road was bumpy, but at least the group arrived at Shuishen Village before lunch.

The village looked a little dilapidated.Old houses, moss covered the walls.It is worth mentioning that there is a Buddhist shrine in front of every two households.

The shrines in Tenjin Town are covered with blue cloth, and the shrines here are covered with red cloth.

The tour guide asked them to wait where they were, and ran to a house at the head of the village to knock on the door.

As soon as she left, Xie Baiyuan stepped forward and picked up the red cloth with his fingertips.

A statue completely different from Lord Tenjin appeared in front of everyone.

The statue was stroking its beard with one hand, with a glaring expression, as if it was about to rush out of the altar with a knife in the next second.

"Cover it quickly!" Zhong Chuling was terrified.

Yu Jingmiao stood on the side playing with her hair, and said flatly, "I thought you were not afraid of anything."

These two girls are completely on the fence.

Fang Li looked around and found that the houses here were next to the farmland, and there was a deep ditch beside the road. The water in the ditch was crystal clear. It seemed that the nearby rivers had not been polluted.

In this regard, Tianshen Town is far inferior. On the first day they came to the town, they were almost suffocated by the air there.

"Did you find it?" Xie Baiyuan's voice suddenly sounded from behind his ears.

Fang Li resisted the itch in his ears and asked, "What did you find?"

Xie Baiyuan: "There are old people and children everywhere in the village."

It was only after he spoke that Fang Li noticed that no matter whether they were working in the fields or walking silently with their heads bowed, they were all elderly people.

Three or four-year-old children are running barefoot on the field ridges. If the copy background is removed, the picture can be said to be very warm and natural.

Even the elderly and children in Tianshen Town can't see it, but here they appear in groups, which is a bit strange no matter how you think about it.

Fang Li was lost in thought, and there was another itch in his ears. It turned out that Xie Baiyuan had been sticking to him, so that his breath was all on his ears.

He moved to the side, and before he moved two steps, Xie Baiyuan grabbed his arm.

Xie Baiyuan: "What are you hiding?"

Fang Li's eyes drifted around, and finally fell on Xie Baiyuan's hand holding him, and explained helplessly: "My ears are itchy."

He heard Xie Baiyuan click his tongue, and then a hand appeared on his earlobe.The cold fingertips gently rubbed his ears twice, and Xie Baiyuan said softly, "It doesn't itch anymore?"

It's not itchy, just a little hot.

Seeing that the atmosphere was just right, the corners of Xie Baiyuan's mouth rose with his mood, "Actually that day..."

Like an alert cat, Fang Li immediately covered his ears and turned away, pointing his finger behind him: "The tour guide is out."

Xie Baiyuan: "..." Give him a chance, he wants to explain.

Damn, play off.

The tour guide was accompanied by an old man with gray hair, and the two were talking and laughing.

"This is the village head," the tour guide introduced. "He welcomed us very much and invited everyone to sit at his home."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, was there any other choice besides going in and sitting around?

The village head seemed to be at least 70 years old, but he seemed to be very energetic, and he showed great enthusiasm for them, a group of foreigners.

He spoke Mandarin, with a slight local accent that sounded slurred.

The tour guide took on the responsibility of translation so that the two sides would not fail to communicate.

The village chief said that there was no Tianshen Town, but there was a Tianshen Village.

The two villages are close together, regardless of each other, and even the ancestral hall is built in the same one. In the ancestral hall, two statues are enshrined together, one is the master of the sky, and the other is the master of the water god.

It's just that the good times didn't last long. 20 years ago, the two villages suffered from a persistent drought. The crops failed, and people were so hungry that they ate bark.

After the drought, the vitality of the two villages was severely damaged. At this time, the young people in Tianshen Village who had gone out to work said that there was no future for just staying here to farm. If they want to be rich, they must develop industries.

This proposal was rejected by the village chief not long after, because the machines they introduced were very polluting and directly destroyed the water source in the village.

The water source is not clean, the crops are not growing well, and the two have disputes.

In the end, of course, it was one shot and two parts.

Some people went out independently and developed into a small town. The majority of those people were from the original Tenshen Village, so the town was directly named Tenshen Town.

And the young man who proposed at the beginning became the mayor of the town.

When the village chief mentioned those people in Tianshen Town, his beard trembled with anger. When Xie Baiyuan asked about the disappearance cases in Tianshen Town in recent years, the village chief's eyes dodged a little.

But it was only for a moment, and then he put down the teacup and sighed: "This is all retribution."

Fang Li understood this sentence, and he repeated: "Retribution?"

The village chief shook his head, looking unwilling to continue the topic.

He said a long sentence, and the tour guide repeated it in Mandarin: "Five days later it will be the birthday of the water god, and there will be a sacrificial ceremony in the village. You can come and participate. As long as you sincerely pray to the water god, Master Water God will grant your wishes."

Zhong Chuling raised his voice and asked back: "Master Tianshen is also five days later? Which one shall we participate in then?"

The tour guide spread his hands, still smiling: "You can do whatever you want."

Zhong Chuling was so angry that he almost rolled up his sleeves and had a fight with her.

With so much information pointing to the two lords' birthdays in five days' time, it's clear what's going to happen at the sacrifice.

However, the two masters did not live together, so choosing whose sacrificial ceremony to participate in became a century-old problem.

Several people had lunch at the village head's house, walked around the village symbolically, and took a few photos as souvenirs.

"We should go back," the tour guide said, looking up at the sky, "We must go back before dark."

There was a rare moment of panic on her face, and her expression did not seem to be fake. It seemed that even the tour guide could not handle the danger in the town after dark.

When Xie Baiyuan left the village chief's house, his trouser pocket was a little bulging. Fang Li guessed that he might have followed something from the npc, and knowingly went forward and pulled the hem of his clothes for him to cover the bulge.

The village head prepared a bullock cart for them to enter the city, and he could take them back to the town along the way.

So after a bumpy afternoon, everyone finally returned to the hotel before dark.

The person at the front desk of the hotel has changed. It was a girl in her early 20s, but now she has become a boy of seven or eight years old.

Zhong Chuling has the most maternal love for children of this age, and Xinxin in the team pokes at her cuteness, but Xinxin has been following behind Xie Baiyuan and the others, making it impossible for her to start.

The little boy in front of him was so thin and cute, Zhong Chuling couldn't help rubbing his hairy head.

"Which family are you from?"

The little boy stared at her and replied, "I am my sister's brother."

"Pfft." Zhong Chu was amused, "Who is your sister?"

The little boy didn't say a word, and after a while his sister appeared, it was the girl at the front desk.

"This is your brother?" Xie Baiyuan asked aloud.

The girl was quite shy, so she blushed and said yes.

This little boy and Xinxin are of the same age, so they played together very quickly.

Later, Fu Zeren came over. He seemed to be bringing some news, but before he opened his mouth, he saw the little boy's face change suddenly after entering the door.

"Where did this kid come from?"

The little girl came over and asked the little boy to stay in the kitchen, and then whispered: "This is my brother who goes to school in the city. Their school has a small National Day holiday, and my mother has to go to work, so let him stay with me for a few days." sky."

After she finished speaking, she lowered her head, looking a bit pitiful as she let others slaughter her.

Fu Zeren frowned.

The atmosphere was a bit stagnant, and Zhong Chuling couldn't stand it any longer, so he stood up to help and chatted: "It's okay, it's just a child, and his personality is not noisy. If it doesn't work, we can let him sleep in our room."

Her boyfriend secretly tugged her, but Zhong Chuling glared back at her.

She has wanted a child for a long time.

The girl at the front desk didn't seem to expect that she would say that, and quickly said: "No, this is not very good, he sleeps with me, and he will return to the city after this week."

Sometimes Fang Li always felt that the little girl at the front desk and the female owner of the restaurant in this copy had a sense of disobedience.

The sense of disobedience comes from the fact that at a certain moment they don't look like the npcs in the dungeon at all, but real living people.

Fu Zeren stared at her for a while, and finally let go.

"You should pay more attention to yourself. You know, especially children, who are most likely to encounter danger."

"Something happened in town today."

Fu Zeren turned to them.

Only then did Fang Li and the others know that during the time they left Tianshen Town, another person disappeared in the town.

"The missing person this time is a student." Fu Zeren said as he took out a freshly released missing person notice from his coat pocket.

In the photo, Fang Li, the kid smiling foolishly at the camera, looked familiar to them.

"Le Xian." Xinxin read out the name.

Fu Zeren raised his eyebrows: "Do you know each other?"

"No." Under the gaze of the tour guide, they had no choice but to deny, Xie Baiyuan asked, "What's the situation with this student?"

Fu Zeren said: "The man lost it at school. According to his classmates, he raised his hand to go to the bathroom when everyone was in class, but he never came back after he went."

The school authorities turned the school upside down, but they couldn't find anyone.In view of Le Xian's mischievous "bad performance", the school said that it does not rule out the possibility of students sneaking out of the school by climbing over the wall.

Xie Baiyuan and Fang Li looked at each other, and suddenly understood.

Of course, the school cannot admit that the person disappeared at the school, otherwise, wouldn't it mean that the school is not safe now?

At present, there are at least two thousand students in Tianshen Middle School. If panic is caused among the students, the situation will definitely get out of control.

"That's why I asked you to pay more attention, especially tourists with children." When he said this, his eyes focused on Xinxin for a while.

"Understood, you are the mayor of the town?" Xie Baiyuan asked seemingly unintentionally.

Fu Zeren smiled, and asked back, "Why don't you guess I'm a police detective?"

Xie Baiyuan shook his head: "If you were a police detective, they wouldn't have to be so afraid of you."

This "they" includes the girl at the front desk and the residents of the town.

Fu Zeren let out a noncommittal muffled snort. He left the missing persons notice with his photo and name printed on it, wrapped his coat tightly around him, and plunged into the darkness.