"Haha, there isn't much time left. By the time you think about it again, the little girl may be dead." Liu Qinshan said with a smile.
"You don't have to rush me, we agreed on one and a half days, and it's only been half a day, and there's still time." Qianye said back.
Facing An Yu, he really had complicated emotions.
This emotion is not mixed with liking, nor does it involve the right and wrong between men and women.
Before that, he had a special feeling for An Yu. It was based on her personality, which reminded him of a girl who liked to wear white dresses a long time ago...
that time.
There is no world of terror, no source of curses, no victims pulled into another world.
Chino is Chino, just a novelist.
I never imagined how many ups and downs there would be in a peaceful life. The question I think about most every day is what to eat for my next meal.
The girl who changed the trajectory of his life appeared and disappeared. Qianye naturally had no way to forget it, or perhaps to ignore it...
From a certain perspective.
Anyu and Youjian are really similar.
That kind of likeness is not just about appearance, but a special impression given to people.
So since the kidnapping incident, Qianye has subconsciously avoided this girl, but at the same time, she doesn't want to delete her contact information, giving herself a bad reason to hesitate, and she keeps hesitating about things that don't make sense...
.
just now.
An Yu's confession really made Qianye's emotions ripple, and it also deepened this special emotion.
He knows that in the horror world, he cannot have the conscience of the normal world, and he knows that it is very dangerous to be controlled by emotions here.
The rational approach is to ignore Anyu and let it fend for itself.
The more rational approach is to get rid of the other person first in order to prevent yourself from being plotted by similar people when you discover that the other person has talent.
Just like Chen Lan's choice at that time...
However, Qianye couldn't control this kind of rationality that he knew clearly.
A fatal wait, to put it bluntly, An Yu's life was in his hands at this moment.
Life or death depends on whether he is willing to help.
"If I'm not wrong, what ability do you have to be able to save her, right?" Liu Qinshan suddenly turned his head and asked Qianye.
Qianye didn't react for a moment, and looked at Liu Qinshan with a bit of confusion on his face.
"Moreover, this ability also comes with limitations. It is very likely that after you save her, you will be in danger. I wonder if I am right?"
Liu Qinshan persisted and continued.
"It would be great if I really had the ability you mentioned. I just..." Qianye replied pretending not to know.
But before he could finish speaking, Liu Qinshan interrupted.
"Okay, stop pretending. I've never seen this kind of person. With your acting skills, you can only deceive those simple people." The old man said indifferently, as if he had seen through something.
Perhaps seeing that Qianye wanted to continue pretending, he added: "You know that your ability is not as good as mine, but you are not afraid to challenge me... People are afraid of death.
No idiot would face someone he can't win."
"So I deduced that you must have other secrets and methods, and that method gave you enough confidence to make you feel that you could not die here."
"I..." Qianye was ready to find an excuse to explain.
But after Liu Qinshan finished speaking, the old ginger just patted him on the shoulder and comforted him in a relaxed tone: "Don't worry, I'm not interested in your ability, I just mentioned it casually."
The atmosphere was somewhat silent.
Qianye knew that no matter how much he explained, it would be useless.
He is worthy of being a man who has lived for two hundred years. For Old Man Liu, these two centuries were not simply a matter of pretending to live his life.
The other party has obviously seen the trump card he has, but he still doesn’t know the specific function of this trump card...
The conversation between the two paused for a while.
After a while, Old Man Liu spoke to break the deadlock.
"Want to know my past story?" he said.
Qianye couldn't comment. He had basically finished what he wanted to ask. There was nothing wrong with chatting casually, so he nodded lightly.
"At that time, this village was not what it is now. When I was young..."
Liu Qinshan spoke eloquently.
Looking at the setting sun in the distance gradually approaching the Western Mountain, he seemed to be remembering something from a long, long time ago.
It was a lonely experience.
A unique experience about the village guardian...
From the beginning of studying Taoism to the first encounter with the so-called evil things.
Liu Qinshan spoke in great detail, seeming to regard Qianye as the target of his confession. He dug up all the stories that had been buried in his heart over the years and put them on display in the open.
Qianye also listened very carefully.
Back room, two people.
Just waiting for the night to come, we talked about the past experiences of a two-hundred-year-old man...
Until, darkness falls.
...
By the time Qianye and Liu Qinshan returned to the house, the villagers' simple tents had also been set up.
They spoke without a word, as if they had moved to Mr. Liu's house, which gave them a great sense of security.
The sky is dark.
Qianye just sat on the steps at the door, lost in thought about other things...
And I don’t know when, the crowd suddenly let out an exclamation, which brought Qianye back from his thoughts.
"Huh? Where did the old lady from the third family go?"
"Don't you know! I saw her here not long ago!"
"I do remember that half an hour ago, she seemed to be turning outside to go out!"
"Aren't you kidding?"
"Why would I joke about this...I didn't pay much attention at the time. I just thought she might have gone to the toilet, or I was wrong."
"Village chief? What should we do?"
"Go and tell Mr. Liu that someone is missing..."
A little panic radiated from the crowd.
The old lady that everyone calls her is undoubtedly the grandmother of Qianye's role in this world.
After hearing this.
Qianye stood up and glanced around, and sure enough he didn't see any trace of the old lady...
He clearly remembered that the old lady was in a trance at noon. She was sitting at the door with half a bowl of cold porridge in her mouth, taking small bites of it. She ignored anyone who said hello to her.
The accident that happened to An Yu made the old lady emotionally collapsed.
In addition, the other party's hands and feet are not very sharp due to the illness. Where can he go this late at night?
Qianye was going to ask Liu Qinshan, maybe he knew where the old lady was.
But when he turned around, he found that Liu Qinshan had just come out of the inner room...
"Mr. Liu, my grandma..."
"She went to town!" Liu Qinshan's face was very gloomy, and he looked into the distance without knowing what he was thinking.
He frowned and said with a very ugly expression: "What is such an old lady doing there with a cane? She just slipped away under the eyes of everyone without paying attention."
"Does she want to die..."
Gone to town?
Qianye didn't know why.
He and Liu Qinshan turned their attention to the road to the town, feeling extremely confused.
An old lady who now needs a crutch even to walk...
Why did an old lady who usually obeyed Liu Qinshan absolutely choose to go to town at this time?
It's impossible for her not to know what's going on in the village now.
It is impossible not to understand that running around now is not much different from dying...
After all, at this moment, no one would go to rescue because of her, including Liu Qinshan.
There are dangers out there, and no one would be willing to risk their lives for an old lady who is old and frail.
Qianye doesn't understand.
It's impossible to guess.
He had no choice but to use his weird vision ability to extend towards the gravel road, trying to find the old lady's figure and see clearly what the other party was doing...
...
...
In the lush weeds, insects chirped constantly.
The dust and gravel on the ground were slowly blown to the side corners by the wind.
A road that should be deserted.
The rickety figure moved slowly above...
She is very old, and the wrinkles on her face have piled up together, making it difficult to distinguish her facial features.
There are no street lights on the village road, and we just rely on the moonlight above our heads to grope our way into the depths of darkness.
The crutches in her hands were moving, supporting her already weak body, and she was approaching the town step by step...
"Child, my child..."
"I...came to save you..."
She muttered words indistinctly.
His mind, which was originally in a state of confusion, seemed to focus its originally unfocused eyes on the black curtain ahead just for these few repeated words.
Despite the darkness surrounding her.
The old lady herself is a person who believes in gods and Buddhas.
She has lived most of her life, either praying to gods or Buddhas, or on the way to pray...
After eating every day.
She would always kneel down in front of the imitation portrait of gods in the kitchen, burn a few sticks of incense, close her eyes, and just pray for the safety of her family and the health of her children.
I have lived in this small village my whole life.
I married a fairly honest husband and gave birth to a fat baby. I originally thought that life would go on smoothly like this.
Unfortunately, just a few years later, her husband died of illness...
Only a thin and short self was left, dragging the not-so-big child with her, surviving step by step.
Doing some physical work that was originally done by men, and doing some housework that women do more beautifully.
One person breaks it in half, just hoping to give his children a more stable living environment...
time flies.
It went by very slowly again.
During the countless sufferings, no one could comfort her, and she could only hide in the quilt alone at night and shed tears. She finally got through it.
When children grow up, they can also share some things with the family.
I found a daughter-in-law, and through hard work and ability, I gradually put my broken family back together...
I have two grandchildren and am slowly entering old age.
Her youthful and beautiful appearance is gone and she has become a wrinkled old lady.
The little girl who loved to tie braids eventually became a grandma figure...
Her whole life has passed like this. Although it seems very regretful and pitiful, she does not feel any regrets. If she could do it again, she would do the same thing again.
At least, it's for the sake of my own children.
For my grandson...
Good times never seem to last long, and bad luck comes one after another.
First, the daughter-in-law left, leaving only the children and two grandchildren at home.
Next, my son was injured at the construction site. I was finally able to go home and see him, but what I got was the sad news that my son was infected with a curse and had to be buried and disappear from my life forever.
Grief comes one after another...
The granddaughter's eyes were gouged out by evil spirits, and she is about to follow the same path as her son.
The home that was finally restored was completely ruined by those evil spirits.
I have been kneeling down to worship gods and Buddhas for most of my life.
But the gods and Buddhas didn't give her anything.
Even if it's a little bit of comfort...
Stepping on the village road in the dark, she had only one purpose in her confused mind.
"Children...wait for me..."
"Mom is here to save you."
"Xiaoyu, don't be afraid, grandma will help you find your eyes..."
The night wind howled beside me.
The old lady was old and had bad ears. Maybe she didn't hear these strange sounds and just walked forward.
She held her cane tremblingly and walked closer to the town step by step.
She didn't know where her granddaughter's eyes were, but she knew through the conversation she heard in a trance last night that her granddaughter's eyes were taken away by evil spirits.
Evil spirit.
Evil...
The town is full of evil spirits.
She clearly remembered what Mr. Liu had said that everything was available in the town now, and she only held on to the slightest bit of luck, hoping to find her granddaughter's eyes there.
That way, my granddaughter can survive without dying...
"Xiaoyu, wait for grandma."
"quickly......"
"do not be afraid."
Groping forward in the dark.
In fact, her eyesight has been greatly reduced, and she cannot see most things clearly. She has no choice but to follow this path that she has walked in her memory for a lifetime and move closer habitually.
No one can help her.
Qianye can't do it, and Mr. Liu can't do it.
Neither can the gods and Buddhas she has been worshiping and worshiping...
Not long.
It was like arriving at a village intersection.
There's something more in my sight...
A dense crowd of figures stood in front, blocking the old lady's way.
Those guys turned their bodies around slowly, dragging their badly damaged, terrifying and frightening bodies, and stood in front of the old lady.
They didn't take any action immediately, as if they were wondering why they could still see someone walking this way...
The old lady finally stopped.
She breathed heavily, her eyes swept over these blurry figures, and her hand holding the cane secretly exerted strength.
“You little bastards, give my granddaughter’s eyes back!”
With the last bit of strength in her heart and saliva in her mouth, the old lady cursed unceremoniously at the shadows blocking her.
Subsequently,
She raised her cane.
The weak body began to trot, and without any discussion, a cane hit one of the figures...
Boom.
It was a small muffled sound.
The old lady had no strength left, and just making striking movements seemed to hollow out her body.
"You little bastards... give me my granddaughter's eyes..."
Before she finished speaking, a bloody palm penetrated her chest and poked out from her back.
On linen clothes of poor quality.
It's all spilled red blood...
In the dark night, the gushing blood was particularly bright.
Just like the crutches that the old lady raised again to the dense crowd of figures in front of her, there were endless curse words in her mouth, and she kept insisting...