Da Guo followed the woman into the house, Chen Zhi, Pang Wei and Lao Jiudou also followed. The space in the house was limited, and the team of more than 100 people behind him stayed in the yard, while Ji Ying kept following
I have never left Chen Zhi's side.
The yards of people in the mountains are basically very spacious. Because the land here is occupied freely, the yard can be as large as you want, but the area of the earthen house is not large. After entering the house, they found that the light inside the house was very dim.
The windows were all boarded up with wooden boards, leaving no gaps at all. They were illuminated only by an oil lamp.
This is a common village house structure. The inner room is connected to the suite of the outer room. There is an earthen stove for making fire in the outer room, with firewood piled next to it. The inner room is a bedroom, with the door ajar and on the door.
There is a floral curtain hanging, and strings of garlic hanging next to the stove. Although the furnishings in the whole room are simple, they are still neat.
The second sister-in-law dragged her two children into the house, and then sent Lu Wazi inside to play with the two children.
Then he came out and poured hot water for everyone and said,
"Brother Da Guo, you haven't been here for a while. These brothers are all your helpers, right? Our village can be saved this time..."
The second sister-in-law kept chattering and quickly served everyone a large bowl of hot water, added brown sugar to it, and served it steamingly to everyone's hands.
The customs in the mountains are different from those in the city. Brown sugar here is a rare commodity, and a large bowl of brown sugar water is a very particular gift for welcoming guests.
"No need to be busy, second sister-in-law, please sit down first and we'll ask you something."
Da Guo politely took the brown sugar water from his second sister-in-law's hand and asked with a smile,
"Second Aunt, I haven't been here for a while. Why has the village changed so much? What happened? When I entered the village just now, why couldn't I see a single person? Where have the villagers gone?"
"Ouch! You don't know, something big has happened in our village! We have all been living in darkness these days. I and my two children were in fear all day long, thinking that we would never get over this hurdle again.
Wow. Woo hoo~~~~~~~~~~~"
After the second sister-in-law finished speaking, she actually started to cry. The women in this mountain area were not well-educated to begin with, and their words were confused and unclear. Coupled with the whimpering and sobbing, it became even more difficult to express.
Everyone listened to the second sister-in-law's incoherent words while crying, and they probably understood what was going on.
This woman, whom Daguo calls his second sister-in-law, is a widow. After her husband went hunting in the mountains a few years ago, she lived alone in the village with her two children. Because there was no labor for her husband, she
He had no choice but to make a living by going up to the mountains to collect delicacies and sell them for money.
Da Guo often came to the mountains to collect mountain goods. Unfortunately, it was not easy for his daughter to raise two children, so he often collected mountain goods from his second sister-in-law at very high prices. The relationship between the two of them had always been good.
This village is originally a quiet and remote village in the mountains. Nothing new has ever happened. However, there are many wild beasts in the mountains, and attacks on people often occur, even if there are big beasts such as bears.
It's not news that people come to the village to hurt people.
But about a month ago, this village started to become strange.
At that time, many people found that the prey in the surrounding mountains was becoming more and more difficult to hunt. Not only were there no large beasts, not even small prey, but the villagers often saw some in the mountains when hunting.
The remains of animal carcasses attracted people's attention.
As a result, the men in the mountains began to suspect that there were large beasts hunting animals in the surrounding mountains, which was why so many animal carcasses were left behind.
But they soon discovered something was wrong, because generally wild beasts kill animals for meat, but the meat of these animal carcasses was not eaten, but the stomachs were opened and the internal organs were eaten away. This was not like
The behavior of ordinary beasts.
Gradually, the villagers discovered that the predator seemed to have lost interest in the internal organs of animals. After many animals were killed, the internal organs were discarded everywhere, and the entire mountain became bloody and terrifying.
At this time, experienced hunters discovered that the marks left around the carcasses of these animals were very abnormal. Generally, when large beasts hunt, they always chase and then bite them, leaving obvious marks around them. But these animals
The surroundings of the corpses were very clean. These animals had their throats torn out and died without much struggle. The hunting techniques were very neat, and it felt like humans were hunting.
The villagers are a group of simple and dull mountain people. Their thinking is very simple and they are not too sensitive to these phenomena. However, some sensitive people feel that these phenomena must be taken seriously, including Lu Wazi's father Lu Da.
able.
Lu Daneng is usually a high-profile person. He is the best hunter in the village and he is strong. He often leads the hunters in the village to round up big prey in the mountains and makes a lot of money.
, very prestigious among the villagers.
When he discovered these strange animal carcasses, he immediately became alert. With his many years of hunting experience, he believed that there must be a problem in the surrounding area.
Lu Daneng warned the villagers to be careful, saying that this hunter was by no means an ordinary beast, and that it was no longer satisfied with the animals on the mountain, and would probably attack the villagers next.
But the villagers at the time didn't pay much attention to Lu Daneng's warning. They felt that what Lu Daneng said was a bit exaggerated, but facts soon proved that Lu Daneng was right.
One night, a villager who returned home late was attacked at the edge of the village. When people found his body, they found that his blood was bleeding all over the floor, his stomach had been cut open, and all his internal organs had been eaten.
Seeing this tragic and terrifying scene, the villagers became frightened and gathered together to study countermeasures.
Lu Daneng thought at that time that this hunter was probably a man-eating demon, and this demon was lurking around the village, or even lurking inside the village. The current situation could no longer wait, and he must go to the town.
Ask the Tang family for help, and then go to the police.
The villagers were all mountain people with little education, and Lu Daneng had to make the decision on everything. So they decided to let Lu Daneng take a few people over the mountains to the town the next day to bring reinforcements and come to the village to catch the demons that cannibalize people.
But something terrible happened that night.
Just the night before Lu Daneng was going to town, Lu Daneng's family was attacked. At that time, both Lu Daneng and his wife were disemboweled and all their internal organs were eaten. At that time, the elder of the Lu family was
The son Luwa was not at home, and the younger son, who was just ten years old, escaped because he was in the backyard.
Seeing the bloody reality in front of them, all the villagers panicked. They immediately began to take precautions in the village, but from that day on, the situation was out of control.
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