Captain Li seemed unwilling to mention this topic. There were footsteps on the other side of the phone. He walked to a deserted place and then spoke: "That kid has a misunderstanding about death."
"Children's world view has not yet been formed. Perhaps in their eyes, death has just gone far away. I can understand this." Ever since Chen Ge saw Men Nan's personality, even the strangest children seemed normal to him.
"It would be great if this was true. After the child was rescued, he didn't say a word for three whole days. He didn't cry or make trouble. He was so well-behaved that it was scary." Captain Li fell into memories.
"It wasn't until the evening of the fourth day that a policewoman found her huddled in the corner of the bed staring at the spider on the bedside. He thought she was afraid of spiders, so he crushed the spider to death. As a result, the little girl suddenly started crying.
Said the policewoman killed her sister."
"This was the first time the girl spoke, and that's when we realized something was wrong with her."
"A child does not feel sad because of the death of her parents, but instead cries because of the death of a spider. What kind of world does she know?"
"We tried to explain the meaning of the word death to her, and found that in her mind, death is not the end of a person. The girl told us seriously that people will become other things after death. This statement is somewhat similar to reincarnation.
Reincarnation.”
"Because he is not afraid of death, we often hear cruel words from this child."
"A lovely child who looks as pure as an angel talks about death in an innocent voice. So is she an angel? Or a devil?"
"After further investigation, we discovered more details."
"The original report was made by a passing villager. Based on the autopsy report, it can be roughly inferred that the girl stayed with her dead parents for at least two days." Captain Li's voice became even lower: "The psychology of a four- or five-year-old child
She is almost independent and can think for herself and do many things, but she didn’t call the police or ask an adult for help for two whole days. Don’t you think this is strange?”
"Could it be that her parents never taught her this aspect?" Chen Ge's mind flashed with Jiangling's pitiful look, and he also vaguely felt that something was not right.
"Only the fingerprints of the girl and her parents were found in the house. The poisoning method was so inferior that it is unimaginable, but it was successful. There are many similar doubts. In short, this case is not as simple as you think."
Someone called Captain Li's name on the phone, as if he had something to ask him, and Captain Li casually agreed.
"Chen Ge, I have something urgent now and I have to rush over. I know I may not be able to persuade you, so I can only remind you to be careful about that child and don't go to that village at night."
"Can't enter the village at night?"
"Look at the map. Don't you think it's strange that there is only one village within a few miles? When we were checking other villages and towns, an old man told us that Linguan Village had a plague a long time ago and many people died."
Someone on the other end of the phone was urging Captain Li. After a few words of haste, Captain Li hung up the phone, leaving Chen Ge standing alone in the dark and dilapidated village.
There was a beeping busy tone in his ears, and Chen Ge silently put away his phone: "He said it a long time ago, how many years ago was it?"
Scanning the dark Linguan Village, Chen Ge looked at the square and dilapidated houses, feeling like there were rows of unclosed coffins.
"Linguan Village, if the word "lin" is taken apart, wouldn't it become a wooden coffin village?"
He exited the village and stopped beside the cement road.
Let alone the middle of the night, he couldn't get a taxi here even during the day. He couldn't go back to the city now.
"Jiang Ling said her father's peach grove is in the west of the village. Let's go there first and have a look."
Chen Ge turned on the flashlight and walked along the winding mountain road towards the west of Linguan Village.
The road became narrower and narrower as they crossed the mountain. When Chen Ge was about to give up, he suddenly saw a faint light in front of him.
"Is there anyone?"
The light was moving toward the other side of the mountain, slowly moving away, and the other party didn't seem to see him.
Chen Ge pulled the hammer handle outward again, stuffed Xiaoxiao into his pocket, and then continued to move forward.
The mountain road was rugged, and he did not dare to run too fast. After chasing for about ten minutes, the light in front of him slowly disappeared.
"It's not a will-o'-the-wisp, is it?"
The mountains were particularly scary late at night, and there was no one around. Chen Ge thought of some stories he had heard when he was a child, such as ghosts leading the way, wolves holding lanterns, mandrills, etc.
"Calm down, don't panic." He patted his face gently, wrapped his coat tightly, and ran towards the place where the light disappeared.
After climbing over the second hill, the scene in front of us changed. There was a peach grove planted in the gap of the mountain.
Due to neglect, the peach grove is full of weeds, and many peach trees grow crookedly. From a distance, they look like living people staggering around.
And the missing lamp appeared again, in the peach forest.
"This should be the Taolin contracted by Jiangling's father." After finding the place, Chen Ge did not feel happy. Instead, he became highly nervous because of the appearance of the lamp.
"Everyone nearby knows that there has been a murder in Taolin. Why do people come here with lights at night?" He became more careful and turned off the flashlight. Because of the existence of the dark pupils, he could see things in the dark better than ordinary people.
Much clearer.
As I slowly walked into the peach forest, I could hear the sound of a hoe digging into the soil.
"What is he doing?"
After Chen Ge got closer, he finally saw the other person clearly.
There is a lamp and a water bottle hanging on the peach branch, and next to it is an old man in his sixties or seventies.
He swung his hoe and dug up every inch of the peach forest, as if he was looking for something.
The old man's behavior was very strange. Chen Ge was not in a hurry to show up, but followed quietly and observed carefully.
Although this old man has gray hair, he has a strong body. Perhaps because he often does farm work, the palms of his hands are full of calluses.
He was wearing white washed clothes and had a sullen face, as if he had rarely smiled in his life.
"A very ordinary old man."
No matter which way you look at it, this is an old man who farms, but it is just such a man who went to the scene of a murder late at night to hoe the fields.
Chen Ge followed the old man for nearly twenty minutes and still found nothing. He calculated the time and decided to be more direct.
He was afraid that his sudden appearance would frighten the old man into falling ill, so he stepped back more than ten meters, turned on the flashlight, and shouted into the peach forest: "Is there anyone there? How are we going to get out of this mountain?"
More than ten meters away, the old man was still frightened when he heard Chen Ge's voice, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead instantly.