In order to confirm my feeling, I randomly picked a stilted building on the roadside and got in quietly.
Holding a gun in one hand and a flashlight in the other, I carefully entered the room that should be the bedroom of this house. I shined the flashlight on the bed in the bedroom, and I saw that a set of quilts had been laid out on the bed, but under the quilt , but there was no trace of anyone.
Seeing this, I approached the bed and took a careful look at it with a flashlight. There were obvious signs that someone had slept here before, but the person lying on the bed now seemed to have gotten out of bed and left because of something. Got here.
I searched around again, and found the same situation in the other bedrooms in this stilted building, as well as in rooms similar to bedrooms. There are three bedrooms in this stilted building, and the beds in each bedroom are covered with quilts and pillows. , but the people sleeping on the bed seemed to have left their rooms for some reason and their whereabouts were unknown.
After almost searching here, I broke into a stilted building next door and found that the situation was the same. The owner of the stilted building seemed to have gotten up and left his house while sleeping in the middle of the night.
After searching several houses in a row, I have completely understood the fact that the residents of the entire village, regardless of gender, old or young, all suddenly left their homes because of something while sleeping in the middle of the night.
Looking at the village that looked like it had turned into an uninhabited village from the outside, I felt a little at a loss and couldn't figure out what was going on in front of me.
It may not have been twenty-four hours since I escaped from the village yesterday, but in such a short period of time, what happened to this village? It was a terrible thing that would make the people in this village panic in the middle of the night. When do you suddenly leave your warm bed, leave your own house, and disappear into the night?
Could it be that...I subconsciously thought of a guess, that is, the villagers in this village gave up overnight because they learned about my escape from the police station chief in the town and felt that their crimes were about to be exposed. Escaped from the village?
Although this guess sounds absurd, it is the most likely explanation for the current situation.
Thinking of this, I immediately quickened my pace and arrived outside Widow Liu's farmhouse. Widow Liu's house was different from the houses of other villagers. In addition to Widow Liu's family, there were also many foreign tourists living here. If I had just If his guess is correct, then the tourists staying here should still be in their guest rooms. Because the villagers who fled in fear of crime would not be able to take away the tourists in the village with them.
But when I came to the guest room of the farmhouse, I found that the guest rooms here were already empty. This emptiness did not mean that there were no tourists in the farmhouse. In fact, I found a few in several rooms on the third floor. The backpacks of foreign tourists, as well as their changes of clothes. I recognize these clothes. They were the clothes of the three college students who took drugs with us that night. It seems that I escaped in an accident yesterday morning. At that time, the three college students had not left the village. However, now these three college students have disappeared like the villagers!
Could it be that my previous idea was wrong? Those villagers did not leave the village because of fear of crime, but something happened in the village that caused the entire village to leave overnight?
Suddenly, my thoughts were in a mess and I couldn't figure out a clue.
This situation is really strange. In order to find the whereabouts of Lin Qianyi, I was mentally prepared to ask the people in the village who were the missing women here, even if they were forced by force.
Whereabouts, but now let alone the missing women, now the entire village is also missing.
In the past, no matter what strange events I encountered, even if I was in a cloud of smoke at the beginning and had no clue at all, I would always move towards the light step by step and slowly figure out one clue after another.
, gradually revealing the mystery until the truth is revealed.
But this time, the mystery of the whole incident has become more and more confusing, confusing, and clueless from the beginning. It is simply a mess! At present, I can only confirm that this disappearance case is related to the people in this village.
In addition, we have no idea why the people in the village kidnap others, why they only target women and ignore men, and why all the people in the village are missing at this moment!
In the chaotic thoughts, I left the farmhouse like a headless fly and searched aimlessly in the deserted village. In despair, I even threw away the idea of hiding myself.
I shouted loudly on the streets, hoping that a living person would respond to me. However, this village seemed to have completely turned into an uninhabited village. In response to my calls, only unknown beasts in the surrounding woods responded to my calls through their calls.
I.
I kept walking forward like this, completely unaware of where I was. When I suddenly smelled a fragrance, I realized that I had arrived in front of the ancestral hall in the village. The fragrance I just smelled
, it was coming from the ancestral hall.
This fragrance seems to be emitted by the bamboo sticks used for worship.
Thinking of this, I immediately rushed into the ancestral hall. In front of the tablets of the villagers' ancestors in the ancestral hall, I found several incense candles that had not yet been burned out. This discovery made me very excited.
This is because generally the bamboo stick incense in temples does not last too long. In martial arts novels, the time of "one stick of incense" is often mentioned, which means the time it takes to burn one stick of incense, and most of this time
They all refer to more than forty minutes.
Therefore, the unfinished burning of the incense in front of me means that at least forty minutes ago, someone came to this ancestral hall!
Who could have lit these incense? Where are they now?
I looked around, and just about to search the ancestral hall, I suddenly heard a slight "whirring" sound of wind.
"Huh?"
I was suddenly a little strange. Because incense and candles are burned all year round, there are no windows in the ancestral hall. So where did this wind come from?
I took a flashlight and looked around, but I couldn't find the source of the wind noise, but through the light of the flashlight, I noticed something suspicious!
By the light of the flashlight, I noticed that on the incense table in the ancestral hall, the smoke from the burning bamboo stick incense actually made a circle in front of the incense table and went directly into the crack in the wall next to the incense table!
Under the light of the flashlight, the smoke from the burning incense was vague, so when I saw this scene for the first time, my first reaction was that I was dazzled. When I got closer and took a closer look, I realized
I'm sure I read it correctly.
"The smoke was actually sucked in by the wall?"
I stared blankly at the wall in front of me, and suddenly I noticed something was wrong. I pricked up my ears and moved closer to the place where the smoke penetrated into the cracks in the wall. As a result, I discovered that it was the wind sound I just heard.
, it actually came from behind the wall!
What's going on? I reached out my hand and touched the brick wall in surprise, wanting to feel what was going on with the wall, but when I touched it, I suddenly made a big noise.
With a sound of "Boom!", a tiny crack suddenly appeared in the brick wall in front of me, centered on the place I just touched. In the blink of an eye, the crack suddenly expanded, and the brick wall in front of me actually split into two.
, half of which moved directly to the right for more than one meter and got behind the incense table. In its original position, a passage deep into the ground was revealed that could accommodate two people walking forward side by side!
"What... what on earth is going on?" I was stunned when I saw the passage that suddenly appeared in front of me. I never thought that there would be such a sophisticated mechanism in an ancestral hall in a village!
In addition, another question also emerged in my mind, that is, what purpose did the villagers dig out such a tunnel under the ancestral hall of their ancestors? What is the purpose of this tunnel?