The owner of the village said, "Our villa has not been peaceful recently. For some unknown reason, people frequently die suddenly. There is no cause or external injury. They all fall asleep and never wake up again."
After saying that, the owner of the village asked the crowd to make way. He pointed to the deceased in the main room and said, "His name is Chen Mo. He was missing the night before yesterday. He is already the seventh person to die in our Villa. Fairy Girl,
Mr. Liu, do you want to go over and see the body?"
Yuchen nodded.
When we walked to the main room, Hu Jinyue said unhappily, "Why do you only ask them and not me? I also have a name. I am the Fox Fairy. You can just call me Mr. Hu!"
People here are also very considerate of Hu Jinyue. When they heard what he said, some people immediately called him Mr. Hu.
Hu Jinyue raised her chin happily, came over, bumped me with her arm, and whispered to me that he liked it here.
I glanced at him sideways and ignored him.
Go inside.
The middle-aged woman and the young man and woman kneeling opposite both stood up.
We greeted the middle-aged woman, then walked to the coffin and looked down at it.
I saw a man in his fifties lying in the coffin. The man was wearing a shroud and had a peaceful expression. Except for his unattractive face, the man looked almost asleep.
When a sick person dies, his face will definitely look haggard, but this man did not suffer at all. As the owner said, this man did not experience any pain before his death.
Yuchen stood next to the coffin, holding the coffin with his hand, leaning in slightly. He lightly smelled the smell in the coffin, then straightened up and asked the owner, "How long was the interval between the sudden deaths of these seven people?"
The owner of the village shook his head, "There is no pattern. The first death was half a month ago. The first death and the second death were two days apart. After that, nothing happened for a week, and then suddenly two people died at once one day.
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Yuchen thought for a moment and then asked, "Did anything strange happen in the villa before the death of the first deceased? For example, someone came to the villa, or where did the deceased go and what did he bring back?"
The owner of the village shook his head, "Mr. Liu, this is the devil world, and we are human beings. Although we know Yin and Yang magic, we are still very careful when living here. So in the past hundred years, Mr. Liu, you three are the number one
The first batch of outsiders entering our villa. Also, we don’t go out on weekdays. We grow vegetables, raise chickens and ducks in the back mountain, and we can basically be self-sufficient. Occasionally we go out to hunt, which is also a collective action. In order not to cause trouble, we except
The prey never comes back with anything else."
If they don’t go out and have no contact with outsiders, then why do these people suddenly die suddenly?
I thought for a moment and said suspiciously, "It can't be that they have some disease, right?"
Hearing my question, the owner of the village immediately shook his head and said, "Xiao Xiangu, we have a witch doctor. There is no plague in our villa, and the seven deceased are all in good health."
I frowned.
Hu Jinyue said strangely, "There has been no change in their lives. They haven't gotten sick yet, so why did they die suddenly?"
The owner of the village did not speak.
The people standing in the courtyard also became quiet, with worried expressions on their faces.
No wonder I felt that they were worried when I first met them. It turned out that they were worried that they would die inexplicably at some point.
When I was thinking about something, I suddenly felt a gaze falling on me, cold and hostile. People here are very naive, and even if they didn't like me, an outsider, they wouldn't show such a gaze.
My heart skipped a beat and I quickly followed my gaze.
No one was staring at me, they all frowned and looked worried.
Was I overthinking just now?
Seeing me staring at the crowd, Hu Jinyue asked me, "Brother Ma, what are you looking for?"
I shook my head and said, "It's okay, I was just blinded."
There were no clues here, so Yuchen asked if he could go to the room where the seven deceased people lived to have a look.
Everyone in the villa is in danger now. The owner of the villa hopes that we will solve the problem immediately, so he will naturally not refuse.
The owner of the village took us away from the yard where the funeral was held and went to their residence.
When we walked back to the back house, the girl named Xing'er also came out with us. She followed me and gently hooked my fingers with her hand.
I turned back to look at her strangely.
She made a silent gesture towards me, then pointed to the side, gesturing for me to follow her.
I glanced at Yuchen who was walking in front, slowly slowed down my pace, and walked to the side path with Xing'er while the few people walking in front weren't paying attention.
Xing'er led me through the gravel path and came to a corner. She poked her head out and carefully looked at the owner of the village. She saw that they had gone far away and had not noticed us. She took a long breath and lowered her voice, mysteriously.
He said to me in an awkward tone, "Sister Xiangu, my father just lied."
Abba?
I said, "The owner of the village is your father?"
Xing'er nodded, her big bright eyes like the sky washed by rain, looking extremely clean and thorough. She said, "Sister Xiangu, these seven people all went to the same place before they died."
I quickly asked, "Where have you been?"
"I've been to my clan's forbidden areas."
Xing'er said that these people have been living here for hundreds of years, and some of them are tired of this captive life and want to return to the world of the sun.
"Back then, our ancestors came to the demon world to avoid their enemies. But hundreds of years have passed, and these people think that their enemies have been dead for generations, and it will be safe for them to return to the human world now." Xing'er said, "Uncle Li.
, that is, the deceased that Sister Xiangu saw just now, he and the other six people all advocate returning to the Yang world."
There is a forbidden area in this villa, and it is said that the treasures brought by the ancestors are stored in it, and the ancestors have left a legacy that if the clan members return to the Yang world, they must take the treasures back with them.
The owner of the village does not agree to return to the Yang world, so naturally he will not hand over the treasure in the forbidden area.
"My father didn't hand over the treasure, so Uncle Li and the others wanted to steal it." Xing'er said, "Actually, it wasn't just Uncle Li and the other seven who went there, I also followed them secretly."
Speaking of this, Xing'er's eyes turned red and tears rolled down her cheeks, "Sister Xiangu, am I going to die soon? I don't dare to tell my father about stealing the forbidden land. These days,
They died one after another, and I was scared to death. Am I next?"
I quickly comforted her, don't be afraid, we are here and we will solve the problem.
After she calmed down, I asked again, "Miss Xing'er, can you tell me what's in the forbidden area?"
Xing'er wiped her tears and said to me with choked sobs, "There is no treasure inside at all, there is a big snake locked inside!"