There was no sound in the room for a while. After Lin Laosan said those puzzling words, none of the three people in the small room spoke again.
The sound of rain hitting the window frame outside the window was like the tapping of countless fingers. The sky seemed to be darker than when they entered the house just now. The kerosene lamp in the hut became the only light here.
light source.
But the light source was so dim, and the doorway a few steps away from the kerosene lamp had already become pitch black.
When the darkness is not pure, holding a light source or getting close to it can make people feel warm, but when you turn your head and look around, the darkness becomes more intense.
Xu Guodong began to be a little worried. He was facing Lin Laosan and Leng Wazi's mother, with his back facing the door. Outside the door, the wind howled and the rain continued, as if someone was crying and gently using his fingernails.
Scratching the door panel.
That kind of voice, in such an atmosphere, makes it difficult not to think too much.
Xu Guodong even felt that if he opened the door now, he would probably see a disheveled woman kneeling at the door, scratching at the door with a pair of bloody palms. The sound was not loud, but that little bit
The sound was amplified countless times in the silence.
Under the dim yellow light, the withered and shapeless corpse on the ground was illuminated. The loose robe was worn on the corpse, making it look very empty.
The face of the corpse was covered by a piece of clothing, but the clothing was soaked by the rain.
It was a shabby blue overalls. In those days, it was possible to wear such a piece of clothing. Even if it was not enough, it was handed down from the team. It was regarded as a treasure by this lame boy and he wore it every day.
But now, the soaked blue overalls were tightly wrapped around Leng Wazi's head, like a facial mask.
Wrapped tightly around Lenwazi's head, people can see more clearly.
From Xu Guodong's perspective, the person under the clothes is pitifully thin, and his head is only the size of a palm. Unlike normal people, you can't see the nose of the person under the clothes, which is flat and flat.
Kind of like a small triangle.
The top is a round arc, then there are two slight bulges in the middle, small concave pits around it, and the bottom is a relatively sharp part.
Xu Guodong stared at Leng Wazi's corpse intently. Such a situation did not look like that of a normal person. Combined with the skinny corpse under the empty robe, Xu Guodong felt that the temperature around him seemed to be a little colder.
point.
Is there the body of a recently deceased person here or there?
This is obviously a mummy!
No matter which aspect you look at, this Lengwazi's body does not look like he has been dead for a day or two.
It seems that after death, the body was processed and all the water was allowed to dissipate, which is what it finally became.
If Xu Guodong guessed earlier that there might be some unexplainable situations in this village, something strange happened to this Lengwazi. He fell from the roof and changed from a living person to such a mummy in the blink of an eye.
appearance.
But that was his subconscious thought in the midst of extreme panic.
But now, when fear reaches a certain limit, people will slowly calm down. Continuous fear will not make people scream or panic all the time. Some people will completely calm down when fear reaches a certain level.
.
Xu Guodong is such a person.
"Previously, all the animals in the village ran outside the village. This may not necessarily mean that something strange happened. It may also be a sign of some natural disaster."
Xu Guodong stood there and did not step forward to ask Lin Laosan about the specific reasons for the incident. He now began to use a rational perspective to analyze the things he encountered.
"At that time, I was worried that the heavy rain would cause some natural disasters here, so I wanted to go find an experienced Taoist to see if there was anything I needed help with, but I saw a scene like that."
Recalling the situation at that time, Xu Guodong's face twitched unconsciously. At this time, he felt a little regretful. Since he had already walked to the door of the house, why didn't he go and see whose spiritual tablet belonged to him?
There was a memorial tablet placed in a room, and there was only one person's footprints in the room. Although the small yard changed from a neat and lively place to an extremely desolate yard the moment he turned around.
Although there is no way to explain it, it is not completely unexplainable.
"At that time, I just wanted to find an experienced Taoist and ask if there was anything I could help with. The sky was very dark and the clouds were thick. Maybe I was too anxious at the time, so I didn't notice the inside of the yard for a while.
Case."
"Now that I think about it, desolate and dilapidated does not necessarily mean that no one has lived there. Although the yard I saw before was not like this, if someone wanted to deliberately decorate it like that, it would make sense."
"The old Taoist is often not in the village. He comes and goes like the wind. He always wanders in the mountains. Maybe the old Taoist is not in Linjia Village at all now. Someone may have taken advantage of the small courtyard where he lives to take advantage of his absence.
The yard was made like that, maybe because I was looking for something, or for some other purpose."
Xu Guodong raised his head and quietly looked at Lin Laosan and the other woman. These two people gave him a strange feeling.
"This woman is Lenwazi's mother, but if a mother saw her child falling from the house with her own eyes, and she fell to death all of a sudden,
, and turned into a mummy. How could she not be afraid of such a weird thing? She just kept crying silently, and even an outsider came here and said a few words to calm her down."
"The pain of losing a child is not an ordinary emotion. With such a profound emotion, you can actually remain calm in such a scene. Although you are crying, there is less madness and despair in your eyes. It is just sad. This is so unfair.
Normal."
Looking at the corpse on the ground, and then at Leng Wazi's mother who was kneeling there, Xu Guodong felt sad from her body, but not particularly sad. It seemed that the corpse in front of her was this person.
The deceased was not her biological son, just a familiar person.
"I didn't see anything when the accident happened, I didn't see anyone falling from above, and I didn't see Lenwazi's person. The reason why I was sure that this person was Lenwazi was through the shouts of these two people and the surrounding neighbors.
Is there another situation?"
A flash of lightning flashed outside the window, and the sudden brightness gave Xu Guodong a different perspective on the matter in front of him.
"If this person is not Lengwazi at all, but another person, the husband of Lengwa's mother, or a family member who has died, or someone else, using their bones to perform such a drama, pretending to be Lengwa
The baby is dead, and then everyone in the village thinks that something weird has happened... Then what is their purpose?"
"No, if that's the case, we should shout and call everyone over, so that everyone can see this incident and the changes in Lenwazi's body, not just seeing someone coming.
No more yelling."
"Or maybe she was worried that others would discover the true situation, so she ended it in time after seeing someone coming to help?"
"In that case, her purpose is just to make people think that Lenwazi is dead. We are the witnesses she found. She wants to use us to spread the news and let others know. But why after we entered here,
But she never said a word?"
His eyes turned to Lin Laosan. At this time, Lin Laosan had his back to Xu Guodong, squatting opposite Lenwa's mother, looking down at the corpse on the ground, wondering what he was thinking.
"Could it be that the third uncle was also involved in this matter? This was originally a play between the two of them? I met it by chance, otherwise only the two of them knew about the whole thing, and then spread it through the mouth of the third uncle.
This matter is finalized, but why would he do this?"
Xu Guodong couldn't figure it out, but he felt that his own thinking was beginning to make sense. He ruled out ghosts as a cause of trouble. This thing was probably done by humans. Then the two people here besides him were suspected, but Xu Guodong wanted to break it.
I have lost my mind and can't figure out why they did such a thing...