"What do you mean?" The fool walked towards the door, "Isn't it closed now?"
Baomu hurriedly hid behind the fool, "You were all focused on the stove just now. At the end, I heard the door suddenly creaking. When I turned around, I found that the door was open a crack. I seemed to see... one..."
The coldness of the night came quietly, and the light of the flashlight was too weak for this dark night. Baomu's pause made several people tremble.
"What did you see?"
"I saw... I saw a person," Baomu hesitated, "No, to be precise, I saw a pair of eyes."
The strong sense of being peeped from behind made Xiaolan turn her head quickly and shine the flashlight into the distance, but only saw empty darkness.
Baomu continued, "When I shouted out, the door closed immediately."
The Taoist priest stood up and put the ring that the fool found into his breast pocket and asked, "Whose eyes are human?"
"Taoist priest, don't be scary," Xiaoyin hugged her shoulders tightly, "It's not human or something, is it possible that this is also a 'realm'?"
"I mean, it's not the eyes of some other animal. Are you sure it's the eyes of humans?"
"It looks like..." Baomu nodded, "It's about the same height as me. I think it should be a person."
"Let's go out and take a look."
The Taoist priest did not flinch, and walked directly to the door and pulled the handle on one side. Xiaolan quickly followed and looked around to check.
The main hall was still dark. From the back door, you could see the back of the Guanyin statue. The light swept around the main hall, and there was no sign of anyone moving.
"If it's really a human being, there's nothing to be afraid of." The little fool clenched his fists and unclenched his fists. "I guess the peeping person has already escaped from the front door. Should we chase him?"
The Taoist priest shook his head, "We won't chase, we will leave."
"Let's go? Where are we going?" The little fool didn't understand what the Taoist meant.
The Taoist priest turned to look at him, "We have to leave."
"Huh? Now?"
"Now."
The Taoist priest closed the back door of the hall again and led everyone towards the edge of the ancestral hall.
"Everyone, be gentler and dim the flashlight."
"Why are we leaving?" The fool asked softly. This was also the question in Xiaolan's mind.
"You still don't understand, you are such a fool," Xiaoyin complained, "We are being targeted by the villagers. The corpse cremator and the bloody man must be the secrets of Lianshui Village. If the secret is discovered, they will not
Let us go easily."
"Tonight we will go back to the tent to sort out the clues, and then we will consider entering the village during the day tomorrow." The Taoist leader led everyone back to the main road and looked back to take pictures. No suspicious figure was seen. "It is safer during the day. We haven't
Knowing the people of Lianshui Village, I don’t know what… they will do at night.”
"Eh?" Pineapple, who hadn't spoken for a long time, suddenly stood on the same spot and glanced at a big stone next to the ancestral hall with his flashlight.
"What's wrong, pineapple?" asked the Taoist priest.
"There seems to be a talisman stuck on that stone." Pineapple said and walked over. The stone was not far away from her, only a few steps away. "It's the same. It's the same as the talisman found by the Xue family."
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Maple Sugar stayed with his girlfriend, glanced at the talisman paper, squatted down and looked at the bottom of the stone.
"Sure enough," Maple Sugar looked up at his friends who had come over, "there is also a well underneath this rock."
Well again?
"It seems that there is a problem not with Xue's well, but with the well in the village." The Taoist priest walked around the stone without bothering the little fool to move the stone.
"Aren't you going to take away the talisman?" Xiaoyin asked.
"I won't take it anymore," the Taoist priest shook his head and waved, gesturing for everyone to follow him and leave. "Don't go too far. I vaguely feel that this ancestral hall may be the bottom line of the villagers. The biggest secret of the villagers is hidden here."
Xiaolan also felt this way. Although she didn't witness it with her own eyes, the stranger's peeping made her feel uneasy, and an ominous premonition surged in her heart like a tide.
Every time he walked for a while, the Taoist leader would look back to check the situation behind him. There was no one else on the spacious road except them, and the buildings next to him were also shrouded in darkness without a trace of light.
At the end of the road, the Taoist leader confirmed for the last time that no one was following him, and led a few people into the forest, following the route in his memory, towards the temporary tent.
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My dear sister, Xiaozhi:
I don’t know whether this letter was sent to you first, or whether I escaped home first. No matter which case happens, it means that I will be saved.
Sister, what I am going to say next is not only all my experiences in the past three years, but also evidence of crimes committed in Lianshui Village. Regardless of whether I can return to you or not, I must keep this letter. This chapter has been completed!