The scene recorded by Cui Hao in his diary was reproduced in front of Li Chaiyuan at this moment.
Not in Tulou, not at night, but during the day in the wild.
This once again proves that the old woman is by no means the kind of small role that only makes a little movement and scare people in a specific narrow and gloomy environment, and her home range is very wide.
The tractor was moving very much and was moving in the direction of the village.
On the hillside, Runsheng was waiting for an order from Xiaoyuan.
Li Chaiyuan didn't speak for a long time.
In the young man's mind now, he is not worried about the safety of Xue Liangliang and Lin Shuyou, at least, this is not the first priority.
What he focused on was that if he and Runsheng on the tractor were evil, then why could Lin Shuyou sit face to face with them without noticing?
The White Crane Boy is also called the guide boy in the official general head system, and is good at insight.
According to past experience, when encountering evil spirits in reality, Lin Shuyou's vertical pupils will naturally open.
But now, no, they are even talking and laughing.
Even aside from the detection effect of the vertical pupil, Xue Liangliang was still sitting on the tractor at this time.
Last night, he had clearly informed Xue Liangliang that the situation of this mission would be complicated and there would be a strange situation.
Lin Shuyou is occasionally careless, but Xue Liangliang will not.
The evil spirit imitated himself and was still communicating, Xue Liangliang had no doubts at all?
At this moment, Li Chaiyuan himself had some doubts, were the four people sitting on the tractor all fake, and what he witnessed was just an illusion?
But when the young man looked up, he found that everything was normal in the surrounding feng shui weather, which meant that he had not stepped into the realm of illusion, nor was he in any formation.
"Brother Runsheng."
"Hmm."
"Keep up."
"Okay!"
Runsheng started running.
Fortunately, the tractor didn't drive very fast, and the road was bumpy and difficult to walk, so the speed was just like that, Runsheng was able to easily follow the tractor along the side of the hillside.
However, after getting a little closer, Lin Shuyou, who was sitting on the tractor, seemed to notice something and began to turn his head to look back.
This made Li Chaiyuan on Runsheng's back feel a little helpless, you have the kung fu to perceive the long distance, so you can't take the time to look in front of you more?
"Brother Runsheng, keep the distance away, don't get so close."
"Okay."
Runsheng pulled back a distance to make sure the tractor was still in their sight.
In this way, one relies on four wheels in the front, and the other relies on two legs on the back.
The four people on the tractor just chatted from time to time, but nothing changed.
In the end, Ran Dacheng drove the tractor into the village and stopped.
The four of them all got out of the car, and after a few simple exchanges, Xue Liangliang and Lin Shuyou continued to walk towards Tulou, while "Li Chaiyuan" was carried by "Runsheng" and marched in the other direction.
"Brother Runsheng, come on!"
"Okay."
Even after walking on the mountain road for so long, Runsheng's strength was still not exhausted, and at this time he no longer hesitated and started running quickly.
Ran Dacheng, who was turning around for the tractor, saw this scene and scratched his head in surprise.
He had just witnessed these two walking over there, why did they meet here again?
Behind the house, there was a stack of firewood, and no one was seen.
Runsheng stepped on the stack, and Li Chaseyuan was condescending on his back, looking around, but he also found nothing.
The pair of "self" and "Runsheng" seemed to disappear out of thin air.
Li Chaiyuan patted Runsheng on the shoulder, Runsheng straightened his body, and let the boy slide off him.
"Snap!"
The boy noticed the movement coming from the soles of his shoes, looked down, and found that it was a puddle of glass powder.
Squatting down, looking down carefully, I found that there were many such powders under the firewood stack.
Li Zhuiyuan noticed that there were also a lot of crystals left on the nearby firewood and on the earthen wall on this side, and their traces could be clearly captured in the sun.
Just now, there should be a large piece of glass here that was broken and fried into powder.
Merely......
Li Zhuiyuan once again grabbed a handful of fine scraps with his hands and put them in front of him and observed them carefully:
Is this really made of glass?
Unfortunately, the transportation here is inconvenient, and there is no material analysis agency in the nearby county.
Rao was like this, Li Chaiyuan still took out a plastic bag from his bag, took some scraps and put them in.
He had a hunch that this thing should be a key point.
After sampling, Li Chaiyuan and Runsheng returned to Tulou together, and at the door, they met Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng, who came back at the same time.
Lin Shuyou happened to come out with a bucket, planning to go to the well outside to fetch water.
"Brother Xiaoyuan, you got Brother Bin and the others back so quickly."
Li Chaiyuan: "Did I say I went to find them?"
Lin Shuyou was surprised: "Yes, you asked me and Brother Liang to come back and cook first, and you and Runsheng went to find Brother Bin and the others......"
Facing Li Chaiyuan's serious questioning gaze, Lin Shuyou said that he was a little unconfident.
Li Chaiyuan: "Go back to the house for a meeting."
Everyone sat around the yard, and Li Chaiyuan described the picture he had seen before.
Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng were only extremely surprised.
Xue Liangliang and Lin Shuyou stood up directly.
Lin Shuyou: "Brother Xiaoyuan, do you mean that we came back on a tractor with the two evil spirits who turned into you?"
Xue Liangliang: "What way do you have to prove that you are really Xiaoyuan?"
"Oh, yes!" Lin Shuyou immediately stood in front of Xue Liangliang, pressing down on his center of gravity, and was ready to shoot at any time.
In his cognition, what he can be sure of is that Xue Liangliang, who has been with him today, must be true.
Xue Liangliang's rhetorical question and Lin Shuyou's actions did not make Li Chaiyuan angry, but he was quite pleased with this.
Li Chaiyuan took out the plastic bag sample and threw it in front of everyone.
"I suspect that the evil spirit finally fell apart and became this."
Lin Shuyou picked up the sample bag, touched it himself, and handed it to Xue Liangliang, Xue Liangliang poured out some, observed it carefully, and said:
"Glass?"
"I don't know if it's glass, but it is necessary to find a testing agency to confirm the specific composition."
Li Chaiyuan pulled out a delicate dagger from the side of his boot, put the dagger on the bonfire and burned it, and then swiped it on the palm of his left hand, the opening appeared and blood flowed out.
The young man picked up a bowl from the ground and let his blood drip into the bowl before starting to treat the wound.
"Use the most primitive method to test your identity, and then exchange the blood bowl for others to confirm."
Runsheng immediately did so, first running his finger across the edge of the Yellow River shovel, and then dripping blood into the bowl.
Xue Liang nodded brightly, and also took out a knife, broke his finger, and dripped blood.
Lin Shuyou raised his foot, swung his arm down, pulled out the dagger on the side of his boot, and then stabbed him in his hand very coherently:
"Hiss......"
The stroke was deep, and the blood overflowed all of a sudden.
Li Chaiyuan subconsciously felt that Lin Shuyou's blood did not need to be tested anymore, it should be true.
But he immediately abandoned this idea again, and still had to check, because the fake one seemed to have the ability to act like the real thing.
After all four people here were bleeding, Li Chaiyuan looked at Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng and asked:
"You two, what are you hesitating about?"
Tan Wenbin shrugged his shoulders and said: "Ah, do we have to do it too, I thought we didn't leave the village today, so there is no need to doubt our identity."
Yin Meng: "I think so too."
Li Chaiyuan smiled.
Runsheng raised the Yellow River shovel, and Lin Shuyou grabbed the trident.
Two people, one left and one right, sandwiched Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng in the middle.
Runsheng and Lin Shuyou both sensed something was wrong, because Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng rarely did not take the initiative to respond to Xiaoyuan's orders.
Even if Yin Meng didn't have to do it, she would do it, even if she got a criticism afterwards: You don't actually have to do it.
Tan Wenbin will be more proactive in cooperating with this behavior.
In any case, if you resist at this time, it means that there is a problem with your identity.
"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing, you won't still doubt us, will you? Okay, Mengmeng, let's check the identity too."
"Hmm."
Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng both pulled out their boot side daggers.
Li Chaiyuan: "Do it."
Runsheng did not hesitate and slapped it with a shovel!
Lin Shuyou hesitated for a second, and then stabbed the trident over.
Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng let out a scream and collectively rushed towards Li Chaiyuan.
But their sneak attack was too late.
Tan Wenbin's head was smashed by Runsheng's shovel, and Yin Meng's neck was pierced by Lin Shuyou's trident.
The two screamed, and then their bodies quickly shriveled and flattened, gradually becoming transparent, and at an extremely fast speed, they became glass-like beings, and then ...... explode.
"Bang!" "Bang!"
Glass shatters splashed everywhere, Runsheng stopped in front of Li Chaiyuan, opened the valve, and swept away these glass shards with air waves.
Lin Shuyou stepped back, grabbed Xue Liangliang, and the two fell to the ground together, avoiding the scope of the impact.
This kind of glass slag doesn't have much lethality, but if you're not careful, it can cause a lot of holes in your body, and if it is embedded in the skin, it will be more troublesome to deal with.
There were crystal lights everywhere, and under the position where Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng were originally standing, there were two piles of crushed powder.
Li Chaiyuan twisted the kettle and took two sips of water.
He finally understood now why Xue Liangliang and Lin Shuyou failed to recognize that the one who rode the tractor together before was a fake.
Because since they met at the door, until the other party did not respond immediately, cutting his finger and dripping blood, Li Chaiyuan himself did not realize that Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng were fake.
The two of them, whether in terms of image, expression, movements, language, etc., have no flaws.
But that's impossible.
Appearance is easy to imitate, but how is the reaction content imitated during conversation and chat?
Li Chaiyuan didn't believe that this old woman could be omniscient.
The boy lowered his head and began to recall all the conversations after meeting Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng at the door.
In the end, under his own force, the language of both of them was deformed, and before that, they were very ...... No, it is not.
Li Chaiyuan suddenly discovered one thing, that is, although he had had a conversation with Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng during the previous period, there was no information in this conversation.
The two of them were arranged by themselves to stay in the village for a visit today, and they should have obtained a lot of information, and in the past, when they spoke, Tan Wenbin would also cooperate and try to draw inferences.
In the contact during this period of time just now, none of these things were expressed.
Is it because I was talking about myself just now, and at the same time, I didn't give them a chance to speak?
Li Chaiyuan also revisited what he had said before in his mind.
No, when I was telling it, I actually handed it to Tan Wenbin according to my past habits.
Because of Tan Wenbin's existence, he can say less, and Tan Wenbin can help himself explain some things to others after understanding them first.
And this time, Tan Wenbin responded to the words he handed out, but they all mixed in in a very normal "haha" way.
But I didn't feel strange at all, because the other party's acting skills were too good?
Or is it that the other party is not actually acting.
Li Chaiyuan looked at Xue Liangliang and asked: "Brother Liangliang, recall what you and 'me' talked about on the tractor when you came back."
Xue Liangliang: "I said a lot to you, no, to the fake you, what I found on the construction site, and then the fake you also said a lot to me."
Li Chaiyuan: "Did that 'I' tell you what happened in Miao Village?"
Xue Liangliang gently patted his forehead and fell into thought.
Lin Shuyou said: "It seems that I said some ......"
Li Chaiyuan looked at Lin Shuyou: "What did you say?"
Lin Shuyou frowned: "I said a little, and then I said, and I will talk about it in detail when I go back."
Xue Liangliang stopped slapping his forehead, opened his eyes wide, and said in an aggravated tone: "You and I talked a lot, but not much was useful!"
When Li Chaiyuan heard this, he nodded, and sure enough, it was like this.
Xue Liangliang wondered: "No, looking back now, I think it's very strange, but at that time, I really didn't feel any sense of disobedience, I didn't suspect that you were fake at that time, how did he deceive me?"
Li Chaiyuan pointed to the glass slag on the ground and said: "It's not that it lied to you, but that you deceived yourself."
The young man stood up, picked up the fire tongs, and pulled the glass slag on the ground:
"I don't know how they were made.
But they are really like a mirror, except that what is reflected in an ordinary mirror is yourself, and what this mirror reflects is actually the person you think in your mind.
For example, take me as an example.
The best imitation effect is not to completely become an identical me.
Instead, you only need to imitate the image I have in your eyes, then it is the real me, even more real than myself."
Xue Liangliang: "No wonder."
Lin Shuyou echoed with a guilty conscience: "Oh, I see~"
Runsheng took out the compressed biscuits and ate them, he didn't like to participate in the brain-teasing session, and he was indeed hungry.
Xue Liangliang: "So in my opinion, how you will respond to me if you are real, how you will react if you are fake, in fact, I am deceiving myself.
In this world, there is such a bizarre existence?"
"In this world, there are many bizarre things, such as ......"
"Okay, no need to take it for example." Xue Liangliang hurriedly raised his hand, "Then what is her purpose in doing this?"
Lin Shuyou answered: "Yes, Brother Xiaoyuan, this thing doesn't seem to have much offensive power, I just poked it with a trident, and it shattered."
Li Chaiyuan spoke:
"I suspect that while we are investigating her, she is also investigating us."
At this time, footsteps came from outside the house, and Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng's figures appeared at the door.
Tan Wenbin's face was red, his body smelled of alcohol, he should have drunk a lot, but he would not get drunk, and his brain was still clear.
"Yo, the big guys are all back, Brother Xiaoyuan, I have a major discovery report!"
Lin Shuyou threw his dagger over and said, "Let the blood go first."
"What?" Tan Wenbin caught the dagger and looked at everyone with some doubts, and finally he set his sights on Li Zhuiyuan.
The young man nodded and pointed to the blood bowl beside him.
"Okay." Tan Wenbin used a dagger to cut an opening in his fingertips, found a bowl, and asked while dripping blood into it, "Is that dirty thing impersonating us, the same as what Cui Hao said in his diary?"
After dripping the blood, Tan Wenbin handed over the bowl and then sucked on the wound on his fingertips.
Yin Meng was also very neatly dripping there.
After confirming their identities, everyone sat down again, and Lin Shuyou began to talk about what happened before.
He said three sentences and Tan Wenbin had to ask two questions, and finally Xue Liangliang took over the job and began to tell.
After listening, Tan Wenbin smashed his mouth: "This trick is really evil enough, does that thing want to touch our bottom? What about after touching?"
Lin Shuyou said of course: "After knowing yourself and knowing the other, you will attack us."
Tan Wenbin spread his hands: "Then we have all divided our troops today, why doesn't she take advantage of today's opportunity to attack directly?"
Lin Shuyou was stunned for a moment and said: "Maybe, she is more cautious?"
Tan Wenbin lit a cigarette: "But if it were me, I would choose to take the opportunity to find the single pair first, try to shoot, and see if I can kill the two first."
Lin Shuyou was persuaded, nodded and said: "Yes, I will also try to see the effect first."
Tan Wenbin took out the chasing talisman paper and pasted it on the glass slag on the ground, but the talisman paper did not change color: "The talisman paper can't be measured?"
Lin Shuyou: "The formations arranged by Brother Xiaoyuan did not respond to them. Fortunately, they have little attack power and are even very threatening."
Tan Wenbin: "Then what is the purpose of her working so this show? Killing people is not enough, she is showing off her skills to us, okay?"
Li Zuiyuan: "Let's first summarize the information collected by each group today, maybe her true purpose is hidden in it."
Next, the three groups began to report the results of the survey.
Xue Liangliang went to inspect the construction site, and the construction site was generally normal, of course, because the construction site was still in a state of suspension, it was difficult to see anything.
However, Xue Liangliang and Lin Shuyou discovered some details, that is, in many corners of the construction site, offering tables and incense burners were placed, and some places were pasted with talisman paper.
This means that the construction unit has not aroused suspicion about the frequent accidents on the construction site, and should have tried to invite some nearby master to perform rituals and ward off evil spirits, but obviously, it has not played a role.
Tan Wenbin got a lot of useful information through his visit to the village.
On the day of New Year's Eve, some villagers were suspected of seeing Cui Hao and Li Ren in the nearby mountains, because they were wearing work clothes, and the only people in the village wore that kind of clothes were technicians from the construction team.
However, after calling out to them, the two people immediately ran away like frightened animals, which couldn't help but make the villagers wonder if they were dazzled.
Some villagers said that on the second day of the new year, they took their wife back to her parents' house, and when they came back the next day, they found that a lot of New Year's goods left at home had been stolen, but there was money left on the table.
Tan Wenbin suspected that Cui Hao and Li Ren might still be alive, but they hid in the mountains and did not dare to show up in the village.
After all, as technicians from other places, these two people's ability to survive in the wild must be worrying, and they are not even as good as those teenagers in this village.
In addition, the villagers also generally reported that in recent years, not only in the village, but also in nearby villages and even towns, there have been frequent rumors of child trafficking.
It is a child who will meet an old woman in shabby clothes while playing, hold his hand and ask questions.
The bolder children broke free and ran away, and the timid ones cried loudly, attracting adults.
But no adult has ever seen this woman, and in recent years, I have not heard of anyone whose child has really been abducted.
Children are forgetful, and they can't remember it after a few days of sleeping, or the more they talk about it, the more outrageous it becomes.
Adults only think that children are naughty and deliberately make up nonsense, or it may be that someone tells the story of "old woman" to the child too expressively, so that this story is spread among children.
This kind of thing would not have been mentioned by the villagers, but it just so happened that there was an adult in this village who firmly believed that his child was not lying, and he really saw the old woman.
Also a year later, the daughter who married into another province, along with her son-in-law and grandson, returned to the village to visit them.
The next morning, he said that he was pulled out by an old woman last night and groped around on the dam, and the old woman said to him, "No, I'm not satisfied."
The grandson was frightened and had a fever, so his daughter and son-in-law took their grandson and left the village early.
He said unconvincedly that his daughter was doing very well, and his son-in-law also helped the family chop firewood.
Li Chaiyuan also told his experience in Miao Village.
Tan Wenbin shook the soot and couldn't help but laugh:
"The story of this old woman is a Grimm fairy tale exclusive to the children of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan."
Runsheng, who has been eating compressed biscuits, breathed a sigh of relief after drinking a large can of water, and he used to work as a tractor during the day, but now he has finally filled up the "oil".
Although how much goes in the left ear and how much the right ear basically comes out, he still keeps some in his mind.
Runsheng burped and said:
"Why does she seem to be picking a child?"
……
In the underground caves of Yin Tide, thick liquid seeps out from time to time on the surrounding rock walls, and finally extends downwards, fading away the noise and forming crystal clear inverted cones.
Below, there is a small temple.
The runes around the temple that should have flickered clearly are now mottled and falling off.
On the central round platform, the originally thick and heavy iron chains were also broken and rotten.
An unkempt woman, sitting there, her skin was rough and cracked, and many places were cracked so deep that even white bones could be seen.
She lowered her head and patted her stomach with her hands.
"Snap! Syllable! Snap!"
In the slapping sound, her belly became bigger and bigger, and her belly became more and more transparent, and finally it almost became a piece of glass, and she could clearly see the inside of her stomach.
Inside, there was a baby lying there, with his eyes closed, his whole body was pitch black, dead and silent.
The woman's hands kept stroking her transparent belly, her left eye showing sharpness and ferocity, and her right eye showing kindness and love.
"Child, after so many years, my mother has finally found you who is satisfied.
Mother will continue to look at him in the mirror, and look at him clearly and carefully, so that you can become him.
You will like everything about him because he is good-looking and smart, hehe......"
With the woman's narration and touching, the dark skin color of the child in her belly slowly faded, gradually showing the texture of an ordinary normal child.
Because of its size, it should be similar to a five-year-old child in reality, but he is still in a woman's belly and has not been born.
besides
The child's appearance has become very similar to Li Chaiyuan.
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This chapter has a small number of words, don't panic, there is another chapter during the day to make up for today's word count.
(End of this chapter)