Chapter 6 Chapter 5 The Man in the Mask

Lao Li went to the platform halfway up the mountain to call the police, and all of us retreated to the hotel. After seeing the photo of the abandoned watchtower with the curse written on it in Hogg's guest room, my heart was surging and I couldn't calm down for a long time. The curse of "disembowelment" was written on the outer wall of the watchtower, and we really found a disembowelled corpse in the cornfield outside the hotel. Is this a coincidence, or was it a premeditated murder? I really want to leave here immediately, even if I refund Du Yumei 20,000 yuan, but I also know that as a related person, I must not leave here immediately because of my obligation to assist the police, even though Dick Han and Huo Ge was the first person to discover the body, but I have also been involved in this incident, which is irrefutable.

Back in the restaurant on the first floor of the hotel, Dick was half lying on a bench made of two chairs, his eyes were slack, and his spirit seemed to have completely collapsed.His non-mainstream youth image was completely destroyed, but I didn't want to laugh at it. I just patted him on the shoulder and encouraged him to cheer up. He is the youngest man in the valley. He is good at sports and strong. We all need he. And he didn't do anything wrong, it just happened to be the first person to find the body.It's just that the process of discovering the dead body was so dramatic that he saw it from a bird's-eye view while playing a paramotor.If he didn't play paramotor, no one would know that there was a disembowelled corpse hidden in the dense cornfield until the corpse rotted.

Cousin Xiaoqian and Evergreen Valley's flower house girl Yu'er, although they met for the first time today, because they encountered this tragedy at the same time, under tremendous pressure, the two people who had never known each other seemed like they had been together for many years. Like good friends, they are cuddling each other at this moment, sobbing softly. I wanted to go forward to comfort them, but I saw that Hogg was already one step ahead of me. He walked up to them and said in a very magnetic voice: "Crying, is it useful? The murderer won't be so stupid. After that, he stayed here and waited for the police to catch him. I’m afraid the murderer would have run away long ago, and the hotel is safe! Besides, Mr. Lan and I will protect you. Uh, yes, and Lao Li, Dick, we will do our best to prevent you from any harm!"

I also hurriedly shouted: "Yes, I will protect you." When I said this, my eyes were looking at Yu'er.It's not that I immediately fell in love with Yu'er, it's just that when Hogg spoke just now, she had already held Xiaoqian's hand, and Xiaoqian also threw herself into Hogg's arms, she didn't need me to come again Comforted, that's why I turned the focus of my speech to Yu'er. Yu'er stopped sobbing, rubbed her eyes, wiped away the tears below her eyes, and said to me: "Thank you, Mr. Lan." "Don't be so polite, don't call me Mr. Lan, just call me Ruohai." I don't know why, but I said such words at this moment.

"Well, Mr. Ruohai. Uh, your name is really nice, Lan Ruohai, quite poetic." Yu'er finally stopped being nervous, and started to discuss my name.It can be seen that she seems to be very interested in me. But Xiaoqian has long been used to bickering with me, and at the same time has always taken pleasure in teasing me, how could she be used to seeing women have a crush on me?So he immediately stopped crying, took up the topic, and said: "The name Lan Ruohai is considered poetic? The sea is originally blue, and this name is completely straightforward, without any imagination at all. If you call it Lan Ruohai, That’s wonderful. Blue cats are so imaginative, creative, and poetic!”

Tch, she is using this made-up name to allude to a cartoon with a blue cat as the main character, which is suitable for young children to watch! However, the tension that was originally filled in the restaurant was swept away, followed by a burst of laughter.Even Dick, who was half lying on the bench, had a rare smile on his face. That's right, the murderer should have left the valley a long time ago. We are not in any danger. After all, we are all here for the first time. We are strangers and not the murderer's intended target. However, if the murderer is a natural cold-blooded murderer, it is another matter.Of course, I can't say this sentence.

Lao Li won't be back for a while. If he calls the police at the valley entrance, the police will have to drive along that narrow path for an hour at the earliest to reach Evergreen Valley.It would be too bad if the phone couldn't be connected. Lao Li had to drive to the nearby police station, and it took two and a half hours to get it right. As the atmosphere in the restaurant gradually eased, Grandma Huang started to clean up, while the owner Du Yumei sat next to me and said to me: "Master Lan, although you haven't visited Evergreen Valley yet, you don't know Has Evergreen Valley left a little impression on you?"

"Very impressive, impressive!" I replied. "So, if you want to develop Evergreen Valley, how should you initially position it? Will this simple path leading to Evergreen Valley in Xiling Mountain become a fatal bottleneck?" Looking back at the simple path in the bare woods when I came here, and looking at the green cornfields outside the hotel, the sharp contrast suddenly made me have a good plan in my mind. "Boss Du, you don't have a phone here, let alone a broadband network?" "Yes, the telecommunications bureau and the network service provider are unwilling to move the telephone and broadband network for Evergreen Valley. The cost is too high. The only thing we can form a connection with a civilized society here is watching TV. Of course, watching TV Instead of cable TV, a pot-top satellite TV receiver was installed."

I scratched my head, and then said in a firm tone: "Boss Du, you have to remove the satellite TV too! Don't widen that simple path! Evergreen Valley should be a place that can only be reached after going through all kinds of difficulties and dangers." The paradise! It is a spiritual resting place away from telephone, internet, TV, work interruption and civilized society!" "Like where primitive people live?" "That's right, but it's a little different from primitive people. At least we don't have to live in a cave, and there is such a beautiful farm-style hotel to live in!"

Du Yu was stunned, as if doubting whether my plan would be effective. At this time, I heard an exclamation: "High, it's really high!" It was Dick who spoke, and it seemed that he had come out of his depression.Dick jumped off the bench excitedly, and shouted: "That's right, when I was in the United States, I heard that someone rented an abandoned prison that used to house serious criminals, like an isolated island, reinstalled the torture equipment, and then It is operated as a hotel. I didn’t expect the business to be so hot that if you want to live in a cell where one of the serial killers lived, you have to make an appointment online half a year in advance.”

The prison he mentioned, I have also heard, is Alcatraz Prison, which has appeared in many film and television works, and is indeed a tourist attraction now. And Hogg also nodded and said: "Mr. Lan's words are very reasonable! Where is the hottest tourist city now? It's Lijiang! Donkey friends have gone through thousands of mountains and rivers to come to Lijiang just to bask in the sun lazily. Sunshine? Why do you want to go to Lijiang to be in a daze?" I interjected: "Today's urban young people have already become slaves of modern life. They are busy earning money, paying for housing, dating, and working. They dare not turn off their mobile phones for 24 hours. Panic. Their nerves are like a rubber band that has been stretched to the limit, and it will snap if they try harder. This is a psychological sub-health state. If it is not adjusted in time, it will cause serious psychological problems, and even Mental illness. If they can find a utopian paradise as a resting place for their souls, it will effectively alleviate their inner distress and avoid catastrophic adverse consequences.” "Well, yes, yes! I am busy with the business of the outdoor club all day long. When there are no guests, I am worried that there will be no food, and when there are guests, I am worried that the guests will have accidents during outdoor sports. Uneasy. I dream of escaping to a place where there is no one, soaking in hot springs, enjoying delicious food, not having to worry about business matters, not being disturbed by calls, even for a day!" Dick cried out with empathy . Xiaoqian also nodded and said: "Yes, I quit my job in the hospital because of too much work pressure. I saw too many patients in the hospital who lost their lives due to serious illness and passed away, and my mood was always in a state of depression. Covered in ashes, I feel like I'm going crazy, if I don't resign, I'm really going crazy!" I couldn't help curling my lips, hey, she obviously resigned because she didn't want to meet her next boyfriend in the hospital ward! However, her words also revealed that she used to be a doctor. Hogg immediately leaned over and said, "Miss An used to be a doctor? What a coincidence. A few years ago, I made a film with female doctors as the theme This group of photos won an award in the national competition. I have been planning to make a sequel to the group of female doctor photos. If Miss An is interested, you might as well come and be my model after leaving Evergreen Valley!" "Ah! Can I also be a photography model? It's really great!" Xiaoqian showed an unbelievable expression. I coughed heavily, and said seriously: "It's okay to be a model, but don't be a body photography model that specializes in naked buttocks!" After all, I brought her to Evergreen Valley this time, and I can't Let her be abducted by an unknown photographer. But Xiaoqian retorted: "What's wrong with being a mannequin? That's also dedicated to art! Besides, life is short, and youth is even shorter. If I don't keep the best side of my youth, I will become a You'll regret it when you're this old!" This little girl actually beat around the bush and called me old! But then again, I am indeed ten years older than her, which is an absolutely true fact, alas, this girl likes to hit me whenever she finds a chance. But no matter what, several people present agreed with my initial planning plan. If I further processed this plan and added a very provocative copy, maybe it would really satisfy Du Yumei. At this time, Du Yu also nodded and said: "Yes, maybe Master Lan's idea is really effective, in fact, there are many elements in our Evergreen Valley that attract tourists. Hot springs, hot spring water is directly introduced into the hotel. Walking into the first floor of the hotel, the reception and restaurant are on the left, and the hot spring pool is on the right. There are not only large pools, but also separate small pools and couple pools. Not a single mosquito or fly can be found in the green valley." "Oh?!" I asked curiously, "There are no mosquitoes and flies in a place where the seasons are like spring?" Du Yu nodded and replied, "The hot springs in Changqing Valley are rich in sulfur. Sulfur can drive away mosquitoes and flies, and it can also drive away snakes." Well, this is another selling point. The concept of health and health preservation is gaining popularity. I also have to write this point into the planning book to build new highlights that highlight the scenic spot. "No wonder..." Hogg, who was joking with Xiaoqian at the side, suddenly said something, "No wonder when I found the disemboweled corpse in the cornfield, I didn't see a single one that was attracted by the stench. Mosquitoes." As soon as he said this, the restaurant fell silent, only the rustling sound of Grandma Huang's sweeping continued. Hogg said something bad, why did he say this? The atmosphere that had already eased up seemed tense again. It was not until five o'clock in the afternoon that Lao Li returned to Evergreen Valley with a middle-aged police officer in uniform. On the platform at Taniguchi, he failed to find a mobile phone signal, so he had to drive a four-row van on a simple path for three hours before finding a police officer from a nearby police station and driving back to Changqing Valley. . The middle-aged police officer looked a little fat, with a doughy face and a very friendly face. As soon as he walked into the hotel, he said shyly, "I'm really sorry, because two escaped prisoners escaped from prison yesterday. Hiding in the Xiling Mountains, all the police officers from our police station followed the large force to search the mountains, and I was the only one left on duty to answer the phone. I was going to search the mountains, but unfortunately I had a stomach problem and vomited blood, so I just stayed in the institute. I have already called the city bureau, but they will not be able to spare any manpower to rush over..." "There's a murder case here, a disemboweled corpse! How can there be no manpower?" I yelled dissatisfied. The police officer shrugged helplessly and explained: "You should know that this simple path leading to the valley is actually very dangerous. The roadbed is not stable, even during the day, and it is easy to get into a car accident at night, so the traffic department has already done it. It was announced that the road would be closed at night, and no driving was allowed. It is early winter, and it gets dark after 6:00 pm. Even if the city bureau sends people, they will not be able to arrive before 6:00, so we can only wait for tomorrow to send people.” I saw that Du Yu also nodded her eyebrows. It seems that the police officer is telling the truth.When we came, the easy path was enough to scare me, thinking what kind of trouble would arise if we drove at night. However, the police officer said again: "The superior still attaches great importance to this matter, so he sent me here first. Don't underestimate me. I used to be a criminal policeman. It's just that I have some physical problems and can no longer adapt to high-intensity criminal investigation work." , I took the initiative to apply to the police station in the mountain area to serve the people." I can't help admiring him. The police officer added another sentence: "Don't worry, I will stay in the hotel tonight. Hehe, I came here in Lao Li's van. Even if I want to leave, I can't leave. The safety issue here tonight is determined by I'm responsible, you don't have to worry at all!" His words immediately drew cheers from Xiaoqian and Yu'er. At the same time, Lao Li also introduced the identity of the police officer to us.His name is Dai Zhiyong, and he is the deputy director of a mountain police station closest to the valley. Officer Dai was really dedicated, and only showed up in the hotel, then greeted the three people who first discovered the body, Dick, Hogg and me, and went with him to the edge of the cornfield outside the hotel.Others stay in the hotel, lock the door tightly, and close all windows from the inside, and all gather in the restaurant. Be sure not to go out and pay attention to ensure safety. Among us, only Hogg had ever been in close contact with the male corpse. Dick saw the corpse from the air, and I only saw the photo of the corpse from the camera.So after stepping into the cornfield, Hogg led the way at the front, leading us to the place where the corpse was lying. The corn in the cornfield is planted very densely, one plant next to the other.Because these corns are planted in different months, the corn plants are tall and short. We have to separate the corn plants by hand before we can move forward on the soft soil. A few minutes later, we finally came to the middle of the cornfield.The ground heat passed through the shoes and passed into the soles, which made me feel the heat, but when I actually saw the disembowelled corpse, the heat disappeared without a trace, followed by bursts of The coolness that penetrates deep into the bone marrow. The pale body lay across the cornfield, bending a stalk of corn.The corn stalk bent by the dead body was bent 45 degrees obliquely, and it was about to fall. The air was filled with a strong smell of blood, but as Du Yumei said, there was not a single mosquito or fly in sight. This was the first time I saw a real corpse, and I immediately felt an uncontrollable sense of vomiting. The disembowelled corpse is more shocking than dismemberment. The corpse’s eyes were still wide open, and it seemed to be staring at us relentlessly, describing the tragic experience he had experienced. The slit from the throat to the navel was cut very smoothly. Officer Dai only took one look and said: "It must have been cut open with a scalpel." Sure enough, the internal organs disappeared, leaving only the empty abdominal cavity and chest cavity. There was not much blood left near the corpse, and the cornfield should not be the first scene of the murder. Officer Dai put on his gloves professionally, walked to the corpse calmly, stared carefully at the pale and stiff face of the corpse, without any expression of fear on his face.He shouldn't be lying. He must have been a criminal policeman before. Those policemen who have stayed in the police station in remote mountainous areas all their lives, even if they get mixed up with the deputy director, will definitely show horror when they see the dead body. It is impossible for them to be so calm. However, Officer Dai's expression changed very quickly. Instead of panic and fear, he became unusually excited. "Hey! I didn't expect this kid to be dead, and he's still dead in this place!" He shouted excitedly. Why, Officer Dai knew this unlucky guy who died in a cornfield and was disemboweled?He was still so excited when he saw the corpse, but he didn't show any sadness. It seemed that the dead person was not his friend. Who is the deceased? Police officer Dai was so excited that he took out his cell phone and wanted to call his superiors, but after taking out the cell phone, he realized that there was no cell phone signal in Evergreen Valley. "Who died?" Dick couldn't help asking. "It's Sun Hongwei! Sun Hongwei! I really didn't expect this kid to die in the Evergreen Valley! Haha, I have made a contribution to finding his body!" "Who is Sun Hongwei?" I asked curiously. "It's one of the two fugitives that the police in the city are chasing!" I just remembered that when Police Officer Dai came to the hotel just now, he said that two felony fugitives escaped from prison yesterday afternoon and suspected that they hid in Xiling Mountain. Called to assist in the roundup.Unexpectedly, one of the fugitives died in a cornfield in Evergreen Valley and was disemboweled.So, what about the other fugitive?Could it be near Evergreen Valley too? Officer Dai introduced the situation of the two fugitives to us. Two fugitives, a man and a woman, the man's name is Sun Hongwei, and the woman's name is Dong Jia.They were a pair of male and female thieves who committed a monstrous crime.Both were sentenced to death in a court trial yesterday, and were transferred to a suburban prison. After the Supreme Court approves the death sentence, they will be executed at another date.Yesterday morning, a prison car drove the two people out of the court and was escorted to Xichuan City Prison located deep in the Xiling Mountains. Unexpectedly, the prison car had an accident on the way and rolled over on the side of the road. When passers-by found the overturned prison car, they saw that the escort and the driver had fallen into a severe coma, and the door was wide open due to the deformation of the collision, but the male and female thieves inside had disappeared. The emergency announcement order was issued soon. Last night, Xichuan Satellite TV and local TV news broadcasted it repeatedly throughout the night. Unfortunately, I went to the Black Cat Lounge because of an intermediary business, and I ran into him there. My cousin Xiaoqian got drunk late at night, so I didn't watch the TV news, and I didn't know that there was such a big prison escape case in Xichuan City. Officer Dai introduced, while looking at Sun Hongwei's disemboweled corpse and the empty abdomen, the excitement on his face was beyond words.He suddenly said to us: "If I'm not mistaken, the one who killed Sun Hongwei should be his lover, the female fugitive named Dong Jia." "How do you know?" I asked in surprise. "Hehe, because I have read the files of their crimes and know some specific details of the case that have not been made public." "Hey, let's hear it." Dick asked recklessly. Officer Dai paused and began his narration. Sun Hongwei and Dong Jia are a couple who live in a single-family bungalow in the suburbs of Xichuan City. They are very affectionate.Since three years ago, there have been strange disappearances of people near his home, including men and women, old and young.After careful investigation, the police finally identified Sun Hongwei and Dong Jia as the culprits of the disappearance six months ago.While the two were at work, the police sneaked into his bungalow and found countless human internal organs in the freezer. The liver, heart, spleen, and lungs belonged to different owners. Countless human internal organs were stuffed into the refrigerator. Can't close the door. In the bathroom, the floor tiles were very loose. After prying off the floor tiles, the police found dozens of rotten corpses underground. After arresting the two, Sun Hongwei revealed their motives for committing the crime. Five years ago, Dong Jia was pregnant, but accidentally miscarried.After the miscarriage, Dong Jia did not have a good rest. Unfortunately, she suffered from a strange disease during the confinement period. She was afraid of the cold and could not be cured. She could only curl up in bed all day long and had to turn on the electric blanket in summer.Later, Dong Jia obtained a secret recipe from unknown sources, which required a large amount of animal offal to replenish internal energy and cure this strange disease. At the beginning, Sun Hongwei purchased animal offal everywhere, and bought a large amount of tripe, pork heart, sheep lung and duck intestines from the slaughterhouse, and cooked soup, porridge, fried and stir-fried for his wife. Lie in bed and rest.One day three years ago, by chance, Sun Hongwei took back a human placenta from a friend, cooked it into Ziheche soup and gave it to Dong Jia. Dong Jia immediately felt a wave of heat reverberating in his chest. For the first time, I felt that I was no longer afraid of the cold, and I got out of bed and walked for a while.When it came down to the reason, she believed that it was because she ate human internal organs that her condition improved. However, a few days later, Dong Jia relapsed again.In order to cure his wife's stubborn illness, Sun Hongwei asked people to look for human placenta everywhere, but this thing is not easy to get. After some deliberation, Sun Hongwei thought of killing, the purpose was only to obtain the internal organs of the deceased. Sun Hongwei kills people without any goal at all, and whoever he meets is whoever he meets. Therefore, after the series of disappearances, the police have been obsessed with finding the common ground between the missing persons, making the case no progress for a long time.Fortunately, the police later installed hidden cameras in many places in Xichuan City. One of the cameras happened to capture Sun Hongwei tricking a child into his home to watch a new comic. Then the child disappeared, and the police turned their suspicious eyes on Sun Hongwei . The corpses recovered from under the bathroom floor of Sun Hongwei's home were all disemboweled, and the internal organs were taken out and given to Dong Jia to eat. According to Dong Jia's confession, after she ate human internal organs, she was indeed able to stop getting sick in a short period of time, but after a few days, the old disease would still recur.So Sun Hongwei had no choice but to keep killing people, disemboweling corpses, and taking out internal organs from the chest cavity and abdomen. In Sun Hongwei's words, he really loves his wife so much that he can't bear to see her curled up in the bed with the electric blanket on all day long Can't get out of bed. However, he had the heart to kill a stranger he had never met. The human heart is really unpredictable.Horror cases that happened in reality are always more creepy than any fabricated horror suspense novel. Speaking of this, the slightly fat police officer Dai pointed to Sun Hongwei's grisly corpse and said, "Now you should know why he died like this?" "Could it be... that when he and Dong Jia absconded here, Dong Jia's old illness relapsed and she couldn't hold on any longer, so she killed her husband, took out his internal organs and ate them?" My voice must have been trembling. I can't help thinking that I used to like eating animal offal very much, and my cousin Xiaoqian's ex-boyfriend named Xue Junwei also loved eating this. The refrigerator is full of various animal offal, but I swear, I will eat it again in the future. I won't eat these things anymore. Thinking about it makes me sick. Officer Dai shook his head, and said sadly in an indescribable tone: "No, Dong Jia and Sun Hongwei have a very good relationship. It is impossible for her to kill her husband." "So... there is another murderer?" My voice trembled even more. "No, I guess Sun Hongwei should have committed suicide! Before he died, he left his last words, asking his wife to open his body, take out the internal organs and eat them." It's really a kind of creepy love. I heard that after the spiders mate, the female spiders will eat the male spiders as nutrition for the young spiders.But I really can't believe that Sun Hongwei committed suicide and donated his internal organs for his wife to eat, so that she can continue to live. I began to tremble.Dick and Hogg were not much better, we were all like boiled shrimp just out of the pan, bending over, trembling in the middle of the green cornfield, wanting to vomit, but we couldn't vomit because we didn't eat much. Sun Hongwei's body is still lying in the cornfield. Although there are no mosquitoes and flies, because of the heat of the earth, Officer Dai is worried that the body will rot, which will affect the on-site investigation after the arrival of a large number of police forces tomorrow, so he ordered Dick, the youngest among us, to go back to the hotel Bring some ice cubes from the kitchen. After Dick left, Police Officer Dai said: "I guess Sun Hongwei and Dong Jia also stumbled into the Evergreen Valley by mistake. Fortunately, there were no other people in the entire valley yesterday, otherwise Sun Hongwei would not have chosen to commit suicide." He The implication is that if they meet other people in the valley, Sun Hongwei will definitely kill his wife and hunt off the internal organs for his wife. "Oh?! Is there no one else in the valley? Were Boss Du, Lao Li, Grandma Huang and Yu'er not in the hotel yesterday?" I asked in surprise. "Hehe, when I came here, I asked Lao Li, and he told me that he went to the city to buy ingredients for the kitchen yesterday, and Boss Du also stayed at home in the city. Granny Huang and Yu'er both live in a village three miles away from the valley. Because the two bosses were not here, they went home separately. This morning, Lao Li picked you up directly at the Sichuan long-distance station, and Du Yumei went back to the hotel to make preparations. Back in Evergreen Valley." Oh, no wonder, as soon as I replied to the text message on my mobile phone last night, Du Yumei sent me the bank card password and called me.There is no mobile phone signal in Evergreen Valley, so she must not be able to return the call, so she must be outside the valley. Officer Dai's expression suddenly became serious, and he said thoughtfully: "In the nearby village of Sanhuali, every household lives in a semicircular watchtower built against the mountain wall, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Dong Jia I should not be able to sneak in and kill people by myself. What I am worried about now is whether she will return to the valley to look for hunting targets? Maybe she is already lurking nearby, and when she sees someone living in the hotel, she is ready to take advantage of it. People are not prepared to wait for the opportunity to kill people and hunt for internal organs. However, after Dong Jia eats human internal organs once, he can at least guarantee that he will not need to eat internal organs for three days." I couldn't help but wonder to myself, maybe in three days, we are still safe for the time being? Hogg also said deeply: "That further shows that Dong Jia is lurking near the valley. You must know that it is already early winter, and she can't sneak into the watchtowers in other villages to find food, so she can only come back here." After all, there is a large cornfield here, and there are mature corns in the field." I looked around subconsciously, and there happened to be a wind blowing nearby, and the corn stalks in the distance were shaking with the wind, and I couldn't help shivering all over. Could Dong Jia be hiding in a hidden corner in the cornfield?I can't help but secretly speculate. "Mr. Lan, you don't have to be too scared. Anyway, Dong Jia is just a girl with limited physical strength. Even if she really wants to kill people in the valley to hunt for internal organs, she will probably kill women." Police officer Dai was expressionless. said. "Oops! I gotta get back to the hotel!" I yelled, running to the edge of the cornfield.Xiaoqian is still in the hotel, and there is Yu'er.Now there is only one man, Lao Li, in the hostel. I am really worried. I am worried that Dong Jia will sneak into the hostel at any time and it will be bad for the two girls. I have to protect them! Before I rushed to the ridge beside the cornfield, I bumped into a person head-on, and the person and I both let out an exclamation.When I came back to my senses and took a closer look, it turned out that the non-mainstream young man Dick Han was knocked down.The bucket of ice that Dick was carrying fell into the cornfield.Dick clutched his chest and screamed that it hurts. I apologized and helped him pick up the ice cubes and put them back in the bucket. After picking up the ice cubes, Dick didn't pick up the bucket. He said to me with a sad face: "Brother Lan, help me send the ice cubes to the corpse. I really don't dare to look at the corpse any more. .” This guy, when it was his turn to beg me, he called me "Brother Blue". Forget it, let me deliver the ice cubes.Seeing his pitiful appearance, I couldn't help feeling compassionate.Anyway, I can deliver ice cubes, so why make him suffer? I told Dick to hurry back to the hotel, but I didn't say I told him to protect the two girls, and the coward probably couldn't count on it anyway.But as long as there is such a young and strong man in the hotel, even if Dong Jia is lurking nearby, she will not dare to act rashly. Seeing Dick's figure disappear behind the green gauze curtain, I turned around and returned to the middle of the cornfield with the small bucket containing ice cubes, and handed it to Officer Dai.Officer Dai evenly placed ice cubes around Sun Hongwei's body, and then the three of us left the place where the body was left, out of the cornfield, and walked towards the hotel. Passing through the path lined with pines and cypresses outside the hotel, I saw that the door of the hotel was tightly closed.Very well, they obeyed Officer Dai's command and kept the door tightly shut.I reached out and knocked on the door, and called out my cousin Xiaoqian's name. After half a minute, the door slowly opened.Behind the door stood Xiaoqian, Yu'er, Du Yumei, Lao Li and Grandma Huang. That's right, they even opened the door as a group, so they shouldn't leave any opportunity for Dong Jia. But why didn't I see Dick? At the same time, I also heard Xiaoqian ask: "Hey, where is Dick Han? Didn't he send you ice cubes? Why didn't he come back with you?" I was stunned for a moment, and stood outside the door, my hands and feet were cold, and I opened my mouth wide, unable to utter a word. Dick is missing?From the moment I broke up with him in the cornfield to the fact that he didn't return to the hotel, it took less than ten minutes. Was he hijacked by Dong Jia?Dong Jia is just a weak woman, but Dick is an athlete. Can Dong Jia take Dick away?I don't think there is such a possibility, not to mention that when Officer Dai and Hogg were arranging ice cubes in the cornfield, we didn't hear the sound of fighting nearby. But where did Dick go?He shouldn't hide on purpose to scare everyone as a prank, right?In this extraordinary period, if he really did this, he would be too mentally handicapped!Although he likes to play, it is impossible to play like this. We've got to get Dick out anyway.Fortunately, he only disappeared for about ten minutes. If Dong Jia did it, she would not be able to carry Dick so far.Even if she is a murderous demon, she is still a weak woman after all, and Dick is strong and strong.The greatest possibility now is that Dick was stunned and was lying in a hidden corner of the cornfield.The green gauze curtain became the best barrier to block everyone's sight. As long as it gets dark soon, Dong Jia will be able to enjoy Dick's internal organs in a mood. Without further ado, Officer Dai called everyone to divide into four groups. There were exactly eight of us here, including Grandma Huang, exactly four men and four women.Of course, Grandma Huang is not suitable for going out to search, but she also needs a man to protect her in the hostel, so Officer Dai asked the oldest old Li to stay in the hostel. Officer Dai was in a group with Du Yumei, Hogg took the initiative to go to Xiaoqian, and I had to be in a group with Yu'er.Then the six of us got into the green gauze tent together.We took the place where Dick and I broke up as the center, and searched for Dick in a radial pattern.We called to each other from time to time to check our positions and let each other know if we were safe. As soon as I walked into the cornfield, Yu'er held my hand nervously, my palm was sweaty, I also subconsciously held her hand tightly, and at the same time felt my heart beating faster, thumping, as if it was about to jump from my throat come out. It's not that at this moment, the relationship between Yu'er and I has developed by leaps and bounds, after all, we've only known each other for less than half a day. I once heard of a theory called "the drawbridge theory". It is said that when a person sees a person of the opposite sex they like, there will be a natural physiological reaction, such as an increase in blood supply and a faster heartbeat.Similarly, this situation can be reversed. When the heartbeat speeds up, it can prove that you like the opposite sex in front of you very much. The faster you beat, the more you have feelings for the opposite sex. When a person is in an extremely stressful environment, such as crossing a suspension bridge, the heartbeat will speed up and the secretion of adrenaline will speed up. This is a normal physiological reaction.However, if you see the opposite sex standing on the other side of the bridge at this time, this person will suddenly find that he has a good impression of the other party.In fact, this kind of feeling is not like liking, but just the instinctive heartbeat brought by the shaking of the bridge. Now the situation between me and Yu'er fits the definition of the suspension bridge theory. We just feel fear under the pressure of extreme danger, so we hold hands subconsciously, and our heartbeat starts to speed up. Maybe we still need to cuddle up to each other when danger comes. . However, this is just a natural physiological reaction, not that we really hit it off.我不断如此反复告诫自己。 正当我感觉有些尴尬的时候，忽然听到青纱帐深处传来了一声惊呼，是霍格的声音：“呀！我找到迪克了！你们快过来！他还活着！” 另外四人循声向霍格的所在位置狂奔过去。 几秒之后，我与玉儿穿越了玉米田，便看到了压倒一片玉米杆躺在地上的迪克。 迪克处于昏迷状态中，闪亮的光头上，前额似乎遭到了重击，有一处血痕与淤青，但没出血，只是造成了昏厥。 表妹小倩正跪在迪克肩膀旁的地上，用双手压迫着迪克的胸膛，正有节奏地用力按着他的心脏，嘴里还大叫着：“一下，两下，三下，四下……” 我知道，小倩正在为迪克实施心脏复苏术。谢天谢地，小倩是临床医生，能够以最专业的方式为迪克提供帮助。 十几秒后，迪克开始剧烈地咳嗽，身体陡然弯曲，膝盖差点砸在了他的鼻梁上。他终于醒了过来，睁开眼睛后，先是一阵迷茫，等他反应过来之后，眼中立刻流露出恐惧与后怕的神情，身体不住地颤栗着。 “刚才发生什么事了？”戴警官急切地问道。 “我……我被一个戴着面具的人袭击了……”他的眼神再次遽然空洞。 “戴着面具？男人还是女人？是不是董佳？” 戴警官说出董佳的名字时，小倩和玉儿都露出了诧异的表情。我们还一直没机会告诉她俩孙洪伟与董佳的事，更没告诉她俩那具被开膛破肚的尸体的身份。 迪克却眼神涣散地摇了摇头，说：“袭击我的人……身材高大，肯定不是女人……不是董佳！”最后四个字，他是歇斯底里喊出来的，嗓音高亢，透出难以抑制的激动与恐惧。 “究竟发生了什么？你不要着急，慢慢说。”霍格轻轻拍了拍迪克的肩膀，竭力想让他平静下来。 迪克深吸了一口气，慢慢开始讲述他在与我分别后的遭遇。 他在玉米田边缘，把冰块交给我之后，就心想着赶紧回到旅社时，只要回到旅社，关上门，与其他人呆在一起，就安全了。 迪克冲出玉米田，以最快的速度来到了旅社外那条两侧种满松柏的小径上。迪克本来想大声呼叫老李开门，但又总觉得这么大呼小叫，会让别人看轻自己，把他看作一个不堪大用的胆小鬼。更何况，旅社里还有两个如花似玉的小姑娘。早些时候，迪克因为发现躺在玉米田里的尸体，吓得魂飞魄散，语无伦次，就已经让两个女孩对他产生了轻视。这一次，绝对不能再这样了。 于是迪克站在旅社大门前，优雅地敲门，并小声说着：“开门，我回来了。”只喊了一声，他就没再喊了，因为他听到门内传来了轻微的脚步声。 “吱呀”一声，门轴发出痛苦的呻吟，然后门从里面被推开了。 迪克抬起头，看到的却不是老李、杜瑜眉、黄阿婆、小倩、玉儿中的任何一位，而是一个戴着怪异面具的身材高大的人。看此人体型，比迪克高了半个脑袋，应该是个强壮的男人。迪克正寻思这个男人是谁，为什么还戴着面具，那男人突然以极快的速度猛一低头，他的前额与迪克的前额重重地撞在了一起，如火星撞地球一般。 迪克根本没有任何心理准备，顿时眼前直冒金星，接着两眼一黑，便倒在地上昏了过去。虽然他是个身强力壮爱好运动的年轻人，但带着面具的神秘人所发动的攻击，实在是太出人意料了，迪克根本没有半点防御的机会。 等他再醒过来的时候，发现自己已经躺在了玉米田里，是小倩用心脏复苏术把他救醒的。 迪克的叙述令我们深感震惊。 那个戴面具的人是从旅社大门内出现的？也就是说，之前他一直呆在旅社里！Who is he?他为什么要袭击迪克？ 还是戴警官最为镇定，他问道：“那个神秘人，脸上戴着什么样的面具？” 迪克脸上露出痛苦的表情，回忆这段经历确实令他很是苦恼。经过一番绞尽脑汁的思索之后，他喃喃说道：“我也只是短暂地瞄了一眼，那似乎是个手绘的面具，很硬，因为他突然低头撞到我的时候，其实是以面具撞我的，所以我才会一下子就晕了过去。面具应该是金属制成的吧，哦，对了，我想起来了，面具上绘着的眼睛很古怪，一只眼睛睁开着，另一只眼睛则是紧闭着的！” 一只眼睁，一只眼闭，像猫头鹰一样的面具？ 听到这句话，戴警官的神情不禁变得凝重了起来。 而这时，迪克似乎想起了什么，他突然大声说道：“对了，我想起来了，在我昏迷之前，曾经听到那个面具人对我说了一句话。” “他说了什么？”我们异口同声地问道。 “他说……”迪克以一种极度冷漠沙哑的嗓音，模仿着面具人所说出的那句话，“你们全都滚出常青谷！这里是我的家！谁再留在这里，我就让你们死无全尸，全都变作一堆开膛破肚的烂肉！”