Chapter 24 Chapter 23: The Wizard of Oz

Xiao Hei ran over in a panic, yelling that something had happened in the village, and I subconsciously thought of the disaster that Mu Qingxiang mentioned repeatedly.When we left Manlong Village, there was still no sign of disaster, so hearing Xiao Hei's words was inconceivable.I was about to go over to ask what was going on, but Liao Lao Er stopped me vigilantly, and then gave me a wink, which means don't trust Xiao Hei easily, there may be a trap. Zhao Shuai didn't understand, because Liao's second child got dust in his eyes, he strode over: "Xiao Hei, what's the matter, what happened?"

Xiao Hei was in a hurry and forgot how to say it in Chinese. After making gestures for a long time, he didn't come up with a general idea, which made me even more anxious.I told Xiao Hei not to worry, we will explain the matter clearly as we go back, even if the sky falls, someone else will carry it.The second brother Liao secretly reminded me that Xiao Hei had a complicated life experience, and it is likely that he was behind the scenes, and he was responsible for most of the strange things that happened in the village.I saw Xiao Hei's innocent appearance, and it was hard to believe that Xiao Hei had such a deep city, but I also felt that Xiao Hei should not appear here, because we escaped secretly, and no one knew that we were in the Yao Zhai.

Xiao Hei walked forward with strides, but he was startled when he saw the situation in the demon house, and his breathing that had been calm just now became rapid again.The demon house was dug into a mess by us, and I didn't bother to explain it, so I just asked Xiao Hei to come back with us right away.The three of us hurriedly cleaned up Yaozhai's aftermath, and then went back with Xiao Hei, but Liao's second son kept aloof from us, as if he didn't want to go back.I shook my head at Liao Lao Er, put the shovel on my shoulder, and asked Xiao Hei how he knew we were here.Xiao Hei was stunned for a moment, he said that he didn't eat at night, he went to catch hares in the woods, saw us walking towards the demon house, that's why he came here to look for us.

"What happened in the village?" I asked worriedly. "I don't know either, they... they all... go back and have a look." Xiao Hei begged. Zhao Shuai said carelessly, "Don't be afraid, we have guns, and I don't believe there is anything whose head is harder than a bullet." Liao Er Er, who was walking at the end, said abruptly: "That's not certain." I coughed dryly, turned my head and glared at Liao Lao Er, Xiao Hei was lost, and Liao Lao Er still made sarcastic remarks.We rushed back over the thorns and thorns, and Xiao Hei's Chinese finally became fluent, and finally explained the "big things" in the village clearly.It turned out that after Xiao Hei caught the hare and returned home, he found that his crazy father had fallen asleep, but he couldn't wake up no matter how much he pushed.Xiao Hei ran to another house to seek help, who knew that everyone else was also unconscious, and he was the only one in the whole village who was awake.

I doubtfully asked Xiao Hei if he was not sure if everyone was too tired from the funeral in the afternoon, so they all went to bed early.Xiao Hei beat his chest and stamped his feet, hurriedly explaining that he must be right, and asked me with fear if everyone in the village died.I really want to say that you ask me, who I ask, God knows what happened in the village.If the plague made everyone unconscious, why would the four of us be fine, but if it wasn't for this reason, why would the people in the village fall into a coma at the same time? The most important thing is whether everyone will die because of it.

Mu Qingxiang's words echoed in my ears. I hoped that she was just talking nonsense. I didn't expect that one day it would come true, and it would come true so soon.Everything about Mu Qingxiang is a mystery. I really want to find out how she knew that something would happen in the village, but she is always in a hurry, and I don't know where to find her.Zhao Shuai attributed the reason to the environment of Manlong Village. He said that there are trees growing all around, and the weather is so hot now, it must be the germs in the air that made everyone sick. At this moment, Liao's second child poured cold water on him again: "We won't be able to help you when we go back, why not... Forget it, we're on the way now, let's be careful, maybe something happens to us too."

We shuttled through the forest anxiously, but suddenly felt strange, because every time we passed through the forest, birds and beasts were scared away, but this time we encountered nothing.I was just wondering if other people had noticed, but I didn't expect that my foot stepped on a space, and I was immediately loaded into a hidden pit on the ground.The vegetation in the forest is dense, and it is difficult to find pits on the ground, but there are basically no pits in the forest.I spat out the weeds and mud in my mouth, and cursed who was so wicked, who actually dug a hole to frame me.

Zhao Shuai pulled me up. He held up the flashlight and said that the earth color was very fresh, and the pit seemed to be just dug.Liao Laoer came up from behind, he watched around and said seriously that the shape of the pit was very strange, and he probably wasn't dug out.Xiao Hei stood aside nervously. He was not afraid of beasts, but he was afraid of losing his family.Now I just want to rush back to the stockade immediately, and I don't want to cause troubles, so I don't want to waste time on an unnamed earth pit. However, when I was about to leave, I suddenly found that the shape of the pit was like the footprints of wild animals, but the footprints were two or three meters wide.In my impression, there is no beast with such a large footprint, and it is even more impossible to leave a hole in the ground with a single step.Liao Laoer pretended to be a ghost again to scare people. He connected this pit with the legend of the monster in the monster house, and pointed out that the pit was probably stepped on by a monster.

If a foot can be this big, then this monster must be huge, and it must be able to crush us without breaking a sweat.I dare not imagine that such a creature really exists in the world, but the monster's house can't accommodate such a big monster, so I question Liao's second statement.However, Lao Er Liao said that it was a legend decades ago. If there really was a monster staying in the monster house, it might have been young at that time, and it should have grown up after a few decades. "Hey...don't argue, go back quickly." Zhao Shuai reminded softly, and then pointed to Xiao Hei, "He is almost dying of anxiety, do you still have the mood to chat?"

I took my mind back and concentrated on my journey again. Seeing that the village was just outside the forest, I made another somersault.There was another pit on the ground. This pit was the same as the previous one, shaped like the claws of a wild beast, and it was shocking to see.Xiao Hei pulled me up and told me to ignore these things and go back to the village to see the situation.Xiao Hei has never been to the outside world. He thinks that we are omnipotent and can solve everything. Especially when he escaped from the tiger's mouth last time, he thinks that I am a natural hunter.But I don't know the art of Qihuang, what can I do when I get to the village, maybe collect the corpses for everyone?

The village was eerily silent. Although the lights were dimly lit, there was no human voice.We broke into several rooms one after another, and sure enough, everyone was sleeping like a dead pig, and we couldn't wake up.But this is also a good thing, at least they are still breathing, not dead.Xiao Hei took me to his house and asked me to show his father if it was all right.None of the three of us have ever met Xiao Hei's father. According to the information obtained by Liao's second son, Xiao Hei's father is also named Zhao, but he went crazy when his wife died fifteen years ago. This is the first time we see the little black dad, he is tied to the bed with a rope, like a prisoner.When we got closer, we found that the little black dad had lost more than half of his hair and turned into a bald man. His hands and feet were a little shrunken. Although he had moved a little, he still looked a little scary.Zhao Shuai and I didn't dare to approach, but Liao's second son first went to look away the little black dad's eyes, and then felt the little black dad's pulse. "Are you a quack?" I asked in surprise. "I know a little bit. If I didn't kill someone back then, I wouldn't change my career to be a tea maker." Liao Laoer blurted out. "Killing someone?" Zhao Shuai and I asked at the same time. Liao Er Er didn't mean to mention it just now. He knew he had said something wrong, so he immediately changed the subject, saying that Little Black Dad's life was not in danger.After hearing this, Xiao Hei breathed a sigh of relief. He asked why everyone fell asleep and what went wrong.Liao's second son replied that the bull's head was wrong. He said that the little black dad was malnourished, and if he was tied up like this every day, no matter how healthy a person was, he would fall ill.I have seen crazy people before, especially those who are so crazy that they have to be tied up, otherwise they will harm people everywhere. You must know that mental patients do not have to bear criminal responsibility for killing people.Xiao Hei's answer was exactly what I thought, his father went crazy and hurt children and women, that's why he couldn't tie him up at home, and that's why we never saw his father. "Then what's going on? Why can't everyone who is so good can't wake up, will they keep sleeping?" I asked worriedly. The second Liao thought about it, and walked away from Xiao Hei's father: "This is not a disease... If I guess right, the people in the village may have been drugged!" "Prescribe medicine? No way?" Zhao Shuai asked suspiciously, "Who would do that?" "If someone drugged us, why would we be fine?" I also couldn't believe Liao Er's reasoning. The second Liao went to Xiao Hei and asked, "Has anyone in the village eaten the same thing today?" Xiao Hei couldn't figure it out, and I was also surprised. Every household in the village eats their own food. Who has such a great ability to put medicine in everyone's food?However, I quickly remembered one thing, everyone did eat the same thing today - pork!In the afternoon, a pig was killed at Mother Li's funeral, and everyone got a lot of pork.If you really want to drug it, it's easiest to tamper with that pork. Me, Zhao Shuai, and Liao Lao Er didn't eat the pork, because Lao Wang's dishes were a bit unpalatable, but we didn't say it clearly.Fortunately, Zhao Shuai's mother specially prepared a jar of bacon when we left Beijing.Although the bacon looks cold, it tastes very good because Zhao Shuai's mother is skilled in cooking. We like to eat and drink with it.At dinner, Zhao Shuai took out the vat of bacon to share, so we didn't eat the pork cooked by Lao Wang, otherwise we would have fallen into a coma like him. "That's weird. These medicines can't kill people. They can sleep for a day and a night at most." Second Liao stroked his goat's beard and said, "What exactly does this person want?" "It's not easy. It must be the people in the village. Let's check one by one. If they don't sleep at home, they are the ones who drugged them." Zhao Shuai shouted. "Are they really okay?" Xiao Hei asked nervously. "It's really all right, don't worry, they will wake up tomorrow morning." I forced a smile, but the uneasiness in my heart became more and more intense, and my intuition told me that the catastrophe Mu Qingxiang said was really imminent! Liao Er thought that the method Zhao Shuai said was feasible, so he asked us to get together and go door to door to see if anyone had left.I also wanted to find out this bad guy, so I responded positively, grabbed the shovel and shot the person who committed the drug to death.However, after walking back and forth in the village, everyone was unconscious in the house, and no one was absent. We stood in the center of the village, and black clouds rolled in the sky, covering the bright moon.I looked at the dark sky and vaguely felt that something was wrong, maybe not everyone was in the house.In order to confirm this problem, I strode into a room, and Zhao Shuai and the others followed curiously and asked me what I was doing.I walked into that room, and the doubts in my mind were confirmed. Sure enough, another person was missing. Zhao Shuai asked puzzledly: "Who is missing, didn't we count them just now, they are all in the house." Liao Lao Er echoed, "Yes, there are so many of us, it's impossible to count them wrong." Xiao Hei is very familiar with Zhaizi, he quickly realized who lived in the house I walked into, I nodded to him, and said with certainty: "There is a person missing, he is a human being, but he is dead - Zhaizi The old man Hu Jie is gone!"