The mother and son, one older and one younger, were the same pair Bai Su had seen last night.
There is no husband, maybe someone with this identity is missing from the family, or maybe he goes out to work?
The mother and son were sitting together with several other women of different ages. There was a bamboo basket placed in front of them. It was unclear what they were holding in their hands. Anyway, everyone was sitting there, talking and laughing, while doing what they were doing. Work.
Bai Su really didn't expect such a coincidence.
There are not many people in Wenjia Village who have been replaced by black sludge, but compared to the large number of villagers with fishy smell on their bodies, they are still a small number. If you really want to find them, you need to take a detour.
The smell of fish along their route all morning was nothing but the smell of fish. They finally smelled some food, but it was still a familiar scent.
So Bai Su chose the way to enter Guoshou's house instead of looking for a lake outside the village out of curiosity.
However, what surprised Bai Su was that the mother and son could get along normally with other people.
Is it because of the daytime? Or because of something else.
From the monster's perspective, these are two completely different creatures coexisting peacefully.
But aren't they still fighting at night? Is it because the black sludge covered in human appearance...isn't threatening?
Just as Bai Su was thinking about it, the young man with glasses beside him had been observing it for a while and asked, "Who is it?"
The human turned around and looked over. He put on his glasses and took off his glasses. He saw that the people sitting around were all ordinary villagers, just like the hostess Tang Nuo had seen in the information.
Ordinary, ordinary, except for occasional memory misplacements and changes in habits, the rest of me is exactly the same.
Even according to the latest report they received before going to Wenjia Village, even if they told those who were replaced and told them - you are not human - what kind of existence they were, all they showed was disbelief.
“How is that possible?”, “You must have done something wrong”, “What nonsense are you talking about”… and other such reactions.
If we go one step further and move the original human body, which has become rigid and has stopped functioning but is still at least alive, in front of the replaced "person", they will only shout "It's a mistake, it must be a mistake". Shouting loudly while escaping from reality.
Totally, totally not offensive.
This characteristic made Tang Nuo unable to tell which of the women gathered together was the real one, so he had no choice but to ask Bai Su.
What humans didn’t expect was that it wasn’t which one, but which ones.
"The mother and her son taking care of the children, the one picking vegetables over there... and the one knitting in the house."
After nodding four heads in a row, Bai Su continued to eat the orange with a vague mumble in his mouth: "There are only four that you can see here."
"..." A few drops of cold sweat flowed from Tang Nuo's forehead, "There are so many?"
"Hmm." His mouth bulged and the juice from the orange petals was licked off, "Is that too much?"
What Bai Su didn't tell the humans was that there were a few scattered in places other than this family's house.
After all, the main impression he left on humans was based on "seeing" rather than "smelling".
Tang Nuo's heartbeat suddenly accelerated a few minutes, beating fast enough for him to hear and catch. After a while, the young man with glasses calmed down.
He repeatedly recited the known reports in his mind. The replaced humans at this stage were not aggressive.
"You... noticed it outside?"
"The sweater guy happened to be passing by the door and saw it."
When humans thought about it, it seemed that such a thing had happened, but their attention was entirely on the middle-aged woman at the door. Who could have noticed it.
What's more, apart from Bai Su, they can't see it.
His eyes continued to wander back and forth on the several villagers who were named. In order not to make his behavior too abrupt, Tang Nuo also grabbed the fruit and silently peeled it open and ate it.
So, when Qi Zhuyue finally ended her pleasantries as "Wen Tao" and got away with the excuse of going to find her friends, she walked to the corner of the yard and saw people sitting on the left and right beside the small bench. Two people each took a piece of fruit and ate it.
...Judging from the peels on the ground, Bai Su must have eaten more. Tang Nuo just peeled off one and hasn't finished it yet.
"You!" Qi Zhuyue walked closer and lowered her voice, "I worked hard over there socializing, but you are eating here!"
There was a trace of exhaustion in the voice of the human woman. Today's social interaction was a bit too much for her. Even after more than ten years of blurry time, she could cope with many things by being unfamiliar and unable to remember, but communication Still the real deal.
There are no probing or disturbing words. Everyone who has met "Wen Tao" so far has indeed cared about her.
For example, "Wen Tao"'s uncle, after their team was divided into two groups, once again quietly said that in his place, the one with black hair could get extra points because he accompanied "Wen Tao" in, and that The point for leaving "Wen Tao" to accompany his younger brother was deducted.
"Wen Tao", who spent a second thinking about who her younger brother was, smiled awkwardly and decided to ignore this commonplace topic of urging marriage.
For the time being, she had nothing to do with Wen Jianyuan, who held the status of "her" elder.
Putting aside the strangeness last night, the middle-aged man is now an ordinary elder.
Not to the point of breaking out... not to the point of being chased by the whole village.
From the moment they realized that there was indeed something abnormal in Wenjia Village, becoming an enemy of the whole village might have been written in the future, it was just a matter of time.
Is it possible to reconcile with the villagers without using force? There should be some, but judging from the supernatural-related cases they have handled, it is difficult for blind villagers to listen to outsiders.
With his thoughts wandering a little too far, Qi Zhuyue moved a chair and sat down in front of Bai Su and Tang Nuo.
She also picked up an orange - the only one left on the fruit plate. She dug into the peel from the top and tore it apart.
Bai Su spoke abruptly: "I have found a being that I care about."
Then, he revealed his discovery to Qi Zhuyue in short and bright sentences. The human woman who stuffed an orange segment into her mouth was not expecting it, and her face twitched for a moment.
Immediately, she choked the orange pulp into her trachea.
He quickly waved his hand to the villagers who were looking at him with concern from a distance, and expressed with his squeezed eyebrows that he was just hurt.
Then she immediately turned around, lowered her head and widened her eyes: "Is there...?"
She gestured with the number four in front of her chest with her hands. Because her back was to the other villagers, no one except Bai Su saw this movement.
Qi Zhuyue was not only shocked but also shocked. She always felt that she learned the news too quickly.
Normally, shouldn't they first notice that the person in the room is abnormal, then go through some hardships and trials, and then come to a conclusion?
"It's a test." Bai Su finished the last orange, packed up the peeled peels, and put them back on the plate to be taken away. "I also looked at them for a while before I was sure."
"...Did I say what I said?"
"No, it's just that the expression on Miss Wen's face is so understandable, it's the same as when she was in Kangtai Mountain."
"Ah...you know that time..."
The human woman muttered something under Bai Su's gaze.
After a while, she touched her face and whispered: "Is it really easy to understand?"
Bai Su nodded solemnly: "Yes, his emotions are very obvious."
Qi Zhuyue struggled: "Is there any? No one else has said... my acting class..." I have never encountered a big Waterloo before meeting someone.
Qi Zhuyue struggled: "Is there any? No one else has said... my acting class..." I have never encountered a big Waterloo before meeting someone.
Bai Su and Qi Zhuyue exchanged words with each other, but Tang Nuo finally came out to stop them.
"Stop teasing her." The young man wearing glasses interrupted, then he turned to look at Qi Zhuyue, "Are you feeling better? I saw you were very nervous just now."
"Ah... much better."
Qi Zhuyue's expression paused as she realized that she had relaxed from the gag just now, and then whispered thank you to Bai Su.
Although they are chatting, it actually has no special purpose and is even a little bit to scare people. Bai Su:?
The inexplicable acceptance of thanks made the monster's senses towards humans a little more complicated.
After relaxing and calming down, Qi Zhuyue asked the same question as Tang Nuo: "Is this the existence Bai Su you said you care about outside?"
Bai Su had given Tang Nuo a yes answer before, but he was not in a hurry to speak now.
He thought about it just now, and he was still a little concerned about it.
Before his perception was fully developed, Bai Su's main ways of detecting abnormalities were through smell and vision.
And he now feels that besides the four people he has pointed out, there should be others.
The senses this existence gave him were strange... What did they look like?
Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly there was a noise in the distance that attracted most people's attention.
The hearing-impaired old man did not move. The middle-aged woman accompanying her stood up, as well as a circle of women of different ages sitting around.
The place where the noise came from was a little away from the yard where they were staying. There was a small door to pass through. Judging from the location, it was at the back of the entire house.
The middle-aged women and other onlookers rushed over, and the three people still sitting there also followed.
There were several people standing at the back of the house, near the side door.
The leading woman did not hesitate to lift the basin in her hand forward, and the water in it was directed toward the man standing opposite.
If the person hid, he could probably still avoid part of it, but the person on the other side didn't dodge at all.
"Get out!" Sharp words came out of the woman's mouth, "You are not welcome here!"
The young man who was splashed with water wiped his face twice. His clothes, which were not thick, clung to his body. More water flowed down his uncovered neck, making him tremble with the cold.
"I..." The voice of the young man with his head lowered was as loud as a mosquito, and he could only barely hear the first self-proclaimed person, "I just wanted to..."
As the young man spoke, he raised his head, exposing his face to everyone's view.
"hiss……"
Almost at the moment when the young man revealed his appearance, someone gasped in Bai Su's ear. Although it was short-lived, he was still caught by Bai Su.
He thought this was normal, nothing else, because the young man's face was a bit scary.
It's not that he is ugly. In terms of facial features, he can be said to be handsome. However, what really ruins his impression is the large shadow on his face.
Since the person was facing the light, he couldn't tell what the shadow was at first glance. After he got over the initial surprise and looked closer, he still couldn't tell whether the dark mass was an existing birthmark or a birthmark. Scar added later.
The only thing that can be determined is that the black shadow naturally occupies the left half of the young man's face, adding a bit of terror to his appearance that can frighten a child.
The quarrel ahead continued. It was said to be a quarrel, but in fact it was more like the unilateral venting and output of a woman who had splashed water. The abuse and similar insulting words in her mouth never stopped.
Occasionally, the young man would defend himself, but his rebuttal was pale and weak, and he soon fell under the aura of the woman who threw water.
The onlookers just stood and watched at first, but as the argument escalated, they gradually began to take sides.
Their sides were not very obvious. Most of them offered some words of advice, some to the women who threw water, and some to the young people. A small number of them showed disgust for the young people in their eyes, and they were secretly stirring up trouble and chasing people away.
Bai Su noticed that the distribution of the villagers was somewhat interesting.
The ones who helped the young man speak a little were the four people he had pointed out to humans before. The rest of the people had the opposite attitude.
This feature was also observed by the other two people.
"Are they..." Qi Zhuyue could not finish her small conversation.
A higher-pitched female voice let out a high-pitched scream: "I told you that you are not welcome here! It is my last mercy not to drive you out of the village!"
The male voice defended weakly: "...No...I just wanted to come..."
The young man's answer was a fragile object thrown to the ground.
At this time, Bai Su realized that the woman was holding a ceramic basin, which was very fragile.
The broken porcelain fragments shattered on the ground, and the flying fragments flew towards the young man unluckily. Fortunately, the sharp fragments only cut the cheek and did not hit any soft organs that should not have been stabbed.
A small cut was made on the right side of the young man's face, bright blood immediately flowed down, and he reacted to the pain.
The young man bit his lower lip, swallowed what he wanted to say before he turned around and left.
Instead of walking out the front door, he left dejectedly through the half-open back door.
When the woman who broke the basin saw that the person was leaving, she even spit in the direction of the person leaving.
Obviously, she hated the young man just now.
The two who were quarreling separated, and those who came to watch the fun or to break up the fight dispersed.
The middle-aged woman and Wen Jianyuan also walked towards Bai Su and the others. When they got closer, the middle-aged woman said sheepishly, "Sorry, I made you laugh."
Qi Zhuyue was stunned for a moment and waved her hands quickly: "No, no, we have to come through it ourselves..."
Oops, I was a guest at someone else’s house and witnessed something like this. It was so embarrassing.
Just when the human female was about to dig out the ground with her toes, she was tapped on the shoulder.
Qi Zhuyue turned her head and saw the black-haired young man making a gesture to her.
Qi Zhuyue: ...What do you mean?
The human woman's eyes were slightly confused. She looked at Tang Nuo, who had a similar reaction to her, but the black-haired young man who was slightly inferior at reading the air thought that the human understood.
Bai Su nodded, turned around and left.
The human thought he was going somewhere, but to his surprise, Bai Su didn't go to the door or the house, but to the courtyard wall.
After being stunned for two seconds, the human suddenly understood what Bai Su wanted to do.
...Don't just climb over the wall in front of outsiders!
Even if you are in a hurry!
(End of chapter)
