When Ma Huaiping and I came out this time, the town was already brightly lit, and all the shops on the street were open, and it looked quite lively.
This makes me somewhat strange. Could it be that all the people in this town are nocturnal animals? Sleep during the day and be active at night?
After walking around, I didn't find anything out of the ordinary. Apart from the fact that people in this town didn't go out during the day and only came out for activities at night, there didn't seem to be anything unusual about them.
But along the way, I always had a bad feeling, as if someone was always watching us secretly.
But I looked at Ma Huaiping. His expression was normal, and he obviously didn't notice.
I think this is probably because I can perceive things with my mind, and my consciousness is relatively sharper.
Thinking of this, I simply tried to slow down, then closed my eyes, and used my mind to sense the situation behind us.
The pedestrians coming and going on the street, as well as the lights on both sides, suddenly appeared clearly in my mind.
At the same time, I also sensed the young man who was following us and had been hiding in the crowd.
"Brother Li, what do you think?"
Ma Huaiping suddenly asked me, instantly interrupting my meditation.
I opened my eyes and glanced at him, and said with a normal expression: "There is someone who has been following us."
"who?"
When Ma Huaiping heard this, he quickly turned around and looked over.
As soon as the young man in the crowd saw us turning around, he ran away.
"Beichuan?"
Ma Huaiping suddenly let out a soft cry, and then quickly chased after him.
I originally wanted to tell Ma Huaiping first, then lead the other party into an alley and intercept him from both sides, but Ma Huaiping was directly exposed.
I had no choice but to catch up.
And what did he just say? Beichuan? Could it be the person from the Ma family team here, Wang Beichuan?
I was thinking about it in my mind and quickly chased after him.
Not long after, we caught up to a big river outside the town. This is a famous raging river in the Qinling Mountains. It is dozens of meters wide, very deep, and the current is very fast. It flows eastward along the Qinling Mountains, and finally It flows into the Yellow River.
The Tao River is rich in fish and shrimp. There are many fishermen along both sides of the Tao River who make a living on it, which can be regarded as raising a lot of people. Therefore, the Tao River is also known as the Little Mother River here.
I thought that after chasing me here, the other person must be unable to escape, but to my surprise, the person actually jumped into the raging river without hesitation.
But before jumping down, he looked back at us.
I could see the tension and fear on his pale face, as if Ma Huaiping and I were both ghosts.
"Beichuan."
Ma Huaiping shouted again, and then chased directly to the edge of the Tao River.
But when we ran over, there was only the rushing river in front of us, and the people had long since disappeared.
"What did you... call... call him just now? Is it Wang Beichuan?"
I glanced at Ma Huaiping and asked out of breath.
"It's him, there's no mistake."
Ma Huaiping calmed down for a while, then frowned and said with great certainty.
"Didn't I say that Wang Beichuan is already here?"
When I heard this, I frowned again.
This thing is really weird.
"I don't know either."
Ma Huaiping shook his head and said: "Maybe he is still alive, maybe what we saw just now was his ghost."
"If he's a ghost, then I'm afraid everyone in this town is."
I said calmly.
I just saw that he was no different from the people in the town. That was definitely not what a ghost should look like.
"Beichuan is still alive. It's possible that Shaoyang mistakenly thought he was dead."
Ma Huaiping thought for a while and then said.
He still didn't tell me about his suspicion of Wang Shaoyang.
"Then I'm afraid he's really dead now."
I said and looked at the fast-flowing river in front of me.
"Won't."
Ma Huaiping shook his head and said with certainty: "If Beichuan is still alive, then he will not die. He grew up on the edge of the Yellow River and is the person with the best water skills in our team. This little water flow is not good for him." It doesn’t matter, but why did he run away when he saw me?”
At this point, Ma Huaiping also fell into huge doubts.
Of course I can't figure it out, because I don't know the relationship between the people in the Ma family team, but no matter how I think about it, if Wang Beichuan is still alive, he shouldn't just run away when he sees Ma Huaiping, right?
Unless Ma Huaiping seems to want his life.
But I think this possibility is almost impossible, because the last time it was Ma Sanye, Wang Shaoyang, and Wang Beichuan who came here together. If Wang Beichuan ran away when he saw Wang Shaoyang, then there is this possibility.
After all, Ma Sanye died and Wang Beichuan didn't go back. It's hard to say exactly what happened. I'm afraid only Wang Shaoyang knows what happened?
If you think so, then there must be something wrong with Wang Beichuan.
Either he was stimulated or frightened in some way and had mental problems, or there was something wrong with him.
It's really hard to guess. If I had caught him just now, I would probably know what was going on by asking.
Unfortunately, there is no such opportunity now.
"If something goes wrong with one of Shaoyang and Beichuan, who do you think is more likely?"
Ma Huaiping suddenly lit a cigarette and turned to ask me.
"You should have the answer in your mind."
I also lit a cigarette and said calmly.
"Of course I do, but there is a problem, because we are all acquaintances, you know, acquaintances. At this time, the subconscious will tend to tend to the person who has a good relationship with oneself, and thus doubt the person with whom one has a more normal relationship. That person, it affects a person’s good judgment.”
Ma Huaiping fell into deep thought as he spoke.
"Um."
I nodded. His point of view is quite good. Being able to realize this shows that he is also a smart person.
"So I want to hear your opinion. After all, you are an outsider and don't know them. I think you should be able to make a more judgement."
Ma Huaiping looked at me and said.
"I have a point."
I nodded and said, "The great detective Sherlock Holmes said that regardless of all the impossibilities, whatever is left, no matter how unbelievable, is the truth."
"who?"
Ma Huaiping suddenly frowned, obviously he had never heard of this name.
"Detective Sherlock Holmes, that's a book, you probably haven't read it."
I said and spread my hands, "Three people came here together. Two died, one disappeared, and only one returned to Fengshui Ridge. Now suddenly another person came back from the dead. Of course, there is something wrong with this person. But only if he is normal."
"I see."
When Ma Huaiping heard this, he suddenly nodded.
Now I was stunned. I was thinking that I haven't even finished speaking yet. What did you understand?
"Go back quickly."
As Ma Huaiping said this, he put out his cigarette and quickly turned around and ran back.
