"Grandpa, I'm back!"
While Qianye was thinking.
Another girl's voice came from outside the door.
He sounded about sixteen or seventeen years old. Qianye turned around and saw a girl wearing a gray linen shirt standing at the door, staring at him curiously.
In the opponent's hand, he was also holding a small bag of something that he couldn't see what it was...
"You're back? How many potatoes did Aniel ask for today?"
Seeing the girl coming back, the old man's wrinkled face also put on a smile.
The girl named Anier heard this and picked up the pocket in her hand, nodded and replied: "Quite a few, more than a dozen."
All right.
Qianye knew what was in that pocket.
It turned out that I went to dig potatoes in the mountains...
At the same time, he also overturned previous speculations.
There are indeed three people living in this house, but the other one is not the strong man he thought, but a girl.
"The Sword Comes"
"Hello?"
When the host's family came back, Qianye also greeted them symbolically.
"Aniel, this is a visitor to our village from outside. The guests who have just arrived at our house, please say hello and get to know each other."
The old man reminded the girl with a smile.
Aniel has grown up in this mountain since she was a child, and it is difficult to see outsiders. When she meets Qianye, she is inevitably a little curious and slow.
Similarly, she and the little girl were also very interested in the wheelchair under Qianye...
Glancing over from time to time.
"Hello......"
She spoke in a low voice, and it was obvious that she was not a carefree girl.
"Aniel, go and put these potatoes away."
The old man talked to the girl.
This also gave Aniel, whose eyes had been fixed on Qianye, something to do, and she nodded and walked towards the inner room.
When lowering the curtain.
Qianye also noticed that Anile looked at him twice.
I couldn't help but feel a little strange inside.
"Am I that good-looking... I turn around every time I take a step."
Of course, he didn't think too much about it and just thought it was Aniel's curiosity about strangers. After all, he had experienced the same look on the little girl.
Eat the potatoes.
Qianye was also ready to say thanks and leave.
He rummaged through his body but couldn't find anything good, so he finally took out the two small bags of melon seeds he had used to greet Su Zao last night from his pocket and handed them to the old man.
"Grandpa, I'm going back. There are some snacks here. I thought I could leave some for your granddaughter."
"No, no, no, there's no need to go to such trouble. If you're hungry and have nothing to eat, you can come to me. It just so happens that no one else has been here for a long time. I also want to find someone to talk to, so I'm polite and I'll see you outside."
The old man tried to push the melon seeds back.
But Qianye felt that it was not good for people living in such a living environment to eat other people's food for nothing. Besides, it was only two bags of melon seeds, which couldn't be left behind, so he felt a little sorry.
"Don't push it. I have a lot. I'll talk to you another day."
Qianye put the melon seeds on the table and didn't want to stay any longer. There was a group of students in his yard. It would be troublesome to go back to teach after being delayed for a long time.
The old man didn't stay.
I just looked at Qianye’s leaving figure and watched him leave with kind eyes...
"By the way, young man, remember what I told you. If you need anything, just come to the old man directly. The other people in the village have not very good personalities."
Before leaving.
The old man warned again.
This made Qianye, who was already feeling strange, feel a little weird.
It’s okay to say this again.
How come you caught a foreigner and kept telling others not to look for other villagers?
It's weird no matter how you look at it.
Qianye looked back at the old man, really puzzled by his instructions...
"Something's wrong."
He was wary in his heart.
I was thinking about this on the way back to the yard.
The road was bumpy and full of potholes, and Qianye had not yet calmed down when he arrived at the entrance of the courtyard.
"Hello teacher......"
The person who interrupted Qianye's thoughts was the shy boy wearing glasses.
He sat in the corner of the yard with his head lowered, greeting her very shyly, just like a young lady.
"..."
Qianye didn't know what to respond.
He was afraid that if he said the wrong thing, the child would be so shy that he would hide in the grass.
So in the end I had to take a quick look and entered the yard...
...
...
The moon and stars are sparse.
The sky in the distance was covered with a thin black veil.
Even before it's completely nighttime, you can already see many stars twinkling in the sky when you look up.
The night wind stirred the sand and stones and moved them gently.
The students had already sat in the courtyard at the appointed time...
At a glance.
It was obvious that some people were not feeling well. It was probably because they were unlucky enough to find nothing when they were asked to find food today, so they are still hungry now.
Qianye pushed his wheelchair out of the house.
He glanced down casually.
Thinking about the question mentioned by the boy with glasses this morning, I was ready to explain the first one to everyone.
He has little teaching experience...
I don’t understand teaching at all.
So we can only do it like this first.
As for whether he understood or not, he had no choice.
Anyway, he did his best to do things. If he still didn't know everything after giving the lecture, he wouldn't feel too guilty in his heart.
"An Zhi asked me to come. I'm not a teacher at all."
Qianye comforted himself in this way.
only.
Just when he was about to start giving a lecture, someone from the bottom of the courtyard raised his hand and looked at him with a confused and helpless expression.
"What's wrong?"
"Old, teacher...my sister hasn't come yet. She said she was looking for food before, but now she's gone and I can't get through on the phone."
The person who asked the question actually knew Qianye before.
It was Zhang Wen who had his arm broken by a ghost in the "apartment building" and then fainted once.
The sister he said was missing.
That was Zhang Yunxia who was holding him and crying...
Although Qianye didn't have a good impression of these two siblings, he was still somewhat impressed.
The first thing I remembered was who it was.
"disappeared?"
"Yes, after class this morning, didn't everyone go to find something to eat... My sister asked me to wait for her here. She went to the canteen to see if she could buy something, but there was nothing there. return."
Hear the words.
Qian Zhi thought for a moment.
He did not find Zhang Yunxia in the crowd. It was almost evening. If he went out in the morning, there was no reason why he hadn't come back at this time.
"Li Jing, Zhao Dandan, have you seen Zhang Yunxia?"
Thinking that someone in the crowd knew Sister Zhang Wen and had interacted with him at that time, Qianye thought about asking other people.
"No......"
only.
Anyone who had an impression of Zhang Yunxia said they had never seen each other.
What a wonderful person.
It disappeared so strangely.
"Hey, this village is in the wilderness. It takes a long time to walk before you can see a house. Do you think his sister is lost?"
"I think it's possible. When I went out, I planned to find a place in the woods for convenience, but I didn't expect that after finishing the convenience, I couldn't remember which direction I came in... Fortunately, the woods were not big, and I came from another place. One location came out.”
"No, if you get lost, you won't be able to get through the phone, right?"
"You're stupid. If the phone runs out of battery or is accidentally lost, why won't the call be blocked?"
"Too......"
"Why don't we all go out and search together while it's not completely dark yet? It's going to be night soon. What's going to happen if a girl gets lost outside?"
"I think we should also call the police while searching. After all, there is strength in numbers..."
"..."
There are people discussing below.
Qianye's face didn't look very good.
Taking advantage of the gap when no one was paying attention, he quietly asked "Xie Aishan" who lived in the gourd: "Have you noticed that girl before? Is there any way you can find her location?"
"So, everyone has been... noted down by me. The one you mentioned, I, I don't know who it is... more than one person is missing."
Xie Aishan stuttered in reply.
Hear the words.
Qianye suddenly raised his head and scanned the people below again.
Counted carefully.
Sure enough, as Xie Aishan said, there is more than one missing person!
Although Qianye didn't recognize most of the faces, he remembered clearly that there were forty-five students in total this morning.
But now.
No matter how you count, there are only thirty-nine, and six people are missing...
Zhang Wen's sister Zhang Yunxia.
He is just one of these six people.
"You guys should be quiet first and look at each other to see if the people around you this morning are still here."
Qianye asked everyone to observe first.
He still doesn't know which ones are missing.
Since most of the people are strangers to each other, and some people were asked to make desks and chairs before they could make them, Zhang Wen is currently the only one who has discovered that his sister is missing.
Hearing Qianye's instructions.
Everyone looked around.
And this observation confirmed that what Xie Aishan said was correct...
"Teacher, I remember there was a middle-aged uncle next to me, but I can't find him now."
"Me too. Behind me is a young man with a mole on the corner of his mouth, and he's not here either."
"There should be a fat woman on my left...I don't see where she is now..."
"Damn it! I'm here! Who are you calling a fat woman, you bastard?"
"..."
Although the process was a bit hiccup.
But after a while.
Qianye still managed to determine what the missing person looked like...
Four men and two women.
This is the configuration of the missing person.
After realizing that so many people were missing, everyone was no longer as relaxed as before. Everyone looked a little nervous and realized something was wrong.
"I...I'm a little scared. Is...could there be a ghost?"
"What the hell?! This is reality, not that scary world. Don't be so scary!"
"Hey, didn't the guy with glasses before say that there was something supernatural? He said that ghosts could pass through that world and come to us..."
"Go away! If you want to be scared, just run to the other side and be scared. Don't scare me here!"
Seeing everyone's emotions being stirred up.
Everyone started to discuss in a panic whether it was the discovery of a supernatural event, which gave Qianye a headache.
Having more people is not a benefit...
For example, what you are saying to each other now is as noisy as the square dancing ladies doing activities downstairs in the early morning. It is really noisy and makes my ears hurt.
"Quiet."
Qianye stopped him again.
He let out a heavy breath.
I always feel like there is some kind of trouble for these people...
In fact, everyone guessed it right.
There is indeed an unclean smell lingering in this place. This is what Xie Aishan told Qianye just now. Maybe there is actually a supernatural infiltration incident.
And those who are missing.
It is estimated that we have encountered an accident now, and we are not sure about our safety at the moment. I don’t know whether we can be saved or not...
"It's true that we have entered a circle, and those things that will more or less accidentally bump into this circle..."
Qianye didn't understand why he could get into trouble.
He was a little upset.
I was so upset that I wanted to just tell An Yue that I quit, and I wanted to go home and take a nap!
But now comes the thing.
It didn't help that he was upset.
We can only resist hard first and then solve it...
Shaking his head, Qianye wanted to relax his mind and start thinking about what was wrong in this village from beginning to end, and under what circumstances those guys would provoke ghosts.
And with this thought, an old man looking at him with a smile appeared in Qianye's mind.
And the other party’s inexplicable words to remind me...
"Does the missing person have something to do with the old man?"
Qianye doesn’t know.
He didn't know whether it was the old man who gave him potatoes or other villagers who said he had a bad temper who did this.
Hesitated.
He felt that before taking action to find those students.
It's better to go find the old man...
Just do it.
It was getting dark now, and Qianye didn't have much time to delay.
He looked at the people in the yard with mixed and fearful expressions, and said, "There's something wrong with this. Just wait for me here. If you don't want to die, don't run around."
Finished.
He turned to Li Jing and asked, "Do you still have the big knife I gave you before?"
"Ah?" Li Jing didn't quite understand what happened. She nodded in response to Qianye's question in a strange way: "Yes, I have it with me."
"That's good. If something special happens later, you can use that big knife."
Qianye replied.
"Is it true that a ghost appears?"
Li Jing reacted and asked.
Just for that.
Qianye didn't have much intention to answer...
Among these guys, Li Jing is currently the only one with the source of the curse, and he basically doesn't understand anything.
It is completely unnecessary to explain everything to them before and after. Instead of explaining that there may be something strange, it is better to directly say that there is a ghost.
At least it could scare them.
Let them not dare to run around alone, and everyone should huddle together...
Therefore, Qianye answered Li Jing's words with a cold expression: "Yes, there is a ghost."
He didn't wait for everyone to react after hearing this.
Qianye quickly pushed the wheelchair out of the yard and walked towards the old man's house.
Before leaving the yard of course.
He also separated about fifty strange insects from his body and kept them in this place to avoid being robbed when he went to fight in a team battle...
Far away.
Qianye could still hear the sounds of people crying out of fear, echoing in the yard and spreading into the mountains and fields...
