The white-bearded old man watched helplessly as his son walked further and further away, his figure becoming increasingly blurry. He shook his head and let out a long sigh.
After sighing, he turned around again, looked at the strong man and said: "This strong man and all my friends have made you laugh!"
"As for Quanzi, I'm just worried that if you don't believe us and are unwilling to listen to us, then not only will you be in danger, but it may even affect other people in our village."
"This kind of thing has happened many times before, including Quanzi's best friend. Therefore, his attitude towards outsiders like you is not very good. Please forgive me."
Facing the white-bearded old man's apology, the brawny elder brother sneered and said, "What? You two are just playing a double act here? One is a good person, and the other is a bad person. You think we are easy to fool, don't you?"
He pointed to the rice fields on the side and said, "Do you want to look at these rice fields? Are you talking nonsense again? If your village is very dangerous, every villager will only think about how to survive. Then what are these rice plants? Who planted it?”
"Do you want to go and see how well these rice plants are growing? How could they grow like this without careful care? If so, as you said, your village is very dangerous. People often die. If you are not careful, you will grow small. Your life is at risk, but you still have the heart to take good care of the rice?"
Faced with the strong man's questioning, the white-bearded old man was not angry, but shook his head and said: "I have said before, we have found a way, and as long as we follow our way, we can avoid the danger temporarily. "
"As for the rice, that's because the people in our village can't go out, so we have to pay for everything ourselves. If we don't take good care of the rice, we will most likely starve to death!"
"Can't you get out?" The strong man laughed angrily at him. He pointed to the road behind and said angrily: "Of course you can't get out. You blocked the road like that. How can you?" You’ll see hell if you get out!”
"Now that we have cleared the road, you can go out. Just go from here. Get out!"
"Tuk! Tuk! Tuk!" The crutch in the old man's hand tapped on the ground under his feet a few times, and then pointed behind the strong man's brother with the crutch, then pointed behind himself, and still said patiently: "This The road originally came from outside the mountain, passed through our village, and went to the other side of the mountain."
"But ever since those weird things happened, this road can no longer be exited! No matter which end you go from, you will come out from the other end. If you walk around, you will find that you can never leave our village."
"There is no way out of this road. No matter how you go, you will come back here."
Listening to the white-bearded old man's words, except for Wang Yu and others, everyone else had expressions of disbelief on their faces.
If you can't walk out of the way, walking around will only lead you back to the starting point. How can there be such a weird thing in this world?
To be honest, it is still possible to encounter a ghost and be trapped somewhere late at night.
But in broad daylight, with the sun shining brightly and all kinds of evil being warded off, how could there be a way out that I couldn't get out of?
Isn't this outrageous?
The strong man felt that the old man was just making things up to scare him. Although he didn't know what good it would do to the old man, that's how he felt.
He tapped the old man with his hand and said angrily: "Old man! I have been listening to your nonsense here for so long, and now you are just talking nonsense to me, right?"
"There's no way out. No matter how you go, you'll end up back here. You're talking nonsense. It's enough for you to lie to a three-year-old child, but you're here to lie to us? Are you treating me like a three-year-old child? ah?"
The white-bearded old man wanted to defend himself, but Wang Yu said directly: "You are arguing verbally, and no one can convince the other. What is there to argue about?"
"This matter is very simple! Wouldn't it be great if someone comes and practices it?"
"Since the old man said he can't get out, then find someone to let him go. If he gets out, it means he is lying; if he can't get out, it means he is not lying. How simple is this!"
The strong man scratched his head and felt that what the evil star said made sense, so he looked at his second brother and said, "You are right! In this way, second brother, you are waiting, if it takes just a stick of incense , I haven’t come back yet.”
"That means that this old man is just alarmist and deceiving us. This old man is so old. If we beat him, it would not be good if he is beaten to death directly."
"Go to their house and pick up some of their valuable things. Then walk along the road. I'll wait for you in front."
Then, he looked at the white-bearded old man and said in an aggressive tone: "Old man, didn't you say that your gold, silver and jewelry are useless? Then give me your valuable things, I will use them! What? You can't bear to part with them? You just said Are all your words false?"
The white-bearded old man shook his head, sighed, and said: "What I said is true! Since you insist on trying, then just walk along the road and never go into the woods next to it."
"If it takes a stick of incense, you haven't come back yet. Of course, the premise is that you must walk as fast as possible instead of walking slowly on the road and deliberately delaying time."
"Then you ask your brother to go to my house and take whatever he likes. As long as it is not food, clothing, or use, these are the necessities of life, and other things can be taken away."
"But if, within the span of a stick of incense, you walk from the front and come back from the back. That means I didn't lie to you. Please convince others. You must follow our arrangements."
"Okay! It's a deal!" The strong man was very happy, and sighed in his heart, he survived a catastrophe, and he will be lucky in the future!
Unexpectedly, I just wandered around the gate of hell, and so soon, someone took the initiative to give me money.
He agreed, opened his thick and long legs, and ran forward.
The old man's worry just now was completely unnecessary. The strong man didn't even think that there was such a weird way in the world. He decided that the old man was lying to them.
So he never thought about dawdling on the road and deliberately delaying time.
Everyone's attention is on the strong man.
They watched with their own eyes as his figure became smaller and smaller in front of them, and finally disappeared.
Seeing his brother's figure disappearing in front of him, the brawny second brother immediately felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart. He felt that he could go to this old man's house and get something for nothing.
Unexpectedly, after a while, everyone heard a frightened scream coming from behind.
Hearing the more familiar shouts, except for the villagers and Wang Yu, everyone else's scalp went numb instantly.
Especially the brawny second brother, he could tell that this was his brother's voice!
The strong man was full of confidence when he first started running, but after running for a while, he realized something was wrong.
The rice fields on both sides of the road disappeared and turned into familiar woods.
At that time, he was still trying to comfort himself in his mind, saying that these woods were all like this, and there was nothing strange about them.
Until he ran a little further and saw a group of people in front of him. Although he couldn't see these people clearly, he could see the donkey cart at a glance!
It's that family's donkey cart!
His heart suddenly rose, and his steps slowed down instantly.
From running wildly, I have become slowly moving forward step by step.
And no matter how slow his speed was, as he continued to move forward, the scene in front of him became clearer.
When he saw clearly that the people in front of him were the people who had just been standing with him, the heart he was still holding on collapsed in an instant.
"Ah!!!" The strong man couldn't suppress the fear in his heart and shouted out all at once.
At the same time, cold sweat broke out on his forehead all of a sudden, his heart was beating "thump, thump, thump", and he felt goosebumps all over his body.
Hearing this shout, the brawny second brother turned around stiffly like the others and looked behind him.
