Several students gathered in a crowd. In the middle of the crowd, Sun Zhibing, counselor of the scholastic school, looked serious: "What are you talking about? Zhao Qian is missing. How could a good living person disappear?"
In front of him, a female student wearing denim shorts and a girl in a short skirt both looked nervous.
The girl in denim shorts pointed to the other side of the lake and said: "When we walked there, we met a gardener cutting trees. Zhao Qian usually likes gardening the most. She said she wanted to go there to learn, so the two of us went somewhere else first. .”
"But when we came back, she was gone."
The girl in the short skirt added: "The other gardener has also disappeared, and even the potted plants he cut before have been moved away, so we suspect that Zhao Qian is in danger."
"Have you called?" Sun Zhibing looked anxious. He led the team out. If any students were in danger, he would be in big trouble.
"I called, but no one picked up." Several students said.
"Teacher Sun, don't worry, I've asked the villa staff to look for it." When such a big thing happened, Supervisor Wu rushed over as soon as possible.
She looked at the two girls hesitantly: "But are you sure you met a gardener?"
"Yes, he is wearing the uniform of your villa, holding a pair of big scissors, and is cutting trees." The girl in shorts said with certainty.
"But... we don't have any long-term gardeners at the villa. Usually every three months, we will find a professional gardener to cut it. The last time it was cut was half a month ago."
Manager Wu's words made a group of people look even more ugly.
So the gardener is a fake?
Then the possibility that he is a bad guy is even greater!
Another girl is missing. In this wilderness, everyone can almost imagine what kind of tragedy will happen.
At this time, Jiang Chen, who had been listening for a long time, suddenly walked up to him. He keenly caught a question. The other party wanted to kidnap a female student, so he could just take the person away with him. Why did he need to take away the cut potted plant?
"Zhang Lu, what do the potted plants you see look like?" he asked.
Everyone saw that it was Jiang Chen, and they were a little confused as to why he stood up at this time.
But Zhang Lu was already nervous and subconsciously replied: "It's a landscape tree that's as tall as a person. It should be a tree. Other plants can't grow this tall."
"One person is taller?" Supervisor Wu on the side heard this and subconsciously turned up the volume.
"What does Director Wu know?" Jiang Chen looked at her.
The other party was hesitant and didn't want to talk.
"Director Wu, something happened to my student in your villa. You'd better give me an explanation. Tell me what you know as soon as possible, otherwise the comrades from the Public Security Bureau will come to question you!" Sun Zhibing gritted his teeth and stared at Wu. The supervisor is like a furious beast.
Although he was usually a bit sophisticated, but now it was about the safety of his students, and the other party knew clearly but didn't want to say anything, he almost wanted to curse.
A group of students also looked over.
Manager Wu usually treats her subordinates harshly, like a majestic tigress, blaming the sky and the earth, but when faced with the questioning and stares from a group of outsiders, she also felt a little scared in her heart.
After all, she can't deduct these people's bonuses. Now that their companions are missing, it's hard to ensure that they don't do impulsive things.
"Don't get excited, everyone, I said, we don't have any landscape trees as tall as a person here, most of them are small potted plants."
"In addition, the last gardener who came here had an accident. He... died in the villa." She looked around a few times and whispered: "Everyone, please keep it a secret for me and let Butler Zhang know about this." One thing and I’m done.”
Has a gardener died in the villa?
Everyone was a little shocked when they heard the news rashly.
But what does this have to do with Zhao Qian’s disappearance?
"Director Wu, you don't want to say that my students were kidnapped by ghosts, do you?" Sun Zhibing's face was gloomy: "At this time, you are still joking with us?!"
Director Wu did not blame him for his attitude, but looked at everyone and shook his head with a wry smile: "You don't know that the gardener died in a strange way. He was pruning the willow trees by the lake that night and accidentally dropped his scissors."
"He first went to the villa's tool room to find a magnet fishing rope for fishing, and then went back to get swimming goggles. He told the tool room manager that the scissors were probably entangled in aquatic plants and the magnet couldn't pick them up, so he had to go down and fish them out by himself. .”
"But he never came back after leaving the tool room, and we only found his body in the water the next day."
"Do you know what's wrong with this?"
A group of students all frowned. At this time, Sun Zhibing's eyes widened in horror, and he said uncertainly: "If I remember correctly, in order to ensure safety, the lake water qualified for swimming must be free of aquatic plants."
"Yes, everything in our villa is done according to the highest standards. The water plants are cleaned every two days. It is impossible for grass to grow under the water that can entangle things!" Manager Wu said solemnly.
"The gardener died in a strange way. After his death, many strange things happened in the villa. Several guests and employees disappeared one after another. Some people said they had seen these missing people at night. They were planted in pots. Here, it’s made into a potted plant!”
Hearing Director Wu's words, everyone felt their hearts tremble.
Is there such a terrifying story in this place?
"But this is just a rumor. Since I came here, I haven't heard of anyone having an accident." Manager Wu smiled reluctantly: "Don't worry, everyone, the villa staff will definitely find your classmates."
When she was talking, Jiang Chen suddenly took a deep look at a place on the other side of the lake. He seemed to have discovered something, and sneaked over alone without alerting others.
…
On the other side, a girl in a short skirt was tied to a piece of wood, and the lower end of the piece of wood was inserted into a large pot filled with soil. She seemed to have been made into a potted plant.
The girl was Zhao Qian, and her whole body was shaking like a sieve.
In her sight, there were seven or eight potted plants similar to her own. The difference was that the people on these potted plants had long since died. Some of their bodies were rotting and smelly, and some of them were cut to pieces with bloody flesh.
A middle-aged man was holding a large pair of scissors, carefully cutting a "potted plant", and looking back at Zhao Qian from time to time.
The middle-aged man's gaze was as vicious as a poisonous snake. When he looked at it, Zhao Qian's body trembled violently, and her heart was filled with huge fear. Her face was covered with tears and she kept shouting.
"Help, help me, help me..."
Her voice was weak, because she had been shouting like this for more than half an hour, but her two companions came back and passed by this stretch of road before, but they didn't seem to see her.
"No need to shout. When I cut you into the most perfect piece of art, I will send you back so that your friends can take a good look at it." The middle-aged man clicked, cut off a finger, and turned to Zhao Qian and said .
His voice was very gentle, and as a master gardener, he had a high level of self-cultivation and temperament, but in Zhao Qian's ears, he was scarier than the devil!
