After the three of them got into the car, Village Chief Huo looked cautious.
"Sit down." Shen Yichen said.
"No, no, I'm dirty, so I'll just say it and leave." Village Chief Huo said.
When Chen Yuanyuan and Shen Yichen saw that he didn't sit down, they sat down first. The car was not big, so it couldn't be awkward for the three of them to stand.
Chen Yuanyuan didn't look at him as a criminal. He looked quite honest and didn't know what he would ask for.
"I hope this matter will not be reported to the authorities," Village Chief Huo said.
"Why? The situation here is quite serious, but some people should be able to be saved." Chen Yuanyuan said.
"I want them all to die." Village Chief Huo gritted his teeth and said bitterly.
Chen Yuanyuan was startled by the way he gritted his teeth, and was curious as to what could force an honest man to act like this.
"Can you tell me why? I need a reason." Shen Yichen said.
"They are all murderers!" Village Chief Huo told the two people about the past with red eyes.
Originally, Village Chief Huo was just an ordinary villager, not the village chief. He had been working in factories in other provinces before the end of the world.
In addition to the two elders in the family, there are his wife, children and sister.
Since his sister suffered from cerebral palsy due to a fever when she was young, in addition to the two elders working in farming, the whole family also relied on his meager income to support them.
Since the end of the world, he has been unable to return home. Village Chief Huo has been trying to find a way to return home, but it has been very difficult to survive.
But for the sake of his family, Village Chief Huo walked dozens of kilometers every day despite the extreme cold, just to see his family again. When he returned to the village, his whole body was scarred and covered with frostbite.
On the way back to the village, the strange thing was that the villagers didn't say hello to him, and even avoided his eyes, as if they had done something wrong.
When Village Chief Huo returned home, he found that his house was already empty. Even if he asked his neighbors, he would either stay behind closed doors or remain silent, which made him confused and even more anxious.
Village Chief Huo, who still couldn't find the reason, went to the original village chief's home to inquire, only to learn that his family members had all died six months ago.
"Xiao Huo, calm down first. No one wants this to happen." Seeing that he collapsed when he heard that his family was gone, the former village chief quickly comforted him.
"How did they leave?" Village Chief Huo held back his tears and asked after taking a deep breath.
"Your sister suddenly chased them with a knife. Your parents left on the spot. Your son was also seriously injured. We have tried our best, but it is a pity that the current medical conditions are not available," the former village chief said.
"Impossible! Impossible! My sister is very kind. She doesn't even dare to step on an ant! It's impossible for her to kill people," Village Chief Huo shouted excitedly.
"Everyone in our village knows this. Alas, please forgive me and accept the change," said the former village head.
"What about my wife?" Village Chief Huo was on the verge of collapse when he heard that they were all gone.
"Your wife ran away that night after the child left. I heard that a man came to pick her up." The former village chief said with a hint of regret in his eyes.
"Where are they buried?" Village Chief Huo asked with empty eyes.
"At the ancestral graves in the back mountain, please express your condolences and accept the change." said the former village head.
After village chief Huo learned about this, he went home in confusion. After calming down, he realized that something was wrong.
Village Chief Huo and his wife have a deep relationship. They have been childhood sweethearts since childhood, and they are not like such unkind people.
He didn't want to distrust his wife because of the few words of the former village chief, so he took advantage of the night to explore the tomb on the mountain.
After the inspection, he immediately discovered something was wrong. Although the bones of parents and children were stacked together and it was difficult to tell them apart, every bone was clean.
There is no cremation custom in this village. They have been buried in the ground for so many years. The corpses generally do not decay so quickly and cleanly, and it was still extremely cold at the time.
Village Chief Huo felt that the village must be hiding something from him. After taking a few days to collect his thoughts, he pretended to regain his composure and lurked in the village.
During this year, Village Chief Huo did good deeds in the village and quickly established a reputation in the village. He also secretly slowly uncovered the truth behind his family's death.
As Village Chief Huo gradually gained prestige in the village, the original village chief also gradually showed his long legs. During an official distribution of supplies, Village Chief Huo brought him down after revealing that he had enriched his own pockets.
When Village Chief Huo led the villagers to search the former village chief's home, they found only half of his wife's body in the basement.
When other villagers learned that Chief Huo had discovered his wife's body, they did not admit their crimes, but blamed everything on the former village chief.
At the urging of the villagers, the former village chief was tied to a wooden frame and burned alive. Before his death, he cursed the entire village.
"You're all going to die! You're all going to be roasted!"
Village Chief Huo originally believed the villagers' words and watched coldly as the former village chief was burned to death.
"Mom! Will we have meat to eat again later?" A child pointed at the former village chief who was being burned.
Village Chief Huo turned his head and saw that the child's mother had already covered the child's mouth and looked at Chief Huo with a look of horror.
It turned out that the former village chief took advantage of his absence to have an affair with his wife. After being discovered by his parents, he murdered his wife and imprisoned his wife in the basement as a plaything.
And his wife, after the former village chief got tired of playing with her, did not let her live.
"If I had found out earlier, my wife still had a way to survive. They were guilty, and I was guilty too!" Village Chief Huo collapsed and knelt on the ground crying.
Shen Yichen and Chen Yuanyuan didn't know what to say at this time. They waited quietly for him to vent his emotions before handing him a few pieces of paper.
"But we also have to report this situation." Shen Yichen said calmly.
"I thought about poisoning, and I also thought about killing people, but I can't kill this village alone. This virus is the only chance. I will end my life here, please." Village Chief Huo looked at Shen Yichen and Chen Yuanyuan with pleading eyes.
In the past few days, Village Chief Huo has been using different excuses to prevent them from burning the corpses. He even made up the idea that he had a way to trick them into officially resurrecting infected dead people, just to make the epidemic spread faster.
But I didn't expect that official people would pass through here and be killed by people infected with white lung disease.
"They are really cruel, what do you think?" Chen Yuanyuan gritted her teeth after hearing this, but after all, it was an official matter and could not be explained through personal feelings.
(End of chapter)
