The two people who were squatting by the window trembled like birds startled by the twang of a bow.
"You mean that anyone related to Old Madam He's disappearance will become its target? But I think everyone in the village has eaten meat." Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows and made a throat-slitting gesture. "Then tomorrow, will everyone in the village …"
Si Yu said, "Not everyone. At least Xu Hao won't die."
"Him?"
Si Yu said, "Use your brain. I just told him that Old Madam He's corpse was hidden in her stomach."
Gu Xizhou said, "Can't you just tell me?"
Si Yu said, "No."
Gu Xizhou thought for a while and said, "I remember now. He said that he didn't eat human flesh, so he can't be considered a corpse hider."
"Okay."
As they spoke, the two people next door saw the window being pushed open and a familiar face appeared.
"You two ostriches. Are you done trembling?" Gu Xizhou asked bluntly.
Yu Yizhou and Xiao Nan heard Gu Xizhou and Si Yu talking, so they weren't so nervous. "Okay, much better. Are you all okay?"
"We're fine."
"That's good. That's good. What happened in your room just now?"
Gu Xizhou glanced at Fang Zhi, who was still in a daze. He didn't know how to fool him. After entering Lin Meng's room, Si Yu said that Fang Zhi's item could easily be coveted by others, so it was best to keep it a secret.
Seeing that they didn't answer his question, although Yu Yizhou was very curious, he didn't continue to ask. Just now, thanks to them saving him and Xiao Nan, Yu Yizhou realized one thing from the joy of surviving a disaster — —
His desire to live was so strong that when he was lying on the hospital bed, he even wanted to go abroad for euthanasia. But today, he was glad that he was still alive.
He looked at the red numbers in the empty space strangely. As long as he kept escaping from the task world, it meant that he could live forever. Would anyone be willing to give up eternal life and choose death?
No, no one would want to die.
"They won't be coming back tonight." Si Yu continued, "Let's all go to sleep."
The five of them returned to their rooms. Fang Zhi held the small round mirror in his palm and rubbed it with his thumb. It was this small round mirror that had saved them.
"Keep this item with you and don't tell anyone about it. Once the owner dies, these items will become ownerless," Si Yu warned. "It's too easy to kill someone in the mission world."
Gu Xizhou nodded in agreement.
For example, in the previous world, if they hadn't told those people the rules of the path of death, most of them would have died.
"I know. Thank you, Si Ge," Fang Zhi whispered.
"Alright, let's go to sleep," Si Yu continued. "I need to sort out the information I've gathered over the past few days."
The next morning, Gu Xizhou and the others were just sitting downstairs for breakfast when they heard urgent knocks on the door.
They looked at each other and looked at the bright white sky outside. It shouldn't be the old man or the pig-headed monster knocking on the door.
Gu Xizhou asked, "Who is it?"
The person outside didn't answer.
They packed up briefly and Gu Xizhou opened the door. The person outside took two steps back and looked at Gu Xizhou carefully. Then, he rushed into the demolition office and hid under the desk nervously.
"What's wrong with you? Why are you suddenly at the demolition office? "
"Don't be afraid. Did something happen outside?"
Xu Hao didn't say anything. He just pointed outside with a frightened expression.
"Xu Hao?" Xiao Nan raised her eyebrows. "What's wrong with him?"
"I don't know." Gu Xizhou shook his head and continued, "No matter how we asked, he didn't answer. I'll go out and see what's going on."
Fang Zhi hurriedly said, "Gu Ge, I'll go with you."
"Sure," Gu Xizhou responded. He said to Si Yu beside him, "I'll be back soon. Keep an eye on him."
Si Yu waved his hand, indicating for Gu Xizhou to rest assured. After Gu Xizhou left, the streets were empty like yesterday. Fang Zhi looked around vigilantly and finally saw a figure.
Gu Xizhou teased, "Looks like they're not all dead."
"Yeah." Fang Zhi was already used to Gu Xizhou's way of speaking and nodded. Fang Zhi quickly caught up with the person in front of him. Gu Xizhou noticed that after Fang Zhi called out to the woman, he suddenly took two steps back with a frightened expression. The woman who was talking to Fang Zhi had her back to him and turned to leave.
Gu Xizhou quickly held him and asked, "What's wrong?"
Seeing Fang Zhi's hesitant expression, Gu Xizhou turned to look at the woman who hadn't gone far. He patted his shoulder and said, "Let's go. We'll talk as we walk."
After Gu Xizhou finished speaking, he supported Fang Zhi and turned to leave. Fang Zhi looked back at the woman's receding figure and said, "There's a hole in her stomach."
Gu Xizhou was stunned. Then he met a few villagers who were in the same situation as the woman. He already had an answer in his heart.
"These people's stomachs have been dug out. Their intestines are gone too."
As for where it was, he already had an answer.
Gu Xizhou knocked on the door of the demolition office. "It's me, Gu Ran. Open the door. We're back."
"Okay!" Yu Yizhou responded and hurriedly ran over to open the door.
Gu Xizhou noticed that inside the office, Xu Hao was hugging his knees and trembling as he squatted on the floor of the office.
Si Yu asked Gu Xizhou, "What's the situation outside?"
"Those villagers all have holes in their stomachs."
"…"
Gu Xizhou's words were light as a feather, but it directly made Xiao Nan break down emotionally. "We're definitely going to die. This time, we can't escape no matter what we say … we can't escape …"
Gu Xizhou was slightly impatient. Why was it that he always met his teammates who broke down emotionally? He really didn't want to comfort these people. However, even though Fang Zhi was very scared, he still patiently comforted Xiao Nan and helped him with his work.
"Now that everyone in the village is dead, what should we do tonight?" Yu Yizhou asked softly.
Si Yu glanced at him and said meaningfully, "Not all of them are dead."
Yu Yizhou suddenly felt a chill down his spine. He glanced at the pitiful Xu Hao who was sitting on the floor and trembling pitifully. His mouth moved, but he didn't say anything.
Gu Xizhou glanced at Si Yu and teased, "As expected, he's a werewolf."
Si Yu said, "… He's just an NPC. When necessary, it's better for him to die than for us to die. Also, everyone else is dead, but that old man still has resentment. Didn't you think of something?"
Xiao Nan was at a loss.
Yu Yizhou and Fang Zhi said in unison, "Xu Hao isn't a witness. He's the murderer. Did he conspire with Tu Fu?"
Gu Xizhou was silent for a moment and shook his head. "You reminded me. The murderer is Xu Hao, not Tu Fu. Also, they didn't conspire.
"Do you remember Lin Hao? On the day of Lin Hao's death, Xu Hao saw Lin Hao's corpse. We saw a pig. It was only after he told us that we saw the real scene.
"After Tu Fu died, his head was replaced with a pig's head. It was a hint that Tu Fu had a pig's brain."
Si Yu nodded and tacitly continued Gu Xizhou's words. "Yes, that's what it meant. Tu Fu saw the same thing as us. In his eyes, Lin Hao's corpse was a pig, not a human. He didn't know that he sold human flesh, and the villagers didn't know either.
"But Xu Hao knew. Then why did Xu Hao know that Tu Fu sold human flesh? Have you thought about it? "
Si Yu's hint stopped there. Yu Yizhou pointed at the madman on the floor in fear. "Xu Hao did something behind the scenes!"
Si Yu nodded. "That's just our guess. Capture him. We'll go find that thing together."
The five of them tied Xu Hao up and brought him to the old man. Gu Xizhou nodded at Si Yu. Si Yu went forward to knock on the door.
"Have you found my partner?"
The old man who walked out also had a hole in his stomach. This meant … he had eaten the flesh as well.
Gu Xizhou pushed Xu Hao to the old man's side and said, "Okay, stop wasting time. He's your partner's murderer. I'll give him to you. Hurry up and take out the props!"
The old man looked deeply at Gu Xizhou. The next moment, a pig-headed monster holding a cleaver pushed open the old man's door and walked out. It picked up Xu Hao like a little piglet and brought him in.
Then, there was the sound of a pig being slaughtered and the sound of a cleaver cutting into bone.
"Ka ka ka."
"Isn't … isn't this too cruel?" Yu Yizhou swallowed. Seeing Xu Hao's expression of despair, he couldn't bear it.
"Cruel?" Xiao Nan sneered. "When you see … those memories behind the door, you'll know that this isn't cruel at all. It's just retribution."
The old man took out a few crumpled pieces of paper from his bag. Gu Xizhou glanced at them casually. There were about seven or eight pieces. The old man gave one to each of Gu Xizhou and the others. Just as he was about to put the remaining two pieces back into his pouch … someone snatched them from him.
The old man looked down at his empty palms. "???"
"Give me the extra ones. You don't need them anyway." Gu Xizhou snatched the extra two pieces of paper from the old man's hands.
The old man: "…"
Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows. "You have a problem with that?"
The old man: "…"
Yu Yizhou and Xiao Nan felt a little nervous.
Gu Xizhou opened the paper. It was a blank missing-person notice that could be filled in. There was still space for a photo on the front.
"What's the use of this?" Gu Xizhou waved the blank missing-person notice in his hand and asked.
The old man revealed a kind smile. "Missing-Person notices are used to find people, of course."
The old man said this matter-of-factly. Not only that, but his tone was also somewhat mocking. After he finished speaking, the old man's body gradually collapsed and a door appeared in front of them.
"Why do I feel like it's teasing us? A few pieces of missing-person notices count as props? "Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows.
"Okay, let's leave first."
"That's the only way. I didn't expect Xu Hao to be the murderer." Gu Xizhou glanced at the blood that flowed from the old man's door to the wooden door. He turned the handle and walked in.
"Cough, cough, cough, cough." Gu Xizhou glanced at his withered and yellow hands. After going through so many doors, he knew that he was now possessing the old man's body.
The old man was cooking. The oil and smoke made him very uncomfortable. He heard the noise outside and hurriedly said to the old woman outside, "Don't worry, don't worry. We'll be able to eat soon."
The old man said cheerfully. Gu Xizhou could clearly feel the old man's mood … It was very sweet. He had never despised his wife because of her dementia.
He loved her very much.
Every small detail showed the old man's love for his wife.
His wife didn't know how to cook or wash clothes. In that era, women like her were rarer than pandas, but the old man didn't mind. He could do all the housework.
He and Old Madam He fell in love freely. They met in the production team and gradually got married and had children. They never quarreled or had red eyes.
That day, after cooking, Mo Jiaqing called his wife to eat. Mo Jiaqing discovered that his wife was missing and anxiously went out to ask around. However, he couldn't find Old Madam He. His son and daughter had already returned home. The old man blamed himself and cried.
"It's all my fault. I didn't look after her properly. That's why she went missing." The old man cried. "I don't know if she's eaten now. Is she hungry or cold …"
"Dad, mom has the contact number of our family in her pocket. Don't worry too much. Someone will send her back." Mo Jiaqing's son comforted his father.
Gu Xizhou guessed that Old Madam He died on the day she went missing. Time suddenly fast-forwarded. Half a year after Old Madam He went missing. Mo Jiaqing's son and daughter wanted their father to move in with them, but Mo Jiaqing refused.
"No, I won't move. What if your mom comes back and can't find me?" The old man used this reason to refuse his children. His son and daughter couldn't come back often because of work. They were more or less in a difficult position, but they couldn't win against the old man's stubbornness. In the end, they chose to compromise.
Then, time jumped. Gu Xizhou saw the people from the demolition office find the old man again and again. They even called the old man's son and daughter to try to persuade him to move out.
"Over my dead body! Over my dead body! Over my dead body! "
After an argument with the demolition office, the old man returned home. He was so angry that he couldn't breathe … Gu Xizhou could feel that the old man's body was cold without a trace of warmth. Just when Gu Xizhou thought the old man would turn into a ghost, the old man opened his eyes and went out to buy groceries as if he was a living person. This situation continued until his son came home to visit his father …
The son found his father lying on the bed rotting, and he immediately screamed in horror. It was not until then that Mo Jiaqing realized he was dead.
Mo Jiaqing, who had turned into a ghost, continued to wait for his missing wife to come home. He wandered around Huangshui Village for a long time until all the houses were demolished to build a new building. When he was laying the foundation, he found a large number of bones near Huangshui Village. During the war between the two countries several decades ago, there was a burial pit in Huangshui Village. Mo Jiaqing's wife's bones were also found in the foundation.
Because of the burial pit, Old Madam He's bones were also mistakenly thought to be a sacrifice during the war.
The old man was furious. He knew that his wife wasn't missing, but had been killed.
Revenge!
He wanted revenge!
But who? Who killed her?!
Then, the scene changed. At the original address of Huangshui Village, a new residential area was built. It could accommodate several thousand people. The strange thing was that in this residential area — people died every day.
Gu Xizhou, who had been looking outside through the old man's perspective, knew that this was all the old man's doing!
Was he seeing the future? Or something else?
Gu Xizhou pondered for a moment. Then, his consciousness became blurry for a moment. Everything in front of him suddenly became bright.
After he came out, Gu Xizhou rubbed the space between his eyebrows. Fang Zhi and Si Yu were also there.
"F * ck, what was the last thing I saw? The future? "Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows and asked.
Si Yu nodded. "If Xu Hao wasn't confirmed to be the murderer, this might have been the future."
Fang Zhi shuddered. "What happened to Xu Hao?"
Si Yu said, "Xu Hao killed Old Madam He. I think it might be because Xu Hao stole the butcher's meat and was accidentally seen by Old Madam He. In a moment of desperation, he killed Old Madam He and brought her home. When he was dealing with the corpse, he cut off her flesh …"
"…" Fang Zhi's palms were covered in cold sweat.
Gu Xizhou glanced at Si Yu and looked like a curious child. "Continue. Don't worry about my feelings."
"…" Si Yu was speechless. He continued, "He cut off Old Madam He's meat and cut it into pieces. Every day at noon, he would use this meat to exchange for the pork that the butcher had cut. That's why the butcher didn't know that he was selling human flesh. The villagers didn't know that he was eating human flesh. Only Xu Hao knew."
"That butcher was wronged …" Fang Zhi asked.
Gu Xizhou rushed to answer. "He didn't die wrongly. Xu Hao definitely didn't cut the amount of meat correctly. In order to get rid of the corpses as quickly as possible, Xu Hao would definitely put as much meat as possible in the butcher's shop. The butcher knew that there was too much meat, but he didn't investigate. Instead, he helped Xu Hao get rid of the corpses. He reaped what he sowed. "
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