Here Lies The Wicked

The people in the mountain village rested early.

But he also got up early.

Early in the morning, the rooster was crowing, the sun was breaking, and smoke was rising early in the village...

Fang Zheng did not sleep all night. He had not slept for a long time since he practiced martial arts.

It is usually practice instead of sleep. After practice, you are energetic and have a clear mind.

It was just an occasional nap for an hour or two, keeping the basic habits of being a human being.

But soon, Fang Zheng realized that the atmosphere in Gujing village today was very strange. There was a tension that began to spread like a virus among the stranded tourists.

Last night, there were many people who had heard a woman knock on the door in the middle of the night and asked if the rain had stopped and if she had seen her child. Out of the 30 people who had stayed, five or six of them had actually encountered this strange thing.

Someone replied, "It might be raining heavily. The child went into the mountain to hide from the rain. You went into the mountain to look for it."

But there were also some who answered "No."

And the person who didn't see the answer was the group of self-driving tourists who came into the village to seek help later. They just didn't hear the strange story that the village head told.

At this time, everyone gathered early in the morning to discuss this matter, but everyone unanimously guessed that this must be a prank at night.

Someone began to ask in the team if someone was playing a prank and deliberately playing tricks on everyone. Now stand up and explain this, and no one will blame him.

But no one stood up, and everyone denied that it was a prank.

"You, have any of you opened the door and seen that... Woman?" Suddenly, a soft voice sounded. It was the female anchor, Little Fish.

She ran into this strange thing last night and screamed in fear. She didn't answer the woman's question at all. She ran back to her room and was scared for the whole night. She didn't sleep well.

At this moment, she looked very pale, her whole body was cold, coughing from time to time, covered in thick layers of clothes, but her hands and feet were still trembling with cold. It was suspected that he had been frightened and caught a cold last night, accompanied by a low fever. He had just taken the cold medicine handed over by the self-driving tourists, and the effect had not yet come up.

"It's late at night. We don't know each other well. Who would open the door without permission?"

Everyone shook their heads and said they didn't open the door to see the woman.

Just as everyone was suspecting each other, the village head and a few old people actually rushed to look for everyone. The village head and those old villagers all had a serious and nervous look on their faces.

When everyone saw this expression, their hearts involuntarily thumped, and they immediately had a bad feeling...

Sure enough, as soon as the village head came, he asked everyone, which of you met a woman knocking on the door last night and asked if you saw her lost child?

Then he asked everyone in a hurry, how did they answer the question?

It turned out that not only the five or six people who were stranded among the tourists, but something strange happened last night. This incident had already spread to the whole village. In the morning, many villagers came to the village head, saying that a woman knocked on the door last night and asked if the rain had stopped and if she had seen her child...

Almost half of the village had experienced the same thing.

Now the villagers were panicking because someone opened the door and saw the woman. For a moment, they did not think about the story that only the older generation would occasionally tell, so they answered that they did not see her.

But not the villagers in the village.

If the villagers were really from the same village, they would know each other every day.

And the only people they didn't know... Were the tourists trapped in the village.

So the village head planned to gather everyone at the ancestral hall and let the villagers see if one of them was deliberately playing a prank on everyone.

After hearing what the village head said, everyone felt a little numb.

Unexpectedly, it spread throughout the village...

After doing some ideological work at the village head, the village bus driver communicated and coordinated between the two sides. The group of people went to the village ancestral hall to prove their innocence, but also to find the perpetrator as soon as possible.

Fang Zheng was naturally in the crowd.

He remained silent the whole time, and it was reasonable for the villagers to suspect that they were the ones who saw the woman.

After all, only outsiders like them, the villagers would not know.

So before it became clear, Fang Zheng didn't speculate about anyone.

Nor did he try to protect anyone.

As long as we go to the village ancestral hall, everything will be clear.

When a group of people arrived at the ancestral hall, they saw that there were already many people surrounded here, and the outside of the ancestral hall was almost completely surrounded.

When Fang Zheng and the rest of the outsiders came to stay in the village, something began to grow in the villagers' eyes.

There is indifference and anger, but this is the suspicion of the human heart...

Fang Zheng and the others were like people who were sent to the streets in the old days to be criticized. When Fang Zheng and the others entered the ancestral hall, they saw that there were already some of the most respected and long-lived elders in the village. They were carefully supported and sat on the grand master's chair, holding justice.

"Old man, I have the audacity to let the village head bring you tourists trapped in our village. Now you come to recognize people and see every face clearly. Old man, I hope you don't tarnish our reputation in Gujing village, and don't tarnish any good people."

"If anyone dares to wrongly accuse a good man, the heavens will see. All the ancestors in the ancestral temple will be watching your every move."

A trembling old man with a mottled face and a hundred-year-old voice rose from the chair with the help of a walking stick, supported by the careful support of two younger generations.

From the imposing manner of the old man, it was clear that even when he was young in Gujing village, he still had an extraordinary position.

The identification process was simple.

All the women lined up to be identified by the villagers, but none of them matched.

Some villagers were worried and confirmed several times, but none of them met the criteria.

Even all the men were checked. It wasn't the woman they saw last night. Instead, some villagers said that the woman's face last night was as pale as Little Fish's.

They also confirmed the female anchor Little Fish in detail and shook their heads in the end to make sure it wasn't Little Fish.

According to the villagers'description, the woman last night was about 27 or 28 years old, and the young girl who had just graduated from college, Little Fish, the female anchor, was too young to be like that woman.

"Are you sure?"

"Are you sure it's not the tourists trapped in the village?"

"Have you forgotten one more thing and owe them an innocent and wronged apology?"

The hundred-year-old man looked around the villagers, upholding justice.

The villagers looked ashamed and apologized to the tourists.

The resentment of being wronged made everyone feel a little better, but the problem was that they entered a dead end. Last night, the woman was neither a villager nor a tourist, so who was this woman?

The road outside had also been cut off by the mudslide, and no one outside could enter the small village in the deep mountain.

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