Nightmare Attack

Chapter 120
"Sink into the pool?" Pei Gan thought for a while.

Although everyone is a modern person, thanks to TV dramas and movies, they have heard of this kind of cruel punishment in the feudal society, so they didn't show any surprise.

"As the main culprit, even if she is dead, I think the police will come to look for her body." Zhou Rong looked up at the village head and said, "Otherwise, who can prove that she is really dead?"

At the same time Zhou Rong asked this sentence, his eyes seemed to sweep across Jiang Cheng's face inadvertently, as if expecting the latter's response.

But he obviously thought too much.

Jiang Cheng squinted his eyes while warming himself by the fire, as comfortable as a lazy cat.

Zhou Rong had no choice but to look back. He originally thought that the village head's description of Zhao Xiangmei would remind the latter of a person, that... His eyes changed slightly, and the face of a terrifying woman hiding in the darkroom of the Anping Hotel appeared in his mind.

A hypothesis emerged in Zhou Rong's mind: Could it be that Zhao Xiangmei did not die in reality, but survived through some unknown means, and finally came to Anping Town and hid in the Anping Hotel.

Although it sounds like a fantasy, Zhou Rong, who has experienced 5 missions, knows that the nightmare is an extremely weird place, and even nonsense things may happen here.

The only thing that matters is whether there is enough evidence to support the hypothesis.

Or clues.

"Zhao Xiangmei is really dead," the village head sighed, "I can assure you of this, because I was at the scene when the body was thrown, and her body was cold. I touched it and went home to do it one after another. I've had nightmares for a few days. That can't be the temperature of a living person!"

Zhou Rong looked a little aggressive at the moment, "So... where's the corpse?"

"At the bottom of the lake in the back mountain."

"Didn't the police organize people to catch it later?" It was Ben Fu who spoke this time, hugging his knees, with an expression like a child listening to a horror story.

The village chief shook his head slowly, and said with serious eyes: "You don't know the deep pool in the back mountain. It's very strange there, and the water temperature is extremely low all the year round. No matter if it's a person or anything, as long as it falls into it, it will disappear without a trace. "

He licked his lips, and suddenly lowered his voice, "The old man in the village said that there is a ghost here."

Chen Xiaomeng sneered when she heard the words, she didn't know if she could understand Netherworld, but there was always a problem.

"Tomorrow we're going to visit the deep pool in the back mountain," Zhou Rong said, and then he seemed to remember something, "Is that stone tablet with the curse still there?"

"Still," the village chief nodded.

After saying this, the dark man who had never said a word suddenly came over and said to the village chief with an embarrassed expression: "Village chief," and then pointed out the window with his eyes.

Everyone looked out the window with their eyes, and it was completely dark.

The village head became nervous when he saw this scene. He thought he was covering up well, but he couldn't escape the eyes of these people in front of him.

"Maybe it's not safe at night in the village," Zhou Rong first looked out the window, then turned back, stared at the village chief with a smile, observing his reaction.

"Everyone. Seniors, go to bed earlier, we won't bother you," the village head stood up quickly, and winked at the dark man, who immediately bent over to pack his things.

When things were almost packed, the two opened the door and left.

Before leaving, the village chief promised to take everyone to the deep pool in the back mountain to take a look at it early tomorrow morning, and at the same time warned everyone not to wander around at night, but to stay in the house.

The reason is known even if he doesn't say it.

After the two village chiefs left, everyone held a brief meeting. During the meeting, Zhou Rong was very obsessed with the deep pool in the back mountain, thinking that there would be clues there.

Pei Qian was still relatively conservative. He proposed to inquire around the village first, and when the time was right, it would not be too late to go to the deep pool in the back mountain.

Later he made a scary, but somehow reasonable hypothesis.

"Maybe coming to the deep pool, or witnessing the stone tablet with the curse written on it, is the condition to trigger the curse." He scanned everyone slowly with his eyes, and his voice was deep and steady, which made people feel very reliable.

"Will that happen?"

Ben Fu was so frightened that his face turned pale. He was already in a swinging state and immediately prepared to fall to Pei Gan's side.

Just when everyone was arguing about whether to go tomorrow or not, and when to go to the deep pool in the back mountain, Jiang Cheng suddenly raised his right hand upright.

It took only 10 seconds from the first person noticing him to when everyone stopped arguing and looked at him.

Zhou Rong looked weird for a moment, but he still asked, "Mr. Yin, do you have anything to say?"

"Actually, it's nothing." Jiang Cheng put down his hands, then looked left and right, and said, "I just think this yard is strange. It seems that people often live there, but it also seems to have been abandoned for a long time."

There are quite a few smart people here, and almost instantly, someone realized the meaning of his words.

From the outside, this magnificent courtyard is really dilapidated, not to mention the gate, and some places that seemed to be planted with flowers and plants have also been overgrown due to no one taking care of them all year round.

But judging from the environment in the room, this is not the case.

There are residual cinders in the stove, and several large bamboo baskets are piled up against the corner.

Open the lid and there is charcoal inside.

When he came, the dark man came empty-handed, but after a while he brought in a bundle of firewood, indicating that there was still a place to store firewood near the yard.

All this shows that people should live here often, and Zhang Cheng stood up and pushed open the door on one side. The room was rather dark, but he could still see a few plain-colored beds on the earth kang covered with mats. Quilt.

The quilt was neatly folded.

Although dilapidated, it is still clean, and there is no peculiar smell.

Yu Man lowered her head, and the fire in the furnace flickered her face, "That is to say." She said slowly, "The people who live here don't help clean the yard, they just live there. It's just here, and I don't plan to live here for a long time."

As soon as these words came out, Pei Qian, Zhou Rong, and Chen Xiaomeng's eyes lit up at the same time.

That's what it says. Isn't it them?

They are here to investigate the case, so naturally they will not stay here for a long time, let alone help tidy up the courtyard and take care of the vegetation. All they need is a place where they can rest.

Zhou Rong looked at everyone and said in a low voice, "Do you still remember what the hotel owner said?"

"Those...those missing exorcists?" Jiang Zhongyi's eyes widened. He is a believer, and he is more accustomed to using devils to describe those incomprehensible and terrifying existences.

Now everyone's eyes became terrified.

According to their reasoning, those capable people and strangers hired by the village should all have lived here before, and then they disappeared strangely.

Never appeared again.

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(End of this chapter)