Qu Yang listened to the screams gradually fading away and swallowed what he wanted to say. Those snakes must have been brought here by Shehe, so he should not ask stupid questions like whether they could let him go.

None of the Huang dogs in the village had been tied up like this before. Today he was lucky enough to enjoy this treatment.

Shehe didn't know what was going on in Qu Yang's mind. She said to Shi Jinzhe, "Chai Anan must really want to leave here."

"It's so depressing for a mother like this to treat her own child as a commodity for sale. At least I can't understand it."

"You were very unhappy just now." Sheh lowered his head, "I sensed that your aura was changing."

She admired the wild flowers on the roadside and said, "You were like a rose with thorns just now. It smells good, but the smell is piercing and hard to eat."

"..." Shi Jinzhe didn't know where to start complaining in this short sentence.

"Actually, I never understood what you meant by aura. I haven't noticed any special smell on me."

"Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't." Sheh's hand on his shoulder moved, and his fingertips slid along the back of Shi Jinzhe's neck. "It happens right now."

"...Don't touch me like this." Shi Jinzhe felt frightened by her touch, "This behavior is inappropriate."

"You can hug me, why can't I?"

"When you learn to walk, you won't need me to hold you. This is a last resort, but it wasn't like that just now. That's not the behavior between you and me."

"why."

“Too close, our relationship doesn’t allow that.” Shi Jinzhe added in his heart, our species doesn’t allow that either.

Sheh asked again, "What counts as intimacy? Does it count if we hold hands every day?"

"Holding hands is unavoidable, you know that."

"I can choose not to pull."

“…I can’t.”

"Then we sleep together."

"…That's because the situation here is special."

"Pfft."

Qu Yang, who was walking in front, couldn't help laughing out loud. He could tell something was wrong with what was said. This man was too irresponsible.

Shi Jinzhe was speechless. If he continued to speak, he would feel like a scumbag who was making excuses.

However, when Qu Yang spoke, he remembered another detail, "That mirror can see what's going on inside. If the other rooms also have two-way mirrors, then the original purpose of building this small building is worth pondering."

Qu Yang said: "I heard from my grandfather that the small building was not yet completed. It was completed in a hurry. The room type and design were completely different. Even the kitchen was not installed in time."

"I see. No wonder the kitchen is alone in the yard."

He wanted a bedroom, not a kitchen. Combined with what Chai's mother said, a bad guess emerged in Shi Jinzhe's mind.

He looked at the mountains in the distance. The steep green mountains outside blocked the way of communication, while the mountain of short-sightedness and ignorance in the villagers' hearts blocked their own way back.

Chai's mother remembered that the volunteers gave money, so how could she not know where the money came from? She was just pretending to be dumb and not knowing.

He walked silently across the fields. On his way back, he saw a group of villagers running towards the woods from yesterday. One of them was being supported by someone and was crying as he ran.

Shi Jinzhe asked Shehe: "What will happen if Lin Xiaohe knows that he is dead?"

"See how much resentment she has."

If one has a lot of resentment, he is like the murderer in the small building. If one has a little resentment, perhaps he is like Li Xin and can still retain some rationality.

"It's a pity that a girl who dared to stand up and resist is gone just like that."

Shehe recalled the old lady he saw at the Lin family last night. She was hunched over, with a high mattress behind her back when she slept. She was still calling Lin Xiaohe's name in her sleep. She said, "Lin Xiaohe will take revenge."

The broken branch she left behind can temporarily receive Lin Xiaohe's soul. As long as she can leave the forest, she can go to find Shaodong.

The temperature rose a little in the afternoon. When Shi Jin returned to the small building, it was just past two o'clock. There was no one in the building, and those who were still alive had not returned yet.

He and Sheh checked the mirrors in every room and found that they were indeed two-way mirrors. However, except for their own room, the peeping rooms behind the other mirrors had not yet been built.

Part of my guess was confirmed. At this moment, I suddenly started to have a headache. I didn't know if it was because I overused my brain or because I was too sleepy, hungry and tired.

He looked at the time and decided to go back to his room to rest for a while, and wait for Meng Chengxi and the others to come back in the evening to reintegrate the information.

Shehe went to the Lin family last night and also needed to rest. She loosened Qu Yang's rope and said, "Come back in the evening. If you don't come, you will bear the consequences at your own risk."

"Come, come, come, I will definitely come." Qu Yang made the promise like a chicken pecking at rice and quietly left the small building.

Half past six in the evening.

Meng Chengxi, who was bringing two newcomers with him, did not dare to be careless and returned to the small building half an hour before dark.

"I'll wait for them here. You go upstairs first and see if Qi Yin and Xie Man have returned."

Chen Shuo and Li Jiaoyang had just gone upstairs when Shaodong followed in with dinner.

His expression was no longer as simple and honest as it was on the first day. His eyes were shining. "Too many people have died. I suggest you don't leave the small building. This village is really dangerous. Don't run around or wander around casually."

Meng Chengxi sat on the stool and nodded, "Okay."

Ever since he found out what Shao Dong had done, he felt that this man had a mean face and was a hypocrite.

"Remember to tell others not to go out tomorrow. I can't afford to compensate you if anything happens to you."

Chen Shuo came down from the second floor after he left. "The bathroom mirror was vandalized. The door handles also looked corroded."

When he heard that the door handle was corroded, Meng Chengxi knew that Shi Jinzhe and the others had returned.

He carried the dishes and directed the two people, "Let's go upstairs and eat. We can talk while we eat."

On the second floor, I wanted to open my eyes, but my eyelids seemed to be stuck together. When I opened them, my eyes felt dry and uncomfortable, as if fine sand had entered my eyes, and it irritated my eyes no matter how I rubbed them.

He forced himself to sit up, but Sheh was still sitting beside the bed, and he didn't know whether he was awake or not.

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