Wen Shiqi instinctively kicked the opponent and raised her fist to hit him down.

"what!"

A cry of pain came from the darkness, and the tall figure of the other party curled up and squatted on the ground.

Wen Shiqi's raised fist also stopped in the air.

She vaguely felt that something was not right. Before she could think about it, an exclamation came over her:

"Ah! Zai Zai!"

It was the voice of the old lady just now.

Wen Shiqi subconsciously took a few steps back and saw the old lady rushing over and helping the person on the ground with a nervous look on her face...

The other party's voice was urgent and fast, and she was speaking in local dialect. Wen Shiqi couldn't understand what she was saying at all.

She only learned from a few words that the person she just beat up... seemed to be this old woman's grandson...

Wen Shiqi suddenly felt at a loss.

"I...Grandma, I'm sorry, I, I didn't mean it...I just saw him standing outside and thought he was a bad person, so..."

She apologized nervously, feeling increasingly guilty.

People kindly took her in, but she ended up beating their grandson...

The old lady waved her hands. Although her face was a little unhappy, she didn't mean to blame Wen Shiqi. She just didn't know what she was saying quickly.

Wen Shiqi apologized and said she didn't understand.

Finally, the old woman pointed to her head and then to her grandson beside her.

It was only at this time that Wen Shiqi noticed something was wrong with that man. He looked to be in his twenties, but his expression was dull and his clothes were wrinkled.

Thinking back to the movements of the old lady's fingers just now, Wen Shiqi understood something... This old lady's grandson probably had some intellectual problems.

Wen Shiqi felt even more guilty.

Fortunately, the old lady was not angry and took her grandson away.

Wen Shiqi was stunned for a while, then turned around and entered the shower room again.

She didn't know if it was her imagination. That night, she slept very uneasily. She always felt like someone was watching her...

It was just dawn when she woke up.

The landlord's grandmother has also gotten up.

People are cooking breakfast in the kitchen.

Wen Shiqi took the initiative to help.

After helping to prepare breakfast, Wen Shiqi originally planned to say goodbye, but the old lady enthusiastically kept her for breakfast.

When Wen Shiqi saw this, he stayed.

But I don’t know why, but the grandma’s grandson is not here.

Wen Shiqi wanted to ask, but thinking about the other party's "special situation" and worrying that she would ask questions that she shouldn't ask, she swallowed her words.

After breakfast, Wen Shiqi said goodbye.

She left some money under the pillow where she slept.

Not much, a few hundred yuan.

Just to thank the other party for their kindness.

The village looked much brighter in the morning than last night.

but……

As Wen Shiqi walked on the road, she had a very strange feeling. She always felt that... the people in this village were too indifferent, and there was something indescribably weird about the way they looked at her.

Like vigilance, like...something else.

All in all, it doesn't feel very comfortable.

Could it be that... the people in this village are very xenophobic?

Thinking back to the fact that he knocked on several doors last night and was rejected without any surprise... Wen Shiqi became more and more sure of his guess.

However, she didn't pay much attention to this matter.

Some people in remote areas are indeed very repulsive to outsiders.

But most of them don't have any malicious intentions, maybe it's just the fear and uneasiness of "people from the outside" that makes them behave like this.

Wen Shiqi thought to herself and was about to hurry up and leave the village when she suddenly felt a sinister sight coming from behind her.

That sight was different from the feeling given by ordinary villagers, giving people a very uncomfortable and disgusting feeling.

Wen Shiqi turned her head suddenly and saw a person standing there in the alleyway between the two rows of houses, staring directly at her.

It's him!

The grandson of that old lady.

The other party seemed to have noticed her gaze, and after a slight pause, he suddenly turned around and ran away.

Wen Shiqi frowned, but she kept thinking about the look in the grandma's and grandson's eyes just now... so cold and full of malice, was it really the look of a person with low intelligence?

But...she clearly saw the other person's eyes were dull and his expression was dull last night, not like a normal person.

Maybe I'm overthinking it?

"what!"

Wen Shiqi was thinking about it when she suddenly felt someone tapping her shoulder.

She was startled, turned around suddenly, and faced a face full of ravines.

The sudden impact made her take a few steps back, and then she saw clearly that the man standing in front of her was an uncle in his fifties.

The other person was dressed simply and was looking at him with a smile.

There doesn't seem to be any malicious intent.

"Girl, are you okay? I just scared you. I'm sorry."

The uncle smiled honestly and said sheepishly.

Unlike the old lady last night, he spoke Mandarin. Although he had some accent, it did not affect communication.

Wen Shiqi also realized that her reaction just now was too extreme, and apologized in turn:

"It's okay, it's okay. I was just thinking about other things, so I got startled. I'm embarrassed."

The uncle waved his hand:

“It’s me who shouldn’t.

"I just looked at you, and you have luggage with you, so I wanted to ask you if you are here to travel?

"I'm not telling you, little girl, how could you travel to such a far away place by yourself?"

"Ah, I'm not here to travel, I'm here to work." Wen Shiqi explained.

The uncle paused for a moment, then seemed to think of something, patted his forehead and said:

"I understand. Are you here to dig rocks?"

Wen Shiqi was stunned: "How did uncle know?"

"Hey! Don't people come here often to dig out rocks? They say there are treasures in these rocks.

"There used to be a lot of people in our village doing this kind of work. Some people actually found treasures, but very few. Later, they gradually stopped doing this work and all went out to work.

“However, people from outside often come here to dig stones.

"Oh, by the way, you call this 'quarrying', right?"

The other party was quite talkative and immediately started talking to Wen Shiqi.

After saying that, he suddenly smiled sheepishly and asked:

"Are you going up the mountain?

“People here often want to go up the mountain, but the transportation here is not convenient, so... we have people who go to the mountain to pick up and drop off people.

"Girl, look...do you want to take a ride?"

When Wen Shiqi heard this, she realized that this uncle was driving a car to solicit customers.

She thought about it and didn't contact anyone from the quarrying team to pick her up.

It would be much more convenient if you have a car to go up the mountain.

However, she did not completely relax her guard, and still asked tentatively:

"How many guests have you brought here? Will we have to wait for a long time?"

"No, no, we only have three in this car. Plus you, it's just enough for one trip."

As he spoke, the uncle pointed in the direction of the village entrance.

Wen Shiqi looked in the direction he pointed, and sure enough she saw a mountain bike parked at the entrance of the village, with three people sitting on the bike, two men and one woman.

One of them was sitting in the passenger seat and looked like a local.

There was a young man and woman sitting in the back seat, who looked like they were from outside.

The uncle noticed her gaze and explained:

"The one sitting in front is from our village. Sometimes we run into trouble when running on mountain roads. It's safer to have one more person with you."

Wen Shiqi slowly let down her guard and nodded:

"Row."

She followed her uncle into the car. The young man and woman sitting in the back seat saw her and greeted her with a smile.

A group of people went up the mountain.

But for some reason, when she was halfway down the road, she suddenly felt groggy and sleepy.

When she turned her head, she realized that the young man and woman beside her had fallen asleep at some point.

Her intuition was wrong, and something flashed through her mind quickly, not good!

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