endless tricks

Dong Tingting was worried about Dong Yongfeng, and was dubious about the horror scene he described, so she decided to follow them to Wu County.Zhao Jiaguang believed that no matter whether his elder brother lived or died, he must confirm it.

Yang Yuanyi's warning is that it is best not to go if you can, they cannot guarantee the safety of others.But whether his advice is listened to or not is another matter.

The agreed departure time is tomorrow afternoon, Dong Yongfeng temporarily changed the time in the evening and set off earlier at ten o'clock in the morning.Yang Yuanyi and the others had no objection. That night, Wei Yanqing announced that he would also follow, but arrived two days late.

At ten o'clock the next morning, Yang Yuanyi and Wu Wei met Dong Yongfeng and found that Dong Tingting was not there.Dong Yongfeng smiled wryly: "Tingting can't be allowed to take risks in such a dangerous place. The temporary change of time is also to get rid of them. Who knew Jiaguang blocked my door early."

Zhao Jiaguang pursed his lips and said, "Professor Dong, my parents have been depressed for two years because of my brother's disappearance. So no matter what, I want to know my brother's life and death. Bring his bones back." After speaking, he pondered for a moment, and said to Yang Yuanyi and the other two: "I have learned Taekwondo, I can fight and run fast when encountering danger, I promise I will never cause you any trouble. "

Wu Wei shrugged his shoulders, saying that it doesn't matter, anyway, the employer is not Zhao Jiaguang, and he will not protect him when he is in danger.As far as the strange news is concerned, as long as you don't kill people, you don't violate the rules, but you don't need to talk about saving people.

Yang Yuanyi couldn't see death without saving him, so he didn't agree with Zhao Jiaguang going with him.But Zhao Jiaguang insisted on going his own way, and he couldn't stop him from going to Wu County.The persuasion was invalid, so I had to get in the car and set off.

A group of four took a long-distance bus to Wu County, stopped at the station twice, and took a total of three hours to arrive at Wu County Bus Terminal.After getting off the station, I took a bus to the city to find the hotel I booked before.

After finding out that they were going to stay in a hotel, Dong Yongfeng and Zhao Jiaguang put forward their opinions: "Why waste a day staying in a hotel? Can't you go directly to Heping Town?"

Yang Yuan pushed open the door and put his luggage in and said: "Mr. Dong, according to your description, we suspect that the Heping Town you have been to is not the same town as the Heping Town you are on the map now. Besides, traveling in a hurry will make people feel uncomfortable. Your body can't bear it. You have only been discharged from the hospital for a short time, if you don't take a good rest, you may have collapsed before you reach the place."

Dong Yongfeng was speechless, and after a while he said dejectedly: "Sorry, I was too impatient."

"It's okay, we can understand." After Yang Yuan put away his luggage, he turned around and said with a smile: "Let's go back and have a good rest, we still have to contact the car rental company."

Zhao Jiaguang's lips moved, but he didn't say anything in the end.Because he had to admit that what Yang Yuanyi and the others did was correct, not to mention that they have been here for two years, no matter how anxious they are, there is no rush for this moment.

As soon as Yang Yuan waited for them to leave, he received a call from Wei Yanqing: "We have already arrived in Wu County, we will stay here for a day first, and then go down to inquire about Heping Town. I always feel that there is something wrong with the Heping Town that Dong Yongfeng and the others encountered back then."

Wei Yanqing: "You don't need to inquire, Wang Xiaohong has already found out some clues, and I will send them to you later."

Yang Yuanyi exclaimed: "So fast?!"

Wei Yanqing: "In addition to running for their lives quickly, their clan gathers information quickly and comprehensively. Where do you live?"

Yang Yuanyi: "Hotel. Double room booked before."

"Double room?! Are you sharing a room with Wu Wei?" Wei Yanqing's tone became cold.

"..." Yang Yuanyi: "No, it was originally with you, the president. Wu Wei had a single room, but he checked out and rebooked a luxury hotel suite." When canceling the subscription, he asked them if they wanted to be together, but three All the poor ghosts were scared off by the price of a luxury suite for one night.

Wei Yanqing's tone suddenly softened: "Anyway, it's public expenses, you can also cancel the subscription and choose a luxury suite in the hotel."

Yang Yuanyi was puzzled: "Really? Wu Wei said that there is no public expense, the business trip expenses are all borne by the employer, and the reasoning agency is not responsible for all expenses spent on business trips."

The president of the once cold-blooded and harsh dead house did not hesitate to push the pot: "That is for Wu Wei and Xia Lanlan, you are different. They both spend a lot of money before and after each business trip, and choose the best for food and lodging, which is too expensive .”

"That's it." Yang Yuanyi pondered for a moment and said, "No need, let's treat everyone equally."

Wei Yanqing said: "I said that if you can spend public money, you can spend it." It sounded very stupid, but fortunately he added: "Anyway, what you spend is what I can enjoy." Thinking of this, he laughed : "You won't let me stay in the hotel again, will you?"

He said it as if he wasn't the one who couldn't wait to stay in the hotel and only rented a room for the first two times.

Yang Yuanyi was helpless: "Okay, I got it. I will pay attention next time."

Suddenly there was a slight sound from the other end of the phone, as if something had hit the ground.Then dense and very noisy voices exploded, entering Yang Yuanyi's mind through the mobile phone.Yang Yuan froze for a moment, then he heard Wei Yanqing's intermittent words: "... hang up first... you have a good rest... beep—"

As soon as Yang Yuan put down his phone, he lay on his back on the bed and stared at the ceiling in a daze.After a long while, the message 'Ding Dong' sounded from the mobile phone, which was a voice message from Wang Xiaohong.

Wang Xiaohong: "The president asked me to send you the information about Heping Town that I have investigated. You can read it yourself."

After Yang Yuan thanked, he clicked on the file and browsed it, then sent it to Wu Wei, and soon received a reply: [Read].The document is very long, but there is only one thing to sum up, that is, there are two 'Peace Towns' in Wu County.

The former 'Peace Town' was located near Chonghu Lake in Wu County. Several decades ago, there was a sudden large-scale migration, and the townspeople moved to the opposite side of Chonghu Lake to establish another 'Peace Town'.Hence the two 'Peace Towns' are called the Old and New Peace Towns.

There used to be two big families living in Old Heping Town, Xu and Zhu.Although the town of Heping, which was later split off, also had the surnames Xu and Zhu, most of them were foreign surnames.In other words, most of the people who stayed in Old Heping Town were Xu and Zhu.Ke Qi Qi Qi gradually declined in Old Heping Town, and quickly disappeared from the public eye.

On the contrary, New Heping Town has become a tourist attraction due to its proximity to the Chonghu Lake and its antique buildings retaining the original flavor of Wu County. On the other hand, Old Heping Town is as silent as a ghost town.The census of the population here is also quite weird. They actually had only a hundred newborns in a few decades, but not a single death.

On this point, Wang Xiaohong specifically commented: the data is not credible.Every year the Education Bureau, Family Planning Bureau, etc. arrive at Old Heping Town statistics, which seem to have been deceived.Moreover, most of the local people in Wu County do not want to go to Old Heping Town. According to them, Old Heping Town is a place haunted by resentful spirits.

Everyone inside has sinned, and they are trapped there during life and after death, unable to get out.Those who go in will be treated as townspeople if they stay too long.

Sure enough, it's eccentric, but none of the messages seem to involve 'scary nursery rhymes'.However, from Dong Yongfeng's words, it can be seen that the four missing people are closely related to the horror nursery rhymes in the town.

Yang Yuanyi thought for a long time, got up, took a shower, washed and went to bed.Waking up early the next morning, Wu Wei found that Wu Wei had already rented a van and parked at the hotel entrance. At the same time, he also met a young man from Old Heping Town.

Dong Yongfeng was very excited when he saw this young man: "Dou Qizheng, you are not dead?!"

Everyone was amazed, including the young man.Zhao Jiaguang quickly suppressed him and forced him to ask, "What did you do to my brother?"

The young man mourned and begged for mercy: "I am not Dou Qizheng, I am Dou Qiyuan. Dou Qizheng is my brother. If you are looking for your brother, I am also looking for my brother!"

Zhao Jiaguang and Dong Yongfeng didn't believe it, so he said: "Really, I still have an ID card in my backpack. I just came to find my brother. He told me that he was in Heping Town, and he was very panicked and asked me for help. In the past two years, I have spent a month here to investigate. Last year, I returned without success. This year, I found out that there are two Heping Towns. I happened to meet Mr. Wu Wei renting a car, so I asked, and only followed when I found out that I was going the same way.”

Yang Yuanyi took out his ID card from his pocket: "I didn't lie."

Zhao Jiaguang angrily let go of Dou Qiyuan, still not believing his attitude: "At the beginning it was your brother who lied to Professor Dong's five people including my brother, and now their whereabouts are unknown. Are you still ashamed to show up?"

Dou Qiyuan said with a bitter face: "I don't know the details—oh, at first my brother called me for help, but I really didn't understand. Then he disappeared, and I couldn't find him no matter how I looked. By the way , who are you?"

Yang Yuanyi introduced Dong Yongfeng and Zhao Jiaguang, and said to them: "He should not be from Heping Town. Most people in Old Heping Town are surnamed Xu and Zhu."

Dou Qiyuan shook his paralyzed arm and said, "I know Professor Dong. When the news broadcast that you had an accident, I noticed it. For some reason, I always felt that it was related to my brother's disappearance. To be honest, I only found out after investigation that it turned out that Not only those four people disappeared. My brother and some of his classmates also came to Wu County for tourism, but then they suddenly disappeared, and there is no news of them.”

Yang Yuanyi: "Is there anyone else missing?"

Dou Qiyuan: "There are a lot of tourists coming from various places. Most of them are groups of four or five people organized by themselves, young students, middle-aged men and women, etc. There is no pattern and no clues, so they have been treated as missing."

At this time, the mobile phone in Yang Yuanyi's pocket sent another message, indicating that Wang Xiaohong's investigation had made new progress.The information was the same as what Dou Qiyuan said, mentioning the people who had disappeared in Wu County for several years, there were no less than five groups of people who fit the situation after excluding others.

Wu Wei: "Get in the car first."

A group of people boarded the car first and set off, while exchanging information.It's just that Zhao Jiaguang and Dong Yongfeng didn't quite trust Dou Qiyuan, but they also slowly lowered their vigilance.

Yang Yuanyi: "When your brother asked you for help, what did he say?"

Dou Qiyuan recalled: "He was very confused and flustered at the time, his speech was intermittent and the signal seemed to be very bad. None of us are from Wu County, and my brother is not from Heping Town. According to what Professor Dong said, my brother should have been held hostage at that time. Yes. I remember when he mentioned 'Peace Town', 'Madman', 'Wraith'... Oh yes, there was also a very impressive sentence 'It started again, they started singing again, she is coming'. I don't know what to sing, and who 'they' and 'she' refers to, because the call is over."

After a pause, he asked, "Professor Dong, can I ask, is my brother... still alive?"

Dong Yongfeng hesitated for a long time and shook his head.

Dou Qiyuan forced a smile, scratched his head, his eyes were red, and covered his face with his hands: "Actually, I guessed it a long time ago."

The atmosphere was dignified, and everyone felt heavy.Because of the same illness and the same situation, Zhao Jiaguang's feelings towards Dou Qiyuan are not as hostile as before.

Wu Wei turned on the navigation, entered the word 'Peace Town', and drove to Heping Town.Today's weather is not very good, dark clouds cover the sky, there is not even a ray of sunshine.The weather looked gloomy, and it rained suddenly halfway.

The rain was thick and continuous, and the sky became more gloomy. In addition, the van drove to a deserted road at this time, with jungles on both sides. The silence and coldness made people feel uneasy.

There was a fork in the middle of the road, and the navigator terminated the navigation because of the old and new Heping towns.Re-enter the correct address and restart the navigation.Inside the car, Yang Yuanyi asked, "Professor Dong, did you discover Heping Town by relying on the navigator?"

Dong Yongfeng's face changed: "I also encountered a fork in the road, and the navigator stopped. But Dou Qizheng re-entered the place name and led us to Heping Town."

Hearing this, Dou Qiyuan's lips moved a few times, but he was speechless.He didn't know if his elder brother was really threatened by others, but he was the one who deliberately seduced Professor Dong and his party and killed them.Therefore, I am not qualified to argue for Dou Qizheng.So he said a few times in a low voice: "I'm sorry."

Dong Yongfeng shook his head and said nothing.

The car stopped suddenly, and everyone leaned forward involuntarily.Yang Yuan grabbed the seat and asked, "What's wrong?"

Wu Wei stared ahead: "Here we are."

As soon as Yang Yuan looked up, he saw a two-meter-high stone standing in the drizzle. On the stone were three traditional Chinese characters: Heping Town.

Dong Yongfeng said excitedly: "This is it!"

Wu Wei stepped on the accelerator, crossed the stones and the town gate, and slowly revealed a corner of the ancient town hidden in the misty drizzle.The bluestone slabs, moss-covered walls and black eaves are full of antiquity but seem too quiet.

The dense fog enveloped the entire ancient town at some point, Wu Wei stepped on the brakes and said, "The fog is too thick to drive. There is an umbrella in the trunk, everyone go and get out of the car."

Yang Yuanyi and Wu Wei got out of the car first to get umbrellas, and at the same time helped the other three to get umbrellas.There were four umbrellas in total, Dong Yongfeng stayed in the car, and the other four gathered around the car door to discuss: "Let's go separately and find a house to live in, and then come back to pick up Professor Dong."

It was decided without any objection.The four of them were about to disperse when Yang Yuanyi's right eyelid twitched uncontrollably and he shouted loudly, "Don't leave yet!"

Wu Wei and the other three turned their heads and looked at him puzzled.

Yang Yuanyi covered his right eyelid and looked around, not knowing what dangerous things were hidden nearby.All I know is that the twitching of the right eyelid must be something dangerous approaching.

The direction of the drizzle has changed. It used to splash forward, but now it is against it, indicating that the wind direction has become headwind.Yang Yuanyi tilted the umbrella in front of him, and found that there was a clear and clear childish laughter in the wind: "There is a sound."

Zhao Jiaguang and Dou Qiyuan's expressions changed, and they looked around.Wu Wei stood quietly, listened for a long time and heard it, his face changed slightly, and he took the time to glance at Yang Yuanyi.He could barely hear that voice, but Yang Yuanyi discovered it earlier than him.

Accompanied by the sound of wind and rain, the originally weak voice seemed to be approaching, getting closer and clearer, it was the voice of a group of children.Singing in unison, it is clearly clear and full of childlike innocence, but it reveals a bit of weirdness.

As it got closer, I could hear what was singing a cappella.

"Turn over the flowery rope, wrap it around your fingers and tie it into a knot. Pull the thread and hook it into a shape. The twisted pattern is really cute."

"...You flip a big chicken foot, I flip noodles one by one...you flip an airplane parachute, I flip scissors and vases..."

This is a nursery rhyme called "Turning Rope Ballad".

When Yang Yuan was a child, he saw the children in the village singing and playing with ropes together, and they did many tricks.Originally an ordinary or even familiar nursery rhyme, it inexplicably makes people shudder.

Dong Yongfeng gasped for breath suddenly, his chest heaved violently, making a sound like a broken bellows being pulled out with difficulty.With fear in his eyes and face, he opened the car window and shouted: "Nursery rhymes! Those scary nursery rhymes! We heard those nursery rhymes back then, and accidents happened one after another. I remembered! I remembered! We arrived On the fifth day after hearing this nursery rhyme, a female student in the team was killed. After shedding blood and cutting off her hand, she was hooked up on an iron hook and hung at the door. Her intestines were hanging down to the ground, and she died silently. Breath, such a miserable death..."

Dong Yongfeng hugged his head, he was greatly stimulated by the memory of the female student's death, and became dumbfounded.

Yang Yuanyi and Wu Wei looked at each other, stood in front of Zhao Jiaguang and Dou Qiyuan, and walked forward.In the rain curtain, seven children ran and jumped on the rainwater, singing nursery rhymes loudly.

When they saw Yang Yuanyi and the two of them, they stopped, looked at each other silently for a few seconds, and suddenly surrounded the two of them laughing and singing: "Turn over, turn over, turn over the rope, match our skillful hands."

After singing, the seven children stopped, with strange smiles on their faces, stared at them and asked: "Brother, brother, big brothers, tell me, which of us has the most dexterous hands?"

Dong Yongfeng murmured in the car: "No, I can't choose..." If you choose, you will be favored.

Yang Yuan looked at the child standing in front of him expressionlessly: "What will happen if you don't say anything?"

"Don't say it?", "What should I do if I don't say it?", "Who has the most skillful hands?", "Yes, who is the most skillful?", "Compare, let's compare.", "Who should be Referee?", "He will be the judge!"

Several children pointed at Wu Wei, and then sang happily: "Turn over, turn over, turn over the rope, match our skillful hands." Then, they asked again: "Which of us has the most skillful hands?"

Wu Wei pointed to the nearest child: "You."

The other six children looked at the child jealously, then scattered and ran away with a whoosh, very quickly, and soon disappeared.The wind wrapped in rain hit the neck and skin, stinging like needles, and icy cold to the bone.

Dou Qiyuan: "Are they people or ghosts?"

Yang Yuanyi: "I don't know."

Sensing Dong Yongfeng's emotional instability, Yang Yuanyi's Zhao Jiaguang said, "You stay in the car and take care of Professor Dong. Let's go to the town to find someone first."

Zhao Jiaguang: "Okay."

So the three split up to find someone, while Zhao Jiaguang stayed in the car to look after Dong Yongfeng.Dong Yongfeng muttered to himself, and Zhao Jiaguang leaned forward to listen out of curiosity. Just when he was concentrating, a loud 'bang' suddenly startled him severely.

Zhao Jiaguang looked up at the source of the sound, only to see an alley in front of him.The drizzle was hazy, so I couldn't see clearly, but I saw a sack at the entrance of the alley.It wasn't there just now, but now it suddenly appeared, maybe it was just dropped by someone.

Before he got out of the car, he glanced at Dong Yongfeng. The latter was quiet, so he closed the car door and walked out.The burlap bag is very big and contains things inside.The rain wet the sack, and bright red blood oozed out.

Zhao Jiaguang opened the sack with trembling hands, took a cursory look inside, and immediately couldn't hold back his vomiting.It contained a bloody corpse with many jagged wounds, as if it had been bitten to death by a wild animal.

After finally suppressing his nausea, he continued to examine the corpse, leaned over and pushed aside the sack, and suddenly stretched out his hand to touch his wrist.Zhao Jiaguang screamed in horror, and quickly backed away. The umbrella in his hand fell to the ground, and the rain hit his face.To his shock, he discovered that he accidentally touched the dead man's hand when he was fiddled with the sack just now, and under the illusion he thought the corpse had come back to life.

Zhao Jiaguang breathed a sigh of relief, but the next moment he heard the sound of chewing softly.His whole body was stiff, and he looked up slowly. There was a dark alley in front of him, and there was a chilling chewing sound coming from inside.

Accompanied by the chewing sound, there is also a song sung by the girl's soft voice.

"...The mischievous raccoon cat dug a big hole. Girls, boys fell in... It's useless to jump, it's useless to scream...It's dark, in the cave..."

Zhao Jiaguang swallowed, his pupils constricted, full of panic.

In the dark alley, like in a song, a dark cave.From the cave came the soft, harmless humming of the girl, and the sound of chewing and swallowing.

A white, blood-stained hand stretched out from the darkness, and propped it on the bluestone board with a 'snap'.The rainwater fell and shattered, washing away the blood, revealing the white, pink and round fingertips.

"The morning passes, the night passes, no shouting or crying... It's easy to get in, but hard to get out... It's dark, in the cave..."

The girl with a cute and sweet face but full of blood and flesh crawled out of the dark alley. She raised a smile and said to Zhao Jiaguang, "Brother, I'm hungry."

In Zhao Jiaguang's frightened pupils, only the bitten torn limbs remained, and the girl's sweet, smoldering smiling face.

"what--!!"

Yang Yuanyi wandered in the alleys of the ancient town, passing the doorways of many houses.The doors and windows of every house were closed, and there was no sound.He circled around and planned to leave.When he turned around, he heard the door open with a 'squeak'. He turned around and saw a middle-aged man standing behind the door.The middle-aged man's entire face was hidden in the shadows, and he said, "Are you tourists?"

Yang Yuan nodded: "We are looking for a hotel."

The middle-aged man said: "There are no hotels in Heping Town, and there are usually no foreign tourists. You can't find a place to stay."

Yang Yuanyi looked up at the sky and said, "It's still early, it seems that we can only leave Heping Town—isn't Heping Town a famous tourist attraction? How come there are no tourists?"

The middle-aged man froze: "That is an inferior surname separated from Heping Town, and the architectural pattern is copied from Heping Town." The voice was a little low and gloomy.Immediately, he raised his voice and said, "If you don't mind, come and live at my house."

Yang Yuanyi stared at it for a moment, then said with a smile: "Then, sorry for the trouble."

The author has something to say:

The lyrics of the first nursery rhyme is "Turning the Rope Ballad"

The lyrics of the second nursery rhyme is "Cave", a Japanese nursery rhyme. The lyrics are roughly about a boy and a girl who fell into a hunter's cave and waited for rescue, but they couldn't wait.When the girl was hungry, she ate the boy.

The president lost his horse...it should be in this unit, at the end.