endless tricks

Zhao Jiaguang woke up suddenly when the girl crawled in front of him, jumped up, turned around and ran into the car. The car door was slammed shut with a 'bang', and Dong Yongfeng, who was still in shock, was opening the car door and wanted to get out.

The car door was opened a crack, and Zhao Jiaguang caught a glimpse of the girl outside the car door, and happened to stretch out his hand.Before he had time to think about it, he grabbed Dong Yongfeng and slammed the car door.The girl's hand was cut off, and her shrill scream pierced the cold and rainy day.

The severed hand fell in the car, dripping with blood, and the fingers were still moving.Zhao Jiaguang was inexplicably terrified, but suddenly saw a girl's distorted and hateful face appear on the car window.The girl glared at Zhao Jiaguang with resentment in her eyes, growled in her throat, and kept slapping on the car window.The windows have white cracks, but are not shattered.

Dong Yongfeng stared straight at the girl, as if he had fallen into memory and would not be able to wake up for a while.Zhao Jiaguang caught a glimpse of the key left on the driver's seat from the corner of his eye, and wanted to climb into the driver's seat to drive, but the severed hand inside the car suddenly grabbed the door handle inside the car and pressed it down.The girl's ferocious face was stuck outside the car window, with a smug smile on her face.

Zhao Jiaguang quickly grabbed the severed hand and opened it, unexpectedly finding that the severed hand was extremely powerful.Sweating profusely, he tore off the severed hand, looked up, and found that the girl had disappeared.Hastily opened the car door and threw the severed hand out.Before he turned around, he heard a small sound in his ears.

Turning around suddenly, he found that the door handle in the car on the other side was being quietly lowered. The girl looked directly at him and smiled smugly.Zhao Jiaguang didn't have time to stop it, but Dong Yongfeng suddenly woke up at this moment, pressed the doorknob and yelled at the girl: "Get out! Disgusting ogre! Get out!!"

The girl's complexion changed drastically, and she roared at them, her original hatred of Zhao Jiaguang turned into hatred of wanting to devour Dong Yongfeng.What Dong Yongfeng said just now hurt her and made her extremely unhappy.

Zhao Jiaguang quickly got into the driver's seat from the back seat and started the car. The car suddenly drove forward four or five meters, and the girl who was holding on to the car door was thrown flying.From the rearview mirror, the girl was lying motionless on the ground, and the rain kept beating her body.

A few seconds later, the girl suddenly raised her head and showed a ferocious smile.She landed on all fours, crawling as fast as a lizard, and arrived in front of her in the blink of an eye.Zhao Jiaguang stepped on the accelerator, the car moved forward rapidly and knocked the girl into the air.

With a 'bang' sound, the girl with her entire face split was stuck to the windshield, her eyes fixed on Zhao Jiaguang.A trace of cruelty flashed across Zhao Jiaguang's face, he accelerated again and slammed her into the wall, backed up, stopped, and waited quietly.

For a long time, the girl lay on the ground motionless, as if she was completely dead.

Zhao Jiaguang swallowed nervously, raised his neck and stared at the girl closely.Suddenly there was a 'knock knock' sound from the side, which made him yell in fright. When he looked up, he realized that it was Yang Yuanyi knocking on the window.

Yang Yuanyi pointed to the handle of the car door, signaling him to open the door or window.

Zhao Jiaguang did it and opened the car window: "You, you are finally back. Professor Dong and I almost died."

"It can be seen that you are driving on a rampage and trying to hit the wall from a distance. You can still talk without any accidents, and you are lucky." Yang Yuan glanced at the shrunken front of the car that was still smoking, and then said: "What happened to you guys? ?”

Zhao Jiaguang: "A girl, she looks pretty, but she eats human flesh. It's like a crazy person, chasing us all the time, and she can still move her broken hand! That's definitely not a human, it's a monster."

Yang Yuanyi: "Where is she?"

"Front. In front of the front of the car, I just knocked her into the air." Zhao Jiaguang pointed to the front of the car, but saw that the bluestone board was empty and there was no one at all.He was surprised and anxiously said: "Why not?! Just now there was a cannibal girl, and there was a bloody corpse in the alley, really!"

Accompanied by Zhao Jiaguang, Yang Yuanyi walked to the entrance of the alley just now, but he didn't find the bloody corpse in the sack, let alone the blood.

Zhao Jiaguang said in disbelief: "I'm not lying! The blood must have been washed away by the water, and the body should have been removed by that girl. If you don't believe me, you can ask Professor Dong, he saw it too."

Dong Yongfeng was still in the car, resting with his eyes closed.Although his face was pale and his head was covered with cold sweat, fortunately, his spirit had recovered a lot, and he was no longer as dull and numb as he was after being severely stimulated just now.When the two came back, Zhao Jiaguang asked him about it, but he shook his head and said, "There's no need to investigate further, let's go back."

Zhao Jiaguang: "Professor, what did you say?"

Dong Yongfeng's face was painful, full of fear: "Call the others back before it's too late. Let's leave here quickly, maybe we can go back alive."

Zhao Jiaguang was at a loss, he was determined to find his missing elder brother.But after seeing such a weird girl just now, he already understood that the possibility of the missing elder brother surviving is zero.Moreover, Heping Town is very dangerous and very weird. From the seven children he met just now, and the weird and terrifying girl he experienced, he is no longer sure whether he has the courage to continue to stay.

Yang Yuanyi looked at them quietly, and then said: "Just now I met the mayor's son in the town, and accepted their invitation to live in their house."

Dong Yongfeng: "The mayor?! You can't trust him, you can't trust all the people in the ancient town. They are all devils, cold-blooded devils, terrifying and cold-blooded compared to those monsters. You are still young, hurry up, don't Make unnecessary sacrifices."

Yang Yuanyi: "Do you remember what happened here two years ago?"

Dong Yongfeng nodded: "I heard the nursery rhymes sung by those children just now, and I suddenly remembered some memories that I had forgotten. When we were trapped here for half a month, we encountered many terrifying things and saw many people being killed. Kill. But because the stimulation was too great, I forgot that the four students were actually... gone."

Zhao Jiaguang sat down in a daze, his expression in a trance.

Dong Yongfeng said sadly: "I came out alive not because I escaped, but because they let me out on purpose. Because enough people died, they let me go. The purpose of letting me go is to let me bring outsiders in. "

Yang Yuanyi was thoughtful: "Like Dou Qizheng, either coerced or wanted to save his companions, so he expected that those who escaped would bring others in... You mean 'the number of dead is enough', What do you mean by that?"

Dong Yongfeng: "There are two massacres in the town every year, and seven people die each time. Each death corresponds to a horrible nursery rhyme. The massacres are held in May and November, and people will definitely die on rainy days. "

Yang Yuanyi: "The song "Fansheng Ballad" we heard just now means that we have been targeted?"

Dong Yongfeng nodded: "Yes. Your companion, Mr. Wu, has been targeted. As long as he points out who has the most skillful hands, the other six children will kill Mr. Wu out of jealousy. At the beginning, the third person we settled in Heping Town Today, it was a rainy day. A female student went out and met this group of children, and was killed that night. The iron hook hanging under the eaves of the door was hooked on her body, and she died with grievances."

The state of death was extremely miserable. After death, he was hung under the eaves by iron hooks, like a pickled dead pig.

"The most frightening thing is that we found out that she was carried to the yard and killed at night. However, we all slept in the house that night, but no one found out."

It was at that time that everyone realized the horror of Heping Town.They wanted to leave, but found that they couldn't get out anyway.And the townspeople of Heping Town looked at them with extreme indifference, as if they were looking at dead people.No matter how hard they asked and prayed, no one would tell them the cause of death.

Yang Yuanyi asked Zhao Jiaguang again: "Describe the situation when you saw that cannibal girl again. Professor Dong, listen to it and see if you can tell which nursery rhyme it is."

Zhao Jiaguang described it again, and emphasized: "I really didn't miss it, and I definitely didn't lie."

Dong Yongfeng said: "He really didn't lie, this is the corresponding foreign horror nursery rhyme "The Cave"."

Because he studied this aspect, he easily sang this nursery rhyme and then translated it.The previous lyrics are relatively normal. It just describes a man and a woman falling into a trap dug by a hunter. Slowly, no one came to rescue them and they couldn't get out. Time passed for a long time.The two began to feel hungry, and the boy reassured the girl that someone would come to save them.

But the girl was so hungry that she ate the boy.

In the dark cave, there was a creepy chewing sound, like a wild beast gnawing its prey.

"That's why we call the girl in the nursery rhyme the cannibal princess. She always hides in dark corners and caves, waiting for innocent passers-by, and then waits for the opportunity to drag them into the darkness and devour them. Just now she ate a person, I won’t be eating people for a while. But if I see her eating people, she will kill people to silence her.”

Yang Yuan nodded: "I'm telling the others to come back now, let's see if we can leave."

He didn't mind staying in Heping Town with Wu Wei to find out the truth, but there were still three unarmed ordinary people among the five, especially two young college students.It would be a pity to die here.

When he dialed Wu Wei's mobile phone, he found that there was no signal, and the message could not be sent.Yang Yuan raised his head and said, "There is no signal."

Zhao Jiaguang was stunned, while Dong Yongfeng had an expression he had expected: "We didn't have a signal back then, so we couldn't ask for help from the outside world."

"Just wait, they should be back soon." Yang Yuanyi said.

The three waited in the car for an hour, Wu Wei and Dou Qiyuan came back one after another and shared their findings.

Dou Qiyuan said: "I can't see half a person, and there is no other sound except the sound of rain. The doors and windows of every house are closed, and it feels very gloomy."

Wu Wei: "The problem is huge."

Yang Yuanyi also told them the matter, and then said: "Let's try to see if we can leave the town."

Wu Wei agreed, stepped on the accelerator after getting in the car, turned the car and headed towards the gate of the town.It is now two o'clock in the afternoon, and the rain is still falling continuously, and it even tends to become more and more intensive.The road has gradually become unclear.

Passing by the big stone with the words 'Peace Town' written on it, Zhao Jiaguang and the others breathed a sigh of relief.The car continued to drive forward, and suddenly found that the stone with the three characters of "Peace Town" appeared again while driving.

Dou Qiyuan: "What's going on? Didn't you pass by?"

Dong Yongfeng smiled wryly: "Sure enough, I can't get out."

Zhao Jiaguang: "Have we encountered ghosts hitting the wall?"

Yang Yuan watched quietly for a moment, then said to Wu Wei: "Let's go again."

The result of walking again is to really realize that they are lost and can't get out of Heping Town.They were trapped here and were targeted in less than half a day.

Yang Yuanyi muttered to himself: "It's really dangerous." Then he said to Wu Wei: "Go back, since you can't leave, let's find out."

The group turned back again, parked the car in the previous position, carried their luggage on their backs and got out of the car with umbrellas.Yang Yuanyi led the way and took them to the mayor's house.The middle-aged man who just invited him to stay was the mayor's son.

The mayor's family of seven, grandparents and grandchildren, all gathered in the main room, no one spoke, and looked at Yang Yuanyi and the others quietly.Dim yellow light bulbs were lit in the main room, and the filaments burned orange-red.The rain outside was getting heavier, with occasional thunderclaps, but the main room was quiet, not even the three children spoke.

The mayor, surnamed Zhu, is an old man in his seventies.The middle-aged man is nearly 40 years old, his name is Zhu Maocai, and his wife Zhu Xushi is standing beside him.Behind Zhu Xu is three children, the oldest is 15 years old, and the youngest is only seven years old.Standing behind the mayor was a girl with long braids and lowered eyebrows. She was his daughter.

The mayor narrowed his eyes, and only when he wanted to express his wishes, he would call the people around him to approach, whisper to them, and let others convey it on his behalf.Zhu Maocai straightened up and said, "My father welcomes you and hopes that you will live satisfactorily."

The mayor whispered a few more words, and Zhu Maocai whispered, "Yes, I understand. Dad, don't worry, okay."

Then, the mayor stood up, and the girl behind him helped him leave the main room.And Zhu Maocai's wife also led the three children to leave. She didn't talk to Yang Yuanyi and others during the whole process. She treated the guests very coldly, neither welcoming nor objecting.

Zhu Maocai led them to the corridor: "People in the town have lived here for decades, they like quietness and don't like noise. It's rainy now, and few people come out for a walk, and they probably sit at home. Even if you go Knock on the door, and the rain might be so loud that you can't hear it. If you didn't bump into me, you might really have to get caught in the rain outside."

The rain shrouded the eaves and became blurred.As soon as Yang Yuan looked away, he happened to hear this and asked, "Are there any other tourists besides us?"

Zhu Maocai looked back at him, his eyes were dark and unhappy: "I don't know. Maybe there is, maybe not. They just want to go to another Heping Town, and what you are looking for is also another Heping Town?"

Yang Yuan asked without answering, "When will the rain stop?"

"I don't know, maybe it will stop tomorrow." Zhu Maocai stopped at the door of a room, turned his back to everyone and said, "Here we are. You stay here. If you have something to do, go along this corridor to the main room and call for someone."

After speaking, he turned around and left in a hurry.

Dou Qiyuan hugged his arms and rubbed them together: "There's a gloomy chill, and everyone is very strange. It should be a hospitable character, but when we got together, we were eccentric. Did you notice that in the main room just now, the three children's faces were expressionless?" The expression stared straight at us, like a beast seeing raw meat."

Zhao Jiaguang pushed open the door and said while observing: "It's really strange. They seem to be happy to see us, but they don't want to communicate with us. They look at us like, like—"

He couldn't describe it after a long while, so Wu Wei answered for him: "Looks like someone who doesn't live long."

Zhao Jiaguang clapped his hands: "Yes!" After shouting, he immediately reacted, and his smile disappeared.

Dong Yongfeng stood at the door and looked up. Yang Yuanyi stood beside him, followed his gaze, and found a shiny black iron hook hanging under the eaves.

In some places, bacon is cured in winter, and whole pig legs are hung on iron hooks under the eaves to dry.It was a normal scene at first, but if the dried bacon was replaced with a disembowelled corpse, it would become extremely terrifying.

Dong Yongfeng stared straight: "At that time, we heard screams and ran out. As soon as we opened the door, there was a bloody picture. She was hung on it, disembowelled, her intestines were thrown on her face, and she couldn't close her eyes. She seems to be blaming us for why we sleep so soundly at night? No one has noticed that she is suffering in the yard. It is only a door away, as long as you open the door... you can see..."

Yang Yuanyi accompanied him, and asked quietly: "Professor Dong, what do you think is killing people?"

Dong Yongfeng rolled his eyes and looked at Yang Yuanyi: "Although I study the relationship between horror nursery rhymes and the background of the times, I don't believe in ghosts and gods. But this incident broke my cognition. I thought it was the wraiths who were attacking the entire Heping town." revenge."

Yang Yuanyi wasn't sure if there were such things as resentful spirits in this world, but Wei Yanqing said before that the anecdote born from horror nursery rhymes was of a high level of danger, and he affirmed that the thing that caused trouble in Heping Town was anecdote.

"Then do you know why?"

Dong Yongfeng said gloomyly: "I don't know the reason, but it should be related to the crimes committed by the townspeople of Heping Town. As for what crimes they committed, I don't know yet."

Yang Yuanyi: "What is the connection between the resentful spirit's revenge on Heping Town and the horror nursery rhyme?"

Dong Yongfeng: "Two years ago, we learned from a crazy townsman that it seemed to be a girl's ghost. The nursery rhymes in the town were sung from her mouth. Maybe her death was related to the nursery rhymes."

"Professor Dong, you study horror nursery rhymes, so do you know the meaning and hidden murderous intent behind each nursery rhyme?"

Dong Yongfeng nodded: "I know."

Yang Yuanyi read two lines of the lyrics in "Fansheng Ballad" and asked Dong Yongfeng: "What do you mean?"

Dong Yongfeng: "The way of death."

He said the meaning of each noun in the lyrics, which was roughly the same as what Yang Yuanyi guessed.

"Now I have encountered two horror nursery rhymes, and Wu Wei has been targeted. The cannibal Ji in "The Cave" has already eaten people, but Zhao Jiaguang unfortunately encountered her cannibalism, so he should not be easily let go. How many nursery rhymes are left?" Yang Yuan looked at Dong Yongfeng: "Professor Dong, I remember you said that seven people would die every time. Each death corresponds to a nursery rhyme, so there are five unknown nursery rhymes? "

Dong Yongfeng: "There are only five songs. Among them, two nursery rhymes correspond to two dead people, because there are two dead people in the story behind them."

"What are the other three songs?"

"Lizzie Bolton's Axe, Rabbit Fingers, and Bloody Maria."

Yang Yuanyi felt puzzled: "Foreign nursery rhymes?"

Among the five nursery rhymes are island country nursery rhymes, rotten country nursery rhymes, and domestic nursery rhymes. Horror nursery rhymes from several countries are gathered in such a closed ancient town, which is particularly weird.

Dong Yongfeng: "Yes. This is also where I am puzzled. Heping Town is very repulsive to foreign tourists and basically refuses to connect with the outside world. People here are very closed and xenophobic, but four of the five nursery rhymes are all foreign nursery rhymes. Very ordinary."

While talking, Dou Qiyuan came out in a hurry, scratching his head a little anxiously and awkwardly: "I'll go to the main room first and ask where the bathroom is - let's go first."

Looking at his hurried back, he should be holding back.

Yang Yuan and two entered the room, and Dong Yongfeng fell asleep exhausted after entering.As soon as Yang Yuan approached Wu Wei, they talked in a low voice about the information they had obtained, and at the end he asked, "Does your mobile phone still have a signal?"

Wu Wei shook his head: "No."

Yang Yuanyi: "The president said he would come in two days, but there is no signal, how can we guide him?" After learning that there was no signal, he immediately thought of not being able to keep in touch, and was worried that Wei Yanqing would not be able to find him. them.

Wu Wei was not worried: "The president has many ways to find the place, so don't worry." Then he said: "Just now I went out for a walk, and I found another group of people in the town. They should be young college students who came to Wu County for tourism. , broke in by mistake or was lured in."

Yang Yuan frowned: "Where are they?"

Wu Wei: "Where we parked, go straight southwest. There is an abandoned ancestral hall. They are hiding there. When I arrived, I found that they seemed to be greatly stimulated and their spirits were on high alert. To avoid irritating them, I Didn't go in, just looked outside for a while before leaving."

Yang Yuanyi: "Abandoned ancestral hall? We can check it out."

In ancient towns and old villages, the status of the ancestral hall remains intact.If you want to inquire about the past, if you can't pry the townspeople's mouths open, you have to go to the ancestral hall. There must be many clues hidden there.

Zhao Jiaguang came over and asked, "Did you bring any food?"

Yang Yuan opened his backpack, took out two bags of compressed biscuits and handed them to him.After Zhao Jiaguang thanked him, he took out two bottles of water from his backpack in exchange.

The four of them ate the biscuits quietly, drank a few sips of water, and then looked out of the window—the sky was gloomy, with Weiyu's faint dim light, and the rain was gradually decreasing.

Yang Yuanyi suddenly said, "Rainy night kills people. If the rain doesn't stop tonight, people will die."

Either here, or a few young college students hiding in the abandoned ancestral hall.

Wu Wei: "I'll stay here."

When Yang Yuan turned his head, he was a little surprised.

Wu Wei shrugged and said, "They are employers, and protecting employers is professional ethics. I usually don't care about other people's lives. But the president told me that if it was you, you would definitely not ignore other people's lives."

"When did the president tell you?"

Wu Wei pursed his lips. It was impossible for him to tell Yang Yuanyi that the psychopath Wei Yanqing sneaked into his room in the middle of the night on the eve of his departure, and sat down quietly like a ghost.

After he was awakened by the nightmare and was frightened and almost had no palpitations, Wei Yanqing grasped his popular science "100 things to pay attention to when traveling with the president's daughter-in-law".

To be honest, if it wasn't that he couldn't fight, Wu Wei would let Wei Yanqing know how fragile the friendship between subordinates and superiors is.

Yang Yuanyi: "Okay, I'll go to the ancestral hall."

After a while, Dou Qiyuan came back in a panic, lost his mind in the room, wandered around several times and asked others nervously: "Have you...have you heard any strange songs?"

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President Wei's "100 Things to Note When Traveling with the President's Daughter-in-law" - the first one: it is not allowed to live in the same room when traveling!