This is a very small room. Most of the surrounding walls have fallen off, revealing the earth-brown walls. The dim yellow light bulbs on the head make a "hissing" sound, and there is a rhythm. It seems that it has not been used for too long, and it is already a little damp.

Jiang He looked out the window, the courtyard was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything. Wang Chao knew what Jiang He meant, so he leaned against the glass to look outside, and then said, "Don't worry, there's no one outside, that idiot didn't eavesdrop."

Hearing Wang Chao's words, Jiang He quickly said, "Have you noticed anything strange about this village?"

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what Jiang He was referring to.

Jiang He didn't sell anything, and said directly, "There isn't a single dog in this village."

After saying this sentence, everyone suddenly realized. When these people from the task force walked into the village, everyone felt that something was not right, but when Jiang He broke this point, everyone finally realized it. Niu Qiuju's shout was so loud before that it almost alarmed all the villagers.

Since everyone was awakened by Niu Qiuju, not a single dog barked in the village. Anyone who has lived in the countryside knows that almost every household in the village has a dog. First, they can watch the house, and secondly, when they go up the mountain to catch a hare or a fox, they also need the help of a dog.

But this village is different, this village does not have a dog, which is very unusual.

"Not a single woman came out of this village." Shao Lao added: "This is also very strange."

As Jiang He touched his bed, he said, "According to the time and space we are in, it is possible that there are wild boars, hares, foxes, weasels, and wild wolves on this mountain. Within the range of the village, the only animal that can compete with wolves and resist them is the dog, but why don't we have dogs in the village? If there are no dogs, what will happen if the wolf comes down from the mountain?"

And that's the crux of the matter, what happened to the dogs in the village.

"Many times, when a dog becomes wild, it turns from a dog into a wolf." Shao Lao said: "This village is definitely not easy, we will investigate it tomorrow, and sleep now. Xu Yiman Niu Qiuju, you guys The two slept in the next room and shouted loudly when there was any movement."

Niu Qiuju nodded vigorously and said, "I can't do anything else, but my voice is bright..."

After the light rope was pulled out, the room suddenly became dark. Shao Lao, Yuan Jun, Jiang He, and Wang Chao were lying on the big kang, which was quite spacious. The four of them didn't take off their clothes while lying on the bed, so they fell asleep in their clothes.

It was now about twelve o'clock in the evening.

Wang Chao instructed: "Take a closer look at Xu Yiman. When we were on the road just now, I saw the eyes of several villagers looking at Xu Yiman. It was like a hungry wolf seeing fat."

The crowd nodded.

Shao Lao looked at the ceiling and said, "Jiang He, what did you see on the fence just now? I'm too old to see clearly at night."

Jiang He said, "On the walls covered in red paint, I saw someone make deep marks on the fence with their fingernails. From the marks, it can be seen that this person used to claw at the fence. The nail prints are about 1.6 meters high on the wall. Judging from the nail prints that leave traces, this person should be bending slightly, with both legs bent. That is to say, the person should be 1.6 meters tall. Between five and one meter seven."

"It should be a woman." Shao Lao said.

"But there are red paints on many fences. These paints don't look like they are used to hide nail prints, because even if they are sprayed with paint, they can still be seen. That Li Sanhan said that it was some kind of kid doing graffiti. That Li Sanhan gave me an unreliable feeling, I didn't believe a single punctuation mark in what he said." Wang Chao said.

Shao Lao turned over and said, "The red paint gives off a strong smell of paint, and the paint appears piece by piece and looks uneven, which shows that these people have a serious emphasis on painting. Areas, they smeared a lot of paint on a certain place, and smeared a small amount of paint on the side, there is a very utilitarian mentality behind this move, we can call it - purposeful cover-up."

"What are you covering up?" Wang Chao asked.

Almost at the same time, Jiang He and Lao Shao said in unison, "Blood."

In the darkness, Shao Lao closed his eyes, thought for a moment, and then said, "Blood is a very difficult liquid to remove, and most people without chemical knowledge basically don't know how to wipe the blood left behind, and use The chemical reaction of luminol can be tested even with a drop of blood in a tank of water, but this time we are looking for someone, not for testing."

Jiang He opened his mouth to analyze: "I have an 80% probability that this is to cover up blood. There is a big difference between an earthen wall and a concrete wall. If blood is stained on the concrete wall, after washing it with water, at least It doesn't look like there was blood on the wall. But once the blood is splashed on the wall, it will be absorbed by the soil, even if it is flushed with water, it will no longer help."

"Since there will definitely be dark red marks on the wall to make people wonder what it is, then it is better to paint it directly." Shao Lao smiled: "But the interesting thing is that the people in this village are too lazy. Well, if they can paint the walls a little bit more evenly, then maybe we won't have any doubts."

"What about the mirror?" Jiang He asked his own question: "I see bronze mirrors hanging on the door of every household. What is this mirror used for?"

"You all remember what Li Sanhan said to us when he left." Wang Chao seemed very excited when he talked about this topic. He turned over, leaned his body on the pillow, and put his head on his hands and said: " Let’s not talk about whether there are ghosts in this world, but the purpose of placing a bronze mirror at the door of the house is to ward off evil spirits, but I don’t know exactly how to ward off evil spirits.”

Speaking of this, Shao Lao thought of his old friend Mary. As a young Mary, a theist, she believed that there were ghosts in this world, and ghosts were just another way of being human.

Shao Lao continued: "The magic weapon that has been turned on is not an ordinary item, and the bronze mirror that has been turned on is called the mirror of the demon. Ghosts can change their appearance, but they cannot change the mirror. Once his appearance is captured by the bronze mirror, he will show his true form, revealing the ghost of his true face, and naturally he will run away in despair."

Jiang He retorted, "There are no ghosts in this world."

Shao Lao suddenly thought of when Mary and Yan Junde were young, one was a staunch atheist and the other was a staunch theist, and the two quarreled a lot about this kind of thing.

Shao Lao nodded: "Yes, there are no ghosts in this world. If there are ghosts in this world, then the murderer has been killed by ghosts long ago, so why do we need to catch them? Just have fun and listen to it. That's alright. In addition to these bronze mirrors, there are also the door gods on the gate. The couplets on both sides of the door are rotten and out of shape, but the door gods are very neatly pasted."

"What problem does this show?" Shao Lao asked and answered himself: "This shows that these villagers are afraid. What are the villagers afraid of? The villagers are afraid of ghosts. Among these villagers, theists are the majority. According to this logic, The next reasoning, why the villagers are afraid of ghosts is because there are dead people in the village. But even if there are dead people in the village, it is not that every household is so afraid, so it means that the people in the whole village..."

Shao Lao's words were not finished, but everyone who heard it was chilled for a while.

Shao Lao's meaning is obvious. According to this logic, the reasoning is that the person or these people who died has something to do with the whole village.

Jiang He couldn't help thinking of the red paint on the wall. Under the faint moonlight reflected by the bronze mirror, it gave off a miserable dim red light. There were no street lights in the village, only a dim light, which was very scary. Under the cover of these paints, there are pools of dark red blood that has solidified.

What happened to make the walls of almost every household splashed with blood, and what happened to make every household silent at eleven o'clock in the evening, the whole village was silent, and there was no sound at all. Not a bit of life.

The whole village feels so eerie.

Except for the low voices of a few people in the room, that is the occasional insect chirping outside. In a big city, I am used to listening to the cars coming and going outside. It's really not easy to adapt to being so quiet all of a sudden.

Wang Chao sighed and said: "This village is evil enough, but Erdan doesn't seem to be afraid of these ghosts or something. You see, Erdan's house has no door gods, and there are no bronze mirrors on the walls. If there are really ghosts in this world , that ghost can't enter other people's yard under the illumination of these bronze mirrors, and turned around and walked into the two eggs' house."

Wang Chao's words were originally a joke, wanting to amuse everyone, but at this moment, a rhythmic percussion sound suddenly came from the dark courtyard.

"Da da da da."

The sound inexplicably rang from the yard, and it came out immediately in the quiet yard.

"What sound!" Wang Chao whispered.

"Listen!" Shao Lao said softly.

This sound is very clear, like the sound of an old lady walking in the yard with a cane, and the sound is from far to near, as if it was directly directed at the house.

The cold sweat on Wang Chao's body suddenly broke out. He tried to look outside, but he couldn't see anything.

What is the sound?

Everyone held their breaths.

Suddenly, the voice exploded at the door.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

Something is hitting the door!