Hearing the words of this high Taoist priest, even if Wang Chao doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, he still feels a little uneasy. This is the feeling he has felt since he started to perform this task. Everyone was in a panic, and he suddenly felt that all the chaos and noise around him had become quiet.

"Don't be in a daze." Jiang He grabbed Wang Chao's arm and whispered in Wang Chao's ear, "The whole village has gone to the villagers who ran out just now, and now is the time to go to the village to find clues. ."

Wang Chao drove those unrealistic thoughts out of his mind and followed the members of the task force back.

The fields are full of corn that is swaying because someone touches it, but even so, the dense corn blocks the sight of most people. It is not an easy task to find the escaped villagers in this vast corn field. It's an easy thing, especially when the person has escaped into the mountains, it's even harder to find.

As Jiang He walked to the village, he pondered what the villager said. He said that all this was a curse. What kind of curse would it be?

The members of the task force came to the village, and there was no one in the village at the moment. The comfortable mountain wind blowing in the morning swirled in this deserted village, Xu Yiman tried to shout a few times: "Is there anyone? Is anyone there?"

The voice was not loud, and no one responded.

Mr. Shao noticed that the doors of every household were closed. He was a child who grew up in the countryside. In Mr. Shao's impression, the villagers in most villages would not close the doors during the day, and the villagers in the village usually visit each other. It's like a family, but in this village, every household closes the door, as if afraid of someone coming in, and also afraid of something coming out.

"Look," Shao Lao said.

"Listen carefully." As soon as Shao Lao's voice fell, Jiang He said, "A voice came from the yard next to us."

Everyone climbed up to the big iron gate and listened carefully to the movement in the yard. After listening carefully, they heard a sound in the yard. It was a kind of sound of metal hitting, and it was "ding ding" at the beginning. There was a slight sound, followed by a "crashing" sound.

Jiang He heard it, it was the sound of metal rubbing.

Yuan Jun had already moved up at this time. He put his ear to the door and listened carefully to the movement inside.

"The outside of the door is not locked." Jiang He carefully observed the door, and then said, "The villagers have gone outside, and there is no way to get the lock from the inside. Let's go in and see what it is."

Several people nodded, and Shao Lao said: "Wang Chao, you are watching outside, and the villagers will tell us when they come back."

Having said that, Yuan Jun has reached out and pulled the latch, opening the iron door.

A few people filed in, facing the front door, next to the east wing and west wing, half of the yard was turned into a vegetable field, sandwiched between tomato racks, cucumber racks, etc., which were already full. The fruit, in this hot summer, reveals a coolness.

On the northwest side of the yard, there is a cellar, the cellar entrance is an iron plate, the iron plate is connected to the ground, and has been locked by a large black lock. And the voice that everyone heard came from this cellar. Several people walked to the side of the cellar and listened to the sound of "click" from the cellar.

Jiang He squatted beside the cellar, he stretched out his hand to lift the black lock and observed it carefully. The lock head of the black lock is very thick, and the old-fashioned lock is difficult to open with external force. It is much easier to use a lock picker, but now it is not easy to find iron wire or something.

Jiang He patted the iron plate of the cellar with his hand. At this moment, he suddenly heard a strong metal crash from the cellar, as if some beast was about to rush out of the cellar. The metal iron chain rattled in the cellar, and the sound became louder and louder, which startled several people.

However, the iron plates were tightly seamed on the ground, and there was nothing under the cellar at all.

But the sound was getting louder and louder.

There is something under the cellar, and it is something tied by an iron chain.

Jiang He continued to slap the iron plate, and the movement inside became louder and louder.

"Is there anyone underground?" Elder Shao suddenly shouted at the cellar at this time.

But there was no response inside, and what responded to Shao Lao was the louder sound of the chains rubbing.

Yuan Jun scratched his head and said to Elder Shao: "Listen to this voice, I'm afraid there is a wolf or something inside."

Everyone was silent, and suddenly thought of the fact that there was not a single dog in the village.

What is in the cellar, what secrets are hidden in this village, whether Zhang Wenhua is in this village, and where have those women gone?

At this moment, Wang Chao suddenly hurried back and said, "The people in the village are back, let's go."

A few people don't care about what's in the cellar at the moment, and they can't start the snake at the moment.

Just when Yuan Jun closed the door, he saw that the villagers in the distance had returned.

Li Sanhan rushed back with the villagers, and one of the villagers shouted, "What are you doing standing in front of my house?"

After saying this, his face changed, as if he was worried about something.

Veteran Shao crossed the topic: "How about it, did you find that person?"

Li Sanhan shook his head and said in a bad tone: "No, such a big mountain, you can't find it anywhere you go."

Shao Lao nodded and continued on the topic: "What curse did the villager say when he ran away, and what kind of curse made him so afraid of being like that?"

When it comes to the curse, all the villagers became quiet, and almost all of them looked at Lao Shao, as if to see through Lao Shao's heart with their eyes. Shao Lao also noticed something wrong with these villagers. They all had dark faces, and some villagers looked fierce, like hungry wolves in human skins.

"You'd better ask less about things in the village." Li Sanhan said, "If you have nothing else to do, try not to leave Erdan's house. You should know what it means."

Shao Lao knew that the more things he knew, the more dangerous these people were. Now a villager named Guimin has been decapitated and stitched to the body of a female corpse, and Guimin's body is still missing at this moment. A villager went crazy and ran towards the depths of the forest. There is currently no trace.

In this isolated mountain village, the murderer must be nearby, and most likely the people in the village.

Who is the murderer, what secrets are there in the village, and what is locked in the cellar?

All these mysteries are stirring in the hearts of the members of the task force.

Looking at these villagers with fierce eyes, Shao Lao secretly made a decision in his heart. He decided to contact Guan Deng by satellite phone when he went back later, and let Guan Deng bring a large number of police to come. Because Shao Lao understood that with the deepening of the investigation, when he learned the secrets in the village, he might not be able to leave alive.

The most urgent task is to figure out what the so-called curse is.

Everyone didn't speak for a while, Li Sanhan patted Lao Shao's shoulder and said softly: "Old man, I hope that what you just said didn't scare you, but I can see it, you people are not too brave. He doesn't seem to be afraid of corpses."

Shao Lao was shocked when he asked this question. Could it be that Li Sanhan has seen through the identity of this group of people?

Shao Lao answered without leakage: "We are archaeologists, do you understand archaeology?"

The villagers muttered, as if they did not understand what archaeology meant.

Li Sanhan turned around and said to the villagers, "Archaeology is robbing tombs, but it was arranged by the state."

Shao Lao said helplessly: "Archaeology is the protection of ancient tombs, so we often encounter corpses, and we are not afraid of corpses."

Li Sanhan smiled when he heard the words, and just said: "I will inform you during lunch. Let's take advantage of this time to find that coward."

And this time, Li Sanhan won't let the task force stay alone. He arranged for a few villagers to stay in the village, but Shao Lao knew that this was to monitor everyone.

Back at Erdan's house, she didn't find any trace of Erdan. She didn't know where Erdan went. Seeing everyone coming back, Niu Qiuju seemed a little happy and then a little worried. She asked, "Have you found my grandson yet? ?"

Shao Lao shook his head.

Niu Qiuju looked like she was about to cry, and muttered to herself, "Wenhua, where are you? Grandma can't live without you."

But when they returned to the house, Jiang He's words made everyone fall into silence: "Where did our backpacks go?"

Everyone turned their attention to the position where the backpacks were placed before, only to see that the position where everyone's backpacks were placed side by side was empty at the moment, and even a backpack was gone.

Xu Yiman immediately went back to his house and Niu Qiuju's house, and found that his backpack was missing.

Everyone's clothes, food, drinking water, money, etc. are all in their backpacks. More importantly, there is a satellite phone in Shao Lao's backpack. If there is no such thing, then the task force will lose contact with the outside world. In this mountain village, ordinary mobile phones have long lost their signal.

But who did it? Early in the morning, all the villagers went to open the coffin to bury the corpse, and Niu Qiuju was the only one left in Erdan's house. Could it be Niu Qiuju?

But after thinking about it, Shao Lao knew that it wouldn't be Niu Qiuju's actions. Although Niu Qiuju was incompatible with everyone, she would not do such a silly thing unless she didn't want to leave with her grandson.

But if Niu Qiuju was watching at home, how could these backpacks disappear?

Could it have something to do with the mysterious knock on the door last night?