funbook-pk Chapter 101 The Disappearing Person - Strange Village
Chapter 101 The Disappearing Person - Strange Village
"My son!!"
"Why won't you listen? I told you not to go near that clock tower, so why did you insist on going there?!"
As Sang Chu stepped out of the bell tower, he heard heart-wrenching cries. He froze in his tracks and was pushed away by the aunt behind him.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
The lady in flowery clothes ran out at full speed, and Sang Chu trotted after her.
At this time, what was seen was a young woman holding her son's body and crying bitterly.
Lin Fengmei, the lady in flowery clothes, walked over to her and looked at the child on the ground. Her face turned pale. "How could something happen? Didn't the master say that as long as we hang up the exorcism banner, the monster will stay away from the village?"
The young woman said, "He's a liar. It's all your fault. You believed him. Give me back my son's life!"
The woman, who was out of control, let go of the hand holding her son and rushed directly towards Lin Fengmei, still strangling her neck with both hands.
Seeing this, a group of people quickly pulled away.
But this village is very strange, there are only children and women!
The woman who was out of control of her emotions was extremely powerful, and it was useless for anyone who wanted to stop her. Seeing Lin Fengmei's face getting paler and her breathing getting weaker, Sang Chu ran behind the woman in a flash and with a clean and neat knife, he knocked her unconscious.
The woman fell into Sang Chu's arms, and someone quickly supported Lin Fengmei: "Sister Mei, are you okay?"
Lin Fengmei said weakly: "No, it's okay, little girl, please help us carry Linlin back to her home, everyone please help..."
She sobbed so hard that she couldn't utter the rest of the words. She just looked at the pale, soaked child lying on the ground with a sad expression and murmured, "Take Xiaoxiao home too."
This was obviously not a good time to ask questions. Sang Chu didn't say anything, but just carried the fainted woman and followed a group of people with red eyes and depressed emotions back to the village.
In the village, every household has this kind of exorcism banner hanging on the door, and even the house has it hung, but every household still hangs a white cloth. Obviously, this exorcism banner is not very effective.
Sang Chu followed them to a house. The old man was sitting in front of the door with a cane, and he seemed to be blind.
She heard someone approaching, stood up tremblingly, and asked anxiously: "Yes, is Xiaoxiao back?"
Sang Chu didn't answer, but the aunt who led the way was crying unconsciously, but she seemed to be afraid of being discovered by the old man, so she tried hard to control her emotions.
"Auntie, yes, yes, Linlin has fainted. Let's take him to..."
Before the auntie could finish her words, Lin Fengmei came up and said, "Auntie, let's take Xiaoxiao home."
As soon as these words came out, the old man at the door couldn't hold back his tears. He stammered for a long time before finally speaking: "Go home, go home, go home, go home, go home."
Sang Chu had never felt that going home could be so heavy. He just felt as if his heart was blocked by something when he heard the old man say this, and he felt stuffy and a little breathless.
Tuyou suddenly grabbed Sangchu's hair and whispered in her ear, "Achu, there's something wrong with the child's body."
"what?"
Sang Chu looked in the direction of Tuyou's finger, and it seemed that something was indeed wrong. How to put it, it seemed a little deflated?
Even after she put the woman on the bed, her thoughts were still occupied by the child's body. After the apocalypse, she had seen many corpses, but none of them looked like that one. It gave people the feeling of an empty shell.
The old woman trembled slightly as she followed behind Sang Chu. Seeing that she didn't speak, she said, "Little girl, thank you for bringing my daughter-in-law back. Her son is in trouble, and she must be very sad. If she has done anything bad, grandma apologizes to you. Don't blame her."
She already knew that Yanlin had lost control of her emotions, but she didn't know that the person who was strangled was Lin Fengmei. She thought it was Sang Chu, so she followed Sang Chu to apologize.
Sang Chu turned around and looked at the old man with a hunched back and white hair, and did not tell him the truth. Since those people didn't say anything, it would be difficult for her to expose them.
"I'm fine, grandma, are you okay?"
"Isn't the little girl from our village?"
Although the old lady could not see, her ears seemed very sensitive. She groped her way to sit beside the bed and watch over her daughter-in-law. Although her voice was still sobbing, her mood had calmed down a lot.
"Well, I was just passing by and accidentally walked into the clock tower. Aunt Mei brought me back. Grandma, can I ask what's going on with the clock tower?"
When grandma first heard that Sang Chu had mistakenly entered the bell tower, she was frightened for a moment, but then when she heard her say that he had been brought back, she was relieved for a moment.
"There's a man-eating monster in that bell tower, little girl, don't go in there again."
When Sang Chu heard this, he knew something was up. He quickly picked up a chair and sat down, then asked softly, "Grandma, can you tell me more about this?"
The old man was stunned for several seconds, and his unfocused eyes looked at Sang Chu in the direction of the voice. Although he was a blind person, Sang Chu felt that the old man was "staring" at her, and his gaze was so hot that it seemed to burn her.
After a long silence, when Sang Chu thought they would return empty-handed, the old man slowly spoke: "You saw it when you came in, right? There are only old people and children left in our village."
"Well, there are women and children here. What's going on?"
The old man sighed deeply. "This story started five years ago. I remember the weather was very bad that day, and the village chief told everyone not to go out to sea, fearing accidents. But the youngest son of the Liu family was short of money. His wife and children were both in the hospital. Every day he missed out on the sea meant a day's loss of income. It might not be a big deal for others, but for him, it was a matter of life and death. The hospital was burning through money every day."
"He quietly went out to sea without telling anyone and didn't come back until very late. His mother didn't take it seriously at first, thinking he had gone to the town hospital to see his wife and son, so she ignored him. It wasn't until the next day when she realized something was amiss. Staying overnight at the hospital is very expensive, and her son couldn't bear to spend money on such a place. He would always find his way home in the dead of night and never stayed out overnight."
Seeing the old man pause, Sang Chu asked softly: "Then how did you find out that he went out to sea?"
"Everyone searched for a long time. Later, someone suddenly had the idea to check his boat. Sure enough, his boat was not there. Then everyone realized that he might have gone out to sea. However, the wind and waves were still very strong at the time, so no one could go to look for him. They could only wait for the wind and waves to die down and then go out to sea to look for him. They hoped that he was still alive, but in their hearts, everyone thought he was definitely dead."