Chapter Fifty-Six

  They then asked some more questions, but in the end they got nothing and had to let the villagers disperse, warning them that the murderer might still be in the village and telling them not to go out alone at night.

  They slumped back into the house, sitting on the bench, and after the commotion earlier, they had completely lost their sleepiness. Thinking of Ah Lang hanging from the roof, staring with his eyes wide open, made them feel terrified. In this closed village, they were completely disoriented. Although there was Ge Yaze, a forensic doctor, he was just a forensic doctor, not a police officer. Everyone was in a state of confusion. If they couldn't catch the killer, it was possible that the villagers would mistake them for the killer and kill them.

  "Why are we so unlucky! Wherever we go, we always encounter murder cases. We're not filming a TV series." Lin Yuan fell onto the bed and said helplessly.

  Su Jiner patted Lin Yuan's shoulder, which was a comfort!

  "Didn't that Taoist priest leave? I don't know if he's back now, but for some reason, I always feel like there's something wrong with him." Zuo Yi said, stroking his chin with the thumb and index finger of his right hand.

  "You think so too! I have the same feeling." Lin Yuan suddenly sat up from the bed, accidentally bumping into Su Jin'er's body, and the two of them fell back onto the bed in pain.

  "Why don't we go out and take a look again!" Su Jiner said, rubbing her sore chin.

  Lin Yuan shook his head and said, "Don't go, it's so late already. Have you forgotten what happened last night?"

  Su Jin'er certainly hadn't forgotten, but she still didn't believe that such a thing existed in the world, and sometimes people were even more terrifying than those things.

  Just then, a pleasant ringtone sounded, and Su Jiner suddenly stood up, it was her mobile phone ringing.

  She reached into the pillow and pulled out her phone. Lin Yuan and others also searched for their phones in the room after seeing this.

  Their mobile phones have all been returned, what's going on?

  Su Jiner's phone had an alarm set, a 12 o'clock alarm. She stared at her phone in terror, as if it wasn't a phone but a timed bomb.

  "Could it be that Master Fa just left his house to return our cell phones?" Zuo Yi said incredulously, holding up her own phone.

  "If that's really the case, then that Taoist priest must have known we went to his house and he didn't lock the door on purpose for us." Su Jin'er's words made their hair stand on end.

  This incident made them even more certain that the murderer had been watching them all along.

  "How could this be? Is that Taoist priest the murderer?" Lin Yuan exclaimed in surprise while checking his phone.

  "If the master is the murderer, then why did he kill Ah Lang? Did Ah Lang discover his secret, so he had to silence him?" Su Jin'er bit her lip tightly, her face slightly pale.

  At this time, a sudden knock at the door outside made them jump in fright, and they looked nervously at the doorway.

  "Zuǒ yì, shì wǒ, chǔ fēi fán."

  Translation: "Left Yi, it's me, Chu Feifan."

  "It's Non-Van!" Zuo Yi opened the door and saw Chu Fei Fan and Ah Lian standing outside.

  "How did you get here now?"

  Chu Fei looked around cautiously and then said, "Let's go in first, Ah Lian has something to tell us."

  Several people sat in the room, each looking at A Lian with tension, while she seemed to be recalling something, her lips tightly pursed and her body slightly trembling.

  At last, Arian gently bit her lip and said: "What I'm going to say next may make you feel strange, suspicious of its authenticity, but I swear every word I say is true. I just think Alan's death might be related to these things, so I agreed to tell you, but please keep it a secret, don't let anyone else know until you understand what's going on."

  They nodded and looked at A Lian's cautious and fearful appearance, they believed she shouldn't be lying.

  Ailian saw their serious and expectant eyes, licked her lips, and slowly began to recount everything that had happened here, as if she had returned to many faces.

  Ah-Lian was born here, so in her memory, living here is a very ordinary thing. She has never been outside and thinks that this is the whole world. She has an older brother who is six years older than her. Her brother always takes her to play with Ah-Lang, Ah-Jian, and Xiao-Yu, who are all born in the same year as her, so they have a very good relationship. Ah-Lang and Ah-Lian were engaged when they were young, and they never asked why, but just lived happily on this undisturbed land. Their lives were peaceful and happy until that one year.

  That year, Ah Lian was 13 years old, and her brother was 19. Her brother told Ah Lian that he would go out to chop firewood and come back to play with her. Little Ah Lian also wanted to go with her brother, but was refused. However, from that day on, her brother never came back, neither alive nor dead.

  They searched the entire mountain but couldn't find him. At first, the village elder thought he had gone to the outside world and would return one day because he was a obedient and filial child. However, several months passed without any news of him. Later, people in the village began to die one after another, their deaths were terrifying, either being dug out of their eyes alive or being cut off their hands and feet and bleeding to death, some were even burned to death. All this came too suddenly, the village was in a state of panic, dozens of people died within a few months, and some left the village due to fear.

  However, death did not stop there, it just stopped for a few months, and in the summer of the second year, the shadow of death spread over the village again, one after another people went missing, then bodies were found, until the appearance of a person, this person was the law master.

  They all gasped when they heard this.

  That sorcerer suddenly appeared in the village, telling the village chief that the village was cursed by evil people and needed him to lift the curse. The village chief didn't believe it at first, but because he couldn't find the cause of death, he believed the sorcerer's words. After three days of rituals, the sorcerer told them that the curse had been lifted, but in order to completely eliminate the curse, they must perform a sacrifice every year using a living person's heart to worship the gods, and only then would they receive the protection of the gods. Ahlian said she didn't know why the village chief believed that sorcerer so much, and the sorcerer also said that no one in this village could leave, whoever left would die. At first, no one believed it, but those who had left the village really did mysteriously die outside, so the people who stayed here believed the sorcerer's words even more.

  After hearing A Lian's "story", they all felt a chill, if what A Lian said was true, then the murderer was not an ordinary murderer, but a super killer, a perverted lunatic who treated murder as a game.

  "Has your father ever counted how many people died before and after?" Su Jin'er asked.

  Ailian shook her head: "The master doesn't allow us to count, but even if we don't count, we have an idea in our hearts. There are probably nearly a hundred people."

  They were shocked, a hundred people died within two years, which was really too frightening. However, with so many deaths, didn't it attract the attention of the police?

  This is really too absurd and unbelievable.

  Su Jiner looked at Ah Lian, her face full of tears, and her painful expression didn't seem to be fake at all. However, this matter was really hard to believe.

  Alyssa looked at their skeptical faces and said, "Don't say you don't believe it, even I myself didn't believe it, but this is the fact."

  "Have you ever suspected the master? So many people have died, why didn't you report to the police?" Chu Fei Fan found it unthinkable that even a crazy person wouldn't be discovered after killing over a hundred people!

  "The law is our god and only a curse has the power to kill so many people."

  "Has your brother come back?"

  Alyssa shook her head: "After brother went missing, he was never found, he must be dead, it's just that we haven't found his body."

  More and more doubts arise, what secrets is this village hiding, are A Lian's words true or false, and who is that strange Taoist?

  Chu Fei Fan stayed behind, after sending off A Lian, the house fell into silence, everyone was thinking about A Lian's words, no one saw the sly smile that rose to the corner of A Lian's mouth as she walked out.

  It was already three o'clock in the morning, but they still didn't feel sleepy at all. The candle had burned more than half way down and a thick layer of wax had stuck to the table.

  Chu Fei Fan raised his head, furrowed his brow and said: "How can things be so coincidental!"

  "What did you find?" Zuo Yi asked.

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