Chapter Fifty

  "It's already dark, even if we escape, where would we go? So let's just stay here and be at ease! At least we don't have to worry about living in the wilderness." Zuo Yi crossed his hands behind his head: "And there's also an injured guy holding us back."

  "What's most important is that perhaps the person we're looking for is still hidden here." Su Jin'er walked over and sat down in front of the table.

  "How are we supposed to sleep? Lie on this." Lin Yuan pointed at the table, his eyes wide with surprise.

  Su Jiner fiddled with the wax dripping from the candle and said, "Even if I gave you a bed, could you sleep?"

  Lin Yuan shrugged and didn't say anything else.

  The room fell silent at once, with only a few people's quiet breathing and the occasional crackling of the candles.

  After a while, Su Jiner said softly, "Do you believe Li Yiqian is the murderer of Xiao Qing and Li Ran?"

  Everyone did not expect her to ask this question suddenly, looking at her with some confusion.

  "I don't know if you remember what Zhang Luosheng said, he said that Li Ran was a suicide case. Would someone who wants to commit suicide cry out for help?"

  "So you're saying Li Yi Qian is lying?" Lin Yuan pressed a piece of still-warm wax onto the table.

  "I don't know either, I just think Li Ran's death is very strange. There was only one person's footprint at the scene, and there was only his fingerprint on the knife. Unless Zhang Luosheng is lying, but what reason does he have to deceive us?" She still couldn't figure it out.

  "Maybe these things are not connected at all! Maybe we're thinking too much, Li Yiqing and Li Ran were killed by Li Yiyan, while the others were killed by someone else, who might be the 'he' that Li Yiyan mentioned." Zuo Yi analyzed.

  "Right, and didn't Li Yi-qian say that person was crazy? Maybe Li Yi-qian's hatred was also triggered by him, so Li Yi-qian killed her own sister and Li Ran." Lin Yuan said excitedly, she hadn't thought that she could also analyze the case.

  Zuo Yi nodded, gave a thumbs up to Lin Yuan in appreciation, and then slowly leaned back, looking very tired. He fell to the ground with a thud, and several people stared at him in surprise before bursting into loud laughter.

  "Damn it! I forgot there's no backrest behind." He got up and patted the mud off his body.

  Suddenly, a chaotic footsteps sounded outside, they quickly walked to the window and saw many people holding torches running in one direction.

  "What are they doing?" Su Jiner said.

  "Who knows! I feel like they're people from primitive society!" Zuo Yi scratched his head and said.

  Because everyone outside was holding a torch in their hands, they could see the expression on each person's face. Just then, they saw a familiar face.

  "How is this possible? Didn't he die?" Lin Yuan's eyes widened in shock, filled with terror.

  "What's wrong? Is there someone you know inside?" Ge Yaze asked them.

  "Yes, that man in blue clothes, he is exactly the same as Zhang Luosheng we've been talking about all along, but Zhang Junsheng is already dead!" Su Jiner said.

  At that moment, a person outside who looked similar to Zhang Junsheng seemed to unintentionally glance in their direction, with a hint of an eerie smile at the corner of his mouth, causing them to shiver involuntarily.

  "This person is definitely not Zhang Junsheng." Su Jiner said firmly, although she hadn't had much contact with Zhang Junsheng, but she could also tell that Zhang Junsheng was a very timid person.

  "Who is that person outside? The two of them look too alike!" Lin Yuan asked.

  "Could it be that Zhang Junsheng has a twin brother? But even if he did, how would he end up in this village?" Zuo Yi said, stroking his chin.

  At this time, Chu Feifan woke up, he frowned and touched his head, taking a painful breath.

  He glanced at the pitch-black house and the candles lit on the table, thinking it was a power outage. Then he saw his friend squeezed in front of the only window, and suddenly felt relieved.

  "Where are we?"

  His sudden voice startled them.

  "You little brat think you can scare us to death? You wake up and don't even say hello." Zuo Yi said discontentedly.

  "Didn't I just speak?" He got down from the bed, suddenly felt a wave of dizziness, and sat back on the bed again: "Who hit me! Such a heavy hand."

  "He's the one we've been searching for! That hit was quite severe! Once we escape, you should get a check-up, lest you end up with a concussion or something."

  "Escape? We've been caught?"

  "Yes! We were locked in a small black room, and we also saw someone who looked exactly like Zhang Junsheng." Su Jiner sat back down at the table after seeing the group of people outside pass by.

  "Does he look exactly like Zhang Jun? I've never heard that he has a twin brother!"

  "What are those people going to do? It seems like the whole village has been mobilized." Zuo Yi also sat down.

  "It's definitely not everyone in the village, have you seen a woman?"

  Zuo Yi shook his head.

  At this time, there were footsteps outside the door again, which was different from before, and sounded cautious.

  "Who?" Ge Yaze suddenly appeared behind the door.

  The person outside the door didn't respond, and a sound of unlocking arose. Ge Yaze frowned at them.

  The door was opened and they saw a girl standing outside the door, looking very pretty with her black shiny hair tied into two braids lying on her chest.

  "Hurry up and leave! Otherwise they will burn you to death." Her big bright eyes looked at them in horror.

  "Why must we be burned?" Gaius asked.

  "There's no time to explain now, just hurry up and escape! Whatever you do, don't tell anyone it was me who let you go, or else I'll get killed by dad!"

  The girl's words made them even more puzzled. What kind of people were these, on what basis did they burn them to death, and what right did they have to casually deprive people of their lives?

  "You don't tell us what's going on, we won't leave," said Chu Feifan.

  The girl looked at Chu Fei Fan, her face involuntarily turned red. She had never seen such a handsome boy in her life, although his head was wrapped in gauze, it couldn't hide his good looks.

  The girl lowered her head and said: "I can't tell you the reason, but you have to leave. They mean what they say."

  "What's your name?" Su Jiner asked her.

  "Ah Lian, I am the daughter of the village head here."

  "How can you live here?"

  "I don't know either, I was born here." A Lian timidly looked outside and said: "You can stay if you want, but I'm leaving."

  "You still haven't told us why you want to burn us to death!"

  Arian stopped at the door and said softly without turning back, "I won't say anything more. I won't lock the door. Whether you want to leave or not is up to you!"

  "Hey!" Zuo Yi shouted again, but the girl had already disappeared into the night.

  "Have we met a group of barbarians?" Su Jin'er said with a smile.

  "Who knows? But even if you don't want to run away, it's not like we'll be burned to a crisp here! Why don't we go out and see what that group of people is up to?" Zuo Yi said, looking at the group of people walking by outside.

  A few people who agreed smiled and were charred black, but their strong curiosity still made them choose to stay.

  "Is your head okay?" Su Jiner asked, looking at the wound on Chu Feifan's head.

  "It's nothing."

  "Then let's go! There are still many problems waiting for us to solve!" Su Jiner stood up.

  Everything of theirs was taken away, now they don't even have a thing for lighting.

  "Let's go! Even if it's a dragon's lair or a tiger's den, we'll definitely go." Zuo Yi's clenched fist made a "cracking" sound.

  Tonight's sky seems especially dark, the night wind blowing on my face is also especially cold, there is a strange smell in the air, not very heavy, but it makes people feel indescribably depressed.

  They quietly followed behind the group of people, here there are many trees, blocking out the sky, and they are now hiding in the woods watching the group of people not far away.

  "What are they doing?" Lin Yuan asked in a low voice.

  "I don't know, maybe they're discussing something!" Su Jiner replied.

  Suddenly, she felt this scene was very familiar, as if it had happened before.

  That dream?

  Yes, it was their dream once.

  Thinking of this, Su Jin'er opened her eyes wide in incredulity and stared at them, would the things that followed be just like their dreams?

  It seemed others had also realized this, and everyone's eyes widened as they held their breath, staring at everything in front of them.

  "Is this the moment when dreams come true?" Lin Yuan said softly.

  Then, they saw the group of people slowly dispersing, just like in their dream. It was as if they knew Su Jin'er and the others were watching from the shadows. The old man standing at the front glanced in their direction, and on a stone in front of him, someone was tied up, but they couldn't see his face.

  "This is getting too eerie." Su Jin'er suddenly felt a chill, if it was really like in the dream, then the person would have their heart dug out next.

  As expected, the old man closed his eyes and muttered something under his breath, then suddenly opened them again, stabbing the knife in his hand fiercely towards the person's heart.

  Although they couldn't see the person's expression, they could imagine how terrified that person was.

  At the moment the knife pierced that person's chest, blood gushed out, staining the old man's shirt collar red. The hot blood seemed to have splashed onto their bodies as well. That person's shrill cry came to an abrupt halt at the moment his heart was ripped out, leaving only his empty gaze staring up at the sky, forever frozen in terror.

  The old man held up the still-steaming, blood-dripping heart to the sky, and the crowd erupted into a frenzy of cheers, even more excited than if they had won an award.

  "They're really cruel!" Lin Yuan said with a sob.

  "Hurry up! Or we'll really end up getting burned to death like Ah Lian said." Zuo Yi said, he couldn't bear it anymore.