Chapter 6: Everyone Must Die

  "How could this be? The corpse, how can it just disappear?" Xia Yu Xin stared blankly at the empty shed, muttering: "Could it be that someone stole the body?"

  I remained silent upon hearing this, but a strong sixth sense told me that this matter was absolutely not so simple.

  Our village has always been very peaceful, but since the excavation of that large coffin at the construction site, there have been continuous disasters. In just one day and two nights, three people died and one went missing. Now, even the bodies are gone without a trace. Looking at this whole thing, it's all emitting an inexplicable eerie atmosphere.

  At this time, I remembered Grandpa Tai's yellow skin notebook and thought to myself, could it be that the Seven Star Town evil spirit has been broken, and the evil spirits inside have run out and started causing trouble in our village?

  "After something so big happened, we can't keep it from the villagers anymore. Zhang Yifan, help me go to the branch secretary's house and have him gather the villagers to search for the body together." Xia Yu Xin said as she turned around and left, I quickly asked: "Where are you going?"

  "I'm going to find He Ge, the shout just now was definitely from him, he must have seen something!" With that, his figure disappeared into the darkness of night.

  I didn't dare to linger, so I prepared to go to the bookkeeper's house, but just as I had taken two steps, a faint rustling sound suddenly came from inside the workshop. My instincts made me stop in my tracks, and I turned back suspiciously.

  This workshop was hastily set up and is very simple. There are many holes in the walls, which can be said to be leaking wind from all sides.

  These holes are densely packed, covering the entire wall surface. The light from the construction site also shines through those holes.

  At this moment, I suddenly saw that on one of the holes, there was an eye full of bloodshot, staring at me with an eerie gaze.

  These eyes are too terrifying, very evil, and they just stare like that without even blinking, let alone how sinister it is.

  I let out a loud cry and involuntarily retreated two steps, at which point the eye also left the hole, and immediately afterwards a series of footsteps could be heard coming from outside the workshop.

  "Who? Don't run!" Although frightened, I calmed down and shouted loudly, rushing out of the workshop and chasing in the direction of the sound.

  I had just rushed out of the workshop when I saw a black shadow flash by and quickly disappear into the darkness. I was about to chase after it, but then Xia Yu Xin came running over, panting, and asked me what was going on.

  "Somebody is peeping at me from outside." I said with a lingering fear.

  "Who did you see?" Xia Yu Xin also turned her head around, looking frantically. I shook my head and said, "No one, just a back view! By the way, have you found Xiao Hei?"

  Xia Yu Xin silently shook her head, and I felt a pang in my heart. Xiao Hei was also missing?

  Xiao He's disappearance undoubtedly added insult to injury, making the whole thing even more confusing. For a while, both Xia Yu Xin and I were in a very heavy mood.

  I and Xia Yu Xin didn't go after that black shadow either. Now the most important thing is to find Xiao Hei and the missing corpse first.

  Something big happened, the corpse disappeared, and the public officials were missing. Liu Zhi Shu naturally didn't dare to delay, put on his shirt, grabbed a broken gong and went out to beat it.

  "Everyone get the hell out of bed, something's happened! Get over here, all of you!" Liu Zhi-shu yelled at the top of his lungs in the village. This broken gong may look worn out, but it serves as our village's assembly signal. No matter what time it is, whenever Liu Zhi-shu bangs on it like this, something big must have happened.

  More than half an hour later, almost everyone got up. A group of rough men all carried iron shovels and rushed over. The women in the family also stood under their own eaves to watch.

  "What's going on at this late hour?" Li Bo asked sleepily, carrying his iron shovel.

  "What's the point of carrying iron shovels? This isn't a fight!" Liu Zhi Shu scolded, saying: "The foreman's body was stolen, and the bodies of Xiao Liu and Lao Wang from the engineering team are also gone. Even Gong Jia's Xiao He was tied up. This is outrageous! The people from Gong Jia were all tied up. Whoever did this must have eaten a leopard's gallbladder. I'm putting my words out there: if whoever stole the bodies and tied up Gong Jia's people returns them now, Gong Jia's Xiao Xia will let bygones be bygones. But if we find out later, you'll be bound with five flowers and sent to eat prison food!"

  Liu Zhi Shu's words were like a stone thrown into the water, and for a moment everyone looked at each other in surprise. Then they started discussing it in a flurry of voices, and the scene became somewhat chaotic.

  "Alright, stop arguing!" Liu Zhi Shu slapped his thigh and said: "Yi Fan has already spoken. Previously in the workshop, someone was peeping at him. Now Xiao Xia suspects that this is done by our village people. If we don't hand it over, then let's do it together, search every household one by one!"

  Liu Zhishu finished speaking and was about to take people to search, I saw the situation and stopped Liu Zhishu with one hand, saying: "Uncle, it's midnight, it's not good to search anyone's house. Besides, it's not necessarily someone from our village who did it. I think we should look in the mountains instead, there are many wild dogs in the mountains, maybe they were taken away by wild dogs!"

  "Searching for a fart ball in the mountains, at this late hour, it's easiest to get into trouble!" Liu Zhishu looked at Xiaoxia and said: "We must search from house to house, we can't ruin our village's reputation in front of outsiders!"

  "Yes, search, can't ruin our village's reputation!" The crowd also started to respond, and under Liu Zhi Shu's leadership, the vast crowd began to search from house to house. In an instant, it was chaotic with chickens flying and dogs jumping, the whole village was in a mess.

  I didn't follow them to search, because I thought that searching like this would definitely yield no results. The mountain people are simple and honest, although they're poor, but not to the point of doing something like this. Moreover, it's a corpse, even if you steal it, it's useless, and you can't eat it as meat either.

  I took a glance at Xia Yuxin and immediately sat down on the ground, staring blankly as Liu Zhishu led everyone in searching for corpses.

  "Zhang Yifan, you've misunderstood me, that's not what I meant!" Xia Yuxin said with some embarrassment, having appeared by his side at some unknown time.

  I smiled silently upon hearing this and didn't say a word. Xia Yu Xin let out a sigh after seeing me, then followed the crowd as well.

  Last night I dug up a corpse all night and didn't sleep, tonight I was disturbed again for half the night, now sitting here, I immediately feel drowsy, my eyelids getting heavier.

  The din of noise grew fainter and fainter, until it completely disappeared. Just as I was in a daze, half asleep and half awake, a cool breeze suddenly blew up. The wind was very cool and came suddenly, so that I was startled all over and became wide awake at once.

  But as soon as I opened my eyes, I suddenly felt something was off.

  The village was pitch black and quiet, where were Liu Zhi Shu and the others?

  I turned around and looked around, only to see that the previously noisy village was now as quiet as death. All the noise seemed to have disappeared in an instant.

  This feeling is too strange, as if suddenly entering another world. At this time, a thick fog suddenly spread throughout the village, almost instantly enveloping the entire village. From time to time, there were gusts of dark wind blowing from all directions, and the eerie sound of the wind was like the wailing of ghosts, making my skin crawl and my heart feel cold.

  At this moment, a heavy footstep suddenly came from the direction of the construction site. I turned my head abruptly and saw that in the thick fog, a figure was slowly walking towards the village.

  This person's gait was very strange, limping and staggering, with an unusually heavy tread. Every time he stepped on the ground, it would make a "thud thud thud" sound, making my heart tense up with each beat.

  I stood stiffly in place, my eyes wide open, staring fixedly at the black shadow. As it drew closer and closer, I felt my heart tighten up to my throat. For a moment, I even had the urge to turn around and run away.

  I don't know why this figure gives me such a creepy feeling, at this moment I only have one thought, that is to get away from this dark shadow, the farther the better.

  But at this moment, my legs felt as if they were filled with lead, unspeakably heavy, and I could hardly take a step.

  "Knock knock knock..."

  The heavy footsteps still echoed with a rhythm, and every time they sounded, my heart would tremble once.

  Finally, the black shadow slowly walked out of the mist, and when I saw that person clearly, my eyes widened instantly, my mouth opened wide, wanting to scream, but my mouth seemed to be blocked by something, just so big Open, silently telling my terrified heart at this moment.

  I finally figured out why I thought this person walked strangely, because he was walking backwards with his back to me, so it looked like he was stumbling and staggering, very strange. Moreover, what terrified me the most was that the right side of his skull had deeply sunken in, with red and white brain matter flowing out.

  Is this person a foreman?

  Just then, the foreman suddenly shrugged his shoulders, and then his head slowly turned 180 degrees, facing me directly.

  He turned very slowly, and I even heard the "creaking" sound of his skeletal friction. When he turned around, I saw that his right eyeball was still bulging under his eye socket, while his left eye, which was full of bloodshot, was staring at me with a fierce glare. The next moment, he slowly opened his mouth, revealing a row of pale and ghastly teeth, and gave me a ferocious grin.

  "Hahaha, you're all going to die, you're all going to die!" He said with a cruel smile.

  His voice was eerie, as if countless voices were overlapping together. After listening to it, I only felt a chill rising from the bottom of my heart, and my whole body seemed to have fallen into an ice cave, with coldness all over my body.