Monument of Life and Death

   Chapter 41 The Eyes Behind the Door

   "What do you mean?" The fool walked to the door, "Isn't it closed now?"

  Baomu hurriedly hid behind the fool, "Just now your attention was on the stove. At the end, I heard this door suddenly creaked, and when I looked back, I found that the door opened a crack. It seems that I still saw... a..."

  The coldness of the night came quietly, the light of the flashlight was too faint for this dark night, Baomu's pause made several people shocked.

   "What did you see?"

   "I saw... I saw a person," Baomu hesitated. "No, to be precise, I saw a pair of eyes."

  The strong sense of being peeped from behind made Xiaolan quickly turned her head, and the flashlight shone into the distance, but only saw the empty darkness.

   Baomu went on to say, “When I shouted out, the door closed immediately.”

  Dao Master stood up, put the ring that the fool found into his chest pocket and asked, "Whose eyes are human?"

   "Master, don't be scary," Xiaoyin hugged her shoulders tightly, "It's not human or something, is it a ‘world’ too?"

  "I mean, it’s not the eyes of other animals, are they sure it’s the eyes of humans?"

   "Like..." Baomu nodded, "Similar to my height, I think it should be a person."

   "Let’s go out and have a look."

  Daoist did not flinch, he walked directly to the door and pulled a handle, Xiaolan quickly followed the probe to check.

  The main hall was still dark. Looking from the back door, it was the back of the Guanyin statue. The light swept across the hall, and there was no sign of anyone moving.

   "If you really are a human, there is nothing to be afraid of," the little idiot squeezed his fist and released it. "It is estimated that the peeping man has run away from the front door. Are we going to chase it?"

  Dao Chang shook his head, "We don't chase, we go."

   "Go? Where to go?" The little fool did not understand the meaning of the Taoist for a while.

  Dao Chang turned his head to look at him, "We have to leave."

   "Huh? Now?"

"right now."

The Taoist chief closed the back door of the main hall again and led everyone to the edge of the ancestral hall.

  "Everyone, be lighter, and the flashlight will be dimmed."

  "Why are we leaving?" The fool asked softly, which was also the question in Xiaolan's mind.

"You don't understand yet, what a fool," Xiaoyin vomited, "We were targeted by the villagers. The crematorium and the blood man must be the secrets of Lianshui Village. The secrets are discovered, they won't Let us off easily."

"Let’s go back to the tent to sort out the clues first, and consider entering the village tomorrow day." The Taoist leader led everyone back to the road and took a picture. No suspicious figure was seen. "It’s still safer during the day. Knowing the people of Lianshui Village, I don’t know what they will do at night..."

  "Huh?" Pineapple, who hadn't spoken for a long time, suddenly stood in place, and the flashlight swept towards a large rock beside the ancestral hall.

   "What's the matter, pineapple?" the Taoist asked.

"There seems to be a piece of talisman paper on that stone." Pineapple said as he walked over, the stone was not far from her, and it was only a few steps away. "It's the same, the same as the talisman found by the blood family. ."

  Maple syrup was with her girlfriend, glanced at the talisman paper, squatted down and looked towards the bottom of the stone.

   "Sure enough," Maple Sugar raised her head and looked at the friends who had already moved in. "There is also a well under this stone."

  A well again?

   "It seems that there is a problem with the well not in the blood family, but the problem in the village." The Taoist took a circle along the stone, and didn't bother the little fool to remove the stone.

  "Don't you take the talisman paper?" Xiaoyin asked.

  "Don't take it," the Taoist chief shook his head and waved, motioning everyone to leave with him, "It can't be too much, I vaguely feel that this ancestral hall may be the bottom line of the villagers, and the biggest secrets of the villagers are hidden here."

  Xiaolan also felt this way. Although she hadn't witnessed it with her own eyes, the voyeurism of strangers made her feel uneasy, and an ominous premonition surged in her heart like a tide.

  Dao Chang would look back every time he walked to check the situation behind him. There were no other people besides them on the spacious road, and the buildings next to him were also shrouded in darkness, without a trace of light.

  The road came to an end. The Taoist chief confirmed for the last time that there was no one behind him and led a few people into the forest, following the route in memory to the location of the temporary tent.

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  My dear sister, Xiaozhi:

  I don’t know if this letter was sent to you first, or if I flee home first, no matter what happens, it means that I am going to be saved.

  Sister, what I want to say next is not only all my experiences in the past three years, but also evidence of the crimes in Lianshui Village. Regardless of whether I can return to you, I must keep this letter.

  (End of this chapter)