Chapter 0286 What is he digging for?
Team Li seemed reluctant to mention this topic, the sound of footsteps came from the other side of the phone, and he specialized in walking to an unoccupied place before speaking, “That child has a misunderstanding of death.”
”A child’s worldview has yet to be formed, perhaps in their eyes death just goes to a faraway place, which I can understand.” Since Chen Ge had met Men Nan’s master character, even the strangest children appeared normal to him.
”It would be good if that was the case, after that child was rescued, he didn’t open his mouth to say even a single word for three whole days, he didn’t cry, he didn’t make a fuss, and he was so well-behaved that it was frightening.” Team Li fell into the midst of reminiscing.
”Until the evening of the fourth day, a policewoman found her cowering in the corner of the bed staring at the spider above the bed, thinking that she was afraid of spiders, so she casually crushed that spider to death, but the result was that this little girl suddenly cried out and said that the policewoman had killed her sister.”
”That was the first time the girl opened her mouth, and that’s when we realized something was wrong with her.”
”What kind of world does a child perceive when, instead of feeling bad about the death of her parents, she cries and screams over the death of a spider?”
”We tried to explain the meaning of the word death to her, and it turned out that in her mind, death was not the end of a person’s life, that girl told us very seriously that people would turn into something else after death, and that this expression was somewhat similar to reincarnation.”
”Precisely because of the lack of fear of death, we could often hear some cruel words from this child’s mouth.”
”A lovely child whose appearance seems to be as pure as an angel speaks of death in an innocent voice, so is she an angel? Or is it the devil?”
”After an in-depth investigation, we discovered more details.”
”It was a passing villager who reported the case in the first place, and based on the autopsy report we were able to roughly surmise that the girl had spent at least two days with her already dead parents.” Team Li’s voice pressed even lower, “A four or five year old child is already mentally close to being independent, able to think for herself as well as do a lot of things, but in the entire two days she didn’t call the police or go to an adult for help, don’t you think that’s very strange?”
”Could it be that her parents never taught her anything in this area.” Chen Ge flashed Jiang Ling’s pitiful appearance in his mind, and he also vaguely felt that something wasn’t quite right.
”Only the fingerprints of the girl and her parents were found in the house, and the poisoning technique was so inferior that it was unimaginable, but that’s how it even succeeded. There are many other similar suspicions, in short, this case is not as simple as you think.”
Someone on the other side of the cell phone was shouting Team Li’s name, seemingly looking for him for something, and Team Li casually agreed.
”Chen Ge, I have something urgent right now, I have to rush over. I know I might not be able to persuade you, so I can only give you a heads up, be careful of that child, and don’t run into that village at night.”
”You can’t enter the village at night?”
”Look at the map, don’t you find it strange that that’s the only village for miles around? When we were first lining up other villages and towns, an old man told us that Lin Guan village was plagued with plague a long time ago and a lot of people died.”
There was another person on the other side of the phone urging Team Li, and after hastily explaining a few sentences, Team Li hung up the phone, leaving Chen Ge standing alone in the middle of the dark and dilapidated village.
The beeping busy sound came from his ears, Chen Ge silently put away his cell phone, “He said a long time ago, exactly how many years ago ah?”
Scanning the blackened Lin Guan Village, Chen Ge looked at the four-square broken houses, which felt like rows of unclosed coffins.
”Lin Guan Village, when the word Lin is split, doesn’t it become a wooden coffin village?”
He exited the village and stopped next to the concrete road.
Not to mention the middle of the night, even during the day in this place, he couldn’t get a taxi, he couldn’t go back to the city now.
”Jiangling said that her father’s peach forest is to the west of the village, let’s go there first.”
Chen Ge turned on his flashlight and walked along the disk road towards the west of Lin Guan Village.
The road got narrower and narrower as it went over the hill, and when Chen Ge was all about to give up, he suddenly saw a faint light in front of him.
”Someone?”
The light was moving towards the other side of the mountain, slowly moving away, and the other party didn’t seem to see him.
Chen Ge yanked the hammer handle outward again and stuffed the tiny into his personal pocket before continuing forward.
The mountain road was rugged, and he didn’t dare to run too fast, after about ten minutes of chasing, the light in front of him slowly disappeared.
”It can’t be a ghost fire, right?”
The late night mountain was extraordinarily scary, there wasn’t a single person around, Chen Ge remembered some of the stories he heard when he was a child, what ghosts lead the way, wolves carrying lamps, mandrills and so on.
”Calm down, don’t panic.” He gently slapped his face, wrapped up his coat tightly, and ran towards the place where the lamp disappeared.
Over the second hill, the scene in front of him changed, a peach forest was planted in the big mountain gap.
Because of the neglect, the peach forest is full of barren grass, many peach trees grow askew, from afar it looks as if a living person who falls to the east and west.
And that disappearing lamp appeared once again, right in the middle of the peach forest.
”This should be the peach forest contracted by Jiang Ling’s father.” He had found the place, but Chen Ge didn’t feel happy, instead, he was highly nervous because of the appearance of that lamp.
”Everyone in the neighborhood knows that there was a murder in the peach forest, so why would someone come over with a lamp at night?” He became more and more careful and turned off the flashlight, because of the existence of the Yin pupil, he could see things in the dark night much more clearly than ordinary people.
Slowly feeling his way into the middle of the peach forest, the sound of a hoe turning over and digging up dirt came from his ears.
”What is he doing?”
Chen Ge finally got a good look at the other party when he got closer.
There was a lamp and a water bottle hanging from a peach tree branch, and next to it was an old man in his 60s or 70s.
He waved his hoe to dig up every inch of the ground of the peach forest, as if he was looking for something.
The old man’s demeanor was very bizarre, Chen Ge did not show up in a hurry, and gently followed behind, observing carefully.
Although this old man had gray hair, he had a hard body, probably because he often did farm work, and the palms of his hands were full of calluses.
He wore a white-washed suit and had a taut face, as if he had rarely smiled in his life.
”A very ordinary old man.”
No matter which way you looked at it, this was an old man who farmed, but it was just such a person who ran to the murder scene late at night to hoe the land.
Chen Ge followed the oldest man for nearly twenty minutes and still found nothing, he counted the time and decided to be more direct.
He was afraid that his sudden appearance would scare the old man out of his mind, so he purposely backed up a dozen meters, turned on his flashlight, and shouted at the peach forest, “Anyone? How to get out of this big mountain!”
Separated by more than ten meters, the old man was still frightened after hearing Chen Ge’s voice, and a cold sweat instantly broke out on his forehead.