absurd deduction game.

Chapter 144 The Burned Witch

As far as I can see, there is desolation everywhere, a page is turned by the wind, and the sky is full of dust.

The houses are not far from each other, messy and dilapidated, overgrown with weeds.

In the sun, these old-fashioned cottages are covered with cobwebs, and some have collapsed, forming wrecks in the weather.

Yu Xing stood blankly, a thought circling in his mind: How could this be...

He stepped on the ground outside the house, his heart was beating fast, and he turned around to take a look.

The house belonging to the old Zhang family is no different from other huts. Although it has not collapsed, it is also as old as if no one has lived in it for a long time. The knots and nets used for hunting are hung on the outer wall, which are faded and rotten, as if they would break if pulled.

"..." Yu Xing was a little scared and flinched.

He seems to have just had an extra sleep, why does it feel like everything is turned upside down after waking up?
Where is Lao Zhang?What about the woman who gave him porridge?And what about Mike?

Is it hallucination?But... how to explain the new bandages on his body and the old but obviously clean pants?

He walked cautiously for a while, making sure that there was no one in the small village. There were mountains and forests outside the village, and he didn't know where it led.

A sense of loneliness welled up, Yu Xing blinked and returned to Lao Zhang's room.

It's a strange place, he thought.

He entered the kitchen, trying to find traces of the recent existence of the three members of Lao Zhang's family, but he was disappointed. There was no food in the kitchen, but in some grooves, there were many more molds than other places.

"What once... happened here?" Yu Xing squatted down, observed carefully for a while, and had a guess in his mind.

He rummaged through Lao Zhang's house, and found a rusty kitchen knife and some other small tools among the spider webs and nameless bugs everywhere, wrapped in a tablecloth that had been eaten by bugs, I carried it on my body.

"I have to find the reason..." Although he lost his memory, couldn't remember the past, and was full of doubts about the current weird events, it didn't mean he would sit still.

He doesn't seem to be naturally withdrawn, even though there may be unknown dangers around him.

Yu Xing decided to search all the huts that can still be entered first. The key point is to find out the reason why the village was deserted. Materials are even better.

He still doesn't know why he is here.

Lao Zhang's house is at the edge of the small village. Yu Xing took this house as a base point and went around the village first, remembering the location and collapse of all the houses, and completed a simple map in his mind.

This place is really small. There are only twelve houses, that is, twelve households. They were numbered by Yu Xing for the convenience of recording.

"..." He still didn't speak. Hearing the sound of the wind blowing the weeds, he walked into the No. [-] house.

This is a well-preserved house, unlike the surrounding Nos. [-], [-], and [-], which collapsed to the point of ruins and are completely blocked, making it impossible to get in.

Yu Xing stretched out his hand to push the door open, and the harsh scraping sound made him frown.

Under the sunlight, the dust appeared. Yu Xing choked on these particles, coughed violently, and felt that a wound on his chest was about to burst.

He wiped away the physical tears he coughed up, squinted and looked into the room.

The house is messy.

All the small items fell to the ground, and the larger ones toppled over.

The table was tilted to one side, with four wooden legs stunned, and the table top was against the wall, as if it had been thrown by someone.

Yu Xing sniffed and smelled a strong moldy smell, which was very pungent.

The floor was also dirty, but Yu Xing couldn't care less now, he walked in and found something was wrong on the wall.

what are these?
A large number of black marks were splashed on the wall, but the wall was already black and yellow, so you can't see anything if you don't look carefully.

There are black traces here and there, and the strange thing is that once they are within one meter from the ground, they disappear completely.

Yu Xing took a close look with strong anxiety. These black traces were too old, and they had long been integrated with other things and could not be separated.

"Is it blood?" The blood that had dried up for too long turned from red to dark brown, and finally turned black.

Intuition told him that he was right, this place seemed to have hosted a death once.

But why did the bloodstain disappear when it reached the bottom?
It must have been erased.

Yu Xing remembered this, and didn't waste time on other ordinary things. After observing the shape of the destroyed things on the ground, he rummaged through the cabinets that could still be opened.

These furniture are very old-fashioned, although Yu Xing couldn't remember where he had seen new-style ones, but the concept appeared naturally.

He opened every drawer, he couldn't tell what he was looking for, but he thought he should find some useful information.

No.

The drawers were either rotting banknotes, or the remains of unimportant everyday objects, or were empty.

"Forget it..." Yu Xing murmured, and walked outside the house. When he passed by the door, he saw a hoe lying on the ground.

He took a step.

In the following investigations, while looking for clues, he also noticed whether there were hoes in other houses. Sure enough, almost every house had them.

Moreover, the furnishings in every house are messy, with some more or less blood stains. It can be said that except for the furnishings of Lao Zhang's house, which is still in good condition, the other houses seem to have been robbed by robbers.

After inspecting the twelve houses, except for the old Zhang's house and the five houses that had collapsed, Yu Xing had to admit, "There are no clues."

As the sun rose to the top of his head, he searched every house earnestly, which wasted a lot of time.

"Gululu..." The bandage-wrapped belly began to growl with hunger, but Yu Xing had nothing to do.

There is nothing edible here, and he doesn't know if there are any edible animals in the forest. Even if there are, he doesn't know how to hunt.

"Forget it, let's go around and see if there are other villages." He guessed that this area was not limited to this small village of twelve households, because he saw hoes in the villagers' homes, but he didn't see any fields.

It means that there should be a field that has been opened up nearby.

And the plots that can be used to open up fields are generally not too small, and it seems a bit of a loss to only plant land for these twelve families.

After thinking about it for a while, Yu Xing decided to go the opposite way to the old Zhang's house, because since he fainted at the door of the old Zhang's house, it meant that he came from the corner of the old Zhang's house.

There are things that hurt him in this direction, if he encounters them again while walking, wouldn't it be a trap for himself.

It's better to go in a direction that may be safer.

The trees in the forest were sparse, and occasionally a few were uprooted and fell towards the village. As Yu Xing walked, he felt that the surroundings became more and more silent. Even with the sun shining on him, he still felt a lingering gloom.

Touching the rusty kitchen knife on his body, Yu Xing's skin was covered with goosebumps, he looked around unconsciously, and muttered: "... so scary."

Fortunately, after walking for about ten minutes, Yu Xing saw a very hidden path covered by vegetation, which was obviously stepped on by someone, so he knew that he was on the right path.

Sure enough, there is a field not far ahead, but it is not very obvious, but this place is relatively flat, and traces of cultivation can be vaguely seen, but it is now deserted.

Yu Xing crossed the field and continued walking forward.

He also wanted to try to get out of the forest directly and go to places with human activities.

He has nothing to eat, nothing to drink, and he is covered in injuries. No matter how he looks at it, he is not suitable for living in the wild. What's more, he has no relevant knowledge at all, and he is likely to die.

But when it comes to injuries, Yu Xing feels that he is recovering very quickly, and many wounds are no longer painful.

After walking for a while, he saw the outline of a large village in the distance.

However, at this time, the sun was hidden behind the clouds, and it was slowly setting, and it was getting dark again.

The flow of time was abnormal, as if it had been ordered to fast-forward at four times the speed. Yu Xing also realized that it was abnormal, and hesitated for a while.

"Isn't a normal day 24 hours?" He almost suspected that there was something wrong with his common sense, after all, there was nothing in his memory to support his thoughts.

"It's so weird. It's been weird since I woke up... Am I really dreaming?" Seeing that the sky was darkening visible to the naked eye, Yu Xing shook his head and hurried to the big village.

As he got closer, he could see the smoke curling up from the kitchen, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief—there were people in this village, so he wouldn't starve to death in the mountains and forests.

It's just that I seem to be too embarrassed like this, and maybe the villagers will regard it as some weird unexpected guest.

He finally stepped into this very big village, took a light breath, and knocked on the first door.

"Dong dong dong."

"Is anyone here?"

Yu Xing shouted a little nervously.

After more than ten seconds, the door was opened, and a thin middle-aged man poked his head out, and was obviously taken aback when he saw Yu Xing.

Yu Xing hurriedly said, "Hi, I'm passing by, can I..."

"Peng!" The man suddenly closed the door with disgust on his face.

Yu Xing: "..."

As for it?
He turned to knock on another door, and this time it was a thin woman who opened the door.

At any rate, the woman didn't close the door directly, but she stuck the door with a vigilant look on her face: "Who are you?"

"Hello, I'm passing by, I want to..."

"Don't look for me." The woman interrupted Yu Xing, with a numb and indifferent face, pointing in one direction, "Go to the witch, we will take you in only if the witch allows you to stay."

witch?

Yu Xing looked along her fingers, and there was only one house over there, which was the largest house in the village at a glance.

He sincerely said to the woman: "Okay, thank you..."

"Peng!" The woman also closed the door.

"..."

Why are they so mean to me?

Yu Xing felt a little wronged, feeling that he was rejected by the whole world.

There was nothing wrong with that, the Lao Zhang family and these two villagers he saw so far were the whole world in his memory.

He even thought: Am I too ugly to scare them?

After hesitating again and again, he still decided to go to the witch.

Just be scared, anyway, he doesn't want to starve to death.

The residence of the witch is larger than it looks from a distance, and the house is surrounded by a fence, which completely surrounds the house.

"Aren't pig pens and chicken pens generally fenced off? The purpose of surrounding a house is to prevent anyone from escaping?" When he pushed the fence away, a thought flashed through Yu Xing's mind.

He looked back and saw that it was the restaurant in the evening, and many families were cooking. Although no one came out, the smoke from the chimney brought a burst of food aroma, which made Yu Xing a little dazed.

So hungry... So hungry... So hungry... So hungry...

There was no smoke in the witch's house, and it was deserted.

Yu Xing put his hand on the wooden door, and his heart beat suddenly.

As if something bad was going to happen.

This was a strange premonition without warning, and Yu Xing didn't know whether to believe him or not.

However, since he woke up, nothing good seems to have happened. No matter how bad it is, it will not be worse than starving to death.

So he knocked on the door.

"Boom..."

As soon as his fingers touched the door, the door opened a crack by itself, and it seemed that it hadn't been closed at all.

Yu Xing didn't go in directly, an indescribable feeling grabbed his leg, making him unable to take a step.

The cool wind came from the crack of the door, blowing over his exposed white skin, and he peeked in through the crack of the door quietly.

There is no light inside, and a piece of clothing swings through the darkness.

Yu Xing was startled, took a step back, and then couldn't help but continue watching.

He read it right, it was really a piece of clothes... hanging on the beams of the house, swinging back and forth.

The weak legs were hanging down, stiff and straight, and the hanged man stared at him peeping through the crack of the door with his big eyes.

The corpse was completely soaked, and drops of water dripped from the toes of the corpse's shoes, forming a pool of shadows on the ground.

Yu Xing was only surprised for a moment, but when the outside light slightly illuminated the room, he could clearly see the face of the hanged man.

"Old, old Zhang!" Yu Xing covered his mouth in fright, not letting himself cry out.

How could this be?
How could Lao Zhang be here and hang himself?
His pupils constricted, and a kind of grief and anger that did not belong to his subjective feelings came to his heart. He thought it was just panic, and he hadn't reached the point of being extremely sad about the death of Lao Zhang, whom he met once, but the feeling in his heart did not pass through. With his permission, he broke out wantonly.

It's like...he's been through this before.

Not just Lao Zhang.

The crack in the door was blown a little wider by the wind, and Yu Xing saw more.

Lao Zhang's wife who served him porridge, the shy but curious and flexible Mai Mai, and many people he didn't know, including men and women, old and young, were all hung by hemp ropes. There is a puddle of stagnant water under each of them, and it keeps increasing.

There were many people inside.

The corpses inside were shaking like a pendulum.

Just like the ghost kid Toshio in The Grudge who pushed and played with the hanged corpses, the scene in front of him seemed to have countless hands pushing the corpses.

Wait, what is the Grudge?
Yu Xing thought in a daze.

But that was just a fleeting episode in his mind, and for now, he was terrified.

This place full of dead bodies is the home of the sorceress?

He is still starving to death!If you go back, he doesn't want to go in!
"What are you looking at?" Suddenly, a deep female voice sounded from behind Yu Xing, and Yu Xing felt a chill rise from the soles of his feet to his forehead, shuddering.

He turned around stiffly, and at this moment saw an ugly woman close at hand.

The woman is still in good shape, wearing a Chinese-style black dress that is incompatible with this village, her hair is pulled up in a beautiful and steady bun, and she is full of delicacy.

It's a pity that this face is probably burnt. Most of the face is covered with scars and obvious scabs. One eye has no eyelid, and the eyeballs are just exposed to the air, as if staring at others angrily all the time.

Just like now, she seemed to be staring at Yu Xing, as if she was going to strangle Yu Xing to death.

"Ah!" Yu Xing screamed in surprise, backed away with fear on his face, stepped on a sharp stone with his bare feet, he cried out in pain, lost his balance, and fell to the ground directly.

With a buzzing in his head, Yu Xing raised his head with a bitter face, and was taken aback again.

The one in front of him was clearly a beautiful woman with smooth and fair skin. Her facial features had found a delicate balance between softness and sharpness. Time had left shallow marks on the corners of her eyes, but she had given her a thick temperament as compensation.

Where are the burns and scars?

Seeing his big reaction, the woman seemed a little surprised and a little unhappy, but she still asked, "Are you okay?"

Alarm bells rang in Yu Xing's mind.

Regardless of which image of her is real, just say, what does it mean for a different woman to appear here?
Meaning she has a different status than the villagers.

She is a witch!
There are many dangerous people with dead bodies hanging in the room!
Yu Xing got up by himself, thankfully the soles of his feet were not cut, he tried his best to maintain his composure: "It's okay, it's okay."

"You see me... scared?" The woman's tone was as much doubtful as cold, and she took a step closer to him.

At this moment, Yu Xing didn't know why, but Fu Ruxin said, "I'm sorry! I, I feel inferior..."

"Oh?" The woman was really less gloomy and more surprised, the corners of her mouth curled up, and she asked with interest, "Why do you feel inferior?"

"I, I have scars all over my body, so ugly..." Yu Xing said, covering the bandages on his chest and abdomen with his hands. Of course, this was futile, but it was just to make the woman notice his injuries.

His expression was downcast, and his tone was urgent: "I don't know where I come from, who I am, why I have such a useless body, and... I have long hair... I'm sorry, I will scare you, I'm sorry, I'm sorry... "

The woman sized him up and then rested her eyes on his face, her face softened suddenly: "It sounds like you are a lost child."

She touched Yu Xing's head with a smile, and glanced at his head with long hair that only ancient men had: "Don't worry, you are not ugly at all, your body is the most perfect I have ever seen, and your appearance is also beautiful." Makes people jealous. Believe me, once your wounds heal, you're going to look really, really good..."

The moment her hand touched his head, Yu Xing only felt a cold breath flowing through his limbs and torso, making him difficult to breathe and dizzy.

He couldn't hold back the fishy sweetness in his throat, and a wisp of scarlet liquid slowly leaked out from the corner of his mouth.

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