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Chapter 49 Doubt

"Kenneth was 13 years old when he drowned. His body was fished out of the lake and buried in a cemetery. It never occurred to him that a few months later, there was a murder in Lake Shea. A group of children...witnessed There was a bandaged and burnt freak crawling out of the bottom of the lake and killing three kids. And then it happened again and again and people thought it was someone pretending to be Kenneth committing the murder, our The parents organized a large number of manpower to encircle and investigate, but unfortunately, no clues were found... Some people think that this is Kenneth resurrected for revenge, but Kenneth was only 13 years old when he died, and his height was less than 1.5 meters. Bandage freak, over 1.9 meters tall, totally out of shape."

"The encirclement investigation was fruitless, and murders still occurred in the follow-up. The parents felt that instead of doing this, it would be better to ban everyone from going to Lake Shea. The old house next to Lake Shea was originally very strange. The two owners used to be in the old house. House suicide, forbidden to go to nature as a matter of course."

After hearing this short rumor, Wilbur and the other children were speechless. They never thought that the legend of Lake Shea being haunted actually originated from a real murder case.

If they had heard this rumor before, I am afraid that Wilbo and others would not take it seriously, they would just take it as a ridiculous rumor, but now they have no choice but to believe it, because they have personally experienced it, and even lost a companion because of it.

At the same time, everyone present was a little uncomfortable, and Wilbur was very aware of themselves, always bullying others.And the parents of Wilbo and others don't know that their children are school bullies. Although they often teach them a lesson, they turn a blind eye. After all, it is not their children who are being bullied.

David's face was pale. He didn't want to be bullied to the extent that Kenneth was so miserable. He secretly made up his mind to leave the cesspit of Dock Town and go to a big city—such as New York.

"If this bandage freak is someone pretending to be, the last time it was seen was 35 years ago, in 1970," Badman said. , it should already be an old man."

"Maybe someone inherited the bandage freak."

Ben Henry said that he couldn't accept that a little boy who died unjustly in Lake Shea became a murderous maniac and launched an act of revenge, which is ridiculous.

"Who would that be?"

The black sheriff sharply said: "Why did he do this? Kenneth's parents died a long time ago, and he has no family members. Even if someone pretends, why wait until 35 years later?"

These questions left Ben Henry unable to answer.

"I don't want to hear any more of these damn rumors," yelled Frederick's father, Kevin Church. "Where's my boy's body? And the murderer, it has to be caught, I don't care what it is , even if it is a vengeful evil spirit, I will be buried with my child, we must set off immediately."

"Calm down! Mr. Church."

The black sheriff said: "I hope to wait until after dawn before we act."

"Action after dawn? Badman, what are you kidding?"

Kevin Church couldn't believe it, "You want my kids to continue to die in the wilderness all night?"

As a father, I am afraid I cannot accept such a decision.

"Mr. Church, I'm here for safety," the black sheriff said, "There's a murderer there, we can't organize a search at night, not to mention it's Lake Shea, you can't go there at night, right, Jia Stowe?"

He finally pointed to Chi Heng who was watching the excitement by the window.

Now everyone finally realized that from the children's narration, there was another key figure, that is Chi Heng, and it was this outsider who saved the three children Wilbo, Sarah, and David.

There are people who know about this outsider, and some who don't, but among the people present, only Badman and the carpenter Elchi Moore maintained goodwill towards Chi Heng because of Stanley Chen, and the rest belonged to The extent of not knowing Chi Heng, an outsider.

The more remote the place, the less friendly the attitude towards outsiders is, and it is common to be vigilant and suspicious.

If Badman, the police chief, hadn't had a kind attitude towards Chi Heng, it would not have been easy for Chi Heng to stay here for a long time, let alone live in the old house next to Lake Shea.

"This man, why does he live next to Lake Shea?"

First, he looked at Chi Heng suspiciously.

"Yes, why does he live in Lake Shea? I suspect he has something to do with my son's murderer!"

Kevin Church was furious, tit-for-tat, grabbing any lead of doubt.

"Don't invent charges! You're not a justice, Kevin Church!"

Wilbur's father, Mayor Martinez, had to speak out, after all, Chi Heng saved his son.

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, and even get into a physical fight, Badman hurriedly asked O'Connor to block him.

"The sheriff was right."

Chi Heng couldn't keep hiding anymore, everyone was staring at him, "I have lived there for more than half a month, I can be sure that when night comes, you can hardly see your fingers there, if there is a murderer hiding in There, it is very dangerous to search at night."

He was very helpless, this incident was a disaster, and his identity as an outsider was doubted.

But if Wilbo and the others are not rescued, the trouble will be even greater. Once Wilbo and the others die in the old house... Good guy, even Sheriff Badman can't keep him, the old house will definitely be searched upside down .

Now that Wilbo and the others are rescued, at least he has the goodwill and protection of the mayor, coupled with the support of Badman, the suspicion of several parents will not cause him catastrophic troubles.

But there are still two problems.

First of all, the first trouble is that a child died next to Lake Shea, and the bandage freak that was rumored to have disappeared for 35 years reappeared, which is bound to lead to discussions in the town. As the only outsider living in Lake Shea, don’t think about it , must become the focus, and it will be difficult for him to keep a low profile.

The second trouble is that Wilbo and the three rescued by Chi Heng encountered a supernatural phenomenon of a dummy model in the old house, and witnessed Chi Heng's "killing" of the bandage monster with a single shot. If you go back and tell Adults... Even if adults don't believe it, they can't say that they will use this as an excuse and basis to demand a search of the old house.

The two super troubles broke his previous low-key plan. It can be said that he did not personally drive Wilbo and others away, which was the biggest mistake he made.

Trouble has come, and it's useless to entangle. Chi Heng must overcome the difficulties in front of him.

Chi Heng echoed Sheriff Badman's words so much, but it didn't make Kevin Church back down. He clamored to get his child back, and kept threatening Badman and Martinez.

(End of this chapter)