Deserted Village Apartments

Chapter 10 Seventh Day

I didn't sleep well last night. After struggling to get up in the morning, I spent the whole morning thinking about how to get rid of that hateful harassment.At noon, I finally turned on my phone and immediately received several short messages. To my surprise, one of them was from the deserted village——

"I have something important to ask you, please call my cell phone, Huo Qiang."

Huo Qiang?I remembered that he was the leader of the four college students who went to the deserted village.

This text message from the deserted village made my heart tremble, and I looked at the time when the text message was sent, it was 10 am yesterday.I turned off my phone all day yesterday to prevent harassment, maybe something really happened to them?

I wandered around the room for a while, and finally dialed Huo Qiang's cell phone.

Huo Qiang's anxious voice came from the other end of the phone: "Hello, is that you? We called your mobile phone for a whole day yesterday, but you have been turned off all the time."

Now the voice is very clear, and there is no strange noise from last time. I asked coldly, "Tell me, what happened?"

"We found the old house called Jinshidi. It was exactly like what you described in your novel. It was a deep house, a large courtyard, and it was eerie. However, there was no one in the huge old house. We searched all the rooms, and they were all empty."

"Is Mr. Ouyang not at home?"

"What Mr. Ouyang, is it a character made up in your novel?"

I felt something was wrong: "What do you mean?"

"We asked the villagers yesterday, and they said that Mr. Ouyang died of cancer eight months ago."

"what?"

"Mr. Ouyang is a dead man. He died eight months ago. Everyone in the deserted village said so. We even found his grave on the mountain."

In an instant, my back felt a little cold: "Impossible, absolutely impossible."

"I didn't lie to you. No wonder you wrote that Mr. Ouyang's whole family died in the novel, didn't you?"

"No." I was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to describe what I saw to them——Suddenly, I had a premonition, as if the breath of a deserted village had entered my room through radio waves, and I immediately yelled Get up: "Huo Qiang, where are you now? How is it going?"

"It's in Jinshidi, all four of us are there."

"Leave quickly, you leave the deserted village quickly, and return to Shanghai immediately."

But Huo Qiang said stubbornly on the phone: "No, we haven't learned the secret of the deserted village yet, we can't leave."

He hung up the phone.

After a long time, my mind slowly recovered from the confusion, and I carefully recalled what Huo Qiang said just now—is Mr. Ouyang really dead?
He said that Mr. Ouyang died eight months ago, but when I arrived in the deserted village four months ago, didn't I see Mr. Ouyang with my own eyes?He also warmly entertained me to live in Jinshidi's old mansion, and he personally told me the three stories about the ancestors of the Ouyang family.

If it is true as Huo Qiang said, Mr. Ouyang died eight months ago, then who was the Mr. Ouyang I met four months ago in Jinshidi?
Was he—no, I dare not think about it any further, and though I've written so many thrillers, I've never really experienced anything like this: hell.

Incredible!I can only describe this as incredible.

Thinking about this person who had been in face-to-face contact with me, he had died for several months at that time. How can people believe this?
At this time, my mind was in a mess again, and normal logic could no longer explain all of this. Could this be part of the mystery of the deserted village?
Suddenly, I thought of a person.

He is Ye Xiao.

Anyone who has read my novels knows that Ye Xiao is my cousin and an excellent police officer. He has appeared in various mysterious cases many times and has given me a lot of help.

Now that I have encountered such a difficult matter, it seems that the only person who can help me is Ye Xiao.

In the evening, I came to Ye Xiao's house.

Ye Xiao was a little surprised by my sudden visit, he was still the same as before, with a mature look on his young and stern face.He said that he had just completed a mysterious case recently, and he happened to be on vacation these days.Moreover, he has also read the novel "Desolate Village" in the fourth issue of "Sprout".

After exchanging a few pleasantries, I got straight to the point and told Ye Xiao everything from when I went to the deserted village a few months ago to the novel "The Deserted Village" published after I came back, and the few troublesome things I encountered recently.

As I talked, I couldn't help feeling a little scared. This is not my usual style at all.After saying the last word, cold sweat fell from my forehead.

After hearing all this, Ye Xiao didn't say a word for a while, he was still so cold and composed, silently thinking about every detail I said.But this time he was caught in a long exam, like a Go master who suddenly encountered a difficult endgame.

However, his answer disappointed me: "Are you sure this is true?"

"Of course, of course it's true. Do you think this is my hallucination, or another novel?"

Ye Xiao replied lightly: "Don't be nervous, I understand your feelings. Now, there are two main things that give you a headache: the first is the four college students who went to explore the deserted village. Today they told you on the phone , the Mr. Ouyang you met four months ago actually died eight months ago, which makes you fall into deep fear. The second thing is that there is a mysterious woman who claims to be Nie Xiaoqian. Using some absurd legends in the deserted village, they kept harassing you, and even followed you quietly."

"Yes, you must help me."

"Don't worry, your business is my business. But, I don't think you should continue to interfere, just let these things pass, and everyone will forget it in a short time."

"Okay, then please tell me, what should I do now?"

"The first thing can't be solved now, unless you go to the deserted village again."

I shook my head immediately: "No, I won't go again."

"However, I can help you with the second matter."

(End of this chapter)