It's late at night.

After a quarrel, the few people lost the mood to talk.

It was not realistic to find a bed to sleep, so everyone decided to make do with the night at the dinner table.

"Duan Xu, do you want to go to the bathroom?" Zhao Wei asked suddenly.

Duan Xu glanced at him and nodded.

The two walked towards the backyard.

"You..." Zhao Wei didn't seem to know how to speak, "Anyway, thank you for taking the risk of coming to the woods to find me tonight."

Duan Xu shook his head: "I have my own reasons."

Zhao Wei took Duan Xu's words as a politeness. He patted Duan Xu on the shoulder and said, "I can see that you are a good person. But in such a place, it is difficult for good people to be rewarded. Hua Jiyun helped you with his lifespan. If you miss her love, you can't see her wronged. I can understand these. It's his fault for Chen Xinyue's sudden attack, but... do you really understand Hua Jiyun? Are you not afraid that your kindness will implicate yourself? Harm everyone?"

Duan Xu looked at him quietly and asked, "What happened to Hua Jiyun?"

Zhao Wei glanced at Hua Jiyun's direction and whispered: "You are a car from the real world, right?"

Duan Xu nodded.

Zhao Wei's voice lowered a little further: "Not only you, but I am, we are all, but there is one person who is the exception."

"Half a year ago, the train arrived at a station called Paradise Valley. That time, four senior passengers participated. Each of them had a lifespan of more than 2,000 days, but in the end... no one came back alive. The train was waiting outside Paradise Valley. We all thought that the group was destroyed, but unexpectedly, at the last moment, a person came out of Paradise Valley." Zhao Wei stared into Duan Xu's eyes.

"Hua Jiyun?" Although he guessed the answer, Duan Xu couldn't believe it.

"That's right, it's her." Zhao Wei confirmed Duan Xu's words, "Hua Jiyun... was not someone picked up by the train from the real world. She was at a stop on the way and got on the train by herself."

Zhao Wei's voice was full of doubts, and he continued: "And, each of us can only have one knot at most. Only when the knot is lost at a certain stop or the knot is damaged can one be regained. And Hua Jiyun, she has four. Her knot is the knot of the four senior passengers who performed the mission in the Paradise Valley."

"Duan Xu, don't you think she has any problems now?" Zhao Wei stared at Duan Xu tightly.

Duan Xu turned his head and looked in the direction where Hua Jiyun was. After a moment of silence, he said, "Photographies cannot be a reason to hurt her."

"Can't those four knots be considered evidence?" Zhao Wei asked helplessly.

Duan Xu turned around, looked at Zhao Wei, and shook his head: "It's up to you, but it's up to me."

Zhao Wei sighed lightly: "Forget it, let it go. I can only remind you not to get too close to Hua Jiyun. She has been to the station twice, twice! She was the only one who survived those two times. I don't want our station to be the third time."

Zhao Wei walked away slowly and returned to the house.

Duan Xu stood alone in the backyard, looking up at the night sky with moonlight and starry stars, not knowing what he was thinking.

...

Why did he help me?

Hua Jiyun sat alone on the slope, bathed in the moonlight.

The strange origin made Hua Jiyun attract everyone's attention and alienation from the first day she got on the bus.

It was a very contradictory emotion. They wanted to know what secrets were in the woman who got on the bus from the "story" and were unwilling to get too close to her.

In fact, if it was just that, maybe it would be better?

Hua Jiyun often thinks about that question.

But as the situation continued to develop, after the incident that she had and was able to use four knots was exposed, everyone's attitude towards her changed again.

When the malicious intention reached its peak, she was the second mission and she was the only one who survived that moment.

That time, when we boarded the train, Hua Jiyun could clearly feel everyone's fear, disgust, alertness, fear of her...

She is not old at all, if she could bear so much malice?

Avoiding, tolerance, and obeying the situation became Hua Jiyun's only choice.

She had to show everyone that she was harmless in order to get such a little normal treatment.

However, even though she has been doing this, things have not moved in a good direction.

She is a living curse, and may even be the embodiment of a ghost getting on the train. This kind of speech has been circulating on the train for a long time.

Curse? Aggressive ghost? Everyone is guessing what she is, but only Hua Jiyun knows what she is.

She could not explain, nor could she explain, she could only release her kindness to everyone around her in vain, although it never paid off.

However, this time... an accident happened.

She just let herself suffer some losses and pay more lifespans as usual.

Everyone is already used to it.

Even Hua Jiyun himself got used to it.

But she didn't expect that this simple "care" was remembered by a newcomer.

Compared to being sad and moved, Hua Jiyun felt more emotions, but she was at a loss.

It was already deep in the night, and she was still sitting on the slope of the village where evil ghosts appeared.

I don’t know when it started, but ghosts are no longer what Hua Jiyun fears the most.

She raised her head, looked at the night sky with glittering light, and murmured in a low voice: "The moon... are you real..."

...

The second day.

"Ah! Who are you? Why are you all in my house?"

Ayun's voice quickly woke up from the distress.

Before Duan Xu could explain, he saw a villager running to the door hurriedly and said unhurriedly: "Ayun, it's amazing! The village chief is gone!"

"Grandpa, Village Chief?!"

Ayun's face changed and he rushed out of the door before he even had time to wash up.

"Village Chief?" Duan Xu and his friends had their own thoughts. Zhao Wei immediately said to Ayun: "Miss Ayun, let's go together! It's easy to find it if there are too many people."

Ayun didn't have time to look back, but the voice came over: "Okay!"

Several people ran out with Ayun.

Judging from the sky, it should be around 7 o'clock in the morning, but all the villagers in Huai Village have gotten up.

I don’t know if it was the same routine or was awakened by the news that the village chief disappeared.

In short... the three words missing are extremely sensitive in Huai Village.

After all, an missing person in Huai Village is named Xie Hua.

Although Xie Hua was found in the end, he lost his life strangely.

Every villager hopes that the village chief just gets up early and goes out for a walk, but after searching the entire village, they still find nothing, and everyone can only think of one place.

The tree hole where Xie Hua's body was found - the locust tree hole in Houshan.

Duan Xu and the other two followed nearly a hundred villagers to the back mountain. As soon as they climbed halfway up the mountain, they heard someone screaming in front of them.
Chapter completed!