This actor is full of tricks.

Chapter 40 There is a person in the air in the woods

Because the exploration of the Suolongshan Tunnel starts at nine o'clock in the evening, everyone is free to do whatever they want during this afternoon period.

I don’t know if it’s because the bronze dagger fell out before, but Chen Fugui and his wife and Jia Jia didn’t dare to talk to Lin Jue anymore. Qiao Kang was hiding in the study editing videos, and no one knew where the dove of peace had gone.

Seeing that no one could get him to say anything, Lin Jue simply walked around the villa alone.

On one wall of the living room, he found traces of new paint, and the color was slightly different from the surrounding walls.

If you smell it up close, you can still smell the pungent smell of new paint, which is obviously a very cheap product.

This is obviously not in line with the expensive decoration style of the entire villa. Even if the wall paint is repainted later, it is unlikely that cheap products will be used.

This means that the paint was not applied by the owner of the house, but by someone else.

"To cover something? Blood? Or mildew from the damp?"

Lin Jue touched the wall, then walked out of the villa alone and wandered around the community.

The community was like a forgotten corner, so quiet that it was eerie. Lin Jue walked to the gate of the community and just saw a large truck stopped.

Several men with "Moving Company" printed on their clothes got off the truck. One of them approached Lin Jue with a smile and handed him a cigarette: "Young man, are you moving?"

"No, no." Lin Jue waved his hand to refuse the cigarette and asked, "Is anyone here moving?"

"Yes, actually, this is our third trip to take on work in this community." The man put away his cigarette and lit it himself. "And every time, the move is always rushed."

"Young man, do you live here too?"

"No, I'm visiting a friend's house." Lin Jue shook his head.

"Young man, I advise you not to stay here for too long." The man whispered, "I heard from people who moved away before that this place is not clean and there are things from the fog."

Is there something weird?
Lin Jue looked around and did not see any black air in his true eyes.

"What did those people say?" Lin Jue also spoke in a low voice, his face full of gossip and curiosity.

"I don't know the details. I just heard a few words. Those people were very evasive and didn't say much."

The man took a drag of his cigarette and pulled out a business card: "You can tell your friend, if he wants to move, he can contact us."

"No problem." Lin Jue took the business card with a smile.

At the same time, a man's voice sounded behind him: "Moving, here, here."

"Coming, coming." The man replied loudly, put out his cigarette, and ran over with his colleagues.

Lin Jue looked back and saw a middle-aged man standing outside a villa not far from Qiao Kang's house.

Behind him was a pale-faced woman holding a little girl who was about two years old.

While the movers were packing up the furniture, Lin Jue hurried over and called out to the middle-aged man who was about to go home: "Brother, brother, wait a minute."

The middle-aged man stopped and turned to look at Lin Jue warily: "What are you doing?"

"Brother, my parents want to buy a house for me. I saw you moving, so I wanted to ask if you are selling this house?" Lin Jue smiled warmly.

He didn't really want to buy a house, but wanted to get some information from the middle-aged man.

There must be a reason for moving. Considering what the people from the moving company said before, this middle-aged man might have seen the weirdness here.

Li Ge's character is a sunny person at first glance, and coupled with his harmless smile, the middle-aged man's defensiveness is much lowered, but his tone is still stiff: "Not for sale."

"I dare not sell it to you. I advise you not to buy a house in this community." As soon as these words came out, Lin Jue knew that he had found the right person. This middle-aged man must know something!
A hint of confusion flashed across his face. "Why? Big Brother, are you just going to leave the house empty? This will cost a lot of money!"

"I just heard from the moving company that a lot of people have moved out of here. Why are you moving out too? I think this neighborhood is a little deserted, but overall it's pretty good."

His words seemed to have touched a sore spot for the middle-aged man, whose expression suddenly turned ugly. After taking a deep breath, he spoke again, "Young man, I see you look kind, so I'll say a few more words to you."

"There's something strange here. I don't want to hurt you, so I don't dare sell the house to you."

"Is there something strange?" Lin Jue pretended to be startled, looking around, and said in a panic: "Brother, didn't they say that strange people would kill anyone they saw? There are so many of us here, why didn't he show up?"

"Would I lie to you?" the middle-aged man said impatiently, "Although I haven't seen it, my family has."

He looked back inside the house and saw his wife taking the child back to the room. Then he continued, "I was on a business trip a few days ago and my wife called me out of the blue and said her daughter was missing."

"I was about to book a flight back, but less than ten minutes later, my wife called me again and said that our daughter had been found in the woods behind the community."

Lin Jue looked towards the woods behind the villa area.

It was a gentle upward slope with lush leaves that blocked most of the sunlight. A mountain breeze blew, and the leaves swayed, causing the shadows to shake, as if something was hidden inside.

It looked normal from the outside, at least Lin Jue didn't notice any black air.

"My wife said on the phone that our daughter was crying and that there was someone in the air in the woods."

"That's not what the child said exactly, but it's pretty much what he meant."

When the middle-aged man said this, he shuddered, shrank his neck, and kept turning his head to look at the woods behind him, as if something was trying to come out of the woods and take him away.

"A person in the air?" Children's descriptions are always imaginative. Lin Jue guessed that the strange person must be standing on the tree.

Or……

It's hanging on the tree.

"I felt something was wrong at the time, so I gave up my business trip and rushed over."

"After I came back, my daughter hugged me and cried, saying, 'Daddy is scared, it's dark, dark.'"

The middle-aged man's expression was filled with fear and heartache: "Ever since then, I've always felt that there are more things in the community, so I quickly moved out while it's still relatively safe here."

"Young man, don't stay here any longer."

After saying that, he went straight back into the house.

Dad is afraid of the dark, the dark...

What does the word "black" mean in children's mouths?
Is it dark in the woods, or is it that the object you see is dark?
Lin Jue walked out of the community and headed towards the woods behind.

As soon as he entered the woods, the temperature dropped suddenly and goose bumps appeared on his arms. This place never sees sunlight all year round and is very gloomy.

Most of the trees in the woods are banyan trees, with roots hanging down from the branches and intertwined with each other. In the pitch-black environment, at first glance it really looks like human figures hanging on the tree trunks.

"Could it be that the little girl saw these roots?" Lin Jue lifted up the clusters of hanging roots and looked up at the treetops.

There was nothing unusual, everything around was normal.

Maybe the child really saw it wrong, and a two-year-old child cannot accurately express what he saw.

(End of this chapter)