Chapter 220: Slip (Subscribe)

Chapter 220: A Misstep (Seeking Subscriptions)

“Oh my, who is this? Could it be our little Honghong’s boyfriend?”

Just then, a voice came, immediately separating the two.

“No way! He’s just a childhood playmate, at most a childhood sweetheart, not a boyfriend.”

Sun Honghong’s face flushed slightly, adopting a demure expression.

Sun Gang, on the other hand, was expressionless.

“Hello, my name is Sun Gang. I live right next door to Honghong.”

“Next door? Is that old house next door yours?”

“Uh—well, I know my house is considered the most dilapidated in the village.”

As Sun Gang said this, the others immediately laughed.

“Hello, I’m Honghong’s friend, my name is Yang Ying. There’s another one in the room; I’ll introduce you to her later.”

“Alright.”

Sun Gang and Yang Ying shook hands, then released.

“Speaking of which, why haven’t I seen your grandfather?”

As soon as Sun Gang spoke, the surrounding air instantly fell silent.

“My grandfather apparently fell from the mountain while going up and didn’t make it.”

“I’m sorry—I didn’t expect that, especially since your grandfather was so nimble on his feet, to think he would—”

“It’s alright. I was also very surprised when I heard about it.”

Sun Gang knew he had asked an inappropriate question and felt a bit awkward.

“After all, old people, even if they look healthy when they get older, their bones are inevitably brittle—”

Sun Gang’s voice paused. Why did that sentence sound so familiar? It was as if he had heard it somewhere before.

It was similar to what the neighbors said to his parents when his grandfather passed away.

Speaking of which, how did his grandfather pass away?

He was still very young when his grandfather died.

He vaguely remembered that his grandfather also seemed to have fallen from the mountain—for some reason, Sun Gang felt a chill run through him.

“Sun Gang, Sun Gang, what’s wrong?”

Sun Honghong waved her hand in front of Sun Gang and asked.

“Why do you look so pale?”

“Pale?” Sun Gang wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve. “Do I?”

“Yes!”

Sun Honghong said.

Yang Ying, beside her, also nodded in affirmation.

“It must be because I walked too much today. I’m not used to it, and I’m tired.”

“Your body is weaker than us girls! You’re already exhausted after walking just a few steps? What will you do when you get married?”

Sun Gang no longer had the mood to care about his childhood sweetheart’s teasing. He now only wanted to find his Second Uncle to confirm how his grandfather truly died.

It wasn’t that he was overthinking; it was entirely because the feeling this village gave him recently was becoming increasingly unsettling.

This sense of unease always made him think of things in the worst possible light.

This was a subconscious thought, unrelated to his own intentions!

After chatting briefly with Sun Honghong, he found an excuse to leave and headed straight for Second Uncle’s house without looking back.

But when he arrived at Second Uncle’s house, his heart sank.

Because he saw Second Uncle’s son sitting in the living room with a mournful expression, and the faces of the people around him were also very somber.

“Wh-what happened?”

Sun Gang subconsciously asked in a low voice.

His voice was very soft, but in this quiet environment, it was enough for everyone to hear.

“Your Second Uncle—he missed a step while coming back and fell down the stairs. He’s gone.”

Sun Gang’s head exploded with a boom.

He never expected that Second Uncle, who had just been holding his hand, was simply gone?

“Then—where is Second Uncle’s body?”

“It’s with your Sixth Uncle—”

Sun Gang didn’t know how he got back to his own house.

Sun Gang mechanically took out the diary. This had become his routine action almost every time he returned these days.

As he opened the blood-stained page of the diary, a thought suddenly popped into his mind!

“Could it be that the village’s sacrifice isn’t what I thought it was?”

Sun Gang subconsciously felt that the statue in the diary wasn’t moved because they were afraid of scaring children, but rather, it wasn’t in that basin at all!

Sun Gang had already confirmed when he entered the mountain cave that there were several forks in the mountain cave!

Without a light source, it would be easy to take the wrong path, and then the diary’s owner would see the idol placed at the end of a certain mountain cave!

And that was the true place of sacrifice!

And the items used for the sacrifice—for some reason, Sun Gang recalled what those people at Second Uncle’s house had said.

“No, I need to confirm!”

Sun Gang left his house, not even locking the door, and went to find Sixth Uncle.

His Sixth Uncle’s family ran a funeral business. It was the only one in the village, and although it was remote, it wasn’t hard to find.

Sun Gang quickly arrived at Sixth Uncle’s shop.

Hearing that Sun Gang wanted to see Second Uncle’s body, Sixth Uncle refused, citing fear that he would have nightmares if he saw it.

Although children do have nightmares after seeing a corpse, he had experienced this when he was little and didn’t listen to adult advice.

But he wasn’t a child anymore!

In the words of his elders, he would be almost thirty by Chinese New Year!

He was no longer young!

But Sixth Uncle’s attitude was firm; he simply wouldn’t let him see the body.

Helpless, Sun Gang could only leave.

As he left, Sun Gang surveyed the shop and realized that it seemed impossible to sneak in, so he had to give up on secretly going in to examine the body.

After watching Sun Gang disappear from sight, Sixth Uncle closed the shop door and went inside, approaching a coffin.

The coffin lid was not on, and inside lay Sun Gang’s Second Uncle.

At this time, Second Uncle’s clothes had not changed; they were still what Sun Gang had seen him wearing that morning.

And if Sun Gang were to see Second Uncle lying in the coffin, he would surely gasp.

Because it was a burial shroud!

And Second Uncle, with a peaceful expression, lay in the coffin, looking as if he had died a natural death, not with the grim look of someone who had tragically fallen down the stairs, as others had said.

“Alas~”

Sixth Uncle shook his head and sighed, then closed the coffin.

As the coffin lid was put on, one could see Second Uncle’s head, beneath his burial hat, tremble slightly.

Leaving Sixth Uncle’s shop, Sun Gang walked aimlessly on the village’s paved road. Unbeknownst to him, he arrived at the cliff from a few days ago.

Looking at the mountain cave entrance, which seemed to swallow its prey, Sun Gang’s eyes flickered, wondering what he was thinking.

“Should I—should I call the police?”

Sun Gang’s first thought was to call the police directly.

If his guess was true, then the sacrifices held in this village had always involved live human sacrifices.

Then the police would definitely investigate this matter, but the question was, was his guess correct?