Family (Part 8)
What's more, according to Qiao Yuan's understanding of Qiao Ying, if Qiao Ying did that, she should have made other reactions the moment she and Sheng Guiye climbed in through the window.
Looking at the dust surging under the light, Qiao Yuan looked at Sheng Guiye and said, "Go out first."
Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye quickly walked out of the house.
After leaving that dusty room, Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye seemed to be able to breathe more easily, but they were still nervous.
Just as Qiao Yuan was thinking about what to do next, a slight sound suddenly came from his ears.
Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye looked in the direction where the sound came from, and saw a child timidly poking his head out from the door opposite.
The child looked only four or five years old, with curly brown hair and blue eyes like a clear spring, reflecting the figures of Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye.
The child quickly spoke up and asked who the two were.
Although he had just asked a question, before Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye could say anything, the child quickly seemed to realize something and smiled knowingly: "You are the guests invited by Grandma Serin, right?"
It turned out that the child was watching cartoons when he heard the noise coming from the opposite door. The child was very curious about the noise coming from the door, after all, he heard from his parents that Grandma Serin basically never left the house because she had passed away.
But Grandma Serin was hospitable when she was alive, and I guess she will remain so even after her death.
Sheng Guiye was not surprised that he could understand the child's language. His attention was already on the first half of the child's sentence. The child's words confirmed his and Qiao Yuan's guess that the so-called Grandma Serin was indeed dead.
But the child's words revealed another very important message.
The child and his family clearly knew that their neighbor's grandmother had died, but they didn't seem to be afraid of such things and even seemed to be accustomed to them.
This made Sheng Guiye feel doubtful, and he looked at the child with a little more caution.
There seems to be something wrong with this kid and his family.
Sheng Guiye subconsciously looked at Qiao Yuan.
Qiao Yuan naturally noticed the child's problem, but nodded obediently, and touched the child's hair affectionately. From the warm feeling between her fingers, she realized that the other person was a living person. Then she said that they had some questions to ask the child's parents, and wondered if the child's parents were there now.
Child: "Mom and Dad are resting, but if you have any questions, you can ask me. I know everything..."
The child stepped aside to make way, as if to signal Sheng Guiye and Qiao Yuan to come in, while proudly puffing out his chest and counting how many people had asked him questions since he was a child, including his parents asking him where the remote control was at home, and his playmates asking him which toy in the store was more fun.
These cute childish words could not dispel Sheng Guiye's tense heartstrings.
However, after discovering that Qiao Yuan walked into the room, Sheng Guiye immediately chose to follow him.
Sheng Guiye could also guess why Qiao Yuan chose to go in. After all, the child and his parents in front of him looked like a breakthrough that was delivered to his doorstep.
And most importantly, the appearance of this child was just a coincidence.
After quietly entering the other person's house according to the child's instructions, Qiao Yuan quickly looked around. Compared with Grandma Serene's room, the child's house in front of him seemed full of people.
There were several photos hanging on the wall. The middle-aged couple in the photos both had short brown-red hair, and they were holding the child in front of Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye.
There were indeed lights on in the room, and a television playing with no sound.
The TV was playing a cartoon with high color saturation. The whole house was not very big, and you could see everything at a glance.
Qiao Yuan and the others were standing in the living room, with a corridor on one side and several doors on both sides. Most of the doors were open, and through the open doors one could see the children's room or the bathroom. But among these rooms, only one room had its door closed.
From the way the child occasionally glanced at the door, Qiao Yuan realized that the room should be where the child's parents lived.
It seemed that the other person secretly got up to watch TV while his parents were sleeping.
Besides that, Qiao Yuan was also shocked that despite the kid's hospitable personality and his willingness to let anyone in, the furniture in the house was still complete.
There is indeed something wrong with this world.
The child's figure quickly disappeared from sight.
Qiao Yuan followed the other person's figure and found that his destination was the dining table. The child ran to the table and stepped clumsily on the chair next to it.
Although his back was facing away from them, Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye could still see that the child in front of them was pouring water for them.
Under the gaze of the two, the child quickly ran over with two glasses of water, handed them to Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye, and then said that the two could drink the water and take a rest before asking him questions.
The child even added: "Don't worry, these cups were bought by my mother a few days ago."
Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye were not thirsty and were not ready to drink. The child also realized this and suddenly said happily that if Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye did not like to drink water, he could share his favorite chocolate powder with them, which tasted good when added to water.
Without waiting for Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye to answer, he turned around anxiously.
The child's attentive behavior was a little strange, but Sheng Guiye looked at the water in front of him and didn't see anything wrong.
The liquid in the glass was clear and didn't smell strange. The wall of the glass still felt warm to the touch.
Could it be that this child was simply being hospitable when delivering water?
As soon as this thought came into Sheng Guiye's mind, he felt the corner of his clothes being gently tugged.
Judging from the strength, it was Qiao Yuan.
The other party silently pointed to the edge of his cup. Sheng Guiye looked closely and found that there was a little white powder left there, which could not be seen at all if you didn't look carefully.
Sheng Guiye realized that the water he and Qiao Yuan drank might have been drugged. After all, according to the child, the cup was newly bought and no one had used it, so why were there these things?
Because the child moved too hastily, there was a hole in the water cup given to Qiao Yuan.
Sheng Guiye had only suspected it before, but now he was completely sure that this kid was not a good person.
Qiao Yuan's hand slipped and the cup of water in his hand fell to the ground.
The sound of shattering glass instantly rang out in the house, causing the child nearby to turn around, frowning and asking nervously what had happened.
However, at this time, Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye had no intention of dealing with the children.
After realizing that there was something wrong with the child, Qiao Yuan thought about pretending to slip his hand and asking the child's parents to come out so that he could find out the truth from the reactions of the family of three.
However, despite such a loud noise, there was no sound behind the closed door.
Did I sleep too soundly?
Judging from the silent cartoons played by children, it doesn't seem like it.
Another thought quickly came to mind -
Can the child's parents really wake up?
Qiao Yuan looked at Sheng Guiye, and the two quickly communicated through eye contact and ran directly towards the closed door.
The door was not strong and was quickly broken open by Sheng Guiye.
Through the open door, Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye also saw the scene in the room -
There was no light on in the room, and no windows were open, so it was pitch black. But as the light from the living room poured into the room, Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye were able to see the scene in the room clearly.
There were two human-shaped bulges on the bed, and it seemed that someone was sleeping on it.
However, even when Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye walked to the bed, the person on the bed did not react at all.
Sheng Guiye directly lifted the quilt.
As the quilt was lifted, two strange things appeared in front of Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye.
The two things looked like a man and a woman in appearance, but now they were wrapped in densely packed dark wide tape, like two mummies.
Qiao Yuan raised his hand and forcefully tore off the tape, revealing a face that was soft and rotten, but still had a hideous expression before death. The stench of decay quickly spread throughout the room, and the child's screams also rang out: "What are you doing? Why are you disturbing my parents' sleep?"
However, the father and mother he mentioned had died a long time ago. Judging from the degree of decay, although they died later than Grandma Serin, they had also been dead for some time.
The child obviously knows this, but now he seems to be denying it.
Qiao Yuan couldn't help but wonder if this little boy had killed his parents.
After all, his parents were definitely defenseless against their child, so if the little boy wanted to kill both of them, it was possible for him to do so.
The child rushed to his parents' bed. He looked at the two bodies but did not feel scared. Instead, he wanted to cover them with a blanket.
His voice was still sharp, and his tone revealed anxiety: "Don't let them catch a cold..."
Qiao Yuan looked at the child in front of him. Although his tone sounded a little anxious, the mask of calm still showed signs of crumbling.
Qiao Yuan: “They are already dead.”
The child who had been so well-behaved and timid before, now seemed like a completely different person, jumping up and down in anger: "You are lying..."
It seems that the child in front of him is not indifferent to the death of his parents, but is just holding on. After realizing this, Qiao Yuan raised his hand again, untied the tape on the faces of the two corpses, and then pushed the corpses to let the child see clearly.
The child was forced to face the two corpses directly. After looking at his parents’ faces, he suddenly screamed, his memory was confused, and he cried for his parents one moment, then showed a ferocious expression: “I don’t want to kill you either, but who told you not to believe in God? I can only kill you according to what God said. This is their own fault…”
Although Qiao Yuan's guess was confirmed, he did not feel relieved at this moment.
After all, what the child said was too weird.
god?
Which god lets a child kill his parents?
Qiao Yuan suddenly thought of what Qiao Ying had said before, that someone was impersonating her.
She didn't understand what Qiao Ying meant before, but now she guessed something.
Qiao Ying meant that someone had impersonated her as a god.
Qiao Yuan frowned for a rare moment. After all, someone not only pretended to be her, but also did such a thing...
Qiao Yuan originally wanted to look for Qiao Ying and let it go if she couldn't find him, but the current situation made it impossible for her to just sit there and do nothing.
Qiao Yuan wanted to question the child in front of him, but unexpectedly the child suddenly took out a bag of powdery substance from his pocket and stuffed it directly into his mouth.
His speed was so fast that by the time Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye arrived, it was already too late.
The child was already coughing as he crawled onto the bed, mumbling incoherently, "Mom and Dad, let's sleep together..."
When he was only one step away from his parents, his body twitched violently, and within a few seconds he was motionless.
After checking, Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye confirmed that the child in front of them was no longer breathing.
He is dead.
After observation, the little bit of powder was about the same as the powder on the edge of the cup. In other words, the child had added it to Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye's water, but the two did not drink it.
Now it seems that there is indeed something wrong with this powder.
The child is dead, and the clues about Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye are gone again.
Considering what the other party said, Qiao Yuan no longer hesitated and decided to use perception coverage.
Perception coverage will consume energy to a certain extent, so Qiao Yuan is fine in the real world, but in this strange world, she is still quite cautious when using it.
Sheng Guiye also realized what Qiao Yuan wanted to do. He stood aside and looked around vigilantly.
Qiao Yuan was already familiar with this kind of thing, so a thumbnail of the entire town soon appeared in front of her.
Since he already knew that it was impossible to track Qiao Ying, Qiao Yuan now turned to searching for other living people in the town.
What surprised Qiao Yuan was that after exploring most of the town, she did not find any signs of life.
This meant that most of the town was empty of living people.
Even when Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye looked over, those few warm lights that occasionally revealed human presence seemed to have become a coffin with a corpse lying on it.
After searching for a while, Qiao Yuan finally noticed some people in several other buildings.
However, the traces of people quickly dispersed, and even showed a tendency to move, and it seemed that they were heading towards them.
Qiao Yuan quickly exited the perception mode.
After Sheng Guiye noticed that Qiao Yuan had exited the perception mode, he asked what to do next.
Qiao Yuan: "Let's wait here, someone is coming to find us."
Sheng Guiye heard a more detailed explanation from Qiao Yuan, but his expression did not relax much.
After all, Sheng Guiye had just heard what the child said, so he couldn't help but ask, "Is the leader the god the child mentioned?"
Qiao Yuan: “It doesn’t look like it.”
The leader was a middle-aged man, and the people following him did not seem to be very respectful to him, so Qiao Yuan suspected that the middle-aged man was not the god that the children talked about.
However, because he had never had formal contact with the other party, Qiao Yuan could not draw a direct conclusion.
After a while, there was a knock on the door, and judging from the pause in the sound, it was very polite.
Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye walked towards the door at the same time.
Before opening the door, Sheng Guiye still asked who the other person was. The people outside the door knew the reason why Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye appeared here, so they came to explain the situation.
After hearing the other party's words, Sheng Guiye opened the door.
At the door were several people that Qiao Yuan had seen in advance through perception mode, and the one in front was a middle-aged man.
The other person had a gentle smile on his face, which made people feel friendly at first glance.
However, after realizing the weirdness of this world, Sheng Guiye became more cautious when facing the middle-aged man at the door.
Qiao Yuan quickly changed his expression to one of meeting someone for the first time, and looked at the middle-aged man in front of him with a puzzled look.
The middle-aged man naturally felt the gazes of Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye on him, so after a brief consideration, he quickly turned his gaze to Qiao Yuan, speaking in a friendly tone, like an uncle next door: "I haven't seen you in this town before, are you new here?"
Qiao Yuan nodded, and then, as if infected by the middle-aged man's tone, she quickly introduced her and Sheng Guiye as a couple. Unexpectedly, when she opened her eyes, she found herself the person who appeared here inexplicably, and told the middle-aged man what they had encountered.
Of course, Qiao Yuan omitted the fact that he broke the cup on purpose, and just said that the child came out inexplicably and then committed suicide.
The middle-aged man nodded as he listened, and from time to time he comforted Qiao Yuan, asking him to speak slower and not to be in a hurry.
After Qiao Yuan finished speaking, the middle-aged man nodded and said, "I already know."
Qiao Yuan noticed that the middle-aged man and the people behind him did not show any shock.
Middle-aged man: "You seem to be from the outside world, so it seems difficult for you to understand this situation. In fact, this is all God's will."
Qiao Yuan: "...God?"
Before the middle-aged man could speak,
Middle-aged man: "You may be shocked by what I am about to say, but everything I say is true."
After hearing what the middle-aged man said, Qiao Yuan assumed that the other party was about to lie.
According to the middle-aged man, a few months ago, the world they lived in encountered a crisis. In the midst of chaos, they heard a voice from above their heads and realized that they were saved by God.
What made them even more excited was that soon after, God descended into their world and even into the town where they lived, and has stayed there ever since. Some people who did not believe in God were also expelled from the town at the instruction of God, after all, they did not need these impious believers.
Especially since the other party can bring the dead back to life, just like Serin that Qiao Yuan and others had met before, so the middle-aged man told Qiao Yuan not to be nervous.
And it was because God told them that a stranger was coming that the middle-aged man brought others to check the situation and wanted to explain to Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye. However, he did not expect that he was still a step too late, causing Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye to be frightened.
Although Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye did not actually encounter any fright, they still accepted the middle-aged man's apology.
Several people behind the middle-aged man also entered the house and quickly came out to tell the middle-aged man that the child was dead.
The middle-aged man just nodded and then said that it seemed that the child did not really believe in God in his heart, which was why he was so wavering.
Qiao Yuan listened and thought in his heart.
The noises coming from above her head a few months ago sounded like the fight between her and Su Zeyuan. The god these people were talking about was also her. But she had only just arrived here, so who was the god who had been staying here before?
Qiao Yuan's first reaction was Qiao Ying, after all, the other party had a criminal record.
But when he thought of the message Qiao Ying had sent him before, he quickly dismissed this idea.
She didn't expect that someone would have the same idea as her and Qiao Ying.
Her eyes swept across the people present. When they heard the name of God, they showed fanaticism in their eyes. It was obvious that they really believed that Serin's appearance was a rebirth.
And although the other party said that they would expel those who did not believe from the town, from the behavior of the child, it seemed more like they were instigating their relatives to kill the other party.
Although he has not yet seen the person pretending to be him, Qiao Yuan's impression of him is already extremely bad.
However, Qiao Yuan also knew that even if he told these people the truth, they would not believe it, so he decided to meet this god first.
As if she had thought of something, Qiao Yuan asked the middle-aged man why he was not so surprised at the appearance of her and Sheng Guiye, and whether there had been similar situations before.
Middle-aged man: “Of course.”
"A strange ghost also appeared here before, but it was caught by God yesterday."
Wait, this ghost...
Could it be Qiao Ying?
Qiao Yuan's eyes narrowed, and the results she obtained from asking indirect questions made her feel that it was more like Qiao Ying.
Qiao Ying was actually caught.
The combination of these two situations made Qiao Yuan realize that he had no choice but to meet this God.
She immediately pretended to be very interested in God and hoped that the middle-aged man could take her to see God.
Seeing how eager Qiao Yuan was, the middle-aged man quickly agreed and motioned Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye to follow him over here.
Under the guidance of the middle-aged man, Qiao Yuan and Sheng Guiye quickly arrived at the church.
However, the church has changed its appearance and only the paintings on the wall show the scene that used to be here.
There are two figures in the center of the church.
There was a figure locked in an iron cage, and his face couldn't be seen clearly, but Qiao Yuan knew it was Qiao Ying.
Her eyes quickly fell on another figure.
