Chapter 921: Infiltrating the Dense Forest

Now that someone said the killer had been found, his heart immediately settled. As long as it was a human who did it, that was fine. If it really had been a ghost, he wouldn't be able to sleep at night.

After all, he had done far too many shady deeds.

"Take me there now!"

The Village Chief called out to the dark-faced middle-aged man.

The whole group followed the dark-faced middle-aged man all the way to the depths of the village.

Here, the forest grew thick and dense.

There, more than a dozen villagers armed with all kinds of iron farming tools were surrounding a single person.

This person was dressed plainly, just like the villagers' clothing.

His face couldn't be seen because he was wearing a helmet on his head, and moreover, the plastic visor at the front of the helmet had been pulled down as well.

And it wasn't even transparent, making it even harder to see who he was.

By the time the Village Chief and the others arrived, Gao Yang and his group had also caught up. When Gao Yang saw the surrounded person, he immediately raised his camera and aimed it straight at him.

At that moment.

"Who are you? So many people have died in our village, are you the one who killed them all?"

The Village Chief maintained a safe distance from the person, shouting angrily and sternly.

The person over there didn't answer, but in his hands were a kitchen knife and a blackish-brown stone.

The thick, congealed blood on them was proof enough that the person before them was the killer!

Seeing that the person was acting like a mute, the Village Chief grew furious: "All of you, go! Capture him!!!"

There was strength in numbers, and these villagers all held hoes, rakes, sickles, and other farming tools.

Therefore, none of them feared the person before them, and they all closed in step by step.

But just then, this helmeted man suddenly charged backward.

Startled, the two villagers at the back of the encirclement quickly rushed forward, swinging their sickles.

But the helmeted man easily dodged them.

Then, the helmeted man smashed a stone into one villager's head, causing that villager to drop his sickle and run off howling while clutching his head.

The helmeted man, taking advantage of the broken encirclement, dove straight into the dense forest and vanished in an instant.

"Chase him now! He's gone into the mountain! If we lose him, he'll definitely just run away!"

"If that happens! All our dead family members and fellow villagers will have died for nothing!!"

Hearing these words, the villagers were all stirred up with intense emotion in an instant.

This village was only so big, and the villagers were all connected by blood or marriage. With the helmeted man killing so many people, there were bound to be their relatives and kin among the dead.

Therefore, those villagers who had lost family or relatives had bloodshot eyes and immediately plunged into the depths of the forest as well.

Where there was one leader, there was a second.

Where there was a second, there was a third. Soon, one after another, they streamed in endlessly.

Even the middle-aged man with slit-like eyes and the dark-faced middle-aged man joined the ranks of those chasing the helmeted man.

As a result, only a few people remained by the Village Chief's side now.

Gao Yang was in an obsessive state of mind.

Camera in hand, he also wanted to charge into the depths of the forest.

But Zhang Xue grabbed him: "Are you crazy?! Let them chase if they want, but why are you chasing?"

Gao Yang: "To film footage, of course!"

Zhang Xue: "Then do you know the way? Aren't you afraid that instead of catching up to the person, you'll get lost in the mountains?"

"Everyone else is from this village, so they're definitely familiar with the mountain. What about you?"

"Besides, what if you chase in there and run into that killer? What would you do then?"

Gao Yang felt like he'd been drenched with ice water.

He suddenly came to his senses.

Yeah, getting lost he actually wasn't afraid of.

But... if he was unlucky enough to run into that killer, then he'd be in deep trouble.

What if the killer took a disliking to him and chased him down swinging a blade...

Gulping nervously with lingering fear, Gao Yang glanced at the Village Chief, whose expression was complicated.

Then he pulled Zhang Xue along and headed back to see if there were any other victims.

Sure enough, there were indeed other victims, and quite a few were discovered one after another.

Gao Yang and the others followed along to film, and the more they filmed, the faster their hearts pounded and the more their hands trembled.

They couldn't imagine it. Were all these dead people really the work of that helmeted man?

Why would he kill the people of this village?

Did he have a grudge against the village?

Or a grudge against the specific people he killed in the village?

No way, if that were really the case, how could anyone have that many enemies?

Uh... Gao Yang suddenly remembered that when he was scammed, this village, including the Village Chief, could all be considered accomplices, just not obviously so.

To put it bluntly, this village was full of swindlers, every last one of them villains. It was only natural that they'd provoke someone.

"But this is way too brutal, right?!"

"With this many people killed in this village, this is already a massive, heinous case that will shock the whole nation. Who would've thought we'd run into it? It's like when fortune comes, there's no stopping it."

"This is all money, big piles of money!"

Gao Yang and the others returned to the road construction site.

Seeing Wang Qingzhao and Qin Chuan, they asked if they knew what had happened in the village.

Wang Qingzhao replied: "We know. There's no one in the village who doesn't know by now."

Qin Chuan also nodded: "Yeah, we heard from passing villagers that quite a few people have died!"

At that moment, Zhang Xue scanned the area and said in surprise: "Hey, where's Jiang Ran?"

Wang Qingzhao said: "He went back to the car to get some water. I don't know why he's taking so long to come back."

Gao Yang snorted coldly: "Maybe he ran into that killer and got himself killed."

Wang Qingzhao shot back: "Don't worry, even if the killer kills you, nothing will happen to him."

Gao Yang said with displeasure: "Why do you have to talk so harshly?"

Wang Qingzhao said: "Is the way you talk any less harsh?"

The two were about to start arguing again when Zhang Xue quickly extinguished the spark of conflict, forcefully snuffing it out.

"Forget it, whatever. As long as I film my footage."

Gao Yang's mind was now completely focused on shooting a viral video.

Zhang Xue and the others, including Wang Qingzhao, chatted among themselves.

They didn't wander recklessly through the village but stayed right where they were, also afraid of running into danger if they roamed around, like that killer returning from the mountain forest back into the village.

About half an hour later, the police who had been called earlier arrived.

Because it was a murder case, quite a few officers came.

However, the information these officers had received was that only four people had been killed.

When they arrived and saw the scene, good heavens, it wasn't just four people killed at all.

It was at least thirty-plus people who had been killed.

The jump in numbers immediately escalated the severity of this case to an infinitely higher level.

At once, these officers hurriedly contacted their station, reported the situation upward, and requested more personnel.

The ones who had come so far simply weren't enough.

Even though they weren't enough, the work that needed to be done still had to be carried out.

For instance, investigating the crime scene and questioning relevant personnel, eyewitnesses, and so on.

Zhang Xue and her group naturally didn't escape being questioned.

Especially since their identities were quite special, not villagers, but online influencers from another province who had come to shoot videos.

"Is that so? You didn't see the killer's face, and he's now fled into the mountains?"

A person who appeared to be the current head of the police was talking with the Village Chief.

Village Chief: "Yes, quite a few of our villagers have gone in to chase him. No word back yet."