Chapter 29 - Well (2/2)

Zhao Mingya thought seriously about Su Min’s proposal and said: “Su Min, I think Uncle He’s well is the most suspicious.”

Su Min agreed with her thoughts.

After the meal, Su Min and Chen Xingzhou told the others about the man eating the toad last night causing the two girls to almost vomit with disgust.

How can he eat something like that?

Su Min had his own guesses. That pit next to the road had a body and there were also toads inside. It probably meant that those toads can eat corpses.

The toads that fed on corpses were then eaten by a human.

With this cycle, it was on par to a human eating a human corpse. It was even more disgusting than eating the dead body directly.

Su Min didn’t speak of this to the others.

The five people brought their things with Chen Yixin even pretending to bring along snacks, and they went to the part of the island where the islanders lived.

Many of the houses had their doors tightly shut even during the day.

They chattered and laughed but in fact they were carefully observing the situation around them. There weren’t many houses with wells but the wells in those that did were fine.

Only Uncle He’s one was sealed.

The five stopped at a clearing.

Chen Xingzhou threw out a few questions, “Is there really a body in Uncle He’s well? The body was probably pulled out already?”

Chen Yixin said: “You’ll know when you see it.”

Zhao Mingya pointed to herself, “I have an idea. We can say that we dropped something there. Didn’t we go over to the well last night? It’s a plausible excuse.”

Uncle He also isn’t at home right now.

Because they couldn’t think of anything else, they finally decided to use this idea.

In the case of Uncle He’s return, they practised their expressions and then hurried over to Uncle He’s yard. There was no door leading to the yard.

The stone slate over the well was very big. Chen Xingzhou and Jiang Yunhuo volunteered to use their strengths.

Su Min stood on the side waiting for them to lift it up so that he could look inside.

The slate was lifted a little and a ray of light entered into the darkness that had not seen any light all year round.

Su Min saw an old granny’s head suddenly appear at the edge of the well.

Her face was covered in wrinkles and the grin on her face was terrifying. Su Min was shocked by this sudden change and he took a step back.

Chen Xingzhou and Jiang Yunhuo quickly released the slate.

Before they could ask about it, Uncle He suddenly appeared and shouted: “What are you doing?”

He strode over to his yard and appeared to be angry. The people who saw this felt their hearts inside fall.

Zhao Mingya immediately changed her expression and acted like she was about to cry.

While crying she said: “Uncle He……My necklace fell in. It must have happened last night when I wasn’t careful.”

The only one who went close to the well last night was her.

Uncle He looked at her expression carefully and didn’t think that she was lying: “It’s very deep inside. You won’t find it.”

Zhao Mingya who heard this was scared.

Su Min: “Since Uncle He said so then lets’ leave it. Mingya we will buy you a new one when we get back.”

Zhao Mingya said: “That was something that was left for me after my fiancé passed away. Without it, I won’t be able to inherit his properties…”

Su Ming was speechless after hearing this.

What did Chen Xingzhou do to Zhao Mingya for her to say that about him?

Zhao Mingya covered her face and leaned on Chen Yixin’s shoulder crying while Chen Yixin pretended to be extremely distressed. The two of them cooperated very well with each other.

In fact, that necklace was something Zhao Mingya bought from a two yuan shop.

Uncle He knitted his brows tightly together and seemed to be annoyed by the sobbing.

He looked carefully at the well and confirmed that the slate had not been moved.

They no longer wanted to delay things and pretended to be willing to leave.

Zhao Mingya continued to sob.

After going up the slope and getting a certain distance away from the well, Su Min used the bushes as cover and looked back.

Uncle He was still standing by the well looking in their direction.

Su Min felt his heart go cold. They quickly left the slope and continued until they reached the slope near where they stayed. They then released the tension inside them.

That incident at the well earlier was very terrifying. It was almost as if they were walking on the tip of a knife. If they weren’t careful, they would accidentally lose their life.

Chen Xingzhou couldn’t wait and asked: “Su Ming, did you see anything?”

When he and Jiang Yunhuo lifted the slate a little, they only saw the well wall and Uncle He appeared.

Su Min said: “I saw it. Someone really did die in there.”

Zhao Mingya wiped her face and didn’t understand: “Then the bride really did jump in the well. Why didn’t they dispose of the body? Aren’t they afraid at night?”

Su Min shook his head, “She wasn’t wearing a wedding dress.”

Although this place is rather isolated from the rest of the world, a wedding is a very important occasion. How can they hold a wedding ceremony without even wearing a wedding dress?

He clearly saw that there was a ghost in the well but that female ghost wasn’t the bride that Uncle He spoke of.

Su Min added: “There is a female ghost inside. Looks like an old granny. At the very least she would probably be in her fifties.”

Chen Xingzhou knitted his eyebrows: “So Uncle He was lying?”

Zhao Mingya suddenly thought of a possibility and uttered with disbelief: “Don’t tell me he killed his own mother?”

Just the thought of it was sickening.

If what Uncle He said was correct, then his brother and brother’s wife were dead, and now even his mother is also dead……

Su Min said: “It’s all just speculation. Don’t make haphazard guesses.”

You would easily run into a dead end by guessing and they can’t make guesses just based on Uncle He’s words. It isn’t necessarily accurate.

What they can be sure of so far was that there are dead people in the sea, dead people in the pit, dead people in the wall and now there are also dead people in the well.

Su Min was glad that none of them had died.

After all, his initial speculation of “Murder Island” was that it likely had an unfortunate ending with no survivors.

The sea breeze blew over bringing along strong smell of the grass and woods.

Jiang Yunhuo suddenly nudged Chen Xingzhou and asked curiously: “Your eyes are good. Is that Uncle He over there?”

Chen Xingzhou looked over and nodded: “It’s Uncle He.”

They were standing on the slope and had the trees blocking them so if Uncle He didn’t look carefully, he wouldn’t see them.

Uncle He stopped in place for about half a minute, walked a few dozen steps away and then went back. He looked down again and then turned in the other direction.

Chen Yixin wondered: “Why did he go halfway and then turn back?”

Jiang Yunhuo was still thinking about the well. Hearing that question, he answered casually: “He probably went the wrong way.”

Chen Yixin rolled her eyes at him and retorted: “He has been living on this island for who knows how long and yet he can go the wrong way?”

Jiang Yunhuo said: “I was just saying.”

It did look like he had gotten lost and gone the wrong way.

But Uncle He didn’t seem to be directionally challenged. He is also 40 years old so how could he not know the way around the island?