This small village is so dilapidated. The entrance to the village is full of garbage. We can smell a foul smell from a distance, just like a deserted village!
"I don't know how many people are left!"
Zhang Xianchang stared at the entrance of the village and muttered: "A village with a few hundred people is considered a big village, but it is so dilapidated. It's a disaster!"
What he said makes sense. I guess the village is already full of corpses. After being out of food for so long, those who can survive are lucky!
"Forget it, don't worry about it!"
Zhang Zhenlin waved his hand and said, "Let's go into the village first!"
There is no Yinsha fog here, and everyone's vision has been restored. I don't need to lead the way in front. We all entered the village shoulder to shoulder.
To my surprise... the village was actually quite clean. I didn't see any corpses on the way into the village. It was unlike the bleak scene of bones all over the street when I was doing a mission at the end of Luoma Mountain. It seems that the people here are not stupid. They even know how to deal with corpses to prevent the spread of plague!
We knocked on several doors in a row, but there was no movement. There was no one in the house!
There were no living people, and no dead people. Where did the villagers of Baiyangyu go?
We didn't give up. We knocked on doors all the way. Unknowingly, we came to the depths of the village. Finally, we met a living person. This person was dressed cleanly. I think Baiyangyu should not have been cut off from water. However, his face was too pale, just like a layer of white powder on his face. At first glance, he looked a little creepy. When I saw him at first, I thought he was a dirty thing. I went up and knocked him down with three punches and two kicks, and then I found that he was still a living person with breath, so I pulled him up.
The man's face was really pale. Seeing that I would not hit him, he looked at me cautiously and asked, "You... are you from outside?"
Looking at this man's face, I felt more and more that something was wrong. If he was not a living person, I would have wanted to rush up with a Baipi knife and cut him first. Anyway, I felt uncomfortable no matter how I looked at that face. He looked like a dead person!
What's even more weird is that when I saw this man, the Buddha relic on my chest actually emitted a trace of clear air!
I have worn this Buddha relic for a while. This reaction will only occur in an environment with particularly heavy evil spirits. The clearness emitted can make people concentrate and calm down. But I didn't feel any evil spirit in Baiyang Valley at the moment. I can still be sure of this. I cultivate murderous spirit, and I absorb all the violent spirits between heaven and earth, such as evil spirits, yin spirits, etc. I am naturally very sensitive to evil spirits, and I don't know what this Buddha bone relic is about.
However, Zhang Zhenlin was very kind to this guy. After helping the man up from the ground, he gently asked: "We are sent by the government. Where are all the villagers here?"
"Sent by the government? How can you come in?!"
The man's eyes widened in disbelief. I realized that when he opened his eyes, his eyes were extremely red. Combined with his pale face, he looked more and more like a ghost.
"Of course we can come in."
Zhang Zhenlin said with a smile: "Because we specialize in solving this kind of thing!"
"Really?!"
The man's eyes were filled with surprise: "You can come in, does that mean you can take us out?"
"Of course!"
Zhang Zhenlin seemed to be annoyed by this man, frowned and said in a deep voice: "Where are the villagers? I have to see your leader!"
"Hey hey hey! I'll take you there right away!"
The man nodded hurriedly, got up and ran ahead in a flash, Zhang Zhenlin and his two apprentices quickly followed.
"This man is so weird!"
Lin Qing frowned and muttered to me: "He seems to have killed someone! But it doesn't seem like he killed someone. People who have killed people have a very special temperament, but it's not like him. It's so weird!"
My eyes lit up, and I actually think this person has a problem!
"It's death qi!"
Zhou Jing suddenly said: "His face is distorted, like a human but not a human, like a ghost but not a ghost, just a living thing. I just opened the face and looked carefully, and found that there was black air in his throat, that is death qi, that is, he has a belly full of death qi!"
I took a breath of cold air lightly. No wonder this person gave me such a strange feeling. If there is death qi in his stomach, it is hard to tell whether it is a living person or a dead person? It is normal to make people feel uncomfortable, but after thinking about it, I figured it out. The evil spirits surround the mountain. It is normal to have physical problems after staying in this bird place for a long time!
"Forget it, let's go and see first!"
I waved my hand and didn't discuss this issue any more. The main reason is that I couldn't discuss anything more. I called Lin Qing and Zhou Jing and followed.
I didn't know until I got there that the villagers of Baiyangyu were concentrated in the ancestral temple because the place was large and it was easier to manage the villagers here. It was already noon, and the villagers were having lunch. Everyone was in the yard, just like the man, both men and women, all had bloodshot eyes and pale faces, looking indescribably creepy!
As soon as I came here, I didn't know what happened, but the Buddha bone relic on my neck became even colder, but I didn't think much about it, and carefully observed the environment in the ancestral temple.
At present, several large iron pots have been set up in the yard, and the villagers are waiting for the big pot of rice around the iron pots. The iron pots are gurgling and cooking meat. As soon as I entered the door, I smelled a scent of meat.
There is still meat to eat?
I was stunned. Didn't they say that when the incident just happened, almost all the livestock in the village died overnight? And there was not a drop of blood on their bodies! In addition, the grain reserves in the village were also destroyed, so they were out of food. Some people were so hungry that they wanted to run away, so they exposed the matter here.
Where did this meat come from?
I thought about it and then figured it out. Maybe the villagers were so hungry that they ate the dead livestock. After all, it was December and the weather was cold in the north, especially in the mountains. The meat would not spoil if left outdoors, so the dead livestock were preserved. In the end, they were eaten by the hungry villagers. The livestock died strangely. Maybe there was death in their bodies. In addition, this place was surrounded by evil spirits, so it was normal for the villagers to have death in their stomachs.
However, what puzzled me was...
It seemed that there were only about a hundred people in this ancestral temple. I heard Zhou Xingping tell me before he came that there were hundreds of people in Baiyangyu. Could it be that the rest died and only these hundred people were left?
Just when I was thinking about it, a little old man came out of the temple. This old man seemed to be the village chief of Baiyangyu. He came up and greeted Zhang Zhenlin warmly.
After saying hello, Zhang Zhenlin asked directly: "Village chief, are there only so many people left in our village?"
Obviously, Zhang Zhenlin also realized that the number of people was not right.
"Yes."
The village chief sighed and said: "After the incident, the villagers with poor health can't stand it..."
At this point, the old village chief wiped his eyes.
"Have the bodies been properly handled?"
Zhang Zhenlin asked with concern: "This place is weird, the bodies can't be left in the village!"
I know that Zhang Zhenlin is worried that the bodies will rise, so he asked this, but I don't know if I saw it wrong. The old village chief seemed a little strange after hearing Zhang Zhenlin's question, and even the corners of his eyes twitched violently, and then he smiled and said: "Don't worry, the old man still knows that the bodies can't be piled up, so they were cremated long ago!"
As he said, the old village chief pulled Zhang Zhenlin to the iron pot next to him and said that they would talk while eating.
I was a little hungry, and I couldn't stand the smell of meat. I was ready to go up and help, but after a few steps, my stomach started to growl - not because I was hungry, but because I wanted to have a big bowel movement!
This wave came a little fiercely, and my stomach hurt a lot. In a blink of an eye, cold sweat broke out on my forehead. So I didn't care about my appetite and ran up to ask the old village chief where the toilet was. The old village chief was chatting with Zhang Zhenlin, and didn't tell me in detail. He said it was behind the ancestral hall. At that time, I left everyone behind and ran behind the ancestral hall with only the Baipi knife.
As a result, the ancestral hall of Baiyangyu was very large. I didn't find a toilet after many twists and turns. In the end, I got into an unknown corner at the innermost part of the ancestral hall. I could basically see the courtyard wall when I walked here, and it was obviously the end.
I thought I must have taken the wrong road, so I turned around and prepared to look for it somewhere else. But at this moment, a faint scream suddenly came into my ears. I was stunned and listened carefully for a while. Finally, I determined that the scream came from a small house in the south.
For some reason, I went closer...