Coming out of the cold light, Xie Liang hadn't recovered from the state just now, behind him was a mountain wall, and there was also a crack on it.

When Xie Liang looked outside from the crack on this side, he could even vaguely see some peach blossoms in the distance, which showed that the distance between the two sides was obviously not far.

"And what did I just go through?

After walking for so long for a distance of dozens of steps, Xie Liang really couldn't think of any other reason besides the ghost hitting the wall.

And Liu Dou, who arrived before Xie Liang, was nowhere to be seen, the sky was gray, it looked like it was going to rain, and the front was not as written in the text, there were large areas of fertile fields, but on the contrary, there were weeds growing wantonly.

Xie Liang put aside the rift he had just experienced, since he had entered the Peach Blossom Spring, finding the aborigines here and making them recognize him was the top priority now.

Xie Liang walked towards the good field in front of him, and he thought about the approach of the task: "Does identity refer to the recognition of the idea of having no quarrel with the world, or is it the yearning for a better life?"

After thinking for a while, Xie Liang felt that it was not so simple, everything in the Peach Blossom Land began to change, if he could pass the test by agreeing with the idea of the Peach Blossom Spring, Tu Zhi would not give him a day limit.

"I'll have to find the aborigines first. "I didn't find the aborigines, and it was useless to guess more, Xie Liang had to understand what they agreed with, and then he could further confirm how to be recognized by them.

The fields were overgrown with weeds, and there were neatly arranged houses near the fields, Xie Liang walked along the ridges towards the houses, the weeds around him were very high, and he rubbed his arms from time to time, feeling itchy and painful.

After passing through the fertile fields, there was a dead silence around, as if Xie Liang was the only one left in the world, there were no people working in the fields, no old people and children chatting under the mulberry trees, and no chickens and dogs barking as written in the text.

The streets are littered with tattered clothes, old farm tools are thrown on the ground, houses are in tatters, some of them have only a few rotten walls, and the charred beams and roof beams are lying to the ground, and it looks like the place has been abandoned for a long time.

Xie Liang casually picked a slightly intact house to enter, the structure of the house was very simple, a separate kitchen, a cabin for entertaining guests, and a place to sleep.

When you open the door, there is a small courtyard, and the door is full of dust, and you have to cover your mouth and nose when it is cold.

Some bamboos were planted in the small courtyard, the leaves were very dark in color, some were even yellow, and there were some bamboo shoots that were emerging from the soil next to them.

Xie Liang observed this place inside and out, and he found a very strange place, the kitchen and sleeping place were very neat, except for the small room where the guests were entertained, the tables and chairs were all crooked, and some of the tables and chairs were even stained with blood.

The blood was black-red and stained like a stain on the short-legged chair, not noticeable, only a small patch, and it was possible to ignore it if you didn't pay attention to it.

"What the hell is going on here, where have all the aborigines of Peach Blossom Land gone?" Xie Liang came out of the house with a frown, the messy furniture as if someone had fought inside.

"The clothes were not packed, so it should not be an escape. Xie Liang covered his mouth and nose, there was too much dust here, most of the walls were cracked, and the skin was burned black, "Such thick dust has not lived in people for at least decades, and it seems that there has been a fire here." ”

The closer you get to the center of the housing complex, the more dilapidated the house becomes, and the one Xie Liang picked is on the edge, which is the most well-preserved one.

"There is no peach blossom paradise that should look like, this is the peach blossom paradise where the fisherman stayed?" There were no people, there were deserted houses everywhere, and Xie Liang couldn't even hear the sound of birds.

The mountain wall is like a dividing line, the scenery on both sides is divided into two extremes, the peach blossom forest shows the ultimate dream and beauty, but the peach blossom source presents a desolate and bleak place.

"And that little stain of blood, is there a sign of a fight in this one family, or is there a fight in every house. ”

In order to test his conjecture, Xie Liang left here, and he walked towards the center, which was the source of the fire, and maybe he could find the reason for the disappearance of the aborigines.

Along the street, Xie Liang looked at a few more houses, and it was similar to what he thought, most of the houses had fight marks inside, and there were some black and red blood stains of different sizes around the fight marks, some were very small in shape, and some were extremely conspicuous.

"Violent, chaotic, lifeless!" This is the most direct feeling that everything around Xie Liang has, and it is far from the paradise scene described in the article, Xie Liang really finds it difficult to imagine that this is the Peach Blossom Spring.

The edge positions all present this dilapidated scene, and Xie Liang is even more curious about the situation in the center position.

After about a few minutes, Xie Liang came to the center.

From a distance he saw a tall stone monument standing in the ruins, unlike the others, there was a large clearing, a large blackened ruin had been pushed aside, and next to the stone monument was a mulberry tree that had been half-burned by the fire.

When Xie Liang got closer, he found that some names were densely engraved on the stele, and hundreds of small mounds of different heights were erected behind the stele.

Fingers brushed over the names on the stele, Xie Liang glanced at the neatly arranged mounds behind the stele, and then looked at the names engraved on the stele, and he found that the position of the name engraved on the stele corresponded to the position of the small mound behind the stele.

"Village Chief: Zhou Jin, Zhao. This name is located at the top of the stone tablet, Xie Liang looked up, the other names were all under it, only this one name had a prefix.

The sky was overcast, the clouds were very thick, and there was no way to see the approximate time of appearance from the sun, and the light around the stone monument also became dim, and hundreds of small mounds of earth seemed to be covered with a layer of shadow under the blessing of the dim weather, as if something was about to climb out of the mound, which seemed extremely permeable.

"Even the village chief has been buried......" Looking at the hundreds of mounds, Xie Liang's mood was a little complicated, the original task was to make the aborigines of Peach Blossom Land recognize him, but now even the village chief has entered the small mound.

The surroundings are also full of broken walls, broken walls and roof tiles, except for the fact that there have been serious fires here before, Xie Liang can't see why the aborigines disappeared at all.

It stands to reason that even a fire would not have made the villagers disappear, but the fire spread so strangely that it burned all the way to the edge of the house complex, and there was no sign of extinguishing it with water.

It feels like when a fire burns and people disappear, eventually causing the fire to engulf the entire house, leaving only some charred ruins.

"The stele was built after the fire, indicating that someone lived here for a while after the fire!" The ruins were all pushed aside, and the mounds were neatly placed, and this number of mounds and tall steles could not be done by one or two people.

Although Xie Liang didn't know if the people who built the stone tablets were the aborigines of the Peach Blossom Spring, he was sure that the people who built these things must be related to the Peach Blossom Spring.

Picking a stone casually and sitting down, Xie Liang looked at the mound in front of him and suddenly thought of a question.

Previously, Tuzhi said that as long as he survived and let the aborigines of Peach Blossom Land recognize him, he would be exempted from all crimes.

But now the Peach Blossom Paradise has become a ruin, and it has been like this for many years, it doesn't look like a place where people live, not to mention the aborigines of the Peach Blossom Garden, it feels good to see a living person Xie Liang.

Without the aborigines, the task of recognition cannot be completed, Xie Liang was thinking, if Tuzhi was not wrong, then the aborigines must exist.

Thinking of this, Xie Liang raised his eyes and looked at the small mound in front of him with a somewhat unnatural expression, if he had to be dead on the word, Tu Zhi did not say that the approved aborigines should be alive.

His body stiffened, the air seemed to be frozen for a moment, and Xie Liang's head stared at the mound motionlessly.

After a while, after Xie Liang found that the mound had not changed much, he breathed a sigh of relief and began to laugh dryly: "Ha, how could it be, Tu Zhi never said that the aborigines would die, I really thought too much, how could people crawl out of the mound, this is not a horror movie." ”

"What is a horror movie?" A voice came from behind Xie Liang, sounding relatively old in timbre.

"It's just a scary film, I don't even know this, you're really outdated!" Xie Liang smiled, and he answered this question naturally.

There is no problem with the verbal dialogue, Xie Liang doesn't understand why in the 21st century, there are still people who don't understand what a horror movie is, it's really funny.

Get up and continue to walk forward, waiting for Xie Liang to walk to the stone monument to see what other clues there are.

A cold air rushed to the brain.

Who was talking to me just now?

Xie Liang turned around quickly, and he didn't know when, on the ruins not far behind Xie Liang, an old man with a stiff face was standing there silently.

Seeing Xie Liang turn around, the old man didn't speak, he walked to Xie Liang with his back hand in a hurry, his face was still puzzled: "What is the film? ”

His body tensed, Xie Liang unconsciously took a few steps back, he didn't answer the old man's question, but asked the old man: "Old man, are you ......?"

"Old man Zhou, everyone in the village calls me that, who is the young man's name?" Zhou Lao Er didn't care that Xie Liang didn't answer his question, he smiled kindly and asked Xie Liang's name.

Surname Zhou?!

Xie Liang remembered that the surname of the village chief written on the stone tablet was also surnamed Zhou, he frowned and looked at the old man, and hesitated for a while before saying his name: "My name is Xie Liang, why is the old man here, and what about the family? ”

"Family?" Speaking of relatives, the smile on Zhou Laoer's face gradually disappeared, the whole person looked a little low, and there was no such style in his words: "When I was younger, I had two sons, and there was an old woman who liked to talk to me. ”

"People are also in their sixties, and in this year of ear shun, it should be the time for me and my wife to enjoy Qingfu, and the two sons are also very filial, but sometimes you just don't understand what God is thinking, and this good peaceful day suddenly starts to fight. ”

"My two sons were dragged to the army, and my wife and I were the only ones left at home, and there has been no news of my two sons until now. ”

Speaking of the sad place, Zhou Lao Er was a little emotional, his cloudy eyes were wet with tears, he didn't look forward to having a future at such an old age, but now he didn't even know whether his two sons were alive or dead.

Xie Liang looked at Zhou Lao Er in front of him, raised his hand and put it down again, he wanted to comfort Zhou Lao Er, but he didn't know what to say, "I'm sorry, old man, I shouldn't talk about your sadness." ”

"It's nothing, it's my gaffe. Zhou Lao Er waved his hand, and he looked at the stone tablet behind Xie Liang with deep eyes: "Do you know why this stone tablet is erected?"

Xie Liang subconsciously turned to look at the stone tablet: "Probably...... It's to keep a record of the people buried here. ”

"This is just one of them!" Zhou Lao Er bypassed Xie Liang and came to the stele, he rubbed the marks on the stele: "The construction of this stele is more to relieve anger, and if you don't eliminate the grievances of these old friends, it will be very troublesome." ”

"Old man, listening to you, you used to be from Peach Blossom Spring?" Xie Liang raised his eyebrows, Zhou Lao Er suddenly appeared here, he actually had a little guess in his heart, and now he just confirmed it further.

And Zhou Lao Er exploded when he heard the word Peach Blossom Spring: "Where did the Peach Blossom Source come from! Do you look at the place that looks like the Peach Blossom Spring?"

He looked like an angry lion, his eyes blood-red and his chest heaving.

The light around the stele also seemed to be distorted, and the temperature seemed to have dropped a lot, and with the dim sky, Xie Liang felt as if his neck was being pinched, and he was a little out of breath.

"Then what kind of place is this? People outside say this is the Peach Blossom Spring!" Xie Liang asked with a hard bite and gritted his teeth. The stronger Zhou Laoer's attitude is, the more revealing it is, and Xie Liang is sure that he is the aboriginal of Peach Blossom Spring.

Although he is just a dying old man, but now he has given himself a strong sense of oppression, Xie Liang feels that it may be related to the Peach Blossom Garden becoming a ruin, and even Xie Liang feels that Zhou Lao Er standing in front of him does not look like a person!

"This is Wangxiang, there has never been a Peach Blossom Spring, not before! Not now!" Zhou Lao Er's face was serious, pointing to the ruins and Xie Liang emphasized that he didn't like to hear others call this place the Peach Blossom Spring.

Then Zhou Lao Er walked up to Xie Liang, his eyes met, and he suddenly became calm: "What do you think is the Peach Blossom Spring?"

opened his mouth, Xie Liang wanted to say that the place that is beautiful, longed for, and carefree is the Peach Blossom Spring, but Xie Liang thought about it again, it's not that simple, just now Zhou Lao Er has always been disgusted with the three words Peach Blossom Spring, and Zhou Lao Er himself is the aboriginal of Peach Blossom Spring.

Isn't it strange that someone who has lived in Peach Blossom Land would ask someone what Peach Blossom Land is?

Xie Liang frowned, and thought for a while before raising his eyes to look at Zhou Laoer: "The Peach Blossom Garden is a world where the sun rises and the sun sets, and people are very happy, there are no worries, and the world is simple and natural!"

After speaking, Xie Liang also glanced at Zhou Laoer, and he found that Zhou Laoer's expression was very strange, first a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, his eyes seemed to be recalling something, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were squeezed together, layered on top of each other.

But when Xie Liang said that he was happy, Zhou Lao Er frowned again, and after Xie Liang finished speaking, Zhou Lao Er's face was completely cold, and his eyes became fierce.

"But I don't think there is such a place, where there are people, there will be disputes and troubles, it is impossible for everyone to be simple, some people will be content with the status quo, but some people will not. Feeling that the atmosphere was wrong, Xie Liang immediately changed his words with a dry cough: "Peach Blossom Land is just a fantasy." ”

"That's right, it's just a fantasy!" Hearing Xie Liang's words, Zhou Lao Er laughed like crazy.

He stretched out his hand towards Xie Liang and made an invitation: "Little brother Xie Liang, do you want to go and see the Peach Blossom Source that people outside say?"

Xie Liang hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Yes, I haven't seen what the Peach Blossom Garden looks like." ”