Hunting Horse led his team deep into the cave where the walking corpse was found, and traveled all the way in, traveling in the dark for about two weeks, without encountering any walking corpses. When they came out of the other mouth, they found themselves in the mountains. The foxes here are not as lush as they are near Zhongzhou, but they can be found everywhere.

Xunma arranged for people to burn the mountain in a fire, set up a camp, and found a big tree to climb high and overlook, and saw a village in the distance.

In fact, there are many villages hidden in the deep mountains, the villages are large and small, and their total population can compete with Zhongzhou, and some areas that are farther away are not called villages, but tribes. There will be some differences in language and customs in these places. But the one he saw now, he recognized it at a glance.

This is Haijiao Village, a village where you fish in the summer and mine in the winter. The village is small in size, but it has produced many famous people. There are 4,000 families in Betelgeuse, and they all come from this village.

Now the village is brightly lit, similar to the imperial city of Zhongzhou. This is really not normal, in the mountains, fire candles are very expensive resources, and it is a bit of a luxury to light up the whole village.

Horse Hunt is a character who obeys orders, and his mandate will not work until he sees the walking corpse. Because he didn't encounter the walking corpse, he could only follow the orders of the third cavalry commander and sneak into Haijiao Village.

There was no one in the village, and instead there were many, many scarecrows, all dressed in cloth clothes, very similar to those worn by the walking corpses, except that there was no carbon word on them.

They estimated that there were thousands of scarecrows, but there were not a single living person. There was no blood, no signs of a fight.

All the lights in the house and the haystacks outside are lit, which is why the village is brightly lit. The group walked among the scarecrows, feeling very frightened.

"What about the villagers?" said the third rider strangely.

They were highly trained, so they didn't scare any of them, and no one touched the scarecrows. They searched the village three times, but found nothing.

But in the middle of the village, they found a scarecrow mound formed by countless scarecrows tied together. These creepy dolls are all sewn together, like a giant monster.

In the square in front of this scarecrow pile, words are written in charcoal.

These words roughly mean something like this:

If you tie a scarecrow, the scarecrow is made of 3,700 strands of straw and is dressed in burlap. Then you put it in absolute darkness, and when the lights come back on, the scarecrow will become something else.

The person who wrote didn't know what was going on, and it took him ten years to discover this strange phenomenon, and he found that in different areas, through such rituals, the scarecrow would become different things.

He tried to prove it to the villagers, but they didn't believe him at all. To take revenge on the villagers. He tied the scarecrow to prove it, but he didn't know why, in front of everyone, he didn't succeed, so he tied it again, more and more, but none of them succeeded.

The villagers laughed at him, and he began to blame the failure to succeed on the fact that the villagers would not turn off all the lights at the same time, because it would take absolute darkness for this change to happen. But none of the villagers were willing.

So he took advantage of the night to plant scarecrows all over the village, thinking that when everyone's lights went out at night, maybe there would be a turnaround.

The words don't have an end, I don't know what they mean, but these words make Xunma wonder every day, and the countless lights in the room seem to be that there is a person who keeps running back and forth, so it will not be extinguished. And the villagers have all disappeared, and there are only countless scarecrows here, and it seems that the part that is not recorded in the text has an accident.

The scarecrow hasn't changed, but the villagers have all disappeared.

The third commander was so angry at this unprovoked thing that he cut off the head of a scarecrow with one sword, and nothing happened. So, he ordered them to put out the lights in the entire Cape Village.

He wanted to see what was going to happen.

There was no moon at that time, so they had to listen to the third horseman and go and put out the lights. But Huntsa felt very bad, so he dug a deep pit in the ground. While everyone else was turning off the lights, he dug the pit and covered it with dead leaves.

Soon all the lights were extinguished, and because there were few stars, all of a sudden, the Cape Village was plunged into endless darkness, and only their torches remained.

One by one, the group extinguished the torches, and as the premonition of the horse's bad fortune grew, he tried to get as close as possible to the pit he had dug.

When the last torch was extinguished, they were plunged into deep darkness. At that time, Xunma immediately began to hear strange noises almost everywhere around them.

A strong sense of avoiding disaster made Xunma jump into the pit he dug almost immediately and hide in the deepest depths. And it was almost a second outside, and the screams of the companions only appeared for a moment, and no sound could be heard. Then he felt something crawl into the hole, but it wasn't a living person, and it was almost as fast as it could be in front of the horse.

Xunma immediately lit the torch and forced the thing back, Xunma only saw a walking corpse in front of his eyes, but this corpse was very different.

It's not a human body, and Huntma doesn't know what it is, but it's not a person, it's another creature.