Chapter 1: A Moving Murderous Place
The dirt road beneath your feet is straight but narrow. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe vast expanse of cornfields encloses this deserted country road. The dark green corn stalks are more than a person high, so dense and endless, Du Shen feels like he has fallen into a deep forest, leaving the world independent.
There were no insects chirping, no pedestrians and vehicles, and no peasants working in the cornfields on either side of the dirt road. In the whole world, there is only such a straight and stretching road, and there is no end or end in sight.
In such a dead and closed environment, if others walk alone, most of them are afraid. Du Shen is leisurely.
Thin clouds obscured the red sun. As the dusk sun rose overhead, Du Shen faintly heard the sound of "rustling" coming from the depths of the cornfield. This is not rumor.
Du Shen stopped and turned his head to look at the direction where the voice came. Because of the dense corn, Du Shen could not see the situation in the depths of the field. But he knows where the sound comes from.
The corners of Du Shen's mouth couldn't help but appear a shallow smile. He waited for a while. Until the sound of "rustling" is faint and clear, from distant to close.
Du Shen walked again. He stretched out his hands and grabbed the straps of his travel bag on his chest. Du Shen restrained his smile and gently pushed his hand forward. He strode unhurriedly, numbly, like a weary traveler on a long journey.
The sound of "brushing ......" corn stopped abruptly. Du Shen heard a faint grumbling sound behind him. Du Shen didn't stop and didn't look back. He went on as if nothing had happened.
After a few moments, hurried footsteps sounded behind him. Du Shen heard a few chaotic shouts: "Hey, the people in front, please wait!" "Handsome guy, wait a minute......"
Du Shen stopped and turned around, and saw four figures running towards him panting. Du Shen waited silently with an expressionless face.
"Dude, are you also going to Outfield Village?" a sturdy young man rushed to Du Shen with a light travel bag on his back.
"We also go to Outfield Village. Why don't you go together?" the short-haired Peugeot woman pressed her thighs with both hands and gasped for breath.
Du Shen laughed: "Okay! Walking alone, I'm feeling scared." ”
"Yes!" Du Shen's words resonated with the four strangers. They chimed in: "Yes." We drove all the way and saw neither pedestrians nor vehicles nor houses and villages. I can't imagine that Outfield Village is so remote. "This place is so scary, I can't hear any movement......
The four strangers vented for a moment and calmed down one after another. Everyone started introducing each other. The man with a round head and a delicate appearance is named Yu Teng. A Peugeot woman with short hair and ears, dressed plainly, is called Li Ling. Bullet, the handsome guy with trendy clothes is called Jia Zhen. Medium-long hair, delicate makeup, and a sweet-looking woman named Echo.
Yu Teng and Jia Zhen belong to Fa Xiao, and Li Ling and Ai Ke belong to college classmates. The four of them belong to two couples and know each other well.
As for Du Shen's self-introduction. He only said that he was a student in Linshi, and because he saw rumors about Outfield Village in the horror forum, he took advantage of the summer vacation to come and have a look.
The five of them walked together, chatting as they went.
Li Ling and Aike are dressed similarly, wearing a snow-white long-sleeved shirt and light blue jeans. Both of them carried small, fluttery backpacks. Li Ling's words made the originally active atmosphere instantly dull: "Just now, we met a police car blocking the road at the intersection. A police officer said that there was a fatal case in the outfield village, so we were not allowed to go. Du Shen, do you know more detailed information?"
"I don't know," Du Shen shook his head and looked ahead, "The news I know is all from the Internet." Du Shen stopped and pointed to the end of the road: "Look, is there a village there?"
Others stopped to look into the distance. I saw that in the southwest, hundreds of meters away, in the depths of a sparse locust forest, the walls of two houses could be faintly seen.
Yu Teng and Jia Zhen felt that something was wrong, but they couldn't notice anything unusual for a while. Li Ling grabbed Yu Teng's arm with a pale face: "I remember, just now, there was obviously no forest in front. ”
"Yes," Echo also hugged Jia Zhen's arm with a pale face, "I don't remember either." The road seems to have suddenly become shorter. The woods seem to have appeared out of nowhere. And those two houses. ”
Yu Teng and Jia Zhen suddenly woke up. The two also recalled. Just now, the dirt road under my feet was obviously very long. All they could see was a stretch of cornfield sandwiching the dirt road beneath their feet. Why did the dirt road suddenly come to an end? A locust forest suddenly appeared in front of the dirt road? And the two houses that were hidden by trees!
Yu Teng and Jia Zhen stared at each other with wide eyes, and swallowed their saliva vigorously at the same time.
"Do any of you remember when the woods appeared?" Yu Teng looked around at his companions, and finally fixed his gaze on Du Shen's body, "Du Shen, you were the first to discover ......"
"I don't remember either!" Du Shen shook his head solemnly. He was secretly frightened: "The time when the village appeared is too early. Obviously not in keeping with my own memory! Could it be that history has changed slightly?"
Du Shen lowered his head slightly, happy and surprised. He secretly analyzed: "Could it be that I came too early?"
Du Shen was secretly vigilant. He hurriedly recalled his previous performance. After discovering that he had not exposed obvious flaws, Du Shen was relieved.
Du Shen's solemn silence did not arouse the suspicion of others. Because at this time, everyone reacts the same way.
Li Ling grabbed her boyfriend's arm and looked at the woods in the distance: "There is really a village in front." We're not wrong, right? I remember, according to what we got from you. To get to Outfield Village, you need to cross a small river first! ”
"The distance is not right," Yu Teng gradually calmed down, "We are now at most one or two kilometers away from the intersection just now." The village should still be seven or eight kilometers away......"
Aike snuggled up to Jia Zhen tightly, scanning the gloomy cornfields on both sides: "I said, shall we continue walking? ”
Du Shen looked around at everyone. He could feel the hidden horror of the people. Du Shen smiled: "You guys discuss slowly." In front of me is mostly the outfield village, and I will go first. After speaking, Du Shen tightened the shoulder straps of his backpack, raised his feet and left.
"Impossible," Jia Zhen questioned in the back, "The village in front can't be the outfield village." I've seen the time. We were in the cornfield for twenty minutes at most. Even if the direction is wrong, it takes 20 minutes to walk 10 kilometers. How is that possible?"
Du Shen heard Jia Zhen's questioning, but ignored it. He secretly suppressed the excitement in his heart, but he couldn't help but go faster and faster.
Li Ling looked at Du Shen's straight back, shook his head and said, "No, maybe the house in front really belongs to Outfield Village." Didn't the website say that a murderous place like Outfield Village disappears and moves every two or three months?"
Li Ling took out her mobile phone and logged in to the horror forum. She buried her head in the web page: "Rumors about the haunting of Outfield Village have been appearing for a month and a half. The real haunting time, certainly earlier. Perhaps, the outfield village, like the previous murderous places, has begun to move. That's why we bumped into it halfway through!"
Others also took out their phones to look through the webpage. Fortunately, the mobile phone signal is still very strong. This made the four of them somewhat reassured. Aike checked the earliest post, and was uneasy: "If it's really Outfield Village, can we go there?"
Li Ling looked up at the scorching sun: "Go, why don't you go?" Let's not mention whether there are really ghosts in the world. It's noon, the sun is shining, what kind of ghost dares to come out and make trouble? Look at him!" Li Ling raised her hand and pointed to Du Shen in front of the road.
Everyone put down their mobile phones one after another and looked at Du Shen's back. Du Shen carried a bulging travel bag on his back, and his steps were fast, which could be described as a trot.
Everyone looked at each other for a moment. With Du Shen's speed at this time, if he escaped, everyone could understand it. However, Du Shen was facing the rumored ghost village. Du Shen's performance seems to be impatient?
"Look," Li Ling was both apprehensive and excited, "he is not afraid of anyone." The four of us, what are we afraid of?"
"That's it," Yu Teng felt somewhat unconvinced, "the four of us, driving hundreds of kilometers." I can't get to the entrance of the village, but I temporarily shrink my head?"
Regarding the intentions of Li Ling and others, Du Shen didn't care much. At this time, Du Shen really couldn't wait. He wanted to rush to the village in one go. However, on the one hand, it is to save energy, and on the other hand, it is also to avoid arousing suspicion. Du Shen had to suppress the excitement in his heart again and again. The outward manifestation is that he trotted for a while, and then suddenly slowed down for a while.
The distance of hundreds of meters is fleeting. Du Shen had just stepped into the sparse locust forest when he heard a shout from behind him: "Du Shen, wait for us ......"
Du Shen thought about it for a while, thinking that Li Ling and the others were somewhat useful. He stopped and turned around, smiling as he waited for the four of them.
Yu Teng and Li Ling pulled each other, and finally rushed to Du Shen. The two girls were busy gasping for air. Yu Teng gasped as he took out a stack of yellow talismans from his hand and handed it to Du Shen. Under his armpit, he also held a short and thin peachwood sword: "Du Shen, this is the talisman we asked the master to refine." You put it away and use it for self-defense. ”
Du Shen took the rune paper and looked at the four of them. He noticed that the four of them were dressed slightly differently from before: a soap-sized gossip bronze mirror was hung on each person's chest. In each person's hand, they held a handful of yellow paper talismans. In the hands of Yu Teng and Jia Zhen, they each held a vermilion wooden sword twenty or thirty centimeters long.
Du Shen took the yellow charm and looked at it over and over again. He shook his head solemnly at the four of them: "Your talisman, the quality is not good! Let's use my magic weapon. ”
Du Shen stuffed the yellow talisman back to Yu Teng. He took off his duffel bag and opened it. He pulled out a mace from his backpack. The stick is not long, just over half a meter, and slightly thinner than a baseball bat. One end of the stick, inlaid with a dozen wooden nails, is small but sharp enough.
"Give!" Du Shen handed the mace to Yu Teng, "This is a magic weapon carefully crafted by my master, specializing in the treatment of fierce gods and evil spirits." To tell you the truth, I am the thirty-sixth generation true disciple of Tongyang Heavenly Master Dao. I have come to eradicate the evil spirits that inhabit the outfield village......"