The village is not big, I walked along the street, but I saw that there were firewood gates on both sides, and there were a few rags hanging on all the firewood doors, and the courtyard was silent, but the firewood doors were closed, which looked very strange.

After walking more than 20 steps, I reached the center of the village, and found no abnormality. I looked back in the direction I had come from, and saw a thick fog obscuring my vision, and I could no longer see what was going on, and the moon was still as bright as it had just been, except for the occasional cloud drifting overhead.

It is a crossroads, and this village has only two streets, north, south, east and west, which meet in the middle. In the middle, there is a stone stack, about one meter high, on top of the stone stack is a flagpole more than ten meters high straight into the sky, there is nothing bare on the flagpole, there is not even a single leaf on the street, that is, there is not a single tree in each yard, and the whole village does not see a single plant except for the bare houses.

I saw that there was no movement, so I continued to walk along the street to the front, and if there was nothing, I could go through the village to meet Wei Zihan and them.

After walking more than 20 steps, I should have walked out of the village according to the distance, but I saw that the front was still so far from the entrance of the village, but I looked behind me, and it was really more than 20 steps away from the intersection. It's not like a ghost hitting the wall, although I'm not afraid at this time, but I don't have a bottom in my heart, after all, I didn't have any luggage, all kinds of charms and tools, not even a peachwood sword.

I didn't go either, I saw the firewood door on the side of the street, I walked over, stretched out my hand and pushed the firewood door, the firewood door seemed to have been decayed for many years, and it was scattered on the ground with a bang, I stepped on the broken firewood door into the yard, and looked through the moonlight, but saw that the yard was very large, there was nothing in the yard, not even the ordinary people's common farm tools, only a stone table in the middle, and no stools.

I thought that since I had come in, let's go into the house and have a look, I raised my legs and walked towards the door, and at this time, Xiaoyi, who had been crawling on my shoulder, became impatient, crawled around, and finally climbed directly on my face. I see that Xiaoyi has always been very well-behaved, and there must be something wrong with being so abnormal now. I stopped moving forward, and stopped.

I closed my eyes, used my strength, and recited the mantra to open the eyes of heaven, and waited for the mantra to be finished. When I opened my eyes, I saw that there were still some houses there, the thatched hut just now, now it looked like three crooked and broken sheds, not even a door, the courtyard wall just now was gone, only the stone table had not changed, in front of the broken shed.

Under his feet was a layer of withered grass, which was soft when stepped on, and the whole village was shrouded in a black mist, and the moon was not the color of just now, but turned into a red ball. I turned around and went back, and the street was gone, but the flagpole in the distance was still standing there, and there was not even a road, just a broken shed, and I came to a shed, and wanted to go in to see what the mystery was.

At this time, from the direction of the flagpole, there was a bell, similar to the bell of our Taoist to exorcise evil spirits and avoid ghosts, but the rhythm was different, and the bell rang more than a dozen times before stopping. I only heard a creaking sound from the shed, and after a while an old man came out of the shed, and his clothes were also rotten into strips, and he walked in the direction of the flagpole from a few steps away from me, without even looking at me, and then looked at the figures who came out of the surrounding broken grass sheds, and they all walked to the flagpole.

I saw that they were not ghosts, if they were disembodied, but they were real people, but I couldn't see their faces when the night was very thick. To be on the safe side, I recited the mantra again, and this spell was cast, and if the yin and evil things could not see me, I had already reined in the yang energy in my body.

Watching the flow of people towards the flagpole, I followed behind.

When I got to the flagpole, I saw that there were already hundreds of people gathered under the flagpole, some old and some young, large and small, and the clothes on their bodies were almost rotten with the clothes worn by the old man, which could not cover their bodies. There was no movement at all except rustling footsteps, no breathing, no coughing. All the people stood there, motionless, as if waiting for something.

Until all the people arrived, and did not go here, a person appeared on the stone pier in the middle, but I saw that the person was holding a pile of things and put them on the ground, and then there was the sound of the fire sickle striking, but I saw that the fire flashed, and the pile of things burned, and I saw by the light of the fire, it was a pile of burning paper, and the man was burning paper and throwing things into the fire, and it looked like steamed buns or something. Looking at these people by the light of the fire, they were all skinny, and they were sucking in the smoke wafting from the fire one by one, as if they were enjoying themselves, and after a while the fire gradually decreased until the fire was completely extinguished. There was another ringing of the bell, and the crowd dispersed again, and went into the shed, and I didn't move, I wanted to see who it was.

Until the man was quiet, the man stood up and said, "Friend is on that path, why did you come here, aren't you afraid?" ”

I said, "I'm passing through, I'm going to Beijing, I want to travel at night, I'm passing through here, I'm getting lost in the village and can't get out, I don't know who your Excellency is, can you take me out in a convenient way." ”

"I see that my friend is bold enough and has some ability, since he has entered here, it is also fate, come and sit down and talk." I saw that this man had no ill will, so I walked to the stone pier.

Only then did I see that this person was in his thirties, not tall, and the moonlight was still very dim at this time, and he couldn't see his face clearly.