It turns out that the first person we see when we enter the village is a dead man?

Recalling the strange look in the old man's eyes when he looked at them, Yu Xing was relieved.

Reasonable, expected.

In other words, there may be some emotions such as "fear" and "careful consideration", but for Yu Xing, this is just a valuable piece of news.

It's funny.

The information he got from the Xu family brothers, combined with his own speculation, had already given him a full understanding of Guanjia Village, and at that moment, he continued to ask:

"Why did Zhou Facai bury him? Was it buried after death or was it ...... "buried alive?" Yu Xing hid the last two words, he knew that the old lady could understand his question.

Successive questioning can easily be perceived as urgent, thus making the person being questioned vigilant.

Swallowing the last few words will make the other person subconsciously think that he has been asked for advice and accepted, and it will be more induced to tell the truth.

The old lady's skinny fingers shook the crutches, and finally shifted her gaze from the sky to Yu Xing: "In our village, the village chief is special. He watches over us, eats and lives with us...... We truly love the village chief, but the village chief's family is also under a curse. ”

"What curse?"

"The village chief's children are sent outside as soon as they are born and come back after 35 years. On the day he returned, the child was the new village chief, and he wanted to bury the original village chief under the locust tree at the head of the village. The old lady was obviously a little sad, "Facai is a good child, but I am an old man, and in my memory, the old village chief is more kind......

Yu Xing let out an "oh", and the two fingers tapped slowly and rhythmically on his legs

"What if the new village chief who came back can't bear to bury the old one?"

"Can't bear it? No, most of them are very willing to do it. The old lady thought of something, but with her stiff and aging facial muscles, it was difficult to express her emotions at this time, and Yu Xing vaguely felt that she was sarcastic, "If you don't want to, the villagers will help him bury it." ”

Aha, that is to say, in a village, there can only be one village chief's bloodline at the same time.

Yu Xing suddenly became excited, and then asked, "Besides me, has anyone asked you this question?" ”

"Yes...... It seems that a young man came to ask last night. ”

The corners of Yu Xing's mouth, who got the news, hooked his mouth, he already knew where the missing Carlos had gone.

……

At the crack of dawn.

The town across the mountain from Guanjia Village is quite lively, and there are many merchants who come and go to buy game and medicinal herbs.

Carlos yawned heavily, and took a hot shower in the town's hotel to wash away some of the fatigue of the all-night journey.

He changed his clothes and walked out of the bathroom, with a towel on his wet gray-blue hair, and as soon as he reached out to wipe it, he heard a "woo-woo" sound on the floor on the other side of the bed.

Walking slowly, Carlos's blue eyes deepened, and he looked down at the young man with his limbs tied and his mouth gagged without emotion.

He didn't say anything until the young man realized something, stopped struggling, and looked at him with horror in his eyes.

Carlos smiled with satisfaction: "Zhou Qinghai...... Are you hungry? ”

"Woo." The young man didn't dare to provoke this ruthless pervert at all, he only resisted in surprise before, and he almost broke his leg.

"It's okay if you're hungry, let's go eat later." Carlos smiled and removed the cloth from the young man's mouth, and said before the young man spoke, "You will eat obediently, right?" I'm tired right now and don't want to deal with more moths coming at me...... Presumably, you don't want to involve other innocent people? ”

His tone was soft as that of a young man's friend, but the young man trembled and nodded desperately.

"Well, I really like crisp people." Carlos took one last look at him, then wiped his hair intently, "After eating, I'll take you to a good place, and you'll see what you've been looking for...... Hehe, thank me. ”

In his character's memory, he stayed in this small hotel the night before entering the mountain.

The guest next door was a young man, named Zhou Qinghai, who had a cheerful personality and was unwary of people, they just had breakfast together, and Zhou Qinghai told him that he was an orphan and had been looking for his parents.

Originally, he had paid more attention to the events that were so clear in the character's memory, and when he heard the old lady's words last night, he understood.

Zhou Qinghai, the son of village chief Zhou Facai...... It's right in town.

He only needs to bring Zhou Qinghai back to make the village chief disappear.

Of course, at the same time, Zhou Qinghai will also become the new village head, bound by Guanjia Village.

But what does this have to do with him? He just needs to finish the deduction.

A happy smile flashed in her blue eyes.

……

With the clues he wanted, Yu Xing said goodbye to the old lady and planned to go back to Xiao Xuechen and Wei Fan to integrate the information.

They did not choose to meet at the village chief's house, but made an appointment on the hill near the ancestral hall, which was relatively hidden and would not be discovered by the villagers in advance.

After tidying up his soft short hair, which was a little messy and fluffy, Yu Xing walked briskly into the low mountain in the east of the village.

It stands to reason that the air in the mountain should be very good, but the trees on this mountain are dry, the upper trunks are fangs and claws, and the strangeness of the night has become deserted during the day, and it seems that some dead air has been inhaled between breaths.

He arrived at the agreed place, where the other two were already waiting.

“san！” Xiao Xuechen was talking to Wei Fan about something, but when Yu Guang saw him, he smiled and waved at him.

"Good afternoon." Yu Xing nodded, and the three of them found a slightly cleaner place to sit down.

"Let's start putting the information together, what did you find?" He picked up a branch in his hand to play with, and lit the weeds on the ground one by one.

"Then I'll start with that." Wei Fan had already heard about Yu Xing's abilities from Xiao Xuechen, and he put away all his contempt for this young painter, "I asked a disabled villager in the village, and I found that there are some villagers in the village who don't go out, they are all hidden and available resources, and their attitude towards outsiders is much better than others. ”

"Hmm." Yu Xing nodded and motioned for him to continue.

"When people in the village die, a so-called funeral is held on the eighth day, when everyone goes outside the ancestral hall to testify." Wei Fan tried to simplify the information he had gathered, "However, the disabled villager told me that almost everyone in the village was the protagonist of the funeral. ”

"That is, they all died once!" Xiao Xuechen didn't look scared, but a little excited, her clear spring-like cold voice was a little hoarse after a long day of inquiry, "This is consistent with what I heard, the villagers of Guanjia Village are all dead people, no different from ordinary people during the day, but their thinking is crueler and more distorted than humans, and in the evening, they can maintain their human form by lighting candles, and if there are no candles, they will become monsters full of malice." ”

Tucking back the curls that had run to the front, she continued, "The only exception is the village chief, who, as far as I can guess, is the only living person in Guanjia Village, and he should play the role of a medium, responsible for communicating with living people from outside. ”

"It's not a medium, it's a guardian." Yu Xing answered coldly.

It's good that these two people can get this important information, and it seems that they can act very well.

"Oh? What do you mean? Xiao Xuechen was very interested in the words in his mouth.

"It means ......" Yu Xing squeezed the branch of the tree for a moment and said his analysis.

The information he exchanged with the two feng shui masters of the Xu family brothers was that Guanjia Village was located in a deep ditch, and the mountains formed a tendency to enclose this lowland, and the four sides were closed, and there was no exit or entry.

The layout of the house is in the shape of a checker, to borrow a sentence from "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring", here is indeed "a small traffic", and "the house is like a house".

After calculation, this place is lifeless, but dead, and incompatible with the present world.

"In other words......" Xiao Xuechen's beautiful eyes widened, and there was some hesitation in her tone.

"Well, we must have been disturbed by some kind of blinding, or something." Yu Xing thought that his sleeves were in the way, and rolled the long velvet sleeves to his elbows, and a smile flowed from the end of his eyes, "This is not a place for the living, but ...... A catacomb. ”

"Think of the place where we entered the village as the entrance to the tomb, the flat road is the tomb road, and the house where we sleep is the tomb where the coffin is placed, so-"

"The coffin is our bed."

The reason why the coffin village is called the coffin village is naturally that there is only a black coffin in the ancestral hall.

It can be said that there are many coffins in every house, but they have been changed by blindfolding, making it impossible for outsiders to identify them.

"We slept in a coffin last night!?" Wei Fan was stunned.

This news is too out-of-the-box, he didn't wonder if Yu Xing guessed wrong, but he thought about it in connection with the rule that he couldn't leave the room at night and couldn't let others into the room, and it seemed to be reasonable.

The tomb has the rules of the tomb, if the night is the time for the monster in the village to wake up, then they are also considered to be members of the "corpse" lying in the coffin, and there are two coffins in a tomb and cannot be disturbed.

If you don't keep it well and let other corpses break into your grave, this kind of rule will be messed up, and other corpses will be given a chance.

On the contrary, if it is kept, then the rules of the tomb are here, and other corpses cannot break in, and there is nothing they can do.

And there is also an explanation for the lack of food and various supplies in the village...... Maybe it's just some weird stuff in the tomb......

Thinking of this, recalling the food he had eaten, Wei Fan's face turned pale.

Xiao Xuechen also looked at Yu Xing with a word, she remembered that several deducers didn't want to eat dinner at that time, but San happily said that it was delicious and asked everyone to eat together.

Is it too late for her to throw up now?

Do you think she still has a chance?

Yu Xing pretended not to see the resentful expressions of the two, he didn't care what he was eating, even if he clearly told him that the soup was a rotten insect corpse, as long as he could eat it, he would still eat it.

Putting his hand in front of his mouth, he coughed dryly twice, and he turned his head.

"Little sister, don't look at me like that, I'll be shy."

Xiao Xuechen: "......"

Wei Fan: What about me? What about me? Am I not worthy?

Fortunately, Yu Xing did not continue to double standard, but continued to talk about analysis, which gave Wei Fan some comfort.

"The village chief is different from other corpses, he is a living person, and I think he should be similar to a character like a grave keeper."

At that moment, he repeated the old lady's words.

Since it was a living person, just after evening, the woman had already lit the candle, but the village chief did not use it.

The transformation of the corpses during the day and night is influenced by the rules, and the village chief ...... Just by acting, he is different from the distorted corpses whose minds are irreversible, he knows everything, but he still chooses to help the corpses harm outsiders.

Therefore, sometimes the living may be more terrible than ghosts.

Fortunately, the village chief is not without weaknesses, and the deducers will probably be stopped by the corpse if they want to kill the village chief, and maybe the death condition will be triggered, but there can only be one grave keeper in the tomb at the same time, and if there is one more, the corpses will bury the original one alive.

Yu Xing knew that he didn't have to worry about the village chief's side, that magician...... Should be back soon.

"Well, I have a question about that." Xiao Xuechen's eyes flashed when he looked at Yu Xing.

Yu Xing: "Huh? ”

"If the villagers in the village are all corpses, then what was Zhou Yongsheng before?" Guanjia Village is Zhou Yongsheng's hometown.

"Didn't you notice that there are no children in this village?" Yu Xing looked at her for a while, hoping that the little royal sister could use her own brains.

Guanjia Village is not only without children, but there is no one under the age of 20 at all.

Wei Fan also said that from time to time, a new villager will "die" and a funeral will be held.

So, although this is a tomb, the bodies in the tomb ...... It's always changing.

"Could it be that these corpses still have the ability to reproduce, and after giving birth to a child, they will send the child out, and when they are old, they will take the child back and kill it and become a new villager!?" A group of clues fought in Xiao Xuechen's mind, and after several turns, she finally sorted out a piece of logic.

"You're not stupid." Yu Xing praised it, and then said, "The villagers are no different from the living during the day, since they are no different, then if the living can do it, they can naturally do it." ”

He guessed that whenever a child was born, the village chief would send the child out of the mountain to let the child grow up in the outside world.

During this time, the children outside may not know what their home is really going on, and until they are old enough, they are tricked back to Guanjia Village, and then killed by the village chief or other corpses.

For example, Zhou Yongsheng.

Because of the special rules, or curses, the children born of the corpses are undoubtedly alive.

This kind of thing that breaks the boundary between life and death is against the laws of nature, and of course it is not allowed by the world, so the villagers can only be trapped in this small land, and can no longer go out.

The old lady was once a living person, and after being killed by the villagers, she was trapped in this village, forever attached to the life of the outside world.

"The funeral was at six o'clock in the evening, when night was approaching. This time is the fixed funeral time in Guanjia Village, and the villagers generally do not go out, but only gather on the day of the funeral. This is the moment of transition from yang to yin, symbolizing that an original living person has been buried through a ceremony and officially becomes one of them. Yu Xing said lightly.

The funeral is the key to perpetuating the curse of this village.

Dusk is no longer daytime, but there is no need to light candles, it is the most blurred moment of life and death for Guanjia Village.

At today's funeral, the protagonist is called Zhou Yongsheng.

This young man's original normal life was completely ruined.

Therefore, Yu Xing, Carlos, and the Xu brothers were all called over by Zhou Yongsheng, who did not want to kill them together, but just wanted them to destroy this funeral ceremony and break this endless vicious curse.