The night was deeper, the whole village fell into dead silence, and the time had come to 2:12 on May 13th, which was already the second day of the mission!

In a certain mansion in Peach Blossom Village, in the dim room, only an old-fashioned oil lamp emits a dim glow, but it can never dispel the rich darkness.

In the room, an old black figure with a rickety figure and a cane stood in front of the table, looking at the faint light, without saying a word, as if waiting for something.

After a while, the wooden door outside creaked, and a slight sound of footsteps came slowly, with a slender shadow, to the back of the old black shadow.

"Village Chief, the matter is settled."

The voice was low-pitched but powerful, the man hung his head down, his white beard hung long on his chest, and his black robe added a lot of gloomy temperament, but he faced the village chief with endless respect.

He is Uncle Chen who returned from the grave mountain!

The old figure on crutches turned slowly, his face expressionless, and the flickering light reflected on half of his face, with unpredictable emotions,

A pair of eyes drooping with thick wrinkles, small and deep, glanced at Uncle Chen, who bowed his head respectfully, and said faintly: "How is Huanxi?" ”

Uncle Chen never raised his head, did not dare to look at the village chief, and said respectfully: "Chen Huanxi's condition has been temporarily delayed, and most of his vitality should have been restored. ”

Speaking of this, Uncle Chen paused, and then his voice began to tremble, and his expression was delighted.

After hearing Chen Huanxi's situation, the village chief's face seemed to have partially dispelled the gloom on his face, and looking at Uncle Chen's appearance, his face trembled, and he asked faintly expectantly, "So... What's going on over there? ”

At the same time, footsteps came from the inner and outer rooms of the room at the same time, and the village chief and Uncle Chen turned around at the same time, and the village chief came directly to the inner room.

The curtain of the inner room was opened, and a sallow yellow dry palm was fastened against the door frame, and the figure trembled and staggered out, and the village chief took her arm and welcomed her to the table.

By the help of the oil lamp, the figure of the man was finally clear, wearing a brown gown, tightly wrapped all over his body, but he still looked skinny, as if there was not a few taels of flesh on his body.

Sitting on a stool, swaying in the wind like a remnant candle flame, what was even more terrifying was the wrinkled face.

The wrinkles like earthworms are all over the place, and the furrows and ravines are extremely incongruous, especially the eyes, which have no pupils, like a pure white round stone, embedded in the eye sockets, lifeless.

But at this moment, her face was full of excitement, every wrinkle was shaking, and her hands were swinging in the air.

"What the hell is going on, aren't those people?" Her voice was hoarse, but she could still tell it was an old woman.

And the village chief also raised his head at this time, unable to maintain his composure anymore, and looked out the door.

In the outhouse, Uncle Chen and the old woman with little feet who appeared in the cemetery before came to the house.

The four of them gathered, and the small-footed old woman slowly unloaded a sack from behind her back, and pulled it suddenly, the village chief looked excited, and looked at it at a glance.

Inside the sack, six scarecrows of different colors are stacked!

And those ones are the abstract appearance of Xu Lang and others!

The village chief could no longer remain calm at the moment, his slightly curly beard trembled around his mouth, his eyelids jumped, and his hands hidden under his sleeve robe had long been clenched into fists, and even trembled faintly.

The moment he saw the scarecrow, after a brief loss of consciousness, he breathed a long sigh of relief, as if the breath in his chest had finally been exhaled.

And the blind old woman sitting on the stool grabbed the village chief's arm and said nervously: "Village chief, are they those people?!" ”

Uncle Chen and the old woman with little feet glanced at the village chief with bright eyes, and the village chief said slowly: "Linggu, our Chen family has waited for thirty years, we have lived for thirty years, and this time we can finally live like normal people!" ”

Linggu grabbed the village chief's arm, pushed harder and harder, and said in an excited tone:

"You have spent so much money to keep me alive for more than thirty years, and finally waited for the confirmation of the prophecy.

That sacrifice provoked the devil's prying eyes, and began the terrifying nightmare of the Chen family for thirty years, and I finally spied a glimmer of hope at the cost of destroying my eyes.

The recurrence of the scarecrow curse shows that these people are the key to getting rid of the Chen family's evil disease.

Village Chief, it's time for the sacrificial ritual that has disappeared for thirty years to start again! ”

Uncle Chen and the old woman with little feet looked excited, and in Linggu's words, they seemed to remember some unbearable past, and then looked at the village chief at the same time.

The village chief looked faintly at a corner in the distance, clenched and released his fist, and finally no longer hesitated, smashed his fist on the table, and said sharply:

"Wen Jin and Wen Xing were originally the sparks left in the end, and now it's time for them to dedicate. Inform all the clansmen that only one day will be given to prepare, and the day after tomorrow will officially start the sacrifice, and we will 'carry the scabies'! ”

.......

"Have you seen any other living people?" Nameless looked warily at the silent houses around him with his crutches.

During this time, he walked from the entrance of the village to the depths, and along the way, he could not see any traces of living people at all.

It's not that there are no pedestrians on the streets, he means that the houses lined up on the left and right are not popular at all, as if there is no one living in the whole village, and this strange feeling makes him even feel like this is a dead village. fervor

Xu Lang shook his head against the cold wind of the night, "Except for the seven or eight villagers I saw in the mourning hall, I haven't seen any living people again. When I went out to search before, I also didn't see any traces of human life. ”

Yes, Xu Lang has long been alert to this.

It stands to reason that in ordinary villages, the breath of life is very heavy, whether it is the smell of chickens and dogs or the curling smoke, it does not exist.

Even Xu Lang has leaned on the courtyard wall of other people's houses and looked down, the courtyard is very simple and clean, and it doesn't look like someone living at all.

At this time, John took over the conversation and said a question that he had been unable to figure out, "I don't know if you have noticed, we have not seen any young people, not even middle-aged people, all of them look like they are seventy or eighty years old. ”

At this point, he looked at his body again, and an extremely outrageous thought came to him.

Xu Lang listened to John's words, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at him, "You mean, everyone seems to be in the same state as you are now?" ”

John swallowed and nodded silently.

He didn't say this sentence, he didn't know if those old people really reached a certain age, or if they had the same experience as him and became like this!

After all, his current situation can't help but let him think about it too much.

Xu Lang bowed slightly, in fact, he also had some conjectures in his heart,

"There is no doubt that the dead end of this mission is the 'disease' in the population of Peach Blossom Village.

We've been worried about evil spirits, why they haven't appeared, but I have some different ideas about that......"

Hearing Xu Lang say this, everyone raised their hearts to their throats, the evil spirit is the most powerless existence in the newspaper mission, and this mission, a whole day has passed, but until now the shadow of the evil spirit has not appeared.

On the contrary, it is the inexplicable rules of the people of Peach Blossom Village that have caused many difficulties to the executors.

Gu Chunxia also followed Xu Lang's train of thought on the side, and couldn't help but subconsciously answer: "What is it?" ”

Xu Lang narrowed his eyes slightly, "Maybe the evil spirit has appeared in a posture that we can't see!" ”

"Huh?"

After hearing this, the few people present were all stunned, and they forgot to leave, and their eyes were full of horror as they listened to Xu Lang.

Obviously, the meaning revealed in these words was too shocking to be beyond their previous understanding of the task.

Xu Lang looked at the stunned appearance of several people, but he said in a relaxed tone: "The reason why I say this is because in a medium-level mission, in that mission, the evil spirit did not appear in the horror that we were familiar with in the past.

Rather, it quickly infects the living in a way similar to a contagious disease, making them slaves to evil spirits! ”

Nameless's mind thundered for a moment, and then he understood, "Did you and Yan Yan go through that nightmare proposal mission?" ”

Xu Lang nodded.

Several of the people present were all performers who had read the previous tasks, and they were naturally more interested in the mid-level tasks, especially the extremely treacherous task of the Nightmare Proposal.

At that time, the evil spirit was not a bloodthirsty murderer, but an extremely strange red light!

It possessed Yan Yan's body, spread through the medium, infected the living, and finally the entire Orange Bay Plaza became hell, and the ordinary executor of that mission died!

The red light evil spirit was famous at that time.

If you think about it carefully, could the "disease" they were infected with at this time be similar to that mission?

Xu Lang continued his speculation and said: "I think the name of the people of Peach Blossom Village is more appropriate, this evil spirit is really like an irreparable disease, it may not be treatable, but there is a way to delay."

As long as we live for three days, we can successfully return and thus be healed. ”

At this time, John's train of thought was completely understood, "And the people of Peach Blossom Village have the means to delay the development of the disease!" That's how we came up with this method for this mission! ”

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other with some joy, and after a while, John frowned, "In that case, Rong Chuan and the others leaving Peach Blossom Village are obviously missing their lives, after all, Rong Chuan and Huang Hui have already been infected."

Now that you've thought of this layer, why don't you stop it? ”

Xu Lang looked at the darkness in front of him and took another step, "With the tone of the newspaper's mission, once they step into Peach Blossom Village, they can't get out of here, but if they really go out, it means that there may be some hidden clues outside Peach Blossom Village!" ”

Nameless finally understood, and before that, he was still wondering why Xu Lang had said that Rong Chuan was a usable person, but let him go.

With Rong Chuan's mind, the general danger may not be baited, and it may become another hole card!

Xu Lang and others are in the light, and Rong Chuan is in the dark!

maximize the use of the resources around him, and Rong Chuan and others don't know why, but they have become chess pieces in Xu Lang's hands!

Nameless stared at Xu Lang's back, and sighed in his heart, since Zhang Qingyu's death, Xu Lang has become more and more similar to Yan Yan!

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