In fact, Yang Meng guessed early in the morning that the girl was not human, and the reason why she had such a big reaction was entirely because of the conditioned reflex after the feared thing was confirmed.

There is a story about a young man who walked at night, covered his head and walked away, and accidentally knocked down an old lady with gray hair and bound feet. It should be that young man's bad luck, in the wilderness, the old lady's foot was broken and she couldn't walk, but she couldn't walk so carelessly, right? There was no way, I had to carry it, and it was strange to say, the old lady looked fat, but she was light and tight on her back, as if she was carrying a pile of dry firewood.

Although young people think it is strange, they are only so light when the old man is old, and this is a mountain road, it is better to be lighter, and it is labor-saving!

But after walking a short time, the old lady cried out that she was hungry, and asked the young man if he had anything to eat. The young man felt that the old lady was so light that she must be hungry, so he handed her a large loaf that he had eaten on his way. The old lady snatched the flatbread and ate it, and the young man couldn't see her eating appearance on his back, but he could roughly associate the hungry wolf-like eating appearance from his voice, and his heart was even more sympathetic.

Soon, the old lady finished eating the flatbread, and shouted that she was hungry, and the young man handed her the kettle, and soon the kettle was dry, and the old lady still said that she was hungry, and what was even stranger was that the old lady had been eating all the way, but the weight seemed to be lighter.

The young man sensed that something was wrong and tried to put the old lady down, but found that the old lady seemed to be glued to him, and could not get it off anyway. At this time, the old lady's voice became sharp because the young man had not given her food for a long time, and she grabbed the young man's neck with one hand, and reached out to the young man with the other hand to eat. It was only then that the young man noticed that the hand that had reached him was shriveled like a dry wood, covered with disgusting black hair, and that there was the slightest human appearance.

The old lady almost suffocated the young man, he knew that he might encounter something unclean, but he calmed down and shouted: "Old woman, I will go to my master's house in front, he has fish and meat in his house, you let me go first, I will go and get you food!" ”

As soon as she heard that there was fish and meat in front of her, the old lady really let go of her hand and told the young man to hurry up. In fact, the young man was still very far away from the master's house, but he walked all the way, all the way to the old lady to tell the old lady how his master's family was rich, and then talked about how to cook those dishes, until the old lady drooled, unconsciously, he had walked for an hour or two, saw the village where the master was, and rushed in while shouting.

The young man's master is a Taoist priest, and he has some skills, and after hearing the apprentice's call, he came out to check, and at a glance he saw that the apprentice was carrying a starving ghost behind his back, and hurriedly brought a magic weapon talisman, but the old lady was so cunning that she kept shrinking behind the young man and refused to show her head, and kept screaming for meat to eat. When the Taoist priest heard this, his eyes rolled and he suddenly had an idea, and hurriedly went back to the house and brought out a roast chicken, the old lady saw the roast chicken, and she still took care of the young man, jumped off the young man's back with a kick, and pounced on the roast chicken in the Taoist priest's hand.

The Taoist priest had already made all the preparations, and when he saw the old lady pounce, he recited a spell in his mouth, and picked up a talisman with the peachwood sword in his hand and poked the old lady through. But the old lady didn't do anything at all, grabbed the roast chicken and squatted in the corner and bit it. The young man ran into the house as soon as the old lady was gone, and looked out through the crack in the door, and when he saw the evil ghost, which was covered with withered skin and black hair, and whose mouth occupied almost two-thirds of the whole face, he was finally sure that he had met the ghost, and he collapsed to the ground in fright, unable to move.

I don't remember the rest of the story, probably after the hungry ghost finished eating the roast chicken, he went to the young man to eat, even if the Taoist priest was strong and powerful, he was helpless against the hungry ghost who had not done anything evil, but fortunately, when the old lady wanted to enter the house to arrest the young man, she was scared away by the door god.

I saw this story in a biography of a person in my grandmother's collection, and it included many things that young people had experienced, and the stories in it were absurd, and I just thought of it as a more interesting story, but according to my grandmother, it was all true.

The waste of such an unrelated story is not just to explain Yang Mengqing's huge reaction after determining that the girl is a ghost, but that many of the stories in this biography, as well as the characters and what happened in the future, are closely related.

Back to the present, Yang Mengqing's horror has dissipated most of it, but his face is still full of doubts. I sighed, after all, she is a person who has received so many years of higher education, scientific materialism has long been ingrained in her concept, everything that happens in the town can be explained by science, although she has been afraid, feared, but how much can she accept, but now it is confirmed that there are really ghosts in this world, and the worldview established for so many years has collapsed all of a sudden, and it is really difficult to accept.

I patted her and comforted, "I can understand your feelings at the moment, but there are indeed many inexplicable things in this world, just take all this happening in the town, do you dare to say that those townsfolk who have come back from the dead have nothing to do with the supernatural powers?" And the evil spirits and ghosts that appear in the white light, are they really just illusions? Since it has already happened, there is a reason for it to happen, and even if there are ghosts, I believe that the world has existed for so long and is still dominated by people, and there must be some kind of balance, and people may not necessarily be afraid of ghosts! ”

Yang Mengqing looked at me with wide eyes and surprise, and I realized that I seemed to have blown my head too much, and I hurriedly closed the topic.

"I didn't expect you to have such a deep understanding of these things, no wonder those dead people have been cleaned up by you, you must be a master!" Yang Mengqing looked at me with a strange expression, and that expression was obviously a misunderstanding.

I hurriedly explained that I was not a master, I was just an ordinary little reporter, and I didn't clean up those dead people, besides, if I were a master, would I still be caught by those neuropaths? She didn't believe what I said, thinking that I was being modest, and that she had seen it all, and that the dead people had all disappeared before they could rush to me, and that I must have cast some powerful spell.

Now I was really speechless, thinking that it might be when the ghost vine appeared, she didn't see it, so I thought I had destroyed those monsters. I told her about the ghost vine, and by the way, I briefly talked about the experience of Ah Ji Village's encounter with the ghost vine, her eyes widened, and she seemed to be a little unconvinced, and muttered that it was impossible, she had been looking at me in the water, and it was obviously a black light from my hand that scattered those living dead.

I was annoyed by her, so I moved the Taoist priest out, saying that you are really dazzled, and the real master is the Taoist priest who was knocked by you.

Yang Mengqing pursed his lips and said with a disgusted face: "That Taoist priest doesn't look like a good person, I have seen him before, the mayor invited him to do things, and he was originally planning to kill him, I thought he was dead, I was startled when I opened the door yesterday and saw him, and then I saw that there was an extra living dead behind him, I thought he might have been infected, so I knocked him!" ”

I said in my heart that this was the case, it seems that the Taoist priest really misunderstood her, and when I see it in the future, I have to help this girl explain and explain, otherwise with the urine of the Taoist priest, even if you don't take revenge, you have to squeeze it on your mouth.

It's rare to meet a normal person, and after the misunderstanding is resolved, I have lost my guard against Yang Mengqing, and the topic returns to the school I just mentioned.

Yang Mengqing said that she was surprised when she saw the school and those houses, but there was no way to go down to that forest cliff, and her eyesight was limited and she couldn't see specific things, so she decided to leave first, and then have a chance to sneak into the elm ditch to check it out in detail.

But just as she was about to leave, a white light shot out from many caves in the depths of the Elm Gully, which was very similar to the white light she saw when she returned to Fengyang on the night she returned, but the light source seemed to be in the depths of the cave, so only a part of it shone through the mouth of the cave. After witnessing this scene, she was even more sure that there was something wrong with the elm ditch. For a period of time, she would go to the cliff every day, and find that the white light would appear every three hours, and once, at the same time that the white light appeared, several sickle-billed strange birds rushed out of the cave, as if those caves were the nests of those strange birds.

At that time, the strange bird had not yet appeared in the town, and she didn't know how terrifying it was, so she didn't take it seriously. But before long, the town began to be inexplicably shrouded in thick fog, and even though the sun was shining outside the town, the town was still foggy and eerie. It was at this time that strange birds and the living dead began to appear in the town, and the town was safe only when there was no fog, day or night.

At first, everyone only thought that those people were sick, but as more and more people were killed, and the number of those living dead increased dramatically, the townspeople finally realized the horror, and the mayor began to organize the vigilantes to arrest the lone living dead everywhere and transport them to a place to be locked up. And that place is the elm ditch.