Looking at the direction where the wind was blowing, Gao Ying suddenly had goosebumps on his body. The wind just now...... Was it just pure chance? He was highly skeptical.

Fortunately, there are no trees around, otherwise it would have been terrible if the wind blew and the branches shook and made a sound.

"Be careful......" Gao Ying almost just said these two words out of his mouth, and he barely heard what he said clearly.

Ji Yixuan kept inhaling at this time, trying to suppress the pain in his hands. Here for three days of exams, he had to endure.

(I must survive...... I promised Ichixin would always protect her...... ）

Along this path, the four of them walked cautiously, not daring to make any noise, and even walked a few steps towards the ground to see if they would step on stones or branches.

On the left side of the eye, there is a stone wall with an arch in the center. Entering through the archway, there is a row of long houses, which look like the houses of several families living together. The row of longhouses was only one floor, and on an old wall, there were still striking red letters: "Don't make a sound"!

Gao Ying swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then looked carefully at the longhouse in front of him, a few bamboo poles hung in front of the door, some clothes were hung, and there were several baskets with chili peppers in the courtyard.

"We ...... Really want to go in? At this time, Hou Mingbo couldn't help but retreat a little.

"yes...... I said I'll go...... Let's take a look elsewhere......" Shen Junhao was also quite frightened and offered to leave here.

At this time...... Gao Ying suddenly noticed that there was a kennel in the front row of the longhouse. And on the kennel was written four words: "The dog has been poisoned"!

Dog...... Yes, people may be able to speak softly, but ...... Dogs are different, dogs have always been common in the countryside, and groups of dogs bark at each other, which will naturally make a lot of noise. So, the dog had to be poisoned...... But why poison a dog, and write "the dog has been poisoned" on the kennel? All Gao Ying can think of is ...... Poisoning the dog is probably a collective action of the whole village, and writing on the kennel is so that people can know it at a glance...... Although there is a kennel, the dog is dead.

"I'm thinking about something, Gao Ying ......"

Ji Yixuan's voice sounded softly in Gao Ying's ears: "The people of the village have used so many means to poison the dog, but ...... Eventually, they disappeared from the village. Did they end up fleeing, or did they ...... Are they all dead? ”

Of course, Gao Ying has also thought about this question. But...... He didn't dare to jump to conclusions. He hoped to find a villager in the village so he could get more information. In this exam, intelligence is life!

"Don't think about it so much, let's go in and search for clues, or if there will be any living people."

Gao Ying paid close attention to the ground and made sure that the ground was flat and there were no stones, so he took a light step. Ji Yixuan, Hou Mingbo, and Shen Junhao behind him also tiptoed to follow. The row of low houses in front of him looked like a devil who devoured people. They all grabbed their exam papers and pens, praying that they would come out alive.

As he got closer to the room, Gao Ying stepped up the stone steps and came to a wooden door in front of him. He noticed that there were several yellow runes with some unintelligible characters on the door. This thing...... What is it? As he pondered, he gently reached out and opened the door slightly to make sure it didn't make too much noise. The others followed, all with the same lightheartedness

...... in the house On a dusty table of eight immortals, there is a statue of the Jade Emperor, an incense burner, and a portrait of Sanqing is also posted on the wall.

It seems that the villagers believe in Taoism? Or is it that he was haunted by the evil of the village, so he chose to pray that the Taoist gods could come to save him? But if you look closely, the statue of the Jade Emperor is also covered with dust, and it looks like it hasn't been wiped for a long time.

At least Gao Ying became more and more convinced that the people of the village had not moved en masse. At this point, it seemed as if the people of the village had suddenly disappeared...... Something terrible must have happened in this village. But what exactly is that? The only thing that can be assured is ...... Neither the Bodhisattva nor the Jade Emperor can save humanity. Now it seems that the survival of human beings is unlikely to rely on these external forces. The yellow rune paper on the outside should obviously also be some kind of Taoist talisman? However, Gao Ying has not studied this, and he thinks that it is more likely that this is purely a charlatan.

Gao Ying placed his hand on his right eye and opened his fingers slightly. Finger watching ghosts has been proven to be not always successful, but at this stage, there is really no way, or use it, it is better than nothing. After doing so, I didn't find anything out of the ordinary.

Ji Yixuan noticed Gao Ying's movements, and quickly thought that this seemed to be a rumored method of seeing the hell. So, he also began to imitate Gao Ying, but all the same, he found nothing and didn't see anything.

"Here...... It seems that no one has lived in it for a long time......" Hou Mingbo sighed softly, and then continued to search for clues in the house.

The inside of the room is also quite leaky, in addition to the table of eight immortals, there is a table next to it, but it is all kinds of sundries, and I don't see any value. Further inside, there is a kitchen, where there is no gas, and below is a stove with pots, steamers, kitchen knives, cutting boards, and a few towels hanging on it. There are several clay pots in the corner, which are estimated to be pickled products again.

The level of poverty here seems to be high...... This was Gao Ying's first reaction. Although China's agricultural population still occupies a high proportion, there are now more and more high-income villages, such as Hou Mingbo is also a rural person, but their hometown is not poor, and he knows most of the car logos. And here, there is no running water, no gas, no electricity, no telephone, no television, and so on. And this seems to have a lot to do with the fact that it is surrounded by mountains and inaccessible.

Gao Ying also noticed one thing. Obviously there is a stove, but ...... In the whole kitchen, not a single piece of wood is in sight. Surrounded by mountains and trees, it is definitely not difficult to cut firewood. In the absence of gas, it is supposed to be cooked on a firewood fire in the kitchen. There are probably two reasons why there is no firewood. First, chopping wood will make a loud noise, and second...... Burning firewood for cooking, the sound is not small, whether it is the sound of burning firewood, or the sound of boiling water, or even the possibility of coughing when choking on smoke when cooking......

The people of this village were terrified to make a sound...... And this became a huge taboo recognized by the whole village!