Chapter 58: The Sacrifice
Several people hid behind the bushes when they heard his words, and a group of people gathered there not far away, as if they had formed a circle, and they could not be seen at all from the outside.
The three of them didn't dare to look too obviously, but they just showed their heads slightly from a distance and looked there.
In the dark night, the animals and beasts dormant in the night of Songjiangling began to hunt at night.
This ghost village really looks like a village where ghosts live, there is no one in sight during the day, and white lanterns are lit at night.
The white lantern is not a good sign, and most people celebrate the New Year's festival with red lanterns, but this white lantern is very particular.
In many places, the white lantern is generally lit for the dead to guide the way, to summon the spirit, I heard that the white lantern is lit by the living, and the yin person leads the way.
I saw a news before, saying that a head descending master in Thailand used a white lantern to cast spells, and it is said that the people who saw his white lantern were all dead people.
Of course, the rumors don't have to be taken seriously, otherwise how could there be such news?
In some places, there are also black lanterns, but it is unknown what they are used for, and they don't know if they exist or not, so it's far away......
"What do you think they're doing here?"
Chen Dong asked again.
He shook the two men behind him with his shoulder, as if to ask something.
"How do I know, you ask me?"
Zhang Qiang felt inexplicable about Chen Dong's question, and the three of them came together, and they really felt outrageous here.
"Okay, don't talk about it yet, the main question now is where did Xu Yi, Liu Meng and Li Yi, Zhang Wenshu and Li Yi go?"
Xu Fei reminded that when the two of them saw this scene, they probably had already forgotten the purpose of coming out before, so they had to say it.
Zhang Qiang and Chen Dong obviously realized the problem, and Zhang Qiang took the lead in speaking:
"yes, do you think they're going to be hidden by the people of this village?"
A thought suddenly flashed in Zhang Qiang's mind, in fact, it was not to blame him for thinking like this, Xu Fei and Chen Dong had actually thought about it.
After all, as soon as I entered this village, everything was too abnormal, and I wanted to make a living and leave early in the morning.
It's just that people don't count as heaven, and they are still preempted by this.
Four of the seven people in their group had already disappeared, and they didn't know what the reason was, but they knew that if there was something wrong with the disappearance of two or three o'clock in the morning, the disappearance of the four people would not be normal.
Even the most stupid people probably know that this is not normal, in short, the top priority now is to find the four of them, time is pressing!
"I think it's possible, the people in this village are so weird, God knows what they're going to do, but ......"
Chen Dong thought for a while, expressed his opinion, and then added:
"But there's also a possibility, could it be that the uncle who took us in hid them?"
"It's possible that you said it, but I think that uncle just doesn't have a good impression of us, but it won't kidnap us and harm us, right?"
Zhang Qiang thought about it again, although he is a Taoist priest, but in fact, he is more of a student, social experience is still insufficient, the truth of people's hearts is only known in his heart, but he has never experienced it, and now Chen Dong said it violently, I am afraid it is difficult for him to accept it at all.
Just as they were still thinking about something, the people in the distance suddenly dispersed, each carrying a white lantern in their hands, and walked to all corners of the hill in advance as if they had been assigned a position.
"Look!"
Xu Fei was the first to notice that although he was in front of the conversation between Zhang Qiang and Chen Dong before, he didn't listen carefully to their conversation, but he was thinking about things alone.
Suddenly, he thought for a moment and said:
"You say, they don't seem to be doing it on purpose according to their own pre-arrangement?"
Chen Dong and Zhang Qiang obviously didn't notice what these people were doing before, but Xu Fei was just observing by himself, and it was difficult for him to find this.
As soon as they heard Xu Fei say this, the two of them went there directly to see, no one knew what was going on.
"Why do you say that?"
Zhang Qiang seemed to remember something, and asked suddenly, obviously wanting to learn more information from Xu Fei's words.
I just didn't know how to speak for a while.
"You see, they are carrying white lanterns, although they seem to be standing on the side very casually, but in fact they are not, you can see where each of them is standing."
Xu Fei pointed to the people who were scattered, and did not point to the people who were still surrounded in the middle, there were actually many people in the middle, and from here, they didn't seem to want people to see this thing.
"How?"
Chen Dong also asked curiously.
"Each of them stands in a position that is due north, south, west, and east, but north to west, south to east, west to north, east to north."
"And these positions will never face each other in a normal theory, but now they are standing together, doesn't that explain the problem?"
As if feeling that what he said was not enough to be convincing, he quickly added:
"Normal people, who would have thought of such a way of standing, and besides, everyone is carrying a white lantern, obviously welcoming something!"
"I see!"
Zhang Qiang immediately exclaimed, as if he knew something.
"Scared to death, your voice is local, aren't you afraid that they will hear?"
Chen Dong was shocked by his sudden startle, the people in the place where they were standing now were not far away, and there were few of them who were careless, I am afraid that everyone would have to be discovered, and then it would be fine.
"Don't call him, Zhang Qiang, what do you think?"
Xu Fei didn't have any strong reaction to his move, and immediately grabbed Zhang Qiang and asked.
"My grandfather told me that this kind of posture, in my opinion, they are estimated to be married in the dark, and now it is estimated that they are going to invite the main lord from the underworld!"
Hearing Zhang Qiang say this, Xu Fei flashed a trace of uneasiness.
"Then according to you, they are going to have a secret marriage?"
Chen Dong seemed to have thought of something, and finally said what he thought:
"They can't have captured a few girls and plan to marry them!"
"That's not good!"
"Anyway, go find them quickly, I guess their location should not be far from here, according to the ancient custom of underworld marriage, those girls should be stored in a timely and accurate manner, and the place where they are placed must be the coffin with the corpse, if I am not bad, the coffin is probably in the Yin Evil Position near Zehui."
Zhang Qiang analyzed by himself, Xu Fei and Chen Dong on the side were slightly surprised, and said:
"How do you know these things? You can't be a Taoist priest, right? β
Zhang Qiang didn't answer their question, but smiled alone, and then sped up his pace and walked alone.
Xu Fei and Chen Dong couldn't help but look back when they saw Zhang Qiang leaving alone, the group of people continued to be like that, but the position they were standing seemed to have changed again.
"Waitββ!"
Chen Dong shouted in a low voice, not daring to zoom in the slightest, for fear that others would find out.
In the mountains in the dark, it is silent and cold, it is estimated that it is more than ten degrees below zero, but how can a few people care about the cold now, and they can still rest if they don't find a few girls first.
The three boys were like this, one in front of the other and two in the back, constantly walking through the forest, and Zhang Qiang didn't know when he had an extra compass in his hand, and he began to keep going around here.
"Hey, Zhang Qiang, you wait, I'm tired."
Chen Dong's feet were not yet complete, and he was constantly panting behind his back, and Zhang Qiang seemed to not understand what he was saying, and he was constantly walking back and forth, back and forth.
"It's close, it's close!"
Zhang Qiang seemed to have won a million-dollar jackpot, and began to dance with his hands, and the compass in his hand clenched unconsciously.
continued to spare a few bends, and began to continue to test back and forth, Xu Fei and Chen Dong on the side were already tired, Xu Fei was nothing, but he still had to take care of Chen Dong.
The two of them didn't do anything, just like that, they watched Zhang Qiang keep walking away, with a puzzled face, and their hearts were full of questions about Zhang Qiang, when did he have this ability?
......
It's been a long time since the two strange men left, and the temperature in the coffin can now be felt to be particularly serious, and I try to calm my breathing to reduce my consumption.
As for the corpse in the coffin, I was even more scared, but I couldn't hold back, at this time, I believe that even if I shouted, no one would come to save them, since they were relieved to leave, there should be few people here to find it.
As for saving me, I'm afraid it's even more fantastical, do you really have to die like this? This is inevitably too unjust.
Thinking of this, for a while, I was not afraid of this kind of thing of being locked in a coffin with a corpse that I didn't know how long I had been dead, and I was going to die anyway.
It's just that there are still a lot of dreams that have not been realized, and there are still a lot of things that can't be let go, so I died like this, and I was really unwilling.
Is this all I have for life?
The temperature in the coffin made me feel very hot and dreary, and it was difficult to breathe, and I knew that the carbon dioxide was at its limit.
And I couldn't hold it anymore, and gradually closed my eyes, the corpse, the coffin or anything didn't matter.
Consciousness gradually darkened, faded, and death was getting closer and closer to me.
...
"Found it, she's here!"
I don't know where it came from!
The voice was full of surprise, the coffin lid was opened from the outside, and in an instant, cold air poured into the originally closed coffin.
The heat of the carbon dioxide disappeared in an instant, and I was as happy as a fish re-entering the water, but I couldn't feel it subjectively, because I was already unconscious.
"Li Yi! Li Yi! β
I remember a boy's voice calling out to me constantly, and I wanted to open my eyes, but I couldn't move.
This boy, isn't it Zhang Qiang who is looking for someone according to the compass?
Behind him were Chen Dong and Xu Fei, who were constantly panting, and the two of them must have worked hard to open the coffin.
"Zhang Qiang, there is really yours, and I really found it by mistake."
Chen Dong still couldn't believe that he had really found me trapped here, and although he was surprised, he couldn't hide the surprise in his heart.
"Don't be happy, there are three more!"
Zhang Qiang breathed a sigh of gloom and said.
Seeing Zhang Qiang say this, they naturally became worried instantly.
"I think I'm afraid the rest of the people will be harder and harder to find, and they won't necessarily be locked up in coffins, and maybe even tied up at all."
Zhang Qiang analyzed like this, Xu Fei frowned, and asked:
Why do you say that? Since they are going to marry in secret, shouldn't they all be the same? How can you still be special? β