Chapter Seventy-Two: The Evacuee
After lingering there for a while, I was ready to start discussing what to do next, and although I had a certain amount of eyebrows, it was better to be cautious.
Xu Fei stood alone and walked around not far away, looking into the distance, wanting to see if it was safe to look around, while Zhang Wenshu and I had been sitting on the ground not far from him, looking for a stone at random, and the two of them didn't know if it was intentional or what, so they sat directly opposite each other.
Zhang Wenshu seemed to have discovered this situation, so she left her place, got up and walked towards me, looking at me curiously.
I didn't make any moves towards his behavior, just looked at the ground coldly like that, after all, Zhang Wenshu is really weird now, I don't want to have anything to do with him, otherwise I'm afraid it's me who will be unlucky, I don't know what's wrong with her behavior these days, as soon as she comes here, it's like a different person, I really don't have the energy to continue to entangle with him like that now, whether she is a game, a joke, or whatever, I don't care, the only thing I have to do now is to get out of hereGet out of here safely.
Zhang Wenshu found a clean place next to me and sat down, while Xu Fei looked around not far ahead, as if he was looking for something, probing his brain alone, and he didn't know what he was doing.
Zhang Wenshu looked at me while talking, and said:
"Li Yi, what's wrong with you? Why do you look at my expression has always been weird, where did I offend you? ”
Zhang Wenshu's words were something I didn't expect, this tone is very similar to the love and hate of her before, but what happened to Zhang Wenshu before that?
His words aroused my interest, but I still endured it myself, wanting to hear what he had to say, but after a while, seeing that I didn't speak, Zhang Wenshu said anxiously:
"Li Yi! You don't want to be like this, huh? Where am I not telling you, why am I not hurting you? ”
There seems to be a little anger in her words, this is a 100% Zhang Wenshu, straightforward and enthusiastic.
I hesitated, not caring if he would suddenly go berserk, so I asked:
"Don't you remember what happened to you in the tunnel? All of a sudden, your whole face turned blue, and I didn't mean that your expression turned blue, but that your whole face turned blue, and the look in your eyes looked like they were going to eat me alive, don't you remember? ”
Sure enough, as soon as I said this, Zhang Wenshu immediately opened his mouth to defend himself:
"What are you talking about? Where? I've been asleep all the time when I'm in the tunnel, how could I suddenly make such a move to you! ”
He said it with such indignation that I had to believe that he had never done it at all, but how could that be?
No matter how forgetful a person is, it is impossible to forget what he did all at once, I ignored her, I just felt that she was justifying herself, so I didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and stood up directly and walked towards Xu Fei's side, Zhang Wenshu didn't expect me to treat her like this, so I watched me leave with a shocked face.
Xu Fei has not rested since he came out just now, and has been looking towards the village below, looking left and right, not making a sound.
Without any extra movements, I walked up to him and asked:
"How's it going, have you made any new discoveries?"
When Xu Fei saw that it was me coming, he also stopped what he was doing, so he straightened up and said:
"One thing, I tell you, if we're going to go to the village to find them, let's go straight to the village path, and follow the ...... from here."
Xu Fei explained his plan to me with his hand while analyzing, just now he also looked at it for a long time, and found that every household was basically not there, and no one came out, it seemed that they all went to work in the fields.
I inadvertently skimmed in one direction, there was a corner of the village, and there were only a few rotten houses sitting there, but it was not the dilapidated place that really caught my attention.
The two eyes clearly saw that the courtyard was not the uncle's house where we lived last night?
I can't even forget how that uncle was disemboweled by that man-eating monster, that bloody and cruel scene, I'm afraid I will never forget it for the rest of my life.
"Xu Fei, look!"
I pointed in that direction, and Xu Fei heard me say that he also looked there, so he said:
"What's wrong? Any questions? ”
"Do you remember? Didn't that uncle get killed alive by that man-eating monster? He died in the yard at the time, remember? But look at it now, if there is a trace in the yard, can you see that the uncle has been killed? ”
Sure enough, according to what I said, the yard was clean and clean, it didn't look like a murder scene at all, and even I remember that there was no trace of blood all over the ground last night, not to mention blood, but there was no red on the ground, which is really confusing.
"What's going on?"
Xu Fei also found an anomaly, obviously he observed it just now, and he didn't notice this, so he also looked in the direction I pointed, this time it was different from the last time, Xu Fei seemed to think of something, and immediately exclaimed:
"I see!"
"What's wrong? What's wrong? As soon as he heard Xu Fei's reaction, Zhang Wenshu in the back also came over and hurriedly asked, for fear that he had missed something.
"You see, the courtyard last night was the entrance to the underground passage of the entire village, but this entrance was not in the village, but was built at the end of the village, 108,000 miles away from the village entrance."
"This shows that the people of this village built this tunnel not for use, but to hide from something, otherwise there is no need for us to enter the village They are all like this, as if they have seen the enemy, so guarded, and they still retain such an old tradition, the custom of underworld marriage, all of this only shows one problem!"
Xu Fei analyzed me and Zhang Wenshu word by word, I didn't expect that running out of this secret passage would make Xu Fei come to this conclusion, but it was really amazing.
But would such a thing exist? If my guess is correct, Xu Fei's conclusion will shock everyone's mind, since the village here is hiding from something, it means that the people of this Yin Ghost Village have not been out of the village for many years or in their lives, and I don't want to believe such a result.
However, as far as the current situation is concerned, all this may be true, whether it is looking at the buildings in this village are still maintained in a state of wood and thatch, or the strange living habits of this ghost village, and some inexplicable things, not to mention the custom of ghost marriage, not to mention modern times, even modern times have been cut off from this absurd custom, but when I entered this village, I didn't expect to see it again.
What's even more outrageous is that the scale of this tunnel doesn't seem to be ordinarily large, it has almost spanned the entire village, connecting the village and the outside of the village, no wonder the old man suddenly appeared in front of us without making a sound when he first entered the village, I'm afraid that nine times out of ten it is because there is an exit from a secret passage at the entrance of the village, but no one of us paid attention to it at that time, so we ignored his appearance.
"I think, I'm afraid they have been here for a long time, do you remember Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Spring? Do you feel like this group of people is similar to what is described there? ”
Xu Fei abruptly mentioned Tao Yuanming, and I was also stunned for a moment, but I thought about it again.
Xu Fei is right, this group of people is estimated to have fled here, but they have been isolated for too long, and I am afraid that they will not dare to leave the village, but fortunately, they directly dig a grand secret passage, and when they encounter danger, the people in the whole village will hide directly in it.
"It's just, why did they have a ritual like that last night?"
I still didn't understand it, so I immediately looked at Xu Fei, and Zhang Wenshu on the side was in a fog of listening,
But fortunately, he didn't interrupt our conversation, Xu Fei paused, and said:
"I once read in a book that in ancient times, there was a group of people who believed in evil gods, and whenever they wanted to ask for something, they would hold a grand sacrifice, and after the sacrifice, they would generally get the purpose of praying, and there was a time when this method was particularly popular in the Yuan Dynasty, but I don't know why this group of people seemed to disappear overnight."
I didn't expect what Xu Fei said to be so exciting, which really didn't surprise me, so I immediately asked:
"Are you saying what these people are asking for?"
"Yes, this is the closest estimate to our experience so far, but it's still a bit confusing."
Xu Fei thought about it and said, in fact, Xu Fei's concerns, I know that what he thinks is nothing more than why this group of people have to use us as sacrifices.
And what is the goal of their quest? Generally speaking, asking for a good harvest, asking for rain, or asking for blessings, what are the people in this village longing for?
But this is also a bit unreasonable, or rather, what are they afraid of?
By the way, scared, why didn't I think of it!
I seem to know what it is to be worthy of the whole village to be so scared and take such a big risk to do it.
"Xu Fei! Do you remember? I reckon that nine times out of ten, the people in this village are asking for something that scares them. ”
I called Xu Fei from behind and said to him.
"Something to be afraid of? You mean? ”
As soon as Xu Fei's eyes lit up, I knew that he knew what I was talking about, and the one who could be so afraid of the people in this village was probably the monster that ate people at night.