Volume 1: The Town of the Hidden Chapter 1: The Town of the Hidden Town
On the bus, Zhang Yu sat by the window and looked at the scenery outside the window, and the students in the car were excited because of the unknown travel, laughing and playing with their friends around them.
After all, this graduation trip was the last time they would get together before leaving campus, and it was time to leave some more cheerful memories.
"Octopus, what are you going to do after graduation?"
Zhang Zechuan is a senior game nerd who has been sitting in his seat playing mobile games, he is not interested in laughing and playing with his classmates, and in the middle of the game, he suddenly remembered something and asked his friend Zhang Yu, who has been with him for many years, as for the "octopus", of course, it is the nickname he took with the homonym of his name.
"The son inherits the father's business? Let's inherit my dad's company. ”
Zhang Yu looked at the speeding scenery outside the window and said in a trance that the son inheriting his father's business was only what his father wanted.
And what he really wants is just to find a quiet job and simply live a dull life.
"What about you? What do you plan to do after graduation? ”
Although Zhang Zechuan and Zhang Yu have the same surname, their family circumstances are completely different, even if Zhang Yu does not inherit his father's business, his family property is there.
In the final analysis, Zhang Zechuan was only born in an ordinary family like most people, and after graduation, he could only grieve his true idea of becoming a small clerk who worked hard at the grassroots level of society.
"I really want to be a cartoonist."
It's just that the reality is here, and Zhang Zechuan can only smile bitterly no matter how helpless he is.
This graduation trip was for the students to travel to Shenyin Town in City A for a month at their own expense, and Zhang Zechuan's father didn't want him to participate.
Because the family itself is financially poor, all the money is used to support him to go to college, and the various expenses of this trip add up to almost 8,000.
But his mother insisted that it was his last chance to spend time with his classmates before he left school, and persuaded his father to pay for the trip and give him an extra thousand to have a better time with his classmates.
Sure enough, the world of the game is a little easier.
"Ah, cartoonist."
Zhang Yu also dreamed of becoming a cartoonist, because they can depict a world different from the world they are in now with just paper and pen, which is really powerful.
However, his talent for drawing has been evident since elementary school, and he has no chance with cartoonists in this life.
"But it's very strange, why didn't Qin Huimin come to this graduation trip?"
Zhang Zechuan usually sees that she is active in clubs and various activity venues, and she was the first to sign up for this graduation trip at her own expense, so when he counted the number of people today, he didn't find Qin Huimin, so he paid attention to it.
"How could Qin Huimin, an activist, not come, when I got in the car, I heard Gao Min and He You say that she went to the tourist location we were going to a day in advance, and said that she would go there to investigate the situation first." Zhang Yu's gaze slowly shifted from the scenery outside the window back to the car, and he glanced at the mobile phone in his hand.
"Ah, I really envy her."
Zhang Zechuan sighed, Qin Huimin is one of the top students in the class, after all, she has been directly appointed by one of the top ten companies in China, unlike which company he has to worry about handing his resume to.
Sure enough, the virtual world of the game on his mobile phone is more suitable for him.
"But the weather forecast seems to be predicting heavy rain today." Zhang Yu glanced at Zhang Zechuan, who was squinting and lying on the seat, and asked, "Xiaochuan, have you seen it?" ”
"Yes, for sure, and the equipment I brought is very well prepared." Zhang Zechuan patted the schoolbag beside him and said confidently, "Octopus, didn't you bring an umbrella?" ”
"Brought it." Zhang Yu's umbrella must have been brought, but this heavy rainstorm that came at some point had a slight pimple in his heart, and the seeds of uneasiness quietly sprouted in his heart.
Zhang Yu always feels that the "heavy rain" mentioned in the weather forecast is just the beginning.
"Why do you suddenly care about the weather forecast?"
Although Zhang Zechuan said that his IQ is not high, he has also known Zhang Yu for a few years, and he has been looking at Zhang Yu's abnormality just now and couldn't help but ask, "Is there anything wrong with this weather forecast?" ”
"It's nothing, I'll sleep first." Zhang Yu suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, leaned back in the chair and slowly fell asleep.
"Sleep so fast."
Zhang Zechuan couldn't help but sigh at Zhang Yu's speed of falling asleep, and then took out his mobile phone again to play the unfinished game.
It was now three hours before the destination of their trip, Shenyin Town.
The students who were originally laughing and playing on the bus gradually lost their original enthusiasm one by one as time passed, sitting in their respective seats, playing with their mobile phones or leaning on the seats, falling asleep with their eyes closed like Zhang Yu.
Outside the bus, the sky began to be overcast, with muffled thunder from time to time, and soon the rain began to fall as expected as the weather forecast had announced.
"What is this..."
Zhang Zechuan was staring at his phone and playing a game, and accidentally pressed the shutdown button and turned off the screen.
He was about to unlock it with his fingerprint, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a pair of eyes staring in the direction of his sitting from the window of the bus refracted from the locked phone screen, and he felt a strong sense of resentment in those eyes.
Zhang Zechuan was stunned and looked at the place he had just glanced at from the screen of his mobile phone, but he didn't see anything, was it because he was playing games for too long, so he was dazzled?
Zhang Zechuan rubbed his eyes and looked at the window again, but there was still nothing, could it really be that he was dazzled?
"However, it was really heavy under this heavy rain."
Zhang Zechuan looked out the window at the sky that was indistinguishable from the night and the pouring rain, and muttered.
Because heavy rainstorms like this are not uncommon, he didn't care much about it, and opened his phone with his fingerprint unlock to continue playing the game he hadn't finished playing.
The last step from City A to Kamikuin Town in City S is to go through a long tunnel, and after passing through that long tunnel, you can see Kamikuin Town.
The original name of the town was not the name of the town, and the origin of the name is said to be because there was a large-scale disappearance of people in this town a long time ago, and the entire town disappeared overnight as if no one had ever existed.
"This report on time... This year is exactly the fiftieth year. ”
Zhang Zechuan felt a little tired from playing, so he closed the game and searched for Shenyin Town, the destination of their trip this time, and the time on the report happened to be fifty years away from now, is this a coincidence?
Coincidence, right?
But what did those people in Shenyin Town disappear without a trace in just one night fifty years ago?
Before that happened, the town was just an uneventful town, but the town had a strange custom that every other month on the fifteenth night, they would gather in the center of the town for a ceremony called the Moon Sacrifice.
Most of the participants in these ceremonies are the elderly and adults, and children are not allowed to go out until they return, and children are not allowed to leave the house during the festival.
Of course, there is an exception to this, and the Moon Messenger is elected every five years, and this Moon Envoy can only be a boy, and it can be a boy who cannot be more than ten years old.
The [Moon Envoys] in the town are not allowed to eat anything on the day before the [Moon Festival], and they are not allowed to touch food until the [Moon Festival] ritual is over.
However, the exact content of the ritual is unknown, as only the residents of the town who once lived in the town know the answer.
But all of those people disappeared without exception, as if they had never existed in this world.
Now Shenyin Town has become a famous tourist attraction and residential place in S City, and the scenery and environment around it are very comfortable and pleasant, and the government has begun to rebuild Shenyin Town over time.
The current Shenyin Town has been renovated and is very different from before, and the mysterious disappearance case fifty years ago has made it a landmark of S City, so people who are interested in this will also come to Shenyin Town to live in Shenyin Town for a period of time.
"If this were a game, I'd be interested." Zhang Zechuan glanced at the wanton torrential rain outside the window again, and muttered slightly in his heart, "But this is not a game. ”
The bus gradually approached Shenyin Town, and the students on the bus also woke up, passing through the last long tunnel connecting S City and Shenyin Town, and quickly stopped at the location where they had settled in Shenyin Town.
- Shenyin Town