Chapter 55: The Strange Village
The bus drove smoothly on the country road, the scenery outside the window swept by, and the entourage sat in the third car, and there were no students arranged inside, in order to avoid the fight between the slender and Ye tassels, Li Qiufan wisely chose to sit with the fat man.
Now he really realized what it meant to be a red face and a curse, so he closed his ears with his qi and slept with his eyes closed on the fat man.
About four hours later, the car stopped, everyone got out of the car in turn, Li Qiufan stretched his waist, this sleep was extremely comfortable, but the most surprising thing for him was that Ye Tassel and Miao actually held hands like sisters, talking and laughing...
"A woman's heart, a needle under the sea, the ancients didn't deceive me!"
The convoy stopped at the foot of the mountain, because the road ahead was too narrow for the bus to get on, so everyone had to get off the bus and walk.
Li Qiufan yawned and was about to leave, but out of the corner of his eye, he swept to the peasants who were working not far away, holding the sickle and hoe and staring at them intently, looking a little uneasy, as if he had seen something he didn't want to see.
A few crows fell from the treetops, quacking, and the sound became louder and louder, and the listeners were irritated, and the fat man picked up a few stones and threw them out to drive them away, but they flew around and fell, and followed the crowd unhurriedly.
The higher you go, the wetter the air becomes, the trees become denser, the sun shines brightly, and several monkeys jump back and forth from branch to branch, and some even pick wild fruits and throw them at the students, as if to stop them from moving on.
Suddenly, a cool wind blew down the mountain road, and the monkeys and the crows hovering in the sky suddenly seemed to see some terrifying existence, and they disappeared with a smoke.
The more Li Qiufan walked, the more he felt that something was wrong, so he took a few steps behind, walked at the back, took out the compass, and found that the compass seemed to be out of order.
"It's finally here, are we going to stay here for three days?"
"This village feels a little eerie, I don't want to go..."
"There may be ghosts inside~~~"
"It's better to be a female ghost, it's not beautiful to have a Chinese ghost story"
"What a place, I didn't sign up if I knew I was special, is it too late to go back now?"
"I don't know if there's a place to take a bath, I haven't taken a bath for three days, and it stinks to death..."
After walking for about 20 minutes, a village that looked like it was old appeared in front of everyone, the village was surrounded by mountains, built against the mountains, and at the entrance stood a mottled stone tablet with the inscription: Fushou Village.
The strange thing is that all the trees around here about ten meters are dead, stretching out their branches with teeth and claws, but the vines and weeds grow half a person high, blocking the path into the village tightly, standing for a while, not a single bird was found in the treetops, not even snakes, insects, rats and ants were seen, the silence was terrible.
The students pointed their fingers, and all the timid girls flinched a little and wanted to quit the event.
Li Qiufan was also looking up and down the village, although the compass was out of order, and the ghost bell did not react, indicating that there was no evil in it, but he didn't know why, he always had a feeling of restlessness, as if there was some unknown secret existence in it.
So he told the teacher about this idea to see if he could change places.
The teacher who led the team was a slightly bald middle-aged man, in his early sixties, with a white face, a pair of black-framed glasses, his mouth was yellow and his teeth were smoky, and he was carrying this blue briefcase in his hand, which looked very knowledgeable.
After listening to Li Qiufan's suggestion, he fiercely objected: "Do you know why you are a security guard guarding the door, and they are college students?" It's because you're always thinking about strange things in your head, and you don't want to make progress, is this activity something you say will change? ”
Then he took out a stack of papers from his briefcase and shook it: "There is another task in this outing, that is, I will lead the students to explore and investigate this village, and the results will be put into the file as their grades!" ”
Ye Liusu walked over and whispered: "He is Professor Chen, he is very authoritative in the study of ancient humanities and history, and this place was also carefully selected by him, what's the matter, can't there really be a ghost here?" ”
Li Qiufan shook his head: "I didn't notice it, I just felt a little uncomfortable, maybe I was suspicious." ”
Ye Liusu thought for a while: "Why don't I go down the mountain and call the principal?" ”
"No, let the students be careful when they go in."
At this time, a student operating the drone aerial photography shouted: "Professor, look at the overall structure of this village, it looks like a human face." As he spoke, he handed over the tablet in his hand.
Li Qiufan stretched his neck and glanced at the gap between the shoulders of the two, the student was right, because the houses in the village are all made of yellow mud and stones, looking down from the sky, it really looks a bit like a person's facial features, especially the several collapsed buildings at the entrance of the village, coincidentally, an open mouth was formed, and the dead trees outside were like hair falling down, indescribably eerie...
Professor Chen stroked the frame of his glasses: "It's just a coincidence, according to historical records, this village should have existed in the late Qing Dynasty, I heard that there are still people living in the past eight years, we came this time for three purposes: first, to investigate the specific era, number of people, and living environment customs and habits of the aborigines, second, to investigate the reasons for their collective migration, and third, to detect the magnetic field strength and satellite signals here, to see if we can find out what causes the compass and GPS positioning to fail." ”
The large army began to slowly enter the village.
The fat man retreated and waited for the crowd to finish and whispered: "Brother Fan, Xiaocai said that it doesn't like this place a little, and the breath inside makes it a little disgusted." ”
Li Qiufan frowned, it stands to reason that Xiaocai belongs to a Gu demon, and it is a combination of a centipede and a snake, so he should be more suitable for the damp and dark environment here... If you can make it feel uncomfortable, it means that this village is definitely tired!
At this point, I had to improvise and follow suit.
The path in the village is winding like a labyrinth, except for the sound of the students' conversation, there is no other sound, the wooden doors and old windows, the black hole can not see the scene inside, and the furnishings do not reflect any traces of modern civilization, as if isolated from the world, the gloomy feeling is becoming more and more obvious, as if there are countless pairs of eyes watching the people in the dark.
Professor Chen didn't know where to find a map, spread it out and held it in his hand and followed the direction, the students followed, and after a while they came to a rather wide, square-like place and stopped, there was a well in the northeast corner, and there was water, but there was a rotten stench coming from it, obviously undrinkable, but fortunately the students brought food and water.
So I chose to set up camp here, a tent was quickly built, and the students started to eat lunch in groups of three or five, in fact, it was some compressed biscuits and the like, and poured mineral water into the stomach, and a few well-prepared students even brought the barbecue grill, and the tempting smell of barbecue was desperately drilled into people's noses, and Li Qiufan couldn't help but take a deep breath of aroma while nibbling on the biscuits.
After the meal, the people began to divide into ten groups, those who were looking for water, those who collected firewood, and those who placed the detection equipment of the camera, and the rest took pen and paper cameras and began to explore the village houses.
Li Qiufan and the others discussed, and followed a group separately, in case of accidents, the mountains and ravines were deep, and no one could tell where a beast would suddenly pop out or something.
"Professor... There is a coffin in this family's house! A girl screamed with a pale face.
"I've found something here, too!"
"Me too"
"There are two of them!"
The voices came and went, mixed with a little trembling, although he was highly educated, he was still very sensitive to these things that had something to do with the dead.
Professor Chen looked at them one by one, not only did he look frightened, but laughed inexplicably happily, and reassured: "Don't panic, this is the custom of Fushou Village's 'people and ghosts live together, and they can't leave the village', you see the mound in the yard, which is actually a mound of graves, and all the dead relatives are buried in it, look everywhere to see if you can find any valuable clues, remember not to damage it, just take a photo and record it." ”
A squatting student happened to be squatting on top of the mound, and when he heard the professor say this, his face turned pale with fright, and he hurriedly jumped down, clasped his hands together and chanted, "Unintentional collision, bad luck go away, righteous qi to protect the body..."
Li Qiufan happened to be this group, his attention was not on the coffin and the grave, because the eye of the sky did not find the existence of ghosts, what he cared about was the direction of the building here, or the feng shui pattern, all the houses are either oriented east-west, or obliquely oriented, the doors and windows are open to each other, it is a big taboo, feng shui pays attention to the Tibetan wind and accepts the qi, likes to turn around, and does not rush straight, the front door, the back door, the balcony door, and the window are the entry and exit points between the indoor aura and the external aura. And it's not one, it's like almost every household, which completely subverts the theory of feng shui, as if it was deliberately built against feng shui.
This made Li Qiufan even more vigilant, his mind was fully open, he didn't dare to be careless, and his right hand rested on the hilt of the Longquan sword wrapped in cloth, so that he could pull it out at any time.
From time to time, a few pieces of the old wall skin fell off and fell to the ground, like someone clapping their hands slowly, the mountain wind blew down and whined, more like someone was crying in a low voice, miserable and cold, the old wooden door was lifted by the wind, gurgling and moaning.
In the courtyard, in addition to the wild grass and fallen leaves, there are many crumpled yellowed pieces of paper, if you look closely, it is actually paper money, and a wooden stick sticks poke out of the window on the second floor, and some of them still have a few strands of cloth left, and it is impossible to see what it is for.
At this time, a rectangular piece of paper that had turned white appeared in Li Qiufan's sight, lying alone at the door of the family.
Li Qiufan felt very familiar, so he walked over and picked it up, the handwriting on it was washed by the wind and rain, and it was long unrecognizable, but he still deduced from the residue that it should be a talisman, a talisman dedicated to suppressing powerful ghosts!