Old Man Shi's words made my scalp tighten, and I couldn't help but glance at the hut in front of me again.

What the hell is Old Man Shi doing?

"Open a hotel in this place, will anyone come to stay there?"

"Yes." Old man Shi knocked off the ashes in the cigarette pouch and coughed twice: "There are always people coming, but there are always those few people." ”

"Can people live in such a house?" I looked at Old Man Shi's calm appearance, and there was no danger, and I slowly became bolder: "This house is even more dilapidated than your hotel's house." ”

"Yes." Old man Shi turned around and pointed to the oil lamp at the door of the small house and said, "This is because I am afraid that they will get lost and will not find their way back." ”

"Who are the people who live here?"

"You want to know, just see for yourself, the door is unlocked." Old man Shi smiled faintly: "If you want to see it, you can see it." ”

Old man Shi was so happy, but I was overwhelmed. If he kept it hidden and didn't let me see the things in the house, then I would have to sneak over and watch it, but I was embarrassed to be invited.

"It's okay, let's see." Old man Shi stood up and said, "It's almost time to eat, it's far away to be a guest, good or bad, I have to invite you to a meal, you take your time, I'll get the meal." ”

Old man Shi turned around and went to a small stove a few meters away to work, I looked at him as if he really didn't care about me, let me look boldly, at this point, it seemed that I didn't observe the situation in the house, I was a little sorry for Old Man Shi.

Step by step, I walked to the low, dilapidated wooden house in front of me, which was so badly riddled that the door panel at the door was removed. When the door panel was removed, I smelled a very strange smell.

It wasn't a stink, but it was very unique and didn't smell very good. This smell does not seem to be unfamiliar, when I was a child, I ran to the old village in the mountains to play, and I used to smell a similar smell in those old houses that are hundreds of years old.

It's the taste of time.

There was nothing superfluous in the hut, and in the room there was a floor made of planks and dismantled cardboard boxes, on which seemed to lie a man, but covered with sheets.

The sheets were so tightly covered, from head to toe that I stood in the doorway of the hut and couldn't see who was under them.

I looked back at Old Man Shi, he was cooking with a small stove boiling water, Old Man Shi should have been here for a while, and he was familiar with the road. There was nothing unusual in his speech and demeanor, but when he saw that the sheets covered the people on the floor so tightly, even if he thought about it on his heels, he knew that it was definitely not a living person.

I want to see who is lying on this floor.

Old man Shi only cared about boiling water and cooking by himself, and ignored me, I put all my distractions away, walked to the side of the bunk, and lifted a corner of the sheets.

Underneath the sheets was a white skeleton, and the moment I lifted the sheets, I saw two black holes in my eyes. It's not the first time I've seen this kind of thing, but being in such a place and such an environment still makes me feel terrified.

I slowly removed all the sheets, and underneath it was a very complete human skeleton. At this time, I understood what Old Man Shi meant, in these low and simple small houses, there were really people living in them, but they were just dead people.

The person under the sheet was rotten and only the bones remained, although the bones were intact, but now I couldn't see anything, I was not a professional forensic doctor, looking at this skeleton, I couldn't even tell the difference between men and women.

I looked closely for a while, and found that the skeleton had a thin white rope tied to its left wrist, and a small label hung from the end of the rope. Shining through the light, I saw that the label was a date.

The date is the date of the previous year, and the year, month, and day are clearly marked. According to common sense, the date on this label should be the specific time of the deceased's death.

From last year to now, time has not passed long, and the corpse must have been treated to decompose so quickly.

Originally, I didn't particularly care about this label, but after thinking about it carefully, my head was bigger, and if I remember correctly, the date marked on this label seemed to be the date when the four of us organized a team to come to the Danmeng Basin for the second time.

Just thinking about it made my head sweat.

"You're finally here......."

At this moment, I don't know where a very soft voice floated from, the sound was very soft, but when it fell into my ears, I immediately recognized that it was Zhang Momo's voice.

I woke up to the fact that this skeleton that had been ossified was Zhang Momo, who had died in the Danmeng Basin at that time. As the memory swelled, I recalled that after Zhang Momo and the others were killed in the Danmeng Basin for the second time, I felt abnormal, and secretly lurked near the corpse, and then quietly followed the people who came to carry the corpse to this abyss.

I saw with my own eyes that the bodies of Zhang Momo, Lao Wang and Ning Kitten were put under the abyss, and I wanted to go down to the abyss to see what was going on, but I met a blind man halfway, and I could only be forced to return.

It can be seen that the bodies of Zhang Momo and the three of them have been stranded here since they were sent to the bottom of the abyss.

At this time, I finally understood a mistake in my previous thinking. I have always thought that Zhang Momo and they came back from the dead, but since they have come back to life, how can the corpse still be here? Based on this phenomenon, the answer is obvious.

They didn't come back from the dead, but someone took their place.

The same looks, the same experiences, the same memories, and even the same way of thinking. I've seen 5 and I've seen patients, so I know more about this phenomenon. Whether it is in the Danmeng Basin, or the old road of the Huyang River, or Renang, as long as the three of Zhang Momo and the three of them die, an identical person will come out and take their place.

Resurrection from the dead is definitely non-existent, and identity replacement is a more rigorous and reasonable inference.

Looking at the skeleton in front of me, my vision was a little blurry, and I even saw Zhang Momo's face from the hideous and terrifying skeleton.

I stood next to the bed for a few moments, re-covered the skeleton with the sheets, and turned to walk out of the hut. There were about a dozen huts in the area, and I turned and walked over to the one next to it, ready to remove the door panel.

"Slow down." Old man Shi squatted next to the stove, stewed a pot of soup, and said without looking back: "Don't extinguish the oil lamp at the door." ”

"Is this oil lamp of any use?"

"Didn't I tell you that when the oil lamp is lit here, only those who live here will not get lost and will find their way home."

I don't know what Old Man Shi meant, but since he explained, I slowed down and walked into the hut gently.

The hut was still empty, with only planks and cardboard boxes on the floor. There were bones on the floor, also covered with sheets. This skeleton looks relatively large, and it should be the corpse of Lao Wang.

On the left wrist of the skeleton, a small label hangs from it, on which is a specific date.

I hurried out of this hut and looked up and down the other rooms. In more than a dozen huts, all of them are such skeletons, and the three of them have died more than once, and each time, the corpses will be carried here.

There was a sudden chill in the back of my spine, if my inference was correct, and coming back from the dead was actually just a replacement, then the real Zhang Momo, Lao Wang, and Ning Kitten would have already died. There are more than a dozen corpses here, all of which are the corpses of people who look exactly like them.

I'm a little confused, I can't figure out the reason, people are dead, and they are building huts here to preserve their bones, what is the reason?

"Don't stand there stupid." Old man Shi cooked the meal and said, "Let's come over and eat first." ”

Old man Shi used two wooden boxes as a table, and brought over a bowl of soup and two dishes. You can't eat fresh food in this kind of place, it's all canned and compressed food.

"Do you drink?"

"Whatever you want."

"Let's have less, then." Old man Shi turned around and took a bottle of wine: "This ghost place is cold and a little damp, come and take two sips to warm up." ”

The food was served, and the wine was poured, but in a place like this, and with the bad mood after seeing the corpses, I really couldn't eat it. Old man Shi drank a glass by himself, ate some food, and when he saw that I didn't move his chopsticks, he put down the wine glass and said to me, "If there is anything you want to ask, just ask." ”