The next day, according to the appointment with the fat man, Lin Chen and Xu Aqi came to the entrance of the village very early.

The fat man had already said that the people in this village had moved away, and Lin Chen knew it in his heart, but when he really came here, he saw the scene of weeds withering, leaves falling, and depression, no human figure within a radius of several miles, no dog barking, not even an ant in sight, and there was a dead silence all around.

Although the sun hasn't completely set yet, it's scary.

The cold wind blew in her face, and Xu Aqi habitually wrapped her thin clothes tightly.

"I remember when you moved, you told me that this is a place to pick chrysanthemums, and you can see Nanshan leisurely, a paradise of peach blossoms!"

Lin Chen lifted one foot, stepped on a large rock, and bent down to tie his shoelaces.

"This should be an old village, everyone has moved away, and if it loses its popularity, it will naturally decay! My hometown is also a small village, and in my memory, that small village is beautiful! Especially in the morning, the smoke of cooking in the valley rises, and there is a faint morning mist, giving people a feeling of quiet and peaceful! There is a mountain behind the village, and a river in front of the village, and the river is clear to the bottom, so children can go down to the river to catch fish and swim! There is a ravine in the east, where the villagers graze, you see, on the green slopes, red horses, yellow cows, white sheep, but beautiful! When the cow sees a person, he doesn't run, he looks at you through the fence, and looks at you stupidly, as if he is human, which is very interesting! This is the idyllic life I yearn for! ”

"Ah, what a great place! Find time, I'll go back with you, even if it's a vacation! ”

Lin Chen tied his shoelaces and patted the soil on his trouser leg by the way.

"Don't go! I went back two years ago and the place was ruined! In order to improve the economic level, the local government built a cement factory and a plastic processing plant in the upper reaches of the river in front of the village, polluting the entire river, not to mention the ecological damage, and the surrounding environment was also ruined! Now, there's a high incidence of cancer over there, too! ”

Xu Aqi sighed in disappointment, "How did you plan it!" Is the brain of the leader above kicked by a donkey! ”

"Probably yes! So! When I moved here, the landlord told me that there was a village near the community, and I thought I could see the same scenery again, I grew up in the countryside since I was a child, and I have a natural sense of intimacy with the countryside! I didn't even think about it, so I came to live! Now it seems that this village is a little different from what I imagined! ”

"Hehe, it's not a little different, but it's a different scene, there are no small bridges, flowing water, people, only dead vines, old trees, and faint crows! No, not even a crow! ”

"Okay! It seems that Xu Aqi's linguistics is good! ”

Lin Chen prepared candles and flashlights, he packed the batteries, turned on the flashlight and tried it, and looked around again.

It can be concluded that this was originally a poor village, a dense array of mounds, a small mound connected to a small mound, due to the erosion of the wind and the erosion of the rain, the soil layer has long been very brittle, with a light touch of the foot, it will be broken.

The village was broken and broken, and not a single intact house could be found.

Xu Aqi climbed onto a low earthen wall, leaned against the wall, and looked at the other side of the road for a while.

"Fat man, why don't they even have a shadow! It can't be a no-show! ”

"Nope! If he can't come, he'll tell me! ”

"Hi, Lin Chen! Guess what I feel? ”

"What does it feel?"

"Devil's well village!"

Lin Chen smiled, "How can you feel like this?" ”

"Look! The two of us waited here for a long time, and we didn't even see a single figure! Not even a dog! There is only such a lifeless village, like the scene in the movie where the devils entered the village and the people evacuated in advance! ”

Saying this, Lin Chen also seemed to find a feeling, and as soon as he jumped up, he jumped onto the low earth wall at once, stood beside Xu Aqi, and looked around.

The village is indeed dilapidated!

The scattered houses are either collapsed or dilapidated, and there are not many intact. Some of the beams with peeling vermilion paint, wooden pillars stand abruptly in between, looking dilapidated. As far as the eye could see, Lin Chen saw that on the side wall of a house, the slogan with a strong sense of the times painted with white ash had been blurred. Sand, rotten wood, and broken stones were piled up everywhere.

"It's not like a devil entering the village, it's more like entering Pompeii!" Lin Chen said.

"You like that kind of place?"

"Like! There is history! Literate! It represents the civilization of an era! ”

"I don't like to go to places that are too old, too old! Not to mention the ancient city, even the centuries-old house, I don't like to go! Black and black! Just thinking about it makes me panic! ”

Xu Aqi looked bored, the low wall was not high, she leaned over and jumped down directly from the earthen wall, patted the soil on her body, raised her wrist, and looked at the table below.

The hour hand was already pointing to eight o'clock, and it was getting dark, and the fat man had not yet arrived, and there was silence all around.

"How?" Xu Aqi asked, "Will he forget about it?" Said a good time, said a good place, why hasn't he come yet! Why don't you give him a call! ”

"Oh!"

Lin Chen took out his mobile phone, turned on the mobile phone, the screen of the mobile phone flashed twice, and the screen went out.

"No, it won't! Freshly charged! Running out of power so soon? ”

"Use mine!"

Xu Aqi took out her mobile phone and turned on the phone, the phone was not lit, she tried to press and hold the switch, but the phone was still black and there was no response.

"Neither does my phone! Never been in this situation before! It's so dark in here! He's not going to be playing with us! If that's the case, it's better to lie under the covers and watch TV! I said, let's not wait for the fat man, let's go back! ”

The mobile phone couldn't be turned on, and Xu Aqi was a little lost.

Lin Chen leaned over, jumped down from the dirt wall, found a well-lit position, and tapped his mobile phone.

"Wait, maybe he'll be there soon, although I don't have much to do with this fat man, but I think he's an honest and trustworthy person, who promises other people's things, and won't talk and don't count!"

Lin Chen pressed and held the phone again, and the phone screen lit up all of a sudden, "Hey, it's okay!" ”

He tried to broadcast the fat man's phone.

"Hey, fatty? Where are you? ”

"I don't know what's going on, my phone screen went black just now, and I can't call you. There is no street light in this place, and the two of us went the wrong way in the dark, so I won't turn back! We're waiting for you here at the well! Do you know how to get here? ”

Over there, the fat man said breathlessly, loudly.

"Alright! I know! I've been! Lin Chen put down the phone.

"This fat man is really cowardly, and he is wrong to find a way! He said he would wait for us at the well. Let's go, I'll go ahead, you follow! ”

"Oh!" Xu Aqi picked up his backpack from the big stone and hesitated.

"No, I'm walking in front, you're in the back! In the back, I can't see it, you are in the back, I am steady! You know, I'm especially scared of someone in the back! I'm scared! I always feel that the woman who burns paper under the tree in black clothes, or the old lady who holds the child will appear coldly! In front of my eyes, I can still see! If you show up behind me! I'm going to be scared to death! I sleep with my back against the wall now, will I have mental illness? ”

Lin Chen rummaged through his bag and took out a flashlight.

"You're scared like this! And follow me to this place where birds don't, and the lights are blind! If I had known it was like this, I wouldn't have brought you with me! ”

"With you, I'm not afraid! You are my sun, shining so brightly that there is nowhere to hide the demons and monsters! ”

Xu Aqi pulled Lin Chen's sleeve and said with a grin.

Lin Chen smiled and pinched Xu Aqi's face with his fingers.

"Xu Aqi, I solemnly announce to you that I am really not the sun! I'm actually a rabbit! If there are any demons and monsters, I will definitely run faster than a rabbit! All you can do is keep up with me! ”

Xu Aqi shook his head, broke away from Lin Chen's hand, and gave him a fierce look.

"It's too late for you to go back now!" Lin Chen said.

"Don't go back!"

"You're curious! Beware of curiosity killing cats! ”

Xu Aqi pulled Lin Chen's shirt, "Curiosity killed the cat, I also admit it!" Okay! Don't hurry up and leave, the fat people are probably in a hurry! ”

"Okay, here's the flashlight!"

The two of them walked in front of the village, one behind, looking for a way towards the location of the well in the village, the road was not very easy to walk, and the stones were piled up, and the places where the collapse and collapse could be seen everywhere.

"You say, will we find gold?" Xu Aqi turned around and asked.

"Definitely not, how can there be such a good thing in the world, even if there is, it will not be so easy for us to catch up, pick up gold, How many years can it take to cultivate the blessing! Don't listen to their nonsense, I don't believe it at all, but I just promised the fat man and satisfied my curiosity at the same time. ”

Xu Aqi turned his head again.

"Me too, but if you do find gold and we make a fortune, what are your plans?"

"Don't look back! Look forward! Watch the road under your feet! Be careful not to bump into a donkey! ”

"Oh!"

"Silly! Turn on the flashlight! ”

Lin Chen reminded Xu Aqi that she remembered that she was holding a flashlight in her hand, and her excessive nervousness actually made her forget to turn on the flashlight.

When the switch was activated, the light of the flashlight hit far away, and the road ahead suddenly lit up.

Along the stone path of the village, the two of them walked forward one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Lin Chen said: "If I really find gold and make a fortune, I will buy two bowls of soy milk, I will drink a big bowl, I will pour out one bowl, buy two meatloaf, I will eat one, throw one..."

"Won't you leave me one? What a person! ”

Xu Aqi remembered something, stopped, turned around, stared at Lin Chen, and blinked.

"Hey, I said you wouldn't marry two daughters-in-law, right?"

"Good idea, why haven't I thought of it? One cooks for me, and one beats my back? ”

Lin Chen has always liked to speak without being shocking and endless, he didn't seem to be able to enjoy it, and continued: "If you are not short of money, find another one to wash my stinky socks, and find another one to talk to me..."

Lin Chen smiled and muttered to himself.

"Then go find the gold yourself, I'll go back!"

Xu Aqi knew that Lin Chen was teasing her again, and said deliberately unhappily.

"Don't! Don't go! My little aunt, this black light is blinding, you leave me here, this can't work, at this moment, I need the protection of the lioness! I'm so weak! ”

Xu Aqi snorted and laughed, Lin Chen also laughed, and suddenly, something seemed to float silently from Lin Chen's body, and disappeared all of a sudden!

Lin Chen snorted and suddenly felt his heels tingle.

"Shh

Lin Chen gently tugged Xu Aqi.

Xu Aqi also felt something strange, she stopped laughing, and scanned it with a flashlight, up, down, left, right, front and back, and found nothing.

The two of them fell silent for a moment, held their breath, and couldn't help but pull their hands together.

After a long time, there was nothing unusual, and they looked at each other for a moment, and continued to walk forward one foot deeper, one foot shallower.