Chapter 47: Seeing and Hearing for Yourself
The words that the man in sunglasses said made me feel 'oops' in my heart, is this guy going to be able to touch his bones and look at his face?
Lao Luo looked at me with a blank look and smiled: "Master Fang knows some strange arts, this time I begged him for a long time before agreeing to go to that village with me to have a look." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the man in sunglasses took off his sunglasses, and a pair of cloudy eyes appeared in front of me, "Young man, I am blind for this pair of tricks, I am not blind to my eyes just now, please forgive me." ”
It turned out to be a blind man, so I hurriedly waved my hand and said, "I'm sorry, it's my small belly and chicken intestines, and I invite Master Fang Haihan." ”
When I arrived at Lao Luoding's hotel, I changed into clean clothes and followed them to a restaurant, and not long after I sat down, the meal changed from three people to four.
"This is Cheng Tao, a senior traveler, who told you about the deserted village, and that team of travelers is the team he led."
The corner of his mouth twitched unconsciously when the thin and tall bearded man who came heard the words 'deserted village', thinking that the experience had impressed him too deeply, I got up and stretched out my hand, "Bai Mu, hello." ”
The other man squeezed out a smile and reached out to hold my hand.
After the four of them sat down, Lao Luo got up and got to the point, he looked around and said in a low voice, "Everyone, the place I am going to this time is an anonymous village, and there is almost no information about that place, only that it is a village that was abandoned during the Republic of China."
The information I found shows that the village is surnamed Liu Gu and can be called Liujia Village, there were originally 23 families surnamed Liu, but in the last years of the Republic of China, for some reason, all the people in the village migrated to other places.
And the most mysterious is those paper people, I once contacted a descendant of Liujia Village, about the paper people, the older generation of people in their village said that the people who had died in the village needed to find a sustenance in the sun.
When those souls are attached to the paper figures, they will protect the family of future generations from being disturbed by other evil spirits, a bit like the meaning of warding off evil spirits, but this evil thing is an evil thing, and the truth of it is unknown.
Another theory is Master Fang's speculation, he believes that the reason why there are paper figures in the deserted village is related to some kind of belief in them, and the reason why the village is declining may be because this belief has caused some terrible changes. That's why the whole village fled from their original habitat. ”
Lao Luo said a rough idea, I understood a little after listening to it, but his own purpose has not yet been said, there are outsiders here I am inconvenient to ask, and I was about to open my mouth to determine the time of departure, at this time the surname Cheng spoke.
"Guys, although you may have heard some things about how weird that place is, I must emphasize one thing here." His face was solemn, and he rolled his throat and said in a low voice: "Those paper people are alive, I'm sure!" ”
Alive?
I gasped, and the master with sunglasses was also 'huh? , but Lao Luo's expression was quite calm, it seemed that this guy had heard about it a long time ago.
"When we woke up, we were terrified to find the paper figures around us, and at first we thought it was a prank, but when we came out to meet, we realized that the rooms were completely different from what we had seen from the previous day.
After some exploration, we came to the conclusion that the place has not changed, what has changed is time, and just when we couldn't figure out what was going on, one of our team members found that the villain who had been kicked over didn't know when he was standing in the doorway behind us! ”
I stared at him and asked what happened, he sighed and said, "We were all so frightened that we ran out of the deserted village."
After walking for more than a day, we stopped a truck and returned to the county seat, and then they went home, and the incident in the deserted village left a shadow on our expedition, and not long after returning a traveler fell seriously ill and almost did not survive.
When we went to see him, he was already mentally problematic and from time to time he said, 'I didn't kick you, I didn't kick you.' Later, when I asked, I found out that he was absolutely unlucky when he saw those paper figures, so he kicked two of them over.
I'm afraid his illness is related to the paper man, I can't hide it, the reason why I accepted Editor Luo's invitation to come here again this time is to find out what is going on, and secondly, to get rid of the disease in my heart.
After I went back, I had nightmares for several days and returned to that village, and every time I dreamed of that village, it seemed to be closer, and I was afraid that I would not be able to come back until I actually entered that village in my dream. ”
Captain Cheng's words were full of a smell of death, I felt very depressed in my heart, I wanted to open my mouth to comfort but I didn't know what to say, at this time Master Fang snorted coldly, "No matter what is in that village, with me, nothing can take your life, don't worry." ”
This Master Fang touched my palmistry in the car and knew that my flying accident had not been resolved, and I thought that I should have some skills, Lao Luo smiled and said to us: "That's the thing, let's go and see what is going on in that deserted village this time." ”
After returning to the hotel after dinner, I knocked on Lao Luo's door, and the other party was not surprised to see me, he let me into the house and said, "Do you want to ask, why did I come to this place to personally wade in the troubled waters?" ”
"Nonsense, I've never heard of you going to collect materials in person before, isn't it very comfortable to sit in the office and read the manuscript without wind and rain?"
"I still can't hide it from you, I know that your flowery intestines are so quick that your brains turn fast, I don't hide it, I do have my purpose."
Lao Luo smiled at me, walked to his bag and took out a pile of materials, took out one of them and handed it to me, "Someone commissioned me to investigate a few places, and this deserted village is one of them." ”
"Entrusting you? Do you still work as a private investigator in private? I glanced at him suspiciously, and after a quick glance at the paper, the commission on it was indeed a village with paper people west of Xinyang.
"This is just one of the parts, I have many opportunities to come into contact with these mysterious places, and it is not unusual for someone to give me such a commission."
Lao Luo opened two cans of beer and handed me a bottle, "This time we can be regarded as a cooperation, you can concentrate on writing a story about what you see and hear, and I will figure out what kind of place it is." ”
"You're so idle." I took the beer and bragged with him again, got a little drunk, and went back to my room and went to sleep.