The deserted village, located in Qizhou Province, in the middle of a mountain in Laochuan City, is not large, and there are less than 50 families living in the village. The surrounding mountains and rivers are beautiful, the scenery is beautiful, and it can be regarded as a paradise. But just about twenty years ago, there was a strange disease that supposedly supposed, and it was said that the patient would die suddenly and without warning, and that each of the dead would fall in the same place - they would go out at night, walk to the pond near the back mountain, leave a series of messy footprints in the mud by the pond, and then suffocate in the water just below their ankles, and the dead all had hideous faces and horrible expressions.

One, two, three, the number of dead increased, and panic and rumors spread like a plague in the village, and for a time the villagers began to be suspicious, this one said that it must be a man of such and such a family poaching in the mountains, and was bitten by an unknown animal to bring this unfortunate strange disease back to the village; The other one said that so-and-so picked the poisonous mushrooms and contracted the disease after eating them; Others say that the daughter-in-law of the village chief's family has been abused by her family for a long time, and it is unbearable that she has made a strange poison, the purpose of which is to take revenge on the entire village. Although they had reduced contact with each other for fear of the spread of the disease, it was rumored that they were still running around the village as if they had grown legs. Although the anecdotes are different, the people who told them seem to believe what they are saying, as if they were present at the time of the incident, and that they saw and heard everything with their own eyes. Now the villagers who have no backbone are panicking, they are so scared that they want to escape from this damn village immediately, and they are reluctant to leave the foundation that the elders of the family have worked so hard to build.

Finally, one day, an old lady who lost her son and daughter-in-law could not bear the pain of losing her son and the frightening rumors in the village. It may be that they don't want to stay in the old house in the village anymore to see things and think about things, or they may be afraid that their young grandchildren will also be infected with strange diseases and die for their own family. She fled the village overnight with her five-year-old grandson in her arms. The next day, when the other villagers found out that the old lady had left without saying goodbye, they all began to think about moving out of the village. In the end, fewer and fewer people lived in the village, and the surrounding farmland became an untended wasteland, and the former Taoyuan Township gradually became an empty deserted village. When many villagers moved away, they were afraid of taking away the epidemic, so most of them only took a few pieces of clothes and gold and silver when they left, and all the luggage and furniture were left in the village. The bed' everything was the same as it was twenty years ago, as if the owner of the house had only left for a while, and would come back after a while, and there was no longer the breath of life in the room, as if everything had been covered with a gloomy veil, which made the deserted village even more eerie.

And the rumors of the deserted village that are now circulating on the Internet have long had nothing to do with the strange disease of the year. About a year ago, a few outdoor hiking enthusiasts passed by the deserted village in the evening and saw that the village was surrounded by mountains and beautiful mountains and rivers, so they decided to stay overnight in the village. The next morning, however, one of them disappeared with his luggage, his companions searched the village but could not find him, and the family of the missing man claimed that he had never returned. Although a search and rescue team entered the mountain to search, there was no clue. As if he had been swallowed up by the deserted village, he started his lonely journey alone in another world. Since then, the major forums on the Internet have circulated strange stories about the mysterious disappearance of backpackers, although the statement is not, but these rumors are the same as back then - as if they were seen by the person who said it was real. It is these "gossip" that have attracted waves of good deeds, they are composed of all kinds of people, and each has its own purpose, some are for the excitement-seeking ordinary company employees, there are also for the Internet anchors who want to attract attention on the Internet, and there are also strange spirit lovers who want to solve the puzzles of the deserted village. However, this can't stand the baptism of time after all, less than half a year, people who come here to explore can not solve the puzzle and can't find the excitement they want, and nothing weird happens again, and the deserted village exploration has slowly cooled down, and the deserted village has faded out of people's vision again. In this way, the deserted village has lost the fireworks of the past, and once again returned to its former strange peace, he is still sitting quietly in the embrace of the mountains of Lao Chuan, as if it is a trap left by a witch, waiting for his guests unhurriedly and calmly, and like an open abyss mouth, it seems to want to devour everything around.

Now, the dilapidated village, which was almost forgotten by the city's people and lurked in the corners of people's memory, has been shaken out by a group of do-gooders, who are ready to hike into the mountains to explore this deserted village. There were six people on this trip, three men and three women, and at the head of the line was a middle-aged uncle, a handful of literary pigtails made his slightly chubby figure look fatter, and his neck was shorter, he held a brand new trekking pole in one hand, and a hat in the other—he was standing on the side of the road waving his hiking hat frequently, greedily sucking every inch of the breeze from the hat. Sitting on the stone behind him is a young couple who are just graduating from college, the girl has a fluffy short hair that reaches the ears to give people a sense of youth and liveliness, but the temperament of the boy next to her is just the opposite of her, skinny with unkempt curly hair looks like a sloppy man. Not far from them, a fashionably dressed young man was recounting all sorts of legends about the deserted village, and the more he spoke, the more excited he became, the more he wanted to tell, not paying the slightest attention to whether his two listeners wanted to continue listening. And his two listeners, one tall and one short, were two girls opposite him, the short girl with a distorted expression, she was so afraid of these strange rumors that she wanted the speaker to stop, but she was too embarrassed to interrupt the enthusiastic speaker. The tall girl next to her was disdainful. Although she was a little impatient, she did not interrupt the topic of ghosts of the fashionable youth, but looked at the short girl next to her with nervous expression and a frightened face.

"Let's go, we'll be in the deserted village in two hours!" The chubby uncle in the lead wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and said.

The fashionable young man who was interrupted seemed to be a little unhappy, "What's the hurry, let's rest for a while!" Didn't you see that a few beauties are already tired! With that, he looked at the two girls across from him, as if he wanted to ask for their opinions.

"If we rest a little longer, we probably won't be able to reach the deserted village before dark, and we'll have to sleep in the woods."

The hoarse and deep voice startled the fashionable young man, but he was a man of good face after all, and in order to maintain his demeanor in front of the ladies, he still pretended to be calm and looked back. It was the scrawny sloppy man who spoke. By this time he had already stood up from his girlfriend's side, taking the girl's hand and trying to pull her up from the stone, and it seemed that he had also made up his mind and was ready to leave. Seeing this, the short girl seemed to be saved, and suddenly rushed to the front of the line, and she cheerfully shouted, "Let's go!" We're on our way! "The tall girl walked straight past the fashionable young man unhurriedly and followed the back of the line, leaving only the fashionable young man standing in place." Ay! How do you guys!? Just go! Wait for me! Feed! The fashionable young man glanced at the empty woods behind him, and suddenly felt a little uneasy, he swallowed his saliva and quickened his pace, hurrying to catch up with the crowd, he did not notice that something fell out of one of his pockets and landed in the clearing in the forest.

As the six of them were moving forward carelessly and noisily, a pair of eyes were staring at them in the distance. His eyes were full of hatred and anger, he slowly walked to the place where the six people had just rested, slowly bent down, and deep his wrinkled hand, picking up the things left on the ground by the fashionable boy just now. He picked it up, looked at it, sniffed it again, and put it in one of his pockets. Then he turned and walked in the opposite direction, probably because of old age, his tall body was slightly hunchbacked, and he swayed but quietly, and slowly disappeared into the woods, leaving no footprints on the wet earth.