In the early morning, when I unzipped the tent, it was so white outside the house that I couldn't see anything clearly.

"It's foggy." Shi Wei said and walked out of the tent. The original houses around it were no longer visible, only the dark shadows of the two tents at the near end.

A person came out of it and approached Shi Wei.

"This fog is so big, how do you go?" As soon as I heard the voice, I knew it was Guan Yang.

"Didn't Xiao Jing come back?" Shi Wei asked.

"Nope." He replied, turned his head, and saw Guo Enming's shadow also coming out of the tent.

"Shi Wei, Momo's situation is not very good."

"What's wrong?" Shi Wei and the others approached Guo Enming's tent and got into it to see Momo shivering in his sleeping bag.

"Momo?" Shi Wei stretched out her hand and touched her forehead, it was hot, "It's so hot." ”

"What should I do?" Guo Enming was a little anxious, but seeing such a thick fog, he couldn't even tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest, so he asked Guan Yang: "Didn't Xiao Jing come back?" ”

"Nope." Guan Yang was also very anxious, not knowing what kind of situation he was in.

Suddenly, they have to face two problems, one is the injured Momo, who has developed a high fever; And the other Xiao Jing, lost contact and disappeared.

Shi Wei used the watch and wanted to give herself a direction, but the hands kept swinging, but there was no exact direction.

Are you really going to be stuck here?

"Shi Wei." Cao Xi called her and walked up to her, "If your grandfather has been here before, then he must know how to get out of this village, isn't there a record in the notebook?" ”

Shi Wei looked at her: "I didn't write this in my notebook." ”

"What was that written?"

"As I said before, it's all experimental data." Shi Wei looked a little perfunctory, and then took out the walkie-talkie, "Xiao Jing? Can you hear me? ”

But there was no response from the other side.

"Can't get in touch?" Guan Yang asked.

"Yes." Shi Wei's expression became solemn, "I haven't been in touch since last night." ”

"What then?" Guan Yang started again, "Momo's condition is not good, Xiao Jing is missing again, and there is such a big fog today, are we going to be trapped here and waiting to die?" ”

"Guan Yang, calm down." Guo Enming hugged Momo and reminded him.

"How can I be calm, I'm really full before I agree to come with you!" Guan Yang became emotional, "If I don't know what to do, I can live a life in a daze!" ”

"Guan Yang!" Shi Wei suddenly roared, stunned him, and even the air was still.

Guan Yang chose to turn his head away and clean up his emotions.

Guo Enming decided to ease the current atmosphere: "Let's pack up everything first, there is not much time, don't waste it waiting and arguing." ”

Cao Xi was silent and silently packed up his things.

Stalemate is indeed not what should be done now. Just as everyone was about to pack up the tent, Cao Xi suddenly noticed that many small holes appeared in the tent.

"Shi Wei." She pointed it out to Shi Wei, "What's going on?" ”

Shi Wei missed it, checked it carefully, and there were many fine and dense holes on the side of the tent carrying them, at first glance I thought it was pierced by something, but after a closer look, it looked like it had been bitten by something, leaving traces.

"Check out your tents." Shi Wei asked them to check it too, and sure enough, the three tents were damaged to varying degrees, especially Guo Enming's tent, which was covered with large and small skeletons.

Because of the fog, no one noticed this silent change, which was completely unexpected by them.

"It looks like the tent is useless." When Guo Enming picked up Momo, a small black worm sprang out from under her, slipped out of the tent, and disappeared.

happened to be seen by Cao Xi, and was shocked, this little insect was exactly the same as the one she saw in her dream, her hair stood on end, and she shivered.

"What's wrong?" Shi Wei asked.

"No, nothing." Cao Xi picked up his bag in a panic, "Are we leaving?" ”

"Hmm." Shi Wei nodded, "Let's go first." ”

Cao Enming helped Mo Mo up and took her a few difficult steps, and Guan Yang helped on the other side. Fortunately, Momo is not very heavy, and the two of them should be able to walk with her.

"Do you remember the general direction?" Guo Enming asked.

"Should go this way." Shi Wei glanced at the white surroundings, "It should be this side." ”

So everyone followed.

"Was this how this village used to be?" Guan Yang couldn't help but complain.

"What do you mean?"

"We didn't get out of it a few laps here, it was like a maze." Although Guan Yang was a little struggling to help Momo, he still wanted to say a few words, "How did the people who lived here live before?" ”

Guo Enming was silent for a moment, and the Shi Wei and Cao Xi in front of him were just two dark shadows in the blur.

"Perhaps, no one has ever lived here."

"Why do you say that?"

"Haven't you noticed? The house is all complete, but there is nothing in the house. Guo Enming said his understanding, "In the damaged village before, we can still see some traces of life, and there are no more here." ”

"And what is this village for?"

"I don't know what a labyrinth is used to protect from being easily discovered."

"Is this Shuixi Village, or is it the one before?" Guan Yang continued to ask.

"It's always used to hide people's eyes."

Cao Xi followed Shi Wei to lead the way in front, and although the fog made it difficult to see ahead, she could still hear the voices of the two behind her.

She pulled Shi Wei: "You are looking for a laboratory just for exploration?" ”

Shi Wei just glanced back at her and didn't answer.

"What is it in that notebook that made you here?" Cao Xi continued to ask, "Can you lend me a look?" ”

Shi Wei stopped and looked at her: "Cao Xi, do you believe me?" ”

"Huh?" Cao Xi was a little strange.

"We're all strangers, but we're all the same." As she spoke, the two behind her stopped.

"The same?" Cao Xi didn't understand it even more.

"Alright, Shi Wei." Guo Enming said, "Let's explain slowly when we find a laboratory." ”

Shi Wei sighed and glanced around, the fog seemed to be getting bigger and bigger.

"Either way, I'll let you go back safely." Shi Wei softened her tone, softened a lot, and said to Cao Xi, "Please believe me." ”

Cao Xi was a little surprised why she suddenly said this, although she was a little confused about what she was doing here in the past two days, but it was already like this, she didn't think too much about her own safety, but it was the situation of Mo Mo and Xiao Jing that made people worry.

"Shi Wei, I didn't mean that."

"Don't talk about it, just get out of here." Guan Yang urged, "Let's go." ”

Shi Wei continued to walk forward, everyone walked cautiously in the fog, Shi Wei picked up the walkie-talkie from time to time and asked Xiao Jing for information, but it was still quiet.

The fog blurred everything, but it made the ears more sensitive, and with every step, you could feel the sound of the soles of your feet rubbing against the rocks. The plants entrenched in the house next to him seem to take advantage of the humidity to fully absorb them, making a sizzling sound of growing branches and leaves.

……

Luo Xin sorted out Ma Hui's previous medical records, and from his incoherent dictation, he could roughly understand what kind of village this Shuixi Village was.

So he flipped through the previous video and sorted out the clues again.

"How did you get into this village?"

"At that time, we overturned, and it was getting dark, so we wanted to look around to see where we could stay." Ma Hui had just taken a tranquilizer and seemed quite conscious.

"Passing through a forest, we saw a village."

"Are you hurt?"

"Yes." Ma Hui replied, "Fortunately, the car overturned on the grass, and I was alone with a little skin on my forehead, and everyone else was fine." ”

"How many of you are there?"

"Plus the driver, four people."

"How long have you been in the village?"

"It's not long, it's an hour." Ma Hui recalled, "The road is not difficult. ”

"So, you went to the village after dark?"

"It's getting dark."

"And then?"

"There is no one in the village, it is in tatters, it should be abandoned." "We wanted to find a house with a roof to stay in for a night," he said. We made a fire and blew the wind against the wall all night. ”

Ma Hui was silent for a while, as if thinking about something: "The next morning, we wanted to leave the village, but we walked to another exit and saw another village. ”

"Another?"

"Yes, an almost complete village."

"You went?"

"It's not far away, so we're going to see if there's anyone and borrow a phone call to call for rescue......"

Then, Ma Hui lowered his head and was silent for a long time.

"Mr. Ma?"

Ma Hui suddenly raised his head after being silent for a long time, looked at the person opposite with wide eyes, grabbed his shirt, and said in horror: "That's a ghost place!" Can't get in! Can't get in! ”

"Mr. Ma, please calm down! Please calm down! The doctor tried to get rid of him, but he held him back, screaming and screaming.

"It's all cannibalism! They're going to eat you! will eat you! Ma Hui kept yelling, attracting people outside the door to come in, pulling him away and controlling him. But he was still yelling, "Help me! Help me! ”

This concludes the recording.

Luo Xin brought up another video, in which Ma Hui was lying quietly on the bed, answering questions with his eyes closed. He was under hypnosis.

"At that time, you went into another village...... What do you see? ”

“…… The village is very similar to the one before, but it has not been damaged at all...... We thought there were still people to live in, so we were ready to find someone......"

"Did you find anyone?"

“…… Not a single ......"

"Are you going to leave?"

"Yes...... We want to get out of here, but we just can't leave here, we just can't leave......"

"And then you're trapped inside?"

"Every time we walked, we marked one, but we still couldn't get out......"

"How long have you been in there?"

"I don't know ......the time at all," Ma Hui's hand twitched, "The time here seems to be very short, all of a sudden it is dark, and all of a sudden it is dawn, and all the plants grow very luxuriant......"

"Lush?"

"The environment here is very good, the water is very clear, and the plants grow well......" Ma Hui's twitching hand just now began to become more frequent, "Those plants are the ...... that eat people"

"What?" The doctor on the other side was stunned for a moment, "Cannibalism? ”

"I saw with my own eyes that the creeper ate Lao Zhang......" Ma Hui's twitching hand suddenly stopped again, "No, it's Lao Zhang's body that grows a creeper ......"

"Physically? Are you sure it's not him who gets entangled? ”

"It's not...... I saw him sucked into the wall, and the things grew out of his body, wrapped him, and ate him completely......"

"The rest of the people were eaten up like this? So none of them escaped? ”

"Yes...... It's not all...... And ......"

Ma Hui's hands began to tremble, he frowned, his expression was very painful, as if tears were about to slip from the corners of his eyes, but he continued to endure it.

The doctor's hand gestured, then stopped recording.

"Why don't you keep asking?" Luo Xin remembered that he was watching from the door at the time, and he didn't understand why the hypnotist stopped at that time.

It felt like the time was going to what was more interesting to him, but it came to an abrupt end.

"Did you notice his hand?" "Having moved twice at different frequencies, I can doubt that there is an imaginary aspect of his statement that would affect and undermine our judgment," the doctor said. ”

"How can you be sure that what he says isn't true?"

"I didn't completely deny what he said." Compared with Luo Xin's persistence, the doctor's attitude was still very calm, "First, I don't know anything about this so-called village; Second, I had a preliminary understanding of the person before hypnosis; Third, many people's dreams do not represent reality, but are part of the world they imagine. ”

"You mean, the village Ma Hui said was completely what he imagined?"

"Quite possibly." "It's just a fantasy world for him to escape from reality," the doctor said. He's a businessman, don't you think he might be in debt, and then kill his companions himself, and then fantasize that there is such a village that cleans up these people for him, and only he escapes? ”

Luo Xin was stunned in one place, listening to his explanation calmly on the surface, but in fact, his heart was already turbulent.

"Luo Xin, I advise you not to get too entangled." He put his arm on Luo Xin's shoulder and said, "He's just a patient, if you are more serious with him, you will be just like him." ”

This was the end of their conversation, but the question mark of the question remained in Luo Xin's heart.

Later, he also mentioned the matter to Professor Cao, who just laughed it off and had the same attitude as the hypnotist. So much so that he really thought that the so-called "Shuixi Village" might really be Ma Hui's imagination. However, it doesn't make sense that after so many years, the police have not found anyone's body, and several people who traveled with him have also disappeared.

It wasn't until two days ago that he discovered "Shuixi Village" again from Cao Xi's information.

However, Cao Xi's phone call never went through again.