"Not really." Lin Su responded, "If it's a deserted village, how can it be so clean and intact, there are obvious traces of human life here." ”

As she spoke, she seemed to have found something, so she pointed to the shed next to a certain house and said, "You see, the stoves are all burning." ”

"It's weird." I muttered, turned my head to Mo Ranchen and said, "Before, you said that Bai Zechen asked someone to send something here, and it stands to reason that someone should have signed for it here, otherwise if the thing is returned, he will definitely call us to tell us." ”

Mo Ranchen nodded, patted Kong Xian's shoulder, and said, "Master Jin, don't drive, you guys wait in the car, I'll go down and take a look." After he finished speaking, Kong Xian stopped the car.

I also wanted to accompany him down to have a look, but unfortunately my body was all wet and shivering, and I didn't want to leave the heating in the car at all. I thought that Mo Ranchen could do it alone anyway, and he wouldn't have more than one person to accompany him.

The rain outside was much lighter, and it had almost stopped, but the dense woods around the village and a burst of fog rose up, drowning the village in a haze, and the whole scene was eerie. Lin Su hugged my arm and didn't let go, looking out the car window vigilantly.

"...... you say," Liu Yang guessed, "Could it be that this village has a time difference with us, so everyone goes to bed early?" ”

I gave him a blank look and replied, "You don't have, it's still jet lag in this big place?" It's normal for a family to go to bed early, but is it possible that the whole village sleeps early? Unless it's an early breakfast village, everyone sells breakfast. ”

"Dayang." Lin Su smiled and teased him: "Among the few of us, you are the last in the IQ rankings, when we go back to the city, I will buy you more walnuts, and you can make up for more, so as not to lower the average IQ of our team." ”

Liu Yang listened to Lin Su ridiculing him, and he was not convinced, and argued: "Eh, you young people really don't have any imagination at all, can you have a little open thinking, don't be stupid in nine years of compulsory education." You should learn from me, and when you encounter such an incredible thing, you should think in an incredible direction. ”

"Come on, what you're thinking about is really not constructive at all." I shook my head and replied, and looked at Kong Xian in the driver's seat.

His eyes kept staring at the direction where Mo Ranchen went, and Mo Ranchen's figure was no longer visible.

"Which house did he go into? Someone opened the door for him and let him in? I looked at the room outside and asked Kong Xian.

He replied: "I didn't see anyone open the door for him, he knocked for a long time at the door of the restaurant with a copper plate sign, but no one came out to open it, so he pushed the door himself and went in." ”

"The door is open?" I have some doubts that if people are already resting, or if they are not at home with the door closed, the door will definitely be locked.

Kong Xian nodded and said, "The door is not locked. As he spoke, he took out his mobile phone from his pocket and dialed Mo Ranchen.

Mo Ranchen over there quickly connected the phone, but there seemed to be a murmur there, and Kong Xian couldn't hear it clearly, so he turned on the speakerphone.

"What's going on inside?" Kong Xian asked.

Mo Ranchen paused for a moment, and then began to make a coughing sound, coughing for more than a minute, before he said intermittently: "This...... Something is wrong. The whole house was covered in dust...... Cough...... There was no one, but the fire in the stove was burning, and so was the bowl of rice on the stove...... Freshly bloomed. ”

"Can you tell what the dust is? Dust? Lin Su asked.

"It shouldn't be dust." Mo Ranchen replied: "These dusts have a very strange smell, like ...... Bone incense. ”

"Hometown?" Liu Yang didn't understand, "What hometown?" Do you smell this smell and miss your hometown? ”

I didn't quite understand it, but Kong Xian seemed to understand, and wanted to get out of the car as soon as he opened the door. I hurriedly grabbed him and said, "You wait for Mo Yanchen to come back before you go, be careful that there is a problem." ”

"Are you afraid?" Kong Xian looked back at me with a smile.

I gave him a blank look and said, "I'm afraid you're going to ask me to save you later." Can you take care of the overall situation, you and Mo Ranchen have a half chance of winning in us, if there is a problem with both of you, Lin Su and I are weak sisters, Liu Yang's brain is not as good as mine, what do you expect us to do? Beauty saves the hero? ”

Liu Yang heard me say that he had a bad brain, and wanted to talk to me again. I hurriedly waved my hand and said to Mo Ranchen on the other end of the phone, "You come back first." ”

At this time, the noise on Mo Ranchen's side became very loud, and the sound of 'clang' was like the gong and drum that the dead man struck when he was doing a funeral. I don't know if he heard what I said, but we didn't hear what he said at all.

"What's going on?" Liu Yang scratched his hair and said, "It can't be a circus inside, right?" How can it be so noisy? ”

Two minutes later, the phone hung up automatically, and several of us looked worriedly at the door that Mo Yanchen had entered. Since we didn't know the situation, we could only wait for him to come out.

But sitting in the car for half an hour, Mo Ranchen didn't come out of the door, Kong Xian dialed another phone call, and no one answered this connection. Kong Xian couldn't sit still, so he looked back at me and said, "It seems that something must have happened, we can't wait here, how do you decide?" ”

"Alas......" I sighed, but decided to go out of this warm nest, so I patted Kong Xian on the shoulder and said, "Let's go, my sister will give up my life to accompany the gentleman to go with you." ”

After speaking, I turned back to Liu Yang and Lin Sudao: "You will see the situation later, if we still don't come out within two or an hour, or if you find anything abnormal, drive away quickly." ”

Lin Su and Liu Yang were both anxious, and pulled me and said, "Don't be so impulsive, if you really have something, where can we go directly." ”

I pulled their hands down with a headache and said, "Don't fix these useless things, we're going to have an accident, what's the use of you here?" Give us a funeral? Seriously, run away when it's time to run, and when the time comes, you two can still send us paper money. ”

After speaking, Kong Xian and I didn't wait for them to reply anything, and directly opened the door and got out of the car.

As soon as I got out of the car door, I shivered with cold, Kong Xian twisted a handful of water on my sleeve and said, "Fortunately, it's not winter yet, otherwise you would have to turn into an old popsicle when you get off the car." ”

"What's wrong with the old popsicle?" I joked, "The older the old popsicle, the more flavorful it gets." ”

"Huh." He chuckled, "Oh? What else can it taste like when you're old? Bone scent? ”

"Oops." I shook my head and sighed: "Jin Ye's interest is really good, the words I just heard, it turned into a joke, why did you come out to accompany me from birth to death, go to Deyun Club to worship a teacher, I guarantee that you can be popular all over the sky." When the time comes, I'll go to you and ask for support, and you say how good it is. ”

With that, we entered the restaurant where Mo Ranchen entered.

As soon as I opened the door, Kong Xian's brows furrowed tightly, I only felt that the room was a little colder than outside, as if the air conditioner was turned on, and I couldn't help but sneeze a few times in a row.

At the same time, a strange scent enters our nostrils. The smell was so strong that I couldn't tell if the sneezes were frozen or caused by dust. Presumably, this smell is the bone fragrance that Mo Ranchen said.

I turned on my phone's flashlight to light it, and only then did I realize that there was a very thick layer of dust on the ground. There is a row of footprints in those dusts, which should be dustless.

"He went to the back, and then went up to the second floor." Kong Xian said, and took me directly to the second floor.

I stepped on the stairs, gently touched the handrail with my hand, sighed, and asked, "Why is there such a heavy dust on the stairs and in the space, but this handrail is clean as if it has just been wiped?" ”

"Mo Ranchen won't walk up with the handrail, there must be someone who walks up this staircase often, and there may be problems with her feet, so she must walk with the handrail."

"Impossible." I looked down at my feet again, "There is only a string of footprints on this staircase, which was left by Mo Ranchen, I am afraid that the person you are talking about is not a problem with his legs and feet, but a problem with his brain." So I never take the stairs, I sit on the handrail of the stairs and slide down. ”

No matter how much you guess, it's better to go up and find out, we are more vigilant and extra careful every step.

But this time up the second floor, we were completely blinded, since we stepped on the last step of the stairs, and after that, even Mo Zhanchen's footprints disappeared completely, leaving only a gray dust. It's as if no one has ever come up to this level.

"Even if the person you're talking about does like to sit down the stairs and go down, she'll have to land." After Kong Xian finished speaking, a thought flashed in my heart, and I said with some hesitation: "Unless it is not a human being that lives here, but a ghost." ”

As soon as I finished speaking, I suddenly heard an old voice behind us saying, "Who are you?" Why come in? ”

The sudden appearance of the voice startled me, and I suddenly looked back and saw an old lady standing behind us. The old lady had a fox face, her whole facial features were pointed forward, and her eyes were narrowed, and she looked a little like the weasel we crushed on the road.

"We came to find a friend, and he came in and disappeared." Kong Xian replied to her question.

She ignored me, looked straight at me, and repeated, "Who are you?" Why come in? Her voice was so cold that I shuddered.

Turning his head and glancing at Kong Xian, there was a touch of defensiveness in his eyes. He replied to the old lady again, but the old lady still didn't seem to hear her satisfactory answer.

But the strange thing is that she didn't look at Kong Xian either, but just looked at me directly with those cloudy eyes, as if she knew me.

"Grandma." I smiled politely at her, and said with a non-judgmental face: "We didn't mean to come in, but we just wanted to ask any family when we saw that there was no one in this village, but one of our friends hasn't gone out since we called in, so we'll come in and have a look." ”

After listening to me, she suddenly showed a strange smile, and said in her cold voice, "Since you are here, you can't run away." ”