Lina's account is very simple, and she is not too clear about the details of the incident. It's just that her tone and expression have always been very hasty, like a small animal being chased by a fierce beast, she only knows how to run desperately, and she doesn't have any firm thoughts of survival.

"Uncle took me back to town. In the town, those people are gone, and everyone has become ghosts. All of them...... Everyone was crying...... Mom and Dad are crying too...... No one paid any attention to me...... My uncle and his friends sent everyone's bodies to the cemetery, buried them one by one, and erected tombstones. It took a long time for this thing to get it done. That cemetery, which has expanded a lot, is full of tombstones...... Like ...... Like a forest of tombstones...... Lina's eyes were unfocused, and her gaze seemed to fall on a distant place, "After being buried, we did not ascend to heaven, and we did not get rest. Uncle they don't know what to do, they have to go to the church and ask the bishop or something big. They said they would find a way. They're gone...... Never came back...... We stayed here for many years...... The mayor recorded the date, day after day...... Some people want to leave the town, but when they get out, they go into the forest, and after a while, they return to the town. Some people say that there is no way for them to do it, uncle. They had no choice, so, what was done outside, trapped us here. We will never have rest...... For a while, everybody was scary, everybody ......"

Lina said this, hung her head, and couldn't say any more.

One can imagine the despair of a group of desperate ghosts bound to the land of their homeland, clinging to hope, watching time pass and the whole town become deserted and desolate.

Lina may have been ostracized and bullied in the process. After all, the source of everything can be said to be the Lina family, and it was their doll that brought about this disaster.

"And then," Lina said in a different tone, skipping the unpleasant years, "everyone accepted. Some people are hiding at home and don't come out, and some people think it's okay...... Everyone is here, and they are still living together. Originally, we didn't have that much contact with the outside world, and many of us never left the town in our lives. Now, no one will get sick or die. It's just that the house is broken, the cemetery is not cared for, and no one can eat...... That's it...... Until one day, someone said that someone had come in from outside. We all thought it was uncle, they came back. Although it is unlikely...... It's been a long time...... The last recorded time by the mayor is more than a hundred years later...... Everyone got together. We...... I saw strangers, a few big brothers and sisters...... They can't see us...... They were amazed, saying that it was so cold, that this was not a ghost town, and that they were walking everywhere and passing through our bodies...... They, like travelers, wander around town......"

Lina sighed, "No matter what we do, they don't feel it. They think it's a place to play games. We don't understand a lot of what they wear and what they say. They also painted on our house. Aunt Tylene is angry, but we can't do anything about it...... They also found our cemetery, and at that time, they were frightened and quickly ran away, did not come for several days, and after a few days, came again. They make our town their own turf. Some of us like them and are curious about what they will do, and some of us are very disgusted with them. I followed them all the time. They mentioned the name of our town, Maurice. ”

Lina's name startled me. This name is the name of the town that was reported last time Lina said her address, and it should be somewhere in the future world. Originally, the two towns were the same place, and it was only the time of Lina's birth that was changed, or was the name of the town also tampered with like the history of the town?

I wasn't sure of the answer, so I could only listen to Lina continue.

"They say that Morris was thought to have had a plague hundreds of years ago. At that time, the town was cordoned off. Rumor has it that the town was destroyed by fire at that time. The pestilence and the healthy were burned. That's all they found. Lina paused, "That's what they said...... It makes us suspicious. Perhaps, the doll thing is fake. In fact, we were all burned to death, all dead, and turned into ghosts. Uncle's affair is also fake...... It's been too long, and a lot of people, a lot of ghosts, have become ...... Becoming sluggish...... So did my mom and dad. Before those people arrived in the town, Mom and Dad were no longer moving, just sitting at home, doing nothing, and dying......"

Lost consciousness?

Lina shook her head, "I remember, I remember my sister, it was my sister who did all this...... Those people felt that Maurice was a town that had been killed by the plague, and they felt afraid, afraid that there would be a plague. They got into an argument and some said they should tell the police, but many objected. They think it's their place...... They often come over and play here. They are here to explore, rummaging through our stuff. A lot of things are gone, they don't find anything. They want to dig graves...... It was brought up by a big brother. Another big sister stops them and argues with them. They should be the couple you just mentioned. Lina glanced at the thin man, "They quarreled and got into a fight." The big sister ran out and said she was going to tell the police. They chased them out. When it got dark, only the big sister came back alone......"

Lina clenched her hands, "She came in with her sister in her arms...... I see it...... It's my sister, it's exactly the same as in the past......"

"Where did she get the doll?" Chen Xiaoqiu asked.

Lina shook her head, "I don't know. She walked in with her sister in her arms while crying. I saw my sister's eyes move...... She looked at us...... She smiled at us...... That big sister didn't see it...... We're all around us, and we're all around us. Connor screamed and fled. All were scared. The people who thought it was the plague that killed us were also afraid. The whole town...... The whole town, everybody was scared...... We're so scared......"

Lina began to cry, "I don't know what's going on...... The sky darkened and the moon vanished. The town, the town, was dark...... The big sister was also frightened and sat on the ground, unable to move...... And then...... Then the lights came on...... Mom and Dad, and others, those who couldn't move, didn't know where to find candles and oil lamps. Light...... Light everywhere...... But it's still dark. We run away, we can't escape...... The house, the house in the town, was originally broken, but it got better then. It's like going back to the old days...... Those people, with lamps, lined up and walked towards the cemetery. That big sister was also put up. My sister was at the front of the line...... I heard my sister laughing all the time...... They dug up the graves and moved the bodies out. Corpse...... It's all corpses...... There are no skeletons, all the same as they were before they were buried. Those ghosts got into the corpses and became like that again......"

Lina covered her face, tears oozing from her fingers.

"It's just a few hundred years, and it's back to the way it used to be...... Everything is back to ...... way it used to be."

(End of chapter)