Chapter Twenty-Three: A Strange Village

(I apologize to everyone for the unstable update time, because the manuscript has been exhausted, so every day is squeezed out of time, so when it is finished, it will be sent.) (This is also the reason why there are many typos.) I'll save some manuscripts when I find time, and then the update time will be stable. In the near future, let's just go first. )

"What! You say this wilderness village is a ghost village? ”

Xiao Mo looked at the village chief with some shock, obviously frightened by the village chief's words. Wen Qiayun and the little attendant on the side were also shocked, but only Li Shuai still looked absent-minded.

For everyone's surprise, the village chief and Wang Abacus and others were not much surprised, he and Wang Abacus glanced at each other, and then said with a wry smile:

"This is very surprising news indeed, and of course, it is even more desperate."

Xiao Mo's brows furrowed tightly, and he didn't want to hear the village chief's feelings, so he interrupted:

"When you talk about ghost villages, do you mean that all the people in this village are ghosts?"

"No, not all the people in the village are ghosts." At this time, Wang Abacus stood up and explained:

"The meaning of the ghost village is to explain the strangeness of the wilderness village, not to the residents who live in the village......"

With Wang Abacus's description, Xiao Mo and the others finally understood the matter about Yuanye Village.

It turns out that every once in a while, there will be a series of strange and bizarre deaths in the village. This process will last about half a month, and after the incident, the village will inexplicably lose this memory.

But it's not just amnesia, but new memories will appear. Replace these original memories.

For example, there has been a rumor in the village about the large-scale migration of villagers that took place 20 years ago. According to the village chief and Wang Abacus, this is the expression of the memory of the vast majority of the villagers.

As for the real memory that should have belonged to them, it was that almost two-thirds of the people in the village were killed.

Originally, the village chief and Wang abacus also had their own false memories, such as what the village chief told them about the mysterious box at the beginning, and the decomposition of his wife's body, which were all false memories and false cognitions in his mind.

In fact, his wife died 20 years ago, and at that time there was indeed an outsider in the village who claimed to be an exorcist and showed great magical powers at that time. But in the end, it ended up with a miserable end without a body.

And the box wasn't given to him by the exorcist. He picked it up by chance on the road a few days ago, and thought that the shape of this small box was quite exquisite, so he took it back to his home.

As a result, when I took it home, I saw that this box could not be opened by external force. You can only wait until 10 p.m. to turn on on your own. Each time it was opened, a lump of meat appeared from it. And his wife was particularly fond of the meat. And in good condition every time it is consumed. Her face will be much younger than before.

But at that time, because he was limited by his memory, he naturally didn't feel anything, and even the box was very precious. After all, this box is not only a cure. Beauty, and can also be used to improve the family's food, these alone are enough to be called a baby.

Although the village chief looked like he was telling the truth this time, Xiao Mo still couldn't fully believe it after having a lesson from the past. What's more, there are still many inconsistencies in the words of several people.

"I remember that you said before that the memories of the whole village have been transformed, so how can you remember them so clearly?" Xiao Mo looked at the village chief tightly, and his tone was slightly suspicious.

Hearing Xiao Mo ask about this, the village chief hurriedly explained:

"I've said before that every once in a while there is a strange death in the village. Once the death event is over, everyone's memories are replaced.

However, when the next death begins, some people will regain memories of being replaced.

Outsiders like us will briefly regain their memories, but the aborigines will not. ”

Xiao Mo nodded expressionlessly, and then asked again:

"What is the interval between each event? Is there a pattern to follow? ”

"There is no pattern to follow, it can be as long as five or six years, as short as one or two months. However, the longer the interval, the more people will die, and conversely, the shorter the interval, the fewer people will die. ”

"And how long has it been since this time?" Wen Qiayun asked uneasily.

"About five years." The village chief replied with a look of despair.

Wen Qiayun's heart suddenly tightened when she heard this answer, she subconsciously glanced at Xiao Mo, but Xiao Mo was very calm, seeing this, Wen Qiayun was not to be outdone, and suppressed that uneasy mood.

"When did you come to this village, and why did you come here?"

"We've been here for more than 20 years, and we didn't know what was going on, so we came into this village in a daze." When talking about this incident, the village chief also expressed regret.

"Can't you get out when you come in?"

"Well, come in and don't want to go out." When this sentence came out, I don't know if I didn't want to cut off my vitality, and the village chief added:

"Maybe the way out of here is to save zĂ i, but we haven't been able to find it for so many years.

Whenever we regain our memories for a short time, we try to escape in a limited amount of time, trying to find a way out of here, but each time it is in vain, and we end up falling into a false life again.

You should be imagining, what is the difference between living with false memories and cognition and the walking dead!

This is like a nightmare, without the slightest freedom, we have had enough! ”

The village chief was poked in the sore spot, and at this time he roared out with a hideous face, and the Wang abacus and several people around him were the same, gritting their teeth with hatred.

"Although my belief in your identity stems from false memories, I have a strong intuition that if I am with you, I may have a chance to escape from here alive.

After so many years, most of the outsiders have been killed, and this time there has been such a long time, I think that kind of power should be with the idea of slaughtering the village, so we are completely making a last ditch effort. ”

Wang Abacus sighed, and continued to say weakly:

"Lao Xu is also a group of people who came in with us, and originally several of us were lucky to have survived all these years in this whirlpool of death. But this time he was not spared, both as a wake-up call and as a declaration to us that he would not hide again. ”

Xiao Mo didn't follow Wang's abacus, but pointed to a few young people about 30 years old standing behind them and said:

"Are they outsiders too?"

"Well, they've been here for the last few years, and before our memories are restored, we all thought it was a father-son relationship. Of course, to be able to enter here and live together for so long will only be closer than relatives. ”

The village chief's eyes flushed when he said this, and it seemed that their relationship was indeed as the village chief said.

Xiao Mo didn't go to watch the bitter love scenes performed by the village chief and them, but habitually pinched his chin, and the whole person fell into a short period of contemplation.

For the time being, he took what the village chief and Wang Abacus said seriously, so that the mysteries that had plagued him before were almost solved.

First of all, the village chief's wife is a person who has been dead for a long time. And the reason why it hasn't done anything dangerous for the village chief and others for such a long time, thinking that it is the same ghost as Aunt Wang and other ghosts in the ghost building, it does not belong to the kind of ghost that only knows killing.

Secondly, most of the secrets of the box had been solved, and as he had previously speculated, the village chief had only recently picked it up. And the pieces of meat that appeared in the box may have some special effect on the village chief's wife, but the abrupt appearance of this box itself is still a little suspicious.

As for the village chief, they had been trying their best to cover up the dead people in the village before, and they didn't care, but at that time, they hadn't recovered their memories yet, and they were completely acting according to the false cognition in their minds, which is why they were so suspicious.

When Xiao Mo thought of this, he suddenly realized that he had revealed a person, and that was Widow Li's secret. Because he had just heard Wen Qiayun say that Widow Li's house did store a box of the same style, but it was much bigger.

"Now tell me about Widow Lee!" Xiao Mo raised his head and asked the village chief. (To be continued......)