Chapter 40: The Grocery Store
Hearing these three gong sounds in a row, Xiao Mo and the others suddenly changed their faces, because they had all read the story of "Ghost Town" and knew that once those three gong sounds sounded, it was like some kind of signal, or some kind of summoning, once it sounded, many ghosts that were originally hidden in the ghost town would appear one after another.
"I think I hear a gong? Did you hear that? ”
The man looked at the far end of the alley in confusion, and felt that the three gongs were coming from there.
"I think I heard that, too." The long-haired woman also glanced towards the distance and nodded at the man.
At this time, I heard another man with a mustache suddenly guess:
"Will the people in the town be over there, maybe there is some kind of ceremony, otherwise how can there be a gong."
"Makes sense." The man nodded, and was about to give the order to rush over there, but was opposed by the short-haired woman:
"Rituals? Knowing that they may be performing a ritual, you still want to go over, do you want to die so much? Why do we hold a ceremony, maybe we are the sacrifices of the ceremony! ”
"I think you're really a novel, I've watched too many movies, where is there so much nonsense in the real world!"
The man ignored the short-haired woman's objection and snorted coldly:
"If you think it's dangerous over there, it's safe here, then you just stay, and no one will force you to pass with a knife on your neck."
After saying this, he did not look at the short-haired woman, but waved his hand to greet everyone and said:
"Let's go over there now, and no one cares about her!"
The Bancun man had the meaning that he was the boss and the leader, and the other people also obeyed his words and walked towards that side after him.
Although the short-haired woman said that she was reluctant to go over, she naturally didn't dare to stay here alone with her courage, so although she was unwilling in her heart, she still followed hard.
"These people want to step on thunder. Do we have to accompany us too? ”
Li Shuai walked and walked, and suddenly jumped to Xiao Mo's side, Xiao Mo glanced at him, and then replied in a low voice:
"We don't know how similar the plot of reality is to the plot of the novel, so we can only follow it for now, and don't do anything to change the plot for the time being."
"Okay." Li Shuai shook his head at Xiao Mo, and then he put his hands in his pockets and rubbed Wen Qiayun's side.
When Wen Qiayun saw Li Shuai coming, she neither dodged nor dodged, but said softly:
In the story "Ghost Town". But at all times, everywhere is full of danger, and it is not the time to fool around. ”
Hearing this, Li Shuai shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and finally leaned over to Chen Cheng's side. Chen Cheng is different from Li Shuai, at this time he is always paying attention to the movements around him.
Compared with Li Shuai, who was curious and interested in the novel "Xenophobia", but when he opened the book to read it, he slept more soundly every time he read it than before. Plus, plus, plus. He has read the book more than a dozen times these days, but he hasn't even finished reading the story of "Ghost Town". So for the things in the plot of the novel, Li Shuai knows almost the same as zero.
Chen Cheng is more cautious and focused in this regard. Although he didn't read it as many times as Xiao Mo and Wen Qiayun, he also read the whole book carefully, so he was no stranger to some of the plots in "Ghost Town".
Knowing that in this story, if you don't pay attention, you may be hidden in the shops on both sides. Or the ghosts in the house are dragged in and killed.
"Keep a low profile, you can't die." After Chen Cheng ignored Li Shuai for a long time, he held back this sentence.
Li Shuai glared at him viciously. Scolded:
"Ah Cheng, do you want to make a bet, if there is any situation, the handsome guy will definitely find out before you!"
"Then I really want to thank you." Chen Cheng replied indifferently.
“……”
Xiao Mo kept staring at the houses and shops standing on both sides of the street, because the Bancun man wanted to rush to the front as much as possible, so they had no intention of stopping and searching for the time being.
But just because they don't want to stop doesn't mean they won't. After everyone walked along the streets and alleys for a while, they suddenly heard the sound of the window being pushed open, and as the Bancun man who was walking in the front stopped, Xiao Mo behind them couldn't help but stop.
The man pointed to the window on the second floor of the upper bunk and asked the people behind him:
"That window was just pushed open, right?"
"Seems to be." The mustache, who had been following him, was the first to nod affirmatively, and the other three girls were also noncommittal to this answer.
Ban Cun Nan didn't seem to think that Xiao Mo and them were his own people, so he didn't listen to their opinions, so he made a decision and said:
"There may be someone in this room, let's go up and have a look."
With that, the Bancun man walked towards the shop, followed by the mustache and the good-looking woman. As for the short-haired woman and the long-haired woman, they stood uneasy, seemingly afraid to go over.
Ban Cun Nan didn't pay attention to them, but turned his head and glanced at Xiao Mo and them with some surprise, and asked puzzledly:
"Are you afraid?"
"No, we're afraid of scaring the people in the house." Xiao Mo smiled and shook his head.
"Yes." Xiao Mo's words, which sounded like a joke, were somewhat reduced, the uneasiness in the hearts of the bancun man and the mustache, the hardness and decisiveness that these three people were showing at the moment, to put it bluntly, were all pretended to be hard-headed.
They can't help it if they don't pretend, at this time someone must stand up, otherwise they are all scared to death, then they will really die. So from this point of view, they still have some brains.
Looking at the bancun man, they "squeaked" and pushed open the door of the upper bunk, and walked in cautiously with a lantern. Wen Qiayun turned his head to Xiao Mo beside him at this time and asked:
"Aren't we going to follow up and see?"
"No, because in the original plot, the protagonist didn't take the liberty to follow up because of the uneasiness in his heart."
Xiao Mo said it for sure, but then again, even if he didn't have the original plot of the novel as a reference, he would definitely not venture into it with his vigilance.
Seeing that the three of them went in, the short-haired woman and the long-haired woman who stayed outside also retreated to Xiao Mo's side, and it seemed that they also had a bad premonition.
"What city are you from?" Xiao Mo asked suddenly.
"We?" The short-haired girl pointed at herself with some apprehension, and then pointed to the long-haired woman beside her.
"Hmm, can you reveal that?"
“……”
The man walked at the front with a lantern, followed by the moustache and the woman. The three of them took a photo of the lantern in their hands on the first floor, and found that it looked like a grocery store, and the shelves were full of miscellaneous items.
"Whew......"
Just as the three of them were busy searching downstairs, a series of footsteps came from upstairs. The sound of footsteps sounded traces, but it only sounded a few times and then it was silent, which also made the three men feel a little chill down their backs.
"Anyone?" After thinking about it, Ban Cun Nan shouted up the stairs. (To be continued......)