Chapter 65: The World Evaporates
Moon Shadow Fuxian's observation power was very keen, and her words instantly made Wu Zhiyuan fall into confusion.
"Anyone?" Wu Zhiyuan shouted loudly, and his words quickly disappeared into the empty village streets and alleys, without receiving any response.
"Let's go to this house to have a look, maybe there have been robbers in this village, so the family is closed, and they don't dare to make a fire to cook." Moon Shadow Fuxian said, pointing to the door of one of them.
Wu Zhiyuan recognized that this was the third aunt's house. Now the wooden door is tightly closed, making it impossible to guess what happened inside.
Wu Zhiyuan stepped forward and gently pushed the wooden door, but without pushing it open, the door was locked inside.
Wu Zhiyuan was overjoyed, he showed a rare smile, looked at the Moon Shadow Fuxian, and said with a smile: "Maybe you are right, this door is locked, which means that there must be someone inside." ”
Moon Shadow Fuxian smiled and nodded, and stretched out his hand to signal Wu Zhiyuan to lean over the wall and enter.
Wu Zhiyuan put aside the burden and cloth on his body, and jumped onto the wall with a leap of vitality, followed by the Moon Shadow Fuxian. The two of them fell into the courtyard again.
The yard was deserted, there was no human figure, and the farm tools used for the autumn harvest were placed on the wall, which were full of rust, and the ground was scattered with dead leaves, as if no one had lived in it for a long time.
Wu Zhiyuan saw that the main entrance of the house was hidden, so he pulled the sleeve of Moon Shadow Fuxian and walked towards the house. Pushing open the door, a musty smell hit my face. Wu Zhiyuan knew that this is because there is no fire in the house for many days, and the earthen house is easy to return to moisture, so the villages in the north are mostly earthen kang fires, which can dispel the moisture and resist the severe cold of the northern weather.
The furniture in the house is normal, there is no trace of being turned over, the pots and pans on the stove are neatly placed, Wu Zhiyuan walked into the inner room and found that it was empty, and there was no sign of abnormality in the whole house.
"Where have they gone?" Moon Shadow Fuxian looked around strangely and muttered to himself.
"Let's go home and see." Wu Zhiyuan pondered for a moment, and suddenly remembered that his parents might be at home, so he pulled the Moon Shadow Fuxian out of the main gate, opened the courtyard door from the inside and walked out.
After coming out, Wu Zhiyuan didn't care about anything else and went straight to the direction of his home.
When he arrived at the door of his house, Wu Zhiyuan's footsteps hesitated, he saw from a distance that the door of his own courtyard was closed, no different from other people's homes, looking like this, what was waiting for him at home might also be an empty house.
Wu Zhiyuan walked to the door, slowly stretched out his hand, and gently pushed the courtyard door, and the wooden door "creaked" and opened smoothly.
"The door isn't locked." Wu Zhiyuan looked at the Moon Shadow Fuxian who was following behind him in surprise, and raised his feet and stepped over the threshold.
The courtyard was very desolate, and the fallen leaves were swept in the wind, as if no one had lived in it for a long time. As far as his eyes could see, Wu Zhiyuan's heart suddenly cooled by half, and an ominous premonition instantly hit his heart. He shouted "Daddy", took three steps and made two steps, and hurriedly rushed into the house, but the whole person suddenly froze at the door, frozen.
I saw the same scene in the house, everything was in order, but it was empty.
Wu Zhiyuan hesitated slightly, hurriedly rushed into the bedroom through the main room, and what came into view was also an empty house, and his parents had long since disappeared.
In an instant, Wu Zhiyuan's heart was lost to the extreme, his feet were weak, and he sat on the ground with his buttocks.
"How so...... Where have they gone......" Wu Zhiyuan kept muttering.
"Brother Zhiyuan, don't worry, maybe they encountered some threat and collectively hid somewhere else." Moon Shadow Fuxian was concerned about Wu Zhiyuan in his heart, and hurriedly helped him up and sat down by the earthen kang.
Wu Zhiyuan shook his head fiercely, cheered up, and carefully sorted out the ins and outs of this matter.
The village that was usually lively and warm has now become an empty village, and all the people seem to have evaporated from the world, where have they gone? What happened to them?
The scene in front of him puzzled Wu Zhiyuan, and it was obviously difficult to find clues from it. Wu Zhiyuan thought of the layout of the Longshan guillotine again, could it really be like what the Moon Shadow Fuxian said, the ferocious aura of this guillotine killed everyone in the village? If that's the case, what about corpses?
This assumption is not valid, Wu Zhiyuan thought about it from a distance, he remembered that when he was in Congma Zen Temple, the abbot of Wuchen had twice urged him to return to Wujia Village quickly, and also said "It's almost time" and other puzzling words, is there any connection between the two? Does Wuchen know that there will be a catastrophe in Wujia Village?
After nearly ten years of meditation on the dust-free wall, it is not uncommon for him to be able to calculate what happened in the past, and it is not a myth that people in the Taoist sect know the art of divination, and it is not a myth to know that the past leads to the future. But now is not the time to dwell on this issue, what makes Wu Zhiyuan most anxious is the whereabouts of the people in the village, but Wuchen's words make this matter even more confusing.
"Could it be that, as you said, there are horse thieves in the village, and all the big guys are hiding somewhere else?" Wu Zhiyuan thought for a long time, and felt that there was only one explanation for the scene he saw now, and he looked at the Moon Shadow Fuxian, his eyes full of doubts.
"Look at the inside of this house, it doesn't look like it. If the people of the village had fled to avoid the horse thieves, there would have been signs of the house being turned over, and it would have been impossible to leave in a hurry without taking clothes and valuables with them, but we saw that many of the things in the house were neatly arranged. Moon Shadow Fu Immortal analyzed it carefully, and felt more and more that this matter was unusual.
Wu Zhiyuan nodded, he also felt that this possibility was very small, but what he saw in front of him was very puzzling, he thought quickly in his head, and kept muttering to himself: "Where did they go......
"Brother Zhiyuan, in my opinion, all we can do now is wait. They left without anything, indicating that they must have left in a hurry, and as long as we stay in the village, we will wait until they return sooner or later. Moon Shadow Fuxian pondered for a moment to comfort Wu Zhiyuan.
"But my parents ......" Wu Zhiyuan frowned, he was most worried about the safety of his parents.
"Ji people have their own natural appearance, uncle and aunt are good people, they will be safe." Moon Shadow Fuxian grabbed Wu Zhiyuan's hand and shook it tightly.
Wu Zhiyuan looked up and saw the concerned eyes of the Moon Shadow Fuxian, and his heart suddenly calmed down a lot, judging from the current situation, there was indeed no other way but to wait.
The two of them checked inside and outside the house again, but found nothing unusual. Seeing the sunset, it was dinner time again, and the two of them didn't eat lunch, so they were hungry very early, and the Moon Shadow Fuxian cooked around the stove to make a fire, and she grew up in the south.
The stove in the north is connected to the earthen kang, while making a fire to cook, the earthen kang is also hot, as soon as the earthen kang is hot, the whole house is hot, and immediately gives people a sense of homely warmth, at this time Wu Zhiyuan deeply felt this feeling, he imagined that he must live this quiet and indifferent life with the moon shadow Fuxian in the future.
The oil, salt, sauce and vinegar in the house are readily available, and Wu Zhiyuan's mother, Wu Shi, is a housewife who is a good housewife, so it didn't take much trouble for Moon Shadow Fuxian to find condiments, and soon a hearty dinner was ready.
People always forget a lot of troubles when eating, under the pale yellow oil lamp, Wu Zhiyuan looked at the pretty woman sitting opposite, eating delicious meals, the warmth of home became stronger and stronger, all the troubles were temporarily left behind, and this dinner was very happy.
After dinner, Moon Shadow Fuxian cleaned up the table, and the two laid out the futon, then turned off the lights and lay down.
The late autumn night is very quiet, and this uninhabited mountain village is even more eerily quiet. Wu Zhiyuan lay quietly on his back, without any sleep, he gently grabbed the hand of the Moon Shadow Fuxian, and felt a sense of steadiness in his heart. Moon Shadow Fuxian's fingers moved slightly, and it could be seen that he couldn't sleep like Wu Zhiyuan, thinking about the collective disappearance of the people in this village.
A few crows were heard in the distance, setting off this bleak autumn night particularly bleak and eerie.
Wu Zhiyuan was dazed, and gradually felt a little sleepy, and in the haze, he suddenly heard a terrible scream, which was not far from the village, and only people who were extremely frightened or saw extremely frightened things would make such a scream.
Wu Zhiyuan's body shook and sat up suddenly.