"Twenty years ago, my brother Xu Sheng and I owed a large amount of money, and we were chased by an underworld boss to force debts. I can only find a way to take risks and fight in this ghost place. ”

Xu He sat on the ground, bowing his head and recalling the past.

From the moment he began to tell this story, it was as if he had aged a lot in an instant, and the tone of his voice was also spirited, like an old man who was about to die.

"We found two good people we knew at that time, and we came to this place together, trying to find something good from it and take it out for emergency."

"Jijia Village has disappeared for 20 years, and the young people of today have heard that this is a very evil place, but the specific horror of this place, those of them who have not experienced it will not understand."

"When I was a child, I knew that this was a wicked place, and the adults didn't allow me to talk to the people in their village, and they didn't allow me to come here to play. But when something happened, he came up and asked his husband for help, but he didn't dare to keep someone overnight, no matter how late it was, he had to send people back. ”

"There are also very few outsiders who spend the night in this village. In fact, they are all very hospitable, but this place is so evil that ordinary people will get seriously ill if they stay overnight. ”

"We also heard the legend of the Tomb of the Ghost King since childhood, and my brother even saw it once. In addition, the two of us were young twenty years ago, so it is normal to think about things here. ”

Xu He said a few words, and suddenly couldn't help but cover his face and cry.

"We really shouldn't have had that idea at the time. Otherwise, the people in that village wouldn't have died, my brother wouldn't have died, and I wouldn't have been like this for so many years...... Painful to live. ”

Xu Tianle comforted Xu He in a low voice, looking like he was going to cry with him, but he lost his usual arrogance.

Shen Qingge looked at the two of them thoughtfully, and then turned his gaze to Xu Tianyang, who was sitting not far away.

Xu Tianyang stared at Xu He's figure intently, with a meaningful smile on the corner of his mouth, but he didn't empathize with his biological uncle who raised him like Xu Tianle.

"The night we arrived in Xujia Village, the village was about to do a big event. At that time, we said that we wanted to stay overnight, and the village chief was reluctant at first, but he couldn't stand our pleading, but he agreed. ”

"But he warned you not to go out at night? Because the village has to hold a happy event, isn't it? Shen Qingge rubbed the spear in his hand and said lightly: "Of course you didn't obey, you went out in the middle of the night to peek." ”

"How do you know this?" Xu He glanced up at Shen Qingge in surprise, and nodded slowly: "That's right, that's what he told us, but it's not us who went out to see, it's someone else." ”

"Were there any other outsiders in the village at that time?" Shen Qingge put away his nonchalant expression and looked at Xu He with a serious face: "Who else is there, did they all die later?" ”

"Yes, there are others, and there is one person who survived." Xu He faced Shen Qingge's sharp gaze, panicked for a while, and then came to his senses and continued to tell the story that happened twenty years ago: "That night, in addition to our group, there was also a buyer who came to the village to collect wild meat, and a few young students he picked up from the halfway road. ”

"The buyer's name is Liu Qiang, and he is still alive, but he doesn't remember what happened at that time. He didn't go out that night, and he didn't go out the next day. In the middle of the night, when we were studying the plan, we were afraid that he would leak the news, so we fed him some medicine, which was enough for him to sleep until dawn. So he didn't know much about what happened, but he lived in a daze for so many years. As for the young men, all I can say is that they are innocent. ”

Xu He sneered, took down Xu Tianle's hand on his shoulder, and glanced at Xu Tianyang secretly.

Xu Tianyang looked like he was listening intently to his story.

For the Tomb of the Ghost King, the people who came here at that time didn't have any specific concept of it, but they just heard Xu Sheng say that there were piles of gold and silver and treasures everywhere.

In fact, the two professional tomb robbers who came with them did not believe this, and they had their own understanding of ancient tombs. To say that there are treasures everywhere is definitely bragging. They didn't believe much in the stories of the gods in the village. As for the Ghost King? In the eyes of professionals, that is even more nonsense.

The only reason they came here was that there was indeed a possibility that the feng shui in the mountain might hide a large tomb.

Looking at the trend of the nearby mountains, if ordinary rich and noble families are buried here, not only will they not be able to be buried by future generations, but they will easily be blessed. If there are really people buried here, the status must not be low, not to mention that he is also a first-class member, a relative of the emperor or something.

Even if it's the emperor himself, it's possible.

The two tomb robbers are also brothers, surnamed Feng. The elder brother's name is Feng Jialu, and the younger brother's name is Feng Jiashou.

The two of them listened to Xu Sheng blowing the cow for a long time in the middle of the night, and it was almost midnight when they proposed to go out and feel the way to see where the ancient tomb was and where they could enter.

But because they promised the village chief not to go out before, and the Xu brothers were a little afraid of the strange rules of this village after all, they were deadlocked for a while.

Just when they were holding their own opinions and making a little fuss, they suddenly heard a burst of festive music outside the window.

When a few people heard about the business, they immediately leaned to the window and looked out.

They lived in a storehouse in the village, with Liu Qiang, who was sleeping soundly, and several young students living next door.

"It is said that there is a happy event in the evening, but where is the happy event held in the middle of the night? And when I came here during the day today, I didn't look like anyone was doing a happy event, and now I'm beating gongs and drums in the middle of the night, what's going on in this hellish place? ”

Feng Jiashou leaned on the window and complained impatiently.

Just then, there was a little noise from next door.

"It looks like those students are out." Feng Jialu leaned against the wall and listened for a while, then raised his head and said to them: "If a few people go out together, it is impossible to get up at night." Maybe it's curiosity and we go to see a happy event, or let's go out too. ”

"Wait, there are a lot of people out there now, and it's not good to be recognized." Xu Sheng also leaned at the window, looking at the few figures who slipped past outside the window, and his mind became lively: "If those children go out and are not discovered, we will wait for them to go to the mountains to have a look when they have a happy event." If they are caught, let's wash and sleep tonight, and it's not too late to look for them tomorrow during the day. ”

Several people felt that what he said was very reasonable, and unanimously agreed with the decision, and gathered by the window to wait to see the situation of the young people.

Unexpectedly, this decision to "wait a little longer" saved their lives.

After a few young men slipped out for more than ten minutes, they didn't hear any movement of being arrested, only the sound of festive music getting closer and closer to them.

Just when Feng Tianshou's mind was alive again and wanted to propose to go out, the team of musicians finally passed in front of the house where they lived.

Seeing this, several people immediately squatted under the windowsill to prevent being discovered, and at the same time exposed their eyes and secretly observed the situation outside.

A group of men dressed in red cloth walked in front, looking like a blowing team when they got married. They were followed by four men, struggling to carry a ......

Coffin.

When they saw the black coffin tied with red cloth, the people in the room gasped in unison.

"What the fuck is going on in this place!" After the team walked away, Feng Tianshou breathed a sigh of relief, and asked Xu Sheng irritably: "Carrying a coffin as a bride in the middle of the night?" ”

"I hadn't heard of it before." Xu Sheng shook his head, a little hesitant: "Are we still going out?" ”

"Or ...... Don't go out just yet. Feng Jialu motioned to his younger brother to be quiet with his eyes: "This place is indeed a bit evil, wait a little and see when those little ghosts will come back." ”

They waited for a long time, during which Feng Jiashou kept asking Xu Sheng about the details of the Ghost King's tomb. Xu Sheng was originally making things up, but under this repeated questioning, the preface did not match the afterword, exposing a lot of flaws, and after finally fooling around for a while, he simply ended the conversation unilaterally with the reason of "too long time, I can't remember clearly".

The four of them were divided into two groups, each sitting on both sides of the warehouse, listening to Liu Qiang's snoring, and their mood became more and more irritable.

Until more than three o'clock in the morning, a few young people next door still did not come back, but the music that had been noisy before suddenly stopped.

The village was already very quiet. Even in the middle of summer, I couldn't even hear the cicadas, and I didn't feel anything when I had a sound just now.

What happened?

With the same doubts in their hearts, they once again leaned under the window.

No sooner had the window been opened than they heard a scream of terror.

The voice echoed above the small village deep in the mountains, kicking off the chaos in the village.

Before the screams could be heard, more chaotic noises came from afar, constantly burrowing into the ears of several people through the windows. A reminder to them that something terrible is happening outside.

Liu Qiang still slept soundly, unaware of everything that was happening outside, and from time to time he made a few dreams, and he didn't know what good things he dreamed of.

The shouts of terror continued for a while. The four of them got together and studied it, and finally decided to sneak out to see what was going on outside.

As soon as I went out, the road was still empty, and there was no one, only the long blades of grass swaying gently in the wind, which formed a strong contrast with the noise in the distance.

They followed the direction the band had walked before, and followed the sound to the place where the crowd had gathered.

By this time the people had quieted down, but they were still gathered together and did not disperse, and they did not know what they were doing.

These four people didn't have the good luck of Xia Beifeng and Shen Qingge before, and there were one-person-tall weeds around them that could be used as cover. If they want not to be discovered, they can only lie far away, lying in the ditch at the edge of the field, looking at the crowd in the distance.

In the middle of the crowd was the coffin they had seen before, and there was a constant "thump" sound in the coffin, as if something inside was about to rush out at any moment.

The coffin was no longer tied with a red cloth, but a few finger-thick iron chains. Iron chains were wrapped around the coffin, locking the contents tightly.

Four men carrying the coffin gathered around the coffin, pressing the coffin board with their hands.

Even so, the contents were still able to knock the coffin into a constant vibration, and the pebbles on the ground nearby jumped and jumped.

A thin, masked man was lying limp by the coffin, and beside him was an old man with a white beard, pinching his man, trying to wake him up.

The few young people who slipped away before were being pressed by the necks by a group of villagers, forcing them to kneel at the temple gate behind the coffin, kowtowing to the tablets in the temple one by one.

Without exception, the villagers gathered together bowed their heads, closed their eyes, and reverently chanted words to the open temple door.

The old man tossed for a while, but failed to wake up the people on the ground, so he simply gave up on him, turned around and waved at the few people holding the coffin.

Several people immediately carried the coffin, which was still moving, into the temple, and closed the temple door after exiting from the temple.

The old man took out a huge copper lock and locked the temple door with chains.

The sound of the coffin hitting the ground kept coming from the temple, occasionally mixed with a few sharp and painful roars, which made everyone present feel a little hairy.

The group of people gathered in the open space in front of the temple gate and looked at each other, looking extremely ugly in the light of the fire.

The people gathered there again and waited for a while, until the sound from the temple gradually faded, and the old man waved his hand to signal that the others could go.

In the end, they left a few young and strong men to guard the temple gate, not only to prevent anything from happening to the coffin, but also to watch a few young students kneel at the temple gate, so that they would not escape.

When Xu He said this, he let out a sigh of relief, looked at Shen Qingge and said: "Later, we sneaked back before we were discovered, and when it was almost dawn, someone came to see if we were asleep or not, and we fooled us." ”

"So they had already locked the female ghost in the temple that night?" Shen Qingge frowned, leaned against the wall, and his fingers rhythmically tapped the stones on the wall, making a crisp sound: "Then what happened later, why did all the people in the village die?" ”

"I don't know exactly what happened in between, and by the time I got back, it was over. It's just that I heard that the female ghost came out of the temple after all, and it seems to have something to do with that group of students, so we went into the mountains to find the tomb of the ghost king the next day...... If we had known that the entrance to the Ghost King's Tomb was actually in the temple, we wouldn't have wasted so much effort. Xu He seemed to fall into some painful memories, he lowered his head, stretched out his hands to cover his face, and his shoulders trembled slightly: "On the first day we entered the mountain, we encountered wolves, Feng Tianshou was dragged out by wolves at that time, and when he found him, he didn't have any good meat on his body, and one leg was broken." ”

"Master......" Xu Tianle whispered, "Don't be sad. ”

She is not good at comforting people, and after holding it for a long time, she only said these few words. Then he looked up at Xu Tianyang, his anxious eyes looking as if he was asking for help.

Xu He was silent for a while, then raised his head again and said to everyone: "But when we left the village, we heard something from the villagers. It seems to say that if the female ghost really can't control it, every family will have to put a coffin in the house, and everyone in the family will hide in the cellar, and there will be something in the coffin. I didn't understand either, anyway, the female ghost would think that the family was dead and wouldn't go into the house to find someone. ”

"It is said that people who went back after Liu Qiang left also saw the coffin in the village." Ning Feng said thoughtfully: "So the people in the village were still alive at that time, but they were all hiding in the cellar?" ”

"Possibly." Xu He nodded: "When we came this time, there was no coffin in the village, if everyone died at that time, the coffin should still be there." It seems that there should still be living people in the village later, but they don't dare to come out. ”

(To be continued.) )