Looking from afar, there were two lit fires on both sides of the archway at the entrance of the village, and the flames were running high, Jiang Yuan asked a short man in his team to go to the front to find out the situation, and this person promised to trot out, and it was only about four or five minutes, and he ran back out of breath.

Jiang Yuan was using a night vision telescope to observe the village opposite, and when he saw him come back, he immediately put down the telescope in his hand and asked him, "How is it?" ”

The short man stood there without saying a word, his hands kept scratching the back of his head, and I looked anxious and asked, "Speak, what's going on inside?" ”

The short man looked up at me, and suddenly he was so frightened that he stepped back and pointed at my nose and shouted, "Ghost, ghost." ”

His voice alarmed everyone, everyone gathered around, looking at me with all kinds of strange eyes, I stood in place and felt very uncomfortable and stepped forward to give him a kick, scolded: "I said what kind of crazy you kid, where does Lao Tzu look like a ghost, you have seen such a handsome ghost." ”

The short man sat on the ground, his hands on the ground, and as he moved back, he looked at me in horror and said, "No. That's right, it's you, you're eating people. ”

The more you talk about it, the more boundless it becomes.

I glared at him, then slowly retreated to Jiang Yuan's side and said, "Boss Jiang, your guy is too unruly, I don't like to hear what he says." ”

Jiang Yuan looked at me expressionlessly, then walked a few steps forward, stood between the two burning fire racks, stared for a while, and suddenly turned to me and said, "Boss Xiao, please come in with me." ”

I made an OK gesture to him, and then put on my equipment bag and prepared to follow him into the village, but at this moment, a person suddenly ran out of the village, and I fixed my eyes and saw that it was the youngest attendant in the team, Koizumi.

"Brother Quan, how is it?" I shouted.

Although he is younger than me, but here, he can be regarded as a veteran, out of respect, I still call him Brother Quan, and he is also more honest and honest, and he also likes me very much, always Brother Fang Zi in front of Brother Zi and behind Brother Zi.

Koizumi waved at me in response, and then stood opposite Jiang Yuan very solemnly and said, "Boss, there are a few families in this village, and I told them that we are the patrol team of the nearby border station, and they want to find a place to rest when it gets dark. ”

This is great news, I thought in my heart, but I still pretended to be cautious and asked him: "This village does not look like there are people living in this village, where do you say these families live, why can't I see lights and people from here?" ”

Xiao Quan smiled innocently and said: "Boss Xiao is thoughtful, you are right, this village has indeed been abandoned for many years, and these villagers only moved here not long ago, because their village is suffering from a plague, and the government is quarantining, so they are afraid of infection, so they live here first." ”

It sounded a bit like a storyline from a novel, and I asked, "How did you know they came to escape the plague?" Perhaps, like us, they have their eyes on something here, stationed here and waiting for an opportunity? ”

Xiao Quan smiled honestly again and said: "Boss Xiao is too worried, these people are honest countrymen at first glance, so they are not the same as us, don't look at my young age, this is accurate, don't worry, it won't be wrong." ”

Still uneasy, I asked, "Again, how do you know they're hiding from the plague?" ”

Koizumi pointed to the village behind him and said, "What the villagers told me, I'm a good person to inquire about things, when I entered the village just now, a few villagers were cleaning up in the yard, and I happened to meet them, so I started talking." ”

I said "oh" suspiciously, and said in my heart, no matter how I think about this, it seems too much of a coincidence, but what Koizumi said is clear-eyed, and I can't see any flaws, and he is said to have been with Jiang Yuan for seven or eight years, so he shouldn't lie to him.

Jiang Yuan was silent for a moment, as if he was thinking, and after listening to the conversation between the two of us at this moment, he suddenly looked at me and asked, "Does Boss Xiao think there is something wrong with these villagers?" ”

I said, "I can't tell, but my gut tells me there must be something wrong here." ”

Jiang Yuan nodded, and didn't speak, he looked at the short man with a pale face, and then looked at Xiaoquan beside him, the two of them came out of the village one after another, and the words they said were indeed worlds apart, which one was telling the truth, this question instantly became a knot in my heart.

"Let's go."

Jiang Yuan walked in the front, and when he arrived at the entrance of the village, I didn't think it was good to go in this way, although people already knew that we people were going to enter the village, but out of politeness, I still suggested that it would be better for someone to go over and say something first. Jiang Yuan nodded in agreement, and he also designated the short man to go, the short man was frightened, and when he heard that he was going to go in again, he immediately shook his head in fright, and said anything, everyone persuaded each other, but in the end, Jiang Yuan's gunshot worked, and the short man immediately ran out in disgrace.

We stood at the entrance of the village and waited for nearly ten minutes, it stands to reason that it should not be so long, I began to feel a little uneasy, and sent the grasshopper in to have a look, but the grasshopper came back alone after two or three minutes of entering, and he said that there were no short people in the village, and that all the houses were dark, not like they were waiting for us.

I felt that something was wrong, so I asked the gnats to return to the team and told him not to run around.

Jiang Yuan asked me to go to the back to pick up the people of the second and fourth teams, and he took the first team to rest in place at the entrance of the village first.

I took the grub all the way down the mountain to find it, and after walking for a while, I saw Kang Yan and Li Laosi, I went up and told them about the situation here, Kang Yan didn't have anything abnormal when he heard it, but Li Laosi was unstable and almost fell down after hearing it.

At the entrance of the village, when Jiang Yuan saw Li Laosi, he asked, "Is this here?"

Li Laosi squinted his eyes and said, "I can't be sure, it's been decades, and I can't remember it clearly." ”

Jiang Yuan was silent, he took a few people to prepare to enter the village, and when he left, he told us to stay here and stay still, I just wanted to tell him that I also wanted to enter the village, but before the words came out, I heard the shouts of the gnats from the bottom of the mountain, and I remembered him, and said that I had just patronized Li Laosi and Kang Yan and forgot him.

Immediately took the miner's lamp and the two guys of the third team to the mountain road behind to look for people, and when we came back with the grasshoppers, Jiang Yuan and the others who were supposed to rest in place at the entrance of the village were all gone.

One of the two guys, Dajin, a northeasterner named Dajin, pointed to the room closest to the entrance of the village and said, "Boss Xiao, there seems to be someone there?" ”

"Let's go inside." I turned on the flashlight and walked to the front, "I'm afraid something will happen here, everyone get together, try not to get separated." ”

The team of four people is small and weak compared to this ancient village hidden deep in the mountains, and it seems that any force here can wipe us out.

I asked the gnats and the other two to go to the other side of the stone house to check, and I slowly approached the window, which was a carved window of the wooden structure, the complex and exquisite carving process is rare in the world, if such a craft is outside, a palm-sized wood carving product may be changed to an imported SUV.

A faint orange light came through the room, and I listened to the movement by the window with bated breath, when suddenly I felt a foreign object on my left shoulder, cold and cold like the paws of a primate.

"It's a bad thing to eavesdrop, there's something to talk about."

An unfamiliar voice came, it was a man, I was a little embarrassed, I apologized and turned around, but when I turned around and saw his face, the whole person froze.

His face was only half and the other half was a skeleton, his hands were fleshless, and the pale bones were still on my shoulders, and I grinned at him, clasping my hands together and saying, "Heaven and earth, Amitabha, God bless." ”

I don't know how many times I have said it, I suddenly felt that there was a light in front of me, and when I opened my eyes, Jiang Yuan was looking at me inexplicably with a number of brothers, and a few of them were still snickering, I grinned embarrassedly, and said in my heart Why is it that every time I go out to the west, I am caught by these people.

The grasshopper looked at me inexplicably and said, "Boss." What were you talking about to a straw man? ”

I was stunned and asked him, "What straw man?" ”

The grasshopper pointed to a scarecrow that he was holding in his hand and said, "This is it." ”

When I saw the scarecrow's head, I saw the same face in front of me, half ghostly and half skeleton, and my feet were so soft that I took a few steps back and slammed into the wall outside the stone house.

"What did you just see?" Jiang Yuan seemed to be very concerned about this matter.

I simplified everything I had just seen, and I don't know if they understood it.

Jiang Yuan looked at Li Laosi, Li Laosi looked at the scarecrow, and the scarecrow's head was facing me, as if he was also looking at me.

A guy ran from behind the alley and said, "Boss, Fourth Master, the whole village is empty, and the short man and Brother Quan are also missing." ”

When the grasshopper heard this, he immediately raised his right hand and said, "Report to the leader, Guo Shuming is here."

The man glanced at him, and said to Jiang Yuan with an expressionless face: "Boss, what the dwarf man and Brother Quan said is false, I have already looked carefully, this village is not big, all the houses are made of local materials, they are made of a local black stone, the dust in the house is very thick, it should be that no one has lived in it for a long time." Moreover, the man-eating Boss Xiao that the dwarf said was actually a scarecrow squatting on the side of the road, but the scarecrow had a lot of animal bones on it. ”

As soon as I heard this, I immediately said loudly, "See, I have finally been wronged." ”

Jiang Yuan also glanced at me impatiently, but didn't say anything, and at this moment, one of the originally lit fires at the entrance of the village was suddenly extinguished, and the other was glowing with a faint blue light.

Everyone's first reaction after seeing this situation was to retreat, Jiang Yuan stood at the front and stared at the entrance of the village with his eyes, and suddenly, an extremely desolate voice came, "Let's go, let's go." ”

For a while, everyone, including Jiang Yuan, looked back, and the voice was as if someone was whispering behind your back, which was really creepy.

"Boss, look over there."

"Fourth master, there's a situation over there."

"Boss, it seems that there really is a ghost."

The grasshopper cowered behind me, pointed to the fireball not far ahead, and said, "My grandfather said that this is how ghost fires appear in the middle of the night. ”

Before I could speak, I heard a gunshot, followed by a scream, familiar to me, and a woman.

A few bold guys followed the direction of the ghost fire, and after a while, they brought back a woman in a night suit, and when they uncovered the black cloth on their faces, they saw that it was actually Xiao Fang of the farmhouse.

"I said, why are you running here in the middle of the night?"

Xiao Fang winked at me, as if she was playing a code, but I didn't know what this code meant, just stood stunned, suddenly there was a sound of fast running behind me, and as soon as I turned around, I saw Jiang Yuan aiming and firing a shot, and then a guy brought back a person from not far away, turned it over and looked, it was Dajin who was with me just now.