"Oh, there's such a thing?"

After Fang Li listened to the old man's words, he suddenly fell into silence.

Guangze Lake is a nearly circular freshwater lake, the width is about two hundred miles, it can be regarded as a huge lake, there is a small island in a radius of about ten miles in the center of the lake, the whole Guangze Lake is set off very regular, there is only one name of Huxin Village on the Huxin Island, but few people know that the Huxin Village is actually divided into two villages. But for the two villages outside, they call their own village Huxin Village.

On the island, the two villages do not seem to be very harmonious.

This time the mercenary mission is also bizarre, the population of the two villages is not small, there are nearly a thousand people in total, originally far away from the red dust in the lake, there is nothing worth coveting in it, and there is no fishing village near Guangze Lake, usually only the old man travels on Guangze Lake. Even the old man was worried about how the people outside would enter the village in the middle of the lake when they were gone.

But a strange thing has recently happened in this otherwise peaceful village, and that is that someone has disappeared. You must know that there is no boat coming, and the people in the village have no cultivation, and disappearing out of thin air is a very strange thing in itself. And for this small population, the disappearance of a person is a big deal. At first, the villagers thought that someone had drowned while they were out, so they sent a lot of people to look for it, but they found nothing.

Just when the villagers regarded the disappeared person as an accident and were about to finish the funeral, another person disappeared. Bizarre things start from now on, and then every once in a while there is a person who disappears, what makes the villagers even more frightened is that when the third person disappears, one day a very strange picture suddenly appeared out of thin air on Guangze Lake, and a lifelike flower roll slowly emerged above the smooth lake.

Among them, pavilions and pavilions are readily available.

Mirage!

The appearance of a mirage is not a rare thing, but when it appears regularly, it becomes very strange, and what is even more frightening is that when the mirage appears for the second time, someone sees the figures of those who have disappeared in the mirage.

And every time a mirage appears, a figure is added, and that figure is the same person who once disappeared, and at the same time, a person disappears again.

"Landed young man!"

Just as Fang Li was pondering, the old man's voice suddenly came into Fang Li's ears, and he suddenly came back to his senses, and Fang Li suddenly found that the boat had been firmly parked on the dock of the small island in the middle of the lake.

"Thank you!" Fang Li thanked the old man and paid the fare, and with a jump, Fang Li suddenly disappeared into the jungle of the island in the middle of the lake, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

And the old man looked at the direction where Fang Li disappeared, exhaled a breath, couldn't tell the difference between joy and sorrow, swung the oars and turned around and left, he wanted to return to his home before sunset, so that he could catch up with the dinner made by his wife, although he had not returned home for two days, the old man seemed to be a little homesick.

After coming to the island in the middle of the lake, Fang Li soon saw the village on the island, sure enough, as the old man said, although they were both in the middle of the island, there were two distinct villages, neat thatched houses, and smoke curling, Fang Li happened to be in time for lunch, but Fang Li didn't mean to eat at all.

On the way, he saw a man returning from fishing, Fang Li inquired about the village chief's place, and went directly to the village chief's residence.

But this time Fang Li was even more surprised, a village was divided into two villages, but there was only one village head, the village chief's house was in the middle of two villages distributed in a circle, like a single-plank bridge connecting the villages, Fang Li had not noticed it at first.

Soon came to the village chief's house and knocked on the courtyard door.

Soon, a septuagenarian opened the door as he answered.

"Are you?" At first, the old man thought that Fang Li was the villager who came to look for him, but after opening the door, he suddenly froze when he saw Fang Li's unfamiliar face. However, fortunately, although the island in the middle of the lake lived in seclusion, it was not that no one came, so the village chief was not too wary of Fang Li.

"Uncle, here is the mercenary who received the task of Huxin Village, and he is here to solve the problem here. ”

Fang Li explained his intention to the old man, after the old man heard Fang Li's words, not only did he not feel the excitement he imagined, but he frowned, took a good look behind Fang Li, and then asked suspiciously, "You are alone?"

Seeing the old man's expression, Fang Li guessed probably, and when the old man spoke, Fang Li chuckled, then arched his hand and said, "Yes, old man, it's just me!"

Seeing the confidence on Fang Li's face, the village chief shook his head helplessly, he was expecting to be able to come to a strong mercenary team, but he didn't expect that Fang Li was alone. But the mercenary union is not a store, there is no return, there is no way to change the task after receiving it, the village chief can only helplessly invite Fang Li in, wanting to exaggerate the matter and directly scare Fang Li away.

"Young man, the old man is the village chief of this Huxin Village, you can call me Gao Lao. ”

Next, the village chief exaggerated the whole thing, although it was not thrilling, and there were even many inappropriate words, but Fang Li, who had heard the whole thing, still frowned.

The exaggeration in the village chief's words could be heard by anyone, but some of the very simple problems were that there was no way to exaggerate too much, so Fang Li could still distinguish the truth from the falsehood, but even the whole process of piecing together the truth made Fang Li frown.

"Everything is a mirage that rose out of thin air, and the coverage is so vast!" Fang Xuan secretly said that he thought it was just an ordinary mirage, but he didn't expect that this mirage was like an environment, covering the entire island in the middle of the lake, and the figure in the mirage was not an imaginary virtual fantasy, but walking on this island like a soul.

However, after hearing this, Fang Li was not afraid, and the opponent who needed to disguise would not be particularly strong. But what Fang Li was curious about now was what was going on with this mirage, whether it was because people had entered the illusion or because people had collectively hallucinated.

After all, the people in this village are ordinary people, and it is not particularly difficult to use either method.

And after inquiring about the village chief, Fang Li learned that this kind of mirage has appeared a total of thirty-two times so far, that is to say, plus the first three people who disappeared without illusions, the number of missing people has reached thirty-five so far, and the appearance of mirages has been very regular, basically every seven days, and the last time a mirage appeared was six days ago.

"So I'll be back tomorrow and there will be a mirage again?"

"That's right, if nothing happens at noon tomorrow, the mirage will reappear. The village chief said with great certainty, and at the same time, at this time, Fang Li clearly saw a thin bead of sweat oozing from the old man's forehead.

Sighing in his heart, Fang Li was not surprised, after all, it was simply disastrous for this kind of thing to happen regularly, and no one was not worried about whether it would fall on their head next time.