Even if natural and man-made disasters are tragic but not enough to make people fearful, only the curse is invisible, untouchable, and full of mystery.

"You can't go, you can't go, the ghost village is cursed, once it is contaminated, no one can escape." Master Ma waved his hand again and again.

Yunqi didn't believe in evil, and wanted to go to that deserted village, and said lightly: "Take a village name and call it Ghost, I'm sorry for this name if you don't invite a few little ghosts to come." ”

Master Ma's soles couldn't drag his steps like lead, but Yun Qi made him grit his teeth and follow, "Son, don't hurt me, I'll follow you to the entrance of the village, I really can't enter the village." ”

"I'm embarrassed to say that I hunt ghosts." The clouds snorted.

Master Ma had no skin and no face, looking at the sky and pretending that nothing had happened.

What do you want to do with your face?! Does it matter if you have a life?!

It looks close from above, but the mountain road is uneven and not straight, and it winds and turns for at least two hours.

On the way, Master Ma told the two of them what he had heard, "It turns out that it is not called Ghost Village, but Shangsi Village." He grabbed the hem of his coat and carefully let the jagged leaves cut through his robe, "Almost half a year ago, two farmers in the village died mysteriously. ”

The two dead farmers are nothing special, they are just ordinary villagers, who do small odd jobs everywhere when they are busy and farming, "Seriously counted, they belong to the more industrious and simple people." ”

Before the beginning of spring last year, the land had not thawed, and they went to work outside as usual, but this time when it was time to return, they never returned.

"Strange or not, one night the wives of the two had a dream at the same time, and they dreamed that their husbands were soaking in a pool of water, and their whole skin was green, and their tongues were sticking out more than a foot long, and when they were about to call out to them to see them for the last time."

Lu Anran regarded Master Ma's words as listening to a story, especially when he said it, he was not bad at all compared to the storyteller in the Bafangke Teahouse in the royal capital.

Speaking of the highlights, Master Ma also paused deliberately, raised his eyebrows and asked mysteriously, "Guess what?" ”

Yun Qi spread his hands: "You said that there are ghosts, and they must be dead." ”

"Hmm." Lu Anran said: "Maybe there is a saying that dreams and reality are one. ”

Master Ma felt that these two people did not have the consciousness to listen to the story, which made him lack a sense of accomplishment, and his eyebrows drooped and said: "Not long after this dream, the wives of the two farmers suddenly disappeared, and the children and the old people at home disappeared completely overnight. ”

Yun raised his eyebrows, "The next thing must be a ghost." ”

The corners of Master Ma's mouth twitched, "After that, there were villagers missing in the village one after another, and everyone began to panic, until a hunter passed by the last one of Yuyue and found several corpses that were almost soaked inside. ”

Just as he was about to continue, Lu Anran raised a hand, "I remember that each of the eighteen pools is connected. ”

Master Ma nodded without knowing what he meant: "Yes, Yuyue Eighteen Bo looks across the mountain on the surface, but there is actually a dark river underneath, which is naturally connected." ”

Lu Anran looked at Yun Qi with sideways eyes, and the latter quickly understood the meaning of her words—the whitebait they ate not long ago seemed to have been fished out of the eighteen pools.

Yunqi's smile froze on his lips, and he quickly returned to his natural words: "Dust to dust, soil to soil, the green vegetable leaves you eat have also been watered with dung." ”

Lu Anran originally wanted to be disgusted, but he was successfully disgusted by the other party's metaphor.

Master Ma inexplicably watched the two of them communicate, "It's still ...... To say or not to say? ”

Yunqi lifted the jade bone fan, and said in a very good mood: "Say, what's wrong with the corpse?" Has it ever been eaten by fish, such as whitebait or something? ”

Lu Anran found that this person was even darker than she imagined.

Master Ma didn't know that whitebait was not whitebait, and he didn't have much interest in eating fish, so he said vaguely: "Probably, but this is not important, the important thing is that when Orion rushed over with the people from the village, the corpses were all gone!" ”

Since then, the villagers are bound to disappear whenever they go out, and slowly there are rumors of curses in the village, some people can't stand to leave, and more people are still reluctant.

"Until one day, the remaining dozens of people disappeared at the same time overnight."

Yun Qi held the hand of the jade bone fan for a moment, patted the handle of the fan on his shoulder, and asked, "At the same time?" Where did it disappear? ”

"It's in the village." At this time, they had already walked to the entrance of the village, and under the sun, Master Ma's face was serious and abnormal, and he was a little afraid of the unknown, "After a night, all the people who had been sleeping were gone." ”

The village is in tatters, the perimeter is overgrown with weeds from the new spring, and a large banyan tree at the entrance of the village is still flourishing, but the old benches below are already covered with dust.

"Can people really disappear for no apparent reason?" Yunqi said he didn't believe it.

Master Ma emphasized: "I didn't lie a word, and there is no need not to be, if it weren't for the two of you to come here, I would never have come here to beg for bad luck." ”

Lu Anran raised her foot and stepped over the grass that was higher than her knees, the grass bent over to form an arc-shaped space, she lowered her eyebrows slightly, watching the wild grass flourish, a small amount of green juice stuck to the soles of her shoes, bursting with vitality.

"I really can't go, at the beginning, the county bureau sent someone to investigate, and the missing person disappeared completely out of thin air without the slightest clue." Master Ma hesitated and stood at the end of his head and shouted: "If you want to say that people have to leave something behind when they die, why can't there be any marks, it must be for the demon beast to suck it." ”

At first, the two farmers, then the farmers' families, and finally the entire village, Master Ma shook his head, "Such a demon can't come down for a thousand years, judging from the things that follow, it must be the legendary Yaksha." ”

Yunqi snorted a laugh from his nose, and said with a smile: "According to what you say, this Yaksha has such a big appetite, and he slaughters the village at every turn. ”

Master Ma firmly grasped the peachwood sword in his hand, and recited the Western Buddhas and gods that he could remember in his mouth, before he took a breath and said, "The ghosts and monsters absorb essence qi and cultivate, and they are a little more powerful than the ones on the side. ”

Yunqi and Lu Anran had already walked some distance inside, and no longer listened to Master Ma's chatter behind them.

After a moment of travel, Lu Anran said suspiciously: "One or two people are missing and can be explained, but now everyone in a village is gone...... Why didn't Qian Zhixian report to the imperial court. ”

Yunqi walked to a farmer's house, and with a gentle push of the jade bone fan, the old wooden fence was pushed open, and he walked in and said disapprerovingly: "You just passed by, how many villages have become ghost villages?" ”

Lu Anran recalled for a moment and said, "In addition to here, there are still four places. ”

"If you are Qian Zhixian, one more thing or one less thing?"

As soon as he was reminded, Lu Anran understood, "When Qian Zhixian reported, like several other places, he only said natural disasters and did not explain the truth. ”

The room didn't dissipate for a long time, Yun Qi pushed it open and fanned it left and right with a fan, turned his head back to Lu An Ran and said, "If we don't come here, who knows if Shangsi Village or Ghost Village, what is the difference." ”

The dust was almost dispersed, Lu Anran went in silently and took a look, pots and pans could be seen everywhere, and even the quilts were half-pushed together, as if the master left in a hurry and would come back at any time to make up for sleep.

However, the place is covered with cobwebs and dust, and the living spirit of the house has long since dissipated.

Yun Qi's eyes fell on the tea bowl on the table, there was no water in the bowl, but he lifted the lid of the teapot, there was still half a pot of water in it, but after the penetration of the wet weather, green hairs grew on the walls of the pot, and it looked a little disgusting.

"Someone is sleeping, someone is drinking water, someone is coaxing the baby to sleep......" After looking at several houses in a row, Yunqi stood in an open place and fanned off the musty smell in his nose, and slowly spit out the words in his mouth, "It's like suddenly disappearing in the blink of an eye." ”

Lu Anran nodded, "All the tables and chairs have not moved, unless they go out at the same time, they ......"

Otherwise, it can be explained that the monster really sucks people away.

Yun Qi tilted his head slightly, pinched his forehead with two fingers and thought, "If everyone goes out at the same time, and it's still in the rest time of the big night, can you imagine what the reason is?" ”

Lu Anran's eyelids moved, and his eyes swept over a small carriage made of wood on the ground, the owner of this family should be a carpenter, compared to other houses, the furniture inside is more complete and exquisite, and there are gadgets scattered everywhere, showing that their family has just added people.

Lu Anran suddenly had a thought, this family may not be rich, but it must be very warm.

"I really can't think of anything other than natural disasters." She said as she looked at the wooden carriage with a wheel missing in her hand.

Yunqi denied, "If it's so simple, I don't believe that Qian Liang hasn't investigated, and the most critical point is that the missing person is really gone." ”

Even if you avoid a disaster, it's impossible not to come back after that.

With the regret of finding nothing, before leaving, Yunqi found a few footprints on a small road behind the village, he rubbed the size of the footprints with paper, and asked Lu Anran, "Is it Zhou Ting?" ”

Lu Anran compared the size, "It's about the same." ”

The two of them had another question, "What did Zhou Ting do here when he died?" ”

When he returned to the original location at the entrance of the village, Master Ma actually sat there cross-legged and chanted the scriptures, and Yunqi said sarcastically: "I only think you have a way to make money, but I didn't think you would really know how to recite the scriptures." ”

Master Ma made a head, and after reciting the Dharma number, Shi Shiran got up, "To do a line of love, you must have a sense of immersion in order to carry it forward." ”

Yun Qi shook the paper, the ink on it had dried, and he was just about to put it in, Master Ma asked curiously: "Whose footprints are these?" ”

Yun Qi's upper eyelids twitched, and he smiled meaningfully, "Zhou family." ”

Master Ma gasped, "Won't it be the Zhou family who was wiped out?" ”

In Yunqi's expression of 'otherwise what do you think', Master Ma slapped his thigh thoughtfully, "I'll just say!" It must have been someone from the Zhou family who strayed into this place and brought back the plague god of Yaksha, causing the whole family to be wiped out! ”

On the way back, Master Ma was lamenting the bad luck of the Zhou family, but it made Yunqi remind him of another thing.

"Ma Zhangshuai, you are also a person who has been to Guisi Village now."

Master Ma was overly frightened, as if he had been struck by lightning, until Yunqi and the two of them were about to walk out of sight, and then they caught up, "Childe, you have to cover me!" ”

Yun Qi was talking to Lu Anran: "I tried it just now, this person is purely a liar, and it may not have anything to do with the Ghost Village or the Zhou family. ”

Lu Anran looked at him, "You deliberately showed him footprints?" ”

Although he didn't say it, Yunqi has always been suspicious about the fire in Yizhuang, "I always have to see if Ma Zhangshuai deliberately lured us here." ”

Master Ma caught up with the two of them, patted his chest and looked at the dishes, "Childe, Yaksha can't find me alone, I haven't even entered the village." ”

Yunqi raised his chin at Master Ma, his peach blossom eyes were half-narrowed, and a fox-like smile flowed in the corners of his eyes, "See, I don't have enough IQ." ”

Last time, I went to the mountains to pick up a search, and this time I brought a master horse back, Lu Taotao rolled his eyes, "Is there something wrong with you?" ”

Without waiting for a verbal battle, Guanyue came back with a serious face and opened his mouth to say, "Shizi, someone has been eaten by Yaksha again." ”