Something is wrong with these two people!

At this time, Chen Wuji next to him moved, and Jiang Bei turned his head slightly to look at him, only to see that he had opened his eyes, and he didn't look like he had just woken up.

It seems that he is also secretly observing other people.

And the frequency of the dog's breathing on the side also changed, probably awakened by the sound of Chen Ersan pulling a chair.

He turned his head sideways, and sure enough, he saw Ah Dog staring at Mingyue who was standing motionless by the wall with his eyes half-open.

The people in the base struggle to survive in a terrifying and treacherous environment all year round, and of course they don't dare to sleep too much when they sleep.

Jiang Bei saw that Lin Huohuo and Jiang Yang on the other bed also seemed to wake up, and only Wang Xigua was still sleeping seriously.

Mingyue by the wall was still motionless, not even her chest rose and fell, as if she was already a dead person.

Is she dead?

Just as Jiang Bei was thinking about whether he should jump up and run away or go up to confirm the situation, Mingyue suddenly became normal again.

I saw that she suddenly had an expression, and looked at the empty chair in front of her with confusion on her face.

"What about Chen Ersan?" Chen Ersan was still in front of him just now, why did he disappear in the blink of an eye?

Wrong.

"Wake up!" She opened her mouth softly to call a few people on the bed, and wanted to reach out to push Jiang Yang, who was closest to her.

Unexpectedly, before she could push Jiang Yang, the person on the bed took the lead in getting up and stepping back: "Sister, don't scare me, what happened to you just now." ”

As he spoke, he walked around the bed and reached for the door, ready to flee at any moment.

Seeing Jiang Yang jumping up, the others stopped pretending, and quickly got up from the bed and stayed away from Mingyue, and Wang Watermelon was also dragged up by Lin Huohuo.

"You ...... What's wrong? Mingyue also realized that something was wrong, did something strange happen to her just now?

She didn't seem to remember what had just happened.

Jiang Bei didn't look at the expression on her face like a fake, could it be that she wasn't a ghost, she was just controlled by a ghost just now?

In this case, Chen Ersan may also be a ghost.

Jiang Bei looked out the door while thinking, and saw that the door of the main house was still tightly closed, but the door of the bedroom opposite was pushed open a gap, and from here you could see the statue of the human body and the bird's head inside.

He heard what seemed to be a slight movement in the room, and he couldn't hear it clearly unless he listened carefully.

Jiang Bei motioned for everyone to remain silent for now, and then walked lightly to the open bedroom door with an axe, and looked in through the gap.

It was still early, and the lights were not turned on in this bedroom, and it was dark inside.

But you can look at the general situation.

He swept his eyes and found Chen Ersan.

Jiang Bei almost didn't recognize her.

I saw Chen Ersan sitting in front of the old dresser, twisting his hair in the dressing mirror, stopping to take a look at the empty dressing mirror every few times, and then covering his mouth and letting out a few crazy laughs.

Jiang Bei thought that there was no mirror in this dressing mirror, what are you doing here, and you are still so happy.

At this time, Chen Ersan noticed that someone was peeking at him, and turned his face to the door suddenly.

A gloomy, strange face was imprinted in Jiang Bei's eyes.

But in just half a second, the gloom on his face gradually faded, and turned into a surprised look: "Jiang Bei? When did you go outside? ”

Soon she realizes that her surroundings are not right.

Chen Ersan looked around in confusion, and the comb in his hand fell off: "No, why am I here?" ”

Jiang Bei looked at Chen Ersan, who was dazed: "You came over by yourself." ”

But Chen Ersan, like Mingyue, didn't remember what happened just now.

The situation of these two people is too weird, but Jiang Bei can't determine whether they are humans or ghosts, so he plans to come to a "you ask me to answer" and ask a few questions to determine their identities.

"What's our teacher's last name? Who crushed his leg? Who is the penultimate winner on the second-grade final exam? ”

Chen Ersan answered the first two questions, and she hesitated for the last question, saying that she couldn't remember clearly, and gave the answer "It's not you you, it's me".

Then Jiang Bei asked Mingyue a few more questions about the base, and Mingyue answered them fluently.

These two people don't look like ghosts in disguise.

"Is it a ghost?" Jiang Yang said suspiciously, "I remember that this situation was also written in the textbook of the copy case. ”

In the past, there were indeed cases where the ghost controlled the body of the person to commit suicide.

But this ghost controls people, not only does not let people commit suicide, but only looks in the mirror, which is weird.

"I think maybe there's something weird about the dressing table in the bedroom next door, that thing feels eerie just by looking at it, and the lenses on it have been broken and taken away, I don't know why." Jiang Yang said.

In fact, everything in this room looks quite weird, Jiang Bei thinks that the statue of the human body with a bird's head in the bedroom is also weird, and the photo of the pair of old men he saw when he entered the door is also weird.

Anyway, there's nothing in this room that isn't weird.

"Don't stay here yet, let's talk about it." Ebetsu decided.

A group of people went out into the courtyard.

It's not quite dawn yet, and the temperature outside is very low.

After Jiang Bei came out, he was caught in the neckline by a cold wind, which made him tighten his clothes.

The others seemed to be still worried about what had just happened, and didn't care if it was cold or not.

Outside the courtyard grew a large tree with dense foliage, taller than the roof, and the sound of birds came from the dense foliage above their heads.

"Giggle" "Giggle"

The voice was long and slender, as if a child was laughing, it should be the cry of an owl.

When Ebetsu was a child, he heard his grandfather say that whenever someone dies in a place, there must be an owl nearby.

Chen Wuji looked up at the branches and leaves above his head: "Actually, I had a guess yesterday that the higher the ranking, the faster this copy will die, is it because the high-ranking squad is too strong in action and too careful in observation?"

"This quest may be different from the others, and I guess the more aggressive you are here to look for clues, the easier it is to die."

It means that you may live longer if you are rotten, right?

Jiang Bei also had this conjecture before.

But just now, Chen Ersan and Mingyue didn't actively look for clues, so they were inexplicably possessed by ghosts.

Chen Wuji paused: "But this is just a guess, and there is no evidence to support it." ”

"So, shall we go for clues first, or do nothing and wait a day or two to try?" Wang Watermelon looked a little hesitant.

"Simply separate, half of the people are looking for clues and half of them are ...... Try nothing. Jiang Bei thought of the control experiment in the previous biology class, and getting a control group could better observe the difference between the two routes, "See what situation is easier to survive." ”

Everyone thought this method could be tried, and they all nodded in agreement.

Then the eight people were divided into two groups according to their own wishes, Jiang Bei, Chen Wuji, Wang Xigua and Mingyue went out to look for clues, and Ah Gou, Chen Ersan, Jiang Yang, and Lin Huohuo stayed here.

But the people who stayed here were not too afraid to enter the house, and there was a strange dresser inside.

So they took some stools and sat down in the courtyard.

Although Jiang Bei decided to go out to look for clues and find someone to find out about the situation in the village by the way, the villagers here were all weird and strange, and it was not easy to determine whether what they said was the truth.

He wanted to go to the little girl he met yesterday first, and it was easier for a child to talk to him.

But yesterday he didn't have time to ask where the girl lived, so now he had to walk around and try his luck, and observe the topography of the village by the way.

As he walked, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

There seemed to be someone hiding behind the big tree in front of them, and when he saw them coming, he immediately hid behind the tree, as if he was secretly spying on them.

Jiang Bei pretended not to see it and continued to walk forward.

But there were always people on the road who were spying on them, and every time they passed a house, they could catch a glimpse of someone staring at them tightly from the window.

I said...... Did you find out? Wang Xigua spoke in a very small voice, "Why does the village seem to be secretly watching us." ”

Jiang Bei couldn't figure out what the situation was, could it be that his axe was too conspicuous?

He tried to meet the eyes of the person who was peeping at him on the side of the road, but he didn't expect the other party to immediately change his face and greet him warmly, as if he hadn't peeped at anyone just now: "Come out so early, just go around the village, don't go far, don't freeze in this cold weather." ”

"Uncle, have you seen our friend named Zhu Ping'an, he didn't come back yesterday." Jiang Bei took the opportunity to ask the man on the side of the road.

There was a hint of unnaturalness on the man's face: "There are mountains everywhere, and the only way out collapsed a few days ago." He shouldn't go out, I guess he went up the mountain and got lost in the mountain, it's okay I'll go and tell the village chief to let everyone go up the mountain to find it, it's too easy to get lost on this mountain, don't go in by yourself. ”

As he spoke, he turned around with an unnatural expression and walked away quickly.

"The people in the village don't seem to want us to go out." Chen Wuji looked at the man's back and spoke.

Why? Could it be that there is something unsightly outside the village.

Jiang Bei felt that the people here were deliberately hiding something, and what they were hiding was likely to be the key clue of this copy.

It's a pity that it's hard to ask questions in this situation.

Just as Jiang Bei looked down to think, a pigtail suddenly broke into his sight.

He was stunned for a moment, and realized that it was the little girl who showed him the way yesterday.

The girl is still wearing yesterday's coat, but today's pigtails are crooked, with two braids, one high and one low.

"Brother Jiang Bei," the girl looked up at him, "you ran out to play again, but the village chief said that your illness is just right, and you can't blow cold wind outside......"

Jiang Bei had already heard this once yesterday.

"I'll take you back." Sure enough, the girl was going to take him back again as she had done yesterday.

Ebetsu grabbed the girl's braids: "But I don't want to go back, I want to play outside." ”

He came out to look for clues, but he couldn't be taken back by this kid for some reason.

And he had seen the girl twice in total since he entered the dungeon, and she had to send herself back every time.

Is she obsessed with sending people home?

"Brother wants to go to the ancestral hall to play, it's the Returning Spirit Day."

Homecoming?

The name is not very auspicious at first glance.

It sounds a bit like a festival like the first seventh, where the dead will turn into ghosts and come back on the first seventh, and the Day of the Returning to the Dead should sound similar.

Chen Wuji next to him was filled with a gentle smile, squatted down and communicated with the girl: "What is the festival of the Returning Soul?" We've never heard of it before. ”

"That's," the girl hesitated and circled the ground with her feet, "it's a festival that everyone will come back to, and this festival is very long, as long as a month......

Everybody will be back.

Isn't this the return?

"Xiaomei!" At this time, a stern male voice suddenly came from the side and interrupted the girl's words.

Jiang Bei looked up and saw an elderly man on crutches walking towards this side, showing them an apologetic smile as he walked this way: "I'm really sorry, Xiaomei, this kid always talks nonsense." The Day of the Return of the Souls is a festival to pay homage to our ancestors, hoping that our ancestors will bless future generations with prosperity. ”

Jiang Bei didn't listen to his nonsense, as soon as he heard this, he was blinded.

Chen Wuji maintained his superficial skills and exchanged a few words with the old man.

During the greetings, they knew that this person's identity was the village chief. The village chief seemed quite amiable and spoke politely.

Chen Wuji took the opportunity to inquire about their current residence.

"Ah, the place where you live used to be Xiaomei's grandparents' house, and the two of them left many years ago, and the house was empty." The village chief kindly touched the top of Xiaomei's head.

"We found a dresser inside, but the mirror on it didn't know who had taken it...... Because we still have two girls among us, it's not very convenient to tie our hair without a mirror. ”

The dresser was a little weird, and Chen Wuji didn't forget to ask about it.

The village chief looked a little embarrassed: "The mirror was taken away by us, I'm really sorry, this is the custom of the Returning Soul Day, and the mirrors must be put away before the festival begins, because this thing is heavy, and it is not good to collide with the ancestors." ”

So not only the mirrors in their house, but also the mirrors in the entire village? Jiang Bei pondered.

The village chief chatted with them for a while, then said goodbye and left with Xiaomei.

Before Xiaomei left, she reluctantly turned around and waved goodbye to Jiang Bei.

Jiang Bei also stretched out his hand and waved it at her.

After the village chief's back disappeared completely, Chen Wuji removed the smile on his face, and his expression became a little serious: "Returning to the Soul Day...... What do you guys think of the festival? ”

Jiang Bei felt that this was similar to the first seven, but these people didn't know what the first seven meant, so they put it another way: "It's a festival where a person dies and will come back, and it will last for a month, which is exactly the same time as our survival mission." ”

Mingyue also nodded: "I also think that's what it means, there should be people in this village who died and came back, and they are hidden among these villagers." ”

Jiang Bei thought of the team of people carrying the coffin he saw when he first entered the dungeon, maybe it was some kind of ritual for the Returning Soul Day.

"Be bold, maybe there is no one alive in this village, all of them are dead and come back." He made a bold assumption, "That's why it's so weird that people here stare at us all day." ”

A few living people are mixed in a village, isn't it the focus of the audience?