By this time, Ebetsu had already run to the edge of the village.

The place was sparsely populated and unpopular, and beyond that was a vast cornfield.

Chen Wuji and Mingyue in the back didn't catch up, probably because the two of them returned to normal halfway.

Just then he heard a "click" sound from somewhere, like a gnawing sound.

Ebetsu turned his head to look around, and found that there was a well not far away.

The voice came from within.

Something in the well?

He leaned lightly towards the well, and when he got to the end, he found that there was a wooden plank hidden on the well, and Jiang Bei pushed the plank open a gap and looked in by the moonlight.

I saw that the well had dried up, and at the bottom of the dry well seemed to be lying two human bodies, and there were palm-sized black shadows scurrying around on these two human bodies, which looked like rats.

Jiang Bei suddenly thought that Wang Xigua had said that he and Ah Dog were born near a cornfield.

He thought as he looked at the wind-blown wagging cornfield not far away.

After looking at the cornfield, he looked down at the people in the well, and in the moonlight, he could barely look at the clothes of the two corpses below, and the corpses were the clothes of the king watermelon and the dog.

Could it be that the dead will appear near their bodies when they return?

If this is the case, it is very likely that Zhu Ping'an saw his body at the beginning, and then realized that he was dead.

Thinking about it this way, Chen Ersan and Ming Yue seemed to almost see their corpses when they entered the dungeon.

The two were born near a lake, and Chen Ersan saw a person floating up from the lake, which was probably the body of one of them.

Fortunately, they only thought that there was a ghost in the lake at the time, so they hurriedly ran away without taking a closer look.

Mingyue and Chen Ersan died in the lake, so there would be water stains under their feet from time to time.

At this time, their bodies must have been swollen and floating in the lake, and if one of them couldn't think of returning to their hometown to find out if there were any clues that had been missed, then I am afraid that they would be able to see their bodies near the lake.

Then both of them went west.

"No," Jiang Bei re-covered the wooden plank that covered the mouth of the well, "to be on the safe side, I have to go to the lake and hide the body first." ”

He picked up a few more bundles of weeds to disguise the well, and then turned his head to look for the lake that Chen Ersan and Ming Yuejin saw when they entered the dungeon.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I turned around, I saw a person standing behind me.

When he turned around and saw a person standing behind him, he almost scared Jiang Bei's soul out of his body.

When he looked at the short stature of the person in front of him, he could beat it with one hand, and then he calmed down.

"Brother Jiangbei, why are you still wandering around outside in the middle of the night." The person behind her was the little girl who had led Jiang Bei back to her residence before, and the village chief said that her name was Xiaomei.

Don't you also wander outside in the middle of the night? Jiang Bei complained in his heart but didn't say it: "What are you doing here?" ”

"I just saw Brother Jiang Bei running this way," Xiaomei twisted the corners of her clothes a little tangled, the corners of her clothes were as black and shiny as the cuffs, and her clothes hadn't been washed for I don't know how many years, "The village chief said that it is very dangerous to let people get close here, especially those of you who are not familiar with the village, I am afraid that Brother Jiang Bei is in danger, so I came with me." ”

The village chief said not to let people come near here? Jiang Bei thought about it, he thought that the people in this village were very weird before, and he always stared at them when people were not paying attention.

Now that I think about it, these people should know that they are ghosts, and they are probably afraid that they will go to the wrong place and know things that they shouldn't know.

At the same time, the villagers kept their distance from them, probably afraid that someone would suddenly turn into a ghost and kill people.

Jiang Bei still remembered the fragment of the rune he saw in the ancestral hall - "Sacrifice by me, exchange life for life, return to the soul, come in the thirty days, and recreate the living beings"

In this way, they should have been resurrected by the villagers.

There had to be sacrifices, lives for lives, for people to come back.

But this is very risky, after the ghost comes back, maybe he will come out to kill someone when he has nothing to do, and the villagers seem to be quite scared, so they close the door at night, and also put an iron cage for the dogs outside to defend themselves.

What kind of affection did the villagers take such a risk to summon people back?

Jiang Bei didn't have time to think about these things for the time being, he had to quickly find the lake with corpses and hide the bodies of Mingyue and Chen Ersan.

"Do you know where there is a lake near the village?" Jiang Bei bent down and asked Xiaomei.

Xiaomei shook her head: "The village chief said that it is also dangerous there, let everyone watch you and not let you pass." ”

Children are the best to fool, Jiang Bei lied to her with a few lies.

"I have a friend who said he was going to play on the other side of the lake, but he hasn't come back yet, and I went there to find him back."

Xiaomei was really fooled, hesitated for a moment and pointed in one direction: "The lake is over there." ”

Jiang Bei knew the location and straightened up and walked over there, but he didn't expect Xiaomei behind him to follow: "I'm also going to help Brother Jiang Bei find a friend." ”

"Go home quickly, why did your adults let your child out in the middle of the night." Jiang Don't want her to go back.

Xiaomei shook her head: "There are no adults in my family, and my parents disappeared more than 20 years ago." ”

Your parents disappeared more than twenty years ago, but you're only about ten years old now, aren't you?

Co-author: Are you a ghost?

Jiang Bei silently touched his axe.

Xiaomei looked a little lost: "When I was nine years old, I had a serious illness, my arms and legs were rotten, and everyone told me to stay in the house and not go out, but sometimes I suddenly came outside without knowing why, and I don't remember what just happened." Mom and Dad have been taking care of me, but my dad disappeared a few days after I got sick, and Mom disappeared after a while;

"Later, when I got better, my hands and feet were no longer rotten, and I never forgot anything. But I haven't grown since then, and the other friends I used to play with have grown taller......"

After hearing this, Jiang Bei basically confirmed that the child had also "returned".

It is estimated that he died in an accident when he was a child, and he was summoned back on the Day of the Returnee, and then inadvertently turned into a ghost and did something to make himself an orphan.

It seems that the rune is right, after returning for a period of time, people will return to normal, and will no longer become ghosts and kill people from time to time, except that they will no longer grow and be no different from normal people in other aspects.

If only there were such magical spells in the base, there would be no need to worry about population shortages.

But the weirdness in the copy never affects the real world, and the dead can't return.

He could only try to make the people in the dungeon die as little as possible.

Jiang Bei thought as he walked in the direction of the lake, and the little girl also wanted to keep up, but the speed was not enough and Jiang Bei was thrown away.

Soon he saw a huge lake in front of him.

From a distance, you can find two swollen floating corpses floating on the lake, Jiang Bei approached the lake to take a look, and sure enough, it was Mingyue and Chen Ersan.