There are no lights in the hallway, and things outside the house are not visible.

Yan Lan pulled open the curtain on the window, wiped the stains on the inside of the window, and faced the face that was crowded on the window.

It's not quite right to say it's a face.

Because it was a pool, a deformed mass of flesh that had not yet developed, the various organs of the stomach and intestines were dragging behind the unformed legs, and the head was hung with a few fetal hairs stained with an unknown brown object.

It is surrounded by a viscous translucent brown film.

Fetal ......

It dragged its heavy head through its weak neck and slammed it into the doorframe.

Knock knock, knock knock.

A brown film sticks to its head, swaying with its movements, and the undeveloped eyeball knocks out of its socket by excessive amplitude.

"Snap" stuck to the door frame twice, and was held back by it.

"What is it?" Tu Yu walked out of the bathroom.

"A fetal spirit, and a deformed fetal spirit."

Yan Lan bent her fingers and tapped on the glass, and the vibration attracted the attention of the fetal spirit.

It cautiously rubbed over, pausing in the core of the tremor, trying to look in with its hollow eyes.

It has no eyes, it can't see anything.

The fetal spirit surged forward with a gelatinous body, screaming like a baby, sharp and piercing.

Outside the window, more fetal spirits emerged from the corners, and the semi-fluorescent body lit up the dim corridor like a ghostly fire, echoing and crying under the lure of the baby's cry.

From the hordes of fetuses, squirming crawled out of several newborn children, and even a five or six-year-old child.

Only the skeleton remains, hanging with minced meat.

The brain was opened, the brain was sucked dry, and there was nothing left of the internal organs.

"I can't go home, can you help me find my mother?"

The skeleton leaned to the door and asked in pain and sorrow, "Can you help me?" I've been here for a long time, ...... for a long time."

"Who is your mother?" Yan Lan was slightly moved.

"A mother is a mother," Skeleton said, "she has always been a mother, she hasn't changed, not even what she is." ”

"What?" Yan Lan didn't understand, and she couldn't look at her face from a pile of skeletons, "What hasn't changed?" ”

The skeleton was stunned, and counted the mutilated bones blankly, "It hasn't changed, I've been here for a long time, from the very beginning to the present...... One year, ten years, twenty years......"

It ignored Yan Lan and turned back to the group of confused souls.

"What are these things?"

Tuyu couldn't see clearly, so he dragged a stool and stepped on it: "Why do you all look like this?" ”

"It's all fetuses that die before they are formed, babies who die unexpectedly, and children who die young."

Yan Lan frowned and looked at the terrifying scenery outside the house, "The obsession with this kind of existence is very strong, and the resentment is also strong. ”

"The fertility rate in Donghua Village is zero, it can't be because all the children born are killed, right?" Steering the head.

"It's not that simple," Yan Lan pinched her eyebrows, and it was rare to feel that it was tricky, "These fetuses are not in the right shape, and there are two sets of organs."

"What?!" Tuyu's eyes widened, and he leaned down to the window in shock, and took a closer look at the fetal spirit.

"Remember to turn off the lights after reading it, the soul is like a night moth, it will be close to the light source and warmth."

Yan Lan's palm was pressed against the glass, and the temperature of the palm attracted the fetal spirit to scratch with longing, leaving a puddle of brown liquid.

She withdrew her hand, "I'll take a look at the village tomorrow, there should be a lot of clues." ”

"Okay," Tuyu nodded, "Then you go take a shower first, I'll guard here." ”

……

"In front of us is the village residential gathering area, and the hotel we live in is far away from here, probably because we don't want us outsiders to come into contact with the villagers."

Lu Shuwen said, waiting for the three people behind to follow.

Except for Xuan Mingfeng, who went to the temple at the end of the village, the other four people all went to the inside of the village.

"We're going to go see the ring match, and then we're going to the villagers to inquire about the news," Pei Yuchen said, "Do you want to be together?" ”

"It's okay," Yan Lan bowed her head and helped Tu Yu, who hadn't slept well, "Look at the road." ”

Tu Yu nodded in confusion and yawned.

Her ears were so smart that she couldn't sleep because of the fetal spirit, so she stared at the fetal spirit stuck to the window until midnight.

I only wake up when I hear the drums.

Tu Yu tried to open his eyes, only to find that he was led to the ring by Yan Lan, and he was also rubbed by this person.

Yan Lan smiled and looked away at the stage under the child's gaze.

The surroundings began to be noisy, and the young villagers began to cheer, speaking in the cheerful Hmong language and chanting the most anticipated names.

Ah Sheng tied a black hairband on his forehead and tied his hair behind his forehead, revealing his heroic eyebrows.

He was the first contest.

The audience was full of elders, and the great elder on the main seat turned his gaze to see Yan Lan and the others, and beckoned to the Miao girl beside him to give a few words.

Miao Nu nodded hesitantly, and hurriedly ran to the place where the strangers were.

"Hello tourists."

The girl wearing a navy blue Miao costume stopped in front of them, and her words were restrained and polite, "Our Great Elder said that the first game of this year is a freedom challenge, and outsiders can also join the ring to be lively, are you interested?" ”

"Lively?" Pei Yuchen looked sideways, "Aren't you afraid that we will step on your face by making a heavy move?" ”

"No, don't talk about ordinary people, even if there are three or four young people in our village who have top-notch legs and feet, they can't take advantage of Ah Sheng."

Miao Nu held a silver stone with a flower and a grass carved pattern in both hands and handed it over, obviously uncomfortable with Pei Yuchen's words, and her words were a little more prickly:

"Outsiders still have to be careful, the hospital is far away from the village, if you are injured or even stay here, we will not be responsible."

"It's not a small tone, then I'll be able to."

Pei Yuchen picked up the silver stone and threw it at the big drum on the stage, and the "dong" sounded.

Ah Sheng stretched out his hand to stop the silver stone that bounced back, looked at Pei Yuchen in the audience, and frowned, "Stranger? ”

"Ah Sheng," the Grand Elder on the throne spoke, his eyes unable to see clearly in the bright morning light, "let the guests participate in the experience." ”

Ah Sheng nodded.

Bae jumped into the ring with a gesture commonly used in Muay Thai.

Ah Sheng clenched his fists: "Please advise." ”

"The young guy above is talking to Ascension? It's a foreigner, right...... It seems that there are a few female dolls here this time, what are they doing here? ”

"Shhh

The woman behind her spoke in Hmong, and Yan Lan took a step back to make it easier to hear.

"These things are not something that we women can manage, I just hope that my doll will be born smoothly."

"You don't have to be afraid, you are the first child, you just need to go to the river to release fish and ask for blessings and peace, my third child is going to Luoshui to ask for flowers and plants, I hope it will not be a boy anymore, there is already a boy."

"But if you give birth to a girl and become a Donghua saintess......"

"Be quiet, that's the gift of the Sachsian, and if you are not religious, you will not be blessed. Let's go, let's go and release the fish, and then go to Luoshui to ask for the blessing of the year. ”

The two Miao girls whispered, and slowly withdrew from the crowd and left.

"I'll leave first."

Yan Lan greeted Lu Shuwen, but her eyes did not leave the ring, and Yu Guang was busy following when she saw it.

The Great Elder unnoticeably deflected his gaze, pressed the mouse-headed cane, and the shadow under the light peeled off a vague black shadow, quickly concealing and following.

(End of chapter)