"It's like a legendary secluded hideaway. Ji Chengche was deeply shocked by the scene in front of him, and couldn't help but praise from the bottom of his heart.

Although Tang Xueluo had already heard Shang Fanyi talk about the mystery here, he still couldn't help but be amazed by what he saw with his own eyes.

She looked around and said, "I heard from my mother-in-law, this mountain village has a history of more than three hundred years, and the first group of villagers came here with their families to escape Qin Muzong's cool order. As for how they found this place back then, no one can say for a long time. ”

Ji Chengche said: "I am very curious about how this big lake can be suspended in the air without falling, and there is still light coming down from the lake. If the water of the lake is crystal clear, isn't it true that people can see the secrets of the bottom of the cliff at a glance on the lake?"

Tang Xueluo looked at the hanging lake, and saw that it was like a huge and incoherent well, and the cliffs on all sides were the walls of the well, and the well water was suspended hundreds of zhang high from the ground.

Suddenly, the two of them seemed to notice something at the same time, and they looked at each other in surprise.

"No one can see it," Ji Chengche affirmed when he looked down at the small mountain village.

"Strange," Tang Xueluo's eyes flickered, and she frowned slightly, "Why is there no sound at all?"

"It's coming, it's coming, go down and take a look!" Ji Chengche was also impatient to descend step by step along the stone steps under his feet, and simply fell in the wind.

He landed on his feet on a ridge reclaimed by the villagers, but the field was muddy and barren, and there were no crops.

The two walked along the ridge to the entrance of the village, Ji Chengche stretched his sense to probe the surrounding movements, and asked in a raised voice, "Is anyone there?"

His voice echoed at the bottom of the cliff for a long time, but no one was heard.

Tang Xueluo took out the Defying Heavenly Destiny Plate and said, "Brother Chengqing, this place is a bit weird. ”

She walked towards the village, far from being as calm as her face appeared.

If this small mountain village is really his birthplace, even if his parents have long since left, he can still find more or less clues that they once lived here. And the villagers who live here must have seen them or even knew them.

When she was very young, she thought that she was an orphan whose parents died, and she was kindly rescued by her mother-in-law and raised in Lingshan.

But when I grew up, I realized that my life experience was not so simple. As her mother-in-law revealed the secrets of her life to herself little by little, she was burdened with more and more heavy burdens, almost overwhelming her.

Today, she finally returned to the place where she was born, and her heart was both excited and inexplicable, and she was afraid and nervous, and her steps became heavier and slower under mixed feelings.

Her hesitation and panic could not be concealed from Ji Cheng's eyes beside him, he stretched out his hand to support her slender waist, his eyes were full of warmth to look at her, Tang Xueluo felt not only concern from his eyes, but also comfort from the heart, so he restrained himself from putting his hand into his palm, and his heart really relaxed and calmed.

The two walked hand in hand in the drizzle into the small mountain village, and the village was really empty, and there was no one to be seen, even the chicken coop and pigsty for raising domestic animals were empty.

"Is anyone at home?" Ji Chengche walked into a small courtyard tied up with a fence, knowing that there could be no one in the house, but he still asked first.

He stretched out his hand to push open the hidden door, and saw that there was a hall inside, which was spotlessly clean and clean, and all kinds of daily household utensils were neatly and orderly, not like they had been uninhabited for a long time.

"Brother Chengqing, come here to take a look!" Tang Xue greeted in the kitchen.

Ji Chengche walked into the kitchen, there were half-cleaned vegetables on the stove, and wisps of green smoke were still emitting from the embers of the fire below.

Tang Xueluo opened the rice tank, which contained more than half a tank of grain, and then saw that the water tank was also full, and there were two live fish swimming around in the clear water.

"Where have all the people gone?" Ji Chengche said in surprise: "It looks like the situation should have just left not long ago." ”

Tang Xue said: "The surroundings are cleaned up very properly, it doesn't look like there is any sudden change." ”

Ji Chengche muttered, "Let's turn around and see, are there any other roads leading to the outside here?"

The two pushed open the back door of the farmhouse, and there was a vegetable field outside, and a stack of firewood was stacked in the yard.

Ji Chengche looked around and found that except for the rock crevice that he and Tang Xue walked through when they fell in, there was no place to hide on the cliffs on all sides.

"Huh?" he looked at and saw that at the very high point of the cliff to the east, there were many small black dots embedded in the steep cliff face.

Ji Chenggong gathered his eyes and said in amazement: "There are so many coffins!"

It turned out that those small black dots were actually a hanging coffin erected high on the cliff wall.

Tang Xue said: "It is said that there are some ancient tribes of the Demon Clan, and they still maintain the custom of hanging coffins and burials. They believed that the closer the body of the deceased was placed to the sky, the easier it would be for the soul to ascend to heaven. In order to make it easier for the soul to leave the body and ascend to heaven, they would also cut a small hole in the center of the deceased's eyebrows and apply a special honey paste around it. ”

Ji Chengche nodded and said, "Presumably, the people buried in these hanging coffins are the ancestors of the villagers. ”

Then he said with a wry smile: "The dead have been found, but where have the living gone?"

"Could it be that before we enter the village, someone sneaks into this mountain village through other paths, and then uses incense or witchcraft to bewitch the minds of the villagers and take them all out of here. ”

Ji Chengche guessed with Tang Xueluo's train of thought: "There is also a possibility that there was a natural disaster here, so the villagers drove their livestock cattle and sheep out of the outside world collectively. Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why the chicken cage and pigsty are empty. ”

"What if the villagers deliberately hid and didn't want to be seen by us?"

"You mean that we alarmed them when we got rid of the poisonous insects in the cave? If the villagers were really worried that we were not good for them, why didn't they send people to test or even take advantage of the special terrain in the rock crevices to intercept them? It doesn't seem to make sense to hide and give up their village to us!"

The two exchanged with each other and put forward seven or eight possibilities in a row, but they were all vetoed by themselves and each other.

Tang Xueluo was puzzled and said: "No matter what the reason for the villagers to leave here, so many people and livestock will never escape out of thin air." There must be a secret passage here that no one knows!"

Ji Chengqing responded: "Yes, instead of us speculating here without a clue, let's first look around to see if there are other passages or entrances." ”

So the two searched carefully in the small mountain village, but still found nothing.

Ji Chengche sat on a big stone slab at the entrance of the village, and said dejectedly: "Could it be that all the villagers are tired of the peaceful and boring life here and have long left?"

"But we just saw clear water and live fish in that family's house. ”

Ji Chengche raised his head and said: "Then there is only one possibility left, the villagers here, whether they are men, women, young or old, or even those pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep, are all equipped with shocking magical skills, and they can escape to the heavens and the earth...... Huh?"

He was originally laughing casually, but he suddenly touched the spirit and jumped up and said, "Could it really fly away from above?"

At that moment, the two of them tried to fly up against the wind. Unexpectedly, I didn't feel anything below, and when the two of them rose to a height of four or five hundred feet, the wind increased suddenly, and a wave of wild surges hit, blowing back and forth.

Ji Chengche was worried that Tang Xueluo would not be able to bear it, so he stretched out his hand to her. Unexpectedly, Tang Xueluo also had a heart, fearing that Ji Chengqing's injury would not heal and he would go on a business trip, so he also stretched out his hand to him.

The two of them crossed their fingers and smiled, like a pair of winged birds flying together between the raging currents, constantly advancing upward.

When it reached a height of about 1,000 feet, the surrounding water mist was like frost and ice, and under the strong wind, it was overwhelming. The wind is also getting stronger and stronger, and almost every few feet up requires great physical and mental strength.

Tang Xueluo was concerned about Ji Chengche's injury and said, "Brother Chengqing, the answer is already there, we don't have to go any further, let's go back to the village first and then make a plan." ”

Ji Cheng clearly understood the meaning of Tang Xueluo's words, whether he was Tang Xueluo or not, they were all the top powerhouses of the world's Lingwu Dao. If it is so difficult for them to climb to the bottom of the lake, let alone those villagers? Even if it is really a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, the people living in the village are all strong people in the Yuan Realm, but there are always pigs, sheep, and domestic animals, and they can't fly.

According to his temper, since he has reached a height of more than 1,000 zhang, he still wants to get close to the bottom of the lake to find out.

But the scene here was sinister, and he didn't want Tang Xueluo to worry too much about himself, so he agreed: "Okay, let's go down." ”

The two of them descended all the way at a fast speed, and in a moment they were back on the ground.

Ji Chengche looked up at the bottom of the lake and said unwillingly: "Who said that sows can't go up trees, sows here can fly!"

Tang Xueluo was originally looking around, and couldn't help but say when she heard the words: "Brother Chengqing, you won't be hungry, why don't I cook a meal for you?"

At that moment, the two held hands and returned to the villager's house that was searched first, Ji Chengche rolled up his sleeves to draw water and make a fire, and Tang Xueluo cleaned up and cooked for a while.

Tang Xueluo chopped the fish bones and sliced the seasoning in the kitchen and burned a large pot of hot fish soup, and said with a light smile: "This fish is so fresh, it must taste good." ”

Ji Chengche put down a silver ingot on the table of the Eight Immortals in the hall, thought about it and scratched his head: "I'm also stupid, the villagers here don't need to spend money at all, I'm afraid this silver is useless to them." ”

While speaking, Tang Xueluo had already brought the fish soup to the table, and found half a jar of rice wine in the kitchen, and the two were sitting around the table and were just about to move the chopsticks, when they suddenly heard a sound from far away at the entrance of the village. (83 Chinese Net.)