Of course, this is just some speculation on my part.
After all, village guards guard the village and keep its spirit alive, so it is inevitable that they will bear the brunt of something like this, because the village guards themselves are there to ward off disasters for the entire village.
I can only say it is an exception.
Not long after, I followed Xu Er to his home.
His home was already covered with white silk, and there was a coffin at the door, but it was empty. Xu Er said that it was for her daughter, but before her daughter was buried, his wife stole her body.
After he left, the coffin stayed there.
As soon as I entered Xu Er's house, I heard a woman crying, and the crying was accompanied by screams from time to time.
Xu Er said that was his crazy wife.
Xu Er took me to the room where his wife was. I immediately saw a woman huddled in the corner, her hair was messy, her whole body was shaking, and she kept muttering: "Don't kill me."
"sorry."
"I didn't mean it."
I looked at her carefully, but I didn't find anything wrong with her. To be honest, there was a foul smell all over her body, as if something was rotting.
I asked Xu Er: "Has your wife always been like this?"
"How long has she been smelling bad?"
Xu Er thought for a moment and said, "That's it after coming back from the mountain."
"I asked her to take a bath, but she was crazy and wouldn't let me touch her. I even force-fed her food."
"Daozhang Li, what's wrong with my wife?"
I shook my head and said, "I can't see any problems yet."
Xu Er sighed with some disappointment: "I guess I was scared by my poor daughter."
"Would you like to go up the mountain and take a look first?"
When Xu Er said this, there was more hope in his eyes, but as if he was afraid that I would be unhappy, he added: "Your master said that you are very capable."
"If you go up the mountain, nothing will happen."
"Besides...if you don't go up the mountain, there's no way this matter can be solved."
Hearing Xu Er's words, I was a little speechless. This Li Bowen really dared to say anything.
But I couldn't refute anything, I could only let Xu Er lead the way.
After taking the mountain that Xu Er mentioned, I finally felt something was wrong.
The whole mountain is not high, similar to the ghost mountain in Fenling Village. At first glance, it is shrouded in clouds and mist, and the mist looks very dark. Just standing at the foot of the mountain, there is an inexplicable depression.
Xu Er even crossed his arms over his chest, his whole body trembling slightly.
"Daozhang Li, this is it."
"After what happened to my daughter, the mountain became very strange. There was thick fog every day, and it felt very cold when I got close. Especially after what happened to the people who went up the mountain with me before, the mountain became very weird.
It’s even weirder.”
"No one dares to go up there anymore."
"Look...you just go up there by yourself?"
I glanced at Xu Er and said nothing to him.
I could see that although Xu Er kept saying that he felt pity for his daughter, his emotion on this matter was more of fear.
But it’s normal to think about it.
If any ordinary person encountered this kind of thing, he would most likely be frightened like his wife. Xu Er was relatively courageous.
I ignored Xu Er and went straight up the mountain.
As soon as we went up the mountain, the Bagua mirror Li Bowen gave me shimmered, and even the City God's protective robe on my body seemed to be touched and emitted a faint shimmer to protect me in it.
Feeling the warmth brought by these two things, I started walking up the mountain.
It is very quiet in the mountains, so quiet that I can hear it clearly even when I step on a weed, as if I am not surrounded by mountains but a hollow.
I only felt this feeling the first time I went to Ghost Mountain.
Although it is not as severe as the uneasiness that Ghost Mountain brings to me, it also shows that something is really wrong in this mountain.
The further I walked up the mountain, the brighter the Bagua Mirror on my body lit up, and I gradually felt a chill. I didn't stop until I reached the mountainside.
I saw some messy footsteps and some black bloodstains. The bloodstains spread all the way to a nearby forest with no end in sight.
I followed the blood trail and walked over, and soon I saw a pile of weeds.
The pile of weeds must have been paved artificially, and there was still a faint stench on it. I walked over and took a look, and there were some maggots crawling on it.
There were obvious blood stains on the haystack.
I remembered what Xu Er said that his wife had brought the body of his deceased daughter to this mountain, placed it on a haystack, and performed the so-called possession burial ceremony.
As expected, this haystack was the place where her daughter came back to life.
However, when I squatted down to check, the Bagua mirror on my body began to tremble violently, and then I felt a chill behind me, as if something was staring at me.
I subconsciously turned my head to look, but I could only see a red shadow flashing past.
I was startled, but when I thought about what Xu Er had said, that her daughter was changed into a red dress by her wife after she was brought here, I quickly chased after her.
At this moment, I suddenly realized a problem.
Her daughter may not be a ghost.
Instead, he became a zombie.
Because if it's a ghost, even I can't see it.
When I went to the restaurant with Li Bowen, I wouldn't have seen any of those ghosts if Li Bowen hadn't summoned them. And according to what Xu Er said, his daughter might indeed have turned into one of the walking dead.
It's just that I chased the red figure in the direction where it disappeared for a long time, but I didn't see anything. I could only see some bloody footprints on the messy weeds on the ground, but the footprints only lasted for a certain distance and then disappeared.
This made me feel a little unsure.
I've seen zombies before.
He and Li Bowen even faced Fei Zheng directly.
But even Fei Zheng feels a bit clumsy to me. Although he has self-awareness, it is much worse than other people.
But now I have the illusion that even if Xu Er's daughter really turned into a walking zombie, she would still be like a human being. Otherwise, how could she hide with him like this?
It's just that I couldn't find the red figure after searching for a while. However, when I returned to the haystack, the haystack disappeared out of thin air.
This made my heart lift instantly.
At this moment, I suddenly felt that this seemed weirder than anything I had experienced before.
This also made me not dare to stay any longer, so I ran down the mountain as if to escape. From the beginning to the end, the Bagua Mirror shone brightly, making me always feel like there was an eye staring at me.