I know clearly that he is making excuses, but I just don't want to expose him...
After simply packing our luggage, Lao Yutou and I took a taxi and went straight to Jiangcheng Railway Station. However, due to the rush, the train tickets from Jiangcheng to Qinglan County were sold out, and the earliest train tickets could only be purchased for the next day.
of votes.
But I was worried about the safety of my mother and Aunt Liu. How could I wait until the next day?
After discussing with Lao Yutou, he prepared to take a taxi at a high price, so he hurriedly came out of the ticket hall and hurried towards the long queue of taxis in the station square. As a result, before he could get far, a familiar voice came from behind him.
"Xiaoyu!"
I stopped and looked back, and saw a girl with a pretty face and graceful figure.
"Shi Ting?" I lost my voice.
Yan Shiting walked up to me in a few steps and said with a hint of complaint:
"Where are you going again? You've been busy since you came back from Shiwandashan. It's hard to see you..."
"I...have something to do at home, so I have to go back quickly."
Seeing my serious and flustered expression, Yan Shiting seemed to realize something and didn't ask any more questions.
"Then do you want to take a taxi?"
"Well, I can't buy a train ticket, but I'm anxious..."
"I happen to have time, so I'll take you back." Yan Shiting said without thinking.
I hesitated for a moment. Liujiacun is located in a village below Qinglan County, and taxis may not be willing to go there. It would be great if Yan Shiting could take me there.
Moreover, the situation was urgent and now was not the time to be polite, so I nodded in agreement.
It takes about two or three hours to drive from Jiangcheng to Qinglan County. Yan Shiting drove very quickly and steadily. The most rare thing is that she did not ask me what happened at home. Her considerateness touched me the most.
place.
Three hours later, the car drove out of Jiangcheng. Sitting in the car, I suddenly thought of something, so I turned around and asked:
"Shi Ting, recently... have you seen Yiyi?"
Yan Shiting thought for a while and said:
"I haven't met. Yiyi has been very busy recently. We only communicated on the phone. She was also worried about you when you disappeared before. Then I told her that you had come back from Shiwanda Mountain. She said that she would contact you. Why?
?No contact?”
I shook my head in embarrassment.
"Yiyi has been acting strange recently..."
"Strange? Why is it strange?" I asked a little guilty.
"I can't tell. I feel like she doesn't want to meet people. Normally, no matter how busy she is, she would ask me to go shopping or something, but lately she doesn't seem to be very willing to go out."
Speaking of this, Yan Shiting suddenly turned to look at me with a strange expression...
"Xiaoyu, do you know why?"
I stared into her eyes, feeling inexplicably flustered, and hurriedly avoided her eyes.
"You don't even know, how could I possibly know..."
A few hours later, we arrived in Qinglan County. Because we had been on the road, we didn’t eat. I heard Yan Shiting’s stomach growling, so I got out of the car and bought some fast food.
After filling our stomachs, we continued to drive towards our final destination, Liujia Village.
Liujia Village is located in a mountainous and remote area, so the road is not easy to walk. It was not until almost dusk that we reached a mountain road one or two kilometers away from the village.
I asked Yan Shiting to park the car, got out of the car, looked around for a moment, and then turned back to her and said:
"We are not far from Liujia Village. The mountain road is not easy to walk. You should go back as soon as possible while it is still dark. What about... you go back to Qinglan County and stay one night first, and then return to Jiangcheng at dawn tomorrow."
Yan Shiting's hands clenched the steering wheel tightly, as if she was hesitant to speak, but in the end she nodded and prepared to leave...
"Nonsense!"
An angry voice came from the backpack, and when I looked back, I saw an old turtle slowly crawling onto my shoulder.
"Lao Yutou, why did you come out?" I asked suspiciously.
"Why did I get out?! It's such a difficult mountain road and it's dusk. If you let a big girl walk alone, aren't you worried about something happening?"
When he said this, I subconsciously turned my head and glanced at Yan Shiting, and she happened to be looking at me as well. I hesitated a little, then opened the door and got in the car.
"Shi Ting, there is an open space in front of you, which is an abandoned bus stop. Let's park the car there and then walk into the village. Because it may be dangerous to go home this time, it is not convenient to take you with me tomorrow.
You can drive away as soon as daybreak, okay?"
Yan Shiting nodded, with an unconcealable smile on her face.
I drove forward nearly a few hundred meters and saw the stop sign. There happened to be an open space next to the stop sign. Although I hadn’t been back for a while, there was still no change here. After parking the car, I led Yan Shiting to the
Walk to the village.
Not long after walking along the mountain road, we came to a slope. Standing on the high point of the slope, we could overlook the entire Liujia Village.
But I just took one look and frowned tightly.
It's early autumn now. Although it gets dark relatively early, it's only around eight o'clock in the evening. However, Liujia Village under the mountain road is completely dark. No one has a light on. It's lifeless, as if it's an uninhabited village.
of forgotten villages.
"Have you all rested so early?"
I murmured to myself.
"Xiaoyu! What do you think that is?"
Yan Shiting said suddenly.
I followed the direction of her finger and saw a group of things on the mountain road ahead, slowly walking into the village with their backs to us. I squinted my eyes and took a closer look, and found that they were a group of figures...
The figures are very dense and layer upon layer. I don’t know if it’s because it’s too dark or for some other reason. I feel like I can only see their shoulders and heads, but not their lower bodies. After a quick look, I thought they were a group of people.
The halflings crowded together and moved slowly.
Before I knew what was going on, the figures gradually disappeared on the road. In a daze, I didn’t know whether they had entered the village or not...
My heart sank, and I hurriedly took out the fairy plate from my backpack, formed a sword with one hand and pointed at the pointer above, and whispered in my mouth:
"There are three wonders in the sky, six things in the earth, yellow sand and red soil, rubble tomb foundations, a hundred steps wide, and you can see clearly with a needle! Get up!"
After reciting the incantation, the pointer on the fairy plate rose slightly, and after just one turn, it pointed straight in the direction of Liujiacun.
I took a deep breath and murmured:
"The pointer is floating, this is... ghost energy..."
