Walk and talk.
A group of five people gradually approached Taoyuan Village.
As we get closer to Taoyuan Village.
You can see large areas of reclaimed wasteland surrounding the village.
These deserted fields have no one to take care of them.
Now there are overgrown weeds, shrubs, and vines.
The field ridges and water channels that were originally reclaimed have long been buried by these tall weeds and disappeared.
Jin An held the tiger sword and opened the way ahead.
The Tiger Saber temporarily acts as a sickle in his hand.
Clear a path.
The deep mountains and old forests in the middle of the night were extremely quiet, with only the rustling sounds of their figures walking through the grass, and the sound of the gurgling river not far away.
The bushes in the deep mountains and old forests covered the sky and the moon, making it extremely dark. Not to mention the moonlight, even the starlight could not shine in. The surroundings were as dark as a splash of thick ink, and only the torches in Jin'an's and others' hands served as barely lighting.
"Little brother, why do I feel like something is wrong with this situation?"
The old Taoist priest turned around and said.
"It's indeed abnormal." Jin An muttered with his eyes exposed.
"We were on the cliff road at a high place, and we clearly saw people making fires and cooking here. But now, we only see large tracts of deserted fields. It's so peaceful here, so peaceful that it's a bit abnormal."
Jin An said, secretly taking a look at Yuyouzi who was walking beside him.
Yuyouzi had a normal expression on his face and was looking around in surprise. Occasionally he looked up at the direction of the stars and moon above his head, and occasionally looked at the geomantic omen around him. It was like he had come to Taoyuan Village for the first time. He didn't show anything unusual.
The old Taoist priest looked at Li Guards at this time and asked doubtfully: "Donor Li, are you sure that there are no omissions in the story of the Headless Village you told?"
"Didn't you say that after that group of traveling businessmen came to Taoyuan Village, people here were busy, people were busy in the fields, children were laughing and running around on the dirt roads in the countryside, and cocks and dogs were crowing in the countryside."
The old Taoist priest looked around at the darkness and silence. They seemed to be walking in a cemetery, and continued: "As promised, the villagers of Taoyuan Village have simple folk customs and are hospitable. We have been entering the boundaries of Taoyuan Village for so long, so we should leave quickly.
After crossing the deserted fields and entering the village, why didn’t I see even a single hospitable villager?”
At this time, Lian Yuyouzi also frowned and said, "I have also heard about the story of Taoyuan Village that Benefactor Li told, Pindao. It is indeed very different from the situation we are encountering now."
"The new headmaster, could it be that this is not Taoyuan Village?"
"Is there any other place in Taoyuan Village?"
Jin An thought as he walked: "We saw fireworks here on the mountain. It can't be fake. It can't be that we are hallucinating collectively, right? Now that we are here, we can only continue to look deeper.
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During the next journey, the five of them walked through the deserted fields for a while, and then found that the earth and rocks under their feet began to gradually become flat and hard.
The soles of the shoes rubbed hard on the ground.
Rubbing away a shallow layer of soil that had not been visited all year round, the rural gravel road below was exposed. It seemed that they had finally walked out of the ridge area of ​​Taoyuan Village and had already embarked on the gravel road into the village.
There were sparse bushes in front of me, and under the hazy moonlight, I could gradually see the blurry black outline of the village.
"It seems that is Taoyuan Village." Jin An said.
It was a peaceful journey.
Not to mention the feast of headless corpses.
They didn't even see the firelights of cooking fires that they had seen on the mountain. The village was extremely dark and quiet.
Xixisuosuo——
Stepping on the weeds, the five people finally arrived at Taoyuan Village. It turned out that this was a desolate and abandoned dead village with nothing.
Dozens of dilapidated stone houses are scattered around, covered with wet and slippery green moss and wall-creeping tigers.
The stone pavement underfoot is covered with a thick layer of black leather.
A section of old tree roots sprouted from under these stone paths, which could trip someone up if they were not careful. They would think it was a ghost stumbling in the middle of the night.
Many stone houses have collapsed.
A group of five people walked in this dilapidated and desolate village, looking small and cold.
Snap.
Snap.
Snap.
In the empty village, the sound of footsteps can be heard far away, crisp, empty, and depressing. Walking in a deserted village in the mountains is like walking among the tombstones in a mass grave.
"It's strange. These houses are so strange. Why do they all face east and west instead of north and south?" The old Taoist priest with old arms and legs and the weakest fighting ability held a torch and walked in the middle of the crowd, muttering all the way.
Muttering.
"There is a saying among the people that if the door faces south, the children and grandchildren will not be cold; if the door faces west, the children will be noisy and cry. It means that the house with the door facing west has poor lighting and cannot see the sun all year round, so the house is cold and cold, and venomous snakes are easy to breed.
Millipedes and other shade-loving poisonous insects take up residence in your home and won’t leave.”
"As for the door facing west, making noise and crying, it is said that newborn babies can see things that ordinary people cannot see, so they often cry incessantly."
"This village does not look like a mansion for the living, but more like a ghost house built specifically for the dead..."
When he said this, the old Taoist priest seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly ran towards a half-collapsed stone house with the door missing long ago, followed by several people from Jin'an.
As a result, I saw several black coffins placed in the stone house, and the atmosphere suddenly became gloomy.
Those coffins looked to have been there for many years. The coffin boards had been exposed to rain all year round, became damp and moldy, and had faded and rotted badly. You could even vaguely see the bones and rotten linen clothes inside.
This discovery immediately surprised several people.
They randomly checked a few nearby stone houses, and sure enough, there were black coffins in each house.
The black coffin means that the corpse buried is that of a person who died violently, died in vain, or died unjustly.
Some homes have three coffins.
In some homes, there are more than ten coffins, occupying the entire room.
At first glance, it seems that the whole family, young and old, are dead.
The entire Taoyuan Village is a ghost house village! The old Taoist priest actually said it right!
"Taoist Jin'an, Taoist Chen, Yuyouzi, come and see this coffin. Why do I feel that the color of this coffin is getting more and more wrong? Why does it look like it is newer than the other coffins?"
Li Weiwei, who was standing next to a coffin with a torch in hand, studying it with great interest and not afraid of life at all, suddenly shouted out in surprise.
In this house, there are a total of twelve coffins, some big coffins and some small coffins. The adults are buried in the big coffins, and the children are buried in the small coffins.
Because there were too many coffins to fit in the house, they were even stacked on top and bottom.
Just now, they were only busy checking whether there were coffins in each house. Under the dark light, they did not notice the different colors of the coffins.
This time, after being reminded by Li Huwei's sharp eyes, they noticed that the color of the coffin in front of them was indeed different from the other coffins.
With the unusual discovery of this coffin, everyone began to examine all twelve coffins in the house.
"The color of this coffin is also different."
"My little brother told me that the color of the coffin here is relatively new."
"Supreme Taiyi rescued Ku Tianzun, and Pindao also found a coffin with a newer color..."
Among the twelve black coffins, less than half were slightly newer in color than the other coffins. Now, needless to say, everyone realized that there was something wrong with these coffins.
"Could these newer coffins be added later?"
"Could it be that the descendants of Taoyuan Village walked out of the mountains and came back later? It is said that fallen leaves return to their roots, and people return to their hometown after death. After a person dies outside, he must bring his body back to Taoyuan Village for burial before he can rest in peace?"
Standing next to the eerie coffin, Li Huwei guessed.
Li Huwei looked at so many coffins in front of him, especially since there was a strange smell in the room. He didn't feel nervous or taboo at all. Instead, he surrounded these coffins with a thick line of admiration.
Jin An refuted Li Huwei's conjecture: "The black coffin can only bury people who died suddenly. They did not die of a normal life or died of illness in a foreign land. Only by opening the lid of the coffin can we see what's inside."
After Jin An spoke, he looked at the old Taoist priest: "Old Taoist, I know that your Tai Chi Bagua bag is lined with tarpaulin, and there are some incense candles in your Tai Chi Bagua bag. You take out some incense candles, and we will worship the dead, and then
Open the coffins today to see what mysteries are hidden in these coffins."
To be continued...