In the dense forest of a deserted village filled with mist, Zhou Fan was leaning against a dead tree, sweating profusely, panting.
He spent the entire night running around in the dense forest.
But it's like a ghost beating a wall, always going in circles in the dense forest and having trouble escaping.
"Looks like I'm trapped here!"
Zhou Fan cursed secretly, although he was reluctant to admit it, but he had to accept this reality.
He raised his head and glanced at the already bright sky, then turned to look at the thick fog that still hadn't dispersed in the dense forest, and finally decided to return to the deserted village.
To untie the bell, one had to tie it. He had tried countless methods throughout the night but could not escape from the dense forest.
This place seems to be completely isolated from the outside world. If he doesn't figure it out, he may be trapped here for the rest of his life.
According to Zhou Fan's idea, he feels that those things hidden in the darkness in the blue sky and white sun should not dare to come out."
After comforting himself, he walked out of the dense forest and arrived at the entrance of the deserted village.
Looking at the deserted village at a glance, the houses have collapsed and almost become ruins, and there are ruins everywhere.
He passed many abandoned and dilapidated houses along the way and found that they were fully equipped with daily necessities and furniture, and it didn't look like they were moving away.
He found no bodies and saw no signs of a fight.
The villagers here seemed to have suddenly disappeared without leaving any clues.
Zhou Fan walked around the village full of doubts. When he passed a square ancient well, he always felt his brows twitching and his pupils trembling, as if they were giving him a warning.
Surprised and uncertain, he did not dare to approach the ancient well easily, but instead ran away from the ancient well and rushed towards the ancestral hall in the distance.
When he arrived outside the ancestral hall, he found a man's body lying outside the door.
The man was covered in blood and covered with claw marks, as if he had been attacked and torn by some kind of wild beast.
Zhou Fan looked around suspiciously and found no potential danger.
He cautiously walked forward to inspect the man's body, and found that the man's body was stiff and covered with claw marks, and his heart had been dug out.
Seeing the tragic scene of the man's abnormal death, Zhou Fan couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
He suspected that the dead middle-aged man was probably one of the two people who passed by during the conversation last night.
They are obviously not ordinary people, but one of them still died tragically here.
This made Zhou Fan, who had originally planned to go to the ancestral hall to investigate, immediately give up the idea of entering.
Without any time to hesitate, he quickly searched the man's body.
Finally, I found a yellowed talisman, a small object that looked like a compass, and a letter.
"Amitabha! May you be reborn in bliss!"
Zhou Fan had short hands and bowed to the corpse.
Then they dragged him to a corner not far away, buried his body with weeds, and then headed towards the old house in the deserted village to the west.
Apart from the ancestral hall, the old house in the deserted village is the only one that has not been destroyed.
He planned to search the old house and find out the reason for each inexplicable coma.
Zhou Fan was careful along the way and did not encounter any danger when he returned to his old house.
This time he was on guard when he stepped into the old house, and he became more cautious.
As the door opened with a creak, he began to search inside the house.
The house was not big, and he searched carefully and found nothing suspicious.
When he found it under the bed, he vaguely smelled a faint fragrance.
Zhou Fan was startled and quickly held his breath. Following the scent, he found a palm-sized pot of blue flowers under the innermost bed.
As soon as you get close to the little blue flower, you can smell the pungent and rich fragrance.
As soon as he smelled the fragrance, he felt a little dizzy and drowsy.
"It turns out to be you little thing!"
After finding the culprit, Zhou Fan couldn't help but smile.
He held his breath and took the little blue flower out from under the bed, and finally covered it under the quilt.
Then, he quietly opened the door and window for ventilation.
After a while, I felt the drowsiness gradually dissipated.
Zhou Fan finally had time to study the yellowed talisman obtained from the man's corpse.
The talisman looks like a ghostly talisman, the type that is completely incomprehensible.
There is a small cluster of text on the back that says the corpse-fixing talisman, and how to use the talisman can be understood.
In the past, Zhou Fan, an atheist, did not believe in ghosts and gods.
But after personally experiencing all kinds of outrageous and strange events in the past few days.
His intuition told him that this corpse-fixing talisman might be able to save his life at a critical moment.
He studied the corpse-fixing talisman for a while, and then took out the small compass.
The compass needle was turning slowly, and finally it pointed under the bed and stopped.
Zhou Fan was startled and quickly got down under the bed to check. Fortunately, he didn't see anything hiding under the bed.
He shook the compass a few times suspiciously and found that the compass pointer was still pointing under the bed.
Zhou Fan, who was full of doubts, didn't know what the compass was for, but since the man carried it with him, it proved that the compass was not useless.
Being a little unsure, he did not immediately go under the bed and search carefully. Instead, he took out the envelope found from the man's body and read it.
The organization sent me and Leng Jian to find the missing member Ye Lin. We followed the clues and came to the barren mountain.
There is an eternal forbidden place here, and we accidentally entered it and were unable to leave for a while.
I thought it was just a low-level forbidden area, but after entering the deserted village, the warning compass started to rotate crazily.
There is a big evil here. If you want to leave here, you need to kill the source of the evil.
Never wander around in the village. Old houses and ancestral halls are temporary safe places.
...
The handwriting on the envelope was extremely sloppy, but Zhou Fan got a lot of useful information.
The first thing that can be made clear is that they have their own organization.
Cousin Ye Lin is in the organization, and the two of them came here to find her.
This place is called the Eternal Forbidden Land. It sounds like an unlucky place, and it seems to be extremely dangerous.
Secondly, it seems like you need to kill something vicious to leave here.
After summarizing some important news, Zhou Fan felt a little pain in his head.
How can he, an ordinary person, kill a murderous creature? This is simply a fantasy for him.
The only thing that gave him some peace of mind was that the ancestral hall and the old house were temporary safe places.
As for why it is called temporary, he still doesn't understand.
"Damn! What on earth does my cousin want to do?"
"You want me to come here and give someone a head?"
Zhou Fan couldn't help but curse, wondering why his cousin, who had always loved him, suddenly tricked him into coming to such a dangerous place this time.
After muttering secretly, he finally crawled under the bed and started searching.
After some searching, he discovered that the masonry under the bed could be moved.
It was already approaching evening outside, and he quickly pushed the bricks away without any time to hesitate.
Soon, a dark hole half a meter long and wide was revealed.
He discovered that under the floor tiles was a confined space similar to a cellar.
Zhou Fan climbed down the wooden ladder and went down to the cellar and found many daily necessities placed around him.
One of the old wooden tables instantly caught his attention.
He walked forward and found many torn yellow papers and a brand new diary placed on the wooden table.
There were some crooked tadpole writing written on the yellow paper, but he couldn't understand a single word.
Finally, he picked up the brand new diary and read it.
My name is Liu Shan, and I am the only survivor in Liujia Village.
If you are lucky enough to see the notes I left, congratulations, you may be imprisoned here forever and eventually die.
"..."
When Zhou Fan read the opening chapter, he almost failed to greet the eighteen generations of Liu Shan's ancestors.
This is simply killing people!
Do you want to be so gloating?
Zhou Fan, who secretly cursed and complained, continued to turn to the second page and started checking.
Today is the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, which is the traditional Ghost Festival.
According to village customs, children are not allowed to go out, and villagers are not allowed to leave the village without authorization, and it is even more taboo to enter the mountains.
The old village chief violated the rules left by his ancestors and went into the mountain early that morning for some unknown reason.
It wasn't until late at night that he quietly returned to the village carrying a black cloth bag and I accidentally bumped into him.
On July 16, while the old village chief was not at home, I sneaked into his house out of curiosity and found a large coffin.
Inside the coffin was a lifelike, beautiful woman dressed in red.
In the woman's arms was a little girl who looked about three or four years old and looked like a porcelain doll.
At first I thought the old village chief was a hidden beauty in the golden house, but after checking their breathing, I was shocked to find that they were actually corpses.
I was frightened and fled home in horror, not daring to spread the news that the old village chief had hidden the body.
The old village chief secretly returned to the village that night, and I noticed that he carried the coffin out of the village overnight, not knowing where he was going.
I originally thought that this was the end of the matter. Even if the old village chief had a special hobby, it had nothing to do with me.
But many strange events happened later, which made me more and more frightened.