Dilapidated roads, barren grasslands, corpses hanging high, and trees showing their claws.
A gloomy village stands among the mountains and fields. The brown path winds from the village to the outside of the mountains. There seems to be some kind of terror among the dark woods.
The woods swayed, the branches and leaves shook, and an unspeakable horror was brewing.
The pale lights pierced the darkness, and an old bus appeared rickety outside the mountain.
The bus slowed down slowly and finally stopped not far from the path.
Lin Qian looked at the lifeless mountain. The withered old trees seemed to be laughing at everyone.
Shilin Village has arrived.
The door opened slowly, and Lin Qian held the hand of the bride and walked out of the bus. Li Leping looked at Lin Qian who got off the bus with a numb expression, and did not say anything.
Just watching quietly.
"You...where are you going?" Li Chengcheng ran to the bus door with a frightened expression, looked at Lin Qian's back, and asked in a trembling voice.
Cheng Yuhang swallowed his saliva and looked at the mountain outside the window, feeling a little creepy.
That kind of place is not a good place to go at first glance. The vegetation is weird, the mountain roads are rugged, the wind is blowing, and it's weird and inexplicable.
No matter how you look at it, this kind of place is not a place that people should go to, it is more like a place that ghosts should go to.
So he just watched quietly and had no intention of getting off. The same was true for Li Chengcheng, otherwise she wouldn't just stand at the bus door and call Lin Qian.
Lin Qian didn't look back, let alone talk to the woman, and just walked towards the strange and gloomy mountain.
Seeing that Lin Qian didn't pay attention to her, Li Chengcheng's eyes were a little tangled. She looked around, then at Cheng Yuhang and Li Leping in the carriage, and finally her eyes fell on Lin Qian's back again.
She bit her lip as if she had made a decision, and the look in her eyes was full of determination.
So, she walked out of the bus. In the dim bus, Cheng Yuhang looked at Li Chengcheng in disbelief.
He only had one thought in his mind at the moment, and that was that this woman must be crazy, otherwise she wouldn't do such a thing.
Crazy, women are crazy.
Li Leping looked at this woman in surprise, but then he seemed to have thought of something, and shook his head, feeling dumbfounded.
This woman actually regarded Captain Lin as a life-saving straw. She was really a smart woman, but it was a pity that she didn't know what Captain Lin's temper was towards ordinary people.
"Staying in the car and following Captain Lin is certainly a smart choice, but it is also the most dangerous choice." Li Leping reached out and lifted up Li Chengcheng and said.
"If you want to live, don't get out of the car. If you want to die, then do whatever you want." Looking at the frightened woman in his hands, Li Leping added.
Hearing these words, Li Chengcheng's face turned a little pale, and she stared blankly at the young man who lifted her up.
With just one glance, she seemed to have forgotten something very important. Li Leping put the woman down. She had been remembered by him, and there was one more seed of resurrection.
The door of the bus began to close and the bus started to drive slowly. Li Leping looked away from the woman.
He looked at the two red figures gradually disappearing into the mountains, his eyes thoughtful.
On the dark path, the soil is dry, the weeds on both sides of the road are withered and yellow, and in the deep woods, there are whimpering sounds.
Lin Qian lowered his head and looked at the dirt road under his feet. It was uneven, with large and small pits all over the dirt road.
Occasionally, you can see a small piece of bitten bones with pits and pits, and you don't know what was chewed into them.
Ahead was endless darkness, the night was thick and the visibility was only three meters ahead.
Lin Qian turned around and looked at the woods nearby. There seemed to be a lot of things peering at him from the depths.
The malice is too strong to hide, and the things in the woods are very vicious.
Lin Qian licked his lips. In his eyes, there were seven or eight wild dogs in the woods, with dark holes, rotten mouths, and brown liquid flowing out of the cold fangs. They were terrifying and ferocious.
Creepy.
"The corpse dog looks really vicious." Lin Qian muttered in his heart.
A gloomy wind blew, and a disgusting smell of corpses filled the air from the woods, and those ghostly things began to approach him.
Lin Qian smiled, held the bride's hand, and walked forward, when a starving ghost appeared from behind Lin Qian.
The scarlet eyes looked particularly penetrating in the darkness. The starving ghost walked towards the woods. The blue-black haze seeped out from the starving ghost's body and began to erode everything around it.
The woods were soon shrouded in haze, and Lin Qian walked on the dirt road with an expressionless face. Corpse dogs? Just a few dead dogs.
The road ahead was still dark and the surroundings were quiet, which Lin Qian didn't like very much, so lanterns appeared one after another, covering the entire path. The red candlelight reflected from the lanterns, and the entire dirt road turned blood red.
Starving ghosts with blood-red eyes stood on both sides of the road holding lanterns. Lin Qian and the Cunning Bride looked like they were walking on a red carpet.
In the dark mountain, a winding bloody road appeared, just like a winding red python winding up the mountain, ferocious and ferocious.
The darkness was dispelled and the path was no longer dark. Lin Qian walked on the red road, and the soil under his feet began to become moist.
A smell of corpses emanated from the dirt road, and Lin Qian's eyes flickered slightly.
He looked up at a village in front of him, not far away. The dirt road became more viscous as he got closer to the village.
You can even step on some brown liquid when you walk on it, which is disgusting.
Lin Qian looked at the surrounding woods. The crowns of the trees were withered and yellow, and an arm could be vaguely seen under the tree roots.
This arm was covered with mud, the flesh and blood had suppurated, and streams of brown liquid slowly seeped out from the arm.
When Lin Qian saw this scene, he lowered his head and looked at the soil under his feet, and his mouth twitched slightly. This village is really disgusting.
I really don't understand why the umbrella is here.
The lanterns began to disappear, and as Lin Qian walked to the front of the village, the lanterns were completely extinguished.
Looking at the village in front of me, there is nothing surprising. It is just an ordinary village. I had never seen this big mountain when I took the bus before.
There is a stone tablet standing at the entrance of the village. The writing on it is very crooked, but you can still make out what it is written on.
Shilin Village.
This is what it says, but Lin Qian thinks that the cross has been altered by something.
But it doesn’t matter, what the name is is not important, what’s important is the umbrella cover.
The umbrella is the key to ghost marriage. This thing must be prepared for the bride, otherwise there will be some unnecessary troubles at that time.
For example, the bride may be very powerful if she attracts ghosts.
Lin Qian looked at the village and walked in without any further hesitation.
Walking into the village, a strange phenomenon appeared. The moon suddenly appeared and then began to move towards the east.
The moonlight filled the entire village, the smell of corpses began to spread, and streaks of yellow smoke rose from the dirt roads of the village.
But in just an instant, the smoke began to dissipate, the moonlight faded, and a bright sun emerged in the west.
The rising sun?
Lin Qian stood on the main road of the village, watching all this quietly.
The smell of corpses began to disappear, and the dark and dilapidated houses began to become intact.
The scene began to change, withered trees taking on new life, dogs barking, and the western sun freezing at noon.
There was very little smoke from the kitchen, and strips of bacon were hung under the eaves of every house. The sunlight was shining and the texture was clearly visible.
Lin Qian looked at all this with some confusion. He looked at the people sitting in the yard eating with their rice bowls, and he was a little unsure about what was going on.
"Are they all alive?"
Lin Qian frowned. He looked behind him and saw five or six students around the age of seventeen or eighteen, walking towards this side from the entrance of the village.
They were both men and women, the women were barefoot and carried white shoes in their hands.
The men were also barefoot, but they were not only carrying shoes, but also several fish and eels.
They are not small in size, the fish weighs about three kilograms, and the eel weighs about one or two kilograms. It seems that they are all caught from the fields.
Lin Qian looked at them and his brows slowly relaxed. These people were also living people.
Lin Qian moved slightly to avoid blocking their way.
The sun was high in the sky, the sun was shining brightly, and five or six students were walking towards the village, talking and laughing.
It is not difficult to see that they are very familiar with this village. Even if they have not lived here all the time, they have lived here for a while.
Lin Qian looked at them and did not act rashly. He looked at the surrounding buildings.
It's normal, there's nothing weird about it, it just looks like a two-story building.
It wasn't like this before.
The current village is exactly like some villages in real life. There are electric wires and network cables. Lin Qian even saw a few locomotives.
Locomotive... Lin Qian took a deep breath, there was a big problem in this village.
The connection with reality was so deep that he looked like a ghost.
"Shilin Village, this village actually exists somewhere in reality."
Lin Qian was standing on a road. Behind him was a two-story building. He was now standing on the road in front of the dam built into the two-story building.
Lin Qian shook the bride's hand and after making sure that others were seeing only him, he took out his mobile phone and looked at his location.
After seeing the location on the phone clearly, he decisively put the phone back.
It's no use. Sometimes I am located in Dahai City, sometimes in Dachang, and sometimes I am abroad. I am not sure where I am now.
"I'm having some trouble. I can't find an umbrella. There are a lot of people alive in this village. If we were abroad, we would have killed them all."
"It's a pity that this is not..."
Lin Qian looked at the students talking and laughing, and sighed in his heart, why are these people not foreigners? This is the most helpless thought in Lin Qian's heart right now.
It doesn't matter how many people die abroad, but not at home. This makes no sense.
Lin Qian himself didn't know why he thought this, but he thought it made sense.
Those who are not of my race must have different minds. This is the idea that Lin Qian has been instilled in since she was a child.
As for who instilled it...well...a certain anti-war TV series...such as a certain sword.
The sun shines through the leaves, leaving marks on the road. Lin Qian is walking on the main road of the village. He is now at a high place.
The winding brown path behind him has long since disappeared.
Looking down from here, you can see a small banana forest and a two-story building next to it.
Then there is a lychee forest along the way, and then there is a fish pond. There are still some lotus flowers that have not bloomed in the fish pond.
Lin Qian looked at all this with some silence:
"The umbrella is inside a corpse. I felt this just now, but the corpse can't be found, and it's not just that it can't be found."
"That corpse is constantly disappearing and reorganizing, and even umbrellas are appearing in this situation. There are many... many such corpses here."
"What the hell is this place?"
Lin Qian raised his head and glanced at the mountains behind the village, and he had a bad premonition in his heart.
"The source of the evil ghost? Don't be so clever." Lin Qian muttered in his heart.
"Are you here for fun?" At this time, one of the students ran over quickly.
Lin Qian turned around and looked over. She was the only one, and the others must have gone home.
"That's not true. I got lost. I ended up here while walking."
"By the way, where is this? The scenery is pretty good, is it a scenic spot?"
Lin Qian looked at the appearance of this little girl, who was about seventeen or eighteen years old. Her appearance could not be said to be outstanding, but she could only be said to be very delicate. She was about one and a half meters tall. Lin Qian had to lower his head to talk to her.
"Lost?" The girl turned her head and looked in the direction of the village entrance, feeling a little confused.
"Well, I'm lost. I was thinking about things before, but when I came back to my senses, I was already here." Lin Qian looked in the direction the girl was looking.
I already knew what was going on. If nothing else happened, this place was quite famous, and there should be a stone monument at the entrance of the village, otherwise the girl wouldn't make such an action.
"Is that so? We are here in Shilin Town, a protected tourist attraction."
"The big mountain in front is the main scenic spot, and inside it is Shilin Ancient Town." The girl looked at Lin Qian, tilted her head, and said with a smile.
She didn't seem to regard Lin Qian as a bad person.
Lin Qian looked at this girl with bare feet, carrying a pair of white shoes, smiling with crooked eyebrows, smiled, nodded and said:
"Shilin Town? I understand. Thank you very much."
Lin Qian looked back at the entrance of the village with thoughtful eyes:
"Dongjiang? No, not entirely..."
This is Dongjiang, but not quite.
Lin Qian looked at the mountains and felt a little clearer. The customs and customs here were very strange.
"No, you're welcome. It's just a little effort."
The girl looked at Lin Qian's smile. She didn't know if it was because she was too shy, but her face was a little red.
Lin Qian sighed, stretched out his hand to gently stop the bride's waist, and whispered softly, feeling helpless:
"It's nothing, I just asked for directions, and they just told me some things. It's not as serious as you think."
The girl couldn't hear Lin Qian's words. This was Lin Qian's deliberate trick.
Lin Qian was speechless as he looked at the bride who was staring at him. The unconscious bride only had a few thoughts in her mind, and they were gone after too many. She didn't even have the ability to think.
The bride's wedding dress was shaking. Lin Qian reached out and covered his face. He looked at the confused girl. He sighed and snapped his fingers. The girl became confused.
Then Lin Qian turned to look at the bride, hesitated for a while, then lowered her head and kissed her. This was the most effective way to appease the bride.
If he doesn't appease the bride well, he will be very upset if the bride wants to mess with him.
Cold and cold contact will not produce temperature. Lin Qian raised his head and sighed. Looking at the wedding dress that gradually became quiet, Lin Qian felt relieved.
Pretty useful.
The snap of fingers sounded and the girl returned to normal. Lin Qian turned her head and looked at the fish pond not far below, her eyes thoughtful.
The girl seemed a little confused. She looked around and seemed to feel something was wrong.
But I can't tell what exactly is wrong, it's a very weird feeling.
Lin Qian discovered this situation and his eyes flashed slightly. There was also a problem with the girl.
His moving hands and feet can still be felt, which is very wrong.
Lin Qian looked at the large mountains. The mountains were high and the water was long. The fog and shadows were hazy, and they seemed a bit fairy-like.
I heard from the girl that Shilin Ancient Town is there.
Lin Qian didn't speak and was walking alone. The girl stepped on the road barefoot and turned to look at Lin Qian.
"My name is Mou Xinrou. I am 19 years old. What about you?"
The girl looked at Lin Qian shyly, her face a little red, as if she felt embarrassed because of this bold behavior.
"My name is Lin Qian, I am 20 years old this year." Lin Qian said, feeling a little helpless. He looked at the bride, thought about it and patted her waist gently.
"Lin Qian, what a simple name." The girl smiled, her eyebrows curved, a little pretty.
Lin Qian touched his nose, not knowing how to answer, but suddenly his brows wrinkled and a red light flashed in his eyes:
"It's not Dongjiang, it's in Xiangxi. There's some trouble here."
Lin Qian looked at a small insect not far away and probably already knew where this place was.
Qigu has seven claws on its feet, red stripes on its belly, six wings on its back, and is transparent and white like silk.
Wrapping it around the spine can make the dead walk. This thing is very famous in western Hunan.
Born in a pile of corpses, pregnant with thousands of corpses for seventeen years, unique to Xiangxi...
This is what Lin Qian saw from a certain memory, and it is considered a strange story.
This is the description above, but the truth is that Qigu eats corpses and will appear wherever there are corpses.
Are these things as weird as the ancient books say? This thing is only interested in corpses that have been dead for several months.
It is not cold to the corpses of freshly dead people. As for being wrapped around the spine, it can make the dead walk.
This matter is considered a fabrication, it’s not that Li Gui can’t do this.
However, this thing is indeed only found in western Hunan, and cannot be seen in other places.
"There are quite a lot of strange stories about Xiangxi. If we go by the rumors, Xiangxi is a very scary place."
"If those rumors are true, then it is not an exaggeration to say that evil spirits are rampant in this world."
"Driving away corpses... it is most likely impossible for a living person to drive away corpses. If it is a ghost driving away corpses..."
Lin Qian let out a gentle breath. This place must be carefully considered, but be sure not to lose the umbrella cover.