The lights of the bus pierced the darkness, and the bus body trembled slightly as it drove towards the darkness in the distance.
The broken limbs left on the spot were swallowed up by the darkness. Lin Bei's bald head rolled to the ground, looking a little different.
The incredible look on his face showed that he was surprised by what he saw before his death.
Even he didn't believe what he saw.
The smell of blood filled the air, the corpse began to rot, and a stench appeared, making people sick and want to vomit.
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Stepping into the ancient town, a strong aroma of vegetables emerged. Smelling this smell, the girl quickly turned to look at Lin Qian, with surprise on her face:
"Grandma made stir-fried bacon and flower fish."
The girl held Lin Qian's sleeve and ran quickly towards a house in front of her.
Lin Qian's eyes flashed slightly, she looked at the sleeve being pulled by the girl, and thought for a while without saying anything.
He didn't break away, and just let her pull him. The two of them ran on the bluestone road, the sound of clear footsteps sounded, very cheerful.
Dusk is approaching, the setting sun is level with the sunset, and the mountains are covered with a pale red scarf.
Lin Qian looked at the girl in the dusk, her eyes calm and without any feeling.
"Grandma, I'm back."
The girl pulled Lin Qian and pushed open the door of the house. She let go of Lin Qian's hand, her face was red, and she looked a little childish and beautiful.
Lin Qian stood outside the door and did not go in immediately. He looked around.
The girl's home is very spacious. There is a dam in front with several fruit trees. From here, you can see the green river at a glance.
The mountains are high and the water is clear, a land of peach blossoms.
"Xiao Rou, where did you go to play this time?"
At this time, an old woman came out of the kitchen. She was wearing Miao clothes and no accessories on her head. She looked about fifty or sixty years old and had a lot of wrinkles on her face.
The Miao clothing she is wearing also looks very simple, without too many decorations, giving people a very simple and plain feeling.
"Grandma, I went to the market this time. When I came back, I fished in the water with my classmates. Although I didn't touch it, I was still very happy." The girl held the old man's arm and shook it gently, with a smile in her eyes.
"Is that so? That's good. Just be happy." The old man patted the girl's head and turned to look at Lin Qian standing outside the door.
When she saw Lin Qian clearly, her expression changed, and her eyes were full of horror.
Lin Qian pushed up his glasses and looked at the old woman with a smile on his face.
It's not easy. After walking for so long, I finally met someone who knows the truth.
The old man looked at Lin Qian, his eyes shrank, and he looked at his granddaughter. She was a little silent, thought for a while and didn't say anything, but smiled reluctantly.
"Xiaorou, this is..." the old man asked.
"This is Lin Qian. He came here for a trip. Because of some problems, he got lost, so I plan to let him live here for a while... Grandma, you won't chase people away, right?"
The girl looked at her grandma nervously, fearing that she would not agree to Lin Qian staying here for the night.
Hearing her granddaughter's words, the old man looked a little unnatural. She looked at her granddaughter and sighed inwardly.
Driving people away? That only requires her to have the courage.
The old man looked at the bride lying on Lin Qian's back, his eyes full of helplessness and solemnity.
Her granddaughter brought something back, and the Luohua Cave Girl couldn't defeat it.
"Grandma! You don't really want to drive people away!"
Seeing that her grandma was silent, the girl was a little flustered for a moment. She thought her grandma was unwilling to let Lin Qian stay overnight, so she shook her grandma's arm and looked pleading.
Hearing what her granddaughter said, the old man sighed and felt helpless. Finally, she shook her head and said:
"If you don't chase people away, how can grandma chase away the guests brought by Xiaorou?"
Even if she wanted to rush, she wouldn't dare. She held these words in her heart and didn't dare to say them.
The things outside the door are too weird, so it's better not to say some things.
"Yeah, thank you, grandma, grandma is the best!" The girl shook the old man's arm, looked at Lin Qian secretly, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Go wash your hands and eat, remember to ask him to come with you." The old man stared at Lin Qian, finally sighed, said nothing more, turned around and entered the kitchen, and began to prepare the last dish.
The girl agreed, and then waved to Lin Qian with a guilty conscience, gesturing for him to follow her.
Lin Qian looked at this scene and smiled, not surprised. He looked at the bride on his back and pinched her nose gently.
There is something thoughtful in his eyes.
The red bug before was probably not targeting the bride by chance...
Lin Qian walked into the courtyard, closed the door, and washed her hands with Mou Xinrou.
Then the two of them walked back to the courtyard together, where food was already set on a stone table.
Stir-fried bacon, croaker fish, potato (potato), cold konjac, and rice tofu, there are five dishes in total, which look extremely appetizing.
The afterglow of the setting sun lingered in the yard, and the old man greeted the two of them to sit down.
"Want to drink?" The old man looked at Lin Qian and asked tentatively.
Lin Qian smiled and shook his head and said: "Forget it about drinking. I can't drink the wine in your place."
The old man nodded, as if he heard the implication of Lin Qian's words, and said:
"If you are not from Xiangxi, you dare not drink Xiangxi wine. You are right."
Lin Qian nodded and said no more words. The girl looked at her grandma and Lin Qian with some confusion. After thinking about it for a while, she still didn't speak. She just ate in silence and occasionally peeked at Lin Qian.
The old man was a little helpless, drinking wine and eating vegetables by himself without saying a word.
Lin Qian didn't care about this. She was eating the delicacies on the table and thinking about the big river in the ancient town.
The corpse cave inside is a bit difficult to enter. Eighteen hundred ghosts have died from starvation, and they haven’t found a way to get in yet.
It seems that Lin Qian went to see it personally in the evening. It is not impossible now, but Lin Qian is sure that he can't even see the shadow of the corpse cave now.
Otherwise, how do you think those starving ghosts died...
"Are you the person in charge from outside?" the old man suddenly asked.
She looked at Lin Qian, her eyes flashing, not knowing what she was thinking.
When the girl heard this, her face changed slightly. She turned to look at Lin Qian, her eyes a little confused.
Lin Qian picked up a piece of potato, put it in his mouth and ate it slowly.
"The flower fish is very good, but it has a bit of a bloody smell, which is not very pleasant, but it is still acceptable."
Lin Qian picked up a piece of croaker fish and tasted it carefully.
No one spoke except Lin Qian. The old man looked at Lin Qian with a calm expression.
The girl looked at Lin Qian, clutching the corners of her clothes with her fingers. It seemed that she was very important to whether Lin Qian was the person in charge.
Feeling the gazes of the two people, Lin Qian was very calm. He put down his kuaizi, wiped his mouth, and was about to say something.
He frowned, not just him, but the old man and the girl as well.
The old man's face was a bit unsightly, and the girl's face was even pale.
Woohoo~
Woohoo~
The sound of crying and howling sounded one after another, echoing throughout the entire Shilin ancient town.
"I would rather hear a living person laugh than a domestic dog cry... Whoever cries will die..." the old man murmured to himself.
The wailing in the ears one after another is very distressing, the dog is crying, and the family is mourning.
Lin Qian's expression moved slightly. The old man's words were very interesting. He glanced at Mou Xinrou's expression and found that she was already in a state of despair.
Lin Qian let out a gentle breath, and a starving ghost quietly appeared in the dam outside the yard.
Lin Qian's eyes flashed slightly, and a vision entered his mind.
From the sight of the starving ghost, we can see that in every household with dogs, their dogs are crying.
Those who cried were heart-wrenching, and some even hugged their master's thighs, tears streaming down their faces.
The owners of the dogs all had uncertain expressions on their faces. Some simply killed the howling dog with a stick, while others could not do anything and could only let it cry.
The cries and howls of domestic dogs could be heard one after another in the town. Lin Qian looked at all this with deep thought in his heart.
"Is the corpse cave coming out?"
Lin Qian calmly picked up a piece of croaker fish and looked very calm.
Ever since the dog's cry started to sound, corpses could appear in the big green river.
Although these corpses were only fleeting, they were still felt by Lin Qian.
That kind of supernatural fluctuation was too conspicuous. Lin Qian was not blind, so there was no way he could not feel it.
"Trouble, something is going to happen." Mou Xinrou's grandma was sitting on a stone chair, her expression changing.
The girl looked at Lin Qian blankly, with some fear in her eyes.
Lin Qian didn't care and just ate the fish calmly. The fish was delicious. He remembered the taste and the ingredients.
I'll make it for Coco and Xiaoyue to eat after I get back.
"Are you the person in charge outside?" The old man looked at Lin Qian nervously, or to be precise, at the bride holding Lin Qian's neck.
The bride was so beautiful that she didn't dare to take another look.
The girl pursed her lips and looked at Lin Qian pitifully, with expectation and helplessness in her moist eyes.
Lin Qian put Kuaizi down, wiped his mouth, looked up at the old man and the girl, thought for a while and asked:
"Why do you think I am the person in charge? I look like I am the person in charge, or have you seen it before?"
The cries of dogs continued in the ears, and more and more corpses appeared in the river, but without exception, they disappeared in an instant.
Very fast and very strange.
There was some silence at the dinner table. Mou Xinrou's grandma looked at Lin Qian with a complicated expression. After hesitating for a while, she said:
"I met Lu An, the person in charge of Danan City. He tried some things and failed. Some things about you are very similar to him..."
"No, it's probably because he looks a lot like you, that's why I asked you if you are the person in charge."
Hearing this, Lin Qian narrowed his eyes, Lu An, he had heard of this person, and the ghost he controlled was somewhat similar to a ritual existence.
He had been here before and heard what the old man meant, but judging from the situation, it seemed that he failed in dealing with something.
The sky gradually darkened. Lin Qian watched the old man walk to the door, stretched out his hand and added another door bolt.
After doing all this, the old man breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and sat on the stone chair again.
Lin Qian didn't care about the old man's strange behavior, he just looked at the girl who was starting to look confused.
A faint fragrance of flowers surrounded the girl's body. The old man's eyes were a little dark. He sighed, stood up, walked to Mou Xinrou, and took her back to the house.
Then he locked the room door.
After doing this, the old man sat down opposite Lin Qian a little tiredly, his weathered face full of sorrow.
Lin Qian paid attention to all this, looked at the locked room, his expression moved slightly, and he turned to look outside the door.
winter, winter, winter
winter, winter, winter
"Sister Xiaorou, I'm Xiaomeng. I'm here to play with you. Open the door quickly!"
At this time, a girl named Xiao Meng suddenly knocked on the door.
Her voice is very childish, and you can tell from her voice that she is much younger than Mou Xinrou, at least about five years younger.
so……
Lin Qian's eyes flickered slightly as he looked at the sounds and knocks coming from the door.
It's not a ghost, it's a living corpse, similar to a ghost slave, but not a ghost slave.
The old man seems to have become accustomed to his appearance, drinking wine that is not too strong, minding his own business, and his expression is full of sorrow.
"Just get used to it. This thing comes calling for Xiaorou almost every night. As long as you pay a little attention, it will be fine." The old man explained.
Lin Qian looked away from the door, his eyes flickering slightly. He looked at Xiaorou's locked room, thought for a while and asked:
"Have you ever been called out?"
Hearing this, the old man didn't avoid anything and nodded directly and said:
"Once, because of some special reasons, Xiaorou and I also had some problems at that time. I accidentally let that thing call Xiaorou out. Fortunately, the big black dog in the village knew Xiaorou very well.
, dragged Xiaorou back immediately."
"Fortunately, there was no big problem. Later, I simply put a lock outside Xiaorou's room so that she wouldn't run out. Even if she ran out, I would know it immediately."
After hearing the old man's explanation, Lin Qian roughly understood what was going on.
But soon he became a little confused. He looked at the old man:
"Does this happen to the Luohua Cave girl?"
When the old man heard the words "Luohua Cave Girl", his eyes suddenly lit up. She looked at Lin Qian:
"Even if you are not the person in charge, you are much better than the person in charge!"
Lin Qian:……
"You seem to be very obsessed with whether I am the person in charge. Can you tell me why?" Lin Qian asked.
Hearing Lin Qian's words, the old man was a little silent. After thinking about it, she seemed to have thought of something. She turned her head and looked at the room where Xiaorou was, and finally sighed and said:
"If you are the person in charge, you can solve the problems in Xiangxi. Compared with others, we in Xiangxi are more willing to trust the country."
"Xiaorou's problem is very troublesome. Because of me, she has not completely become the Luohua Cave Girl, which also means that she will not be protected by the Gu God."
"This is also the reason why Xiaorou is harassed by those things, and is even in danger of being killed."
There was some remorse and guilt on the old man's face. She looked at the door being knocked and listened to the shouts in her ears, her eyes full of sadness.
After hearing this explanation, Lin Qian was a little confused:
"Why do you think the person in charge can help you solve these problems? The person in charge of the headquarters is not a kind person."
"They will. If there is no one here to solve the problem, Danan City will disappear." The old man stared at Lin Qian with a serious expression.
Lin Qiantong shrank slightly. This matter was a bit serious. Danan City would disappear. To put it simply, it would fall.
"Troublesome thing." Lin Qian looked at the old man and said.
"I actually don't care about these things, but the reason why I come here is probably related to the Luohua Cave Girl. One of my wife's things is here, but it's a pity that I won't be able to find it for a while."
"This is very troublesome. That thing is too fragile, which makes me very passive, so that I am constrained until now."
"Otherwise, according to my temper, I will bulldoze your Shilin Ancient Town just for the things outside the door today." Lin Qian pointed to the knock on the door, her eyes full of indifference.
The bulldozing he was talking about meant bulldozing, the kind of bulldozing that killed everyone, both living and dead.
The old woman narrowed her eyes slightly and was a little silent. Finally she said:
"You are so murderous."
Lin Qian smiled, with a look of disapproval:
"Let me introduce myself, Lin Qian, the person in charge of Dajiang City, one of the captains of the headquarters."
The old man was silent again...
She looked at Lin Qian and didn't want to speak. The person coming this time was a bit big. She knew that the captain of the headquarters, Lu An, had told her.
The person who can become the captain of the headquarters must either be of the highest strength or possess special abilities.
And the young man in front of him, who was carrying his wife on his back, was obviously the first.
"What are you looking for? Tell me, maybe I know something. After all, I am the only Luohua Cave girl who did not die when the Gu God revived."
The old man's temperament changed. Lin Qian looked at the old man and saw nobility and glamor in her.
I can't believe that this is the kind of temperament an old woman can exude.
The last Luohua Cave Girl who survived, according to the legend in western Hunan, only the most beautiful girl can be chosen by God as the Luohua Cave Girl.
If this is true, then it really corresponds to the saying, who was not a beauty when they were young?
Lin Qian's head has been slightly tilted recently, and he is becoming more and more interested in this place.
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Otsu City, twelve o'clock in the evening.
Fan Ba looked at the city in front of him uneasily, feeling that something was about to happen.
"Weird thing, why do I feel like I'm going to die?" Fan Ba frowned and muttered to himself.
Under a bus stop, the street lights suddenly started to flash, and the street signs next to it quickly began to look old.
Darkness appeared on the road, and an old bus appeared on the road.
Pale lights illuminated the road ahead, and a fully loaded bus began to drive into the platform.
The bus began to slow down, the street lights at the platform were completely turned off, darkness enveloped the city, and the city was very quiet at midnight.
laugh……
The bus stopped successfully, the door slowly opened, and the numbers on the sign began to decrease.
36,35,34……
15,11,9……
7,5,1…
The pale lights began to flicker, the bus door slowly closed, darkness emerged, and the bus disappeared into the night.