In an empty field, the scorching sun shone on a slightly sickly pale face, unable to give any warmth to this cold-blooded man.
"here……"
Li Leping looked in front of him and frowned slightly.
He found that he had come to a mysterious place again in confusion.
No, I can’t say it was due to confusion, it should have been caused by the movement of the poster.
Fortunately, this time his supernatural powers were all normal and had not been weakened in any way.
With his previous experience, Li Leping was not in a hurry about the current changes, and he didn't even show a surprised expression.
He stood there, motionless.
He is thinking and observing.
He looked around, looking everywhere.
Then, he lowered his head and looked at the road under his feet.
The road is paved with red bricks.
This road made of red bricks extends forward, eventually leading to a small town that cannot exist in reality.
Ghost town.
These two characters are written on the archway.
But whose town would be named a ghost town?
There is no doubt that in reality no town would dare to call itself a ghost town.
Unless there really is a ghost in this place.
And Li Leping, who was brought here by the supernatural, is also aware of the weirdness here.
However, the ghost town in front of me doesn't seem weird at all.
Standing here, he could already vaguely glimpse part of the situation in the town.
Looking at it, although the houses in the town are Chinese-style brick-walled and tiled houses, they don't look like the depression and dilapidation in the supernatural events at all. Instead, they give people a very new look, as if they were just built a few years ago.
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And although this place is called a ghost town, it is not a dead town.
Just outside the town, he had already seen some figures in the town.
There were groups of children playing in groups, as well as old people strolling around the town sunbathing.
There are various signs that this looks like a normal town.
This place is not old, and there is no coldness caused by the wandering ghosts. The sunshine in the sky is also so warm, reflecting on the rosy faces of the people who do not look like ghosts or ghost slaves.
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"Go in and have a look."
Li Leping took the initiative to walk into this town.
He did not deliberately hide his whereabouts, but deliberately wanted to see if he could stimulate the town to expose some problems.
With an entry point, he can figure out where the problem lies and then solve the source.
He knows there is a problem here, but the problem here is too weird. This kind of weirdness that disguises itself as normal is difficult to understand and difficult to explore.
"Will this place be like Huanggang Village? Before problems arise, everything will be in a false normality. Only when problems arise, this false normality will be overturned in an instant."
Li Leping made some guesses but did not stop at the same time.
However, those people wandering around the town seemed to have not seen him at all, and simply ignored him, a strange face from outside the town.
Groups of children playing in groups were still chasing each other on the road, fighting with each other and making all kinds of shouts.
They came to meet Li Leping and saw Li Leping.
However, they just bypassed him in their playfulness.
No one was curious about him.
There were also old people who seemed to have lived here for many years, all of them passed by him with their hands behind their backs and crutches.
It's as if the people here really ignored his existence under the influence of the Forgotten Ghost.
It looks really normal here.
The only thing that made Li Leping feel wrong was the way these people were dressed.
Regardless of men, women, old or young, people here wear modern country clothes, with single colors and very simple styles. They are not pursuing any fashion trends like today, but purely for breathability.
But really speaking, there doesn't seem to be anything strange about dressing like this.
Even in modern times, many people in towns and villages still dress like this. At most, it is only some young people who come back from outside the city to visit relatives who are dressed in flashy clothes.
However, this kind of people are basically assimilated by the people in the town quickly. They decisively give up their famous brands and wear a vest that is especially breathable in summer, or simply wear nothing at all and just go shirtless in the street.
Take a walk on the road.
"That does not work."
After walking for a while, Li Leping didn't want to wander around this place meaninglessly.
Suddenly.
He stopped an old man walking towards him: "Old man."
"Um?"
The old man, who looked a little dim-sighted, was immediately startled by the strange man standing in front of him.
"Huh? Which family are you from, young man? What's wrong?"
It wasn't until Li Leping took the initiative to speak that the old man noticed such a strange face that he had never seen in the town in his scrutinizing eyes.
The old man's voice sounded very similar to that of an elderly person. Because his ears were a little hard to hear, the decibel level of his voice was also increased.
Li Leping did not answer the old man's question, but asked without hesitation: "Old man, do you know what this town is called?"
"A ghost town, isn't it weird?"
The old man answered loudly and didn't think there was anything wrong with the town's name at all.
The old man's angry question made Li Leping stunned for a moment.
You know, even now there are still many people who firmly believe in the so-called theories of ghosts and gods and various folk customs, not to mention those who are older and have been influenced by the older generation.
It is absolutely impossible for these people to put the word "ghost" in front of the town's name without hesitation.
This is not just an unlucky issue, but in the eyes of some people, this ostentatious name is no different from actively attracting ghosts to your door.
However, the old man in front of him, who seemed to be in his seventies, actually thought that the town's unreasonable name was normal.
Li Leping was stunned for a moment by the unreasonable answer, but he quickly asked: "Sir, do you know why this place is called a ghost town?"
His question was very straight to the point, because he just wanted to use this unreasonable town name to stimulate the old man and make this seemingly normal old man realize that something was wrong, which would eventually trigger a series of problems.
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However, the old man remained the same as before. Not only did he have no doubts about the town's unreasonable name, he even explained to Li Leping why he named the town Ghost Town.
"Nuo dance?"
Li Leping immediately fell into deep thought after hearing these two words.
He seemed to have obtained some information inadvertently.
A long time ago, he had read a novel related to "Nuo culture", and then learned some knowledge about Nuo culture from the comment area under the novel.
Nuo, this ancient and mysterious word is composed of the two characters "human" and "difficulty". It itself has the meaning of chasing away epidemics. In the long cultural development, the word "nuo" has also derived such things as Nuo customs, Nuo songs,
Nuo dance, Nuo opera and other rituals.
Nuo dance is an ancient dance used to drive away ghosts and diseases. It is probably a ritual in which Nuo people wear ferocious Nuo masks, hold weapons, and walk along the door under the light of torches to drive away evil spirits that harm human beings.
However, Nuo dance is a relatively pleasant term. In fact, Nuo dance has another, more ominous term.
Ghost show.
Initially, the so-called ghost plays were not performed for people to watch. In ancient superstitious sayings, there were listeners from all directions, mortals from all directions, and ghosts and gods from seven directions.
Once the play starts, it cannot stop. Regardless of whether anyone is listening or not, the play must be sung until the end, because even if mortals don't listen, there are still ghosts and gods listening.
Because of this, you cannot stop singing in the middle.
Especially this so-called ghost play has a lot of taboos, because just from the name, you know that this play is not sung for people to listen to, and this dance is not danced for people to watch.
It was when he heard the word "Nuo dance" that Li Leping thought of that poster.
A shady drama, isn’t it a ghost drama?
"It seems like the entry point is right here."
Just when Li Leping accidentally discovered the key points of this place, the old man was also talking about the origin of Nuo dance, and then extended to the reason why this place is called a ghost town.
Because this place itself is a place to expel evil spirits, there is no need to worry about attracting ghosts to your door.
The town was named a ghost town to deliberately attract ghosts.
It sounds bold enough, and even a little reasonable.
"Old man, if we want to dance Nuo dance, where is the stage?" Li Leping continued to ask.
"That's where the Nuo dance is."
The old man pointed a direction to Li Leping.
The houses and residences in this small town are intertwined, which also makes the roads in the town complicated. If no one points out a specific direction, Li Leping may just drive around this place several times and still not find the stage that the old man mentioned.
After getting the direction, Li Leping left immediately without even saying thank you.
Soon, Li Leping, who walked for a while on the ghost town road in the direction pointed by the old man, finally came to a very special place.
"Send to the ghost corridor?"
After getting closer, Li Leping saw clearly the plaque hanging under the eaves. These three words seemed to indicate the purpose of the building.
This seems to be the central area of the town, but there is only one old-style house built. There is a large open space around the house, and then you can see other houses surrounding it.
This construction method is very inconsistent, as if it means that the surrounding houses are deliberately staying away from this house.
There was originally a small town with pedestrian activities, but now it was completely deserted. The surrounding area was eerily calm, and not a single sound could be heard. It was as if the residents of this small town were involuntarily moving away from this ominous place.
Moreover, what is even more inconsistent is that there is a screen wall in front of the house, as if to indicate that the owner does not want anyone to pry into the house, or that the owner wants to use this stone wall to shield some things in the house.
What makes people tremble is that there is a white face painted in the middle area of the screen wall. The eyes of this face are open, revealing a strange sense of darkness, like a pair of dead eyes.
As for the stage, it was built in front of the building. The particularly simple-looking stage had a pillar on each side. A row of white lanterns hung on the rope connecting the two pillars, giving people the impression that this place was not a stage.
It feels like a mourning hall.
There was no one on the strange stage, and no one had started singing yet. Li Leping first felt a gloomy and ominous atmosphere permeating the place.
"The show here is really not for people to watch, but I don't know where the ghost watching this show is."
Li Leping squinted his eyes and did not walk onto the stage. He just wanted to go to the side of the stage and try to see what was inside the room covered by the screen wall.
However, something incomprehensible happened.
It seemed that when he changed his position, the screen wall standing in front of the door also changed its position with his sight.
No matter which angle Li Leping looked from, he could only see this screen wall with a strange white face painted on it, and could not see what was going on inside the house at all.
At most, he could only see some corners near the gate, but this made no sense at all.
"Is there a supernatural phenomenon? There is indeed something wrong with this place."
Li Leping didn't see clearly the poster stuck to his arm. He only saw the most conspicuous large bloody characters on the poster.
Dirty drama.
And the only place related to drama is obviously this stage.
"But now there are no Nuo people on the stage, there is no audience in the audience, and the play has not begun."
Li Leping frowned. He stared at the motionless stage, completely unable to imagine the purpose of this place or the purpose of the poster.
"Looking at the content of that poster, it seems to be closely related to this place. I couldn't have been dragged in for no reason. I must have inadvertently violated some rules that led to the current situation."
"But I don't know much about that so-called movie theater, and I don't know the reason why that place draws people into the posters."
"And Xu Jin, whether he is a human or a ghost, he has also received the poster, so he is probably dragged into this incomprehensible town by the poster, but I haven't seen him so far."
He stood outside the stage, lost in thought.
He is not a historian. At most, he can only be regarded as a college student who has heard a little about everything because of the development of the Internet. It would be unreasonable for him to speculate on the reason for the existence of this place and the method of getting out of trouble based on this meager knowledge and the name on the poster.
Some are not very realistic.
The most important thing is that Xu Jin, who was suspected of being invaded by ghosts, also came to this small town.
What would happen if a ghost came to this small town with hidden supernatural beings?
But just when he was deep in thought.
A man with a skinny face, a numb expression, and gloomy eyes, who was dressed like a man from the late 1990s, came from nowhere.
"who?"
Li Leping turned around suddenly.
Although he was in a thinking state, his vigilance towards his surroundings had not diminished at all.
Although the man walking over deliberately lowered his footsteps, in this quiet atmosphere, any movement would attract Li Leping's attention.
"Get ready to take action."
Li Leping's eyes were focused, he looked around the deserted stage, and he was ready to take action instantly.
However, just when Li Leping was about to kill the approaching man.
The man who was walking towards him stopped when he saw Li Leping turning around.
"A living person?"
The man spoke, and his voice was filled with a kind of numbness, but this kind of numbness was not like the numbness of a ghost master, but more like a kind of numbness caused by being in a powerless environment for a long time.
It's a bit like the kind of numbness that makes you no longer sentimental about someone's death after seeing too many corpses. The thoughts of compassion and empathy have long been wiped out by this numbness.