162, Ancient Temple [5,000-character Dazhang Monthly Pass]
Gu Chen followed the old lady to her house.
To be honest, compared with the buildings in the city, the houses in Liucun are more like B&Bs.
Not only is it spacious, but there are few people.
Gu Chen learned from the old lady that her children no longer lived here and only went home every Spring Festival.
And every year, the villagers of Liucun make use of their rural characteristics to develop the rural tourism economy and receive many tourists who come for outings.
It has the most primitive buildings, the most delicious pollution-free vegetables, and spacious and clean rooms.
Nowadays, rumors are spreading widely, causing people in Meishan Town to panic. Everyone likes to define unexplainable things as gods and ghosts.
Especially the older generation in rural areas believe it.
Since the depression in Liucun, a large number of young and middle-aged people have been lost. The income of villagers has also dropped sharply, and everyone has lost hope.
"Young man, there are several houses here. You can choose to live in them. They are all quite clean." The old woman hunched over and introduced the rooms to several people.
Police officer Wang next to him said: "I've heard before that Liucun has beautiful mountains and clear waters, and the B&B is also unique. I didn't expect that seeing it is better than hearing it a hundred times. It's true."
The old lady waved her hand: "My ears are not good, and I can't understand what you are saying."
Lu Weiwei on the side laughed and said: "Old Wang, this old lady can't understand your docile things, how can I be more polite?"
"Down-to-earth?" Officer Wang was stunned for a moment, then stretched out his hand and said, "You can do it."
Lu Weiwei immediately lowered her head, put her hands on the grandmother's shoulders, and said in her ear: "Grandma, thank you, you are so kind."
"Okay, okay." The old woman was very happy and said with a smile: "Since the haunting started half a year ago, we don't have any people from other villages living here. You should be the last batch. If you live comfortably, grandma will be happy.
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"Thank you, grandma." After Lu Weiwei said this, she did not forget to give the old grandma a gentle peck on her wrinkled face.
Now the old lady was even happier and immediately said she would prepare dinner ingredients for everyone.
Officer Wang expressed that he was shocked. He didn't expect that this was possible. Sure enough, bringing Lu Weiwei with him would make it easier to break into the villagers.
There were two rooms. Gu Chen and Officer Wang asked for the larger one, and Lu Weiwei's room was right across the door.
After everyone put away their luggage, they carried drawing boards and paints on their backs and cameras, and prepared to go out and walk around Liucun.
The villagers looked at the three people without paying much attention to them. This was very common in Liucun before.
When there were many people, hundreds of people would come at once. It was lively at that time, but not as deserted as it is now.
At that time, the villagers sat in front of their homes every day, and just collected some food and accommodation fees to cover their own expenses.
This model also attracted many villages to imitate it, but most of them failed.
However, the rural tourism economy of Liucun has not only not decreased, but has also increased a lot, which has brought all the benefits to the villagers of Liucun.
Night falls quietly.
With the help of Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, the old lady cooked a table of dishes. She felt happier than during the Chinese New Year. It was rare to have so many people accompany her.
During the meal, the old lady tried her best to pick up vegetables for Gu Chen and praised Gu Chen for being as handsome as her son when he was young, which made Gu Chen feel embarrassed.
When the family time was at a certain point, Gu Chen suddenly asked about what happened in the afternoon: "Grandma, in the square this afternoon, the dizziness, nausea or vomiting-like symptoms you mentioned, are they true? Or is it only a few people like this?
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The old lady put down her chopsticks, lowered her head and pondered for a moment: "Everyone in the village has reacted to this matter, just like me."
"You?" Lu Weiwei's eyes widened, expressing shock: "You are in such good health, do you also have such symptoms?"
At this moment, Officer Wang quickly took out a pen and paper and put it on his lap, preparing to record some key clues.
"One evening I went to the mountains to pick some wild fruits, and suddenly I heard a shrill scream from a very far away place. It was really scary."
"Did it come from humans?" Gu Chen asked.
The old lady frowned: "I don't know about that. Anyway, this terrifying sound echoed throughout the empty valley, and many people heard it."
After saying this, the old lady specially raised her legs, swept her trouser legs to her knees, and said: "Look, the injury on my feet is because when I was going down the mountain that day, I suddenly felt that the entire mountain road was ups and downs.
It was swaying, and I accidentally missed my footing, falling halfway down the mountainside, and my calf was injured by a stone."
Through the light, Lu Weiwei and Gu Chen could clearly see the stitched scars on the old lady's calf.
"You mean... you feel like you're shaking when you walk and you have no sense of balance?" Officer Wang, who was sitting opposite, asked.
"Yes, I'm still dizzy, and I fell ill when I got home." The old lady said this, still feeling frightened.
"Do other people in the village also have this symptom?" Officer Wang asked again: "For example, those people who chatted with us in the square in the afternoon."
The old lady nodded: "Yes, everyone feels that their health is suddenly not as good as before. Several old people died during that period."
After thinking about it, the old lady added: "By the way, there are still some animal carcasses appearing inexplicably around us. This is an ominous sign. Our village is built here. Although it is only a hundred years old, this kind of thing has never happened before."
matter."
"There is also the big willow tree across the river, which has always been responsible for the task of crossing the river in our village. We older generations call it a sacred tree and a blessing tree, but I don't know who has ulterior motives.
They said it was a tree that attracts ghosts, and that our village is just a dark place, ugh!"
After saying this, the old lady sighed helplessly, feeling like something was pressing on her chest.
Gu Chen got up and lay down at the window to take a look. After finding no one around, he walked back to the old lady and asked, "Is the ancient temple in the village really a forbidden area? Is it really dangerous to get close there?"
"I don't know." The old lady had no idea what to say, so she could only say in a persuasive tone: "Anyway, it's best not to go there. Although I don't know the situation clearly, the miserable screams that come out every now and then in the middle of the night are...
It came from over there, and now it’s called a restricted area, and we, the villagers, have to take a detour.”
"Understood."
Gu Chen didn't ask any more questions...
But it is certain that the hauntings in Liucun and the various symptoms experienced by these villagers seem to be related to the ancient temple.
At the same time, in order to reassure the old man, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei specifically said that they would not go anywhere at night, but would chat with the old man until they coaxed her to fall asleep. When they looked at the time, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening, and they went back to their rooms.
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In the early morning, a shrill scream suddenly came from afar and echoed throughout the empty valley.
All the villagers kept their doors closed and did not dare to go out.
Gu Chen and Officer Wang opened the windows and confirmed that the source of the sound came from the direction of the ancient temple.
"Is there really a ghost?" Officer Wang couldn't help but shrink his neck.
When hearing this kind of sound, let alone ordinary people, even policemen like me who have seen big scenes will feel creepy.
After all, the hair on your body doesn’t lie…
"It seems really weird." Gu Chen looked back at Officer Wang and asked, "Are you going?"
Officer Wang swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said: "Go...go!"
"Then I'll call Senior Sister Lu." Gu Chen immediately turned around, gently opened the door, and walked towards Lu Weiwei's room.
In order to facilitate everyone's communication, the rooms of the two parties were unlocked. When Gu Chen gently pushed the door and entered, Lu Weiwei was already arranging the equipment.
Seeing Gu Chen coming over, he also asked: "Junior brother Gu, how are you preparing?"
"We are ready to leave. Senior Brother Wang asked me to come and call you. Let's leave now." Gu Chen said.
Three minutes later...
The three people brought simple equipment, including three fully charged law enforcement recorders, which are key equipment for evidence collection.
It also includes a powerful flashlight, which is a multifunctional police flashlight that can stun or blind people in less than one second.
The blinding time can last for one minute. There is an attack on the head in the front part, which has the effect of causing pain and subduing.
For this investigation, Gu Chen specially drank a bottle of energy drink while going to the toilet to keep himself energetic.
For Gu Chen at this moment, he can react as quickly as possible to any unexpected situation.
For the three of them, all situations are still unknown, and the risk factor can be imagined.
Not long after, the miserable and sharp screams disappeared, and everything returned to calm.
In the room, Officer Wang's mind is now filled with ghosts and monsters...
The shrill scream just now was scarier than the BGM in a horror movie.
Especially with the reverberation of the valley, it feels like this dirty thing is surrounding me.
Then he glanced at Lu Weiwei. This girl also looked a little timid, so he felt relieved. At least he was not the most timid.
"Senior Brother Wang, are you leaving?" Gu Chen asked after observing for a while by the window.
"Let's go... let's go, everyone, follow me and pay attention to safety."
"OK!"
A few people quietly opened the door, walked through the deserted and deserted village, and walked toward the ancient temple with the help of the faint moonlight.
Less than two kilometers away, everyone seemed to have walked a long way, and their legs felt as if they were tied with an iron knot and were unusually heavy.
Everyone was extremely nervous. Although they didn't show it, it didn't mean they weren't afraid.
What made the three of them stay up late at night and come to such a haunted place to find out?
Is it love? Is it responsibility?
That's right, yes.
Isn't it the police's responsibility to be responsible for people's lives and property?
With such a sense of mission, what is fear? What is fatigue?
Officer Wang has been using these thoughts to arm himself with fear so that he can appear stronger and bolder.
He is the first among the three...
There is no way, because Officer Wang is the only police inspector among the three.
When going out on dangerous missions, young police officers should follow behind their senior comrades, and senior comrades who are in danger should go first. This is an unwritten rule of the police force, and everyone acquiesces to this rule.
After the moonlight was obscured by dark clouds, the surrounding light became even dimmer.
The prototype of the ancient temple in front of them was getting closer and closer in front of the three people.
Officer Wang suddenly stopped moving forward and turned on a strong flashlight.
Suddenly, a badly damaged ancient temple stood in front of the three of them.
In front of the ruined temple, the ground was covered with broken tiles.
A stone statue of an old man wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat, with his head lowered as if thinking about something.
There is a giant unicorn behind him, glaring in front of him.
The two stone statues were covered with moss, and there was a rotting smell around them.
"It is said that this kind of Mulin people have gone down the mountain to save many people. I heard it from a classmate in the southwest before, but I don't know the details." Gu Chen looked at the stone statue in front of him and told some of the things he knew.
"Maybe it's not suitable for practice now, so these people have left and lived in seclusion in the mountains?" Lu Weiwei also answered casually to break the shackles of fear.
Gu Chen smiled and said: "Some things do exist, but society is developing too fast now, and those things that should exist have slowly disappeared from the public's eyes."
Officer Wang looked at the old man and the unicorn in front of him, and couldn't help but laugh: "Sliding unicorn? Night wandering god? Maybe that's a silly roe deer."
"Old Wang." Lu Weiwei glared at him and said, "You don't have to believe it, but you have to be in awe. After all, legends are also a manifestation of culture."
Officer Wang doesn't care about culture or not right now, he just wants to quickly find out the truth about the haunting in Willow Village.
Standing in front of the gloomy building, the three people looked at each other, trying to adjust themselves.
Gu Chen put on white gloves and turned on the law enforcement recorder, but it felt like he was filming a ghost movie, and the style of the painting felt a bit crooked.
A movement under Lu Weiwei's feet suddenly broke the deadlock.
"What's this?"
"Wait, don't move." Gu Chen shined the light, squatted down to check, and then picked up a few broken bones.
"Human bones?" Officer Wang asked.
"No." Gu Chen shook his head: "It should be a small animal in the mountains."
"There are still a lot of dead rats here." Lu Weiwei found another corner where the corpses of dead rats were everywhere.
"No wonder, the rotten smell in the air just now was caused by these things." Gu Chen covered his nose with his arm, feeling a nauseating smell.
A gust of cold wind blew, and the dry leaves began to flutter in the wind.
The trees around the ancient temple also began to sway with the wind...
A few crows croaked a few times on the treetops overhead, as if they felt an enemy had entered their territory as a warning.
"Don't worry, there's nothing to be afraid of." Officer Wang protected them in front of them. He knew that with Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei behind him, he felt at ease.
"Lao Wang, but your legs are shaking." Lu Weiwei exposed Lao Wang's pretended calmness.
"Okay, this is just a normal physiological reaction. The muscles are stimulated to a certain extent and cannot be controlled." Lao Wang is also a decent person, but Lu Weiwei doesn't think so.
Officer Wang is a little regretful now. Why did Gu Chen tell those ancient myths just now? It was so scary.
But the three of them must find clues to the haunting in a very short period of time, otherwise it will happen as the villagers said.
No one can say for sure what it means like vomiting, dizziness, or even confusion.
After all, these are all confirmed by local elders...
After looking around, Gu Chen said hesitantly: "The sound we heard in Liucun's room just now should have come from this place. It seemed like a woman's cry."
"I think so too. The sound is too miserable and a bit hysterical." Lu Weiwei crossed her arms and thought seriously.
Every brick and tile here is dilapidated, and the walls and stone statues are also covered with moss.
Rotting carcasses of small animals can be seen everywhere.
Walking further inside, the gloomy hall was filled with thick dust and spider webs everywhere.
The three people formed an inverted triangle formation and conducted a carpet-like search of every room in the ancient temple.
Gu Chen has even activated his specialized level of observation, and with the help of functional drinks, his entire spirit is now in a state of excitement.
While searching a room, Gu Chen suddenly stopped. Officer Wang lost his flank cover and immediately retreated to Gu Chen's side and asked him, "What's wrong with you?"
"There seem to be a lot of footprints here, and they belong to the same person." Gu Chen simply squatted down and shined the flashlight light vertically.
In the thick dust, an obvious footprint looked very obvious.
"Shoes of size 44 should belong to a man." Gu Chen used his hand as a measuring stick and took a simple and rough measurement.
Officer Wang and Lu Weiwei also came forward, and the three of them studied it carefully.
"Looking at these footprints, they seem to be new." Officer Wang thought deeply for a few seconds and then asked: "Do you think the terrifying sound just now was man-made?"
"It's very possible, what do you think? Junior Brother Gu?" Lu Weiwei turned her eyes to Gu Chen.
Gu Chen did not answer immediately, but after making a simple comparison and verification of the footprints, he said: "According to the environment here, after a certain period of time, the dust will have a solidification phenomenon, and judging from this footprint, it seems that
I stepped on it not long ago."
In order to dispel the two people's concerns, Gu Chen specially put his own footprints on the surrounding area by walking around casually.
"Look, the depth and shape of my footprints are similar to the condition of this footprint."
"This means it won't be long? Officer Wang made his own judgment.
"And... maybe someone was staying here when that burst of sound was made." Lu Weiwei judged in disbelief: "Didn't the people in the village say that? This is a forbidden area and there will be danger, so why did it happen in the middle of the night?
Will anyone come here?"
Lu Weiwei is not only not afraid now, but also finds it quite exciting.
"It's usually difficult to deal with footprints in situations like this at night. I think this person must have left not long ago." After Gu Chen thought for a few seconds, he added: "Our landlord said that this kind of sound comes every once in a while.
There will be one, usually when people from other villages come in, there will be one, so these people don’t dare to come to Liucun.”
"In other words, someone is doing tricks to scare these outsiders?" Officer Wang said: "But it's not right. If it's a scare, then why are the villagers afraid of approaching the ancient temple? Gu Chen, do you remember what you said?
Something?"
"Of course I remember." Gu Chen nodded and said: "The old lady selling vegetables, her husband started to have some bad symptoms because of farming near the ancient temple, and finally left like this, and many villagers can
It proves that I have also experienced physical decline and even dizziness, which is even more unbearable for older people."
"The heart is so cruel!" Officer Wang gritted his teeth and said: "If all this is really man-made, then this guy should be cut into pieces by a thousand cuts."
Just as Officer Wang was beeping in the air, Gu Chen made a new discovery with his own visual shearing (elementary) skill.
