After the five camouflage balls were used, the five members of the White Phoenix team, including Cecilia, became ghostly and their figures became much more hazy.
Even the teammates looked at each other and couldn't see their faces clearly. They could only see the hazy figures. When walking around, under the ghostly aura, they couldn't see clearly the movements of their legs and feet, as if they were floating.
Like a ghost floating around.
"Let's go in." Bai Xiaowen said, "The danger level in Huaiwang Village may be much higher than that in the outer areas. After everyone goes in, walk together and don't get separated."
The teammates nodded at the same time, and the five of them filed into the thick fog area.
Sure enough, Bai Xiaowen's guess was correct. When he is disguised as a ghost spirit, the ghost energy in the dense fog area will no longer cause loss of health or mental strength.
While walking, Li Shuyi suddenly said: "Do you feel like you are weightless? It's like your body is getting lighter as you walk."
Li Shuyi is an expert in close combat and is very sensitive to the slightest changes in the body.
"That seems to be true." Cecilia also confirmed this.
"Keep walking, no matter what abnormality you encounter, don't look back." Bai Xiaowen said.
The five people continued to move forward, and the feeling of their bodies becoming lighter became more and more obvious. Han Xu could clearly feel it later.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, the outline of a village appeared vaguely ahead, but under the thick fog, there seemed to be a dim curtain of light that enveloped the entire village.
On this dim light curtain, some abstract images of human faces flashed from time to time, which looked extremely strange. It seemed that the light curtain did not seem to protect the village, but rather a prison of confinement.
Bai Xiaowen raised his hand to summon a summoned creature and touched the light screen. In an instant, the summoned creature disappeared, but Bai Xiaowen could still feel the connection with the other party.
"It's safe. This light curtain should be accessible but not accessible... Of course, after entering, as long as you can find the Space Stone and solve the mystery inside, you can come out," Bai Xiaowen said.
All four people nodded. Even though Huaiwang Village was full of weirdness, no one was willing to back down at this point.
For safety reasons, Bai Xiaowen once again sent a skeleton sword and shield hand inside. The two summoned creatures stared at each other within the light curtain.
"Well, this blocking light curtain has no spatial dislocation effect. In other words, the five of us don't need to disperse again."
I have to say that this is good news. If five people work together, their ability to deal with dangers will be greatly improved, and there is no need to worry about ghosts such as change ghosts coming to cause trouble again.
After stepping into the blocking light curtain together, the five members of the White Phoenix team let out a cry of surprise at the same time.
The feeling of weightlessness in the body has disappeared, and the thick ghostly fog lingering in front of the eyes has also become much lighter. As far as the eyesight of the awakened person is concerned, at least the line of sight is no longer blocked.
This is the entrance of the village. You can see a road in front of you. On the left side of the road are clusters of houses and on the right are abandoned farmland.
On the left are rows of earthen huts, and the line of sight is blocked, making it difficult to see clearly. However, the farmland on the right is relatively open, and occasionally phosphorus fires can be seen in the mist, and there seem to be shadows floating here and there.
"Did you hear anything?" Qiao Rui said suddenly.
Deep in the village, there seemed to be the sound of gongs and drums, but the sound was weird, intermittent and extremely low, like the background music of a horror movie...
Bai Xiaowen said: "It seems that the ghost bride we are looking for is deep in the village, where a wedding is being held."
"A wedding held by a ghost?" Li Shuyi shrank her neck.
"Ghost marriage, this custom is very common in ancient China," Bai Xiaowen led the team forward while doing popular science for his teammates, "Ghost marriage is also called ghost marriage, and ghost betrothal is when parents engage their children who died in infancy so that they can live in Jiuquan.
It is a kind of ceremony that will not make you feel lonely. Usually, a ghost matchmaker talks about the marriage, then the ghost clothes are made, a marriage ceremony is held, and then the man and woman are buried side by side."
"The houses in the village always make people feel very depressed. Do you think these rows of houses look like mausoleums?" Qiao Rui said suddenly. She walked to the door of a house and pointed to a piece of stone erected in front of the door.
Sign: "This says No. 3, Group 7, Liujiatunzi... It should be considered a house number, but I think it looks like a tombstone."
"Liujia Village? Isn't it called Huaiwang Village?" Li Shuyi said.
"Maybe it was the name of the village before the accident happened."
Bai Xiaowen walked over, took a closer look at the tombstone-like house number, squinted and said, "This line of text actually gave me an extra piece of information. The background of the era where Liujia Village is located... I'm afraid it's modern, and the simplified characters are used.
Not traditional Chinese characters.”
Historically, China started to promote the reform of simplified characters in the mid-1950s. It should be pushed back at least another ten or twenty years before the house numbers of every household use simplified characters.
Considering that the era of psychic energy begins in 2021, and referring to the economically backward appearance reflected in the relatively dilapidated earth walls and thatched house buildings in Huaiwang Village, the background of the era here is likely to be from the 1970s to the 1990s.
time. Of course, it is not ruled out that some extremely remote villages will still be poor after the 21st century, but the probability is proportionally smaller.
Bai Xiaowen and his party walked towards the village following the direction from which the gongs and drums came.
Suddenly, two shadows "floated" across the road.
"Are they ghosts?" In the team channel, Li Shuyi was gearing up, "Do you want to kill them?"
"Don't be impatient yet," Bai Xiaowen said.
The five people passed by the two shadows. The two shadows, which were suspected to be ghosts, did not show any tendency to attack. Instead, they kept staring at the five people as they passed by. Their behavior was very similar to that of the villagers in the remote area.
It was exactly the same as meeting a strange outsider.
"We are disguised as ghosts. Those two ghosts should regard us as their kind."
Bai Xiaowen said: "When we enter here, our main goal is to find the ghost bride, mainly looking for clues and solving puzzles. If it is not necessary, try not to fight."
When passing by the door of a house, a gust of wind suddenly blew from the earthen wall, and several pages of paper rolled up and flew over.
Bai Xiaowen picked up the page and it was full of handwriting.
"February 7th, the weather is sunny."
"My childhood memories have turned yellow, and I can only restore a little outline of that crazy era."
"Ever since our family was moved to this place called Liujia Village, it seems like we have become isolated from the rest of the world."
"My mother's eyes were always red. I asked her where my father was, but she wouldn't tell me. Later I found out that my father was dead, and he died under the torture and humiliation of his students."
"My mother's leg is broken. My second sister and I are still young. We rely on my brother to earn work points. We can only eat two meals a day. The corn is so mushy that people can be seen in it. I'm so hungry..."