The wedding team beat gongs and drums all the way, but no one spoke, and the atmosphere was solemn, as if they were in a mourning hall.
There were many floating ghost spectators behind, following silently. Different from the normal bustle of melon-eating crowds, these ghost spectators remained silent, as if they were performing some kind of ritual.
The five members of the Baihuang team followed the melon-eating crowd. Bai Xiaowen also specially turned on the mental scan and sensed it.
Qin Bing was not nearby. Of course, it was possible that he was in a high-priority stealth state and could not be detected.
Liu's village was not big, so the wedding team played and played all the way, and soon arrived at their destination, a threshing floor.
On the side of the threshing floor, there are three or five families.
Bai Xiaowen noticed that it was already a corner of the village, which suited the status of the Zhou family as an outsider.
In the wedding team, a tall and thin villager who vaguely looked like an old man stepped forward and shouted loudly:
"The auspicious time has come!"
"The bride enters the sedan chair!"
The ghost wedding team separated, and a simple red wedding sedan, carried by four middle-aged villagers, arrived at the door of one of the households.
Bai Xiaowen used insight to observe, and found that both the old man and the villagers carrying the sedan were in a state of protection from the Youbai Stone, and could not be selected as targets, that is, they could not be detected.
Okay, now I can't do anything, just watch the show.
The villagers carrying the sedan called out several times, but the door was closed and no one responded.
The old gentleman at the head said loudly: "Don't delay the auspicious time, please come out to the bride!"
At the front of the wedding team, there were two middle-aged women holding "Welcome" and "Avoid" signs. They were bloated in red clothes. After hearing the words, they immediately rushed over, like two puffs of green smoke drifting into the closed room.
Door.
Afterwards, two women in red floated out first, followed by a figure wearing a bright red Jifu and a red hijab on his head. Finally, they were followed by two women, and the four people in front and behind seemed to be escorting them.
The bride in bright red auspicious clothes brought a sedan chair.
"The bride looks like she has difficulty moving. She seems to be tied up?" Li Shuyi said with sharp eyes.
Bai Xiaowen narrowed his eyes. Looking carefully, the bride's walking posture was indeed weird.
The legs are motionless and floating on the ground. This is a common characteristic of all the villagers in Huaiwang Village, so I won’t go into details. But the bride’s arms are tightly attached to her body, and they don’t swing at all no matter how she walks. It looks like
It was as if there was an invisible rope binding her.
"It seems that this bride is the second sister of the Zhou family. She looks very good." Li Shuyi laughed out loud.
"What should we do now?" Qiao Rui asked.
Bai Xiaowen shook his head: "We can't take action now... There are many things I don't understand. For example, does this wedding scene happen every day, or does it happen on the day we entered? If it is the latter, it would be too much of a coincidence.
A little bit. And if it’s the former... it’s even more difficult to understand.”
Bai Xiaowen finally decided to wait and see what happens. After all, the secret of Youbaishi has not been solved yet, and no one has the ability to kill these ghosts.
The bride was dragged into the sedan chair, and the wedding team played and played before disappearing at the intersection.
"Go to Zhou's house and look for the broken pages of the diary." Bai Xiaowen led his teammates and climbed into the courtyard wall of the bride's house.
The yard is empty, with a few soil ridges, probably where the Zhou family grew vegetables, but it has long been abandoned. There is an abandoned well next to the soil ridge, and behind the well is an old stone mill.
Bai Xiaowen frowned slightly: "Is this the Zhou family? It doesn't look like it. It's hard to imagine that a foreigner who was sent down would have such a thing as a stone mill."
Several teammates were already searching in the yard separately, but no diary fragments were found.
Suddenly, Qiao Rui said: "Captain, come and take a look, something is not normal here."
Bai Xiaowen walked over.
On the stone grinder, there are two deep stains, which seem to be deeply embedded in the stone and cannot be removed over time.
The key is that when you get close to the stone mill, you can smell a strong smell of blood.
"This should be blood, but it has dried up like this, and there is such a strong smell of blood. It is really abnormal..." Bai Xiaowen frowned. Between the stone mill and the abandoned well, he also saw blood stains, but blood clots.
Relatively small.
Bai Xiaowen took a few steps back, took a look, and said: "The second sister of the Zhou family must have been forcibly pulled out of the house. She was really violent. She hit the stone mill first, but she was not killed and jumped again.
Well. I think there should be something harvested in the well, so I should go down and have a look."
Li Shuyi shrank her head, and even Qiao Rui turned pale.
Han Xu said: "I'll go."
"No need." Bai Xiaowen waved, and Kitts appeared in a noble dress.
"Kitz, go down and take a look." Bai Xiaowen chose a fixed-point airdrop, targeting the wellhead.
Kitts: "???"
Coughing sounds came from the well, and Kitts's voice sounded: "Boss, what are you doing? It's full of ashes in here."
"Did you find anything?" Bai Xiaowen asked.
"Nothing," Kitts said.
Bai Xiaowen opened Kitz's shared vision and glanced around the well, but couldn't see anything.
"It's strange..."
Bai Xiaowen frowned and thought, since the ghost bride jumped into the well, there must be something fishy in the well.
Kitts turned into a swarm of bats and flew out of the abandoned well, dusting himself off and saying, "It's strange...well, it seems a little cold down there? But I'm a vampire, so this temperature difference really doesn't make any difference."
"Maybe it's because you are a vampire, not a living person," Bai Xiaowen's eyes suddenly lit up, "It seems that I can't be lazy and use summoned creatures to explore the way. I'll go down and see for myself."
Bai Xiaowen's summoned creatures are basically undead species, and the Raging Claws are wild beasts, so it is difficult to trigger the strange things in the well.
"Xiaowen, be careful." Li Shuyi said.
"Well, this is the only weird well in the yard, and there are no other clues. Shuyi, you and Sister Qiao go to the Zhou family's house to search first. Old Han, you are at the mouth of the well, guard it for me."
After Bai Xiaowen finished speaking, he jumped into the well.
The wind howled for one second, two seconds, three seconds...
It hasn't landed yet.
Bai Xiaowen felt something bad in his heart. When Kitts went down the well, he fell to the bottom. The abandoned well was at most three to five meters deep. But now it seems that he can't even stop it from thirty to fifty meters!
Bai Xiaowen danced and tried to grasp the well wall in the air, but failed repeatedly.
"I won't fall to death, right?"
Bai Xiaowen touched the city return scroll with his finger, and at the same time he tried his best to open his eyes and looked down.
The area below was shrouded in thick fog, like a monster with its mouth wide open, making it difficult to see clearly.
Suddenly, Bai Xiaowen's body froze. He felt that his feet touched the ground, but there was no pain from falling from a high altitude.
There was an obvious feeling of weightlessness and dislocation, and the next moment, Bai Xiaowen was standing in a courtyard, looking confused.
The familiar stone mill, the familiar well, and the familiar earthen wall.
"This is clearly the Zhou family's courtyard... I just had the illusion that the world was upside down, as if I had entered the world in the mirror, and my head and feet were up and down for a moment. So this courtyard, in a spatial sense, should not be the courtyard where Han Xu is.
.”
Bai Xiaowen breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he was courageous and had strong judgment. Others might not be able to calm down for a long time.
This mirror space also has a gray sky.
Suddenly, a burst of gongs and drums came from far and near. Bai Xiaowen's expression changed: "No, there is also a wedding team here?"
Different from watching the wedding before, this time Bai Xiaowen was in the yard and saw the situation at the bride's home.
Following the shouting of "the auspicious time has come" outside, two stout women pushed open the door of the courtyard and came in. The door of the house was also opened. The bride was wearing a bright red auspicious dress and was tied up with a rope. There were also two women inside.
The strong woman pushed and pushed him out.
"Hua Yurong, don't be ignorant of your blessings when you are in the midst of blessings. How many girls in the Liu family village want to marry Liu? After you enter the house, you will not have to worry about food and drink, you will not have to work in the fields to earn work points, and you will enjoy your leisure time...
"
Under the red hijab, a voice sounded:
"I understand. Can you untie me?"
"Hey, this can't be done. What can we do if you seek death and survival again?"
"No, I've already figured it out. Besides, can you, the Liu family, afford to be forced into a sedan chair?"
"That's the truth...Okay, now that Yurong has figured it out, let her untie it and walk through the door peacefully..."
Bai Xiaowen seemed to be a transparent person, and those sturdy women turned a blind eye to him. He stretched out his hand to touch it, but it only crossed the air. The other person was just an illusion.
Soon, the rope was untied.
The bride in red pulled off her red hijab, revealing a pretty face with a bit of heroism. She said sharply:
"Even if I, Hua Yurong, am a ghost, I will never marry the Liu family!"
The four women were stunned, and before they could speak, Hua Yurong rushed towards the stone mill.
There was a woman standing on the road. When she saw Hua Yurong coming at her fiercely, she subconsciously moved away. Suddenly there was a buzzing sound and the stone mill trembled. Hua Yurong's head was dripping with blood, and two pieces of blood spattered on the stone mill.
The wedding team outside the hospital seemed to have heard the commotion, and someone immediately followed them. The leader, a middle-aged man wearing a felt hat, said angrily: "What? Why is there blood..."
The three women surrounded Hua Yurong, and they were all frightened.
"Master, Hua Yurong said she had figured it out, so I untied the rope, and who knew she hit her head first..." The last woman, the wife of the village chief Liu Fu, said in panic, "Fortunately,
No one is dead, you can just forget about it..."
The man in the felt hat was stunned for a moment, then repeated: "You're not dead, are you?" His expression quickly returned to normal, and he snorted: "You're not dead, are you? Who are you trying to scare? I'm telling you Hua Yurong, you have to go through the door today.
, She is a member of the Old Liu family when she is alive, and she is a ghost of the Old Liu family when she is dead! Kidnap her away!"
Hua Yurong punched and kicked several strong women, but they were pushed aside. As a large number of people from the wedding team rushed over, Hua Yurong suddenly screamed, rushed over, and jumped into the well.