"Chen Ge, how about we retreat first and wait for Team Yan's support to arrive before heading into the mountain together?" Old Wei looked at his cell phone that had no signal. The time displayed on it was 0:50 p.m.
"It takes at least an hour to drive from Hanjiang to Linguan Village. By the time they arrive, it will be daybreak before heading into the mountains."
Chen Ge and the others have been walking in the mountains and forests for nearly two hours, and they still can't see any villages. There are only mountains one after another in the distance.
"But can it be done with just the three of us?" What troubles Old Wei is that if there is really going to be a conflict, one of our own people will have to take care of Uncle Bai.
"It's not a big problem." Chen Ge was worried about Uncle Bai's health at first. After walking for an hour, he realized that his worries were unnecessary.
Having grown up in the mountains, Uncle Bai is not only physically strong, but also very familiar with the mountain environment.
"What are you two muttering about?" Uncle Bai walked in front holding a branch: "There is a fork in the road ahead. It will take a long way from the top of the mountain. It will take about two hours to walk to get there. But.
If you go through the middle of the valley, you can reach the Coffin Village in only thirty minutes."
"Isn't the road in the middle of the valley difficult to walk?" Chen Ge knew clearly that since Uncle Bai specifically said it, there must be a reason.
"Yes." Uncle Bai looked solemn: "The valley is haunted."
"It's okay to be haunted. I thought you were going to say there were wolves." Chen Ge patted his backpack, and the white cat pushed his head out of the zipper gap in dissatisfaction.
"No, I've always been curious. Are wolves more terrifying than ghosts in your world?" Uncle Bai leaned on a branch. He couldn't understand Chen Ge's thinking at all.
"Ghosts are illusory, but wolves are real." Old Wei also didn't believe in ghosts.
Chen Ge rolled his eyes and did not defend himself: "Let's just leave from the valley."
"You have to think clearly, there are some things in this world that are really difficult to explain clearly." Uncle Bai asked the two people for their opinions again.
"Uncle, have you encountered anything before?" Chen Ge saw that Uncle Bai looked unnatural and was very reluctant to enter the valley: "You are so familiar with this road. You must have walked it more than once before. We are both now.
It’s to save the child, I hope you won’t hide anything on purpose.”
"I have never concealed anything, I'm just afraid that you won't believe me if I tell you." Uncle Bai told the story of his youth for the first time: "My father knew a little about medicine and pathology. When smallpox and measles were raging in the 1940s and 1950s, he
He almost visited all the nearby mountain villages, and that’s when he discovered Coffin Village.”
"This village is isolated from the rest of the world, and there are not many literate people. If you get sick, you have to rely on your own local methods to survive. When my father came there, the epidemic in the village was already very serious."
"My father went there several times to treat the people in that village."
"I was young back then, and my father wanted me to study medicine so that I could make a living from it in the future. Sometimes he would take me with him when he went to the clinic."
"Nothing happened when I walked through the middle of the valley the last few times. One time, my father seemed to have an argument with someone from Coffin Village. I don't know the cause."
"We usually leave at two or three in the afternoon, but that day it was already evening when we came out of the Coffin Village."
"It was still bright outside the village at that time, so my father and I entered the valley without thinking much."
"Halfway through, my father suddenly urged me from behind and told me to walk faster."
"I thought I could get a hot meal if I could go home early, so I walked forward quickly."
"But after walking for a while, I heard my father urging me from behind, telling me to walk faster."
"I realized something was wrong at this time. Just as I turned my head to look back, my eyes were covered by my father's hand."
"He still urged me to walk faster. I followed his fingers and glanced behind him secretly."
"I just happened to see someone lying on my father's back!"
"My father had a very bad look on his face. He stood behind me and kept urging me to move forward quickly. Go faster."
"Maybe it's because my father usually does a lot of good things as a doctor, so the thing crawling behind him didn't touch him in the end."
"But I remember that day very clearly. It was still bright when I entered the valley, but it was completely dark when I came out."
"When I returned home, my father fell seriously ill and never went to Coffin Village again."
"I still don't know why he argued with the patients in the coffin village that day, and I don't know what was lying on his back that day."
Uncle Bai felt a little uncomfortable when talking about this experience.
Chen Ge also somewhat understood why Uncle Bai went to help Jiang Ling's sister out of guilt. He had seen ghosts when he was very young, so he believed in them.
"Are you still planning to leave the valley now?" Uncle Bai had a psychological shadow on the valley.
"It takes too much time to go around, so just go through the middle of the valley." Chen Ge held the pen fairy in his hand: "You two go in front, and I will stop the rear."
"Can you do it?" It was Lao Wei who was originally behind. He was making various marks in the woods as he walked.
Uncle Bai originally wanted to persuade Chen Ge, but as he spoke, he suddenly remembered what happened that night. Chen Ge chased Sister Jiang Ling and ran out of the room, as if he wanted to retain the evil ghost.
The corner of his mouth twitched, and Uncle Bai was a little suspicious. Chen Ge deliberately walked there because he heard there was a ghost in the valley.
"Why are you two looking at me? Don't worry, let's go quickly." Chen Ge didn't panic at all. He was carrying a backpack with a white cat in it. Even if the ghost really came over, he would lie down on the white cat first.
On the cat.
After gently touching the white cat's little head, Chen Ge followed Uncle Bai and Old Wei into the valley.
The wind blew past my ears, as if someone was crying, and the grass was up to my knees. Occasionally, something would run past and rub against my calves, which made people very uncomfortable.
The trees on both sides gradually became more and more strange, and everything around them seemed to be slowly changing.
"Hurry up and try to get out within twenty minutes." Uncle Bai's mood was not stable. It seemed that the terrifying memories of his youth were slowly resurfacing. He looked very nervous.
"Chen Ge, be careful behind you." Old Wei was walking in the middle, and he was quite relieved about Chen Ge.
After walking in the valley for five or six minutes, the narrow dirt road was completely blocked by weeds and tree branches, and on both sides of the road you could see many coffins half-buried in the soil.
The coffins seemed to have been deliberately placed nearby, and some were not even covered tightly.
"Don't be afraid." Uncle Bai's voice seemed to be trembling, and he was forcing himself to calm down: "This is the custom of Coffin Village. Those are empty coffins, which are placed higher along both sides of the road. Obtaining them means getting promoted and making a fortune.
"
"It's not that scary, but it's better for you to walk faster."
Chen Ge looked back and saw that there seemed to be a shadow following behind him.
He did not tell Lao Wei and Uncle Bai the news, but just rummaged for something in his backpack.
"Just one? Then don't say that I bully you because of my 'people'."