"Don't talk nonsense, be careful of trouble coming from your mouth."
Uncle Bai still cares about these things, but Chen Ge is completely different: "It's okay, you two just follow me."
He grabbed the skull-crushing hammer and walked across the courtyard and directly into the house.
The layout of the old house is very interesting. There is a bedroom on the left and right sides of the main hall. There are no beds in the bedrooms, and there is a coffin in each bedroom.
"Have you noticed a characteristic of all the houses in Coffin Village?" Singer Chen held the handle of the hammer and glanced around.
"Is the coffin in the house?" Uncle Bai pushed the door open with his clothes on his back. He didn't want to touch anything here.
"No." Chen Ge shook his head: "It seems that there are no stoves in the old houses in Coffin Village."
Old Wei and Uncle Bai looked at each other. If Chen Ge hadn't said anything, they wouldn't have realized this problem.
"The stove is a place to light a fire for cooking. Where do they usually eat without a stove?" Chen Ge sat on a chair in the room and spoke slowly: "Or do they not need to eat at all? This place is basically a place for the dead.
A ghost house? If you think about it from this direction, it is normal that there is no bed in the bedroom, but a coffin."
His voice was calm, but it made the two listeners' hair stand on end.
"There are white paper lanterns hanging, white blessings on the door, and coffins parked inside the house. Could this whole village be a ghost village?" Chen Ge recalled the information he consulted when setting up the ghost wedding scene: "I used to
I heard a story that during the war, a village deep in the mountains was massacred. A few years later, someone got lost in the mountains and walked into this village accidentally. As a result, he saw that every household in the village was doing some idle work, and everyone had expressions on their faces.
They were all very strange, so the man didn't dare to ask any more questions and escaped from the village in the middle of the night. When he returned to the village at dawn to look at it, he found that the village had been abandoned for a long time, with no trace of living people at all."
"Then you mean that we have walked into a ghost village now?" Old Wei asked uncertainly.
"The situation in Coffin Village is even scarier than that in Underworld Village. I always feel that there is a big secret hidden here." Chen Ge put the skull-crushing hammer on his lap and supported his chin with his hand: "The composition of the people in this village is relatively complicated.
The indigenous people who turned into ghosts include the villagers who escaped from Coffin Village before and were captured back in the end, as well as us outsiders."
"The ghost of the old lady probably didn't lie about the outsiders. Besides us, there are others trapped in this village. No matter who the other party is, I think it is necessary for everyone to unite."
"Then how can we unite? We can't find them at all now."
"We can only adapt to circumstances, so be more careful." After Chen Ge finished speaking, he looked outside. He just glanced at it accidentally, but found half a human face lying on the wall.
"Someone!" He stood up immediately.
The sudden sound put Old Wei and Uncle Bai on high alert: "What did you see?"
"There was a face on the wall. I seemed to have seen it in the first old house. It also flashed by at that time. Then I saw the shroud coming out of the door and following us." Chen Ge said.
I told Lao Wei and Uncle Bai what happened at that time.
"He's next door, should we go over and take a look?" Lao Wei just suggested. He himself didn't want to run around anymore.
"If that person wants to run away, we won't be able to catch him." Chen Ge looked at the wall: "I always feel that he has been following us for another purpose, and it doesn't seem like he wants to harm us."
As soon as he finished speaking, the door of the old house slowly opened to both sides, and a bright red shroud stood at the door.
"Don't be afraid, this is the thing that followed us before."
In the dark night, the door of the house was opened, and a shroud stood outside. Anyone who saw this scene would feel panicked.
"Are you a human or a ghost?" Chen Ge stood in the room, hiding the skull-crushing hammer behind him.
The other party seemed to be struggling, and it took him a while to make a decision.
The shroud was untied from the middle, and a short and thin man was hidden inside.
He had a sullen face, opened his mouth for a long time, and finally said the first sentence: "I'm here to help you."
"Help us? Okay, come in and talk slowly." Chen Ge smiled kindly. He held the hammer in his backhand, trying to trick the man into the house first.
The man shook his head. He followed Chen Ge all the way, knowing clearly how dangerous the kind young man in front of him was.
"I'll talk outside." The man put the shroud aside. When his body came out of the shroud, Chen Ge saw that the man's arms were one big and one small, and they were deformed.
"I spotted you as soon as you entered the village, but before I could get close, the three of you were deceived by the ghost. I was worried, so I followed you wearing the ghost's shroud, trying to save you from leaving.
"
The man's voice was sincere, but Chen Ge didn't believe that this man would take such a big risk for no reason to save a few people who had nothing to do with him: "You followed us just to save us?"
"Saving you is also saving myself. You may not believe it when I tell you. If we can't escape from this village tonight, everyone will die." The man's voice was low, but his fear and uneasiness could be heard: "The door will open tonight.
, that thing is going to run out from behind the door again."
"Will the door open tonight?" Chen Ge frowned: "Are you an aboriginal here? Can you tell us what happened in the Living Coffin Village? Why did it become like this?"
"Living Coffin Village? This is a suitable name." The man closed the wooden door and walked to the center of the courtyard. It was impossible to tell how old he was from his appearance: "No one knows what the name of this village was in the beginning. The reason why it changed
The original reason why it is like this should have something to do with a woman."
"Our village is deep in the mountains and isolated from the outside world. At that time, the world was in chaos. It was difficult for men in the village to find wives. Intermarriage among close relatives would lead to all kinds of offspring."
"The village chief at that time was worried that if things continued like this, the roots would be cut off and the species would become extinct. So after discussing with the villagers, he decided to kidnap his wife from outside the mountain."
"Nothing happened the first few times. If the new daughter-in-law disobeyed, she would be locked up and she would not be given water or food. If she dared to run away, she would be beaten severely after she was caught. She gradually became well-behaved."
"Until one time, they brought back a young lady from a scholar's family. She had a very fierce temper and would not obey until she died."
"I ran away several times and was almost beaten to death in the end."
"The woman stopped running away until she had a child. People in the village thought that the woman would no longer resist."
"Who would have known that this woman jumped into the well when her family was having fun and preparing for a wedding reception."