Chapter 48: The Contract between the Living and the Dead
finally……
No ghosts appeared or even attacked any candidates.
This unbelievable phenomenon left Gao Ying and Ji Yixuan at a loss. They originally came with the awareness of facing death, but they felt like they were punched hard on the cotton.
Of course, there are not no clues. Judging from the current situation, we have to go to the place opposite the arch bridge. Of course, this map is still relatively simple, so it may not be possible to find the five-pointed star.
As everyone walked out of the room, all they were thinking about was the eye drawn on the map. That eye must have pointed to something, but there was no clue about the exam paper at all. Now, still Still a lot of questions are blank.
"Let's... go take a look."
The first person to say this was Shen Junhao, who had always had a weak sense of presence. He also realized that if he didn't go there, even if he could copy Gao Ying's test papers, he would still be there when he returned to the classroom. They will face death. It is horrifying to think that after Zhang Wei turned into a skeleton, he actually turned into a walking zombie and walked out of the classroom door. Even after the candidates die, they still cannot escape this curse and cannot rest in peace!
"Yes... I have to go and take a look."
Go and take a look at the hidden truth in this silent deserted village.
In the sky, just like the previous two days, thick clouds once again blocked the sun. But even so, everyone still felt much more at ease.
Now, Gao Ying is no longer afraid of that place and the gloomy black shadow on the other side of the arch bridge. He doesn't have much choice. Time... is running out. The countdown on the skull on the exam paper reminds him at any time. :The footsteps of death are approaching step by step.
After passing through the dense forest, the last six candidates, including Lin Jia, who had been waiting outside the house before and dared not go in, finally began to approach the arch bridge.
Under the arch bridge is a dry ravine, and on the opposite side is a denser bush. That is basically at the foot of the mountain. There is the root of all this.
Gao Ying and others came to the arch bridge step by step, and then walked up.
The arch bridge was not very long, and it didn't take long for everyone to cross the bridge. And now Gao Ying was approaching the position where the black shadow appeared at that time.
At that time, what kind of terrifying evil spirit was the black shadow standing here?
However, it doesn't make much sense to think about this now. They can only continue to move forward until everything is over.
Although the woods in front of us are dense, most of these trees are withered, and there are not even any weeds on the ground. However, it is even harder to make a sound. During this depressing process, everyone did not dare to speak. At the same time, they kept paying attention to the movements around them, fearing that evil spirits and ghosts would come out from somewhere and kill them.
The mystery of the silent deserted village may be revealed today...
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Zhu Sunling was slowly opening a drawer.
After she saw the things placed in the drawer, she smiled. Then she took out a pen and filled in the answer to a fill-in-the-blank question on the exam paper: "It is located in the second drawer from the top of his desk."
Inside the drawer, there is a dark notebook.
However, these are by no means the notes used by the villagers in their written conversations.
At this time, Cui Minghe, Mi Ruiyi, and Tang Ruyan were behind her, looking at the notebook and quickly filling in the answers on their own test papers.
Zhu Sunling slowly took out the notebook and placed it on the desk.
After opening this notebook, it was recorded in traditional Chinese characters that were very familiar to them. According to the time recorded in the notebook... it was in the 30th year of the Republic of China, that is, 1942. At this time, the land of China was in dire straits.
, the Japanese invaders trampled on the land of China, and a large number of territories fell. Famine and starvation were everywhere in the HN area. Although Zhu Sunling was from TW, her understanding of the history of the mainland was far better than that of the average island resident. Therefore, those who read the notes
Content, she could also imagine the tragic scene at that time.
"This..." Zhu Sunling turned over the notes one by one, "This is the origin of everything."
When she turned to a certain page, she saw what was drawn in the notebook... a human head that looked like it had been crushed into a flat shape. There was a detailed explanation in the notebook.
"This symbol...is proof of some kind of contract."
"contract?"
According to the notes, this was the conclusion of some kind of contract.
A contract between the living and the dead!
"The villagers of this village opened a Pandora's box that should not have been opened through this notebook handed down from the Republic of China. They did not know what this symbol meant, and this also led to the curse that this village suffered."
With the notes in mind, Zhu Sunling had her own ideas. Then she wrote a line of words on the notes with a pen.
Everyone looked at what she had written.
"Next, except for extremely important matters, all discussions will be held in writing."
The font is extremely graceful and neat, completely within the grid of the note, and even the spacing between each word is almost the same. At first glance, it even looks like a printed font.
Zhu Sunling already understood that the so-called "them" were caused by living people...
Human ignorance and greed have attracted "them"...
Gao Ying, of course, knew nothing about this.
Unlike Zhu Sunling, he was still extremely vigilant about sound taboos, so much so that he began to talk in writing. What Gao Ying was thinking about now was to find the location marked on the map. Once he found that, the final argument would be
There is hope that it can be made.
Judging from the hand-drawn map, the location marked by the five-pointed star is not far from the opposite side of the arch bridge. Not far away, I saw several houses on the higher mountain road ahead.
And when Gao Ying and others walked out of the woods, they saw...
A large number of pits appeared on the ground ahead!
Gao Ying discovered... most of these pits were newly dug!
He immediately thought of the farm tools he had found earlier, as well as the slender shovel.
There are quite a number of earth pits around, some of which are dug very deep, literally "three feet into the ground".
"It should be newly dug...the soil is obviously new."
And not long after...
They found a large hole dug very deep.
Below this big pit is darkness.
Unfathomable!
Nearby, there are several long ropes tied to the trees.
Could it be...
Gao Ying looked at the rope and realized something.
"We have to go down and take a look!"
"What exactly is down here?"
"Is it possible that... it won't lead directly to the underworld?"
Gao Ying stood in front of the pit. He didn't think the villagers could dig that deep. There might be another mystery underneath.
The final mystery of this exam must be below!
(Does the so-called... they are actually... mean down here???)
Gao Ying pulled the rope and tried it, and the rope became very familiar to him. Then, he also found a candlestick near the grass, and a few matches scattered in the grass.
I'm afraid these are all things used by the villagers.
Shen Junhao looked at this scene and suddenly said: "It really looks like a scene from a horror novel like "Ghost Blowing Out the Lamp"."
When Ji Yixuan heard this, he nodded and said: "Indeed...it is very similar to "Ghost Blowing the Lamp"...Did the villagers ever participate in the fight?"
Gao Ying does know that "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" is an online novel about tomb robbing. However, Gao Ying's parents are both historians, so he is quite disgusted with tomb robbing, a crime that steals national historical relics, so I have never read this novel.
When Gao Ying heard this, he was so blessed that he immediately blurted out: "Could it be that the shovel before was the Luoyang shovel used in tomb robberies?"
He had indeed heard of the Luoyang shovel, but he had never seen pictures before, and he had not conducted in-depth research on this tomb robbing tool, although it is now widely used in archaeology to determine whether the underground soil has been plowed. So, is the so-called hidden damage and illegal thing actually tomb robbing?
No wonder the village chief wants to study Feng Shui, his purpose is to determine the location of the tomb! Although Gao Ying is knowledgeable, after all, his knowledge is too complex, which makes it difficult to specialize. The village chief’s instructions on how to divide gold and fix graves The book was so mysterious and obscure that he didn't understand it at all!