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Surrounding the village is a large piece of farmland, and the farmers cultivate the farmland to support the needs of the inner city.

Chu Ci's group of four came out from the east gate of Shengjing City and radiated ten miles away. There were more than [-] villages, large and small, all of which were the targets of the night patrol tonight.

The sun had just set when they arrived at the nearest village to the inner city on horseback.

At this moment, there are still many farmers carrying hoes on their shoulders and leading their cattle back from the farmland.

Seeing Chu Ci and his party, these farmers were not surprised, they just made way for Chu Ci and the others to pass quickly.

Chu Ci glanced at the farmers, and asked Li Yuchun aloud, "Team leader, these farmers seem to be very familiar with us."

Li Yuchun rode side by side with Chu Ci, and said aloud, "The outer city is not like the inner city, and there is no curfew."

"Sometimes, in order to catch up with the harvest, I would return home from the field very late, so I often met the team members who were watching the night at the Department of Strangeness."

"After a long time, these farmers have long been used to it."

Chuci and the others came to the village on horseback, reined in the reins and slowed down the horses, and began to patrol the streets in the village.

At this moment, the sky has not yet completely darkened, and the farmers have finished eating and are all chatting outside in the shade.

There were also a dozen or so half-grown boys, all bare buttocks, holding wooden sticks as swords in their hands, laughing and playing with each other.

The four of Chu Ci rode through the village, and the chattering farmers who passed by lowered their voices, watching from afar that Chu Ci and the others had no intention of approaching.

On the contrary, those half-grown boys looked at Chu Ci and the others with bright eyes, subconsciously approaching to see more clearly.

Immediately, the parents grabbed the back of the neck and dragged him back.

Those who didn't want to were slapped hard on the buttocks by the parents a few times, and all of them became honest.

Seeing this scene, Chu Ci couldn't help but smile.

Li Yuchun drove his horse up to Chu Ci, and said in a low voice, "Chu Ci, do you know why these farmers don't want to approach us?"

Chu Ci shook his head, "I don't know."

Li Yuchun immediately explained, "Our Department of Weird Affairs specializes in apprehending and suppressing monsters and strange things. If they encounter them, they will inevitably be beaten and killed."

"These farmers think that we have demons and evil spirits on us, so they don't want to get close."

After Li Yuchun finished speaking, Li Baitian sneered, "If it weren't for us, these peasant households would have become monsters' weird rations long ago!"

"Now it's disgusting that we are stained with evil spirits, ignorance!"

Zhou Zhou raised his head and sighed, "There are always people who are silently carrying the burden!"

Chu Ci looked at Zhou Zhou, with a strange look in his eyes, "Wei Zhou, what you said is brilliant!"

Before Zhou weekend could make a sound, Li Baitian was the first to laugh, "What a brilliant idea, he's a fart!"

Looking at Chuci, Li Baitian said aloud, "What I said just now was said to me on the weekend."

Looking at Li Baitian on the weekend, he said righteously, "I didn't, I didn't say it, don't slander me!"

Li Yuchun raised his hand and interrupted Li Baitian and Zhou Zhou, "You two stop fighting."

"Take out the demon hunting compass!"

"Yes, team leader!" Li Baitian took out the demon hunting compass from the cloth bag on his waist, and put it flat on the palm of his hand.

After observing for a while, the Monster Hunting Compass did not see any abnormalities.

Li Baitian looked at Li Yuchun and said, "Team leader, there is nothing unusual."

Li Yuchun nodded, rode his horse and took a few steps forward, "Let's go to the chief's house to ask about the situation."

The head of a village is equivalent to the head of a village, in charge of all affairs of the village.

As big as weddings and funerals, when the land occupied by two families is unclear, and as small as a couple quarreling, the husband and wife have a disagreement at the head of the bed, and the village head can talk.

Chu Ci followed behind Li Yuchun and stopped in front of a farmer's courtyard.

A skinny old man with half-white hair was squatting on the stone in front of the door, smoking a long cigarette.

"The chief!"

Li Yuchun sat on the horse and greeted him aloud.

The old man was the head of the village. He heard the sound of knocking Hanyan on the stone, and walked to Li Yuchun's horse.

"grown ups!"

The head of the village bowed his hands to say hello.

Li Yuchun looked down at the head of the village, and asked aloud, "Head of the village, is there anything unusual in the village recently?"

The head of the village shook his head and replied, "My lord, the village has been very quiet and peaceful recently, and I haven't seen anything unusual."

Li Yuchun nodded, and then greeted Chuci and the others, "Let's go, let's go to the next village."

Chapter 115 The Village of the Dead

After leaving the village, Chu Ci and the others rode their horses along the official road.

On both sides of the official road, there are large farmlands. The waves of wheat in the farmland are undulating, and scarecrows standing in the wheat fields appear from time to time.

The distance between the villages is not far, within the time of a cup of tea, Chu Ci and the others have already arrived at the second village to be inspected.

As usual, he patrolled along the streets in the village, took out the demon-seeking compass to detect the aura of demons, and asked the head of the village if there was anything unusual.

After finding that there was nothing abnormal in the village, several people rode their horses to the next village.

When the moon was in the middle of the sky, Chuci and the others came to the village farthest from the inner city.

At this time, the farmers had already gone to bed early, and the village was silent.

The clatter of horseshoes and one or two barks of dogs broke the silence of the village.

"stop!"

At the head of the village, Li Yuchun raised his hand to signal Chuci and the others to stop.

"what happened?"

Chu Ci drove the horse closer and asked aloud.

Li Yuchun tilted his head, signaling Chu Ci to turn to the right.

Chu Ci followed the trend and saw a simple thatched shed on the right side of the village.

Inside the thatched shed, there were three unpainted log coffins.

White paper money was scattered on the ground, and a brazier was placed in front of the coffin at the far end, with burnt paper ashes inside.

Chu Ci was startled, and asked, "Is someone dead?"

Li Yuchun pondered for a moment, looked at Li Baitian and said, "Take out the compass for hunting demons."

Li Baitian nodded, and held the demon hunting compass in his hand.

Li Yuchun put his legs between the horse's belly and said, "Go to the village and ask the village chief what's going on."

Chu Ci followed behind Li Yuchun, secretly raised his vigilance, and at the same time sensed whether there was any evil spirit around him.

A few people walked along the streets of the village, and after walking a certain distance, they saw fires flickering on the side of the road.

"Cough! Cough!"

At the same time, bursts of coughing came into Chu Ci's ears.

When they got closer, Chuci and the others saw clearly that it was an old man with gray hair smoking a pipe.

"cough cough..."

It seemed that the smoke was too choking, and the old man coughed after taking a puff.

"The chief?"

Li Yuchun approached the old man on horseback and greeted him.

"what!"

Perhaps it was Li Yuchun's voice that startled the old man, who suddenly stood up and let out a low cry.

Li Yuchun frowned slightly, and asked again, "What's your surname, old man? Is this the head of the village?"

The old man looked up at Li Yuchun, and he could only vaguely see the outline of Li Yuchun's face in the dark night.

"Ah, yes!"

The old man hurriedly replied, "Old man Zhao Yi is the head of the Zhao family village!"

Li Yuchun was riding on a horse, looked down at Zhao Yi, and asked in a deep voice, "Is there anything unusual in the village recently?"

Zhao Yi folded his hands in his sleeves, bowed his head and replied, "My lord, the village has been safe recently, and no abnormalities have been found."

Li Yuchun stared at Zhao Yi for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "What happened to those coffins in the village?"

"Ah!" Zhao Yi said in a low voice, "Two people died in the village two days ago, and they are all put in coffins, waiting to be buried early tomorrow morning."

Li Yuchun frowned, and shouted, "Then why did you say that the village is safe and that no abnormalities have been found? But you are expiring on purpose?!"

"This···"

Zhao Yi looked up at Li Yuchun, and explained, "My lord, don't get me wrong, I don't mean to hide anything."

"It was yesterday that an adult came here to watch the night, and this old man has already informed."

Hearing this, Li Yuchun said in a deep voice, "In the future, if this matter happens again, as long as someone who watches the night asks about it, he will report it, understand?"

Zhao Yi shook his body, wrapped the clothes around his body and said, "Return to your lord, this old man knows."

"Yeah." Li Yuchun nodded slightly, and said softly, "It's late at night and the dew is heavy, let the chief go back and rest."

Zhao Yi pulled his hands out of his sleeves, cupped his hands and said, "I respectfully send off some adults."

Li Yuchun pulled the rein, looked at Chu Ci and the others and said, "Okay, let's go back too."

Chu Ci, Li Baitian, and Zhou Zhou nodded, then turned around and walked out of the village.

Zhao Yi raised his head and watched Chu Ci and the others go away, took out the dry tobacco from his sleeve, and put it in his mouth.

click!click!

Zhao Yi held the flint in both hands and struck it tremblingly several times, only then did the tobacco in the smoke pot ignite.

"Suck···"

"cough cough..."

Zhao Yi took a deep breath with the cigarette holder in his mouth, and then coughed in a low voice for a while.

"Hey···"

With a deep sigh, Zhao Yi turned around and walked towards the dark and silent village.

clatter!clatter!

The sound of hoofs sounded.

When Chu Ci passed the village on horseback, he subconsciously glanced at the coffin shed on the right side of the village.

A gust of wind blew up a few pieces of white paper money on the ground and fell into the brazier in front of the coffin.

Chu Ci subconsciously exerted force on his arm, and reined in the reins of the unicorn horse.

The three of Li Yuchun rode for a few steps, only to realize that Chu Ci hadn't followed.

Driving the Linjiao horse to Chu Ci, Li Yuchun asked aloud, "Chu Ci, why don't you go?"

Chu Ci raised his finger to the coffin and said, "Leader, take a look at the coffin, do you find anything unusual?"

Li Yuchun, Li Baitian, and Zhou weekend looked at the coffin shed, trying to see what was unusual.

After a while, Li Baitian took the lead and said, "I don't see anything unusual? Isn't it like this in all coffins?"

Zhou Zhou nodded and said, "I don't know why, I'm not afraid of the dead, but this coffin looks scary."

Looking at Chu Ci, he shivered on the weekend and said, "Chu Ci, let's go, it's creepy here."

"and many more!"

Li Yuchun stared at the direction of the spirit shed, his face changed slightly, "I see, the time is wrong!"

Li Baitian and Zhou Zhou were both startled, and asked suspiciously, "Team leader, what time is wrong?"