great master

Early in the morning, a girl with a ponytail and a cotton and linen dress knocked on the door carrying a basket of fresh vegetables still stained with dew. Two boys from the Department of Archeology who got up early in the morning, one wearing glasses, Qi Tianrui, and one named after Wang Haohao, who had always been particularly taciturn, went to open the door because his personalities did not match.

When the girl saw them, she felt like a clear spring after melting snow from high mountains. A bright smile appeared on her clean and clear face. The girl raised the basket in her hand and said with a bright smile, "It was my grandfather who brought you back yesterday. My grandfather said that you got lost and came in from the outside, and you didn’t seem to have too many things on you, so let me bring you some food, my name is Zuo Yi, what’s your name?”

Probably because I have never had such a close contact with such a beautiful girl, the ears of the two boys were red, Qi Tianrui pushed his glasses, tried to calm down and said: "Hello, my name is Qi Tianrui, this is my classmate, Wang Haohao. "

Zuo Yi looked behind Qi Tianrui, and said with a smile that could melt people's hearts in his bright eyes: "Wang Haohao, your name is so cute."

Wang Haohao didn't seem to be good at communicating with people. He nodded to the left with no expression on his face, then turned and entered the lobby, helping the two girls pack up the tent they slept in last night.

Qi Tianrui saw that Wang Haohao was still insulated like a girl, so he hurriedly turned to the left: "He's just like this, don't mind, then what, you come in first."

The first one on the left shook his head, and put the vegetable basket in Qi Tianrui's hands: "Take it, I have to go back and make breakfast for my grandpa. My house is going out to the left, and then go to the right after going all the way to the end. In the first house I transferred, you are welcome to come and play with me."

Qi Tianrui watched Zuo Yi until he could no longer see his back, and then returned to the lobby with the vegetable basket.Seeing Che Guoyuan and the others come down, he quickly raised the vegetable basket and said, "The old grandpa and his granddaughter brought it over yesterday."

Ju Min suddenly became a little impatient and said, "Is there no oil, no salt, and clear water to cook cabbage?"

Ju Min's usual personality is not so gentle, but she is definitely easy to get along with. In the past few years of knowing her, I have never seen her inexplicably prickly.Zhang Peipei pulled La Jumin, and asked her in a low voice, "What's wrong with you? You're so angry, you're here?"

Ju Min frowned and shook her head. She didn't know why she suddenly felt very irritable, and she didn't want to lose her temper with her companions, so she turned around and went upstairs. There was a small balcony upstairs, and she could see the distant Snow mountain, just go to get some fresh air.

Yi Wei and the others watched from the beginning to the end on the second floor. Seeing them holding the basket of vegetables and asking them to come down, and saying that they would cook green vegetables and noodles to eat together in the morning, Yi Wei shook his head: "If your food can last for a while, don't eat here."

A few people downstairs looked at the vegetables in the basket, and felt that even if there was a problem, they would not put it on such a dish. If there was a problem, they would send the finished product directly, so they said: "Don't worry, we will wash it very clean , and it will be cooked thoroughly."

Gu Mingsheng on the side also said: "I suggest that you don't eat the food here for the time being. Don't forget how we came here. If you eat it carefully, you will never be able to leave again."

In this way, several young people were inexplicably cold, and in the end the basket of vegetables was left untouched, and it was directly put in an empty room.

Lan Jinxiu ignored those young people and went out with Che Guoyuan to investigate.This village is not big, there are only a few alleys in the front and back, and there are not too many residents. There are almost a hundred households in total, but there are many empty houses. I hardly meet people along the way. The hair is all white, and the old and somewhat confused old lady is sitting at the door of her house basking in the morning sun. When talking to her, she is in a daze and can’t hear anything. Looking at the wrinkled face, I don’t know if there is any hundred years old.

In addition to this old man, I also met two children dancing rubber bands in the alley. When the two children saw them, they giggled and ran away tugging at each other before they got close.

After this turn, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a young man has disappeared, leaving only some ordinary and weird deserted villages for lonely old people.

Just when they didn't see anything and were about to go back first, Che Guoyuan's figure suddenly froze.Lan Jinxiu glanced at him, and followed his gaze to see a mark on the edge of a brick wall that was covered by messy weeds.

Che Guoyuan went back to the house and called Yi Wei and others out to search the entire village. In this village, a total of three marks were found, and Che Guoyuan marked the place where the mark was found on his hand-drawn map: " This imprint is the exclusive imprint of Tuo Pengcheng, the leader of the three missing groups. The ghost servant who appeared in the Gu insect weight loss pill incident also had this imprint on his body. This proves that Tuo Pengcheng came to this village. Now these three imprints are all around This ancient temple is marked, I think there must be something unusual in it."

Ye Neng said: "I counted the number of people in the village by the way. There are 25 houses, of which there are only [-] households. They are either single old men or single old women, and there are two siblings in a family, or grandparents, without parents and children. , and there is no family with more than two people."

Yi Wei added: "No child in the village is over ten years old, but there are two families with young people, one family has a girl who lives with her grandmother, and the old man yesterday has a 20-year-old granddaughter Besides, there are no teenagers or youths in the whole village, and the youngest male in the village is an old man in his 60s."

Lan Jinxiu said: "That ancient temple can isolate the spiritual consciousness, and if you don't go in yourself, you can't check the situation inside."

Che Guoyuan glanced at Lan Jinxiu when he heard the words. The term "spiritual consciousness" is a habit of monks. A celestial master like them can sense the surrounding situation at most, just like everyone has a sixth sense. The teacher can practice to the extent of letting this perception out.However, it is still far behind the monk's spiritual sense. It is said that the monk's spiritual sense can even kill people from a distance.However, since Lan Jinxiu said that he can release his spiritual consciousness, it proves that his cultivation may be stronger than he expected. While having a powerful person around him is reassuring, it is also a little disturbing.

Che Guoyuan suddenly said: "Fellow Daoist, if we are delayed here for a long time, will Fellow Daoist Si come to look for us?"

Lan Jinxiu lowered his eyes slightly, and used the mask to hide the smile on the corner of his mouth when he heard the name: "Yes, he will."

Since Lan Jinxiu was so confident, Che Guoyuan also relaxed a little bit, not all relying on others to rescue them, but knowing that there is a powerful person outside who will not give up on rescuing them, he has some confidence in his heart.But if they can't crack it from the outside, and they don't have the ability to leave by themselves, then it is their fate to be trapped here to death.

The existing clues are all gathered on that ancient temple. Now that they are at a loss and have no clue, all they can do is to check the situation in the ancient temple first.But before they reached the ancient temple, they met the old man who brought them into the village. They only found out in the morning that this old man was the head of the village.But for a village with such a small population, it probably doesn't make much sense if the village doesn't have a village chief.

The village chief put one hand behind his back and smoked the hookah in the other. He walked over slowly and asked, "Did you sleep well last night?"

Che Guoyuan said: "Very good, thank you for your concern, old man, I don't know where is the only valley that can be entered and exited that you mentioned yesterday? We want to take a look first."

The village chief took two puffs of his cigarette and said, "They say the fog hasn't cleared there, so we can't leave."

Che Guoyuan smiled and said, "Is it because we can't leave, or because we don't want us to leave?"

The village chief seemed a little confused about where his eccentric words came from, and frowned and said, "What are you doing without letting you go? The old men and women in my village are going to snatch you to be their son-in-law. What are you young people talking about?" Why is it so unsatisfactory? Hey, if you see the snow mountain, just walk in that direction. There is no fork in the road. There will be a big rocky valley. The inside of the rocky valley is very steep. Anyway, just turn over and get out. Generally speaking This road is not easy to walk, now it’s foggy, you can’t see anything, if you accidentally slip your foot, you will fall to your death, you can walk whenever you want, anyway, it doesn’t matter whether you live or die.”

Che Guoyuan didn't directly say whether he wanted to leave, but asked, "Two years ago, did a group of young people get lost and entered the village?"

The village chief paused for a moment, and then said, "It seems to have happened, but they were luckier than you. The fog cleared within two days, and then they left."

Ye Neng asked aloud, "The old man, do you remember how many people there were at that time? What's their name?"

The village chief said: "Then how can I remember it so clearly? Besides, I'm just a passer-by. I don't even know your names. Anyway, you have to go. If you don't leave the empty house, I will give it to you." Live." After speaking, he walked away slowly with his hands behind his back.

"Are you leaving now?"

While they were talking to the village chief, the four young men also came over. Seeing that the village chief had left, they couldn't help but ask Che Guoyuan and the others.After all, they came together, if they go, of course it is best to go together.The people living in this weird village are really scared.

Che Guoyuan shook his head at them: "Just ask the way out, and then go and have a look first, the fog won't clear, and you can't go even if you want to."

The four of them nodded after hearing this, and then asked them if they wanted to go back together. Seeing that they still wanted to go around the village, a few students went back first.The aisles in this whole village are very narrow, and the stone walls of the houses are built so high. When I first arrived, I felt fresh, but after staying for a long time, I felt inexplicably depressed.

After they left, Che Guoyuan arranged for Yi Wei and the four of them to watch people separately. First of all, the old village head had to arrange one to watch, and he and Lan Jinxiu were left to investigate the ancient temple. Better.

There are things in this ancient temple that can isolate the consciousness, but it can't stop people from climbing over the wall.The entire ancient ancestral hall is a courtyard with two entrances and exits. The front yard is an ancestral hall, which is full of memorial tablets, and the memorial tablets are still in official script. The whole area looks very gloomy.The table where the memorial tablet was placed was very clean, and there were two babies' arm-thick incense sticks burning in front of it. It seemed that someone came to clean it every day.

When the two were about to search carefully, there were rustling sounds from the backyard.After Lan Jinxiu and Che Guoyuan looked at each other, they walked carefully to the backyard.

The backyard gives people a feeling of desolation. The whole style is a bit of the shadow of the Song Dynasty. The wooden courtyard is deserted, with fallen leaves and weeds all over the ground, and some mottled paintings and sculptures can be seen on the house, maybe it is It has been in disrepair for a long time and looks quite dilapidated.

But none of this was as surprising as the person who appeared in front of them. On the corridor, a woman with disheveled hair and a dull expression on her face was scratching the wood of the corridor with her long nails. Four scratches had been deeply scratched on her face, and there seemed to be scabbed blood in the woman's nails, and her pale face looked like a dead person.

As if sensing that someone was coming, the woman raised her head in a trance, looked at Lan Jinxiu and the others, and then grinned, her chapped lips were torn apart in an instant, and a few streaks of blood ooze out, and then penetrated to the point where she didn't know how to eat it. Something, with some blackened teeth, looks like a ghost crawling out of hell.

And this woman was Ju Min among the four students who had just parted ways with them at the entrance of the alley.