distortion

When the group arrived at the entrance of the village with great difficulty, they found that the Crescent Gate at the entrance of the village was locked, and the key must be in the hands of the patriarch, and they were just one door away from the grocery store.

But if you want to return to find the patriarch in this white mist, get the key, and then turn back, it is impossible to do it. Even if you can find the patriarch and get the key from him, it is impossible to run back and forth twice in one day , not to mention that they don't even know where the patriarch is.

"If I had an ax in my hand, I might be able to break this heavy iron chain." Bai Cheng said.

"It's getting late, let's go back first." Qiu Shun looked at the dimmed white mist around him. If it was night, the visibility would be even lower. It would be very difficult to find the original way, let alone go back to the hotel.

Bai Cheng thought that his sister might still be waiting for them in the hotel, so he could only give up.

But when they got back to the steep slope, they realized that the steep slope was easy to descend and difficult to ascend.Baicheng didn't have a better idea for a while, so he could only bury his head in thinking hard.

Han Luo said: "Brother Cheng, I remember that there is an abandoned well water house not far from the entrance of the village. Why don't we go there to rest and wait until we think of a good solution."

"That's the only way." Although he was very worried about his sister, he had to save his strength and meet up with his sister safely.

The well water room was empty, with some useless agricultural tools hanging on the wall. The well water had long since dried up, and there were large and small cobwebs around it, and some insects were flying around.

"There's not even a place to sit!" Qiu Shun spat.

Ji Chuan looked around, took off a dilapidated raincoat hanging on the wall, patted the floor and sat down first, then patted the seat next to him, indicating that Han Luo should also sit down.

Bai Cheng sat down beside the well.

Qiu Shun looked at the three people who ignored him, so he also sat down by the well.

"When it's dawn tomorrow, let's go to the steep slope to have a look. There should be vines and the like around. If we can find them, we can go up." Baicheng expressed his thoughts to several other people.

"Don't keep thinking about going back, did you bring anything to eat? I'm so hungry." Qiu Shun rubbed his hungry belly, which was already protesting.

Han Luo was also a little hungry. When he went out, he just took some dry bread and ate it long before arriving here.

There is no way, everyone can only look at the big eyes and small eyes, and just spend the night here.

Han Luo leaned against the wall and couldn't fall asleep at all, while Ji Chuan slept soundly leaning on his shoulder.

"Alo, Alo." A familiar voice came from outside the window.

Han Luo suddenly opened his eyes and looked, there were women standing outside the window, it was Bai Zhi!

Han Luo hurriedly got up, but was stopped by Ji Chuan: "Don't go out."

"It's Bai Zhi, she found us!"

Han Luo waved his hand away, wanting to go outside the house.

"She's not Baizhi anymore." Ji Chuan said something Han Luo couldn't understand.

"what?"

"Don't go out." Ji Chuan repeated.

While the two were arguing, the calling outside the door disappeared, and when Han Luo looked out the window again, Bai Zhi had disappeared.

"Why did you disappear?" Are you angry that he didn't open the door and left?Han Luo was a little annoyed that he didn't open the door in time, if something happened to Bai Zhi, he would never have the face to see Bai Cheng for the rest of his life.

"The matter of Bai Zhi has nothing to do with you." Ji Chuan comforted him as if he understood his thoughts again.

"No, she is clearly asking me to open the door."

"Han Luo, if you want to find Bai Zhi, pay more attention to Qiu Shun, I think he will know."

"Do you know anything?" Han Luo asked suspiciously.

"I don't know anything." Ji Chuan patted himself on the shoulder: "Go to sleep quickly, I will lend you my shoulder."

The next day, Mengmeng woke up in Baicheng, and Han Luo couldn't sleep well. Although Ji Chuan's shoulders were very comfortable, no one could bear to sleep with his neck crooked all night.

According to Bai Cheng's idea, the group of people found some sparse vines. Since they hadn't eaten for a long time, they had no energy and climbed very slowly. However, Han Luo looked at Ji Chuan with red lips and white teeth, as if not eating had no effect on him.

A group of people climbed up the steep slope and then set foot on the potholed path.

Because there was no strength, everyone was silent all the way.

In the dark, it seemed that someone patted Qiu Shun on the shoulder, Qiu Shun was startled, he looked behind him tremblingly, and found that he saw nothing but a white mist, "Maybe he was too hungry and had hallucinations. ’ he comforted himself.

Han Luo discovered a strange thing. He found that Baicheng in front of him was going faster and faster, so fast that he couldn't catch up with him, and Qiu Shun, who had been following him, began to overtake him at some point. Only Ji Chuan kept pace beside him.

"How did they go so fast?"

"Maybe he was in a hurry to get back to the hotel."

Han Luo didn't want to lose them, because he had a poor sense of direction, and if he lost track, he might need to spend a lot of energy to find the original way.

"Don't worry, you still have me." Ji Chuan held his hand.

Han Luo felt his hands were soft and cool, with an inexplicable sense of relief.

It was dark again.

Ji Chuan said, "I'll take you to a place."

"It's better for us to go back to the hotel to meet them first." Han Luo shook his head, rejecting his suggestion.

"It's okay, we can go there to eat something first, and go back after resting."

It didn't take long for Ji Chuan to bring Han Luo to a big room.

Han Luo recognized this place, it was a forbidden place in the village!

"How did you bring me here?"

Han Luo said angrily, "This is the forbidden area of ​​the village. Many people dare not approach it. I heard that there are monsters eating people inside."

"It's safe here, don't worry."

Ji Chuan pulled him and walked in.

This house is surrounded by eight similar small houses. The entrance is a hallway, with a large antique screen in the middle, and a choppy Yinchuan River is embroidered on the screen.

In the middle of the house is a large yard, with simple and beautiful patterns engraved on the blue tiles all over the floor, one can imagine how much the former owner of this house enjoyed it.

There is a stone pavilion in the middle of the yard, and under the stone pavilion is a huge shrine, which is used to enshrine some god.

"Let me tell you a story about this room." Ji Chuan looked at the dilapidated shrine and said seriously.

Han Luo nodded. Apart from fear, he also had a strange desire to explore this room, and he couldn't explain why.

"The owner here used to be a noble son who was idle all day long. His family was poor and he no longer had the money to afford his extravagant life, so he began to dream of getting rich all day long. Maybe God took pity on him and let him meet a poor Taoist priest. , the Taoist exchanged an old book for half a steamed bun with him. After he got the book, he found out that it was an evil book. Eager to make money, he began to delve into the content of this book day and night, and learned some little things. He was not satisfied after playing tricks, so he used forbidden techniques to imprison the river god of a big river in a shrine, and used the aura of the river god to help him study sorcery. He was afraid that people would discover this, so he moved to this deserted place. He lived here in seclusion and prepared to do something big, but he didn’t expect that the house was already targeted by the bandits on the mountain, and in a dark night, the bandits took his nest, and he died tragically under the bandits’ knife.”

"Will it be okay for the River God to be trapped in the shrine and forced to accept those sorceries?"

Han Luo asked.

"It will probably turn bad." Ji Chuan said with a casual smile.

"Is the person who disappeared in this house in our village related to this river god? Where did they go?"

"In the belly of the river god who has gone bad."

"Ah?" Han Luo wanted to leave here subconsciously, there really were monsters eating people here.

"I'm lying to you. The River God doesn't eat everyone, but..." Ji Chuan changed the subject and looked at Han Luo with bright eyes: "Maybe he will be interested in you."

The author has something to say:

This is a modern story. At that time, technology was still relatively backward, and there were no such things as mobile phones~ ouch~ drift away