Night falls.
Chen Lin and Luo Ziwen stood together on a small hill not far from the village, looking at the village from afar.
According to the other party, the strange scenes here only appear at night. During the day, it is really just an ordinary village, and the houses are also ordinary houses, but the people who come out every day are different.
But now it was dark and he didn't notice any difference from the daytime.
"How about going with me to check it out?"
Although Luo Ziwen claimed that he had escaped death twice, he still looked eager to try, as if he could get some benefits from inside the house.
Chen Lin shook his head and said, "I am a junior with low strength, so I'd better not take the risk for now. If you want to go, you can go."
Although the other party told him a lot, he always felt that the other party was hiding something.
In such a strange place, the slightest error in information could mean the difference between life and death, or even worse than knowing nothing. So he only took the other party's words as a reference, and he still had to explore the situation himself.
Luo Ziwen glanced at Chen Lin and said, "Fellow Daoist, your blood and energy are so strong that they seem to be real. You must be a person who has achieved success in body training. Your strength is not less than that of the Golden Core Realm. You and I can treat each other as equals."
He nodded, took out a bamboo hat from his storage bag and put it on his head, saying, "Since Fellow Daoist Chen doesn't want to go, then I will go alone. I hope we can meet again tomorrow!"
After saying that, without waiting for Chen Lin to react, he flew straight to a wooden house!
Chen Lin watched quietly without any expression.
It would be great if the other party was willing to explore, as he could observe the situation from outside and learn more.
As for any benefits, he doesn't need them. Now he is not interested in anything except what can make up for the origin of his soul.
Chen Lin just stood there, looking at the village motionlessly until dawn.
But nothing was found wrong, except for the deathly silence.
As soon as a rooster crowed at dawn, the whole village came alive.
The sounds of conversation, dogs barking, and children playing are all pleasing to the ear.
The doors of every household were opened, some were carrying firewood, some were sweeping the yard, and soon smoke rose everywhere. The smoke mixed with the fragrance of food drifted into Chen Lin's nostrils, making him feel the life of ordinary people.
However, his expression became more and more solemn, and his eyes were fixed on the wooden house.
Luo Ziwen didn’t come out!
After staring for about half an hour, a woman in an apron opened the door and started carrying firewood to cook.
After nearly an hour, when there was still no sign of Luo Ziwen, Chen Lin stretched his body and slowly walked towards the village.
The village was the same as yesterday.
Chen Lin did not go to investigate the wooden house that Luo Ziwen entered, but walked forward and came to the door of the old man smoking a pipe whom he met yesterday.
There is no one at the door.
After hesitating for a moment, he cleared his throat and shouted loudly: "Is anyone there? I want a bowl of water!"
Crunch!
The wooden door was pushed open, and a slightly plump woman walked out.
She looked at Chen Lin and asked in confusion: "Which village are you from? Why haven't I seen you before?"
Chen Lin's eyes flickered slightly, and he asked tentatively: "I am not from nearby, but came from far away, and I am a little lost. Madam, do you know how to leave this place?"
The woman's eyes showed confusion, and she said, "I don't know about that, but legend has it that there used to be an ancient bridge here that seemed to lead to the outside."
Ancient bridge
Chen Lin's heart moved, and he remembered that the old man seemed to have said yesterday that he was from Guqiao Village.
Thinking of this, he immediately asked, "Which village is the lady from?"
The woman smiled charmingly and said, "My family is from Yushu Village, and I have been married to Guqiao Village for more than ten years. How can a warrior come here from such a faraway place? Could he be a knight-errant? What is the situation outside like? Can you tell me about it?"
After saying this, his face was full of anticipation, as if he was very longing for the outside world.
It turns out to be an elm tree spirit.
Hearing the other party introduce himself, Chen Lin muttered something in his heart, but he also learned some information. The people in the "villages" here know each other and can even intermarry.
“Who is it?”
Just as Chen Lin was about to ask for more information, he heard a sickly man walk out of the house. When the man saw him, he immediately said angrily, "Where did this wild man come from? How dare he seduce my wife!"
After saying that, he grabbed a wooden stick by the door and rushed over to start hitting him.
Chen Lin didn't expect such a situation to happen and was shocked.
But he soon discovered that the opponent's attack was disorganized and there was no energy fluctuation. He stretched out his hand lightly and grabbed the wooden stick. No matter how hard the opponent tried, he couldn't pull it back.
The plump woman did not offer a helping hand. Instead, she looked at Chen Lin's strong muscles with her watery eyes. Chen Lin's eyelids twitched. He shook his hand to knock the stick away, then turned and left.
"My dear, you want to drink some water? Are you going to drink it or not?"
A woman's voice called out from behind, followed by a man's angry shout, and then the sound of two people arguing.
Chen Lin frowned tightly. It was hard to connect this situation with the strange scene that Luo Ziwen described. It was just an ordinary farmer's family.
He looked at the wooden house that Luo Ziwen had entered again. The door was closed at this moment, and he still did not see the other party appear.
This put him in a difficult position.
After thinking about it, Chen Lin once again drove the spirit boat away.
This time he checked every place here, and after making sure that there was really no way to leave, he returned to the yard of the woman he had just met.
The quarrel between the two was over. The woman was sitting under the eaves with her legs crossed, while the man was fanning her with a fan.
Seeing him appear again, the woman immediately stood up with a smile on her face, while the man became even more angry.
But Chen Lin ignored the two of them and attacked fiercely!
The two were knocked unconscious without any resistance. Chen Lin looked around, then took out the crow puppet and controlled it to fly into the house.
Soon, the crow puppet flew out of the house and landed in Chen Lin's hands.
The room was very simple and there was nothing special worth noting, and the old man smoking the pipe was nowhere to be seen.
Seeing this, he hesitated for a moment, held the two unconscious people under his armpits, cast an illusion to hide his body, and flew straight out of the city.
Still on the same hill, Chen Lin put the two men down and then woke up the woman first.
"Please spare my life, brave man!"
Seeing the surrounding environment, the woman thought Chen Lin was going to kill her. She finally lost her previous charm and cried for mercy.
Chen Lin looked at the other person for a while, then said calmly, "I ask you questions and you answer them. As long as you don't lie, I will let you go. But if you don't tell the truth, don't blame me for being rude!"
After making a threat, he asked, "Yesterday I saw an old man smoking a pipe at the gate of your yard. Who is he to you? Where did he go?"
"What old man?" The lady stopped crying and looked confused.
Chen Lin frowned and snorted, "Why, you still want to hide it? I saw it with my own eyes yesterday!"
After saying this, he stared at the other person's face to check his reaction.
The woman was trembling with fear at the aura released by Chen Lin. After a long while, she suddenly remembered something and said, "I remember now. The hero is talking about an old man who wears a ragged jacket, has a black mole on his nose, and always smokes his pipe on the sole of his shoe?"
Chen Lin raised his eyebrows and said, "Yes, what is your relationship? Where is he now?"
The woman swallowed her saliva and said in surprise: "The man the hero was talking about should be my father-in-law, but he has been dead for more than ten years!"
At this point, she shuddered, hugged her shoulders and said in panic: "Could it be that he came to me for revenge? No, it's impossible, don't look for me, don't look for me, I didn't do anything!"
After questioning for a while and finding that he could not get anything out of the woman, Chen Lin knocked the woman unconscious and woke the man up.
After interrogating her in the same way, what she said was basically the same as what the woman said.
This made him more and more confused.
According to the two men, the old man had died yesterday and had been dead for more than ten years.
If the dead are resurrected, then the situation here is different from what was previously speculated. It doesn't seem to be a regular scene like the demon world, but more likely a ghost den or something like that!
Moreover, the two people in front of him might not be living people. They might also be ghosts who were briefly resurrected for some unknown reason.
Because after interrogation, it was found that their memories were fragmented, and they kept repeating the same content over and over again, as if they were fixed on a certain node.
After knocking the man unconscious again, Chen Lin sent the two back and interrogated the people in other yards. The situations were similar.
Then he began to observe inside the village.
When it was almost dark, he discovered another thing. That is, the people here, whether they were in the yard or the children playing outside, were all doing fixed things in fixed positions and did not interfere with each other.
Only with the intervention of external forces like him will new changes occur.
But even if he put people from one yard into another yard, both sides would just exchange surprises for a while and then return to their own scenes.
This made him even more certain of his previous speculation that the people here should all be dead, but were only briefly resurrected by a mysterious force, repeating the scenes before their death.
But it also made him even more horrified.
What kind of existence can revive a dead person and make him look like a normal person without any deathliness at all!
Moreover, what is the purpose of these people being resurrected again and again
Chen Lin didn’t know whether his guess was correct or not, but now there was no one to discuss it with him, so he had to continue experimenting on his own.
He once again kidnapped the plump woman and the sick man, took them to the hill outside the village, and then waited quietly for night to fall!