The autumn sunshine is scattered.
Qingshan Village, shrouded in sunshine, is peaceful and tranquil. The villagers passing by have simple smiles on their faces and look at them with a little curiosity and restraint. When the fat man takes the initiative to greet them, they will also respond enthusiastically.
Lin Dandan said enviously: "Fatty is so popular."
Among this group of people, the one with the best popularity is Fatty, who seems to be able to get along with anyone, which is also a kind of personal charm. This kind of popularity is also important in the game world, and it often allows him to lower the vigilance of NPCs and obtain unexpected information.
Wang Peiping was not convinced. He thought that maybe these villagers were all ghosts. There was nothing to be happy about having the favor of ghosts.
The fat man said with a smile: "Because I am big, everyone standing next to me will not regard me as a competitor."
This makes sense. A fat person who is not threatening and easy to get along with can easily make people let down their guard.
Gu Jiu walked slowly, the sunlight falling on her body made her squint her eyes, "It seems that there are fewer villagers."
These words made Wu Yang and the others stunned for a moment, but they quickly reacted.
"Yes, there are indeed fewer people." Wu Yang looked at Qingshan Village in the sun with sharp eyes. "When we entered the village on the first day, we met quite a few villagers on the road, but there seemed to be fewer people every day. I originally thought they stayed at home, so I didn't pay attention..."
Qingshan Village is a closed and backward mountain village, with farming as its main occupation. The villagers lead a regular life. Now it is autumn, and the crops in the fields are about to mature. The villagers have to go to the fields to work in the morning and evening, so it is impossible for them to stay at home every day.
However, after observing for the past few days, I found that the number of villagers coming out for activities is getting smaller and smaller.
Like today, after walking for a long time, they only met a few villagers. Looking at the fields outside the village, they didn't see many villagers busy in the fields. It was completely different from the scene they saw when they first arrived.
The fat man guessed, "Could it be that those missing villagers, like Lao Li's family of three, have turned into ghosts and are hiding in their homes?"
Lin Dandan and Wang Peiping could not help but shiver. Suddenly, they felt that this sunny little mountain village had become gloomy and chilling.
The two looked around suspiciously, fearing that the villagers who had turned into ghosts would suddenly appear.
At this time, Gu Jiu said, "Also, those children haven't come back yet."
I asked the villagers yesterday, and they said that the children in the village were taken to the market by adults, and should come back in the evening. But today there was still no sign of the children in the village. It seemed abnormal.
The fat man swallowed secretly and said in a trembling voice: "They can't have all turned into..." His chubby hands made a gesture of turning into a ghost.
Gu Jiu didn't say anything. She looked at the green mountains in front of her. Her eyes were gray behind the lenses and no one knew what she was thinking.
Because of her silence, everyone fell silent as well.
After walking slowly for nearly half an hour, they finally arrived at the ancestral hall at the end of the village.
The ancestral hall is built on the hillside at the end of the village. The terrain here is higher than the villagers' houses, so it is easy to see.
It is a single-family building, taller than any other house in the village. The red paint on the wooden walls and pillars is already mottled. In front of the closed door stand two villagers doing bamboo work. They weave bamboo into baskets, baskets and other bamboo products, which they can sell in the town.
Two villagers were chatting while working.
When they saw the seven people coming over here, a look of vigilance appeared on their faces and the actions in their hands stopped unconsciously.
One of the villagers with a gloomy face said: "This is our village's ancestral hall. Outsiders are not allowed to enter."
Wu Yang said with a smile: "Brothers, we are not going in. We are just here to take a look. The scenery here is quite nice."
There are many fruit trees planted on the hillside, and the trees are full of fruits. There are some wild flowers blooming on the roadside. Behind them is the tall and deep Daqing Mountain. From a distance, the forest is dense and the grass is deep. It is not easy to climb up. In the eyes of the villagers, there is no scenery at all.
After hearing this, the two men's expressions relaxed a little, but they still stared at them vigilantly.
While pretending to look at the scenery, several people secretly looked at the ancestral hall.
In addition to the main gate, there are windows on both sides of the ancestral hall, but the windows are very high and difficult to climb.
Wu Yang whispered, "We can climb in through the window, but someone needs to attract the attention of these two villagers. When they are making bamboo strips, they will occasionally patrol around."
So their task was to keep an eye on the two patrolling villagers and prevent them from discovering that someone had broken into the ancestral hall.
The villagers are guarding the ancestral hall on purpose, which shows that there are very important things in it. If you break in in front of them, or if you are discovered by them and try to climb through the window, it will cause a backlash from the villagers, and it is unknown what will happen.
In the game world, it is best not to conflict with NPCs easily.
Gu Jiu asked: "Brother Wu, can you guys get in smoothly?"
Wu Yang said, "I'm fine." He looked at the thin man.
The thin man nodded, "That's fine with me too."
Since both of them say it's okay, let's take action.
Gu Jiu said: "Let's attract the attention of the two villagers. You guys will climb in through the window later. Be careful. If there is any danger, run away quickly."
Wu Yang and the thin man both responded, then pretended to have something to do and left.
Gu Jiu and his friends came up to the two villagers and started chatting with them.
The fat man was a talkative person, and his chubby appearance seemed to be naturally infectious. After chatting for a few minutes, he made the two villagers relax and start chatting and laughing with him.
Gu Jiu was looking through the bamboo baskets they made, asking a question or two from time to time.
Compared to the naturally infectious fat man, Gu Jiu, who looks like a good kid, is also easy for the elders to like her, and the two villagers responded to her words.
Lu Ji sat next to Gu Jiu and seemed to be very interested in the bamboo basket, staring at it all the time.
Lin Dandan and Wang Peiping stood there stupidly, unable to get a word in.
Forget about the fat guy, but this Gu Jiu, with just her face, can actually make the villagers treat her like a daughter and answer every question she asks. What is this
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After Wu Yang and the thin man left the hillside, they went around to the back of the ancestral hall from another hidden road, and under the cover of the grass, they came to the window on the right.
The window is more than three meters from the ground, the walls are smooth, and there is no fulcrum.
Wu Yang saw a discarded bamboo pole in the grass not far away, so he dragged it over and placed it diagonally against the wall, forming a triangle with the bamboo pole and the wall. Then he jumped with force, stepped on the bamboo pole placed diagonally on the wall, and when the bamboo pole bent downward, he used the force to jump up again, reached out to grab the window sill, and climbed up smoothly with his body lifted.
There was no glass window on the window, but it was fixed with wooden bars. Wu Yang exerted a little force, pulled the wooden bar upwards, and threw it into the dense grass without any sound.
After half of the wooden strips were pulled away, the width was half a meter.
Wu Yang turned to look at the thin man, signaling him that he could come up.
The thin man also imitated him. He first stepped onto the bamboo pole, and with the help of the pole to bounce back, his stick-like body flew up lightly, and climbed onto the window easily like a piece of paper.
Wu Yang was a little surprised. It seemed that the thin guy had good abilities.
The two men jumped into the ancestral hall from the window, their movements light and without making any sound.
The ancestral hall was very dark. There were windows, but for some reason, the light from outside could not come in. The situation was similar to what happened when they visited the three generations of the Li family just now.
The two of them became alert instantly.
Wu Yang and the thin man took out their flashlights and looked over. They instantly saw that on an altar at the innermost part of the ancestral hall, there were densely packed tablets. There were about three hundred tablets.
When he saw the name on the tablet clearly, the thin man gasped.
Wu Yang's expression also looked a little solemn.
These are the tablets of all the villagers in Qingshan Village. The names of everyone they have come into contact with are all on them, even the village chief and Granny Wang.
If they guessed correctly, the villagers of Qingshan Village were actually dead.
"Since they are dead, why can they still move around during the day?" the thin man asked in confusion. If they are ghosts, they should follow the lifestyle of ghosts.
But look at the villagers of Qingshan Village. They are living people who need to eat, rest, and work.
Ghosts do not need to eat or rest and are extremely aggressive.
"It may be related to the curse." Wu Yang said as he checked the ancestral hall, not missing a single detail. His mind quickly sorted out the information he had received in the past few days, skimming through it like a cursory glance, and made some vague guesses.
Suddenly, the thin man cried out.
Wu Yang reacted very quickly and looked over, only to see the thin man looking in horror towards the gate of the ancestral hall. There was a small table there, with two rag dolls of a boy and a girl placed side by side on the table, like the "people" guarding the ancestral hall. The expressions on the two dolls' faces were exactly the same, their mouths were cracked to their ears, and they were giving them a weird smile.
As the two men stared, the two dolls' humanoid eyes blinked, flew towards them, and opened their mouths.
Wu Yang and the thin man quickly dodged. The two rag dolls pounced on the pillar behind them. Their mouths opened to the extreme, bit off a piece of wood from the pillar, and they chewed and ate it.
They were extremely fast, and after swallowing the wood from the pillar, they pounced on the two again.
Wu Yang took out the blood talisman, and a blood light flashed on the talisman, which hit the rag doll that was attacking him. The rag doll bounced out, and its body hit the tablet. Half of the tablets fell to the ground with a loud noise.
The thin man took out a pure black rope and used it as a whip, sending the other rag doll flying.
"Let's go." Wu Yang said to the thin man, and the two of them ran towards the window.