finally…
No devil appeared, or even attacked any of the candidates.
Gao Ying and Ji Yixuan were at a loss for this unbelievable phenomenon. Originally, they all came with the consciousness of living to death, but it felt like a punch hit the cotton hard.
Of course, there are no clues. Judging from the current situation, I have to go to the place opposite the arch bridge once. Of course, this map is still relatively simple, so it may not be possible to find the five-pointed star.
As everyone walked out of the house, all they could think about was the eye drawn on the map. That eye must be pointing something, but on the examination paper, there is no clue about the examination paper at all. Now, there are still a lot of questions that are blank.
"Let's... go and see."
The first to say this sentence was Shen Junhao, who had always had a relatively weak sense of presence. He also realized that if he didn't go there, even if he could copy Gao Ying's exam paper, he would still face a dead end when he returned to the classroom. It is creepy to think that after Zhang Wei turned into a skeleton, he turned into a walking dead and walked out of the classroom door. Even after the candidate dies, he still cannot escape this curse and cannot rest in peace!
"Yes... I have to go and have a look."
Go and have a look, the hidden truth of this silent deserted village.
In the sky, as in the previous two days, dense clouds once again obscured the sun. But even so, it still made everyone feel a lot more at ease.
Now, the fear of that place, as well as the gloomy shadow on the other side of the arch bridge, Gao Ying is no longer very afraid. He didn't have many options left, time... was running out. The countdown on the examination paper skull reminds him at any time that the footsteps of death are approaching step by step.
After passing through the dense forest, the last six candidates, including Lin Jia who had waited outside the house and dared not go in, finally began to approach the arch bridge.
Below the arch bridge, there is a dry gully, and on the opposite side is a thicker bush. That is basically at the foot of the mountain. There, lies the root of it all.
Gao Ying and the others came to the arch bridge step by step, and then walked up.
The arch bridge is not very long, and it didn't take long for everyone to cross the bridge. And the current Gao Ying is also close to the position where the black shadow appeared at that time.
At that time, what kind of terrifying devil was the black shadow standing here
However, it doesn't make much sense to think about it now. They just have to keep going until it's all over.
Although the forest in front of me is dense, most of these trees are withered, and there is not even a little weed on the ground. But in this way, it is even more difficult to make a sound. During this repressive process, everyone dared not speak, and at the same time kept paying attention to the movements around them, for fear that ghosts and monsters would come out from somewhere and kill them.
The mystery of the silent deserted village may be revealed today...
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Zhu Sunling was slowly opening a drawer.
She smiled when she saw the things in the drawer. Afterwards, she took out a pen and filled in the answer "It's located in the second drawer from the top of his desk" on a fill-in-the-blank question in the examination paper.
Inside the drawer was a dark notebook.
However, these are by no means the notes used by the villagers for written talks.
At this time, Cui Minghe, Mi Ruiyi, and Tang Ruyan were behind her, looking at the notebook, and hurriedly filling in the answers on their own exam papers.
Zhu Sunling slowly took out the notebook and placed it on the desk.
After opening this notebook, it contained traditional characters that were very familiar to them. According to the date recorded in the notes... it was in the 30th year of the Republic of China, that is, 1942. At this time, the land of China was in dire straits, the Japanese invaders trampled on the land of China with iron hoofs, a large number of lands fell, famine and starvation were everywhere in HN. Although Zhu Sunling is from T, she knows more about the history of the mainland than ordinary island residents. Therefore, looking at the contents of the notes, she could also imagine the tragic scene at that time.
"This..." Zhu Sunling flipped through the notes one by one, "This is the origin of everything."
When she turned to a certain page, she saw what was drawn in the notebook... a human head that seemed to be squished into a flat shape. In the notes, detailed explanations were given.
"This symbol...is proof of some kind of contract."
"contract?"
According to the notes, this is the conclusion of some kind of contract.
The living...a contract with the dead!
"The villagers of this village opened the Pandora's box that should not have been opened through this notebook handed down from the Republic of China. They didn't know what this symbol meant, and this also led to the curse suffered by this village."
With notes in her pocket, Zhu Sunling had her own ideas. Then, write a line on the note with a pen.
Everyone looked at what she wrote.
"Next, except for extremely important matters, we will have written discussions."
The font is extremely elegant and neat, completely within the grid of the note, and even the spacing between each word is almost the same. At first glance, it even looks like a printed font.
Zhu Sunling has already understood that the so-called "they" are brought in by living people...
Human ignorance, as well as greed, have attracted "they"...
Gao Ying, on the other hand, naturally knew nothing about it.
Unlike Zhu Sunling, he still has the utmost vigilance against the taboo of sound, so much so that he starts to use written chat. What Gao Ying is thinking about now is to find the location marked on the map. Only when you find that, can you hope to make the final argument.
Judging from the hand-drawn map, the location marked by the five-pointed star is not too far from the opposite side of the arch bridge. Not far away, I saw a few houses on the higher mountain road ahead.
And when Gao Ying and the others walked out of the woods, they saw...
On the ground ahead, a large number of pits appeared!
Gao Ying discovered... Most of these pits were newly dug!
He immediately remembered the farm tools he found earlier, as well as the slender shovel.
There are quite a lot of earth pits around, and some of them are dug very deep, which is completely "digging three feet into the ground".
"Should be freshly dug... the soil is obviously new."
And not long after...
They found a large hole that had been dug particularly deep.
Below this big pit, there is darkness.
Unfathomable... Unfathomable!
And near here, there are several very long ropes tied to the trees.
Could it be...
Gao Ying looked at the rope and realized something.
"We have to go down and see!"
"Under here, what is there?"
"Could it be... it won't lead directly to the underworld?"
Gao Ying stood in front of the pit, he didn't think the villagers could dig that deep. Below this, I'm afraid there may be another mystery.
The ultimate mystery of this exam must be below!
(Could it be that the so-called...they are actually...below here???)
Gao Ying tried to pull the rope, and the rope was very familiar. Then, he also found a candle holder near the grass, and there were a few matches scattered in the grass.
This is probably something that the villagers have used.
Shen Junhao looked at this scene, and suddenly said: "It really looks like a scary scene like "Ghost Blowing the Lantern"."
When Ji Yixuan heard this sentence, he also nodded, and said, "It's true...it's very similar to "Ghost Blowing the Lantern"... Could it be that the villagers once participated in the fighting?"
Gao Ying did know that "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" is a tomb-robbing theme serialized on the Internet. However, Gao Ying's parents are historians, so he is quite disgusted with the crime of stealing national historical relics, such as tomb robbery, so he has never watched this movie.
Hearing this, Gao Ying felt blessed, and immediately blurted out: "Could it be that the shovel before was the Luoyang shovel used for the tomb robbers?"
He had indeed heard of the Luoyang shovel, but he had never seen pictures before, and he hadn't studied this tomb-robbing tool in depth, although it is now widely used in archaeology to judge whether the underground soil has been turned over. In that case, the so-called shady, illegal thing is tomb robbery
No wonder the village chief wants to study it, his purpose is to judge the location of the tomb! Although Gao Ying is knowledgeable, but after all, he dabbled in too much knowledge, which made it difficult to specialize. The books written by the village chief were so mysterious and obscure that he didn't understand them at all!
So here goes...
Is it a tomb? ?
(end of this chapter)