Liu Xuan was relieved to see people working in the village not far away.
When she came here last month, she lived in the village for two days and was fine, and the villagers also prepared a lot of food... although it was also related to the money they gave.
She turned her head and said, "Senior is this village, and the people in it are pretty good."
Shi Qi said, "Really?"
This sentence was very abrupt, and Liu Xuan was stunned. When he wanted to ask again, he had already turned around to talk to the senior sister, and she couldn't even talk.
Only the three of them came, and she didn't come at the same table, and there was a man in black who followed the senior.
Liu Xuan couldn't say how she felt. No one else was obliged to help her. It was already good to be able to come, and she couldn't force anything.
The two people behind are still whispering.
Ning Meng stomped her feet and whispered, "There is a bug."
I just felt like I got in, and it was uncomfortable to think about it. She wanted to take off her shoes directly, but the image was too ugly and not very good.
Shi Qi said, "Then you take off your shoes."
Ning Meng struggled for a while, and decisively helped her grandson take off her shoes.
She wrinkled her face and was disgusting. She was wearing boat socks. The feeling just now was so obvious that she didn't know how to get in.
Both feet were on the ground wearing only socks, her fingers curled up, small and exquisite, and the exposed insteps were shiny and white, which formed a sharp contrast with the roughness of the mountains.
Shi Qi watched for a few seconds, looked away, took the shoes in her hand, and squatted halfway in front of her, "Come on."
"Shiqi, you are so good." Ning Meng exclaimed.
She climbed onto his back and patted him on the shoulder. It felt so thick that it really let her know that this was not the seven-year-old baby before.
The eldest grandson grows up and knows that she feels sorry for others. She feels that she is proud of it. She taught well, but the gloomy children in the previous books.
Shi Qi didn't speak, but his expression became soft.
Liu Xuan, who witnessed the whole process, bit her lip, did not speak, and smiled reluctantly and said, "Senior, thanks to you this time."
Shi Qi just lightly chin and walked straight to the village over her.
When I approached, I felt popular. Several children were playing in the mud on the side of the house, and their faces were covered with dried mud.
Liu Xuan ran over. She lived here for two days and basically everyone here was familiar with it. Seeing the uncle she used to live in, she hurried forward, "Uncle Li!"
The middle-aged man froze for a moment, put down the hoe in his hand, stared at her for a while, and then said, "It's the little girl from last month, come to play again today?"
He fixed his gaze on the two tall and mighty men behind Shi Qi, a little hesitant. Although his clothes were ordinary, he really felt a little bit ill-intentioned.
And this doll with the little girl on her back, doesn't look good.
Liu Xuan can only nod her head: "Yes, I brought a new friend, we hired to help. Last time I thanked Uncle Li, this time I may leave tomorrow."
Uncle Li's expression froze for a while, and soon put on a smile again.
He grinned and said: "Tomorrow... Tomorrow will do, I will find you a room, last time you lived in my house, this time..."
Li Shu babbled and left first, and Liu Xuan followed.
Ning Meng got off Shiqi's back and put on her shoes.
She felt that something was wrong. When she mentioned tomorrow, the expression of Uncle Li changed obviously, which was definitely not normal.
Either something will happen tomorrow, she guessed tomorrow may be a special time, maybe something will be done in the village, or something that Uncle Li will have to do.
Eventually he stopped in front of the only concrete house in the village.
Uncle Li turned his head and said, "This is a newly built house. It was originally my son's wedding room. The girl was not good last time, but this time it is good. You must be used to living in the city, so let's forget it."
Ning Meng got up to Shiqi and asked secretly, "Shall we live here at night?"
Shi Qi moved and replied in a low voice: "No."
Ning Meng thought for a while. The driver's car seemed to be quite big. It should be able to live in it, which is much better than living in a village of unknown depth.
Between back and forth, Liu Xuan had already sent away Uncle Li.
She pointed to the road ahead and said: "The river... You can see it not far from here, about a few minutes, and then go up the river and you will see a bridge."
The destination has arrived, and she can't wait.
For this month, I have to face the face turned into a mask every day. The fear in my heart is not a little bit of fear. Others don't know her pain at all.
She just picked up a mask for fun, how could she spread such a terrible thing... Fortunately someone can save her.
Liu Xuan silently looked at Shi Qi in front of him, and the joy in her heart was like weeds on the wasteland, rising from the ground, instantly covering the entire wasteland.
Then she saw the delicate and tender senior sister next to her, and couldn't help thinking, why is this senior sister worthy of his pampering, and she is not pretty.
Ning Meng noticed her gaze and smiled at her slightly.
Shi Qi cracked her head straight, "Don't look around."
Ning Meng poked him, she just glanced at the school girl, she was looking randomly.
Liu Xuan took care of her mood. The most urgent thing is to find the weird mask. She said: "Senior, shall we go to the river now?"
Shi Qiying said: "Yeah."
Liu Xuan led the way, and they walked behind.
Ning Meng looked around and asked in a low voice, "You didn't really make the phone?"
The person next to him denied it again.
She hummed for a while, took out her mobile phone, and found that there was no signal here, "I know you must have got it, my mother is out of luck."
She is also very lucky.
Shi Qi turned his head to look at her, and did not speak, but the corners of his lips raised slightly.
The two men in black wore regular clothes. They walked very lightly and couldn't hear any sound. They didn't say a word from beginning to end. If they weren't invisible, they would almost be ignored.
With the passage of time, a great distance has been reached.
The village has been left behind. Now this place is a thick forest. It is now November, but the leaves have fallen and stopped.
It can be said that the gap between the entrance of the village and the end of the village is very large.
Liu Xuan looked at it for a while and said, "The last time we were camping in the clearing behind the woods, it was hot and the woods were still green."
There are evergreen trees planted at the entrance of the village, so looking at the lush greenery, the fields are golden and blue, and the time to ripen is almost here.
Soon, the woods came to an end.
A wide river came into view. The river was about ten meters wide. The water quality was normal and the water surface was calm. You can't see the head downstream, and you can see a stone bridge faintly from the upstream.
Liu Xuan looked at upstream with surprise: "It's the bridge! I'm the mask I saw on that bridge!"
She couldn't wait to walk in front, speeding up a lot.
Ning Meng felt hairy in her heart, swallowed, and grabbed Shiqi's cuffs, "Big... Shiqi, let's walk around."
Shi Qi hooked his lips and responded, "Okay, let's go."
Ning Meng still noticed his attitude problem, and followed him forward, thinking about what he would see later.
The close-up view of the bridge easily appeared in front of them.
It was about ten meters long and spanned on both sides. There were woods on both sides, but behind the woods on the opposite bank, you could see a not very high mountain, and you couldn't see the others.
Liu Xuan's breathing increased and she couldn't help running over, she found the mask on this ancient bridge.
She took out the small round mirror she carried with her from her pocket and took a photo of her face. As expected, what she saw was a mask covered in patterns.
Originally the mask was completely black with holes in the facial features, but now it has become colorful, with black showing through only the areas with alternate patterns.
It looks like a Beijing opera mask.
The river was calm, Liu Xuan completely forgot the two behind him, and ran straight to the ancient bridge, looking for the mask she had discarded over there.
Ning Meng walked beside Shiqi and looked at the other side.
The novel says that there is a temple, but it doesn't say where it is, but looking at the surrounding situation, it should be halfway up the hill on the opposite side. It is blocked by the woods and cannot be seen.
But from here, it feels a bit gloomy over there.
When Shi Qi walked to the river, he suddenly pointed his finger into the water, put it on the tip of his tongue and tasted it, frowning, "Still water."
Ning Meng reacted, "Is such a long invisible river stagnant?"
Shi Qi nodded, "This river may be unusual. Go to the bridge and have a look."
There is a big difference between dead water and living water. Living water can live with animals because of its source and flow direction. There are many bacteria in it, but people can drink it, but most of the dead water will die of bacteria after drinking.
There is no mark on the map of this river, and they don't know how long it is.
Liu Xuan stood at one-third of the stone bridge, which was nearly two meters wide, covered with fallen leaves and gravel and some invisible residues.
"Why... How could it disappear..." she muttered, looking for the bridge with her eyes wide open.
After a while, she stood up with a look of horror, looked at the two people who came by, licked her lips and said, "The mask is gone..."
Liu Xuan remembered clearly that after joking with her classmates, she dropped the mask here. Unless someone took it away, it would not disappear.
That mask...
Shi Qi glanced around the bridge deck and said nothing.
Ning Meng looked at her black face, and comforted: "Maybe it was taken away by the villagers before, or maybe a child took it here."
Liu Xuan can only nod her head.
Standing on the bridge and watching the river is totally different from watching it on the shore. I can't see the head at a glance. The surface of the river is calm, and occasionally there are fallen leaves floating down.
Shi Qiman said casually: "Since it's gone, go back first."
Liu Xuan had no choice but to give up. Maybe she was taken away by the villagers, so she should go back and ask.
It was already past four o'clock in the afternoon, and it took them more than three hours on their way here, plus the time here, which is really a waste of time.
It will get dark earlier than usual in autumn, so the people in the village are now preparing dinner. You can see the smoke from the woods when you come out of the woods.
The people outside also came back, occasionally gathering together.
Looking at it this way, there are quite a lot of people in the village. There are about dozens of families. There are two or three people in each family. There are more than 100 people. It is not a small number of people in a village.
The middle-aged man called Uncle Li took them to the village chief.
On the way, Liu Xuan pretended to ask casually: "Uncle Li, I was camping by the river last time. Is the river very old?"
Uncle Li nodded: "I could see that river anyway when I was a kid. It seems to have existed very early. I don't know how many years it has been, but we never go there to get some water."
Liu Xuan asked, "Why, it's not far from the village?"
"Because that river is stagnant water, this water cannot be eaten. We use our own draught for digging wells. No one is going to play on that river." Uncle Li said indifferently, "Do you care about what you do," I forgot to remind you last time."
Liu Xuan didn't know how to answer, the thoughts in her mind became a ball.
Ning Meng asked curiously, "Where is that stone bridge?"
Uncle Li was stunned for a moment, and then he thought about it and said, "Stone Bridge? It's been a long time. I don't know when it was there. There are beasts on the opposite side. We rarely go there. Someone has never come back in the past."
As he said, a regretful expression appeared on his face.
However, Shi Qi was very thoughtful and looked at this peaceful small village carefully.
Uncle Li changed the subject: "Here."
The best house in the village is the wedding house of Uncle Li and his son, as well as the house of the village chief, which are all cement houses built.
The village chief is also a middle-aged man, about the same age as Uncle Li, but he has seen a lot, "you young people, what kind of farmhouse you really like, no one in our village came before, everyone has gone out."
Some young and middle-aged people have gone out, and all they have left are farming.
Liu Xuan saw that Shi Qi didn't want to talk, so she could only talk to them herself, hoping to get some information.
In the end, she couldn't help it. She squeezed and asked, "The village chief, have you ever seen a black mask?"
The village chief stopped talking, "Mask?"
Liu Xuan described it and put the draft paper on the table from her bag: "It's a very ordinary mask, all black."
The village chief stared at it for a long time, and spit out a few words: "I haven't seen it."
Uncle Li, who was sitting on the side, didn't look too good, and asked aloud: "You are here to hunt for treasure? You are not here to farmhouse?"
In the early years, I heard that some people like to hunt for treasures, and those who steal things in other people's homes at night, cheated on eating and drinking, and took away the treasures.
Ning Meng was stunned to see Liu Xuan, and hurriedly intervened: "No, Uncle Li, you misunderstood. She lost a mask when she came here last time. She didn't find it by the river just now, so come and ask..."
With this explanation, the faces of the two people look better.
Liu Xuan nodded fiercely: "That's it."
Shi Qi's face was not worried, and he whispered in Ning Meng's ear: "It's okay, don't interrupt."
Ning Meng spread his hands and replied, "Are you going to be kicked out by them?"
To put it bluntly, the village chief and Uncle Li finally had no doubts. The biggest reason was that they were very young and were only high school students.
Uncle Li prepared dinner for them, but Ning Meng and Shi Qi didn't eat it.
Perhaps it was because of preconceived feelings of the village weird, or the disappearance of the stone bridge and mask.
There were prepared foods in the car, and Ning Meng liked to eat them. She even saw a bag of melon seeds.
The noble melon seeds she missed!
These days I have been talking about it at Ningning's house for a long time, but I dare not buy it, because as a snack, its price is a bit high.
Liu Xuan only thought they were going to get things, but didn't follow.
Ning Meng ate the melon seeds contentedly, and sighed with the system: "I really miss it. When I left, I hadn't finished eating the table."
The system said: "...you just pursue this point."
Shi Qi took a fruit knife and slashed the fruit slowly, gracefully and non-stop, looking pleasing to the eye.
Ning Meng stared at his hand in a daze.
Her eldest grandson is really not so good-looking, and his hands are also good-looking. When holding the knife, he feels even more wonderful. It is cold and cold, and the slightly curved knuckles are particularly attractive.
Shi Qi looked up, saw her staring into her hand, and handed the apple over, "You want to eat?"
Ning Meng shook his head, "I'm not going to eat." He just looked at his hand.
Shi Qi didn't speak, and fixed her body for a few seconds, the figure now made him see more clearly, only the facial features were a little fuzzy.
But it's much better than not seeing the face before.
After dark, everyone in the village is basically closed.
Liu Xuan brought a kerosene lamp from Uncle Li. Their village is backward and there is no electricity, so they still rely on this.
He also solemnly said: "Don't go out at night. If there are beasts, you can't come back if you drag them away."
Liu Xuan wondered: "Uncle Li, why didn't it happen when I came last month?"
Uncle Li said: "It's autumn, and the harvest season is different from other times. Don't ask too much. It's best to go to bed early at night and don't go out."
"Yeah." Although Liu Xuan felt strange, she still obediently responded.
This new cement room has only one room, and there is a problem with the allocation.
She thought that it was impossible for the senior sister and senior to sleep together, so she could only say: "Would you like senior sister to sleep with me? It's okay to sleep in your clothes, senior, you..."
Shi Qi interrupted her, "No, no need to sleep tonight."
Liu Xuan’s words are stuck in her throat, pinching her palms, why can’t she speak as easily as the senior sister...
Ning Meng also turned her head curiously, "What did you find?"
The system once mentioned to her that there is a greater chance of weird situations in the over-yin physique. In other words, there is a greater chance of getting things because of induction.
After the village went dark, there was no sound. There was no barking, and it was very quiet. However, she felt that the whole village was suddenly cold for several degrees, but Liu Xuan, who was next to her, had no reaction at all.
In other words, only she can feel it.
In other words, it will make her feel cold if there is Yin Qi here.
This village is really the same as she guessed, there must be something unusual, and this place is just this one village, and how the temple over there was built is a problem.
Liu Xuan had to be silent and put the kerosene lamp in the bedroom.
The bedroom window was open, and the curtains were blown up by the wind. She went to close the window, but she was shocked by the scene before her. It took a long time to return to her senses.
There was a cold sweat behind him, and the goose bumps were all up.
Liu Xuan blinked, the same scene was still there, and she ran back to the living room.
Ning Meng looked at her panicked: "What's the matter?"
Liu Xuan pointed to the bedroom and stammered: "Outside the window... there are so many... so many people over there!"
The bedroom faces the back of the village, which is the direction of the river.
When Shi Qi and Ning Meng walked to the window, they saw a string of figures walking deep into the depths, and a faint, crisp bell came and echoed.
Ning Meng almost didn't jump up, "A group of people in the middle of the night... Are they humans or ghosts? Why are they all going there?"
This scene looked too weird, half of the moon was covered by dark clouds, and a little light was still shining down, illuminating the other side beautifully, and pulling out a long figure.
One after another, almost two people were separated by a distance, tall and short, jagged, and no tail could be seen in the darkness.
It's like some kind of ritual.
Liu Xuan had already walked over from behind, with a blank face, "I didn't have this situation last time...Are they going to do it?"
Shi Qi suddenly said, "I'm afraid everyone in the village is here."
As soon as the voice fell, the door opposite the living room creaked and was pushed open, and the sound reached them.
Ning Meng suddenly had a guess: "Are they going to the river, over that bridge, and then to the opposite mountain?"
There happened to be a temple on the mountain... Maybe it was the source of everything.
The dagger that suppresses ghosts is there, don't even think about it, it must have something to do with the people in this village suddenly.
Maybe that temple was built by people in this village.
Shi Qi went back to the living room and opened the curtains in the living room a bit. The outside scene caught the eyes of a few people.
This window is aimed at the road in the village, and it happens to be able to see the opposite side.
The opposite door was wide open, as was the diagonally opposite, people standing in the middle of the road, walking forward in the same posture.
Makes scalp numb.
Ning Meng asked weakly, "He... What are they doing?"
She had already squeezed to Shi Qi, using him to block herself, her heart beating so fast, she heard Liu Xuan's voice: "Maybe it's... sleepwalking?"
Can't convince myself.
The dark clouds dispersed and the moon shone, making it clear to those who had just reached their level outside.
Liu Xuan's eyes widened and she blurted out, "He wears a mask on his face!"
It was the black mask she was looking for, completely worn on the villager's face, and it had the exact same pattern as her face.
She took out the mirror and looked at it tremblingly.
Liu Xuan's lips trembled: "Will I... Like them... Like a walking dead..."
One by one, Ning Meng saw it.
Everyone wears a mask on their face. The patterns on the mask are very irregular, but they are basically the same as those painted by Liu Xuan before. They are colorful and very scary and weird in the moonlight.
I can't see the expressions, I can only see them walking forward wearing masks, mechanically.
As time passed by, the last person in the team walked out of range and gradually disappeared from their sight.
Shi Qi closed the curtains and said calmly, "Follow them."
As soon as he turned around, he naturally saw Ning Meng who was hiding behind him. He didn't pierce her, but only asked in a low voice.
Since he was a child, he had faintly guessed that the wild ghost possessing his grandma could see the lonely wild ghost, otherwise he would not be so scared...
However, he felt weird again.
Being a ghost, and being afraid of other ghosts, it really sounds a bit contradictory.
Seeing him looking at herself, Ning Meng stood up straight, cleared her throat, and said righteously, "Yes, follow along."
Liu Xuan wanted to cure herself, but of course she could only agree to follow along.
It's so cute.
If I can loosen my clothes.
-"The Little Diary Book that Shi Qi Secretly Hidden"