Zheng Jun stood up and looked at it in amazement.
The ancient coffin was actually emitting a light. It was a peaceful light, not so dazzling. It was green in color, and it was simply beautiful.
Zheng Jun and I were stunned. After a long time, she held my hand and said.
"Go and have a look."
I didn't move.
"I think it's better not to go ahead. It seems like this is just the beginning."
Zheng Jun and I did not move, but there was a sound in the village. The green light illuminated the entire village. The villagers came out and actually moved over. I wanted to shout at them to leave, but they seemed not to hear me. As if they were possessed by a ghost, they all moved over there and surrounded the ancient coffin.
"I think the ancient coffin is made of jade. That's the light of jade."
I don't know what to say. I don't know how to make a decision at this moment. Maybe something terrible will happen at any time.
I have heard of crystal coffins, jade coffins, and nanmu coffins, but I have never seen this kind of jade coffin. Gambling on stones to find such a large jade is a result of getting rich overnight. Is there such a large jade? I don't know, and it has the luster of jade.
Exploding coffin, that suddenly occurred to me.
I shouted, but it was still useless. The village chief was also around the jade coffin and seemed not to hear me.
In an instant, it was bright, and then dark. It was so dark that I couldn't see anything. Everything in front of my eyes no longer existed. It was dark, just dark. It was as dark as if my eyes were blind.
Zheng Jun held my hand tightly and said.
"Brother, I'm scared."
I hugged Zheng Jun, but I was actually afraid. If it weren’t for Zheng Jun, I might have run away long ago.
Men are strong in front of women, no matter if they are pretending or not, they are strong anyway.
The time actually lasted for more than ten minutes, but it felt as long as more than ten years.
When we saw everything clearly, the villagers were gone, not a single person was left. They might have been frightened by something and ran away, running back home. When people are scared, the first thought is to go home. Whether it is the pain of love or other pains, one always wants to cry in the mother's arms. No matter she is forty, fifty, sixty or seventy, the mother's arms always give you a sense of warmth, but I can't. What Yunbai gives me now is coldness, like the coldest days of winter.
Zheng Jun and I didn't move.
"Wait till daybreak."
Zheng Jun and I didn't move until dawn. It was such a long dawn, the longest dawn ever.
It was dead silent. I was afraid of silence, having never felt it since I was a child. But I went to the quietest place, which was the crematorium. Later I realized that this was not the quietest place. When people die, it is not the quietest place. Instead, it becomes noisy.
Zheng Jun and I walked towards the ancient coffin. When we got closer, it was still the same, without any changes. The ghost number did not work at all.
"Let's go into the village and take a look."
When Zheng Jun and I entered the village, there was not a single household with people. One, two, three...
All the doors were open, and there was no one in the house. I walked around the whole village and found no one. How could those thousands of people suddenly disappear and run away? It was impossible.
Zheng Jun and I were a little stunned.
"Xiaozhe, there might be a problem."
I immediately called Mao Xiaoli, and she didn't say anything for a long time after listening to me.
I didn't ask any further questions until she finally told me.
"wait for me."
Zheng Jun and I left the village. The jade coffin was now a stone coffin, the same as before, with no difference.
Zheng Jun and I completely don't understand this situation.
Mao Xiaoli came in along the mountain road and saw Xiaobai early. She was wearing Xiaobai. Today is Wednesday, but I don’t like it.
She walked slowly and didn't seem to be in a hurry.
Mao Xiaoli came over, took a look at the jade coffin and said.
"You know too little about the affairs of Mopan Village. I'm afraid you would never have thought that something like this would happen today."
After Mao Xiaoli said this, Zheng Jun and I became even more scared. There are too many legends about Mopan Village.
Regarding Mopan Village, many incomprehensible things really happened, as mentioned before.
"Mopan Village has not existed for 19 years. It is an empty village."
After Mao Xiaoli finished speaking, she sat down on the grass and lit a cigarette.
"That's impossible. We saw the villagers, and there was also the village chief, and I am also the village chief. How could this be possible?"
"Mopan Village is indeed called that. This place is beautiful, but it has not been developed. It is a good place anyway. However, as long as you don't enter the village, you will see people moving around and living a normal life."
"But I've entered the village, and I'm familiar with everything there."
"Of course, you will enter the village. This is your debt, your father owes it. So, when you arrive at Mopan Village, you seem to be familiar with these people and are no different from other people. In fact, remember, Mopan Village has not existed for 19 years. That's why it is called China's paradise. First of all, there are too many weird things here."
After Mao Xiaoli finished speaking, I slapped myself in the face, "bang bang", which scared Zheng Jun so much that he trembled. This couldn't possibly be true.
"Now I tell you, everything you encounter is the existence of a world. You can see it and integrate into it. I don't understand this. Mopan Village is the existence of another world. No one can be seen, but the village is intact. After so many years, the village has not been deserted. This is the strangest thing. Sometimes you can still see smoke from cooking, but the difference is that it floats in the wind."
Mao Xiaoli completely disrupted everything for me, and Zheng Jun didn't say anything.
I was stunned for a long time before asking.
"All of this is fake. What about the ancient coffin?"
"I said, it's not fake, it's the existence of another world. You can go in, Zheng Jun can hold someone's hand. What you see is not from this world, do you understand? And then there's the ancient coffin, that's real."
I was surprised that Mao Xiaoli was so angry. She left after she finished speaking. Zheng Jun and I were stunned. What should we do next
I didn't give up and entered the village again. There was really no one there. But the strangest thing was that the houses in the village should have collapsed long ago in 2019, but no one was there. They were intact and seemed to be repaired every year.
Could it be that the other world that Mao Xiaoli talked about really exists? I have been in that other world, but that world is different from this one.
Zheng Jun and I looked at the ancient coffin. The strangest thing was that at this time, it was not a piece of stone.
"Xiaozhe, we might be in trouble. I feel like we are not in the world we live in, but another world."
"No, we are normal."
I am not sure when I say this. Maybe I have encountered big trouble. Mao Xiaoli is gone. What does this mean
"We'll leave now."
I told Zheng Jun and we left.
Back home, Zheng Jun said.
"This can't have happened. We saw the peasants with our own eyes. They were real people. How could there be no one there in 19 years? If there were no people, the village would have been deserted long ago, but it hasn't. We also saw smoke rising from cooking fires."
This is the reality that Zheng Jun and I saw, but Mao Xiaoli actually said this. It is also true that we did not see the villagers.
Everything is a mess. What kind of world has Zhang Xiaoxue gone to
Zheng Jun and I stayed at home that day. We talked very little because we couldn't understand this matter.
The next day was our shift and we went to the crematorium together. While putting on makeup, Zheng Jun said.
"Let's go to the millstone after get off work. I want to see what's going on."
I am no different, but there are no villagers.
We went there in the afternoon and didn't see any villagers. The strangest thing was that when we entered the villager's house, we saw coffins in the yard. They were old coffins, just a few coffins for a family of several people. Zheng Jun and I couldn't control ourselves anymore.
I ran to the entrance of Mopan Village, but the strange thing was still the same. What on earth had happened
Zheng Jun and I went to Mao Xiaoli, and we thought she could give us an answer, and she did give us an answer, which was to ask us to find Master Zhao Juan, our master.
We went to see Master Zhao Juan and told her about the situation.
"I've known this for a long time. Mopandi was indeed deserted in 19 years due to a plague. But the strangest thing is that from a distance, there were people and smoke in Mopandi, and the houses were always intact. The villagers you saw were just ghosts, like a mirage, and they didn't really exist."
"What about the ancient coffin?"
"It exists. You want to find Zhang Xiaoxue, but she is not in the ancient coffin. It is just a process, an illusion, meaningless. You go there tomorrow night. This is a ball of string. Pull the string in. Remember, when you go in, tie this end to a tree, and then walk slowly. Don't break it. If you break it, you will be in another world. I don't know what world that is. You have to pay attention to the movement of the black string. If it moves, see where it moves, and then wrap the black string three times. Loosen the black string, and then you will know everything."
Mao Xiaoli was obviously reluctant to say this, as if this was not something to be revealed.
When Zheng Jun wasn't paying attention, the box was given to me.
I know that when I go to work, everything will be arranged. What if I don't go that day? What will happen? If I don't go, I will miss the opportunity. I think Mao Xiaoli will spit me to death.
We had no choice at this time. I asked Zheng Jun to stay at home, but she disagreed and insisted on following me.
I took the black line into the village and pulled it. When I reached the middle of the village, the black line moved. I didn't know where it was, but I could feel it. I walked back and saw it. Then it circled three times and I let go. The black line kept moving and went up the mountain of Mopan Village. There was a yard there, a very lonely place. All the residential areas in Mopandi were gathered together, but this one was special.
The black line was being pulled forward. When we arrived at the yard, the door was opened, but no one was visible. The line was still moving.
We followed in, and I thought that the person who pulled the black line couldn't see us either. These were things belonging to two different worlds. If there was another function or potential, of course that wouldn't be a problem.
The black line entered Room 1 on the sixth floor. When the door opened, we squeezed in. Zheng Jun and I were stunned and stood there watching. (To be continued)