Bone Village has been very quiet during this period, and nothing has been heard of.
As for the weirdness of Bone Village, it remains the same, existing for decades, a hundred years, or two hundred years. When will it be solved? I'm afraid this is another matter of science. Without development, there is no way to solve it. Just like Ma Yuan's disappearance, it is related to another subject. It seems that humans have too much to learn and too much to master.
The manager and I asked for a week's leave. During this week, I didn't know whether I could find anything in the Bone Village, or whether I could get out alive. This was a problem. I hung the badge around my neck and carried a big bag filled with food and drinks.
I entered the Bone Village at five in the morning. The Bone Village is covered in snow in winter. It is the same here as outside, with snowing and distinct four seasons.
There was no fire in the refining furnace, and no sound was heard.
I need to find a room to use as my living quarters because I will be living here for seven days, or even longer.
I chose a house on the hillside, the highest point where I could see at least part of the Bone Village clearly.
I entered the room, which was two-story. It looked like one floor from the outside, but it turned out to be two floors inside. The first floor was the living room, which was furnished with a teapot and tea sets, and chairs on both sides. It was obviously a place to entertain guests.
The stairs were made of wood and they creaked when I stepped on them. I was worried that they would break, but no, the wood was very solid. This is another feature of the Bone Village. After hundreds of years, many wooden things have not rotted, but have become stronger, and have a dark red color, which is very beautiful. I don’t know much about wood, but I know that those woods are very good.
I went up to the second floor, which was where I lived, the bedroom, a big room with windows on both sides. A quilt was spread there. I went over and pulled it, and it was already rotten. I pulled it again, and I jumped in fright. There was actually a corpse lying inside. It was obvious that the person died while sleeping.
I didn't move. I found a seat near the window, spread out the mat, then went downstairs and brought the stove up. I wanted to make a fire because the winters here are cold.
The fire was lit, and I was not in a hurry to go out and look for something. I wanted to take a look and think. Searching without a purpose is a foolish act.
I looked out of the window. It was the outer village of Bone Village, not the ditch. Everything seemed normal and I didn't find anything. There were explorers every year, and no matter how we tried to stop them, they would sneak in. But they would not come in winter because it was very cold.
There were no footprints on the snow, and I talked about something other than my own business.
I think it's really quiet here.
Tomorrow is a ghost day, and those people should appear in Bone Village. Of course, I can't see them from inside, I can only see them standing outside the village. This phenomenon has never been able to be solved, and no one knows the reason. This is why Bone Village has become one of the top ten ghost villages in China.
I took out the basin and heated up the rice and the wine. If it weren't for these things, coming to Bone Village would also be a pleasure. The scenery here is so beautiful, and each season has different characteristics. It is such a beautiful place, but all the people in this village are dead.
As I drank the wine and ate the food, my body warmed up.
I looked at the corpse not far away. I thought it must have died in winter because the blanket was very thick. Did it die of illness? Or how else? I don't know.
After drinking, my mind became active. I didn't want to touch the corpse, but I was still curious. My curiosity seemed to have become less curious because so many things had happened, but it came up again at this time, and it was even stronger. No matter what it is, the more you suppress it, the stronger it becomes.
I walked over slowly and lifted the quilt. The quilt was badly rotten. I lifted it up bit by bit. Judging from the bones, the dead person was not very old. She was a woman with very long hair, which was laid on her side. It seemed that she took good care of her hair.
The clothes were so rotten that it was impossible to tell their style.
I pulled the quilt open little by little, and stopped when it reached my hand. The woman was holding something in her hand, but I couldn't see clearly.
I gently removed her finger bones, and they all fell apart. That thing actually emitted a light. It was a bead, I was sure of it, but I couldn't tell what color it was. It was actually changing. I was stunned. Master Yunzheng had talked about this bead, and so had He Dana. They just said they had heard of it, but had never seen it.
They say that it is a soul bead. After you die, there will be a kind of electrolyte. This electrolyte will not disperse and will form a soul, or certain shapes. What we see is what we call a ghost. This is different from the explanation of Yin studies. This is a scientific explanation. An American researcher once proposed that after the electrolyte is released, if it can gather together, it will form something like a bead, which is the soul.
I slowly picked up the bead. There were several colors, which were the dissolutions of several dead people gathered together. Some dissolutions were strong and took individual shapes, but not necessarily beads. Any shape, anything, would be gathered together so that the dissolution would not disperse. If the dissolution was released after a person's death, if it could not take shape, it would completely disappear after a few hours.
The bead kept changing colors. I counted them and there were thirteen colors. That means thirteen people died and the souls gathered together. This was something I had never expected. That is to say, thirteen souls were together.
Who is this woman
The strangest thing about Bone Village is that it is impossible to tell who lives in some houses. The difference in levels is not that big, unless it is the highest level in the village, there will be some differences inside, and the others seem to be similar.
When the woman died, she was holding this bead. It seemed that the woman's soul was also in it, making it thirteen, a ghost number. This number is the strangest.
The beads were placed in front of me and I watched them constantly changing colors. There didn't seem to be anything special about them.
I looked out the window, but there was still nothing. The sunlight shone on the snow, which was blinding. I thought I should take a rest today and not go out. I had no purpose.
I don't know if anything will happen, but this house is pretty clean.
I actually fell asleep. The sun was shining in, the stove was burning and warm, and I actually fell asleep.
When I woke up, the beads had lost their luster, which I found quite strange.
I heard footsteps, going up the stairs from the first floor, very slowly. I stood up immediately and looked out the window. Another set of footprints came from the east and entered the room.
I was sweating. There were footprints at this time. It was a human, not a ghost. Ghosts don't have footprints, so who could it be
The strangest thing about the footsteps was that they stopped after five steps. I was so worried, you idiot, why don’t you just walk away
He just wouldn't leave and remained in a stalemate. I knew I had no patience.
After a few minutes, I moved towards the stairs, little by little, without making any sound.
I saw the stairs, then the feet and calves, I couldn't see the upper part, but it was indeed a person. The shoes she was wearing were red and the pants were black. It was a woman. I'm not too sure, but 80% of the time it was a woman.
"who?"
I asked in a low voice.
"Are you a ghost or a human?"
It's a woman, a young woman.
"Come up."
The woman hesitated for a moment, then slowly walked up. I took out the knife. If there is any problem, I will go up ten thousand. Saving my life in the Bone Village is the prerequisite.
The woman's face finally showed up, and I shuddered. She had long hair, the same length as the corpse lying there. She had an oval face and was very pretty. She looked no more than twenty-one or twenty-two years old, with a good figure.
"Hello, uncle."
The girl came up, carrying a bag and seemed very cold.
"Come up."
I sat by the window, always leaving myself two escape holes. He Dana once told me that if you go to a dangerous place, you should always leave yourself two escape holes. Those who died only left themselves one escape hole, and that was often the hole of death.
The girl hesitated for a long time, then sat down and warmed herself by the fire.
"Why did you come to Bone Village?"
"I got lost. I came here to hunt with my second uncle."
Hunting? Lost
This is the best excuse in the world, which stops you from questioning or asking any more questions.
"Do you know where this is?"
The girl shook her head.
"I'm a junior from City University."
She didn't even want to answer my question, which meant she was avoiding it. I think she knew this was the Bone Village.
"No one can get out alive after entering the Bone Village, but now that you have met me, you can get out alive."
The girl was stunned and spoke for a long time.
"Are you Ke Zuo?"
I was shocked that she actually knew I was Ke Zuo.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Shang Mei. We had an expedition team in our junior year. We knew everything about you. It was said that only you could enter and leave the Bone Village. Anyone else who entered would die. Two people in our team disappeared in the Bone Village. Of course, this time I came with my second uncle to hunt around the Bone Village. There are many things here, but I didn't expect that my second uncle and I would be separated and lost. We mistakenly entered the Bone Village and I was very scared. I know this is the Bone Village."
"So that's how it is. I'll take you out of the village in a bit. Don't go into the Bone Village again. There's nothing strange here."
"I want to be here with Master Ke, and hope I can be given such an opportunity."
"No, I have something to do, so you have to leave here."
I put the bead away. Shang Mei looked at me and then at the corpse beside her.
"You took that person's things?"
"This is my business. You have too much to do. If I don't want to take care of you, you can't leave the Bone Village. The only choice is death."
Shang Mei didn't say anything, she was thinking about something. I don't like girls like this, they are too smart. Being too smart makes them look stupid.
"I think that our group is studying this subject, and there will definitely be a breakthrough in the future."
"Don't think about those things. Even the experts can't come up with a conclusion. I think you should just study hard!"
Shang Mei looked at me for a long time, stood up, and left the room with her bag. I watched her leave the house and walk west. I was worried that something might go wrong, but I thought she would come back.
Shang Mei's sudden appearance made me feel strange. She was lying. There was no such thing as a second uncle. She entered the Bone Village alone, or she had a companion. Or, they saw me entering the Bone Village and followed me in. She knew me and knew that I could enter and leave the Bone Village with two people. So, according to this analysis, there was another person, or there should be two people.
I went downstairs immediately and followed the footprints.
That was the direction into the ditch. Sure enough, after entering the ditch, I saw smoke coming out. That was a fire being made in a room. There was a stove in every room in this Bone Village, which was used for the winter.
I stood there and watched for a while, and sure enough, a man looked out of the window. He obviously saw me and he actually waved at me, followed by the girl.
Since there were two of them, I didn't want to care about it anymore. I turned around and was about to go back when the girl called me.
"Master Ke, we want to talk to you."
I don't think there's anything to talk about.
"We know why you came to Bone Village, or rather, we can help you."
I was fooled. I walked over there hesitantly. When I was almost at the house, I fell into a pit. It was a very deep pit. I felt my leg was broken. I didn't expect there would be a pit here. It should be an animal-proof pit made by the people of Bone Village, but now it has been covered up intentionally.
Shang Mei and the man came over. They were about the same age.
"Master Ke, I'm sorry, please throw the sign up to us and we won't let you do anything."
I didn't expect them to do this, and it really made me angry. (To be continued)