The slow pace of life,
The peaceful atmosphere of the Republic of China countryside.
Down-to-earth abuse and clamor,
With notes of earthy fragrance.
This is its back, the back of Sanxiang Village. Once you walk a few steps and run to the front, you will be scared to death by its front face.
Every detail here is like a crack, with drops of blood gushing out from the crack, drowning people and suffocating them.
A terrifying black cloud has been hanging over the village, just like a stage play, where every character seems to be wearing a meaningful mask.
What's hanging in the sky is clearly the moon;
But the light on the ground was unevenly pale, as if an unqualified lighting technician had adjusted the angle wrong, making everything very chaotic.
Some people are sleeping,
Someone is cooking.
Someone is fetching water.
Someone is yelling.
Someone is laughing.
Some people were crying too.
Zhou Ze walked for a long time and almost visited the entire village.
What is certain is that this place is completely different from when the OP last came here.
If this place seemed half-hearted when the OP first arrived 9 years ago, then now it is like a giant tiger that has opened its mouth and stared at you.
It can eat you whenever it wants.
The feeling of waiting, as if you might be eaten at any time, is the most torturous and torturous.
If the poster nine years ago had seen this scene today, he probably wouldn't have the courage to say that he wanted to come back to find evidence and take photos.
After walking around, Zhou Ze arrived outside a ancestral hall.
This ancestral hall is the highest-level building in the entire Sanxiang Village.
It's not big.
But there is a plaque hanging outside and carved beams and painted buildings inside. Although it is small and a bit cramped, it reveals a sense of refinement and solemnity.
A blind old man in a long gown sat at the entrance of the ancestral hall, holding a cane in his hand, tapping the ground constantly, his lips trembling slightly.
Zhou Ze stopped in front of him, because in Zhou Ze's opinion, this old man was the most normal one in the whole village.
At least the old man didn't drool or spit.
But when we got closer,
Zhou Ze still heard the old man muttering to himself:
"I'm hungry. I'm really hungry. I want to eat white steamed buns. I want to eat steamed buns."
The little monkey jumped up and grabbed the blind old man's goat beard.
The blind old man raised his head. He was blind and had no sunglasses, but there was cloudiness in his eyes. But at this moment, he should have sensed that there was someone in front of him, a stranger.
He licked his tongue and swallowed.
road:
"Come on, go on, big guy, you can't help it anymore."
The blind old man's words were full of vicissitudes and helplessness.
He was reminding Zhou Ze,
here,
It's a place of trouble, and the people here are all very hungry.
One by one, the hungry ghosts are about to come out of their cages!
If you don't leave now, you won't be able to leave.
Zhou Ze still didn't move. To be honest, he was not very afraid of the evil spirits here. Even though there were so many of them, he was actually a little overwhelmed. But there was a big difference between not being able to defeat them and not being able to escape from them.
Zhou Ze believed that he had a chance of escaping no matter what.
"What's going on here?"
Zhou Ze asked.
He wanted to get an answer as to why the people in this village had become like this.
actually,
The darkness and blood moon above the village have explained a lot of problems. The village is an evil place, and this is the kind of thing that can only be seen in many ancient battlefield sites.
"Don't ask, don't ask, let's go, everyone is hungry, very hungry, if you don't leave, you will be eaten."
The blind old man kept repeating the same few words over and over again.
"Hungry? Did you die of starvation?"
It's impossible.
How is it possible for an entire village to starve to death? Won’t the people flee the famine when there’s no food
Moreover, the grandmother on the Internet who used to be from Sanxiang Village has replied that this village was massacred on the day the Japanese invaders entered Tongcheng. What does that have to do with hunger
"Go, get out of here!"
The blind old man was angry.
The cane kept poking the ground.
"Go! Go!"
Zhou Ze still didn't move, which made the blind old man very anxious. Of course, while he was anxious, he also started to sniff his nose constantly. Obviously, he was greedy!
"If you don't leave, you will be eaten."
The blind old man's voice began to get lower and lower.
He himself could hardly contain himself.
Zhou Ze still didn't move. He couldn't leave without figuring out what was going on here.
The police are responsible for matters concerning the living, but matters concerning the dead are his responsibility.
This village used to be called the "modern version" of the Peach Blossom Spring, but now, nine years later, it has begun to gradually become a den of evil spirits.
That little girl was probably lucky, she was not polluted or affected too much and came to her own bookstore.
But at the same time, the appearance of the little girl in the bookstore also shows that the situation of the ghosts in Sanxiang Village has begun to change.
Not only people can come in,
ghost,
You can go out too!
Once so many evil spirits are released at once, how much impact and damage will they cause
It would be fine if Zhou Ze didn’t know. At most he could deal with it in time, but he was already here.
The little girl once said that there is a scale in the underworld.
Zhou Ze believed that if he left without caring about anything, the evaluation of his behavior in the underworld would be far greater than forcing the little Loli to be his subordinate.
In the eyes of Hades,
Ghost messengers and constables are both the lowest-level civil servants. You can fight among yourselves, compete for favor, and make noises, but you must get things done, and maintaining stability is the top priority.
Controlling the situation so that the ghosts don't affect the human world is the most basic red line. Everything else is not a problem.
Therefore, Zhou Ze could not leave, even though he could smell that the oppressive feeling in the air was becoming increasingly stronger.
But the most terrible thing now is that if Zhou Ze doesn’t know the secret of this village and the reason for its formation, he will have no way to solve it.
Just like the old man and the little girl whom they met when they first came in, after being killed by Zhou Ze, they instantly returned to their previous node.
In this place, Zhou Ze couldn't kill them at all, let alone capture them to perform performance tasks.
"Walk!"
The blind old man stood up suddenly and stretched out his cane towards Zhou Ze.
Zhou Ze reached out and grabbed the crutch, two of his nails digging directly into it.
“Ah ...
The blind old man let out a low growl, then opened his mouth and bit Zhou Ze directly.
Zhou Ze took a step back, turned sideways, and entered the ancestral hall, while the blind old man was rebounded and fell down, rolling down the steps of the ancestral hall.
But then, the blind old man fell directly to the ground, supporting himself with his hands and feet, his stomach heaving.
"Bang!"
The blind old man jumped over again.
Zhou Ze spread his hands, and the black mist surrounded the blind old man. However, Zhou Ze did not kill him with his nails, but patted him on the face.
Asked:
"Tell me, what happened to this village?"
“Ahhhhhhh!!!!”
However, the blind old man seemed to have completely lost his mind. He kept struggling, trying to break free from Zhou Ze's restraints and bite Zhou Ze.
There was no other way, Zhou Ze could only kick him and send him flying again.
Just like last time, the blind old man bounced up again after landing on the ground. Black juice kept oozing out of the corners of his mouth, with fragments of bark and grass roots in it.
Obviously, for a long time, he was so hungry that he had to eat these things to fill his stomach.
And at this time,
I don't know when it started, but villagers one after another slowly gathered outside the ancestral hall, each of them with a numb expression, and they staggered towards the temple.
There is the old man carrying a hoe,
There is a little girl holding a candy man.
There are widows who eat their own hair,
There is an old woman holding a pair of cloth shoes in her hand.
There are young couples who eat their own meat,
There are many, many people.
They gathered at the entrance of the ancestral hall.
Their eyes were fixed on Zhou Ze. They were hungry, very, very hungry.
The little monkey was so frightened that he jumped directly onto the altar in the ancestral hall, trembling.
So many evil spirits,
It's horrible.
The evil aura emanating from them was enough to suffocate people. When they stood there, the sky seemed to be filled with dark clouds.
Zhou Ze gritted his teeth and asked:
"I know you are hungry, but I really want someone with a clear mind to come out and say something, and tell me what is wrong with you.
I am here to help you, to relieve you from your suffering. Even though you have become like this now, it is not completely impossible for you to be reincarnated again!"
Zhou Ze said very seriously and sincerely,
and,
The place that hadn't hurt for a long time started to hurt at this moment.
Zhou Ze subconsciously reached out and grabbed his chest.
I almost forgot it existed.
It hasn't hurt for a long time.
Before leaving, Tang Shi said to himself that he had become accustomed to living a heartless life. So now, am I starting to talk about conscience again
Yes,
Be honest.
Because Zhou Ze couldn't bear to completely destroy the last hope of the entire village. Eighty years ago, they were already very miserable, just like the 300,000 dead souls in Nanjing.
Therefore, as long as there is a glimmer of possibility, Zhou Ze still hopes that they can have a chance to enter reincarnation again.
It was for this reason that Zhou Ze tried to hope for the best and find another sober person in the village to get some clues.
Now, he was surrounded by the entire village and lost the opportunity to move freely.
If I want to rush out, I can, but I will probably have to enter that state again while being bitten by the evil spirit.
Then he will be paralyzed and seriously injured for a long time.
This is not worth it.
It's also stupid.
It is a stupid behavior and choice.
So my conscience hurts again.
"roar!"
"Hungry!"
"Eat him!"
"eat!"
No one responded to Zhou Ze's words seriously.
They swarmed up together and rushed over.
Zhou Ze's fingernails kept flying, and one evil ghost after another was knocked out by him. But they seemed to be endless. Even if they were defeated, they would soon appear in a corner of the village and continue to join the battle.
Zhou Ze is facing a group of undead legions that can be resurrected continuously!
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
The ancestral hall continues to bear the blows.
The floor tiles began to crack.
Finally, after Zhou Ze smashed a fierce ghost to the ground,
A string of floor tiles under my feet completely broke.
But underneath the tiles,
A large area of white rice appeared.
Zhou Ze was stunned.
All the evil spirits present were also stunned.
The rice must be fake.
The village had long been razed to the ground, and even a school was built on top.
But the scene here is real.
This means,
When everyone in the village was starving,
Under the ancestral hall of this village,
There is indeed so much food hidden!
Zhou Ze squatted down, reached out and grabbed a handful of rice, and raised it towards the evil spirit in front of him.
road:
"Eat it. You won't be hungry anymore, and then... you can get on with your journey."
However,
The evil spirits in the entire village did not move in the ancestral hall. They seemed to have no feelings for the rice.
Their eyes stayed on the rice for just a moment.
Then they fell on Zhou Ze at the same time.
They don't eat rice.
But they were hungry.
so,
You can only eat Zhou Ze!
Zhou Ze really felt like he was laughing out of anger.
what the hell,
Am I so delicious