The village is not big, and the two quickly walked around. The rain had stopped, but the sky was still gray, and water droplets dripped from the eaves, and soon disappeared into the soil. By the time they walked around outside, the water on the ground had almost dried up.
"There's no one here? It's too strange here." Lou Fan stopped suddenly, looked at the rooms, and stretched out his hand to tug at Qin Tan, "Qin Tan, there are people in the rooms."
Qin Tan looked over, probably heard their voices, there were people standing inside the doors of the house, every door had them. They hid in the house and looked out, only a little light could see their appearance. Some of them were frowning, some were grinning, but no matter how they looked at them, their expressions were weird.
Stiff and weird. Lou Fan looked around, and a strange idea came to his mind.
"May I ask who is in charge here?" Qin Tan said, "We passed by here, but someone in the team was sick and wanted to stay for a few days."
After he finished speaking, it took a long time before someone seemed to understand what he was talking about and pointed in a direction.
After thanking them, the two walked over there, and Lou Fan asked doubtfully, "Could it be that everyone in this village is dumb? They don't speak."
"It's not like that either." Qin Tan said, "That old man knew how to talk at first."
Right. Lou Fan followed and walked forward, but his lips were tightly pressed, and his eyes were looking around. Those villagers just now were very thin, and it is not an exaggeration to describe them as skinny. Their faces were stiff, but they did not look lifeless.
The two walked along the road and saw the old man squatting by the door looking up at the sky. There is nothing in the sky, only thick dark clouds.
"Old man, are you the head of the village?" Lou Fan took a few steps forward, two meters away, and said obediently, "That's right, we passed by here, who knew that someone in the team was sick and couldn't make it on the way. So I want to stay for a few days.”
Seeing the old man looking up at him, he immediately said again: "Don't worry, as soon as the injury recovers, we will leave and we will not disturb you."
The old man stared at them silently, his eyes looked straight, there was no wave in them, just like a glass bead.
"Yes." He nodded slowly, and said slowly, "The village is remote, so don't go out at night."
The two nodded and said yes, and turned to leave under his heavy gaze.
"Brother Lou, are you back?" Wen Lang stood outside the door and waited for the two to come back. When he saw someone coming, he happily asked, "How is it? Did you gain anything?"
Qin Tan nodded and said, "Go in and talk."
The door was open for them to observe the situation outside, and they lowered their voices to speak inside, and the two spoke the old man's words.
"Don't go out at night." Gao Yi touched his chin and said meaningfully: "Isn't this providing us with clues?"
Apparently everyone thought so, but fortunately they got the first-hand information, and everyone discussed to see what's wrong with this village at night.
"Brother Lou, what's wrong with you?" Chen Shuyang saw that Lou Fan was in a daze, and shook his hand in front of him.
Lou Fan came back to his senses, "I was wondering what is the weirdness of those villagers?"
He tapped the table with his index finger, and suddenly he raised his brows and said two words, "Contradictions."
"Contradictions?" Chen Shuyang looked confused, "What contradictions?"
Lou Fan said earnestly: "It's the villagers here, which give me a feeling of contradiction, which is very unharmonious."
He said this, everyone immediately recalled that he really felt out of place. But now the villagers are hiding in their houses, and there is no information to obtain at all. They can only wait until nightfall to see what is wrong with the village.
The night wind was cool, and under the dark clouds, there was not a ray of moonlight shining through.
The village was deadly silent, Wen Lang's feet were numb from squatting, and he didn't see a single person. He whispered, "What's the matter, it's fine if these people don't come out during the day, don't they come out at night?"
Someone patted the head, and Qin Tan whispered, "Shut up."
At this moment, the figure suddenly shook, and one by one walked out of the room, but everyone was a little stiff. They walked in the direction of the ghost lake, as if something attracted them.
Seeing that no one came out again, the door was gently opened, and twelve people walked out lightly, following behind the villagers far away.
The village is not far from the lake, less than ten meters away. I saw the villagers facing the black lake, besieging the city in a row, kneeling in front of the lake, kneeling in unison. A faint mist rose from the surface of the lake, and the mist became thicker and thicker, spreading around.
The twelve people stared closely at the villagers, not even daring to make a wrong eye, for fear of missing something important in the blink of an eye.
Surrounded by mist, the dark clouds above the head parted, revealing a black moon. The villagers stood up and raised their arms, as if cheering. Immediately afterwards, there was a scene that made the twelve people hold their breath and dare not blink.
The villagers grabbed themselves, and quickly, like undressing, took off all the human skin on their bodies. There is no picture of blood flowing horizontally as imagined, and the thing coming out of it is black, like a skeleton frame, it should be a supernatural object.
After taking off the human skin, the black skeleton walked slowly towards the ghost lake, stepped into the water step by step, and sank to the surface of the lake.
In just a few minutes, there were only pieces of human skin left on the shore of the lake, and the black skull disappeared, and the whole village became a dead village.
In the thin mist, the twelve people watched with bated breath, and now they finally took a big breath, and they kept saying 'shit' in their hearts.
"It turned out to be a ghost in human skin." Gao Yi's face turned bitter, "This mission doesn't look easy."
"Let's go over and have a look." Tong Fei said.
Gao Yi was about to answer when Chen Man pulled his sleeves by his side, "Brother Gao, look there."
Everyone looked over, and saw that there was a forest in the mist in the place that was still barren during the day, and there was a faint shadow of a mountain behind it.
"I remember right, there shouldn't be any mountains there before." Tong Fei said with a frown.
If there is no mountain, there is obviously a problem.
Gao Yi hesitated for a moment and said, "Well, I'll take Chen Man and Dayong to take a look. You stay here first to see if there are any other abnormalities in the villagers, and check the surroundings by the way."
Qin sighed, "Captain Gao, do you need me to go with you?"
Gao Yi waved his hand, "No need, the three of us will go and have a look and come back. Be careful not to be discovered."
Tong Fei paused for a moment, then said: "Then you guys go back early, it seems that this fog only appears at night."
Gao Yi nodded, checked the small bag next to him, said hello, and took Chen Man and Fan Dayong to the forest. The three stepped forward into the woods, but within a few steps, the people behind could no longer see them.
Seeing them walking into the woods, everyone turned their heads and looked at Qin Tan.
Qin Tan pondered for a while, and said, "Go and see those human skins first."
The human skin being placed on the shore was very uncomfortable, Lou Fan touched the goose bumps on his arms. Most of the human skin was cut directly from the middle, and the facial features could not be seen. Even Qin Tan felt a little disgusted, and after taking a look at it, he stopped checking.
Tong Fei and Feng Zhi were very courageous, they lifted the human skin with the spiritual weapon, looked at it, and put it down again.
"Now it seems that these things should be pretending to be villagers from the lake." Tong Fei said, "What are they trying to do? And where did they get the human skin?"
No one could answer this question for a while, but in short, it was certain that these villagers were weird.
Qin Tan pondered for a while, and discussed with Tong Fei and the others: "Go back first, arrange the night watch and the people watching here, and the rest will rest first. Wait for Gao Yi and the others to come back."
Tong Fei nodded in agreement.
Nie Feng stared at the lake, his lazy eyes drooping in the past, now sharp as an eagle. The surrounding fog was a little thinner, and when he looked back, the place where the forest had appeared before became faintly visible. The mist on the lake gradually dissipated, and when the mist was so thin that it was about to disappear, the forest disappeared.
Ripples began to appear on the surface of the water, and a group of black shadows emerged from the lake. They walked to the shore and began to put human skins on themselves. Wrapped in human skin, they stretched out their hands and feet, as if they were trying on clothes to see if they fit, their heads turned around, and they even stretched out their hands to knead their facial features and ears, as if there were wrinkles to straighten out.
The sky began to turn white, Nie Feng glanced at the time on his watch, took a few steps back, turned around and walked quickly towards the house.
Qin Tan had already woken up in the room. He greeted Qin Tan and said, "The fog disappeared and they came back at 5:55. Also, the woods disappeared when the fog disappeared."
Qin Tan paused the hand that was covering the clothes upstairs, and said, "Okay, I see."
Nie Feng nodded, walked to Chen Shuyang who was still asleep, straightened his crooked head a little, sat down next to him, let Chen Shuyang lean against him, and closed his eyes to rest.
After an hour, everyone woke up. Qin Tan told Nie Feng's discovery, and Tong Fei frowned.
"Gao Yi and the others should be trapped."
Lou Fan: "There may be clues inside."
Turning around, Qin Tan saw Lou Fan's eyes flashing eagerly, he chuckled, "Let's go to the woods to have a look that night."
Lou Fan nodded sharply.
There were footsteps outside the house, and they immediately went to the door to have a look. At this time, the villagers all went to the house. Before, Lou Fan felt that their movements and expressions were very inconsistent, but after knowing that they were just things in human skin, this incongruity suddenly made sense.
After discussing with Feng Zhi, Tong Fei discussed with them. "Should we go into the woods together at night, or should someone keep it guarded?"
Qin Tan looked at her, "What are your plans?"
Tong Fei pursed her lips. In her heart, she really wanted to go in with Lou Fan and the others, but Feng Zhi felt that if everyone went in together, if they couldn't get out, the task would not be completed. It would be better to divide into two teams and they would go in to find each other. The clue came to Gao Yi by the way, and the three of them stayed in the village, maybe there might be other clues.
There is nothing wrong with this idea, it's just that Tong Fei subconsciously wants to follow Lou to trouble them, after all they have always survived as a whole, but what Feng Zhi said is not unreasonable.