There was no sound after that voice.
Chi Yan couldn't hold it anymore, she sat down next to Song Jin against the wall, and fell asleep before she knew it.
He was shaken awake, and when he opened his eyes in a daze, he saw the enlarged face of his friend. Song Jin looked confused and panicked: "Ruzi, what's wrong with us? Why are we here? I just went out to take a look, and there was no one in the village. And why did I pass out? You asked me to go back to fetch it yesterday. Luggage, when I went upstairs and was opening the door, I saw the little girl from the boss's house smiling at me, and then I lost consciousness."
There are so many things going on here, Chi Yan didn't know where to start. So he patted him and motioned him to step aside, stood up, and first looked at the deity on the confession.
The statue was no different from what he had seen during the daytime yesterday. It was still a small statue of a young boy, wearing a black-gold mask and a red brocade robe. It was not as tall as the one he had seen last night. So what I saw last night was an illusion created by the intertwining of candles and shadows, or was it really something deliberately pretending to be the god in this temple and pretending to be a ghost
But anyway, it seems that at least they are safe now.
Chi Yan shook his head to Song Jin: "Don't ask now, let's go quickly, and I'll tell you in detail after we leave completely."
Outside the temple, the sun is shining brightly, the weather is just right, the sky is very blue, and the spring breeze is warm, but the village is dead silent, without any breath of life, and no sound of people's activities can be heard.
Chi Yan finally remembered the place that he felt at odds with but ignored at first—the night they came to the village, it was too quiet at night. My grandfather's hometown is also in the nearby countryside. He accompanied his mother and grandfather back to his grandfather's hometown once in the year of his death. He stayed at a relative's house that night, where he could hear the chirping of chickens and the barking of dogs, as well as the chirping of insects and birds.
Now it is early spring, the temperature has begun to rise, and all things are recovering. However, there is no sound of any animals in the village, and no traces of life other than "village people" can be seen. His subconscious had already noticed something strange, but he didn't react.
Chi Yan's motorcycle was out of gas, but Song Jin's motorcycle was still parked in front of the guest house. The two went to pick up the car. Chi Yan didn't speak, and Song Jin didn't dare to speak. The desolate scene makes the hair on the back stand upright.
The door of the guest house was wide open, Chi Yan didn't dare to go in and take a closer look, but his eyes drifted in from the door uncontrollably - a figure fell on the counter by the door, and pale hands covered with corpses hung down from the front of the counter. , an old-fashioned game console that was broken in two on the ground.
Chi Yan hurriedly turned his eyes. He was afraid of going inside to confirm whose body it was, because he was afraid of unforeseen circumstances. He just urged Song Jin to start his motorcycle and leave.
It was not until they completely drove off the small road and returned to the main road they had been on that night that the three-wheeled motorbike was found, Chi Yan asked Song Jin to stop. Take a closer look at your surroundings.
There was one more question in his mind.
After listening to Chi Yan's remarks, Song Jin was stunned for a long time, then shook his head: "This is really..."
In the end nothing was said. Faced with such a hell on earth, all words seem pale, difficult to evaluate and describe.
He followed Chi Yan to look at the path, and suddenly wondered: "Chi, don't you think this road leading to Hejia Village is very obvious? Why did we walk back and forth twice when we came to investigate with Xiao Li that day? Didn't find it?"
"Because at that time, the whole village and the way into the village were shrouded in ghosts. If it wasn't for a special time, the living would not be able to see it, as if they were blindfolded." The reason, at that time, the living people could see the haunted village
He looked left and right for a long time, but couldn't see any clues. There is no mobile phone signal here, and no messages can be sent. The two had to ride a motorcycle together to return to Fengshui Town.
After Song Jin went back, he called and reported his work. In the afternoon, a group of people rushed over with tools and rushed to the place where the three-wheeled motorcycle was found under the leadership of Song Jin. The road was too narrow for a car to drive in, so they now rented two tricycles from the town with the tools they needed to drive in.
Chi Yan changed to a motorcycle and followed behind. In fact, there is nothing to do with him at this time, but because the doubt is still unsolved, he still can't help but want to follow.
Chi Yan watched the professionals take photos and save the evidence, and then moved Zhu Hui's three-wheeled motorcycle out of the ditch beside the road. He got close, and happened to see a spot of cinnabar in the ditch where the tricycle had been pressing down.
The color of the cinnabar was extremely positive, slightly darker than blood, and reflected in the yellow-brown earth ditch. Although there was no light, it blinded his eyes almost instantly. Chi Yan walked in involuntarily, lowered his head, and tried to see more clearly. The cinnabar is not a random vertical line, but an oblique one and a horizontal point, like a part of an equilateral triangle - Chi Yan believes that she will not mistake it, the color of cinnabar, the appearance of this symbol - this is a painting by Chi's family array method.
He never formally learned those techniques at Chi's house, but he looked at the color of this cinnabar every day, and every day at the appearance of those talisman formations. Later, when he left Chi's house, the big book he took away also introduced the basic method of drawing formations and the most basic formations.
A thought crossed his mind, and Chi Yan only felt his heart pounding. He took two steps back and re-examined his surroundings. A branch sticking out diagonally, a big rock on the side of the road, where the red tricycle was originally located... all gradually connected into a circle, forming the shape of a pattern. He can't see the details of this formation, but can only roughly distinguish it from the outline. This is a gathering yin formation. Every evening after sunset, it will gradually guide the ghosts of Hejia Village here, thus opening a gap. , so that passersby discover this road and that village.
Before Zhu Hui's family disappeared and the tricycle was thrown into the ditch, this formation was missing and was an incomplete circle, so someone deliberately drew a formation in the ditch to complete the formation.
And the three-wheeled motorcycle may have been moved by someone and placed in that position deliberately.
So the disappearance of Zhu Hui's family is not accidental. Even if it wasn't them who was killed at the time, it would be someone else.
The death of the two police officers was also expected by some people.
All this is manipulated and planned. The ghost village may not have been caused by them deliberately, but after they discovered the mutation of Hejiacun, they deliberately used it to harm the people they wanted to harm.
Ghosts eat ghosts, ghosts eat people, people eat people. Chi Yan couldn't even tell whether it was a ghost or a human who killed those people.
What kind of person can detect the formation of a ghost village for the first time
And the person they ultimately wanted to kill... who was it
Song Jin and the master who was in charge of taking him in the police force were walking towards Chi Yan side by side, and Chi Yan could hear their conversation faintly:
"... The above specifically named you to be responsible for this disappearance case. I'm a little worried that you can't do it alone. I didn't expect you to dig out so many."
Song Jin smiled embarrassedly: "No, no, it's mainly thanks to a friend of mine this time, otherwise I'd probably have to risk my life. But Master, this time is really a bit weird..."
They began to talk about the case, and when they approached Chi Yan, Song Jin introduced each other to each other: "Master, this is my friend Chi Yan, we have known each other since high school, and our relationship is very strong. he."
Then Song Jin introduced his master to Chi Yan.
Chi Yan said hello to the other party. After saying a few words, he asked casually, "Da Song is quite famous? I just heard you say that someone specially named Song Jin to handle this case."
His master nodded and didn't take it seriously: "Yes, I think I want Xiao Song to experience it, but I didn't expect you to discover such a strange thing as Hejiacun. Their village was originally biased, and since the winter, there has been no entry into the village. The people in the village have never come out, and no one took it seriously, who would have thought that all the people in a village would disappear one by one."
They went into the village just now and found the corpses of the villagers. They preliminarily judged that the time and cause of death of these people were not the same. There was more than a month between the death of the first person who died and the last person who died, but not a single body was collected.
Even if there is no experience of the strange forces and suspected delusions mentioned by Song Jin, this incident is strange enough - in a family, the wife died, and the husband was still alive at that time, why didn't the husband give his wife a funeral? According to the time of death, there are only two or three people left in a village, and every household can see the corpse. also die? When everyone is dead, what is the last person left alive thinking
These thoughts made him shudder and his head hurt. It can be foreseen that they will be troubled by the problems of Hejiacun for some time in the future, and they did not pay attention to the problems of Chi Yan at this time. He has worked for many years and has rich experience in the industry. Although he knew that Song Jin had entrusted some relationships to enter the job, Song Jin was motivated and worked hard and was responsible for his work. He would not exclude the other party because of this. he will do it. This time, Song Jin was named and assigned to take charge of the disappearance case. He just thought that Song Jin's relationship at the time wanted to give him a chance to exercise, and he didn't care too much.
Chi Yan felt a chill in his heart after getting a positive answer.
With the power and energy of the Chi family, it was easy to do this.
So... In fact, they used this ghost village, and the person they ultimately wanted to harm was themselves? Even if Song Jin didn't come to him for help at first, and he didn't take the initiative to agree to come together, they could still use their relationship with Song Jin to induce them to come here, right
Chi Yan closed his eyes and shook his head. He and the Chi family are like a mayfly and a big tree. Besides, he is in the dark at Ming and Chi's house. If Chi Rong or Chi Yuanshan really want to kill him, killing himself would be as easy as the palm of his hand. , going around such a big circle, and harming so many innocent lives in vain.
Unless... they are worried about someone and dare not leave evidence of murdering him, so they deliberately choose such a troublesome method, just to make him die in this ghost village without knowing it, and make everything look like an accident . As long as the gathering Yin formation at the intersection is destroyed later, if there is no intentional investigation, there will be no clues at all.
But who are they worried about? Who would the Chi family, who has all hands and eyes, scruples