The mayor's house suddenly opened, and a cold wind blew from the dark entrance. Chu Tianshu carried the ax on his shoulder, turned his head and said cheerfully to everyone: "Do you want to go in and have a look?"
A few NPCs who didn't know whether it was a human or a ghost glanced at the ax on his body, and shook their heads involuntarily. Chu Tianshu smiled and said: "Don't be afraid, it's quite deserted here, it should be very lively if a few more people go in."
"Lively... Does it mean that the screams we were frightened by ghosts were very lively?" the good old man couldn't help but complain.
The girl in the red skirt also let out a scream appropriately.
"Someone!!" She pointed to the second floor of the room with a pale face, and said hysterically, "I just saw someone behind that black window...Look at us!"
Everyone looked numbly at the window she was pointing at. The window was covered with dust, but there seemed to be a faint figure there, wiping away the human-shaped area.
How could the windows of the mayor's house be full of dust
And the appearance of that dust...as if someone was spying on them just now!
Everyone felt chills down their spines. The girl in the red dress whispered: "Otherwise we'd better go, I'm afraid..."
"Don't be afraid, it's normal. If someone hacks open the door of my house with an axe, I will hide by the window of my house to watch him and dare not come out." Lin Huai comforted her.
The girl in the red dress: ... was not comforted at all.
"So are you planning to come in?" Chu Tianshu said with the ax on his back, "If you don't come in, I'll go in first... Wait."
He looked back at everyone: "Are you afraid of this room, or are you afraid of me?"
Everyone showed horrible expressions.
Lin Huai wanted to follow, but Chu Tianshu patted his shoulder and whispered in his ear, "Stay here and watch them, don't let them run away."
"...It sounds like we are two villains." Lin Huai twitched the corners of his mouth, "Okay."
Chu Tianshu whistled and was about to enter the house, but at this moment, a voice sounded.
"I'll go in too... Shall we go together?"
No one expected that it was the girl in the blue skirt who made the sound. Seeing that everyone was looking over, she grabbed the girl in the yellow skirt and whispered, "I'm feeling better, and... I lived in the town when I was young, and I often came to the village head's house to play. Maybe I will be more comfortable than you guys." Familiarize yourself with this place."
Her words sounded impeccable, but Lin Huai felt a little weird for some reason.
Rather, the girl in the blue skirt has been acting weird since she got in the car. She had to come here because of the invitation of her companions, and she trembled and resisted the whole time. After the death of the girl in the white skirt, she started to have a fever with a fearful attitude of "as expected", and always shrank behind the girl in the yellow skirt.
But at this moment she suddenly stood up.
The girl in the yellow skirt looked at her worriedly, and finally said, "I will go in with Qingzi."
"Okay." Chu Tianshu's attitude towards the two girls was quite good. Seeing that the two were still trembling, Lin Huai came over to comfort them kindly and said, "Don't be afraid."
The girl in the yellow skirt tried to smile at him: "Thank you."
Lin Huai: "There are two of you, and he only has one axe. At least one of you can escape while he is beating the other."
Yellow skirt girl: ...
The two girls obviously did not receive the comfort from Lin Huai, and trembled even more. Chu Tianshu watched the two girls keep away from him as if they were thieves, couldn't help but glance back at Lin Huai, and gave him a look of "what did you whisper next to their ears just now".
Lin Huai handed him an innocent "I am comforting their eyes".
Chu Tianshu twitched the corners of his mouth, and threw back a sentence, "If you believe in you, there will be ghosts."
After the eye contact between the two ended, Lin Huai happily didn't hear the sound of the person's setting value being reduced by one. Now he was standing outside, intending to fulfill his boyfriend's mission, so he said to the girl in the red skirt and the old man, "Can you stand on the fat man's side?"
The girl in the red skirt was a little confused: "Why?"
Lin Huai: "Stand together, so that I can catch you later when you want to run... No, I can follow you."
Under Lin Huai's brighter smile, the two of them seemed to be infected by his smile, and they went to the place he designated without saying a word.
Lin Huai's heart-to-heart exchange has achieved good results. Except that the girl in the red skirt was confused when she approached the fat man: "Why do you smell so good?"
The fat man's response was very slow: "Maybe it's... the aroma of food?"
Lin Huai stood aside and watched the interaction between the two quietly. There was indeed a vague smell coming from Fatty's body.
Not the smell of blood, not the smell of rancidity.
But what... the smell of being cooked.
Half an hour later, Chu Tianshu and others finally came out of the house. When they came out, the girl in the blue skirt was sobbing, and the girl in the yellow skirt was also looking like she was about to cry. Only Chu Tianshu looked cheerful and said, "The outside of the house looks deserted, but the inside is much more lively than I imagined. It’s really cold on the outside and hot on the inside.”
Lin Huai marveled at Chu Tianshu's idiom literacy.
Several people still found something in the mayor's room, including a map of the town. On the east side of the map is the only shrine in the town—although it has been desolate and abandoned now, but with this map, everyone can finally find the way to the shrine in the town.
"There should be gods enshrined in the shrine, right?" The girl in the blue dress wiped her tears and said, "Maybe we can hide in the shrine..."
"It should be too late tonight. It's too dangerous to cross half of the town to go to the shrine at such a late hour." The old man said, "Let's go to the bathing place first tonight—if we can wash off our marks there, we may be able to It's safe."
The girl in the yellow skirt also thought it made sense and nodded vigorously.
In addition, Chu Tianshu also found a county chronicle at the mayor's house, which recorded various legends about this town - from the famine caused by the defense of the city hundreds of years ago, to the population in the past hundred years. It is becoming rarer and rarer, and the various taboos caused by it. It is worth mentioning that a girl is mentioned in the county annals. The girl was an orphan raised by her uncle and sister-in-law in the town a hundred years ago. Because of the death of her parents, she was considered to be born with evil spirits.
That war is also considered to be the disaster that this girl brought to the town, and she was also the first girl to be eaten alive in the end.
After the war, this starvation-induced cannibalism also caused many problems, including many terrifying legends: the trunks of cherry trees are full of skinned and boned human bodies, people enter the baths with a moderate temperature, and see the baths again When he was in the house, he found that the human body had been boiled. When he brought the umbrella into the house, he also brought in the ghost hiding under the umbrella. The sunny doll under the eaves would get wet or rot over time. , and lost efficacy...
"It seems to be raining soon." The girl in the red skirt stretched out her hand to the sky.
After finally stopping the rain for most of the day, misty rain and fog floated in the sky again. As night fell, everyone who was still checking the county annals in a circle had their faces frozen. Chu Tianshu received the county annals in his bag, and they hurried to the bathing place again.
Lin Huai walked behind everyone, took out the county annals from Chu Tianshu's backpack and read them. Chu Tianshu walked beside him, glanced at the fat man in front of him, and couldn't help pinching his nose.
When Lin Huai glanced over from the corner of his eye, he saw Chu Tianshu staring at the fat man's buttocks, his expression immediately became strange.
Chu Tianshu:
Lin Huai: "It's nothing, I didn't expect you to prefer familiar ones, you go ahead, I'll go away."
Chu Tianshu: "... come back."
He grabbed back Lin Huai who was running to the other side with the county chronicle. Lin Huai still had his DV player hanging on his chest, and the camera swayed with his movements. Lin Huaixu was taken back by him, clutching the county annals, still muttering: "It's too much, even a prop in this game is so perfunctory..."
"?" Chu Tianshu said, "What?"
Lin Huai said: "This semi-ancient county annals is full of grammatical errors. You just read it for so long and didn't see it?"
Chu Tianshu smiled heartily: "I am an engineering student."
Lin Huai: "Hee hee, it seems that I still have a little more life experience than you."
Lin Huai then followed Chu Tianshu and muttered about these grammatical mistakes to him, while the rest of them were not as leisurely as they were, and just hurried on their way. Seeing the alley where the bathing place is in front of him, Chu Tianshu suddenly let out a "huh" and said, "This ink..."
"what?"
"This county annals looks like it was printed only a few months ago at most, although it has an air of being deliberately old." Chu Tianshu picked up the county annals from Lin Huai's hand and began to flip through them, "What's going on?"
"What how..."
Lin Huai was about to communicate with him, but there was a deathly silence ahead, followed by loud noises.
"There are no lanterns...the door is closed?"
The rain and fog in the sky have turned into fine raindrops. The entrance of the bathing place, which everyone pinned their hopes on, was closed, and there were no red lanterns on the door, not even white lanterns. Several people were suddenly dumbfounded.
The good old man knocked hard on the door without giving up, but there was no sound from inside the door. Just when he was about to fall into despair, Chu Tianshu came up from behind him with an axe: "Maybe the force is too weak, the people inside didn't hear..."
But before he raised the ax and struck down, the old man's scream came from the door—the scream seemed to be that the old man had been lurking in the crack of the door to watch them, but he was alert immediately when Chu Tianshu made the sound. It's like opening your mouth.
"The baths are not open on rainy days!" He said in a sharp voice, "Haven't you guys ever soaked in hot springs?!"
Amidst the heart-piercing screams of the old man, Chu Tianshu's answer was beyond everyone's expectations. He just said: "Then I'm sorry to bother you, I'll come back tomorrow!"
With that said, he put the ax back.
Everyone showed extremely weird expressions for this, until the girl in the yellow skirt let out another scream.
"Where's the fat man?" she said, "Did you see the fat man? Such a big man..."
"And photographer Kobayashi!"
Chu Tianshu turned around vigilantly, the place that originally belonged to two people was now empty. The girl in the red dress muttered, "Did they..."
"I'm here, brother."
Chu Tianshu:?
He looked up, Lin Huai was squatting on the wall looking at him, and waved to him by the way. Chu Tianshu almost spit out—God knows when Lin Huai climbed up the wall.
"Are you a cat?" Chu Tianshu complained, "What are you doing climbing on the wall?!"
"Look at the bathing place inside." Lin Huai answered Chu Tianshu's second question by the way, "As for that NPC, he ran towards the food street just now."
"Did you see anything?" Chu Tianshu asked him.