Lin Chu said so, but no one would regard her as a real rookie. An Xingyu repeated the task and put forward a few ideas of his own. His inorganic black eyes stared at her quietly, hoping that she could give some suggestions.
After thinking for a while, Lin Chu quickly proposed a hypothesis: "The task requires us to complete the ancestor worship, but the process of ancestor worship is not explained, which means that we must obtain ancestor worship information from the villagers of the Immortal Village. This way..."
They have obtained the status of villagers and become villagers themselves. Can they set their own ancestor worship procedures? For example, burn incense and leave
This conjecture caused everyone to be silent for a moment. An Xingyu shook his head: "It's better not to."
"We have similar experience in the past. If we modify the rules specifically to avoid risks, we are likely to encounter even greater terror as a result."
This forced Lin Chu to give up: "Okay, let's talk about it when we get there."
I don’t know what that world is like.
Lu Yanli lay on the bed, breathing steadily.
The moment he closed his eyes, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.
He saw a shadow from the window, but now, the house was bright and the outside was dark. So, the shadow he saw was not outside the house, it was inside this room!
Lu Yanli didn't move, pretending to be asleep. He heard the rustling sound getting louder and louder, but he couldn't tell what it was.
Then, something climbed onto the bed, and I could feel a distinct weight.
But he couldn't tell what that thing was. It wasn't a human, nor an animal. He just felt that it was cold and stiff, pressing down on him. He felt that his body was getting heavier and heavier. A damp and cold breath came from that thing under the quilt and seeped into his body.
Lu Yanli had been pretending to sleep and staying still, but now he really couldn't move. It was as if his hands and feet were all stiffly fixed, and it was difficult for him to even curl up his fingers.
Oh no, it’s sleep paralysis!
Perhaps before the world changed, sleep paralysis could be explained by science, but the sleep paralysis I experience now... must be caused by real ghosts!
Lu Yanli did not panic. He controlled himself, calmed his heartbeat, and tried his best to control the small bumps on the surface of his skin that were aroused by the cold and natural stimulation.
If someone pushed the door open at this moment, they would be stunned by the scene before their eyes. A dark shadow was lying on Lu Yanli's body, facing him face to face, almost getting into his body.
Wait a minute, wait a minute...
Suddenly, the door slammed against the wall and a strong wind blew into the house!
The curtains flew up wildly, and the doors, windows, tables, chairs, wardrobes... everything that could move in the room was shaken and crackled by the strong wind. The oil lamp was blown to the ground and shattered. There was a loud clanging noise in the small room, and one could vaguely hear the screams of foxes and the strange cries of unknown animals.
Despite such a loud commotion, the people in other rooms did not come out. I don’t know if they didn’t hear it or they deliberately avoided showing up.
Lu Yanli endured the severe pain coming from his body. The thing had claws, and it held on to his body tightly, almost leaving bloody marks. His forehead was covered with sweat, but he refused to let go or open his eyes.
His intuition told him that he could not open his eyes or call for help.
The guardian deity invited by Zhang Bo's family seemed to be even more angry. The strong wind almost blew off the roof, and it was in a tug-of-war with the black shadow. After an unknown amount of time, Lu Yanli suddenly felt a sense of relief - that thing had left.
In a moment, the noise stopped abruptly, and the room returned to dead silence. There was no sound at all, as if the noise just now was not an illusion.
But the burning pain in his shoulders and arms told Lu Yanli that this was not an illusion.
He slowly opened his eyes.
The house was in a mess, the door was wide open, and outside was a long, dark corridor. The cold winter wind blew in from outside, bringing with it the scent of the pine trees in the yard.
In the dim moonlight, Lu Yanli stood up, walked to the door and closed it.
He suddenly heard a low call.
"Lu Yanli..."
The voice was so faint that one could not hear it at all if one did not listen carefully, but it was also so clear, almost like a whisper next to the ear, making one subconsciously want to respond to it.
"… If you hear any sound, don't agree, don't come out…"
Aunt Zhang's words were still echoing in his mind, but Lu Yanli pretended not to hear them. He walked straight into the house, lay down again, pulled up the quilt and closed his eyes to rest.
"Xiao Lu, open the door, it's me."
The voice didn't let him go, and soon there was a gentle knock on the door.
That voice was exactly the same as the call of his mother deep in his memory.
"Xiao Lu? Are you asleep?"
"Xiao Lu, it's so cold outside. Can you open the door and let me in? I haven't seen you for a long time."
"Xiao Lu, don't be sad for your mother..."
Lu Yanli lay on the bed, but he just felt bored.
He had known for a long time that these things... these things would always use this trick. He would still be fooled the first time, but after ten or a hundred times, even if those things fell beside him with his mother's face on them, he would not even look at them again!
"Xiao Lu! Xiao Lu, open the door quickly! There is something, save me!!" The female voice outside the door suddenly became panicked, the knocking on the door became rapid, and a sound like the heavy breathing of a wild beast could be heard.
"Open the door quickly! Save me! Xiao Lu, save mom..."
The sound of the beast biting and the woman's screams of pain followed. Slowly, the woman's screams faded, and the sounds of biting, chewing, and the beast's roar also faded away.
"Save...save me...why don't you save me? Why don't you save mom?!"
"ah-"
Suddenly, there was another desperate scream of a woman.
There was no more sound.
Lu Yanli closed his eyes expressionlessly, a little bit of not noticeable liquid about to overflow from his eye sockets and disappeared between the trembling eyelashes.
Before dawn, there were several knocks on the door, all of which were voices Lu Yanli was familiar with. Without exception, they were all asking him to open the door, some begging, some commanding, and this lasted for most of the night.
After waiting for a long time, Aunt Zhang knocked on the door: "Xiao Lu? Are you okay? It's okay, grandma chased that thing away."
Lu Yanli was about to answer when the string called intuition in his head suddenly tightened. He suddenly raised his eyes and saw the deep night that could not be concealed by the thick curtains, so he immediately shut up.
"Xiao Lu? Are you okay? Don't scare Auntie, Xiao Lu?!" The knocks on the door became more urgent. "If you're okay, just answer me and don't scare us..."
Lu Yanli glanced at his watch.
It was not yet four o'clock, and he did not know what was outside the door, but it was definitely not the real Aunt Zhang. He yawned and closed his eyes to think.
The first time, it should be the work of the guardian deity. Why did they ignore it the second time? Was it because there was no danger to life
Thinking of this, he even had the urge to open the door and try, but he quickly suppressed the urge and started thinking about other things again.
In the dim morning light, a loud crowing of a rooster echoed through the sky.
The knocking on the door stopped abruptly.
Lu Yanli knew that he was safe, so he fell asleep with peace of mind. About two or three hours later, when the sky was bright, Aunt Zhang knocked on the door: "Xiao Lu, are you awake?"
He opened his eyes, stood up and opened the door.
Outside the door, when Aunt Zhang saw him, she looked him up and down. She was not surprised by the mess in the house. Instead, she smiled and pulled him out: "Did I scare you last night? It's okay, Grandma bless you. Go wash up first and have breakfast later. I'll tidy up your room for you."
Lu Yanli nodded, and said as if he was embarrassed: "Thank you, and thank you grandma for your blessing."
Hearing him say this, Aunt Zhang smiled brightly.
Uncle Zhang was already sitting at the dining table with a hoe by the door. He was going to go to the fields later. When he saw Lu Yanli coming, he asked him to sit down and eat together. He also mentioned that his son should sleep longer because of his poor health.
The little girl Lili was there too. She had changed into a red dress and had red hairbands tied on her pigtails. The little girl was chewing meat with her sharp teeth, as if she was starving. She said incoherently, "You'll play with me later."
Lu Yanli realized that she was referring to him, so he didn't agree directly. Instead, he smiled and asked, "What do you want to play?"
The little girl thought for a moment and said: "Accompany me to the reservoir to catch fish."
Uncle Zhang said to her softly, "Don't mess around. You can't go to the reservoir."
"I'm catching fish, not ghosts, so why can't I go?" Lili said rudely, "If it wasn't me last night, he would have died a long time ago. I want to go!"
Lu Yanli remained silent, just listening to the quarrel between the grandfather and grandson. In fact, it was not a big quarrel. Zhang Bo was obviously concerned about Lili and did not dare to speak loudly to her. The final result was no surprise. Lili became tough and Zhang Bo was completely unable to stop her.
But he was thinking of something else.
Lili just said that she survived last night because of her. Thinking of her sharp teeth and the awe of this family, Lu Yanli felt that he understood.
After breakfast, Lili washed her hands and face, then pulled Lu Yanli and ran out.
The little hand held in the palm of my hand did not have the warmth of an ordinary child at all. Instead, it felt like holding a piece of ice, making me shiver.
Villagers kept passing by along the way, all of them were going to work in the fields or mountains, and few were going to the reservoir. Lili smiled all the way, casually greeted them, and then pulled Lu Yanli forward. She was very fast, not like an ordinary little girl at all, and Lu Yanli had to run normally to keep up with the group.
"Okay, this is the reservoir in our village."
Lili ran from home in one breath, so excited that she pointed ahead and shouted excitedly.
About a few hundred meters away, you can see a fence and an arch bridge that is much higher than the fence.
"No one in the village can come here without my permission. You were not allowed to come either, but you will be attending the funeral tomorrow, so I allow you to come and see."
Before he got close to the reservoir, Lu Yanli smelled an unpleasant stench.
This smell... is not the smell of water from long-term congestion in the river, but the smell of corpses!
The little girl led Lu Yanli to walk onto the bridge. The design of this bridge was also very strange. From the front, it looked like an arch bridge with a very wide road surface. But when they actually stepped on it, they found that the bridge was only half built. Standing on the bridge and looking down, Lu Yanli finally knew where the stench came from.
On the surface of the water, swollen corpses were floating up and down one after another. Some of them had already melted, with floating pieces of flesh rising and falling, revealing the bones under the skin and flesh. At a glance, there were at least a thousand corpses! They were so densely packed that there was no end in sight.
this…
If Lu Yanli hadn't seen so many corpses, an ordinary person here would definitely vomit on the spot.
Lili laughed again.
This time, she finally showed her sharp white teeth, and her round, bright, upturned fox eyes showed an inexplicable malice. She said, "These are the ones who are disobedient and want to steal things. Look, the thing I stole last night is here too."
Stealing
Lu Yanli noticed this word keenly.
The village seemed to be poor everywhere. What was there that was worth so many outsiders risking their lives to steal
He shook his head: "I just came back to worship my ancestors."
The more you talk, the more mistakes you make. Without knowing the situation clearly, Lu Yanli tried to speak as little as possible. He didn't ask Lili how she planned to catch fish. What if she asked him to go down to the river to catch fish next? How could he refuse
Lili pursed her lips again and clapped her hands: "Oh, right, let's catch some fish. Awang is hungry, let's eat some fish."
What made Lu Yanli feel a little relieved was that there were two fishing rods, buckets and bait buckets set up by the bridge. She pointed at the fishing rods, sat down next to one of them, and waved to Lu Yanli.
Lu Yanli also sat down by the bridge, not worrying about falling off for the time being because of the railing. He took the fishing line back a step slower than the little girl and planned to hang the bait on the hook. As soon as he opened the cover, he was stunned.
The bucket was filled with human fingers and eyeballs. Lili laughed again and said, "Don't worry, these baits are very fresh. The fish will like them very much."
Lu Yanli nodded, said nothing, picked up a finger, put it into the fishhook, and threw it into the water.
Lili was right, this bait was indeed very attractive to fish.
Circles of bloated corpses swayed and scrambled toward the bait, and other corpses could be seen approaching through the murky water.
Soon, the buoy began to shake.
A "fish" has been hooked.
Lili looked at him with her chin in her hand, playing with a bait in her hand. She said, "Come on, catch it, or you'll be the fish!"
Lu Yanli slowly hung up the phone.
It was a female corpse, with black hair mixed with a lot of water plants, wet and sticking to her face, making it difficult to see her appearance. The fishing line was stretched straight, extending into her mouth, which was covered by her hair but still showed signs of decay.
Lu Yanli pulled the "fish" towards the shore bit by bit.
It was fine when it was in the water, but when the whole "fish" was out of water, it suddenly twisted restlessly and struggled desperately like a real fish that was caught.
Lu Yanli hardened his heart, tensed his arms, and pulled hard.
The female corpse was very heavy, and even heavier after being soaked in water. Even though Lu Yanli had been training for many years and had considerable strength, he still found it difficult. But he could not relax and could only drag it onto the bridge with all his strength.
Lili was clapping her hands happily to cheer him on, with no intention of helping him at all.
"Hurry up, Awang is very hungry."
"If you let it go, you will be a fish."
When they got to the bridge, a half-meter-high railing blocked their way. After the "fish" left the water, it gradually stopped struggling. Lu Yanli hardened his heart and pulled it back with both hands.
The entire female corpse flew into the air, fell heavily to the ground, and kept struggling.
"Great! You're awesome!" Lili clapped her hands happily, put her hands to her mouth and shouted towards the bridge, "Awang! Awang is out, there's food!"
The sound of a wild animal snorting.
An even stronger stench of decay was coming.
A dog that was almost as tall as an adult's chest, with its flesh almost rotted, walked out of the dense forest, half of its skull was exposed, revealing its sharp white teeth.
It ran very fast and arrived in front of Lili almost instantly. Lili jumped up and patted its big head, smiling and said, "Eat. When you are full, you will have the strength to guard the door."
The big dog whimpered and lowered its head to bite.
Suddenly, Lili stood up abruptly and looked into the distance.
"Quick! Let's go back!"