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"Mr. Cao, do you remember anything?"

"I, when you asked me this, I felt a little... a little strange. The connection between my family and the village was suddenly severed. I opened a small company by myself at that time, and I just started my business, and there was a place in my hometown. The place was really poor and dilapidated, and I didn’t like it very much. I was a young man at that time, and I didn’t like that kind of place very much. My parents should have feelings for it. They used to say they wanted to go back, but I didn’t. The only way is to follow them back. I originally thought they liked it there very much..."

"Can you please ask your parents about this?"

"Oh, okay, I'll call now."

…

"Hey, Dad, let me ask you something! After my grandma passed away, didn't you go back to your hometown often? I suddenly remembered... Huh? What? Hey! Dad? No, yes Asking about things in your hometown! Hey! Alas... no, no! Dad! Hey! "

"What happened, Mr. Cao?"

"I'm sorry, my dad is old and has bad hearing. Talking to him on the phone is totally wrong. Sigh... I'll ask about this later when I get back. You see, my situation..."

"In this case, we'd better go to your hometown to have a look on the ground first."

"Oh, okay. I really want to trouble you. Don't worry, just ask for the fee. I was introduced here, so I believe you."

On September 3, 2015, an investigation was conducted into Ancestral Village, Lequan Township, Cao Andong’s hometown. Lequan Township is located in Guangyuan City. It is located in a plain area with an area of ​​25 square kilometers. It is an agricultural township with tributaries of the Jiangyuan River flowing through it. According to police archives and local records, there have been no major accidents, no criminal case records, and no abnormal situations in Lequan Township. Eleven hundred years ago, an official surnamed Cao, whose ancestral home was in Lequan, set up his family's ancestral hall here, hence the name of Ancestral Hall Village. No records of supernatural events related to the official named Cao were found.

On September 5, 2015, we arrived at Ancestral Village, Lequan Township. Video file 09220150905.avi.

The video begins with a car windshield. Ahead is a hazy sky and an asphalt road with farmland on both sides. You can see people harvesting crops in the farmland, and some of the farmland has been harvested, leaving bare land with traces of scorch on the land.

The quality of this asphalt road is not good, there are some potholes on the ground, and it always shakes when the car is driving. The ground was dusty, completely different from city roads.

There are no lane divisions on the road for two vehicles to travel parallel.

The vehicle was moving very slowly.

The camera captures the surrounding situation.

People in the fields noticed the vehicle and stopped their work. Gradually, everyone stopped working and seemed to be paying attention to the car.

The camera zoomed in, and you could see the expressionless faces of those people. Their eyes were cold, and they looked at things as if they were looking at a dead object. The camera moves slightly. The exposed skin of these people is dark, their hair is slightly messy, and there are roots of white hair. Their skin also has many wrinkles. Just looking at their appearance, these people seemed to be in their sixties or seventies.

The vehicle drove through this farmland area and entered the center of the village. The roads began to diverge, and buildings two or three stories high appeared on the screen.

More people appeared on the screen.

They were all dressed similarly, in somewhat rustic attire. The whole person and the whole village gave people a gray and dull look. The same goes for the way you look at people. It was as if a group of people were looking at the only alien. To be more precise, they were the kind of people who were so closed to the point of being neurotic that they were looking at an outsider.

"It's really uncomfortable." Liu Miao's voice appeared outside the screen.

"Yeah." It was Wu Ling who spoke.

The vehicle moves forward slowly.

The camera turned, the car window glass lowered, and a small half of the mosaic profile appeared in the corner of the camera frame.

"Fellow, would you like to ask if there is a hotel here? We are from out of town, here to travel and take photos! Have you ever heard of self-driving tours?" Liu Miao's voice was full of vitality, even if his face could not be seen, it still made people feel Imagine his big smile.

The man who was called still had a cold expression and his eyes were a little wary, "There is no hotel. There is no hotel here."

"Then can we borrow a place at a fellow villager's house? Just for one night! We finally got here, and it's too late to go back at this time!" Liu Miao said with some distress.

The other person shook his head.

"We can pay for rent and food! Just find a place to sleep for one night." Liu Miao did not give up.

The other party still shook his head.

"Where is your village committee? Let's go there and ask." Liu Miao then asked.

The other party stopped answering, nodding, or shaking his head.

Liu Miao scratched her head and turned to look inside the car.

"Then you can only find it yourself." Wu Ling said.

"Isn't there a mark on the map?"

"No."

The sound of paper turning was clattering.

Liu Miao turned her head again and looked out the car window, "Can you lend us a charge? Our mobile phones are all dead." As he said this, Liu Miao held up his mobile phone.

The other party shook his head again.

This completely incommunicable rhythm made Liu Miao completely helpless and spread her hands towards the people in the car.

The vehicle starts.

Liu Miao asked a few more people to ask, but everyone in the village had the same attitude: indifference, vigilance, and rejection.

"This is really troublesome. Boss, do you see anything?" Liu Miao asked, not in a very frustrated tone.

The camera turned and captured another mosaic face.

Ye Qing was driving, his head slightly raised, as if he was looking at the sky.

The camera then turned to the sky outside the window.

Liu Miao said: "The air here is really not good. It's like this after burning straw."

"It's not just about burning straw." Ye Qing suddenly said.

The camera rolls.

Ye Qing pointed in the direction, "It should be a factory over there. The information I found before also mentioned that there are several small factories here."

In the picture, there is a not very tall chimney in the distance. Although there is no smoke emitted from it, just looking at the environment here, you can tell that the environmental awareness of this place is not that strong, and the possibility of treating harmless gases being emitted from this chimney is not that high.

"Smoke, could it be that one?" Wu Ling said suddenly.

"There is no Yin Qi in that place. There is no Yin Qi in the people here either," Liu Miao said.

"Idiot, Cao Andong doesn't have any yin energy in him. This shouldn't be a ghost."

"So you are really sick?" Liu Miao asked.

No one answered.

"That..." Ye Qing said.

The camera moved again, and the picture showed the gate of a typical farmhouse. Someone was hanging things at the door. When people get out of the way, you can see that the thing she just hung is a wind chime. This wind chime is very simple, just wooden blocks strung with hemp rope. Some of these wooden blocks are painted, and the color is very dull. I don't know if it is a pigment problem, or the original color has faded due to exposure to wind, sun, and the test of time.

After hanging up the wind chimes, the woman walked to the house next door with an indifferent expression, knocked on the door and said a few words to the owner, and then went to the next house. When the family came out again, they also had a bunch of similar wind chimes in their hands, but the color of the wood pieces was different from the previous bunch.

"Meow--"

The camera turned back, and an orange cat appeared at the door of the first house with wind chimes. This cat is extremely fat and its eyes are squeezed into a line. When the camera zooms in, you can see one of its eyes is emerald green and the other is blue.

"Meow!" The orange cat called forward and awkwardly returned to the yard.

"That cat..." Liu Miao and Wu Ling said in unison.

Good night everyone~