The handsome man in the entertainment industry

gone. "

The two checked several rooms again, but they still couldn't find anyone in the room, but they found several sheets of pure black linen in one of the rooms, piled up on the bed indiscriminately.

Ruan Mudeng picked up one and shook it, then twirled it carefully with two fingers, "This is the black linen cloth that is used in the village to wrap dirty things."

He had only seen the same thing not long ago, in the wooden box that came with the water at the bottom of the mountain, there was a tragic death of a baby wrapped in it.

Xiao Xiao, who claimed to have studied the folk customs of Qishan and the Zhou Dynasty, probably also knew the purpose of these black cloths, and didn't ask the young man what he meant, but the smile on his face had disappeared at some point.

"Come on, let's go to other houses to see."

There were some crew members in twos and threes outside the house, and many of them also came out of other houses. They seemed to have noticed the strangeness in the village, and their faces were a little frightened. Many people gathered together, chatting in low voices, exchanging each other's speculations.

In a deserted village in the deep mountains and wild forests, there is no mobile phone signal, the lights are dark everywhere, and there is not even a person in it. It is a classic scene setting of a suspense horror movie!

Many people sensed that something was wrong, and couldn't help but feel fear in their hearts. A few timid young girls had hugged into a ball and started crying.

Ruan Mudeng quietly looked at Xiao Xiao beside him.

Compared with the bewilderment of the rest of the photography team, this man was a little too calm, and the hand holding the flashlight did not tremble at all. He noticed that his lips were moving silently, as if he was still thinking about something silently.

"Ah Ruan," Xiao Xiao suddenly asked, "Do you know much about Xijia Village?"

Suddenly being called by name, Ruan Mudeng was taken aback for a moment, then slowly shook his head after a while, "I've never been here before."

"Then do you have many exchanges between the two villages?" Xiao Xiao thought for a while, and then added: "I mean, for example, business contacts."

Ruan Mudeng frowned, "In recent years, most of the old people and children left in our village usually only go out on market days. The last time I saw someone from Xi's Village coming was..."

He thought for a while, and reported the exact time, "It happened in September last year. Four people came. It is said that the relatives of the village head of Xijia Village came to our village to collect some bottles and cans, saying that they planned to get them. They can be sold in the city for some money."

"I see……"

Xiaoxiao didn't give any further explanations, just resting her two fingers on her chin, frowning and thinking.

At this moment, commotion was heard from a distance, and someone shouted loudly: "The people in the village have been found!!"

Ruan Mudeng and Xiao Xiao looked at each other, and quickly ran towards the source of the sound.

The place where the crowd gathers is the ancestral hall in the village.

Ruan Mudeng and Xiao Xiao squeezed through the crowd and got to the front.

The door of the ancestral hall has been knocked open from the outside, revealing the dark inner hall.

There is no electric light in the ancestral hall, and there is no light at this moment. If you use a flashlight to shine in from outside the door, you can only see many shadowy figures inside—however, even if it is very dark, everyone can clearly see those figures. It was half-empty, and it was swinging slowly like a pendulum.

"Oh my god..."

There were at least a dozen people crowded at the door, men and women, all stunned and trembling, no one dared to go in.

"Let's go and see."

As soon as Xiao Xiao grabbed Ruan Mudeng's hand, she couldn't help but dragged her across the threshold and walked towards the ancestral hall.

There are only two windows in the ancestral hall, all of which are covered with black cloth. The interior space is high and the building is spacious, but at this time it is densely hung with people.

The two of them could see clearly, thirty or forty ropes were tied to several roof beams, and a person was hung under each rope. The pure black linen cloth has been dead for a long time, its head is drooping, its toes are off the ground, dangling in the air, an indescribable stench permeates the air, and the overturned benches and chairs are scattered in all directions. He hanged himself.

"Where are the others in the village?"

Xiao Xiao frowned, stared at the corpses for a moment, and asked again.

"there."

Ruan Mudeng pointed to an inconspicuous door behind the main hall, "I can smell it."

Xiao Xiao raised her eyebrows in surprise, her eyes widened. When he made such an expression, the tear mole under the corner of his right eye was particularly conspicuous. Ruan Mudeng stared at him silently for a moment, then turned his head away, and tugged at him. The opponent's hand, "Go and see."

So the two of them passed through the small door, and behind them was a cramped corridor. There were small rooms on the left and right sides of the corridor, and now there were many corpses lying here and there in each room. There were not many young and middle-aged people, most of them were women and children. They were all neatly dressed in black cloth, with protruding eyes and tongues, and bruises around their necks, which looked like they had been strangled.

They roughly counted the corpses in several rooms, including those hanging outside, adding up to more than 100 people. They estimated that no matter what happened in the village, the people in the whole village at the time of the incident, It should all be here.

"These people have been dead for more than two days."

Xiao Xiao squatted down and carefully rummaged through some of the corpses.

The flashlight in his hand shone on the corpse of a young boy. The boy was about thirteen or fourteen years old, probably because of the extreme pain at the end of his life. Even if he died, his pair of big eyes would not be at peace, and they were still wide open. look.

"The eyeballs have begun to rot and protrude."

Xiao Xiao said, then grabbed one of the young man's arms, and turned it lightly: "The elbow joint can be turned, and the stiffness has almost faded away."

"How do you know this?"

Ruan Mudeng was a little surprised.

This self-proclaimed folklore researcher, seeing so many corpses, was not only so calm, but also deduced the time of death of these people. Even if Ruan Mudeng had never studied seriously, the common sense that "this is not taught in school" is still there. of.

"It's nothing, the profession requires it, I've learned a little bit."

Xiao Xiao waved her hand, signaling him not to care, and naturally changed the subject.

"I guess, these people in the house should have committed suicide earlier."

Xiao Xiao said: "The people in the village committed suicide in batches, and the latecomers helped them collect the corpses. Those dozens of old people should be the most prestigious group of elders in the village, so they stayed until the end, because no one can replace them. Convergence, so it has been hanging outside."

He paused: "So the biggest question now is what happened to the people in Xijia Village that forced the whole village to commit suicide?"

Ruan Mudeng shook his head, but he didn't understand either.

At this moment, loud voices came from outside. It turned out that Director Zheng and two assistant directors had also arrived, forcing several young people from the photography team to come in to check the situation. Terrified enough, they screamed and made a fuss.

"Come on, let's go out first." Xiao Xiao grabbed Ruan Mudeng and walked outside.

The few young people who were forced by Director Zheng to come in and walk around didn't even dare to stay in the main hall, and naturally they didn't dare to look at what was behind.

Ruan Mudeng and Xiao Xiao came out and told others about the fact that there were more than 100 corpses hanged by villagers behind them. Everyone was shocked, almost scared half of their souls, and the heroine Chen Qian immediately wailed I got up, crying and shouting that I must leave the village immediately, and I would not stay in the same place with so many dead people for a second longer.

"Stop it!"

Director Zheng was so angry that his veins burst out, he stomped his feet and roared: "It's already dark now, you haven't seen how steep the mountain road was when you came here! You can't go down after driving in the dark until dawn, you can bear it." The driver can't stand it, or do you want to crash the car and die in the ravine!?"

Chen Qian shut her mouth in fright.

"Up to now, we can only spend one night in the village, and go down the mountain early tomorrow morning."

With a gloomy face, Director Zheng made a final decision.

Chapter 3, 03, Deserted Village [-]

Even though they wanted to stay in the village for the night, after all, everyone knew that there were dead people everywhere, and just thinking about it made them panic, and no one dared to live alone in one place.

A group of people were bustling and quarreling until the end. They chose to draw up a private house in an area far away from the ancestral hall. Two or three people shared a room and lived as close as possible. If something happened, as long as someone shouted loudly, the people nearby could hear arrive.

There were more than 50 people in the production team, and there was a commotion immediately, and everyone who had a good relationship gathered together, anxious to occupy the room.

"Ah Ruan," Xiao Xiao smiled and waved to Ruan Mudeng, "How about we share a room?"

Ruan Mudeng nodded indifferently.

He doesn't know anyone in the crew well, and he's always been a marginalized person outside the crowd. Naturally, he doesn't have any good partners. Now this man who claims to be a folklorist is willing to take the initiative to accompany him, which saves him a lot of trouble. .

"Hey wait! Ruan Mudeng, wait!"

When the two of them were taking their luggage and were about to find an unremarkable small room, Ruan Mudeng suddenly heard someone calling his name loudly. They stopped and turned around, and saw two young men with large and small bags in their hands. There are many things running towards them.

These two people are both in their 20s. One is tall, one is short, one is thin and the other is fat. Standing together, they look like a "10".

The tall and thin one is Wang Chao, a videographer who is usually in charge of the third camera. He has a very poor mouth and especially likes to tease the young girls in the group, but he is generous and righteous, so he is very popular; the short and fat one is called Ma Han is a field worker. He is just 1.6 meters tall and weighs [-]. He has a fat face like dough.