The Haunted

There was no sound after that sound.

Chi Yan couldn't bear it any longer, so he sat down next to Song Jin against the wall, and fell asleep unconsciously.

He was shaken awake, and when he opened his eyes in a daze, he saw the magnified face of his friend.Song Jin looked confused and panicked: "Ruler, 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 yesterday to pick up 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 in this matter, Chi Yan didn't know where to start to tell him.So he patted him to signal him to step aside, stood up, and first looked at the statue on the confession case.

The statue was no different from the one he saw yesterday during the day, it was still a small boy statue, wearing a black-gold mask and a red brocade robe, not like the tall one he saw last night.So what I saw last night, was it an illusion created by the interlaced light and shadow of the candlelight, or was it really something that deliberately pretended to be the god in this temple to play tricks?

But anyway, it looked like at least they were safe now.

Chi Yan shook his head at Song Jin: "Don't ask now, let's leave quickly, and I will talk to you in detail after we leave completely."

The sun was shining brightly outside the temple, the weather was just right, the sky was blue, and the spring breeze was warm, but the village was dead silent, without any breath of life, and no sound of human activities could be heard.

Chi Yan finally remembered what he felt was inconsistent at first but neglected - the night when they came to the village, the night was really too quiet.Grandpa’s hometown is also in the nearby countryside. When grandma passed away, he accompanied his mother and grandfather back to grandpa’s hometown once. He stayed at relative’s house that night. He could hear the sound of chickens and dogs barking, as well as the crowing of insects and birds.

Now it is early spring, the temperature has begun to rise, and everything is recovering. However, the sound of any animals cannot be heard in the village, and there are no traces of life other than "village people".His subconscious mind 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 guesthouse. The two went to pick up the motorcycle. Chi Yan didn't speak, and Song Jin didn't dare to speak. He looked at the dead people in the village. The desolate scene made the hairs on his back stand on end.

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 at the door, pale hands covered with corpse spots hung from the front of the counter Going down, there is an old-fashioned game console broken in two on the ground.

Chi Yan quickly turned his gaze away. He was afraid of causing trouble, so he didn't dare to go inside to confirm whose body it was. He only urged Song Jin to start the motorcycle and leave.

Chi Yan didn't let Song Jin stop until they completely left the small road and returned to the main road they had taken before they found the three-wheeled motorcycle that night. He told Song Jin what happened in the village, his own experience and speculation during his coma, Take a closer look at your surroundings.

There was still a question lingering in his mind.

After listening to Chi Yan's narration, Song Jin was stunned for a long time, then shook his head: "This is really..."

In the end nothing was said.In the face of such a hell on earth, all words are pale, and it is difficult to evaluate and describe.

He followed Chi Yan to look at the small road, and suddenly asked in confusion: "Chizi, don't you see that the road leading to Hejia Village is quite obvious? Why did we walk back and forth twice when we came to investigate with Xiao Li that day? Didn't find any?"

"Because at that time, the whole village and the way into the village were shrouded in ghost energy. If it wasn't for a special time, the living people would not be able to see it, just like being blinded." What is the reason, but at that time, the living can see the haunted village?

He looked left and right for a long time, but couldn't see the clue.There was no mobile phone signal here, and they couldn't send messages, so the two had to ride a motorcycle back to Fengshui Town together.

After Song Jin went back, he called to report to work. In the afternoon, a group of people rushed over with tools and led by Song Jin to the place where the three-wheeled motorcycle was found.The road was too narrow for cars to drive in, so they rented two tricycles from the town to drive in with the tools they needed.

Chi Yan changed to a motorcycle and followed behind.In fact, there is nothing wrong with him at this time, but because of the unresolved doubt, he still couldn't help but want to follow to see.

Chi Yan watched the professionals move Zhu Hui's family's three-wheeled motorcycle out of the ditch beside the road after taking pictures and preserving evidence.He got close, and happened to see a streak of cinnabar that had not been wiped away in the ditch where the tricycle had been suppressed.

The color of the cinnabar was very positive, slightly darker than the blood, reflecting the yellowish-brown soil ditch, although there was no light, it dazzled his eyes almost instantly.Chi Yan involuntarily walked in, lowered his head, trying to see more clearly.The cinnabar is not a random vertical line, but a slanted one plus a horizontal point, like a part of an equilateral triangle - Chi Yan believes that he will not mistakenly recognize that the color of the cinnabar and the shape of the symbol - this is Chi Yan. The way home draws arrays.

He had never formally learned those spells in Chi's house, but he looked at the cinnabar color every day, and the appearance of those talisman formations every day.Later, when he left Chi's house, the big book he took away also introduced the basic formation drawing method and the most basic formations.

A thought crossed his mind, and Chi Yan felt his heart beating loudly.He took two steps back and looked at his surroundings again.A slanted branch, a big rock on the side of the road, where the red tricycle was originally...all gradually connected into a circle, forming the shape of a formation.He still can't see the details of this formation, but can only roughly distinguish it from the outline. This is a Yin-gathering formation. Every night after sunset, it will gradually direct the ghost energy in Hejia Village to this place, thus opening a gap. , so that passers-by can discover this road and that village.

Before Zhu Hui's family disappeared and the tricycle fell into the ditch, this formation was missing and it 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 afterwards, and it was deliberately placed in that position.

So the disappearance of Zhu Hui's family was not accidental.Even if it wasn't them who died at the time, it would be someone else.

The death of the two police officers was also expected by some people.

All of this is manipulated and planned by someone.That ghost village may not have been deliberately caused by them, but after they discovered the mutation in Hejia Village, they deliberately used it to frame the people they wanted to kill.

Ghosts eat ghosts, ghosts eat people, and 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 be the first to notice the formation of a ghost village?

And the person they want to kill in the end... who is it?

Song Jin and the master in charge of leading him in the police force were walking towards Chi Yan side by side, and Chi Yan could faintly hear their conversation:

"...The above specifically named you to be in charge of this disappearance case. I was a little worried that you would not be able to do it alone. I didn't expect you to dig up so many."

Song Jin smiled embarrassingly: "No, no, this time it's mainly thanks to a friend of mine, otherwise I probably would have risked my life. But Master, it's really weird to talk about this time..."

They began to talk about the case, and when they walked up to Chi Yan, Song Jin introduced them to each other: "Master, this is my friend Chi Yan, we have known each other since high school, and we have a very close relationship. he."

Song Jin then introduced his master to Chi Yan.

Chi Yan greeted the other party, and after saying a few words, he pretended to be casual and asked: "Is Da Song quite famous? I just heard you say that someone specially appointed Song Jin to handle this case."

His master nodded and didn't take it seriously: "Yes, I guess I want Xiao Song to experience it. I didn't expect you to find out such a strange thing about Hejia Village. Their village is already remote, and they haven't entered the village since winter. The people in the village didn’t come out very often, and no one took it seriously, who would have thought that all the people in the village would disappear one by one.”

They went into the village just now and found the corpses of the villagers. It is preliminarily judged that the time of death and the cause of death of these people are not the same.There was an interval of more than a month between the death of the first person and the last person, but none of the corpses were collected.

Even without the strange powers and delusional experiences that Song Jin talked about, this incident is weird enough-in a family, the wife died, but the husband was still alive at that time, why didn't the husband bury his wife?Judging by the time of death, there are only two or three dead people in a village, and every household can see the corpses. Why do the two or three people who are still alive continue to live in the village without any response until they die? die too?When everyone is dead, what is the last living person thinking?

These thoughts made him shudder, and his head hurts from thinking about it. It can be foreseen that they will worry about Hejia Village's problems for a while in the future, and they have not paid attention to Chi Yan's problems 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 connections in order to get into the job, Song Jin is a positive person and works hard and responsible. He will not reject the other party because of this. He will do everything.This time the higher-ups appointed Song Jin to be in charge of the disappearance case. He just thought it was Song Jin's entrusted relationship and wanted to give him a chance to practice, and he didn't pay much attention to it.

After Chi Yan got a positive answer, he felt a chill in his heart.

With the power and energy of the Chi family, it is easy to do this.

So... In fact, they used this ghost village to kill themselves in the end?Even if Song Jin didn't come to ask him for help, and he didn't take the initiative to agree to come with him, they could use their relationship with Song Jin to induce him to come, right?

Chi Yan closed his eyes and shook his head.I and Chi's family are like a mayfly and a big tree, and besides, I am in the dark at Mingchi's house, if Chi Rong or Chi Yuanshan really want to kill me, killing myself is a piece of cake, why bother to spend so much effort , Going around in such a big circle, and killing so many innocent lives in vain.

Unless...they were worried about someone and didn't dare to leave evidence of murdering him, so they deliberately chose such a troublesome method, just to let him die in this ghost village without anyone knowing, and make everything look like a ghost. Accident.As long as the yin gathering formation at the intersection is destroyed later, if it is not intentional to investigate, there will be no clues at all.

But who are they worried about?Who would the Chi family care about?