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Le Zhengli frowned after seeing the posture of the two little clay figurines clearly, and took a step back subconsciously, as if a little disgusted, but Guo Xuan bent down and looked at the clay figurines carefully. Wei Wei nodded, it seemed that these two clay figurines confirmed what guess he had in mind.

Sun Xiangdi had seen these clay figurines the last time he came, so he and Yin Ranyi packed up their equipment. As soon as the latter pulled the backpack away, he stretched out a hand and took out a thermos. Lifted, and asked, "Thirsty?"

"Yeah." Le Zhengli unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip, then handed the bottle to Yin Ranyi to signal him to drink some water, and then he took the backpack in his hand and took out the simple stove, "Let's go this morning Almost starving."

Lezheng Li cooked a large pot of instant noodles, and everyone was so hungry that they could drool when they smelled it, so they sat around in the main room while eating and talking about the situation in Fengmen Village, talking about the two The clay figurines were a little curious, so Xia Ming asked Guo Xuan where that thing came from.

Guo Xuan looked back at the two clay figurines, and said, "These two clay figurines shouldn't be a pair, each should be independent."

Guo Xuan said that he hadn’t seen this thing for many years. After the executioner beheaded the head in ancient times, the family members of the deceased took the executed prisoner’s hair and burned it to ashes, mixed his blood with pottery clay, and found a special master to make it. The villain is called a "soul puppet". The ancients paid attention to "death must be a whole corpse", and if the body is not complete, the soul will be scattered. The death row prisoner who was beheaded and dismembered can only use this method to gather the soul together. To be reincarnated.

And because all the prisoners who were beheaded were serious crimes, they pretended to be punished before death. They must always remember their fear before death, so that they would not make the same mistake again in the next life.

Yin Ranyi and Le Zhengli nodded slightly after listening to it. They had never seen a soul puppet before, but they felt disgusted when they saw it just now, and now they understood the reason.

The expressions of the people sitting next to him were different. Wei Yihong felt a little nauseous when he thought that he was planning to pick up the puppet and observe it just now. Fortunately, Guo Xuan stopped it, and everyone just watched without doing anything.

Sun Xiangdi took a sip of the noodle soup, wiped the corners of his mouth and said, "When we came last time, we went to almost every house in this village, and there were two people in the worship posture... um, soul puppet , does it mean that every family living here has had a death row prisoner? Even more than one?"

Guo Xuan then said that this is exactly what he finds strange. It has been many years since he has seen a soul puppet, not to mention that this thing has a bit of evil nature, so how can there be any reason to put it in the main room grandly?However, after seeing this well-preserved soul puppet, Guo Xuan can be sure of another thing - the villagers in this Fengmen village may have encountered some disasters and the whole village was evacuated, or they did not leave, but they just left in another way. The form stays in the homeland.

The reason for this inference is that the soul puppets cannot be placed for a long time. The short is three months and the long is a year. The family members who placed the soul puppet encountered some sudden disaster, and they fled in a hurry without even having time to clean up. However, the roads and houses in this village are all clean and tidy, and it doesn't seem like they have encountered some natural or man-made disaster.

Yin Ranyi had already finished his meal, and now he was sitting on the sidelines studying with Le Zhengli the photos of Fengmen Village taken by Sun Xiangdi and his teammates. The image is fairly clear and the place can be discerned.

Lezheng Li spread out the photos and took out a photo of a pond. This was taken by the first traveler who died in the expedition. The water in the pond under the lens was very shallow, and there were a few messy yellow reeds beside the pond. Grass, thinking of the news reports that the donkey friend died like drowning, Lezheng Li could not help but shudder, Yin Ranyi took the photo in his hand and put it aside, and took another photo of the old house and handed it to Lezheng In front of Li: "Here."

Lezheng Li looked down, and this seemed to be the most inconspicuous one among a bunch of photos. It was taken directly facing the house, and the light was good, so he could see the general layout of the house clearly. It seemed that the status in the village was relatively high. Or where people from better families live, unlike other places where the floor is paved with stone bricks, the floor of this house seems to be specially selected high-quality stone, and it is slightly reflective from the photos, which is as bright as marble. , There is no other furniture in the room, just an empty room, not even a soul puppet.

Everyone had a rough stroll in the village before, but they didn't open the door to see every room, so they didn't find such a house. Every part of Fengmen Village on the left and right is weird, so it's better to start here. Take a closer look at the situation before deciding on your next move.

Once the goal is set, it will be much faster to act. After a short rest, the tent will be stretched out, sleeping bags and cooking utensils will be neatly arranged, and everyone will go to the empty old house first. It is also a small village, and most of the houses in the village have the same structure, so it took some time to find the old house. This house is located alone at the end of the village, and behind it are rolling green hills.

Guo Xuan opened the door and led a few young people in. Yin Ranyi carried the camera and walked behind to take pictures. The room was exactly the same as the one seen in the photo. Except for the gleaming stone floor, there was no furniture inside. Except for the main entrance, there are no other doors and windows for ventilation in the whole room. The room is not very big, it is estimated to be about ten square meters. At this moment, seven adult men rushed in, and the whole space immediately seemed cramped. .

Lezheng Li walked around the wall to make sure that there was really no soul puppet in the house, and couldn't help but feel a little strange. On the way here, they also opened many doors to have a look, and there were two soul puppets in the room without exception. If there is only one room in the whole village without a soul puppet in a bowing posture, it would be too unconventional.

As he was thinking this way, his gaze inadvertently slid across a black mark on the ground. The stone slabs in the house were all of the same color of green. At first glance, the black mark was not very conspicuous, but once noticed, it was very difficult to ignore it.

Seeing that the surrounding floor tiles were very clean and there were no such traces, Lezheng Li was curious, so he squatted down and observed carefully. After looking for a while, he didn't see a flower growing on this place, so he couldn't help reaching out to touch it. After a while, the touch under his hand is slightly raised, and it seems to be a little sticky, which is not a comfortable touch.

"Tsk, what the hell is it..." Lezheng Li frowned, looked down at his fingers and was stunned, there was a greasy bright red liquid on the fingertips, and the thing on the ground that was slowly turning from black to red Generally the same——

That is blood.