I am the villain on the infinite set [Infinite]

【Welcome the actor "Zhuo Yu" to enter the set, the movie "Evening Chats in Gu County" has been loaded~】

[This film is rated as: Murder.If a trade union is detected, another union team will be drawn automatically. 】

[Because the event is coming to an end, the difficulty and fun of the film are hereby increased. All the actors who participated in the film will have their memories back before entering the set. Please participate in the final competition with a pure heart. 】

[Good luck to all the actors. 】

The musty smell lingered in the nostrils, the seat under him was trembling, Zhuo Yu vaguely felt that someone was shaking him.

"Passenger, this passenger!"

Zhuo Yu opened his eyes in a daze, he had just had a nightmare, his brain was still a little chaotic, and it took him a while to regain consciousness.

"Passengers, we have arrived at the terminal, please wake up."

The conductor pushed Zhuo Yu's shoulder impatiently, trying to shake him awake. When Zhuo Yu finally came to his senses, he found himself in a long-distance bus with a black travel bag in front of him. Used it as a pillow.

"Ah..." Zhuo Yu smiled at the conductor: "Sorry, I overslept."

He stood up with some difficulty, put his backpack on his back, and stepped out of the car door with stiff steps. The conductor saw the silver brace on his leg and muttered that he was a paralyzed man.

After getting out of the car, the morning breeze was blowing on his face, which made Zhuo Yu more energetic. He looked left and right at the station, and finally found a van, so he waved there.

He is a writer who specializes in horror themes. After telling his editor that he was going to travel far away, he came to Cistanche County, which is more than 500 kilometers away from the capital.This is a place that few people know, sandwiched between Inner Mongolia and Northeast China, it is a little-known little place.

But Zhuo Yu chose this place, naturally he has his reasons.

The driver of the van saw the waving passengers and drove over to open the door for Zhuo Yu. He was the person in charge of pick-up at the Inn in Cistanche County. Because the location of the county seat was hidden and the long-distance buses couldn't find a place, the people from the county took the tourists away. connected.

The driver drove forward, driving from the highway to the bumpy dirt road. Gradually, even the dirt road disappeared, and the surroundings changed from dilapidated buildings to endless grasslands. On the other side of the car window, you can see the endless stretches of Daxinganling aftermath.

Cistanche County is at the foot of Yumai.

All of a sudden, in the seemingly infinitely vast sky and earth, only this small car was left floating in the wind-blown green ocean, and the clear blue sky was frighteningly low, as if it could press down on him at any time.

Zhuo Yu sat in the tattered bun and hugged his backpack even tighter.

"Hahaha, you have the same reaction as many people, don't you think it's desolate and scary?" The driver said in a very low voice with a mixture of northeast and Inner Mongolian accents: "Yes, when the remoteness reaches a certain level, people will feel lonely. "

Zhuo Yu glanced at him, not thinking that this was something a farmer in the country would say.

"No." Zhuo Yu folded his hands, pillowed his head on the bag, and said, "I'm just, a little excited."

The driver saw that he was not interested in speaking, so he stopped talking and continued driving as if he was concentrating.Zhuo Yu's sixth sense is very sensitive, and he can always find that the driver is watching him quietly through the rearview mirror.

It can't be said to be an observation...

It was a kind of complex gaze that Zhuo Yu couldn't describe, as if he had waited a long, long time for this passenger.

Because Zhuo Yu had nightmares one after another, before he left, he was nagged by editor Qu Hongyi about the danger of the disappearance case for a long time.

Zhuo Yu didn't expect to see such a scene.

The quaint county gate is still in the style of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. The three characters of Cistanche County are shining golden on the plaque. The villagers beat gongs and drums, danced dragons and guns, and hundreds of people formed a "guard of honor" at the gate of the county. extreme.

As soon as Zhuo Yu got out of the car, an old woman grabbed the corner of his clothes. The mother looked at him eagerly. Even though her eyes were cloudy, she still tried her best to distinguish Zhuo Yu's appearance. Dab a few on the forehead.

Zhuo Yu didn't like being touched by others, he took a few steps back, frowned, and used the reflection of his mobile phone to illuminate his face.

The old woman's finger did not know what kind of paint was on it, and drew a circle on Zhuo Yu's forehead, with a vertical line piercing through the middle, forming a white pattern similar to the character Φ.

"Haha, please don't be afraid." The driver helped Zhuo Yu take the backpack: "This is our county's welcome ceremony, and all passengers who come in will be drawn with blessing symbols."

"This welcome team too?" Zhuo Yu thought it was a bit exaggerated.

The driver shook his head: "No, it's because today is a festival in the county."

"Then I'm lucky."

The driver smiled without saying a word, and respectfully led Zhuo Yu the way.As soon as he left, the dragon and gun dancers also stopped, the sound of suona and wiping pieces stopped abruptly, and the county people stood straight in place, watching Zhuo Yu leave without blinking an eye.

Zhuo Yu only felt a little shudder when hundreds of people stared at his back.

"Today is really a good day. Not only you are here, but there are four other young people in the inn in the county. You should be able to chat, so you won't be too lonely living alone." The driver led Zhuo Yu into the county seat, Less than 500 meters away, a quaint street inn appeared in front of Zhuo Yu's eyes.

I have to say that the antique buildings in Cistanche County are really good, but they may not be antiques, but real ancient towns that have been handed down without changing their appearance. Zhuo Yu was very satisfied with this, and took out the small notebook that he carried with him to record these buildings. shape.

He paid the money when he made the reservation, so he didn't intend to stay in the lobby, but a carefree female voice stopped him in his footsteps.

"Luo Xiaoou! If you steal my snack again, don't sleep in the same room with me tonight!"

The long-haired girl in a floral dress chased another girl angrily, fighting very energetically, while the young man sitting next to him shook his head, leaning on the Chinese-style soft bed, out of sight and out of mind. Look through the book.On the foreheads of the three, no white symbols were drawn.

When he heard a newcomer coming in, he put down his book and looked at the newcomer.

Zhuo Yu always felt that the scene in front of him was a bit familiar, and felt a little close to him for no reason.

"Are you here to travel too?" The man pushed his glasses, put the book on the table, and patted the seat beside him.

He actually didn't like to talk to people, but when he saw the new young man, he subconsciously wanted him to sit beside him and chat.

Zhuo Yushi hurriedly walked over, the metal braces on his legs jingled, arousing the man's curiosity.

"This is a newly developed exoskeleton bracket in the United States. It's expensive." He smiled: "My name is Luo Musheng, and there is my sister Luo Xiaoou and her classmate Liu Jingyun. We are going to be neighbors."

Zhuo Yu shook hands with him: "It's so strange, I thought no one would come to this small county except me."

Luo Musheng shrugged: "I can't help it. This is my hometown. I also heard that my grandfather came from this county. That's why I brought two girls back for a holiday. How about you?"

"Collect materials." Zhuo Yu shook the small notebook in his hand: "I'm a writer, and I came to Cistanche County to collect materials."

The two girls over there were crazy enough, and they all sat beside Zhuo Yu one after another, curiously asking: "What kind of materials are there for this kind of place?"

Zhuo Yu developed a rare patience with these three people, and also liked to talk more: "Don't you guys know the history here?"

"What history?"

"Cistanche County was originally called Guihuazi County, and it was one of the bases for the Han people to open up wasteland in Inner Mongolia during the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China." Zhuo Yu squinted his eyes, revealing great interest in his tone: "The war broke out later. , There was a famine here, and nearly 30 people died of starvation. It is very common to change children to eat, and because of the remote location, there is a lack of supplies..."

Liu Jingyun was aroused and urged: "And then? Then?"

"There's nothing left to do. Those who survived thought they had to bid farewell to the past, so they changed their name to Cistanche County."

The driver put Zhuo Yu's luggage away, and when he came out, he happened to hear Zhuo Yu's words, and said in surprise, "Guest, you still remember these things, there are some things that young people here don't even know."

He looked at Zhuo Yu with emotion, and he was extremely pleased.

"Hmm..." Zhuo Yu smiled but remained silent.

"So, why did you change the name to 'Cistanche'?" Luo Xiaoou asked the key question: "Cistanche seems to be a traditional Chinese medicine? Could it be that Cistanche is abundant here?"

Zhuo Yu shook his head: "I don't know about that."

At this time, the driver handed the key to Zhuo Yu: "My name is Li Tiancheng. The boss and the boss's wife are not in the county, so I will take care of the shopkeeper temporarily. If you need anything, you must call me."

Only then did Zhuo Yu bid farewell to Luo Musheng and the others, and entered the reserved room.

"Huh..." Zhuo Yu took off his coat, and lay lazily on the bed, the exhaustion of the journey made his bones crack.

He picked up the tour suggestion form that Li Tiancheng left behind, and the plastic-enclosed paper list was written in great detail, recommending every scene in the county in detail, as well as the humanities and culture that Zhuo Yu was most interested in.

Due to the special location here, the folk customs are quite different from those of the Han people. The first item on the list is to visit the "live specialties" in the county town, the old people who are called "grandfathers" and "grandparents".

Cistanche County is rich in elderly people. According to the list, it is because of the good water and soil here. Zhuo Yu wanted to laugh. Did the good water and soil cause so many people to starve to death back then?

But this is not the only place that violates harmony. People like Zhuo Yu like to be serious in strange places. He wants to know why such a small county town that is so remote and desolate and no one knows about it can't think of doing tourism.

On the paper sheet, Cistanche County is written that there is no heaven and no heaven, as if this is a second paradise, and it is rich in elderly people, and the appearance of the ancient town has not changed for hundreds of years, and it has a place comparable to the Great Rift Valley of East Africa. Zhuo Yu even suspected that Li Tiancheng was trying to trick him into buying a house in this small county.

Although this county is called a county, it is only a small place with a small population. The local people prefer to call it a village and call themselves villagers.

But these are not what Zhuo Yu is interested in.

The purpose of his trip is for the special belief in Cistanche County - "Chagangaoya", the Goddess of Earth.

Traveling, there is always a reason, some people want to relax, some people want to see the world, but Zhuo Yu is neither, he is for love.

He fell in love with a god.

It sounds outrageous, but this is exactly what Zhuo Yu is going through, and it starts from last month.

After Zhuo Yu finished his last work, the new book intends to focus on describing folk fears. However, after the country went through the Fourth Destruction/Old Religion and the Revolution, many primitive religions have disappeared, only those who have never been educated youth The remote areas that have lived in the past still retain the old customs.

He also checked a lot of information, only to know that there is a place called Cistanche County that has the belief of old gods.

A sense of mission, or a hidden attraction, made him continue to dig out this old god that no one knew about. From the beginning, he wanted to describe his appearance, to deeply explore his inner self.

In the end, Zhuo Yu found a portrait of "Chagangaoya" in a county annals from the last century.

The god known as the Goddess of the Earth is actually a man. He is tall and mighty. His tall silver hair shows his inhumanity and divinity. of abundance.Under his feet, the huge purple flower like a pine cone is the cistanche that symbolizes "Xiongyang" and "Goblin".

Although it's wrong to think so, when Zhuo Yu saw this portrait, he wanted to blaspheme.

He fell in love with "Chagan Koya" at first sight.

That night, he dreamed that the silver-haired god smiled and took his hand, pressed it to his dark chest, and explored it inch by inch.

Next is the joy of adults, of course.

From then on, the god fell into a dream every night, Qu Hongyi looked at his declining spirit, and said that he was haunted by the vixen.

But this tryst dream didn't last long, and it turned into a nightmare that entangled him...

Zhuo Yu lay down for half an hour, and dreamed of "Chagan Koya" being devoured by humans mouth by mouth. The voice of his sweetheart pleading for help was still in his ears, and he woke up suddenly.

It turned out that Luo Musheng was knocking on the door, and he brought two girls to invite Zhuo Yu to play together.

According to Liu Jingyun, there were so many people.

Zhuo Yu pressed the painful forehead, noncommittal, but did not refuse.

He packed up and went out with Luo Musheng and the others, and Li Tiancheng was very enthusiastic and insisted on taking them for a walk as a landlord. A group of six people walked on the green brick road in the county town, and there was an illusion of going back to the old days. It seems to be frozen in a certain day in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Even the wind chimes under the window sills have a unique ancient charm, which makes Zhuo Yu often stop to write and draw.

The haze brought by the nightmare was dispelled by the leisurely Guxian.

Suddenly, Liu Jingyun let out a small exclamation, she took Luo Xiaoou's hand, and quietly looked at the skinny man sitting on the threshold in front of him.

The man was wearing a long gown that wrapped his body tightly, but the exposed head was covered with deformed tumors, and half of his face seemed to have melted, as if he had some strange disease.

Liu Jingyun also realized that her behavior was somewhat disrespectful to the patient, so she straightened her face immediately and stopped peeking at the patient.

Li Tiancheng smiled: "It's okay, he's used to it."

Luo Xiaoou tentatively asked, "Is he sick?"

Li Tiancheng rubbed his head and didn't know how to describe it: "It can't be called a disease, but the blood in the village is too old. Without new blood, it will become like this."

"Inbreeding." Luo Musheng continued.

"Yes, that's pretty much what it means." Li Tiancheng didn't mind what outsiders said, he waved his hand at the skinny man, and the man immediately looked over with sullen eyes, but the moment he saw Zhuo Yu, his expression changed for a moment. changed between.

He stared at Zhuo Yu in disbelief, and muttered a series of prayers mixed with Mongolian and Chinese, and Zhuo Yu could only hear clearly "Chagan Koya" and "Earth Mother God Bless".

"Earth Mother God?" Zhuo Yu heard the name that he had always kept in his heart, and looked at Li Tiancheng with curious eyes, hoping that he could tell some folk customs about belief.

Li Tiancheng didn't want to talk too much at first, but looking at Zhuo Yu's shining black eyes, his thoughts froze for a while, and then he spoke the information Zhuo Yu wanted to know.

"The Goddess of Earth is 'Chagangaoya', which also means Cistanche. Everyone here believes in him and is grateful to him for helping the county residents get rid of hunger and survive from the ravages." Li Tiancheng laughed twice, Quite nostalgic: "Don't you want to know why our place is called Cistanche County? Because we all rely on the cistanche dug out of the ground to survive, and we dare not forget our roots."

"So that's the case." Zhuo Yu frowned and nodded.

"Besides, the reason why we believe in the Earth Mother God is also because after eating cistanche..." Li Tiancheng wanted to continue talking, but the skinny man's face changed, and he walked towards Li Tiancheng suddenly, pushing him to the ground. side.

Only then did Li Tiancheng wake up leisurely, breaking away from that erratic feeling.

He knew that he had said something he shouldn't have said, and his complexion became ugly, so he glanced at Zhuo Yu with some fear.

Li Tiancheng was silent this time, he hurriedly led Zhuo Yu and his party to the center of the ancient town, and stopped in front of a gate with carved mahogany beams.

"This is where the 'Grandfather' and 'Grandma' live. These old people are the elders of most of us, and their status is very high." Li Tiancheng introduced: "I won't go in. If you are curious, just Talk to them."

Zhuo Yu nodded at him, remembering that when he was traveling in the Miao Village, he also had the project of meeting the Miao elders and watching them make brocade and dye yarn.

Moreover, this kind of old people must be very devout in their religious beliefs. Zhuo Yu wanted to know more about "Chagan Koya" and his sweetheart who fell in love at first sight through them.

Zhuo Yu was the first to push open the door, and the clean courtyard came into view. A few young people were busy, shaking cattail fans and throwing towels to wipe the old man's sweat. They were surprised that a stranger entered, panicked Looking back, he revealed the "grandfather" and "grandmother" behind him.

Liu Jingyun's complexion changed, her eyes widened, her cheeks were pale, Luo Xiaoou even had an expression of nausea, Luo Musheng pushed down his glasses, and his index finger trembled slightly.

No one expected that the old man they saw would look like this.

The three travelers broke out in a cold sweat at the same time.

They saw that on those chaise longues, there were old men who could hardly be called human. This was the oldest face they had ever seen. Even the photos of those so-called centenarians looked so young.

The skinny and crooked body, the dense age spots, the layers of drooping folds, the shrinking and peeling gums, all the disturbing shapes are condensed on the old people. They can't see who is coming, and they want to remove them to cover their eyes. Even the loose eyelids can't be done, and they look like living skeletons covered with a layer of soaked human skin. If you say that they have lived for hundreds of years, I am afraid that some people will believe it.

It was clear that the sky was shining brightly, but everyone felt a slight chill in their hearts.

Liu Jingyun tugged at Zhuo Yu's sleeve, Zhuo Yu understood her eyes.

It's not normal for a person to live like this and still not die, isn't it?

But what made Liu Jingyun feel even more weird was that Zhuo Yu took the cattail fans from the young people's hands with a calm expression, and stepped forward to gently fan the living skeletons.

The picture was instantly discordant to the extreme.