In the early morning, the boss was still sitting there watching TV. Even though his glasses had almost slipped off the bridge of his nose, he woke up sensitively when the two of them walked down the stairs.

On the dining table is the meal that has been set.When Gu Hankong saw it, his stomach growled in disbelief.Although they were very close, Gu Hankong didn't smell the aroma of the food. The whole room was filled with strange incense, which seemed a bit indescribably familiar.

Four dishes and one soup are all specialties in the mountains. What is rare is that there is braised pork in one of the plates.

"Aren't you going to stay for a meal?" the boss asked lightly. "There is no place to eat on the mountain."

"No need, we are in a hurry." Xie Xuan pulled Gu Hankong and refused.

Gu Hankong could only swallow silently.

When they were far away from the door, the two got into the car again. "The boss has trouble walking, do you think he can cook?"

"Walking has nothing to do with cooking, right?" Gu Hankong was still a little dissatisfied with the empty stomach, but it was within the tolerance range.

"This hotel is very strange, have you noticed? Some things are placed in a very high position. Even if the hotel owner can walk, it is very difficult to reach the high things. I looked at the display position of the things, Most likely that person is taller than me."

Xie Xuan didn't say anything, Gu Hankong didn't notice at all.

"So, you mean to say that there is actually another person in this hotel, and this person is tall." He is taller than Xie Xuan, so he can really be called burly.

"That person has never appeared. We'd better be careful. Sometimes, it's not only ghosts that need to be prevented, but also humans."

Gu Hankong understood now.But...according to Xie Xuan, isn't he himself a more dangerous creature?

Xie Xuan didn't see through what she was thinking, and his lips were drawn into a line, "If you're hungry, there are still some snacks in the back seat."

When reversing, the tire seemed to be crushed by something, and there was a dull and crisp sound.

Gu Hankong hurriedly leaned over to the window to look, and found that what was broken was a bone.

"This is not a human bone." Seeing that the bone seemed a bit big, Gu Han felt a little bit in his heart.

"No, it's a pig's bone." Xie Xuan glanced at it and continued to reverse the car.Slowly add a sentence, "Although it is a pig bone, the tooth marks on it obviously belong to canine animals. The hotel owner obviously once raised a dog. It is still a relatively large bulldog, but the teeth are worn out due to aging Seriously, he might be dead."

"You know it just by looking at it?" Gu Hankong asked with some doubts.

"I'm a doctor, and I almost became a dentist. A psychologist was just a sideline that developed later."

"It's amazing—it turns out that dentists don't just study human teeth, but also animal teeth." Gu Hankong said with admiration.

Xie Xuan glanced at her coldly, with contempt seeming to slip through his eyes. "Isn't this a high school creature?"

Gu Hankong was speechless for a moment.

Started the car and drove along the path to Panshan Road.

But when we reached the mountainside, the road ahead became narrower and narrower.

Xie Xuan had no choice but to stop the car.

"Do you remember the way here?"

"I don't remember clearly." Gu Hankong looked at the lush vegetation, his eyes fell on a stone tablet, and he reached out to stroke it. "I remembered, the road in the village needs to go from there."

Looking in the direction of Gu Hankong's finger, what he saw was a denser forest, "Are you sure?"

"Well, I'm sure, unless someone moved the stele, it must be in this direction." Gu Hankong was also beating drums in his heart. It must be that there have been no people living here for many years, otherwise how could even the road into the village be completely blocked? blocked.

Xie Xuan took out a tactical knife from his backpack and chopped off the overgrown branches.

The deeper you go, the more desolate it becomes, and even the sounds of insects and birds are much rarer.

The cooking smoke can already be vaguely seen through the gaps in the vegetation—the hotel owner at the foot of the mountain said that there is no one here, which is a lie.

At the entrance of the village stands a huge locust tree, the diameter of which is as thick as the arms of several adults.The huge branches are like opening a huge umbrella, and you can feel its majesty when you look at it from a distance.

This tree is probably older than the oldest old man in the village.

I don't know if it's because it's the busy farming season, so it's a little deserted here, and I don't even see anyone.And there is only one house that emits smoke.As Gu Hankong said, most of the people have moved away, leaving behind a lot of abandoned empty houses.

Gu Hankong turned to Xie Xuan, and just when he was about to speak, he happened to see a red figure flash past.Small in stature, looks like a child.

"Wait." Xie Xuan grabbed her, "Don't chase after her."

"Are you sure this is your village?"

"Yeah, what's the matter." Gu Hankong said, "I can still take you to my grandmother's house."

"It should be right here, go to your house and have a look. No matter what you see, don't leave me too far, you know?"

"Okay." Gu Hankong really felt weird, it was noon, and it was still a little cold here, especially when the two of them passed under the locust tree.

It's really not a good experience to feel the cold touch soaking through the whole body.

When the wind blows the leaves and rustles, you can even hear the children's laughter.

Gu Hankong's face darkened instantly.A strange image seemed to flash through her mind, a group of people sitting on a small stool under a locust tree playing chess.There are also groups of onlookers.Everyone had no blood on their faces, but they were all staring at the chessboard intently, as if they were attracted by the wonderful duel.

Following the gazes of these people, Gu Hankong also looked at the chessboard.The body was uncontrollably drawn by some kind of force and walked over.

"Be careful." Until an exclamation sounded in her ears, all the chess players disappeared.

Seeing her pale face, Xie Xuan hugged her to his chest.He kept stroking her head, "In this village, there is something that can control you."

What he said made Gu Hankong feel more heavy, and Xie Xuan confirmed her guess.

But what Gu Hankong didn't say was that not only this village, but after she woke up, there was a feeling of being out of the world. To be precise, it was not that this village had some kind of control over her, but that there was something in this world Some mysterious power guides her actions.

It felt like I was about to be drowned by this invisible control.

"I……"

"Your grandfather told me that when the body is out of control, you must use a firm will to hypnotize yourself. Just like hallucinations, you have a ring on your body, so it is impossible to be possessed by dirty things, so this kind of control is undoubtedly spiritual. The illusion. The cracking of the illusion requires a strong will."

"The people who create illusions create the rules of the illusion world, and all you have to do is make all the rules your own."

Gu Hankong listened with half understanding, "I see."

I know, but it doesn't mean I understand - Xie Xuan understands when he looks at her eyes. "Don't be afraid, I'm here for everything."

Gu Hankong nodded.

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Nothing useful was found in the old house, and the big room with the rocking chair was still there. Gu Hankong stared at it in a daze, as if if he didn't pay attention, the thing could rock by itself.

Xie Xuan casually rummaged through the house.When seeing the dusty box, "What's inside?"

Gu Hankong seemed to be awakened suddenly, and quickly stopped him: "Don't open that box. Something terrible will happen."

Xie Xuan withdrew his hand, but luckily Gu Hankong said it in time.He had already wiped away the dust, and the purple-gold shape of the box had begun to emerge, but it was not locked.In other words, as long as Xie Xuan gently opens the edge, it can be fully opened.

This is undoubtedly a temptation, people are always full of curiosity about unknown things.

But Xie Xuan was not human, so he stood up and walked to Gu Hankong's side.

Gu Hankong stared at the box, it was very familiar and impressive, if he had only seen it when he was a child, he would definitely not have such a clear memory, as if she just saw it yesterday.

"Let's go, don't touch that box anyway. I forgot why I can't move it, maybe it contains some relics of my grandfather's past."

When he walked out of the house, the strange child in red appeared again. He walked slowly this time, as if he was luring Gu Hankong to walk over.

Even Xie Xuan saw him, "This little ghost...maybe it's a ghost. It's very likely that there is a big evil ghost in this village who instigates him to lure lost people."

Gu Hankong grasped Xie Xuan's hand tightly.She found that after leaving the old house, the fear in her heart faded a lot.

Go forward again and enter the inner village. The left side of the inner village is connected with the woods, the right side is the field ridge, and the back is against the mountain wall and the water pool. There is an old-fashioned well in the center of the village.

The water extracted comes from the pond water in the back mountain.Gu Hankong still remembers that the water here is very clear and sweet, but he doesn't know why it is suppressed by a huge rock now.Obviously the wellhead was sealed and no longer used.

The eyes of the two fell on the well at the same time, Xie Xuan grasped Gu Hankong's hand tightly, and walked over without getting too close.

On the outside of the well head some animal feces are left here.

"It seems that the dog is feces. The dog at the foot of the mountain may have been here." Xie Xuan judged instantly.

This is really unbelievable, such a long road, the two drove up and walked for nearly an hour.Dogs don't move that far from their living territory...unless.

Xie Xuan suddenly said: "Perhaps, the hotel owner at the bottom of the mountain and the hidden tall man originally lived on the mountain with their dog, but because of some accident, they had to move to the foot of the mountain, so the dog found It’s not surprising to think about it that way.”

Gu Hankong also nodded.But in her memory, she has no impression of the boss at all, and the boss doesn't seem to know her either.

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