The anchor is dying every day [System]

After arriving at the dug hole, the village chief's old, gloomy face finally revealed a look of relief.

He raised his right hand high and pressed it down, signaling the coffin bearers to put the coffin down.

The four young men who carried the coffin pointed the coffin at the pit, and then lowered it slowly.

However, just as the coffin was slowly falling, an accident that no one expected happened—those hemp ropes used to bind the coffin collapsed at the same time broken!

The red coffin fell off the rope and fell heavily into the pit. At the same time, in the dark forest behind the crowd, a small red figure quickly passed behind the villagers.

Because the sky was too dark and most of the funeral villagers had their backs to the woods, so except for Xiao Yuening who was hiding aside at this time, no one saw this scene.

But Xiao Yuening, who saw all this clearly, felt his heart skip a beat. He felt that the red shadow was definitely not human, maybe it was one of the many children buried in this cemetery.

The villagers didn't notice this, and their attention was already drawn to the coffin that fell to the bottom of the grave pit.

Because the material of the coffin was too thin, after the rope broke, the coffin fell into the bottom of the pit when a big hole was dug out in the wall of the coffin on one side by the mud and stones that had not been cleaned up in the pit. A child was pale. His arm leaked from the hole, exuding a cold and ominous smell under the moonlight.

No one expected that such an accident would happen. The young adults in the funeral procession suddenly panicked, looking helplessly at the little pale hand at the bottom of the pit.

The village chief's face was also extremely ugly, but he didn't say anything, and waved directly to let the person holding a shovel fill the pit quickly.

Under his stern gaze, several young people had no choice but to start shoveling the soil.

The soil was sprinkled into the pit one by one, gradually covering the coffin and the young arm exposed under the coffin, until the tomb was piled up into a pointed mound.

After doing all this, everyone, including the village chief, showed a relieved expression on their faces.

They didn't dare to stay longer in the cemetery, so they turned around and left quickly, and the way of leaving was the same as what Xiao Yuening had seen outside the village last night, kneeling and kowtowing step by step.

The village head was still walking at the end, throwing paper money into the air as he walked. The paper money was blown by the night wind, and immediately flew up, and scattered on the grave mounds and weeds all over the ground.

Xiao Yuening hid behind the grave, and only dared to come out after the group of people had gone far away.

At this moment, he was the only one left in the empty cemetery.

It is indeed a terrible thing to be alone in an empty cemetery, especially when a fresh corpse has just been buried in this cemetery just now.

Even a person like Xiao Yuening, who has obviously experienced many supernatural events and should have become quite daring, can't help but feel a little guilty at the moment.

He carefully observed the surroundings of the cemetery, and couldn't help muttering to himself in a low voice: "There is an injustice and a debtor, I didn't cause you, so please don't come to me..." He said softly. Walking lightly to the side of the new grave that had just been buried, he carefully observed the new soil on the grave.

Because it hasn't rained recently, the soil on the grave mound looks relatively dry. Xiao Yuening grabbed a handful and sniffed it carefully, but he didn't smell anything other than the soil.

Xiao Yuening frowned: "It's strange, I could smell a fishy smell coming from the grave pit before, but there doesn't seem to be any problem with the soil..."

He stared at the new tomb, thinking secretly.

Since the fishy smell did not come from the soil, it should be that the villagers put something at the bottom of the pit after digging it?But what will be put in a grave where the dead are buried?

It is more taboo to randomly put things other than funerary objects in the tomb of the dead, but if this kind of thing is done in this strange village from head to toe, no matter what these people do, Xiao Yue Ning would not find it strange.

Do you want to dig up this grave?

Xiao Yuening thought to himself.

Just when he was hesitating whether he should dig the grave or not, suddenly a dark wind mixed with a faint stench blew from a distance.

Xiao Yuening couldn't help but glance back, but this glance almost didn't scare his soul away - he saw a strange shadow approaching quickly in the direction of the back mountain in the distance.I don't know what that thing is, it has hands and feet, it looks like a human, but its body proportions are terribly weird, like an alien, it makes people's scalp numb.

Xiao Yuening saw that the target of the thing seemed to be in the cemetery where he was, and seeing the other party getting closer and closer, if he suddenly jumped up and ran away at this moment, he might be discovered immediately. In a panic, he could only stay in the cemetery I found a place with more bushes and hid in it.

After hiding, Xiao Yuening looked out through the gaps in the branches and leaves of the bushes, and soon saw a tall black shadow appearing on the edge of the cemetery.

With the moonlight on his back, Xiao Yuening couldn't see the specific appearance of the black shadow clearly. He could only tell that it was about two meters tall, with a weird big belly, and a short and thick neck, which was almost integrated with the head, but Its arms and legs are extremely long, about one-third longer than normal people, and extremely thin, like four matchsticks propped on its body.However, its palms and soles are huge, out of proportion to its thin limbs, and there are adhesions between the fingers, which at first glance look like some kind of frog's webs.

Although he couldn't see the frontal face clearly, Xiao Yuening decided that it was absolutely impossible for this thing to be a human being just because of the weird figure. Maybe it was also a monster that ran out of the door.

After the long-handed and long-legged monster came to the cemetery, it first looked around vigilantly for a while, and after confirming that there was no danger around it, it raised its oblate head, swayed from side to side and sniffed carefully, as if there was something in the air. What smell aroused its keen interest as well.

When Xiao Yuening saw it's actions, he thought he had been exposed. For a moment, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he couldn't help but caress the golden bell on his wrist with his fingers—if the other party really found him, Then he must definitely attack before it strikes.

As a result, after sniffing the air with its nostrils wide open for a long time, the monster turned around and walked towards the new grave.

Xiao Yuening wasn't sure what the monster was up to, so he had to watch its every move carefully with his eyes wide open, but saw that the monster walked to the side of the new grave, then suddenly squatted down and began to dig the grave.

The soil on the grave was newly dug up by the villagers, and it was very soft. The monster did not have any trouble digging it up. Its palms were so big that its claws were stronger than the villagers' shovels.

Xiao Yuening hid behind the bushes and watched it digging the soil. It took less than 2 minutes to dig out a corner of the thin coffin that had just been buried.

After seeing the coffin revealing its real body from the soil, the monster was very excited. After it let out a strange cheer from its throat, it grabbed the coffin with its two front paws and dragged it out of the soil.

When this thin coffin was originally buried, the wall of the coffin had already been smashed, and when the monster dragged it out of the soil with rough hands and feet, a big hole was directly opened where it was broken.

As for the corpse of the child who was sleeping inside, more than half of his body had leaked out of the hole at this time. His pale face and pale body, under the moonlight, showed a kind of deathly ashes. stiff.

After the monster saw the corpse protruding from the hole, it acted even more eagerly.

It threw the coffin on the ground, then grabbed the coffin wall at the hole with its two paws, and tore it hard like a cardboard box. The corpse of the child inside also fell out at any time, hitting the ground heavily.

Seeing this, the monster bent down, grabbed the clothes wrapped around the corpse with its two big hands, and pulled it left and right, and then there was a soft "hiss—" sound. It sounded in the distance.

Under the moonlight, Xiao Yuening saw a glistening liquid slowly dripping from the monster's chin.

At first he didn't understand what it was, but after observing it carefully, he immediately realized that the monster in front of him was actually drooling.

Drooling over a dead body... what is it trying to do?

Xiao Yuening choked for breath, and had a rather bad guess in his heart.

In order to prevent his guess from coming true, he stiffly turned his eyes away, forcing himself not to look at what was happening over there, and at the same time turned the camera of his phone to other places, not to take pictures of what was happening over there.

Sure enough, soon, there was a very uncomfortable chewing sound from the cemetery not far away.While the monster was eating meat, he hummed contentedly in his throat, hearing it in Xiao Yuening's ears, made him feel even more uncomfortable.

But he didn't even dare to breathe out, and lay motionless behind the bushes, for fear that the monster would notice him and he would have a big appetite and want an extra meal.

At the same time, he was also thinking quickly in his mind: the villagers buried the children here on purpose, it is impossible for them to have other intentions. ... Is it possible that they are actually using the corpses of children to feed this monster?He had smelled the fishy smell from the grave before, could it be that the villagers were reminding the monster that it could eat?

Is this thing really the evil god worshiped by the villagers?

Xiao Yuening hid not far away, and waited with bated breath for about 10 to [-] minutes. Then there was a loud hiccup from the monster, followed by the rustling of trees next to his ears. It seemed that the monster was full after eating. , already planning to leave.

Xiao Yuening looked over there again through the bushes, and saw that this thing was slowly walking towards the direction it came from. Compared with the speed when it came, its current speed was extremely slow, as if it was full. After drinking enough, people take a walk to digest food.

Xiao Yuening hid in the dark, and waited for it to walk a certain distance, then stood up from the bushes and quietly followed.

Even if his monster is not an evil god, it is probably related to the evil god. If you follow it, you may be able to find the trace of the gate of time and space tonight.

The monster walked in a wasteland, and the weeds scratched its skin and made a rustling sound.

Xiao Yuening followed it not too far away, trying to see its appearance clearly.Reluctantly, with the moonlight on his back, he could only see the dark back and silhouette of the other party, but couldn't fully see its true face.

The monster walked for a long time, Xiao Yuening followed it all the way to the mountain, and finally watched the monster from a distance and walked to the entrance of a dark cave.

The cave is located on a bare stone wall, surrounded by broken stones, not covered by too many shrubs and weeds, and the bright moonlight shines unobstructed in front of the cave entrance, making everything in front of the cave It was reflected from the darkness and could be seen very clearly.

The monster's figure was also very clear at this moment. When it was about to enter the cave, it suddenly stopped and looked up at the bright moon in the sky.

The moment it raised its head, Xiao Yuening finally saw its face clearly through the moonlight, and his expression changed in shock.

I saw the monster with green skin, swollen eyes, upturned nostrils, and an extremely wide mouth. It didn't look like a human, but a toad.

And this is not the most frightening thing, the most frightening thing is: the skin of this monster's face, head, and body is densely covered with many small tumor-like things.At first, Xiao Yuening thought it was the poisonous glands growing on Toad's body, but after a closer look, he discovered that there were small human faces growing on these tumors!These human faces have complete eyes, noses and mouths, Xiao Yuening even saw one of the small faces blinking - they are still alive!

This discovery made Xiao Yuening's scalp almost explode, and he felt goosebumps all over his body, and at this moment, they were popping out layer by layer.

After the monster walked into the cave and disappeared, Xiao Yuening breathed a sigh of relief.

After hesitating on the spot for a while, he finally gritted his teeth and slowly approached the hole on the stone wall... He wanted to get closer to make sure whether the Gate of Time and Space was here or not.

Walking over lightly, Xiao Yuening finally felt the familiar oppressive feeling and the eerie coldness spreading around until he was less than one meter away from the entrance of the cave.

The gate of time and space, it really is here.

Xiao Yuening approached the entrance of the cave to observe, the cave was pitch black, but he didn't dare to turn on the light, so he stretched his neck to look inside as much as possible, but the cave was too dark, even he couldn't see through it completely. The real scene behind the heavy darkness.

And after getting close, Xiao Yuening also smelled a particularly unpleasant and familiar stench... When he was buried before, the stench that he smelled coming from the tomb was the one in front of him, wasn't it? ?Also, in the mountain temple, the faint stench mixed with the scent of sandalwood that he smelled should be left by the monster.

It seems that this guy who looks like a toad is indeed the mountain god enshrined in this village, and he is also the target of his mission this time.

After confirming the location of the Gate of Time and Space and the mission objective, Xiao Yuening didn't dare to stay any longer, turned around and left quickly.

He felt that it was best not to act rashly before he was fully prepared.

This time the monster looks quite evil, and the other party has been enshrined as a god by the people of Ghost Town for decades...

Calculating from the length of time alone, Xiao Yuening guessed that this evil god should not have come out of the door.

After all, it only took five short years for a ghost of Su Yi's level to use the gate of time and space to become the ghost king.

Xiao Yuening doesn't know whether a door of time and space that has been opened for decades exists in this world.

But even if there is, it is impossible for him at this stage to deal with it, even if Su Yi is added.

The door is most likely a recent one.

But this doesn't mean that the task objective this time is easy to deal with.

In fact, a monster who had survived for an unknown period of time and was enshrined as a mountain god by a group of villagers could not be a small character.

Xiao Yuening left the cave and returned to the cemetery at the west end of the village.

The graveyard abandoned by the monster remained the same, the child's body was eaten very clean, and only a few chewed bones and bloody clothes torn into pieces could be seen in place.

Looking at the mess, Xiao Yuening finally understood why the people in the village used such a thin coffin to contain the child's bones - presumably, it was just to make it easier for monsters to eat meat.

And obviously, the child's mother also knew what would happen to her child's body after being taken away by the villagers, otherwise, she would not have shown such agitation and grief.

It should be a tacit secret in this village that the mountain god he enshrines will eat the corpses of children. The hundreds of graves in this cemetery should also come from this way.

Xiao Yuening looked at the poor broken bones and clothes fragments on the ground, and wanted to bury them, but he was worried that the villagers would find out, so he hesitated for a while.

While hesitating, from far away, he suddenly saw another light coming slowly from the direction of the village.

Xiao Yuening wasn't sure whether it was villagers or something else.

He hid in the bushes again, and stretched out his head to look in the direction of the light.

That ray of light was very small at first, and one could only vaguely see a shadow moving.

And as the other party slowly approached, he finally saw clearly who was coming, it was actually the group of funeral villagers again, why did they come again?

Xiao Yuening was a little puzzled, he quietly hid aside, watching the group of people slowly approaching the cemetery from the bushes.

The leader of this group was still the village head, and he was seen walking in the front with a lantern, and the pale light from the lantern illuminated his wrinkled old face clearly.Behind him were three or four young men with pale faces, all holding a big shovel in their hands, their eyes looked a little frightened and uneasy under the light of the lantern.

After these people walked into the cemetery slowly, the head of the village head held up a lantern to illuminate a circle around the cemetery from left to right. His cold and stern eyes followed the movement of the lantern and continued to patrol the distance, as if confirming something.

The moment Xiao Yuening raised the lantern, he lowered his body even lower, with only a pair of eyes peeking out through the gaps in the bushes.

The village chief took a look around to make sure that there was nothing else in the cemetery, heaved a sigh of relief, turned his head and waved to the young men behind him, indicating that they could start work.

After the young men with the shovels looked at each other, they bravely walked out from behind the village chief, and walked towards the broken bones and bloody clothes not far from them.

Their gazes were a little dodged, as if they didn't dare to look directly at the appalling mess, but the village chief's face remained unchanged, and he stared at everything in front of him indifferently.

A few young men first shoveled the broken bones and clothing fragments on the ground into the tomb that had been re-opened by the monster with a spade, and then kicked the broken coffin boards into it.

Then they started shoveling soil on these things, intending to bury all these terrible traces.

Soon, the coffin fragments and the remains of the corpse were buried in the black soil together, and several young adults piled the soil out of the steeple as usual, and it looked exactly like the previous burial.

Unless someone digs up the grave and inspects it again, it is impossible to imagine what terrible truth is buried under the soil.

After shoveling and shoveling, the grave was finally reburied, and the pale faces of the young and strong men finally eased down.

At this time, the village head who had been watching with his hands in his hands stepped forward and began to burn yellow paper by handfuls in front of the newly piled graves.

The tongue of fire licked the flimsy paper money, turned into ashes and was blown up by the wind, and kept floating around.

Several young men with shovels saw the paper dust floating towards them, as if they were afraid of being infected with some evil spirits, they quickly dodged to avoid it.

The village chief squatted in front of the grave and burned the paper, chanting words, the ashes of the paper money fell on his pale hair and body, he did not dodge, and looked like he was not afraid at all.

Because the distance was a bit far, Xiao Yuening could only vaguely hear a few words, such as "bad fate", "no complaints or hatred", "accept fate" and the like.

Just by chatting a few words, he can guess what the old man is talking about.

After burning the paper money, the village chief took out a small cloth bag from his arms. He dug a hole on the grave with his own hands without using tools, and buried the cloth in it.

After doing all this, he got up and left with a few people, leaving Xiao Yuening alone in the silent cemetery.

Xiao Yuening waited for them to go far away before coming out of his hiding place. He picked up a tree branch and dug out what the village chief had buried in two or three clicks.

He wanted to see what the old man buried.

The cloth bag dug out of the soil was dark blue, and the cloth should be an ordinary old farmhouse cloth, with sewing marks on the corners, as if it had been cut from old clothes.

Xiao Yuening picked it up, and as soon as he got it, he felt the weight in his hand. Touching it with his hands, the thing wrapped inside was somewhat oval-shaped, and the material was extremely hard.

After patting clean the dirt on the cloth, Xiao Yuening untied the knot tied on the cloth bag, and after opening it, he was shocked to find that what was wrapped inside was actually a piece of Mount Tai stone.

This Shi Gandang is only half the size of a palm, with a gray and white stone body, the upper head is carved into the shape of a beast's head, and the chubby body below is engraved with five red words "Taishan Shi Gandang", which is cold to the touch.

"...Shi Gandang, this thing is used to exorcise evil spirits and suppress ghosts, right? Why is it buried in this child's grave?"

After Xiao Yuening carefully photographed the Shi Gandang in his hand with the camera, he suddenly got up again and began to dig everywhere on another grave next to the child.

Since Shi Gandang was buried in this new tomb, he wondered if there were the same in other tombs.