The anchor is dying every day [System]

Xiao Yuening looked at the barrage in the live broadcast room and was speechless. After a long while, he couldn't bear it anymore and said: "Everyone, don't laugh so happily, okay? Have you forgotten where I am now? The legendary Ghost Town! Do you know how terrifying this place is? I risked my life to broadcast live to you..."

While talking, he told the netizens in the live broadcast room about what happened to him in the car.

Mysterious buildings in the field;

The old man in red keeps beckoning;

weird funeral procession;

Blinking portraits of the dead;

And what I heard in the car, there are all kinds of weird customs and bizarre rumors about the town of ghosts.

"In short, since I came to this place, I have always encountered strange things along the way. I think this town may be really not simple, maybe there is something unclean, maybe it is."

As Xiao Yuening said, he used the camera to take pictures of the winding dirt road in front of him, and said in a low voice: "To be honest, I always have an ominous premonition. I feel that if I continue to walk forward, what might I encounter? Pretty scary stuff..."

After walking forward for a few minutes, a small piece of wood of unknown species appeared on both sides of the dirt road.

When these trees were planted, they were clearly arranged neatly, and the rows were very regular.Their plants are not too high, and they are located relatively close to the village. Xiao Yuening guessed that this should be a fruit forest planted by the villagers.

It's a pity that in this season, half of the fruit has disappeared from the tree, leaving only a tree with dense branches and leaves, rustling in the night wind.

When Xiao Yuening passed the fruit forest, he couldn't help but take a second look.

The forest is pitch black, the fruit trees on the edge of the forest grow crookedly, and there are many dense weeds in the forest, obviously the result of negligent management.

It seems that the people who planted these fruit trees didn't care much about them, and they just let them grow carelessly like this.

"Going forward, you should be able to enter the village soon." Xiao Yuening explained to the netizens in the live broadcast room in a low voice, while scanning the dark fruit forest by the roadside, for fear that something would suddenly run out of it thing.

The road under his feet became smoother as he went forward. Xiao Yuening saw that the end of the fruit forest had appeared in front of his eyes, which made him unable to help but quicken his pace.

At this moment, a soft cry suddenly came from the side of the road, causing Xiao Yuening's footsteps to stop involuntarily.

The voice was intermittent, with a softness unique to a child's voice, and choked twice from time to time, as if extremely sad.

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... " that voice is still complaining in a very low voice, as if with inexhaustible grievances.

Xiao Yuening: "..."

In normal times, when Xiao Yuening heard the crying of a child, he would have looked around without saying a word, but now, the situation is different.

In the middle of the night, and on the way to the mission, why is there a sudden cry of a child in this place where no one can be seen?

...is that really a child, and not something dirty pretending to be?

Xiao Yuening stood there and remained silent.

But the voice continued, whimpering and crying, whispering his grievances.

The unique innocent voice of a child was sent to the ear by Night Breeze, but it made people feel a sense of dread.

Xiao Yuening paused for a moment, glanced at the mobile phone in his hand, and asked in a low voice: "Boys, I seem to have heard a child crying... did you hear it?"

He didn't even need to ask, the broadcast room had already exploded:

"Fuck! I heard that too! It's really a child crying!"

"It's a ghost! It's definitely a ghost! How can there be children in the wilderness! It's definitely not human!"

"Aren't you an idiot upstairs? Where is the wilderness? Isn't it coming to the town of ghosts soon? This may be the child of some villager. The anchor, go and see, this child is crying like this, maybe He was injured!"

"Don't go, the anchor! Which family's children don't come home so late and no adults come to look for them? This is definitely not human! If you go there, you might die!"

"Fuck off upstairs, do you really think there are ghosts in this world? This kid must have had a temper tantrum with his family and then sneaked out by himself. The anchor should go and have a look. It's best to send him back to the village, otherwise It's not safe for a child to be out there."

"But along the way, didn't the anchor also encounter many horrible things? Can you guarantee that this child must be human? What if some dirty thing deliberately uses a child's voice to attract people? Wouldn't the anchor be dead if he went? This town of ghosts is really evil, so be careful!"

"The things the anchor said about him, you believe it must be true? Have you seen it with your own eyes? And you said that the portrait can move, maybe it's because you're seeing it wrong?"

"Stop arguing, didn't you notice it? The camera is moving, and the anchor has already walked into the grass by the side of the road. Should I go find that child..."

……

Xiao Yuening did follow the sound to find it, although he wasn't sure whether the crying thing was a real child, or something dirty was trying to lure him on purpose.

But if it's really dirty, since the other party has appeared in front of him, it's obvious that he's after him, and it's not something that can be easily resolved by him saying nothing.

After pushing aside a clump of weeds half as tall as a person, Xiao Yuening found a crying child squatting on the ground in the field not far from the fruit forest.

It was a little girl who seemed to be only five or six years old. She had two lovely shofar braids, a pink plaid dress, and pink leather shoes with snow-white socks. She looked neat and clean.

At this moment, the child was covering her little face and crying continuously, even though Xiao Yuening had already walked up to her and shone a flashlight on her, she didn't pay attention, let alone raised her head.

Xiao Yuening stopped two or three meters away from the little girl, and kept looking her up and down.

Although the child looked quite normal at first glance, Xiao Yuening didn't find anything on her that shouldn't be there - such as blood stains, corpse spots and the like.

But no one knows, when she slowly raised her head in the next second, the face she revealed would be a normal child's face, or a hideous half-rotten skeleton.

The little girl covered her face and cried for a long time, but she didn't wait for the comfort she expected. Finally, she couldn't help but put down the little hand covering her face, and looked up at Xiao Yuening.

At the same time when she raised her face, Xiao Yuening was on full alert, ready to fight back at any time, but to his surprise, the little girl's raised face was normal, not the scary picture he expected Appear.

The little girl is even very cute with Yuxue. There are two big teardrops hanging under her two black grape-like eyes, which make her eyes appear black and shiny even after being washed with water. Sly and smart, her upturned little nose is also cutely wrinkled at this time, and her ruddy lips are slightly pouted because of displeasure, making her look full of coquettishness.

This child has a clear and spiritual aura all over his body, he is even cuter than those child models on Taobao.

Not to mention children like this in rural areas with poor living conditions, even when Xiao Yuening was in City A, among the many pampered urban children he met, there were very few children like this one, so beautiful and so delicate that people could see them Bright little girl.

Seeing Xiao Yuening ignoring her, the little girl wrinkled her face even more, and her mouth was so pouted that it could hold a bottle of oil.

She snorted and stood up from the ground, pointed at Xiao Yuening unhappily and asked, "Why are you like this?"

Xiao Yuening was taken aback for a moment, and asked inexplicably, "What kind?"

The little girl akimbo angrily: "I'm crying, but you don't comfort me! Is there anyone like you who is an adult?"

Xiao Yuening couldn't laugh or cry after hearing her words, but what he thought in his heart was: If you are really a dirty thing, then I should be the one who should be comforted now.

But he said: "Okay, I was wrong, I was wrong. Then you can tell me now, whose family are you from? Why are you here alone?"

Hearing this, the little girl's puffed up face collapsed, and her expression was about to cry again: "I, I had a fight with my mother, so I ran out. I don't want to go home..."

Xiao Yuening: "Is that so? Then why did you quarrel with your mother?"

The little girl snorted and said unhappily: "She wants to take me to sacrifice to the gods. I don't want to go. She hit me, so I ran out..."

Hearing the word "sacrifice to god", Xiao Yuening's heart skipped a beat, and he asked calmly, "Oh? Do you often worship gods here? Do you know what god you worship? Where is he?... My little friend, can you tell my brother about it? My brother has never seen a god in his life, and he wants to see what a god looks like."

The little girl glanced at Xiao Yuening with a look of disdain, and said, "God is a god, how can there be a god? God is in the temple! Brother, you are so stupid, don't you even know this?"

Xiao Yuening smiled and nodded: "Oh, that's it. Then do you know where the temple is?"

The little girl raised her head with a smug look on her face: "Of course I know, the temple is in the middle of our village, and we have to offer sacrifices every month!"

Xiao Yuening praised a little exaggeratedly: "It's so amazing! You actually have to sacrifice every month? Then how do you sacrifice, can you tell me about it? My brother just came to your town and didn't understand anything. Very curious."

Hearing this, the little girl stared at Xiao Yuening with wide eyes, like a curious cat: "Are you from outside? I haven't seen you in the village. Are you coming to our village to play? "

Xiao Yuening: "Yeah, my brother is from outside and likes to travel around. I happened to come to your place tonight. Is there a place in your village where I can live for my brother?"

Who knows, after hearing what he said, the little girl showed a slightly anxious expression on her face. She waved her hand and said, "Do you want to live in our village? How long? Oh, you still don't want to live with us." , or you will get lost too!"

Lost?

Xiao Yuening's heart moved, and he asked with a smile: "Why do you get lost? Do you often get lost here? Do those lost people come from outside like my brother?"

The girl nodded again and again: "Yes, they are outsiders like you. They often get lost here, and then come back by themselves after a long time. People become stupid and can't speak!"

Xiao Yuening made a note in his heart, and asked again: "Do you know where they went when they got lost?"

The girl asked strangely: "How do I know? They don't know themselves, even the police uncle can't find out where they went."

Xiao Yuening wanted to ask again, but the little girl was already impatient: "Why do you ask so many questions? You hurry up, I'm going home."

After the little girl finished speaking, she really patted her little skirt that was stained with grass clippings, as if she really planned to go home.

Xiao Yuening deliberately borrowed her to make friends with people in the village, seeing this, he quickly said: "It's too dark, the road is difficult, I'll take you back."

The little girl looked at him out of the corner of her eyes, and said in a strange tone: "I don't need anyone, I am very familiar with this place, you should leave our village as soon as possible."

Xiao Yuening: "But if I leave here, where will I live tonight? Apart from your village, there is no other village nearby where I can stay. I can't sleep in the wild, right? Little sister, why don't you take your brother with you?" Back to your house, can I buy you candy?"

As Xiao Yuening said, he took out a piece of chocolate from his pocket.It was stuffed in his pocket when he was about to leave the house, and he didn't expect to use it so soon.

The little girl glanced at the chocolate in Xiao Yuening's hand, her eyes were a little salivating, but she still firmly rejected his proposal: "No, my mother won't let outsiders into our house."

Xiao Yuening: "But I don't want to live in vain? How about this, you take me to your home first, and then I will tell your adults, is this the head office?"

The little girl looked at Xiao Yuening in confusion, and after thinking for a long time, said slowly: "Why do you have to come to our village? Do you want to be a fool too?"

Xiao Yuening sighed and said, "No, of course I don't want to... My brother was also forced."

Little girl: "Huh?"

Xiao Yuening gave her the chocolate in his hand: "It's nothing, take me to your village."

The little girl still looked reluctant, but after receiving the chocolate from Xiao Yuening, she didn't say anything about not letting him go to their village.

Two figures, one big and one small, walked on the path, and the closer to the dark village, Xiao Yuening found that there were more dilapidated and empty houses on both sides of the road.

These empty houses are full of weeds inside and out, and the style is also very old. Some walls have collapsed to the point where only one corner of the wall is left, and it can even be seen that it is made of yellow mud... This is obviously a remnant of a very long time ago. .

There are broken walls like this almost everywhere along the way, such as these bleak scenes, in the dark, people will always have the illusion of walking into a horror film set.

However, this just verified the words of the young man on the bus from the side. It seems that the town of Ghosts was indeed glorious in the past, but now the prosperity is gone, and there are only empty houses and ruins left.

Xiao Yuening followed the little girl for several minutes, but the scene of decay that his eyes saw still did not disappear.

He couldn't help asking: "...Are these all the houses of people in your town before? Why are there so many?"

The little girl looked back at him, her big eyes shining with a terrifying light in the dark night: "Yes, I heard from my mother that this used to be the center of the town, and it was very lively. But then there are fewer and fewer people in our town. , there were more and more empty houses, and life was very inconvenient. Later, the people in the town discussed it and moved to one place together...these are old houses from before.”

Xiao Yuening nodded, and asked casually: "The gods you enshrine...is there any difference from those enshrined in other places? I have seen many gods enshrined in other places, as small as Land Lord, as big as Sanqing, there are also Buddhist Bodhisattvas from all walks of life. Where is your god from?"

The little girl peeled the package of chocolate carefully, while shaking her head: "There is no road, it is the god, the mountain god here."

Xiao Yuening: "Mountain God?"

Mountain gods sound normal, but there are many kinds of mountain gods in ancient Chinese legends, and each has its own origin and appearance. It is not surprising that there are any strange shapes.

Even sometimes, ghosts and spirits attached to the mountains and then enshrined by others can also be named mountain gods.

Usually, the mountain gods appearing in film and television or literary works, the most common thing to do is to guide the lost people in the mountains, rescue travelers in distress, etc., in short, it is a very positive image.

But now, since this "mountain god" is given out by the app as a task, and it is directly labeled as "evil god", I am afraid that it is different from other mountain gods and will not do good things.

Maybe the number of residents in Ghost Town has been decreasing, and it has gradually degenerated into a "ghost village" in other people's population, as well as all kinds of strange things that happened in this town are also directly related to it.

Just don't know exactly what it does?

Moreover, according to the young guy on the bus, the residents of Ghost Town are decreasing year by year.The decline in the birth rate of newborns and the continuous death of minors are the biggest reasons for the decline of the population.

It will take at least ten years to achieve this level, right?

But ten years, is it possible?This is the main mission, the existence of the gate of time and space!

More than ten years... If this evil thing has absorbed the power of the gate of time and space for more than ten years, then how strong must it be?I'm afraid it is not only at the level of the ghost king, but its strength may even be higher than that of the ghost king, right?

In this way, how could the rating of this mission be only four stars?You know, the female ghost in Qixinggang doesn't have a gate of time and space, and she has already climbed to the level of a three-and-a-half-star ghost by her own strength!No matter how you think about it, it is impossible for an evil god who has been impregnated by the power of the gate of time and space to be only half a star stronger than that female ghost, which is unreasonable.

So what's going on here?Is there an error in the app's task rating system?Or is there some other reason?

Xiao Yuening sighed while thinking: "It's really nerve-wracking..."

Hearing the words, the little girl beside him couldn't help turning her head to look at him. There was a kind of depth in her eyes that didn't belong to a child, which made people feel inexplicably disobedient.

It's a pity that Xiao Yuening was only contemplating and didn't notice this scene. The people in the live broadcast room did see it, but no matter how powerful their barrage was, Xiao Yuening couldn't just pick up the phone with the same heart. Just watched it.

One big and one small walked forward silently, and after a few more minutes, they finally reached the entrance of the village.

Although the village in front of me was pitch black and no one was lighting the lights, the weeds on both sides of the road were cleaned up very cleanly.Compared with the unoccupied empty houses in front of them, their houses are much cleaner and more modern. This is obviously a village that has been inhabited for a long time.

"Here we are, this is our village." The little girl's voice sounded behind Xiao Yuening.

Xiao Yuening looked up at the pitch-black village in front of him, but he didn't see half a figure swaying outside.

The people in this village really did the same as they heard in the car. They try to avoid going out at night, and they don’t even light the lights. Are they afraid of something?

Xiao Yuening walked a few steps into the village, and casually asked the little girl, "Where is your home?"

After a while, no one answered.

Xiao Yuening turned around to look, but saw that there was nothing behind him.

The little girl who had been following behind him had disappeared without knowing when.

Xiao Yuening was slightly surprised: "Where is the person?"

He searched around, but still didn't see half a person.He wanted to shout twice, but found that he was so busy getting information from the little girl all the way, that he forgot to ask her name.

"This is the village where she lives, so there shouldn't be any accidents, right?" Xiao Yuening was still worried, and picked up his phone to check the live broadcast room, wanting to see if the camera accidentally captured the little girl just now.

However, after picking up the phone, Xiao Yuening found that the barrage in the live broadcast room was refreshed very quickly, and the netizens seemed to have discovered something important, and they collectively erupted.

At first, Xiao Yuening thought that the netizens were discussing the sudden disappearance of the little girl, but after a closer look, his back couldn't help but shudder.

Barrage:

"I'm sorry! Did you see it! Did you see it!"

"I saw it! How the hell did I see it! What a ghost! "

"Oh, I'm going? This is a bit scary! It was obvious that two people, one big and one small, were walking side by side, but why is there only one shadow on the ground? How did you do it?"

"It should be using some kind of reflection principle?"

"Black technology?"

"Reflex, there are obviously ghosts! This is a ghost village! There must be no living people in this ghost town! There are ghosts everywhere on the cliff!"

"I'll go, I just watched the anchor talking to a little girl without a shadow... The hairs on my body are standing on end, there can't really be ghosts in this world!"

"The symptoms of mental illness upstairs are not mild! It's time to take medicine."

"I'm so excited! Hurry up, anchor! Continue to enter the village. From now on, every time you stay in Yinhun Town for half an hour, I will reward you with a plane! You are a dog!"

……

The little girl has no shadow?

Xiao Yuening looked at the barrage that kept refreshing, and without caring to wipe off the cold sweat on his forehead, he took the lead in looking at his feet.

The moon wasn't very bright tonight, but it still showed Xiao Yuening's shadow clearly.

At this moment, the lonely black shadow under his feet was doing the same movements as him, looking down at the ground.

The netizens in the live broadcast room may only think that everything just now is because of his deception for the excitement of the live broadcast.But Xiao Yuening knew that everything he experienced was real, and that little girl really had no shadow!

Only ghosts have shadows, and that little girl is a ghost!

"I'll go... I just entered the village..."

With a pale face, Xiao Yuening raised his head and scanned the surroundings, and unconsciously touched the golden bell on his wrist with his fingers, "You don't have to be so exciting, do you?"