Su An took Qin Qin and Chen Tian to guard outside the ancestral hall that night, preparing to sneak into the ancestral hall.
Only specific people can enter and exit the village ancestral hall freely. The ancestral hall will be locked after dark every night and will not be opened until the next day.
There was no way they could get in after locking the door, but Su An was good at picking locks.
The night is getting darker.
The last middle-aged man who had finished cleaning the ancestral hall came out and was locking the door with his head down. Su An winked at Qin Qin, and Qin Qin nodded, lowered her voice and sobbed a few times in a pretentious manner.
If anything, the eerie female voice scared the middle-aged man to the point where his face turned white and his buttocks trembled.
Su An once had a dream about a drowned ghost chasing him. He copied the lines of the drowned ghost in the dream to Qin Qin and asked Qin Qin to imitate the drowned ghost. Qin Qin is a girl, and the people in this village have ulterior motives. As soon as she said “You take my place” out of her mouth, the middle-aged man wailed and staggered away.
After confirming that he had run away, Su An stood up first, “Teacher will take the lead, you guys will follow.”
He touched the lock, and it was indeed locked. Su An’s expression remained unchanged, and he quickly moved his hands a few times. Almost in the blink of an eye, he opened the door naturally, and said thankfully: “Fortunately, I was able to do it in time, and the door was not locked in time.”
Maybe it was because he was too fast, or maybe it was because of other reasons. After Su An’s obviously uncharacteristic move, the consciousness of the world was silent and there was no reaction.
Su An asked the students to go first into the ancestral hall, while he went to take a glimpse of the dark sky.
World consciousness…
When you are in it, there are many things that you will not notice, but when you are out of it and look at it with absolute sanity, it seems that the world consciousness has been extraordinarily tolerant of Su An from the very beginning since transmigrating.
Especially in the second world, even if his character collapsed at that time, he was only kicked out of the second world by the world consciousness, and his soul level was not harmed. On the other hand, for Chu He, that world was the beginning of his death.
The world consciousness still has a preference for him, and it seems that even Chu He can take the blame for him.
In the future world, because of the system’s warning and Chu He’s outcome, Su An never dared to touch the rules of character collapse. In the world of Quick Transmigration, Su An never thought that he is the special one.
But still, this world has the shadow of his childhood.
All the details of the past began to emerge, and Su An withdrew his eyes. He felt that after the world ended, he would have in-depth communication with the system.
There are still some candles lit in the ancestral hall.
The bright red candlelight swayed gently, and an offering table was placed in the middle of the ancestral hall. Beside the offering table, there was a back door covered by a dark blue curtain.
Chen Tian swallowed nervously, he walked over and lifted the curtain, “Teacher, the coffins are all here!”
There are eight gloomy coffins placed at the inner door.
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The middle-aged man shivered and said, “Village Chief, there really are drowned ghosts running, running to the ancestral hall.”
The village chief’s voice was dark and urgent: “Quick, go inside and take a look!”
Su An and the others almost had their breathing stop, and they looked at each other.
Chen Tian whispered: “What should we do? Damn it, we won’t be beaten to death by the villagers, right?”
Qin Qin made a quick decision, “Hide in the coffin, quickly.”
After saying that, she pushed open a coffin lid and got in through the gap.
Su An also responded quickly. After helping her close the coffin lid, he urged Chan Tian with his eyes. Chen Tian gritted his teeth and got into the coffin next to Qin Qin. The footsteps of the villagers had already arrived outside the ancestral hall. Su An did not dare to waste time and quickly picked a coffin and hid inside.
The coffin lid closed extremely smoothly, blocking out the last light.
In the narrow space, Su An covered his mouth and looked around cautiously, and suddenly came face to face with a green-faced and fanged zombie face.
Su An: “!”
The zombie’s eyes were closed, and his face was vaguely familiar, young and ordinary. It was the young corpse that Su An and the others met when they first came to Xijing Village.
Isn’t this body going to be cremated?
Su An hid hard to the other side, covering his breath, and his heart collapsed wildly.
Even if he’s the wife of the Ghost King, he is still afraid of ghosts and zombies, wuwuwu.
But upon another look, he noticed something was wrong with the zombie. The zombies were tied with circles of rope wrapped in yellow talismans. Not only that, there were patterns in the shape of talismans painted around the coffin.
The footsteps outside gradually became clearer, and at first glance, there were no less than twenty people.
The village chief led people into the coffin room and waved his hands with a sullen face, “See if there are any drowned ghosts hiding here.”
The villagers remained silent, holding torches around the coffin to inspect it like ghosts.
The sound came from across the coffin. Su An remained still, his heartbeat trying to be as slow and gentle as possible. After a few minutes, the villagers came to the village chief and said, “Village Chief, I didn’t see any ghosts.”
“Unlucky,” Another old man’s voice sounded, angrily, “These girls really don’t make people feel at ease even if they die!”
After a while, a familiar voice sounded, flattering: “Village chief, those outsiders, when will we…”
It was the voice of Brother Liu from the village.
“We will find a way to push them into the river in the next two days,” the village chief said impatiently. “Liu San, I know you are annoyed by your little girl, and you want to be a scapegoat for her among outsiders. But the rules can’t be broken, as we agreed before, right? Come in line, these four outsiders are not enough for the people in front of you, please be patient and wait!”
Su An pricked up his ears and listened carefully.
“No one has died in the village recently,” Someone lowered his voice, “No new zombies have appeared.”
“The four people who were bitten to death last time also didn’t turn, and now there are only these few zombies left, which is still too few, and the drowned ghosts will sooner or later dare to climb to the shore to find us and claim our lives.”
“Shh,” the old man quickly tapped the ground with his cane and cursed in a low voice, “Keep your voice down! Where are the zombies in our village? No! The ones who turned into zombies were cremated, so don’t say anything!”
“I know,” The person who spoke before also lowered his voice. “Drowned ghosts are afraid of zombies, these few zombies that we hid are our life preserver. If we really have to die in the future, we can still use these zombies to save a life, we can’t let the other villagers know about this.”
“If they find out, we won’t have a chance to save our lives…sigh.”
“Those people will die if they die. For the sake of our fellow villagers, when the drowned man takes them away as scapegoats, we can be kind and bury their bodies as a good deed.”
Qin Qin listened calmly. In her hand, the recording system of her mobile phone was turned on.
The village chief said: “Hide all the bridges in the back mountain better, don’t let the outsiders find them. These four outsiders are teacher and students from the university, and when they disappear there will definitely be police to investigate, we can’t let the police find out what’s in the back mountain.”
“Yes, yes,” Brother Liu said earnestly again, “Village chief, the bridge in the back mountain is about to be damaged by water again. Let’s move the bridge at the head of the village to the back mountain for use, and the bridge in front should also be replaced.”
“It’s time to change it,” The village chief said to himself, “”Oh, it’s raining and it’s really uncomfortable.”
For the rest of the conversation, their voices became even quieter, and all they could hear inside the coffin was rattling noises.
After about half an hour, there was no more movement outside. Su An and the others tacitly did not move, and five minutes later, someone else came over to check again before leaving completely.
After another ten minutes, Su An carefully got out of the coffin. At the same time, Qin Qin and Chen Tian also sat up from the coffin.
Chen Tian’s face turned purple and he cried mournfully: “Teacher, Qin Qin, come and give me a hand. My legs are weak and I can’t stand up.”
Su An and Qin Qin stood him up left and right, Chen Tian choked, “There is a zombie lying inside my coffin, it scared me to death, I almost gave him a bucket of boy’s urine.”
Su An looked at him with pity and patted his head warmly, “Fortunately you didn’t pee, otherwise this coffin will be yours to use to cross the river.”
Chen Tian choked, “Teacher, do we need to cross the river with the zombies in the coffins?”
“The villagers just said that they wanted to go there with the zombies,” Su An thought for a while and said, “If we steal the coffin tonight, it will be discovered tomorrow. And they also said that in the next two days, They are going to attack us…we have to cross the river tonight.”
Qin Qin carefully hid her cell phone and rolled up her sleeves, “Come on, move the coffin. By the way, everyone be careful not to get hurt. I’m afraid the smell of blood will wake up these zombies.”
The three of them were ready to move it with all their strength, but the coffin turned out to be much lighter than they thought. Carrying it in their hands was like carrying a paper coffin, and they almost fell backwards because of the excessive force.
Su An was startled, then lowered his head and looked under the coffin. There were a few little ghosts under the coffin helping them carry the coffin.
The little ghosts should have been sent by He Taosheng, Yu Su’an couldn’t help but purse his lips and easily carried the coffin to the river at the west end of the village with his students.
After carrying three coffins in a row, Su An and the others stopped, found a wide wooden board as a paddle, and pushed the coffins directly into the river, preparing to cross the river.
Dark night is a place where ghosts appear, but perhaps because the drowned ghost is really afraid of zombies, or because He Taosheng secretly helped, they safely set foot on the shore opposite the west end of the village ten minutes later.
The river at the west end of the village is not really wide, but it is rapid, very fast.
Such a rapid flow makes this narrow river full of dangers, and one can only rely on tools to cross the river safely.
As soon as they stepped onto the shore, the fog seemed to lighten slightly.
In reality, this is the first time Su An has set foot here. Unlike in the dream, this place is filled with a strong stench.
It was like rotten leftovers that had been piled up for years, or like the stench of hundreds of dead rats. The pungent stench made it almost impossible to breathe, and he kept gagging. Su An covered his nose, resisting the discomfort and looked around.
The light of the flashlight carefully passed through the grass and trees, and suddenly it illuminated an arm covered with insects.
Chen Tian’s scream was about to break out of his throat, but he blocked it with his own hands. Qin Qin followed and looked at that place, and found that there were stumps and broken arms and human bones everywhere…when the light shines on it, it’s almost like a corpse pit.
Qin Qin’s hand shook and the light scratched across the hiking bag on the other side.
The scarlet blood stains on the hiking bag have dried, and a Winnie the Pooh stained red by blood hangs from the zipper on the bag. Beyond the lights, clothes, electric fans, water bottles, sunscreen…all kinds of things that can be found in the city can be seen everywhere on this mountain like garbage.
“These,” Qin Qin was silent for a while, then spoke with a hoarse voice. She coughed, “These must be the belongings of outsiders who have been to Xijing Village before.”
“Including these corpses,” she turned back the light and murmured, “they have all been piled at the foot of the mountain…”
Such a scene makes people look horrified and sad. How many people were killed in Xijing Village? How many innocent people have been killed here?
They didn’t even have a grave, so they were abandoned in the wilderness and used as food for snakes, rats, insects and ants and fertilizer for flowers and plants.
Su An was silent for a moment, “Let’s find the car and the bridge first.”
Qin Qin and Chen Tian nodded silently, and Su An looked towards the top of the mountain, “You guys should look here, I’m going to the mountain for a trip.”
He wanted to dig out He Taosheng’s bones first.
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