Chapter 462 Living in an Empty Village
Communication due to language barriers was basically a chicken-to-duck affair. Shen Lin and the others tried to communicate with the old man for a long time, but other than finding out what happy events there seemed to be in the village, they didn't get any very useful information.
The old man was thin and smoking cigarettes. He sat at the entrance of a familiar village and looked at the scenery and people in the distance. His eyes were so satisfied, as if just being able to bask in the sun would make him feel happy.
Shen Lin and others said goodbye to the old man politely and walked toward the village. The old man did not stop them and continued to sit at the entrance of the village, smoking and sunbathing.
When you first enter the group, you will see a wide village road. There are many earthen houses on both sides of the village road, most of which are similar in shape.
The mud houses here do not mean rustic, but are really made of mud.
Shen Lin knew something about this when he got to know the villages of the Republic of China. Because of the corruption of the last feudal dynasty and the years of warlord wars, villagers in this era could hardly be said to be very rich. Being able to eat was considered very important. A good situation, so of course the living environment cannot be too good. Bricks and tiles are all used by wealthy people to build houses. Rural people basically use mud to build walls. House leaks and collapses occur every time it rains.
Shen Lin didn't have a deep understanding of the operation method of building a house with mud. He just briefly understood this feature. He didn't expect to see it with his own eyes.
The area of each house on both sides of the village road is about the same. At the end of the village road is a T-junction. There is an open space on the left, with a millstone placed on it and a few sawed-off old trees standing there. Many villagers use it as a seat and gather in twos and threes to chat about home affairs.
There is a small pond not far to the right. Beside the pond is the century-old locust tree that Shen Lin saw just now. There are also many people gathered under the old locust tree, but it is obvious that most of them are young people.
Their arrival was obviously noticed by the villagers. They were clean and tidy. At first glance, there was a huge difference between the clothes of wealthy people and the rough skin of these villagers. This also caused Shen Lin and the others to be treated as quietly as monkeys. I watched silently, but no one came up to talk to me.
The curious but timid expressions in the eyes of the villagers could not be faked, and that kind of human reaction made Shen Lin's expression sink.
Whether it is a ghost slave or a fierce ghost, even a conscious ghost can only imitate human behavior and expressions. Ghosts are ghosts and cannot understand humans after all.
The team's elite performance was too much. Ji He tried hard to show off his special skills so that he would not look so redundant. But after trying hard, he made no other moves except pretending to nod calmly. He couldn't say "fuck you". nb.
Under the cover of the second-level ghost realm, the feedback message given to him was.
Half a year is equal to one day, if this ghost really has this ability.
"What should we do now?" He Tu looked at the surrounding residents with complicated eyes. Before coming, he repeatedly confirmed with Shen Lin that this was a ghost village that had disappeared for decades. Everyone here might be a ghost, but the villagers Their overly simple looks and expressions are really hard to distinguish. You can't imagine what they are looking at with such simplicity and simplicity, and they don't even complain much about life. This makes people feel even more mixed.
So since Dongwang Village disappeared in 1947, 73 years have passed and only 146 days have passed so far. It is entirely possible for these people to be alive.
"Let the explorers go ahead and find a villager who can talk to us first. We have to find a way to make these villagers familiar with us first, at least not to reject us." Shen Lin said with a calm expression.
Therefore, these people in front of us are already dead, why they still seem to be alive is incomprehensible.
"We'd better search all the roads in the village. It's best to explore what's outside the village and find the problem in Dongwang Village as soon as possible." Zhang Yuan looked around and whispered. His mood was not much less complicated than He Tu's. , even more serious. A young man who has not experienced much in the world and has a wealthy family. Before encountering the evil ghost, the biggest trouble he encountered was the gangsters in school. Although he is very smart, you cannot expect him to have much ability in dealing with the world at this stage. experienced.
It was a bit of a failure when he was just starting out, not giving Teacher Ji much room to develop, and Ji He felt very melancholy.
Ghosts are ghosts, let alone ghosts at the level of Dongwang Village. The probability that these people are still alive is infinitely close to zero.
But Shen Lin saw the human side in these people's eyes, and for a moment he felt that these people were still alive.
Shen Lin was tortured in his heart, how likely it was that a large number of living people could survive for 146 days in the ghost realm of evil spirits.
Shen Lin quietly opened the ghost realm and had only a brief contact with the villagers in front of him, but he came to an even worse conclusion.
These people are alive! He can even feel his breathing and heartbeat in the ghost realm, which is simply terrifying.
At the T-shaped intersection at the end of the village road, there are several roads extending from each other. Dongwang Village is obviously not small in size. Shen Lin saw several branch roads at each intersection.
There is no answer to this question. If Shen Lin was forced to give an answer, he would never believe that so many people could survive safely in the ghost realm for 146 days, a full half a year.
Orion's records echoed in Shen Lin's mind again. He only stayed here for one day, and the outside world lasted half a year.
"Is there any special reason for this?" Zhang Yuan did not refute. He was even happy to carry out Shen Lin's orders. When he was at home, he heard many of Xu Fang's glorious deeds of surrendering Shen Lin. One of them was summarized very well. Obviously, in most cases, Shen Lin is right. He seems to be a born ghost controller, and he is like a fish in water during the incident.
"There is a very special incident in the headquarters files, code-named Huanggang Village Incident. I'm afraid you have all heard of the evil ghost in this incident. The now-famous S-class terrorist incident is code-named Ghost Cha."
"The prototype of the Huanggang Village incident is a village shrouded in a ghost realm. The strange thing is that everything in that village is the ghost realm of evil spirits. The ghosts who have not yet recovered are creating some scenes like instinct."
"The current situation in Dongwang Village is very similar. We don't know whether it is man-made or caused by the laws of evil spirits. In short, everything in front of us is most likely the ghost domain of evil spirits. Everything here may be evil ghosts, including these The villagers, they are a whole."
Chapter completed!