Chapter 327 Xiangxi. Shilin Ancient Town
Ragged roads, barren grasslands, corpses hanging high, and trees showing their claws.
A gloomy village stands between the mountains and fields. The brown path winds from the village to the outside of the mountains. There seems to be some kind of terror among the dark woods.
The woods swayed, the branches and leaves shook, and an unspeakable horror was brewing.
The pale lights pierced the darkness, and an old bus appeared rickety outside the mountain.
The bus slowed down slowly and finally stopped not far from the path.
Lin Qian looked at the lifeless mountain. The withered old trees seemed to be laughing at everyone.
Shilin Village has arrived.
The door opened slowly, and Lin Qian held the hand of the bride and walked out of the bus. Li Leping looked at Lin Qian who got off the bus with a numb expression, and did not say anything.
Just watching quietly.
"You...where are you going?" Li Chengcheng ran to the bus door with a frightened expression, looked at Lin Qian's back, and asked in a trembling voice.
Cheng Yuhang swallowed and looked at the mountain outside the window, feeling a little creepy.
That kind of place is not a good place to go at first glance. The vegetation is weird, the mountain roads are rugged and treacherous, and the wind is gusting, which is inexplicable.
No matter how you look at it, this kind of place is not a place that people should go to, it is more like a place that ghosts should go to.
So he just watched quietly and had no intention of getting off. The same was true for Li Chengcheng, otherwise she wouldn't just stand at the bus door and call Lin Qian.
Lin Qian didn't look back, let alone talk to the woman, and just walked towards the strange and gloomy mountain.
Seeing that Lin Qian didn't pay attention to her, Li Chengcheng's eyes were a little tangled. She looked around, then at Cheng Yuhang and Li Leping in the carriage, and finally her eyes fell on Lin Qian's face again. On the back.
She bit her lip as if she had made a decision, and the look in her eyes was full of determination.
So, she walked towards the outside of the bus. In the dim bus, Cheng Yuhang looked at Li Chengcheng in disbelief.
He only had one thought in his mind at the moment, that is, this woman must be crazy, otherwise she would not do such a thing.
Crazy, women are crazy.
Li Leping looked at this woman in surprise, but then he seemed to have thought of something, and shook his head, feeling dumbfounded.
This woman actually regards Captain Lin as a life-saving straw. She is really a smart woman. Unfortunately, she still doesn’t know what Captain Lin’s temper is towards ordinary people.
"Staying in the car and following Captain Lin is certainly a smart choice, but it is also the most dangerous choice." Li Leping reached out and lifted Li Chengcheng and said.
"If you want to live, don't get out of the car. If you want to die, then do whatever you want." Looking at the frightened woman in his hands, Li Leping added.
Hearing these words, Li Chengcheng's face turned a little pale, and she stared blankly at the young man who lifted her up.
With just one glance, she seemed to have forgotten something very important. Li Leping put the woman down. She had been remembered by him, and there was one more seed of resurrection.
The door of the bus began to close and the bus started to drive slowly. Li Leping looked away from the woman.
He looked at the two red figures gradually disappearing into the mountains, his eyes thoughtful.
On the dark path, the soil is dry, the weeds on both sides of the road are withered and yellow, and the sound of whimpering is interspersed in the deep woods.
Lin Qian lowered his head and looked at the dirt road under his feet. It was uneven, with large and small pits all over the dirt road.
Occasionally, you can see a small piece of bitten white bone with pits and bumps. I don’t know what it was chewed into like this.
Ahead is endless darkness. The night is so thick that the visibility is only three meters ahead.
Lin Qian turned his head and looked at the woods next to him. There seemed to be a lot of things peering at him from the depths.
The malice is so strong that it can’t be concealed. The things in the woods are very vicious.
Lin Qian licked his lips. In his eyes, there were seven or eight wild dogs in the woods. They had dark pupils, rotten mouths, and brown liquid flowing out of their cold fangs. They were terrifying, ferocious, and creepy. .
“The corpse dog looks really vicious.” Lin Qian muttered in his heart.
A gloomy wind blew, and a disgusting smell of corpses filled the air from the woods. Those ghosts began to approach him.
Lin Qian smiled, held the bride's hand, and walked forward on her own, when a starving ghost appeared from behind Lin Qian.
The scarlet eyes looked particularly penetrating in the darkness. The starving ghost walked towards the woods. The blue-black haze seeped out from the starving ghost's body and began to erode everything around it.
The woods were soon shrouded in haze, and Lin Qian walked on the dirt road with an expressionless face. Corpse dog? Just a few dead dogs.
The road ahead was still dark and the surroundings were very quiet, which Lin Qian didn’t like very much, so lanterns appeared one by one, covering the entire path, and red candlelight reflected from the lanterns, covering the entire dirt road. Became blood red.
Hungry ghosts with blood-red eyes were standing on both sides of the road holding lanterns. Lin Qian and the Cunning Bride seemed to be walking on a red carpet.
In the dark mountain, a winding bloody road appeared, just like a winding red python winding up the mountain, ferocious and ferocious.
The darkness was dispelled and the path was no longer dark. Lin Qian walked on the red road, and the soil under his feet began to become moist.
A smell of corpses emanated from the dirt road, and Lin Qian's eyes flickered slightly.
He looked up at a village in front of him, not far away. The dirt road became more viscous as he got closer to the village.
You can even step on some brown liquid when you walk on it, which is disgusting.
Lin Qian looked at the surrounding woods. The crowns of the trees were withered and yellow, and an arm could be vaguely seen under the roots.
This arm was covered with mud, the flesh and blood had suppurated, and streams of brown liquid slowly seeped out from the arm.
When Lin Qian saw this scene, he lowered his head and looked at the soil under his feet, and his mouth twitched slightly. This village is really disgusting.
I really don’t understand why the umbrella is here.
The lanterns began to disappear. As Lin Qian walked to the front of the village, the lanterns were completely extinguished.
Looking at the village in front of me, there is nothing surprising. It is just an ordinary village. I had not seen this mountain when I took the bus before.
There is a stone tablet standing at the entrance of the village. The writing on it is very skewed, but you can still make out what it is written on.
Shilin Village.
This is what it says, but Lin Qian thinks that the cross has been modified by something.
But it doesn’t matter, the name is not important, the important thing is the umbrella cover.
The umbrella is the key to ghost marriage. This thing must be prepared for the bride, otherwise there will be some unnecessary troubles at that time.
For example, the bride may be very aggressive in attracting ghosts.
Lin Qian looked at the village and walked in without any further hesitation.
Walking into the village, a strange phenomenon appeared. The moon suddenly appeared, and then began to move toward the east.
The moonlight filled the entire village, the smell of corpses began to spread, and streaks of yellow smoke rose from the dirt roads of the village.
But in just an instant, the smoke began to dissipate, the moonlight faded, and a bright sun emerged in the west.
The rising sun?
Lin Qian stood on the main road of the village and watched everything quietly.
The smell of corpses began to disappear, and the dark and dilapidated houses began to become intact.
The scene began to change, withered trees taking on new life in spring, dogs barking, and the western sun freezing at noon.
There is little smoke from the kitchen, and strips of bacon are hung under the eaves of every house. The sunlight is shining and the texture is clearly visible.
Lin Qian looked at all this with some confusion. He looked at the people sitting in the yard eating with their rice bowls, and he was a little unsure about what was going on.
"Are they all alive?"
Lin Qian frowned. He looked behind him and saw five or six students around the age of seventeen or eighteen, walking towards this side from the entrance of the village.
They are both men and women. The women are barefoot and holding white shoes in their hands.
The men are also barefoot, but they are not only carrying shoes, but also several fish and eels.
They are not small in size. The fish weighs about three kilograms and the eel weighs about one or two kilograms. It seems that they are all caught from the fields.
Lin Qian looked at them and his brows slowly relaxed. These people were also living people.
Lin Qian moved slightly to avoid blocking their way.
The sun is high in the sky, the sun is shining brightly, and five or six students are walking towards the village, talking and laughing.
It is not difficult to see that they are very familiar with this village. Even if they have not lived here all the time, they have lived here for a while.
Lin Qian looked at them and did not act rashly. He looked at the surrounding buildings.
It's normal, there's nothing weird about it, it just looks like a two-story building.
This was not like this before.
The current village is exactly like some villages in reality. There are electric wires and network cables. Lin Qian even saw a few locomotives.
Motorcycle... Lin Qian took a deep breath, there was a big problem in this village.
The connection with reality is so deep that he looks like a ghost.
"Shilin Village, this village actually exists somewhere in reality."
Lin Qian was standing on a road. Behind him was a two-story building. He was standing in the two-story building at the moment. On the road in front of the built dam.
Lin Qian shook the bride's hand, and after making sure that others saw only him, he took out his mobile phone and looked at his location.
After seeing the location on the phone clearly, he decisively put the phone back.
It’s useless. Sometimes I am located in Dahai City, sometimes in Dachang, and sometimes I go abroad. I am not sure where I am now.
"There is some trouble. I can't find an umbrella. There are a lot of living people in this village. If we were abroad, we would kill them all."
"It's a pity that this is not..."
< br>Lin Qian looked at the students talking and laughing, and sighed in his heart, why are these people not foreigners? This is the most helpless thought in Lin Qian's heart now.
It doesn’t matter how many people die abroad, but not at home. This makes no sense.
Lin Qian himself didn’t know why he thought this, but he thought it made sense.
Those who are not of my race must have different minds. This is the idea that Lin Qian has been instilled in since she was a child.
As for who instilled it...well...a certain anti-war TV series...such as a certain sword.
The sun shines through the leaves, leaving marks on the road. Lin Qian is walking on the main road of the village. He is now at a high place.
The winding brown path behind me has long since disappeared.
Looking down from here, you can see a small banana forest with a two-story building next to it.
Then there is a lychee forest along the way, and then there is a fish pond. There are still some lotus flowers that have not bloomed in the fish pond.
Lin Qian looked at all this and was a little silent:
"The umbrella is inside a corpse. I just felt this, but the corpse can't be found, and not only can't be found. So simple."
"The corpses are constantly disappearing and reorganizing, and the umbrellas are also doing this. There are many... many such corpses here."
" What the hell is this place?”
Lin Qian raised his head and glanced at the mountains behind the village, and he had a bad feeling in his heart.
"The source of the evil ghost? Don't be so lucky." Lin Qian muttered in his heart.
"Are you here to play?" At this time, one of the students ran over quickly.
Lin Qian turned around and looked over. She was the only one, and the others should have gone home.
“This is not true. I am lost. I came here while walking.”
"By the way, where is this? The scenery is pretty good, is it a scenic spot?"
Lin Qian looked at the appearance of this little girl who was seventeen or eighteen years old. Her appearance was not outstanding, but she could only be said to be very delicate. , about 1.5 meters tall, Lin Qian had to lower his head to talk to her.
"Lost?" The girl turned her head and looked in the direction of the village entrance, feeling a little confused.
"Well, I'm lost. I was thinking about things before, but when I came back to my senses, I was already here." Lin Qian looked in the direction the girl was looking.
I already knew what was going on. If nothing else, it was quite famous here, and there should be a stone monument at the entrance of the village, otherwise the girl would not make such an action.
"Is that so? We are here in Shilin Town, a protected tourist attraction."
"The big mountain in front is the main scenic spot, and inside that is Shilin Ancient Town." The girl looked at Lin Qian and tilted her head Head, said with a smile.
She didn't seem to regard Lin Qian as a bad person.
Lin Qian looked at this girl with bare feet, a pair of white shoes, and a smile with crooked eyebrows. She smiled and nodded and said:
"Is Shilin Town? I understand, thank you.”
Lin Qian looked back at the village entrance with thoughtful eyes:
"Dongjiang? No, not entirely..."
This is Dongjiang, but not entirely.
Lin Qian looked at the mountains and felt a little clearer. The customs and customs here were very strange.
“No, you’re welcome, it’s just a little effort.”
The girl looked at Lin Qian's smile. She didn't know if it was because she was too shy, but her face was a little red.
Lin Qian sighed, stretched out his hand to gently stop the bride's waist, and muttered softly, a little helplessly:
"It's nothing, I just asked for directions. "They just told me some things, not as serious as you think."
The girl couldn't hear Lin Qian's words. This was Lin Qian's deliberate manipulation.
Looking at the bride staring at him, Lin Qian was speechless. The unconscious bride only had a few thoughts in her mind. If there were too many, they would disappear. She didn’t even have the ability to think.
The bride's wedding dress was shaking. Lin Qian reached out and covered his face. He looked at the confused girl. He sighed and snapped his fingers. The girl became confused.
Then Lin Qian turned to look at the bride, hesitated for a while, then lowered her head and kissed her. This was the most effective way to appease the bride.
If he doesn't appease the bride, he will be very upset if the bride wants to mess with him.
Cold and cold contact will not produce temperature. Lin Qian raised his head and sighed. Looking at the wedding dress that slowly became quiet, Lin Qian breathed a sigh of relief.
Quite useful.
The snap of fingers sounded and the girl returned to normal. Lin Qian turned her head and looked at the fish pond not far below, her eyes thoughtful.
The girl seemed a little confused. She looked around and seemed to feel something was wrong.
But I can’t tell what exactly is wrong, it’s a very weird feeling.
Lin Qian discovered this situation, his eyes flashed slightly, there was also a problem with the girl.
His moving hands and feet can still be felt. This is very wrong.
Lin Qian looked at the large mountains. The mountains were high and the water was long. The fog and shadows were hazy, and they looked a bit fairy-like.
I heard from the girl that Shilin Ancient Town is there.
Lin Qian did not speak and was walking alone. The girl stepped on the road with bare feet and turned to look at Lin Qian.
"My name is Mou Xinrou, I am 19 years old this year, how about you?"
The girl looked at Lin Qian shyly, her face a little red, it seemed that because of this bold behavior, she felt Sorry.
"My name is Lin Qian, I am 20 years old this year." Lin Qian said, feeling a little helpless. He looked at the bride, thought for a while and patted her waist gently.
"Lin Qian, what a simple name." The girl smiled, her eyebrows curved, a little pretty.
Lin Qian touched his nose and didn’t know how to answer, but suddenly his brows wrinkled and a red light flashed in his eyes:
“It’s not Dongjiang, it’s in western Hunan. There is some trouble here.”
Lin Qian looked at a small insect not far away and probably already knew where this place was.
Qigu has seven claws on its feet, red stripes on its belly, six wings on its back, and is transparent and white like silk.
Wrapping around the spine can make the dead walk. This thing is very famous in western Hunan.
Born in a pile of corpses, pregnant with thousands of corpses for seventeen years, unique to Xiangxi...
This is what Lin Qian saw from a certain memory, it is a strange story.
This is the description above, but the truth is that Qigu eats corpses, and it will appear wherever there are corpses.
Are these things as weird as the ancient books say? This thing is only interested in corpses that have been dead for several months.
I am not interested in freshly dead bodies. As for wrapping around the spine, it can make the dead walk.
This is a made-up thing, it’s not that Li Gui can’t do this.
But this thing is really only found in western Hunan, and you can’t even see it in other places.
“There are quite a lot of strange stories about Xiangxi. If we go by the rumors, Xiangxi is a very scary place.”
"If those rumors are true, then it is not an exaggeration to say that evil ghosts are rampant in this world."
"Driving out corpses...it is most likely impossible for living people to chase away corpses. If it is evil ghosts that are driving away corpses, ..."
Lin Qian let out a breath. This place must be carefully considered, but be sure not to lose the umbrella cover.
Otherwise it wouldn’t be fun. (End of this chapter)