The empty street was not deserted. The grocery store at the corner not far away was already open. Although it was far away, through the window, I could still see the owner of the grocery store having breakfast inside.

"Go ask this boss about the female corpse!" I thought. The female corpse last night kept shouting for help. Maybe the villagers in the village know something.

If there is such a female ghost in the village, I believe the villagers should know something about it.

When we arrived at the grocery store, the old man inside raised his head and glanced at us, with a surprised look on his face.

I greeted him, and the old man responded lightly, as if he didn't bother to pay attention to us.

Then I took out two hundred yuan in cash from Yang Wei and said I wanted to buy something. The old man got up from his chair and his attitude became much better.

I bought a few bottles of water and asked Yang Wei to take them with me, and then asked the old man if he knew if there were any female ghosts in the village.

The old man looked at me deeply: "What should I say? Something happened last night?"

I nodded and my face darkened slightly.

The old man asked me: "What happened last night?"

I told about the female ghost in the well, but I just said that there was a strange sound coming from the well. When I walked over to take a look, I found a woman with a swollen body climbing up the wall of the well and being pulled down into the water.

Didn't say it.

After hearing this, the old man's face suddenly became very ugly: "Fortunately you covered the well, otherwise something would have happened!"

"Old man, do you know what happened to the woman in the well? She scared us so much that we almost died last night! We almost ran outside. Also, what was the sound of gongs and drums at night? Someone was holding a funeral last night

"?" I said, pretending to be frightened.

The old man glanced at me, then looked at the others for a while, and said vaguely: "Those are unclean things. Just remember to stay away from the well when you sleep at night. Don't open the door for others easily. Sometimes you knock on the door."

That’s not necessarily a human being.”

I frowned, this old man obviously knew something, but he just refused to say it.

I made some insinuations, asked repeatedly, and asked Yang Wei to come up with another 100 yuan before the old man was willing to tell me something.

"A few years ago, a woman committed suicide by drowning herself in a river on a stormy night. She didn't know why. It seemed that her husband was not good to her. The storm was so strong at the time that some people in the village saw it, but they didn't dare to

I went to rescue them, and they spent the whole night like this, and called the police the next day to salvage, but after a whole day of salvaging, there was nothing. After two days of this, many people said that the wells at home were actually covered with hair, and even worse, the wells were even broken.

fingers."

As the old man spoke, he picked up a low-quality cigarette and started smoking, puffing away: "People in our village either drink river water or mountain spring water. The water in these wells is probably connected. People who die in the river, maybe

It flowed into the underground river, and it was normal for some scalps to appear in the well. After that, no one dared to drink the water from the well for a while. Who dared to drink the water that was so deadly?"

"This thing is not over yet. Two days later, some people said that they would hear noises from the well at night, like crying, which was very scary. The next day, nothing could be fished out, so they took out the well water.

It’s been wiped clean. Once it’s wiped clean, guess what?”

Seeing the old man looking at me, I had to ask cooperatively: "What did you find?"

"The well is full of fish, pond mackerel! The big ones weigh eight or nine pounds. What's strange is that I don't usually find this kind of fish, so how could it appear in the well? After thinking about it, I guess it probably got into the well through undercurrents."

The old man continued, "At that time, someone suggested boiling the fish and eating it. Some people actually did so, but once you peeled off the belly of the fish, you would find that it was full of human flesh! Damn it, these pond mackerel actually grow by eating human flesh.

No one dared to eat the big ones at that time. After this incident, people in the village became more careful about drinking water, and everyone went to the mountains to fetch spring water."

"After this incident was over, something happened to the pond in front of the ancestral hall. The person who contracted the pond at that time was Mr. Zhao from our village. He raised grass carp in the pond for more than half a year. When he pumped the water out, he found that they were all pond catfish, the largest.

It weighs more than 20 kilograms! People in the village said that there used to be Egyptian frogfish in the pond. This kind of fish eats everything. Mr. Zhao put the fry in, and before they could grow up, they were all eaten by the frogfish."

"Old man Zhao was so angry at the time. He spent so much effort for most of the year, but the pond was full of fish like this. This guy insisted on eating them. He opened three fish, but two of them had human hair in their bellies. Good guy.

He didn't believe in evil, and he was probably angry. He ignored the villagers' dissuasion and cooked all the fish that night, and the three members of his family ate it. His wife and children didn't dare to eat it, so he was forced to eat it."

"Tang Yu didn't know where to find human flesh to eat. Doesn't eating Tang Yu mean he was eating human flesh? Something happened the next day. His son had a high fever and fish scale-like spots appeared on his body. The local doctor in the village had no choice but to go to the hospital.

She got an injection in the city, but the result was that she was gone the night after she came back. Two days later, her daughter-in-law died inexplicably in the pond, and then he became crazy, and finally the body was found in the pond."

"His body was seen by many people at that time. It was covered with scars, there was not a single piece of good meat, and there were all deep bite marks." When the old man said this, he gave me a meaningful look.

"Is it all bitten by the pond catfish?" I followed his words and asked.

"No, those bite marks are very neat. They don't look like fish bites! They look like bites from humans! He was bitten to death by humans." The old man said sinisterly: "All the fish in the pond turned into ghosts!

Otherwise, if the stomachs of many fish are cut open, human intestines can be seen."

His words startled Li Xinyue behind him, and his face suddenly turned pale. Didn't we just kill an Egyptian frog?

I frowned, not really believing what the old man said. After all, it was too ridiculous for a ghost to turn into a turtle, right?

"Young man, you'd better leave the village. Don't get close to the ponds, ditches and ancestral halls. Especially if you hear any noise outside at night, don't open the door." the old man reminded.

I wanted to ask about something else, but the old man seemed to be afraid of something. He didn't say a word about the ancestral hall and the funeral procession, and he refused even if I offered money.

"Thank you, we'll leave in two days." I told the truth.

"Wait a minute, you are in the village today. If someone invites you to eat, don't go." The old man smiled and said, "I think you are all children. If you want to eat, you can come to my place. Just pay. But.

If someone invites you, it’s best not to eat it.”

"Why?" Yang Wei couldn't help but ask.

"Eating people is short-handed...you will have to experience it for yourselves." The old man hid in the chair, smiled, and squinted his eyes. "Anyway, in this village, 90% of the people are ghosts, so I am the only one who can't harm others.

.”

"Okay, then I'll have lunch at noon." I smiled shyly and led Zhu Yao to another street.

"Brother Feng, the more I hear it, the more mysterious it becomes. Isn't this village too weird?" Yang Wei said.

"Isn't it weird? If it's not weird, can it be called a ghost village?" I asked.

"That's true." Yang Wei nodded, "Then what are we going to do now?"

"Look for other people first." I walked towards the alley ahead.

It was already daytime, the classmates were no longer hiding in the house, and soon I found this guy Chen Liang.

The middle boy led three or four girls and walked proudly in the alley, bragging as they walked. He looked like a traitor who led the imperial army into the village.

"Xiao Fengzi, are you alive?" Chen Liang walked over and raised his eyebrows.

"God damn Xiaofengzi..." I said speechlessly.

"Xiao Fengzi, did you encounter anything last night? Let me tell you, we were very excited last night. The second floor turned into the third floor, and there were strange sounds. I listened for a long time. It was a few ghosts playing mahjong. , I am so unlucky that I keep losing, I..." Chen Liang began to brag about his experience last night, but seeing the girls around him rolling their eyes, you knew how much weight there was in his words.

While chatting with Chen Liang, they started to look for other classmates, but soon found that many classmates were missing, and even after walking around the village twice, they couldn't find them.

I secretly thought: "Maybe it was too late to enter the house before dark, maybe a ghost invaded the house, but... why is Xu Simiao missing?"

Su Mei, Lin Qingyan, and Shen Danqi all saw it, but Xu Simiao disappeared.

But I didn't care either.

He soon saw Lu Qiufeng, but he looked shabby, as if something had happened to him last night, and there were fewer people around him, with only eight or nine people left.

"Hey, isn't this Young Master Lu? Did you play hide-and-seek with the mouse last night? How did it end up like this?" Chen Liang came up and said angrily.

Lu Qiufeng looked at him coldly and said grimly: "It's none of your business? Do you want to fight?"

"It's what I asked for. Come on, let's spar. Let's see if I, Chen, am the better swordsman, or if you, Xiao Lu, are the tougher one." Chen Liang immediately drew his sword and walked over with a smile.

Lu Qiufeng's face darkened. They were indeed attacked by ghosts last night. They worked hard for most of the night. Now they are in extremely bad condition. How can they fight this bitch who looks like he is in good condition? Besides, I am still here. If Chen Liang can't beat him, , what if I go up to help?

Even if I don't help, what if I pick up the bronze lamp and blow it?

Lu Qiufeng didn't dare to fight, so he could only snort and lead the others to miss us.

Fu Weiteng stayed behind and walked towards us: "Qin Feng, I think we need to cooperate."

"Cooperation? What do you want to cooperate with? Didn't you yell at us before to kill us?" I asked strangely.

Fu Weiteng was embarrassed for a moment, and said with a tired face: "A ghost invaded our room last night. It was a corpse of a man in white holding a mourning flag. He was walking and... singing an opera. Although it was not a red spirit, its voice was almost inaudible. It means that anyone who hears its singing will lose their minds and leave with it. Our boss fought against it all night but failed to kill it."

Fu Weiteng's show of kindness made me slightly startled. I thought, a male corpse singing? And a ghost that uses his voice as an attack? Even Lu Qiufeng can't deal with it? No wonder there are so few of them.

"I just hope that we can cooperate. After all, the previous feuds were all due to games. To be honest, we shouldn't target each other. Only by helping each other can we resist the evil ghosts." Fu Weiteng said: "After all, it's time now. Let's go again. Fighting in a nest is no longer interesting, survival is the most important thing, right?"

"I'll think about it." I responded.

"Okay, if possible, I hope we can cooperate, such as working together to kill the singing ghost. Our boss failed to kill it last night. Maybe it will come back tonight. And you must have encountered a bad ghost too, right? We can also work together to kill that evil ghost." Fu Weiteng said, "Our boss now wants to take a look at the back mountain, where the opera singer seemed to have disappeared last night."

I nodded and did not agree directly, but I was thinking in my heart: "The opera ghost? Could it be related to the fifth branch of the game?"

"Optional branch five of the game is on the stage of the ancestral hall. There is a stage open late at night. Go to the stage at 12 midnight and watch a paper puppet show."

Each branch of the game should have at least one ghost. The swollen female corpse we encountered last night should be the ghost of the fourth branch of the game, and the ghost Lu Qiufeng encountered was the ghost of the fifth branch of the game. As for Chen Liang, this ghost is so lucky

Well, there was no near miss last night. In fact, I didn’t encounter a single ghost.

"But nothing will happen to Xu Simiao, right? Otherwise, why didn't we see her? What kind of ghost did she encounter?" I frowned. Xu Simiao should be the first person to become a ghost controller. It's a pity.

He wasn't with us last night, and I don't know where he went.

"The ghost that appeared last night may appear again at night. Let's go to the pond and have a look." It was broad daylight and Chen Liang was beside me, which greatly increased my confidence and ran all the way to the pond opposite the ancestral hall.

This pond is not big, just twenty or thirty meters diagonally opposite the village ancestral hall.

The water in the pond was very turbid, and there were some garbage discarded by the villagers floating on the water. It didn't look unusual.

"Could the female ghost live in the pond last night?" This thought came to my mind.

Unfortunately, there is no fishing net or fishing pole, so there is no way to confirm whether there is anything in the pond.

"Diagonally across from here is the ancestral hall. The housekeeper said that there is a red tiger in the ancestral hall, but I don't know what kind of red tiger it is." I said to myself, there are strong and weak red tigers, similar to red high-heeled shoes and the one with the head of a ghost, which should be considered the top one.

Hong Li, and the water-soaked female corpse I met last night should not be considered top-notch, it might even be... Hong Li's goalkeeper!

After all, besides being able to come out of the well, the rotten female corpse seems to have no other ghostly abilities.

Just as we were discussing whether to find a way to salvage the pond, there was suddenly some movement in the open space behind us.

When we looked back, we saw six or seven villagers pulling three small carriages outside the ancestral hall. The leader of the villagers arrived in front of the ancestral hall and opened the heavy wooden door.

"What's going on? What are these people doing?" I frowned and walked over.

It was soon discovered that what these people were pulling was a statue of a god, which was sitting in the chariot and covered with a yellow silk umbrella.

The three statues of gods are all different, and based on my knowledge, I cannot tell which god they are.
Chapter completed!