Chapter 174 Deserted Village

Outside the house, the wind is freezing.

The snow on the ground quickly froze again after melting, forming an ice surface that was shining brightly in the sun. As soon as I went out, I was caught off guard and fell down.

This is a very typical dilapidated farmhouse with a few chickens roaming around. The house is low and has not been repaired for I don’t know how many years. It looks like it will collapse at any time. There is a washing machine hanging on a wire in front of the door of another room.

clothes, but in this weather, the clothes were frozen hard, and they were obviously women's clothes. It seemed that Anru lived there, but she seemed to have gone out, and there was half-kneaded corn in front of the door.

There is a small clay pot next to it, and inside it is something like bean sprouts with ice crystals on it. The leaves are thick and the roots are as red as blood. It should be the cool grass she mentioned. It is still green in this season.

I picked it up and smelled it, and there was a strong iron smell.

"Why is this thing so evil? It exudes the smell of blood..."

I frowned, subconsciously dropped the cool grass, shook my head, and walked out of the yard.

desolate!

This is the first impression that Heixiazigou gave me!

There is no life, no human habitation, the sky is gray, the ground is bare, only the color of earth is left, and from time to time a cold wind howls by, making a sound like a ghost crying or a wolf howling, and it feels unspeakably desolate and eerie!

This village is built on a bare hilltop. It is very small. You can probably see the village committee from the head of the village at a glance. On both sides of the hilltop, there are bottomless ravines. They are extremely steep. It is difficult to go out at night.

Shen could just roll down the mountain and throw himself to death.

The places farther away are not visible at all.

The ravine surrounding the village is like a natural chasm, isolating the mountain. The mist in the ravine is misty, and you can faintly see the mountains opposite the village. Unfortunately, they are all covered in the mist and can no longer be seen clearly.

Thinking about An Ru carrying me directly here, who knows what she went through on the way.

For a time, I felt more and more grateful.

But, this village is too weird!

To be precise, apart from the farmyard where Anru lives, there is no intact house.

The village is very small. It looks like there are only a few dozen houses, or at most twenty or thirty families. However, some of these houses have all collapsed, and some have collapsed in half.

An Ru said that there is another family in the village, but I walked around here for a long time and didn't see anyone at all!

How on earth did she survive here?

I walked into a courtyard where the walls had collapsed and the roofs of the houses inside had collapsed in large areas. The situation inside was even more bizarre.

I saw that the weathered and faded door had a hanging lock. It looked like the brass toad lock that was popular during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. In other words, this house had been uninhabited by the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

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If the owner wanted to go out and seal up his old home, the door should have been locked, but the brass toad lock was hanging, which gave people a weird feeling.

When I got into the house, this feeling became even stronger!

The kang had collapsed a long time ago, exposing the flue inside. There were still some old tables, chairs and benches in the house, most of them rotten. There were dishes and chopsticks on them, especially the plates. There were piles of black things. I picked up a piece of wood.

I pulled it with a stick and found that it seemed to be the residue left by the weathering, disintegration and decay of the food!

I have a hunch that the owner of this house, unlike what An Ru said, went on a far journey to a different place, instead seemed like something happened while he was eating and ran away in a hurry, or... disappeared directly.

Already?

These discoveries made me alert and felt extremely strange.

On one side was the kind and pure girl who saved my life, and on the other side was the remote village and the broken traces left by the villagers who fled. The two appeared in the same place at the same time, forming a strong contrast, which had a great impact on me!

This village is definitely not a normal place!!

But... An Ru is really a living person, and after spending several days together, I think I can still confirm this!!

Could it be that I made a mistake?

I do know that there are indeed some things in this world that can confuse people's vision and judgment, and it is difficult to distinguish between life and death. Even a character like my master may not dare to say that he can distinguish between yin and yang, life and death, let alone me?

However, if An Ru is really evil and wants my life, why bother? She doesn't need to pay attention to me at all, I have to fend for myself!!

My thoughts were confused and I went to several dilapidated and abandoned houses. The situation inside was still the same!!

There are food residues in some pots...

There are also rouge and gouache boxes open in front of the dressing table, as if the owner of the house was still putting on makeup before leaving.

I even found a few silver coins in a house with the tenth year of the Republic of China written on them, which means that there were still people in this village in 1921.

Who would leave their money at home when they leave their hometown and go on a long journey? Every fool knows that red tickets are a good thing. You can’t throw them away for anything!

All signs tell me that the villagers in this village definitely left suddenly. It’s not like they set off after making countless preparations and embarked on the road to leave their hometown!

The doubts in my mind became even heavier.

While thinking about the details of getting along with Anru in the past few days, I also thought about this weird deserted village.

Unknowingly, I came to a blue brick house.

Although this house is also old, it is not completely collapsed like other houses. It looks like there are still people living there. At least there is no such thick dust on the door and window sill. Someone should be cleaning it!

An Ru said, there is another family in the village, is this one?

I decided to find out. The situation here was so disturbing that I immediately knocked on the door.

Unfortunately, there was no response.

"Is anyone there?"

I shouted in front of the door, but there was still no response, so I pushed the door with my hand and found that the door was ajar. It opened automatically with a "squeak".

This is also the most typical housing pattern in the old society.

Directly opposite the door is a living room, with bedrooms on the left and right sides.

The house is neat and tidy, and someone is indeed cleaning it from time to time.

Seeing that there was no one in the house, I went straight into the bedroom on the left. It looked like an old man's room. There was a long dry tobacco pipe on the kang table. I touched it and found that the pipe was still warm.

"Are you the big brother that sister An Ru brought back?"

A crisp voice suddenly sounded behind me.

I was startled, and I was already very nervous, but I didn’t feel anything before that. The moment I turned around and saw him clearly, I got goosebumps all over my body!

This is a little girl who looks to be only six or seven years old. She wears a pair of braids. It is freezing outside, but she only wears a bellyband worn by children in the old society. Her skin shows a strange black and blue color.

, and there was a deep purple mark on his neck. He put his hands on his chest with a lot of flower ropes wrapped around them. It seemed that he was playing a rope-picking game. He turned his eyes and looked at me, and his eyes were bloodshot...

After all this, I’m not sure if An Ru is a human, but the little girl in front of me is definitely a ghost!!

Moreover, 80% of them were strangled to death!

It’s just that I don’t understand why she can come out when her yang energy is strong during the day?!

I subconsciously touched behind me, but there was nothing behind me. Then I remembered that I didn’t bring the Tianguan Blade with me when I came out!!

A ritual officer without the Tianguan Blade is useless. It would not be difficult for the brat in front of me to strangle me to death.

"Brother, what are you looking for?"

The little girl tilted her head and looked at me: "I'm asking you something, why are you ignoring me?"

I forced myself to calm down and looked at the appearance of this little girl. Although she was a murderer, she didn't seem to be very violent, so I squeezed out a smile and said, "I was indeed picked up by Sister An Ru. I'm not very familiar with it."

Here, I got lost..."

"Big brother is stupid. The village is so big, how can we still get lost?"

The little girl stuck out her tongue, which was a little scary, and then she pouted: "However, Xiaomi is also a bit stupid. Grandpa taught me many times, but every time I play pick-up, I forget the rest.

What should I do, big brother, do you know how to do it?"

It’s come to this point, I still have to know how to do it...

I wiped the sweat from my forehead. In fact, I almost vomited from playing this kind of rope-turning game, so I waved to the little girl and pinched the left and right sides of the rope-turning in her hand.

, pulled it down and immediately took the rope over.

Xiaomi clapped her hands and jumped up, very happy. She tilted her body and leaned on my leg, which made my eyelids jump. She was calm and played rope flipping with me.

To be honest, it was the first time that the ritual officer caught ghosts and played with ghost children.

However, this little girl's viciousness was very small. Gradually, my nervousness disappeared and time passed quickly.

After playing back and forth for a few rounds, Xiaomi suddenly stopped moving, tilted her head and looked towards the window, and said softly: "Oh, we can't play anymore, sister Anru and grandpa are back."

After saying this, she suddenly hugged my neck, with her cold little arms, she put it next to my ear and whispered quickly: "Brother, thank you, Xiaomi had a great time, grandpa and An Ru

My sister doesn’t want to play with me, but the Chinese New Year is coming soon. You can’t stay here any longer. If you find a chance, run away. The farther you can run, the better. Go out from the village and keep walking west.

Don't look back, you'll be out soon..."

I was stunned for a moment, looking at her terrifying face, but my eyes gradually softened.

Perhaps, ghosts are not necessarily scary. I have seen spirits that have given up reincarnation and stood in the eternal darkness to protect their loved ones. Maybe this little girl is also a poor child.

I rubbed her head and asked softly: "Why do you want big brother to run away?"
To be continued...