"Old Liu, Old Liu."

As soon as he entered the village, Chuwu greeted everyone loudly, and once he reached the village entrance, he stopped walking.

Everyone stood at the village entrance as if by unspoken agreement.

Despite shouting for a long time, the village remained quiet.

"What's going on? Why is no one answering today?"

It's unlikely that Lao Liu and the others could go out, and even if they did, it's impossible.

"We can't leave the entire village without leaving a single person behind."

The fifth day of the Lunar New Year was a bit strange.

Just as he was about to step forward and knock on the nearest door, Ouyang Zhenyu grabbed Chu Wu's hand.

"Don't go. Haven't you noticed that there's not even the sound of chickens crowing or dogs barking in the village?"

If people go to work in the mountains, what about the animals?

"Most importantly, it's dark now, so it's impossible for people to go into the mountains to work. So where can they go?"

Ouyang Zhenyu's words made everyone stop in their tracks.

Ouyang Zhenyu did not detect any danger. When he touched Chuwu earlier, he noticed that there was nothing unusual on any of the information panels.

In other words, although it is quiet here, there are absolutely no traps.

Hearing this, Chuwu nodded.

"You're right, but something doesn't seem right."

Even if Lao Liu and his family go out on weekdays, someone will stay at their house.

My sister-in-law and her child always have nowhere to go.

There are only so many households in the village, with only one or two able-bodied adults in each family, and the rest are women, children, and the elderly.

The reason they have maintained friendly relations with Lao Liu for so many years is because Lao Liu and his group are located on the central line and the border, and they always rest and stay here.

They would give Lao Liu and his group some benefits, and in return, they could also obtain some useful information through Lao Liu and his group.

This is something that has been done without any problems over the years of cooperation. Old Liu is an honest and kind person with a particularly generous personality.

These dozen or so families have never moved away from here, not because the place is so wealthy, but because they have nowhere else to go.

Although Lao Liu is honest and kind, he has one advantage: he is quite quick-witted. He does small business with people overseas and makes a profit from the price difference.

The ten people walked around the village, going into every single house, and that's when they realized...

The situation seemed rather bad; all the houses were empty, and there wasn't a single person in sight.

There were no people, no chickens, no ducks, no dogs, and none of the livestock.

All the food and other items in the house disappeared, and the bedding and other belongings were also taken away.

Chu Wu looked very unwell. According to the information we have so far, it seems that Lao Liu and his group have moved away.

But it doesn't seem like it's about moving away.

Except for bedding, food, pots and pans, everything else was still there.

Players wouldn't just abandon these things; even if they're just a pile of junk, they're still their own possessions.

For example, some families would never leave behind their farm tools and carts, even when moving.

More importantly, they found some suspicious bloodstains in Lao Liu's yard. The bloodstains had long since dried and turned black, and were almost invisible when mixed with mud and sand.

Most importantly, even if they were to move, it would be impossible for the entire village to move away.

His face looked very pale on the fifth day.

"What's going on? I don't know either."

Ouyang Zhenyu also looked around, but so far he could only get very little useful information. The panel information generated by the things he triggered could only show that these items would weather in the future, which meant that no one had used this place for a long time.

The bloodstains on the ground are useless; they only show the bloodstains, and in the future, they will be buried by dust.

It is impossible to obtain more effective and useful information.

After all, aside from providing detailed information, his panel can only predict bad outcomes.

Obviously, the final result for these things is that they will naturally weather away here.

"Never mind for now, I don't know where Lao Liu and the others went."

But we have to stay here tonight.

Alright, let's stay in Old Liu's courtyard.

Everyone, please clean this up!

On the fifth day, they were a little disappointed. They carried only enough dry food for one day in their pockets, and there wasn't much food in the village.

They went out this time to buy some things.

They carried on their backs the eggs that the village had collected, as well as various dried vegetables and coarse cloth that they had woven themselves.

They thought they could exchange their goods for some food at Old Liu's place, but to their surprise, there was no one there.

Now everyone knew that they would probably go hungry tonight. The food they had brought was what the whole village had saved up, and who would be willing to eat it?

This time, Chuwu's complexion wasn't very good either.

Ouyang Zhenyu looked around and suddenly spoke.

"Come with me on the fifth day of the lunar new year."

The two men, carrying torches, wandered around the village in the dark, Ouyang Zhenyu going from house to house again.

When I was searching for clues earlier, I was just treating them differently based on the clues, but to be honest, I need to find some food now.

It's impossible for all the villagers not to have built cellars or something similar, which means there must be a place to store grain or food, and they had obviously overlooked this just now.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, I looked at Ouyang Zhenyu with a bit of confusion.

"Xiao Jiang, what are you doing?"

Fifth Brother, with so many villagers, who wouldn't dig some kind of cellar or something? If we could find food, we wouldn't go hungry.

Upon hearing this, Chu Wu immediately became interested and hurriedly turned around to shout to the people in the courtyard.

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