"Now? Are you kidding?" The owner of the house began to stutter.
"Right now, my two children are missing. They might have run into the Coffin Village." Chen Ge didn't want to delay any longer. The environment in the mountains was complicated and the two children might have an accident on the road.
"Go find another place." The water in the owner's teacup spilled out. He was very nervous and scared. "I only heard about that place from the older generation, but I don't know the way."
He noticed that Chen Ge's eyes were slowly changing, and seemed to become even colder. He immediately added, "You can ask the elders in the village. They must know. I can take you to find them."
After hearing what the owner of the house said, Chen Ge nodded and said, "Thank you for your help."
"No trouble, no trouble, it's my duty." The owner of the house wiped the sweat from his forehead and went into the inner room to look for a flashlight.
"Chen Ge, be careful and don't scare others." Old Wei next to him didn't know what to do with Chen Ge. In fact, he was a little scared standing next to Chen Ge, especially when he thought about what Chen Ge had done in the past.
"I know what's going on." Chen Ge said calmly. He didn't have time to worry about these details now. Finding the missing child was the most important thing.
"I heard from the elders in my family that there was a group of people who escaped from the mountains before, and they seemed to be from the Coffin Village." The owner of the house came out with a flashlight: "Those people lived in the west of the village, and we lived in the east of the village. We didn't have much contact with each other. My grandmother told me when she was alive that those people were unclean."
The owner of the house was honest and did not hide anything from Chen Ge and the others: "At that time, I thought, it's a different era now, everyone is equal, there is no such thing as clean or unclean, I thought the old man was old and confused. Later, after living there for a long time, I found that group of people were indeed a little abnormal."
"Why is it abnormal?" Chen Ge and Lao Wei were very curious.
"They rarely leave their rooms, and they won't step out of the door after dark, as if something outside will harm them." The owner of the house whispered, "Every household hangs a rope on the window and puts a kitchen knife behind the door. I asked them why they did this, and they said it was to prevent thieves."
"Is that all?"
"There is another strange thing." The owner of the house lowered his voice: "Every once in a while, one less person escapes from the mountains. Whenever someone goes missing, those who also escaped from the mountains are not only not sad, but very happy. It feels like..."
"Like what? Tell me now." Chen Ge urged.
"It's like as long as it's not me who dies, it's fine." The owner of the house said this in a somewhat cruel way, causing Chen Ge and Lao Wei to ponder.
"I'm just expressing my feelings. Don't think too much about it!" the owner of the house hurriedly explained. The three of them walked to the center of the village together, turned into a small road and saw a brick house.
"We're here. This is it." The owner was about to knock on the door, but when his hand landed on the door panel, he realized that the wooden door was not locked: "Uncle Zhu?"
He entered the house, took only one step inside, and then dared not move.
On the dining table facing the door was a black-and-white photo of an old man. The face in the photo was facing the door. What was even more terrifying was that the person in the photo had his eyes covered.
"Don't panic." Chen Ge patted the farmer's shoulder gently. He walked into the house alone without turning on the lights and picked up the black and white photo on the table. "The photo looks a bit old and the edges are worn. He probably thought this day would come a long time ago."
Considering what the farmer had said before, Chen Ge felt that the old man in the photo might have disappeared.
"Those who escaped from the Coffin Village hung ropes on the windows and hid kitchen knives behind the doors. It's obvious that they were afraid of something special coming in." Chen Ge touched his chin and said, "Could it be a ghost that followed them out of the Coffin Village deep in the mountains? And why were the eyes of the person in this photo gouged out? It feels very similar to the modus operandi of the Ghost Story Association."
"Brother, put the photo down before we talk. I always feel like the person in the photo is looking at me." The farmer stood at the door and had no intention of coming in: "How about I go to the other houses to have a look?"
"Okay, let's go ask them."
The three of them rushed to the next house, but before they arrived, Chen Ge had a bad feeling in his heart.
He had Yin pupils and could clearly see that the door of that house was open.
When I pushed the door open, I found that the owner of the house was missing. What was even more strange was that there was a black and white photo on the table in the middle of the house, and the eyes of the person in the photo had also been gouged out.
"Why are they all gone?" The farmer led Chen Ge and Lao Wei to the place. Before the two outsiders said anything, he became scared.
"Go check other people's homes." After searching several houses, they found that all the people who had escaped from the Living Coffin Village were gone. There was a black-and-white photo on the desk of every house. The whole village looked like a ghost village.
"What the hell is going on!" The farmer's face turned pale. At this time, he could only ask Chen Ge and Lao Wei for help.
Seeing his inquiring eyes, Chen Ge unzipped his backpack and grabbed the skull crusher: "Everyone is missing, why are you the only one who is okay?"
Chen Ge casually said something to the farmer, which frightened the honest middle-aged man: "I really don't know the reason! There are still a few people from Baijia Village at the entrance of the village. They should be fine."
After checking at the farmer's house, we found that what the farmer said was right. The only missing people were those who had fled.
"Chen Ge, where do you think those people will go? Why did they leave a black and white photo behind?" Old Wei felt that things were out of control and were moving in an unknown direction.
"They may have returned to the Living Coffin Village." Chen Ge took out Fan Yu's third painting from his backpack. There were two words written on it - go home.
"We can't wait any longer, let's go into the mountains now!" He walked up to the farmer and said, "There should be someone in your village who knows the location of the Coffin Village, right? This matter involves several lives, I hope you can cooperate."
"Brother, I really want to cooperate with you. The key is that the people who know the location of the village are either missing or too old to be around anymore." The farmer took a few steps back and stopped when he walked next to Lao Wei.
"Too old?" Chen Ge suddenly thought of a suitable candidate. He called Lao Wei and ran towards the peach forest deep in the mountains: "Mr. Bai should know the location of the Living Coffin Village!"
After crossing the hill, Chen Ge found Mr. Bai in the cabin. After explaining his purpose, the old man pretended not to know at first.
But when he heard that two children might have been abducted to the Living Coffin Village, he finally agreed and decided to take Chen Ge and Lao Wei into the mountains.
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