The lanterns suddenly went out, and the entire street became dark except where Chen Ge was.
"What's going on?" Uncle Bai and Old Wei were both shocked.
Chen Ge's hand was suspended in the air, and did not fall on the door: "I don't know either. It doesn't seem like a coincidence."
There was no wind just now, the lantern was hung high, and no one touched it, so how could it go out?
The faint white light swayed gently. As the paper lantern above Chen Ge's head went out, the other white paper lanterns in the whole village began to sway, giving people an inexplicable sense of oppression.
Chen Ge and Lao Wei both looked at Mr. Bai. Mr. Bai had never seen such a scene before. "How about we withdraw first?"
He took two steps back, looked along the dirt road, and suddenly stopped.
"Attention! Someone is coming!"
"People?" Chen Ge looked in the direction Mr. Bai was looking. Under the illumination of the swaying white paper lanterns on both sides, a vague shadow slowly approached: "It seems to be waving to us?"
The shadow moved faster and faster, and Chen Ge finally saw it clearly.
This was an old lady wearing a dark coat. She kept walking forward with her head down and only stopped when she was about to bump into someone.
"Are you coming in from outside too?" The old lady's voice sounded strange, making people feel uncomfortable for some reason.
"Also? Is there anyone else entering the village tonight?" Chen Ge noticed the old lady's choice of words and asked back.
“Yeah.” The old woman kept her head down while speaking, and her face could not be seen, as if her face was very scary.
Considering Jiang Ling's sister's situation, many people in the Living Coffin Village have physical deformities, so Chen Ge would not embarrass himself by specifically looking at other people's faces.
"The ones who entered the village earlier than us were two children and a middle-aged man, right?" Chen Ge asked again, but the old lady did not reply. It seemed that she was not looking for Chen Ge in the first place.
The old lady pressed her head downward, giving people the feeling that her head was about to fall off, but she herself did not feel anything wrong and maintained that weird posture: "Don't knock on the door randomly at night, be careful that the person who opens the door is not a human."
The old lady had no idea who she was talking to, and she just blocked the three people in the middle of the road. The night was pressing down on their heads, and the lanterns on both sides were shaking more and more violently.
"The village has been in unrest lately. Don't run around. I'll take you to find a place to live." The old lady turned and walked in the direction she came from. Her steps were small, but she walked very fast. With her head lowered to her chest, she looked extremely strange.
"Do you want to go with them?" Old Wei looked at Grandpa Bai and Chen Ge. When he saw the old lady, he began to have the idea of backing out.
"Let's go with her first." It was Grandpa Bai who spoke: "This old lady feels very familiar to me. Could it be that I have seen her when I came to Coffin Village as a child?"
Uncle Bai walked forward first, followed closely by Chen Ge and Old Wei.
The old lady led them along the dirt road of the Coffin Village, and stopped after turning a few corners: "You guys stay here tonight, and we can talk about anything in the morning."
She kept her head down the whole time and her tone of voice never changed, she felt like a puppet.
"There are three rooms in the house. Each of you will have one. Once you go in, don't come out again, and don't visit other people casually. Don't move the rope hanging on the window, don't touch the kitchen knife behind the door, just lie down quietly and wait for tonight to pass."
"Three people, one room each? The three of us can squeeze into one room and make do for one night." Grandpa Bai thought to himself that he must catch Chen Ge tonight. If they separated, this guy would definitely run away by himself.
"There are three rooms in the house, one for each of you..."
What Mr. Bai and Chen Ge didn't expect was that after hearing Mr. Bai's question, the old lady actually repeated what she had just said, and her voice became even more unpleasant.
"Grandma, we are here to look for our children. If we wait until daybreak, something unexpected might happen. Could you take us to see the other people coming from outside first?" Chen Ge looked at the old woman and did not find any deformities on her.
Is there really something wrong with her face?
When the old lady turned around, Chen Ge bent down and took a look at her face.
There was nothing unusual about that face.
"The eyes were not gouged out, and the face shape is relatively normal. I just feel like I have seen it somewhere before." Chen Ge muttered to himself. He looked at the old lady, then glanced at Grandpa Bai: "Grandpa, you said before that this old lady gave you a very familiar feeling? Could she be the missing person in Linguan Village?"
"I didn't see his face, but judging from his clothes, he should be from Linguan Village." Uncle Bai pushed open the door of the house behind him. The old house was not very big, and the two white upside-down blessing characters on the door made people feel uneasy.
"She looks like someone from Linguan Village, and you and I both feel familiar with her." Chen Ge thought for a while, and his expression slowly changed: "I know who she is!"
"Who is it?"
"Old Wei, do you still remember the first family we visited when we first arrived in Linguan Village?"
"I remember that the owner of the house was a middle-aged man." Old Wei has a good memory.
"There is an altar in the room where he lives, and on the table is a black-and-white photo of an old lady." Chen Ge lowered his voice to the lowest possible level: "The old man who led us just now looks exactly like the old lady in the black-and-white photo!"
"How is that possible?! Are you sure you're not seeing things?" Old Wei couldn't believe what Chen Ge said.
"Now that you've reminded me of this, I also think she looks like an old lady from Linguan Village!" The characters in Mr. Bai's mind overlapped: "But this old lady has been dead for a long time."
"Anyway, it has already happened." Chen Ge quickly calmed down: "Let's assume that the old lady is not a human. Should we live in the house she arranged for us?"
The white upside-down blessing on the door was blown by the wind, making a sound. Uncle Bai and Old Wei couldn't make up their minds.
"Let's go in and take a look first. The old lady had a good relationship with me when she was alive. I don't think she would harm us." After saying this, Mr. Bai was not too sure and added, "Probably not."
Chen Ge and the other two entered the old house. This house was similar to those at the entrance of the village, except that there were no white paper lanterns hanging outside the door.
"It's not quite the same as what the old lady said. There seems to be only one room in this old house." Chen Ge walked in front, crossed the bare yard, and opened the door of the room.
A strange smell came out of the house. After getting used to it, the three of them opened their eyes wide and looked inside the house.
In the middle of the only room in the old house, there were three black coffins.
"There are three rooms in the house, one for each person? The house the old lady mentioned is not a coffin, is it?" Old Wei's face was pale: "This place is too weird, let's leave first."