"Don't talk nonsense, be careful of your mouth."

Mr. Bai was still quite concerned about these things, but Chen Ge was completely different: "It's okay, you two just follow me."

He crossed the yard with the skull crusher in hand and went straight into the house.

The layout of the old house is very interesting. There is a bedroom on each side of the main hall. There is no bed in the bedroom, but there is a coffin in each.

"Have you noticed a characteristic of all the houses in Coffin Village?" Chen Ge held the handle of the hammer and looked around.

"Is there a coffin in the house?" Uncle Bai pushed the door open while padding himself with clothes. He didn't want to touch anything here.

"No." Chen Ge shook his head: "It seems that there are no stoves in the old houses in Coffin Village."

Old Wei and Mr. Bai looked at each other. If Chen Ge hadn't said it, they wouldn't have realized this problem.

"The stove is where we make fire and cook. Without a stove, where would they eat?" Chen Ge sat on a chair in the house and spoke slowly, "Or do they not need to eat at all? This is basically a grave for the dead? If we think from this perspective, it is normal that there is no bed in the bedroom, but a coffin instead."

His voice was calm, but it gave the two listeners a chill.

"There are white paper lanterns hanging, white upside-down blessing stickers on the doors, and coffins parked in the houses. Could this whole village be a ghost village?" Chen Ge recalled the information he had read when setting up the ghost marriage scene: "I heard a story before. During the war, a village deep in the mountains was massacred. A few years later, someone got lost in the mountains and accidentally walked into this village. As a result, he saw that every household in the village was holding a funeral, and everyone's faces were very strange. The man didn't dare to ask more and fled from the village in the middle of the night. When he went back to the village at dawn, he found that the village had been abandoned for a long time, and there was no sign of living people at all."

"So what you mean is that we have entered a ghost village now?" Old Wei asked uncertainly.

"The situation in Coffin Village is even scarier than that in Ghost Village. I always feel that there is a big secret hidden here." Chen Ge placed the skull crusher on his legs and propped up his chin with his hand: "The composition of the people in this village is quite complicated. There are natives who have turned into ghosts, villagers who escaped from Coffin Village and were caught back, and outsiders like us."

"The old lady ghost probably didn't lie about the outsiders. Besides us, there are other people trapped in this village. No matter who they are, I think we need to unite."

"How can we unite? We can't find them now."

"We'll just have to adapt to the situation and be more careful." After Chen Ge finished speaking, he looked outside. He just glanced outside unintentionally, but he found half a human face lying on the wall.

"Someone!" He stood up suddenly.

The sudden voice made Old Wei and Mr. Bai highly alert: "What did you see?"

"There is a human face on the wall. I seem to have seen it in the first old house. It flashed by then, and then I saw the shroud coming out of the door and following us." Chen Ge recounted the scene to Old Wei and Grandpa Bai.

"He's next door. Should we go over and take a look?" Lao Wei was just suggesting it. He himself didn't want to run around anymore.

"If that person is determined to escape, we won't be able to catch him even if we go over there." Chen Ge looked at the wall: "I always feel that he has been following us for another purpose, and it doesn't seem like he wants to harm us."

As soon as he finished speaking, the door of the old house slowly opened to both sides, and a bright red shroud stood at the door.

"Don't be afraid, this is the thing that followed us before."

On a dark night, the gate of the house was opened and a shroud was standing outside. Anyone who saw this scene would feel uneasy.

"Are you a human or a ghost?" Chen Ge stood in the house, hiding the skull crusher behind him.

The other party seemed to be struggling as well, and it took him a long time to make a decision.

The shroud was untied in the middle, revealing a short and thin man inside.

He had a tense face and opened his mouth for a long time before finally saying the first sentence: "I'm here to help you."

"Help us? Sure, come in and talk slowly." Chen Ge smiled kindly. He held the hammer in his backhand, wanting to trick the man into the house first.

The man shook his head. He followed Chen Ge all the way and knew clearly how dangerous this kind young man in front of him was.

"I'll talk outside." The man put the shroud aside. When his body was completely out of the shroud, Chen Ge saw that his arms were deformed, one larger than the other.

"I found you as soon as you entered the village, but before I could get close to you, the three of you were tricked away by the evil spirit. I was worried, so I followed you wearing the evil spirit's shroud, wanting to rescue you and leave."

The man's voice was sincere, but Chen Ge didn't believe that he would take such a big risk to save a few people who had nothing to do with him. "You followed us all the way, just to save us?"

"Saving you is also saving myself. You may not believe this, but if we can't escape this village tonight, everyone will die." The man's voice was low, but one could hear his fear and anxiety: "If the door is opened tonight, that thing will run out from behind the door again."

"The door will be opened tonight?" Chen Ge frowned. "You are a native of this place, right? Can you tell us what happened in the Living Coffin Village? Why did it become like this?"

"Living Coffin Village? That name is appropriate." The man closed the wooden door and walked to the center of the courtyard. It was impossible to tell how old he was from his appearance. "No one knows what this village was originally called. The reason why it became what it is now should be related to a woman."

"Our village is deep in the mountains, isolated from the outside world. The world was in turmoil back then, and it was difficult for men in the village to find wives. Close relatives married, and their offspring looked all kinds of different. "

"The village chief at the time thought that if things continued like this, the tribe would be wiped out, so he discussed it with the villagers and decided to 'kidnap' a wife back from outside the mountain."

"Nothing happened in the first few times. If the new bride didn't obey, they would lock her up and not give her water or food. If she dared to escape, they would catch her and beat her severely. Gradually, she would behave herself."

"Until one day, they brought back a young lady from a scholar family. She had a very strong temper and would never obey."

"I escaped several times in a row, and was almost beaten to death in the end."

"The woman stopped running away only after she had a child. The villagers thought she would not resist again."

"Who would have thought that the woman would jump into the well when the family was happily preparing for their wedding."