Chapter 145
Since you are going into the mountain village, you must know everything you need to know.
Shen Yunzhe opened the information Qiao Dong sent him, which contained all the important information about the official survey of the mountain village over the past 20 years.
The only mountain village discovered still retains its original appearance. It looks no different from other places except that there is no one inside. After much investigation, it was determined that this village was the first village to disappear.
The village remains in the same state it was twenty years ago, with earthen walls and red tiles, and the houses are cluttered with farm tools, and almost nothing else.
Probably, communication and digital equipment would have problems after entering the mountain village, so no photos were left. There are only a few hand-drawn drawings of the village. Every year during these three months, the authorities would send people to hand-draw one, but the drawings were always the same.
Except for February, April and August, you are strictly prohibited from entering the mountain village, because no one who enters will ever come out.
Problems may occur even in February, April, and August. Members who encounter problems will fight to the death to send out only one message, which is: someone has appeared in the village.
If you enter the village and find people there, it means that the mountain village is active. This is the only criterion for judgment.
After reading all the information, Shen Yunzhe went to bed early in the evening and prepared for tomorrow's journey. Because the mountain village is very remote, if you want to go there, you need to take a plane, transfer to a high-speed rail, and then transfer to a bus. You may even have to walk on the mountain road. It takes a whole day to reach the location.
The next day, Shen Yunzhe came out of the community. A car was already waiting to pick him up. Qiao Dong leaned against the car door and lit a cigarette.
He had extremely serious eye bags and dark circles, which were so ugly that he wore sunglasses. Standing next to the Pentagram, they looked like two blind people. When he saw Shen Yunzhe, Qiao Dong gestured to him, and the car door opened. Two people in the back seat waved to him as a greeting.
"Get in the car." Qiao Dong sat in the driver's seat and motioned Shen Yunzhe to sit in the passenger seat.
After Shen Yunzhe sat in the passenger seat, Qiao Dong started the car and said, "The two people behind you are the ones who will go to the mountain village with you this time."
Shen Yunzhe looked back and saw two young men who looked no older than him, at most 25 years old.
"My name is Ping Chu!" One of the young men seemed very talkative and smiled brightly at Shen Yunzhe. "I'm one of the official secret researchers and a member of this survey of the mountain village. I'm very happy to be your teammate!"
The other person was noticeably quieter, only introducing himself by name, "He Yufeng."
"You don't need to introduce yourself. Everyone in the official department knows you." Qiao Dong said as he drove, "This is a routine survey of the mountain village. Originally, there should be more than two people, but such a serious accident has occurred. The official personnel have suffered heavy losses, and we really can't mobilize any more."
"They are both researchers in the occult. They are young but their minds work faster than ours."
"Actually, it's because no one wants to go there." Ping Chu interrupted, "That place is so dangerous. The mountain village said it would be inactive for three months, but during this period, many people were killed by activities. Almost all of them just emerged from the playground. No one wants to go back in."
Ping Chu stood up and looked at Shen Yunzhe, "So, why do you want to go to the mountain village?"
Shen Yunzhe leaned back in his chair and glanced at him, “Someone told me that Shen Wei went to the mountain village.”
"Really?" Ping Chu raised his eyebrows. "How long ago was that?"
Shen Yunzhe thought for a moment and said, "About fifteen years ago."
"Wow, it's been a long time." Ping Chu sat down and patted He Yufeng, who was resting with his eyes closed. "Did you see Shen Wei go to the mountain village fifteen years ago?"
He Yufeng opened his eyes and glanced at him with disdain, and had to remind him, "Fifteen years ago, I was only eight years old."
"And your energy has a limit, right? You stayed up all night yesterday and you're still jumping around like crazy. A humanoid machine? You can live on a recharge?"
Qiao Dong didn't care about them arguing in the back, "These two have a good relationship and are good people. If you have anything to say, just listen to them."
He was talking to Shen Yunzhe.
Shen Yunzhe nodded, "Okay, I understand."
Qiao Dong was really too busy. He sent them to the airport and was then called away by a phone call. He could only wave goodbye to them and drive back. Ping Chu was a chatterbox. While waiting for the plane, he kept talking to Shen Yunzhe, regardless of whether Shen Yunzhe would respond or not. He Yufeng had a very strong psychological quality and slept quite soundly while listening to Ping Chu's chatter.
They waited until they got on the plane. When the plane took off, Ping Chu yawned and fell asleep in a short while.
After he fell asleep, He Yufeng breathed a sigh of relief and opened his eyes, "Finally, it's quiet."
Shen Yunzhe looked at him in surprise, "You didn't sleep?"
"I've almost finished making up for it." He Yufeng replied, "Ping Chu is very strange. He's fine in ordinary cars, but he gets sleepy as soon as he gets on other forms of transportation. He sleeps so hard that no one can wake him up. I guess he'll sleep all the way to his destination, so his ears won't suffer anymore."
Shen Yunzhe nodded, "It sounds like you know him very well."
"We grew up together, went to the same school, and joined the government together. Of course, we understand each other." He Yufeng said, "Why don't you take a nap?"
Shen Yunzhe shook his head, "I went to bed early yesterday."
"Oh." He Yufeng nodded, and then stopped talking.
The atmosphere was a bit cold, but fortunately Shen Yunzhe was not someone who would get embarrassed. He Yufeng probably didn't like to talk, so he could just stop the topic if he wanted to.
He took out a notebook from the backpack he was carrying and started sketching in the notebook.
He quickly drew a picture of the sky, which looked foggy and very similar to the outside of an airplane.
He Yufeng is the person who is responsible for the depiction this time.
The flight took an hour and a half. Ping Chu, who had slept the entire time, woke up seconds after the plane landed. Then he quickly regained his energy and excitedly talked to them about this and that. After getting on the high-speed train, he fell asleep again in seconds. Shen Yunzhe looked at him sleeping soundly in the chair with admiration in his eyes.
When they arrived at the place, it was already very late. Ping Chu shouted that he was extremely tired and hungry and wanted to have a big meal.
Indeed, a whole day's journey plus the mountain road would make anyone tired.
"Ahead is the observation post set up outside the mountain village," He Yufeng said. "We'll rest there tonight and then enter the village tomorrow."
"Is there anyone manning the post?"
"There used to be one." Ping Chu took out a piece of chocolate from his backpack and put it in his mouth, mumbling, "But he was killed in the incident a few days ago when all the players entered the game field."
As he spoke, Ping Chu handed another piece of chocolate to Shen Yunzhe. After Shen Yunzhe took it, he rushed over to feed He Yufeng the chocolate.
He Yufeng was too lazy to pay attention to him. He used a flashlight to find his way to the sentry post. After pushing open the door, He Yufeng turned on the light of the sentry post. In an instant, a small dim light was connected, illuminating this very small room. There was a single bed, a few stools, and some signs of life in the room.
These traces of life were left by the people who were stationed there before.
Someone would deliver resources here regularly, and if this incident hadn't been so sudden, new garrison personnel would have been added, so Ping Chu and He Yufeng lit the heat-insulating coal stove very skillfully and found edible food.
"Do you come here often?"
"We've been coming here for the past two years. Most people don't want to come here." Ping Chu breathed, watching the small flame in the coal stove. "For years, we haven't found any breakthroughs, and there's even the possibility of life being in danger. Every time we come, it's the same as the last. Even the most confident people will be disappointed."
"It is said that you are very sensitive to strange events?" Ping Chu looked at him and said, "We have only heard rumors that Shen Wei has a strange keen sense of the game field, so he can always find the core of strange things more easily than normal people."
"They say you inherited this perfectly, and you have a keen sense of the playing field."
Shen Yunzhe shook his head, "I don't think so."
"It's not good for you to ask so much gossip." He Yufeng knocked Ping Chu from behind, "First, let's count the things we need to bring this time."
Ping Chu covered his head and said aggrievedly, "Okay, I get it, I really get it."
Shen Yunzhe looked at them while holding a cup of hot water, their reflections in his eyes.
The relationship between the two of them is very good. It is the healthy, positive and friendly relationship that Shen Yunzhe once pursued and perhaps is still pursuing. They can trust each other, joke with each other, be each other's backs, and work together in dangerous places.
As he was thinking, Shen Yunzhe remembered the code name Hope.
...so disgusting.
A very unhealthy, not positive at all, and even full of weird extremes.
Why in the end the social relationships he got were completely opposite to what he dreamed of.
…
They got up early the next morning. He Yufeng used the telescope on the roof to look at the mountain village in the distance. This place was a little distance away from the village for the safety of the observation point.
"There's no one inside," He Yufeng said. "At least no one's moving within the range of the telescope."
The authorities only know that there are people active in the mountain village, which means that the village is in an active period, and they can only conduct detailed observations in this way.
"Okay, let's go then?"
"Set off."
After walking along the mountain road for a while, Shen Yunzhe successfully saw the village at the end of the road, but it is not entirely true to call it a village, because compared to a village, it is more like a scattered house built in various locations on the mountain, and there are only three or four houses that can be called a gathering point.
"It's still the same as before." He Yufeng took out a sketchbook and started doing basic sketching.
"That's good. At least we're not in danger." Ping Chu said with a smile, "Let's go inside and see."
While walking home, Ping Chu told Shen Yunzhe about the things in the village. In fact, Shen Yunzhe had seen most of the things in the information, but he would not stop him if Ping Chu was willing to tell him.
"This village has no name, but everyone in it shares the surname Lü. Because there's no road down, the entire village is nestled in the mountains, making it difficult to leave. We rely on farming for food and a nearby spring for water. It's a bit isolated, but twenty years ago wasn't ancient times, so it's impossible that no one left the village."
"We learned that there were probably one or two people who had gone out, but the information collection was poor at the time and we couldn't find them anymore."
Shen Yunzhe nodded. He looked at the small village and said, "It looks very ordinary. It doesn't feel like a playground."
"That's it. There's nothing scary about this place," Pingchu said. "Yet this harmless place has been devouring villages for over 20 years, causing tens of thousands of people to disappear, and we're powerless to stop it. We can't even see why it's so scary."
"Isn't this the scariest thing?"
Shen Yunzhe nodded and turned to look around. There were scattered small houses everywhere. Twenty years of destruction made the houses look a little dilapidated.
This normality that is completely indistinguishable from reality is the reason why official personnel cannot find a breakthrough, but for the sake of personnel safety, they cannot come to the mountain village during its active period. They may even have tried, but the results were not good.
[World E03961, codenamed Thousand Faces Synchronization, synchronization rate 50%]
"Thousand Faces?" Shen Yunzhe murmured softly.
This was the first time he had heard of such a completely characteristic code name. Most of the previous ones were professions, except for code name Erosion and code name Hawkeye, but they each had their own profession.
[Codenamed Qianmian, the only isotope to have penetrated deep into the mountain village. If you're looking for places related to the village to synchronize with, this is perfect.]
【Synchronization completed.】
Shen Yunzhe didn't feel anything the moment the synchronization was completed. In fact, it was true. Except for isotopes with very strong external manifestations such as sleep disorders and erosion, Shen Yunzhe would not be greatly affected under normal isotopes, with only some subtle differences.
Ping Chu was still talking about the history of the mountain village, but Shen Yunzhe walked to the house in front. He reached out and pushed open the door. The moment the door opened, a damp smell came up.
It's winter now, and it snowed not long ago. It's freezing cold, so how could it be wet?
Shen Yunzhe walked in, Ping Chu and He Yufeng looked at each other from behind, nodded and followed in. The moment they stepped in, they smelled the dampness in the air. They opened their eyes slightly because this had never happened at other times.
Shen Yunzhe was standing in the room not far away. He looked up at the ceiling and saw water dripping down. Seeing this, they breathed a sigh of relief.
"This house has been in disrepair for a long time and is leaking everywhere. The recent warm weather has caused the snow on the roof to melt and water to drip into the house," Pingchu said. "This place has existed before."
At this moment, He Yufeng pulled the corner of his clothes. Ping Chu turned around and saw He Yufeng's eyes wide open, looking towards the corner.
At the same time, Shen Yunzhe's voice also sounded.
"Then it's not normal for flowers to grow on the house at this time, right?"
Ping Chu looked towards the corner of the wall. A green plant climbed up and a very small red flower bloomed.
Ping Chu cursed fiercely in national language, he pulled Shen Yunzhe and ran out quickly, He Yufeng also reacted quickly, they rushed out of the mountain village, away from this area as fast as possible, when they stopped panting, they looked back into the village and it seemed as if nothing had happened.
"What's going on?" Ping Chu asked breathlessly.
"I don't know, but it's impossible for plants to grow and flowers to bloom in this season," He Yufeng replied.
"Is it that the mountain village suddenly became active? But we were not involved."
He Yufeng nodded, "There was no human activity."
After saying that, they all looked at Shen Yunzhe. Shen Yunzhe looked at them puzzledly, as if he was full of confusion.
They looked at each other and then returned to the sentry post. He Yufeng was painting the flower he saw in the room, and Ping Chu was observing the mountain village through a telescope.
It was quiet for half an hour. Just when they thought nothing would happen, Ping Chu suddenly said, "Someone is there."
“Someone’s coming out!”
He Yufeng pulled Ping Chu down and leaned over to take a look. Ping Chu was almost pushed down, but he was not angry. He just looked at the half-drawn sketch by He Yufeng. After looking at it for a minute, He Yufeng motioned Shen Yunzhe to come over and take a look, and then continued to draw his own sketch.
Shen Yunzhe took a look through the telescope, and the next moment he saw the people in the mountain village.
It was a woman with her head lowered. I say it was a woman because her hair was very long. She lowered her head, and her long black hair was draped in front of her. There was a small red flower in her hair. The flower looked familiar and should be the same flower in the house.
She stood at the door of the house, motionless, like a sculpture.
"This is the first time we've observed strange things in the mountain village. To avoid any problems, we need to report it to the authorities immediately." Ping Chu reported what was happening as quickly as possible.
After confirming that the message had been sent, Ping Chu looked at He Yufeng who was drawing, "How is it?"
"The rough drawing is finished. The flower species is a very common wildflower here. I have already sent it all over."
They looked at each other and then breathed a sigh of relief.
Then they suddenly started laughing, and the tense atmosphere dissipated instantly. Shen Yunzhe sat next to them and watched them laugh.
"There are new changes!" Ping Chu said.
"Well, it's finally not the same as before." He Yufeng nodded.
They came here from the very beginning for the changes in the mountain village, so they dared to take risks. This change was just right for them.
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