Fu Heng cautiously led Chen Zhe and Xuan Yu to the middle of the village.
Suddenly a figure appeared in front of them.
"Ah! Help!" Chen Zhe was startled by the sudden appearance of this person and hid behind Fu Heng.
Fu Heng and Xuan Yu were also startled, but instead of shouting like Chen Zhe, they watched the person who had suddenly appeared warily.
Fu Heng asked the person in front of him in a cold voice.
"Who are you? Are you human? Or a ghost?"
The visitor smiled and said.
"Sorry, I startled you. I'm a villager here. I came out to use the restroom and saw a light, so I came to check it out. I didn't mean to frighten this young man. I'm really sorry!"
Using the light of their flashlights, they finally saw clearly that the person who had suddenly appeared was a man.
He had an ordinary appearance, and judging from his clothes, he was undoubtedly a villager from this area.
Fu Heng continued to ask, "Since you are a villager here, are you the only one here? Or are there other villagers?"
The man smiled and said, "Besides me, there are more than twenty villagers living here. We've always lived here."
Xuan Yu asked, "Then why is this place so dilapidated? It looks like no one lives here."
“Those houses you see in front are all occupied by people who have moved out. The rest of us live in the back, not here.”
The man looked at Fu Heng and the others, and then continued.
"You've come from afar, it must have been a long and tiring journey. It's getting late now, if you don't mind, you can stay overnight in our village and leave tomorrow morning!"
Fu Heng, Xuan Yu, and Chen Zhe exchanged glances but did not respond to the man's words.
Seeing that they were silent, the man patiently spoke to them.
"Oh dear, look at my memory, I forgot to introduce myself. My surname is Fang, and my name is Fang Ming. Everyone in the village calls me Brother Ming."
Don't worry, everyone in our village is hospitable. We'll definitely treat you well since you've come. Don't worry.
Fu Heng looked at the man in front of him and couldn't find anything wrong with him. On the contrary, the man was very easy to talk to.
Although they can spend the night in the wild, when they come across a village, they will stop and ask the villagers for information.
Since they were already here, and the man in front of them had invited them, they might as well stay and chat with the villagers.
"Sure, but we have companions waiting at the village entrance."
The man was overjoyed to hear Fu Heng say that there were other companions. With so many people coming down, they would have enough to survive for a while.
So he smiled and said, "Sure, what are you waiting for? Call your companions over, and I'll take you to rest and treat you to some food. How about I come with you?"
Fu Heng refused the man. "No need, we drove here. You wait here for us, we'll be right there."
"Alright, then I'll wait for you here."
Fu Heng and Xuan Yu led Chen Zhe back. After they were some distance away from the man, Chen Zhe asked Fu Heng a question.
"Brother Heng, are we really going to stay here tonight? This place feels a bit scary, maybe we should just forget about it?"
Xuan Yu chuckled and teased Chen Zhe. "I think you're scared, aren't you?"
"What's wrong with me being scared? That person is elusive. You were startled just now too, and you still have the nerve to criticize me."
When Chen Zhe thought of that person coming out, Xuan Yu was also startled and said those words to him.
Fu Heng said as they walked, “Yes, we’ll stay here tonight and ask them about something. But we need to be careful now that we’re here. If anything seems amiss, we’ll run away immediately.”
After hearing Fu Heng's words, Chen Zhe gave up and gritted his teeth.
"Alright, then we'll do as Heng says. We've got a deal: if there's any movement, we'll grab our weapons immediately."
Fu Heng stopped and looked at Chen Zhe.
"Why weren't you this timid before?"
Fu Heng left after he finished speaking.
Chen Zhe blushed at Fu Heng's words and didn't know how to respond.
Xuan Yu watched him with a smile, he glared at Xuan Yu, and then followed Fu Heng away.
The people waiting for them at the village entrance were getting anxious as they still hadn't seen them.
Ye Yunxi was about to go find them when Gu Qingqing and Zhang Jing stopped her.
"Sister Yunxi, Brother Heng told us to wait for them here. If they still haven't come out, we'll go with you to find them."
At this moment, Zhang Jing saw Fu Heng and the others return and smiled at Ye Yunxi.
"Yunxi, look! They're back!"
Ye Yunxi turned around and saw Fu Heng and the others coming out. She quickly ran out of the car and waited for them to come over.
Seeing them return put her mind at ease.
"How's it going inside? Is anyone there?"
Gu Qingqing and Zhang Haiyi also got out of the car.
Fu Heng told them what had just happened and agreed to stay.
After listening to what Fu Heng said, Zhang Haiyi said with some concern.
"Is there something wrong with this person?"
Fu Heng thought for a moment and replied, "Judging from his appearance, we can't tell anything. Why don't we go and take a look first? If there are any problems, we'll leave immediately."
"Okay, let's do it that way then. What about our car? Should we drive it in, or leave it outside?"
"Leave it outside." Fu Heng wanted to leave them a way out so they could run out immediately if anything went wrong. The village roads were a bit narrow, making it difficult to turn around.
"We'll just take a backpack and carry the weapons with us; we won't take anything else."
After they finished packing and locked the car, they followed Fu Heng, who was carrying a flashlight, into the village.
This time they walked quickly and reached the previous spot in just a few minutes.
The man had been waiting for them, and when he saw that they had brought people and a dog, Fang Ming's lips curled up in a smile.
A hint of murderous intent flashed in his eyes, but he quickly concealed it.
Because it was dark, Ye Yunxi and the others did not see the murderous intent in the man's eyes.
As the man saw them approaching, he went up to them and smiled.
"Welcome to Laiyang Village. I am a villager here, my name is Fang Ming. I will take you to meet our villagers. We are all very simple and honest villagers here. Don't worry, we will look for you carefully."
Ye Yunxi always felt something was off when she saw the man, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.
It's also possible that she was misled by the man's appearance, which seemed rather cunning.
Fang Ming led them, talking as they walked, as if they had endless things to say.
Ye Yunxi looked around warily, her brows furrowed, and whispered to them.
"Everyone, be careful and vigilant later, and make sure you have your weapons ready."
Gu Qingqing and Zhang Jing nodded without saying anything.
They frowned as they looked at the houses and the environment, wondering what it would be like to meet the villagers, what might happen, and whether they could handle it.
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