Chapter 246 Clues
"Speaking of which, are you scared?"
Lin Jiu asked suddenly as he was walking.
Charles was stunned and subconsciously asked in confusion: "What?"
"Didn't you live in Dragon Country when you were a child? You should know some of its culture, right?" Lin Jiu said, stopping and putting down his phone. He turned to look at Charles and smiled slightly: "It has a bit of a horror element."
At the end of the winding stone road, an old house stands quietly in the bamboo forest. The ancient atmosphere is overwhelming, and the half-open wooden door is even more dilapidated by the ravages of time.
Several images flashed through Charles' mind, most of them in black and white, with an inexplicable chill that was creepy.
He looked at Lin Jiu and said slowly: "No."
After all, I have experienced more than a dozen games, so I am more or less immune to these.
Hearing this, Lin Jiu curled his lips and said, "Okay, but if you're scared, you can tell me."
Charles smiled and said nothing.
The two of them pushed open the wooden door and stepped into the front yard of the ancient house.
Putting aside the cold and polluted atmosphere, this is indeed a tourist attraction worth visiting. You can see that someone comes here to clean it regularly from time to time, and there is not a single weed to be seen in the entire yard.
The yard is very large, and the area of the ancient house is much larger than expected, which makes people wonder if this is where some powerful family once lived.
Lin Jiu and Charles walked straight across the front yard and walked into a nearby room.
The inside of the room was also very tidy, and it seemed that someone had cleaned the old house inside and out.
It didn't look like there were any clues, so Lin Jiu randomly flipped through a few cabinets, and the things inside were just props.
The same thing happened in several rooms in a row, so Lin Jiu and Charles crossed the courtyard and planned to check out the rooms at the back.
On the way there, Lin Jiu tried to flip the camera again.
This time, he deliberately walked behind, keeping his eyes fixed on the screen so as not to miss the red figure.
The other party seemed to be following them.
I don’t know if it has anything to do with the madman in the rules.
The room at the back was very large, and Lin Jiu and Charles found some useful clues in one of the rooms that looked like a study.
In the drawer that exuded a faint musty smell, there was a piece of paper that was almost burned through. The surface of the paper was slightly yellowed and felt a bit rough to the touch, like a crude product made in the past when technology was not well developed.
The characters above are also in traditional Chinese, and should have been left over from decades ago.
Lin Jiu saw that there was no obstacle, and Charles understood the above content thanks to the translation of the game system.
This is a diary. The owner of the diary should be the landlord who lived here before.
The first half of the diary expressed his happiness that the country was beginning to get better, while the middle part described the current situation. However, because it was burned and pierced, no one knew what his situation was at the time. However, from the first part, it can be judged that the current situation should be pretty good.
The second half is somewhat interesting.
The landlord was worried about whether the government would demolish the mountain temple in order to combat feudal ideology, and then he began to worry about what to do if he lost his wedding...
The following content was cut off, and the expressions of Lin Jiu and Charles all revealed the same idea:
This is difficult to comment on.
no.
Do you know that banning these things is anti-feudal?
"It seems that these two things have not been banned, and are now being promoted as customs..." Lin Jiu put down the paper and tried to find other clues.
"It must be something they did at the time that led the authorities to believe that this was a custom that could be passed down as tradition."
In other words, they made the matter harmless.
After all, some folk customs still need to be passed down as traditional culture.
Charles simply regarded the country here as the Dragon Country. After all, there didn't feel any difference.
"It's also possible that he's been brainwashed." Lin Jiu said casually as he searched, "Isn't this how cults and pyramid schemes deceive people?"
Charles nodded in agreement.
Soon, Charles found a booklet on the other side of the room.
This time the paper looks a lot "fresher" and is of a recent vintage.
The front of the booklet contains information about the population of the village at that time. Each family only records one person, and the rest of the family members are just mentioned briefly.
The village chief directly occupied an entire side.
Strangely, the village chief has no other family members. His surname is Tai and his name is Zhi.
When the record was made, Village Chief Tai Zhi was already 89 years old. Charles was somewhat surprised that he was still serving as the village chief despite being at an extremely advanced age at that time.
They just glanced at the demographic information and turned to the back, where personal information with photos suddenly appeared in front of Charles and Lin Jiu.
It was a photo of a young girl. Although it was a black and white photo and a little blurry because it had been so long, it was still possible to tell that she was a beautiful girl.
It says that this is the 141st bride.
Charles suddenly felt a chill.
141st...
That is to say, before this girl, 140 women had been killed, and this number is not the end, there are more to come.
Each subsequent page recorded the information of the "bride". Charles noticed that they were all native residents of the village, but after 2000, the "brides" began to be outsiders.
The time interval between the appearance of each "bride" is two years.
The wedding ceremony is held every two years, and the last "bride" on the list is the 165th. By this calculation alone, this so-called wedding ceremony has existed for more than three hundred years.
"The last date is...2174..."
It’s 100 years longer than the real world. I can’t imagine how many “brides” there are during this period…
"At least it's certain there will be only one bride."
"Do you think it's Tang Yu?" Charles asked.
"Maybe?"
Lin Jiu shrugged, thinking it was too early to draw conclusions.
This seems to be a booklet that records personnel information, and the rest of the pages are blank with no other content.
Lin Jiu and Charles searched again, but when they found nothing, they immediately changed rooms. Unfortunately, they didn't find any useful clues afterwards.
"Let's go?" Charles looked at Lin Jiu, only to see him holding up his phone, pointing it at something. "What are you looking at?"
Lin Jiu did not respond, but just stared at the screen of his mobile phone, occasionally looking at the well not far away.
Lin Jiu seemed to have seen something through Tang Yu's mobile phone. Charles walked behind him but saw nothing.
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