"There are special teleportation talismans in the shop. You can exchange for one and teleport the items there!"
"But I can't wait any longer. When you put me in the requiem bell just now, didn't you hear my painful groans?"
"If a spirit touches my soul, it will cause great damage to my soul. I can't stay inside for long. If I wait for ten days or half a month, my soul will have already been scattered!"
Do you intend to go back on your word?
Her desperate voice came from the requiem bell, mixed with a hint of anger.
When she was first sucked into the Soul-Soothing Bell, she did indeed let out a painful scream. They could see her writhing in agony inside through the bell!
"What she said makes sense..."
Yan Zhao was caught in a dilemma and began to waver.
After all, they had searched for a long time but had not found the place where the antelope grass grew, except for the natural treasures.
It was Xingcuoyou who led them through the cave to another area.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have found it so quickly!
Xingcuoyou was also kind to them...
Just as he was in a dilemma, Yan Miao had successfully exchanged a teleportation talisman from the shop and sent the potion over.
The recipient was Zhu Lan!
The phone rang the next second.
"Honey, what's wrong?"
“I was just making chicken soup for Ranran in the kitchen when suddenly a bottle of medicine fell from the sky and hit me. There was your handwriting on it.”
"Mom, it was transported here using a teleportation talisman. You should hurry to the hospital and give it to your second sister-in-law to see if it helps."
"If that doesn't work, I'll contact Lu Han again!"
"Okay, I'll go right away!"
Zhu Lan was overjoyed upon hearing this.
Completely disregarding the chicken soup he had just made, he sped off to the hospital.
………
"Stone Village?"
"Oh my God, this is terrible! Get out of here, get out of here, don't leave it on my stall!"
"It will bring me disaster!"
On the muddy road leading to Xingcuoyou's hometown.
The two came across a dilapidated tea stall. The owner was an elderly woman in her eighties, so they decided to sit down, have a sip of tea, and eat some sesame cakes before leaving.
To everyone's surprise, when the stall owner overheard them discussing the Shizu village, his expression changed drastically, and he became so anxious that he immediately tried to drive them away.
"Grandma, it's not like we're not going to pay. Why are you so scared when you hear about the Stone Clan Village?"
Yan Zhao was very puzzled.
I haven't even had a chance to sit down properly!
"Get lost, shut up! If you say another word, any bad luck that happens to my family will be blamed on you!"
"Damn it, let's get out of here!"
She picked up her granddaughter and held her tightly in her arms.
Their gazes were full of wariness.
There were still seven or eight people at the stall. Several people dressed as villagers heard their conversation and were so frightened that they forgot about the sesame seed cakes that had just been placed on the table and ran away.
It's like encountering a plague!
"Are these people crazy? We don't have any infectious diseases, and it's just a stone village."
"It's not a ghost village, yet it looks like I've seen a ghost. What's so different about this village?"
Yan Zhao complained as he walked.
"Xingcuoyou, are you hiding something from us?"
Arriving at a secluded place, Yan Miao solemnly inquired about the "person" within the Soul-Soothing Bell.
"That's not true... Our village is just a bit superstitious, we don't interact much with the outside world, and we don't intermarry with outsiders or other ethnic groups."
"Over time, outsiders started to spread rumors about the village as if it were something very strange!"
"I never imagined that even after I've been dead for so long, they would still be so afraid of the people in the village! No wonder my mother wouldn't let me go out. Going out not only cost me my life, but also made me realize that outsiders really do hate us Shi people!"
"If I had known... I should have listened to my mother."
Xingcuoyou's sudden sadness made it difficult for the two of them to ask any further questions.
Yan Miao calmly turned the bell in her hand and switched off the call button.
In this way, those inside can't see anything happening outside!
...
The grass by the muddy edge was half a person tall.
The little girl quietly hid in the bushes, but after taking only a few steps, she found that there was no one there.
There was no one in sight!
Suddenly, Yan Miao darted out from beside her!
"Waaaaah—"
She was so frightened that she fell to the ground with a thud and burst into tears.
It was the little girl from earlier!
"I thought it was someone else, sneaking around following us."
Seeing the child crying incessantly, Yan Miao sighed and reached out to pull her up.
Yan Zhao also breathed a sigh of relief.
My sister just said that someone was following them, but he didn't believe her.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the two hid, the stalker revealed his true colors!
"Little friend, why are you following us?"
"Your grandma seems very afraid of us. Aren't you afraid too?"
She crouched down, took two candies out of her pocket, and handed them to the little girl.
"I'm scared, but I want to eat pancakes..."
The little girl licked her lips and pointed at the sesame seed cake in Yan Zhao's hand.
That was packed up when I left the stall.
“Grandma usually doesn’t give me meat pies; she says they’re for selling to make money.”
Aren't you afraid we're bad guys?
Yan Miao deliberately scared her.
What if such a young child goes with just anyone in the future and gets abducted?
"Don't worry, Grandma is so fierce, but you all don't hold it against her, so she must not be a bad person."
The little girl's thoughts were written all over her face: "Give me some sesame cakes, and I'll tell you the secret of Shizhai."
"Shizhai? Is that the village we were just talking about?"
Yan Zhao gave her all the sesame seed cakes he had in his hand.
The little girl didn't care that her hands were dirty; she just hugged it and started chewing on it, her cheeks bulging out.
With a satisfied look on her face, she told them, "Actually, I don't know much. I just heard it from the older folks."
"The Shi people are very mysterious. They don't come out and interact with others, but in recent years, they have become somewhat famous on the local internet."
“This village, which used to be relatively unpopular, has become a hotspot for thrill-seeking young people and adventure teams after it became famous online.”
"However, many people went there, and many people also went missing, so everyone felt that the stone village was very eerie! Haunted!"
"Besides, the stories about Shizhai were too scary, so my grandmother wouldn't allow me to go in that direction, let alone anyone who wanted to go to Shizhai. She thought those people would definitely die, and if you talked to them, you would get bad luck on yourself!"
What are the stories about Shizhai?
"I have no idea--"
The little girl shook her head. "Grandma never says that. She says children shouldn't hear these things."
"So many people have been lost, and the local police aren't doing anything about it?"
"police?"
She tilted her head, looking a little dazed.
"Those people in uniforms, they should be the ones investigating all the missing people!"
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