"Wow!"
"How did it get dark so quickly? I remember it was only afternoon, this doesn't make sense..."
Yan Zhao wondered if he was seeing things, and even looked down at his wristwatch.
It's a little past 4:10 PM!
That's right!
He remembered clearly that it was only three o'clock when he parted ways with the little girl, and they walked for about an hour along the mountain path, so it was almost four o'clock.
But the dark sky above and the time indicated by the expensive, precise watch on his wrist were completely at odds!
Dark clouds covered the sun, completely blocking out the sunlight.
It felt as if the entire area would be engulfed in thunder and lightning at any moment, plunging into pitch-black darkness.
It was still a restless night...
Yan Miao slowly raised her head, the cold wind blowing her hair wildly, tickling her face.
She reached out and brushed aside the strands of hair that were obscuring her nose, just in time to smell the pungent smell of smoke in the air.
The smell grew stronger, causing her to frown. "It's not that it's getting dark, it's that the entire sky is covered in smoke!"
"cigarette?"
Where did the cigarette come from?
"It can't be wrong..."
She reached out, picked up a piece of black ash that had fallen on her clothes, and gently rubbed it between her fingers, causing the ash to crumble into powder.
The others gathered around and all witnessed this scene.
Then they all looked for the small black patches on their bodies, gently rubbed them, and sure enough—
They all scattered!
Then it leaves gray marks on your hands!
"Why would someone burn things, and so much of them?"
"There must be a burning plant near the village, right? That place has all sorts of junk, no wonder the air is so polluted!"
Yao Lin'er was furious.
She thought the rumors about the village being haunted by ghosts and spirits were due to air pollution.
In this awful weather, anyone who walks in should shout out loud—
Good heavens!
"It's not an incinerator, but people are burning paper, and not just a little bit, but a lot!"
Yan Miao answered decisively.
"Paper... I've only ever heard of burning paper during the Ghost Festival and Qingming Festival. Now, it's neither a festival nor a holiday, yet people in the village are actually burning paper!"
"Something's strange..."
"But if that's the case, I'll be even more excited, haha!"
Upon hearing this, Mu Zi's eyes lit up with excitement.
They're itching to get started and eager to try!
I couldn't wait to push her heavy suitcase and rush into the village to find out what was going on!
"Muzi, maybe we should just give up. This place is too weird. You don't even burn paper money like this."
"The amount of firewood burned by the villagers is equivalent to the amount burned by the city in a year."
Yao Lin'er felt uneasy and wanted to persuade her sister to go back.
Everyone looked up at the sky and could also smell the smoke in the air...
In that instant, almost everyone realized—
This village is unusual!
"Stop dawdling! We came here to explore, right? There's no reason to give up halfway!"
"Besides, these papers were burned by people, so what's there to be afraid of? The mountain road is difficult to walk, and it's already past four o'clock. If we turn back now, it will probably be really dark, and then there won't even be a place to stay. It's better to just make do with the night in the village."
Just then.
Lan Da, who had been relatively unknown, walked straight past the crowd and entered the village gate with his heavy backpack on his back.
The Shizu Village is different from other villages.
At the entrance of the village stood two enormous wooden pillars, each so large that it would take two or three adult men to encircle them. They had been driven firmly into the muddy ground by some unknown method.
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