After Song Laosan learned that Monkey and I harbored hostility towards him after we left the Far East, he still spoke up after hearing what I said: "I think Sheng Nan's guess is quite credible. The people of Ping An Residence keep saying that this place is forbidden, but we haven't seen a single living person, let alone guards, along the way. It doesn't seem like there are any secrets hidden here."
“I also think this place is not that simple. Since there is a locust and willow forest here, and the yin-yang fish has been made, then the existence of this village is definitely not just for the sake of symmetry! Or rather, this symmetry must have its own meaning. As for why there is no one guarding this place, it should be because Ping'an Village is isolated from the world, and they have no need to waste manpower to guard this place.”
Qu Ruilin, however, was on my side this time, saying, "Let's go check the center of the village. If we really don't find anything, we can still retreat."
Seeing that we both shared the same opinion, Wei Shengnan didn't say anything more and signaled the bodyguard to lead the way.
As I continued onward, I became absolutely certain that this village was abandoned, because the closer I got to the center of the village, the more severely the buildings deteriorated, and many houses had even collapsed.
The layout of the two villages is basically the same. The central location is also the council chamber. The outer wall has collapsed more than half of its length, and the roofs of the buildings inside are also rotten, allowing moonlight to stream into the rooms through the holes in the roof.
Seeing how dilapidated the place was, the monkey curled its lip at me and said, "This place is such a disappointment. I thought we would make some amazing discovery here, but all I see is a bunch of broken-down houses! What kind of forbidden area is this? I wouldn't even consider it a garbage dump!"
"Logically speaking, this village shouldn't be in this state!"
Looking at the dilapidated buildings around me, my mind was filled with doubt.
What struck me most about Ping'an Village was its strangeness.
This is certainly related to the village's isolation from the outside world for many years, but some of their ways of doing things are also difficult for me to understand.
First, they were very welcoming of our arrival, but then they became very wary of us. Moreover, Miao Xiaoxian never mentioned the situation in the willow grove.
All this evidence suggests that there is definitely something wrong with Ping'an Village, especially in Liulin, where there is an astonishing secret.
I know very well that this place is not just as dilapidated as it appears on the surface, but I just can't figure out what secrets it holds.
While I was checking the room, I saw Qu Ruilin leave the room in a hurry with a few people.
I saw Wei Shengnan also come out of one of the rooms inside, and I asked her, "Are you giving up and preparing to leave?"
Wei Shengnan shook her head: "Qu Ruilin insists that there is definitely something wrong with this village, but he can't find out where the problem lies yet, so he is preparing to climb up to observe. Have you found anything?"
I lit a cigarette and took a deep drag: "It's just an ordinary abandoned room. At least for now, I haven't found anything wrong with this place."
As I spoke, I walked out of the room: "Time is limited, I'll go check the situation outside too."
After leaving the council chamber, I checked the surrounding rooms, and the more I checked, the more disheartened I became.
All signs told me that the place I was in was an abandoned village.
Everywhere in this village, there are traces of people having lived, as if some major accident had occurred, causing all the residents to move away overnight.
But that's all the information I could gather. Apart from the word "abandoned," there's nothing else special about this place.
After this investigation, I lost interest in further investigations.
Just then, one of Wei Shengnan's bodyguards ran up to me and said quickly, "Mr. Duan, Miss has made a discovery. She asked me to inform you to go over there."
Having already lost interest in the investigation, I heard that Wei Shengnan had made a discovery, so I quickly followed the bodyguard back to the front of the council chamber.
By this time, Wei Shengnan and her group had all gathered around Qu Ruilin.
When Wei Shengnan saw me coming over, she nodded to Qu Ruilin: "Brother Lin, you can tell me about your discovery now."
Qu Ruilin glanced at me expressionlessly, then squatted down, broke off a branch from his hand, and drew a circle: "The village we are in is a circular structure. Here, here, here... all three places are abnormal. It looks like the Three Yin Guardian Hall!"
The Three Yin Guardian Hall that Qu Ruilin mentioned is a traditional feng shui formation. This formation gathers yin energy in a certain area to form an extremely yin place. If the person who sets up the formation is a master, the corpse can be preserved from decay. Many large tombs where mummies have been unearthed are located in such yin-gathering areas.
The Three Yin Town Palace is a higher level than the Gathering Yin Land. The first requirement is the geography. If there is no place with extremely heavy Yin energy, such as a willow forest, it is difficult to make this kind of arrangement.
I was skeptical of Qu Ruilin's explanation: "The Three Yin Suppressing the Palace is a long-lost feng shui technique. It not only requires driving a live stake, but also requires many small formations to complement each other. How did you discover the clues in such a short time?"
"Speculation."
Qu Ruilin stuck three tree branches into the places he said had problems: "When I went outside to check just now, I found that the degree of decay of these three buildings was different from that of the other buildings. After inspection, I found that the wood used was different. These three houses were all made of yin wood, which is also known as rotten wood. It was not originally an evil object, but it was used as the core of the Three Yin Town formation. This shows that the caster did not want to harm people, but only wanted to complete the formation!"
As he spoke, Qu Ruilin drew a "rice" shaped pattern in the middle of the triangle: "Even if I guessed wrong, and the formation here is not the Three Yin Guardian Hall, those three houses are definitely problematic, and the point where they gather Yin energy is the council chamber behind us."
"But this council chamber is already abandoned!"
Looking at the dilapidated courtyard, Wei Shengnan speculated, "Could it be that this village offended some feng shui master back then, so the other party set up a formation to force the people living here to leave?"
"No! Yin and Yang are opposites. If there is Yang, there should also be Yin. If the village we came to is the extreme of Yang, then this place is the extreme of Yin!"
At that moment, I realized something and asked Qu Ruilin, "It's not that this formation forced the people in the village away, but rather that this village wasn't built for those people in the first place, right?"
Qu Ruilin and I exchanged a glance and nodded solemnly: "That's right, the two villages in the locust and willow forest, the one over there is inhabited by living people, while this one is a burial site."
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