Chapter 199 Ghost Village 2
Several people around me actually had the same feeling. They had never seen this type of ghost that had to set a certain number and target specific groups of people.
Jiang Nian led them away from the crowd and started to analyze, "I have two ideas now. One is that this ghost is a human in disguise, and his purpose is to get something from a strong man."
"In this ancient time, what is the most important thing on a man?" He couldn't figure it out for a moment.
Lin Nuonuo thought for a long time but couldn't find any useful clues, so she could only continue wandering around the village.
There are many vegetable fields nearby, and occasionally you can see two or three farmers working in them, but most of the vegetable fields are actually deserted and no one takes care of them.
And at a glance, the men's faces were filled with fear, and they were ready to put down their farm tools and run to a safe place at the slightest sign of trouble.
"Hey, what kind of village is this? Where can I find the clues?" Lin Nuonuo now felt like a headless fly, bumping around everywhere, not knowing where to go.
"A normal village should have a place to keep the village records. I think we should go and take a look." Big Fat said.
He had lived in the village before he was admitted to university, so he was quite familiar with the affairs of the village, if the ancient villages were no different from the modern ones.
"That's the place in front, right? But normally we should ask the village chief for the key. No one told us who the village chief is." Big Fat looked around and didn't seem to see anyone who looked like the village chief on the road just now.
Lin Nuonuo saw a villager passing by and quickly ran up to him and asked, "Hello, I want to ask who is the village chief of this village? Is he here now?"
The villager pointed to the distance and said, "It's the red house at the top. The village chief lives there. However, he is not here in the morning or evening. He may be here at noon, but in the morning and afternoon."
Lin Nuonuo felt like she was about to be confused, what was going on here and there?
Does this mean that even if I go there now I may not be able to meet the village chief?
"Where is the village chief when he is not around?" Huang Yan asked. The more information they had, the more beneficial it would be for them.
The villager shook his head. "I don't know either."
Well, the village chief will appear when he wants to, and if he doesn't want to appear, no one can find him even if others look for him. Is that what you mean?
So should they go find the village chief?
"How about this, Nuonuo and I will go find the village chief, and you guys continue to explore the village. If we get the key from the village chief, we will come to join you." Jiang Nian quickly assigned the tasks.
Several people responded. Their team of four was always more reliable than a team of two.
"Then I'll go with you, and we'll be in a group of three." Big Fat was afraid that the two of them would be in danger if they went, and no one had been able to send back any news.
"There is a high possibility that you will encounter danger outside, so it is safer to let the four of you wander around in the village. Nuonuo and I will run away if we encounter danger." Jiang Nian comforted them. If there was really danger, he would directly let Lin Nuonuo come to report the news. Lin Nuonuo was very smart and would not fail to do such a small thing.
After a few people discussed it, they finally decided to go with the original allocation.
When Lin Nuonuo and Jiang Nian walked up to the red house, they realized that it was a dangerous building and the whole house was crumbling.
Moreover, the red outer wall was also mottled and peeling, but what was strange was that the inside of the peeling wall was a darker red.
It’s hard to imagine how this was built.
"Village chief? Are you home, village chief?" Jiang Nian carefully pushed open the door and took a look inside.
I saw an old man sitting on the innermost bed. This old man should be the so-called village chief.
"Hey, you are from outside, right? What do you want to talk to me about?" The village chief looked at the two people with a smile.
Lin Nuonuo couldn't help but shudder. The village chief's smile was a little weird, as if he was some animal that had turned into a spirit.
Coupled with the black and yellow tooth stains caused by smoking, it looks even more terrifying.
"We want the key to the room where the village's books are kept. I wonder if you have it." Jiang Nian stated his purpose directly.
He was too lazy to tell him too much.
This NPC doesn't look like a good person.
"What about the key? If you want the key, you have to do me a favor, which is to repair the outer wall of my house. There have been ghosts haunting here and there recently, and the outer wall is in a mess. The young people in the village have already mixed the cement for me and placed it at the door. You just have to help me repair it." The village chief pointed to the big barrel at the door.
Lin Nuonuo took a look at the big bucket and got goosebumps. This bucket of cement was all red. Even if she had no common sense, normal cement wouldn't be red, right?
There seemed to be some flowing red liquid inside, which was flowing slowly.
Lin Nuonuo took a look and immediately rubbed the goose bumps on her arms.
"Let's finish the task quickly and then get the key to find them." Lin Nuonuo couldn't stand it anymore.
Jiang Nian nodded. He had the same idea. Although the outer wall looked almost dilapidated, there was actually only a small amount of debris that had fallen off.
There were about three places that needed repairing, so he simply picked up a lump of cement and pasted it on the wall, and after repairing one place, he moved on to the next.
Lin Nuonuo was responsible for sitting aside and watching.
She couldn't help much with painting the wall, and it would only make her clothes dirty, but she could cheer Jiang Nian on and look for other clues.
When she arrived at the backyard, Lin Nuonuo discovered a problem. There was a spot of soil that was dark red, very similar to the color of the walls of the village chief's house.
She broke off a small branch and turned over the soil. A fishy smell instantly emanated from the soil.
Lin Nuonuo belched. The smell was quite realistic, like the effect of a real corpse rotting.
She seemed to have just heard someone in the village say that there was no need to worry about the bodies on the street, because when they woke up the next day, the bodies would be gone.
It's like a magic trick.
Now it seems that all the bodies should be buried here, right?
The long years of burying corpses made the soil turn the color of blood, and the smell gradually emanated from the soil.
But because usually no one comes to the village chief's place, no one noticed anything unusual for a while.
Lin Nuonuo took a look inside the room and after making sure that the village chief was still sitting on the bed, she pulled Jiang Nian's sleeve.