Tan Yue's eyes dazzled. She seemed to have seen Qin Heng?
That's right, she looked up and saw Qin Heng hiding behind the roots of a tree in the other direction. He was dressed in black and disappeared into the night.
Qin Heng also saw her. He was obviously nervous when he saw Tan Yue, and then slowly relaxed. The two looked at each other in tacit understanding and continued to observe the village chief's behavior.
The village chief muttered something, but Tan Yue couldn't hear it clearly.
The girl next to Tan Yue watched coldly as the village chief prayed to the statue. There was no warmth in her eyes, as if she was looking at a dead object.
Tan Yue was thinking about the village chief's intention of doing this. The captain of the Awakener team was brought here last night. Today, the captain happened to have a fever. This cannot be a coincidence.
Today the village chief brought the girl from the Awakener team.
If she predicted correctly, this Awakener girl would not appear tomorrow.
Sure enough, after the village chief finished praying, he picked up the collar of the awakened girl and covered her face with his withered right hand - Tan Yue noticed that the village chief's right hand had completely turned into a dry branch, as if the night would let them The body appears.
The girl screamed.
An unknown liquid surged under the skin of the Awakened girl's face, making her facial features appear to be flowing like liquid, as if it was about to break away from her head - a shocking thing happened immediately, the little girl's The facial features flowed along the village's covered right arm to the village chief's body, and then re-grown on the skin of the village chief's back!
Her horrified expression was fixed on the village chief's bark-like torso, just like the leader of the Awakener team last night.
Tan Yue bit her lower lip to control herself from breathing out. She looked across and saw Qin Heng's figure hidden in the darkness, and her expression could not be seen clearly, but she could feel that his mood was not wonderful.
After the village chief left, Tan Yue dragged the spirit body out from behind the bunker.
When Qin Heng saw her transparent body, his face became serious: "Have you become like this too?"
I saw that Qin Heng's body was also transparent, and the moonlight could penetrate his body.
Tan Yue didn't know what happened. Her body was still lying in the original house. She looked at the little girl and said, "Did you do it?"
The little girl didn't speak.
Tan Yue bought a white card from the system mall and said to her: "If you don't speak, I will put you in the card."
The little girl rolled her eyes angrily and asked dissatisfiedly: "Is this how you treat the people who helped you?"
"Sorry, sorry, it was just a joke." Tan Yue put away the blank card.
The little girl curled her lips: "I thought you couldn't see me, but who knows what method you used to see me."
With a gloomy face, she said to the two of them: "Don't trust this village, it will blur your memory, and you will forget everything. No matter what you see at night, you will not be able to bring this memory to the day. You will all forget."
She said to Tan Yue, her watery eyes looking even more resentful in her transparent body: "I can only implant this memory into your memory in the form of a dream, and it took a lot of effort on my part."
Tan Yue was stunned and looked at Qin Heng.
"Were you there last night?" she asked the little girl.
The little girl said: "Of course. I made both of you souls leave the body. Only in this way can I keep your memory."
Tan Yue asked Qin Heng again: "Did you come out last night?"
Qin Heng did not deny it this time and nodded lightly.
"Thank you, where did you... come from?"
The little girl looked up in the direction of the tower and pointed lightly with her hand.
"You come from the tower?"
She nodded.
Tan Yue remembered that the tower was where the two bullets were shot.
She asked eagerly: "What kind of place is the tower?"
But the little girl said: "It's time for me to go. See you next time."
"Don't--"
Before he finished speaking, the little girl disappeared.
…
Tan Yue forgot when she returned to her body.
Maybe there really is something in this village that can confuse memory and cognition, and do things like ghosts breaking walls and making people forget their memories.
If there is such a being, he must have a close relationship with the village chief.
She got up early to wash up, and looked to the side to see Qin Heng doing strength training.
"You didn't sleep?" she walked over and asked.
Qin Heng nodded, stood up and wiped the dirt off his hands.
Strangely, it was him who spoke first this time: "I figured it out."
Tan Yue smiled sweetly: "I figured it out too."
Zhou Chenghua came out from behind and said, "What are you two talking about?"
Tan Yue simply told him what happened last night and the night before.
"Remember what I told you, these plants are competing for human genes."
Zhou Chenghua nodded, then reacted and exclaimed in a low voice: "You mean the village chief——"
"Shh!"
Tan Yue continued his analysis: "As we have seen with our own eyes, the village chief is not a human, but a vegetable, or humanoid plant. Who cares, then he needs to compete for human genes."
Qin Heng only nodded and gave Tan Yue the opportunity to perform.
Zhou Chenghua suddenly realized: "So there are no other humanoid plants in this village, and there are no mutant plants with human faces."
"Yes, because they were all absorbed or swallowed by the village chief."
There was silence.
"Natural competition involves natural selection and survival of the fittest. Big fish eat small fish, and small fish eat shrimps. Judging from the density of the faces on the village chief's back, he probably ate a lot of plants containing human genes, and he also ate a lot. Few people."
Zhou Chenghua said, "That little girl, why is she helping you? Is she still coming tonight?"
Tan Yue shrugged: "Who knows."
She continued: "I suspect that we have also been used as food by the village chief, just like the Awakened team, and now we are inseparable from this village, so we have to be careful."
By now, most people were awake and drowsily lining up in front of the water tank with their dental appliances in hand.
Zhou Chenghua glanced at them, turned back and whispered: "Observe again."
[Ding dong, congratulations to the host for the temporary mission: Exploring the secrets of the village has been 30% completed, come on! 】
Tan Yue was overjoyed. It seemed that her guess was correct.
Another day passed. On the third night, without the absolute memory card, she could not see the little girl or Qin Heng. She could only see her soul being pulled out of her body in the chaos and mist, like a dream.
On this day, the village chief did not drag anyone over, but a mutated plant covered with human faces. The human faces were quite dense on this plant. It can be seen that this plant contains many human genes.
He placed the plant in the place of tribute, worshiped devoutly in front of the statue of God Willow, and then murmured something in his mouth.
This time Tan Yue heard clearly, what he said was "God Liu forgives me"!
The old man was stealing the tribute to Liu Shen.
The awakened ones from the past two days, as well as this mutated plant, were originally given to Liu Shen, but now they have been stolen by the village chief. If Liu Shen doesn't get tribute, the ghosts on the wall will never disappear. They will be trapped here and unable to get out until they become the old man's rations.
