Pei Mengqing and Wang Hongren heard the sound, looked forward, and saw a figure about 1.23 meters tall.
The figure gradually became clearer, and finally, without either party taking a step, the man completely appeared in front of Pei Mengqing and the others.
"How did you get in?" The child asked directly as soon as he appeared.
Pei Mengqing looked at the other person and found that he was a child of about ten years old. His face was slightly hungry and he was wearing brown linen clothes.
"A flash of green light arrived here. My child, may I ask who you are?" Wang Hongren said.
"I see, I thought you were here to play hide-and-seek too. Do you want to play hide-and-seek with me?"
The child had an expectant look on his face, as if he was eager to give it a try.
Wang Hongren wanted to refuse, but he was cautious and looked at Pei Mengqing.
Pei Mengqing looked into his eyes and said via voice:
"If a child like this appears in a place like this, it's better to be careful. If you reject him, something terrible might happen."
Wang Hongren nodded and sent a message back:
"Then, agree?"
"Yeah." Pei Mengqing nodded.
I asked Juju. Although Juju looked strange, he still nodded in agreement.
"Okay, kid, tell me your name first, and then we'll play hide and seek with you," Wang Hongren said.
Pei Mengqing and Wang Hongren both held their weapons tightly, showing no signs of relaxing.
"My name is Chen Xing'ang, and my nickname is Huzi. Then, I'll count to twenty, and you guys have to hide them."
After saying this, the child immediately turned around and closed his eyes.
Wang Hongren was about to say that this place was full of blue light and there was nowhere to hide it. Suddenly, the surrounding scene changed drastically.
When I looked again, the two people and the cat had appeared in the town again, but the sky was gray and there was no sign of people.
Pei Mengqing quickly said:
"Orange Bureau, purify the golden light, keep it in a small area, as long as it can shine on me and Brother Wang."
The Orange Bureau immediately looked for help, and Wang Hongren also approached Pei Mengqing and remained standing in the golden light.
Many figures suddenly appeared in the streets and alleys. Those figures had smiles on their faces and walked calmly, approaching them step by step.
"Holy crap, those monsters live here?" Pei Mengqing said.
Based on his gaming experience, he immediately realized that this was probably the "inner world" of Nightmare Town, but it was filled with monsters that would appear in villages and towns at night.
In other words, this is the shadow side of the village and town, and those people are the people of the shadow...
"Let's go!"
Pei Mengqing said directly, took Wang Hongren close to a house, then quickly closed the door and hid inside.
After entering the door, for some unknown reason, the monsters did not come near and quickly dispersed.
It seems that closing doors and windows also works in the outside world.
"Hehehe, have you hidden it?" A child's chuckle sounded, echoing in the empty room, and it was extremely scary.
"I'm sorry, there is indeed something wrong with this child." Pei Mengqing swore directly.
Wang Hongren also had goosebumps:
"What should I do? Do you still want to hide and seek with him?"
Pei Mengqing:
"Even if we refuse now, I'm afraid it's too late..."
………………
In the real world at this time, because it was still daytime, Li Yuanzhong and Xiaori did not rest, but went out to inquire for information.
It turned out that there was actually an archive in this village, but not many people were literate, so no one looked through it.
Li Yuanzhong and Xiaori just said something to Lu Mengcheng and successfully entered.
One person and one cat are in the archives - it is said to be an archive, but it is actually a larger bungalow, which contains various files. It is also where Lu Mengcheng usually "works".
As a result, after randomly looking through some things, I really made a new discovery.
Xiaori:
"Brother Li, come and take a look. There are village and town records here."
Village and town annals are similar to county annals. They mainly record the history and development process of the establishment of villages and towns.
Of course, it mainly records previous village and town officials and some anecdotes.
"Look, it is written here that Zangfeng Town was founded at the end of the Han Dynasty. It was a group of displaced people who, in order to escape the war, established a village in the deep forest on the border of Jiangxia County and Runan County.
"Later, the war subsided and the Zhou Dynasty came to dominate the world. Only then did the villages and towns communicate with the outside world again. Only then did this path lead to the two counties.
"In other words, this place existed decades ago, but eleven years ago, the record suddenly stopped. It was not until a new person appeared that a new record appeared, probably written by Lu Mengcheng and others. "
"In other words, you have to look for what happened eleven years ago to see if there is any record of what happened eleven years ago." Li Yuanzhong nodded.
So one person and one cat started rummaging around again.
As a result, there were indeed some scattered records, and one person and one cat collected the found information together.
"Look here, this happened eleven years ago." Little Himao pressed his paw on a book with yellowing pages.
Li Yuanzhong came closer and took a closer look.
As mentioned above, it was a drought year, but Zangfeng Town did not suffer. Because it was located around a forest, the water and soil were well maintained, and it was considered a bumper harvest.
So the villagers thought about it and planned to gather some grain and sell it to other counties to earn some money in exchange for some cloth, mirrors, soap locust and rouge gouache.
But in drought years, some people can't survive and turn into bandits. They plunder everywhere and become a group of thieves.
As the bandits developed, they acquired more horses, and soon they became horse thieves who came and went like the wind.
And it happened that a group of horse thieves bumped into this group of people who were returning to Zangfeng Town after transporting food and exchanging daily necessities.
The horse thief did not take action directly, but quietly followed them all the way to Zangfeng Town. Then they began to burn, kill, loot, and insult women. They did not leave until they had swept away all the property and food in the town.
Some people were kidnapped, some were forced to join the horse thieves, and the rest were killed or injured.
All the doctors and doctors in the town died in this disaster, and the injured were not treated. In this era, bacterial infection would be fatal.
In the end, out of the thousands of people in Zangfeng Town, only a few dozen were left.
These twenty people gathered their belongings, collected the pigs, cows, sheep, and chickens that had run outside, and started living again.
But, soon, an accident happened.
Among the twenty or so people in the village, some began to disappear mysteriously.
At that time, there was not much food left in the village, and most of it was stolen by horse thieves. So some people suspected that someone was killing people secretly in order to rob the food.
As soon as this guess came out, it immediately fell into a chain of suspicion and was out of control.
Everyone was wary of each other. Only one sour scholar with some talent wrote a diary and recorded what happened at that time.
The one with the most records is a ten-year-old child named "Chen Xing'ang" whose nickname is "Hu Zi"...
