In about a stick of incense time, the two arrived at Hecun, which had been abandoned for a long time.
After years of erosion, only the faintly visible ruins of the former village remain. The dead grass and yellow leaves all over the ground add to the desolation, mottled by the passage of time.
Meng Shuangshuang lived here back then, waiting for Bai Buai.
Later, the government forced her to relocate. Instead of going with others, she chose a place closer to Fenghuang Mountain to settle down.
In the end, just like this village, it gradually withered.
"In broad daylight, this place feels so spooky."
He Panjun rubbed his arms.
"Ghostly?"
Li Nanke looked around and said in surprise, "Why don't I feel anything?"
"You are a man, and men are very masculine." He Panjun patted Li Nanke on the back and said, "Look at this body, you have to lie down when the female ghost comes."
"Don't take advantage of me."
Li Nanke "disgusted" and avoided women.
He Panjun made a sound and suddenly pointed in a direction, "Hey, I can tell the general shape of that room. It's not like the other houses that are almost turned into graves."
Li Nanke looked around and saw that it was indeed a ruined house.
He walked closer to check and saw that the door of the house was completely broken and the bricks and stones were scattered on the ground.
The structure of the house can no longer be seen. The collapsed ruins, messy wooden slats and bricks, as well as the cobwebs and thick dust are no longer complete as before.
But inexplicably, Li Nanke felt that this room was a bit familiar.
It seems... I've seen it somewhere.
But if you think about it carefully, it's impossible. After all, this house is almost thirty years old.
Li Nanke shook his head and looked at the others.
Not far away, two old locust trees, eroded by the passage of time, silently depended on each other.
The cracks in the tree trunks were etched deeply into the torso like the wrinkles on an old man’s face. The branches stretched out, some were broken, and some with withered leaves still remained on them.
Li Nanke looked at the two old locust trees and then looked back at the ruined house.
That strong sense of familiarity came over again.
wrong!
He must have seen this house before!
Li Nanke frowned and tried to search for it in his memory.
Suddenly, two ropes were connected between the two old locust trees in my memory... to be precise, it was a simple swing.
On the swing, a seven or eight-year-old girl was swaying gently.
The girl smiled happily, and the two ponytails swayed up and down like two rabbit ears.
Little bunny!
Li Nanke's eyes suddenly shone brightly.
Yes, he had seen this house in the dream created by Meng Xiaotu!
It’s Meng Xiaotu’s home!
Hecun!
So Meng Xiaotu is also from Hecun? !
Yes, he should have thought that it was impossible for Grandma Meng to go far away, so the little rabbit she took in must be an orphan from the village or nearby.
But why doesn’t Meng Xiaotu come here?
After all, this place holds the beautiful memories of her childhood.
Although dreams are perfect, memories in reality can cause even more emotional fluctuations.
But that’s not right either.
From Meng Xiaotu’s dream, we can learn that Meng’s father was a fisherman in the past, but there was no sea around, not even a lake.
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So how does he go out to sea to fish?
Moreover, in the girl's dream, there is obviously a sea.
Li Nanke was confused and couldn't figure it out.
"This place was once part of the Red Rain world."
A voice sounded faintly behind him.
Li Nanke thought it was He Panjun who was speaking, but suddenly he realized something was wrong in the voice. He turned around and saw the one-eyed old nun mysteriously appearing not far away.
He hurriedly looked for He Panjun, but the woman seemed to have disappeared.
"The red rain is ruthless, and people's hearts are unpredictable."
The one-eyed nun knelt down and lightly brushed the ground with her black fingers.
The originally desolate ground suddenly sprouted red and bright flowers. Including Li Nanke, dense numbers of Bana flowers also grew.
Looking from a distance, it looks like a vast sea of flowers, boundless.
"Who the hell are you?"
Li Nanke stared at the other person closely and couldn't help but say dirty words.
He even maliciously speculated that this nun might be the lover of the old Taoist priest.
After all, their strength is equally unpredictable.
They all look very flat.
The nun did not answer, but looked at these beautiful sea of red flowers and said softly: "This village was once used as a poison to support Hongyu."
Offer red rain?
Li Nanke is very smart and can tell the truth at once, "You mean, this place used to be an experiment?"
The mysterious nun's strange and deep eyes flashed red, like a demon opening its bloody mouth, and said slowly: "This place once overlapped with the Red Rain World, so what some people here see is an illusion." .”
Li Nanke understood.
Whether it’s the sea in Meng Xiaotu’s memory or Meng’s father, they are all deceived at the interface between reality and fantasy.
"This place should be used to bewitch a red rain beast."
said the nun.
Hearing the other party's words, Li Nanke instantly remembered the terrifying monster he saw in Meng Xiaotu's red rain dream and was almost attacked at that time.
And that monster seemed to be completely tamed by the little rabbit and became an exclusive pet.
Shouldn't it be, that's it.
So, back then, someone used Hecun for experiments and used poison to raise the red rain beast. As a result, something unexpected happened and the mythical beast became Meng Xiaotu's pet.
Meng Xiaotu's parents were most likely killed in this accident.
Unknown villagers were forcibly relocated by the government.
Snapped!
Li Nanke, who was lost in thought, was suddenly patted on the head.
After waking up, he was shocked to find that the Biangan flower on the ground was gone.
The mysterious nun also disappeared.
"Hey, I've been calling you for a long time, why are you in a daze?" He Panjun stared at the man with dissatisfied eyes, feeling that he was completely ignored by him.
"Go aside."
Li Nanke pushed the woman away angrily and continued to observe the ruined village and think.
Now in the archives of the Night Patrol Department, all the information about Hecun has completely disappeared. I don’t know that the information on Hecun stored by the government is still incomplete.
There is a high probability that it is none.
Li Nanke flexed his fingers and rubbed his forehead vigorously.
If anyone has the ability to conduct experiments on a village, only...the imperial court.
If you have a chance to visit Beijing, ask Bai Ruyue.
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After wandering around for an afternoon, Li Nanke returned to Yuncheng.
Although he had a conflict with the prefect Yuan Changxu, because of his special status, he successfully entered the government's official document library to search for information.
As he expected, most of the information about Hecun was gone.
So Li Nanke searched for the people who had moved from Hecun to Yuncheng, and planned to make secret inquiries.
But a shocking scene appeared.
The people of Hecun who were relocated died in various bizarre ways within just three years.
In addition, Li Nanke also found that in addition to relocating to Yuncheng, the imperial court also resettled another group of villagers in a lane in Dongqi County.
As a result, two years later, a fire suddenly broke out in that alley.
In addition to burning the local people to death, all the people from Hecun who were relocated died!
Seeing this, Li Nanke remembered that when he was investigating Lin Jiaoyue's case in Dongqi County, he did find that a section of land had been burned by fire.
"If we continue to investigate, will we stir up a hornet's nest?"
Li Nanke felt a chill on his spine.
