At night, I still had the same dream. Twelve men in black cloaks knelt on one knee and clasped their fists at a man in white cloaks and shouted.
"Swear allegiance to the master to the death." As the dream distorted, I woke up, packed up, and was ready to go out for exercise.
After returning home from exercise, my uncle was reading the newspaper as usual, and my aunt was preparing breakfast. At this moment, Duguxue suddenly called.
"Hello? Mingxuan?" The voice seemed a little trembling, as if he was afraid of something.
"What's wrong, Xiaoxue? What happened to you?"
"Mingxuan, don't leave the house today" I said strangely
"Why? What happened? How can I go to class without leaving home?"
"Just now someone called me and asked me if I recognized Zhuo Mingxuan. I said yes, and then he hung up the phone with a very eerie voice." I laughed.
"Don't worry, someone may be playing a prank. It's okay. I'm different now." At this time, my aunt's voice sounded, asking me to go to dinner, and I said it randomly.
"Auntie asked me to eat, so I hung up first. If you have anything to say, go to school." Before Duguxue could speak again, I hung up the phone and went out to eat.
When I got to school, I saw that Duguxue hadn't come yet, so I sat in my seat and looked out the window. After a while, the class bell rang, and I turned to look at Duguxue again. The seat was still empty, which aroused my suspicion. Although Duguxue did not listen carefully in class, he had never been absent from class. I thought there must be something wrong with that phone call, so regardless of the teacher’s shouting, I ran to the counselor’s office. I didn’t even bother to knock on the door. I went straight in. I walked to the counselor’s seat and said anxiously.
"Teacher Ling, have Duguxue asked you for leave?" Teacher Ling turned to look at me strangely and said
"No, what's wrong?" I swallowed and continued.
"Teacher Ling, Duguxue is not here." Teacher Ling looked at me with a strange look.
"Didn't you miss class yesterday? Are you talking about others today?" I was extremely anxious, but I couldn't tell Teacher Ling about the content of the phone call. Even if I did, Teacher Ling would 100% regard it as a prank. Taken seriously.
So I stopped struggling with Teacher Ling and turned around and ran out. Teacher Ling still shouted loudly from behind.
"Don't run around, remember to go to class." I ran frantically to the school archives and hurriedly looked for Duguxue's home address. Finally I found it. I was stunned when I saw Duguxue's home address. It turned out that Duguxue didn't live there. In the city, living in a village in the suburbs.
So I didn't care so much. After taking out my phone and taking a photo, I hurriedly ran out again, running crazily towards the school gate. As I ran, the school guard seemed to see something and hurriedly He waved at me, indicating that I should go back to class and stop running away.
But how can I control so much? He bypassed the doorman, ran to the door, jumped violently, held the door with one hand, and jumped out directly, leaving the doorman alone and messy in the wind.
As I ran outside, I took out my phone and checked the address. The address was quite far away. I didn’t know how long it would take me to run there like this. So I walked to the road, stopped a taxi, and reported the address to the driver. The driver looked at it in confusion. He glanced at me and said
"Brother, why did you go to that village? That village has been abandoned for a long time." I was stunned for a moment.
"Brother? Are you kidding? My classmate is sick. I went to visit her. She is in that village."
"Hey, am I kidding you? You ran so far away. I wish I could take you there to make more money, but the village was really deserted before." I asked quickly
"Brother, do you know why it was abandoned?" The driver stopped at the traffic light and looked around. Although there were only two of us in the car, he swallowed his mouth and said with a look of horror on his face.
"It is said that a plague broke out in the village, and everyone in the village died. This matter is still on the news." I was secretly shocked and asked quickly
"Do you know when it happened?" The driver thought for a while and said
"It's been a long time, about twenty years. I was still in school at that time, and there were many people in our school discussing this matter. Little brother, are we still going?" I thought for a while and said with a firm look.
"Go!" About an hour later, the driver stopped at the entrance of the village and turned to me and said
"Brother, I can only send you here. I don't dare to go inside." I nodded.
"Thank you, brother." I paid the money and walked on. I saw that the village was very desolate. In the surrounding fields, I could clearly see that the vegetables and grains grown there had withered because there was no harvest. I continued walking forward, and suddenly stepped on When I reached something hard, I looked down and saw a plaque that read: Weihe Village. I quickly checked my phone and compared it with Duguxue’s address. It was indeed the same address. It said Row 8, Weihe Village. On the 31st, I was walking and searching. This village seemed to have been abandoned for a long time, and there was no one left. I didn’t know how Duguxue could live in such a place.
If it were me before, I would not even dare to come to this place, but it is different now. I have internal strength and martial arts at my side, so I am brave and have no fear at all. Of course, now It's daytime, but it's a different story if it's nighttime.
I walked towards the village little by little. Every house had its doors and windows closed. I couldn't help but wonder, since a whole village of people died due to the plague, why would the doors and windows be specially closed?
Just when I wanted to find a house and jump in, I suddenly found that the door of a house in front of me was ajar, so I hurried over, knocked on the door, pushed it open, and walked in slowly.
After entering, there is a yard. The yard is full of weeds. The door of a house facing it is hung with white cloth used for funerals. There are also houses around. I know this kind of rural houses, usually the big house in the middle. It is the master bedroom and living room, and the small house next to it is usually a guest bedroom or kitchen and toilet.
I walked forward slowly, walked to the door of the big house in the middle, pushed it gently, and locked it. Then I looked inside through the small house next to the door. There was also a white cloth hung in the middle, and there were very few furnitures. , empty and covered with dust, so I went to other houses to check, and they all had the same locked doors. Just when I was tinkering with the locks,
"Who is it?" A voice suddenly appeared in the quiet environment, which startled me. I turned around quickly and saw an old woman walking in from nowhere. She was holding a stick as a cane in her right hand and a braided bag in her left hand. Basket, I said hesitantly.
"Oh...Hello, I'm looking for my classmate. She lives in this village." The old woman's eyes were sharp.
"This village has been abandoned for more than 20 years. Even if you have classmates, they may have died long ago." I swallowed in horror and bowed to the old woman.
"Excuse me" and hurriedly ran out.
"Wait a minute," I stood up and looked at the old woman in confusion, and the old woman asked.
"Which one are you looking for? What's the name of your classmate?" I thought for a while
"My classmate's name is Dugu Xue. Her family lives at No. 31, Row 8, Weihe Village."
"Everyone in this village has the surname Wei, and no one has the surname Dugu, but the number 31 in row 8 you mentioned is right after exiting this courtyard gate, turn left and go straight to the end." I quickly thanked you and left as fast as I could. .
