The road was muddy. Ji Wanrong and the three of them walked on the road. After not walking far, they felt that the soles of their feet were full of mud and their feet were stuck in the soil. It was difficult to pull them up.
But it was here, the silent woods and the dim sky, that made Ji Wanrong's heart skip a beat.
She had a gut feeling that Magistrate Li was not lying, because when Magistrate Li first met them, the soles of his shoes were stained with mud.
And she smelled a smell, a smell that was uniquely dangerous.
The three of them followed Magistrate Li's drawings, and after walking for an unknown amount of time, the dense sylvestris pine trees in front of them gradually became sparse.
The dusk was closing, and the sunset glow turned a large area of the sky red. From a distance, it looked like a flame burning in the Pinus sylvestris forest.
It was obviously a magnificent and majestic landscape, but Ji Wanrong felt that her body was a little cold for no reason.
Looking into the distance, Ji Wanrong felt that his eyes were gradually opening up, and he could see dots of villages and houses.
At dinner time, smoke was still rising from the chimneys of the houses.
It seems that there are still people making fires for cooking. This dead man's village is not as spooky and terrifying as the county magistrate said.
The three of them looked at each other and gradually quickened their pace.
After seeing the big tree in the sky at the entrance of Dead Man's Manor, they slowly slowed down their pace.
At the entrance of Zhuangzi is an intersection leading to three roads. In the middle of the road, there is a locust tree.
The locust tree is very tall, with dark trunks and lingering roots like a huge, old face.
The tree crown almost blocks out the sky and the sun, and the thick tree roots extend into the ground, even arching the land.
But the leaves of the old locust tree have fallen off, and the treetops are covered with red cloth strips. The sky is dim, and it looks dark in the distance.
There was obviously no wind, but the red ribbon was swaying as if it was floating.
When the three of them saw the big tree in front of the Dead Man's Village, they all stopped in unison, and their expressions became a little more solemn.
Ji Wanrong had only heard of typical Chinese horror before, but now that he saw it with his own eyes, he felt his hair stand on end.
"The atmosphere here is very strange." Mo Jie was fighting on the battlefield and was most sensitive to this kind of thing. Looking at the trees, he felt a hint of Yin Qi inexplicably.
Shi Heng's face also became unusually solemn: "At the three-way intersection at the entrance of the village, there is such a large locust tree. The locust tree belongs to the shade. The trunk has turned black, but there are so many reds tied on it. tape."
"There is something different here."
When Shi Heng investigated cases in the past, he must also understand some Feng Shui and numerology. From the perspective of Feng Shui, the locust tree at the entrance of the village will definitely cause some bad things to happen to the village.
Sure enough, Magistrate Li's words were not aimless, nor were they threats. There was something really wrong with this Zhuangzi.
When Ji Wanrong heard this, he felt a gloomy wind around him.
Originally, he wanted to turn around and discuss with them whether he should wear a human skin mask before entering Zhuangzi, but at this moment, a strange laughter suddenly came from his ears.
The laughter was old and sharp, and sounded like a woman's. The laughter was accompanied by faint sounds of crying and the sound of footsteps.
As Ji Wanrong listened, his whole body felt creepy.
The laughter was almost continuous without pause, and the laughter was so loud that it was like muffled thunder, shaking all the birds and beasts in the forest to run away.
Ji Wanrong was about to speak when she heard Mo Jiecheng whisper in her ear: "Look, where is it!"
Ji Wanrong followed the direction of his finger and looked closely, and what he saw was an old woman with gray hair. She clearly had hands and feet, but she was squirming on the ground with her body.
The old woman was still wearing clothes and seemed to be somewhat alive.
But her face was earth-colored and she was as thin as wood. Her clothes were covered with dust, vomit and feces on the ground, and she looked very dirty.
Her arms twisted around her body, and her fingers curled up and spasmed like chicken claws, as if she was grabbing something.
The old woman's legs seemed to be unable to walk anymore. They were strangely folded in the opposite direction. They were also spasming and twitching. From a distance, she looked like she was dancing.
But what was even more terrifying was her face. Her head was tilted upward, so that Ji Wanrong from a distance could clearly see her expression.
The laughter came from her chapped lips. Not only that, although she looked extremely painful, she had a stable smile on her face.
That smile was weird and in stark contrast to her painful movements, which made people scared to death just looking at her.
Ji Wanrong's heart tightened, and she stared into her cloudy eyes. In the old woman's eyes, she clearly saw a signal for help.
Those eyes were sad and desperate. It seemed that only the eyes could convey her true inner emotions.
She is still alive.
When Ji Wanrong thought of this, he rushed out without hesitation.
Mo Jiecheng and Shi Heng saw Ji Wanrong's movements, their expressions changed, and they hurriedly followed Ji Wanrong and ran to the old woman's side.
Ji Wanrong looked around and determined that the old woman had no ability to attack before squatting down next to her.
Ji Wanrong first stretched out his hand to test her pulse and found that her pulse was still beating.
It's not the so-called strange powers and gods, or demons and ghosts.
She was still laughing crazily at this moment, the sound coming from her chest. She didn't know how long she had been laughing, and her vocal cords began to become hoarse.
It was also the first time for Ji Wanrong to see such a situation, and she immediately reached out to hold the old woman's pulse.
The pulse was very weak, but extremely disordered. It looked like it was dead, and it would jump from time to time.
This was the first time Ji Wanrong saw such a pulse. She turned back and glanced at the two men behind her, and saw confused and solemn expressions on their faces.
She suddenly remembered the situation that County Magistrate Li said. The "madman" in County Magistrate Li's mouth was very similar to the situation of the old woman in front of her.
Ji Wanrong frowned and was about to take out the basic treatment equipment from the space to calm her down first, when she heard rapid footsteps and crying coming from the distance.
"Yes! Yes! She is here! She is here!"
Many people came at once, including men and women, old and young. They held torches and stared closely at Ji Wanrong and the old woman next to Ji Wanrong, their eyes full of solemnity and kindness. fear.
"We found this madman! It's no longer useful!"
"Kill her and bury her alive!"
