"I was trying to save you." Chen Ge shoved the hammer back into his backpack. "The three shadows have escaped, so we've been exposed. We can't stay here any longer."
"Should we leave?" Ol 'Wei had wanted to leave already.
"Coffin Village is very quiet at night. The sound of our fight must have traveled far. I'm afraid other monsters might hear us and surround us." Chen Ge had his own plan. "The three monsters' first reaction when they saw us was to attack. From that, it's clear that the old lady's motive for luring us to the old home is not that simple. The people here are not as kind as Master Bai made them out to be."
Master Bai did not agree with Chen Ge. "I've never entered Coffin Village at night before, so I have no idea why something like this would happen. In my memory, the real villagers of Coffin Village would not do something like this. They're no different from a normal person."
"Master Bai, you haven't been to Coffin Village for many years already. You don't know what happened here, so we'd better be careful."
Chen Ge looked around and reached out to pick up the paper doll from the ground.
The doll was covered in fingernail marks, and its limbs were almost torn off. The expression on its face was one of agony.
"Zhu Fengxi?"
The name was written on the back of the doll. It was unclear what kind of paint was used to paint it, but it looked like coagulated blood.
"This name sounds familiar." Master Bai sidled to Chen Ge's side to look at the paper doll. "He seems to be one of the people who escaped from Coffin Village."
"The paper doll has the names of those who escaped." Chen Ge was reminded of the strange things that he had noticed at Lin Guan Village. Many of the old houses had a cleaver behind the door and ropes hanging from the windows.
Combined with what they had experienced at the haunted house, he had a vague idea of the purpose of this arrangement.
If a monster crawled in through the window, the rope could wrap around its head, and the cleaver behind the door could be used to ward off evil spirits or to protect itself.
The more isolated a village was, the stranger the custom. Chen Ge could only interpret it in his own way.
"The people who escaped from Coffin Village lived in fear. Could the thing they were afraid of be the ghosts inside Coffin Village? If they were captured by the ghosts, would they end up as paper dolls and be tortured? "
As for the refugees, Chen Ge had always had a question in his mind. Why did they flee Coffin Village in the first place?
What had happened in this shabby village to make the villagers flee in large numbers?
"To get to the bottom of this, I'm afraid we'll have to ask one of the villagers." Chen Ge shoved the paper doll into his pocket. "I have a plan that I wish to discuss with you two."
"Speak."
"First, let's leave the village first."
"Okay." Ol 'Wei and Master Bai nodded in agreement. They also thought the village was too dangerous.
"Second, after we leave the village, we'll search every house on the outskirts of the village. No matter what we find, we'll take them all down." Chen Ge's eyes lit up. "As long as we don't make too much noise, we'll have a chance to take them down one by one."
Chen Ge had given this a lot of thought. Every time Xu Yin consumed a ghost, the blood stain on his body would increase. If this continued, there was a high chance that he would become a real Red Specter that night!
A Red Specter was very different from a normal Specter. Without a Red Specter by his side, Chen Ge felt uneasy.
"Are you trying to destroy an entire village?" Ol 'Wei was a police officer, and he frowned when he heard Chen Ge say that.
Master Bai, on the other hand, had gotten used to Chen Ge's crazy idea.
"We'll discuss our next step outside the village." Master Bai walked ahead, holding the jade pendant in his hand.
Ol 'Wei followed behind Master Bai with a pale face. Chen Ge stood where he was.
After Xu Yin consumed the three monsters, the white cat did not return to normal. It was still scratching the backpack.
"There should be something hiding nearby." Chen Ge kept an eye out and looked around like nothing was happening.
There seemed to be a head flashing past the wall on the left side of the hall.
"The room next door?" Chen Ge did not stay long and walked out.
White lanterns hung on the sides of the street, giving off a pale light. Perhaps it was his imagination, but Chen Ge realized that the number of lanterns in the village seemed to have increased.
"What is the meaning of these lanterns? Does hanging a white lantern mean there's a ghost living inside the house? "
"Chen Ge, come here."
"In a minute." Chen Ge walked past the house next door and turned to look.
The wooden door was closed, and strangely enough, there were no white lanterns hanging on this door.
"The thing hiding on the wall earlier wasn't a ghost?"
Chen Ge maintained his distance from Master Bai and the rest, and most of his attention was on his back.
When he turned the corner, just as Chen Ge's vision was about to be blocked by the wall, he slowed down and glanced to his side.
The door had been opened, and a set of graveclothes that were as red as blood stood at the door.
To not expose himself, Chen Ge stopped for less than a second before continuing forward, but his heart was in his throat.
"The graveclothes moved on their own?"
Walking through the strange village with white lanterns, there was a bright red graveclothes trailing behind him. The night breeze blew, and strange noises came from the houses on both sides of the street. Some were crying, some were laughing, and some appeared to be chewing on something.
As the night deepened, the whole village became stranger.
"Other places are quiet at night, but this place is the complete opposite. The darker it is, the more lively it is." Chen Ge went through the ghosts that he had encountered that night in his mind. "The ghost that tried to drag me into the coffin at the valley and the family of three that I ran into at the old home seem to be different. In comparison, the ghost at the old home is much smarter."
They had only been in Coffin Village for less than half an hour, and they had already run into so many strange things. Chen Ge suspected that there was a blood door hidden inside the village, and it was a door that was completely open and unguarded!
"Slowly, I'll start searching from the outside. I'm sure I'll find the house in Fan Yu's painting."
When Chen Ge turned the next corner, he looked behind him again. The graveclothes were dragging on the ground, and they were getting closer.
"Being chased by a dead person's clothes is not a good feeling." Chen Ge hugged the recorder, and he accidentally knocked into Ol 'Wei. "Why did you stop?"
"Something's not right …" Ol 'Wei looked at the unfamiliar street, and his face paled. "The road that we came from seems to have disappeared."
"Ghosts run into walls?" Chen Ge thought about it and patted Ol 'Wei's shoulder. "It's fine, don't be afraid. Just find someone to ask for directions."
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