Chen Ge's group looked at the man before them with different expressions.
"Are you telling the truth?" Master Bai was the most shocked. He and his father had been to Coffin Village a long time ago. At the time, he only thought the villagers looked weird, but they were no different from normal people. He did not expect the village to be hiding something so scary.
"I'm telling the truth." The man took several steps forward and stood at the door. "I can hide all of this, but I'm telling you everything. That is my sincerity."
Inside the village filled with coffins, a deformed man in graveclothes said some strange things.
Master Bai and Ol 'Wei looked at each other before turning to look at Chen Ge in unison.
"There's no need to rush. I want to ask him a question first." Chen Ge signaled for the man to come in. "How should I address you?"
"You can call me Ah Qing."
"Okay." Chen Ge dragged the hammer and walked to the man's side. "Can you save us?"
"Yes, I know the way, and I have the power." The man was in a hurry like he did not have much time left.
"Since you know the way out and have the power to leave, why don't you take the children and leave?" From Chen Ge's perspective, they were just using each other. Since Ah Qing had come to him voluntarily, it meant that there was something about this outsider that he could use. "You're not afraid of being chased by ghosts, are you? So, you want us to attract the ghost's attention? "
"I've never thought that before!" Ah Qing quickly waved his hands. He had been trapped inside the village and had little contact with the outside world. His expression changed drastically, and he did not know how to hide his real thoughts.
"If not to lure the ghost away, then why are you looking for us?"
"For the first month after the baby is born, the Zhu woman will personally inspect the baby. If they are normal, she will take them away, but there are exceptions." Ah Qing counted on his fingers. "Every year, on the day the female ghost jumps into the well to commit suicide, the village will hold a ritual. The Zhu woman will carry all the babies born in the past three months into a room and have the female ghost choose a suitable sacrifice."
"Let the female ghost choose?" Chen Ge started to hesitate. The female ghost that Ah Qing mentioned should be the scariest Red Specter!
"Today is the day the female ghost will jump into the well. The sacrificial ceremony is about to begin. This is our chance! During the sacrificial ceremony, everyone will gather together to awaken the female ghost. We just need to sneak into the room and steal the baby before the female ghost wakes up. Then, we can escape from the village! "
"You wish." Chen Ge interrupted the man. "The female ghost that you speak of can wipe out an entire village on her own. Even if the few of us manage to escape, we won't be able to survive."
"This is the best we can do." Ah Qing's fingers dug into his flesh. "The female ghost's hatred is only directed at this village. She has no interest in outsiders."
"Is that so?"
Ah Qing nodded with difficulty. "Just like how she didn't harm the Zhu woman, I've never seen a female ghost attack an outsider. When you find my child, you can take him and leave. I will return to the village. If you accidentally expose yourselves, I will lie about seeing you and lead them in the opposite direction. "
"But the problem is, your child is from this village. If we take him with us, we might be targeted by the ghost as well."
"If the ghost catches up to you …" Ah Qing released his clenched fists and looked like he had accepted his fate. "Then you can put down my child and leave on your own."
At this point, Master Bai felt sorry for him. "Why don't we just agree with him? After all, we can't leave now."
"There are many loopholes in this man's story." Ol 'Wei stood before the group. "He said that the female ghost won't harm outsiders, but we've only been here for a short while, and we've already run into danger several times. I think he's just taking a gamble. If we're really caught up to by the ghost, both us and his child will be in danger. "
"The ghosts that you've run into in the village have nothing to do with the female ghost." Ah Qing sighed. "There are fewer and fewer living people in the village, and there are more and more incidents of demonic energy. This is not something that I can explain in a short amount of time. I can only give you a summary. This village has ten percent living people, ten percent dead people, and eighty percent ghosts. "
Ol 'Wei wanted to ask more, but Ah Qing put the graveclothes back on. "The ceremony is about to start. If we miss this chance, we won't be able to leave!"
"Let's go with him. It's not safe to stay here. The ghost baby knows our location." Chen Ge shoved the hammer into his backpack.
"Er … why don't you leave your backpack here?" Ah Qing's voice came from under the graveclothes. "The graveclothes inside the coffin can interfere with the ghost's judgment, but your backpack is too eye-catching."
"It's fine." Chen Ge took out the recorder and walked toward the bedroom.
"Where are you going? We're running out of time. "
"I'm going to get the graveclothes. It won't take long." Chen Ge closed the bedroom door and pressed the button on the recorder.
One minute later, Chen Ge walked out from the room. He found two graveclothes inside the two bedrooms.
"Keep them with you. You can consider whether to wear them or not." Chen Ge handed the graveclothes to Ol 'Wei and Master Bai.
Master Bai had the jade pendant to protect him, so Chen Ge was not that worried. However, Ol 'Wei was more worried. He did not want anything to happen to the police officer when he was about to retire.
"You found them inside the coffin?" Ah Qing looked at the graveclothes in Chen Ge's hands. There were still scratches on them. The person before him was perfectly fine, so the scratches could only have been left by the original owner of the graveclothes.
"Yes, I saw that no one wanted it, so I picked it up." Chen Ge smiled. "Don't worry, if there's a chance, I'll return it."
Ah Qing averted his eyes, not daring to meet Chen Ge's gaze. This person gave him a special feeling.
He was standing in the deepest part of the darkness, but he was filled with power and hope, like the sun was rising beneath his feet.
"Follow me closely. You two better put on the graveclothes, or we might run into ghosts."
Ah Qing walked ahead alone. He stuck to the wall on the left, and every time he turned a corner, he would turn toward the left street. After about six minutes, different buildings appeared on both sides of the street.
"We've escaped from Ghost Hits Wall?" Wearing the graveclothes, Ol 'Wei did not look well.
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