"There are other outsiders?" The main reason Chen Ge's group entered the village was to find Fan Yu and Jiang Ling. Now that they heard about other outsiders, they perked up.
"Before you arrived, two children accidentally wandered into the village because they got lost," Ah Qing said. "A boy and a girl. The boy was very thin and not tall, and the girl looked about four or five. She looked like a porcelain doll, very cute."
"Fan Yu and Jiang Ling!" Hearing Ah Qing's description, Chen Ge confirmed his suspicion.
He grabbed Ah Qing's graveclothes. "Where are they now? Take me to them! "
"I'm afraid not." Ah Qing tried to move Chen Ge's hand away, but after several tries, he realized that this man who did not look very muscular was surprisingly strong. "When the two children entered the village, they were seen by the other villagers. Then the Zhu woman appeared and personally arranged a place for them to stay. She took the girl with her."
"Jiang Ling was taken away?" Chen Ge was startled.
"I heard that the Zhu woman planned to let the girl join the ritual. At the time, I thought that was weird. This is the first time in decades that an outsider has come to participate in the ritual." Ah Qing struggled for a long time before giving up. He allowed Chen Ge to grab his shoulder and grit his teeth in pain.
Could it be that the woman has seen through Jiang Ling's background? Is she planning to give Jiang Ling to the ghost? Chen Ge started to think. Zhu Xinrou is right beside Jiang Ling, so she wouldn't let Jiang Ling get hurt. There are only two possibilities. Either the Zhu woman has a way to suppress Zhu Xinrou, or Jiang Ling volunteered to join the ritual.
Fan Yu had left two words for Chen Ge on the painting — go home. There had to be a reason why they had returned to Coffin Village that night. Coincidentally, the Society of Strange Tales had made their move on the same day, and their target was Jiang Ling.
Everything was connected to a single point, and the source of the secret was inside Coffin Village.
Other than the natives of Coffin Village, we have to be careful of the Society of Strange Tales.
Chen Ge let go and patted Ah Qing lightly on his shoulder. "If possible, try your best to bring that thin boy out."
"Understood." Ah Qing rubbed his shoulders. "When the ceremony starts, the whole village will be affected. The ghost walls will be automatically broken, and the things that are sleeping in the corners will wake up. You will see a side of this village that no one knows about."
He spoke very fast, and when he spoke, he kept looking outside. "There are too many dead people in the village, and the Yin energy is too thick. It has given birth to all kinds of evil spirits. They will slowly awaken with the sacrifice. You have to be careful not to provoke them. Once you've stolen the child, leave immediately."
"You've said so much. Where are we going to steal children?"
"The ceremony will start from the ancestral hall at the center of the village. All the children will be placed in the ancestral hall, and then the procession will head to the well where the female ghost committed suicide. All you need to do is enter the ancestral hall when the procession leaves, find a baby with a copper coin around his neck and take him away."
Ah Qing paused. He took out a piece of cloth from his pocket hesitantly. "The layout of the village is very complicated. Some of the roads have monsters and ghosts hiding at the end. If you want to leave, follow the route on this cloth."
He handed Chen Ge the cloth that was covered in various lines. "Please take my child with you and leave this place!"
After giving a few reminders, Ah Qing left in a hurry. Chen Ge looked at the cloth in his hand. It was a map of Coffin Village. There were more than twenty places in the village that were marked with red crosses.
"He's so confident in us to give us the map so early. Isn't he afraid that we'll leave his child behind and run away?" Master Bai took the map and studied it. The more he looked at it, the more shocked he became. He had been to many places on the map when he was young, but those were all during the day.
Chen Ge shook his head. "This person has planned this for a long time. He wouldn't make such a stupid mistake. This is probably a fake map. The real one is probably with the baby."
In the time it took to say those words, the streets outside changed.
The white lanterns were all extinguished, and the village was enveloped in darkness. In the silence, someone's door was pushed open, and a woman's voice rang out in the darkness.
She seemed to be calling someone's name, trying to wake something up.
The doors were pushed open, and footsteps echoed down the street. Deformed villagers wearing masks walked out from their houses.
They carried the white lanterns, and none of them spoke. With their heads lowered, they walked past Chen Ge's old home and stopped about ten meters away.
The woman's voice became clearer, and this strange village dropped its disguise.
The darkness of the night poured down like mercury, making it hard for people to breathe. Blood stains and stains appeared on the clean walls of the village, and the ground was full of scratches and slashes from knives and shovels.
The things that had happened in this village were a hundred times bloodier and scarier than what Ah Qing had described. He had probably only told the part of the story that he knew.
The Ghost Hits Wall had been broken, and an old ancestral hall had appeared at the intersection of the street. Next to the ancestral hall stood a large red coffin!
The woman's voice had stopped. The deformed villagers stood before the ancestral hall like soulless puppets. Their heads were lowered, and they held the lanterns. No one spoke, and the place was deathly silent.
Creak …
The door of a two-story wooden building next to the ancestral hall was pushed open. The building was the tallest building in the village, and it was the most well-preserved building.
Cold air drifted out from the dark room. Several minutes later, a woman in a bright red dress walked out.
Her face was pale, and her lips were purple. She looked like a frozen corpse.
Her eyes scanned all the villagers, and she walked to the ancestral hall. She kowtowed three times before the coffin and spoke in the local dialect.
After she finished, several villagers walked out from the crowd with bamboo baskets.
The baskets were covered with a layer of cloth, and the sound of babies crying came from under the cloth.
The woman walked past them one by one. She pulled back the cloth and inspected the baskets one by one.
When she passed the fourth basket, the woman paused for a long time before she opened her mouth to say something.
The person holding the fourth basket was the masked Ah Qing. His arms, one long and one short, were shaking like the woman had said something very scary to him.
After inspecting all the children, the woman took out a pair of scissors that were covered in blood from her sleeve.
She stood beside the coffin and had the first villager place the basket in the middle of the ancestral hall. Then, she walked into the ancestral hall alone with the scissors.
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