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The air was silent, no one gave an answer, and the discussion ended unpleasantly.

The tall and thin man was much braver than Huangmao and Chen Hao. He went to the ancestral hall before eight o'clock after dinner.

Three pitch-black coffins were lined up in a row, casting their shadows diagonally on the ground. The ancestral hall was very quiet, and Anping was still kneeling on the ground as motionless as he had been during the day.

The tall and thin man thought, it’s already the third day, this little kid’s knees are really strong.

When I got closer, I found a set of bowls and chopsticks under the steps. This was the food brought by the woman named Huang Xi. The food in the bowl was now empty, without a single grain of rice left.

The tall and thin man felt a little relieved to have a living person breathing. He opened his mouth and tried to get some information from Anping, but the other party was like a wooden man. No matter what he said, Anping did not respond.

Time passed minute by minute, Anping climbed up by supporting himself on the ground, and limped to the altar to change the incense and candles.

The tall and thin man was not surprised by this. After all, he had seen Anping change several times just now.

But this time it was different. After Anping changed the incense and candles, he turned around and walked out of the yard. The tall and thin man quickly blocked the other person's way.

"Where are you going?"

Anping didn't reply, but just stood there and looked up at him expressionlessly.

"Are you going home?"

As he spoke, the tall and thin man remembered the rule they had compiled that the village would be in danger at 10 o'clock in the evening. He quickly took out his mobile phone to check, and the time jumped to 9:30 in the evening.

The tall and thin man was stunned for a moment, then became ecstatic.

He found a way to keep watch safely.

He also knew why Huangmao died.

The tall and thin man grabbed Anping's shoulders and pulled her back, ordering: "You can't leave today."

Anping did not resist and allowed the tall and thin man to take her to the ancestral hall.

"You stay here with me tonight. Once we're safe tonight, I'll buy you something delicious tomorrow." The tall and thin man was very excited and his tone became relaxed.

Fortunately, he arrived at the ancestral hall early. If he had arrived at the right time like Huangmao and Chen Hao, he would have missed Wang Anping.

Since it is known that the female ghost at night is most likely Liu Xiangmei, and he now has Wang Anping as a hostage, Liu Xiangmei will probably not dare to act rashly in front of him.

The tall and thin man, feeling that he had a safe night, couldn't help but relax his guard and was even in the mood to hum a tune.

Just as he stepped out of the ancestral hall and changed the incense and candles, he looked up again and found that Wang Anping, who had been sitting quietly in the hall, had suddenly disappeared.

Fear rose from his heart, and the tall and thin man's face turned pale in an instant. His heart seemed to be grabbed by someone, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Where is the person? Wasn't he here just now? How come he disappeared in the blink of an eye?

The tall and thin man turned around and looked at the gate of the ancestral hall which he had tightly closed. The child must not have been able to run far in such a short time and must still be inside the ancestral hall.

The tall and thin man turned on the flashlight on his cell phone and shone it around.

He didn't hear any footsteps just now, maybe the child was hiding in some corner of the ancestral hall.

Thinking of this, the tall and thin man took a few steps into the ancestral hall and began to look for the child.

After lifting the tablecloth on the altar, the tall and thin man squatted down and took a picture with his mobile phone. However, there was nothing under the table and no one was there at all.

The tall and thin man frowned, feeling confused.

Then he went behind the door to check, but still didn't see anyone.

"Could it be that he has quietly run to some corner of the yard and hid there?" the tall and thin man muttered to himself.

Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly heard a slight buzzing sound from above his head. Looking up, he saw that the originally bright light bulb was now flickering with a strange light, as if it could go out at any time.

A chill went up his spine, making the tall and thin man shiver.

At this moment, a pale hand reached out silently from behind him and gently placed on his shoulder.

The tall and thin man was struck by lightning, his body stiffened like a sculpture, unable to move at all. His eyes widened, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and his heart was beating wildly.

"Are you looking for me?"

The tall and thin man was dead, with a clear circle of pinch marks on his neck. Like Huangmao and Chen Hao, he was also disemboweled and died in a very miserable way.

Lu Changqing and three others stood far away outside the crowd and watched the village chief have the tall and thin man's body carried into the coffin. It was not because they disliked the tall and thin man's ugly death, but the retribution for the men in the village had begun.

Overnight, pustules began to grow on the exposed skin of these men, one after another, densely covering their bodies. They were red and swollen, and emitted a faint fishy and smelly odor.

It was an indescribable stench, like a mixture of rotting corpses and spoiled food.

Lu Changqing and the other three were about to have a claustrophobia attack because of what they saw.

The middle-aged man got goosebumps all over his body. "What are those things growing on their bodies? Why are they so disgusting?"

Xin Yi said: "It should be Liu Xiangmei who cursed the men."

"How big of a grudge do you have to torture someone like this?"

The middle-aged man rubbed his arms and looked at the men walking with their legs apart. He felt pain all over his body.

"It must be a blood feud. Now it is certain that the child in Liu Xiangmei's belly must be from a villager, and these men must have bullied her." Xin Yi said, pointing at all the male villagers in the ancestral hall.

The middle-aged man suddenly realized, "If this is true, then everything makes sense. Wang Erzhu died, and Liu Xiangmei lost her husband, so the men in the village went to her house to bully her. The women in the village are cowardly and can't control their men, so they take their anger out on Liu Xiangmei and must have treated her badly.

Especially when Liu Xiangmei got pregnant, you can imagine how much those women hated her, but there were no children in the village, so the men would definitely try every means to keep the baby in Liu Xiangmei's belly. Unfortunately, Liu Xiangmei had a difficult delivery and had no choice but to have a caesarean section to take the baby. Liu Xiangmei died tragically, and the baby also died.

After Liu Xiangmei died, her resentment was so strong that she turned into a ghost and is now seeking revenge on the villagers."

After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he looked at everyone excitedly, hoping to get approval from Xin Yi and the others.

Lu Changqing took out a yellowed piece of paper from his trouser pocket and handed it to Xin Yi, "Take a look at this."

Xin Yi took the paper and asked in confusion: "What is this?"

"You'll know when you see it."

Xin Yi unfolded the paper, and Lin Yan and the middle-aged man both leaned over.

"How could this happen!" the middle-aged man exclaimed, raised his head and glanced at the villagers in the distance. Seeing that he had not attracted their attention, he lowered his voice and whispered, "Where are you from?"

Lu Changqing raised his chin and pointed in the direction of the village chief. "It was torn out of a book under his pillow on his bed."

Xin Yi was surprised, "When did you go to his room?"

"I sneaked into his room and found it last night when his wife was cooking and he was in the bathroom."

"Isn't his bedroom locked?"

"I used wire to open the lock."

"Do you know how to do this?"

"Now we shouldn't dwell on the fact that I have lock-picking skills." Lu Changqing pointed at the page of paper. "Your analysis just now was wrong. They did want to save Liu Xiangmei's child, but they didn't want the child to be born. They wanted her to die in the womb."

Lin Yan asked: "Why didn't you tell us last night?"

"I found the clue. I'll hand it over if I want to. What can you do to me if I don't want to hand it over?" Lu Changqing rolled his eyes, took the page back from Xin Yi's hand, looked at Lin Yan sarcastically and said, "Besides, what does it matter if I say it? Can you still eliminate the resentment of the female ghost? Or do you think this matter can help that thin guy spend last night safely?"

Xin Yi looked at Lu Changqing, "I've wanted to ask you for a long time, do you already know how to keep watch safely?"

Lu Changqing folded the paper again and said in a very annoying way, "So what if you know, so what if you don't know?"

"If you knew, why didn't you tell us?" The middle-aged man said unhappily, "We are teammates, and you're just going to watch us die?"

"It's okay for me to tell you." Lu Changqing shook the paper folded into a small square in his hand and said, "Anyway, you know the secret hidden in the village."

"How much do you know?"

Lu Changqing smiled at Xin Yi and said, "Whatever you want to know, I can tell you. For example, the method of keeping watch is actually very simple."

"Combined with the village's customs and story background, as you said before, a woman's tablet is not qualified to enter the ancestral hall, so how can her body be placed in the ancestral hall?"

Lu Changqing pointed to a "1" with his finger and said, "There is only one answer, that is, the villagers used it to suppress Liu Xiangmei."

"Don't think this is feudal superstition. I said that it should be combined with the background of the story. Since the ancestral hall can suppress the female ghost, does that mean it is absolutely safe to hide in the ancestral hall?"

"The first three have demonstrated to us that it is not safe at all. So what should we do? Think about the two baskets of incense sticks. Are they really placed there to light Liu Xiangmei?"

Lu Changqing spread his arms and said exaggeratedly: "So - a large ancestral hall placed there, is it really useless?"

Now that she has been prompted to this point, no matter how dumb Xin Yi is, she can guess how to keep watch safely.

"You mean that when we keep vigil, we shouldn't light the incense and candles for Liu Xiangmei, but burn them for the tablets in the ancestral hall?"

"Congratulations, the answer is correct!"

Lin Yan looked at Lu Changqing suspiciously, "How do you know so much? Did Wang Anping tell you?"

"I just sent her a few meals, why did she tell me?"

"Then how do you know this?"

"What do you care about me?" Lu Changqing rolled his eyes. "Can't I be smart, thoughtful, bold, and careful?"

After Lu Changqing finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the village chief's house. Seeing this, Xin Yi hurriedly chased after him.

"where are you going?"

"The weather is going to change. I have to go back and prepare my weapons."

"What do you mean?"

Lu Changqing stopped and turned to Xin Yi and said, "We have almost solved the secrets hidden in the village. The ban will be lifted soon and the hunting time will begin soon. It will be too late if we don't prepare now."

Steamed buns were being steamed in the village chief's kitchen. Lu Changqing took a few and put them into the space, then took out a woodcutter and an axe from the village chief's house.

Xin Yi followed Lu Changqing and saw her squatting on the ground sharpening an axe. "What are you doing with the knife?"

Lu Changqing stopped what he was doing and patiently explained to Xin Yi: "After the APP unlocks the ban on ghosts, where do you think we can hide? So I suggest you prepare some dry food and water as well as weapons for self-defense."

"Have you forgotten that we can't harm ghosts?"

"Who told you that I sharpened this axe to fight ghosts? We can hide in the ancestral hall, but the villagers can't?"

Xin Yi reacted suddenly and hurriedly separated from Lin Yan and the middle-aged man to carry water and dry food and look for weapons.

The few of them packed up quickly. Lu Changqing took the weapons and said that she was afraid of being discovered by the villagers, so she took them away and hid them secretly behind the ancestral hall.

After she got out of the door, where Xin Yi and the other two couldn't see her, she threw all the axe, kitchen knife, chopping knife, hoe and other things into the space and walked towards the ancestral hall in a swagger.

When she met the village chief and other villagers who were returning home on the way, she greeted them very calmly.

Lu Changqing dragged two baskets of incense and candles into the ancestral hall by himself, and then took out the hidden weapons and steamed buns from the space.

After Xin Yi and the others arrived with dry food and water, they closed the door of the ancestral hall from the inside.

Xin Yi stood under the eaves, looking at the closed door. The incense and candles on the altar next to it had long been extinguished.

"Are we just going to wait like this?"

Lu Changqing asked back, "What else?"

"Will all the villagers die?"

Lu Changqing shook the axe in his hand and said coldly: "You are a wicked person, you deserve to die."

The middle-aged man felt that Lu Changqing's words were a bit serious. "Didn't they just kill Liu Xiangmei? They can't be considered to have committed a heinous crime."

"Oh, you're still protecting him?" Lu Changqing sneered, "Do you know how many evil things the villagers have done? Take that Li Wen, for example. Why are the men in the village so polite to him? Is it because his family has a little money to buy bread?"

"What else could it be?"

"Didn't Xin Yi say that before? That brick kiln is a tower for abandoned babies."

Xin Yi said: "I was just guessing at the time."

"Congratulations, your guess is correct. I don't need to tell you what kind of retribution a village that kills baby girls will eventually face, right?"

Xin Yi's mind worked very quickly, and the words almost blurted out, "Are you saying that Li Wen is trafficking women in this village to buy wives?"

The middle-aged man said: "That's not necessarily true. Maybe Li Wen is really good at making money."

Lu Changqing didn't want to waste words with this man, and said with a dull tone: "Who knows, he's going to die anyway."

"You did it on purpose." Lin Yan had no expression on his face, and his tone was inarticulate. "You told us this on purpose so that the app could unlock the restrictions on the ghosts in advance and let her kill the villagers earlier."

"Why? Do you still want to seek justice for them?"

"But if you do this, we will be in trouble." Lin Yan pointed at the two baskets of incense and candles and said, "There are still four days left. This amount of incense and candles is not enough."

"Who said we're going to stay here for seven days?"

Xin Yi took out her phone. "The app clearly says that we need to complete a seven-day vigil mission?"

Lu Changqing shook his head and said with a relaxed look: "Change your thinking. If we send the ghosts away in advance, then we don't have to guard them, right?"