escape from nightmare game

"Hurry up and find a way to wake up." Shi Chen quickly cut out the heads of several people, and immediately stuffed the mobile phone back into his pocket. No."

"You still see less?" Wen Xue seemed to be in disbelief.

Shi Chen patted Wen Xue's arm, pointing back to the road to the ancestral hall, and Wen Xue followed suit.

A hundred or so steps away from the infiltrating small courtyard, turning around the small courtyard, he was completely invisible. Shi Chen's tense body gradually eased, and then he came to the mood to joke, "I have seen many corpses, all kinds of dead bodies. All kinds, complete or missing. But I have never encountered a supernatural event, think about it, this world has scared us a few times, who is not a baby anymore, and can stand such a stimulus."

Wen Xue looked at him like this, and recalled the boy who was a few years ago, with the same tone of voice, even the arc of the raised head remained the same, with a little pride, wanting to appear in the dark with a beam of light, and then be handed by him. push away.

Shi Chen's peripheral vision is very wide, and after being stared at for a long time, he tilted his head and smiled slightly: "I know I'm pretty, so you don't have to stare at me for so long."

"No, I think you're not that scared." Wen Xue hugged Shi Chen, and wiped the smile from the corner of his lips, "And after watching it a few times, I think you'll get used to it."

"Hey, don't, if you come twice more, I will definitely have a heart attack." Shi Chen retorted, and found that Wen Xue seemed to like to touch himself a lot recently.

When they first came to the village, they went through many wrong roads. They always thought that the village was relatively big. After two days of familiarization, Shi Chen has become a humanoid GPS. .

The village was very deserted. They didn't meet anyone along the way, and they didn't see anyone outside the ancestral hall.

The two walked into the ancestral hall in a big way, as if they were sightseeing, and they were not stopped at all.

The ancestral hall has only one gate, and the gray walls on all sides are built extremely high, blocking the light from coming in. Water drops drip from the eaves from time to time, and the entrance hall is so wet that a layer of water accumulates.They walked through the dry part of the corridors on both sides, passed through the hall, and came to the dormitory behind.

Shi Chen leaned forward to look, and there was a family tree of Fengmen Village on the alcove. When he opened the family tree, he got the right name. He felt a little cold and shivered.

"No, the number of people in the village does not match the family tree." Shi Chen carefully checked the tablet and the name of the family tree, his hands and feet were a little cold.

"Aren't you right?" Wen Xue didn't understand, and went to Shi Chen's side to look at the tablet.

"Crack!" and "crack" sounded in the ancestral hall one after another. The shrine seemed to be pushed from behind, and the newly placed tablet was thrown at them.

Fortunately, Shi Chen reacted in time and pulled Wen Xue away.

Looking at each other for a moment, Shi Chen said: "The village head told Huang Li before that there are hundreds of people in the village, right? The genealogy records accurately that there are 13 people, but about forty of them have died. This includes the village head. .”

"So those people wearing shrouds are really dead?" Wen Xue said.

Shi Chen looked down at the memorial tablet on the ground, held his breath for a moment, the pores of his body were tightly closed, so he could feel the coldness of his hands and feet traveling to every corner of his body with the flowing blood.

"This world can't be explained by science, so it's not surprising that we see dead people." Seeing that Shi Chen didn't speak, Wen Xue rubbed his chin and continued, "The cause of these people's deaths probably has something to do with the mountain god sacrifice. "

"It's a crime." As soon as Wen Xue's words disappeared, the dormitory suddenly walked into the dormitory with a hunched old man leaning on crutches.

They had seen this old man before, he was the guardian of the ancestral hall, and the sound of his crutches was very clear in the empty ancestral hall.The old man saw a mess in front of the shrine in the dormitory, and the tablets were scattered all over the place, so he didn't get angry and blamed them, let alone pick them up and put them in a good place.

"Old man, what happened in Fengshan Village? Why did so many people die in the younger generation? Did these people die in the past few years?" Shi Chen spoke like a machine gun, and he didn't even need to change his breath. A bunch of questions came up: "How did they die? Is it related to the mountain god sacrifice, right? Are all the dead sacrifices children from the village?"

The old man was estimated to be around seventy years old, let alone whether he has deaf ears, but his brain is like a machine that has not been used for a long time, and it is starting to rust, so after listening to a lot of words, he didn't realize it, and stared at Shi Chen for a long time. I sorted out a few questions a little bit, and talked about Fengshan Village.

It turned out that Fengshan Village would experience landslides in winter in previous years. Later, a swindling Taoist priest appeared, saying that the villagers had offended the mountain god, and he could give them a way to avoid disaster, but he had to sacrifice living animals.At first the villagers didn't believe it, but they didn't expect that a family's child was about to die, and the village chief somehow persuaded the family to use the child as a sacrifice.

Unexpectedly, in the year of the mountain god sacrifice, there was indeed no landslide. In the following year, the Taoist did not come, and there was another landslide. Since then, there has been a mountain god sacrifice, and for some reason, they insisted on using children as sacrifices.

"These people haven't been around for five or six years. They committed crimes. I persuaded them not to believe this. It's useless. Everyone is like a bewitched man. They believe in that magic stick." The old man slapped his thigh regretfully, "Eight years , How many children died in eight years. Not only children, but five or six years ago, the village head, the parents of the children, and those children who were not drawn as sacrifices, all got involved."

"In that case, why didn't the mountain god sacrifice be cancelled?" Wen Xue asked.

"It's been cancelled, it's been canceled a long time ago." While the old man was heartbroken, he seemed to be a little resentful towards the two outsiders, "I went to cancel it two years ago. At that time, the villagers who escaped for fear of being retaliated ended up dying in the In the well. Later, every year, a group of tourists who lost their way like you would come here. They followed Mo Side and prepared things for the mountain god sacrifice. Of course, the people in the village refused, but it was useless. Will be found in the well, all drowned."

"Where are those travelers? Are they dead too?" Shi Chen asked, seeing the old man nodding, "Is it a tradition for mountain god sacrifices to have their mouths sewn shut?"

The old man's eyes were cloudy, and he raised his hand to wipe the corners of his eyes with the mouth of a tiger. The whites of his bloodshot eyes were slightly red, and his face was full of wrinkles, hiding his vicissitudes of life.

"It started a few years ago?" Wen Xue said slowly, "Five or six years ago, the tradition of sutures on the mouth was also at that time."

The old man took two deep breaths, nodded heavily, and said with a sob: "Yes."

Shi Chen and Wen Xue looked at each other, and wanted to ask more questions, but it was obvious that the old man was crying so sadly, and he was too embarrassed to disturb him, so he could only stand awkwardly in the hall, waiting for the old man to finish crying before asking.

The door of the ancestral hall was tightly closed, and the rain outside did not know when it would fall.

The rain gradually obscured people's sight, causing the water in the gate garden to accumulate more and more, gradually overflowing the upper of the shoe.

Wen Xue watched the water level rise gradually, feeling restless, as if a boulder was pressing on his chest, and his breathing became heavier and heavier.

After getting close to Wen Xue, Shi Chen would often be affected by Wen Xue's mood, feeling that Wen Xue was in a state of nervousness and confusion at the moment, so he also looked towards the foyer and the central patio of the Xiangtang.

At this moment, the rain left by the eaves seems to be connected into a line, continuously pouring into the ancestral hall.

The two looked in the same direction for about three seconds, and suddenly exclaimed at the same time: "Not good."

"They seem to be drowning us?" After Shi Chen finished speaking, he hurried to help the old man up, regardless of whether the old man was willing or not, he carried him on his back and ran to the gate of the ancestral hall.

Wen Xue picked up his crutches, walked relatively fast with no weight on his back, and went to the door of the ancestral hall first, pulling the door with all his strength.

Nothing moved.

Wen Xue tried again, but it still didn't work.

The door of the ancestral hall is already very heavy, coupled with the resistance of the water inside the ancestral hall, it is not easy to open it with one person's strength.

Shi Chen put down the old man, went to the door, grabbed the handle, and said to Wen Xue, "Use your strength at the same time."

"En." Wen Xue responded, and obeyed Shi Chen's instructions very much, and the timing of cooperating with Shi Chen was just right every time.

However, the door of this ancestral hall has never been opened a crack.

In a blink of an eye, the water in the ancestral hall was almost reaching their calves. If this continues, it is inevitable that they will be trapped in the ancestral hall.Although they can swim, it is not a problem to take this old man.Moreover, the wall of the ancestral hall is at most two and a half stories high. When the water level is full, they jump from the top of the wall into the thick snow. As long as the angle is in place, they may not be injured.

But as the water level rises, no one can guarantee that something will crawl out of the water.

When the two were helpless, a familiar voice came from outside the ancestral hall.

"Strange, why is this ancestral hall closed?" Tu Wanzi knocked on the door with a pull ring, and shouted into the ancestral hall: "Is there anyone? Is there anyone in the ancestral hall?"

"Yes! Stop shouting, help us quickly, we are trapped inside." Shi Chen shouted back.

The sound of water in the ancestral hall was very loud, even through the heavy wooden door, it could be heard clearly. Tu Wanzi looked at the sky, and there was no trace of rain falling in the gloomy and snowy sky.

She immediately understood the seriousness of the matter, and quickly turned around and shouted: "Apan, come and help." Then she went to the ancestral hall and asked, "Is the door locked?"

"You guys push outside, we pull inside, try to make a crack in the door. Once the water is let out, it will open." Shi Chen's trouser legs were more than half wet, and he was trembling with cold: "Hurry up, if it's later, we will definitely open the door." Not open."

Sure enough, Shi Chen's crow mouth said, the strength of the four people failed to open the gate of the ancestral hall.

There is no rain cloud in the cloudy sky, but the water pouring in from the edge of the eaves has no tendency to stop. Instead, it flows more and more. The air is full of watery smell, and there are some algae floating on the water surface.

Shi Chen didn't react at first, but now, Shi Chen has fully understood that these are all well water.

The team couldn't afford to lose two more generals. Tu Wanzi was sweating, took off his cotton military overcoat, and shouted inside: "You hang on, I'll find an ax to open the door."

The doors of the ancestral hall are all made of thickened wooden boards, and if you want to cut a big hole to drain water, it will definitely not be completed in a short time.

Counting the time it took for Tuwanzi to go back and forth, the water level at that time was probably at least up to their chests, and the situation was not optimistic.

The water in the ancestral hall had passed Wen Xue's knees at this time. The old man was short in stature, and the water covered half of his thighs, and he could feel a lot of resistance when he moved his legs.That's it, the old man was still walking tremblingly towards the dormitory, holding on to his crutches.

Wen Xue's eyes sank, and he went over to hold the old man's arm, trying to bring him back to the gate, "The old man's house is dangerous inside, so stay with us by the gate, and we can go out later."

"Follow me." The old man waved his hand and insisted on walking in, as if he was giving his last words, and said weakly: "The first child who sewed his mouth was the daughter of a foreign woman. Since her daughter died, she lived alone in the northeast of the village. Corner, you can find it by looking over there, there are no houses around, only she lives there alone."

"Isn't she dead?" Wen Xue heard something strange, and saw that the old man had an inexplicable feeling in his heart.

"Not dead, all dead, but she is not dead." Leaning on crutches, the old man passed through the small doors on both sides, entered the dormitory, walked along the wall, knocked on the wall with his crutches from time to time, and stopped like this .

Wen Xue naturally took out his mobile phone, clicked on the camera software, took a picture of the old man, looked at the mobile phone screen, and remained silent.

Shi Chen was waiting for Tuwanzi by the door, and when he turned around, he saw Wen Xue accompanied the old man into the dormitory. Although the old man seemed to be fine, he still followed with concern, but he saw the old man beating on the other wall.

"What are you doing?" Shi Chen complained in a low voice, "There is a roof here, and when the water level rises, I won't be able to get out."

Wen Xue unlocked the phone screen and showed it to Shi Chen. Before anyone cursed, he calmly said, "The water level is dropping, and there is a water outlet by the wall."

"Fuck her..." Shi Chen swallowed the curse, thinking in his heart that he shouldn't care about the dead, "So at first he hesitated to speak, as if he had something to say to us, intending to trick all of us into the ancestral hall Come, take away with a wave of mass destruction?"

"Probably, anyway, I don't know why I suddenly changed my mind and spared our lives." Wen asked and patted Shi Chen on the shoulder, "The water level is receding quickly, I'll go and open the door."