Chapter 197: Person In Charge Of Da Xiang City
The villagers, led by Old Huo, safely walked out of the village without incident.
Then they also called the police.
The person in charge of Da Xiang City told them to find a safe place to stay, and people would be sent over soon to handle it.
At this moment, they were in front of a threshing ground before an old courtyard.
Dozens of villagers gathered together.
They weren’t too panicked.
Although somewhat uneasy.
But not a single one of the three incense sticks had been used yet.
They were very safe.
This kind of thing wasn’t the first time they had encountered it.
Every person living inside Coffin Village had prepared themselves to die at any moment.
“Count the number of people.”
Old Huo held up the incense and looked at the crowd.
There were many people, dozens, but obviously not all of them.
Coffin Village, all together around two hundred people, excluding the young people who went out, at least one hundred thirty or forty.
But now there were only dozens.
Someone started counting the numbers.
“Sixty-six, almost half didn’t make it out.”
Old Huo exhaled, “The number is still auspicious.”
Hearing this, the others grinned, “Indeed auspicious.”
“After this incident is over, I’ll at least laugh at those who didn’t run out.”
“Yeah, especially that household that exploded.”
“Rebuilding the house will probably be a real ordeal.”
“No joke, if the booze isn’t plentiful enough, I won’t help him rebuild.”
Laughter erupted.
Not the slightest fear of death.
Old Huo shook his head and gazed toward the now invisible Coffin Village.
The sky today was a bit dark.
Beep beep~!
“Old Huo, what’s the situation?”
“This time it’s real, right?”
Lights suddenly lit up.
It was headlights.
In the darkness, light suddenly appeared, causing everyone to instinctively raise their hands to shield their eyes.
But they quickly adapted.
Old Huo slightly narrowed his eyes.
Struggling to make out the figure.
The voice was very familiar.
A young man wearing a Meituan delivery helmet got off the vehicle.
Then he calmly lit a cigarette.
“Detective Huo.”
Seeing the arrival, Old Huo fell somewhat silent.
The other party had come directly, and was even riding an electric scooter.
At any other time, they would definitely suspect how the other party had ridden the electric scooter in.
But now…
Some things, everyone knew full well.
They had kept it hidden before because nothing had happened.
Now that something had happened, it definitely couldn’t be hidden anymore.
And it was they who had called the police.
“Tell me, your Hong Long Village—no, it should be said Coffin Village—what exactly have you been hiding.”
The young man stared at these villagers.
These villagers were very calm, even looking at him with curious gazes.
He had known from beginning to end that Coffin Village had a problem, a big problem.
But the people here were very stubborn, not allowing outsiders to help.
Before, he had come too.
But it was very strange here; he couldn’t detect any abnormality.
These guys wouldn’t say anything either.
He had no way; harsh interrogation, well, that was a good method, but it didn’t work.
They just wouldn’t talk, not afraid of him at all.
As the saying goes, the people don’t fight against officials, but you can’t handle crafty villagers.
“This time we might really need your help; the thing suppressed in Coffin Village has escaped.”
“Hong Ye told us to leave first; they’re still inside the village.”
“Ghost?”
Huo Tan asked.
Old Huo didn’t hide it this time.
“Yes, ghost. Coffin Village has been suppressing a ghost from the Republic of China era until now.”
“We didn’t tell you before because Hong Ye could handle it.”
“But now, it can’t be handled.”
Hong Ye, he knew him, Old Hong, stubborn as an ox.
He hadn’t dealt with Old Hong personally, but his subordinates had.
Very stubborn, stubbornly beyond words.
“You’ve encountered a ghost?”
Huo Tan stared at Old Huo and asked.
Old Huo shook his head, “No.”
“Got it.”
Looked like he couldn’t ask anything more.
“Since you chose to call the police and I came, the ghost inside the village, I will definitely detain and take away.”
“The abnormality here will also be uprooted by me.”
Huo Tan said calmly.
He looked at these villagers.
Hearing this, the villagers’ expressions changed slightly.
Old Huo’s expression also changed slightly.
“Can’t…”
“You have no choice.” Huo Tan interrupted Old Huo.
“Since I’ve come here and your hidden danger has erupted.”
“Sorry, as long as it’s a supernatural event and I see it, I absolutely won’t let it be.”
Old Huo looked at Huo Tan complicatedly.
“Huo Tan…”
“Huo San, don’t play the emotional card.”
“You know my duty.”
“I’m at least your ancestor!”
Old Huo wanted to make one last struggle.
Huo Tan exhaled a puff of smoke and tugged at the corner of his mouth.
“Before, I didn’t interfere here because it was temporarily stable and hadn’t posed a danger to Da Xiang City.”
“But now…”
“Da Xiang City is on my shoulders; I can’t put Da Xiang City in danger because of you people who should have died long ago.”
“Your lives compared to Da Xiang City are not worth mentioning.”
“Besides, don’t forget, your descendants are also in Da Xiang City; they finally walked out of here as living people—do you want them to die?”
Old Huo’s expression fluctuated; he looked deeply at Huo Tan, “You knew long ago?”
“Heh, what do you think I relied on to sit in the position of person in charge of Da Xiang City?”
“Strength?”
“Naturally that’s true, but brains are also important.”
“For a timed bomb like you, if I didn’t understand it clearly, I wouldn’t dare come over.”
The villagers stared fixedly at Huo Tan.
Expressions varied.
Anger, complexity, relief, confusion, and hatred.
Huo Tan was very calm, “Alright, that’s it. You all better behave, or else I won’t mind resolving you here.”
Old Huo’s expression changed.
Some villagers swallowed upon hearing this.
Huo Tan turned, mounted the electric scooter.
He twisted the throttle, and a cold aura emerged.
The electric scooter’s headlight instantly turned green.
The change in light made the crowd feel uncomfortable again.
Huo Tan ignored it, twisted the throttle, and the electric scooter slowly departed.
In the blink of an eye, the scooter was far away.
Then it disappeared into the darkness.
Hong Long Village.
At the village entrance, Huo Tan stopped.
Seeing the village shrouded in a brown haze, his gaze flickered slightly.
“Ghost Domain? Your village has hidden something remarkable.”
On the plaque at the village entrance were carved the three big characters for Coffin Village.
The previous Hong Long Village had long vanished.
Not even pretending anymore?
All the better.
“Big sis, Ghost Domain has appeared; I’m cutting communications here to avoid supernatural invasion.”
Huo Tan tapped the satellite positioning mobile phone on his chest.
“Okay, be careful.”
Huo Tan smiled, looking at the green face that appeared on the headlight screen.
“I know.”
The satellite positioning mobile phone communication was cut off.
Huo Tan pressed one hand on that black green face, his eyes fixed on the village ahead.
“Time to work, time to work; finish early, get back to the job early!”
