Chapter 195: The Story
Coal gas was turned on.
And at this moment, in the bathroom.
The window was tightly closed, unsure if it was because it had just been used not long ago.
Water vapor lingered, not yet dissipated.
The rising water vapor slowly condensed into water droplets on the ceiling.
Water droplets condensed, slowly sliding down the wall.
And at the spot where the water droplets slid down, there was just a plugged-in hair dryer.
A water droplet just dripped onto the hair dryer.
One water droplet fell on it, and nothing happened.
But as more and more water droplets dripped down.
The hair dryer suddenly sparked.
In the living room, that cat instantly bristled and growled lowly toward the kitchen.
Boom~!
Under the night sky, a violent explosion echoed through the entire village.
Ye Zhen and Old Hong were stunned, flames shooting into the sky.
“Whose coal gas wasn’t turned off?”
Someone next to Old Hong asked.
“That seems like Liu Lao Gen’s house.”
“Is Liu Lao Gen here?”
The villagers began searching for this man named Liu Lao Gen.
Ye Zhen stared at the house with rising flames, feeling something was off.
An explosion happening inside the ghost domain?
“Be careful of accidents.” Old Hong suddenly said gravely to Ye Zhen.
Ye Zhen’s eyes flashed, and he nodded, “Got it.”
At this moment, at the village entrance.
The beetle flew onto the plaque.
An explosion appeared, and a screw was blasted flying by the explosion.
Cutting through the night.
Bang.
The beetle was pierced by the screw and exploded.
The plaque moved, tilting downward, seeming about to fall.
The three with Curly Hair did not stop their escape because of the explosion.
The three headed straight for the village entrance.
The three were very fast, arriving at the village entrance in a few blinks.
And just as they were about to rush out of the village entrance.
The plaque overhead fell, dropping straight down.
“Watch out!”
Curly Hair suddenly shouted.
The Bald Man was stunned.
But it was already too late.
Bang, the plaque smashed solidly onto the Bald Man’s head.
The Bald Man staggered and fell straight to the ground.
Curly Hair and the man looked at the fallen Bald Man and the bloodstained plaque.
The two looked up, both frowning.
Why would this perfectly fine plaque fall?
“Get up quick, don’t play dead.”
It was just a plaque, it couldn’t kill anyone.
At this height, even an ordinary person hit by it would at most get their skull cracked.
Let alone a ghost controller.
Curly Hair looked at the Bald Man lying motionless on the ground and shouted.
No response, the Bald Man was like he was dead.
Curly Hair and the man immediately frowned.
Curly Hair squatted down and reached out to poke the Bald Man.
But as soon as he touched him, Curly Hair’s expression changed, and he quickly retreated.
“He’s dead!”
Curly Hair looked incredulously at the Bald Man.
“What?”
The man, hearing this result, subconsciously didn’t want to believe it.
He went to check personally.
He found he was really dead; the fierce ghost inside the Bald Man had already begun revival.
“What kind of joke is this!”
The two looked at the Bald Man’s corpse, then at the plaque.
A ghost controller killed by a plaque?
Was this reasonable?
But the fact was right before their eyes.
The Bald Man was dead.
A sense of unknown fear spread in their hearts.
“Never mind him, let’s go!”
The man suppressed the chill in his heart.
He turned and quickly walked toward outside the village.
Curly Hair was somewhat silent, turning back with a grave look toward the village.
That knife was left here.
The two quickly headed outside the village.
This place had become extremely eerie.
The two soon disappeared at the village entrance, destination unknown.
Less than five minutes after the two left.
The Bald Man suddenly twitched.
Crack crack crack~!
The Bald Man made eerie sounds, slowly standing up in an eerie posture.
The Bald Man stood up again.
His numb, lifeless eyes showed no emotion.
It stood in place for a while, then walked stiffly in one direction, disappearing into the darkness.
“…”
“Lin Qian, that thing seems to be coming more frequently.”
“I feel it; now even if we don’t speak, that thing will come find us.”
“It’s coming.”
Tap tap tap~!
Urgent footsteps sounded.
Eerie green candlelight appeared.
The two quickly closed their eyes.
They didn’t know what had happened, but that ghost’s patrols were becoming more frequent.
So they knew something had definitely changed.
Unsure if it was something Ye Zhen had caused.
In the village, at a certain moment, all appliances failed.
Darkness completely enveloped the entire village.
Supernatural forces began to change reality.
Buildings became dilapidated.
Becoming like they had been abandoned for decades.
Ye Zhen suddenly stopped.
A feeling of unease enveloped his heart.
“Old man, something’s about to happen; the ghost might start killing.”
Ye Zhen scanned the surroundings; that uneasy feeling grew heavier.
Hearing this, Old Hong didn’t hesitate and directly took out three sticks of black incense, lighting them.
Then he found a middle-aged man in the crowd.
“Old Huo, come, take the incense, lead everyone out of the village; after leaving, do as I said before.”
Old Huo was around forty, looking very honest.
“Hong Ye, what about you?” Old Huo asked anxiously.
“Don’t worry about me; with these three sticks of incense, you can leave the village.”
“Remember, no matter who it is, don’t call anyone’s name; if you hear someone calling from behind, don’t look back or pay attention, just keep walking.”
“Old Hong, come with us!”
A woman said.
“Shut up, I know what I’m doing.”
“Go quickly.”
Old Hong stuffed the three sticks of incense into Old Huo’s hand.
Old Huo hesitated to speak but ultimately said nothing.
He gripped the incense tightly and turned, quickly heading toward the village entrance.
Someone wanted to say something else.
But they had all heard what Ye Zhen said earlier.
They weren’t fools.
The villagers continued walking forward.
Ye Zhen didn’t move; he watched Old Hong.
After the villagers left, Old Hong lit another stick of black incense.
“The ghost can’t leave the village, I know; the more people, the faster they die.”
“So, the people of the village must leave first.”
“Young man, you can go too; after all, this is our village’s matter.”
“I’ll stay behind myself to keep the fierce ghost inside the village.”
Ye Zhen looked at Old Hong.
He always felt schemed by this old man.
“Old man, you’ve figured out I can’t leave here?”
Ye Zhen knew clearly that because his teammates were still here, he couldn’t leave.
And he had to ensure this old man survived.
Otherwise, he absolutely wouldn’t know his two teammates’ locations in the short term.
Old Hong said nothing.
He looked at the incense in his hand, silent for a long time before suddenly speaking and telling a story.
“Two years ago.”
“A major incident happened inside our village.”
“There was a thug in the village who teamed up with developers from outside to plan to demolish Coffin Village.”
“Of course, no one would agree.”
“But no one could stop them.”
“The village couldn’t hold them off.”
“They started with the ancestral hall first, because the ancestral hall was the village’s symbol, the village’s core.”
“We tried to stop them, but failed.”
“The ancestral hall was demolished halfway, and it was because of the ancestral hall being demolished.”
“That a ghost appeared in the village.”
“That thug’s whole family died that very night, their corpses hung at the village entrance, heads split in two.”
“The developer had an accident too; everyone involved in demolishing the ancestral hall had accidents.”
“The developer was very scared; after all, in one night, his family was all dead, leaving only him.”
“No choice, he could only come find me.”
“But the ghost had already appeared and started killing; my incense was useless.”
“I had no method either.”
“At that time, I thought the village was done for.”
“But unexpectedly, that ghost carrying the lantern appeared, but it didn’t take away the ghost in the village; instead, it left here.”
“I didn’t know at the time; it was only after that ghost returned that I found out.”
“That ghost brought back another ghost; I don’t know where that ghost was brought from.”
“But that ghost dealt with the one in the village.”
“After dealing with it, it was drawn away again.”
“I knew what was going on then, and quickly helped guide it to detain that ghost.”
At this point, Old Hong looked at Ye Zhen, whose expression was changing.
“So, every time the lantern appears and brings back a ghost, I pay attention.”
“The moment I saw you, I didn’t realize anything.”
“But when you said the ghost brought back this time was your teammate.”
“I realized something big would happen in the village, and you and your teammate might be the method to handle this big event.”
Ye Zhen: “…”
At this moment, he suddenly missed Fang Shiming and Lin Qian.
