Chapter 319

“Why are you so intent on jinxing us?” Master Bai still minded these things, but Chen Ge was the complete opposite .

“It’ll be fine . Just follow behind me . ” He walked through the courtyard with the hammer and entered the main room .

The layout of the old house was very interesting . There were bedrooms on each side of the main room, but there were no beds . Instead, each bedroom had a coffin in it .

“Have you noticed something peculiar about these houses?” Chen Ge leaned against the hammer and scanned his surroundings .

“You mean the coffins inside the house?” Master Bai pushed the door open through his clothes; he did not want to touch anything there .

Chen Ge shook his head . “Not that .

“The houses don’t seem to have an oven or a fire starter . “

Ol’ Wei looked at Master Bai . If Chen Ge had not brought that up, they would not have noticed this problem .

“The fire starter is the place where people a light fire and cook meals . Without that, how are they supposed to eat?” Chen Ge sat on the chair, and his tone slowed down, “Or do the villagers not need to eat? Is this a dead person’s home? If that is true, then it would make sense to have coffins instead of beds . “

His voice was calm, but it sent chills up his two listeners’ spines .

“The white lanterns, white paper on the door, coffin in the room, could this whole village be a Ghost Village?”

Chen Ge thought back to the information he found when he was building the Minghun scenario .

“There was a story about a massacre that happened to a village deep in the mountains during the war period . Several years later, people got lost inside the mountain, and they accidentally wandered inside the village . Then they saw every family was having a funeral, and the villagers looked weird . The outsiders didn’t dare ask any question and escaped the village in the middle of the night . When they returned to the village in the morning, the place had been abandoned for a long time already, and there was no sign of people living there . “

“You mean, we’re now inside a Ghost Village?” Ol’ Wei asked uncertainly .

“Coffin Village is scarier than that . I feel this place has a bigger secret that we haven’t uncovered yet . ” Chen Ge placed the hammer on his feet and cupped his chin in his palm . “The people in this village are much more complicated than we think . There are original villagers that turned into ghosts, escaped villagers who were captured, and then us outsiders . The old lady’s soul had no need to lie to us about the outsiders . Other than us, other people are also trapped inside this village . No matter who they were, I think we should meet up with them . “

“But how do we do that? We can’t even find a way out ourselves . “

“I think we need to be more careful of our surroundings then . ” Chen Ge then turned to look outside . He accidentally saw half a human face lying on the wall .

“Someone’s there!” He jumped up immediately . The sudden warning alerted Ol’ Wei and Master Bai .

“What did you see?”

“There was a human face on the wall . I saw it once inside the previous home . At the time, it flashed past temporarily, and then I saw a set of graveclothes walking out the door; it was following us . ” Chen Ge told the situation to Ol’ Wei and Master Bai .

“He’s just next door; shall we go take a look?” Ol’ Wei was just suggesting that; he did not want to wander off .

“If the person wants to run, we won’t be able to catch it . ” Chen Ge looked at the wall . “I have a feeling it has a reason for following us, and it didn’t seem like it’s going to harm us . “

He just finished when the front door slowly opened and bright red graveclothes stood in the middle of the door .

“Don’t fret . This is the thing that has been following us . “

In the middle of the night, the door was pushed open, and the graveclothes stood alone . Anyone would have been scared looking at this .

“Are you a person or a ghost?” Chen Ge stood inside the room and hid the hammer behind him . The person seemed to struggle for a long time before coming to a decision . The graveclothes were opened from the middle, and they were hiding a thin, short man . His lips fell open, and after a long time, he said, “I’m here to help you . “

“Help us? Wonderful, why don’t you come in first?” Chen Ge smiled kindly . He gripped the hammer; he wanted to trick the man to come into the room first . The man shook his head . He had been following Chen Ge, so he knew Chen Ge’s tricks .

“I’ll just stay out here . ” The man removed the graveclothes, and when his body completely removed itself from the graveclothes, Chen Ge saw that the man had one large arm and one small arm .

“I’ve seen you when you entered the village, but before I could accost any of you, you were tricked away by the ghosts . I was worried, so I trailed behind you while wearing the ghost’s graveclothes . I wanted to find the chance to save you . “

The man sounded sincere, but Chen Ge did not believe that the man would put himself in such danger for a stranger . “You followed us just so you can save us?”

“Saving you is saving me . You might not believe me, but if we are unable to leave this village tonight, we’re all going to die . ” The man lowered his voice, and fear and anxiety were apparent in his tone . “The door will open tonight, and the thing will come out from behind the door again . “

“The door will open tonight?” Chen Ge frowned . “You’re one of the original villagers here, right? Can you tell us what happened to Coffin Village? Why did it turn into its current situation?”

“Coffin Village? I guess the name fits . ” The man closed the door and walked to the middle of the courtyard . It was hard to tell how old he was from his looks . “No one can remember this village’s original name . The reason it has become like this has plenty to do with a woman .

“Our village is hidden deep inside the forest, and this isolates us from the rest of the world . It was very difficult for a man to find an unrelated wife, so we settled with close marriage . However, that led to many abnormalities .

“The elder at the time worried that we would die out eventually, so after a discussion with the villagers, they decided to ‘kidnap wives’ from the outside . The first few times were perfectly fine . If the new wife refused to listen, they would be locked up, starved, and beaten . Eventually, they would learn .

“However, the last time, they caught the young lady of a scholar’s family . She was stubborn and refused to submit . She escaped several times, and she was almost beaten to death every time . It was not until she was pregnant that she stopped running away . The villagers thought that was the end of her resistance .

“But just as the girl’s new family was preparing to celebrate the happy occasion, she jumped into the well . ”