Chapter 37:
Zhao Su moved the phone, and the background behind him in the camera also changed.
The background behind Tong Chaosu is no different.
It was Xin Qiu, who was startled by her large movements, and sat up from the bed in a panic. He pursed his lips and asked softly, "What's wrong?"
"You turn on the camera and take a look at yourself."
Xin Qiu did as Chao Su said, and the phone camera switched to the front camera. The camera clearly shows Xin Qiu's current appearance - this is a pale face, like three or four layers of white powder, those dark eyes are looking at Xin Qiu in front of the screen, lacking aura , more dead.
The "Xin Qiu" looked straight ahead, his eyes gloomy and cold, as if looking at Xin Qiu in front of the phone screen through the camera, and then slowly pulled out a gloomy and terrifying smile.
Xin Qiu subconsciously threw the phone away, flipped the phone twice on the bed, and finally landed on the bed, facing the ceiling.
He didn't smile at all.
In the concept of ordinary people, cameras and mirrors reflect the real self. But what if one day, what you see on your phone is not yourself, but another person?
Xin Qiu felt that only by hugging Xiaoxin could she feel the warmth.
Therefore, with a big wave of his hand, he stopped Xiaoxin from running towards Chao Su, and hugged Xiaoxin in his arms. Xiaoxin struggled for a long time, and finally was completely suppressed in Xinqiu's arms. All he could do was lower his eyes and look at Chao Su with aggrieved lips.
Zhao Su chuckled lightly, and the panic in his heart was suppressed by Xin Qiu's reaction. She blinked, picked up her phone again and looked around. The surroundings are still no different from what the naked eye sees. She said hello to Xin Qiu and walked out of the house.
Xin Qiu saw him, and immediately followed Xiaoxin in his arms.
He didn't have the courage to take the phone anymore, so he leaned towards Chao Su and looked at the phone screen in Chao Su's hand. Seeing this, he immediately pulled Xiaoxin's hand to cover his eyes.
In the real world, what hangs under each eaves is not the red lanterns that look extremely festive, but a personal head. Everyone's head closed their eyes, and their faces showed grim looks, they looked extremely painful, as if they had suffered a great deal of torture.
In contrast, each person has a white candle on their head. The candle swayed slightly under the wind. Zhao Su moved the camera and aimed the camera at the door.
Originally, there should be a red 囍 character on the door, but at this moment, what appears in the camera is a white "Dian" character. Under each house, there are also strips of white silk.
Every household.
Looking at the gray and white scene on the phone, Chao Su's heartbeat couldn't help but speed up, and it was about to jump to Chao Su's throat. She held back the trembling in her hands and moved the camera quickly.
The next second, an old man in a shroud appeared on her phone.
Chao Su was completely frightened by this silently appearing old man, she grabbed the phone tightly, looked away from the screen, and looked at the old man who was out of sight.
He is the village chief.
The village chief opened his non-blind eye and looked at Chao Su up and down, then he smiled and asked Chao Su:
"Master, how do you feel about the feng shui of our village?"
"Very good, surrounded by mountains and rivers, the scenery is charming." Chaosu casually took the idioms in the elementary school composition and perfunctory, his eyes wandered around, and his eyebrows naturally revealed A bit worried look. She asked the village chief:
"Village Chief, have you seen some of my friends? I searched around today, but I didn't see them."
"I guess we should go and investigate the old man in the shroud." After speaking, the village chief instinctively bent down and wanted to cough a few times. However, he didn't know what to think, just after uttering a "cough", he swallowed the rest of the cough into his mouth.
The coughing came to an abrupt end.
"Recently, Xiao Liu called a lot of people to our Shuangxi Village. Some people, he came in for a walk, and disappeared the next day. It is estimated that it should be Dead. And some people, after walking around, they found that they couldn't solve the matter, so they left in a hurry. Little girl, I don't know about you and the guy behind you..."
The village chief glanced at Xinqiu, who was covered by Xiaoxin's eyes, then paused and continued: "Is it a real master, but if you really can't solve it, you should leave quickly. The village is really not clean."
"Village chief, since the village is not clean, why don't you leave? Isn't it good to leave the village?" Xin Qiu carefully looked through Xiaoxin's fingers. In the outside world, seeing that the village chief is still like a person, he put aside Xiaoxin's hand and asked the village chief.
The village chief leaned on crutches: "We can't leave, our roots are here. We can't go, and no one wants to go. It's you, it's too late to go now, wait until ten in the evening Two o'clock, it's too late."
Twelve at night?
Hearing this sensitive time, Chao Su and Xin Qiu looked at each other. Xin Qiu put Xiaoxin down from his arms, looked at the village chief and asked, "At twelve o'clock in the evening, is there anything to do in the village?"
"Our village is called Shuangxi Village, do you know why it is called this name?" The village chief said slowly, he tried his best not to include a bit of vernacular in his words. Standard Mandarin.
Chao Su and Xin Qiu shook their heads.
The village chief said: "Because at the end of every month, we will do a happy event. This is a unique custom in our village, called carrying the sedan chair. At that time, a few burly villagers will carry With a large sedan chair, stepping on the muddy road, and walking around Shuangxi Village, this way, we can bless our village with many happy events for the next month, and it will be safe and smooth."
"Once a month, village chief, is the protection period of your custom too short?" A voice came from behind Chaosu and Xinqiu. Turning towards Su, he saw Duan Ang and Guan Ruiyuan coming from a distance, supporting each other.
They both looked ashen, sweat sticking to their hair. The robes on their bodies were also in chaos, and some light-colored patterns on their collars and belts seemed to be stained with blood. Seeing the concerned eyes from Chao Su, Duan Ang smiled at Chao Su, his face was bright, and he could not see a hint of depression.
It seems that although it was thrilling last night, there should be no great danger to life.
This completely relieved the heart that Chao Su had been carrying. She raised her lips slightly and smiled at Duan Ang and Guan Ruiyuan. Guan Ruiyuan looked away a little shyly, but after about three or four seconds, she turned her gaze on Chao Su's face again.
To be precise, it should fall on Chao Su's eyes.
"It's beautiful." Guan Ruiyuan came to Chaosu and whispered. Chao Su reached out and shook Guan Ruiyuan's hand. Her hands were very cold, like a cold wind blowing all night. Not only that, but Guan Ruiyuan's fingers, back of hand and palm had bloodstains one after another, which looked particularly hideous and conspicuous.
Chao Su rubbed the bloodstains on Guan Ruiyuan's hand with his fingertips. She lowered her eyes slightly, the expression in her eyes a little complicated. It was Duan Ang, who stuck his neck and said to the village chief: "I see the village chief and your village. You have this custom every month, but this village is still not very peaceful. Haven't you thought about it, maybe If you don't do this, your village will be peaceful!"
"What do you little boys know!" The village chief leaned on the ground with a crutch. The crutch was so heavy that when it fell on the ground, it even stirred up a circle of dust. He was really angry, whether it was the non-blind eye or the blind eye, they all aimed straight at Duan Ang.
"How come you don't know that it is because of this custom that our village is barely safe to this point?" The village chief's eyes fell coldly on Duan Ang's body. The meaning is intriguing. After he finished saying this, he stooped again and walked towards the front.
"Oh, let's go. If I don't go, my old lady won't leave me any meals."
Turn his head towards Su and watched the figure of the village chief disappear in front of her eyes, her brows fell into contemplation.
"Xiao Chaosu, what are you thinking about?" Xiaoxin rubbed against Chaosu little by little, pulled her sleeves and asked in a milky voice.
Downing her eyes towards Su, she lowered her head and turned on the camera again. In the camera, she has white pupils, her eyes staring blankly ahead. That face, the more I looked at it, the more strange it became.
However, Chaosu stared at himself in the camera of the mobile phone for a while, and then made a "click" to take a screenshot and crop it. The picture is zoomed in and out bit by bit, and in the end, only one eye remains.
The more you look at this eye, the more strange Chao Su feels.
This eye…
It looks like the eyes of the village chief.
It was the blind eye of the village chief.
Chaosu was frightened by his own guess, and a layer of white sweat appeared on his back. However, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that this possibility was very high. Last night, when she asked Grandma Wang, she asked such a question—
How did she know what she was doing in this room.
At that time, Grandma Wang gave her the answer "what the village chief said".
Chaosu blacked out the screen of his mobile phone, keenly aware that something was wrong with him in the mobile phone. Therefore, the front camera of the phone is turned on. It turns out that she is monitoring herself.
Then, this forms a paradox with Grandma Wang's "what the village chief said".
Chao Su didn't think much about it at first, but now she thinks that maybe it's not a paradox from beginning to end. These two conditions can also be established to some extent.
For example, the eyes she saw in the camera were not her own, but—
The village chief.
Zhao Su calmed down, shared his guess with Xinqiu and Guan Ruiyuan, and put the phone back in his pocket. She looked up and saw Duan Ang and Guan Ruiyuan suddenly realized.
Duan Ang: "I just said, there's something wrong with my face. I dare to be sincere because my big piercing eyes have been replaced."
Guan Ruiyuan also nodded, her face was obviously frightened.
The group did not stay on the side of the road in Shuangxi Village for a long time, but walked towards Grandma Wang's house very tacitly. When walking around the yard, they also saw with sharp eyes that Grandma Wang was still sitting by the stove, staring coldly at the stove. After hearing the movement of their door to the hospital, she seemed to be alive, mechanically twisting her neck and looking at the group of people who came in.
After meeting Grandma Wang's lifeless gaze, Duan Ang and Guan Ruiyuan couldn't help but look away. They still remember what happened last night. For this weird grandma Wang, they naturally kept their distance.
Only Chao Su, after seeing Grandma Wang, she waved her arms enthusiastically and greeted the other party. The large Taoist sleeve robes fell to Chao Su's arms along the gravity, revealing his white arms.
Because of the awakening of the succubus, her arms even faintly glowed in the daytime.
Seeing Chao Su's red eyes, Grandma Wang's originally fierce eyes froze for a moment, and she seemed to recall the fear of being wrapped in cough syrup before. She turned around quickly, and stared at the stove in front of her as if she was okay.
The stove burned her face a little dry, and a layer of white dead skin had already appeared on Grandma Wang's nose and eyes.
She raised the corner of her mouth towards Su Yang, her eyes narrowed slightly, she brought Duan Ang and the others to the room and sat down. She sat on a Taishi chair by the door, leaned back against the chair with her back relaxed, her legs crossed naturally, raised her chin and said to Duan Ang and Guan Ruiyuan who wanted to speak:
"Now, I don't care what you have to say? You go and take a bath first."
Duan Ang and Guan Ruiyuan nodded, in fact, they couldn't stand the way they are now. They quickly went to the well in the yard to draw several buckets of water, and took turns to take a bath in the empty house. When they reappeared, there were still some water marks on their hair and cheeks, and the body exuded a refreshing acacia fragrance.
They were lying on the bed in the shape of big characters. After resting for about half an hour, the fatigue on their faces finally dissipated.
They lay on the bed, under the same quilt, and began to talk about what happened yesterday.
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Duan Ang found something wrong when he was playing Super Mario.
His talent in the game is very strong, even if he does not rely on spiritual sense, he will definitely be able to pass the level easily. But he didn't know what to do that day, and he kept feeling upset. Even after several levels, Mario's little iron head hit the monster.
When the words "gameover" appeared on the screen in front of Duan Ang, Duan Ang felt a little frustrated. He locked the screen irritably, and was about to go to see how Guan Ruiyuan was sleeping when he suddenly saw himself on the black screen of the phone, smiling.
Fuck, he lost the game, how could he laugh!
Duan Ang suspected that he had read it wrong, and raised his phone. However, when the phone screen was raised, the light changed again. From Duan Ang's current angle, he couldn't see himself on the phone at all.
So, he turned on the camera and saw himself in the camera—gloomy.
And, laughing.
In the middle of the night, seeing himself like this on the phone, Duan Ang was directly frightened. He was shocked and threw the phone to the ground. When the phone landed on the ground, it made a loud noise. This fall directly woke Guan Ruiyuan.
Guan Ruiyuan picked up the pillow at hand and threw it at Duan Ang, squinted her eyes and sat up straight, and said angrily:
"Duan Ang, why are you crazy at night!"
Duan Ang did not speak, he silently pulled Guan Ruiyuan's thumb and tapped the touch button of Guan Ruiyuan's mobile phone. The phone, which had a black screen, turned on like this.
Duan Ang pressed an app with a camera on his phone, then woke Guan Ruiyuan.
As soon as Guan Ruiyuan opened her eyes, she saw a lifeless self with beauty special effects! She was so frightened that she repeated Duan Ang's previous actions with an "ah" sound, and threw the screen of her phone directly to the ground.
Two mobile phones side by side were buried in honor.
Guan Ruiyuan started directly, holding Duan Ang's ear and asked: "What's wrong with you, show me some scary photos in the middle of the night! Don't you know it will scare people to death?"
Duan Ang told Guan Ruiyuan what was going on. Guan Ruiyuan let go, sat on the bed with her arms folded over her chest, looked at Duan Ang and asked, "Then why are you doing special effects?"
Duan Ang touched his red ears, and said a little aggrievedly: "No, when you girls usually take pictures, don't you always use this kind of beauty camera?"
Then do you know how scary the scene is when a ghost is added with special effects?
Guan Ruiyuan and Duan Ang stared for a while before getting out of bed. Looking at the wreckage of the mobile phone on the ground, Guan Ruiyuan said, "What should we do now?"
If this incident happened, you can contact some Chaosu and Xinqiu. But now, the phones are all broken. They have no other means of communication at all.
Duan Ang glanced around, his eyes fell on the blocked hole and said, "My spiritual sense tells me, let's go out."
"Success." If an ordinary person heard Duan Ang's words, he would definitely feel that Duan Ang was crazy. But only Guan Ruiyuan, upon hearing this, wrapped her clothes tightly, opened the door and said, "Let's go."
Guan Ruiyuan, who has lost several times in a row, trusts Duan Ang's spiritual sense very much.
The two of them dropped their phones and walked towards the door. The night in Shuangxi Village was very quiet. Only the red lanterns swayed along the night wind. They didn't go very far, but sat at the entrance of the village for a while.
They originally planned to go back together after Chaosu.
However, they waited for a long time, not for Chaosu, but for a group of players in mourning clothes with bare heads.
Because of the reason that "you can evacuate after eating" before, Duan Ang remembered the appearance of those players wearing monk uniforms. Now, after seeing them, Duan Ang immediately recognized their identities.
How did these monks become like this?
Duan Ang pulled Guan Ruiyuan and carefully hid in the corner. Later, they saw that the group of monks began to work in the courtyard, and because the courtyard door was wide open, they could clearly see what the group of monks were doing.
They are chopping wood and burning fire. An iron pot boiled water there, and a dozen iron pots filled the entire yard.
Guan Ruiyuan looked at the iron pots and said, as if thinking of something, "I remember, did that family have a few big white geese in the yard."
Duan Ang said uncertainly: "It seems so."
Guan Ruiyuan: "Do they want to stew the goose in an iron pot?"
It's delicious.
The iron pot boiled water for a short time, and soon, Duan Ang and Guan Ruiyuan heard the sound of water boiling in the iron pot. Gurgling, layers of white and light mist rise up like this.
The monks who chop wood stopped at that moment. They stood up from the small bench in unison, each with a pot, standing in front of the boiling iron pot, and then raised the hatchet in their hands in a uniform motion.
With a plop, they chopped off their heads. The iron pot kept boiling, boiling fresh heads. Duan Ang and Guan Ruiyuan covered their eyes, and before they could react, the next moment, they saw those headless players pick up a large iron spoon and pour hot water on the heads.
After the disinfection, they sat down and lit a white candle on the head. Replacing the red lanterns with the candle-carrying heads, then turned around and headed west.
The candle on the head was blown by the wind and swayed slightly. Duan Ang and Guan Ruiyuan were taken aback when they saw so many heads hanging under the eaves. They looked at each other and tried to flee the scene.
However, Duan Ang just took a step forward and pulled Guan Ruiyuan's sleeve to stop her movement. The moment he got up, his spiritual sense told him that something was wrong.
He raised his head stiffly, and found that when he stood up, the head that was originally hanging under the eaves lowered his head slightly and looked in his direction. The candles above their heads flickered in the slight evening wind. More than a dozen pairs of eyes stared at them like this, with anticipation in their eyes.
They seemed to expect Duan Ang to take another step forward.
Duan Ang glanced at his feet, resolutely retracted his steps, and squatted down. After he finished this action, there was a bit of resentment in the eyes of these human heads. They shook, as if roaring and struggling.
Duan Ang and Guan Ruiyuan hadn't slept all night, so they opened their eyes and watched these heads quarrel with each other.
Then—
The red lanterns were no different from the ones they had seen before.
It is full of idyllic feeling.