1TWITF[C Chapter 68

Lu Yanli also saw An Xingyu, raised his eyebrows slightly, and smiled at him in a friendly manner. An Xingyu returned the smile as well, unconsciously moving closer to him.

What he didn’t know was that he had been subjected to psychological suggestion by Lu Yanli, deliberately forgetting the other’s existence. That’s why he didn’t feel strange when his companions and the villagers inquired about him before. It wasn’t until they actually met that he suddenly realized that this was indeed Lu Yanli, who had once escaped Honghe Village with them.

Yu Huan curiously asked, “You two know each other?”

An Xingyu gave a vague answer: “We’ve met before.”

Their reminiscing was interrupted before it could begin. Lili stood at the door, her gaze fixed on Lu Yanli, her smile cold and grim.

She didn’t know where Lu Yanli had gone, but in any case, the fact that Awang had suddenly come back hungry was enough to make her angry, not to mention later finding out that Lin Chu had dared to trespass into the forbidden area, which simply enraged her to the point of wanting to kill.

She really wanted to kill Lu Yanli, but the other party had been taken into the forbidden area by the old woman from the village chief’s family, and the bone whistle had also been voluntarily returned to her. The jade pendant on the old woman was also not on him. Without violating the rules, she couldn’t kill people at will.

Faced with Lili’s almost murderous gaze, Lu Yanli shrank back and apologized again: “I’m sorry, I didn’t do it on purpose.”

Didn’t do what on purpose?

Everyone secretly cast curious glances.

It didn’t seem that difficult.

Perhaps the real difficulty lay on the day of the ancestral sacrifice?

Until noon, Lin Chu still hadn’t returned, and Yu Xiangguang was also gone without a trace. The others, bearing Lili’s sinister gaze, felt that they couldn’t swallow a single bite. Lu Yanli also wanted to hide, but the little girl’s gaze was fixed on him, and it looked like if she wasn’t afraid of violating the rules, she might pounce on him and kill him in the next second.

After lunch, An Xingyu took the initiative to call on Lu Yanli to walk with him.

He looked around, and a pair of dark, inorganic eyes fell on Lu Yanli’s face again: “Are you here for the ancestral sacrifice too?”

Lu Yanli lowered his voice: “No, I’m a reporter. I’m just here to investigate.”

“Then you…”

An Xingyu agreed almost without hesitation.

Apart from him, the others in this mission didn’t have much experience, and unlike those few people, he clearly sensed the great danger hidden beneath the enthusiasm of the entire village. If there was no cooperation, he was afraid it would be difficult for him to survive.

Lu Yanli: “Do you know the belief of this village?”

An Xingyu: “I know, they believe in the Five Great Immortals.” Speaking of this, his brows furrowed unintentionally, obviously looking down on these wild gods of folk legends, “And they themselves seem to have been infected and mutated.”

Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain why the villagers of the entire village looked so close to certain beasts.

He immediately understood what Lu Yanli wanted to investigate, which must be the secret about the Five Great Immortals.

“By the way, there’s another person who came with me, but she’s missing. Please help me find her these few days.”

Red… mark?

An Xingyu’s heart jumped suddenly: “What kind of mark?”

An Xingyu shook his head: “No.” But his expression was clearly happy.

As soon as he saw that pattern, he was sure that Luo Ying was his companion.

As for why there would be gods in another world? That must be the gospel conveyed by the omniscient and omnipotent God, and he couldn’t help but be even more impressed by the greatness of the God.

Lu Yanli was also very happy that An Xingyu and Luo Ying would join forces, which would be more helpful to him. As for whether Luo Ying would reveal that he was also a believer?

He always had a way.

Lu Yanli nodded.

Lu Yanli said: “I saw her, but I don’t know where she went later.”

He looked regretful, but was plotting in his heart.

That was… a fox.

Lu Yanli almost instantly thought of the appearance of the villagers, and Hu Santainai, who had been worshiped in the village.

After Lin Chu recovered, Lu Yanli easily learned the news from her.

What she saw in the cave was a mausoleum.

A mausoleum that lay quietly in the dark underground, almost boundless.

In fact, Lin Chu’s words were very suspicious. There was clearly not a trace of light, and according to Lin Chu’s description, the mausoleum was quite vast, with no end in sight, but she believed that it must be a mausoleum.

Ancestral sacrifice, mausoleum, Lin Chu’s changes, the appearance of the villagers, the Five Great Immortals they worshiped…

This was the reason why the villagers basically avoided the world, right?

Lu Yanli recalled the cave, and then recalled the content he had investigated before – “Shangxian Village was prosperous for a while, but later I don’t know why, the entire village died and was injured, almost extinct. It only got better after worshiping the Five Great Immortals.”

A guess emerged in his mind.

When Lin Chu told him that there was a mausoleum below the cave, he was wondering why there was a hole in the mausoleum.

On second thought, that was clearly a tomb robber’s hole. If the identities of the villagers were set as tomb robbers, everything would be reasonable.

Lin Chu passed out after telling him the news. Lu Yanli took her away from the top a little further, but still did not leave the forbidden area, fearing that Lili would chase after her. After she was completely awake, she easily discovered the changes in herself, and couldn’t help but look desperate.

This was the reason why she didn’t dare to come back.

Lin Chu asked Lu Yanli to keep the secret and not say where she went, just pretend that he didn’t see her, so as not to drag them down.

Lu Yanli kept his promise and did not tell her companions.

But it didn’t prevent him from “being forced” to reveal to Hu Santainai that she had entered the forbidden area in order to save her life, at most concealing the fact that she went down into the cave.

An Xingyu didn’t know what the person next to him was thinking, and he sighed.

On the second day of arrival, two people were lost, and the key was that he didn’t know the reason at all. Both of them were inexplicably gone without a trace, and they must be in danger.

But the others still felt that this task was very easy and had no sense of crisis at all.

Lu Yanli comforted him: “It’s okay, we’ll find her soon. Why don’t you ask the Five Great Immortals to try?”

An Xingyu shook his head.

Putting aside his belief problems, Yu Xiangguang went to worship, and as a result, he disappeared directly, and he had already noticed the danger.

Of course, Lu Yanli gave him a reminder.

After the two walked together, they separated soon after. Lu Yanli went back to rest, claiming that he was injured yesterday, while An Xingyu hoped to find Luo Ying as soon as possible.

After he left, Lu Yanli returned to the abandoned house of the Lu family. He had already moved out of Uncle Zhang’s house and would live alone from today onwards.

But he didn’t rest as he said he would. Instead, he continued to contact Luo Ying, sending messages using obscure and incomprehensible symbols.

Lu Yanli told Luo Ying everything about his accidental entry into the forbidden area yesterday. Including the old woman with the cat face, including Lili and the dog, and the fact that he was now being targeted by Lili and could not move around at will, he said everything without reservation.

As for what was in the forbidden area, he only mentioned the circle of tombs on the outer layer, and did not mention a word about the pit.

Lin Chu was still in the forbidden area, and she had compressed biscuits with her, so she wouldn’t starve to death for a while. If the two of them met…

No, Lin Chu should avoid her and then observe in secret.

Luo Ying had been walking along the village reservoir for a long time, and roughly figured out the village’s topography. When she received Lu Yanli’s message, she was overjoyed.

She had known for a long time that Shangxian Village was guarding a mausoleum, and the forbidden area in the village might be the entrance to the mausoleum, so she tried every means to get in, but something went wrong last night.

Now, it was good that Lu Yanli had been there once, he should have remembered the route.

Luo Ying couldn’t wait to join him immediately and have him take her over, but now that the other party was being targeted, if she did so, it was likely to lead to the death of both of them. She had to restrain her impatience and ask patiently.

After she found out the news about the forbidden area, she began to think about how to enter.

The double fish jade pendant taken from the old woman had the effect of exorcising evil spirits, according to Lu Yanli. If she needed to enter, then…

Her eyes swept around the river, and she immediately had an idea.

Uncle Zhang was originally a little unhappy because he didn’t see him last night and was forced to carry the coffin himself, but after listening to Lu Yanli’s explanation that he left because he was chased by the cat-faced old woman, he naturally forgave him.

The small room at the end of the corridor was sealed off, and Aunt Zhang re-cleaned a room for him, which happened to be opposite Zhang Huixuan’s room.

In the daytime, the doors of the two rooms were tightly closed, and the people inside were sleeping.

He was indeed very sleepy, and he had not rested well since the moment he arrived. Since this village was sheltered, he thought he could just not look, not move, like last night.

Years of unsettled life had made him develop a semi-sleeping habit. After sleeping for a few hours in a semi-dream state, he vaguely heard the village become noisy.

“Let’s go, someone in the village has died again, go take a look!”

“What? What’s going on?” Lu Yanli looked shocked and ran behind him.

“It’s the old woman Li who lives in the east of the village. I don’t know how she got injured. She fell on the side of the road and was already dead when she was found.” The villager said as he ran, “Now everyone is going to her house to see if they can help.”

Half the village gathered at the home of the old woman Li. She was a lonely old woman, her children were long gone, and her grandchildren were working in other places and had not returned. Only a few who had a good relationship with her during her lifetime burned paper money for her and carried her spirit tablet.

Lu Yanli glanced around – Lili was not there.

This made their actions even more convenient.

As yesterday, the corpse of the old woman Li was placed in the middle of the main room, and the villagers began to handle the funeral. The old woman Li died strangely. At this time of unrest, everyone was afraid that something would happen, so they collected shrouds and coffins… and soon held the funeral.

Just when everyone was busy, a rat scurried in from outside the yard.

The villagers who saw it all changed their faces. Even if they usually regarded rats as Gray Immortals and offered sacrifices to them, what time was it now? Newly dead corpses were likely to change when they encountered this type of animal! They had to drive it out.

However, the villagers miscalculated. Under the siege of the crowd, the rat actually rushed into the main room and scurried into the coffin!

Oh no!

After the rat squeaked a few times, it began to gnaw.

When it was caught, half of the old woman Li’s nose and one ear had been chopped off, which looked very terrifying.

But on her face, fine, short, gray fur belonging to rats began to slowly appear.

Obviously, she was about to become a corpse too.

This discovery made the other villagers panic. A few clever ones had already rushed to the shrine to pray, begging the Great Grandmother to bless them.

Lu Yanli looked equally anxious on the surface, and sighed inwardly.

It was indeed Luo Ying’s work.

Villagers only went to the forbidden area during funerals, so she created a funeral. The double fish jade pendant had the effect of exorcising evil spirits, so she released a rat to enter, forcing the villagers to find someone to exorcise the evil spirits.

Now, she must be hiding in some unknown corner, waiting to accept the results.

The door was kicked open with a “bang”.

The little girl in the red dress stood at the door with a frosty face. Her hair was not even combed, and it was obvious that she had rushed over in a hurry.

So, in this way, Lin Chu, who was hiding in the forbidden area, was temporarily safe again.