Chapter 0319 – The Secret of the Living Coffin Village
”Don’t talk nonsense, be careful that trouble will come out of your mouth.”
Master Bai was still concerned about these things, but Chen Ge was completely different: “It’s fine, you two just follow me.”
He grabbed the skull crushing hammer and walked through the courtyard, directly entering the house.
The layout of the old mansion’s house was very interesting, there was a bedroom to the left and right of the main hall, there were no beds in the bedrooms, and a coffin was placed in each.
”Have you guys noticed a characteristic of all the mansions in Coffin Village?” Singer Chen gripped the handle of his hammer and swept his gaze around.
”Coffins parked in the house?” Master Bai padded his clothes and pushed the door open, unwilling to touch anything here.
”No.” Chen Ge shook his head, “None of the old mansions in Coffin Village seem to have a stove.”
Old Wei and Master Bai looked at each other, if Chen Ge hadn’t said anything, the two of them wouldn’t have realized this problem.
”The cookstove is where the fire is made to cook, without a cookstove where do they usually go to eat?” Chen Ge sat down on a chair inside the house, his speech slowing down, “Or do they not need to eat at all? Is this place simply a shady house for the dead? If you think about it from this direction, it’s only normal that the bedroom doesn’t have a bed, but instead has a coffin placed in it.”
His voice was calm, but it gave the two listeners the creeps.
”Hanging white paper lanterns, white inverted blessings on the door, and coffins parked inside the house, could this entire village be an Underworld Village?” Chen Ge recalled the information he had accessed while building the Underworld Wedding scene, “I’ve heard a story before about a village deep in the mountains that was tragically massacred during the time of war, and a few years later, someone got lost in the mountains and inadvertently walked into the village. As a result, he saw that every house in the village was having a white ceremony, and all the people’s faces looked very strange. The man didn’t dare to ask more questions and escaped from the village in the middle of the night. When he waited until dawn to go back to the village and look around again, he found that the village had been deserted for a long time, and there were no traces of living people living there at all.”
”So what you’re saying is that we’re walking into an underworld village right now?” Old Wei asked uncertainly.
”The situation in the Coffin Village is even scarier than the Underworld Village, and I always feel that there is a big secret hidden here.” Chen Ge placed the skull crushing hammer on his lap and propped his chin with his hand, “The composition of the people in this village is rather complicated, there are aborigines who have turned into ghosts, villagers who fled the Coffin Village before and ended up being captured back, and us outsiders.”
”The old lady’s ghost shouldn’t have lied about the outsiders, besides us there are other people who are also trapped in this village, no matter who the other party is, I think it’s necessary for everyone to unite.”
”Then how to unite? We can’t even find them now.”
”This can only be improvised, keep an extra eye out.” Chen Ge looked outside after he finished speaking, he had only swept unintentionally, but he found half a human face lying on the wall.
”Someone!” He stood up at once.
The sudden sound made Old Wei and Master Bai also go on high alert: “What did you see?”
”There’s a human face there on the wall, I think I’ve seen it in the first old mansion, it flickered at that time as well, and then I saw the birthday suit come out from inside the door, and it’s been following us all the way.” Chen Ge told Old Wei and Grandpa Bai about the scene.
”He’s next door, should we go over and take a look?” Old Wei was just proposing, he personally didn’t want to wander around anymore.
”If that person is bent on running, we won’t be able to catch him if we go over there.” Chen Ge looked at the wall, “I always feel that he has been following us for another purpose, it’s not like he wants to harm us.”
As soon as he spoke, the door of the old mansion slowly opened towards both sides, and a large red life jacket stood in the doorway.
”Don’t be afraid, it was this thing that followed us before.”
On a dark night, the mansion’s door was opened and a piece of life jacket stood outside, a scene that would make anyone feel panicked when they looked at it.
”Are you a human or a ghost?” Chen Ge stood inside the house, hiding the skull crushing hammer behind him.
The other party seemed to be torn as well, and it took a while before he made a decision.
The birthday suit unraveled from the center, and inside hid a short and thin man.
He tensed his face, his mouth opened for half a day before he finally said his first words, “I’m here to help you guys.”
”Help us? Good, come in and speak slowly.” Chen Ge smiled kindly as he held his hammer in his backhand, wanting to trick the man into the house first.
The man shook his head, he had followed Chen Ge all the way and knew exactly how dangerous this amiable young man in front of him really was.
”I’ll just say it outside.” The man stood his birthday suit to the side, and only after his body completely came out of the suit did Chen Ge see that the man had a large, small, and deformed arm.
”I spotted you guys as soon as you entered the village, but before I could get close, the three of you were tricked by the Lich Ghost. I wasn’t at ease, so I followed you in the life clothes of the Knight Ghost, trying to save you from leaving.”
The man’s voice was sincere, but Chen Ge didn’t believe that this person would risk so much for no reason to save a few uninvolved people, “You followed us all the way just to save us?”
”Saving you guys is also saving myself, you may not believe me when I say it, if we can’t escape from this village tonight, everyone will die.” The man’s voice was low, but you could hear his fear and uneasiness in it, “The door opens tonight, and that thing is going to run out from behind it again.”
”The door opens tonight?” Chen Ge frowned, “You’re an aboriginal here, right? Can you tell us what happened to the Living Coffin Village? Why has it turned into what it is now?”
”Living Coffin Village? That’s an appropriate name.” The man closed the wooden door and walked to the center of the courtyard, it was impossible to tell how old he was from his appearance, “No one knows what this village was called in the beginning anymore, and the reason why it has turned into what it is now, the initial reason should have something to do with a woman.”
”Our village is deep in the mountains, isolated from the outside world, the world was in chaos, it was hard for the men in the village to get a wife, inbreeding and intermarriage, the offspring looked like anything.”
”The village chief at the time said that if this goes on, the roots will be cut off and extinct, so he discussed with the village and decided to ‘abduct a daughter-in-law’ back from outside the mountain.”
”The first few times nothing happened, the new daughter-in-law disobedient to lock up, do not give water, do not give food, dared to escape, caught is a beating, slowly behaved.”
”Until later once, they got back a scholar’s family’s young lady, the nature is very strong, dead not from.”
”Escaped several times in a row, and in the end was almost killed alive.”
”That woman didn’t stop running away until she had a child, and everyone in the village thought that this woman wouldn’t resist anymore.”
”As a result, who knows, the woman jumped down a well when the family was happy and ready to hold a wedding banquet.”