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Chapter 176 Village Entry Ceremony, Black and White Posthumous Photos, Spiritual Appearance (5000)

"It's like this. I asked the people in the village for the name of the village chief, and that's how I found out."

Li Tian didn't poke Sun Qimeng, but calmed down and followed the memories of the villagers in this strange village in the village.

He wanted to see how those newcomers to the village would be arranged by the village chief.

How was the memory tampered with, and he was regarded as an aborigine in the village?

Regarding this point, Li Tian did not find the answer in the memories of the previous villagers.

It seems to be blocked by some supernatural beings, and it cannot be displayed in memory.

Or maybe it was there in memory, but the villagers forgot it.

Li Tian looked at Sun Qimeng, who was the village head.

He knew that in Sun Qimeng's memory, there was probably a memory about how to arrange newcomers.

But Li Tian didn't intend to do anything to Sun Qimeng to check his memory.

Not because he couldn't deal with Sun Qimeng.

With Sun Qimeng's ability to control a ghost, even if the ghost recovers, it will still be suppressed by Li Tianfan.

The reason why Li Tian didn't move him.

It is because they are afraid of breaking the balance of the village and causing unnecessary changes.

After all, Sun Qimeng has a special status, he is the village head of Huangshan Village, if he is touched, other accidents may occur.

Anyway, Li Tian was not in such a hurry to know the situation.

Following the arrangement of the village chief, Li Tian knew that he should be able to get in touch with the secrets of the village soon.

There is no need to startle the snake.

"I see."

"Then, since you have come to our Huangshan Village, you have a predestined relationship with our village."

"Join our village, I can allocate fields and food for you, and ensure that you will be able to stay away from war and live happily and safely in the village."

Hearing Li Tian's words, Sun Qimeng nodded, and then began to solicit enthusiastically.

"Away from war?"

Hearing what Sun Qimeng said, Li Tian couldn't help but his heart moved. He could see that the memory of this village seemed to be still immersed in the war-torn era of the Republic of China decades ago.

In such a situation, it is understandable for the village chief, Sun Qimeng, to say the reason for staying away from the war to attract outsiders to join the village.

Li Tian thought for a while, and said to Sun Qimeng:

"Village Chief, I actually came to Huangshan Village to find someone."

"In the village, is there anyone named Chu Renmei?"

Li Tian began to test Sun Qimeng.

He was really curious, whether the Huangshan Village in reality had anything to do with the Huangshan Village in the world of the horror movie "Mountain Village Corpse" in the horror space.

"Chu Renmei?"

Sun Qimeng was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and then showed a look of reminiscence, and shook his head after a long time:
"I don't remember that there is such a person in the village."

"Could it be that the young man has found the wrong place?"

"do not have it?"

Hearing Sun Qimeng's return, Li Tian felt a strange feeling in his heart.

A little lost, but also a little relieved.

The reason for the loss is that this village doesn't even know about Chu Renmei, so it shouldn't have much to do with the horror movie "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village".

And he was relieved, also because it didn't matter much.

Li Tian's feeling was somewhat contradictory, as if he wanted a relationship between reality and the world of horror movies, but he didn't want to really have a relationship.

Li Tian didn't know why he felt such ambivalence, maybe it was because of his awe of the unknown.

Suddenly discovering the secret of the horror space, Li Tian is not yet ready to accept it.

"How about it, young man, do you want to join the village?"

Sun Qimeng asked Li Tian again with a smile.

"What if I say I don't want to join?"

Li Tian glanced at the bland smile on Sun Qimeng's face, and answered tentatively.

Hearing Li Tian's words, the smile on Sun Qimeng's face immediately subsided, replaced by a face of indifference, looking at Li Tian with extremely cold eyes, as if looking at a dead person:
"If you don't join, then please leave our village."

"Our Huangshan Village does not welcome outsiders."

"This face changing is really like flipping through a book."

Seeing Sun Qimeng's reaction, Li Tian suddenly complained.

This is too abnormal. Even if ordinary people are unhappy in their hearts, they will behave decently.

How can there be such an obvious performance of turning around, such a quick contrast.

"Village Chief, you misunderstood. I just said that if, in fact, I still want to join."

Li Tian didn't care about Sun Qimeng's rude words.

The people in this village, whether they are villagers or the village chief, are obviously controlled by spirits, and their behaviors are all acting according to a set of rigid logic.

It's like... the NPCs in the game, without emotional intelligence, just act according to the set instinctive rules.

"It's great to join in."

"You are welcome to join. We will handle the village entry ceremony for you at that time. After the ceremony, you will be a member of our Huangshan Village."

Hearing that Li Tian wanted to join, Sun Qimeng performed another Beijing opera face-changing, with a fake smile on his face for a moment, and said enthusiastically to Li Tian.

"..."

Li Tian looked at Sun Qimeng's textbook-like Peking Opera face-changing, and was a little speechless.

Although Sun Qimeng's face-changing was a bit stiff, the effect was the same.

"What is the village entry ceremony?"

Li Tian didn't bother about Sun Qimeng's face-changing skill any longer. He knew that this so-called 'village entry ceremony' might be the key to causing the villagers to be very weird.

"You will know when the time comes."

Sun Qimeng didn't say much about the village entry ceremony, but said mysteriously:
"Let me arrange where you live first."

talking room.

A few villagers came in 'just in time', and Sun Qimeng told these villagers:

"You two take this young man who is about to enter the village and find a place to settle down."

"Yes, mayor."

When several people heard the words, they immediately responded and took orders.

Li Tian looked at these people. They were all dressed in modern clothes, and they were obviously the missing people in Dasha City.

"Let's go."

Several people greeted Li Tian.

"it is good."

Li Tian looked thoughtfully at the few villagers who happened to come out and was arranged to settle in Li Tian.

If I refused just now, could it be that these villagers were not settled, but driven...or killed?

Following several villagers, Li Tian came to a dilapidated thatched cottage.

"You can choose to live here for the time being. After you officially join the village, you will rearrange the house according to your ability."

Several villagers pointed to the dilapidated thatched hut, and said to Li Tian that they seemed to be afraid that Li Tian would dislike the dilapidated thatched hut, and they had an opinion in their hearts, and these people specially explained:
"When everyone enters the village, they all start with thatched cottages, and they are all the same."

"Okay, I know."

Li Tian looked at the thatched cottage and didn't care about anything. He asked a few people:

"Just now the village chief said that if I want to enter the village, I need to go through a village entry ceremony. Do the elder brothers know what a village entry ceremony is?"

"When does it begin?"

Li Tian began to test these villagers.

Li Tian could tell that the villagers who picked him up and sent him off seemed to be of higher rank than the few villagers he met at the entrance of the village who were going to work in the fields.

The work I do is not the lowest level of physical work, but picks up people who join the village.

Maybe there will be more things to know.

"The village entry ceremony?"

After hearing Li Tian's question, several people couldn't help showing confusion on their faces. It seemed that they didn't understand what the ceremony of entering the village was, but they still replied:
"We don't know what the village entry ceremony is, but the village chief said before that there will be activities tonight to gather the villagers."

"Maybe it's the village entry ceremony you mentioned."

"We'll let you know tonight."

"Just wait for us at home."

"All right."

"We have other things to do, so let's go first."

"Stay by yourself."

After finishing speaking, the few people ignored Li Tian and left directly.

Li Tian watched these people leave without stopping them. His eyes flickered, and he thought in his heart:

"Just now they said that the village chief said there will be activities at night?"

"Is this activity aimed at me?"

"Judging from the current situation, the event at night should be my village entry ceremony."

"But, that doesn't make sense."

"I have just arrived in the village, and the village head should be meeting me for the first time. How did he arrange the activities in advance?"

"It was predicted in advance that I would come to the village, so the village entry ceremony was arranged in advance?"

Thinking about this, Li Tian was a little puzzled, and frowned:

"wrong."

"If it was arranged in advance, then I refuse to join the village. In this case, wouldn't the evening activities of the village be in vain?"

Li Tian couldn't figure it out.

"and many more."

Suddenly, Li Tian thought of a situation:
"Maybe my refusal doesn't make much difference to the village."

"Normally agree, the village chief, the villagers will be friendly to you, and proceed step by step."

"If you refuse, I am afraid that another rule will be triggered. The villagers and the village chief may forcibly detain the person and forcibly hold the so-called village entry ceremony."

"In this way, it doesn't matter whether the newcomers to the village refuse or not, and the activities will continue as usual."

"This is what I found in the memory of those villagers at the entrance of the village. It is useless to escape, and you can't leave the village in the end. You can only stay in the village honestly and live by the rules of the village. .”

"So, the village head of this village must have known that I was coming here."

"How did he find out about it?"

"Spiritual prediction?"

Li Tian guessed in his heart.

"No, it should be that carriage!"

Li Tian suddenly thought of the car that brought him here, and the car drove for a long time.

Maybe, when I boarded the carriage, Huangshan Village knew that I would have a new villager.

Therefore, the villagers were notified in advance to gather and prepare for the event ceremony.

This scenario is very likely.

That carriage must have some kind of connection with this village.

Otherwise, there is no way to explain why the carriage sent Li Tian here accurately.

"That's basically what it looks like."

"From the disappearance of Dasha City, it was because I picked up a ticket for the ghost train."

"The ticket takes people into the carriage."

"The carriage brought people to Huangshan Village."

"Huangshan Village held a village entry ceremony for those who came."

"If my guess is correct, this village entry ceremony must involve the supernatural circumstances of making those missing people return to reality as ghost slaves and kill their relatives and friends."

"It is also the source of the villagers' tampered memories."

At this moment, Li Tian completely connected the mysterious disappearance incident in Dasha City with the current situation and clues, and connected them one by one.

Li Tian, ​​who wanted to understand his current situation, walked into the thatched hut arranged by the villagers.

As soon as he entered the thatched cottage, Li Tian could smell the stench of corpses.

Li Tian frowned involuntarily, and then looked around the room.

Finally, Li Tian saw several corpses in a room of the thatched house where the sundries were piled up.

These corpses were thin and thin, with terrified expressions on their faces.

However, the strange thing is that although their thin bodies seemed to be drained of their own flesh and blood by something, they were all wet, as if they had been fished out of the water.

"It seems that not everyone in this village will be able to become a villager."

"Some people who are unlucky may also die directly."

"Is it because it triggered a taboo in the village?"

Seeing the miserable appearance of the corpse, Li Tian shook his head and ignored it.

He walked out of his dilapidated thatched hut and wandered casually in the village.

Wandering around the village, Li Tian also met some villagers.

Those villagers all stared at Li Tian covertly, and didn't talk to Li Tian. They seemed to be just monitoring and guarding Li Tian to prevent Li Tian from escaping.

But it didn't stop Li Tian from wandering around.

time flies.

Night falls.

Huangshan Village Ancestral Hall.

Li Tian was brought here by several villagers.

This is where Huangshan Village held the village entry ceremony.

Huangshan Village, shrouded in night, looks extraordinarily gloomy.

In the sky, the stars are dim, and there is not even a street lamp around the road.

When you get to the road, you need to move forward in the dark.

The only lighting tools are the torches and lanterns held by the villagers.

at this time.

The ancestral hall is brightly lit.

Because the ancestral hall is surrounded by many villagers of Huangshan Village, everyone holds lanterns or torches in their hands to dispel the darkness around them.

"Boy, you're here."

When Sun Qimeng, a tall red-skinned man, saw Li Tian who was brought by several villagers, he immediately showed a strange smile and greeted him enthusiastically.

"village head."

Although Li Tian felt a little uncomfortable looking at the smile on Sun Qimeng's face, he still suppressed the feeling in his heart and replied perfunctorily.

"Since you're here, come in with me."

Sun Qimeng didn't show any courtesy to Li Tian, ​​and took Li Tian directly into the ancestral hall.

In the ancestral hall of Huangshan Village, in the middle, there is a huge pyramid-shaped altar with multiple layers.

On the pyramid-shaped altar, there are many spiritual tablets. These spiritual tablets are the tablets of the ancestors of Huangshan Village.

Li Tian just glanced at it roughly and didn't care.

What he cared about was that in the ancestral hall, in addition to the pyramid altar with the spiritual seat in the middle, there were two other similar square altars on the left and right.

On the table are things that look like posthumous photos in photo frames.

"These photos?"

Li Tian stared at the framed photos.

I saw that the posthumous photos in those photo frames were all in black and white.

Not only that, Li Tian also saw a few familiar people on it.

That's... what the villagers of Huangshan Village looked like.

In these posthumous photos, Li Tian saw a few people he met at the entrance of the village before, and they were placed at the bottom.

Then there are those villagers who arranged their own residences and led the way for themselves. The number of floors where their photos are placed is slightly higher than the bottom floor.

Further up, Li Tian also saw the photo of Sun Qimeng's death.

"Are all the photos of the villagers placed here?"

"Arrange the placement levels by status?"

Li Tian observed the arrangement of the posthumous photos and guessed in his heart.

"So, the return of dead souls in the outside world, and the black and white ghosts that turned into dead souls, is it because of the effect of these black and white photos?"

"Wait, on these posthumous photos, there seems to be not only the owner of the posthumous photos, but also some vague shadows behind them?"

Suddenly, Li Tian discovered many different situations.

The posthumous photo was not very clear, and the background behind it became even more blurred.

Li Tian walked in a little bit and looked carefully.

When Li Tian took a closer look, he realized that the blurry shadow behind the background on these posthumous photos seemed to be a person.

These people are big and small, hidden behind the subject of the posthumous photos, and they are very unclear. If you don't pay attention, you may ignore them.

"Is this... the family of the owner of the deceased photo?"

After careful inspection, Li Tian found that these fuzzy figures seemed to be very similar to the family members of the owners of those posthumous photos.

at this moment.

Li Tian suddenly understood why he killed his family and friends when the souls returned from outside Dasha City.

"People who were killed by ghost slaves outside will also appear on the photos."

"Let the owner of the posthumous photo, as well as his family and friends, be reunited in the posthumous photo?"

"This ghost is really scary."

Li Tian felt a little awe-inspiring.

"Ok?"

Just when Li Tian was very close to the photo.

Li Tian suddenly made a new discovery.

The expression on the face of the subject of the posthumous photo turned out to be dynamic.

The subject of the photo seemed to have noticed that Li Tian was staring at him.

All of them had terrified eyes, opening and closing their mouths to Li Tian, ​​as if they wanted to say something, but they couldn't make any sound.

He couldn't even move his head, and his expression only changed slightly, which was not obvious.

This is also the reason why Li Tian checked from a distance before and didn't notice it at first.

"Don't look at it, come to worship, you will also have a photo put here."

Just when Li Tian focused all his attention on those posthumous photos.

Sun Qimeng's voice suddenly rang in Li Tian's ears, very close.

The sudden thought of the voice made Li Tian startled and turned around immediately.

At some point, Sun Qimeng was already no more than half a meter away from him, and he was looking at him with a half-smile on his face.

He obviously found out that Li Tian was observing the photos, but he didn't care. It seemed that Li Tian's actions were irrelevant to him and not something taboo.

talking.

Sun Qimeng took out a black and white framed photo from his body.

Li Tian noticed that the black and white photo in this photo frame was blank.

Then, Sun Qimeng took out a black and white framed photo and placed it at the front of the room, on a table with offerings, white candles, and an incense burner.

He pointed to the gray futon on the ground in front of the table, and said to Li Tian in a serious tone:
"If you want to join the village, you must stand on this futon and bow down to the photo sincerely."

"It's not complete until my appearance appears in the photo."

"let's start."

Accompanied by Sun Qimeng's voice just fell.

All the villagers stared at Li Tian with numb and gloomy eyes.

It seems that they are all waiting for Li Tian's action.

If Li Tian doesn't act, what awaits him will definitely be the attacks of these ghosts or ghost slaves.

at this moment.

The crisis in Huangshan Village has clearly been foreseen!

"Kneeling down in front of the photo will show your appearance in the black and white photo?"

"It seems that the consciousness of those who disappeared in Dasha City and were taken to the village should be captured and included in the photos in this way."

Li Tian didn't care about the gloomy and numb eyes of those villagers looking at him.

He thought to himself.

The consciousness of these people imprisoned in the photo!

This is what Li Tian just discovered.

Those posthumous head portraits with frightened expressions on their faces and wanting to say something to themselves just now are definitely not the product of supernatural beings.

That kind of emotional appearance cannot be imitated by mechanical ghosts.

"Consciousness still exists."

"The body is still intact, which means that these people seem to be saved."

Li Tian looked around and stared at his villagers.

The bodies of these villagers are all intact, but they have been invaded by spirits.

If I can get rid of the ghosts in these people, and then restore the consciousness in the photos, it is very likely that I can save these people.

"Your Majesty!"

Sun Qimeng scolded Li Tian.

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty!"

Following the words of village chief Sun Qimeng, the surrounding villagers also echoed.

Hearing this, Li Tian couldn't help but look around at the people staring at him, still unmoved.

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty!"

When Sun Qimeng saw that Li Tian was not cooperating, he just scolded one after another. With the scolding, his voice also began to change, from the original old to sharp and harsh, with a strange tone.

This is more than that, I saw that his face was covered with a black and white shadow at some point.

With the appearance of black and white shadows, hot steam also emitted from Sun Qimeng's body, covering the surroundings.

At this moment, the spirit started a riot.

(End of this chapter)