Embers Ad Infinitum

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The next morning, the "Old Tune Team" waited until the sun had fully risen before leaving the camp and driving a jeep back to Linhe Village.

It was no different from yesterday before dark, except that the soil under the old locust tree had more traces of tumbling. .

They were left by Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong when Du Shaochong's bones were buried in the ground.

Jiang Baimian looked at it carefully for a while, and said to the team members:

"Come into the village."

After walking a few steps, Shang Jianyao suddenly made an "uh" sound.

Just when Jiang Baimian wondered if this guy had done something wrong again and hesitated to ask, Shang Jianyao took the initiative to ask a question:

"You said, are the bones buried under the old locust tree still there?"

How could it not be there? We just buried it yesterday! Long Yuehong muttered in her heart.

Having said that, he still couldn't help but think about the possibility if he was really gone.

This is very scary very scary!

The old **** Jiang Baimian responded to Shang Jianyao's question on the ground:

"I just observed it and the condition of the soil is no different from when we left last night.

"Besides, since we won't try to dig out the corpse now, what's the difference between its presence and absence? You can't confirm it again. Go back out of the company, bring Lao Ge, and check again."

For some unknown reason, when Bai Chen heard the words behind the group leader, a picture suddenly appeared in Bai Chen's mind:

I waited for the carbon-based man to hide a few kilometers away, holding a telescope, and watching Laoge, an intelligent robot, shovel and dig soil there.

"Okay..." Shang Jianyao was very disappointed that the horror development he thought of was not recognized.

The "Old Tune Group" continued to move forward and arrived at the place where they entered the village.

Shang Jianyao turned his head and turned his attention to the place where Xiaochong took the children to urinate.

"Put away your current thoughts!" Jiang Baimian gave a full warning and stopped it in advance.

Shang Jianyao sighed and said:

"That's a holy relic!"

...Long Yuehong didn't know how to slander for a while.

After a few seconds, he muttered:

"Those soils are called holy relics?"

Jiang Baimian did not give Shang Jianyao a chance to discuss this matter, and gave a straightforward order:

"Enter the village!"

She took the lead and walked into Linhe Village.

Bai Chen and others followed closely.

They looked at the situation in the house by the road through the glass windows that were still quite intact.

The area of ​​the ruins of Swamp 1 has not been discovered before, so it seems that it has not been visited by the remains hunters until now. Whether it is high-end items such as TVs, refrigerators, air conditioners, cars, tables, chairs, benches, and canned instant noodles, all are quiet. It sits quietly in its place and hasn't moved for decades.

Looking at it, Long Yuehong suddenly felt that something was wrong.

What's missing here!

In the next second, Bai Chen said:

"What about the whole village?"

No matter what happened to the villagers when the old world was destroyed, there would always be people who died and wreckage left behind, but in the current Linhe Village, not a single corpse could be seen!

Shang Jianyao laughed:

"Maybe they had nothing to do back then, survived the destruction of the old world, and then the whole village moved to another place.

"That's how it is with the blessing of the old age."

He spoke with eloquence as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

Jiang Baimian glanced at him and said succinctly:

"The whole village will not be relocated without food."

Especially the canned food and instant noodles that are more convenient to carry.

"Maybe some people got 'involuntary disease', while others were forced to evacuate in a hurry. Well, those 'intentional ones' chased away and never came back." Long Yuehong tried to guess.

Bai Chen disagrees:

"There must be some people who become 'unintentional' when the old world is destroyed, and the rest will surely die, and when the survivors are hurriedly evacuating, if they can take the body with them, they will not stay Portable food."

Here's what she'd heard and seen over the years translated into experience:

Once a large number of people in a certain place suddenly become "unintentional", then there will inevitably be people around them who are too late to be prepared and hunted down.

And if there are not many "unintentional" people in Linhe Village, enough to be guarded by the villagers, then the survivors don't have to flee in a hurry, even without food.

"Yes." Long Yuehong nodded.

He raises another possibility:

"All turned into 'unintentional ones' and went to other places to find food..."

As she spoke, Long Yuehong's voice became lower, because the "unintentional" people also knew how to use simple tools, how to open cans, and tear packages.

This is attested in many urban ruins.

Jiang Baimian looked around and said thoughtfully:

"What Zhi Sui provides is not necessarily a blessing.

"Do you still remember the situation in Taicheng?"

Bai Chen and Long Yuehong recalled the state of those citizens in Taicheng:

They all died instantly when the old world was destroyed!

"Could it be that the people in Linhe Village also died when the old world was destroyed?" Long Yuehong asked in doubt, "But if they all died, where would the bodies go?"

Hearing this sentence, Shang Jianyao smiled.

He lowered his voice and said:

"turned into a zombie...

"They're hiding somewhere, looking at your neck..."

Although Long Yuehong knew that this guy was telling ghost stories, but after experiencing so many anomalies, he dared not casually deny the possibility.

Jiang Baimian thought for a while and said:

"Continue to search to see if there are any clues."

They walked slowly, opening a certain door every now and then, going inside, and doing a check.

The situation in these houses is quite similar, at a certain moment in life, and then suddenly frozen in time.

As a result, the "old tune group" saw that some people had tableware and chopsticks on the table, and the food had rotted and evaporated early, leaving only some bones and stains.

This is more and more similar to Jiang Baimian's guess just now:

When the old world was destroyed, people here died instantly no matter what they were doing.

The problem is, their bodies are gone.

"How is it?" Shang Jianyao looked at Long Yuehong and said with a smile, "A real ghost story."

"There must be some reason behind this." Long Yue Hongzui replied firmly.

"Yeah, the reason is that the corpses have mutated..." Shang Jianyao deliberately made his voice gloomy.

Jiang Baimian retracted his gaze, looked not far ahead and said:

"According to my knowledge of folklore, there should be the village's ancestral hall. If you go there, you may find something interesting."

For example, a tablet with the name "Du Shaochong" written on it.

"Okay." Bai Chen didn't want to hear Shang Jianyao tell ghost stories here.

The "Old Tune Group" continued to move forward, bypassing a house, and came to the ancestral hall of Linhe Village.

This ancestral hall has the style of the old world, but the eaves and arches are all made of cement.

At this moment, the black wooden door of the ancestral hall was tightly closed.

"I'm going to open the door?" Shang Jianyao rubbed his hands and asked Ying.

His Berserker assault rifle was slung over his chest like that.

Jiang Baimian nodded:

"Go on, be careful."

Shang Jianyao excitedly accelerated his pace and walked to the door of the ancestral hall.

He listened for a while, closed his eyes for a while, then put on his gloves and pushed the door with his palms.

After all, Jiang Baimian told him to be careful.

The creaking sound echoed in the open space in front of the ancestral hall as the door opened back, and the situation inside was also revealed to the eyes of several members of the "Old Tune Group".

Because of the distance, Long Yuehong picked up the telescope.

Bai Chen has undergone the corresponding genetic modification, and Jiang Baimian's eyesight is also very strong, and he still only relies on his eyes.

Soon, they saw a gray and white grave bag.

These tomb bags are not large, they are located in the courtyard of the ancestral hall, and they are densely packed, occupying every place.

"Wow!" Shang Jianyao exclaimed.

He turned his body halfway and shouted to Jiang Baimian and the others:

"This place has become a mass grave!"

Not only the courtyard, but also the side, rear, and main sacrificial places of the ancestral hall seem to be filled with tombs.

Jiang Baimian stared at it for a while, and said to himself:

"Those bones missing in the village?"

Those who died were buried in the ancestral hall? Long Yuehong was startled.

"Should." Bai Chen felt that there was no other possibility.

She immediately pursed her lips:

"But who buried them?"

survivor? Long Yuehong guessed in his heart.

But he quickly dismissed that possibility.

Because the survivors will not not consume or take away those cans and instant noodles.

Shang Jianyao poked his head at the entrance of the ancestral hall and looked at it for a while, until Jiang Baimian and others came to his side, he said with a respectful expression:

"In the beginning, a few people should have survived, and the whole village's dead were buried in the ancestral hall."

This is the same as Long Yuehong's speculation just now, but the next development is completely different:

"They also lost the confidence to live, dug their own graves, and then buried themselves."

A horrifying and tragic unfolding... Long Yuehong grumbled.

He didn't refute it, because it was a possibility.

Jiang Baimian gave an "um" and tried to enter the ancestral hall.

There was only a little space between those gray and white graves, and it was very difficult for the members of the "Old Tune Group" to enter the hall where the ancestors were worshipped without stepping on other people's graves.

This place is still full of small graves, and only a few places where the tablets stand are not occupied.

Jiang Baimian looked carefully for a while and found that this place belonged to the surname Du, but there was no name Du Shaochong.

"Before the destruction of the old world, Du Shaochong hadn't died, or the news of his death hadn't come back," she said with consideration.

Then, she looked at the gray-white tomb bag at her feet, hesitated and said:

"I dug it up and took a look. I always feel that these graves are too small~www.readwn.com~ They don't look like they can bury a person, unless they are buried upright."

"Okay!" Shang Jianyao volunteered.

He led Long Yuehong and left the ancestral hall in a yangko-like manner, and soon brought back two shovels.

Before long, they dug a grave.

The corpse inside was not buried deep, just below, all the bones were piled together.

Obviously, they were not buried in their normal posture.

"Chop up and bury it? This saves space." Shang Jianyao "suddenly realized."

Crazy... Long Yuehong only had one thought about this.

Jiang Baimian shook his head:

"It should be buried with bones.

"The corpse was buried here only after it decomposed into bones."

"Who buried that?" Bai Chen frowned.

It certainly wasn't the survivors who did it.