C13 (1/2)

Is it the Wall-Hitting Ghost? It shouldn't be possible. The Wall-Hitting Wall is useful for people who walk in the night, making them think they're walking, or that they're circling in a circle, but I'm riding a motorcycle. Human consciousness may be deceived, but the machine won't be deceived, the motor is rumbling, the tires are indeed spinning.

As the old saying goes, go into the temple and pray to the gods. According to his grandfather, some of these dirty things weren't done out of malice. He just felt that this person was rude and had offended him.

Thus, I respectfully stood up and said, ”Hello, big brothers and big sisters. I have no ill intentions when I pass by. I hope that I can do a favor.”

He bowed in every direction, then mounted his motorcycle and rode forward. As it turned out, my thoughts were too simple. Ten minutes later, I was back at the starting point.

I don't know the depth of the enemy, and I don't want to go up against them. If they just want to tease me, and I'm going to fight them, they're good, and if they jump on me, they're done for.

”Will you leave me here? Young brother, please follow the master. I will spend the night in the village and continue my journey at dawn. ” I said in the same respectful tone.

If I was so polite, they wouldn't take me seriously, right?

I walked over to one of the houses. It was an old tile house with a yard full of weeds and a door covered in dust and cobwebs. Since there was no one living in this house, I went to another lodging house. I walked to the next house, and the situation was similar. I went to five or six houses in a row, all the same.

This time I felt something unusual about the village. It was a dead end. Even if the entire village was deserted, or the village was completely dead.

At the thought of this, I began to feel a little scared. If an entire village were to die, then there must be an accident. They are all ghosts, very fierce, and it won't just be me.

As I was thinking this, I saw a light come on in the house past the alley. There was actually a light? Could it be that just these five or six families have no one, while the others are occupied by others? Did I just think too much just now?

I hurried over to the house and looked in through the window. An old woman with her back to me was sitting at a dressing table with a lantern burning beside her. The horse lamp was a kerosene lamp with a glass cover. In the past, night pedestrians would always light the road in front of the horse. This kind of lamp would not be extinguished by the wind. In the old times, this kind of lamp was also used in the countryside at night.

However, now that there was such a light, it was also an antique.

Although he could not see the old lady's face clearly, looking at her back, he could see that she had hunched her back and her hair was completely white. She should be very old.

The old lady seemed to be putting on makeup. I knocked on the window and shouted, ”Grandmother! Grandmother!”

The old lady ignored me and I felt a chill on my back. I ran to the wall of the courtyard and looked out at the village under the moonlight. It was a very old tile house. There was not a single building. Although many places were still very poor, it was quite abnormal to not have a single building in the entire village. This also seemed to indirectly prove that my guess from before was correct. There was no one in the entire village, and the old lady was a human or a ghost.

As I was analyzing, I heard an old wooden door creak open. It was very sharp and very penetrating. It was the kind of sound that was used for background music in horror movies. My back turned cold when I heard it, so I jumped off the wall and saw the old lady coming out with a lantern.

The old lady carried a lantern and a bronze gong in her left hand and a small hammer in her right. She walked out of the courtyard and knocked on four bronze gongs, shouting, ”It's already the fourth fragment of the night. The weather is dry, be careful of the candles, close the windows and prevent theft.”

Gongfu? I was stunned, teasing me. What era was it, and there was even a husband? And she was such an old lady? Moreover, she seems to have gotten the timing wrong. Fourth, it should be 1 in the morning. It was already past 2 when I entered the village.

To figure out what was going on, I quietly followed behind the old lady. Although the old lady was hunchbacked, her footsteps were still very steady. Every time he walked for thirty meters, he would strike the gong and shout.

The Old Granny walked to the village entrance. There were two stone lions at the village entrance. The Old Granny stood between them and struck a gong, saying, ”You two don't have to sleep. Watch the village. Don't let the ghosts come in.”

With regard to the gendarmes, we have the impression that the old man in the TV series was so weak that he could not even withstand a single blow. In fact, looking back on Gengfu's initial history, other than reporting the time, he also had the responsibility of intimidating evil spirits. Initially, only highly respected Mages were able to take on the role of the gaffer. However, after it became widespread, not every place had a powerful Mage. Thus, in people's memories, it was only a duty to announce the time.

This old lady actually knew how to warn the lions at the village entrance to drive away evil spirits. This meant that she understood a bit, and was probably a husband who had the responsibility of intimidating evil spirits.

But now, this old lady is so troublesome to deal with. I definitely won't leave this place.

After knocking on the stone lion's ear, the old lady turned around and walked back. I hid behind the wall and secretly stared at the old lady. It was only when she approached and walked past me that I could see her face. Her face was covered with very white powder, and her lips were also painted red. Accompanying such an old face was not only not beautiful, but also terrifying. More importantly, she was blind! It was pitch black, as if his eyes had been gouged out.

I swallowed, and the old lady paused, then moved on.

And this time, I also saw her shadow in the lantern light, it was a person, not a ghost.