Chapter 790 Missing villagers
The next morning, the "Old Tune Team" waited until the sun fully rose before leaving the camp and driving a jeep back to Linhe Village.
This place is no different from before it got dark yesterday, except that the soil under the old locust tree has more traces of turning over.
They were left behind by Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong when they let Du Shaochong's bones be buried in the ground for peace.
Jiang Baimian looked at it carefully for a while and said to the team members:
"Let's go into the village."
After walking a few steps, Shang Jianyao suddenly said "uh".
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:
"Tell me, are the bones buried under the old locust tree still there?"
How could it not be? We only buried it yesterday! Long Yuehong muttered in her heart.
With that said, he still couldn't help but think about the possibility in his mind if he really wasn't there.
It's very scary, very scary!
Jiang Baimian responded to Shang Jianyao's question on the spot:
"I just observed that the condition of the dirt is no different from when we left last night.
"Besides, since we won't try to dig up the bones now, what is the difference between it and not being there? You can't be sure. Go back and leave the company, bring your old style, and check again."
For some reason, when he heard the last sentence of the team leader, a picture suddenly appeared in Bai Chen's mind:
He waited for the carbon-based people to hide a few kilometers away, holding a telescope, and watched as Lao Ge an intelligent robot wielded a shovel and dug up the soil there.
"Okay......" Shang Jianyao was very disappointed that the horror development he came up with was not recognized.
The "old tune team" continued to move forward and arrived at the place where they entered the village.
Shang Jianyao turned his head sideways and turned his gaze to the place where Xiao Chong and the children were urinating.
"Put away your current thoughts!" Jiang Baimian fully warned and stopped it in advance.
Shang Jianyao sighed and said:
"That's a holy relic!"
…… Long Yuehong didn't know how to scold for a while.
After a few seconds, he muttered:
"Those soil are called holy relics?"
Jiang Baimian did not give Shang Jianyao a chance to discuss this matter, and gave an order bluntly:
"Enter the village!"
She led the way and walked into Linhe Village.
Bai Chen and others followed.
They looked through the glass windows that were still quite intact, and looked at the situation in the houses on the side of the road.
The area of the Swamp No. 1 Ruins has not been discovered before, so it seems that this place has not been visited by relic hunters until now, whether it is high-end items such as TVs, refrigerators, air conditioners, cars, or tables, chairs, benches, instant noodles, etc., they are all quietly placed in their original place, and have not been moved for decades.
Looking at it, Long Yuehong suddenly felt something was wrong.
Something is missing here!
In the next second, Bai Chen spoke:
"Where are the people in the whole village?"
No matter what kind of situation the villagers encountered when the old world was destroyed, there would always be people dying and leaving debris, but now in Linhe Village, there is not a single corpse in sight!
Shang Jianyao laughed:
"Maybe they didn't have anything to do back then, they 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 year."
He spoke with his own words, as if he had seen it with his own eyes.
Jiang Baimian glanced at him and said concisely:
"The whole village will not be relocated without food."
Especially canned food and instant noodles are more convenient to carry.
"Maybe some people have 'heartless disease', and others are forced to evacuate in a hurry, well, those 'heartless people' chased all the way and never came back." Long Yuehong tried to guess.
Bai Chen did not agree:
"If some people really become 'heartless people' when the old world is destroyed, the rest will definitely die, and when the survivors evacuate in a hurry, if they still care about bringing corpses, they will not leave portable food."
This is what she has heard and seen over the years.
Once a large number of people in a certain place suddenly become "heartless", then there will inevitably be people around them who are too caught off guard and hunted brutally.
And if there were not many "heartless people" in Linhe Village, which were enough to be guarded by the villagers, then the survivors would not have to run away in a hurry, not even bringing food.
"Yes." Long Yuehong nodded.
He proposed another possibility:
"They all became 'mindless people' and went elsewhere to find food......"
As he spoke, Long Yuehong's voice gradually lowered, because the "heartless ones" also knew how to use simple tools, know how to open cans, and tear packaging.
This is confirmed within the ruins of many cities.
Jiang Baimian looked around and said thoughtfully:
"The year of the year does not necessarily provide protection.
"Do you remember the situation in Taicheng?"
Bai Chen and Long Yuehong suddenly recalled the state of those citizens in Taicheng:
They all died instantly when the old world was destroyed!
"Could it be that the people of Linhe Village also died when the old world was destroyed?" Long Yuehong said to himself suspiciously, "But if they are all dead, where did the bodies go?"
Hearing this, Shang Jianyao smiled.
He suppressed 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 a ghost story, after experiencing so many abnormalities, he did not dare to deny this possibility casually.
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 from time to time, going inside, and checking.
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 Team" saw that some people had dishes and chopsticks on the table, and the food had already rotted and evaporated, leaving only some bones and smudges......
This is more and more similar to Jiang Baimian's guess just now:
When the old world was destroyed, the people here died instantly no matter what they were doing.
But the problem is that 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 replied stiffly.
"Yes, that 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 folklore knowledge, it should be the ancestral hall of the village, and you might find something interesting when you go there."
For example, a tablet with the name "Du Shaochong" written on it.
"Okay." Bai Chen didn't want to listen to Shang Jianyao's ghost stories here.
The "Old Tune Team" 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 both the eaves and arches are made of cement.
At this time, the black wooden door of the ancestral hall was tightly closed.
"I'm going to open the door?" Shang Jianyao rubbed his hands and took the initiative to ask for help.
His Berserker assault rifle was carried on his chest just like that.
Jiang Baimian nodded:
"Go, be careful."
Shang Jianyao quickened his pace excitedly and walked to the door of the ancestral hall.
He listened attentively for a while, then closed his eyes for a while before putting on his gloves and stretching out his palm to push the door.
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 backwards, and the situation inside was also displayed little by little in the eyes of several members of the "Old Tune Group".
Because there was a distance apart, Long Yuehong picked up the telescope.
Bai Chen has undergone corresponding genetic modification, and Jiang Baimian's eyesight is also very strong, and he still only relies on his eyes.
Soon, they saw gray and white graves.
These graves are not big, they are in the courtyard of the ancestral hall, densely packed, and occupy every place.
"Wow!" Shang Jianyao let out a voice of amazement.
He turned his body halfway around and shouted to Jiang Baimian and the others:
"This place has become a mass grave!"
Not only the courtyard, but also the side, back, and main sacrifice hall seem to be filled with grave bags.
Jiang Baimian stared for a while and said to himself:
"Those bones that are missing in the village?"
Those who died were buried in the ancestral hall? Long Yuehong was shocked.
"Yes." Bai Chen felt that there was no other possibility.
She then pursed her lips:
"But who buried them?"
Survivors? Long Yuehong guessed in her heart.
But he quickly overturned this possibility.
Because the survivors will not consume or take away those canned foods and instant noodles.
Shang Jianyao poked his head at the door of the ancestral hall and looked at it for a while, until Jiang Baimian and others walked to his side, and he said with a reverent face:
"A few people should have survived and buried the dead in the ancestral hall of the whole village."
This is the same as Long Yuehong's speculation just now, but the next development is completely different:
"At the same time, they also lost the confidence to live, dug a grave for themselves, and then buried themselves."
A terrifying and sad unfolding...... Long Yuehong muttered.
He did not refute it, because it was a possibility.
Jiang Baimian said "hmm" and tried to walk into the ancestral hall.
There was only a little place between the gray and white graves, and several members of the "Old Tune Group" had a hard time entering the hall where their ancestors were enshrined without stepping on other people's graves.
It was still full of small graves, and only a few places where the tablets stood were 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 was not dead, or the news of his death had not yet come back." She said deliberately.
Then, she looked at the gray-white grave bag at her feet and hesitated for a moment:
"Digging one up, I always feel that these graves are too small to bury a person, unless they are buried vertically."
"Okay!" Shang Jianyao volunteered to do his best.
He led Long Yuehong out of the ancestral hall in a twisted Yangge-like posture, and quickly brought back two sapper shovels.
It didn't take long for them to dig up a grave bag.
The bodies inside were not buried deeply, just a little below, and all the bones were piled together.
Obviously, they were not buried in a normal manner.
"Chopped and buried? This saves space." Shang Jianyao "suddenly realized".
Crazy ...... Long Yuehong only had such an idea about this.
Jiang Baimian shook his head:
"It should be buried by picking up bones.
"The bodies were buried here after they had rotted into bones."
"Who buried that?" Bai Chen frowned.
This is definitely not what the survivors did.
(End of this chapter)