The old man said that he accidentally bumped into this place when he was a child, but the ghosts here did not hurt him and took care of him.

This forest is illusory, and eating is troublesome, but there are still some real things in this forest, such as some soil on the ground and trees in the forest, which really exist.

The old man also said that he had made some food in the forest and barely starved to death.

But he said that when he first came, a girl gave him some food every day.

"You said you were a girl?" Chi Youzi asked the old man, who said, "That's true."

"There are other people here?" I asked, and the old man said, "Besides me, it is that girl. The girl is about sixteen years old and looks as beautiful as a fairy, and she has never changed.

I remember when I came, I was only six or seven years old. I just left my mother and didn’t know how to survive.

I kept crying in the woods, and then the girl appeared and gave me some food. After that, the girl told me where the land can grow crops and where the land can pick up mushrooms. In this way, I gradually grew up.

I remember when I was twenty years old, the girl was still like that. At that time, the girl no longer came to see me often. I was too young and there was no one here, so I became obsessed with the girl. From the beginning, my sister stopped calling her.

The last time I asked the girl what her name was and whether she could be friends, but the girl refused and never came again. I was getting older here.

I must be very scary now. I don’t remember how many years I have lived here.

In order to survive, I learned all the books left by the girl for me, including how to live in peace with the ghosts in the forest.

Here, I am so lonely. Sometimes I really want to find a way out where I can go, even if I let me see the people outside, but until now, I have not found a way out.

I think I will die here soon, and maybe I will see the girl for the last time."

The old man looked at the window with his eyes that were a little nostalgic, and sighed softly. Finally, he said, "I'll tell you to laugh at me."

"We are all the same, there is nothing to be laughed at. I dare ask you, those ghosts here have bullied you."

The old man shook his head: "The ghost doesn't bully me, and I won't provoke them here. If they really come, I can handle it for a while."

The old man was very confident. I looked at the old man and asked, "You said that the ghost would not come to you, so how did you know that the girl is not a ghost?"

"Ghosts are different from humans. The girl is afraid that I will be hurt by ghosts and afraid that I will find ghosts to play with by myself, so she tells me a lot about ghosts. After I know, I will naturally understand a lot."

The old man explained, I looked at the ghost and said, "If you say that, then you don't know how many years you have lived here?"

"I've been making an appointment for a hundred years. Every day I draw a line on the wall. Three hundred and sixty-five days are one year. When the year comes, I draw a line on the other side. I counted it repeatedly, and it's almost the same if there is no one hundred."

The old man was not sad at all. I looked at the old man and asked, "So many years have passed. Don't you think about asking the ghosts how to get out here?"

The old man shook his head: "I actually asked the girl if I could go out. The girl said that since she had already come in, why bother going out again? One of me was young at that time, and the other one took good care of me, so I didn't want to go out anymore. But when I wanted to go out, I was already here and couldn't get out, so I didn't say anything anymore."

"So that's it. Are you used to the living customs here? Ghosts and people are different."

When I heard me say to the old man, "There are some. Although ghosts have been mediocre in this forest, every year, they will hold a large-scale event like humans. At each event, they will make out the bodies buried in the land, cut them off one by one, and throw them into the land. I don't know what they are doing.

Whenever I avoided it from afar, some corpses were rotten. They took out the corpses and saw that there was no meat on them. When they were angry, they would chop all the bones into pieces. The scene was also terrifying. Some out-of-control ghosts would keep howling at night."

The old man was also a little uncomfortable when he spoke, so I said, "Then when I came, I saw a house in the middle. Have you been there?"

The old man shook his head: "I know about a house there, but I haven't been there. By the way, why do you ask this?"

"To be honest, we came here for some things. The house was the first place we found after we came here. We went to see it and there was a very unpleasant corpse stinking inside. We concluded that some corpses were rotten, and ghosts might not smell it, but you are a human, so you should have feelings."

The old man said: "I have smelled some bad smells, but a long time ago, the girl told me not to go there. It was very dangerous there, so I had never been there and didn't know what was there."

I thought for a while: "That's right, there is a bun shop there, and the business is very good. I passed there one day and bought a few buns, but my family didn't eat meat buns, so I planned to return them, but I went back to my hands.

I didn't eat buns, so I threw them into the land. As a result, there was a strong yin energy coming out of the land. Then I made out my buns, and there was a rotten smell coming out of it. Are you surprised?"

The old man said it was so strange. I continued, "We went to the bun shop to watch quietly at night, but a pair of ghosts went to the bun shop at night. They took out all the rotten meat. After chopping the meat filling, they put it aside. When they were wrapped in buns in the morning, they sold them to people in our place. As a result, after eating the buns, they got sick, vomited and had diarrhea, and could not eat anything else."

The old man looked at me: "There is also such a thing. I haven't seen any ghosts go out in these years."

"That's wrong. We came in with those two ghosts. If there were no ghosts, how did we come in?

And you, why did you suddenly run in at that time? This forest should not be in front of your house.”
Chapter completed!