Zhiqing and Wengen waited impatiently for the trolley they pulled under the old locust tree. In addition, they were worried about Zhong Kui, so they simply stored the trolley in another place and hurriedly looked for places where Zhong Kui might have passed by.

Find the route.

When they found the ruined temple, they both saw the same scene that Zhong Kui saw. There was no one in the ruined temple except for a pile of silk thatch, a few discolored steamed buns, and a few dilapidated clay Buddhas.

Zhiqing and Wengen walked around in front of the ruined temple, but neither saw Zhong Kui or the children. They were like ants on a hot pot, and they were so anxious that they didn't know what to do.

Suddenly, a female voice came from behind Zhiqing and asked, "Are you looking for someone?"

Zhiqing and Wengen turned around and saw an unkempt and dirty woman who didn't know when she appeared behind them. Judging from her height, she should be between 18 and 17 years old. The woman had a dark face.

On the face, a pair of black and white eyes stood out, turning around, looking at them helplessly, I guessed that it was her who asked the question!

It turns out that this woman is a beggar. In this day and age, there are many beggars.

So Zhiqing and the others didn't feel surprised at all when they saw that the other party was a beggar.

Zhiqing put away the anxious look on his face, returned to his usual cheerful face, looked at the other person and said: "Yes, we are looking for someone, have you seen it?"

The woman nodded, pointed nervously in the direction of Menling Village, and then led the way and ran forward.

"Master...she can't be..." Wen Gen looked at the direction in which the woman was running, his expression changed, and he desperately wanted to say something to Zhiqing.

Zhiqing knew that Wengen was afraid, but seeing that the woman had no ill intentions, she probably wouldn't do anything to them.

"It's okay, let's go take a look."

Zhiqing and Wengen hurriedly chased the female beggar who ran past them.

Zhong Kui had already entered the tunnel. Where did the tunnel lead? He didn't know. Anyway, he walked straight after coming down. As he walked, he found that there were other branches in the tunnel, and there was a stone pier at the entrance of each branch.

mark.

Zhong Kui walked toward a direct branch line based on his feeling. After walking for a while, a faint light appeared in front of him.

Under the light were messy stones. Zhong Kui stepped forward and looked up at the location where the light penetrated. There was a large grotto.

Zhong Kui climbed up from the cave and saw a small room. Not only was the room poorly furnished, but it was also full of spiders. It must have been that no one had lived in it for a long time.

Seeing the spider, Zhong Kui immediately thought of Menling Village. Could this be Menling Village?

Zhong Kui stretched out his fingers to remove the spider blocking his eyes and walked out casually.

After walking out, Zhong Kui understood the third thing.

This tunnel exit is Vanilla’s home.

There is a tunnel in Vanilla's house, so Vanilla should have gone out safely. But seeing that there are no bones of hers in the Purple Bamboo Forest, those children should have gone out from here and died in the fog barrier in the Purple Bamboo Forest.

Those man-eating miasmas have swallowed up the hope of Menling Village.

Seeing the desolation in his eyes, Zhong Kui burst into tears again. He could conclude that there was a blank link, which should be related to vanilla.

When Vanilla heard the words outside the door: There was another one here, she quickly turned back and went down the tunnel... The question arose again, was this tunnel dug by Vanilla's father? Or were people from Menling Village escaping and digging through the Purple Bamboo Forest?

Got here?

Zhong Kui returned to the tunnel and decided to see where other branch lines lead.

When returning to the tunnel, Zhong Kui had an extra eye this time. He looked carefully in the tunnel to see if there were any traces to follow.

Everyone has an unknown secret. Some people tell their loved ones the secrets in their hearts when they are dying. There are also some people who bury the secrets in their hearts forever and will not tell them even with their last breath.

Take it indirectly to the underworld.

Zhong Kui's secret is that he can see his surroundings in a dark space. He doesn't know this is a secret, but he doesn't tell anyone else, including Zhi Qing, who is closest to him.

Except for the messy rocks and mud, there is nothing in the tunnel that can arouse Zhong Kui's heart.

When he reached the branch entrance, Zhong Kui walked selectively to the right. After walking for a while, the faint light from before appeared in front of his eyes. When he emerged from the light exit, he found that it was the concentration point of the cemetery in Menling Village.

Zhong Kui speculated that this tunnel link was the preparation before the plague broke out in Menling Village. People dug tunnels to escape. Sadly, it was only when they dug out this exit that they discovered that it was a cemetery. The cemetery was still in those places.

The area was controlled by activists, so they could not escape, so Monet returned again to redeploy and dig tunnels.

Zhong Kui retreated and started again from another branch line. This time he chose to go to the left.

After walking a stick of incense, Zhong Kui saw a faint light in front of him, and he walked forward quickly.

This shouldn't be an exit, but a tomb. The faint light penetrated from above the head, and the light was very thin and weak and fell into the tomb, making it strange and blurry.

There is a sarcophagus in the tomb. Judging from the fonts and patterns carved on the sarcophagus, the sarcophagus seems to be very old.

Zhong Kui really wanted to see what was in the sarcophagus. Maybe it was a skeleton, or maybe there was nothing at all.

Sarcophagi were rare in rural areas at that time. In Zhong Kui’s memory, someone left in the village. Most families who could afford it ordered wooden boards to make coffins, mostly fir. No one used sarcophagi to make coffins at all.

Yes, could this be the coffin of the female corpse that Old Man Xia was talking about?

The more he thought about it, the more curious Zhong Kui became about this sarcophagus.

Curiosity killed the cat, but Zhong Kui is not a cat, he is the son of an unusual person.

When he vigorously lifted the lid of the sarcophagus, Zhong Kui felt that he lacked strength. He was still in a weak stage, otherwise he would not have been fooled by a group of brats before.

Because Zhong Kui has not left the mountains and has not interacted with his peers, he doesn’t know if these friends have the same abilities as him. Therefore, with his current sensitive sense of smell and hearing, in his opinion, these are nothing.

Just an ordinary thing.

Zhong Kui's idea was that since he couldn't push the sarcophagus, he would stand on the sarcophagus and try to climb up to see where the ground was.

The sarcophagus was half a person's height above the ground. When Zhong Kui finally crawled out from under the sarcophagus, the scene in front of him shocked him.

What Zhong Kui didn't expect was that the sarcophagus was the lowest tomb, and there was another tomb above the sarcophagus.

The tomb we see now in Zhongkui is a relatively recent and most ordinary tomb.

There was a cedar coffin in the tomb. The coffin was obviously decayed, and there was a wet earthy smell in the small space.

What surprised Zhong Kui was that there was a gap in the tomb, as if someone had come out of the tomb.

When Zhong Kui climbed out of the gap in the tomb, he saw from the tombstone that this was Butcher Yan's tomb.

As the story goes: Zhong Kui is illiterate, so how did he know that this was the tomb of Butcher Yan?

The Yan family is well known in Menling Village as a wealthy family, and the tombstone standing in front of the tomb has special patterns carved on it. After Zhong Ming's announcement, Zhong Kui looked around in order to find his father's tomb, and he deeply remembered Butcher Yan's name.

tombstone.
Chapter completed!