Chapter 247 Tracking
Chapter 247: Ghost Hunt

After Bai Yanliang came out of the well, he found that the atmosphere between Yu Wenxuan and Jiang Li was a bit weird.

"What happened?" Bai Yanliang looked at Jiang Li, who was sitting on the ground rubbing her ankle, and Yu Wenxuan, who was standing beside her leisurely. This scene looked like a domestic violence scene.

"Didn't you hear us talking in the well?" Yu Wenxuan glanced at him.

"No." Bai Yanliang was very sure that he had not heard any sound underground.

"Well, it's not a big deal." Yu Wenxuan glanced at Bai Yanliang from head to toe, "Did you find anything?"

"Yeah." Bai Yanliang nodded, "Let's talk while we walk."

"Are you okay?" Bai Yanliang asked while extending his hand to Jiang Li.

Jiang Li shook his head, with a look of fear still on his face. It was obvious that what had just happened was not a big deal as Yu Wenxuan said.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Bai Yanliang didn't ask.

"Let's go."

The three of them walked side by side towards the center of the village.

"How many ghosts do you think there are in this village?" Bai Yanliang suddenly asked as he walked and looked at the uninhabited houses around him.

A few...

He said it nonchalantly, as if he was asking you how many bowls of rice you ate last night.

He is still so weird... Jiang Li thought to himself.

"To figure out this problem, we must first understand how many illusory phenomena there are in this village, and whether those illusory phenomena are caused by the same ghost." Yu Wenxuan said with his arms folded.

"Yeah." Bai Yanliang also folded his arms and nodded.

"The shroud, the wellhead, and the illusory phenomenon that Jiang Li encountered just now should all be caused by the same ghost."

Yu Wenxuan said.

"But what's the matter with the plague that broke out in the village twelve years ago and these villagers who are human during the day and ghosts at night?" Yu Wenxuan frowned slightly. He couldn't figure out the connection at the moment.

"It's the same ghost." Bai Yanliang gave his answer.

"I saw the death scene reappear. The source of the plague in the village, the appearance of the shroud, and the change at the wellhead all originated from a baby." Bai Yanliang looked at the ground. "The plague broke out twelve years ago. The baby was born before the plague broke out. He is at least twenty-three years old this year."

"Could it be Kang Kang?!" Jiang Li suddenly thought of the little boy in the village chief's family.

The village is full of old people, and only his appearance fits the bill.

But...it doesn't entirely fit, because Kang Kang looks only eight or nine years old. What's going on?

Jiang Li asked his doubts, "But Kang Kang looks only eight or nine years old, he doesn't look like a child..."

"He may not be human." Bai Yanliang said, and at the same time he looked at Yu Wenxuan, "I saw a swaddling cloth from twelve years ago at the bottom of the well, and a human-shaped body. Something came out of that body."

Something... came out...

This statement made Jiang Li shudder.

How could there be such strange things in the world?

But on second thought, since even fog and evil spirits exist, the existence of such "creatures" does not seem unacceptable.

"Maybe, we should go and find out when Kang Kang appeared in the village." "That's right."

Bai Yanliang and Yu Wenxuan spoke one by one.

"But..." Bai Yanliang hesitated for a moment and said, "There is another very strange thing. From the pictures I saw, this village was very strange before the plague broke out. White mourning clothes were hung at the door of every household."

"Oh?" Yu Wenxuan also showed a surprised look.

"So, those red shrouds were originally supposed to be white mourning clothes?"

"Ah."

Bai Yanliang lowered his eyes and thought. This was the thing that puzzled him the most. This village seemed to have some strange customs.

"Mourning clothes... the whole village is wearing mourning clothes, who is the dead person..." Yu Wenxuan murmured.

"This is the clue we should look for."

Bai Yanliang said, and at the same time, he glanced at Jiang Li, "I remember that you entered a ancestral hall."

"Yeah." Jiang Li answered while secretly glancing at Yu Wenxuan. At the last moment, her feet were tied up by a huge woman's hair. She was able to survive thanks to Yu Wenxuan's rescue.

Although according to Yu Wenxuan, the woman was not a ghost but a sick person, Jiang Li did not believe it this time.

That disease might make the villagers become like Old Lady Wu, bloodthirsty and cruel at night, eating raw meat and drinking blood, but it is impossible to make a person's hair suddenly grow long and then tie up another person's feet, right?
And…the tall woman’s aura was completely different.

If Old Mrs. Wu was filled with the stench of decay, then she was filled with the purest coldness.

This was not the first time that Jiang Li had felt that chilling feeling. Most evil spirits had that eerie and terrifying aura.

He himself could see it, so there was no way Yu Wenxuan couldn't have failed to see it, but he deliberately described his life-threatening efforts to help as an ordinary, casual act.

This made Jiang Li puzzled, but also curious about him.

"Jiang Li? Jiang Li?"

"Ah..." When Jiang Li came to her senses, she found that Bai Yanliang's hands were waving in front of her, and Yu Wenxuan was looking at her expressionlessly.

"I'm sorry...I was distracted."

"It's okay." Bai Yanliang didn't care whether she was distracted or not, but continued to ask, "Did you see anything in the ancestral hall? Something that felt strange or something."

weird stuff……

When Bai Yanliang mentioned this word, the first thing Jiang Li thought of was those portraits.

"Yes... yes!" Jiang Li nodded. "There are three portraits hanging on the wall of the ancestral hall. They are of three men... But at that time I thought those three portraits were very strange. The people in the paintings seemed to be staring at me, so I didn't dare to look at them carefully..."

"My dear lady, this is not an illusion, it is a natural phenomenon." Yu Wenxuan's eyes made Jiang Li unhappy. "When our eyes are looking at a flat surface, no matter from which angle we look at the near and far points of the image, they actually remain unchanged. When observing real surfaces in the natural environment, when we change the viewing direction, the visual information of the near and far points will change. You perceptually think that the painting is a real object, so your brain creates an optical illusion, which makes you feel that its eyes continue to stare at you no matter which direction you move."

Jiang Li's curiosity and vague affection were immediately shattered by Yu Wenxuan's mocking eyes.

This guy is really a difficult bastard...

However, at this moment, Bai Yanliang made a gesture to keep quiet.

"Wait, don't go yet." Bai Yanliang looked at the houses around him.

"It seems like everyone in this village has disappeared."

(End of this chapter)