The village chief looked at where I was pointing and suddenly said doubtfully: "It should be closed. I still remember asking someone to lock it."

"Could someone be greedy for the contents and sneak in?"

Liu Zi opened his mouth to answer.

He is in his thirties and has a body like a cow, but he is my nephew according to seniority. Of course, I am embarrassed to call him that, so I can only call him after the village chief.

Hearing this, I said: "Liu Zi, the person who went in may not be a human being."

Liu Zi was stunned for a moment, but the village chief seemed to have thought of something and ordered: "Liu Zi, go back and call someone, bring the guy with you. Your third uncle and your great-grandmother may be inside."

Liuzi's expression changed and he left in a hurry.

After Liu Zi left, the village chief exclaimed: "When I was looking for it in the morning, I saw that the weeds here were not in disorder, so I didn't go in, otherwise I would have found them in the morning."

I consoled me: "Village Chief, this is just my guess, it's not necessarily true."

"This must be it."

I don’t know why, but the village chief is more sure than me.

After waiting for about ten minutes, Liuzi came over with a dozen strong men holding hoes and poles.

I was not polite and took out a bundle of red string and directly ordered: "Go and use string to surround the house. If something comes out, use the string to block it."

The rest of you, get your sticks and come into the house with me. If someone attacks you with something, hit you with a stick. If you don't attack, don't do it and just call me."

After giving the instructions, I glanced at the trembling village chief: "Village Chief, you can give instructions from outside. I will take Liu Zi and the others in."

I thought the village chief would agree without hesitation. Unexpectedly, the village chief thought for a while but shook his head and said: "I know the affairs of Dawei's family best. If you want to ask anything, I can still answer it, so just let me know."

Liuzi can take charge outside."

I looked at the village chief with some admiration. This chubby guy was quite responsible.

It was getting late, so I took the village chief and others into Dawei's house without any further delay.

Dawei's house, like most self-built houses in rural areas, is a two-story building with three bays, with a separate kitchen and livestock shed next to it.

While two people were arranged to check, the village chief and I walked directly into the main room with the remaining three people.

The door to the main room has been open for who knows how long, but the air in the room is still stuffy, with a faint smell of rat droppings.

The furniture inside was still in good condition, but it was all covered with thick dust, and the memorial tablet of the Lord of Heaven and Earth on the wall in the middle was even covered with cobwebs.

After taking a look at the dust on the ground, the village chief lowered his voice and said: "Xiaolong, the other doors may have been opened, otherwise there would be no footprints on the ground."

I nodded.

If the third uncle and his mother were really here, they would definitely leave traces.

Not to mention the third uncle being controlled, even the third uncle's mother would not fail to leave footprints.

The old lady is a floating corpse. A floating corpse is a corpse and is different from a ghost.

In the inheritance of bone collectors, weirdness is divided into three categories: corpses, ghosts, and weirdness.

The corpse uses the body before death as a carrier to carry out activities. Basically, it can be traced, has footprints, can be seen, and can even be trapped by conventional means, such as iron cages.

Ghosts are different. They break away from the shackles of the body and exist in a more special way. No matter the shape or the way they appear, they are all strange. In the eight years I studied with my grandfather, I saw no less than dozens of ghosts.

However, ghosts will be affected by their own obsessions during life, and their behavior will still have traces to follow.

The last one is weird, which is the most special and almost unexplainable existence.

I have never seen weirdness, but I remember my grandfather said that weirdness is a collection of many resentments and a rule.

"Village Chief, check the first floor first. Please be careful. After checking a room, close the door. Finally, check the front."

Several strong men walked separately to the side rooms on both sides, while I stood in the main room without moving, looking ahead.

There is a small door next to the memorial tablet of Master Tiandi Junqin in front, and next to the small door are the stairs and the bathroom built under the stairs.

That's where the environment is most complex.

A few minutes later, the inspection of the wing rooms on both sides was completed.

Everyone gathered in the main room again, following my pace and moving forward.

I didn't go far when the village chief pulled my clothes and pointed to the stairs.

On the stairs, there are two clear sets of footprints, starting from the first step and going up.

I nodded and stopped.

It is true that there are footprints on the stairs, one big and one small also agree with the identity of the third uncle and his mother, but the footprints only exist on the stairs, and the ground below is still covered with dust.

Could it be that this person and body jumped directly from somewhere?

The floating corpse is not a jumping corpse, and a jumping corpse cannot jump on one leg.

Isn't this nonsense?

"It seems I was wrong before."

The village chief asked strangely: "What's wrong?"

"I always thought that Third Uncle's mother had turned into a floating corpse. I thought it was strange when you said that his mother spoke those things to you. Now it seems that I was wrong.

It’s true that the third uncle’s mother is about to turn into a floating corpse, but the floating corpse has not yet truly formed. It is his mother’s ghost that controls the corpse. Using a ghost to control the body of a semi-floating corpse completely led me astray.”

The village chief obviously didn't understand the difference between the two and asked doubtfully: "What's the difference?"

"My arrangement is aimed at floating corpses. The strings in the hands of Liuzi and others cannot stop the ghosts."

"Ah! What should we do?"

"Don't worry, Third Uncle's mother shouldn't be evil. Although my arrangement is aimed at floating corpses, it is not completely ineffective against ghosts."

"Should?" The village chief was obviously dissatisfied with these two words, but he also understood that now was not the time to dwell on this and asked, "Then are we still looking for it?"

"try to find!"

I said one word and strode forward. After glancing at the stairs to make sure there was no one there, I opened the small door.

As expected, this small door leads to the outside, and there is a light yellow handprint left on the door leaf when the door was pushed open.

Without stopping, I pushed open the toilet and took another look. After finding nothing, I said: "It's on the second floor. Everyone, go up directly and find the body as soon as possible. If the body turns into a floating corpse, it will be in trouble. Then ghosts will add floating corpses, which is not the case."

11 So simple.”

I took the lead and swarmed up.

As soon as I walked up the stairs, I saw my third uncle kneeling straight facing a wall, like a child being punished.

"Village chief, watch your third uncle. If there is any movement, control it. I'll go look for it."

Walking up to the second floor alone, the ground on the second floor was completely different from the first floor. It was covered with messy footprints, as if someone had been looking for something here.

I started checking from the room on one side, but there was no movement from the third uncle. Until I tried to open the door on the side of the room facing the wall, the third uncle suddenly let out a roar like a wild beast.

I stopped moving and winked at the village chief: "In here, you can control the third uncle."

Seeing that none of them dared to come forward, he couldn't help but add: "Don't worry, Third Uncle is just being controlled, he is still a human being."

If you are a human being, then there is nothing to fear.

Several strong men immediately went up and surrounded the third uncle. They imitated the grappling techniques on TV and controlled the third uncle's hands and feet.

During this period, the third uncle did not respond at all. It was not until I turned the door handle again that the third uncle roared and struggled continuously.

The strength was so great that several strong men could not control it.

I opened the door and found darkness in the room. Thick curtains blocked the only window. Through the light outside the door, I could only vaguely see a rickety figure kneeling facing the wall like my third uncle.

Even the position is exactly the same as that of the third uncle, just like mother and son apologizing to each other across the wall.

Maybe he felt someone opening the door, and his head slowly turned around.
Chapter completed!