The Little King Next Door

Chapter 337 4 customs that cannot be violated

Suddenly, this face can really scare people.

Wang Ye followed Qian Li's gaze.

At this time, there was no one on the road in the village, and it was 23:19 in the evening.

It is summer now, and the days in the Xibo wilderness are very long. The sunset will not be until after 23:[-] in the evening, and it will not really get dark until after midnight. You can see the dawn around [-]:[-] in the morning, and the sunrise will not be until around [-]:[-].

So it’s not too dark now, and the street lights in the village are still quite bright, with one every 50 meters or so, and the surrounding environment can be seen relatively clearly.It's just... the yellowish light should give people a sense of warmth, but maybe because there is no one on the road, it is a bit ghostly.

Wang Ye didn't see anything, only a faint layer of mist rising from the ground.

This kind of fog is very common in the wilderness and villages outside the city, especially in relatively humid environments.

But Wang Ye was still a little wary of the sudden fog. He isolated the air circulation between the insect nest and the outside world, which had no effect on the vast insect nest in the place.

Because there are a large number of plants in the insect nest, oxygen is produced under photosynthesis, and then circulated.

Coupled with the height difference and temperature difference of the insect nest, natural wind is produced.

And the wind can make the air flow, so even if it is isolated from the outside air, there is no need to worry about the lack of oxygen in the nest.

In fact, the worm nest is now a small world.

The fog outside the tavern spread little by little, and penetrated into the window along the gap of the window.

The mist gradually approached Qian Li, approached her face, and rose to her eyes.

A few seconds later, Qian Li's expression suddenly became extremely ferocious.

Her eyes also showed deep-seated hatred.

A black air permeated from Qian Li's body.

Wang Ye's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly turned his head to look at the window of the tavern.

Qian Li was no longer there.

Because of Qian Li and his wife, and the warning from the bearded old man, Wang Ye didn't sleep. He spread his mental power and kept paying attention to the tavern and the village.He didn't extend his mental power into the guest room, because he was afraid that he would see something he shouldn't see, which would cause a needle's eye.

Ordinary people can't maintain such a large area and long-term mental strafing, but Wang Ye can.

Several masters couldn't help marveling in their hearts that the disciple's spiritual power was abnormally strong, which was almost stronger than them.

Qian Li and Xue Hui, because no one could see them, they were naturally not assigned housing, and the couple just sat in the lobby all night.

In fact, anyone who saw Qian Li and his wife at this time knew that something was wrong with them.

The husband and wife sat facing each other, did not speak, did not stand up and move, just sat there like a wax figure.

Wang Ye gave most of his attention to these two men, fearing that they would go berserk in the middle of the night and run to harm those expedition members.

At two o'clock in the morning, everything is silent, except for the faint fog that permeates everywhere in the village, there is not even a dog barking, and every house has turned off the lights, only the dim street lights are on.

Wang Ye didn't waste time either, he was memorizing the ancient Chinese characters, including the ancient Xianbei language, by rote.

Every time he returns to the earth, he will go to the electronic library to download a bunch of things to add to his identification skills.If the e-library doesn't have it, he goes to the physical library to borrow and read.

This time he came back for a long time. He stayed in the Ice City Library for two days, and used the characteristics of the encyclopedia to scan and memorize a lot of information, including comparisons of ancient characters from various periods.

But recording it in the encyclopedia does not mean that he has learned it, so now he needs to regurgitate this knowledge and review it again.

Wang Yezheng saw the ancient Xianbei language similar to that on the boundary marker, and he only deciphered a few words, and the extended mental power "saw" the movement behind the tavern.

It's Ma Wei.

Is it expected?

With a backpack on his back, Ma Wei opened the back door of the tavern and slipped out quietly.

Wang Ye saw this man jogging all the way to the van, opened the door to get in the van, started the vehicle, turned the car around and drove out of the village without even turning on the lights.

Wang Ye was thinking whether to follow, when he saw two blurred figures appearing in the window of the van.

Wang Ye didn't move.

Since Qian Li and Xue Hui got into Ma Wei's car, Ma Wei would never escape.

After seeing the cause of death of the couple on the karma scroll, Wang Ye knew that as long as the couple recovered their dying memories, they would definitely not let Ma Wei go.

At the same time, Wang Ye also verified that the couple should have known that they were dead last night, otherwise they would not have suddenly appeared in the van.

I just don't know how the couple knew they were dead, Wang Ye was annoyed, Qian Li must have seen something last night, but he didn't notice.

Lei Mu touched him with his spiritual power: "It seems that the death of the couple is [-]% related to that ground guide. Do you want to follow up and see? Some ghosts will dissipate after revenge, but some will become stubborn Ghosts, harming other innocent people."

"I think that couple will come back." Even so, Wang Ye decided to listen to Lei Mu and follow him to have a look.

He left the image of the RV in place, actually making the insect nest invisible, and followed the van.

After all, Wang Ye was a little worried about those expedition members, so he left Dahei and let him monitor those people.Xiaoguang also stayed, and she pretended to be there so that she could send a message to Wang Ye conveniently.

Dahei is very happy that Xiaoguang can stay with him.

The van was still driving on the regular road at the beginning, and there was a concrete road from the village. If you continue to drive south, you can reach an asphalt road, and drive down the road to reach the largest city nearby.

But I don't know what Ma Wei was thinking, but when he was about to reach the road, he deviated from the route and turned from the cement road to another small road.

The path is a wild one, with bushes and weeds on all sides.

The van was bouncing along that road.

But even so, Ma Wei didn't want to change his path.

After following for more than an hour, Wang Ye found that Ma Wei was actually going back.

Not back to the village, but back to the wilderness where they came out before.

Ma Wei bypassed the village perfectly through the path.

"The fog seems to have never dissipated." Wen Di said suddenly.

Crazy Drug Wang Xingchong said, "Let's go out and have a look."

"Okay." Wendi got up.

"Add me." Landau patted Wang Ye who was hesitant to speak: "Don't worry, we will send it back to your home directly if there is any problem."

Afterwards, Wen Di, Landau and Mad Drug King left the worm's nest together and walked into the wilderness.

Wang Ye's heart was beating wildly at this moment. He wanted to stop the masters, but at this moment, Ma Wei seemed to have discovered something. He screamed in panic in the car, desperately trying to shift the steering wheel, but the steering wheel It was as if it was fixed to death, no matter how hard he tried to shake it, the van still drove towards the wilderness.

Wang Ye saw Qian Li, who had been sitting on a chair in the van, stood up.

"Boss, come back quickly! Something happened!" Xiaoguang's voice suddenly sounded in his head.

"What happened?" Wang Ye was looking at the inside of the van, wondering if he should call back the masters.

Xiaoguang: "I don't know, I just heard screams from the tavern. Dahei took me into the tavern room now, and someone ran out just now, and ran out of the tavern gate."

Wang Ye subconsciously looked towards the sky.

It was not yet dawn at this time, less than four o'clock.

As soon as he turned his attention, Wang Ye suddenly heard a loud noise.

The van hit a big tree.

The front of the van was smashed into it.

Looking at Ma Wei again, his entire head was smashed on the front windshield, his brains burst, and he couldn't die anymore.

Wang Ye looked into the car again, but saw that Qian Li and his wife had disappeared.

Looking around, there was no sign of Qian Li and his wife.

Wang Ye had no choice but to call Xiaoguang: "Xiaoguang, have you seen Qian Li and Xue Hui?"

Xiaoguang replied after two seconds: "No, I didn't see them."

Wang Ye frowned, and simply came out of the insect nest and walked towards the van.

Mr. Chong also came out. He and Wen Dilan said that they had made arrangements long ago. No matter what, they would keep at least one person by Wang Ye's side to guard him until Wang Ye became an adult.

"This mist..." Wang Ye was surprised.

Chong Lao also raised his eyebrows: "Very strong magic power, it is no worse than magic power erupting. If your side has been in such a strong magic power environment, it won't be long before you will appear here The so-called magical civilization."

Wang Ye searched the inside and outside of the van, but found nothing abnormal. At first glance, the car was in an accident.

But when Wang Ye inspected Ma Wei's body, he found a new clue: "His soul is gone, clean."

It stands to reason that even if the soul of a newly dead person collapses, it will not be so fast.

But Wang Ye didn't perceive any of Ma Wei's soul on and around the corpse.

"If it was Qian Li and his wife's fault, how could they be so fast?" Wang Ye took a picture of the car accident scene with his mobile phone without touching anything at the scene.

"This mist is interesting." Mr. Chong rubbed his chin, "You must have noticed something when you heard the flute master and the mad drug king. They whispered furtively just now, and we didn't let us hear it."

Wang Ye smiled narrowly: "Are they only avoiding you?"

"Landau didn't hear it either. He deliberately followed, just to see what they were up to." Old Chong had a smile in his eyes.He felt that listening to the flute was done on purpose, that he was fishing on purpose.

There was nothing to investigate at the scene of the car accident, so Wang Ye turned around and hurried to Luohuang Village.

Xiaoguang has already called in his mind several times, it seems that there is a big problem in the tavern.

When Wang Ye rushed to the outside of the tavern, he saw that the whole street was quiet except for the inside of the tavern, and no one went out.

The front door of the tavern was locked, and Wang Ye entered through the opened back door.

The backyard of the tavern is the accommodation area. The layout is very similar to a Chinese courtyard house, with houses on all sides.

The tavern is the front facing house.

The two stone buildings in the East Wing and West Wing are accommodation buildings for guests.

The main house is the house where the owner of the tavern lives.

At this moment, the members of the expedition team all came out, all standing in the corridor, most of them gathered outside a room.

Dahei squatted in the yard, guarding these people.

However, the members of the expedition team were very scared when they saw Dahei. In the middle of the night, in the mist, Dahei's huge body compared to a dog was squatting in the yard, looking too much like a monster.

Xiaoguang has already flew into the room stealthily to see what happened.

Wang Ye looked at the main room again, but the lights were not even turned on.And such a big movement, the tavern owner's family could not have not heard.

"What happened?" Wang Ye and Chong Lao seemed to have just rushed over from the RV when they heard the sound.

Yao Hao and Ge Jie saw Wang Ye and Chong Lao approaching, as if seeing the backbone, they hurriedly leaned over and said quickly: "A bastard in the team actually used force on a girl. The girl resisted, and he stabbed her and ran away." gone."

"Did you call the police?" Wang Yezheng asked.

Yao Hao was stunned, "Oh, yes, call the police!"

But none of them knew the phone number of the local security police, someone was going to find the owner of the tavern.

Wang Ye stopped them: "Remember what the old man said? Let's not leave the room at night. It's okay for everyone to be in the corridor now, but it's best not to leave the house."

"It's strange, we made such a big noise, why does the boss's family seem to have not heard it? We won't enter some ghost village, right?" Yao Hao touched his arm, feeling his hair stand on end.

This village is so weird at night, and with the things they have encountered so far, it's no wonder they think too much.

"Don't scare yourself, okay!" Ge Jie scolded.

When the other people saw Wang Ye and Chong Lao approaching, they all crowded beside them, probably feeling safe.But now when they heard Yao Hao say that, they trembled again, even looking at Wang Ye and Chong Lao with strange eyes.

They were rescued from the ghost hitting the wall by these two people, and they were escorted to this village.

Seeing the fearful and suspicious eyes of these people, Wang Ye rolled his eyes angrily: "Where are there so many ghosts in this world? They don't talk about strange powers, and they are not allowed to become spirits after the founding of the country. You just think too much."

"Isn't this a foreign country?" someone whispered.

Wang Ye: "...People say it's best not to go out at night. It should be related to the fog that will be here at night. There are several medical students in our family who speculate that the fog may be poisonous, just like the legendary miasma. It is not good to inhale too much , may have hallucinations. Didn't you see that my master and I are both wearing masks?"

I see.Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, as long as there is a scientific explanation.Some people wanted to go back to the room to get masks on the spot, but they didn't dare to go back alone.

"Then why didn't the boss's family move at all? The lights weren't on." Yao Hao asked tremblingly.

"I'm too lazy to meddle in other people's business. That's fine, don't think too much about it." Wang Ye waved his hand and said carelessly: "If you are afraid, you can gather in one room and make do with it for one night. It's almost four o'clock now, one more In a few hours, it will be dawn."

It seems that Wang Ye, a young boy, is not afraid, and the others are also much calmer.

In the end, everyone discussed and gathered in two rooms according to gender.The number of girls is relatively small. I hope that there will be two boys in the same room. Finally, Yao Hao and Ge Jie are chosen.

Xiaoguang is already reporting the situation to Wang Ye: "A girl was injured, but the injury was not serious, only the skin was scraped. The problem is, one of the girls in the same room as her is missing, but now because of the chaos, others haven't found out yet .”

Wang Ye had a headache: "Missing? How could someone so good suddenly disappear? Who is missing?"

Xiaoguang was gathering the swarm to collect information, and after a while told Wang Ye: "It's a girl named Wei Linglin. She disappeared before Dahei and I arrived. There was a girl named her whose name was not found, so we found out That. You'd better come and ask yourself, or they may have to wait a while to find out that someone is missing."

"The one who stabbed someone, do you know where he is now?" Wang Ye asked.

Xiaoguang: "Hey! Dahei told me not to let the bugs out. He said the fog here is a bit strange."

Wang Ye looked at Dahei who was still squatting in the yard: Well, that is to say, there is one more missing person now.

Before Wang Ye reminded, Yao Hao and the others had already discovered that two people were missing.

After losing the team leader Lu Yifeng, Yao Hao, who is enthusiastic, outgoing and upright, has faintly become the leader of the team. Yao Hao doesn't want to be troublesome, but he can only stand up when others don't want to be troublesome. .

After being divided into two rooms, Yao Hao counted the number of people first. Except for Jin Lang who escaped, there was also one missing Ma Wei among the male team members.On the other side of the female team, Wei Linglin, a girl who likes to wear ponytails, was missing.

The girl who was stabbed was named Fei Qianjin, and she provided valuable information: "Jin Lang knocked on the door, but I ignored him. But he knocked again. I was afraid he would wake up others, so I had to open the door and ask him what was the matter. He told me that he saw Linglin walking out of the backyard and called her, but she didn't respond, and told me to check the situation. Linglin was in the same room as me, and when I heard what Jin Lang said, I turned my head to look at Linglin As expected, I didn’t see anyone, so I went to the bathroom to look for someone, but I couldn’t find anyone. As a result, Jin Lang walked in at this moment and said some nonsense to me. I scolded him, but he actually..."

Fei Qianjin bit her lip, her eyes filled with tears.

A short-haired girl next to her suddenly said: "The proprietress said that there are four customs that cannot be violated in the village. The first is that you can't go out after dark, and the second is that you can't talk about people behind your back..."

The short-haired girl trembled slightly, and her eyes were full of fear: "We returned to the room after dinner, and everyone didn't want to go to bed right away, so we got together to talk. During the period, Jin Lang was mentioned several times. Linglin hated Jin Lang the most, saying that he Worst thing to say."

The short-haired girl was about to cry, "Are we telling people behind their backs? Although we are telling the truth, this is also telling people behind their backs, right? We violated the customs here, so Linglin disappeared."

Wang Ye felt dizzy when he heard the girl crying, and quickly raised his voice: "Calm down! Let's find out the detailed time of Wei Linglin's disappearance first. Fei Qianjin, do you remember what time did you go back to your room to sleep? Did you hear The sound of Wei Linglin opening the door and leaving?"

Fei Qianjin shook his head, and said with red eyes: "We talked and returned to the room at about twelve o'clock, and then we fell asleep. Because I was too tired, I slept soundly. I heard Jin Lang's knock on the door. I was awakened, but I was also in a daze at that time, until Jin Lang reminded me that I didn't realize that Linglin was not in the room."

"And when exactly did Jin Lang come to look for you?"

"I don't know, I didn't pay attention to the time at all." Fei Qianjin burst into tears.

Yao Hao raised his hand: "When I heard the scream, I subconsciously picked up the phone and checked the time. It was 3:42."

Hearing this, Fei Qianjin quickly wiped away tears and said, "Jin Lang and I quarreled for about a few minutes, maybe ten minutes."

王叶点点头：“也就是说，如果金朗说的是真的，魏玲琳的失踪时间约是3:20到3:30左右。如果金朗说谎，那么魏玲琳就是在两点到03:30这段时间内失踪。”

"Why two o'clock?" asked a male team member, who was one of the two donkey friends.

Wang Ye said truthfully: "Because my family and I didn't sleep before, at two o'clock, we saw Ma Wei coming out of the backyard and drove away in a van. In addition, we also saw Qian Li and Xue Hui following up Ma Wei's car."

It was fine when Wang Ye mentioned Ma Wei, but when he mentioned the names Qian Li and Xue Hui, several people shuddered.

"I said that the couple's disappearance has something to do with Ma Wei!" said the donkey friend who asked the question just now.

"Why do you say that?" Yao Hao asked him.

The donkey friend replied: "Occasionally I heard Ma Wei quarreling with that couple. It seemed that he was asking for something from the couple, but the couple didn't give it to Ma Wei. It sounds like a necklace, and it also sounds like salty point. I I couldn’t hear it very clearly. Then within two days, we set up camp, and I saw Ma Wei went to the couple alone again. They were talking in the van, and I didn’t go over to listen. After that, Ma Wei looked very bad from When I got out of the car, I didn't see the couple coming out of the van, but they showed up at the bonfire at night. The couple disappeared the next day."

Wang Ye thought of Yao Hao and others' description of the performance of the couple on the first night of camping, and suspected that the couple had been killed that night, and the place of killing was in the van.

After that, Ma Wei must have found a time to drive a van to dump the body.

"Why didn't you say it earlier?" Someone complained.

The donkey friend smiled bitterly: "How can I say such a thing without evidence? It's in the wilderness again, and I don't want to provoke a local guide who will lead us by talking casually. What's more, Ma Wei took out a gun later! I Originally, I wanted to wait until I returned to the civilized world, and if the couple still couldn’t find them, I would report to the police.”

"There is an injustice and a debtor. Since Ma Wei is followed by that couple, we can leave him alone. At most, we will report him missing tomorrow. But what about Wei Linglin and Jin Lang?" The speaker looked at Wang. Leaves and insects are old.

"What else can I do?" Wang Ye spread his hands together: "Of course it is to wait for dawn and call the police. Calling the police is useless, so go to our country's embassy."

It seemed that the matter had come to an end, but a few girls were still in fear, especially the girls who said that Jin Lang was not behind their backs. They were particularly concerned about the second custom that could not be broken.

Probably because Wang Ye could see Qian Li and his wife, and they were so courageous, the girls begged Wang Ye to stay in their room tonight until dawn.

Wang Ye agreed, anyway, there is still more than an hour before dawn.

No one in the room spoke, and everyone was obviously very sleepy and dared not sleep.

Wang Ye saw Yao Hao and Ge Jie coming over as if they were going to have a long chat with him all night, so he simply hummed a lullaby.

Halfway through the lullaby, everyone in the room fell asleep in their beds and sleeping bags.

Wang Ye asked Dahei and Xiaoguang to go to the next room. Dahei squatted in a corner of the room, making the whole room look more crowded. The male team members in this room could not sleep because of various emotions, but they heard the noise from the next room. When the low lullaby came, they all lay down after a while.

The next day, all the remaining team members got up late.

After Yao Hao got up, he first contacted the local security police to explain the situation, and then asked Ge Jie to call the embassy for help.

This time the call went through.

Wang Ye returned to the RV, and Mr. Chong was playing with his worms. He also released a group of worms to collect information.

"The bugs I released last night have all disappeared." The old man said flatly.

Wang Ye grabbed Dahei's neck: "Hei, why did you tell Xiaoguang not to send bugs out at night?"

Dahei: "Wow!"

"intuition?"

"Wang!"

"You think the fog is alive? Conscious?"

"Woof!" Dahei suddenly called behind Wang Ye.

Wang Ye turned his head and saw someone outside their caravan looking into the window.

Wang Ye slammed open the car door and probed: "Hello, old noon, what's the matter?"

The bearded old man looked a little unhappy, stepped on the steps of the RV, and said, "Let's talk inside."

Wang Ye smiled, stepped aside, and let the bearded old man enter the RV.

The interior of the caravan is not luxurious, but it looks very neat and clean. The bedroom door at the rear and the bathroom door on the side are closed, and other places can be seen at a glance.

Overall, the interior of this RV is not much different from any RV.

The old worm who was sitting by the window looking at a small worm box looked up and nodded to the bearded old man.

The bearded old man seemed to have just noticed Mr. Chong: "Just the two of you? I remember you... how many people?"

"What's the matter with you here?" Chong Lao asked calmly.

The bearded old man didn't dare to ask any more questions because of Chong Lao's momentum, but sat down opposite Chong Lao and said: "I told your people yesterday that we must abide by the customs of our village. What have you done!"

The old man was very angry.

Chong Lao's eyes were cold: "You?"

"...I know you are not in the same group, but you came together." The old man said far-fetchedly.

"So?" Chong Lao locked his eyes on the old man.

Avoiding Chong Lao's eyes, the old man said quickly, "I hope you guys leave quickly."

"What about the missing people?" Wang Ye interjected.

Old man: "The police chief is already investigating. It seems that your embassy will also send people over, but I hope you can all leave our village and don't live here. You can live in tents outside, or go to other villages, towns and cities That’s fine, anyway, our whole village wants you to leave.”

Wang Ye suddenly said: "The ancient Xianbei language engraved on the back of the boundary marker is not a village name, but a warning, right?"