Yu Nian rubbed her head irritably and got up again.
This time, she walked out of the door openly.
She even deliberately made a little noise.
No matter how well - built the houses in the countryside are, there is no place to relieve oneself in the yard.
People have to go outside if they need to use the toilet. So the noise she made was to inform the village head and his wife that she was going out.
As for whether they thought she was going to use the toilet or do something else, she didn't care.
Obviously, the old village head wanted to hide the secrets of the village, so he would try to have as little contact with them as possible.
Since she deliberately made noise while going out, even if the old village head wasn't asleep, he had to pretend to be asleep in the room.
It would be more convenient for her to wander around the village in the middle of the night.
During this trip out, Yu Nian didn't want to do anything else.
She just wanted to find out if there were any ghosts in the village.
If there were, she'd catch one and ask a few questions.
If not, it meant there was a big problem with this village.
When she came during the day, she noticed that there were several tombs along the road.
This meant that after people in this village died, they would still build tombs just like others.
Normally, after people die, their souls would hover around their tombs.
Unless they died accidentally, harbored grievances, or went to be reincarnated.
It was impossible that no one in this village had died in recent years.
There were so many old people. It was normal for four or five of them to pass away in three or four years.
Since they chose burial, their tombstones and tombs must be built around the village.
Now it was time to go and look for them.
She would surely catch one or two ghosts.
Yu Nian walked straight out of the village and started wandering around along the country roads.
There was nothing around the two tombs she saw during the day.
After that, she saw several more.
Still, there was nothing.
She specifically went to several tombs to look at the words carved on them.
The most recent date of death was last year.
No souls?
Where had the souls gone?
With doubts, Yu Nian walked towards a small hill on the outskirts of the village.
Apart from the fields and roadsides, in rural areas with the custom of burial, most tombs were on the mountains.
People would also look for a geomantically - auspicious place to bless their descendants.
This hill was very suitable for burial.
There couldn't be no tombs.
As she thought, there were indeed tombs, but not a single soul was to be seen.
It was really strange.
It was truly a strange thing.
The secrets of this village seemed to be more than she had thought.
After wandering around outside for about an hour, Yu Nian decided to go back.
After all, this was about the maximum time for using the toilet.
She stuck a charm for swift movement and quickly rushed towards the old village head's house.
When passing by a dry well near the village committee, she suddenly stopped.
She had entered and left the village from the village entrance several times before.
It was because she had gone to the big back mountain that she had to enter from the village end on her way back.
Just passing by like this, she found that there was a spread of yin energy from the dry well in the village.
Hmm, a familiar smell.
A familiar evil ghost.
Yu Nian quickly walked towards the dry well.
It was cloudy today, and she had been far away just now. She had only seen the outline of the wellhead before and hadn't noticed that the well was covered with a big stone.
Yu Nian raised her eyebrows slightly.
Without thinking, she directly picked up the stone and moved it to the side.
Looking down the well, she saw an out - of - control evil ghost staring at her with scarlet eyes.
"Hey, want to come up?"
Yu Nian wasn't scared at all.
She could still defeat an evil ghost of this level.
This ghost should have drowned in this well before death, and the body had been soaking in the well water for a long time, which was why its soul now looked like a bloated corpse.
Actually, ghosts could return to their normal appearance before death.
But most evil ghosts liked to scare people.
They liked to show their fragmented and miserable appearance in front of people.
This ghost, which had already taken on the form of a bloated corpse, couldn't even be recognized as male or female.
At Yu Nian's invitation, it actually slowly floated up to the well.
But only half of its body emerged.
The other half just couldn't come out no matter what.
"From outside the village?"
"Are you from this village?"
Yu Nian and the evil ghost asked at the same time.
The answers were self - evident.
Strangely enough, after the evil ghost knew that Yu Nian was from outside, it simply ignored her.
Its gaze didn't stay on her for more than a second and then turned to look towards the village.
That look was filled with deep resentment and hatred.
Everywhere its gaze reached seemed to be a place it hated.
"How did you die? Were you killed or did you accidentally fall into the well?"
Yu Nian didn't care about the evil ghost's actions.
Ghosts with grievances were like this. They were like headless chickens. Although they had intelligence, all their rationality was blinded by hatred.
They only wanted to take revenge, revenge, and revenge.
They weren't interested in others at all.
The evil ghost didn't answer and didn't make any movement. It still stared straight into the village.
Yu Nian had an idea and asked in a different way, "Do you hate them very much?"
"Humph, I hate everyone in this village!"
The evil ghost reacted this time.
Its emotions obviously became agitated.
Yu Nian felt that she might have said something wrong and quickly comforted it, "Can you tell me? I overheard the village head say that they wanted our bodies."
"You'd better leave the village quickly. This is not a good place. Even if I tell you everything, you won't be able to solve it."
As the evil ghost said this, it was about to float back into the well. Obviously, it should know a lot of things, but for some reason, it was unwilling to mention them.
Yu Nian thought that the evil ghost should be afraid of innocent people being implicated.
If it were a really bad ghost with evil intentions, it wouldn't have said so much to her.
"Wait. Maybe I have a way to solve the problems in this village. I'm a wandering sorcerer. I came here specifically to investigate an organization called the Holy Cult."
"You're so young. Even if you're a sorcerer, so what? Hurry up and leave. Don't get involved in this mess."
The evil ghost's voice was full of helplessness, and there was also a bit of distrust in its eyes.
"Don't you know what the people in this village are most afraid of? They acted like normal people in front of me during the day and whispered secretly at night. They're most afraid of their village's secrets being exposed. If you tell me now, even if I can't defeat them, I can run away secretly. After I get out, I'll publicize the things in the village. I'm sure it will give them a headache, right? Maybe you can even clear your unjust death then."
These words woke the evil ghost up.
The evil ghost's eyes suddenly showed shock.
Right!
What was he being so vigilant for?
Shouldn't he expose this village?
Shouldn't he tell everyone he met the secrets of the village?
It didn't matter if they were from outside or from other villages.
As long as they weren't from this village, he could say what he wanted to say!
Back then, wasn't it because they wanted to hide the secrets of the village that they killed him?
"I was killed. Killed by everyone in the village. They ganged up on me, tied me up, threw me into the well, and covered the wellhead. They let me drown alive in the well."