The Mysterious Recovery of the Forgotten World

In an empty field, the scorching sun shone on a slightly sickly pale face, which couldn't give this cold man any warmth at all.

"here……"

Li Leping looked in front of him, frowning slightly.

He found himself in a mysterious place again in a daze.

No, it can't be said to be confused, it should be the poster's tricks.

Fortunately, this time, the supernatural powers in him were very normal, without any weakening.

With previous experience, Li Leping didn't panic about the current change, and didn't even show surprise.

He stood there, motionless.

He is thinking, watching.

He looked around, looking everywhere.

Then he lowered his head and looked at the road beneath his feet.

The road is paved with red bricks.

This road made of red bricks stretches forward, and finally leads to a small town that cannot exist in reality.

ghost town.

These two big characters are written on the archway.

But whose town would be called a ghost town?
There is no doubt that there is no real town that dares to call itself a ghost town.

Unless this place is really haunted.

And Li Leping, who was brought here by the spirit, is also aware of the weirdness here.

It's just that the ghost town in front of me doesn't seem weird.

Standing here, he has been able to glimpse part of the situation in the town.

Looking around, although the houses in the town are Chinese-style brick and tile houses, they don't seem to be depressed and dilapidated in the supernatural events at all. Instead, they give people a very new look, as if they have just been built for a few years .

And although this place is called a ghost town, it is not a dead town.

Just outside the town, he has already seen some figures in the town.

There are groups of children playing and playing, and there are also old people wandering in the town to bask in the sun.

There are signs that this looks like a normal town.

This place is not old, there is no cold chill caused by ghostly wandering, and the sunshine in the sky is so warm, reflecting on the ruddy faces of people who don't look like ghosts or ghost slaves .

"Go in and have a look."

Li Leping took the initiative to walk into this town.

He didn't deliberately hide his whereabouts, but deliberately wanted to try to see if he could stimulate the town to expose some problems.

With the entry point, he can figure out where the problem is, and then solve the source.

He knows that there is a problem here, but the problem here is too weird. This kind of weirdness of using normality to disguise oneself is incomprehensible and difficult to dig out.

"Will this place be like Huanggang Village? Before the problem occurs, everything will be in a false normal. Only when the problem occurs, this false normal will be subverted in an instant."

Li Leping had some guesses, but he didn't stop at the same time.

However, those wandering around the town seemed to have never seen him at all, and directly ignored the strange face from outside the town.

Groups of children playing in groups are still chasing each other on the road, fighting with each other and making all kinds of shouts.

They came towards Li Leping and saw Li Leping.

However, they played around him like this.

No one was curious about him.

There are also those old people who seem to have lived here for many years, all of them pass by him with their hands behind their backs and crutches.

It seemed that the people here really ignored his existence under the influence of Forgotten Ghost.

It looks really normal here.

The only thing that makes Li Leping feel wrong is the clothes these people wear.

Regardless of men, women, young or old, the people here are all wearing modern country clothes, with single colors and very simple styles. They don't pursue any fashion trends like they are now, but purely for breathability.

But really speaking, it doesn't seem strange to dress like this.

Even in modern times, many people in villages and towns also dress like this. At most, some young people who come back from outside the city to visit their relatives will be dressed in gaudy clothes.

It's just that this kind of people are basically assimilated by the townspeople very quickly. They resolutely give up the famous brands on their bodies and put on a vest that is particularly breathable in summer, or they don't wear anything at all, just like this. Take a walk on the road.

"That does not work."

After walking for a while, Li Leping didn't want to wander around this place meaninglessly.

suddenly.

He stopped an old man who was walking towards him: "Old man."

"Ok?"

The old man who looked a bit old and dazed was suddenly taken aback by the strange man standing in front of him.

"Huh? Where are you from, young man? What can't be done?"

It wasn't until Li Leping took the initiative to speak out that the old man noticed such a new face that he had never seen in the town before.

The old man's voice sounded very, just like an elderly person, because his ears were a little hard to hear, so the decibel of his own voice was also enlarged.

Li Leping didn't answer the old man's question, but asked without hesitation: "Master, do you know what this town is called?"

"Ghost town, is it weird?"

The old man answered very loudly, and he didn't think there was any problem with the name of the town at all.

The old man's angry question made Li Leping stunned for a moment.

You must know that even now there are still many people who firmly believe in the so-called ghosts and gods and various folk customs, let alone those who are old and under the influence of the older generation.

It is absolutely impossible for these people to place the word "ghost" in front of the name of the town without any shyness.

This is not just a matter of unluckiness, but in the eyes of some people, this ostentatious name is no different from actively attracting ghosts to the door.

However, the old man in his seventies and eighties in front of him actually thought it was normal for the town to be named unreasonably.

The unreasonable answer stunned Li Leping for a moment, but he quickly continued to ask: "Then, do you know why this place is called a ghost town?"

His way of asking is very straightforward, because he just wanted to stimulate the old man through this unreasonable town name, so that this seemingly normal old man would realize that something was wrong, which eventually caused a series of problems.

"Young man, you don't understand. Have you ever heard of Nuo Dance?"

However, the old man is still the same, not only has no doubts about the town's unreasonable name, but even explained to Li Leping why he named the town a ghost town.

"Nuo dance?"

Li Leping fell into deep thought when he heard these two words.

He seems to have obtained some information inadvertently.

A long time ago, he had read a novel related to "Nuo culture", and then learned some knowledge about Nuo culture in the comment area under the novel.

Nuo, this ancient and mysterious character is composed of the two characters of human and difficult, which itself has a meaning of chasing epidemics, and in the long cultural development, the word Nuo has also derived such as Nuo vulgarity, Nuo song, Nuo dance, Nuo opera and other ceremonies.

The Nuo dance is an ancient dance to drive away ghosts and epidemics. It is probably a ceremony in which Nuo people wear hideous Nuo masks and hold weapons to drive away epidemic diseases along the door under the light of torches, and drive away evil spirits that endanger human beings.

It's just that Nuo dance is a more pleasant term. In fact, Nuo dance has another more ominous term.

ghost show.

In the beginning, the so-called ghost shows were not performed for people to watch. Among the ancient superstitions, there are even audiences from eight directions, mortals on one side, and ghosts and gods from seven directions.

Once the play starts, it cannot be stopped. No matter whether there are people listening, it must be sung until the end of the play, because even if ordinary people don’t listen, there are ghosts and gods listening.

Because of this, singing cannot be stopped halfway.

Especially this so-called ghost show has many taboos, because you can tell from the name that this play is not sung for people to hear, and this dance is not for people to watch.

It was also when he heard the word "Nuo dance" that Li Leping thought of that poster.

Yin play, isn't it a ghost play?

"It seems that the entry point is here."

Just when Li Leping unintentionally dug out the key points of this place, the old man also babbled about the origin of the Nuo dance, and then extended to the reason why this place was called a ghost town.

Because this place itself is a place to expel evil spirits, so naturally there is no fear of attracting ghosts to the door.

The ghost town was named because it deliberately lured ghosts in.

It sounds bold enough, and even a little reasonable.

"Grandpa, since the Nuo dance is going to be performed, where is the stage?" Li Leping continued to ask.

"That's where the Nuo dance is performed."

The old man pointed Li Leping in a direction.

The houses and houses in this small town are intertwined, which makes the roads in the town cluttered. If no one points out a specific direction, Li Leping may not find the stage that the old man mentioned after walking around this place several times.

Li Leping, who got the direction, left immediately without even saying thank you.

Soon, following the direction pointed by the old man, Li Leping, who walked for a while on Ghost Town Road, finally came to a very special place.

"Send to the ghost gallery?"

After approaching, Li Leping saw clearly the plaque hanging under the eaves. These three characters seemed to indicate the purpose of this building.

This seems to be the central area of ​​the town, but there is only one old-style house built, and a large open space is left around the house before other houses around it can be seen.

This kind of construction method is very inconsistent, as if it shows that the surrounding houses are deliberately moving away from this house.

The small town where there were still pedestrian activities came here, but there was no one around, the surroundings were terribly calm, and no sound could be heard, as if the townspeople of this small town were involuntarily staying away from this ominous place.

What's more, what's more inconsistent is that there is a screen wall in front of the house, which seems to indicate that the owner doesn't want people to spy on and disturb the house, or that the owner wants to use this stone wall to cover some things in the house.

What makes people tremble is that there is a white face painted in the middle area of ​​this screen wall. The eyes of this face are opened, revealing a strange gray feeling, like a pair of dead eyes.

As for the stage, it was built in front of the building. There are two pillars on both sides of the stage, which looks very simple. A row of white lanterns is hung on the rope connecting the two pillars, giving people the impression that this place is not a stage. It's the feeling of a mourning hall.

There was no one on the weird stage, and before anyone started to sing, Li Leping felt a gloomy and ominous atmosphere pervading here.

"The play in this place is really not for people to watch, but I don't know where the ghost who watched this play is."

Li Leping squinted his eyes and didn't go up to the stage. He just wanted to come to the side of the stage, trying to see what was in the room covered by the screen wall.

However, something incomprehensible happened.

It seemed that when he changed his position, the screen wall standing in front of the door also changed position with his line of sight.

No matter from which angle Li Leping looked at it, he could only see the screen wall with the strange white face painted on it, and he couldn't see the situation inside the house at all.

At most, he could only see some corners and corners near the gate, but it didn't make any sense at all.

"Spiritual phenomenon? There is indeed a problem with this place."

Li Leping didn't see clearly the poster stuck to his arm, he just saw the most conspicuous bloody characters on the poster.

Shame.

And the place related to the play is obviously only this stage.

"But now there are no Nuo people on the stage, and there are no audiences in the audience, and the play has not yet begun."

Li Leping frowned. He stared at the quiet stage, unable to think of the purpose of this place and the purpose of the poster.

"Looking at the content of that poster, it seems that it is closely related to this place, and it is impossible for me to be drawn in for no reason. I must have inadvertently violated some rules to lead to the current situation."

"But I don't know much about the so-called movie theater, and I don't know why that place draws people into the posters."

"And Xu Jin, no matter whether he is a human or a ghost, he also received that poster, so it is very likely that he was also pulled into this incomprehensible town by the poster, but I haven't seen him so far."

He stood outside the stage, lost in thought.

He is not a historian, at most he can only be regarded as a college student who has heard a little about everything because of the advanced Internet. It is inevitable for him to speculate on the reason why this place exists and how to get out of trouble based on this little knowledge and the name on the poster. Some are not realistic.

Most importantly, Xu Jin, who was suspected of being invaded by ghosts, also came to this town.

What would happen if a ghost came to this small town full of supernatural beings?
But when he was lost in thought.

A man with skinny cheeks, a numb expression, gloomy eyes, dressed like the late 90s of the last century, walked over from nowhere.

"Who?"

Li Leping turned around abruptly.

Although he was thinking about his state, he was still vigilant about his surroundings.

Although the man who came over deliberately lowered his footsteps, in this quiet atmosphere, any disturbance would attract Li Leping's attention.

"Get ready to do it."

Li Leping's eyes were fixed, and he looked around the stage where no one was around, ready to make an instant move.

However, just when Li Leping was about to press the man who approached to death.

The man who came over stopped when he saw Li Leping turn around.

"A living person?"

The man spoke, and his voice was filled with a kind of numbness, but this kind of numbness was not like that of a ghost master, but more like a kind of numbness caused by being in a powerless environment for a long time.

It's a bit like the numbness of seeing too many corpses so that you won't feel sad because someone died. The compassion and empathy have long been wiped out by this numbness.