My daily mountain driving, I met a fox at the beginning and got married

In other words, this person was simply asleep.

Falling asleep suddenly under these circumstances is really abnormal, isn't it?
Little Koi hadn't said a word since she came in. Zhang Hao took her hand and wanted to lead her inside, but when he turned his head, he saw that her eyelids were drooping slightly, her upper eyelids were drooping, and she was opening and closing her eyes as if she was about to fall asleep.

Zhang Hao lightly touched her brow with his fingertip, and a calming talisman entered the little koi's forehead, instantly making her eyes widen with a cool sensation.

Coming to her senses, the little koi suddenly patted her head and said, somewhat puzzled, "I suddenly felt very sleepy just now, I don't know why."

Zhang Hao glanced at the person sleeping in the guard booth and said thoughtfully, "Your sudden drowsiness is very likely due to someone's spell. There's someone inside who was just like you, but you were still somewhat conscious while he fell asleep instantly."

The little koi felt a chill and quickly asked, "So, there really is a demon or monster here who knows magic and is secretly controlling everything?"

Zhang Hao nodded: "If I'm not mistaken, someone is indeed controlling it."

The two continued walking inside, and as they walked, a faint fragrance wafted through the air, as if someone was brewing tea.

Following the direction from which the aroma of tea wafted, they saw a young woman in a white dress brewing tea in the garden of a small villa. Every movement she made was elegant, exuding a serene and tranquil air.

"Are you guests from out of town? Are you looking for thrills or are you doing a live stream?"

The young woman set out three teacups, poured a cup of clear tea into each, and let wisps of white mist rise from the surface of the tea, giving it an elegant and leisurely feel: "If you don't mind, come and have a cup of tea. I'd be happy to chat with you about this town."

The little koi immediately looked at the woman warily. As the saying goes, "If someone is being overly friendly for no reason, they must have ulterior motives." This woman was taking the initiative to be friendly, and in such a strange setting, it seemed like she was plotting something.

Little Koi wanted to warn Zhang Hao not to fall for it, and not to let his guard down just because the other person was a woman, but Zhang Hao actually took her hand and went inside.

"It seems like an honor to be invited by such a beautiful lady. Are you a local resident of this town?" Zhang Hao asked as he walked over, pulling out a chair to sit down. He picked up his teacup, examined it carefully, and only smelled the aroma of the tea before taking a sip.

It's even less likely that a small koi fish would drink tea of ​​unknown origin.

The three sat down around a round table. The beautiful woman in the white gauze dress smiled gently and gestured to the two of them, "This is a very good tea that I bought from your East at a high price. A small can costs several million. Please have some, and while you're at it, please give me your opinion on my tea-brewing skills."

The little koi picked up the teacup, savored the aroma, and after a sniff, couldn't help but say, "This tea smells just so-so, how can it be worth millions?"

The woman, who had been maintaining an elegant smile, suddenly stiffened the curve of her lips. She paused for a moment and said, "Perhaps you've never tasted tea worth millions, so you think all teas smell pretty much the same."

After speaking, the woman turned her gaze to Zhang Hao, her eyes suddenly softening and her voice carrying a hint of coquetry.

"Your demeanor and bearing are quite extraordinary; you must have tasted tea worth millions, right?"

Zhang Hao had indeed tried it, but he didn't care much about such things, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

"I have indeed drunk tea worth millions, but your tea is probably not worth that much. Well, it's probably only worth a few thousand at most. Tea scams are very popular in the East recently. They chat with you first to build initial trust and then try to sell you this kind of tea."

Zhang Hao picked up his teacup, took a small sip, and then said with absolute certainty, "That's right, this is at most low- to mid-range quality tea. You've been fooled."

The little koi fish almost burst out laughing.

Hahaha, this is hilarious! I never expected that this seemingly powerful person with an unknown background would actually be fooled.

Thinking about it this way, this person is not scary at all.

"Ha ha……"

The woman smiled again, her eyes slightly closed as she sized them up: "If you make me unhappy, watch out, I won't answer any of your questions."

"Don't say that. I still hope you can answer our questions. As for the tea, although the tea itself isn't very good, your tea-brewing skills are quite good."

Zhang Hao said very sincerely.

After taking several deep breaths, the woman still couldn't suppress her anger. She slammed her hand on the table, got up, and walked away.

Before leaving, the woman warned them, "Get out of here! I never want to see you again! You damn strangers!"

Watching the woman storm off, Little Koi couldn't help but pout and complain, "I just told the truth, why is she angry? That person is so petty."

Zhang Hao did not express any opinion.

From the beginning until now, the man and woman they encountered have been trying to persuade him to leave this place.

Is this a coincidence? Or...?

Regardless, we still have to keep searching.

Zhang Hao continued walking deeper into the town. As he went further in, the roads became more interconnected, and the distance between each household became quite large.

He discovered that most of the houses in the town had their doors tightly shut, and there was no sound coming from inside.

Continuing on, he saw a somewhat dilapidated old house with a faint light coming from inside. A six or seven-year-old child was bouncing a ball vigorously in front of the house.

The little boy bounced the ball with great force, making loud thuds. He seemed to be using the ball to vent his anger.

The little koi fish walked over first. When the little boy saw her coming, he immediately frowned, turned around angrily, and ran away, completely ignoring the little koi fish calling after him.

"Who are you people? I've never seen you in this town before."

Just then, an elderly woman who looked to be in her seventies or eighties, leaning on a cane and holding a spatula, slowly walked out. Seeing two people standing at the door, she asked curiously.

The old woman's age spots were very obvious, and her eyes looked very cloudy. In this gloomy environment, the sight of such an elderly woman standing there alone gave people an indescribable sense of eeriness.

The little koi swallowed hard and hid behind Zhang Hao.

"A friend of mine came here but has gone missing. I came to this town to investigate my friend's whereabouts. Grandma, could you please tell me..."

“I don’t understand what you’re talking about, but you can come in first and we can talk about it slowly. You look travel-worn, probably haven’t had a good rest in a long time. Why don’t you rest here for a while? I’m getting old and not in the best of spirits. I’ll talk to you again tomorrow morning when I’m feeling better.”

After considering it for a moment, Zhang Hao agreed.

The town seemed to be perpetually shrouded in darkness, so most people were sound asleep, with only a small number still active.

However, these few people were not very cooperative with his investigation. He should be able to find out why the town had become so strange by asking a few more people during the daytime when there were more people around.

The old woman pointed to the second floor and said, "There's an empty room on the left corner of the second floor. You can go and sleep there first."

After saying that, the old woman went back into the house and brought out a pot of cooked meat soup from the open kitchen in the living room. She said to her grandson, "I made you some soup. Come out and eat something quickly, or you'll get hungry."

The little boy, who had been hiding behind the counter, trembled with fright at the shout. He came out from behind the counter, and as soon as he did, the old woman took his hand and pulled him to the table.

The old woman pressed him down to sit at the table and ladled a bowl of meat soup in front of him: "Eat quickly, or you'll get hungry."

The little boy looked at the bowl of meat soup in front of him and began to tremble. The old woman kept urging him on, and he finally couldn't hold back anymore and pushed the bowl away.

The soup spilled from the bowl, staining half of the old woman's clothes: "I told you I don't want to eat this stuff! The food in the refrigerator is all gone, there's nothing left to eat, how could you possibly still make meat soup? I don't want to eat this kind of rubbish!"

The little boy jumped off the chair and ran outside, not wanting to stay there any longer.

Zhang Hao took the little koi up to the second floor. Before he even opened the door to the room, he heard arguing coming from downstairs.

The little koi fish trembled and whispered to Zhang Hao in a voice only the two of them could hear, "What's going on? I feel like this conversation is a little strange."

Zhang Hao didn't say anything, and led the little koi into the room.

Once inside the room, he closed the door behind him, then moved his desk over to block the doorway completely.

The little koi was trembling. All the lights in the room were broken, so she could only turn on her phone's flashlight to illuminate the room.

The room was filled with a musty, stale smell, mixed with an indescribable dampness.

It's like there's something moldy and rotten hidden inside the house.

"This smell is awful..." the little koi complained.

"You've had a long day, you should go to sleep. Let me think about the situation here and then decide what to do next. Don't overwork yourself."

Zhang Hao pointed to the neatly folded bed and told Little Koi to go and rest first.

The little koi had been under a spell, and although she looked quite energetic now, her soul and consciousness were actually extremely exhausted; she was just putting on a brave face. Zhang Hao, who frequently dealt with ghosts and corpses, could clearly sense her soul's state.

The little koi was indeed very tired; it yawned and climbed into bed.

She pulled the blanket over herself, but as soon as she did, she felt a rough, strip-shaped object underneath!

The little koi was so frightened that her whole body went numb. She cautiously touched the thing, and after noticing its shape, a look of terror appeared in her eyes. She swallowed hard, then rolled off the bed, trembling.

She scrambled to her feet and hugged Zhang Hao, pointing to the bed and saying, "There's something on the bed!"

Zhang Hao was originally checking where the strange smell in the room was coming from when he heard her say that. He got up, walked to the bedside, picked up the quilt and took a look.

Using the light from their phones, Zhang Hao and Xiao Jinli both saw what was under the blanket!
That was a complete human skeleton!
The human skeleton lay on the bed. If it weren't for the fact that the skeleton no longer had any flesh or internal organs, its posture would have made it look like it was asleep.

Little Koi wanted to curse that awful old woman in her heart for arranging such a strange room for them! Did she want them to sleep with the dead?

Zhang Hao bent down and touched the texture of the bone.

He carefully touched a small bone, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "This is just a regular plastic human bone model, not a real human bone."

The little koi, terrified, felt very embarrassed.

"What the hell! Even if these aren't real human bones, putting a bone model on a bed is something no normal person would do! That old woman must be out of her mind!"

Zhang Hao did not refute this viewpoint.

He also felt that the old woman might have some mental issues, and that something was off about this family, inside and out.

Just like the child said, all the edible things in the refrigerator have been eaten, so where did the meat that the old lady used to cook the soup come from?

Of course, it's also possible that the child was just throwing a tantrum and said it on purpose.

Zhang Hao needed to use the restroom, so he moved the table, unlocked the door, and went outside.

There probably wasn't a restroom on the second floor, so he went downstairs.

When I passed by the living room, the old woman was no longer there. She seemed to have gone out to look for her grandson, or perhaps she had gone back to her room to sleep. The empty living room revealed the refrigerator door in the left corner of the wall.

What he just heard made him very curious: was there really no food left in the refrigerator?

Zhang Hao slowly walked over, preparing to open the refrigerator door.

Just as his hand touched the refrigerator door, the old woman suddenly appeared out of nowhere. She grabbed Zhang Hao's hand and stared at him with her cloudy eyes.

"Young man, what are you doing?"

Zhang Hao gave a dry laugh: "I'm just a little hungry and wanted to see what food was in the fridge."

The old woman said dismissively, "There's no fast food in the refrigerator, so it's no use looking at it."

Zhang Hao withdrew his hand, puzzled, and said, "Besides fast food, isn't there any other food? I'm really hungry right now."

Just then, Zhang Hao's stomach growled at the perfect moment, as if it were protesting its hunger.

Zhang Hao added, "Actually, as long as there's food, I'm fine with it. I'm not a picky eater."

The old woman stared at him for a while before finally opening the refrigerator door.

“There are other things to eat here. The slaughterhouse in town slaughtered a fat pig the day before yesterday, and I bought half a pig. I’ll make you some meat soup.”

Zhang Hao took a closer look and found that there was indeed half a carcass of pork in the refrigerator's freezer compartment.

The pork appeared to be frozen, with a thin layer of ice on the surface.

Zhang Hao wanted to continue watching, but the old woman took a knife, cut off a small piece, and quickly closed the door again.

Zhang Hao noticed something was wrong. Before the frozen pork was thawed, it was as hard as a brick, and an ordinary knife could not cut it so easily.

However, Zhang Hao didn't say anything more.

The old woman took the cut meat to the kitchen, washed it very skillfully, then sliced ​​it and boiled it in water. (End of Chapter)