Heavenly Official Sends Evil

Chapter 837 Midnight Taboo
After hearing this story.

Wu Xian immediately realized that the incident involving Brother Ji, Xiao Chi, and Lao Chen must have happened at night.

Is this related to the taboo surrounding the six-colored deer?
So Wu Xian stared into Li Qiuhong's eyes and asked a question:

"Zi Shi (11 PM to 1 AM) is the time between 11 PM and 1 AM. Do the people in the new village still follow this taboo and go to sleep before 11 PM every day?"

Li Qiuhong chuckled after hearing this: "How is that possible? What era are we living in? Apart from the elderly, who among the slightly younger people goes to bed so early?"

Despite Li Qiuhong's words, Wu Xian still felt that this matter was inextricably linked to the Six-Colored Deer, and he decided to investigate further along this line of thought.

……

After their casual conversation ended, they each chose a room.

The six guest rooms in the guesthouse area are all the same size, but the decor is slightly different. The rooms are fairly clean and have air conditioning, private bathroom, TV, and soft double bed. There are even small beds of different sizes specially prepared for pets.

However, this is a rural mountain area, and occasionally you can see 'proteins' crawling around in the rooms.

The accommodation here costs 200 yuan and includes three basic meals a day. The area for sightseeing is the natural scenery around the village, and you can also interact with the livestock raised by the villagers. As for how much you can interact, that depends on your skills.

In addition, tourists can order any food they like in the village.

You can eat whatever you like, including all kinds of livestock, mountain delicacies, and local specialties, but you have to pay for the ingredients separately.

After settling their luggage, Wu Xian set off with He Qiao and two other local relatives.

Four people and five pets set off in a grand procession, but the group gradually shrank as they went.

Hei Gu, the most composed of them all, was the first to fall behind.

Hei Gu saw an old man herding a flock of sheep out of the village to graze on the road, so she ran over and pretended to be a sheepdog.

Next up was the monkey named Baboon. This monkey got praised a few times by the uncles and aunts in the village on the way, and then it got all cocky. It started showing off all sorts of skills in front of the old folks, completely lost in the local compliments.

Fat Tiger originally wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to go out and have a final showdown with these three arrogant little animals, but no one paid any attention to him. So he showed off to the old cow in the village, and his meow startled the herd into chaos.

The most reliable little animal is the raven, Sangbiao.

The support sent by the City God had already set up a temporary camp far outside the village. Using his flying advantage, Sang Biao helped Wu Xian send out samples of local food and drinking water.

Although these things had already been checked, Wu Xian still felt it was necessary to check them again.

However, Sang Biao's reliability was only at the very beginning.

As it flew, it occasionally overheard a family arguing. The fierce men and women of the mountain village were exchanging insults about each other's relatives and organs, their words so witty that they left the raven speechless.

So it landed at the window, listening intently.

The family members did not force the pets to work. These pets usually live in the city and are restricted in many ways. It is a rare opportunity for them to come to the mountain village to relax and let them play freely.

The investigation should be handled by the family members.

……

They called it an investigation, but in reality, they were just visiting people in the village, subtly asking if there was anything suspicious. The main focus was on investigating the legend of the six-colored deer.

Once you ask that question, clues start to appear one after another.

Some say that the Taoist temple in the county town was built later, and the first temple of the Six-Colored Deer was built in the old village. It is said that the remains of the Six-Colored Deer are enshrined there to suppress the evil spirits that once attacked the humans in the mountains.

Some people say that at first, everyone disagreed with moving to the new village, but from some unknown day onwards, the villagers would hear painful sounds coming from the old temple at night. The sounds terrified everyone, so they agreed to Uncle Ge's moving plan... There was also a crazy old lady who told Wu Xian that the three internet celebrities were not the only ones who had disappeared near the village.

The new village does not practice burial or cremation, but rather has the custom of mountain burial.

Many elderly people who know their days are numbered will voluntarily go to their ancestral homes in the old villages on the mountain, lie in the wilderness and wait for death. They were born on Wild Apple Mountain and want to return to Wild Apple Mountain when they die.

However, usually only elderly people who are nearing the end of their lives are buried in the mountains, and after the elderly die, their bodies are collected and placed in a proper place to prevent wild animals from tasting human flesh and thus treating people as food.

However, in recent mountain burials, the elderly person was clearly not old enough, and the body was also...

At this point, the madwoman seemed to realize something and fled from the four people in terror.

The four of them strolled from house to house, and as darkness fell, their investigation came to an end. At this moment, they were at the home of an uncle who sold mountain products.

A robust man wearing a vest took out a bag of long, narrow leaves with small, insect-egg-like particles stuck to them.

"You've probably never seen this in the city, but we call it 'Ao Ao' here. It's a medicinal herb picked from the mountains, and it's very potent. Take it home, steep it in water, and I guarantee your sister-in-law will be satisfied."

Wu Xian awkwardly replied, "I'm single."

"You're talking nonsense. How could someone as handsome as you be single? I have epimedium, dodder seed, morinda root, wild wolfberry, and so on... These are all good things."

"I really don't need it."

"I understand, I understand. Looks like I'll have to bring out some of my best stuff."

Seeing that the uncle had pulled out several pieces of dried meat, nearly a meter long and resembling sticks, Wu Xian quickly stopped him.

"I'll buy it, okay?"

This uncle clearly knew something, which is why he kept changing the subject with mountain products when Wu Xian asked him questions.

If you want to get information from him, you have to give him some benefits. Wu Xian didn't buy these medicinal herbs for nothing; he could take them back to Fuyuan City as gifts.

After completing a lucrative transaction, the uncle looked around and then led Wu Xian and the other three into the house.

"You're here because of the people who went missing on the mountain, right? Are you from the police or private investigators?"

He Qiao, who was holding the little fox, was taken aback: "How did you know?"

"Hey, I've traveled all over the country and been to many places. You guys don't look like tourists at all. You're clearly in a superior-subordinate relationship. Besides, you three young people are all locals, right?"

Wu Xian had anticipated this; their disguise wasn't very good, and asking questions everywhere after entering the village would definitely arouse suspicion.

"Tell me what you know!"

The mountain runner licked his lips:

"Well, that's a long story."

“Villagers rarely return to the old village, but I’m different. I spend a long time in the mountains each time, and the old village is a good place to rest.”

“A dozen days ago, I was sleeping in the old village as usual, preparing to take another route into the mountains the next morning. But in my sleep, I suddenly heard the painful cry of a deer.”

"I didn't make a sound. I got up and looked out through the crack in the door. I saw a deer head without skin crawling out of the well in the old village. It was looking up at the sky and howling, as if moonlight was being sucked into the deer's mouth!"

(End of this chapter)