I've already ascended to immortality, and only now is spiritual energy reviving?

He has maintained this habit for two weeks.

Bai Sheng casually swiped the screen.

I saw a trending topic on Douyin.

The cover of a short video.

A pitch-black night sky,

The title reads "Villagers in Cangshi County photograph strange light bands."

The video has already garnered over 100,000 views.

Which Cangshi County is under the jurisdiction of Yangcheng?

Bai Sheng was stunned.

He clicked on it.

The video was shot very shakily, with the phone camera pointed at the distant ridgeline.

In the darkness, a very faint grayish-white band of light stretched across the ridgeline.

It hung quietly in the sky, slowly wriggling.

The person filming was a local villager, and the voice-over had a heavy Cangshi accent.

I kept saying, "Look, look, it's moving again!"

The comment section below the video,

It was also a scene of utter chaos.

Some say it's a military exercise, others say it's a precursor to an earthquake, and still others say it's aliens visiting...

Bai Sheng flipped through a few pages.

Similar eyewitness accounts have been sporadically appearing on several platforms in the past few days.

The filming took place between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m., and all the locations were in the mountainous areas near Cangshi County!

"How could I not join in the fun of something like this?"

Bai Sheng switched his consciousness, using the Light and Shadow Splitting Technique to condense a clone.

I went downstairs and walked towards Cangshi County.

……

The clone traveled around the county road of Cangshi County.

This area is mountainous and densely wooded.

Several natural villages are scattered along both sides of the county road.

At the village entrance, a few elderly people usually sit and bask in the sun.

The dogs on the village roads here are more diligent than the people!

Bai Sheng controlled his clone to wander around the county town for most of the day.

No abnormal energy fluctuations were detected.

I also didn't see that grayish-white light band from the video again.

It seems that those light bands only appear at specific times.

It's broad daylight now, and you can't see anything.

unconsciously,

Strolling to the second village,

Bai Sheng saw several villagers chatting under the old locust tree at the village entrance.

The clone slowed its pace, and Bai Sheng overheard it through the clone's body.

What they were saying was that the clock struck again last night, and it sounded very eerie.

But the specific details were unclear.

Bai Sheng controlled his clone to buy cigarettes from the village store.

Handed to these villagers,

He handed one to the middle-aged man and then one to the old man.

"Uncle, I just heard someone say that there are bells ringing in the mountains at night?"

Bai Sheng had his clone bring the lighter over to light the middle-aged man's cigarette.

"Indeed, and it rang again last night!" The middle-aged man took a drag, exhaling smoke from his nostrils.

"It rang more than a dozen times! I was counting."

"There's no more than a dozen strokes," the woman sewing shoe soles said without looking up.

"It rang three times, I heard it too, three times, and then after a while it rang three more times."

"What kind of ears do you have? That's not the sound of a bell at all!"

Bai Sheng was a little confused: "Um... could you describe the sound more clearly?"

Little did I know,

The villagers started arguing.

Almost no one paid attention to Bai Sheng's words; everyone was talking about their own group's ideas.

Chapter 56 Beautiful Woman in the Mountains

These people are just talking to themselves!

Bai Sheng was speechless.

"What's wrong with your ears?!" The middle-aged man stubbed out his cigarette on the ground.

"Are you all deaf? Where did that bell come from? It's clearly someone in the mountains knocking on stones."

I used to be a stonemason, how could I not know?

That's the kind of sound you hear when a pickaxe hits granite.

The old man hadn't spoken a word from beginning to end, only squinting as he smoked. Hearing this, he slowly began to speak:

"That wasn't made by a person!"

People don't hit stones that far. When I was a child, my grandfather told me that there used to be a temple in those mountains, dating back to the Ming Dynasty.

Later it collapsed, but the temple bell is still there, buried under the ruins.

Around the fifteenth of July each year, the bell rings by itself.

"Old-fashioned superstition," the middle-aged man scoffed.

A few days ago, a group of tourists from the city specifically went into the mountains to look for it.

They searched the ruins thoroughly, but found nothing.

They did bring back a few glowing stones, but later the environmental protection bureau fined them, saying they were illegally excavating cultural relics, haha.

Bai Sheng also knew that, given the current situation...

We can't expect to get any useful information from them.

Continuing to waste time with them will just be like villagers gossiping about everyday things.

Bai Sheng had his clone ask the middle-aged man for the exact location of the ruins.

It seems that only this middle-aged man is still obedient.

His communication skills are also quite good.

The middle-aged man was very enthusiastic, pointing towards the ridgeline.

“Go up the abandoned quarry road behind the village, walk for about four miles, and you will see a pile of rubble.”

"The road is not easy to walk on, and there are weeds on both sides, so it is best to wear long pants."

The clone thanked him and left.

……

The clone walked up the abandoned quarry road behind the village.

The road surface was riddled with potholes from the rain.

The gravel mixed with yellow mud was extremely slippery when stepped on.

After walking about four miles,

A pile of rubble appeared ahead.

It's called ruins, but the outline of the temple is no longer discernible.

Only a few bluestone foundation stones half-buried in the soil and a pile of scattered granite rubble remain.