Chosen One, how did I end up as the villain?

"What's wrong!"

Everyone was startled and quickly looked ahead.

Torches were held high, their light shining directly.

Qin Huaiyu's eyes narrowed suddenly in his hazy state.

"That is..."

Not far ahead, one could see green tiles gleaming with a faint, cold light.

Below, there are openwork carved windows and brown wood beams.

There is a gate and a fence around it.

It was a farmhouse, and further in were rows of similar houses.

They stood silently in the darkness, as if unfolded from dust.

"It's a village! It's a village!" someone exclaimed.

Everyone was somewhat bewildered, clearly still in shock.

"Road, village... Could this really be the vanished Ishiaki Village?"

"How... is that possible? Didn't we go there? There was nothing there, just an empty lot." The guard looked on in disbelief.

"What's impossible? Don't forget, there wasn't even a cemetery when we went there. Last time, the ancestral land of Shiming Village appeared out of thin air."

"This is too bizarre. What kind of ability is this?"

"No, no, I feel like something's wrong," a slightly younger guard said, shaking his head.

"Shut up, all of you!"

Pu Liu had just finished his reprimand when he looked at Qin Huaiyu and asked:

"My lord, you are a man of great experience and knowledge, what exactly is going on?"

The events I'm facing today are so terrifying, my heart can barely take it, I'm scared to death.

Upon hearing this, everyone turned their gazes toward it, since it seemed that only cultivators could offer some explanation for these strange occurrences.

Qin Huaiyu didn't answer; he turned his head to look at Chu Yanxi.

What do you think?

After hearing this, Chu Yanxi raised her eyebrows slightly and thought for a moment before saying:

"This seems to be a spatial technique. Only a highly skilled cultivator could activate it over such a wide area, but such a person would not be interested in a village."

It seems that only the earth dragon theory makes more sense.

The guards nodded unconsciously upon hearing this.

It seems that attributing things we don't understand to the unknown always makes sense.

"Why"

Yun Suyan sighed and shook her head, saying:

"It's like that!"

"What do you mean?"

Chu Yanxi had a bitter face. She had just been fooled, and now it was going to start again. Had she made a mistake again?

"Literal meaning."

Qin Huaiyu replied, then continued:

"Let's go. Guesses always need to be confirmed. Maybe the village can give us the answer we're looking for."

Having said that, he took the lead and walked forward.

Seeing this, the others quickly followed.

Smoke shrouded the village in a hazy mist, giving it a mysterious air.

Perhaps it was because the road at the village entrance was widening and a draft was blowing in.

It was weak, just a gentle gust, but it was very cold and gloomy, as if it came from a dark place where the sun never shines.

The village was very quiet, without a single ray of light or sound. It was deathly still, just like a legendary deserted village, which inexplicably made people feel uneasy.

Qin Huaiyu walked to a high place by the roadside, where there was a stone tablet.

The stele is half a zhang tall and has an inscription: Shiming Village.

Furthermore, it has old wear marks and a yellowish color, clearly indicating that it has been through the test of time.

This stele is almost identical to the one I saw when I first visited the Shiming site.

However, there are some crooked engravings on the lower corner of the stele, which look like a name, probably done by the villagers out of boredom.

However, this also proves its authenticity.

After all, everyone has times when they're bored out of their mind.

…This is perhaps what is meant by details.

And it's also the easiest thing to overlook!

"Why is this monument here? Was this the same route we took last time?"

Chu Yanxi frowned, increasingly confused. How could the road connecting the village to the monument have been altered after the village appeared?

The others were also completely bewildered, feeling like their heads were about to explode.

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"Headache, I can't figure it out, I can't figure it out, this Shiming Village is full of evil."

"Yes, that's right. Not only is it bizarre, but have you noticed that this huge village is completely deserted, pitch black, just like the ghost village described in the books?"

Upon hearing this, the guards realized that they had indeed not seen a single person, and it seemed that there was not a single living creature in the entire village except for them.

The whole village was eerily quiet.

With a "gulp," one of the young guards unconsciously swallowed.

"Could it be... that the earth dragon ate everyone and then returned the village?" His voice trembled involuntarily.

"..."

The crowd remained silent, mostly out of fear and a lack of knowledge of what to say.

Fang Lie, the little madman, seemed to be affected by the atmosphere and became unusually quiet.

Tradition is incredibly harmful!

Qin Huaiyu finally witnessed the mindset imprisoned under the feudal superstition system, lacking imagination and struggling to break through outdated concepts.

Gods and ghosts are always the first options.

They're treating the case like a child's game.

Treating human lives as cannon fodder for feudal poison only emboldens the perpetrators.

Solving a case requires endless thinking and imagination, supplemented by clues to choose the closest idea, even if the idea is outrageous, it is the best solution.

"The earth dragon has a good appetite, so you'd better watch out!"

His expression was cold, and he then addressed the young guard:

"If you're afraid of dying, don't come in!"

As he spoke, Qin Huaiyu snatched the torch from the other person's hand and walked towards a nearby farmhouse.