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The answer is: zero.

For hundreds of years, living people have accidentally entered Yae Village from the outside world and settled there. The story of Kochiyo's family began when her grandmother was about 30 years old and she brought her young daughter and family to Yae Village by chance.

It is said that he was fleeing at the time and walked in unknowingly.

It happened decades ago...

I hope Chiyoko’s grandmother doesn’t have Alzheimer’s, otherwise the information would be too confusing to analyze.

Li Mo tried to use a thermometer to test the temperature of the villagers, and the results fed back by the thermometer were all normal without exception.

Li Mo really wanted to take out the strange pistol and shoot at someone randomly to test whether the villagers were ghosts in disguise, but the risk was too great.

Not to mention being exposed, if the villagers were really alive, such an action would undoubtedly be like putting oneself on the fire. In the future, if he wanted to do anything in the village, he would be closely watched, which would be inconvenient.

"Big brother, we're here."

Li Mo and Xiao Qiandai stopped in front of a larger courtyard, which was carefully built with bricks.

A small courtyard, Li Mo estimated that it covered an area of several hundred meters, and it seemed that a lot of effort had been put into it.

But the village has no official jurisdiction, so as long as the compensation is paid, the villagers won’t care too much about building a small villa.

Li Mo stood at the door and did not enter immediately, but looked around.

"It's four o'clock in the afternoon, and there's still some time before dark, so we shouldn't be able to chat for too long. Let's go back before dinner to prevent Kallen from running around after she wakes up."

Li Mo glanced at his phone, then turned his head to look at the setting sun in the sky.

Visually, the distance between Xishan and it is not far, so it probably won’t take too long for it to fall.

After all, the season is getting cooler.

"Big brother, what are you mumbling about? Come in quickly, be careful not to trip, there is a threshold." Xiao Chiyo pushed open the gate of the courtyard, jumped over, and stood in the courtyard to greet Li Mo.

"I see." Li Mo replied, lowering his head to examine it carefully. "There is a threshold, and it's not low."

Li Mo also encountered similar buildings in the Taoist temple on Taixu Mountain.

Doors can divide space and are most likely to be contaminated and become strange.

The threshold does not have such consequences. Even in Taoist temples that have been thoroughly polluted, the threshold is still useful.

The threshold has the ability to block ghosts from entering to a certain extent. It is not just a hurdle, but also a natural barrier that prevents evil spirits from entering. Evil spirits raise their feet to cross, but they always bump on the threshold because they cannot see how high the threshold is, and subconsciously raise their feet to always be lower than the threshold.

But this effectiveness is limited and can only be used against some incomplete ghosts.

If a living person is clearly discovered by a ghost, then the ghost's behavior will be intensified and a threshold may not be able to stop it.

"By the way, I see that other people's houses don't have thresholds. Why did you build one so high? Don't you think it's inconvenient?" Li Mo asked tentatively.

"I don't know. Anyway, grandma said that the building will be raised higher this year. Okay, big brother, if you don't come in, I'll leave by myself."

Li Mo smiled peacefully, stepped over the threshold, and noticed the picture on the door as he entered.

Similar to the door gods painted on doors in Shenzhou.

However, the paintings here are in the Far Eastern style, and Li Mo is not sure whether they can ward off ghosts. Anyway, he did not feel any discomfort when touching these door god paintings.

But I felt a slight resistance when crossing the threshold.

In his dead state, he only had weak ghost characteristics, so the threshold could not stop Li Mo.

Walking into the courtyard, Li Mo saw that the yard was full of peach trees.

And houses that do not face the front door.

Logically speaking, if a house is built in a yard, then when you open the gate of the yard, the front door must be the door of the house.

But Li Mo did not see the main door of the house, but the side of the house, a wall without even a window.

"interesting."

Li Mo's mouth curled up slightly, he met someone who knew the business.

It doesn't have to be so troublesome to explain, and you can communicate information directly.

If you let me do the dangerous things, the other party will probably be happy to tell you useful information.

In contrast, Yae Shrine has no threshold, no, the shrine doesn't even have a door.

There is also a lush cherry tree planted in the courtyard of the shrine. The soil is fertile and the petals are fresh...

I'll bring Karen to live here later. It's much safer than the shrine.

Entering the peach forest, Li Mo looked around and saw that the peaches grew unevenly.

Although the climate and environment are good, the plant looks listless and almost withered.

Unlike cherry trees, which are as beautiful and eye-catching as cherry trees, most of the peach trees are bare, with only a few yellow leaves hanging on the treetops, which will sway in the breeze.

What exactly happened to these peach trees?

Before Li Mo's doubts were clarified, he suddenly woke up and found that he seemed to be lost...

I walked straight ahead and found that I was not heading towards the house, but to a corner of the wall.

No way, got lost just a few dozen meters away?

Li Mo was stunned. He was not a person with poor direction.

"Chiyoko? Chiyoko? Where are you?"

Li Mo called out, but no one answered.

In a space of several hundred meters, this kind of shouting can definitely be heard.

"Is there something wrong with the peach forest?"

Li Mo stretched out his hand, and his fingers instinctively retracted the moment they touched the peach tree. However, under the control of free will, he was able to overcome this instinct and directly touch the peach tree.

Coming back to his senses, Li Mo discovered that something was wrong with the surrounding geographical location. He could no longer see the house and had to rub his eyes before he could see it again.

"A wood for ghosts."

Li Mo pointed out the essence of the peach forest incisively.

Peach trees can indeed ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters to a certain extent. The effect of one peach tree is minimal, but when there are many peach trees, the effect is still very significant.

"Because I remain in a state of semi-death, I am contaminated, and the peach forest has determined that I am a ghost."

Li Mo tried to run straight ahead, but he still couldn't get out after a minute. How could he not be able to get out of the courtyard that was several hundred meters long?

Meanwhile, Xiao Chiyo leaned on the second-floor fence with both hands, looking curiously at the sparse woods, and asked in confusion: "Grandma, why hasn't Big Brother come out yet? What's so interesting about those broken woods?"

The old woman Xiao Chiyo called her grandma sat next to her. The mahogany chair was wobbly, and her face was heavy. "If he can't get out, dying in there is the best outcome."

"But... Grandma, didn't you say that you wanted to find someone like us who came from the outside world to discuss something very important?" Xiao Chiyo pursed her fingers, her dark pupils moving back and forth between the woods and her grandmother's gloomy face.

"If he's lost in there but not dead, it means we've got the wrong guy. Don't have anything to do with him in the future."

"Oh--"

Xiao Chiyo snorted loudly.

"Big brother is very powerful."

"Haha." Grandma Chiyo didn't deny it. "You only met him for half an hour, how could you really see his true colors?"

Xiao Chiyo raised her head, pursed her lips, thought for a moment, and explained, "I can't really put it into words, but I feel deep down that I'm very reliable."

"The way big brother looks at me is the same way he looked at you, grandma, the night before grandpa disappeared."

Xiao Chiyo spoke her mind frankly.

"..."

"maybe."

Grandma Chiyo was holding a peach wood stick in her hand, her eyes lowered.

At this moment, Li Mo in the peach forest was thinking about how to leave.

There were many ways to leave, but he didn't want to destroy the peach orchard.

"It seems quite difficult to leave this peach forest without damaging it. I definitely have the 'smell' of a ghost."

"So the reason this peach forest is so desolate and languishing is because it's constantly fighting off ghost invasions. Most of the nutrients it supplies obscure the ghosts' directional patterns, so naturally, it can't thrive."

"On the contrary, the locust trees and cherry trees, which are usually used for burying corpses, are lush and green..."

Li Mo sighed lightly and pointed the strange pistol at his left hand.

"It's not good to keep the host waiting too long. The pain will pass in a moment. Silence the world and listen to the sound of the famous sword shattering~"

Li Mo closed his eyes and pulled the trigger.

The next second, the blue-purple flame engulfed Guiya's left hand, and the burning pain made Li Mo's face twitch.

Being emotional is not always a good thing.

Fortunately, no one saw the painful expression.

Guiya's left hand fell silent and turned black.

But it doesn't matter. After all, Li Mo can't use "Usurpation" in a dead state. At most, he will temporarily lose the ability to move his left hand.

Sure enough, after Guiya's left hand became silent, Li Mo raised his head slightly and could see the house outside the woods.

"After all this time, I've been going around in circles..."

Li Mo looked around and felt like he was being fooled.

"Forget it. This indirectly proves that Chiyoko's grandmother is indeed something. On the contrary, it is hard for me to believe someone like Yaejin-sama."

Li Mo walked straight towards the house and soon walked out of the small peach forest.

After seeing Li Mo walk out, Xiao Qiandai shouted loudly: "Big brother! Here, here!"

Li Mo, who heard the voice, saw that the other party was on the second floor, with an elderly woman beside him looking at him with a scrutinizing look.

Is this Xiao Chiyo's grandmother? She's not as old as I thought.

About fifty years old.

This reminded Li Mo of another old woman in her fifties who was still reading comics and dressing up in COS costumes to act cute.

Tsk, why is this fifty-year-old woman acting so pretentiously!

Li Mo walked to the main entrance and found another threshold, which was obviously raised.

Li Mo walked in easily and saw several tall and majestic peach wood carvings of roosters placed on the table in the hall.

There are windows only on the east side, not on the west side.

"At night, most ghosts become more active, and the direction of greatest darkness is to the west where the sun sets."

"So it seems that the windows of the St. Freya's College auditorium were originally built on the west side. Then, at night, we saw a ghost peeping at us in the candlelight in the darkness."

Li Mo went upstairs while thinking.

"Tap, tap, tap."

The stairs are made of only the most basic mahogany material, with no additional obstructions.

What Li Mo found interesting was that no matter how lightly he stepped on it, it would produce a very crisp sound. If he stepped a little harder, the sound would only be louder.

When people go upstairs on a quiet night, if they make such a crisp sound, they will definitely restrain themselves and the loudness of the sound will gradually decrease.

But ghosts without human consciousness wouldn't realize this, so they heard the even and consistent sound of people climbing up the stairs late at night...

Li Mo felt more and more satisfied. He came to the balcony on the second floor. Xiao Chiyo jumped on him happily and rubbed his face against him like a coquettish kitten.

But suddenly he smelled a burnt smell, and he looked up in confusion and asked, "Big brother, why do you smell like burnt food?"

Li Mo took out his burnt left hand from behind his back and said, "Because if I don't do this, I'm afraid I can only come here by destroying the forest."

Seeing Li Mo's terrifying left hand, Xiao Chiyo was so scared that she hid behind her grandmother.

Grandma Chiyo's expression was calm as she greeted Li Mo normally: "Hello, a living person who came to Yae Village from the outside world."

She did not specify her name or title.

"Hello, Grandma Chiyo, you can call me Mingyue or Qimeng. It's just a name, it doesn't matter."

Li Mo's answer made Grandma Chiyo's expression fluctuate. She stood up from the chair and looked at him thoughtfully.

"Chiyoko, go make tea for the guests."