Chapter 317 - Baby (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

“Don’t move away on your own! Slow down!” Ol’ Wei grabbed Master Bai and rushed after Chen Ge. Their combined age was more than one hundred, but they tried to keep up.

“I’m just trying to ask for directions, why are you guys following me?” Chen Ge did not want to expose Xu Yin before Ol’ Wei, so he moved his finger away from the recorder.

“There are no living souls in this village; who are you going to ask?” Ol’ Wei was worried that Chen Ge might do something stupid like using the hammer to break down the door of some of the houses.

“You’ll see.” Chen Ge told Ol’ Wei to keep quiet. He leaned against the wall by the corner. He counted his heartbeat and tightened his grip on the hammer. He waited for a full minute, but the red graveclothes did not show up. Chen Ge leaned forward, and the clothes had already disappeared. “It ran away?”

It had probably heard Ol’ Wei’s voice, so it had gone into hiding. Chen Ge leaned back against the wall and considered his next course of action.

Coffin Village is a three-star scenario, but the fright level so far hasn’t reached the standard of a three-star scenario. Chen Ge looked at the many houses that were no different from one another. Making us lose our way is just the beginning. The monsters inside this village are slowly waking up.

There had to be a Red Specter in the village somewhere!

That was what Chen Ge worried about the most; he knew how dangerous those two words could be.

Temporarily, there is no better option. I’ll need to continue this investigation and feed the stragglers to Xu Yin. If he can transform into a Red Specter tonight, even if I fail the mission, not all is lost. Chen Ge was a good person, but he was afraid of running into a bad Red Specter. If Xu Yin consumed so many spirits inside the village, it might anger the Specter.

Chen Ge calculated the ghosts that he had, and the only one he could depend on was Xu Yin. The newly acquired Yan Danian might be a Lesser Red Specter, but his last power had not been unlocked. Furthermore, based on his usual appearance, he did not look like a particularly aggressive spirit. If he was torn apart by the Red Specter, then Chen Ge would cry for a long time.

I’ll need to be careful. Chen Ge reminded himself and turned toward Master Bai. “The monsters inside the village are rousing. You’ve been here before; do you know if there are any special buildings at this place?”

“There’s an ancestral hall at the deepest part of the village; the place is forbidden to outsiders. The village has many wells, but the villagers normally go to the other side of the mountain to gather fresh water instead of using the wells. They gave wells a wide berth.” Master Bai tried his best to jog his memory. “There’s also another strange thing. This village has no village elder; the one who looked over everyone was a woman. She wasn’t old and lived at the largest house alone.”

“Forbidding outsiders from going to the ancestral hall is understandable, but why are they afraid of wells? Is the water tainted? Does the water caused the abnormalities?” Chen Ge was confused.

“The water was fine. My father once used a captured animal to test it out, and it was normal water. However, the villagers refused to drink it and even forbade us from doing more testing.” Master Bai also did not know why.

“We have to pay attention to these places; the more they stop us from getting close to these places, the higher the chance they’re hiding something.”

“Okay, so where shall we go now?” Completely lost with the white lanterns swaying in the wind, it was scary.

“We’ll keep moving on for now.” The three went back down the road, but the old home with the coffins was gone. Instead, there were homes with white lanterns on their doors.

“Now, we’re truly trapped.” Master Bai’s hand went to the jade necklace on his neck. “It’s not good for us to keep going around in circles. Why don’t we just stay in one of the houses for the night?”