Chapter 319 - Secret of Coffin Village (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

“Why are you so intent on jinxing us?” Master Bai still minded these things, but Chen Ge was the complete opposite.

“It’ll be fine. Just follow behind me.” He walked through the courtyard with the hammer and entered the main room.

The layout of the old house was very interesting. There were bedrooms on each side of the main room, but there were no beds. Instead, each bedroom had a coffin in it.

“Have you noticed something peculiar about these houses?” Chen Ge leaned against the hammer and scanned his surroundings.

“You mean the coffins inside the house?” Master Bai pushed the door open through his clothes; he did not want to touch anything there.

Chen Ge shook his head. “Not that.

“The houses don’t seem to have an oven or a fire starter.”

Ol’ Wei looked at Master Bai. If Chen Ge had not brought that up, they would not have noticed this problem.

“The fire starter is the place where people a light fire and cook meals. Without that, how are they supposed to eat?” Chen Ge sat on the chair, and his tone slowed down, “Or do the villagers not need to eat? Is this a dead person’s home? If that is true, then it would make sense to have coffins instead of beds.”

His voice was calm, but it sent chills up his two listeners’ spines.

“The white lanterns, white paper on the door, coffin in the room, could this whole village be a Ghost Village?”

Chen Ge thought back to the information he found when he was building the Minghun scenario.

“There was a story about a massacre that happened to a village deep in the mountains during the war period. Several years later, people got lost inside the mountain, and they accidentally wandered inside the village. Then they saw every family was having a funeral, and the villagers looked weird. The outsiders didn’t dare ask any question and escaped the village in the middle of the night. When they returned to the village in the morning, the place had been abandoned for a long time already, and there was no sign of people living there.”

“You mean, we’re now inside a Ghost Village?” Ol’ Wei asked uncertainly.

“Coffin Village is scarier than that. I feel this place has a bigger secret that we haven’t uncovered yet.” Chen Ge placed the hammer on his feet and cupped his chin in his palm. “The people in this village are much more complicated than we think. There are original villagers that turned into ghosts, escaped villagers who were captured, and then us outsiders. The old lady’s soul had no need to lie to us about the outsiders. Other than us, other people are also trapped inside this village. No matter who they were, I think we should meet up with them.”

“But how do we do that? We can’t even find a way out ourselves.”

“I think we need to be more careful of our surroundings then.” Chen Ge then turned to look outside. He accidentally saw half a human face lying on the wall.

“Someone’s there!” He jumped up immediately. The sudden warning alerted Ol’ Wei and Master Bai.