Lin Zhao quickly called Chen Shuyu, "Xiao Chengzi said that those two people were found in the compound. You were probably wrong."

"Wrong?" I couldn't help but frown.

Ye Yang said in a deep voice, "I think you're right! For no reason, normal people wouldn't wade into the overgrown weeds."

"Perhaps the Kong Family Compound is just an exit, not an entrance."

I turned my head and said, "Leng Gou, did you see anything strange when you came?"

Ye Yang said expressionlessly, "I only saw one person sleeping, drool all over the ground. Wang Xiaohuan even put a tissue under his head. It's still stuck to my car seat."

I almost choked to death on the side of the road.

Butcher Wang coughed twice and said, "Can you two deal with the matter at hand first? We can argue about trivial matters later, okay? Huanzi, did you notice anything along the way?"

Seeing that I didn't understand, Butcher Wang explained to me, "Huanzi's sense of smell is extremely sensitive. If she didn't see anything, we'll have to turn back."

Wang Xiaohuan said, "I only think one place is problematic, that is, the shack down there."

"When I came over, I glanced inside. It might be inhabited by a dead person."

"Leng Gou, get in the car and go back to take a look." When I called Ye Yang to get in the car, Ye Yang said, "You go down yourself. I think there's something wrong with the place we're standing on."

I couldn't help but look down at my feet. Besides a protruding open space, there was nothing special about it.

Ye Yang said, "You go your way, I'll take care of this."

I called out, "Lin Zhao, Huanzi, you come with me. Let them handle this."

After Wang Xiaohuan led me back three or four kilometers, I indeed saw a shack by the roadside, using a flatbed cart as a base and supported by plastic tarpaulins.

Next to the flatbed cart, there was also a fire pit surrounded by stones, which seemed to be where the shack owner used to make fire and cook.

I walked up and glanced into the shack.

Inside, there was only a man lying in a pile of tattered cotton wool, disheveled and filthy.

The other party seemed to have adapted to this wandering life. Even with flies all over his body, he was still lying there motionless.

I just said to Lin Zhao, "Give me the flashlight!"

The man then said, "I'm not dead, no need to shine a flashlight on me."

My first reaction was that he was no ordinary person.

The three of us moved very lightly. If it were an ordinary person, even if we stood close behind him, as long as we didn't touch him, he wouldn't notice our existence.

I clasped my fist at the shack, "I..."

Before I could finish speaking, the man said, "I'm not a Jianghu (martial arts world) person, and I'm not from the Beggar Clan either. What's wrong with people these days? Everyone thinks I'm from the Beggar Clan when they see me."

"Do you have something to say? If you just want to see if there's anyone here, then you can leave."

This person is quite individual!

I casually said, "I'm here to ask you for directions. I heard that there's a Kong Family Compound nearby. Do you know how to get there?"

The man suddenly sat up and stared at me fiercely, "Where did you hear about the Kong Family Compound?"

"I heard it." I was also observing the other party, "Just tell me, is there such a place here?"

The man said in a hoarse voice, "I say there is, do you dare to go?"

I smiled, "Tell me about it."

The man sneered, "The Kong Family Compound is a place where one can enter, but ghosts cannot leave."

"No matter how many people go in, only one can come out alive in the end."

"Do you still want to hear more?"

I said with a smile, "It's such an interesting thing, how could I not listen? Go on."

"Okay, let me have a smoke first."

The man climbed down from the cart, walked to the fire pit, and groped around his body for a long time before finally finding a wrinkled cigarette. He lit it on the fire and took a puff, "This matter has to start ten years ago."

Ten years ago, seven students came to sketch in this area. They also met a person who seemed like a madman in such a place.

They listened to him tell a story about the Kong Family Compound, and then they went to explore the courtyard out of curiosity. As a result, six people were left there forever.

The person who ran out was also regarded as a madman.

The man exhaled a puff of smoke and said, "Do you still want to hear more?"

I said in a deep voice, "Continue, I'm listening."

The man grinned: When those seven students met the tramp, they were chatting here like us.

As he spoke, the person led the topic to the Kong Family Compound.

He said that since the people of Kong Family Village moved away overnight, it had become an inaccessible place.

If you want to go in, you have to go ahead and find a cliff that looks like an altar. When you find it, kowtow to the cliff.

Someone inside will come out and show you the way. Only the road he points out can lead to Kong Family Village. Otherwise, you will only see ruins.

Those students really did what he said.