The old man with the hatchet is dressed in plain clothes, wearing a gray-black woolen coat, and a pair of muddy Jiefang shoes under his feet. The white shirt inside has turned yellow due to age. Look at his rickety The figure resembles those old farmers in the movie who are facing the loess and back to the sky. Every wrinkle on the thin face seems to be filled with the word "work", and the yellow eyes make people feel lifeless.

When he saw Chen Xian and the others, his muddy eyes were a little clearer, and suddenly there was a little more of his look. The feeling was very strange, maybe it was a little unlucky to say that, but he really looked like A dead person suddenly came back to life, and the change from death made people shudder.

The most frightening thing is not this change, but the appearance of the old man.

His facial skin tissue is severely deformed. There are dense tumors growing from the lower lip to the Adam's apple. The left face almost "collapses", like those rubber melted by high temperature, and the left eye has very serious problems. For cataracts, the entire skin is a deep red color that seems to have been burned...

If he was just like this, perhaps Chen Xian would only think that this old man was a rare leper, and it wouldn't make them shudder, but...the teeth in the old man's mouth made them nervous.

The old man’s lips are thin and shriveled, the upper lip has only a few cracks due to dryness, and the lower lip is covered with dense sarcomas. The gums in the mouth are sickly blue-black, and the surface edema is particularly severe. The teeth on the gums are also very severely deformed...or that they looked like this at the beginning. The upper and lower teeth are densely stacked in two rows, and each tooth is sharp and tooth-like. , There are many yellowish spots on it.

Is he human?

should be.

Regardless of the preliminary judgment of Chen Xian and others, or the induction of Mr. Skull who is an abnormal life, this old man is undoubtedly a human being. He does not have the characteristics that an abnormal life should have, but... ...He doesn't look like a normal person.

"Old man, we are not bad guys."

Chen Xian put the meat saw knife down, did not show obvious hostility, and there was a kind of helplessness in his words, and this helplessness was not pretending to be, and he did not expect that his party would come here. Inexplicable place.

"We just got lost...Where is this place?"

Compared with Chen Xian's calm performance, the others are much more nervous. After all, they have just experienced an inexplicable and weird "traveling". They can't even get an answer wherever they are, let alone a long time. People who don't look like people.

"be lost?"

The old man nodded, still holding the hatchet tightly in his hand, and seemed to be very vigilant towards Chen Xian and his party.

"Where do you come from?"

The old man’s voice was a little strange, it seemed to have a certain local accent, and it sounded flat and a little fuzzy, but it was still understandable.

"Hey, people from other worlds still speak Chinese." Lu Yisheng couldn't help but muttered, watching the weird old man intently. Speaking English now seems to be somewhat authentic."

Because Lu Yisheng’s voice was very soft, no one noticed him when he was muttering while standing in the line. Even Chen Xian didn’t even hear Lu Yisheng’s muttering voice... but the hideous old man was there. At this moment, he rolled his eyes calmly.

He seemed to have heard something, or he might just perceive something.

The old man glanced at Lu Yisheng, then closed his gaze, and let go of the hatchet slightly, and his vigilance towards Chen Xian and his party was no longer so vigilant.

"We are from outside the mountain." Chen Xian said calmly, keeping his eyes on the old man's twisted and hideous face, observing every change in his expression attentively.

Chen Xian is not a person who likes to think of strangers casually, but it is undeniable that this old man feels very strange to him. Without being sure that the opponent is harmless and harmless, Chen Xian is always fighting against him. Preparation...

"Outside the mountain?"

The old man squatted down slowly, like a hard-working old farmer who had just finished his work, holding the wooden handle of the hatchet in both hands and sticking to the ground, raised his head and looked at Chen Xian, then turned his head and looked down the mountain. A weird smile appeared on his face.

"Then it's really hard for you to come here."

Hearing these meaningful words, Chen Xian frowned subconsciously.

There was heavy fog under the mountain.

Although everyone has not had the opportunity to step into the foggy area, based on the preliminary judgment of naked eye observation, the white fog is definitely not an ordinary thing...especially Chen Xian, who is extremely sensitive to danger, is seeing Bai At the first glance of the fog, he felt an inexplicable danger.

The strange sense of danger came a little illusory, but Chen Xian did not dare to ignore its existence.

If possible, Chen Xian would rather not risk touching those white mist all his life.

At this moment, Chen Xian could hear from the old man's words that it is very possible that the old man had already believed his words and really regarded himself and his party as visitors from outside the mountain.

If you want to come from outside the mountain, you must pass through the white fog... He said that it was hard enough to come, is there really danger in that white fog? Or do you think you are too sensitive?

"This is Meishan."

The old man suddenly took the initiative to speak, and took out a box of soft-packaged cigarettes from his pocket. Chen Xian hadn't seen the brand. The packaging was also dirty, covered with traces of oil-like stains.

"Meishan..." Chen Xian frowned, only feeling that the reality really seemed to be beyond his control. Although he had guessed that this was Meishan before, he got a positive answer...especially It was a local reply, and Chen Xian was really a little confused.

Parallel universe?

Parallel space?

What the **** is this so? !

"The visitors are all guests, do you want to sit in our village?" The old man stood up slowly, patted his trouser legs, and then took the cigarette case to the crowd and made a circle of cigarettes. Only Lu Yisheng politely took it. One, the others refused on the grounds that they would not.

Upon hearing the old man's invitation, Chen Xian hesitated for a while, then looked back at everyone.

Seeing that both Lu Yisheng and Xu Yanan indicated with their eyes that they could agree, Chen Xian gave the old man a clear answer.

"Then bother the old man." Chen Xian said embarrassedly.

The old man smiled and said nothing, lit a cigarette and leisurely led everyone to the direction of the village.

During this process, through certain exchanges, Chen Xian also got some information.

For example, this village is called Meishan Village, and it is an aboriginal who settled here many years ago. The people in the village are named Mei, like this old man named Mei, with a single name.

In the middle of the journey, Chen Xian also asked some questions side by side, but in order not to reveal the identity of the outsiders and strangers, Chen Xian asked only a few questions. .... What's the date now? How far is it from the nearest town under the mountain? What's the matter with the white fog in this mountain?

The first question and the second question seem to be the easiest to answer, but the old man did not give an answer. He bluntly said that their village has always been in a state of sheltering from the world. Only the young and middle-aged will come out from time to time. As for now What day of the month and what is the outside world? The old man asks three questions.

As far as he is concerned, he has never walked out of Meishan.

The third question is the white mist in the mountains.

"That white mist is a gift from God."

When the old man answered this question, his ugly face showed a serious to serious expression. His old and decayed aura seemed to have become sacred because of this topic, and his turbid eyes sparkled with indelible brilliance. , The whole person seemed to be dozens of years younger in an instant, and returned to that age of vitality.

"God's gift?"

When Chen Xian heard the answer, he couldn't help being stunned for a second, and then subconsciously asked, "Here is a god?"

There is a **** here. This question sounds to the old man asking whether there is a **** in Meishan, but Chen Xian’s original intention is not like that. If this world is really not the world that everyone was in before... then is this world in? In science and technology civilization, there are all unknowns, and it is not impossible to have higher life forms similar to gods.

"Yes, there lives a **** under our mountain."

The old man replied categorically. He seemed very interested in this topic, as if he had opened up a chatterbox. Before Chen Xian asked any more questions, he began to take the initiative to "popularize science" to him.

"From the first day our village settled in Meishan, that **** has been protecting us, and it is still today....The white mist can prevent people from outside from entering Meishan, so we people in Meishan can live. After so many years of peaceful and peaceful days...How did you get in?"

Regarding this question, Chen Xian could only evasively perfuse.

"We don't know, we walked in by mistake."

Hearing this, the old man Mei Shan nodded and did not make a sound. From his unchanged expression, it was difficult to tell whether he really believed the answer made up by Chen Xian.

Under the leadership of the old man, everyone has gradually approached the entrance of the village.

Looking at the silent ancient village in front of him, Chen Xian felt that something was wrong...because he couldn't detect the existence of a breath of life here.

"For so many years, you are the first group of guests to come here."

The old man said without looking back, a weird curve formed at the corner of his mouth.

"Welcome to Meishan Village..."