The Witch's Taste

Chapter 35 Lingyi Town

Not long after, the vehicles in Lingyi Town finally arrived at the location of the bus through the wind and snow.

The passengers on the bus were all rejoicing. After all, they came all the way to travel, and the townspeople came to pick them up in person. They felt flattered and honored.

The driver went down to communicate with the townspeople. Chen Ziang tried his best to look from the back row, trying to see the faces of the townspeople clearly, but he only saw a few thick figures wrapped from head to toe in cold-proof clothing.

The two sides probably exchanged a few words, and those cold-proof clothes went back to the snowplow truck, and began to shovel snow in front and lead the way for the bus.

The atmosphere in the car became more lively. Many passengers even ran from the back row to the front of the car and took photos of the snowplow's buttocks with their mobile phones. Seeing snow once, not to mention a special vehicle like a snowplow.

Chen Ziang was thinking about it when he heard Yuegong Lingnai suddenly say:
"Those townspeople... have a weird posture."

"How do you say?" Chen Ziang asked hastily.

"They're all hunchbacks," said Tsukimiya Suzuna, "and their bodies are obviously leaning forward."

"Is it because of bending over and working for a long time?" Chen Ziang pondered, "Mining?"

The bus followed the snowplow and continued until the outline of houses in Lingyi Town appeared on the horizon ahead, and the wind and snow gradually subsided.

"It's very interesting." Rio Hokaze looked at the phone and said suddenly, "Looking from the surrounding weather, Lingyi Town seems to be in the center of the snowstorm, and it hardly suffered any damage."

"And the surrounding area has been completely blocked by the snowstorm. Without snow plows, positioning equipment and guides who are familiar with the road, ordinary people have no way to leave here."

"It doesn't matter, right?" The girl in the front row heard it, and turned around and said, "The townspeople here seem to be very kind, and they should send us out of town by then."

"That's right." The girl next to him also added, "And maybe the snowstorm will stop tomorrow."

They exchanged friends with Yue Gong Suzuna before, so Chen Ziang knew that the girl with black hair and single ponytail on the left was a girl from the Lu ethnic group, named Tian Xiaoyun; And friendship.

Chen Ziang really wanted to tell them that this trip was not safe. Under the local mine in Lingyi Town, there was a ritual relic called "Zanghushou"... But if he told this to two ordinary people, he would only get a "I don't understand" .

Therefore, he could only tactfully persuade:

"If it's a horror movie, this kind of blizzard is already an obvious reminder, and our group just turned a blind eye to the plot reminder and still chose to die to enter the town. The typical protagonist group."

"Hahahaha." Ayaka Sawada laughed wildly, and said to Suzuna Tsukimiya, "Suzuna-chan, your boyfriend's words are so interesting."

"I really can't do anything about him." Tsukimiya Suzuna sighed pretendingly, "But what he said is also reasonable, and if you are trapped in Lingyi Town, it will be bad if you can't go back to work smoothly, our boss is not very talkative .”

These words moved the two girls. After all, if the blizzard lasts for a few days, whether they can return can only depend on whether the townspeople can help them at that time.

But if you go back with this bus...

"At least it took me 15 hours in the car." Tian Xiaoyun said with a sigh, "It's always not reconciled not to soak in the hot spring."

"I can only hope that the return journey will go smoothly by then." Sawada Ayaka echoed.

Persuading the two failed, and the result was as expected. Chen Ziang stopped talking and just focused on communicating with Tsukimiya Suzuna and Hokaze Rio on their mobile phones.

As the intelligence officer said, the closer to Lingyi Town, the less severe the blizzard would be.

Until the bus officially drove into the town, the wind and snow had completely stopped, and there was not even a single snowflake in the town.

Soon they drove into the bus station, the driver parked the bus and let everyone get off, while he went to rest in the rest room.

Chen Ziang followed the two out of the car and felt that the temperature was around freezing. It seemed a bit exaggerated to wear winter clothes, but it was a bit cold without them.

He looked around carefully, and found that Lingyi Town was similar to most towns, with clean or old spacious roads, mixed-style houses of Lu and Island ethnic groups, and a desolate atmosphere that was almost dead.

Perhaps it was because it was too cold outside, neither the local townspeople nor the tourists showed up on the street... Where did those who drove the snowplow just now go?
"Go to the hotel and settle down first." Chen Ziang suggested.

The so-called settling down actually has another meaning: obtaining information from the locals.

After all, in everyone's original perception, Lingyi Town is a deserted town.But since there are still townspeople active now, it is of course more important to collect information first than to rush to the underground mine rashly.

Under the strong recommendation of Tian Xiaoyun and Zetian Caixia, everyone went to the hot spring hotel recommended by the blogger.

The proprietress of the hotel is a middle-aged woman who still has charm, and quickly opened rooms for everyone.

Regarding the fact that Chen Ziang and Yuegong Lingnai did not live together, the two passers-by girls showed obvious interest, and began to whisper and gossip again.

Chen Ziang winked at Yuegong Lingnai, and went upstairs first in the name of helping the girls with their luggage.

Tsukimiya Suzuna took advantage of her affinity and got close to the proprietress:

"Mrs. Dongyue, are you running this hotel alone?"

"That's right." Mrs. Dongyue said with a smile on her face, "My husband passed away very early, and my children are also working in Zhongnan City, so I can only come to see the store."

"Hey, that's really hard work." Tsukimiya Suzuna sighed, "The business is so good, it would be very hard to run it alone, right?"

"It's not very good, it's just that there have been more tourists recently." Mrs. Dongyue explained, "It seems that someone recommended the hot springs in our town on the Internet."

"So, can the hot springs here really beautify the skin?" Tsukimiya Suzuna asked curiously.

"Well, let me tell you..." Mrs. Dongyue motioned for Yuegong Suzuna to come over.

Chen Ziang sent everyone's luggage upstairs, then returned to his room, and began to look out the window.

He found that almost every household outside closed the windows and drew the curtains, as if they were guarding against something... This reminded him of the ancient city of Enrank in the dream world.

Tsukimiya Suzuna came in from the outside and said:

"The proprietress said that almost all the people in the town are over 60 years old with handicapped legs and feet, so people hardly come out and walk around."

"The town was originally in a semi-abandoned state, but recently a blogger on the Internet recommended the hot springs in the town, which attracted some tourists, so everyone came out to operate and open shops."

"So what do you think?" Chen Ziang asked after thinking.

"I think the proprietress must be hiding something." Tsukimiya Suzuna said seriously, "From a semi-abandoned desolate state to a business model that can receive tourists, it will inevitably require a lot of manpower and material resources. If nothing else, that's it. For a big hot spring hotel, who will do the sanitation? Where will the food be supplied? Where will the toiletries come from?"

"And the proprietress said that almost all the townspeople are over 60 years old, and their legs and feet are inconvenient, so they can't go out and walk. The two are obviously contradictory."

"You didn't ask about the mortuary, did you?" Chen Ziang asked for confirmation.

"No, I'm afraid of scaring the snake away." Tsukimiya Suzuna replied obediently.

"Hmm." Chen Ziang pondered.

Since the next step is to act together and face the huge danger, even if it is for better tactical coordination, I should at least explain my special ability to my partner Suzuna Tsukimiya in advance.

"Next, we will conduct a full investigation of this town." Chen Ziang said in a deep voice, "Yue Gong, do you know what the 'collective subconscious' is?"

(End of this chapter)