<h4>Chapter 313: Three Rooms</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>Lonelytree <strong>Editor: </strong>Millman97


    The sudden disappearance of the light cast where Chen Ge’s group was standing into darkness.


    “What’s happening?” Both Master Bai and Ol’ Wei were spooked. Chen Ge’s hand hung in midair and did not fall on the door. “I’m not sure. It doesn’t seem like a coincidence.”


    There was no wind, and thentern was hung high enough that they would notice if someone reached out to extinguish the light. The other whitenterns swayed even though there was still no wind.


    It felt weirdly suffocating.


    Chen Ge and Ol’ Wei turned to look at Master Bai, but he had not experienced this before either. “Shall we retreat for now?”


    He walked two steps back and turned to look down the road, then he stopped. “Be careful, someone’sing!”


    “Who?” Chen Ge looked down the direction Master Bai was looking. Under the glow of the swayingnterns, a blurry human-shaped shadow slowly approached them. “It seems to be waving at us?”


    The shadow moved faster, and Chen Ge finally got a good look at it. It was an olddy who was wearing a dark-colored jacket. She kept her head lowered as she moved forward, and she only stopped when she almost ran into Chen Ge.


    “You also came from the outside?” The olddy’s voice was weird and made Chen Ge feel ufortable.


    Noticing the olddy’s choice of words, Chen Ge asked in return, “Also? There’s another party that entered the vige earlier?”


    “Yes.” The woman kept her head lowered when she spoke like she was afraid of others seeing her face. Chen Ge was reminded of Jiang Ling’s sister. The vigers of Coffin Vige were born with abnormalities, so Chen Ge would not be rude enough to purposely sneak a look at the olddy’s face.


    “Was it a middle-aged man and two kids who entered the vige before us?” Chen Ge asked a follow-up question, but the olddy ignored him. It seemed like she was not there for Chen Ge. Keeping her head lowered, it felt like the olddy’s head was almost falling to the ground. However, she did not seem bothered by this. “Don’t knock on the door at night. It might not be people who answer the door.”


    It was unclear who the olddy was talking to. She blocked them in the middle of the road, and thenterns on both sides swayed harder.


    “Things have beenplicated in the vigetely. Don’t wander about. Come with me, I’ll bring you somewhere to stay.” The olddy turned to head back in the direction she came from. Her steps were small, but she moved fast. Combined with her head that almost reached her chest, the whole thing was just weird.


    “Shall we follow her?” Ol’ Wei turned to look at Chen Ge and Master Bai. When he saw the olddy earlier, he already wanted to leave.


    “Let’s follow her for now.” It was Master Bai who spoke. “I feel familiar around the olddy. Is it possible that I’ve seen her when I came to visit as a child?”


    Master Bai walked ahead, and Chen Ge as well as Ol’ Wei followed behind him. The olddy led them deeper into Coffin Vige. They took several turns before they stopped. “Tonight, you can stay here. We can discuss the rest when morninges.”


    She still kept her head lowered, and the tone of her voice had not changed; it felt like they were talking to a puppet. “There are three rooms inside the house. Each of you can take one. Remember to stay inside your room, and do not share rooms. Do not touch the rope on the window or the cleaver behind the door. Stay in bed and wait for the night to pass.”


    “One room each? We’ll share one room; it’ll be fine for one night.” Master Bai had to stay close to Chen Ge. If he did not keep a good watch on him, he would run off on his own.


    “There are three rooms inside the house; each of you can take one...” To their surprise, when Master Bai said so, the olddy only repeated her earlier instruction, but this time, her tone was uglier.


    “Granny, we’re here to look for two children. We have no time to waste, especially not until morning. Can you bring us to meet the other group who came from outside?” Chen Ge studied the old woman and could not find anything weird about her. Could it really be her face?


    When the olddy turned around, Chen Ge bent down to nce at her face. The face was totally normal.


    <i>The eyes are still there, and the face looks normal, but she does look familiar, </i>Chen Ge thought to himself. He looked at the olddy and then nced at Master Bai. “Master Bai, you said the olddy gives you a sense of familiarity, could she be from Lin Guan Vige?”


    “I didn’t see her face, but based on her attire, you might be right.” Master Bai pushed the door open. The ce was not big.


    “Looks like someone from Lin Guan Vige and familiar to you and me.” Chen Ge thought about it, and his face slowly changed. “Wait, I know who she is!”


    “Who?”


    “Ol’ Wei, do you still remember the first home we visited when we arrived at Lin Guan Vige?”


    “Yes, the owner was a middle-aged farmer.” Ol’ Wei had good memory.


    “He has a shrine in his room, and an olddy’s ck-and-white photo sat on it.” Chen Ge kept his voice lowered. “The olddy who showed us the way earlier looks exactly like the old woman in that picture!”


    “How is that possible? Are you sure?” Ol’ Wei couldn’t believe Chen Ge.


    “Now that you mention it, she does look like an olddy from Lin Guan Vige!” Master Bai made the connection in his mind. “But that olddy died a long time ago!”


    “No matter what, it has happened.” Chen Ge calmed down quickly. “If the olddy is not a living person, then should we still stay in the home that she assigned for us?”


    The white paper on the door fluttered. Neither Master Bai nor Ol’ Wei could not make the decision.


    “Let’s go in to take a look first. The olddy had a good rtionship with me before she died; she won’t harm us.


    “At least, I think she won’t.”


    Chen Ge’s group entered the home, and the ce was simr to other houses, but there was not a whitentern outside the door.


    “This isn’t like what the olddy said; there’s only one room in here.” Chen Ge walked in front, and after crossing the empty courtyard, he opened the inner room door.


    A weird smell drifted out from the room. When they got used to it, the three of them turned to look inside the room with their eyes bulging. Inside the home’s only room sat three ck coffins.


    “One home, three rooms? Could the olddy be referring to the coffins?” Ol’ Wei’s face waspletely white. “Something is seriously not right with this ce; we should leave.”