After the female ghost left, Bai Lixin continued to investigate the village.
He initially thought that getting lost in the fog was due to the boundary of the copy.
But what if it wasn’t the boundary of the copy, and people were getting lost or even dying there due to the wandering female ghost?
The appearance of the female ghost just now was the same as the one he had seen in the corner of the classroom before.
They should be the same.
In the village, there had been legends of a female ghost for a long time, but no incidents of harm, so it seemed that the female ghost didn’t kill indiscriminately. Her appearance in the fog was likely to deter people from entering the village.
So there should be a crucial clue in this village.
Leaving the square, he walked further into the village and soon discovered a large dilapidated courtyard.
This courtyard had clearly been burnt; the walls were all blackened, and the row of houses inside had all collapsed, with almost nothing left.
He had just arrived outside the courtyard when he saw the female ghost again from a distance.
He quickly dodged, finding a tall locust tree outside the courtyard, leaping onto it silently and hiding among the dense leaves while peering downward.
The female ghost, who had been chasing him just moments ago, was now sitting alone in a corner. Her terrifying, scalded face was exposed, her arms wrapped tightly around her shoulders as if hugging herself.
She huddled against the wall, humming softly to herself.
Bai Lixin found the melody she was singing somewhat familiar. After a moment of thought, he remembered that this song was one that he had heard from Pan Pan’s mouth.
It wasn’t the folk song about ”Gentle Village” but rather a song that Pan Pan often hummed while playing in the courtyard.
The melody of this song was gentle and soothing, much like a lullaby.
The female ghost’s singing was very soft, and her previously hoarse voice now sounded like the sound of nature.
After the song ended, the female ghost whispered: “Go to sleep, go to sleep, have a good sleep.”
The voice was gentle and soft, as if coaxing a cute child to fall asleep.
Bai Lixin squatted quietly on the tree, observing the movements of the female ghost below.
After a long time of singing, the female ghost stopped, but she didn’t fall asleep; instead, she slowly stood up.
If she wasn’t singing to herself just now, then the one she was lulling to sleep was the charred face behind her.
It seemed that although there was only one body, two different souls were represented by the two faces.
Scalded Ghost Face stood up after putting the Charred Ghost Face to sleep, but she didn’t leave. Instead, she wandered around this burnt courtyard, sometimes bending over as if searching for something.
While searching, she murmured to herself, “Strange, where’s the hairpin? Where did it go?”
“Pretty hairpin, why can’t I find you?”
“I really want to find the hairpin.”
She searched for quite a while without success, and in the end, she sighed in resignation. She sat back down in a corner and resumed hugging herself in a peculiar manner, or rather, she was embracing Charred Ghost Face behind her.
Bai Lixin waited quietly for a while until the female ghost showed no signs of movement before silently jumping down from the tall tree and heading in another direction.
In the following time, he began to search one courtyard after another.
The village wasn’t large, with only about twenty courtyards, and it took him only three to four hours to go through all of them.
Although the village was deserted, it appeared that when they left, they hadn’t been well-prepared.
In some houses, moldy food was still in the stove, and in others, weathered clothes were left in iron basins.
They might have left in a hurry, or they might have… met their death unprepared, hence never having a chance to return home to clean dishes or wash clothes.
As he searched the last courtyard, Bai Lixin slowed down.
He carefully searched through this collapsed room, not even sparing the corners.
It wasn’t until he found everything he was looking for that his previously solemn gaze finally showed a clear expression.
S419M: [Lord Host, do you have any new discoveries? Please tell us, don’t keep us in suspense.]
Bai Lixin casually found a broken stool to sit down on and placed the things he had found one by one in front of him.
Several books and a few notebooks.
Bai Lixin randomly opened one of the notebooks and took out the piece of paper he had found in the school from his backpack. He placed the letter next to the notebook, and the two somewhat dissimilar writings seemed strangely harmonious.
This was the handwriting of one person.
S419M: [The handwriting in the notebook is more graceful, while the handwriting on the letter is more hasty, probably written after a mental breakdown.]
[So, does that mean the owner of the letter left this village for “Gentle Village”? Could she be like other women in Gentle Village who married there?]
[Not at all,] Bai Lixin shook his head, directly refuting S419M’s speculation, [Because this isn’t the neighboring village; this is Gentle Village itself.]
S419M: [What?]
Bai Lixin:[Separated by one mountain, there are two mirror images of the same village.]
[Don’t you find something familiar about the current courtyard?]
S419M observed the dilapidated courtyard, which appeared devoid of anything significant, for a while and then hesitated, [It looks a bit like… Pan Pan’s house?]
Bai Lixin: [Do you know why I helped out at the Lin family’s wedding preparations? Because I could get frequent access to many homes, it was an excellent opportunity to observe Gentle Village in a legitimate way.]
[Although I didn’t gain much at the time, it was thanks to my habit of always observing. When I first arrived in this village, I didn’t recognize it right away because it didn’t look the same.]
[The familiarity I initially felt was due to the geographical layout of the village, like that square and the burnt courtyard.]
[The more I look, the more I feel that this village’s layout is really similar to Gentle Village.]
[This entire area is where villagers live,] Bai Lixin raised his hand, gesturing to the left in a circle and then pointing to the right after lowering his arm, [The square and the burnt courtyard, aren’t they the positions of the village committee and the abandoned school?]
[Do you still remember when we went to the school late at night last time? I once saw a red shadow flash by in the corner of the classroom.]
[I was curious at the time, why didn’t that ghostly figure attack us? If she just flashed by, what was the meaning of her appearance?]
[I never figured that out at the time, and even spent days in the village searching for clues about the female ghost. But if we look at it from a different angle, what if the female ghost herself didn’t even realize she appeared in the courtyard? In the natural world, there’s a phenomenon called a mirage. We think we see something up close, but it’s actually a projection.]
[The female ghost I saw back then was the reflection from here. That’s why the female ghost didn’t make any moves; she just flashed by.]
[The actions I saw at the time were the female ghost bending over to search for something.]
S419M: [So, you mean that is Gentle Village, and Gentle Village is this place? And the place we’re in right now is Pan Pan’s house. Since this notebook was found in Pan Pan’s house, then it belongs to Pan Pan’s mother? Then the plea for help letter left in the abandoned school, is that from Pan Pan’s mother?]
[But the timing doesn’t match up. The abandoned school in the neighboring Gentle Village has been abandoned for over twenty years, but Pan Pan’s mother looks to be only in her early thirties. She herself said she was teaching at the village committee’s courtyard, right?]
[Moreover, if Pan Pan’s mother needed help, didn’t you already ask her if she needed help? She herself said she and her husband were in love and very affectionate, so how did she become a cry for help?]
Bai Lixin: [The issue of time is nothing more than a common time illusion used in supernatural copies. Do you remember how the mute woman’s mother-in-law evaluated Pan Pan? She said Pan Pan wasn’t an innocent little girl.]
[I suspect that in this sentence, “not” doesn’t just refer to “innocent”; it also means “young.” In other words, Pan Pan isn’t a young girl.]
[We are in a supernatural copy; we need to broaden our horizons.]
Escape System: [Not a little girl, then is she a grown woman? How old?]
Bai Lixin: [In her thirties, forties, fifties, all possibilities.]
S419M: [If Pan Pan is that old, what’s the deal with Pan Pan’s mother, neither asking for help nor not asking for help? It’s so strange.]
Bai Lixin glanced at the sky above, and his exquisite face subtly curled at the corners of his lips, [This is a puzzle that many people would rack their brains over, but it’s not actually a bug. Haven’t I said it? We need to broaden our horizons.]
[In fact, the various anomalies in Gentle Village have already given us the answer.]
Bai Lixin continued to flip through the notebook in his hand, accurately reaching a page near the end.
There was a passage written on it.
“XX+XY→1/2XX+1/2XY”
“How can we have a boy?”
“Why must it be a boy?”
“Why are there only two combinations, XY and XX?”
“If there were YY, wouldn’t that be the most stable male chromosome?”
“It’s not one person’s fault, so why blame it all on one person?”
“That way, YY males and YY males can get together.”
The Escape System stared at this seemingly hysterical passage: [YY, how could there be YY? Isn’t it just XY and XX…]
The Escape System hadn’t finished speaking when S419M suddenly exclaimed, [Holy shit! It’s not what I’m thinking, right, Lord Host?]
The Escape System was still somewhat puzzled: [What is it, Brother M? It seems like you all know, and I’m the only one who’s clueless.]
S419M: [All the children born in Gentle Village are boys, which means someone has translated her delusion into reality. Can humans even come up with something like this? Look at the last sentence on this page.]
The Escape System was still baffled: [YY males and YY males…]
The Escape System suddenly screamed: [You, are you saying that those women are actually men?!]
S419M: [Exactly!]
The entire Escape System seemed dumbfounded: [Whoa, this copy is so exciting, the whole village underwent a gender transformation? Did you figure this out? Master Bai Lixin, are you the one who cursed them? Are you a demon? No, you’re scarier than a demon; you’re a devil!]
Bai Lixin rubbed his temples.
After dealing with clever people like Sun Ning for a long time, he felt like these systems had turned into idiots.
He cleared his throat and explained, [It wasn’t something that came to mind in a flash. Remember the wedding pranks that happened during the day when they got married and I went to protect the bride?]
[Before that, I had already pondered many times about why only boys were born in this village. I considered it might be a problem with the village itself and also thought it might be related to medication. Of course, at that time, I used an analytical approach and incorporated normal biological knowledge into my speculations, which is the rule “XY+XX→XY,” but I didn’t find a very accurate answer.]
[Later, after Small Braid and Sister Song buried her husband, Xiao Lin came back, and then there was a matchmaking date and engagement in the afternoon.]
[The timing was too coincidental. As soon as someone died, there was someone getting married in the village.]
[That’s when I noticed the bride’s neck. She wore a high-necked dress on the day of the matchmaking, which I didn’t pay attention to. But on her wedding day, she was in a wedding dress, yet there was an out-of-place scarf around her neck.]
[So when I helped with the wedding pranks, I took the opportunity to undo her scarf and take a look. She had a deep wound on her neck. The fatal blow to Sister Song’s husband was the slash Small Braid made at the neck.]
The Escape System was shocked: [You mean the beautiful bride was Sister Song’s fat husband?! Damn!!! Help, this world is barely tolerable for me; please, let me go home!]
S419M also took a long time to calm down. In the end, it expressed its current feelings with two words: [Fuck, awesome.]
[If Small Braid knew that the soft and fragrant beauty he slept with might have been a manlier man than him,] S419M’s voice froze, [what would he think?]
Escape System: […Maybe he’d get even more excited? After all, this former man not only submitted beneath him but also got pregnant?]
Bai Lixin: […]
‘For a moment, I can’t argue? It actually seems somewhat reasonable?’
S419M was greatly shocked: [Sister System, I suddenly realized that you seem to have the potential to be a pervert. I’m starting to get a little nervous.]
The Escape System smiled shyly: [Big Brother M, don’t worry, even if I’m really a pervert, I’ll definitely be a cute one~ You’ll definitely like my perverseness~ Hehe]
S419M: […]
‘Suddenly, I don’t dare to speak!’ Trembling. Jpg.
There’s something I don’t know if I should say, but it seems like Sister System’s self-awareness has gone a bit… awry?’
[However, after what you just said, Lord Host, many things actually make sense even though it sounds bizarre. No wonder these beautiful women are so good at seducing men; it’s because they used to be men. Isn’t there a saying, only a man understands a man’s preferences. It hits the nail on the head.]
Escape System: [Let me straighten this out. When the men in this village are thrown into that well after death, they grow like peanuts. In spring, planting one peanut yields a beautiful wife in autumn? But do these beautiful wives still retain the memories of when they were men? After becoming women, do they continue to seduce men? Entice visiting outsiders here? Turn more men into women like an infectious virus?]
[Huh, it’s so strange; I always feel like something’s very odd. Why would they do this?]
Bai Lixin: [I haven’t figured that out yet, but all curses have a reason. As long as we find this reason, we can trace the roots of how this curse is set up.]
S419M: [What about those pigs in the pigsty, then? Who became them? Could it be that men first become women, and women finally turn into pigs?]
Bai Lixin shrugged: [I haven’t figured this part out either. There’s a crucial missing piece in the middle of this whole thing, which is what happened over thirty years ago.]
S419M: [What about Pan Pan’s current mother…]
Bai Lixin: [Maybe she isn’t her original mother, just a man who turned into a woman. After all, the whole village fears Pan Pan but not Pan Pan’s mother, that doesn’t make sense.]
[A village abandoned for two to three decades.]
[A school that suffered a big fire.]
[Suddenly missing villagers.]
[A banquet held in the square.]
[A female ghost with two souls, one with a charred face, and another with a scalded face.]
[If you arrange and combine these several clues and have you tell the story, what kind of story would it create?]
After the female ghost left, Bai Lixin continued to investigate the village.
He initially thought that getting lost in the fog was due to the boundary of the copy.
But what if it wasn’t the boundary of the copy, and people were getting lost or even dying there due to the wandering female ghost?
The appearance of the female ghost just now was the same as the one he had seen in the corner of the classroom before.
They should be the same.
In the village, there had been legends of a female ghost for a long time, but no incidents of harm, so it seemed that the female ghost didn’t kill indiscriminately. Her appearance in the fog was likely to deter people from entering the village.
So there should be a crucial clue in this village.
Leaving the square, he walked further into the village and soon discovered a large dilapidated courtyard.
This courtyard had clearly been burnt; the walls were all blackened, and the row of houses inside had all collapsed, with almost nothing left.
He had just arrived outside the courtyard when he saw the female ghost again from a distance.
He quickly dodged, finding a tall locust tree outside the courtyard, leaping onto it silently and hiding among the dense leaves while peering downward.
The female ghost, who had been chasing him just moments ago, was now sitting alone in a corner. Her terrifying, scalded face was exposed, her arms wrapped tightly around her shoulders as if hugging herself.
She huddled against the wall, humming softly to herself.
Bai Lixin found the melody she was singing somewhat familiar. After a moment of thought, he remembered that this song was one that he had heard from Pan Pan’s mouth.
It wasn’t the folk song about ”Gentle Village” but rather a song that Pan Pan often hummed while playing in the courtyard.
The melody of this song was gentle and soothing, much like a lullaby.
The female ghost’s singing was very soft, and her previously hoarse voice now sounded like the sound of nature.
After the song ended, the female ghost whispered: “Go to sleep, go to sleep, have a good sleep.”
The voice was gentle and soft, as if coaxing a cute child to fall asleep.
Bai Lixin squatted quietly on the tree, observing the movements of the female ghost below.
After a long time of singing, the female ghost stopped, but she didn’t fall asleep; instead, she slowly stood up.
If she wasn’t singing to herself just now, then the one she was lulling to sleep was the charred face behind her.
It seemed that although there was only one body, two different souls were represented by the two faces.
Scalded Ghost Face stood up after putting the Charred Ghost Face to sleep, but she didn’t leave. Instead, she wandered around this burnt courtyard, sometimes bending over as if searching for something.
While searching, she murmured to herself, “Strange, where’s the hairpin? Where did it go?”
“Pretty hairpin, why can’t I find you?”
“I really want to find the hairpin.”
She searched for quite a while without success, and in the end, she sighed in resignation. She sat back down in a corner and resumed hugging herself in a peculiar manner, or rather, she was embracing Charred Ghost Face behind her.
Bai Lixin waited quietly for a while until the female ghost showed no signs of movement before silently jumping down from the tall tree and heading in another direction.
In the following time, he began to search one courtyard after another.
The village wasn’t large, with only about twenty courtyards, and it took him only three to four hours to go through all of them.
Although the village was deserted, it appeared that when they left, they hadn’t been well-prepared.
In some houses, moldy food was still in the stove, and in others, weathered clothes were left in iron basins.
They might have left in a hurry, or they might have… met their death unprepared, hence never having a chance to return home to clean dishes or wash clothes.
As he searched the last courtyard, Bai Lixin slowed down.
He carefully searched through this collapsed room, not even sparing the corners.
It wasn’t until he found everything he was looking for that his previously solemn gaze finally showed a clear expression.
S419M: [Lord Host, do you have any new discoveries? Please tell us, don’t keep us in suspense.]
Bai Lixin casually found a broken stool to sit down on and placed the things he had found one by one in front of him.
Several books and a few notebooks.
Bai Lixin randomly opened one of the notebooks and took out the piece of paper he had found in the school from his backpack. He placed the letter next to the notebook, and the two somewhat dissimilar writings seemed strangely harmonious.
This was the handwriting of one person.
S419M: [The handwriting in the notebook is more graceful, while the handwriting on the letter is more hasty, probably written after a mental breakdown.]
[So, does that mean the owner of the letter left this village for “Gentle Village”? Could she be like other women in Gentle Village who married there?]
[Not at all,] Bai Lixin shook his head, directly refuting S419M’s speculation, [Because this isn’t the neighboring village; this is Gentle Village itself.]
S419M: [What?]
Bai Lixin:[Separated by one mountain, there are two mirror images of the same village.]
[Don’t you find something familiar about the current courtyard?]
S419M observed the dilapidated courtyard, which appeared devoid of anything significant, for a while and then hesitated, [It looks a bit like… Pan Pan’s house?]
Bai Lixin: [Do you know why I helped out at the Lin family’s wedding preparations? Because I could get frequent access to many homes, it was an excellent opportunity to observe Gentle Village in a legitimate way.]
[Although I didn’t gain much at the time, it was thanks to my habit of always observing. When I first arrived in this village, I didn’t recognize it right away because it didn’t look the same.]
[The familiarity I initially felt was due to the geographical layout of the village, like that square and the burnt courtyard.]
[The more I look, the more I feel that this village’s layout is really similar to Gentle Village.]
[This entire area is where villagers live,] Bai Lixin raised his hand, gesturing to the left in a circle and then pointing to the right after lowering his arm, [The square and the burnt courtyard, aren’t they the positions of the village committee and the abandoned school?]
[Do you still remember when we went to the school late at night last time? I once saw a red shadow flash by in the corner of the classroom.]
[I was curious at the time, why didn’t that ghostly figure attack us? If she just flashed by, what was the meaning of her appearance?]
[I never figured that out at the time, and even spent days in the village searching for clues about the female ghost. But if we look at it from a different angle, what if the female ghost herself didn’t even realize she appeared in the courtyard? In the natural world, there’s a phenomenon called a mirage. We think we see something up close, but it’s actually a projection.]
[The female ghost I saw back then was the reflection from here. That’s why the female ghost didn’t make any moves; she just flashed by.]
[The actions I saw at the time were the female ghost bending over to search for something.]
S419M: [So, you mean that is Gentle Village, and Gentle Village is this place? And the place we’re in right now is Pan Pan’s house. Since this notebook was found in Pan Pan’s house, then it belongs to Pan Pan’s mother? Then the plea for help letter left in the abandoned school, is that from Pan Pan’s mother?]
[But the timing doesn’t match up. The abandoned school in the neighboring Gentle Village has been abandoned for over twenty years, but Pan Pan’s mother looks to be only in her early thirties. She herself said she was teaching at the village committee’s courtyard, right?]
[Moreover, if Pan Pan’s mother needed help, didn’t you already ask her if she needed help? She herself said she and her husband were in love and very affectionate, so how did she become a cry for help?]
Bai Lixin: [The issue of time is nothing more than a common time illusion used in supernatural copies. Do you remember how the mute woman’s mother-in-law evaluated Pan Pan? She said Pan Pan wasn’t an innocent little girl.]
[I suspect that in this sentence, “not” doesn’t just refer to “innocent”; it also means “young.” In other words, Pan Pan isn’t a young girl.]
[We are in a supernatural copy; we need to broaden our horizons.]
Escape System: [Not a little girl, then is she a grown woman? How old?]
Bai Lixin: [In her thirties, forties, fifties, all possibilities.]
S419M: [If Pan Pan is that old, what’s the deal with Pan Pan’s mother, neither asking for help nor not asking for help? It’s so strange.]
Bai Lixin glanced at the sky above, and his exquisite face subtly curled at the corners of his lips, [This is a puzzle that many people would rack their brains over, but it’s not actually a bug. Haven’t I said it? We need to broaden our horizons.]
[In fact, the various anomalies in Gentle Village have already given us the answer.]
Bai Lixin continued to flip through the notebook in his hand, accurately reaching a page near the end.
There was a passage written on it.
“XX+XY→1/2XX+1/2XY”
“How can we have a boy?”
“Why must it be a boy?”
“Why are there only two combinations, XY and XX?”
“If there were YY, wouldn’t that be the most stable male chromosome?”
“It’s not one person’s fault, so why blame it all on one person?”
“That way, YY males and YY males can get together.”
The Escape System stared at this seemingly hysterical passage: [YY, how could there be YY? Isn’t it just XY and XX…]
The Escape System hadn’t finished speaking when S419M suddenly exclaimed, [Holy shit! It’s not what I’m thinking, right, Lord Host?]
The Escape System was still somewhat puzzled: [What is it, Brother M? It seems like you all know, and I’m the only one who’s clueless.]
S419M: [All the children born in Gentle Village are boys, which means someone has translated her delusion into reality. Can humans even come up with something like this? Look at the last sentence on this page.]
The Escape System was still baffled: [YY males and YY males…]
The Escape System suddenly screamed: [You, are you saying that those women are actually men?!]
S419M: [Exactly!]
The entire Escape System seemed dumbfounded: [Whoa, this copy is so exciting, the whole village underwent a gender transformation? Did you figure this out? Master Bai Lixin, are you the one who cursed them? Are you a demon? No, you’re scarier than a demon; you’re a devil!]
Bai Lixin rubbed his temples.
After dealing with clever people like Sun Ning for a long time, he felt like these systems had turned into idiots.
He cleared his throat and explained, [It wasn’t something that came to mind in a flash. Remember the wedding pranks that happened during the day when they got married and I went to protect the bride?]
[Before that, I had already pondered many times about why only boys were born in this village. I considered it might be a problem with the village itself and also thought it might be related to medication. Of course, at that time, I used an analytical approach and incorporated normal biological knowledge into my speculations, which is the rule “XY+XX→XY,” but I didn’t find a very accurate answer.]
[Later, after Small Braid and Sister Song buried her husband, Xiao Lin came back, and then there was a matchmaking date and engagement in the afternoon.]
[The timing was too coincidental. As soon as someone died, there was someone getting married in the village.]
[That’s when I noticed the bride’s neck. She wore a high-necked dress on the day of the matchmaking, which I didn’t pay attention to. But on her wedding day, she was in a wedding dress, yet there was an out-of-place scarf around her neck.]
[So when I helped with the wedding pranks, I took the opportunity to undo her scarf and take a look. She had a deep wound on her neck. The fatal blow to Sister Song’s husband was the slash Small Braid made at the neck.]
The Escape System was shocked: [You mean the beautiful bride was Sister Song’s fat husband?! Damn!!! Help, this world is barely tolerable for me; please, let me go home!]
S419M also took a long time to calm down. In the end, it expressed its current feelings with two words: [Fuck, awesome.]
[If Small Braid knew that the soft and fragrant beauty he slept with might have been a manlier man than him,] S419M’s voice froze, [what would he think?]
Escape System: […Maybe he’d get even more excited? After all, this former man not only submitted beneath him but also got pregnant?]
Bai Lixin: […]
‘For a moment, I can’t argue? It actually seems somewhat reasonable?’
S419M was greatly shocked: [Sister System, I suddenly realized that you seem to have the potential to be a pervert. I’m starting to get a little nervous.]
The Escape System smiled shyly: [Big Brother M, don’t worry, even if I’m really a pervert, I’ll definitely be a cute one~ You’ll definitely like my perverseness~ Hehe]
S419M: […]
‘Suddenly, I don’t dare to speak!’ Trembling. Jpg.
There’s something I don’t know if I should say, but it seems like Sister System’s self-awareness has gone a bit… awry?’
[However, after what you just said, Lord Host, many things actually make sense even though it sounds bizarre. No wonder these beautiful women are so good at seducing men; it’s because they used to be men. Isn’t there a saying, only a man understands a man’s preferences. It hits the nail on the head.]
Escape System: [Let me straighten this out. When the men in this village are thrown into that well after death, they grow like peanuts. In spring, planting one peanut yields a beautiful wife in autumn? But do these beautiful wives still retain the memories of when they were men? After becoming women, do they continue to seduce men? Entice visiting outsiders here? Turn more men into women like an infectious virus?]
[Huh, it’s so strange; I always feel like something’s very odd. Why would they do this?]
Bai Lixin: [I haven’t figured that out yet, but all curses have a reason. As long as we find this reason, we can trace the roots of how this curse is set up.]
S419M: [What about those pigs in the pigsty, then? Who became them? Could it be that men first become women, and women finally turn into pigs?]
Bai Lixin shrugged: [I haven’t figured this part out either. There’s a crucial missing piece in the middle of this whole thing, which is what happened over thirty years ago.]
S419M: [What about Pan Pan’s current mother…]
Bai Lixin: [Maybe she isn’t her original mother, just a man who turned into a woman. After all, the whole village fears Pan Pan but not Pan Pan’s mother, that doesn’t make sense.]
[A village abandoned for two to three decades.]
[A school that suffered a big fire.]
[Suddenly missing villagers.]
[A banquet held in the square.]
[A female ghost with two souls, one with a charred face, and another with a scalded face.]
[If you arrange and combine these several clues and have you tell the story, what kind of story would it create?]
