<h4>Chapter 312: Don’t Knock on the Door at Night</h4>


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


    After leaving the valley, his phonepletely lost its signal. The electricpass that Chen Ge downloaded beforehand malfunctioned as well. Something told him that the world inside and outside the valley were different. Perhaps because he had met plenty of ghosts, he was sensitive to these things. He tipped his head back and nced through the canopy. There was no moon or stars in the sky. The night was like a cloth smothering them no matter where they went.


    “Be careful, we’ve almost reached the ce.” After another ten minutes of walking, Chen Ge’s group finally left the jungle. They looked down the horizon, and what they saw confused and shocked them.


    “Those are...nterns?” Ol’ Wei touched Master Bai’s shoulder, but this was also the first time Master Bai hade to Coffin Vige at night.


    “I have no clue.” He took out a piece of jade and wore it around his neck. “I’ll scout ahead. Stay close to me; don’t wander off.”


    The three of them walked toward the vige, and the shapes of the buildings became clearer and clearer. No one would have expected a vige to be hidden in such a deste ce. All the building were built in a style from decades ago; they looked old and abandoned, but the most curious point was every family had a whitentern hanging before the door.


    Thenterns were like white eyeballs, hanging by the side of the road, staring at the three neers.


    There were people inside the vige!


    This vige that was supposedly abandoned decades ago due to an epidemic still had people living there.


    “Master Bai, are you going to enter just like this?” Ol’ Wei moved to stand beside Chen Ge. He still remembered Captain Yan’s order. His mission that night was to protect Chen Ge.


    “Let me think about this.” Master Bai looked at the empty vige and the whitenterns that lined the road, and his palms were covered with cold sweat. “In the past, my father always came in the morning, so I had no idea this is how Coffin Vige looks at night.”


    With the bitter smile on his face, Master Bai’s meaning was clear; he did not want to enter the vige. Of the three of them, he was the only one who had entered Coffin Vige before. He understood the creepiness of the vige, and if morning was already so scary, night did not bear thinking about.


    “Don’t panic, we don’t need to enter directly.” Ol’ Wei then patted Chen Ge on his shoulder. “How about we take a look around the vige first?”


    Chen Ge did not answer, and he stood at the back of the party alone. His expression was unreadable.


    “What’s wrong with you?” Ol’ Wei was worried about Chen Ge. Even though he admitted Chen Ge could be a bit rash, he had to admit that facing the entrance to this ghost vige, standing beside Chen Ge gave him the most security.


    “I’m thinking about something.” Chen Ge shrugged and lowered his head to look at the ck phone. When they neared the vige, Chen Ge’s ck phone had vibrated, and he had received a new message.


    “Congrattions, Specter’s Favored! You’ve found Coffin Vige deep inside the mountain. Do you wish to ept the Trial Mission for the three-star scenario, Coffin Vige?”


    “What’s on your mind, why don’t you share it with us?” Ol’ Wei and Master Bai walked close to him.


    “Thanks, but I’ve already made up my mind.” Chen Ge clicked on the ept key.


    “Coffin Vige (three-star scenario): Survive until morning inside Coffin Vige, and the new scenario will be unlocked.


    “Mission Hint: That day, other than me, they all came.”


    Memorizing the mission hint, Chen Ge pocketed the ck phone and turned to look at Coffin Vige, shrouded in darkness. “Let’s go, we’ll go take a look.”


    “Are you sure?” Ol’ Wei grabbed Chen Ge’s arm and gave Master Bai a look, hoping that the old man would help him convince Chen Ge. However, the night was too dark for Master Bai to see it.


    “I’ve already made up my mind.” Chen Ge’s consideration was different from Ol’ Wei’s.


    “Stop arguing. It should be fine for us to enter the vige. Even though the vigers look strange, they’re quite kind.” Master Bai had interacted with Coffin Vige’s people before, so he had the most right to speak.


    “Master Bai, are you sure these kind vigers would light whitenterns at night?” Of the three, Ol’ Wei was the most rational.


    Master Bai touched the jade around his neck like he was remembering something from long ago, “My father once told me, a bunch of poor people are living inside the vige. He said that when I master medicine, I should go help them.”


    When Chen Ge’s Yin Yang Vision caught sight of Master Jade’s Jade Ne, he felt pain in his eye. However, that pain onlysted for a second. If he was not sensitive enough, he would not have noticed it.


    “Master Bai, your father left you the ne?”


    “Yes, he would wear it whenever he went out to help people. After we came out from Coffin Vige for thest time, he gave it to me and then soon after he fell ill.”


    <i>There’s more to this ne than meets the eye. </i>Chen Ge wanted to study it. He had run into ghosts and monsters many times already and had been trying to find something that could affect them. He had been searching for weeks, but he had only found a butcher’s cleaver.


    “My father said that others cannot touch the jade or it’ll lose it powers.” Master Bai seemed to be telling the truth. “I cannot give you the ne, so you’d better stay close to me tonight.”


    “Master Bai, can you remember other things that your father told you?” Ol’ Wei asked. “We’re entering the vige, so you need to tell us everything.”


    “That’s all I believe. He told me, no matter where I go, I have to face my conscience and those with a clean conscience will be protected by both humans and ghosts.” When he said so, Chen Ge understood why the old man was so focused on helping Jiang Ling and her sister; Master Bai’s family was good-hearted people.


    Chen Ge had his own philosophy and had been following his own conscience. <i>He has a point, but ghosts are like people; there are good ghosts and evil ghosts.</i>


    The three walked around the outer perimeter of Coffin Vige. The vige was very big. To get an overall view of the vige, they needed to climb up to the adjacent hill.


    “There are probably more than a hundred families living inside the vige. Be careful not to get into an altercation with them.” Master Bai was mainly talking to Chen Ge. “We’ll go in through the entrance; there’s no need to hide.”


    Thus, the three entered Coffin Vige. The road was overgrown with grass, and the houses on both sides were closed. Weirdly enough, the doors were not pasted with themon pictures of door guardians but white paper with the character ‘福’ (good fortune) turned upside down. It looked scary.


    “The culture here seems to be the total opposite of the outside world.” Chen Ge stopped before one of the doors. “Shall we go in?”


    “It’s rude to barge in like that.” Ol’ Wei moved his hand to the gun in his holster. This ce gave him plenty of pressure.


    “We’re here to look for the children. Eventually we need to interact with the vigers. We will need Master Bai’s help to liaise with them.” Chen Ge raised his arm, and when his hand almost reached the door, the whitentern hanging above the door suddenly went out.