Weird things in the village!

Everyone could feel something wildly thrashing inside.

They were stunned!

Completely stunned!

At this moment, everyone's gaze was fixed on the coffin, and even their breathing became slow and heavy.

Especially those closest, they were scared half to death, retreating to the doorway immediately, fearing the person inside would suddenly jump out and bite them.

The commotion inside the coffin was intermittent, as if something wanted to break out.

After a few minutes of stalemate, someone finally couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that Old Master Cheng isn't dead yet?"

As soon as the words fell, someone immediately retorted, "Impossible! I think it's more like a reanimated corpse!"

"What do we do now? Just watch?"

"If you ask me, why don't we just open the coffin and take a look? Is there really a ghost in broad daylight?"

There was a lot of discussion in the courtyard; some suggested opening the coffin to look, while others strongly objected, fearing a supernatural event.

After some discussion, the Client and Second Uncle still decided to open the coffin and take a look.

After all, the deceased should be respected; they couldn't just ignore him if something happened.

Besides, they hadn't done anything to offend the Old Master when he was alive, so there was nothing to fear.

Several people walked to the coffin and tried to push the lid open.

Rumble~~

The coffin lid first opened a tiny gap, and then the gap grew wider and wider.

Everyone outside stared intently, ready to flee at any moment.

Until a thud sounded, and the coffin lid fully opened and fell to the ground, the reanimated corpse they had imagined did not appear.

But the commotion inside the coffin grew louder.

Everyone gathered around curiously and looked inside the coffin.

The next second, everyone gasped.

Inside the coffin lay an old man dressed in burial clothes.

And next to him, there was an oversized mouse scurrying around in a panic.

At this, everyone finally understood; it was just a misunderstanding.

There was no dead person coming back to life!

It was just the mouse causing the commotion.

It was just that this mouse was too big, completely unlike the ones Lin Yuan and the others usually saw.

Second Uncle looked at the mouse in the coffin and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

But the next second, his expression suddenly turned solemn, and he knelt before the coffin, shouting, "Oh, Old Brother! Have you returned as an immortal to see us?!"

As soon as he spoke.

Everyone in the village, young and old, knelt down in unison.

This sudden scene not only stunned Lin Yuan but also left his aunt and others who had come to pay their respects bewildered.

The Client, after kowtowing, stood up and explained, "In our village, we consider mice as earthly immortals. A mouse appearing in my father's coffin means that he has become an immortal! This is a good thing!"

Hearing this explanation, Lin Yuan was completely dumbfounded.

In his impression, he had heard of the Yellow Immortal, Fox Immortal, and Willow Immortal, but this was the first time he had heard of a Mouse Immortal.

Could this be a local custom of theirs?

But that didn't seem right; if it were a custom, why would his aunt react that way?

Clearly, she didn't know either.

Second Uncle, who had finished his worship, walked to the coffin, grabbed the mouse inside, released it on the spot, and then, with the help of others, closed the coffin again.

After doing all this, he walked towards Lin Yuan and said with a smile, "Master Lin, I was really scared just now; I truly thought it was a reanimated corpse."

Lin Yuan gave an awkward smile and asked the doubt in his heart, "Why do people in your village consider mice as great immortals?"

Second Uncle paused briefly, then smiled and explained, "Actually, this custom only started in recent years; it didn't exist before."

Five minutes later, Lin Yuan heard an incredible story.

This village was located in a remote area, with a very large lake nearby, and the villagers had lived by fishing for generations.

But three years ago, something strange happened.

Initially, a small cat owned by a family in the village suddenly went mad and inexplicably bit a passerby.

At first, no one paid much attention; the family paid compensation, took the person to get a rabies vaccine, and then abandoned the cat.

However, a few days later, someone saw the cat at the bottom of a cliff cave in the back mountain, smashed to pieces.

The terrifying thing came next.

After that, cats in the village began to disappear one after another.

Eventually, they all appeared at the bottom of the cliff cave, shattered, as if they had all jumped down to commit suicide.

When such an event occurred, the villagers realized something was wrong.

They thought there was something evil at the cliff cave.

So, in private, they dared not go to that place anymore.

After a period of peace, however, good times did not last.

Strange things reappeared.

After cats became extinct in the village, dogs also showed similar symptoms; someone personally witnessed a dog jumping from a cliff cave dozens of meters high, dying on the spot.

Since most dogs were chained, they simply had no chance to go to the cliff cave.

They would directly ram themselves against walls, violently, until their necks broke, and even their brains splattered out before they stopped.

And this was not the most terrifying part!

Later, the chickens, ducks, geese, and even pigs raised at home were not spared; they all committed suicide.

All living creatures in the entire village, except humans, were only mice!

With such an evil thing happening, the villagers panicked, and many moved away from this place where they had lived for generations.

The oldest elder at the time believed that the village had offended the Mouse Immortal, and it was angry, not to be provoked, and had to be worshipped.

Otherwise, those cats, dogs, and poultry would be their fate.

This idea, once proposed, immediately received the support of the entire village.

From then on, without cats and dogs, and even humans not bothering them, coupled with the nearby mountains and forests, mice directly became a plague.

No one cared if they stole food, and the rice in the fields became their granary; they grew fat and large, completely unafraid of people, and even dared to squeak at them.

No wonder Lin Yuan saw several large mice when he first entered the village.

In the villagers' eyes, these mice were not terrifying creatures but earthly immortals.

That's why when a mouse appeared in Old Master Cheng's coffin, everyone knelt and worshipped it, believing it was the Old Master transforming into an earthly immortal.

Hearing such a bizarre story, all the outsiders present were stunned.

Looking at the villagers' expressions, there was remembrance, fear, and confusion.

Clearly, this was not a supernatural event but something that had truly happened.

This... this was too incredible!

What era was this? There were no such things as earthly immortals.

But the problem was, how could the previous events be explained?

If someone had poisoned them, it would be impossible to poison all the poultry in the village, right?

Even if it was poisoning, how would one explain the mice?

Those things loved to steal food; they should have been the first to be poisoned, right?

But the result was that they were the only animals that survived.

So, it was absolutely impossible that someone had poisoned them.

Since it wasn't poisoning, who could have the ability to make animals run to the cliff cave and jump down to commit suicide?

It seemed that besides ghost and god legends, there was really no other answer.