Chapter 450: The Urban Legend of Montamira (Part I)
A few hours ago, Ye Zijun would never have thought that she would fall into this kind of situation on this trip to six Southeast Asian countries with her parents after saving half a year's salary and bonuses.
Originally, they were strolling around the streets after dinner, and this place was the most fun, lively, and safe area of Montamira that she had checked beforehand.
But it didn't take long for things to start to go wrong.
First, there were constant groups of murderous people passing by, and what seemed to be happening in the distance, as the locals left, the tourists dispersed, and everywhere there was a constant cacophony—not the joyful noise, but the noise of conflict.
Soon, just when she and the other tourists were still a little confused and didn't know where to go, the whole city seemed to be in a frenzy, especially some local youths, who looked fierce and vicious, and shouted like they had taken the wrong medicine.
Ye Zijun escorted his parents to the side of the road, originally thinking that it was a conflict between the locals, and they should be fine if they dodge.
But what I didn't expect was that those people seemed to be coming for tourists, especially Chinese tourists.
Although they and the locals are both yellow-skinned, black-eyed and black-haired, they can still be clearly seen to be different in terms of skin color and dress, and it is easy to distinguish their Chinese identity.
When five local young people with their faces covered with sticks rushed over with sticks, Ye Zijun's father was the first to react, pulling his wife and daughter to run away.
But the three of them, one is a white-collar worker who sits in the office all the year round, and the other is an old man who has received a pension, how can they outrun the five thugs, and they are soon surrounded by groups.
Father Ye was the first to be knocked down in order to protect his wife and daughter, and then Mother Ye, the two thugs directly carried the young and beautiful Ye Zijun to the alley between the two buildings next to him, and it is conceivable what he was going to do.
Ye Zijun shouted and struggled desperately, but to no avail, she didn't know why this happened, he had never done anything bad in his life, he studied hard and worked hard, he has always been a good child, a good student at school, a good employee in the company, and a good daughter in the eyes of her parents.
She worked hard to bring her parents on a trip, why did she encounter such a thing?
Does God have eyes?!
Just when she was desperate, the thug who was holding his feet and hands suddenly let go, and she fell to the ground, and then immediately got up, screaming frantically and trying to run in the other direction.
But she immediately thought of her parents again, so she stopped and turned around, and then she saw two masked thugs stunned at the door of the alley, looking up at the sky.
Her gaze lifted as well, and she watched blankly as a large, arm-armed giant walked down the road outside.
It should be three or four stories high, and every step brought about a vibration of the earth, and every step was like stepping on her heart, making her heart beat subconsciously.
It was surrounded by a strange black mist, and the huge muscles covered under the black mist could be faintly seen.
For the first moment, Ye Zijun felt as if he was in a dream, and there was a strong sense of unreality, but then there was a fear that made his whole body tremble and cold.
However, compared to her, the two thugs who carried her into the alley were more frightened and frightened.
Both of them were already on their knees, one with his head buried deep in his arm, the other muttering something with his head tilted.
After the giant walked by, Ye Zijun remembered her parents, and she resisted her fear and walked past the two thugs who were kneeling on the ground.
When she passed by, she found that the thug who was muttering something seemed to be peeing his pants, and she was a little dazed for a while, is it so terrifying?
Walking out of the alley, Ye Zijun saw Dad Ye who was knocked to the ground, covered in blood, and his mother who was protecting Dad Ye beside him, and hurriedly ran over.
And the three thugs with sticks, two of them knelt on the ground, and one of them stood stunned, all looking up at the air in the distance, according to the movement trend just now, the giant with a lot of arms should be walking towards it now, and it was obvious that they had also seen it, and they were directly stepped over the top of their heads by the giant.
Ye Zijun plucked up his courage and rushed over to protect his parents, gritting his teeth and glaring at the three of them.
The thug, who was still standing, suddenly realized something, looked back at her, and then his eyes were full of horror, and he pointed at her and shouted something, and ran wildly.
The other two thugs, who were kneeling on the ground, also stood up, threw away their sticks, and stumbled away.
Ye Zijun didn't know Burmese, so he didn't know what they were shouting, but at least they were scared away, and that was a good thing.
"Dad, how are you, can you stand up?" Ye Zijun hurriedly checked the situation of his parents, "Mom, what about you?
"It's okay...... I can get up...... What about you, Xiaojun, they didn't do anything to you, did they?" Dad Ye covered the wound on his head and stood up with the support of his wife and daughter.
At this time, the two thugs who carried Ye Zijun into the alley also staggered out of the alley, and one of them had a large wet pants.
They glanced at Ye Zijun's family of three, and did not come over, but they did not shout like the person before, but turned around blankly and walked away into the distance.
"Let's go, let's go back to the hotel first. You check the phone number of our consulate, and after a while, look at the situation and call for help. Dad Ye relieved himself and stood up with his daughter's support and said.
Ye Zijun hurriedly took out his mobile phone and looked at it, and said in a daze: "No signal......"
Not only her mobile phone, but also her parents' mobile phone had no signal, and after a few dials, it actually froze.
They did not dare to stay where they were, and everywhere there were shouts and commotions, so they hurriedly helped each other and walked along the side of the road in the direction of the hotel where they were staying.
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Maung Qiang is a seventeen-year-old Burmese boy who is very tall and looks strong because he likes to practice boxing and exercises regularly.
He is a tenth-grade student, that is, a high school student in China, but his grades have always been relatively poor, and he sees that there is no hope of going to college, so he often skips classes during this time and comes out to hang out with a few brothers who have grown up together.
Some of these brothers work in the casino, and some run errands for some local "big brothers", although they can't get into the eyes of those top-level bigwigs, and they earn some pocket money, but at least they look majestic, and maybe they will have a chance to get out of the way in the future, after all, a big guy like Wu Lun was also put together from a small person.
After nightfall today, he had just finished helping his family collect the fish stall when he was called out by his brother Maung Ting.
Maung Qiang found that with Maung Ting, there were three young people who also grew up in this area, and each of them was holding a variety of "weapons".
Maung Ting handed over a long stick with a sharpened metal tied to the front end, then threw the half-torn torn T-shirt and said, "Let's get rich tonight!"
Xiang Qiang was stunned for a moment: "What kind of wealth?"
"Just follow along. As he spoke, Maung Ting covered his face with a rag, as did the other two companions.
Confused, Maung Qiang was taken by several brothers with a mask on his face and a weapon on the street.
They didn't go far before they were joined by a dozen or so young people dressed in the same clothes, and although they all covered their faces, they still recognized most of them at once, and they were all people who usually lived in the neighborhood, did odd jobs, or didn't have any serious jobs.
Soon, he knew what the big guys were going to do together like this - there was a very famous big boss, the only son was killed, I heard that the Chinese did it, and now those culprits were hidden by the Chinese of Montamira, and the big boss offered a bounty to find out the murderer of his son.
After gathering more than a dozen people, the leader first said that he was going to a pharmacy opened by a certain Chinese.
As soon as a group of people entered the street, covering their faces and holding all kinds of long weapons, the passers-by around them were all frightened to get out of the way, and they strode one by one, feeling majestic.
Maung Qiang felt that something was wrong, and whispered to Maung Ting beside him: "That pharmacy is open on Front Street, the location is so good, people come and go, it is impossible to hide the murderer, right?"
"Is there any hiding, how can you know if you don't search it?" said Maung Ting as a matter of course, and then added: "That guy is a profiteer!"
Maung Qiang was stunned for a moment, and then remembered what Maung Ting said just now - let's get rich tonight.
"That's how we ......," he worried. They'll call the police, right?"
"Don't worry, the police won't take care of us tonight. Maung Ting said and said in a low voice: "Boss Wu Lun, they want to start a war with Guihai Guy." ”
Xiang Qiang suddenly heard some rumors about these things during the day, and these things were spread everywhere in the vegetable market, but he didn't expect that it would really start at night?
He still felt that something was wrong, and according to normal logic, such a big boss, even if he wanted to find the murderer of his son, even if he wanted to offer a reward, he should not have mobilized people all over the city to do it! It was as if a group of people like them could know how to find the murderer? Who was the murderer? If things were big and Meng Tamira was messed up, the big boss would be beaten to death by the authorities, no matter how much background he had.
But walking together among more than a dozen people, he couldn't make up his mind to break away from the crowd for a while, and Maung Ting said again:
"At night, many people are 'looking for the murderer', and there are so many people that the police can't pursue them. ”
Yes, what is that sentence called? The law does not blame the public?
Thinking about the fat head and big ears of the pharmacy owner, thinking about his big gold watch, thinking about the relatives and friends around him who thought that the medicinal materials sold by his family were expensive more than once, he seemed to have found a reason for his behavior.
Along the way, many local young people joined, and some didn't have time to find weapons, so they just took off their shirts, covered their faces and followed.
By the time they arrived at the Chinese-owned pharmacy, there were already more than 30 people gathered.
Of course, they didn't come to "find the murderer", and when they arrived, they rushed to the store without saying a word.
The fat-headed and big-eared boss didn't react, he was pushed to the ground, and after being beaten many times, the gold watch, jewelry, wallet, mobile phone, and even leather shoes and belts were stripped off.
"What are you doing!" a crisp Burmese voice caught the attention of the crowd.
The thugs who rushed into the store found a petite girl with beautiful facial features standing in front of the small door of the room in the pharmacy and shouting at this side.
Maung Qiang recognized at a glance that this was the daughter of the pharmacy owner, he and his wife had lived in Montamira for more than 20 years, and his wife was also a native of Montamira.
The owner of the pharmacy struggled and shouted in a mixture of Burmese and Mandarin: "Go in, get in, close the door, call the police!"
But the thugs who were already close screamed and rushed over, blocking the crack in the door with the weapon in their hand, so that the girl could not close the door.
Maung Ting also pulled Maung Qiang and wanted to go over with him.
But Chang Qiang felt more and more that something was wrong, he subconsciously shook off his companion's hand, and Maung Ting didn't care about him, screaming and squeezing over, to squeeze into the room with a group of people.
Just then, there was a loud bang on the road outside the house, followed by the sound of broken glass, and then a continuous stream of car sirens.
The lights in the pharmacy also began to flicker, and everyone was startled, involuntarily stopped what they were doing, and walked out of the pharmacy to see the situation, and even the thugs who pressed the pharmacy owner and squeezed into the room where the boss's daughter was, all came out subconsciously because of an inexplicable palpitation.
Because he had always had an instinctive hesitation about what he was doing, he was closest to the door of the pharmacy, so as soon as he heard the movement, he was the first to come out and check.
As soon as he walked out of the pharmacy door, he was stunned, more than ten meters away, an incomparably huge foot was slowly falling, and then slammed on the road to step out of a big hole, huge vibration and sound, so that the surrounding roadside parked electric cars, motorcycles, bicycles have fallen to the ground, and the car sounded the alarm.
His gaze went up to the big foot, and he saw tower-thick calves, thighs, and then a huge body, and countless arms.
It's a terrifying being as huge as a mountain, ten meters high, twenty meters high, no, maybe even higher than that, and you can't see its head at all!
The upper part of its body seemed to merge with the night, enveloping the entire night sky, bringing an incomparably huge sense of oppression.
Step by step, the giant walked down the road outside the drugstore, and when he reacted, he found that he had knelt on the ground with his head up, and the others around him were even more unbearable, some were kneeling on the ground, shivering, some were screaming and running down the street, and some were crouching in the corner, muttering to themselves.
His brother Maung Ting, who grew up with him, was sitting at the door of the pharmacy at this time, his eyes full of horror, as if he was stunned.
Not only them, but many other people around them, came out of the house, or sat on the ground, or knelt on the ground in prayer.
Even the daughter of the pharmacy owner stood at the door of the pharmacy at this time, staring into the distance in a daze.
Maung Qiang stood up and found that the giant seemed to have disappeared after walking past, and he stood on the side of the road and looked at it for a while, but he did not see where it went.
It stands to reason that such a huge body has just walked by, and it is impossible not to see it, and there is no such tall building around it.
When Maung Qiang looked back, he found that the huge footprints left by the giant when he walked before were all gone, and the ground on the road was intact without any traces.
The shattered glass next to it, the downed motorcycles and electric cars were all restored to their original state, and even the sound of the car alarm that kept honking was gone.
Hallucination?
That giant turned out to be a hallucination?
Although Xiang Qiang thought so in his heart, his sense of awe and fear did not diminish at all, not only him, but also dozens of other young people who came over from the other group, they had no intention of continuing to deal with the owner of the Chinese drugstore, and scattered away one by one.
Maung Qiang began to walk in the direction of home in a daze, and all kinds of images kept flashing in his mind.
He remembered when he was a child when he was bullied by other children, and his father rushed over directly when he sold half of the fish and sold it, regardless of the stall; he remembered that when he came back from school and happened to see his father being bullied by the market bullies and extorting money, although he was unwilling, he had to pay for it and reluctantly laugh; he remembered his father's words every time he handed him cash with a strong fishy smell and asked him to buy study materials and stationery; and he remembered his father's envious eyes when he saw his cousin admitted to university.
He suddenly became afraid, and he realized that just now he had almost destroyed what he was most afraid of losing, almost ruined himself, and ruined his family.
Maung Qiang hit his head a few times with his fist, and suddenly he heard several shouts in Chinese, and when he looked up, there was a young woman and a man and a woman on the corner of the street, two old men, stopped by two young men with masked faces, pulling and scuffling.
"Stop!" roared and rushed over.
The two young Burmese were startled and subconsciously turned their heads and ran.
Although there were two of them, and one of them was holding a long stick, but the strong man was two circles bigger than them, and at this time he rushed over, and he was very vigorous, like a tiger coming down the mountain, and he shouted in Burmese, and he didn't know where it came from. They weren't really ruthless people in the first place, they didn't have the courage to fight at all, and they were scared away at once.
After driving away the two thugs, he felt very uncomfortable when he saw the Chinese woman with dark cheeks and two old men who were also scarred and bloodstained, and saw the frightened eyes in their eyes when they looked at him.
He ripped off the T-shirt rags on his face, pointed at himself, and said in the bits and pieces of Chinese he had learned before: "I, Montamira, okay." Then he pointed in the direction of the two who ran away from the thug: "Bad, it's not Montamira!"
It was Ye Zijun and her parents who were rescued, she looked at this tall Burmese young man who had driven away the two thugs, and heard his Chinese with a thick accent popping up like bricks, and was stunned for a moment before she said gratefully: "Thank you! Thank you!"
MAO QIANG LOOKED UP AT BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET AGAIN, THOUGHT ABOUT IT, AND Chinese THE THESAURUS HAD BEEN EXHAUSTED, SO HE HAD TO SAY IN BULK ENGLISH: "WHER, YOU, GO?I CAN...... Belch...... AND...... YOU!”
ALTHOUGH THIS ENGLISH IS QUITE LOOSE, YE ZIJUN STILL UNDERSTOOD WHAT HE MEANT, AND SAID HAPPILY: "THNAK YOU!WE ARE GOING TO THE HOTEL." ”
Then he told Maung Qiang the name and location of the hotel where they were staying, and then the young Burmese boy escorted Ye Zijun's family to the hotel.
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While Maung Qiang was being dragged by dozens of companions to storm the pharmacy, and when Ye Zijun's family of three was attacked by a mob, Jiang Chunzheng, another tourist from China, was wandering the streets of Montamira alone.
Jiang Chun, 41 years old, quit his job six months ago and started traveling around with his only savings of tens of thousands.
However, he is not the kind of person who suddenly has an explosion of literary and artistic sense, and wants to come and travel, he was just diagnosed with some kind of terminal illness, knowing that the treatment is useless, and the time to live is running out, and he doesn't want to spend money in vain to live in the hospital and take medicine, so he simply takes all the money to see the world that he has never seen much before.
Anyway, his parents have long passed away, his wife divorced him a few years ago, and he has no children, no house, and is alone and has nothing to worry about.
By the time he arrived at Montamira, the money had been almost spent, and he felt that this was a good place for him to return to the West.
But even abroad, he didn't want to die to affect others, and he didn't want to make the Burmese people have a bad opinion of the Chinese because of his death, so he kept thinking of a way to end his life quietly and not let people find out.
No one will look for him anyway.
Just as he was strolling down the street, thinking about how he would die, a riot broke out in Montamira, and there were many attacks against Chinese people and Chinese tourists.
Looking at the thugs in groups, with their faces covered and armed in their hands, Jiang Chun's first reaction was to be afraid, and then he began to run and dodge, after all, he was just an ordinary cram school teacher before.
But then, he found a good way to die - he had to fight these thugs.
So he rushed at several thugs who were attacking the Chinese shops, shouted to stop, and picked up rocks from the ground and threw them.
Just as the thugs rushed towards him, the surrounding street lights began to flicker, and a huge figure descended on the street and began to move slowly.
The terrifying, shocking scene attracted everyone's attention, and everyone was shocked by the powerful sense of oppression and stopped all movements.
Jiang Chun tilted his head, looked at the monster that seemed to come out of the abyss, and followed the huge body to see more than one pair of eyes on the head above the peak.
The pair of eyes at the bottom seemed to glance at him slightly, but it didn't seem to see him, as if the creatures on the ground were just ants, and even if they did, they couldn't attract attention.
Jiang Chun trembled, his legs were weak, but he still suppressed the fear in his heart, ran desperately, knelt down in the middle of the road, and then lay his body back, stretched out his arms, and closed his eyes.
According to the trend, the monster's big feet will land here next, and he will be trampled into a meatloaf and crushed to pieces.
Let's just die......
It should be a matter of course that such a monster descended on the world and trampled on such an insignificant person as him.
His heart was afraid of death, but there was an inexplicable lightness.
But death did not come, and when he opened his eyes, he found that there was no trace of the huge monster.
He was lying alone on the road, without any footprints in front of or behind, as if everything he had just seen was an illusion.
Ten thousand tastes came to his heart, and Jiang Chun, who was kneeling on the ground, covered his face with his hands, and suddenly cried bitterly.
It was the first time he cried since he knew he was terminally ill.
Crying and crying, he laughed again.
He read aloud a sentence from Lu Xun's "Tomb Text", which he liked very much when he was young:
"I was cold when I was in the frenzy of Haoge, and I saw the abyss in the sky. See nothing in all eyes, and be saved in hopelessness!"
He got up from the ground and strode into the distance, his fear not gone, but he knew what he was really afraid of, and he knew what he wanted to do the most.
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On this night, the eight-armed, eight-eyed giant vision that appeared in Montamira became larger and larger in the eyes of different people as time passed.