Chapter 154: Life and Death Split the Road
As soon as I reached the entrance, I saw a long cordon hanging in the air at the entrance to the forest, and a "No Entry" sign was placed next to it.
And on this sign, there are a lot of positive words, such as don't forget that you still have parents, brothers, sisters, you are not even afraid of death, why are you afraid of life, etc., it can be seen that these are written by some tourists or people who have been to this forest.
Li Yan glanced at the sign, and said to us solemnly, let's go, and then he lifted the cordon and led the two of us directly into this suicide forest.
Truth be told, if I could be a prophet, I wouldn't allow any of the three of us to step into this forest.
A fork in the road between life and death.
This is the only thing I have to say about this forest since I came out.
The three of us walked along the white strip of cloth tied to the big tree at the entrance in this forest, thinking that this strip of cloth should have been set up by the people who had entered this forest before for fear of getting lost in this forest, so that no matter where we went, when we wanted to go back, we could always leave along this strip of cloth.
In April, the sun is shining, and it has not rained for more than ten days, which is particularly bright, but that is before entering this forest.
When I followed Li Yan step by step, I found that the trees here were very tall, and those leafy leaves also blocked the light leading to this forest, and the surroundings seemed unusually silent.
"Click"
I stepped on a branch, looked down, there were still a lot of white bones on the ground, and next to the white bones, there was a rotten wood that had rotted to the point that it was not good, on top of the rot, there was a hemp rope about 30 centimeters long, which was immediately completely rotten.
At that time, I didn't think much about it, and followed Li Yan and Xu Chong closely in this forest.
But as we walked, we came to a fork in the road, where the white cloth was drawn to the left, and on the other side, a dense bush rushed out of the road.
I actually wanted to go to the left, because after all, we have a guarantee, for us, this time we are here to explore, so it doesn't matter which way we go, as long as we can get out safely.
But Xu Chong and Li Yan unanimously decided to take another path, and the reason they gave me was a bit shocking, saying that they would never take the old road that others had taken before, and with such a white cloth, if they could easily go out, it would really be meaningless.
Because their decision was very firm, I didn't say much, but secretly made a swastika at the fork in the road, and slowly followed them in.
But I didn't have to go long before Xu Chong suddenly walked around behind me, pulled my clothes, and said that this place is getting more and more gloomy, let me walk behind Li Yan, and there is also a guarantee, which is called a broken queen for me.
I glanced at him helplessly, then ripped off his belt, pulled his belt with one hand, and continued to walk with Li Yan.
But as I walked, I suddenly noticed a person in white hanging around in a bush on our side, I frowned, and immediately stood between Li Yan and Xu Chong and shouted loudly: "Who is it?"
When I yelled at me like this, Xu Chong's face behind me was frightened, and he grabbed my clothes and shouted loudly behind me.
Li Yan, on the other hand, looked at my left front, and immediately frowned, pulled the rope with me, and walked over cautiously.
When Li Yan pushed aside the bushes, I was surprised to see the skeleton of a woman in a white dress hanging from a tree, her skeleton was intact, but her clothes looked shabby, I think she had been here for a long time.
Li Yan slowly walked to the woman's side, glanced at it, nodded at me and said, "It's hanging, I heard that in this forest, the most common way to die is hanging, how about it, to your liking, right? There is not much here, there are many dead people." ”
The corners of my mouth twitched slightly, then I picked up a photo album on the floor and looked at it.
The album is old and wet, and most of the photos in it have been eroded by rain after rain in the forest, and there are only a few pictures that can be seen.
The photo is a woman, she is not beautiful, she looks like a housewife, and this second photo is a group photo, this woman and another young man, the man is very simple, dark skin, both of them are smiling, but I don't know why, when I see this photo, I always think they are laughing very weird.
Immediately after that, I skipped the completely unsightly photos and went straight to the last page, and a posthumous portrait appeared in front of me, which was of the man in the photo.
Seeing this photo, I couldn't help but look up at the skeleton of this woman, I thought, she should have felt that her lover was dead, and she didn't want to live anymore, so she came to this forest and learned about her own life.
I shook my head, lifted the woman down, covered her with a banana leaf, and slowly placed the album she had carried with her until her death.
While feeling the fragility of life, I seem to realize the preciousness of life.
"I said, you're too kind, the police come here every year to check, so she will always be taken away by the police, we do this, if the police find out when the time comes. ”
I looked at the female corpse, shook my head and said: "Then you can't just let her do this, in Lin Xi's words, the deceased are the most precious in the world, they suffered before they died, and after death, the pain should not accompany them." ”
When he heard this, Li Yan smiled: "I said, why do I always feel that you and Lin Xi have a leg?"
I gave him a blank look: "Let's go, after walking for an hour, we should go back, and then we really can't find the way, so it's troublesome, Xu Chong, you ......"
I pulled Xu Chong's belt slightly, and this belt was directly pulled over by me, and I looked back and saw that Xu Chong ...... It's gone.
Li Yan ...... Xu Chong is gone......" I yelled anxiously at Li Yan, who was about to take steps.
"Don't be scared, no, how can you not ...... Gone?"
Li Yan turned around and glanced at me as he spoke, and after he couldn't see Xu Chong, he suddenly became a little anxious, you know, this forest, the survival rate of walking alone is low, not to mention Xu Chong, a fat man, who doesn't know anything about survival in the wild, how can he survive in this forest alone?
Thinking of this, Li Yan and I immediately turned around and shouted Xu Chong's name loudly on the route we walked back, but ten minutes passed, and this piece of forest did not give us a response.
However, while we were impatiently looking for Xu Chong, we found that no matter how long we walked, we finally returned to the original point, which is the place where the woman hanged herself.
"......"
"Bang ......"
Li Yan gritted his teeth and smashed a hard punch on the tree where the woman hanged herself, and suddenly, a row of bamboo rows with rivets smashed towards Li Yan in an instant, fortunately, I was quick and knocked Li Yan down, otherwise, he might have become a hedgehog full of bamboo thorns by now.
I got up and pulled Li Yan up, then patted the dust on my body, shook my head and said: "Go back, we can only go here, if we go to the front to have a look, maybe Xu Chong thinks we have a little ink, maybe we just leave." ”
Of course, these are my self-deceptive thoughts, Xu Chong is a coward, he can't leave us and leave, but at that time, Li Yan and I were both facing away from Xu Chong, what happened to him, none of us know, the only thing I can pray for now is that Xu Chong doesn't have an accident, otherwise, I will really regret it for the rest of my life.
"That's all we have to do now, let's go further. Li Yan thought about it, and finally decided that the two of us would continue to move forward first, and when I left, I left a mark for Xu Chong in the same place, indicating that we were going on that road.
We crossed a bush, in front of a dozen towering trees, I found two or three hanging baskets on one of the towering trees, the hanging baskets were still swaying in the wind, out of curiosity, I pulled out the dagger on my body and directly knocked down those hanging baskets, and at the moment when the hanging basket fell to the ground, a baby with a large amount of warm water was suddenly broken in front of us.
"Damn, you shouldn't have come here, old man, don't you ......"
"Don't say these useless words, what we have to do now is to find Xu Chong and leave here. "I looked at the babies on the ground, and swallowed, the babies were still tied to the umbilical cord, and I thought it must have been the minors who abandoned them here after giving birth.
In this way, we walked aimlessly, while walking, we also shouted Xu Chong's name, but who knows, Li Yan was not careful, when he walked through a piece of grass, his whole person fell down, I saw it, hurriedly reached out and grabbed it, just when I was facing him and asked him not to let go, I raised my eyes to look at the hole behind him, in the hole, there was a piece of white bones, and between those white bones, I could faintly see hundreds of steel knives about thirty centimeters.
Those steel knives have been dyed blood-red by the blood of these people, Li Yan grabbed my hand, climbed up vigorously, and after dozens of seconds, he used his last force to directly pounce on me.
I exhaled a breath of cold air, and by the time we got up again, I had a feeling of the aftermath of the disaster.
"It seems that there are not only dead people here, but also many traps. I looked at the white bones in the cave with palpitations, and said slowly.
This Li Yan was also frightened into a cold sweat, swallowed his saliva in fear, and nodded and said that these traps may have been left by local villagers during the Anti-Japanese War before, after all, the vicinity of Jiashi was the gathering place of the devils before, and in order to prevent the devils from finding them, they set traps in the place where they lived, which is understandable.
I shook my head and said, "I can't rule out that these traps were left by the villagers of the past, but I'm sure there must still be someone alive in this dense jungle, and even now, he is looking at us with a pair of predator's eyes, ready to strangle us in the cradle." ”
I watched cautiously at the weeds around me, but they were so dense that I couldn't notice if someone was hiding inside.
"You're saying someone wants to ...... Kill us?"
I glanced at Li Yan and said, "I'm afraid it's not us who will be killed, but all the people who enter this jungle, do you see those white bones in the trap? Those people are all lessons from the past, think about it, so many people have stepped on this trap, if no one deliberately spreads the grass all over this hole, why will so many people be hit? And when you just walked over, it was not a hole. ”
Li Yan looked around vigilantly, and said with a solemn face: "That is to say, after everyone steps on the trap, someone will set the trap as it was and wait for the prey to come to the door?"
I bit my lip, yes, there must be someone here, but where is he, does he have anything to do with Xu Chong's disappearance? If so, then what is his purpose in taking Xu Chong?
Fang Yi ...... Someone ......"
At this time, Li Yan pointed to a big tree behind us, and next to this tree, I saw an arm.
Li Yan and I hurriedly stepped forward to check, and a man covered in blood was leaning next to the big tree at this time, and there was a backpack beside him, and there was also a notebook and a press card in the backpack.
Li Yan touched the man's jaw, and then shook his head with me, indicating that the man was dead.
"Zuo Nian is a reporter. I glanced at his press card, which had his photo and name pasted on it, and then I opened his notepad.
And at the moment when he opened the notepad, a note stained with blood suddenly fell out of the notepad.
"The terrifying forest, the mechanism is heavy, take a wrong step, die a life, get out of ......"
This is all that is written on this note, and after I read this note, I checked his wounds again, and found that this man had many wounds, the most serious of which was a dozen or so piercings in his torso, almost all of which passed through the body of the deceased at once.
I'm afraid that this man was seriously injured when he came here before, and the sharp weapons that killed him should be those two bamboo rows.
"Fang Yi, we ...... Let's go back and ask for reinforcements, right?" Li Yan was also a little scared at this time, and immediately looked at the direction we came from, and stammered.
I glanced at my phone, damn, there was no signal, but even if we went backwards, we might not be able to get out, and the signs I had set up before were useless, and this forest was like a curse.
"Rub ......"
Suddenly, the grass behind me moved, and my eyes widened and I called out to whom.
Then I pulled my legs back and ran towards the weeds, which were behind a forest of thorns, and the pain of the thorns on me as I passed through the forest of thorns was indescribable.
It wasn't until I lifted the last thorn that a dark shadow passed in front of my eyes, and then, a dark face suddenly appeared in front of my eyes.
I subconsciously grabbed this person by the throat, and when I reacted, I found that ......