Chapter XXX: Evolution
Gannan is located in the northwest region of the Far East, is one of the richest areas in the Far East, where the environment is beautiful, the history is long, the civilization and historic sites can be seen everywhere, the most special and rare, is the Tibetan Buddhist temple in the Zhinai. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThese Buddhist temples have a long history and a long heritage, and the incense is also extremely vigorous. Since ancient times, it has been a place of pilgrimage for the surrounding Tibetans.
Summer City in the north of Gannan is one of the many small cities in the west, although the economy is not developed, but the environment is extremely beautiful, every year to receive tourists from all over the world, the local government in accordance with the instructions of the central government, the development of local tourism. Originally, the people's livelihood was the most poor, but in recent years, with the economic take-off of the Far East, the prosperity of the people, and the opening up to the outside world, the exploration tourism industry has become more and more prosperous.
In late autumn, the weather is getting colder day by day, and there are more rows of geese in the sky, and the bright but no warm sun at noon sprinkles on the cement road of Qin Gongfen Village, Qubei Town, Summer City, which makes people even more unenergetic. Thanks to the good economic development of the city in the past few summers, otherwise the road leading to Qingongfen Village is still a yellow mud road.
Not far away, dozens of sixteen or seventeen-year-old boys, wearing half-used school uniforms, walked along the newly built cement road along the shadows of the branches and leaves of the trees beside the roadside, playing and playing.
If they were born in a big city, teenagers of their age, with ambition, must enroll in various cram schools and participate in various so-called extracurricular clubs in order to be admitted to a good university, and endure endless pressure for the sake of their parents' face and for their own good future in the future;
However, in this remote mountain village, which has been rendered a little more impetuous by more and more travelers, the teenagers still look simple and unpretentious. It's a pity that the simplicity and unpretentiousness do not mean kindness, peace and patience, especially the tomb of Qin Gong has been a place where the people of Huayi have lived together since ancient times.
"Danzi, listen to me, the network base station is about to be built in our village, and then we won't have to go all the way to the town when we go online. ”
"You are dreaming, the network company can come to our corner to build a base station, that is not a fool. ”
"Why can't you come to our village, we are the province approved what 'natural ecological folk tourism area', there are donkeys all day long, donkey friends come to our village to see the scenery, even foreigners are tired of seeing it, now there are foreign old men to teach us lessons, why can't even a network cable." ”
"You see you have a low IQ, your travelers are all rich people, people use satellite Internet access, and they also use base stations, and there is no network to make our village 'pure natural', do you know what is called pure natural? ”
"You dare to call me stupid, and call me a stupid bastard, I, I'll give you a cowardly baby to look good..."
On the cement road, a few arrogant half-sized boys talked and argued, and a square-faced boy with a huge face like a square melon and small eyes like mung beans finally blushed and had a thick neck to do something with his companions.
But carefully speaking, it is not strange that this square-faced young man is annoyed, the villagers of Qin Gongfen are mainly ancient Qin people, and the folk customs have been very strong since ancient times, after the Han and Hu people live together, these descendants themselves are very fond of lively, and it is said that there have been a few talents in the village, and even a lifter, but I don't know how many lives ago. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, if it were not for the requirements of the state, the village might not even be able to build a primary school. The general environment of the country and the closed environment here, the old ideas, have made the small villages in the mountains on the outskirts of the city look like four things, and even some evils that have never appeared have also occurred in this small village.
A short time ago, I heard that it had alarmed the army, and dozens of green-skinned military vehicles drove in at once, all of which were loaded with guns and ammunition into the mountains. The police went door-to-door to publicize and educate the villagers, saying that the vicious fugitives who did not know where they had fled into the mountains, and told the villagers not to go up the mountains recently.
Parents give their children cheap lives, it is originally a tradition in the Far East, the original intention is to be afraid that the child will be jealous and die, and the meaning of relying on the name to make a living, many children are naturally ashamed when they grow up, but their anger cannot be sent to their parents, and they are called stupid in front of them, of course, they want to be angry and retaliate.
A group of classmates couldn't help but be a little nervous when they saw the stupid guy blushing and his thick neck really angry. In the class, the squad leader and the young pioneer captain, who is usually more prestigious, hurriedly stepped forward to make peace. A few other classmates also helped to make peace, and this matter could have passed like this, but who knew that the other party was also grumpy, and rolled up his sleeves without showing weakness, and scolded and greeted him like a cockfight.
Seeing the usually stubborn fools, the dogs were going to fight, and the honest children on the way to school had already hid aside, and the stubborn companions of these two people not only did not dissuade them, but laughed and shouted in unison.
"Hey, you two, listen to me, although you are not in school now, you will be punished by the school if you do it casually, you know no. Seeing that things were going bad, the young pioneer captain hurriedly pulled up the banner, which was quite a bit of the grandeur of the big man in the village.
"Hmph, I'm not afraid, anyway, Lao Tzu hasn't been punished, it's a big deal to call the parents this time. Dog Dan'er said without showing weakness.
Seeing the arrogant appearance of the dog, the fool suddenly became angry, roared, and threw a punch suddenly, but he didn't expect the thin dog on the opposite side to dodge flexibly, dodge the fool's swift blow, go around the fool's back, and give the fool a slap.
was pushed by the dog like this, and the fool's punch did not hit the enemy, but because of the force behind him, he couldn't hold his hand, and punched an innocent young man who was walking seven or eight steps away, and he didn't know what was happening.
The innocent boy was thin, with high cheekbones, and blank eyes, as if he was unaware of what was going on outside.
"Why, why did I beat you," the fool suddenly became embarrassed and stammered when he saw the thin young man's face covered in blood, but then the young man's peculiar childish vanity made him realize that he must not weaken his momentum now, so he said in a brutal tone: "How do you stand in front of my fist." Are you in the same group as the dog, hum, you don't have long eyes, and you deserve to be beaten. ”
The thin young man who was punched for no reason heard the provocative words of the square-faced young man, came back to his senses, didn't say anything, wiped the nosebleed on his face, and ran away with extremely fast steps.
Behind his back, there was a stumbling voice, "Stupid bastard, that kid is nothing, but he is not a joke, you shouldn't be so tough when you coax the baby, be careful that his father is out of prison and troubles your family." ”
"This is the era of the legal system, do you really believe that? What does the teacher usually say? Tell you to watch CCTV's "Today's Statement" more, I'm afraid that the second bastard in his family will do a lot, let me tell you, I didn't see a police car parked at the entrance of the village every day these days, what can his imprisoned father do even if he comes back? Am I still afraid?" Although the fool's mouth was hard, his tone had obviously a trace of regret.
"It's strange to say, why did his dad go to jail? You know? I haven't heard anything bad about his dad doing?" asked one of the fool's friends, confused. The others all shook their heads, although they had heard that there had been a labor prisoner in the village for decades, but everyone did not know exactly what had been committed. I only knew that one day, several police cars suddenly came to the village, entered his house, took his father away, and never came back. He and his father were the only ones in the child's family, and after his father was taken away by the police, he never returned, and the child became an orphan. The village also spread false rumors that his father was arrested and imprisoned, and several years have passed, and this matter has become an iron case.
Others are very curious about his family, and the fool's house and his family are neighbors. The family's surname is Xie, and it is said that the male owner's name is Xie An, and the child has always been called Xie Qiu, without a nickname. When he was very young, his grandmother once encountered a very strange thing, and now the fool's memory of this incident is very vague, but Xie Qiu's father, the so-called labor prisoner's series of terrible performances in his own family, until now, is still the biggest shadow in the fool's heart. How could that dry boy be an easy person.
The surname Xie is a foreign surname, the legend is that the people here in the Qin Gong Tomb used to be a military tun, Xie Qiu's ancestors were not here, I heard the old people say that the Xie family came to the Qin Gong Tomb from Xie Qiu's grandfather's generation. At that time, it was a time of war and chaos, and most of the men in the tomb of Qin Gong were arrested and died on the battlefield of the civil war in the Far East. Xie Qiu's grandfather married a local widow, and only then did he settle in the tomb of the Duke of Qin.
The strange thing is that Xie Qiu's grandfather seems to be a very mysterious person, and it seems that he didn't go to the Qin Gong Tomb to escape, before he married the locals, he took Xie Qiu's grandfather with him, at that time Xie Qiu's grandfather was already a teenager, and he looked a little old, according to the villagers, Xie Qiu's grandfather was the same as Xie Qiu, stupid, he generally didn't go out, stayed in their house, and couldn't see it a few times a year.
It wasn't until Xie Qiu's grandparents died that Xie Qiu's grandfather began to appear in front of everyone. Then his grandfather went out for a while, and a few years later, he came back with a mother-in-law who was said to be in Sichuan and Shu, and a baby, which was Xie Qiu's father. Who knew that Xie Qiu's father was also stupid, and he hardly went out all year round, and he couldn't see him a few times a year in the village, but Xie Qiu's grandfather often saw him. There is also the mother-in-law of Sichuan Shu, who is very handsome, just like the person in the painting.
This situation lasted for decades, and Xie Qiu's grandfather and grandmother also died one after another, leaving behind a large amount of soft sister coins that were said to have been earned by doing business outside the home to their son Xie An. Xie Qiu's father Xie An also suddenly opened up, and began to appear in the village openly, to the age of his mother-in-law, although his parents are dead, but the Xie family's situation is not bad at all, the village's best red brick and blue tile house, not to mention the style, marrying into the Xie family does not need to go to the ground to eat, the nearby Huanghua girl is quite willing to marry. Who knew that this Xie Qiu's father, like his grandfather, had also been out alone for a few years, and this time he actually brought back a foreign aunt with brown hair and brown eyes, who was said to be from the distant British Empire in Obarro.
also has an equally stupid baby who is three or four years old, that is, Xie Qiu. It's just that this time is different, not long after the days of the Xie family's peaceful days, the brown-haired and brown-eyed front teeth foreign girl who is said to be from the British Empire mysteriously disappeared, and soon after, the police arrived in the village and took Xie Qiu's father Xie An away.
In this way, overnight, the eccentric wealthy Xie family in the village was left with Xie Qiu, a seven-year-old orphan.
The fool's original name was Qin Youcai, and he felt remorse at this time, but Xie Qiu, who was punched by him, still looked half-dead, and after a while, he came to an old mansion with an old iron gate along the village road.
Although the Qin Gong Tomb is under the jurisdiction of the city in summer, the geographical location is extremely poor, located in the deep mountains, the hot summer is not bad, in the autumn and winter, the mountain wind is biting, and the temperature is extremely cold. Therefore, the village dwellings used to be caves, but in recent years, the environment has improved, and there are also new bungalows built, with solid steel beams on the foundation, and high red brick houses. The Xie family is different from other families. It turned out that the Xie family was not used to living in caves, and as early as Grandpa Xie Qiu's generation, he had already rebuilt a bungalow in front of the original cave of his family. This bungalow is built against the hillwall at the back. It's been a long time, and by Xie Qiu's generation, I'm afraid it has a history of nearly a hundred years.
This kind of old brick and stone house with a bit of the ancient style of the Central Plains of the Far East makes people feel a little unusual.
The door lock of the ancient house is a strange lock that is rarely seen in the countryside, Xie Qiu inserted the key hanging around his neck into the door with his hands and feet, and then looked at the five people, the handle of the house was pressed on the lock, and after a gentle electronic dripping sound, the door opened. After walking into the courtyard of the old mansion, Xie Qiu ignored it and rushed to the house, and the iron door behind him was closed by himself.
"I finally came back a quarter of an hour ago," Xie Qiu, who pressed his hand a strange screen in the room, saw that after the scanning, it did not turn red, and Xie Qiu, who had not stopped all the way, took a few quick breaths, and muttered with some joy in his mouth.
After that, he shook his head, as if he wanted to drive something out of his mind, and when Xie Qiu was ready, his hands quickly formed different gestures, extremely fast, and even afterimages appeared, like a martial arts master.
Xie Qiu's gesture looked meaningless, it didn't seem to be any fortune-telling finger pinch, nor was it a treasure seal of Buddha cultivation, but an almost random combination of finger movements without any regularity, but it gave people a creepy sense of rhythm.
As the gesture became faster and faster, it was almost impossible to see the changes in the fingers, and an extremely thin bulge began to appear on the yellow earth in the courtyard of the old mansion, scurrying back and forth, and when Xie Qiu's finally stopped abruptly due to lack of strength, a strange metal creature with the thickness of a thumb and a red body suddenly broke through the ground, like a small snake, and climbed up the young man's body along his right leg.
Upon closer inspection, the little snake turned out to be a strange metal centipede with a body length of more than 50 centimeters and a hard shell shining with a metallic red copper luster on its back. The metal centipede had a flat head, its black bean-like eyes were black and bright, without the slightest anger, and the two black and green fangs on its lips showed a very hideous meaning, and it crawled onto Xie Qiu's neck after a while.
"Blood, there is blood," Xie Qiu saw the centipede gently rubbing against himself at the lower end of his nose, and he was not afraid at all, but grinned and whispered, "Eat quickly and don't waste it." ”
As if he understood the young man's words, the huge metal centipede no longer made love to him, and slowly moved down from under his nose in a U-shape, and all the blood that flowed out of Xie Qiu's beating disappeared even if it dried up.
The metal centipede began to eat blood, and the boy relaxed and sat down on the ground.
But soon after the smile appeared on his face, he felt dizzy, and his throat and eyes were "uh-uh..." gag, but he couldn't vomit anything, and after a while his face was already pale like a dead man, and his whole body became red.
Xie Qiu, who used to feed only a few drops of essence blood to the centipede every time, realized how stupid his opportunistic method was, it was simply self-defeating, but at this moment, it was irretrievable, and he could only pray to God to let him survive this catastrophe.
How painful and frightened Xie Qiu was, how happy he was with the terrifying mechanical flesh monster he raised with flesh and blood, the metal centipede that ate the blood of the teenager, the bent and terrifying body emitted a heroic glimmer, and the head and tail were swinging together, ignoring the flesh and blood on the owner's emaciated body, and gradually sinking at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming skinny and bone-like.
Fortunately, when Xie Qiu's frightened and stunned eyes were about to lose their protruding eyeballs, the centipede finally ate the blood he flowed out, and rubbed intimately with the young man, finally giving Xie Qiu a chance to breathe.
He was slumped on the ground weakly, slowly recovering a little vitality, and his skinny body, like an inflatable doll, gradually swelled a little, although he was still thin and inhuman, but at least it was no longer as terrible as a skeleton with skin.
Snatching the centipede from his face with all his strength and throwing it to the ground, Xie Qiu said hoarsely: "You monster, what the hell?! You almost killed me, you ate so much flesh and blood this time, you must be obedient, you can't let me be beaten again, otherwise I won't be able to spare you." ”
Thinking of his long-time absence, Xie Qiu couldn't help but be afraid. What is displayed in a big way is not at all what those children can imagine. Xie Qiu didn't believe that those so-called policemen could trap Dada, he knew that Dada would definitely come back one day. Thinking of the daily homework assigned when he left, and the 'homework' in the morning had not yet been done, the young man shuddered suddenly, as if he felt that the soreness and pain from his weak body were not so difficult, and hurriedly made different gestures in the order of the strange mysteries.
The gestures kept changing, and the metal centipedes on the ground began to shake their slender bodies strangely, and thousands of slender feet crawled around, but they didn't follow the young man's mind.