Chapter 51
Countless ground rats rushed towards the county seat of Yexian County, not only where the guide was hiding, but also on the dirt roads on the mountains in all directions.
In just a few minutes, thousands of rats rushed into the city.
Standing on the top of the hill and looking into the distance, the guide could not see the specific situation in the city clearly, only heard the sound of dense gunfire, and the smoke rose from the place where the fire had been burned, and the fire weakened.
The chaos in the city this time lasted much longer than when the Japanese devils first entered the city, and the gunfire was not too dense, but it was intermittent.
The guide stood on the top of the hill, a little uncertain, but he thought of a possibility.
Could those rats that rushed into the city be summoned by the master gods who lived in Ye County?
With this question in mind, the guide waited for the gunfire to completely cease to be heard, and pretended to be bold enough to enter the city to find out.
But before he could come down from the top of the mountain, he heard the roar of motorcycles in the distance.
Standing on a high place and taking a closer look, a large number of Japanese soldiers appeared in the direction of the end of Yexian Street.
The Japanese troops who came back this time were obviously better equipped than the previous wave, and the guns they held alone could be seen to be much more upscale than the 38 covers captured by the Eighth Route Army.
Seeing these people, the guide inexplicably felt a little more anticipation in his heart.
Because he knew that the appearance of these high-level Japanese troops definitely proved that those Japanese devils who had entered Ye County before were in trouble, so they came to support.
If only one or two people died, the support would not be so laborious, and eighty percent of the previous wave of the entire army would be wiped out.
This time. The mystery of Ye County has finally been revealed.
The guide only hopes that this ghost town can be more mysterious and wipe out all the Japanese devils in the city to keep the surrounding area safe.
He stayed on the top of the mountain, hid himself, and stared intently at everything that happened in the county seat of Yexian County.
He saw the vanguard of the Japanese army enter the city and there is no news.
He saw several Japanese soldiers running out of the city scarred like lost dogs.
He saw that the Japanese generals organized people to use a pumping machine to pump water from the nearby river and pour it into Yexian County.
He saw a few guys wearing masks that looked like skull heads, carrying big iron cans into Ye County to spray something.
It was when I saw this place that a fishy wind hit me in a trance, and the guide smelled a slight sour smell in the air, and almost fainted.
Frightened, he quickly fled far away. I didn't dare to approach Ye County again.
And then what happened. He didn't know.
Three days later, the guide couldn't suppress his curiosity and went to Ye County alone again.
He watched around for a long time, but didn't hear anything coming from inside. Detour to the rear of Yexian County. The Japanese troop vehicles that had appeared here three days earlier were still there. But there was not a single person in it.
Are all those Japanese devils dead?
With this question, he stepped into the boundaries of Ye County for the first time in his life, if nothing else. Just to see what kind of master kept the peace on their side.
However, the scene in the city was not what he thought, he did not see any living people, nor did he find any dead people, there were no corpses of local residents in Ye County, and there were no corpses of Japanese devils. Only a few charred ruins and bullet marks on the ground prove that it has withstood the flames of war.
The guide mustered up the courage to walk several times in the Yexian market, and the more he couldn't see people, the more panicked he felt, even if the original people in this city were all ghosts, then those Japanese devils were not ghosts, how could they not see people alive or dead.
He couldn't figure out the reason, so he simply sat down at the corner of Yexian Street, and just waited there, waiting to see what would happen there.
The wait was until evening, when the afterglow of the setting sun completely disappeared below the horizon, and a white paper lantern suddenly lit up in front of the first house at the head of the market.
The guide's attention was drawn instantly, and his eyes widened as he stared at the door of the house, expecting someone to come out.
But no one came out of the house, but a man appeared behind him.
"Hey, what are you doing!"
A hand slapped on the guide's shoulder, so frightened that he let out a miserable scream, and without looking back, he threw himself on the ground and cried: "Ghost grandpa spare his life!"
"Spare your life, I'm not a ghost!"
"Huh, not a ghost?"
The guide turned his head in shock, and when he raised his eyes, he saw a hideous face covered with blood, and he could not stand this kind of fright, and he fainted at that time.
According to the guide's own account, when he woke up again, he was already lying on the bed at home, and the family told him that it was a hunter who had gone out hunting and had seen him in the mountains and brought him home.
After this catastrophe, the guide no longer dared to run to Yexian's side easily. Later, he heard others talk about it, saying that when some people walked by the vicinity of Yexian County at night, they would hear gunshots and screams coming from inside in a trance.
Over time, the reputation of the ghost town in Ye County spread even further.
A few years later, when the whole country was liberated, there was once a group of People's Liberation Army who asked a guide to lead the way and took them to liberate Ye County.
The guide took them there, but the whole county was empty, and there was nothing to liberate. The leaders of the People's Liberation Army reported the special situation of this Ye County to the newly established people's government.
In accordance with the collective demands of the people, the government established Yexian County as a county, but no one was allowed to move to live in it, nor did it build roads there, so that Yexian County became a city surrounded by wilderness and forests.
The city had been so empty, and for many years, no one except this guide knew how to enter Ye County, and the government leaders had specially talked to him, asking him to keep this secret for the rest of his life.
After the guide finished telling about the situation in Ye County, he raised his eyes to look at the old Shi and the leader of the Red Guards in front of him, and put on a posture that he wanted to kill and listen to the respect.
Lao Shi and the leader knew each other at a glance, and their feelings were complicated.
Lao Shi somewhat believed the guide's words, after all, he had experienced so many things himself.
The leader should have believed it, because he then asked something that a revolutionary worker who adhered to Marx's materialist ideas should not ask.
"You know it's a ghost town, and if you go in, you'll die, why do you want to take us there, aren't you harming us? Also, the government tells you to keep it a secret, why don't you keep it a secret?"
Hearing this question, he waved his hand with a look of grievance, and said with a crying voice: "Comrade Red Guards, you broke the four olds, engaged in rebellion, and smashed the government organs, do you say that I listen to you or the government? Besides, I didn't tell you about Ye County, you saw it on the map you found out of the government building, do I dare not take you there?"
The two rhetorical questions made the leader speechless.
(To be continued.) )