CHAPTER XLVI
When I used to watch TV, I often saw such a scene, so-and-so was chased and killed by bad guys, and entered a dead end on the way to escape, and the only thing that could leave was the dog hole under the root of the wall next to it. Others asked him to drill a dog hole to save his life, but this man said that a manly man can't lose his dignity and not drill alive, but he was hacked to death by the enemy.
At that time, I didn't have an intuitive feeling for "buildings" like dog holes, and I don't understand until today that an adult can drill through this thing. No wonder, the whole picture of a person drilling through a dog hole has never been shown on TV.
I bent down and tried to look down the dog hole to the other side of the wall, and all I saw was a gray mist, and the only proof that someone had walked here was a series of small footprints left on the ground.
That's right, the little boy I saw before definitely got out of this hole, but the place where this hole is connected is already the outer area of the entire Yexian Market.
The three of us hurried out of the main entrance of the house, hoping to catch up with the little boy on a detour.
But when I got out of the main gate, walked through the intersection at the end of the street, and tried to look for the dog hole along the wall, trouble came.
Walking all the way down the wall, I felt that we had gone far and we didn't see the goal. It's as if the wall in front of you is not the same as the outer wall of the house at the end of the street.
Realizing this, we hurriedly turned around and walked back, but after walking the same distance, we didn't even return to the end of the Yexian market. On one side was the same high wall, and on the other side was a large forest shrouded in mist.
At this time. Liang Tianyu spoke, he said that he had encountered this situation before, that is, once he came out of the market, he had to walk for several hours before he could walk back again, and the place he returned must be a street location.
At first the fat man and I didn't believe it, but after walking along the wall for hours, we did come to the streets.
Standing in front of the stone tablet engraved with the two big characters "Ye County", looking up at the small street building where I stayed overnight, I was sure of two things.
One is the little boy who appeared inexplicably, and we lost it.
The second is that we walked around the periphery of this Yexian market, and finally returned to the original point.
As Liang Tianyu said. If you want to uncover the secrets of Ye County, you must start from the inside. Once we leave this market, it means that we are getting farther and farther away from the truth.
But what is the truth, the purpose of our here is to save our classmates, not to compete with such a small county town that reveals a strange atmosphere everywhere.
Just when I was at a loss for what to do next. Suddenly, I heard the fat man behind him shouting.
"What people. Come out!"
This shout immediately made me nervous. Hurriedly turned around and asked, "Fatty, what's wrong?"
"There's someone in the woods over there, go. Old Yan, let's go get that guy out!"
The fat man said, walking towards the woods in front of him, and Liang Tianyu and I hurriedly followed. But before we could go far, the figures in the woods swayed, and then a familiar voice came.
"Yan is right or wrong, is it you?"
"Hey, Senior Chen?"
"Yes, it's me!"
As we spoke, the figure approached, and we looked at it, and it was Senior Chen, who had disappeared for a long time.
When we finally met him, we hurried up to say hello and ask what was going on with him.
It turned out that Senior Chen turned his head and ran away last night, not because he was afraid of those Red Guards, but because he smelled a strong ghost breath with the keen sense of smell of a professional ghost hunter.
At that time, he was thinking about ghost hunting, so he ran away without even saying hello.
He took it for granted that the fat man and I would follow him, but he didn't think that either of us would run after him.
Senior Chen followed the smell alone, and unconsciously ran out of the market and came to a cemetery.
Rao is that he has experienced so many winds and waves, has seen countless terrifying scenes, and when he saw the nearly 1,000 tombstones and graves in front of him, he was also shocked into a cold sweat.
After being frightened, he cautiously walked to the center of the cemetery, where the ghost smell was strongest, and raised his eyes to see a little boy kneeling in front of the tombstone.
According to Senior Chen, he just heard a few words from the little boy's mouth at that time, and then there was an endless howl of ghosts crying wolves around him, as if there were countless ghosts flying past him and rushing directly into the street market behind him.
Because it was in a dream, Senior Chen couldn't get out those ghost-hunting belongings for a while, so he could only stare dryly to feel the changes around him.
After about five or six minutes, the depressing aura outside his body gradually disappeared, and Senior Chen immediately made a decision, and rushed up with an arrow to catch the little boy who was a ghost.
Before arresting people, Senior Chen was still very nervous. Because he was facing a little boy who could set off a bloody storm, such a character, at least he should be a pretty strong ghost, and he doubted that he could deal with it. As a result, after he really caught the person, Senior Chen realized that the truth was not like that at all, and the person in front of him was an ordinary little boy. In order to break free from his control, the little boy even bit Senior Chen's wrist with his mouth.
The two of them tore around for a long time, and Senior Chen finally cleaned up the little boy honestly, thinking of asking for some useful news from the other party's mouth. But the boy was stubborn and didn't say a word.
I couldn't ask one, two, three, so Senior Chen thought about bringing people back and handing them over to me and the fat man to deal with, and see if there was any progress. Who knew that he turned around and found that the sky was too dark and the terrain was too complicated, and he couldn't find his way back at all.
After walking not far according to the route in my memory, what I saw was not the Yexian market, but a high wall that gave people a great sense of oppression.
If this were the case for me, I'm afraid I wouldn't know what to do at that time.
But Senior Chen is different, he is a top student of the Ghost Academy of Tiandao University. Dealing with this kind of ghost hitting the wall and the like is a piece of cake. He took a closer look at the wall in front of him, and it didn't take much effort to find the right way.
However, as he was about to carry the little boy he had caught through the wall to return, various frightened screams suddenly came from the other side of the wall. Then, just as Senior Chen had just found the correct channel, two guys in green military uniforms appeared in front of him in a posture of being dragged by someone.
It happened too suddenly, and Senior Chen subconsciously hid, and after that. He saw a dozen people in green uniforms emerge from different positions on the high wall. Screaming and entering the middle of the cemetery.
The whole process went on very quickly, usually those people appeared, and in the blink of an eye, they disappeared into the darkness, and even the sound never came out again. Senior Chen also saw with his own eyes that a person was unknown something. Pull it into a grave somewhere.
Seeing such an amazing scene. He really didn't dare to go back for a while. I hid in place all night.
The mental tension is too long for any normal person to stand it. When it was almost dawn, Senior Chen couldn't help but close his eyes and take a nap. It takes less than ten minutes before and after a nap. When he opened his eyes again, he suddenly found that the little boy he had grabbed and tied up was gone.
Not only is the little boy gone, but his own location has changed. No longer a small gap between the cemetery and the high wall, but a grove shrouded in white mist.
Senior Chen was in the woods, looking for the little boy who had escaped his control, and looking for a way back to the Yexian market. After wandering around like this for hours, he finally came out and joined the three of us.
That's probably what happened to Senior Chen, and from the whole process of his story, I found the answers to some of the questions that have been bothering me for a long time.
First of all, the little boy, now it can be determined that the person caught by Senior Chen should be the same person who stole the bun I saw. A four- or five-year-old child is not scary, but it is terrible that he can live in a real ghost town.
The second is the ghosts that popped up last night, which should have been summoned by the little boy. I dare to say that the time when Senior Chen ran over was the time when the little boy summoned ghosts.
Then there were the poor Red Guards, who were caught by the ghosts and dragged into the cemetery. No wonder Liang Tianyu has seen three or four batches of Red Guards who had such tragic experiences in so many days, but he couldn't even find their bodies. Because the corpse has long been dragged underground and buried.
The last and most critical question is about this Ye County. After we told Senior Chen what we had encountered, he immediately judged what the whole picture of this Ye County looked like.
Senior Chen drew a circle on the ground, then drew two lines in the middle of the circle, pointed to the middle of the line and said, "Look, this is where we are now, this market." In fact, Yexian is not just such a street, he is a small circular county town. The market is in the middle, and the back walls of the shops along the street are connected together, docking with the outer walls of the entire county town, enclosing two semicircular confined spaces.
The place where I found the little boy last night was one of the semicircles, which was a large cemetery. On the other side, in the semicircle, it should be the place where the little boy is hiding.
You said you went all the way to the end of the street and saw the kid out of a dog hole in the enclosed area enclosed by the outer wall of the semi-circular arc and the back wall of the market. But when you walk out from the exit at the end of the street and go along the high wall to find people, the place you pass along the way is the outer wall of the entire Ye County. There must not be a dog hole on the outer wall.
As for why as soon as we go out, we will lose our way and end up only returning to the streets of this market, that is, the entrance of the entire Yexian county, it is better to understand. Because this county seat itself is a kind of formation.
When I was in school, I saw this kind of record in the library of the Human Academy, and the name of the formation was called the Reincarnation Array. The formation itself is a rotating circle, one entrance, two exits. The entrance is fixed, and the exit is constantly changing with the rotation of the formation.
When a person walks out of the formation, once he makes the exit behind him disappear from his field of vision, the exit will be immediately blocked by the high wall, even if you remember the route you walked out, remember how far you walked, and you can't see any passage at all when you go back. Because it was during that time that the exit had changed positions.
If you want to go back, you have to find the right entrance, and this entrance is not something that you can find if you want to.
Take the Ye County in front of us as an example, its entrance is above a certain opening in the circular outer wall, whenever this street market rotates with the formation, and when the street and the opening completely correspond, we can walk in. If we don't, even if we find an opening, we will enter a semi-circular space on both sides of the market.
I think the two semi-circular spaces in Ye County also have a layer of ghost wall illusion, when the opening corresponds to the semi-circular space, the illusion will automatically evolve into the appearance of a high wall, so that people can't walk in.
Now, can you see, in fact, it only takes a few hours for you to walk back again, and you are very lucky. If you're a little unlucky, you risk constantly missing the time when the street and the entrance to the façade coincide, and you're constantly walking around the outside and never getting in. ”
Senior Chen, what he said was very detailed, I tried to draw a circle on the ground myself, and the branch was across the middle line of the circle, and then slowly turned the branch, and I quickly understood what the principle of this reincarnation array was.
But I don't think there is such a weird place in this world.
"Senior Chen, you said that we entered the dream realm this time, how did we come to such a ghost place? Could it be that Huang Wanru also knows the reincarnation formation, built such a city in a dream, and played in circles with herself? This is too unreasonable, right?"
"Ahem, I don't know if Huang Wanru knows the reincarnation formation, but one thing I'm sure of is that this Ye County was definitely not built by herself in her dreams. ”
"What do you mean?"
"Meaning, there really is this Ye County outside, and the rotating city is real. When I saw the record of the reincarnation formation, there were records of Ye County among the various cases mentioned above. ”
"Senior Chen, are you saying that outside, there is such a small county town in China that will automatically rotate?"
"That's right!"
"Impossible!"
Seeing Senior Chen's determined eyes, I couldn't help but have deep doubts in my heart.
As soon as I said this suspicious word, the fat man beside me, who had been listening with relish, suddenly shouted, "Ah, I remember." Old Yan, I have also seen a record of this Ye County in my old man's collection!"
(To be continued.) )