Chapter 18: The Secret of the Sewers (1)

Ermao and I also immediately became nervous, listening carefully to the movements around us, but there seemed to be no other sound except for the occasional sound of water droplets, and after listening for a while, Da Mao relaxed, "I seem to have heard someone whispering just now, maybe I heard it wrong", Da Mao explained. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

"There can't be anyone else in this sewer but us, and the tension in this dark sewer can easily create illusions," I said.

We didn't particularly care, I asked Da Mao: "Why are you two in this abandoned factory in the middle of the night?"

When Da Mao and Er Mao heard me ask this, they looked a little lost and told me about their life experiences. It turned out that the two of them were not brothers, they were abducted from their hometown when they were very young, Da Mao remembered that it seemed to be four or five years old, Er Mao didn't even remember when, they only vaguely remembered that their hometown was in Fuzhou, but what the specific place was, they didn't know, the person who abducted them did not sell them to other people, but was taken to Nanjing by a gang, when they were very young, they were instructed by the people in the gang to pretend to be orphans to beg on the streets, and were stipulated to beg for how much money they must beg every day to hand over to the gang, otherwise they will be beaten, they don't know how many beatings they have been beaten at that time, and sometimes the people in the gang don't let them sleep, didn't give them food, they felt that their life experience was very similar to Sanmao, so they named themselves Da Mao and Ermao. Because Da Mao and Er Mao are fellow villagers, Da Mao is older than Er Mao, so Da Mao has always taken care of Er Mao like a brother, leaving the only food for Er Mao, and sometimes being punished for Er Mao. A little bigger, the gang instigated them to cheat and steal things, forcing them to do something unconscionable, if they don't do it will be threatened and beaten, once, Ermao stole something and missed, was caught and beaten in public, after coming back, the head of the gang knew about it, to chop off a little finger of Ermao as punishment, at that time Ermao was still small, scared and cried, Da Mao in order not to hurt Ermao, he was punished for Ermao, was chopped off half of the little finger, since then, Da Mao and Ermao made up their minds to escape, but the gang has a lot of power in Nanjing, has not had a chance。

When they became adults, they could no longer endure such a dark life, and they did not want to do those unconscionable things, so they discussed waiting for an opportunity to escape, until one time, when they and some other people in the gang were stealing at the train station, two people in the gang were arrested, and they took advantage of the chaos to get rid of the rest of the gang, mixed into the station, hid in a freight train transporting livestock, and finally escaped from Nanjing, and when the truck arrived at the station, they secretly ran out, only to find that they had arrived in Xi'an.

Since they have never been to school since they were children, they have no culture, and they do not have legal identity certificates, so they can't find any serious jobs. In order to make ends meet, they also pick up waste products to sell, and seven or eight years have passed in this way, although it is hard, but compared to the days in Nanjing, they feel very happy, because they no longer have to do those hurtful things, and they no longer have to live in fear every day. Once, they accidentally came to the abandoned 771 factory, and found that this place was very secluded, few people came, there were many abandoned houses to live in, and sometimes they could dig out some scrap copper and rotten iron from the ruins and sell them, so they decided to live here temporarily.

At this time, I only knew the reason why Da Mao and Ermao were in this abandoned factory in the middle of the night, and I also felt very sympathetic for their tragic life experience, I saw that this brother was very pitiful, and saved my life, and suddenly thought that now I opened my own store is short of manpower, so I asked Da Mao and Ermao if they would like to follow me, Da Mao Ermao jumped up happily after hearing it, and was about to cry with excitement, to know how important it is for the homeless to have a "home" that can settle down. Da Mao held my hand and said that if I am willing to take them in, I will definitely do my best, no matter where I go, I am willing to follow me, I see Da Mao and Ermao happy and happy for them.

Da Mao and Ermao call me the boss, I sound very awkward, I just opened a small shop, not a big boss, don't let them call me boss, directly call my name Guo Xiangdong, Da Mao and Ermao said how to do that, and finally Da Mao thought about it and said that if I really don't want them to call the boss, I will call me "Dongjia" in the future, because my name is Guo Xiangdong, this title is also appropriate, I didn't delay it after hearing it.

Da Mao said: "Boss, it's not that I'm troublesome, why are you coming to this factory so late? There are rumors outside that this factory is haunted and haunted, aren't you afraid of yourself?"

I briefly told Da Mao and Er Mao about my experience and the reason for coming here, Da Mao frowned and said: "I think what Boss Zhang Meng said is right, this must be a trap, but Er Mao and I are rough people, and we can't help the owner figure out what conspiracy is here, but I know what is going on with the strange man you just saw in the No. 14 factory building."

"Oh, what's going on?" I asked, curious.

Before Da Mao could speak, Er Mao smiled beside him: "Hehe, Dongjia, that three-meter-tall weird man is me and Da Mao"

Da Mao added: " In fact, as soon as you entered the factory, we were targeted by our brothers, because there was a reporter last time, one is very curious, I want to see what you are doing in this factory in the middle of the night, and the other is afraid that you will be like the reporter again to find the fox fairy in order to be famous, in case there is any danger we may be able to help, and then we see that you really arrived at the fourteenth plant, which is the place where the legendary fox fairy is, we have calculated that you are here to find the fox fairy, I want to go out directly to persuade you to go back, but as far as our brothers estimate that you will not listen, so I thought of a way, I rode to Ermao's neck, put the straw hat in front of the face, and stood in the dark place,I thought you didn't see this 'monster' and scared away.,Which Cheng thought you picked up a brick and smashed it at our brothers.,Although it didn't hit.,But Ermao dodged and fell.,Ermao is okay.,It's not a big deal.,I'm miserable.,I rode Ermao straight down on the neck.,Almost didn't drop me bubbling.,Hehe.。 ”

I couldn't laugh or cry when I heard it, I really thought it was some kind of monster, it turned out to be a ghost made by this brother, a misunderstanding, but this brother is really kind.

Da Mao continued: "We thought you had to be scared away, but I didn't expect to wait on the road to see, you are still wandering there, I wonder if you may not be looking for the fox fairy, want to see what it is, so I have been following you, tonight the wind is strong, the wild grass in the factory area is deep, so until you follow the school you did not find, see you enter the school door, our brothers squatted at the door and secretly looked, began to see you go upstairs, and then heard the sound of slamming the door, our brothers still think in their hearts, you are not a thief, right?" But what is there to steal from this factory that has been abandoned for so long, so I am even more curious and plan to see what it is. As a result, I waited for a while, and found that you came down from upstairs, tiptoeing and didn't know what to do, and as a result, I saw you go to the first floor of the corridor and secretly pick up the door to look in, and after looking for a while, I seemed to see something particularly terrible, turned around and ran, but I don't know why I ran to the door of the building and didn't come out for a while, but ran upstairs, we saw something behind you, very fast, like a ball of white light, we guessed that eighty percent was the fox that ate people, and I wanted to find something to save you, but I didn't find anything else in this courtyard, Ermao found an iron rod pinned behind his waist, we found half of the dead tree trunk and rushed in, but fortunately it happened to save you, this is how it happened"

After listening to Da Mao, I knew what was going on, and I breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately there are Da Mao and Er Mao living in this factory, otherwise I would have had an accident tonight, it seems that this is really a trap, but why did this person surnamed Yuan who asked me to come harm me? What is the purpose? I have never been able to figure it out.

Suddenly, I thought of something again, just now when I was listening to Da Mao say that the reporter seemed to be chatting with an "invisible person", I thought of it, I heard someone playing the piano in that building, and then followed the sound of the piano to the innermost third room of the corridor on the first floor, and saw the terrible scene in the room, first saw the "beauty" that Zhang Meng and I had seen in Prince Gong's mansion, and then this beauty suddenly became an ugly old woman, and then the face became a fox again, and then the fox pounced on me, is it the one that the reporter saw?" "People" and the "beauty" I saw playing the piano were all made by the fox?

I asked Da Mao, "Da Mao, did you hear someone playing the piano when you saw me looking in the room on the first floor?"

"No," Da Mao replied.

"I didn't hear that either," Ermao added next to him.

"Boss, what do you remember?" Da Mao asked.

"Oh, nothing", I explained: "It seems that this fox is not an ordinary fox, I have heard before that there are two animals in this world that are the most fascinating, one is the yellow skin, that is, the weasel, and the other is the fox, I suspect that the reporter you mentioned seems to be talking to an invisible person, and I heard and saw someone playing the piano, these are all confused by the fox, but this is only speculation, as for the weasel and the fox are good at charming minds, I have only heard of it, I don't know if it is true"

Speaking of which, I think of the incident in the ** cemetery again, when I first entered the tomb keeper's hut with Xiao Pang and Lao Qin, I also seemed to see a furry thing on the window, could it be a fox's tail? Could it be that the strange things I experienced in the ** cemetery that night were also caused by the fox's mind? Although I heard that the fox has this ability, is its ability really big enough to cause all these illusions? Or is there some other reason?

In addition, Da Mao also said that the reporter was fascinated by a smoke shot from the fox's tail, and I lost consciousness twice before after smelling a fragrance, could it be that Zhang Ziheng and I became in a state of "suspended animation" was also caused by this fox?

What kind of fox is this? When he was in the Kunlun Hotel, Tang Ying once used his Tang Gate's silver hook stunt to injure a thing in the exhaust duct of the air conditioner, and there was something like green blood on the silver hook, and later in the tomb of the concubine of the Ming Dynasty, the "hidden corpse" in the fluorite coffin locked by the stone lock engraved with "You don't move me, I don't move you" suddenly disappeared, and there was a hole the size of a small bowl at the bottom of the coffin. There is only one thing in the "Tomb Robbery Handbook" that ranks third among the "hidden corpses", and that is the legendary "nine-tailed fox." Could this fox be the "nine-tailed fox"? However, according to Hu Qi, the nine-tailed fox became extinct as early as the Qin Dynasty, so why did it appear in modern times? Although there are various indications that this fox is very similar to the legendary extinct nine-tailed fox, I still have no conclusive evidence to prove it.

Da Mao on the side looked at me a little stunned, and said: "What you said, I also remembered, when Ermao and I entered from the door of the building, the door was still fine, but when I rescued you, the door disappeared somehow, and became a wall, and nine times out of ten I was also confused by the fox."

"Quite possibly," I said, "not only is the door gone, but there are no windows in the classrooms I see."

"That's it, it must be the fox who made the ghost", Da Mao said: "I and Ermao brothers have also been to that school before, or how do I know that there is this sewer in the toilet, Ermao also soaked urine there, although I didn't go to the locked room on the second floor you said, but the classroom in this building must have a window, it seems that the fox wants to charm your mind and trap you in the building, it's really vicious." But then again, although I've also heard that foxes can confuse people, but they can only be confused by looking at their eyes, like this fox can make people hallucinate out of thin air, I haven't heard of such a big ability before, is there anyone else in this who is doing ghosts?"

"Quite possibly", I replied thoughtfully, "I think so too". At this time, I suddenly thought that the words on the blackboard and the traces of "I" had been in that classroom were also hallucinations caused by the fox's confusion, and I hurriedly put my hand into my school bag, but I was disappointed to find that the textbook I took from "my own desk" was still in my school bag, indicating that it was not an illusion. But if the fact that "I" really went to this school was not an illusion, then what was the reason? Why such a terrible thing? I really can't imagine. And what exactly does the handwriting of "I" on the blackboard mean when it says "It's coming, run" a few years ago? Does "it" mean this fox? Does this sentence remind me?

Just as I was deep in thought, Da Mao suddenly whispered: "Listen, that voice has appeared again, this is the voice I heard just now"

After being reminded by Da Mao, I immediately came back to my senses and listened carefully, and sure enough, there was a whispering voice from the depths of the sewer.