Zhao Daya and I were drinking wine on the top of the small building while chatting about the strange archaeological team more than ten years ago, and more than two hours had passed unconsciously, Zhao Daya was deeply touched because of the recollection of that sad past, and borrowed wine to kill his sorrows, obviously he drank too much, his speech became more and more blurred, his eyelids became more and more heavy, and he fell asleep on the table after a while. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

I went down to ask Zhao Daya's wife and daughter to help take Zhao Daya downstairs and settle down, just wanted to go back to the house to rest, Da Mao, Ermao and Zhao Daya's nephew came back, Da Mao said excitedly when he saw me: "Owner, have you heard?" Cheated corpse! ”

"What? What is the corpse? ”

"Just now, when we walked to the entrance of the village, we heard someone shouting about the corpse, and when we inquired, it was said that there were a few people in the grove outside the village, and they saw something coming out of the ground, looking like a person, gray-black, ragged, with a blue face, very terrible, and after the thing came out, they ran to those people, and those people were frightened, and they ran away, and no one was caught by that thing."

"Let's go, take a look" I also became interested when I heard it, and said that it was a grove outside the village, maybe it had something to do with the ghost corpse Chang Qiuhua, so I went out with Da Mao and Ermao, Zhao Daya's nephew is also a young man, he loves to watch the excitement, and he also came out, just went out, only to see a few bold young men in the village, some with hoes, some with shovels and rushed out of the village, shouting to catch zombies, we went with them.

When they arrived at the edge of the grove outside the village, some people said that they had heard that the thing had just come out of the ground under the "old tree", so everyone became cautious, slowed down, and walked slowly into the grove while looking around nervously. Zhao Daya's nephew explained to me next to me that this "old tree kui" is the big locust tree in the grove, it is said to be an ancient tree, there are thousands of years, their village used to be called "locust tree village", after the liberation of the name changed to "Fenghuangtai Village", the old people say "there is an old locust tree first, then there is a locust tree village", the tree has become a fine tree, and it is said that this grove is often haunted, so usually few people dare to come here.

I nodded after listening, thinking that the thing that came out from under the old locust tree was the ghost corpse of the woman named Chang Qiuhua, according to Zhao Daya, his brother carried Chang Qiuhua's corpse back and came back according to Chang Qiuhua's instructions before his death, he must bury her under a locust tree, I heard before that the reason why this "locust tree" is called "Huai", is because it can stand in the shadow, collect wild ghosts, and gather seven spirits, so the word "Huai" is composed of a "wood" word and a "ghost" word, It seems that the witchcraft of Chang Qiuhua's corpse puppet ghost is also based on the characteristic of the locust tree.

I was thinking while following the big guy cautiously to the old locust tree, the spirit was highly nervous, suddenly, I heard a few continuous muffled sounds of "bang, bang, bang", in this silent grove like a few thunders, a few so-called "bold" young men were so frightened that they almost crawled on the ground, my brain was also "buzzing", following the sound to look back, only to see Da Mao slammed on the back of Ermao's head: "Damn, fart again", Ermao smiled innocently: "No, I'm sorry, I, I love to fart when I'm nervous. ”

Damn, it turned out to be Ermao's fart, don't look at him so big, he is really timid, he was so scared that he farted, I laughed in my heart. The big guy was also laughing after hearing this, and the tense atmosphere was eased a little, and after a while, he came to the vicinity of the big locust tree.

When we walked to the big locust tree, we stopped, and did not dare to move forward, only to see that there was a hole under the big locust tree, the size of the hole was about the thickness of a person's waist, and the black hole was hollow, and the situation inside could not be seen.

The big guy stood on the ground and looked at each other, you pushed me, I pushed you, no one dared to rush over, I don't know who whispered: "Stunned, you usually don't brag that you are bold, do you dare to sleep in the cemetery alone at night, why don't you dare to go over now." After hearing this, the others also coaxed: "Yes, you are bold, you go first." ”

As soon as the young man named "Stunned" heard that the big guy provoked him like this, and he couldn't get off his face, he plucked up his courage and said, "Okay, I, I'll go first," took a shovel, and walked slowly towards the entrance of the cave step by step.

There was only a distance of about ten steps, but it took a long time for the stunned man to "move" to the vicinity of the cave entrance, only to see the stunned man holding the shovel in front of his head, as if he was afraid that something would suddenly jump out of the hole and pounce on him, and when he walked two or three steps away from the cave entrance, he stopped, and looked into the hole, and the others also held their breath nervously, and their eyes were fixed on the hole.

After looking at it for a while, he probed into the hole with a shovel, but nothing jumped out of the hole, and the big guys saw no danger, and they became bolder, and they all came to the edge of the hole, and I also came to the edge of the hole and looked down.

It seems that this hole is very deep, and even if it is daytime, you can only see about a meter in the entrance of the cave, and you can't see it clearly further down. When I saw this hole, I suddenly felt that this scene was familiar, remembering that more than ten years ago when I was in junior high school, I went back to Ningxia and my cousin Fengyun and Fenglian to see the leopards in Helan Mountain, when we followed a team pretending to be "pigtail ghosts" to the cemetery on the mountain, and were caught by human traffickers in the cemetery, and when the traffickers were about to poison us, several thick "braids" suddenly came out of the grave, dragging a trafficker and their leader into the grave, and we took the opportunity to save the trafficked girl in the coffin. Later, when we returned to the place where we set up a tent in the woods, we found that the tent had collapsed, and there was a mess nearby, and the leopard had been dead in a pool of blood, according to Fengyun, it was possible that it was bitten to death by something, and a hole was found under the tree next to it, and my cousin went over to see the situation in the cave and said that it might be some animal's nest, and there was nothing in it, and since then my cousin has become very strange, and then gave me the note with my name written in Tangut script, and my cousin has disappeared since then, It wasn't until I happened to meet Lao Zhang not long ago that I bought the little jade Buddha, and I found that the words on the little jade Buddha were exactly the same as the words written on the note given to me by my cousin, and my name was also engraved in Xixia script, so I was involved in these later things, it can be said that all this started when my cousin looked at the hole, and what did my cousin see in the cave at that time?

This hole is very similar to the hole that my cousin looked at at the time, could it be that the hole was also formed because the ghost corpse crawled out of it? I suddenly had an idea: could it be that the leopard was bitten to death by a ghost corpse, and my cousin was also haunted by a corpse puppet ghost who performed witchcraft, and came to Phoenix Terrace alone to join the mysterious archaeological team in order to crack the witchcraft to find the ghost corpse, but the family thought he was missing? But Chang Qiuhua is also a member of the archaeological team, she died after my cousin joined the archaeological team, so even if the cave was formed by ghosts more than ten years ago, the ghost corpse could not be Chang Qiuhua, and besides, why did my cousin give me a note with my name written in Western Xia after seeing the cave, and the jade Buddha I happened to get more than ten years later was engraved with the same words...... It was like a dead loop, and I kept affirming and denying my own ideas.

I must see what was in this cave, and I thought, and I parted the crowd, came to the entrance of the cave, and did what my cousin had done, and lay on the ground, and poked my head into the cave to see.

Because it was daytime, no one carried a flashlight, so I poked my head into the hole and couldn't see it very really, only to feel that the cave was wet, there was a smell of moisture, and there was a fishy smell, and I couldn't say whether it was a fishy smell or a bloody smell, in short, the smell was very bad. I held my breath, tried to close my eyes to check, found that there were some thick "tubes" crisscrossed under the hole, carefully distinguished, and reached into my hand to touch it, only to find that it was the root of the big locust tree, I let Ermao pull my feet and neck, I put almost half of my body into the hole, and when I got closer to those roots, I found that the entire cave wall was wrapped by tree roots, like a nest, there were some small root canals on the roots, most of them seemed to be newly broken, I suddenly realized that this ghost corpse was connected to these root canals, The locust tree absorbs nutrients from the outside world. I touched it down again, and there was a hole at the bottom of the "nest", and I looked at it with all my might, and it was very dark, and I didn't know how deep the hole was.

I motioned to Ermao to pull me out of the hole, found a stone from the side and threw it into the hole, listened carefully, but I never heard the sound of the stone falling, but I can imagine that the hole in the middle of the "nest" is bottomless, and I don't know where it leads.

I got up from the ground and dusted off the dirt on my body, and the big guy couldn't wait to ask me what was in the hole, I just said that there were some roots in it, nothing else, but there was a hole at the bottom, it looked very deep, in order to prevent people from falling, it was better to find a stone to plug it, and then fill it with soil.

As I said, a few young men found a big rock from outside the woods, which happened to be about the size of this hole, and moved it and stuffed it into the hole, and dug up the earth and filled it in the stone.

After filling in the hole, everyone talked about walking out of the woods, and when they were about to get out of the woods, suddenly I don't know why, the birds in the forest screamed and flew up like a nest, and someone pointed to the right and said, "It's not good, that thing is there!" ”

People hurriedly followed the sound to look, only to see a "person" standing under the tree about twenty or thirty meters away, with long hair, dragged to the ground like a vine, ragged clothes, gray and black, before everyone could see clearly, the thing rushed towards everyone, and in the blink of an eye, it was close to the front.

Some people want to run away, but the bold one called "stunned" shouted: "So many of us are still afraid of her." After his reminder, everyone also came back to their senses, and several young men raised hoes and shovels to hit the thing, and the thing did not hide, but raised two deadwood-like "arms" in a gear, and the hoes and shovels that touched were shocked and flew out, and some people were shocked and fell to the ground.

"That's a lot of strength," I said to myself, but the thing didn't care about the others, but came straight at me, and I was so startled that before I could turn around and run, the thing was already in front of me.