Chapter 16: Humans and Ghosts
The roar of many unknown little beasts rang out in the valley, and the strange and gloomy voice of the old man coughing and sneering from the night owl.
Suddenly, Xie Xiang, who was exhausted and miserable, understood what kind of sadness it was to be in an extremely primitive era.
A man like himself, who even pulls flowers and vines, plus a young child, in this deep valley that is gradually darkening, all he can imagine is that after dawn, after being eaten by wild beasts, two white bones with blood stains.
In fact, he couldn't save himself at all, and he couldn't save such a lovely child as Ai Ye.
It's ridiculous that they are still thinking about finding and saving an old man.
At this moment, Ai Ye, who has been stubbornly walking in front, looks much stronger than Xie Xiang.
In Xie Xiang's heart, there were thousands of voices of giving up, but Ai Ye firmly believed that his grandfather was in this deep mountain, and maybe he could find him after a few more steps.
"Ai Ye, you wait, you listen to me, we can't continue to walk into the mountains......"
Xie Xiang suddenly thought that Ai Ye was just a child, but he was an adult, and he couldn't let a child continue to take him to the mountains.
The undulating mountains in front of them seemed to be full of strange ghosts and gods baring their teeth and writhing their mouths at them, and those shrubs and rocks were like many hidden and peeping beasts, as if they would pounce on them at any moment and tear them apart mercilessly.
"Childe...... Can't find grandpa, we ...... What to do? β
Ai Ye is still a child after all, and when he heard Xie Xiang say this, he actually cried.
Suddenly, Xie Xiang even wanted to die immediately.
He is a pig, he should have made up his mind a long time ago to stop Ai Ye from taking him to this deep mountain so indiscriminately, now it's okay, it's too late when he understands.
"Childe, we ...... Almost lost.
He is such a person, with a child, walking in a deep ravine at night in the dark, and it is not normal not to get lost.
Xie Xiang suddenly wanted to laugh, well, this is not a very happy ending.
Will Xia Xueyi look for him now? The premise is that Xia Xueyi must be safe and know where he is.
When Xia Xueyi found out that the "safe zone" he designated for him was already full of snakes and scorpions, he didn't know how to feel?
Can Xia Xueyi really be like Superman, bring a pair of searchlight eyes, in this dark night, Edgeworth rides the wind, magically walks through these deep valleys, and then finds him?
It looks like a plot only in a sci-fi blockbuster, right? Xie Xiang quickly told himself not to do these unrealistic wishful thoughts again.
For he suddenly saw a red lantern suddenly lit up on the mountainside not far away.
In an instant, Xie Xiang felt an unprecedented creepy.
At this moment, there is no possibility that there is an almost fluorescent red lantern on the mountainside, and there is only one possibility, that is, a giant python that has been hiding in the mountains all year round smells the delicious taste of human flesh and is raising a huge snake head to inquire around.
"Suffer, big snake, big snake, Ai Ye, look at what it is?"
Xie Xiang was already incoherent, and he exclaimed in a low voice with a small hand that was holding Ai Ye.
"Ai Ye, look, is it a big python?"
Xie Xiang just wanted to find a huge mussel shell and hurry into it with mugwort leaves.
I didn't expect that it would always be such a small child as Ai Ye who was calm.
"Don't be afraid, childe, that's the mountain god."
Ai Ye's disapproving answer made Xie Xiang twitch and almost fell into the crack of the stone.
Mountain God? It's a shame that this kid is so naΓ―ve!
He is not only in a martial arts world, but also in a mythical world, and even the mountain gods have seen it.
"No kidding, what do your little ones know? Where is there any mountain god? It's like it's coming for us, what should we do? β
Xie Xiang was so frightened that he lost his temper, and it was definitely not fun to be devoured alive by a big python.
He asked himself, even if he didn't have the heroic spirit to sacrifice himself to feed the python, he really didn't want Ai Ye to lose his life in his hands.
But, my God, can he have the best of both worlds to escape the doom of this moment?
"Childe comes with me......"
Ai Ye was also clever, his body was short, and he actually rolled down to the cliff next to him.
When he rolled down, he was still urging in a hurry: "Hurry, Childe, come down quickly!" β
Xie Xiang looked at the terrifying red lantern that was moving quickly, he had to grit his teeth, and with the determination that he would die anyway, he sat down, and rolled down with Ai Ye towards the black cliff.
Ai Ye is used to crawling in this mountain, and he is always very clever, and he will never take the initiative to roll off the cliff.
Sure enough, I didn't expect that this place that looked like a mountain cliff was not very steep, and it was just an overgrown platform underneath, and Xie Xiang quickly climbed and touched the mugwort leaf that rolled down first.
"Childe, come with me."
Ai Ye whispered, groping and grabbing Xie Xiang's hand.
"There is a cave here, my grandfather and I often hide from the rain in it, my grandfather said that when I was very young, he also took me to hide here to escape."
Ai Ye pulled Xie Xiang and explained in a low voice, while bravely walking in front of Xie Xiang and picking up the grass in front of him.
The grass passed, but it was some relatively shallow meadows, and Ai Ye pulled Xie Xiang to walk more than a dozen times, and then he saw a dark hole.
When I walked in, I saw that it was an extremely narrow hole, so narrow that only a person of normal size could inhale and enter sideways.
Ai Ye is a child, and it is effortless to get in, although Xie Xiang is not fat, he is very careful to barely pass.
Due to the extremely low visibility, Xie Xiang instinctively thought that maybe there would be some snakes, scorpions, centipedes or something in such a cave, and at the worst there would be a large group of bats, but as the two of them slowly touched in, the dark cave seemed to be very quiet.
"Don't be afraid, Childe, my grandfather and I have been here many times, but there is nothing in it."
As if sensing Xie Xiang's nervousness, Ai Ye comforted in a low voice.
In an instant, Xie Xiang really had the urge to hug Ai Ye and kiss him.
Such a young child, at such a frightening moment, actually comforted him as an adult man, it was really shameful and moved to death.
And in such a dark night, in this chaotic stone cliff, he can still accurately remember such a place, and he boldly made a decision and rolled down the cliff with him.
Regardless of whether they could escape this catastrophe or not, at Ai Ye's young age, it was at least better than him as an adult, but he could only sit back and wait for death.
"We've got to find a rock to plug the hole."
Xie Xiang instinctively felt that even if he hid in this seemingly hidden and narrow cave, the python would find it with its sensitive sense of smell.
"No, we can't find a stone here that we can move, it's too late, Childe, let's go quickly, if we keep walking, we can run to the valley over there."
Ai Ye was really familiar with this place, and hurriedly stopped.
Xie Xiang also immediately gave up this plan, because he felt that he was already a little unable to breathe, and the nerves that had just been relaxed immediately tightened again: the red lantern that was still halfway up the mountain just now was suddenly jumping above the hole outside.
The clever Aiye apparently saw it before him.
He suddenly believed Ai Ye's words, this is indeed an unpredictable world.
According to his own atheistic calculations, a huge python really shouldn't move so fast.
This kind of speed is more reliable for the mountain god.
Although Xie Xiang still believed in his heart that this was a blood-red eye of a giant python.
The only thing that made Xie Xiang, who was a little confused, feel strange, as if he didn't smell the fishy stench from the mouth of the legendary python.
Fortunately, this cave was a roundabout and folded one, and just as Ai Ye and Xie Xiang were desperately running into the depths of the cave and turning left, they suddenly heard a heavy sigh from outside.
"Hey......"
Moreover, it is clearly the sigh of an elderly woman.
"Not a python?"
Xie Xiang grabbed Ai Ye's shoulders almost excitedly and said in a low voice.
"Isn't it the Mountain God?"
Ai Ye also exclaimed in a low voice, the mountain god should be an old man with a white beard, that voice is clearly the voice of an old woman.
Because the two of them couldn't run anymore, they were even more afraid that the sound of running would alarm the mother-in-law who didn't know if it was a person or a ghost outside, so they stopped in unison.
Xie Xiang hugged Ai Ye tightly in his arms, holding their breath for each other, not even daring to breathe, and listening to the movement outside with fear.
"You're finally here?"
The mother-in-law's voice sounded like she was resentful or angry, whether she was talking to herself or to some illusory ghost.
"Girl? Ya'er, Ya'er, is it really you? Are you really still waiting for me here? This is the red lantern I left for you...... I recognize the light of this merman's thousand-year-old wax made from oil......"
Suddenly, from the top of the cliff, a strange, dark, and endlessly gloomy old man asked one after another.
Immediately, the glow of the fluorescent red lantern outside suddenly skyrocketed.
Xie Xiang and Ai Ye hid in the depths of the cave and quietly poked their heads out, and through the very narrow hole in front of them, they were horrified to see the silhouette of a woman dressed in purple, facing the cliff in front of them, and then a black figure quickly fell in front of her.
"Brother Mu......"
The old woman in purple let out a low call like a sigh.
"Ya'er, it's me, I'm your brother Mu, I'm here, don't hide from me, I've been remembering you, I've been thinking about rushing over to see your ......"
"Ah......h
The response that was originally calm and calm, but at the moment when a black shadow fell to the platform under the cliff, an extremely terrifying and terrible cry was released.
"Ya'er, what's wrong with you? How did you end up like this? What happened? Ahh......hh How so? β
The purple figure of the old woman swayed quickly in the red light of the lantern, and it could be seen that she was grabbed by the shoulder of the person who had just fallen in front of her and was shaking desperately.