Chapter 61: The Ghost Strikes the Wall
People who have lived in the countryside know that the fog in the city and the fog in the countryside are completely incomparable, the population in the city is concentrated, the exhaust emissions are relatively large, the fog is generally not very thick, and seven or eight o'clock in the evening is the beginning of the city's nightlife, there will be no fog at all, and the fog time is usually after two o'clock in the morning. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The countryside is different, the population is more scattered, and the average temperature is much lower than in the city, especially in this kind of mountain forest, the humidity is relatively large, once the sun sets, it will not be long before the moisture will condense into fog. Once the fog in the mountains and forests appears, it will become thicker and thicker, and sometimes even the fingers will not be visible until eight or nine o'clock the next day.
Yu Aiting and I have never seen this phenomenon, and we don't know the stakes at all, urging my father and Uncle Liu to speed up.
The two of them had seen the world, and one of them protected me and Yu Aiting in the middle, grabbing our arms and walking slowly and cautiously.
After walking for a while, my father suddenly stopped and said, "I think it's better not to go, it's too dangerous." ”
Uncle Liu said: "It's not far from the pigeon farm, so let's go ahead while the flashlight can still explore the way." ”
Seeing that her father was a little hesitant, Yu Aiting said: "Keep going, is it possible to stay in this wilderness for the night?" It would be too dangerous to encounter a large boar or something again. ”
I also don't think it's a good idea to stay here for a night, now it's starting to cool down, we are all dressed quite thinly, if it freezes here overnight, and the clothes are wet with fog and water, we will definitely catch a cold tomorrow, so I also helped to persuade: "Anyway, this is the path, it will definitely not go wrong, let's be careful, it should be no problem." ”
After all, my father was lonely, so he had to sigh: "You two children don't understand, forget it, try to be careful and walk slowly." ”
Uncle Liu changed his usual laughing expression, and seemed to be very afraid of this kind of foggy day, he discussed with his father while walking, so he changed the formation, and he took the lead with a flashlight, I was side by side with Yu Aiting, and my father was behind.
The fog became thicker and thicker, and the surroundings became completely white, and the light of the flashlight shining through the flour-like mist became more and more weak, and it could only barely illuminate the ground about a meter in front of Uncle Liu's feet.
When the sun just set, there were birds and insects chirping in the mountains and forests, and now the whole mountain forest is silent, only the fragmentary footsteps of the four of us, the night, the silence is terrible.
Suddenly, I seemed to hear a female voice next to me who seemed to be muttering, and I thought it was Yu Aiting muttering something, and I didn't go to my heart, but after a while, I felt that something was wrong, because the two of us were close side by side, I could clearly hear her wheezing as she walked, and while gasping, the female voice was still whispering in my ear.
I quietly squeezed Yu Aiting's hand, she looked back at me in the dark, although I couldn't see her clearly in the thick fog of the night, but I was sure that it was not her who was talking, and when she turned her head, the voice was still continuing, and my heart suddenly beat faster.
I didn't dare to say this, for fear of causing them to panic, so I had to pretend that nothing had happened and continue to follow Uncle Liu slowly.
Fortunately, the sound didn't last long before it slowly disappeared, and I thought it was a hallucination I had in the dark, so I pinched my thigh hard, and my brain suddenly cleared up a lot.
As she walked, Yu Aiting suddenly said, "Something is wrong, how do you feel like walking in the grass?" ”
We were all wearing long pants, we didn't feel it at all, her calves were exposed, much more sensitive than our touch, after she said this, Uncle Liu realized the seriousness of the matter, quickly stopped, bent down and carefully shone the ground with a flashlight.
"Hiss......" Uncle Liu gasped, I quickly squatted down and touched it with my hand, my legs were full of weeds more than two feet long, and I was suddenly shocked!
Uncle Liu said in a deep voice: "This cover is not ordinary, it actually blinds our eyes and touch, and we don't know how far we deviate from the path, I guess it's a problem." ”
"You mean...... Ghost hitting the wall?! A word suddenly came to my mind and I couldn't help but blurt it out.
I once heard my grandmother say that in their time, countless soldiers and civilians died every year, or died on the battlefield, or starved to death because of natural disasters, resulting in a lot of resentment between heaven and earth, as long as the sun sets, they dare not go out, and it is easy to encounter 'ghosts hitting the wall' when they go out, and they will get lost at least or be misled to fall down the rivers and lakes and die. Much of what we hear and feel in the fog is hallucination, and our current situation is the same as she said.
As soon as I said this, Yu Aiting suddenly grabbed my arm nervously, obviously frightened, even I was afraid of such a thing, let alone her.
Although he couldn't see Uncle Liu's expression clearly, his voice was very calm, and he said to us: "Stay where you are, don't move, rest on the spot." ”
As he spoke, he vaguely saw him crouching down looking for something, and then heard the sound of rustling.
Next, he threw a handful of things at my feet, and I looked at them with wide eyes and saw that they were some dead branches and leaves, and immediately understood his intentions.
He took out a windproof lighter from his backpack and lit the dead leaves, and after a while, the fire under his feet became bigger and bigger, and under the effect of the high temperature, it gradually dispersed the surrounding circle of fog, so that we could clearly see each other.
Fortunately, although the grass was lush in this area, there were many dry branches, so we picked up the surrounding branches and threw them on the fire to keep the fire burning.
My father once said that the necessary condition for survival in the wild is that there must be a fire source at night, which is the most important safety guarantee for wild survivors.
The temperature difference between day and night in the mountains and forests is particularly large, and the fire source can drive away the cold, which is a guarantee of health. In addition, the light of fire can scare away poisonous insects and beasts, and can provide enough light to alleviate the powerful sense of oppression caused by darkness, especially at night on such foggy days, which gives us some courage.
Originally, I was worried that there was not enough firewood, but I didn't think that Yu Aiting actually found a dead tree lying on the ground on the side, so we suddenly felt a lot more at ease, and hurriedly slowly moved the fire to the dead tree and ignited it, so we all sat down around the fire to rest.
The firelight made our faces flush, and our bodies, which had been surrounded by the cold just a moment ago, quickly warmed up, and I suddenly felt that something was wrong, and quickly looked behind me.
Under the reflection of the firelight, there were weeds more than half a meter tall behind me, I glanced around again, and the hairs on my body stood up, "Where's Dad?" ”
As soon as I said this, Uncle Liu and Yu Aiting were immediately shocked.
Dad has been walking at the back, when did he not see us and none of us even noticed, Uncle Liu said: "It won't be picking up branches nearby, right?" ”
We had such a big dead tree, enough to last until the fog cleared the next day, and we didn't need to add firewood at all, so I shouted with some concern, "Dad...... Father...... Answer when you hear it! ”
After a while, without any response, everyone knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly shouted in different directions.
"Dad......"
"Uncle ......"
"Brother Dongyuan!"
Still without any response, I began to have a bad premonition, and I panicked inexplicably, and quickly stretched out my hand to Uncle Liu and said, "Uncle Liu, lend me your flashlight." ”
Uncle Liu slapped my hand away, frowned, and said, "Don't leave the fire, do you hear it!" ”
It was the first time I had seen him so serious, so I was stunned for a moment, and then said anxiously: "Don't you care if my dad is gone?" I'm going to find him! ”
"This is a ghost cover, once they are separated, it will be over, your father is on the road, are you more powerful than him?" Uncle Liu's words were equivalent to pouring a basin of cold water on my heart, which immediately calmed me down a lot, and he then comforted: "Your father has lived in the deep mountains and old forests for so many years, and this kind of ghost hitting the wall trick is estimated to have experienced a lot, just with his experience, this little thing will make him lose his way at most, don't worry, it will be good if the fog will disperse tomorrow." ”
I suddenly remembered something, and quickly took out my mobile phone to look at it, and found that a grid of signals came and went, and looked at Yu Aiting's mobile phone, which was the same situation, so I dialed it with the mentality of trying it out.
The 'beep' sound on the other side of the phone was intermittent, and after a while, the phone seemed to be connected, and I quickly asked, "Dad, can you hear me?" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a piercing sound of electromagnetic interference in his ears, and quickly took the phone away, and when he listened to it again, the phone had already hung up.
I was reluctant to continue dialing, and as soon as I called, there was a harsh sound, and then I was hung up by that side, and so on several times, the situation was the same, and I felt more and more uneasy in my heart.