Chapter 35: The Mountain Spirit
In fact, some things seem not so ordinary when you think about it in retrospect, not to mention that it is extremely scary to think about it, at least you will find that there are some things in life and some scenes that science cannot explain.
Just like I am now, obviously standing at the foot of the mountain but never found a way up the mountain, Wang Zi decided to tell me that this is not an illusory obstacle, the weeds in front of me are all naturally stored, and the compass seized from under the gate of the Guigu Gate has also lost its effectiveness, all the pointers are turning mindlessly, I feel that I am almost out of mind, there is probably a big fish in this place, so big that I may not be able to accept it at all.
However, at this time, not to mention the big fish, even the shark has to bite the bullet, and it finally took more than a month to find the trace of the Guigu Gate again, wouldn't it be too much of a loss to let it go in vain? For fear of attracting the attention of others, we specially chose to climb the mountain at night, so that the little ghost could open the way for us, although it could not kick the weeds out of the way for us, but it could give us a warning, which is very important.
Lao Jin can have night vision, this is actually a very unscientific thing, I have raised turtles, they don't have good eyesight during the day, this essence can also night vision? I didn't have a rut, I obediently called a flashlight, and I don't know if the students of the nearby school will see the light flashing on the mountain from time to time, maybe I can also create a legend~
According to the memory, we have to climb the highest peak, at that time I was on the highest peak turned a few times to see the stone building in the forest, the two-story stone building should be easy to find, but the climb is a little difficult, basically the little ghost explores the way, Lao Jin opens the way, and then drags me up again and again.
We are ** point up the mountain, to the top of the mountain is almost eleven o'clock, the surrounding is dark, the top of the mountain is windy, blowing the grass and trees, but the thought of a ghost floating next to it, it doesn't seem so terrible. After resting for a while, I asked the little ghost to go around to see if I could find the stone tower, while Lao Jin and I paid attention to whether there was any movement on the mountain, judging from our own experience and the description of the half-cut ghost king, it seems that the ghost valley is not particularly powerful, but it has its own unique means of dealing with aliens. In other words, in fact, they decided the success or failure of the matter before they acted, but they couldn't bear the change, and the slightest change was something they couldn't deal with, and we were going to act as an accident this time.
Of course, this qiē has to be based on the premise that we can find them, and the three flat-headed activities will inevitably leave traces in the mountains and forests, and we come up at night to avoid exposure, and the other is to hope that the mountain wind can take away the traces we have left, so that no matter whether the Guigu Gate is on the mountain or not, we are in a state of unknowing.
Soon the imp floated back, saying that he had seen the stone building, but it was empty inside.
Well? Hearing this, we came to the stone building under the leadership of the little ghost, that's right, the pentagram upstairs is still there, there is no light in the black hole in the stone building, the little ghost said that it had been in before, no one. After opening the door, there is a musty smell, Fuzhou is damp, and even more so on the mountain, not to mention that the stone is easy to regain moisture, and it is not impossible to grow moss if no one takes care of it.
I shone it with a flashlight, there was a light and electricity, and when I turned it on, the light turned on, and sure enough, it was empty, and it looked like no one had lived in it for a long time, what about the rangers?
I asked Lao Jin to clean up a sleeping place to come out, I ran to the outside of the stone building to see, in front of the building is a pond, next to the pond was originally a vegetable field, I just went to see the vegetable field, the vegetable field is still there, there are vegetables inside, obviously it has been taken care of, that's right, after confirming the situation, I didn't look at it more, back to the stone building Lao Jin has cleaned up two sleeping places.
I turned off the lights, let the little ghost go out and guard, and then began to sleep with Lao Jin.
In the first half of the night, I slept very unsteadily, I wanted to go out to see when I heard the wind and grass outside, Lao Jin fell asleep and it was not easy to wake up, fortunately, there was no habit of snoring, and in the second half of the night slowly people were tired, and then fell asleep in a daze.
When I woke up the next day, it was dawn, and I went out to take a look, the little ghost was no longer there, and I must have returned to the porcelain vase on Lao Jin's body, and I didn't wake up Lao Jin when it was still early, so I walked around casually. Walking and walking I came to the vegetable field, in the morning the mountain dew is big, the fresh vegetable leaves are dotted with dew drops and it is very beautiful, hey, these vegetables have traces of being picked, and from the incision it is a matter of the past two days, I squatted down and looked thoughtfully at the broken leaves on the vegetable leaves.
Since someone picks it, it can't be eaten raw, right? Could it be that there are still people nearby? The little ghost can't come out during the day, so I can only look for it with Lao Jin, but I came here to guard the stone building and wait for the door under the door of the ghost valley, if I look around and show traces of it, it will be a bad thing, go back and call Lao Jin up, and discuss it with him, he doesn't have any good ideas, just listen to me and say that there is a pond next to him and suddenly became happy, and he didn't care about me, and ran out on his own. Uh, this old turtle wants to take a bath?
I saw Lao Jin run out and hurriedly followed, only to see that he had crawled next to the pond, his mouth opened and closed but there was no sound, a little inexplicable, I had to look at him on the side, uh, like eating? I don't understand~
After a while I understood, because out of the water came a turtle, not very big, dirty, probably crawling out of the mud, and its mouth opened and closed, but there was no sound, just like watching a pantomime. Emotional Lao Jin is looking for someone to inquire about the news, this is good, but it's a pity that it's a turtle, if it's a little bird or something, you can know what happened on this mountain.
The two of them chatted for half an hour, and finally the mud turtle dived into the water, and Lao Jin got up and patted the mud on his body and told me that the rangers here are not simple, I said why is it not simple? Lao Jin said that the family in the water told him that the ranger here was originally a human, and then it was not, uh, this is a transformation I said, Lao Jin said that it is not like this, it is two people, the previous ranger left after doing it here for a while, for a long time there was no one here, and then one day someone came, and he lived in the stone building, and he usually did not go down the mountain, but stayed in the house, but it has been more than two hundred years.
Uh, that turtle has lived for more than 200 years? Well, it's not important, it seems that what I met must be this later person, I guess it's not a person, I haven't left for more than 200 years, can it be a person? I asked Lao Jin what that person was, and Lao Jin said that it was probably a mountain spirit. Mountain spirits? If I used to think that mountain spirits were traditional medicinal herbs, but recently I have been reading a lot of books and materials to know what mountain spirits are.
The mountain spirit is also called Xiaoyang, humanoid, but much taller than people, black face, with long hair on the body, and the most peculiar thing is that it has one leg, and the foot is the opposite, the heel is forward, I don't know what the specific ability is, I only know that it is basically harmless, usually hiding in the mountains and forests, and laughing when I see people.
The ranger I saw was obviously human, although it was a little dark, but I could still distinguish a few legs, no wonder the compass would fail, it seems that this mountain spirit is very powerful, according to Qiaoqiao and Lao Jin said that it will take hundreds of thousands of years, the more similar it is to humans, the more difficult it is to cultivate into a human form, so it's okay, if you don't come to the Guigu Gate, it's just that, come to see how they end.
I was thinking that I had a relationship with the mountain spirit, and I would be able to set a friendship or something when the time came, and when I looked up, I saw Lao Jin looking at my back with a frightened face, eh, this is saying that Cao Cao Cao has arrived? I felt cold in my back, and I turned my head with difficulty, and I didn't know if he recognized me~
When I turned my head, I didn't see the mountain spirit, but the uncle who pointed me down the mountain a few years ago, well, he was the mountain spirit. I swallowed and foamed at the mouth, and said Hello uncle, do you remember me? When I said this, he looked at me for a while and said, oh, it's you, didn't you tell you not to play in the mountains? Lost again?
Eh, I've been graduating for two or three years, okay, I wiped my cold sweat and said Uncle, we don't talk darkly, this time we are looking for people on the mountain, have you seen three flat heads coming to the mountain?
He said yes, the day before yesterday, three flatheads came up the mountain, I said what about people? He became a little wary and said you know them?
Eh, if you don't agree with each other, it's a bloody battle, we bleed~
Thinking of this, I quickly explained the matter to Uncle Shanjing, and with Lao Jin testifying on the side, I slowly dispelled his concerns, and then told us about Pingtou.
He said that since the early years, there have been such people who have come up to the mountains to trouble him, and they have sent several batches before and after, but one batch has been sent and another batch has come, and this is not the day before yesterday. What about people, I ask? How is this done?
He didn't speak, but said, "Who are you, what do you know?"
Well, this is really not easy to say, so I let Lao Jin show his true face, showed him the golden big turtle, and said Uncle, I know you are a mountain spirit, but don't be afraid, I am different from those people, you see that my friend is a turtle monster, we are a family.
Lao Jin also put away his true appearance, and talked to the mountain spirit about what happened to him, saying that they were all persecuted by Pingtou and them, and we don't beat our own people, this is really to the point, Uncle Mountain Jing completely let down his guard, tightened the vegetable basket in his hand and said follow me. Well, that's when I found out he's here to pick vegetables.
The mountain spirit has lived in the mountains and forests for a long time, as if the flowers and trees are under his control, and the ground that was originally overgrown with weeds and thorns opened up one by one in front of him, so we followed him to a cave on the back side of the mountain, this is a cave dwelling?
When I entered the cave, I asked my uncle, how did you move here? Isn't the stone building in front of it very good, but he said that it wasn't because of you college students, every once in a while someone runs up the mountain, and then more and more I don't want to be seen. Uh, okay, what's wrong with running around, do you know if it's dangerous?