Chapter Forty-Three: The Abandoned Old Barracks

I slowly drove the car closer to the black mush, and finally saw clearly, it was a lot of bungalows! Some are made of stones, some are made of dry bases, and there are hundreds of them! Obviously, they were abandoned, the roofs of many houses were gone, all the doors and windows had been dug up, the headlights were shining brightly on the ruined walls, and the doors and windows were black and hollow, and they looked terrible......

Without the Big Dipper, it is possible to go around in circles as long as you walk forward.

I parked the car,

The houses are all north facing south, and at least one thing can be reassured that we have been driving towards the north.

I grabbed my flashlight and got out of the car to check.

Monsoon followed me closely, and Fox Mountain followed her.

A few more people followed.

I suspect that this is the old Kaiping of the Peacock River, and these are abandoned barracks after the army's nuclear test. The old opening screen, taking the meaning of the peacock opening the screen, is the same as the ingots (original bomb village), in order to commemorate the success of the first *** explosion in 1964.

Sure enough, on the walls of a row of bungalows, I saw several already mottled slogans: Serve the people. This place should not be far from the forward bridge where Yu Chunshun went back then.

The wind was strong, and some strange sounds came from the empty bungalow, as if there was a "click" of paper.

I couldn't help but think of the empty closed gate village.

In a nameless deep mountain at the junction of Qinyang City and Shanhe Town, Jincheng City, there is a "closed door village", which means that the door is closed, that is, the man can not marry a daughter-in-law, and the woman can not have children, and in 1982, the whole village moved, leaving a complete village, but no one was seen, which was extremely gloomy.

Chinese taboo ghosts, souls, dirty things, evil things, etc., and they must avoid coffins, paper money, and life clothes from afar. The line between the living and the dead is also drawn. Fengmen Village is different, they "can't leave the village when they die", and they can't bury people outside the village after they die, so they find a place near their homes to bury them. Therefore, the valley where the village is located is called the Valley of Ghosts, "there are bones in the ditch and there are ghosts in the bends". Moreover, the dead are buried wearing masks. After death, Chinese pay attention to clear ears and eyes and do not cover foreign objects, why should the body be buried with a mask in the closed door village? Some people believe that because people and ghosts live in the same village, in order to suppress the ghosts, they put masks on the dead corpses.

The village has hundreds of houses in the architectural style of the Ming and Qing dynasties, located in the deep mountains and old forests, there are a number of people, a total of 39 houses, more than 200 rooms. In traditional Chinese feng shui, houses are generally oriented north-south, but Fengmen Village is different, they are all built against feng shui, either east-west or oblique, regardless of the feng shui pattern, doors and windows are opposite, and it is not taboo to wear through the hall. There is only one house in the whole village that is facing north-south. Coupled with the twists and turns of the village road, the whole looks like a maze. Some say that it was so that the geists could not get out of the village.

Let's talk about the worship of Fengmen Village. There is a temple in the village, which is not dedicated to Buddha or god, but to two strange dolls, a pair of statues of men and women dressed in official uniforms of the Ming Dynasty. Some scholars have speculated that there are two possibilities for this couple, one may be a more prominent ancestor, but the ancestors are mostly enshrined in the ancestral hall of a certain clan in the form of tablets, rather than in the temple for the whole village to worship. So there is another possibility, this pair of statues is not a human statue, but a ghost statue, that is to say, the people who worship in the closed village may be ghosts.

In fact, Fengmen Village was formerly known as Fengmen Village. From the perspective of the theory of yin and yang, the ancients believed that the entire orientation of 90 degrees to the southeast was the most auspicious area, which was called the "wind gate".

In the only north-south facing house in the village, there is a Taishi chair, although the house has been abandoned, but the Taishi chair is always spotless......

Many people went on an expedition, and when a group of travelers crossed the Fengmen Village, all the team members lost their things, even their backpacks and tents were magically gone.

A team of travelers stayed overnight in the river valley of Fengmen Village, and a frail female teammate suddenly went into shock by the bonfire, and then began to cry and talk nonsense.

A group of travelers also stayed overnight in the area of Fengmen Village, and in the middle of the night, there was a heavy fog, and a strange shout came from an empty house in the village: "Zhang Jie...... Zhang Jie ......"

A certain TV station went to shoot a program, and their walkie-talkie had no signal more than 30 meters from Fengmen Village.

There is an even more terrible one, saying that in 1963, three people from Zhengzhou went to Fengmen Village to sketch, just in time for the funeral a few days ago, a family of three died violently, according to local customs, on the way out of the funeral, the pillow that the deceased slept on before his death was thrown in the middle of the road, and was kicked into the ditch by three sketchers, and it happened that they were arranged to sleep in the mourning family at night, so, in the middle of the night, each of them found a face next to the pillow......

The above is all hearsay and cannot be trusted.

But now I'm actually breaking into an old barracks that has been abandoned for decades.

I whispered to Monsoon, "Why are you so close to me?" ”

Monsoon said: "I'm worried about danger. ”

I said, "Then you should stay in the car." ”

Monsoon said, "I'm afraid you're in danger!" ”

I said, "Can you protect me?" ”

Monsoon said, "I have a gun." ”

I looked at her, and sure enough, her hands were hidden under the clothes behind her back.

I stepped through the scattered masonry and stepped into a windowless window. The door to this room was blocked by sand, and the window was just over a foot high, and I jumped in, but it was more than a meter deep and almost broke my foot.

Monsoon and Linghushan didn't jump in, they stood at the window and looked in.

I looked around with my flashlight, and I saw a hanging bottle holder, standing diagonally on the wall, there was a lot of broken glass on the ground, and there was only a whole bottle, a bottle that resembled that kind of glucose, dirty, lying on the ground, and some sand was poured into it. It seems that this place used to be a very large hospital.

Who ordered the hanging bottle here?

What disease did he have?

It all happened before I was born. The nurse back then should be in her 70s now, I don't know if she is still alive......

Meng Xiaoshuai ran over and said, "What kind of place is this!" ”

Her tone turned out to be very novel.

I said, "The old barracks of the army." ”

Meng Xiaoshuai took out his mobile phone and said to Ji Feng: "Come, take a picture of me!" ”

Monsoon said, "What if I can't photograph your people?" ”

Meng Xiaoshuai said: "It will flash automatically!" ”

Monsoon didn't say anything more and took her phone.

Meng Xiaoshuai stood in front of the slogan "Serve the People" and posed in a very beautiful pose, and Monsoon "snapped" and took three or four photos of her. Meng Xiaoshuai ran over and took the phone to look.

I waited for her to scream.

She didn't scream.

I crawled out of it, and Monsoon came up to me and whispered, "Boss Zhou, let's leave quickly." ”

I said, "Why?" ”

She whispered, "I saw something......"

I said, "What's that?" ”

She whispered again, "It looks like a figure." ”

Meng Xiaoshuai jumped next to me in one step: "Monsoon!" You scare me! ”

Monsoon looked back at Linghu Mountain and asked, "You didn't see it?" ”

Linghushan said, "I didn't see it." ”

Monsoon said, "It's strange. When I took a picture of Xiao Shuai, a figure really appeared behind her......"

I said, "You're dazzled!" ”

Then, I said to Meng Xiaoshuai: "You give me your phone." ”

Meng Xiaoshuai handed me the phone, I opened the photos, zoomed in and looked at it, my head was big with a "boom", and in the third photo, in the window behind Meng Xiaoshuai, there was really a black shadow, very much like a person!

I said, "Give me the gun." ”

Monsoon said, "What are you going to do?" ”

I said, "I'll go and have a look." ”

Monsoon said, "No need, let's go!" ”

I said, "It's so cloudy, we can't go!" ”

She pulled the gun out of her back and handed it to me.

I said, "Perhaps, the Pengamu who has been missing for decades is hiding in this barracks......

"If you find this person, you can't trust him, no matter who he says he is," Monsoon said. ”

I asked Ling Hushan: "Do you know all your people?" ”

Ling Hushan shook his head.

I asked, "Can you tell if it's yours?" ”

Ling Hushan nodded affirmatively.

I said, "If you follow me to find someone and find someone, if you call me Zhou Dedong, it means that he is your person." If you call me Boss Zhou, I know he's not your person. If you're not sure, don't talk. ”

Ling Hushan said: "Understood. ”

Then, he hesitated for a moment and whispered, "If this person is my father or my mother, I ask you not to shoot and spare their lives." ”

I said, "It depends." ”

Then, I said to Monsoon: "You and Meng Xiaoshuai go back to the car, tell everyone about the situation, and don't let anyone come." ”

Monsoon took Meng Xiaoshuai and retreated.

I took Linghu Mountain and slowly approached the windowless window, and the figure disappeared in this empty house.

I looked in from the windowsill and saw no one, but the back wall of the house had fallen down, and there was a big opening, and if there had been anyone just now, they would have left there.

I jumped in and walked out of the gap.

With so many houses, so many black windows, and black lights, it's hard to find a single person.

There were piles of masonry and tiles scattered on the ground, and the burnt purlins made it difficult to walk. I looked east and west, and I saw traces of engine oil in a few empty houses, and some dirty machine parts, which should be car companies.

I found that the barracks here were endless, almost like a small city. There's no way I'm going to find that person.

I also saw a long strip of hard flat ground, paved with gravel, which was supposed to be an airstrip. I even saw a huge underground fortification, the entrance was all collapsed, and some garbage was thrown in, and it was black and mushy inside, blowing cold wind......

I took Linghu Mountain and retreated step by step.

The empty house was like a labyrinth, and I was afraid I wouldn't be able to get out.

We walked through the passage between the houses and headed back towards the headlights.

As I walked, I smelled a smell similar to roasted bud rice! Someone!

I grabbed my gun, followed the smell of fireworks in the world, and walked slowly forward, and finally stopped in front of a row of houses. The row of houses had a vested roof, and the door panels were also there, ajar.

The air was filled with the smell of burnt firewood.

I carefully opened the door panel, squeaked, and then I shone my flashlight in, and a man crouched on the ground, rummaging through the ashes. He turned his head suddenly—it turned out to be Linghu Mountain!