60. Midnight Terror
The appearance of this vine is too strange, although Ma Yun and I are very curious about this matter in our hearts, but this phenomenon has always been unheard of, since we can't think of a reason, we quickly put this little episode behind us.
I dragged a bag of strange stones and followed Ma Yun in the direction of her house. Ma Yun generously invited me to her house to rest for a night when she learned that I was homeless, and I naturally readily agreed.
The fireball in front led the way, and a long trail was dragged out of the snow by a sack of stones behind me, and the feeling of exhaustion paralyzed my sense of time, until Ma Yun, who was leading the way in front, stopped and said, "It's here." ”
I looked over her body and ahead, but it was empty, except for a small hill covered in snow.
"Where is your home?"
Ma Yun pointed to the mountain wall in front of him and said, "It's right here." ”
Seeing my puzzled expression, Ma Yun no longer sold Guanzi, she waved her hand, and the fireball that was originally floating in front of us to guide us instantly smashed into the mountain wall, only to hear a loud sound, and the snow on the small hill was slid down by the fireball so violently, and in front of us, a narrow cave mouth was revealed.
I stared at the cave in amazement, and said, "Your family...... Living in a cave? ”
"yes, how's that? This cave is magnificent, right? ”
Me: "......"
Seeing my helpless expression, Ma Yun suddenly said: "Oh, by the way, I forgot that you are a person who has just arrived in this world, and you don't know much about many things." Let me tell you, people who come to this world dream of making a cave for themselves, which is a status symbol, otherwise they will have to go to the hotel and crowd the bunks. ”
Hearing this, the corners of my eyes twitched slightly, and I really wanted to say that I would rather go to the shop, but when I thought that if this aunt and grandmother were provoked, and let me go to find a hotel by myself in the icy and snowy environment, then I would die.
Thinking of this, I can only say against my will: "This house is really magnificent." ”
Ma Yun nodded in agreement and said, "Right?" Even if you have a vision, I have rescued a few victims in the past, those people are really blind, saying that my cave is dilapidated, how can people live in the place where ants live, let's go, it's cold outside, let's go in quickly. ”
I secretly wiped the black lines on my forehead and followed her to the cave in a muffled voice.
After I walked around the cave, I instantly felt that the previous victims were really right, this cave really looks like a place where ants live, the whole cave is like a branch, in addition to the main cave of the cave, there are several small caves scattered like leaves, and I even found a few ant corpses in the corner.
Ma Yun pointed to a cave and said, "You can sleep here tonight." ”
I nodded, and was about to turn to leave, when I suddenly remembered that I was dragging a bag of strange stones called 'coins', and asked, "These...... Where does the money go? ”
Ma Yun hesitated for a moment and said, "Just let it go with you, you can help me keep it for one night." ”
"What?" I was surprised: "This is all money, aren't you afraid that I will get up in the middle of the night and run away with this money?" ”
Ma Yun gritted her teeth and insisted: "It's better for you to keep it, it's safer in your hands than in my hands." ”
This is really strange, as the saying goes, there must be a demon when things go wrong, is this another clever deception? Let the guests keep the money, and then get up in the middle of the night to hide the money, and then ask me the next day to ask the teacher, another kind of fraud?
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but shudder, and I hurriedly waved my hand to refuse: "No, what is this saying?" How can a host keep money in the hands of a guest? It's not appropriate, it's really inappropriate. ”
Ma Yun said angrily: "Okay, if you want to keep it, let you keep it, it's really much safer for you than for me." ”
Under my repeated refusal, Ma Yun finally explained the reason.
It turned out that Ma Yun's fortune was particularly strange, no matter how many stones she collected when she went out hunting, as long as she fell asleep that night, and when she got up early the next morning, these stones were guaranteed to disappear completely, and there was nothing left, even if she slept with this sack of stones at night, it would be useless.
She also said that one night she slept with a stone in her mouth, only to come the next morning with the stone in her mouth still missing.
Of course I didn't believe in such a strange thing, and I felt more and more that she must be lying to me, but in the end I accepted the offer because:
"Tonight, you'll either keep my coins for me, or you'll go outside and sleep in the snow, the choice is yours."
I lay peacefully on the bed, but I was conflicted.
After tossing all night, I am so sleepy now, my eyelids have been trembling, but when I thought that Ma Yun was likely to use this sack of money to blackmail me, I was so shocked that my eyes widened, and I didn't dare to leave the position of the sack at all.
But in the end, sleepiness overcame my consciousness, and I finally fell asleep.
I don't know how long I slept, but in my sleep, I suddenly felt a slight noise around me.
"Could it be Ma Yun who came to steal the money bag?"
The thought suddenly crossed my mind, and I was suddenly awakened.
As soon as I opened my eyes, a pair of eyes suddenly appeared in front of me! It's only twenty centimeters away from me.
These eyes, with their blue pupils, were staring at me very calmly, very deep, a little scary.
Whose eyes are these? Is it human, or is it ...... Hell? If it's a ghost......
An inexplicable sense of fear suddenly crept up into my heart, and I had a layer of fine goosebumps all over my body, even though my body was wrapped in a warm cover, I still felt an inexplicable chill hit my whole body, and the hairs behind my neck and shin stood up.
I gasped, and my only reaction was to subconsciously pull the bedding from my chest and abdomen to the top of my head, wrap my whole body tightly in the bedding, and shrug up in the bed.
Regardless of whether the other party is a human or a ghost, my trick doesn't seem to be of much use...... But it was my first reaction.
I fumbled for the lighter in my trouser pocket, and said to myself: "Hallucination, all this is an illusion, stick your head out, there must be nothing outside." There are no ghosts in the world at all, someone must be pretending to be a ghost......"
"No, no, no, you can't stick your head out, just in case...... In case this is really a ......."
I quietly pulled a slit in the cover and looked out carefully.
I lit a lighter and looked around by the light of the fire, and there was nothing in front of the bed.
I secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that it is really an illusion, where is the ghost in this world, scare yourself." ”
I extinguished the lighter and slipped my hand out of the icy air into the bed.
Suddenly, a hand that was so cold that there was no trace of temperature grabbed my wrist tightly.