The sound of a man and a woman talking in the distance caught my attention.

Pure Mandarin, it should not be Vietnamese. They seem to be looking for someone. It's just that at this point in time, it seems to be a strange thing to quietly come to such a hidden village to find someone.

Du Youlan and I glanced at each other, and each other was a little curious.

At this time, the man in front suddenly turned his head and asked in a low voice in the direction of me and Du Youlan, "Who...... Who's over there? ”

Along with the sound comes the light of a flashlight.

I waved my hand: "Passing by, traveler." ”

"General ...... Mandarin? The man's voice was a little agitated, and the beam of the flashlight swept twice over Du Youlan's body and me, as if to confirm our clothing. Then, he pulled the girl next to him and walked towards me, "Thank God, thank God, I didn't expect to meet people from the motherland here." Are you traveling? How did you get to this place? ”

Just now I was wondering if he was a little more angry or a little more afraid.

Now that he's so enthusiastic, I probably understand.

"Traveling with no purpose, going anywhere, happened to be here. What about you? I just overheard your conversation, and it looks like I'm looking for something? So, I accosted him.

"Ah, yes, something went wrong." The man smiled awkwardly, swept his gaze around, and asked, "Oh yes, it's not too early, are you planning to stay here tonight?" ”

He seemed to be changing the subject, and seemed reluctant to tell me what they had just said about losing someone.

Why?

I didn't ask him right away, but I followed his question and responded, "Yes." ”

"Coincidentally, it's better to be together, brother, I know a villager near here, the people are very nice, and they can speak Chinese, I lived with him when I came here before!"

The man looked very excited when he spoke, but no matter how he looked at it, he looked like a liar, at least there was something wrong with the villager he said.

I smiled and responded, "Really? Then I'm in luck. But aren't you looking for something, did you say you stayed two days ago, or a long time ago? ”

The man was stunned for a moment, quickly smiled, and responded: "No, I also lived here two days ago, and it's the family I said, it's very good!" ”

"It's so good, so something was lost at their house?"

The man's expression was embarrassed, and he quickly explained: "I lost it, but I must have forgotten somewhere, and it has nothing to do with the villagers." ”

"But I just heard you say, 'Old things will hide during the day,' why should you hide? Oh, you're so hospitable, so you feel like you're in the situation, and you're embarrassed to find something that you lost? ”

The man's face froze, and he stammered and continued to change his words: "Actually, yes, he took something from me, but it's not worth much, I haven't seen much of the world in this kind of poor and remote place, and it's understandable." But the old man is not bad in nature, and at least he is the only person here who understands Chinese. The people in this village don't know English, so they can't communicate at all, so you can only live with the old man! ”

Therefore, it is very difficult to tell a lie, and if a lie is exposed, you have to use another remedy, and in the end you will make yourself strange and incoherent.

I didn't want to tease him anymore, so I asked directly: "So, the old man who has never seen the world and is not bad in nature just stole the sister of the girl next to you, it's not a big problem?" Then it seems that your understanding of the nature is not bad is really very inclusive. ”

"You...... You, did you hear it all? I, we were just so far away, so far away......" The man stammered, and even looked at me with a little fear.

The girl next to him tugged at his clothes vigorously, "Oops, you're enough!" Don't fool others! ”

When the girl came to me, she first bowed her head and apologized: "I'm sorry big brother, we are telling a lie." But I really encountered a very strange thing, now I feel isolated, it is rare to see you, I want to be together, and I am afraid that you will be scared away, so I ...... So, in fact, we need help. ”

"The old man you spoke of?" I asked.

The girl nodded.

I continued: "Then let's talk about it, and lead the way by the way. ”

The man looked at me in surprise: "You want to go with us?" ”

"I'm going to spend the night, didn't you say, he can speak Chinese?" Easy to communicate with, pretty good. ”

"But, but it's okay to stay overnight, in fact, I just want to find someone to help me strengthen my courage......" The lie was exposed, and the man no longer lied to me, and he was embarrassed when he spoke: "That old man is not a normal person." ”

Men began to tell their stories.

Some time ago, a man and his girlfriend had a quarrel over some trivial matters in life, and it was the girl in front of him. The couple quarreled and broke up, or the girl unilaterally lost her temper and wanted to break up, so she went to Vietnam with her sister and brother-in-law to travel and relax. The man also chased after him, and in fact the four of them came together.

They don't have any destinations in Vietnam, they don't plan their routes, they buy tickets at the bus stops, and everything is at the mercy of fate. After a few shuttles, they found that the route arranged by fate was getting more and more remote, but they were also happy. The men got off the bus on the last bus and arrived in a strange town, where the man and his girlfriend quarreled again, so they separated, the man stayed alone in the city, and his girlfriend, his sister, and her brother-in-law left the town and came to the village.

Ancient villages, war relics, everything is so attractive when you first come here.

But something went wrong, the people here are a little strange, they look at people with cold eyes, and there are few smiles on their faces, they don't understand Chinese or English. And the three girls can't speak Vietnamese, so communication is very troublesome. At night, several people decide to stay overnight, and this trouble is magnified.

They kept walking towards the depths of the village, and then they ran into a few local villagers, who were just very cold and unfriendly during the day, and at night they didn't know what kind of wind was smoking, and after muttering a lot of words in front of them that they could not understand, they actually picked up all kinds of farm tools and prepared to attack them!

Several people fled aimlessly, and at some point, they actually threw away the villagers here. But although there are few people in this village, the place is not small, the route is complicated, and because it is dark, several people are lost. It was then that they met the old man.

It was an old man with a pipe in his mouth, his hair almost gone, but his beard was thick, and he smelled of smoke. His face was wrinkled, even his scalp was wrinkled, and he was at least eighty years old. It would have been scary for such a person to suddenly pop up in the middle of the night. The girls were also startled, but they didn't expect that the old man would speak a word in Chinese and ask who they were, why were they here at such a late hour?

The frightened few people suddenly heard familiar language, and no matter what the other party's image was, they all became their dependence at this time.

Several people explained the cause and effect, and the old man said that the people in this place are like this, very xenophobic, and it is very dangerous to wander around this village at night.

The old man said that his family lived near this village, and he could stay with a few people.

So, they went with the old man to a thatched hut in the woods at the bottom of the village slope. At first, I didn't think it was very strange, the old man was very hospitable, there were two beds in the grass house, he gave the bed to the girl and others, and slept on the ground by himself, and said that he had been alone for a long time, and it was rare to have someone to accompany him. Then several people chatted with the old man, and they chatted for a long time, but the old man spoke with a donkey's lips and a horse's mouth, and before he said that he was a soldier and could speak Chinese because he was a mixed race and his mother was Chinese. Later, he changed his words and said that the young man used to be in business, lost money in business, was chased all the way, and hid here.

In the end, he even claimed to have grown poppies in the Golden Triangle......

At that time, they didn't pay much attention to it, they just thought that the old man was old and couldn't remember things clearly, so he should listen to a joke.

And the real weirdness is in the middle of the night.

Although there are two beds, and my sister and brother-in-law are husband and wife, my sister still chooses to sleep with my sister. In the middle of the night, the girl had a dream, it was a very strange dream, it was pitch black, she could not see anything, but she could hear a sound, and the sound rustled, as if she were in quicksand.

There is nothing really terrible about this dream, but when I am in the dream, there is an indescribable feeling of depression, like mental suffocation, as if the whole body has been stripped away. The girl was short of breath and woke up suddenly, and when she opened her eyes, she found that her sister was also staring at her with wide eyes.

The foreheads of both of them were covered with dense beads of sweat.

At that time, my sister asked the girl: Sister, what's wrong with you, are you uncomfortable?

The girl shook her head, indicating that it was a nightmare.

The younger sister's eyes widened and she responded, waking herself up from a nightmare. The sister told her dream, and the girl was surprised that it was exactly the same as the dream she had just had.

Is it a coincidence?

Sisters, perhaps, although the two are not twins.

My sister began to reminisce about the events of the day and evening, and always felt that everything was strange, and asked my sister if this village was haunted, right? The girl began to comfort her sister. Soon, the two fell asleep again.

But I didn't sleep long before I was awakened again.

This time, I didn't have any nightmares, but I heard some strange voices in reality, and they were right next to them! The two of them looked at the other bed in the hut at the same time, and there was a rickety black figure standing beside the bed, licking his brother-in-law's face repeatedly......

My sister screamed at the time!

The dark shadow turned around, it was the old man who had taken them in!

Only at this moment, the old man's face was extremely distorted, and in the darkness, it seemed that he had become another person, and his eyes were hideous, staring at the two sisters. Because the younger sister was worried about her husband, she grabbed the pillow at the head of the bed and smashed it at the old man, so the three of them scuffled together.

Although the old man is old, in the case of two to one, the two sisters are still not his opponents.

In the process of scuffling, the girl was pushed to the ground by the old man, hit her head on a stake at the base of the wall, fainted, and in the short time before she completely fell into a coma, she seemed to hear her sister ask the old man what he was going to do.

The old man seemed to respond that he was saving people and helping them to get free.

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