The nature of the worm......

Loyal?

These words drilled into my head, and the corpses of the pile of ants in front of me seemed to be resurrected at this moment, lined up, and climbed up my body along my feet, densely packed all over my body!

Is this what I said?

Why would I say such a thing to a child? And I seem to have heard this somewhere.

"Uncle?"

The child's voice shattered the illusion in front of me.

I came back to my senses, but my breath was already a little rapid, "Huh? ”

I stared at the swarm of ant carcasses on the ground and asked, "You killed them?" ”

The child shook his head: "Of course it's not ......" After speaking, he overturned the pile of ants, and under those corpses, there was a hole the thickness of the child's little finger, which seemed to be an ant nest.

"Uncle said that their nature is loyalty, so even if they die, they want to go home, right? Give the last energy of your life for the queen ant...... Right, uncle? So, I'm helping them! ”

The boy's face showed an expression of obsession, which was not like what he should have at his age.

At that moment, it was as if time between us was frozen.

He looked at me with fiery eyes, as if he was eagerly waiting for my compliment on him.

But my brain was inexplicably blank.

Until, a big foot suddenly falls! Crush the ant nest and ant corpses!

This kick made me feel relieved.

When I looked up, I found that it was Cheng Haidong.

"What time is it, still playing with bugs here, go into the house, it's cold outside at night, and I'll give you a cold again!" He came to tell the child to go back to rest, and after speaking, he also smiled at me: "Brother Zuo, it's cold outside, let's go in and talk." ”

It's cold, but it's not supposed to be cold, and it's the height of summer.

"Hmm......" I was about to nod.

Suddenly, there was a sharp cry in his ears, and the child screamed wildly, hitting and kicking and biting Cheng Haidong, Cheng Haidong smiled and coaxed him into the house.

Perhaps, in Cheng Haidong's view, it was just a playful child who didn't want to go home to sleep in the evening.

But I clearly saw the real anger in the eyes of that child.

The twisted face of his screams, the hatred in his eyes, and the murderous intent! These are like so many murderers I've ever seen!

I looked down at the ant nest on the ground that was destroyed by Cheng Haidong.

As well as crushed ants.

Fall into icy contemplation.

"Hey, hey, I'll go...... This little rabbit cub is really annoying at the age of seven or eight, look at this bite for me! Cheng Haidong walked out of the house again, he covered his wrist, and there was a faint circle of bloody tooth marks underneath, "Brother Zuo, I just heard, are you still preparing to go up the mountain?" ”

"Hmm."

I got up, and although it was a little cold outside, I didn't have any intention of going inside. Maybe it's because of Cheng Haidong's cousin who has been standing at the door, staring at us stupidly.

I turned and walked to a row of wooden chairs in the courtyard and sat down, "Yes, I have this intention." ”

"Brother Zuo, you tell me the truth, what did you do, you, are you going to go up the mountain to hide?"

"I repeat, I haven't done anything. entered the mountain, just to repay his innocence...... Maybe I'd like to find something. ”

"Gotta get it, Brother Zuo, let's not mention whether to commit a crime or not. If you really want to do this, then I can't leave tomorrow. ”

I looked at him suspiciously, "What do you mean?" ”

He sat down at this time, leaned in front of me, and said with an exaggerated expression: "This mountain is very big, I also stayed in this village when I was a child, and there are people who can't get in and out of the mountain every once in a while." And this hill is a little wicked, you know? I know you don't believe that, but ...... Hey, I'm stupid, either you don't go, you have to go up, let's go together. ”

I really didn't expect that this kid actually wanted to go into the mountains with me.

I shook my head, "No, no. You leave tomorrow, I remember the favor you sent me here. ”

Cheng Haidong frowned: "Brother Zuo, if you talk like this, it's too outward." Aren't you looking for something, I've been idle lately, I'll just walk around with you, and we'll both be safe......"

"I said you can't go."

I don't know what exactly is on that mountain, but my amnesia and the strange things that have happened in the past two days have something to do with it, and I don't want to burden others and burden myself with more sins.

"Brother Zuo, don't you believe me?"

"Don't believe you, I let you pull me here? If you think too much, go back tomorrow, come to this place less, and live a good life. I patted Cheng Haidong on the shoulder.

"Alas......" Cheng Haidong sighed.

I suddenly thought of something, so I asked, "By the way, you just said that this mountain is a bit evil, what do you say?" ”

Cheng Haidong was quite surprised: "Brother Zuo, do you believe this too?" ”

"Just curious."

"This is an old story, when I was a child, our parents always told it, I'll tell you about it, Brother Zuo, you can listen to it."

Cheng Haidong turned around, supported his thigh with one hand, and began to recall: "It was said that it was quite many years ago, but it was still ancient, and the two armies were fighting!" At that time, near our village, at the foot of this mountain, it was a battlefield. There must be a winner or loser in this war, and the losing side will be beaten to the point where the armor is lost, and almost all the troops will be wiped out. But the general on that side, he died a lot, did not die on the battlefield, and hid in the mountains. ”

"Say that he is in this mountain, meet a fairy, cry with this fairy, say that he brought these soldiers are like his own brothers, this battle is fought, blood is flowing like a river, corpses are a mountain of bones, he is sorry for these brothers! Hate, unwilling! begged the gods to give him a chance, he wanted to turn the tables. The gods saw that he was pitiful, so they said that they could give him a chance, and resurrect his dead soldiers from the ground, and they rearranged their troops on the mountain. Then he lit a bonfire, deliberately set off smoke to show the enemies searching for him, lured the enemy up the hill, and destroyed them all. Not a single one left. ”

"But in this war in the world, it is difficult to say whether it is right or wrong, and the soldiers who died later are also people, and they also have grievances, and their grievances cannot be dispersed on this mountain all year round. Later, it was rumored that when you enter this mountain, you don't want to go out, and at night, those dead soldiers and generals will all become Yin soldiers, wandering around the mountains! And the voice, just the kind of battlefield slogan, the sound of fighting. When I was a child, I also went up the mountain, and at night I really saw the sound of squeaking and screaming, it was true. ”

"And actually, I don't know if it's the terrain or the situation, it's quite cold all year round. Don't look at the summer now, but the night is cool and swishing, just like autumn. But what's even stranger is that in winter, it doesn't like snow on this mountain, it's more like autumn...... It really gives people a very bleak feeling. ”

When Cheng Haidong tells a story, his eyebrows flutter, like a storyteller.

And about this legend......

I started to think, what is a legend? It's a story that has been passed down from mouth to mouth.

So the more it spreads, the more it tastes. So a lot of it doesn't have a lot of credibility.

But then again, no one will make up stories out of thin air, the rudiments of legends are real, but the versions are becoming more and more mysterious. So, excluding the conjectures of the ancients in this story, what is left?

It was the two armies that were at war.

One side was completely annihilated, and the remaining soldiers and horses fled into the mountains.

In the pursuit, the other side also died in this deep mountain.

Yes, exactly.

So, why did they die......

At this moment, there was a knock on the gate of the small courtyard, and a man's voice suddenly appeared, disturbing my thoughts: "Excuse me! You can spend the night here! ”

In addition to this man, there were all kinds of noises outside the door, and it seemed that many people were coming.