Chapter 4: The cry for help under the hillside
Just seeing this, I was already scared stupid, and I couldn't move at all, until someone found me, and I was carried home by my parents.
I can't remember what I went through on the way back, all I know is that when I got home, I vomited bile. For a long time after that, I was stupid, and some people said that I was scared out of my soul, and I might become a fool if I didn't call my soul back. So my parents took me to my grandmother, and after calling my soul, I don't know if it really worked or for some other reason, but it didn't take long for me to really regain my senses, and then I vomited for two days, and as soon as I ate, I remembered the picture I saw that day, and it took a long time to fully recover.
I don't know much about the aftermath of that incident, but I only remember that the atmosphere in the village was very oppressive during that time, and I basically didn't even dare to go out at night, and even during the day, few people entered the mountains. Later, I heard from the old man that the son of Uncle Zhang's family in the east of the village died in the back mountain with his dog that night, as if he had been dragged into the grave and suffocated to death. From then on, all the children in the village, including me, did not dare to leave the village at night, and the mountain behind us that we usually went to play on a daily basis became a forbidden place that we would never dare to set foot in the future.
The old people often say that the deep mountains and forests are easy to come out of ghosts, and there are all kinds of mountain spirits and wild monsters, and at night the yang energy is the weakest, and the yin energy is the most vigorous, and it is easy to be poisoned by these things, some are confused, and some are scared to death.
I look at Lin Qiao'er's current appearance, it is very likely that she is evil, otherwise it is impossible for her not to respond to my urgent call, if she does not respond, it is likely that she did not hear it, and the distance between me and her is not far, it is impossible not to hear it, so it is very likely that the ghost is blind.
Ghost Blind Eye, this is the saying in my hometown, which is similar to what most people have heard of ghost hitting the wall, but the ghost hitting the wall is just spinning around in one place and losing the sense of direction, while the ghost blind eye is that the consciousness is completely swayed, and everything that is heard and seen is guided. This kind of terrifying guidance will lead people who walk alone at night late at night to some dangerous places, such as the son of Uncle Zhang's family in the east of my hometown, who detoured more than ten miles of mountain roads in the middle of the night, and finally died in a deserted grave for some reason.
Thinking of this, I was anxious, seeing that Lin Qiao'er was about to disappear at the end of the light, I couldn't care about the weeds under my feet anymore, and strode over directly.
The wind was getting colder and colder, and a cold breath ran down my back to my neck, and my body did not feel warm at all because of the violent running, but a lot of cold sweat flowed down a lot. There was no road under my feet, potholes, and weeds, so I fell directly into the grass several times, and I was miserable, but what made me feel strange was that Lin Qiaoer, who had always been weak, ran fast in such an environment, no slower than me, and kept a distance from me.
I don't know how long I ran, I couldn't breathe, stopped, looked at the white figure at the end of the light, a sense of powerlessness rose in my heart, at this moment, my mobile phone suddenly rang, the cheerful ringtone in the silent night seems extremely harsh, this is the ringtone of my mobile phone call.
I was stunned, and while sighing in my heart that there was a signal in this barren mountain range, I wondered more, who would call me at this time? While panting, I took out my mobile phone, and at a glance, the three words of Sister Qiao'er shocked me.
This call turned out to be from Lin Qiao'er, I hurriedly looked up at the white shadow, only to see that the figure was still running, not calling at all.
I swallowed and pressed the connect button.
"Boom ......"
There was no speech on the other end of the phone, but there was a creepy sizzling sound, which lasted for more than ten seconds, and I finally couldn't bear it anymore and took the lead in shouting: "Sister Qiao'er, is it you?" ”
Suddenly, the extremely uncomfortable noise stopped without warning, and then a woman's whining cry came from the phone, the voice was full of grievances, I am sure, this is definitely not Lin Qiaoer's voice
"Who are you?" I hurriedly shouted, but the phone suddenly hung up.
A chill that was colder than the cold wind swelled up, and I stared at my phone, and I couldn't feel the tiredness of running just now. A series of questions arose in my heart, was the white shadow Lin Qiao'er, was she the one who called just now, and whose cry was it?
"Ahh Just as I was hesitating whether to continue chasing, there was a sudden exclamation in the distance, the sound was from the white shadow, and at the same time, I saw the figure flicker, seemed to fall, and then completely disappeared from my field of vision.
I recognized the scream, it must have been Lin Qiao'er's voice, she must have had an accident. This sudden accident disrupted my thinking, and I left my doubts behind. I thought to myself that I had to catch up quickly, and if she was in danger and I missed the time to save her because of hesitation, I would never forgive myself for the rest of my life.
Thinking of this, I no longer hesitated and quickly chased after her. The distance is not far away, only about 100 meters or so, when I chased her to the place where she fell, I only saw a steep slope that sloped downward, overgrown with lush shrubs, the steep slope went down, I used a flashlight to shine, and found that I couldn't see the bottom at all, and at this time I couldn't find Lin Qiaoer's figure, I couldn't help but panic, could it be that she fell?
I looked down the slope, the dense bush was deep and dark, and by the light of the flashlight, I could vaguely see many fallen vines, which looked very terrifying against the background of the mottled shadows of the surrounding trees.
"Sister Qiao'er!" I shouted a few times down the slope, but I still didn't receive a response, and just now I could see clearly that Lin Qiao'er was indeed in this position and suddenly disappeared, but now there is no trace of anything rolling off under my feet.
At this time, a warm breath rose from my chest, my tense nerves all the way were slightly relaxed, my brain seemed to be suddenly awake, I felt that things were unusual, and then remembered the previous phone call, when I looked at the slope again, I couldn't help but shiver, and when I wanted to turn around, there was an exclamation from the bottom of the slope, but this time, the voice was no longer the voice I was familiar with, but the voice I heard on the phone before.
"Ah......h
The same cry became extremely sharp and gloomy at this time, and at this time, there was only one thought in my mind, run! However, just when I turned around and just took a step, I suddenly tripped over something under my feet, and the body that should have fallen forward actually fell backwards, I screamed, and my hands subconsciously grabbed to both sides, but what I didn't expect was that I really grabbed something, barely stabilized my body, fortunately, I turned my head to look, and suddenly my scalp was numb, and I almost fainted with fright.
It was a face as white as paper, without the slightest blood, and it looked very strange and eerie against the light of the flashlight, and two godless eyes stared straight at me.
I was completely stunned, standing in place at a loss, already covered in cold sweat, frozen for a moment, the owner of the face did not move, I noticed that something was wrong, slowly turned the flashlight, when the light moved away from his face, I realized that it was actually a paper man.
In this barren mountain and wilderness, how can there be such a paper figure that is only used in funerals? And this paper figure is very new, and it is estimated that it was only recently thrown here.
"Holy shit, which son of a son did it?" I cursed in my heart to give myself courage, but it didn't seem to help. I looked around, but I didn't find a new tomb, let alone a new tomb, except for the dark and deep woods under the slope, there is no half of the desolate tomb, so the owner of this paper figure is probably buried in the woods below the slope.
Funerals, for anyone, are serious, solemn, and cannot be desecrated, but for outsiders, encountering these has always been regarded as unlucky, unlucky, and so on. This notion has been maintained throughout the history of the nation several years ago. Of course, for me, this idea is just as much as consciousness, even stronger than the average person.
When I was very young, whenever someone died in the village, on the day of the funeral, when the coffin carrying the procession passed by my door, my mother would always lock me in the house and tell me that children should not look at these things, and sometimes, there would always be some paper people left on the road after the funeral, and there were mourning sticks hanging with white flowers. He will even find a gentleman to do things to exorcise evil spirits......
It can be seen from this how taboo the living are about the things of the dead, and now, Lin Qiao'er has not found it, and I am alone in the middle of the night in the unknown barren mountains and mountains and encountered a paper piercing man, if I had a weaker mentality, maybe I would have been scared to death a long time ago.
I couldn't help but feel more and more that something was wrong, and now that I think about it, the white figure just now, the kind of walking posture that has no shaking amplitude at all, and this paper figure ...... The more I thought about it, the more I felt that this paper figure looked terrible, and my back became colder and colder.
I'm not looking for it! I made up my mind, it was already five o'clock in the morning, and it was very early at this time, and I would wait two hours at most, and it would be dawn, and when it was dawn, I would figure out what to do.
With a certain thought, I was about to go back the way I came, but when I turned on the flashlight to find the way back, I found that the road I had just stepped on was no longer available.
Worst! I secretly screamed in my heart that it was not good, I was busy chasing people just now, and I didn't pay attention to how far I chased it out, and now when I look back, I can't see the car for a long time.
At this time, I began to break out in a cold sweat, my courage was not big, if I hadn't seen the paper man, if I hadn't received that phone call, maybe I could have been here honestly until dawn, but the voice on the phone just now, as well as the terrible paper tie in front of me, and the uncomfortable cold feeling when I heard the sound from the woods down the slope just now, all hinted that there was something unusual in my woods.
Under these strong hints, I imagined countless images of what might happen next, such as a female ghost with a long tongue suddenly coming out of the slope, such as the eerie paper man suddenly pounced on me, such as ......
I shuddered, forcing myself not to think about it, but these images kept coming to my mind. There is no road, I don't know the direction at all, it's impossible to go back, in case I don't find the car at that time, but break into the deep mountains, that's the end, Yunnan and Guizhou are not compared to other places, here the mountains are continuous, there are many poisonous insects and beasts, get lost in the deep mountains, that is equivalent to being sentenced to death.
Fortunately, the paper figure didn't move, and the female ghost didn't crawl out of the slope as I expected, which made me breathe a sigh of relief. I shifted my position back and distanced myself from the paper figure until I couldn't see it at all, then I found a place full of hay, shrunk up, and stared intently around.
Dawn is coming, the cold wind has already stopped howling, but the temperature at this time is the lowest, the low temperature and the fear in my heart make my whole body cold, shivering, teeth fighting, the sky is still dark, even darker than just now, my flashlight is charged three days ago, and two days ago when I stayed up late to squat to run the material has been used up most, and then I forgot to charge, now the light is obviously a little unsustainable.
I turned off the flashlight for a while, and the surroundings suddenly fell into inky darkness, and my brain, which had finally calmed down, began to think crankily again, and I always felt that something was approaching in front of me, and I could even detect the outline of the thing in the dark, but when I turned on the flashlight, there was nothing. This is the illusion of people facing the darkness alone, but I can't help but care about this feeling, and slowly, just when my nerves are tense to the extreme, a piercing bell rings, which seems extremely abrupt in the silent night.
I was startled by the sudden sound, but then I reacted, this is the ringtone of my mobile phone call, is it Lin Qiaoer's mobile phone calling?
With an uneasy mood, I took out my mobile phone, and when I looked at it, sure enough, the call reminder clearly showed the three words Sister Qiao'er. For a moment, I felt a little suffocated, looking at the call prompt and I didn't know what was wrong, in my heart, I was extremely reluctant to answer, after all, the voice in the mobile phone just now was too terrifying, but if I didn't answer, in case it was really Lin Qiao'er calling, and it was asking me for help, it would be bad.
After thinking about it for a while, I gritted my teeth and pressed the answer button.
What relieved my heart was that after two seconds of silence on the phone at first, Lin Qiaoer's familiar voice sounded: "Xiaoyi, where are you?" Are you okay? ”
The sweet voice dissipated the fear in my heart a lot, and while I was at ease, I hurriedly replied: "Sister Qiao'er, I'm fine, where are you now, I'll come to you!" ”
"I'm here in the car, what's wrong with you just now, suddenly yelling and running into the grass pond, no matter how I call you, don't answer, you run too fast, I don't have a flashlight, I can't catch up with you, I'll go back to the car first, you're fine, come back quickly, I'm so scared!"
The voice on the other end of the phone was a little urgent, but her words shocked me, and I hurriedly asked, "I run?" I was chasing you just now! ”
"What nonsense are you talking about?" The voice on the other end of the phone was a little inexplicable, obviously she didn't understand what I said, and I felt a chill in my heart, and a bad feeling welled up in my heart, so I briefly recounted what had just happened.
As soon as my voice fell, the voice on the other end of the phone became worried and panicked: "I didn't get out of the car, I've been in the car, just now you looked at the photo, suddenly opened the car door and rushed down, I haven't reacted, you're gone, and there has been no signal just now, I have made many calls and haven't gotten through, this is just connected!" ”
Lin Qiao'er was still talking, but I couldn't listen to anything anymore, and I suddenly realized that maybe it wasn't her who was blinded by the ghost just now, but me, and I was blinded by the ghost.
The chill is rising, at this time, the fear in my heart has reached the point where it can not be suppressed, if I am really blinded by the ghost, how can the thing that fascinated my eyes make us hide so unscathed and wait until dawn, it will definitely move, it will definitely harm me!
My mind was completely occupied by these thoughts, and I looked around as if something was watching over me. Lin Qiaoer's voice on the other end of the phone became more anxious, she kept comforting me, telling me to stay where I was and not to move, I held the phone tightly, like a person who can't swim in the water, clutched the only life-saving straw, I asked her not to hang up the phone, because the only thing that can ease the fear in my heart at this time is her voice.
However, just as my spirit was about to collapse, the voice on the other end of the phone suddenly changed......
The cacophony of cacophony irritated my nerves, and I felt a suffocating despair, and then, the cacophony suddenly disappeared, and a faint voice rang out: "Help, help......"
I swooped to my feet, and then I felt like my whole body was occupied by a cold breath, unable to move, I don't know if this was my reaction after a nervous breakdown or if I was controlled by something, in short, I couldn't hear anything in my head except the faint cry for help.
The sound kept ringing, from far to near, and it felt as if the sound was not coming from the phone, but slowly approaching me from the bottom of the slope, and the fear became numb, and my consciousness began to blur, and at this moment, jingle bell, jingle bell......
A clear bell rang, and then I heard the cry for help from far and near turn into a vicious wail, which gradually faded away, and the coldness that invaded my whole body gradually dissipated. At that moment, I collapsed and began to blur my consciousness, and before I could completely lose consciousness, I saw a white paper-binding figure.