Convincing them, I took my torch and stick and swaggered out into the misty woods. At that moment, I felt the eyes coming from behind me full of adoration.

I was proud, and my pace was faster, and I soon reached the edge of the forest. At this time, the moon happened to be hanging obliquely in the sky of Yeling Mountain, and the trees at the edge of the forest were not luxuriant, and the bright moonlight scattered to the ground in front of me through the sparse treetops, and the dark shadows of the trees happened to envelop me.

I stopped at the edge of the woods, looked in, and found nothing unusual, but the mist that was always wafting in the depths of the woods, mixed with the heavy darkness, created an extremely eerie atmosphere.

At that time, I was just a little kid after all, and although I was bold, after seeing the situation inside, my heart suddenly retreated.

However, the cowhide has been blown out, and if they quit now, they will not be able to laugh off their big teeth, and how will they mix in the village in the future?

After thinking about it again, I still gritted my teeth and made up my mind to go in, and after I went in, I went around the edge of the place, and I didn't go deeper.

Thinking about it, I raised my foot and was about to step in, but the devil sent me to look behind me. It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, under this look, the hairs on my whole body suddenly exploded, and I saw that behind the two tigers, a group of hideous-looking and hideous ghosts floating in the air were fluttering behind them with their teeth and claws, and they, as if they didn't notice it at all, pointed at me with a shocked face, their mouths kept changing, and their hands kept gesturing at me, as if shouting something.

They looked anxiously at me and opened their mouths wide, but I couldn't hear anything. In a hurry, I waved to them and kept pointing back, trying to tell them to run to me, but the sound seemed to be blocked in my throat, and even I couldn't hear it.

Now I was really anxious, and wanted to go back and pull them over, but at this moment, I found that the face of Xiao Laizi in the crowd was completely distorted, he raised his hand and pointed at me, and then stepped back step by step, that kind of expression, completely the expression that can only be had when the extreme fear is extreme.

Before I could react, a ghost figure dressed in white slowly floated to the top of Xiao Laizi's head, and a long hair like algae collapsed from mid-air to the ground, slowly wrapping around Xiao Laizi's neck, but he didn't know it.

Seeing this scene, all the atheistic concepts in my heart collapsed in an instant, leaving only unprecedented fear, and the next moment, those ghosts in the sky had completely submerged Erhu and a group of people, and then floated towards me.

I screamed, almost frightened, turned around and ran into the woods, and the moment I stepped into the woods, there seemed to be a mournful cry in my ears, mixed with a somewhat anxious shout: "Xiaoyi, come back quickly......"

My mind went blank, and all I had left was fear, and I kept running deep into the woods, panicking. I didn't dare to stop, for fear that the ghosts would catch up with me, the jungle was full of thorns, my clothes were torn in many places, my arms and face were full of tiny cuts, and the burning pain came to my mind, and I finally stopped from exhaustion.

At this time, I couldn't tell the difference between east and west, the torch had been lost when I ran for my life, and I couldn't see anything around me except the darkness where I couldn't see my fingers.

The pain in my body exacerbated my exhaustion, and I felt sorry for it, and in the darkness I groped for a large tree, and sat down against it.

Not long after resting, a rustling sound came from the canopy overhead. It was pitch black in the woods, and I couldn't see anything, but my sense of hearing became very acute, and it was very quiet, but I could hear it being the sound of something scratching the leaves, not far from me, and it was still getting closer.

I was stunned, and when I touched a stone, I threw it at the place where the sound came from, and I didn't care if I hit it, so I ran until I was exhausted, and then I fell.

The plants in Yeling were very peculiar, and the floor was covered with a thick layer of moss, which was incredibly soft and very slippery, and it felt like the skin of a newborn baby.

It felt very weird, but I didn't have the strength to move anymore. It's not easy to think about, what kind of experience is it for a twelve-year-old child to run for most of the night in this thorny jungle with no fingers out of his fingers?

In this way, the extreme tiredness made me forget my fear, and I lay on the ground and fell asleep.

I don't know how long later, a biting cold woke me up, I curled up, rubbed my eyes, looked at it, and suddenly all the sleepiness disappeared. I covered my mouth with trembling hands and almost cried out, my whole body stiffened with fear and completely froze.

At some point, the darkness had dissipated, but the light had not yet arrived, and what I saw was an open field, the size of two football fields, surrounded by countless strange-shaped "trees".

Growing up here, we have visited almost all the mountains and forests around the village, and we have seen countless exotic flowers and plants, but we have never seen these trees in front of us. Each of them is about 20 meters tall, but there is not a single leaf in the vertical and horizontal branches, only the top of the trunk, the density of the branches and leaves is incredible, they are all gathered into a blanket, the whole sky is blocked, I don't know if it is day or night at this time?

What's even more peculiar is that the branches of these trees are covered with countless blue crystals that resemble wax, extending to the ground, and all that I am stepping on is this blue thing. The blue wax is smooth and glows faintly, and it is these fluorescences that dispel the darkness and fill the clearing with a dreamy color.

However, it wasn't the strangely shaped trees that scared me to stiffen, but the tree in the middle of the clearing, which was covered with countless shriveled corpses.

The tree was so huge that it looked like a giant tower, and it would take a dozen adults to hug it, and the bare branches were so bare that you couldn't see where the treetops were, and at this height, it had to be about a hundred meters.

A black mist permeated the tree, creating a chilling harmony with the psychedelic colors of the blue wax around it, and exuding a chilly aura. Countless rotting and shriveled corpses hung from the branches of the giant tree, encased in the wax that seemed to be the fruit of the giant tree.

Just one glance left me unable to move, and my body froze in place as if it had been filled with lead.

The picture was a bit shocking, I hadn't even seen a dead person at that time, let alone these rotting and shriveled corpses, and there were so many.

I don't know how long it took for this to happen, but a low grunt sounded. I was startled, but I found that my body could move, and when I subconsciously looked up, I saw that the dense dried corpses on the giant tree had all moved, and the blue wax that wrapped around them began to crack.

It was a shocking image, and I was so frightened that I fainted, and to be honest, at my age, it was a miracle that I could hold on to such a terrifying scene until then.

When I woke up, I had already returned to the village, my parents were standing at the head of the bed, both of them looked very haggard, and they were even more surprised when they saw me wake up, and kept asking me if I felt unwell and hungry......

I was still immersed in the strange scene before I fell into a coma, I had been driven to despair by fear, but when I woke up, I found that everything had returned to its original state, how could a child's mind withstand the gap between them, and I cried out with a wow:

"Ghosts, ghosts! I've seen a lot of ghosts, woo~~"

"And, and, whoa...... There are ghost trees in that forest, and there are so many dead people, I'm afraid, woo, mother, I'm afraid ......."

……

Without the oppression of that great fear, I couldn't help it anymore, and stammered and cried all the weird and terrifying things I saw.

My parents' faces were ugly, but they couldn't stop comforting me and saying that it was just a dream, and I cried and kept repeating those words. Of course, this is also what I heard from my mother later, because at that time I had no mind at all, and I was in a daze for several days, just constantly saying some strange things. Even after I regained consciousness, I basically forgot about the events of more than half a month after I woke up, only some scattered pictures and some blurry fragments.

Later, I also asked, but whether it was the old man or the old mother, whenever I asked about the things related to the accident, they were all hesitant and half-hidden, as if they were hiding something.

In this way, I didn't bother to ask them, because the holidays were coming to an end, the family returned to the city, and life was still normal, but I changed a lot after that incident.

Since that time, my family has made an explicit rule that every Spring Festival, I must go back to my hometown. And every time I went back to my hometown, my grandmother would take me to meet an old man surnamed Hu, and after some chatter, it was a somewhat strange ritual, somewhat similar to the summoning of spirits, which, according to the old man, was a ritual of blessing to bless me with the rest of the year.

If it was me, I would have been dismissive of these things, but since that night's experience, I have been filled with awe and fanaticism about these strange powers, and even too curious.

During my month in my hometown, my grandmother would wake me up from my sleep at twelve o'clock in the evening and ask me to talk to her, and until three o'clock in the morning, she would make me kneel before a shrine and recite an inscription that I could not understand, until the morning dawn and she put me to bed.

As I said before, my family didn't allow me to go out after the child's time, so I usually went to bed early, and only during that time would I stay awake all night.

At first, I was extremely puzzled by this arrangement, and even extremely resistant, and made many noises, but each time I was frightened by the stern and terrifying eyes of my grandmother, and it was only during that time that I could see such a fierce and vicious side of my kind grandmother.

When I was meditating on the scriptures, I was not allowed to speak, and I often fell asleep, and in order to prevent me from sleeping, my grandmother stayed by my side all night.

This experience did not end until I was fifteen years old, and my grandmother did not ask me to recite those strange scriptures in the middle of the night, and gradually I forgot about it, and it was only on the days when I returned home that I vaguely remembered the experience, but as soon as I left the village, this memory would be inexplicably forgotten.

Speaking of which, this memory is like a broken canyon, if I hadn't seen this shrine, I wouldn't have been able to remember such a strange experience in my childhood, and the black line on my arm was also left by that intrusion into Yeling.