Chapter 19: Ancient Legends
I tidied up my things, took a breath, and ran in a direction that I hadn't done in the sports meeting when I was in school, and as I ran, I noticed that the hair on the walls on both sides was a little different. I stopped, wiped my sweat, by this time, the surroundings were not as dark and dreary as before, I noticed that there seemed to be something on the wall, I used the dagger to pull away my hair, it was a dense white bug, white body like a cicada chrysalis, the head was brown, but much larger than the cicada chrysalis, the size of a small mouse, constantly wriggling. There must be tens of millions of bugs!
"Don't let it touch you!" It was Lu Zhidao who spoke.
As soon as I looked, a bug almost crawled into my hand along the dagger. I shook off a spirit, and stepped on it with my foot, like a burst pearl, and the body of the insect held back and flowed out a thick white liquid.
"Shu Xin, why did you come here, isn't the village chief taking a good look at you?"
I told Lu Zhidao what happened, and then it came to the present. Lu Zhidao said that he had just arrived here. Saying that, these insects seemed to feel the heat, and they all crawled to our side, and the high ones also crackled and fell down, although they were not aggressive, but they looked disgusting, and they trampled a lot of insects to death in a panic, and the soles of their feet were slimy, Lu Zhidao said: "This insect is a kind of Gu, I have seen it in Yunnan before, but it is much smaller than this, I don't know what the people who were tricked by it do, anyway, let's get out of here quickly." ”
The two of us ran for an unknown amount of time, and when we looked back to see that there were no more insects, we dared to breathe a sigh of relief, and Lu Zhidao said to me: "There is something wrong with this village, the river festival they hold every year is a ritual, they throw young men into the water, and then they are killed by hair, as if they are using the souls of dead people to sacrifice something, that thing must be very terrible, it should be at the bottom of this valley." ”
"Why didn't anything happen before?"
"It may be that some of the villagers' practices have angered something at the bottom of the valley. So these guys will turn into zombies and go ashore to kill people. ”
"I remember, Mother Jin told us an ancient legend in the orphanage before, saying that a river often has accidents, that is, there are water monsters in the river, saying that it is a water monster, but it is just the resentment of the dead who have not been willing to disperse for a long time, and then these resentments will be transformed into the deepest desire in people's hearts to lure more people to die, so that the resentment in the water will become more and more formed, and the resentment is like a strand of hair floating in the water."
"Yes, that's right."
"How much resentment is there with so many hairs, and if the villagers on the shore knew that there were so many lives in the river they relied on, they would be surprised."
Lu Zhidao said: "Don't think about it so much, if we want to get out, we have to find something at the bottom." ”
"What's that bottom?"
"The first wisp of resentment!"