Chapter 30: The Misty Forest (Part II)
Li Dalei is actually not a native of Requiem Island, his father died early, and it was his mother who raised him and his younger brother Li Ergou. Later, because of some things, the mother unfortunately died, and the brothers came to Requiem Island.
They have been on Requiem Island for almost three years. Requiem Island is in a difficult situation beyond imagination, but once you get used to it, you often find a reason for yourself to stay here. Anyway, they felt that they had nothing to count on, and they never had any hope for their lives. Fate has been like this, and I have long been used to it.
On Requiem Island, there are no gangsters who come to collect debts, no strange and discriminatory eyes from others, and no worries about food and clothing. As long as you are willing to endure hardship.
However, Requiem Island is not as peaceful as they imagined, not as simple as they imagined. They have no culture, in fact, they should guess something from the name of the island. It's not a paradise, it's under the control of the devil.
Once, his younger brother Li Ergou led an expedition of more than a dozen people into the mountains and forests, as the fisherman said before. Li Ergou was covered in blood, but unscathed. With a couple of shadow puppeteers in hand, they returned to their residence.
The younger brother's eyes revealed extreme excitement, which was already paranoid in Li Dalei's eyes. Li Ergou described to him everything he saw and heard in the mountains and forests. To Li Dalei's surprise, this story is too unbelievable and terrifying.
Li Dalei didn't know the weirdness of this mountain forest, he heard the old man here say that the fog in the mountain forest was the fog of ghosts. Once in the fog, it is impossible to get out, at least there is no precedent for successful escape.
Li Ergou asked him: "Do you believe in resurrection?" ”
Of course he wouldn't believe it, Li Dalei was an atheist, and he told his brother that these were all lies.
The younger brother Li Ergou was not happy, so he took out a withered flower from his pocket and inserted it on a shadow puppet. To his surprise, the flower bloomed!
His younger brother Li Ergou told him that this was only a small part, and that he could only do this on the ground of Requiem Island. But there is a wonderful place under this island where all wishes are granted. The premise is that they can find 225 people to sacrifice to the ghosts of the shadow puppeteers and become his slaves. Their mother would be able to come back to life, and they wouldn't have to live that life anymore.
Li Dalei still remembers what his brother asked him: "If these efforts can bring our mother back to life, can you still calm down?" ”
"I was deceived because my mother was so important to me, and of course that ghost must have affected my mind." Li Dalei gasped and covered his still bleeding waist with one hand, "After that, we will work for the shadow puppeteers, and there is no way to escape." ”
"So what can I do for you?" I asked.
Li Dalei grabbed my hand, "Young man, I can't force you, if you see my younger brother Li Ergou, you must take him down and let him live well, even if he is hard, don't do these things." ”
"Do you know what's down there?" I asked again.
He shook his head and said, "So far, no one has gone in and can come out again." So there's no real answer yet, but I believe that the contents have something to do with this ghost. ”
I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed in my heart, except for the story of the two Li brothers solved, I didn't have anything else to gain, and the problem of getting lost was very serious at the moment.
Li Dalei took a break and continued: "I don't know the rest, I can't go out to see yourself, young man, take care." As he spoke, he raised his gun.
I was startled by the fact that he was going to drag me to death, but he shot himself in the head.
It took me about half an hour to bury Li Dalei's body and the ashes of those two people here. These people are really miserable, and they came here for a trip with no return. I poured a small bottle of leftover medical alcohol on their graves, I was not in the habit of drinking, and I did not carry alcohol with me, so I had to use alcohol to make up the number, but the three of them should not mind.
After a short rest, I packed my backpack and hit the road. I walked quickly along a path that people had walked on, I could feel the altitude rising, I breathed a sigh of relief, I should not have been affected by the fog, I was not on the wrong path.
The mountain road was getting harder and harder, so I wiped my sweat and looked up as if I saw something shaking. It seems to be a ...... Figure!
I think it should be Liu Guang and them! I hurried over there. But there was no road any further, and there was a chest-high platform on it, and I propped it up with both hands. But then, I was frozen. The whole platform is carved from rock, and it is a single piece, and there is no trace of splicing of gaps at all.
The table was full of violently dead corpses, the intestines had been pulled out of the mouth, and the skulls had been cut off in half, and the inside was completely empty.
"This ......," I was speechless. Feet can't take a step, neither can they escape, nor do they move forward. There were traces of deliberate placement of the corpse, and I looked closely at it, and it was the pattern of a six-pointed star.
Now it's decided, I should run now, I'm going to commit a six-pointed star this year, and it's no good to see it. There must be something unclean waiting for me.
No matter! I slapped myself in the face, and my heart said, I'm afraid of a hair! Lao Tzu now has a gun and a cannon, and its six-pointed star is a yarn, even if there are more twelve-pointed stars, I am not afraid of it.
In order to cheer myself up, I threw off my backpack, took out a small black box, put it in my hand and "clicked" a few times, and the black box turned into a submachine gun. With a gun in hand, man's courage comes. I walked towards the center of the platform with my gun in my hand, all the faces of the corpses were facing the center of the platform, the clothes worn by the corpses were torn, and I couldn't tell who it was, I guessed that this must be the base camp of the shadow puppeteer.
According to what Li Dalei said just now, 225 people's lives were killed, so I began to poke my head out and count how many people there were. It's okay not to count, but as soon as I counted to more than 50, I saw a figure appear in the pile of corpses over there, half-squatting there motionless, as if he had been staring at me.
My mind immediately cleared up, and that black shadow was probably not Liu Guang and them, maybe it was my younger brother Li Ergou. I walked over with my gun, ready for him to shoot him at the slightest sign of hurting me.
"Is that you?" I exclaimed, "What's ......" I saw Li Dalei squatting there, his eyes staring straight at the six-pointed star on the ground. I shook my hand in front of his eyes, but he still didn't react at all. The more I wondered, I always felt that something was wrong.
The mountain roads on this mountain are all stepped on by people, and it is impossible to complete them with just a few people, even if they have stepped on them many, many times. At the end of this mountain road is an altar of corpses, and it is impossible that the people in the village do not know about it.
Also, the place where Li Dalei died is an hour away from here, how did he come here? Even if it's a ghost, you have to make some sense.
Then everything seems to be clear, if everything cannot be explained, there is no reasonable explanation, then I must be facing a special situation now. I was misled by what was in front of me - I was now in an illusion.
But it's not a good thing to guess this aspect, because I don't know when the illusion appeared? And how to unravel the illusion.
Maybe after we parted, maybe after we got up to this altar, maybe it was when we set out. It's all scary to think about.
Also, I don't know how to solve illusions, the first few times it was by chance, pure luck. I once saw visions on TV, and one of them I thought was quite reliable, that is, close your eyes and meditate, and when you open your eyes again, the illusion will disappear.
But I'm still squatting, and it's not safe to close my eyes.