Chapter VI
Brother Xiong patted Zhang Lei on the shoulder: "Let's go in, some hunters haven't left yet."
Zhang Lei didn't turn around and watched Zhang Xiao leave, until his back disappeared from his sight, and then he turned around and followed, under the cold expression, Zhang Lei was also worried about his younger brother.
After walking around the woods outside the bear's house for a long time, I walked to the straight field and turned into a sheep intestine trail in the Bay Area, and gradually a drizzle of cow hair gradually drifted. Kuroko was quiet all the way, meekly walking ahead, and would look back at me from time to time.
The path in front of me gradually became unfamiliar, I felt a little cold, maybe I had stepped into the path into Wushan, all the way are towering trees, only endless darkness was left when I turned back, not far away looming lights like a lighthouse to guide me forward, I thought to myself that it should be the residence of those hunters, Xiong Zi said, some of those hunters live at the foot of Wushan, where they go, they are really to the boundary of Wushan.
It's quiet all around, I'm not used to this kind of quiet in the depths of the mountains, even if it's a little bit of birds and insects, I can even hear the heavy gasp of the big black dog clearly, this kind of silence is really weird.
As I walked, I had an inexplicable feeling that I had come to this Wushan by myself, but when I came, I couldn't remember anything. I just feel that the strangeness of the surrounding environment makes me a little familiar, and this strange feeling undoubtedly aggravates my inner anxiety and fear.
I regret that I didn't bring a flashlight, the lighter doesn't work as a light at all, and I'm really carried away by the inexplicable pride I just had.
The big black dog suddenly quickened his pace and ran out, and I didn't hold back too much, and turned three steps into two steps and ran away.
After a little trotting, I finally came to a bright place, which was a wooden house at the bottom, and there was a slight fire in the house, which should be the houses of those hunters. After much hesitation, I tiptoed to the door.
I motioned for the big black dog to sit down and whispered, "Is there anyone?" He patted the sturdy wooden door lightly, and the wooden door creaked open.
"Excuse me, is anyone there?" I walked in politely and cautiously.
The room was very small and there was no room, and when I came in, I found that it was actually a small place with wooden shelves, nothing but a fire in the window, and all kinds of scattered beer and liquor bottles, some stinky clothes piled up on the ground, and I actually found a few used cheap condoms when I looked closely.
"It's a rotten life." Covering my nose and shaking my head, sitting on a small wooden stool, I lit a cigarette.
After a few bites, the big black dog seemed to have discovered something, and vigorously dug into the plank in a dark corner of the house.
Feeling a little strange, I followed, crouching down.
The planks are a little damp and slightly warped around the edges.
Watching the big black dog tinker for a long time, I couldn't help it. As soon as I rolled up my sleeves and pulled them away, a foul smell came out. The big stinky black dog hurriedly ran away, and I sat down.
"What the hell, why does it stink so much!"
Holding my breath and looking at it, I found that there was still a pile of clothes inside, and a corpse of an animal was placed under the clothes, and I don't know how long it had been placed, and the corpse was rotting and worming. The big black dog is curled up in a corner by a smelly one. It's like I'm disgusted.
"I don't know how many wild animals have been killed by the hunters in this mountain, so I just let them go, it's really disgusting.
The stench filled the room, and I couldn't stand still, so I walked to the door and smoked, out of sight and out of mind. The sympathy for causing trouble began to flood again, thinking that seeing it was fate, I simply didn't do anything, pulled it out and buried it, which can be regarded as helping the owner of this house do a good deed and accumulate virtue.
I dug a pit and held the disgusting thing with two sticks. Along with the stick, he threw it down, and the big black dog was not idle, and when he saw me burying the picture in it, he also used his dog's legs to help. I breathed a sigh of relief and felt a lot more relaxed, but I still had to keep going, clapped my hands, and prepared to go.
Just as he was about to leave, the big black dog seemed to have discovered something again, and barked vigorously into the darkness in front of him. I pulled the chain hard to keep the beast from escaping.
Looking at the place where the dog barked, I was frightened, and there was a weasel standing directly opposite the big black dog, and the fire in the house illuminated him clearly.
The weasel was huge, on a par with the big black dog, with a gray complexion, and it raised its front paws, and its whole body stood up, and looked directly at me and the big black dog, without a trace of fear, and its eyes shimmered, and it stood motionless. It's like a villain.
The way to deal with it flashed in my mind for three seconds, and as soon as I pulled the sunspot, I turned and ran. This thing is not a good thing, it is a thing on Wushan, I don't know what kind of evil nature it has, in case it has a companion behind it, if it is really hungry and red-eyed and takes the big black dog and me as prey, it is really fierce and lucky. No matter how fierce the big black dog is, there is only nothing left of the dregs that have been consumed and eaten.
The fire in the house was fading, and the weasel saw me running away, and hurried over, smelling the pit I had dug just now, and taking out the rotting corpses in my clothes, and at this moment, a group of weasels suddenly sprang out from the darkness, and they gathered the corpses together, and began to let out a wail, which was sharp and piercing, and resounded throughout the valley.
"It's going to rain, you all come in and sit down, those people are almost gone," my aunt called in the two who were standing at the door chatting. Brother Xiong Zi and Zhang Lei were talking about something, and when they heard it, they quickly stepped on the cigarette butt and turned around and entered the house.
The house was very clean and decent, and the branches of wildflowers and paper money trees surrounded my uncle's coffin, which did not seem to be dead and silent, but seemed to have a little life. Like the scene described in the fairy tale Snow White, the princess lies quietly and beautifully in a coffin, waiting for her prince to come back to life with a fragrant kiss and then live happily ever after.
The people sitting in the room were my uncle's real friends and my aunt's in-laws. Everyone didn't speak and just sat quietly, and at the moment they had to wait for Zhang Lin to see if they could invite the old man down the mountain and do the rituals, so that they could arrange the next step.
"Zhang Lin has also been gone for some time, why don't you call and ask?" After that, Brother Xiong handed the phone to Zhang Lei. Zhang Lei took it and walked outside the house with some hesitation.
"Where did Zhang Lin go? Still holding the phone? As soon as Xiong Zi heard Zhang Xiao's name, he hurriedly walked over.
"He's gone to Wushan." Zhang Lei said lightly and pressed the phone.
Zhang Lin went to Wushan alone? The people in the house all exploded, and their expressions were extremely heavy-bearing, so that they wanted to be even more ugly than when they came to the house to see their uncle for the last time.
"You children, how are you fooling around, can Zhang Lin go to Wushan? Aren't you looking for trouble? Xiongzi's father was even more irritable when he heard this.
"Dad, I asked him to bring the big black dog, and I also told him not to go too far, if the mobile phone has no signal, lead the dog down the mountain, it's okay"
"Bullshit, how dare such a young child go to Wushan, are you eating the leopard's guts?" Xiong Zi's father was angry and roared out, not saving any face for Brother Xiong.
"Find someone! Don't delay" The bear couldn't sit still, put on a coat and was about to go outside.
Aunt pulled him and wiped the tears on her face, "Don't go, children stay at home, we adults go to find it, I have been to Wushan a few times, I know some roads, I can save a lot of trouble"
Xiong Zi looked at her aunt in surprise, she didn't look like she was lying, why had she been to Wushan too?
Everyone began to prepare, Xiong Zi's father took out a shotgun that he had not used for many years, and also found out the guy that his uncle used before his death, and distributed flashlights to everyone, and when Xiong Zi brought a dog again, he was about to go up the mountain.
At this moment, Wang Qiu happily ran in, eating snacks and not finding Zhang Lei outside the door.
"Uncle, what are you doing? When I was dropping off the villagers just now, I found a strange old man. The old fellow was drunk and lying on the side of the road, and I helped him into the pigsty, and when he woke up, I could let him arrange his uncle's affairs. Wang Qiu didn't know what was going on, what everyone was busy with, but he just felt that he had brought good news, and the whole person was in a mess. The smug look almost put the cigarette in his mouth.
"What! The old man is right down the hill? "Aunt heard the news, almost fainted, the old man's house in the mountain is the largest, the lights are also the brightest, as long as Zhang Lin sees the bright light where to go, everyone will soon find it, but this is good, the old man is not on the mountain, he quietly came to the village, if Zhang Lin is lost in Wushan, it is simply looking for a needle in a haystack, not to mention, if you encounter murderous things and those strange things, even more terrible if you meet the legendary witch in the mountain, there is really no return.
"That's what you did!" Xiong Zi's father stretched out his hand and slapped him, Wang Qiu didn't know the reason for the matter, but he just felt that Xiong Zi's father was inexplicable, and rushed up with an arrow, wanting to block the slap with his hand, but he didn't think that Xiong Zid's slap came decisively, Wang Qiu rushed up, but he didn't have time to stretch out his hand to resist.
"Smack!" With a loud bang, he directly knocked the king ball to his knees.
"My mother, uncle, you are asking for your life!" Wang Qiu covered his face in pain and didn't stand up for a while.
"What's going on!" Xiong Zi's father didn't expect such a play, this slap made Wang Qiu block, and he didn't know what to say for a while, and he didn't know what to do when he was angry.
Zhang Lei walked in, expressionless, his forehead covered with beads of sweat, and returned the phone to Brother Xiong.
Looking at everyone, his tone became a little choked: "Everyone help, I'm just such a younger brother......"
This is the first time that Brother Xiong has seen Zhang Lei's eyes full of tears in so many years, and he has always secretly thought that Zhang Lei is a man without feelings. Looking at his mobile phone, it was full of undialed phone numbers, and Zhang Xiao had really walked into Wushan at this moment.