Lost in the wilderness

Author: Zhang Bixin

The gloomy sky covered the barren mountains and wilderness coldly, the cool autumn breeze gently swayed the dying branches, and the yellowing leaves scattered like dark coins in front of a grave.

This tomb is a tombstone, and this tombstone is covered with moss, the grave is overgrown with weeds, and it looks like a very old tomb, behind the tomb is a black mountain, and from time to time there is some strange bird cry from the mountain.

Zhang Yi stood stiffly in front of the grave, holding a camera in his hands tremblingly, facing the gloomy grave. He looked very nervous, and a fine bead of sweat hung on his somewhat pale face.

Zhang Yi scolded silently in his heart: "Damn! You Chen Lao Liu, you actually sent us to do this kind of good deed, take pictures of the grave, what kind of work is this! ”

At the same time, he couldn't help but recall that he graduated from campus in a hurry, ready to kill the society and become an elite in the workplace, but the reality gave him a slap in the face.

The meager salary and soaring housing prices made him feel that he might not even be able to marry his daughter-in-law if he continued like this.

As a last resort, Zhang Yi applied for the township cadre examination under pressure, but was assigned to a very remote small township in Xiangxi.

Xiangxi has been a mysterious and weird place since ancient times, with Gu poison, hanging coffins, and the famous Xiangxi corpses, which sound creepy.

But there is no way to do this, Zhang Yi does not have a rich and powerful father to fight, so he also jokingly comforted himself, Xiangxi is also very good! Good mountains, good water, good scenery, maybe you can meet a good girl.

In Shen Congwen's border city book, the image of Cuicui lingered in Zhang Yi's heart, so he held the great ambition of building the central and western regions of the country, carried all the belongings of no more than 1,000 yuan, and came to the small town of Xiangxi called "Apusi" happily.

But real life is like this, no matter whether you are happy or not, the pit you should fall into, and the setbacks you should encounter, there will be no less, until the day you wake up.

There are seven or eight township leaders above Zhang Yi, as well as a few old revolutionaries, who will command you to do things at will.

You say you're a college student? Forget it, everything is clear, brother. There are a lot of graduate students here.

Zhang Yi and another young man, Fat Wansan, took on most of the basic work of the town government, from typists to cleaners, from office secretaries to porters, from petition receptionists to flood fighters, and so on.

Half a year after participating in the township work, Zhang Yi only felt deeply tired.

As for the good girl of the Miao people? Don't worry, there are a lot of village aunts.

Every day before Zhang Yi got off work, the aunts collectively occupied the compound of the town government, released the earth-shattering sound, and danced a square dance like a god.

Forget all of this, what makes Zhang Yi feel most powerless is to do some strange work.

For example, this time, the Ministry of Civil Affairs wants to include the martyrs of the Anti-Japanese War who have been omitted from various places, mainly the anti-Japanese martyrs and groups under the leadership of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party during the Anti-Japanese War.

After the notice was issued, all localities reported first, but in the process of reporting, it was discovered that there was a false report, so they notified the townships and towns at the grassroots level to cooperate with the work, that is, to verify the statistics.

So how to verify? These people patted their heads and came up with a strange trick and told the people below to shoot the graves of the heroes! You can't fake this, the gravestones are all aged.

Chen Laoliu, who was in charge of civil affairs work in Apusi, was naturally too lazy to do things, so he ordered Zhang Yihe and Fat Wansan: "Approaching the National Day, the boss attaches great importance to this work."

There are several villages between the two townships of Ajinsi and Guluhe, where there are some graves of martyrs during the Anti-Japanese War, buried there, and you need to go to verify, so you can bring your camera and go to take pictures with the cadres of Guluhe to verify. ”

Then Chen Lao Liu habitually said: "Young man, work hard, you will definitely have a bright future in the future, hehe." ”

At the moment of hearing the task, Zhang Yi and Fat Wansan both felt a little creepy.

Take a picture of the grave? This is very unlucky, especially in these villages of Molin Village, the mountains are high and dense, sparsely populated, the range is extremely wide, it is several times larger than the average village, I heard that there are bears and blind people and five-step snakes in the forest.

These are all counted, and the most terrifying thing is that over the years, because of the people who entered Morin, many people have disappeared, died unexpectedly, and run out to go crazy, thus adding a lot of supernatural rumors.

In view of this, neither the Apsi nor the Guru River were reluctant to intervene in the village of Morin, which was later set aside as a national forest farm.

But the people who built the forest farm station came here ten years ago to build the forest farm office building and dormitory, and more than a dozen forest farm workers moved in.

As a result, in less than half a year, four employees died mysteriously one after another, and finally all the employees ran away one after another. As a result, Molin Village has become a deserted village with "three regardless".

Although it was explained that Chen Lao Liu was talking about ghosts, Zhang Yi also had to take the camera.

What can I do? It's autumn this year, and the monthly salary is usually low, so stay up for a few more months, and then run away after getting the year-end bonus at the end of the year. The big husband can bend and stretch, and at this time, he will have one word - forbearance!

Looking back at Fat Wansan, the fat face had long since lost the Amitabha-like smile of the past, and the expression of eating was stunned.

So after Chen Lao Liu left, Zhang Yi discussed with Wan Sanyi, didn't he go with his colleagues from the neighboring township, when assigning tasks, he could go to any village, but he didn't go to Molin Village!

However, when he saw that the cadres sent by the neighbors to work together were two little girls, Zhang Yi suddenly had no idea.

Old man, how can you be embarrassed to let the little girl go to the most dangerous place? Isn't it just to take a picture in front of some graves in a deserted village?

So when assigning tasks, Zhang Yi saw that everyone was embarrassed, so he patted his chest and chose Molin Village, which everyone didn't want to go to.

You may ask, why is everyone in charge of a village? Wouldn't it be safer for several people to go to such a deserted village together?

If you understand the administrative work of townships and towns, you will know that there are thousands of lines above, and a needle below, and the workload at the grassroots level is too large, so in order to save time and cost, the task is assigned according to the head, so that you don't care whether you are a man or a woman, let alone how weird it is to take photos of the grave.

Although he had been mentally prepared for a long time, Zhang Yi didn't expect that the most fucked-up thing in this world is that things will always be unexpected.

Zhang Yi originally planned to complete the project in broad daylight, so he got up early in the morning, but when the county leaders suddenly came to Apu Division for inspection, he was called by Chen Laoliu to meet the inspection first.

After Zhang Yi worked all morning, according to the map given by Chen Laoliu, he took the tattered township shuttle bus to Molin Village, which he thought he was.

As a result, when I got out of the car and asked, I realized how big the area of Molin Village was, and the place where I got off the bus was still far from the map mark. It's like entering the society before you know how big the pit is and how far away it is from your original dream.

But there is no transportation here, and there is only a wilderness forest in front of you, and only the forest path can be walked.

As a last resort, Zhang Yi could only take the No. 11 bus, that is, he walked on his legs for a long time, and it was not until near dusk that he reached the marked point on the map. So the scene mentioned at the beginning is presented.

Back to this time, there was a gust of wind around the tomb, blowing a chill on his back, he took out his camera tremblingly, and took a picture of the grave with a click, and the camera emitted a dazzling white light in the automatic dimming mode.

Zhang Yi was completely unaware that this dazzling white light seemed to alarm something that had been sleeping for a long time.

After Zhang Yi finished taking the photo, he suddenly vaguely felt that something was wrong, he thought about it, took out his camera and looked at the photos he had taken before.

Suddenly, Zhang Yi's eyes widened, his hair stood on end, he screamed, took a few steps backwards, and fell to the ground all at once!

Behind the grave shown in this photo, a faint human head is faintly visible! Zhang Yi's pupils dilated, staring straight at the grave in front of him, speechless in horror.

However, the grave in front of him was still the same, and there seemed to be nothing unusual, only the strange sound of birds coming from the depths of the mountain behind the grave.

But Zhang Yi dared to stop somewhere, grabbed the camera with one hand and picked up the backpack on the ground with the other, and ran as if he was dead.

Zhang Yi ran wildly for a while before he finally stopped, and he gasped for breath, and then slowly regained a trace of calm. He walked between two dead trees that looked like giant ghost claws, and found a blue stone and sat down.

Zhang Yi looked around and was relieved to make sure that he was safe. He thought to himself, "Damn! What was that just now? Didn't I meet a ghost? Impossible, how can there be ghosts in this world? Or did you just look at the wrong photo? “

So Zhang Yi took out his camera again and looked at the weird grave photo again. He wasn't mistaken, there really was a vague human head behind the grave!

But this time Zhang Yi stabilized his mind, and he took a closer look.

Because the tomb was overgrown with weeds and even shrubs, the figure behind the tomb looked like it was only a head.

However, this head is not unrecognizable, but when you press the photo shutter, the person being photographed just moves a little, so it creates a blurred face effect.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yi was secretly frightened, could it be that there was a person hiding behind this tomb all along? But who would hide behind a grave?

If so, he must have just poked his head out to take a look at the situation, and found that I was taking a picture, so he immediately wanted to retract his head, and I took such a photo.

This shows that this person has a ghost in his heart, and he is afraid of being discovered by others. So what kind of people are afraid of being discovered by others?

Thinking of this, Zhang Yi's heart was shocked, and he immediately took out his mobile phone and called Xiao Liu from the Ajinsi Police Station, but he didn't get through.

So Zhang Yi called Fat Wansan again, and after ringing several times, Zhang Yi heard the fat man's voice: "Hey, Brother Yi, are you finally done over there?" ”

Zhang Yi asked him anxiously: "Wan San, do you remember last night, when we were drinking with Xiao Liu at the police station, he mentioned anything about the escaped prisoners?" ”

Wan San thought for a while and replied: "It seems to be talking about such a thing, he said that a few days ago, in the felons prison in the neighboring county, five prisoners escaped from prison, four of them were arrested the next day, and the last one has not been traced yet." At present, public security and police stations at all levels throughout the province have received this wanted warrant. What's the problem? ”

"Sister, I remember Xiao Liu said that the last escaped prisoner was still a murderer! I'm thinking, Lao Tzu's luck won't be so bad, right? Zhang Yifa said in a daze.

At this moment, Zhang Yi heard the sound of footsteps stepping on a tree branch behind him, like the sound of a demon panting in this quiet woods, and suddenly, the suffocating horror swept through Zhang Yi's whole body......