I saw that there were scraps of bricks and tiles mixed in the rubble, and it seemed that the village that had been hit by the flash flood was upstream of the stream, and the flash flood had washed the bricks and tiles here.

"How about we take a break here?"

I suggested that there was a rare place that was cooler and bug-free, and now that we had no water, we should replenish it.

Neither of them objected, Brother Shen silently put down the luggage and began to fetch water to boil, I put my hand into the stream, the water was very cool, I washed my face.

I really wanted to take a few sips of water, but I held back, the water here looks very clear, but no one knows what is hidden inside, there are so many poisonous insects here, there must be leeches in it.

I looked closely, and it seemed that there was really nothing in the water, no aquatic plants, no fish and shrimp, and no insects.

I hesitated, but I took off my shoes and put my feet inside, and suddenly a feeling of extreme coolness surrounded me, as if the fatigue of the morning had been swept away.

"Daze, I found that you are quite fat." Lao Huang turned his head and saw it, and called out to me.

"I've seen it all, and there's really nothing in the water." I've been staring at it, and if something comes out of the water, I can retract my feet.

Lao Huang glanced at Brother Shen, but he didn't resist the temptation, and took off his shoes and sat next to me, and as soon as his feet reached into the water, he showed a look of smoking a big cigarette.

"You're a kid who can enjoy it." Lao Huang touched me with his foot.

"Go, go," I quickly moved my foot away, "just your stinky foot, what will smoke you to death." ”

"You/sister." Lao Huang skimmed me mercilessly.

I'm in a good mood, the previous heaviness is gone, if there were no bugs, it's really beautiful here, and we look like we're here for a picnic.

Brother Shen boiled the water and filled the bottle, boiled the pot again, then took out the beef and threw it at the two of us, and sat down next to me.

Even Brother Shen touched the water, and it must be safe in the water, and I don't know how I feel at ease by his side.

We rested, re-applied the insect medicine, and continued southwest along the stream, which really helped us, and we could still see grass crawlers and leeches in the weeds and trees on the side of the mountain, but the stream was very clean.

It's not normal, how could there be such a clean stream in such a bug-infested place, but I don't want to think about it, and I can't figure it out.

The stream was very long, and we made a few small turns along it, but we still couldn't see its source, and we were still heading southwest, but the road conditions were complicated and we couldn't go in a straight line, and we turned around and walked a lot of extra way.

The sun has set in the west, Brother Shen is still moving forward, no matter how cool the stream is, it can't stop the humidity and heat of the weather, not to mention carrying such a heavy thing, I feel that it is difficult for me to open my legs.

Lao Huang didn't say anything, just gasped like an old cow, and I didn't want to admit that I was the same as him.

The valley grew wider and wider, and the stream widened, and the water was forty or fifty meters wide, and it could already be called a river, but it was still shallow, and we walked a few more kilometers and turned a hill to see the rumored village.

My ears suddenly became quiet, and as soon as I turned into the valley, the sound of insects suddenly disappeared, a "concave" valley in which the stream passed in front of the mountain, and the village was built in the recess of the valley, directly opposite the stream.

The flash flood did not come from the hill behind the village, but from a distance along the river, and I could see that there were traces of the flood on the mountain walls on both sides of the river.

The village was very different from what I had imagined, I thought it had been washed away by a flash flood and there were only a few wreckage left, but it was very well preserved, six or seven houses on the outskirts of the village had collapsed, but the houses in the nests were all very good, if it weren't for the silence, I would have thought that there were still people living in those houses.

This is different from the rumors, the woman clearly said that the village was washed away by the flash flood, and there was no one left, looking at the appearance of this house, unless the people in the village were concentrated in a few households outside, it would not be washed away.

I had a very bad feeling about this village, and I remembered what the woman had said, that no one who had entered here could go back.

"It's really weird, why don't there be any bugs here?" Lao Huang ran to the side of the mountain to see the trees, and walked back with a mutter.

Not only were there no bugs, not even weeds, so we climbed up the ruins outside and walked towards the village, where there was no one, but the yards of every house were clean, as if they had only left last night.

"Something is wrong with this place." Lao Huang muttered.

We walked into a casual house, and everything in the house was well preserved, but the air was hot and humid and full of all kinds of mold, and I saw that there was still food on the table, which had rotted and deteriorated to the point where I could not see it.

There are no traces of flooding here, so where did the people in the village go?

When a flash flood occurs, there will definitely be a rescue team coming, but when they come, the villagers have already abandoned the village?

It's impossible, they didn't bring anything, everything in the house was in order, they couldn't leave empty-handed, they simply disappeared out of thin air.

I shuddered, and walked a few briskly steps back to the yard, as if this house would eat people.

No wonder the people in that village are so taboo, there must have been something here that can't be explained by common sense, I should really ask a few more words, the woman said that none of the people who entered the valley went back, so did those who rescued them not go back?

I was uneasy, Lao Huang was also surprised, we went back to the village road, I didn't want to enter these houses again, Brother Shen went into a few houses to check by himself, and his face was not very good when he came out.

"How?" I asked.

"It's all the same."

He didn't say anything more, and I was even more uneasy, I rarely saw Brother Shen's serious expression, he had always been indifferent.

The village was really quiet, we walked around the village, there were no grass crawlers and leeches in the crowds outside, it was like a Jedi of life, birds, beasts, insects and fish were gone.

It was already dark, the last rays of sunlight had disappeared behind the mountains, and the air was still hot and humid, but I could feel the slightest coolness contained in it.

The houses of the village and the wreckage outside cast shadows on the ground, barren and terrible, and the valley seemed to be dead, and it exuded a desolate and dead silence everywhere.

"Where the hell is the jade?" Lao Huang asked.

"Still in the mountains."

"Let's go, this place is scary." I spoke.

"It's getting dark, where are you going?" Lao Huang climbed to the top of the ruins and looked into the distance, "This place is very good, at least there are no insects." ”

I'm also very confused, I don't know why there are no bugs in this valley, but it is indeed a good place to rest, there are many open spaces without insects, and we can sleep peacefully.

But it just gives me a terrifying feeling, most of people's fear comes from imagination, and rumors and ancient supernatural anecdotes will magnify the fear in my heart, but the truth is often not so terrible.

I remembered that when I was in Taixing, the night grave ghost pressed the bed was more terrifying than here, but when I really walked around, I would find that it was nothing.

"Then let's pitch a tent on the edge of the river, this village is weird." I spoke.

Lao Huang and Brother Shen had no objections, we climbed over the ruins and came to the river beach, which was full of broken bricks and tiles left after the collapse of the houses, which had been washed by the water all year round and had long lost its edges and corners.

We quickly set up our tent, which was so hot and stuffy that we couldn't get enough wind to sweat after sitting in it.

"It's really not a place for people."

Lao Huang was sweating profusely and was very irritable, so he took water and came back and was about to pour alcohol.

I stopped him: "Save some fuel, there are no bugs here, let's pick up some branches to make do." ”

Lao Huang didn't object, he stood up and followed me to the side of the mountain, Brother Shen didn't move, he sat on the river beach and stared at the river in front of him, motionless and didn't know what he was thinking.

I felt more and more uneasy, the valley was so quiet that even the trees and grass were about to die, and I couldn't help but wonder if this place had been attacked by chemical weapons, but the growing mold denied my idea.

Fungi and ferns are very demanding on the environment, and if there are chemicals, they will definitely not grow, and the environment here is as ordinary as the outside, but it is full of weirdness.

"Lao Huang, do you think there will be ghosts here?" I asked in a low voice.

"Ghost you/mom, can you say something auspicious in the wilderness," Lao Huang looked annoyed, "I don't do bad things in my life, I don't knock on the door in the middle of the night, I don't be frightened, Lao Tzu is upright, and the king of Hades doesn't dare to accept it." ”

Lao Huang didn't look like he was frightened at all, seeing that the sky was getting darker and darker, we didn't dare to stay on the mountain longer, so we hastily picked up some branches and returned to the river beach.

As soon as I went back, I smelled a strong smell of insect repellent, and Brother Shen actually sprayed the tent with the agent, I felt a bit wasted, there were no insects here.

We lit a bonfire and cooked some beef for dinner, and it was already completely dark, and the shadows of the surrounding trees cast on the river, not feeling silent and beautiful, but a little more terrifying.

We got into the tent, the bonfire was not extinguished, and it was not easy to be attacked by wild beasts when there was fire in the wild, although it did not look like a wild beast here, but it was a necessary precaution.

It was very hot in the tent, I felt like I was stuffed into a steamer, but it was still very small inside, and I wanted to make myself a "big" word, but when I moved, I would run into Lao Huang next to me.

Brother Shen seemed to be asleep, without making a sound at all, and Lao Huang was tossing and turning beside him, so that I couldn't sleep.

It was already completely dark outside, Lao Huang gradually quieted down, I turned to face the tent, the flames of the bonfire shone on the tent like shaking seaweed, and in the shadowy flames, a figure was suddenly reflected on the tarpaulin.