Chapter 4: Monster Chase
It was as if I had found the backbone and told me everything that had happened before.
Qin Sanye's face became more and more ugly: "Bastard, where did you come from?" ”
Qin Sanye took me home, the house was dark, my grandfather was still nowhere to be found, and there was a pitch-black coffin parked in the huge hall.
I walked into the bedroom next to the wall, almost against the wall, and when I entered the door, I found that even my mother was nowhere to be found.
Qin Sanye sent me to the door and left, and I was in a hurry to find trouble with the Taoist priest, and I didn't know if he could succeed.
I was alone on the bed, half-squinted, soaking wet and shivering with cold.
I don't know how long later, I woke up in the cold, but I saw a circle of white fog rising in the house at some point, and I couldn't see the figure clearly. But the sound of something dragging could be heard faintly coming from the hall.
I mustered my courage, wrapped in a rotten quilt, and stumbled towards the hall.
There is a white fog all around, the door of my house is opened at some point, there is a figure standing at the door, vaguely I can't see it really, but I recognize this as my mother just by a glance, I whispered, and I heard my mother's faint cry not far away: "Qin Xian, come here, my feet are broken." ”
I heard my mother's voice, and I made up my mind, lost the rotten quilt in my hand, and ran in the direction of my mother.
But I saw that she was covered with water, and she fell into the river as if she were like me.
My mother was weak and weak, most of her body leaned on me, and with my strength, she crossed the threshold more than half a meter high, and most of her body leaned against the door, panting and not saying a word.
I asked her where she had gone? Neither will they answer me.
I was facing my father's dark coffin, and I was a little scared, but in a huge house, only me and my mother were left, so I stayed by her side honestly.
I don't know how long it took, but I was probably so tired that I fell asleep.
When I woke up again, I was awakened alive.
When I opened my eyes, I saw a hideous face.
I am very familiar with this face, it is my mother, but my mother's eyes are glowing green, like two ghost lights in the dark night, exuding a strange atmosphere.
Her open mouth was pitch black and smelled of decay, and she was holding my neck and refusing to let go. I kept struggling, but I could only feel less and less air in my mouth.
I touched her arm, which was covered with thin scales and was cold to the touch.
She's not my mother!
I groped around, and I found the stick that usually came to the door, and it was the thickness of a baby's arm. I grabbed it and used almost all the strength of my life to smash it into the monster's face.
While she was stunned, I broke free and took a few steps back to the ground, gasping for air.
The monster crawled on its knees and crawled towards me, the black scales rubbing against the ground making a mopping sound, and I finally knew where it came from.
She didn't look like a human anymore, with a bloody mouth, green eyes and a back that were like snake's tail branching out, and she was like a thick leg on the ground, except for the face that was exactly the same as my mother's, this thing looked like a complete monster.
She quickly crawled towards me, and I stumbled back a few steps and bumped into the coffin behind me, and with a loud bang, the coffin lid fell to the ground.
Both me and the monster were shocked.
I don't know what the monster thought, so he gave up on me and crawled in the direction of the coffin, and I took a few steps back to the bedroom, and in a blink of an eye I saw my father's toolbox.
I gritted my teeth and slowly moved over, took out a hammer more than half a meter long from the toolbox, held it in my hand, and then slowly walked in the direction of the black monster.
The monster lay on the coffin, and I didn't know what it was doing, and I let out tears in the corners of my eyes, and let out a loud roar, and smashed the hammer firmly on the monster's body.
I hit it, but I didn't have much strength. Then one of the monster's black tails curled up in my direction, and struck me firmly in the chest, sending me flying.
I slammed in the direction of the door, closing my eyes. I thought I was going to hit the ground straight and hurt my chest. But I didn't expect to be blocked by a wall of flesh later, and then I heard Qin Sanye shouting: "Demon! Where to run! ”
Qin Sanye was holding a peachwood sword in his hand, and he was also wearing a tattered Taoist robe, which I had never seen before. He took the peachwood sword and rushed out directly, fierce and vicious.
The peachwood sword smashed into the body of the black-scaled monster, and I couldn't shake it with a hammer, but I howled miserably in Qin Sanye's fluttering attack, and the sound went straight to my eardrums. Then, the black-scaled monster put down the contents of the coffin and ran towards the back window.
Qin Sanye followed behind him, and only then did the black-scaled monster crash through the window and return with his sword.
I stood on the doorframe in amazement, unable to speak for a long time.
Qin Sanye walked back panting, hugged me, and stroked my back with his warm big hand: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." ”
There was only a pitch-black hole left in the back window, and the dark wind in the backyard was blowing in my face, extremely bloody, and in the pitch-black hole, there was suddenly a pair of green eyes, staring at me from afar.
I screamed, and the coffin that had been lying on the bench suddenly fell from mid-air.
Even my father's corpse fell in front of me, this is not the most terrible, my father's corpse has just been gnawed by the black-scaled monster, leaving only half of the head, dripping with blood, puffing out one eye, standing up and staggering at us.
I was so frightened that I trembled, my father's claws were like eagle claws and grabbed in the direction of Qin Sanye, and Qin Sanye held my father's claws with a peachwood sword. The peachwood sword that looked like a piece of wood was like a sharp sword in Qin Sanye's hands, and my father's hands were blocked by the peachwood sword, and it suddenly popped, and exuded a bad smell.
Qin Sanye took me back and went out directly, my father chased after me, and in the moonlight, half of my father's face was quickly covered with black scales, with a wicked smile on his face.
Qin Sanye was old, and he was out of breath after just two steps, and yelled at my father: "Qin Weiguo, you are sober!" ”
Qin Sanye's voice echoed far in the village, but no one dared to open the door to help. The whole village was quiet as if there was no one left.
Qin Sanye panicked, and took me to stumble towards the back mountain, and the fog around me was overwhelming. I don't know how long it took, but I suddenly realized that I couldn't see my father anymore.
The back mountain is densely forested and leafy.
Coming through the tall canopy, the night in the back mountain appeared darker, like an impermeable black bag. Occasionally, an unknown animal howls, adding to the fear.
Qin Sanye couldn't run anymore, his speed was getting slower and slower, and I couldn't help but support him.
"Third Grandpa, where are we going?" I whispered, my voice trembling and a little scared.
Qin Sanye's hand touched my cheek: "Don't be afraid, let's go find the ancestor." ”
The ancestors of all the people in the village are buried in the back mountain, as early as more than 100 years ago, the first ancestors to settle here specially opened up a place in the back mountain.
Every year, a large-scale ancestor worship event is held in the village.
According to Qin Sanye, we are now being chased by evil spirits, and the best way is to find something to shelter. Now in the middle of the night, it is not realistic to go to the town ten miles away to find a Taoist priest, but it is better to go directly into the back mountain, there are many ancestral tombs in the back mountain, and there are ancestors to protect you, you will be fine.
But the feeling I get from the back mountains is more terrifying than staying at home.
Is this really the right path?
In order to strengthen my courage, I asked curiously: "When did the third grandfather become a Taoist?" ”
"It's all from the past," Qin Sanye sighed and said: "In the early years, your third grandfather also learned a little from others, but they were all nondescript tricks, and whether they could fool the past today is a problem." ”
I suddenly felt like I shouldn't ask.
It's even more terrible to ask than not to ask.
Qin Sanye and I ran to the ancestral grave in a trembling manner, and no one followed behind us, which also made Qin Sanye breathe a sigh of relief.
Qin Sanye took me directly to my grandfather's grave and said that if I kowtow a few more times, my grandfather's father will definitely bless me.
I hurriedly did so, but I always felt that something was not right.
Surrounded by tall and low tombstones, the cool breeze was blowing, and goosebumps were raised layer after layer. If it weren't for the fact that there was a Qin Sanye next to me, I would have run away at this time, and the fool would squat in front of the tombstone and kowtow, rather than believing that the ethereal ancestor in the tomb could bless me, it would be better to leave the village now.
As I prostrated, I looked around, and suddenly I saw a ghostly fire not far away, and I attracted most of my attention and looked in that direction.
But at this moment, I saw that something was not quite right in the shadow of the ground.
The moonlight shone down from the sky, and Qin Sanye was standing next to me, but Qin Sanye's shadow was still holding an axe in his hand, which was raised high and smashed in my direction.
Since I saw the shadow, I rolled around to avoid Qin Sanye's attack, and the axe smashed on the tombstone, and sparks flew everywhere.
I got off a rolling belt and climbed down, looking back at Qin Sanye from afar, under the moonlight, Qin Sanye's face looked more and more treacherous, and in the light and dark, it seemed to have an indifferent smile.
I was terrified, and shouted at Qin Sanye behind me, "Third Grandpa, what's wrong with you, you?" ”