1

A bloody light appeared in front of Zhong Fei's eyes. An unusually blinding glow of blood. The thick smell of blood choked him. In the blood light, Zhong Fei saw a person, who was wearing tattered gray cloth clothes, a leather belt around his waist, and a bandage on his head, his eyes were blood-red, and his expression was firm and hateful. He was holding an old-fashioned "Hanyang-made" rifle, lying on the edge of the trench and aiming down the hill. Zhong Fei didn't know who this person was, why was he lying on the edge of the trench? Zhong Fei has never seen such a person, as if he is a character from an old movie. Zhong Fei wanted to get close to him and talk to him, but Zhong Fei couldn't move. Zhong Fei had no choice but to stare at the strange person in the blood light, worried about what would happen to him...... It was as if someone got into the tent, squatted down in front of Zhong Fei's sleeping bag, and pushed Zhong Fei, Zhong Fei suddenly woke up from his dream, the person in the blood light was gone, the tent was dark, and he heard Zhu Fufu's snoring and Shen Yuyu's rhythmic snoring.

Zhong Fei picked up his flashlight and got out of the tent.

He remembered the scene in his dream, and came to the ditch, everything in the trench was presented under his flashlight, Zhong Fei saw nothing, and there was no gray man in the dream at all. At this time, the sky was like a huge black iron pot lid, covering the plum blossom tips tightly, and Zhong Fei felt dull.

There was not a hint of wind.

Zhong Fei still felt cold behind him.

The anxiety in his heart was still spreading indefinitely.

It was as if behind him stood a man.

Zhong Fei turned around suddenly, and the flashlight shot out in that direction, and he saw a black shadow shake rapidly, and then rushed towards the northern hillside.

Zhong Fei said sharply: "Who-"

As he spoke, he pulled out the dagger from his waist and chased after him......

2

On this night, Zhang Datou and hunter Zhang Changfa were drinking. Zhang Changfa went up the mountain today and hit a pheasant, and when he came back, he killed the pheasant, stewed a pot of pheasant, and then went to call Zhang Datou over to drink. Zhang Changfa grew up with Zhang Datou since childhood, and the relationship between the two is very deep. A few years ago, hunting was not allowed in the mountains, and people from the town police station and the county forestry public security went to Fenghuang Village to collect the earthen guns and shotguns. When hunting for Zhang Changfa, Zhang Datou turned a blind eye, but he would often say to Zhang Changfa: "Don't fight those state-protected animals, otherwise I won't be able to explain to the above." Zhang Changfa listened to him, just hunting pheasants and hares or something, and had an addiction to hunting.

The fragrant pheasant meat is very tempting.

Zhang Datou put a piece in his mouth, chewed a few mouthfuls and said, "It's so fragrant!" ”

He specially brought a bottle of Wuliangye from home, which his son had brought back to him before when he rarely returned to the village, and he was reluctant to drink it. Today, I don't know how to do it, as soon as Zhang Changfa said that he would eat pheasant, Zhang Datou thought of the bottle of Wuliangye that had been put for a long time. When Zhang Datou opened the wine bottle, a strong fragrance wafted from Zhang Changfa's room.

Zhang Changfa took a breath hard, looking very intoxicated: "I have never smelled such fragrant wine, you old thing, you don't take out such a good wine earlier, you want to keep it in the coffin to drink!" ”

Zhang Datou smiled: "Don't you take this out, I can do without you if I have good food and drink?" ”

They raised their glasses and toasted them.

Zhang Changfa suddenly said: "Alas, it's old! The marksmanship is also inaccurate, and this pheasant just happened to hit my gun today, otherwise we will eat bird feathers at night! Big head, you say, how can people say that old age is old? ”

Zhang Datou said: "People always have to be old, you see, Xiuxiu has grown up in a flash!" ”

Zhang Changfa drank another glass of wine, wiped his eyes and said, "Big head, you say, my biological parents really have to wait for me to meet on Huangquan Road?" Even when I get to Huangquan Road, I may not be able to know them, and they may not be able to recognize me! ”

Zhang Datou also sighed: "They are going to live, and they are also eighty or ninety years old." But whether they are dead or alive no one knows. I heard my dead father say that after the battle, someone in the village went to the plum blossom tip to look for it, but found nothing, not even a single bone. It has been decades since the liberation, and if they were alive, they should also remember that there is a son like you who is still in Fenghuang Village. ”

Zhang Changfa grew up eating hundreds of meals in Fenghuang Village, and many years ago, a couple of New Fourth Army couples who were recuperating from their injuries at the tip of the plum blossom left him in Fenghuang Village and went to the battlefield. Zhang Changfa has never married in his life and is alone. For decades, he had been waiting for his biological parents to arrive, but it was a long fantasy that could not be realized in a lifetime. Zhang Changfa's old eyes were moist, and he said: "In the past few days, I always dream that a person with a bloody coat is standing in front of me, I can't see his face clearly, I don't know who he is, and he doesn't talk to me, do you guess he is my father?" ”

Zhang Datou said: "Think about it every day, dream about it at night, old things, don't think too much, so many years have passed, live a few days in peace, it's useless to think too much." If you can't walk, don't go up to the mountains to hunt, as long as I live for a day, I won't be hungry for you! ”

Zhang Changfa sighed and said, "I believe this." But the older my heart gets, the more uncomfortable it becomes, the fire burns and burns, and I don't know how to be down-to-earth. ”

Zhang Datou picked up his wine glass: "Drink and drink, don't say so many sad words, let's live one day at a time!" ”

Zhang Datou drank all the wine in the cup.

Zhang Changfa also poured the wine into his mouth and swallowed it.

At this time, Zhang Changfa seemed to hear someone outside the window. He made a gesture and motioned for Zhang Da to keep his head silent, then stood up gently, crept to the window, slammed it open, and said loudly, "Who-"

A shadow flickered by, and soon disappeared in Zhang Changfa's eyes, and it was difficult to find the trace of that shadow in the vast night.

Zhang Changfa returned to the table, sat down and said, "Who will it be?" What is this person trying to do outside the window? ”

Zhang Datou smiled and said, "Don't be suspicious, maybe someone smelled the fragrance of pheasants, and they had a good time lying behind the window." ”

Zhang Changfa shook his head solemnly: "No, if that's the case, he doesn't need to run, or will let me give him a piece of mountain chicken to eat, you know, in the past, I hunted prey, and I never enjoyed it exclusively, and it was all shared among the people in the village." This person must be eavesdropping on us, maybe with some ulterior motives! ”

3

The black shadow ran so fast that it was gone into the woods. Zhong Fei also followed up in the forest, and there was fog in the forest, maybe the fog in the forest was permeated for a long time, and it didn't see the light of day. Zhong Fei's flashlight's pillar of light could not pierce the dense fog. Who is that dark shadow? Could it be that it wasn't the poisonous snake that followed them when they climbed the mountains and mountains to the peak of the plum blossom spire during the day, but this mysterious person? If it was him, then why did he follow them? Many questions made Zhong Fei have many knots in his heart that could not be untied.

The mysterious man was hiding in the misty primeval forest.

Zhong Fei really wanted to find that person and untie the knot in his heart.

But he thought of Zhu Future and Shen Yuyu, what would happen if they woke up and found that he was gone? They will definitely have no master, Zhong Fei knows that he is their backbone. Zhong Fei was about to go back to the top of the mountain when he heard someone talking.

The voice was not loud, but it was loud in the silence of the night.

Zhong Fei couldn't hear what he was talking about, and he didn't know who was saying it. All he knew was that the voice was coming from the depths of the forest. When Zhong Fei heard the voice, he immediately dispelled the idea of returning to the tent on the top of the mountain. He decided to go into the forest to find out. At this time, Zhong Fei had a fire burning in his heart, without the slightest sense of fear. He didn't know where he got his courage.

Zhong Fei held a dagger in one hand and a flashlight in the other, and groped his way in the direction of the sound of speaking in the forest step by step.

There were no roads in the forest, it was overgrown with shrubs and thorns, and the ground was thick with dead leaves and rotting branches that had accumulated over the years. Zhong Fei's feet stepped on it, soft and slippery, as if he would sink into it if he was not careful, burying his body. Zhong Fei groped his way to the depths of the forest, and when he was not careful, the thorns of the thorns cut a bloody mark on his face, which was painful and painful.

Zhong Fei seemed to have changed as a person, he no longer had any thoughts of retreating, and kept searching for the voice of talking, he even forgot Zhu Fufu and Shen Yuyu in the tent on the top of the mountain, and also forgot his lover Song Li. All he could remember was the mysterious shadow and the faint sound of speech. But when he felt himself close to the voice, it disappeared. Just as he was confused, the sound of speech came from the depths of the forest.

The voice tempted him into the depths of the forest.

The further you go into the forest, the thicker the fog becomes. Zhong Fei felt that the fog stuck to him like white glue, and it was useless to break free. It was also becoming more and more difficult for him to walk, and he felt that it was more and more difficult to walk. He stopped, stood under a thick pine tree, gasping for breath. The pine trees were covered with vines, and the vines were wet and dripping with water. The bare roots of the pine trees are covered with moss.

Zhong Fei stood there, with an indescribable pain all over his body.

His body was tired, but his mind was unusually clear, and he searched for the direction of the sound. The voice died down for a moment, then it rang out again. The cold voice floated over, and Zhong Fei couldn't help but snort. His legs were heavy with lead, and it was hard enough to take a step, but he still tried to walk in the direction of the voice. Zhong Fei took a step.

He had just taken a step when there was a sudden stroke on the soles of his feet, and his body fell backwards and he fell to the ground. It was as if someone had kicked him in the head, and his body slid down quickly, and his hands gripped the dagger and the flashlight, knowing full well that without them, it would be even more dangerous......

4

Shen Yuyu was getting colder and colder, shivering all over. The blood rain outside the tent stopped, they couldn't sleep, Zhong Fei's unknown whereabouts, and some of the things that happened this night made Zhu Future and Shen Yuyu extremely panicked. Shen Yuyu grabbed Zhu Future's hand tightly, not daring to relax, for fear that something would happen as soon as he relaxed. Zhu Future's hands were hurt by her, and he gritted his teeth and remained silent. Zhu Fufu was also very frightened in his heart, letting Shen Yuyu grasp it, although it was painful, but there was also a feeling of interdependence.

What kind of world was outside the tent, Shen Yuyu didn't know.

She didn't dare to think about it, Zhu wanted to go out to find Zhong Fei in the future, but Shen Yuyu didn't agree, although she was also worried about Zhong Fei's safety. She was afraid that Zhu Fu would go out to find Zhong Fei and disappear, so what if she was left alone. Shen Yuyu's worries were not unreasonable, and Zhu Weifu agreed with Shen Yuyu's idea. They waited in the tent for Zhong Fei's return, Zhu Future firmly believed that as long as Zhong Fei was alive, he would definitely come back to find them, Zhong Fei was not an irresponsible person.

Just then, footsteps rang out from outside the tent.

Zhu Future heard the sound of footsteps coming from far and near, and his first reaction was that Zhong Fei was back. Zhu Future's face showed a look of joy. He said to Shen Yuyu: "Yuyu, you can let go, Zhong Fei is back, don't be afraid!" ”

Shen Yuyu didn't speak, just stared at Zhu Future intently, her ears were listening to the footsteps outside the tent, because she was too focused on the footsteps outside, what Zhu Future said, she didn't hear clearly at all. Shen Yuyu still grabbed Zhu Future's hand. The footsteps grew clearer, and when he approached the tent, he stopped, and there was a dead silence. A glimmer of white light flashed in Shen Yuyu's eyes, and the hand that grabbed Zhu Future trembled slightly, and Zhu Future could feel the cold sweat oozing from her palm.

Zhu Future ignored Shen Yuyu, and just said loudly outside the tent: "Zhong Fei, come in quickly, don't scare us, Yuyu is frightened by you!" ”

There was no sound outside the tent, and no one answered Zhu Future.

At this time, Shen Yuyu trembled and whispered: "It wasn't Zhong Fei's footsteps just now, I can hear it, Zhong Fei's footsteps are heavier, and every step is very steady, and the footsteps just now are only one foot heavy, and the other foot is relatively light." ”

Zhu Future listened to her words, opened his mouth, and didn't close it for a long time.

Who's outside the tent? The people of Phoenix Village didn't dare to come to this place alone, if it wasn't for Zhong Fei, who else would come to this place? Shen Yuyu now completely believed Zhang Xiuxiu's words, at this time, the curiosity in her heart was gone, and all that was left was fear. Fortunately, Zhu Fufu was not allowed to leave her to find Zhong Fei, otherwise she would be left alone in the tent, and when she heard the strange and mysterious footsteps, she would be scared to urine, in fact, she had already held back her pee, but she didn't dare to go out to spew.

There must be a man standing outside the tent.

What would that person do to them?

Zhu Future stood in front of Shen Yuyu, but she still held his hand tightly. Shen Yuyu hid behind Zhu Future, feeling that Zhu Future's back was also trembling. Zhu Future whispered to her: "Yuyu, don't be afraid!" Shen Yuyu was silent, at this time, it is not that he can solve the problem without being afraid. Although Shen Yuyu was very frightened, she still thought about how to deal with the people outside, she thought, if someone really rushed in, there was really no way to hug him and bite hard, thinking of this, Shen Yuyu's teeth twitched.

Zhu Future was about to say something, when he saw a hand reaching into the tent, it was a hand that was as dry and charred as the ground on the top of a mountain, and he was still holding a dagger in his hand. The withered, blackened hand shook for a moment, and the dagger landed on the ground in the tent.

Throwing down the dagger, the withered and charred hand slowly retracted.

Under the light of Zhu Future's flashlight, Shen Yuyu could see clearly, and his dry and scorched hands were full of scars. Shen Yuyu was dumbfounded, as if frozen in ice, motionless.

Zhu Future shone the flashlight on the dagger and said in surprise: "Isn't this Zhong Fei's dagger?" How-"

Suddenly there was a sneer outside the tent.

Shen Yuyu hugged Zhu Future tightly from behind......

5

A starry sky.

The blind mother-in-law walked slowly into an alley in the village on crutches, and at the end of the alley was the mud-tiled house where she lived. The light in Zhang Xiuxiu's room was still on, and her blind mother-in-law couldn't see it, she could only hear the subtle sounds inside. The blind mother-in-law didn't know what Zhang Xiuxiu was doing in the room, and she muttered: "Those who should go have gone, and those who shouldn't have gone have gone-"

The window door of Zhang Xiuxiu's room suddenly opened, and Zhang Xiuxiu's distorted face appeared in the window, she opened her mouth and said loudly: "You go away, I don't want to see you, don't listen to you, you go away-"

Immediately after, the window door slammed shut.

The blind mother-in-law heard a muffled cry coming from inside.

She sighed and walked deeper into the alley on crutches.

There were no lights in the house, and there was a musty smell in the darkness.

The blind mother-in-law sat on the edge of the bed and whispered something.

It was as if she saw a gray face in the darkness, a face full of scars, how handsome and bright this face had been...... With nowhere to run from the gunfire, the young girl hid in a corner of the ruined wall when a Japanese soldier approached her with a gun, smirking and unbuttoning her blouse with a bayonet, revealing her white breasts...... She curled up in that corner, her thighs dripping with red blood, she was like a trembling leaf in the cold autumn wind, and her eyes were full of tears that flowed from the bottom of her heart. The whole village was filled with the smell of death and the strong smell of blood, and she muttered a man's name from her mouth. At dusk, the remnant sun is like blood. At last she saw the young man who had been searched for her in the wind, and the young man stood there when he saw her, his eyes burning with grief and indignation. She cried and stood up, threw herself into the young man's arms, and wept hoarsely...... The young man took off his clothes, put them on her, and without saying a word, took her by the hand and left the ruined village and embarked on a path of blood and fire......

The blind mother-in-law felt herself shed tears.

A long sigh.

The smell of decay is getting stronger.

The blind mother-in-law suddenly grabbed her hair in the darkness and tore it vigorously, her mouth letting out a desperate and miserable howl......

6

Zhong Fei fell into an abyss.

Before falling into the abyss, he lost himself in the foggy forest. He slid down a section after falling, hitting his head heavily on a tree, only to hear the "buzz" of his brain, and a lot of sparks appeared in front of his eyes. He struggled to his feet. I touched my head and found that there was already a big bag bulging on my head. The pain is not terrible, what is terrible is that he no longer knows where he is.

Zhong Fei suddenly remembered Zhu Future and Shen Yuyu, he didn't know anything about how they were now. Zhong Fei wanted to go back to the top of the mountain, but the vast forest and thick fog made him lose his way. He couldn't tell the difference between east and west. He thought that if he climbed up the mountain, he might be able to reach the top of the plum blossom peak, but he climbed a mountain with great effort, and found that it was not the peak of the plum blossom tip at all, and the mountain was locked by a thick fog, and it was not clear which direction the plum blossom peak was in.

He couldn't find a way to the peak of the plum blossom pinnacle, and there was no road in the forest. Zhong Fei felt that those dense fogs were boundless fear. He remembered the voice that had seduced him, and there was no trace of it. Maybe there was no one at all, it was just an illusion. Was he brought to a difficult situation by his own hallucinations?

He can't sit still on this hill, he must get out! Zhong Fei re-entered the thorny forest. He heard a strange sound, not a human voice, nor a rustling sound, but a strange chirp. This strange chirp came from all directions, Zhong Fei's hand holding the dagger trembled a little, and his heart was suffering cruelly. He was thrown into a strange world, he was alone in this world, and his companions Zhu Future and Shen Yuyu were very far away from him at this time, unattainable. Zhong Fei was covered in cold sweat, his skin tightened one after another, the bruises on his head and the scratches on his face could no longer feel pain, and his nerves were controlled by the strange screams and could not relax.

The light pillar of the flashlight was engulfed in a thick fog, and Zhong Fei could only see the trees in front of him in any direction, and nothing else could be seen, and the monster that was hiding in the fog and making a chirping sound could not see it at all. Zhong Fei's heart soaked in the ice cave, struggling. How many unknown things in the forest brought him extreme fear, Zhong Fei couldn't predict. Now, he has only one desire, and that is to leave this place. Every step Zhong Fei took was like a step towards death.

Did Zhang Xiuxiu talk about the educated youth who was like him, lost his way in the forest in the dark night, and struggled to find a way out in the forest in isolation? Strange chirps gathered from all directions, like lingering nightmares. Zhong Fei kept saying to himself: "You must persevere, you must persevere!" But it wasn't long before he began to wonder if he would be able to make it until dawn.

Zhong Fei felt a cold wind rushing towards his face.

A fist-sized black shadow pounced on the right side of his face, bit it hard, and flew away with a scream.

Zhong Fei's face stinged, and hot blood flowed down his cheeks.

He didn't know what kind of monster it was, he held a flashlight in one hand and a dagger tightly in the other.

Another cold wind rushed towards him, and he shone his flashlight at the cold wind, and with the other hand, he raised the dagger and slashed at the fist-sized black shadow. His dagger didn't slash out as fast as the black shadow, and he was bitten in the face again.

In a few moments, many dark shadows rushed towards him, his hands fluttering, the cold light of the flashlight and dagger waving in the small space in front of him, and his mouth let out a howl of despair. Zhong Fei's head and face were frequently attacked, and in the end, he gave up resistance, he was not able to resist those monsters at all. Zhong Fei chose to flee. He struggled through the forest...... Zhong Fei felt that his feet were stepping on a trap, and as soon as his legs were weak, he fell into an abyss, an abyss from which he could never recover......

Zhong Fei woke up from his coma and found that the dagger in his hand was missing, but the flashlight was still lit on the ground not far from him. His head and face ached so badly that his bones fell apart. What is this place? Zhong Fei shouted. After a while, there was a dull echo. Zhong Fei reverberated and concluded that he was in a cave. He fell into a cave? He tried to stand up, but he was weak, and his eyes glanced at the flashlight, and he wanted to grab it. Zhong Fei was about to crawl up towards the flashlight, when his outstretched hand touched a skull......