Chapter 21: Burning Paper to Sacrifice Souls
"Click......"
In the darkness, the sound of hard objects rubbing against each other sounded again, accompanied by the faint light of fire, and the short figure also flickered in the darkness.
Out of human instinct for self-preservation, I curled up the weakest part of my body and crouched on the spot.
In the light of the fire, the originally short black shadow appeared enormous, and its posture flickered strangely on the grass beside me.
I sighed in my heart, oh my God, I shouldn't pretend to be this wave, I should find a corner where no one is digging a hole to hide, and I'm so idle that I can't find out what secrets!
The black shadow flickered a dozen times, and the original red, yellow, red and yellow firelight finally lit up, and I could sense the flickering firelight from the afterglow, but an old man's face full of wrinkles suddenly appeared in front of my eyes......
His bloodshot eyes stared at me so hard that I screamed "ah-" and sat down on the ground, looking at him in horror.
"You, who are you? How did it end up here? What are you doing? I asked, trembling.
Only then did I see clearly that the black shadow just now was not a brown bear at all, but a short old man with a hunchback.
"I ...... Ah, ......, I ...... At...... Beat...... Fire...... Ah......h
"Fight, what are you doing with fire?" I asked boldly.
"Hit ...... Fire...... Burn...... Paper...... Ah......h
At this time, the old man suddenly beckoned to me slowly, "Come...... Ah......, come on...... I...... Family...... Village...... Sit...... Sit......"
Who will press their home here in this wilderness?
Comfort yourself in your heart, don't scare yourself, although his behavior is a little weird, but it is possible that he is just a grave guard?
It's understandable that he has been hanging out with corpses all year round and behaving a little strangely......
If you can spend the night at the grave keeper's house tonight, you should be able to survive until dawn!
Thinking like this, I suddenly had an inexplicable affection for the old man.
I quickly stood up, slapped the dust off my body, raised the selfie stick to adjust the camera, and then ran up to the old man and asked, "You must be the grave keeper here, right?!" ”
"Poor...... No...... Many...... ......."
Almost? So is it weeded? Pruning? Chanting? No matter how much he has, let's get out of this eerie graveyard first!
"Then let's go!" I can't wait to say that.
The old man listened and turned slowly.
At this time, the handle of the selfie stick suddenly fell, but fortunately I was quick to grab it.
Twenty yuan goods, the quality is really not good.
Thinking to myself, I looked up, only to see the old man standing next to the tombstone staring at me silently.
"Wow, wow, so fast......" The old man was as if he had teleported just now, as when he appeared in front of me just now, silently.
And his eyes were cold and cold, without the slightest emotion, and I couldn't help but feel urinated.
I suddenly retreated in my heart, hesitated again and again and finally said, "No, otherwise forget it, it's late at night, it's not easy to bother, I, I'd better go first!" ”
After saying that, I turned around and wanted to run.
It was too late, and just as my right leg was about to exert force, my right hand was clamped by something.
I turned my head in panic to see that the strange short old man was reaching out his left hand and grabbing my wrist.
His hands were cold, as cold as if he had put my right hand into the freezer.
His hands were dry, dry like dead branches of a tree that had long since lost its life.
His eyes were cold, and I felt like I had fallen into a hole in the ice.
"Don't ...... Go ......, I'm ...... Very...... Quiet...... Lonely ......, accompany ...... Accompany...... I ......"
I pulled the corners of my mouth and smiled awkwardly, "Heh, lonely, yes, it's quite lonely to work in this kind of uninhabited place." ”
After saying that, I wanted to withdraw my wrist, but I didn't expect such a small body to have such a lot of strength, I tried my best, but the old man didn't move.
I had a premonition that something was wrong, and I thought about it first, and then I could figure it out.
So I sneered and said, "Okay, okay, I'll talk to you." ”
The old man didn't speak, but pulled me slowly towards the tombstone.
In order to relieve the tension, I asked without a match, "Didn't you just burn paper?" Burn, to whom? ”
"Burn...... To give...... Liu...... Bright...... Flat ......"
"You should know him very well, otherwise you wouldn't burn paper for him in the middle of the night?"
"It's ...... Cooked ......"
"This Liu Mingping's tombstone looks very old, and it has a broken corner, it seems that you haven't taken care of it for a long time, right?"
"Chang...... Come ......"
As I spoke, I glanced at the barrage in the live broadcast room.
"Hey! In such a weird situation, the anchor still dares to ask so many questions, so idle? ”
"Don't run away yet, the anchor is talking a lot of nonsense!"
"I see that Liu Mingping's name is indeed written on the tombstone, this old man should not be lying."
Seeing this, I also turned my head to look at the tombstone, which was really engraved with Liu Mingping's name, and I was a little relieved.
It seems that I am thinking too much, and they may really just be the staff who work here, or the people who come to worship.
Thinking of this, my mood is also much brighter.
Fish that swim all day long: Hey! These two anchors also chatted with ghosts!
Greasy Corpse Sister: I'm not interested in the old man, change the channel!
Little Fresh Girlfriend: Now I can see the small characters on the tombstone, it seems to be the tomb of the last years of the Qing Dynasty.
Rampage old driver: The black paint is not good, you can see it clearly upstairs? Sharp-eyed~
The old man dragged me to the side of the tombstone, and I asked again: "Acquaintance is fate, dare to ask the old man what is his name?" ”
Liu ...... Bright...... Flat ......"
I looked at the old man in horror, and the old man grabbed my hand tighter, and he suddenly grinned at me with an eerie "hey, hey, hey".
The strange sound seemed to have penetrating power, causing several owls to suddenly emerge from the otherwise silent dense forest, and they fluttered around the forest in fright.
"And where is your home......" I asked in horror.
"That's it...... At...... This! ”
The old man threw me behind the tombstone, and a large red coffin was exposed, and with a wave of his hand, he tipped the coffin board to the ground.
I suddenly saw that it was the policewoman who was chasing me just now!
It was as if she was asleep, or rather, dead...... There was no movement.
The old man pushed me hard and shouted, "It's ...... I...... Family...... Sit...... Sit! ”
There was a "bang", the coffin board fell, and I was locked in the big red coffin with the policewoman.