The old stall shook his head: "No one knows what it is, some people say that it is an animal with high intelligence, and some people say that it is an animal that has cultivated into a human form." The night on a normal day is better, maybe the mountain ghost is not very strict, but at night seven days before and eight days after the cliff burial, you must not enter the mountain with open fire and light. You can only use this human skin lantern, because the human skin can filter out the candle light inside, so as not to attract mountain ghosts. ”

The old stall leader said, carrying a lantern and leading me on.

I continued to ask him about the mountain ghosts: "Master Tan, what if someone sneaks into the mountain and lights a fire and attracts the mountain ghosts?" ”

I've been with the old stall head for a long time, and I found that the old stall head is still a good person. I have also unconsciously changed the name of the old stall from Tan Ye to Tan Ye, but the old stall head doesn't seem to care.

When the old stall heard me ask, he told me a story, which was also experienced by someone else.

This mountain is Qiyang Mountain, and people in the vicinity know how strange there are at night in Qiyang Mountain. That time there was a family in the town, a family of four, the father was paralyzed in bed, the mother was in charge of the housework, and there was an older sister and a younger brother, the younger brother was only five years old, and that year he had a strange disease, and he went to many hospitals but could not be cured, and his parents were anxious, and finally asked an old Chinese medicine doctor.

The old Chinese medicine doctor gave a prescription, saying that this prescription has an 80% chance of saving lives. But there is a medicine in the recipe, which needs the mountain pool water of Qiyang Mountain. Many people advised them to avoid the cliff burial, but saving people is like fighting fire, and the mother decided to take her sixteen-year-old daughter to venture up the mountain to fetch water from the mountain pool, but as she walked, she got lost in the mountain and could not get out until the evening.

They also knew that they couldn't bring light in the mountains, but they were desperate for their younger brother, so they took a chance and turned on a flashlight, wrapped several layers of cloth on the flashlight, and could only reveal a faint light.

As a result, even so, he couldn't hide it from the mountain ghost. Just as they found the mountain pool and were about to get water, three mountain ghosts came to smell the light......

What the mountain ghost did to the mother and daughter, no one knows. It was only the next day that they still failed to turn around, and relatives and friends gathered together to search for them in the mountains, and found their mother and daughter.

Half of my mother was soaked in the waterhole, and she was already dying. And that daughter is missing.

The crowd rushed the woman to the hospital, only to die on the way to the hospital. Before they died, they said that they had met mountain ghosts......

The rest of the people searched almost all over Qiyang Mountain, but they didn't find the daughter. People say that the girl's meat is fragrant, and it was eaten by the mountain ghosts.

There are many legends about similar mountain ghosts harming people, so people here talk about mountain ghosts whenever they enter the mountains and change color.

I don't think much of the legend of this mountain ghost is true, because it is probably the product of false rumors. But when I heard that this mountain ghost was so sensitive to light, I suddenly had a bigger question in my mind.

I remember Ma Tan telling me that when they went into the mountain, they had seen the spirit flag, which means that it was probably the day of the cliff burial. Zhou Zheng may also have been hooked by the soul-attracting banner to the waterhole.

And they didn't just point out those two days

There was a bonfire, and a flashlight swaggered through the city. If the mountain ghosts are sensitive to light, it is impossible not to attack them. But according to Lao Ma's description, it seems that there is no mention of this mountain ghost.

What's going on? Could it be that Lao Ma deliberately concealed this paragraph?

It's impossible, the old horse can't, and there's no need to hide it from me. That must be because it didn't alarm the mountain ghosts that day. What is the reason for this?

I racked my brains and couldn't come up with a reason, thinking that I must ask the old horse when I saw him.

Our march did not stop for a moment, and although the mountain road was rough and difficult, the old stall man was familiar with the road, and after climbing a small hill with me, he suddenly crouched down, grabbed the soil on the ground and smelled it.

Then he threw away the dirt and said, "They don't take more than half an hour from here." ”

I know that what the old stall head said about them is the same team I saw in the village, and now maybe the third uncle and they are also in it.

I hurriedly urged, "Then let's catch up, shall we?" ”

The old stall head nodded, and continued to chase me forward.

After walking a short distance, we climbed a high hill, which was condescending, and if it was a good sight during the day, we should be able to overlook the whole surrounding area.

As soon as I arrived at this high post, I smelled a fishy smell. It was a watery smell that hit the nose in the air.

The old stall pushed aside the weeds in front of me and told me to look down.

Underneath the high hill, a waterhole appeared. Since the area around the waterhole is relatively empty, the moonlight can completely cover the past. In addition, today is the thirteenth day of the lunar calendar, and there are still two days before the night of the full moon, so the moonlight is very sufficient, shining on the pond water, sparkling and beautiful.

But we weren't here to enjoy the view, and soon I found out about it at the edge of the pool.

At the edge of the waterhole squatted side by side, all in one position, tilting their heads upwards at an uncanny angle, and then quickly plunging their heads into the pool.

They repeated this action over and over again, like an animal drinking from the water's edge.

Because of the distance, I couldn't see their faces clearly, not even their clothes.

But their movements were so stiff that I immediately thought of corpses. Obviously, they were the corpses that were going to be buried at the cliff.

Sure enough, soon another figure appeared by the waterhole. The man was dressed in plain clothes and waved the spirit flag in his hand.

The old stall boss explained to me in a low voice: "See? This mountain pool water is cold and biting all year round, and those sewn corpses are hidden in this mountain pool water. When the flagbearer arrives with these ghosts, they merge. Then they will drink the water of this mountain pool to soothe the soul in the body. Now that they're merged, the ghosts have been sealed inside the corpse. After a while, the banner bearer will change from a ghost to a corpse. ”

I nodded, and as I listened, I glared at them, trying to find out if there were any third uncles among those people, but the distance was too far, and the light was not enough for me to identify them.

And at this moment, the man shook the spirit flag in his hand, and a series of strange sounds came out of his mouth.

The corpses that were squatting and drinking water all stood up again

Come.

The man whistled, danced the spirit flag, and walked up the edge of the pool.

The corpses, who had drunk the water, stood up and began to move their legs again and follow the flag.

To my surprise this time, they moved very fast instead of the slow movement in the village. It only took a few moments to get away from the waterhole.

"Oops. I forgot that after they drank the water, the speed would increase. Keep up with them, or you won't be able to catch up with them. ”

The old stall suddenly shouted.

"Huh?" I was also startled, I couldn't catch up with their cliff burial, didn't it mean that if the third uncle was also inside, they would also jump off the top of the cliff?

How could such a crucial matter be forgotten?

Although I was a little dissatisfied with the old stall in my heart, it was hard to say anything. After all, I still have to rely on him at this time.

The old stall trotted with a lantern and rushed down from the high post.

I followed closely behind.

It was easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, and we rushed down from the high hill, because we only had two lanterns in our hands, so we couldn't do it completely. We don't know how many times we fell and how many tree trunks we hit along the way. I guess I already have a blue nose and swollen face.

We rushed from the high hill to the waterhole and checked each other, but fortunately we both had many bruises on our bodies, but there were no major injuries.

(End of chapter)

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