XLVI. Illusion and Reality
We saw the guy walk past us and disappear into the fog as abruptly as before.
This fog is like a passage through space. And what's in this forest? In fact, since the beginning of the last century, Heizhugou has become a mysterious place known to the locals. And there has always been an ancestral training in Shimen Pass, where the ancestors of the Yi nationality lived, the descendants must not enter to disturb the souls of the ancestors, otherwise they will encounter dangerous things.
But soon a figure came out of the thick fog, it was Professor Zhuo, and he looked at me and asked why we were still here.
When I saw the large army, I was more or less relieved and was about to follow, but I lowered my head intentionally or unintentionally, and suddenly saw that Professor Zhuo was actually wearing a pair of straw sandals on his feet at this time.
At this time, knowing that there must be something strange about this Professor Zhuo who suddenly appeared, I hurriedly grabbed Qin Ge, and at this moment, Qin Ge stumbled and almost fell down, I settled down, looked forward, and found that there was still a road in front of me at this time, but it was a canyon abyss.
Qin Ge screamed in fright, grabbing my hand tightly.
I pulled him back and told him, "This place is not ordinary, and the people and things we see may be fake." Then I found a rope, tied him to me, and slowly groped my way forward with a flashlight.
After walking a short distance, the vision of the two of us finally widened, and instead of the fog dissipating, the trees disappeared and were replaced by a bare mountain. The top of the hill is a dead tree that has fallen to the ground, rotten to black, this is a cemetery of trees, like a fossilized skeleton of a prehistoric giant beast in Hesse, some of them are dead but still standing, the branches are rotten and still straight and pointed straight to the sky, like the ruins of Gothic buildings, Xianghuabiao, and Yuanmingyuan, and I don't know what force supports their bodies that have been dead for many years, I feel shocked, and I really feel the real breath of death that pervades the surroundings.
Walking through a desolate lot, we saw rows of small wooden houses, all of which had been improvised and whose doors had been opened.
"This is a forest farm!" Qin Ge saw it!
"Not long after it was deserted, we went in to take a look, and we couldn't be careless." At this time, we have not yet been issued with guns, only our bare hands, and if there are any ferocious beasts in this forest farm, we will definitely not return.
Entering the room, I found it to be quite elaborately furnished, with tents and carpets, desks, and fireplaces.
"New!" Qin Ge glanced at me.
I walked over and reached out and touched them, they were really new, in this humid deep mountain, they looked like someone had just used them yesterday.
"Let's spread out and go to another room!"
There were 4 rooms in this forest farm and a huge warehouse, the door of the warehouse was locked, I tugged at it, found that I couldn't get it, thought maybe it was just some wood inside, and walked to another room.
But at this time, Qin Ge's voice came from behind him: "Brother Guo? Didn't you go collect firewood? ”
I turned around and saw Qin Ge running from the place where he was going up the mountain. I was wondering how he came from there, when Professor Mongoshi and Professor Zhuo rushed over.
"Fuck, it's all fog, fuck it." Kadoshibin shouted.
"How did you meet them?" I frowned and asked Qin Ge.
Qin Ge glanced at me, his face full of doubts: "Haven't we been together all the time?" ”
As soon as I heard this, I almost didn't blow up, but the door Yuebin over there directly threw a bird gun to me: "There are all kinds of messy things in this fog, you take it for self-defense first, Professor Zhuo said that when you get to Shimen Pass, there are no forest patrols here, so the guns can be taken out and used." ”
I took the shotgun, which was actually an assembled gun, with a black body and a laser scope, barometer, and gas cylinder. After pumping with the built-in inflator of the gun, you can hear the sound of gas coming out by pulling the trigger.
"Damn, I thought it was, that's it!" I was a little disappointed that he had been hiding those guns so tightly before, I thought they were bullets, but they were just steel balls.
Men Yuebin glared at me and threw me a pack of steel balls: "It's good to have it, are you still working on bullet guns?" I think you want me to go to jail, right? ”
"Clean up and let's go into the house!" Professor Zhuo's face was full of fatigue at this time, the outer layer of his jacket was also covered with water stains, and the shoes on his feet could step on water when he walked.
"What's wrong?"
Chen Xiaofei carried him behind his back and smiled and said: "The professor heard someone calling him in the river, so he stepped into it. ”
Lu Zhongren also came over and said: "There are really spirits in this mountain, and I can really hear that voice, it is definitely not an auditory hallucination." ”
"Ahh Professor Zhuo sneezed, cold.
The wind is blowing on the top of the mountain, and in this kind of place, the more empty it is, the stronger the mountain wind becomes, and we are already wet now, and if we are blown by the wind again, we may catch a cold.
"Let's go, let's go into the house, at night, a few of our old men, close the door and be full of yang, afraid of a fart!" Seeing that Professor Zhuo had arrived, Menyue Bin hurriedly said, "We can't stand outside the house like this, the mountain wind here is bleak and cold, and we have to delay for a few days if we break our bodies." ”
Professor Zhuo glanced at the others: "How about building a fire in the first room, drying the clothes and then talking about it slowly?" ”
They all nodded, and went back to the big wooden house before, and I walked last with Mengoebin, he looked at me and said, "There are evil things here, and I think the more weird things we encounter, the closer we get to our destination." ”
"What do you mean?"
"Haven't you heard? This place of Heizhugou Shimenguan is called 'Sihuo' in the Yi language, which is the place where 'playing the pendulum and dying', and the ancestors here must be guarding something. That's why strange things happen frequently. ”
"Possibly. So what's next? ”
"Rest first and stay vigilant."
I nodded, and then I entered, stripped naked again, and the light rain in the mountains, and the sweat soaked in the fog, had already stinked.
In this way, several of us camped in Lin Yang's room, set up tents, and lit braziers. Time passed minute by minute, and soon the night fell, all the sounds of the mountain were gone, the whole mountain top was as silent as death, the moonlight shone through the clouds and illuminated the land, the whole world seemed to be covered with a bleak silver, and the atmosphere in the forest farm was terrifying.
"Damn it, why is it so foggy at night?" Chen Xiaofei went out and a soak of urine and walked in whistling.
"Don't blow, I don't know if you can't whistle at night in the mountains? It's going to attract ghosts. Qin Ge shouted.
"Where the ghost came from, I have told the sound in the fog, it is estimated that it is the song of birds, you young people, how can you be more superstitious than my old man." Professor Toh is a typical materialist.
But a few young people over there stopped doing it, and it was difficult to come out of it, and when they encountered so many things, they didn't sleep around the fire and told ghost stories one by one.
Professor Zhuo looked at these young people, and he was also helpless, so he set up a small pot on the fire and began to boil tea with mountain spring water.
The stories they tell are nothing more than some things in the countryside of my hometown, these things are the real experience of the older generation, and for a while everyone can't discuss the truth or falsehood, I sat on the side and drank tea and listened to it for a while, and after a while, my clothes were also dried, and I was ready to go out for convenience, and then I got into the sleeping bag and rested directly.
Pushing open the door of the wooden house, the light of the fire in the house shone a red line outside the door, and I glanced out through the bright light. Outside the house was still a thick fog, white water droplets floated in the air, not even the moonlight could penetrate it, and it was only a gray layer as far as the eye could see.
I hummed a little song, took off my pants, and was about to get ready, when suddenly a pair of hands covered my mouth and pulled me to the corner outside the house.
I looked back while struggling and found that it was actually Qin Ge, at this time, the guy's water droplets were shivering from the cold, but he still covered my mouth like crazy.
I held back half of my urine, and I couldn't break free for a while, and I only heard Qin Ge say in my ears: "What's the situation······ Brother Guo, I'm Xiao Qin, listen to me, don't go into that room, the one inside is not me. ”