Volume 1, Ghost City of the Bone Forest _ Chapter 5, Earth Beasts
By the time I got back to the house, the fat man and Wang Jianjun had already walked back from outside, with a bundle of relatively dry firewood and two shovels with short handles on the ground.
"Let's make a fire. I think this rain is going to rain all night, and the shovel will be used as a self-defense weapon, and I don't know if I will meet bad people in the wilderness. ”
Wang Jianjun muttered a few words.
The crowd sat around the fire and ate. The rain was getting heavier and heavier outside, but there was silence in the house, perhaps because they were all tired, and after sitting for a while, they all showed fatigue.
I originally wanted to tell what I had just discovered, but after looking at Li Qian's pale face, I finally chose to hold back the words.
"I see that everyone is tired, let's divide the work of the vigil. Fat man and I ...... in the middle of the night."
The fat man loves to sleep, and when he heard that he was going to keep vigil, the boss was reluctant, but everyone agreed, so he could only look at me without saying a word.
At about one o'clock in the night, it was the turn of the fat man and me to change shifts, and this guy didn't know what he ate, so he started to have a stomach upset after waking up for a while, and ran to the back of the house to relieve himself, leaving me alone at the front door to watch.
When I'm alone, I don't know what to do in my head, and I keep thinking about those few footprints just now. Such a big footprint, at least left by a big dog, when I was a child, my father's old leader got two Tibetan mastiffs, and the paws of such big dogs are only half the size of my palm. The forests of Yungui are dense, and it is not uncommon for wild animals to appear in the nearby forests, so I just hope that something will eat people out of the woods.
After waiting for a while and not seeing the fat man come back, I felt that something was wrong, but after a while, I saw the fat man running from outside in a panic. Then he panted and said, "Oh Mom, I'm scared to death!" ”
I looked at his breathless appearance, and I wondered in my heart and asked, "What's wrong with you?" met a tiger? ”
I was joking, but he slapped his thigh and shouted, "Damn, just now I was squatting under the canopy on the side for convenience, but I didn't expect to hear a sound next to me after a while." I glanced in the direction where the sound was coming from, and to my mother's surprise, I saw a black shadow dangling in the rain, and it was so fast! ”
When I heard this, my heart suddenly moved, and I took the opportunity to tell Li Qian what happened before.
As soon as the two of them were combined, it seemed that what the fat man saw might be the black shadow wandering around Li Qian's window!
"It can't be two things in one, right?"
I asked.
"Holy shit, how do I know? But maybe it's not enough, I've heard a rumor in the past. It is said that there are often some empty houses in the places bordering the dense forests and fields in Yunnan. These houses were not built for people to live in, but for some passing ghosts or earth beasts to hide from the rain, and with these houses, earth beasts would not break into the houses that lived in people. Some of these goblins are smart, and it's not uncommon for them to light up their lamps. I'm afraid that a few of us didn't enter this kind of house and break into the house of other earth beasts, right? ”
The fat man is more familiar with the folk customs in this area, and the few folk sects he said before are very accurate, and when I mention it at this moment, I naturally feel that there is some truth, and there is a little more solemnity between my eyebrows.
At this moment, the sound of rain suddenly mixed with a strange sound came from a distance.
"Bell, bell, bell......"
The sound of the rain was getting closer and closer, like someone ringing a bell. I became vigilant, straightened up and listened.
"Bell, bell, bell......"
It's still one after another, very regular, like a monk striking a bell. At this moment, the fat man came from the back of the house, and said with an ugly face: "I heard the bell, what's the matter?" ”
"I don't know, it seems to have come from outside. I could hear it, quite clearly...... "I stopped talking, and held the shovel, and the fat man stood beside me, holding the shovel in one hand and his iron lunch box in the other.
There have been a lot of evil things happening lately, and I can't help but feel a little worried that this night may not be peaceful.
"Bell...... Bell ......"
The bell was getting closer and closer, and I glanced back at the fat man, not to see that he was not very strong, but he was not very bold, and the hand holding the shovel was trembling slightly.
The bells were so close that not even the heavy rain could hide the eerie bells. The fat man whispered in my ear: "I heard a few friends in Yunnan say that there is a kind of nocturnal ghost called 'Rub Kuer' in local mythology in Yunnan, which means a monster that can wander. They will have a bell in their hands and ring as they go, looking for people who have lost their way in the wasteland and taking their souls with them. We wouldn't have carried it like this, not only did we meet a female ghost but also 'Rub Kur', right? This house, don't be this 'rubbing the ...... of the Kur"
After hearing what the fat man said, I also thought that there was a possibility, and said: "If our house is really the one you said about 'wiping the kul', then it may have been there before we came, and the lights were lit." After hearing our voices, he extinguished the candle and hid. Secretly observe Li Qian, it may be the same one who hides in the distance at your convenience! It could even be this thing that broke our tractor! ”
I made a bold assumption, and at this time the bell in the distance was even more after all, and the fat man hurriedly woke up the other three people in the house, and then asked, "Aren't ghosts not able to come out during the day?" ”
I didn't know how to answer the fat man's words at all, my heart was nervous, my palms were cold, and although it was very cold all around, a dense bead of sweat still appeared on my forehead.
The bell woke up the three people who were sleeping soundly, Wang Jianjun and Xiaoliu walked behind us, and although Li Qian was scared, she could barely support herself at this time not to scream.
Five pairs of eyes stared at the night outside the house, and I felt my throat tight, even when I was speaking in front of thousands of people at school, I had never been so nervous!
At this time, in the dark field in the heavy rain, under the shadow of the huge mountain peak, a black shadow appeared, slender and long, but not tall, with a large head, which looked quite like a monster but could not see the face clearly.
"Don't come here!"
I was so angry that I didn't know where I got the courage to jump out of the door and shout, and the figure on the other side was obviously stunned, and it really stopped. Even the bell stopped!
I held the shovel and continued to shout, "No matter which way you go, hurry up, we're ...... We've got Daba here! ”
With nonsense in his mouth, his hand unconsciously held the magic stick inserted in his waist.
The fat man whispered behind him: "It's very similar to 'Rub Cool', I heard that 'Rub Cool' has a very big head, like a disc!" ”
I shouted a few more times in quick succession, anyway, I just wanted to get rid of this monster that resembled "Rubbing Kur". But I didn't expect the other party to be unmoved, and continued to walk slowly towards us, I retreated back to the door, and just when my whole heart seemed to jump out of my chest, and I was extremely nervous, the black shadow on the opposite side walked out of the heavy rain and stood under the eaves.
What appeared in front of me and the fat man was actually a big living person!
"Damn, it's a person! I'm scared to death! ”
The fat guy yelled, but there was a relieved expression on his face.
A middle-aged man in a shabby black jacket, a large hat, and a cloth bag stood in front of us. The hat covered his face, and he looked thin and looked like a local farmer.
"It's a fellow, I'm sorry......"
Wang Jianjun greeted him, nodded with a smile, and hurriedly apologized, but Li Qian still shrank back.
When I thought about what kind of demons and monsters were still in my mouth just now, I felt ashamed for a while, and my whole face burned, which was really embarrassing!
The other party took off the hat, it was bald, his face looked like a weasel with a bit of cunning, a black mole on his chin, the corners of his eyes were thin and long, he looked like he should be in his 40s, and he held a bell in his left hand.
It looks like a farmer, but the bell in his hand is a little strange, it is still raining heavily in the middle of the night, he can't stay at home and run out to ring the bell?
Although I was curious, but I didn't dare to ask, the fat man saw that the other party ignored Wang Jianjun and walked up and continued: "Fellow, I'm sorry just now." ”
The other party put down the cloth bag in his hand, turned his head and squinted at a few of us, and then said quietly, "This house is mine." ”
I was standing behind the fat man, and at the moment when the other party spoke, I saw that he had a mouthful of black teeth in his mouth! For no reason, my body shivered.