Volume 1, Ghost Town of the Bone Forest _ Chapter 11, Mountain Monster Talk
I don't know where I said the wrong thing, but I obviously upset the beads.
"Brother, you look down on me too much, don't you? You want to exchange me for two treasures? Do you feel that you have Lao Hei's support behind you, so you feel that you are amazing? ”
Although the beads in front of him are naturally short, they still have the feeling of being a hero. But I saw him reach out and smash the wall, and the whole wall made a few muffled sounds. After a while, several men came in, wearing thin coats and old vests, with bricks or scythes or the like in their hands, with fierce expressions on their faces.
I had only been in society for a few years at the time, and to use a bad word to describe it, that was a "chick", where had I ever seen such a big battle, and my face was blue with fright. I'm afraid that some of the heroes on the other side will look at me unpleasantly, so I'll take a look at my head. I immediately understood that I was greedy and swallowed an elephant, and if I didn't say something nice now, my head might bloom.
"If you have something to say, it's good to say! We can discuss it again! Haha......"
I stood up and took a few steps back, and laughed dryly, although I used to fight with others, but after all, the number of people was about the same, and there was such a strong man as the fat man on the side, so I felt very steady. Now these people on the other side are like outlaws, and it would be a lie to say that they don't panic.
Zhuzi stood in the middle of these big men, especially he seemed to be short, but full of aura, and after turning his neck, he said, "Little brother, I don't know if you really follow Lao Hei." The first thing I said when I got you into this room was that I knew you didn't know how to do it. If you had been in someone else's hands, you might have been beaten unconscious by now, and your things would have been robbed long ago. But fortunately, my beads are still good at the rules. Your stick is indeed good, and there are a lot of ghosts in it, and it can be worth a lot of money. But to change my two treasures, it seems that you are a little arrogant. Well, you can take one of my three treasures. Let's finish this business smoothly, and if we can still get together in the future, it can be regarded as fate. ”
I didn't expect the other party to really have a bit of heroism, I didn't dare to smile on my face, but I breathed a long sigh of relief in my heart, at least my life was saved.
Looking at the three objects on the ground, beeswax is definitely not going to think about it, I have to choose one between the magic pestle and the book, the magic pestle is indeed very godly, but just like the stick in my hand, I don't know how to use it, and it's useless to get it.
"I want that book."
After pointing to the "Strange Tales of the Mountains" on the ground, Zhuzi nodded, picked up the book from the ground, wrapped it in black cloth and handed it over, and I handed the stick over at the same time. At the moment of the transaction, Zhu Zi suddenly said: "Little brother, don't expose any treasures on your body in the future, otherwise there will be many guys staring at you." ”
My heart moved, and I asked in a suppressed voice, "What the hell are you doing?" ”
Anyway, the other party should have guessed that I was actually a layman, so I simply opened my mouth and asked directly.
"Ghost sellers."
The beads took the magic stick, and also took away the female ghost who had a three-night relationship with me. Then I left the house with a group of men, my legs trembled with fright, and I can't blame me for not being angry, the scene just now was actually more terrifying than meeting a female ghost, and my life was almost gone.
It was the first time I made a trade in my life, and although there were more thrilling trades in the future, I still remember this experience vividly. In the long life that followed, the people who walked the ticket and the object accounted for 50%, and I chose the book "Strange Tales of the Mountains" back then, and now I think it is indeed the right decision, this book is like my enlightenment teacher, taking me into that extraordinary world.
After the beads left, I went out of the house, and the market outside was still very lively. I walked down the market to the side of the cattle market, and saw the fat man in the distance surrounded by several herdsmen. Hurriedly walked over, and heard what seemed to be an argument.
The fat man saw me coming from afar, and hurriedly gave me a look, and I understood that I would stop. After listening to it in general terms, I realized what was going on, and one of our young men from Shanghai was very excited when he saw a few horses parked next to him. Seeing that his master was not strict with him, he secretly rode up, which the herdsman stopped at once, and stretched out his hand to pull the young man off his horse.
The two sides quarreled because of this, and in the eyes of this Shanghai boy, he felt that it was nothing more than riding a horse on you, and it was a big deal to give you a few dimes. But in the eyes of others, they think that his behavior is similar to stealing. If it weren't for the fat man's maneuvering, the other party might have to do it.
I laughed next to me, and it was a bit pediatric compared to what I was in earlier.
He gestured to the fat man in the air, signaling him to take a step first. After turning around and walking for a few moments, there was a sudden exclamation from the crowd behind him. I was stunned and turned my head strangely. But I saw that the horse beside the herdsman was actually swaying, spitting out ginger liquid in his mouth, stumbling a few steps and then falling to his death!
This death is terrible! The dispute, which was already about to subside, intensified again, and the herdsmen thought that the young man must have ridden the horse and the horse died, although the logic was strange, but that's what the people thought. Several herdsmen rushed forward with sickles, and the fat man shouted in the language of the minority with a tearing throat.
Seeing that something was wrong, I hurriedly ran up, thinking that if I did do it, I would be able to take care of it.
At this moment, a herdsman next to him suddenly pointed to the horse's belly and shouted, and said a lot of words in his mouth, I didn't understand but looked down with his finger, and saw that the dead horse's belly was bulging, like a balloon full of inflation.
"What's going on?"
Everyone was a little dazed, and suddenly, a wound opened in the horse's belly, and blood splattered out, and the wound grew bigger and bigger, as if something was about to come out of the horse's belly.
"What's that? It's not going to give birth to a pony, is it? ”
I heard the fat man whisper.
"No, it's a stallion!"
Brother Wang followed behind, and the herdsmen around him seemed to have never encountered such a situation, and they all looked a little overwhelmed.
"Bang!"
The blood on the belly was suddenly stretched open, and a large puddle of water mixed with blood and unknown liquid was seen flowing out of the horse's belly, and a black thing with a lot of bloodshot film sticking to its body was crawling out of the horse's belly.
"What monster?"
The other girls turned their heads one after another, but Li Qian looked at it vigorously, staring with her eyes open and not turning away.
The strange thing crawled out of the horse's belly, and I got closer and looked more closely. The monster had a round head, a long and thin body, but a pair of claws, very thin, not much thicker than my two fingers. There was a strange scream in his mouth, and the lower half of his body had not yet crawled out of the horse's belly, and his entire upper body was about the size of a baby.
"Wow, wow......"
It seemed to be strangled by something, and its body was half-stuck, and it kept slapping the ground with a strange noise. None of the people around dared to go up, and no one had ever seen such a strange monster. Like a human being but not a human being, his skin is not jet black but black with a faint blue color. It looks like a fish, but it has neither gills nor fins.
It rolled back and forth on the ground, looking very painful, its voice stuck in its throat and unable to get out, and it screamed desperately, but it could only make a sound like a baby crying.
After a while, the little monster stopped moving, and a moment later a foul smell came from the corpse, fishy and sour.
"Dead, right?"
Everyone stepped back, and I hid in the crowd, feeling as if I had seen this monster somewhere. After recalling it carefully, he immediately patted his head, and just now Zhuzi showed me a few pages of "Strange Tales of the Mountains", and one of the interjections seemed to be very similar to this monster.
I hurriedly hid in a place where there were fewer people, took out the "Strange Tales of the Mountains" in my arms, and anxiously turned a few pages, and sure enough, I found something on one of the pages!
The art is rough, but the monster on it looks very similar to the little monster I just saw. It has a round head, slender claws, and a human-like and fish-like body.
"Shui Yi, occasionally found during the Ming Dynasty, inhabits the fields and mires. It is a child who fell into the water and died, and the fish and shrimp were resentful. Do not attack cattle and poultry without water, for if there is no water, they will die of exhaustion. ”
Fortunately, it looks like it was written during the Republic of China, and I can still understand some of it. This little monster is supposed to be a monster called the Shui Yi, which will devour livestock and poultry. I suspect that it must have burrowed into the horse's belly, devouring its flesh every day, and the horse was already dying when it was pulled to the market, and being ridden by my companion hastened its death. After the horse's fart died, Shui Yi wanted to crawl out of the horse's belly, but he didn't expect that there was no water around him after coming out, and he finally died of exhaustion.
I knew that maybe this book could really be believed and said more accurately. Continue to look down, and some of Shui Yi's habits and manifestations are written below. The next few grabbed my attention.
"There is a black stone hidden in its belly, shaped like a pearl, which is really condensed by resentment, and it must be burned to resolve it."
When I saw this, I was shocked. At this moment, there was another commotion ahead, and several herdsmen used shovels to lift the body of Shui Yi away, but a stone as shiny as a black pearl fell out of its belly. This time, it immediately attracted the attention of everyone around.
Most of the people who come to the market here are not wealthy, and now a stone that looks like a lot of value appears in front of them, and it is not tempting. Immediately, several people stepped forward to pick up the stone, which looked like a black pearl.
Human desire is sometimes like a knife, you think you can kill your opponent with this knife, but often the person who is pierced in the end is yourself.
"Don't touch it!"
I hurriedly shouted, but it was too late, a man moved the fastest, reached out and picked up the black pearl from the ground, and after holding it in his hand for only ten seconds, his body began to tremble wildly, his mouth kept foaming at the mouth, and he fell to the ground and fell unconscious.
And this lowly person is not the common people of ethnic minorities, but one of the ten of us!