Chapter 11 The Hanging Cypress
"Whew~ It's finally here," I breathed a sigh of relief, took off my equipment and threw it on the ground, bent a bunch of weeds with my hands, sat on it with my ass, took out my mobile phone and looked at it, half past two in the morning, "No, let's just over an hour since we set off?" ”
"Haven't you heard that painful times are always very long, otherwise how can you say that life is like years?" Xiao Zhang sat down next to me and threw me a gun, "After making trouble for a long time, I can finally stop for a while." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
I threw this gun away when I was fighting with the living corpse, but I didn't expect Xiao Zhang to pick it up again when he ran away, and the two of us took out gunpowder and iron sand from our bags and loaded our shotguns.
After making trouble for so long, I have long lost a little sleep, sitting there in a daze, staring at the depths of the forest in a daze, to be honest, I regret listening to Boss Zhao's words and coming to this ghost place with him, but now it is too late to regret it, so I can only sit here and wait for him to come, and take one step at a time.
"I said Xiao Li, after waiting for so long, I didn't see Lao Zhao coming, you see it like this," Xiao Zhang picked a wild flower, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it gently, "Let's go into the village and take a look." ”
"Forget it," I'm different from Xiao Zhang, a guy who "forgot the pain after the scar", I was "once bitten by a snake, and I was afraid of the well rope for ten years", and immediately refused, "At that time, everyone in that village disappeared mysteriously, there must be something strange in this village, aren't you afraid of encountering something unclean?" Besides, if we just left on the front foot, and Lao Zhao came on the back foot, where did you ask him to find us? ”
"Come on, Xiao Li, where has your spirit of adventure gone, could it be that you have eaten it yourself? This village is a slap in the palm of the hand, and you can hear it from one end shouting at the other, what can happen? If Lao Zhao can't find us, can't he just shout? "Xiao Zhang keeps encouraging me, this guy deserves to be a model in the "no_zuo_no_die" world.
"Go to his sister's spirit of adventure, in my opinion, life is the most important," I said, "you have to go yourself, anyway, I am not going." ”
"If you don't go, you won't go," Xiao Zhang stood up and threw his backpack over his shoulder, turning his head and leaving without hesitation, "I'll go myself." ”
I ignored him, sat on the ground and counted, I knew the character of this kid well, under normal circumstances, I didn't count to twenty and he would have to turn back, but this time I had counted to more than fifty, and he didn't have the slightest intention of stopping.
"Don't mind," I panicked, got up and grabbed my backpack, and hurried up, "Okay, okay, this time I'm unlucky, I'll give up my life to accompany the gentleman." "I'm still very worried about this guy's safety, besides, if he really has an accident inside, how can I explain to Lao Zhao?
"Don't say it so tragically," Xiao Zhang smiled slyly, "I knew you would definitely follow." "Grandma, I've been suppressed by my IQ again.
In this way, I talked and laughed with Xiao Zhang as I entered this legendary and extremely dangerous village, which gave me only three words - dilapidated, desolate, and silent.
To say that this village is dilapidated and desolate is simply nonsense, after all, no one has lived in it for more than eighty years, but this silence is a bit weird.
Like the story told by Aaron, this place is not to mention small animals such as rabbits and mice, not even a single insect chirp, even Xiao Zhang's big talk, seems to be affected by this atmosphere, and I was really taken aback by not saying a word along the way, this is essentially different from what ordinary people say quiet, I can hardly use words to describe this silence, if you stand in some more advanced noise reduction laboratory, you should be able to understand my feelings at the moment, that ethereal, that barren, it feels a little unreal, It's like there are countless pairs of eyes staring at you in nothingness, which makes people feel inexplicable fear in their hearts.
The moonlight shone on the clumsy earthen wall, and the unspeakable plants grew wildly in the courtyard, inexplicably depressed.
I felt a little uneasy in my heart, and I wanted to discuss with Xiao Zhang to leave this place quickly, but I didn't expect this guy to go directly into an overgrown courtyard, pointed to the wooden door that was tightly covered by weeds more than one person high, and said to me, "What do you say will be behind this door, why did those people disappear back then, and whether they will come back now, or let's go in and have a look." As he spoke, he prepared to push the door.
This guy is really a staunch implementer, I was about to stop it, he had already pushed down, I was shocked, and hurriedly raised my gun and pointed it at the door, ready to meet the filth that suddenly came out from behind the door, but I didn't expect him to push the door open - the door was locked from the inside.
Xiao Zhang pulled out the hunting knife, inserted it into the crack of the door and was about to dial the latch inside, I pulled him back, said "look at me", flew up and kicked directly on the door, according to my estimate, this door is strong, after all, it is also made of wood, after more than 80 years of invasion, it has been rotten almost, I go down this foot, and I don't kick out a big hole?
But I didn't expect that I still overestimated this building, too underestimated myself, I went down, the door fell into the house, not only that, the adobe house also shook twice, thanks to my quick eyes, I immediately felt wrong when I saw this posture, a flutter knocked Xiao Zhang down in the courtyard, this just lay down, I heard the loud sound of "boom", it was really like a series of thunderstorms in mid-air, the house collapsed, there was really a posture of the mountain shaking the ground, the loess splashed when landing, a piece of yellow and clear, nothing can be seen clearly.
"Okay, brother, I didn't expect you to have this ability," After a long time, Xiao Zhang got up, dusted off the loess on his body, and spit out a mouth full of soil foam, "I kicked down a house with one kick, and the demolition team didn't hire you as a team member, but it was really a big loss." ”
"Don't talk to me in this tone," I saw that the ground was very evenly covered with a layer of loess, and I was too, so I hurriedly jumped on the spot, shook it all down, and then pushed Xiao Zhang, "You see that this house is almost collapsed, and this one is also a matter of time or time, if you leave it alone, you can do it." ”
"If_I_up, I_also_can," Xiao Zhang translated in his Chinese unique "Zhang's English" that even foreigners can't understand, "I'm really unlucky, I haven't gone in to see it yet." ”
"If you go in and the house collapses, then it's bad luck," I patted him on the shoulder, "It's enough to turn around, let's go back, Lao Zhao is estimated to have arrived and is looking for us there." ”
"Lao Zhao, Lao Zhao!" Xiao Zhang, this kid didn't play cards according to the routine, and yelled directly twice, which startled me, "You see he hasn't come yet, let's go on." Without saying a word, he pulled me and continued to walk deeper into the village.
The village was a little bigger than I expected, and we walked for six or seven minutes, and before we could see the end, Xiao Zhang suddenly stopped, pointed in one direction with a miner's lamp on his head and asked me, "What do you see there?" I took out the "wolf's eye" flashlight and shone it in the direction of his miner's lamp, which has a very strong penetrating ability and is several times brighter than the miner's lamp, and I can see by the light that there is a very tall thing standing in the center of the village, on an open field.
At first glance, I thought it should be a house, but compared with the adobe houses in the village, it shouldn't be so tall at all, so it could only be a tree, a towering tree, such a big tree, at least two or three hundred years old.
"Let's go over and see," Xiao Zhang changed his chattering style, took a step and walked forward, I knew that once this guy's curiosity flinched, the nine cows couldn't pull it back, so I had to shake my head and sigh, and followed.
After walking another four or five hundred meters, we finally saw that this was indeed a tree, and the light outlined its huge outline, and on this tree, there were some strip-like things hanging densely, these things seemed to us in our direction only the size of a little finger, but in fact it should be the size of a person.
"Xiao Li'er, what kind of tree do you say this can bear such big fruit?" Xiao Zhang wondered.
"It's not a fruit at all, have you ever seen a fruit the size of a man? Also, please remove the pronunciation when you call my name in the future......"
For some reason, I looked at those things and suddenly remembered the legend of ancient tree burials, and the hanging coffins hanging on the mountain wall...... Wait, isn't a coffin the size of a person?!
"Just go over and take a look," Xiao Zhang said and was about to move forward, I felt a trace of unease, I was going to block the exit, but helplessly my own curiosity was also hooked, in fact, I am also a very curious person, well, only a little smaller than Xiao Zhang, and I have seen in novels and movies and television, those hanging coffins, as long as you don't trigger it like the male protagonist, it is still very safe.
With a heavy heart, the two of us approached the tree step by step, and to the surprise of the two of us, there were not fruits or hanging coffins hanging on the tree, but worn-out sacks, a hundred and ten.
I can't touch my head with the second monk Zhang Zhang, and there are sacks hanging on the tree, is this a more peculiar custom?
At this time, a night breeze blew, and it was so cold that it gave me goosebumps, but what really made me feel like I was falling into an ice cave was not the wind, but what I saw.
The night breeze lifted the corner of the sack, and I saw a pair of rotten feet peeking out of the sack.
"Xiao Zhang...... I...... I finally ...... Know...... Knowing the people in their village...... It's all ...... Where have they gone," I yelled hysterically with my blood chilled, "Run! ”
If I'm not mistaken, the name of this tree is called Hanging Cypress!