Chapter 7: The Guide
"! What the hell is this, what the hell is this! "I was about to scream, but I didn't expect to be preempted by Xiao Zhang, his voice howled, I was stunned, even the Yin soldiers in front of the car were also disturbed, "click" turned their heads in our direction, and looked at us with two black holes. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
My mind went blank, and I put my foot on the accelerator with a shout, and as soon as I stepped on the end, I heard a roar from the engine in front of me, and our car rushed out like a cannonball, and instantly soared to eighty miles, followed by a loud "bang", and even the car was shaken several times, and I fixed my eyes to see that several black humanoid things were knocked up and thrown into the deep valley, and it took a long time to make the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.
I immediately calmed down, was about to step on the brakes, suddenly felt the back of the neck tight, and when I reacted, I had been thrown to the back seat by Lao Zhao by the collar, he "rubbed" jumped on the driver's seat, and stepped on the accelerator several times in a row, just at this time the wheel ran over a big stone, the car "soared" and jumped one or two meters high, and then fell heavily on the ground, I was caught off guard, hit my head on the front seat, and suddenly my eyes were full of gold stars.
As soon as the car landed, Lao Zhao held the steering wheel and slammed it to the left, the van was completely sideways, sticking to the mountain wall, and the abnormal harsh friction sound came from the side, I turned my head to see, the thing that was attached to the window was instantly flattened, and then rubbed on the mountain wall for two hundred meters, turned into a mass of black flesh, leaving a long trace on the mountain rock, half of the body of the van also seemed to be soaked in a pool of blood, and the car glass was covered with purple-black stained blood, The pungent smell of blood instantly filled the entire space, which was disgusting.
Not only that, the paint on the entire side of my van was scraped off, and even the doors were recessed, so distressed that my tears were about to fall, no wonder Lao Zhao didn't drive his own car and asked me to drive them, it turned out that there was such a show!
Lao Zhao continued to accelerate, I held the saddle and glanced at the dashboard, so frightened that I almost turned my back on breath, now our speed is ninety yards, this speed is nothing on the road, but on such a mountain road, or at night, it is simply looking for death.
I was about to call a stop when I heard a "bang", a huge thing fell from the sky, almost knocked the car over, and even the roof of the car collapsed, and then a pair of huge hands hung down from the roof of the car and stuck on the edge of the window.
In terms of shape, this is a pair of human hands, but these hands are two or three times the size of a normal person, and they are covered with a layer of fine black hair, could it be that this thing on the roof of the car is the Hulk? No, this color should be called the Black Giant.
Lao Zhao held the steering wheel tightly, and slammed several turns, obviously trying to shake off the monster, but the monster didn't throw it off, Xiao Zhang and I suffered a lot, the two of us were like five cents that accidentally fell into the high-power washing machine, along with the equipment of the car kept being thrown around, almost the intestines were scattered, I stretched out my hand and touched it for a long time, and finally found the life-saving straw-like seat belt, and hurriedly tied myself to the seat, which stabilized, Eyes set on the giant hand.
This thing is really not small, the window edges have been deformed by it, I didn't let go, and groped into the car window, the sharp nails scratched several deep marks on the glass, and the sound was extremely harsh, I have no doubt that if there was no glass block, Lao Zhao's head would have been scratched by it a long time ago.
"Chop off its fingers for me!" Lao Zhao stared at the front, popping out these words from between his teeth, I turned my head to look at Xiao Zhang, and found that he had turned on the "shrinking turtle" mode, covering his head with his clothes, and shrunk into a ball, it seems that this dirty work is tiring, and I have to do it when it is critical.
"You coward!" I scolded, stretched out my hand and touched the bottom of the car seat for a long time, and finally found a hunting knife, I swallowed my saliva, plucked up the courage to slowly roll open the window, and pulled out the hunting knife with a "swish", and slashed at the hands, at this time Lao Zhao suddenly gave a sharp turn, I shook, and almost slashed my face.
"I'm X, Lao Zhao! Can you please stop turning around and making me almost kill myself! I shouted disgruntled.
"Isn't that? If I hadn't turned around, we would have rushed into the ravine! Lao Zhao said in a tone of concern for the stupid roe deer.
I felt my cheeks burn, picked up the knife again, aimed it at the hand, gritted my teeth and slashed it down.
I thought that my knife should be like cutting on a piece of tofu, directly cutting off the fingers of this thing, but it turned out that this is not the case, these five fingers are like five hard iron bars, and I only left a shallow blood mark when I cut it down.
I chopped and sawed, and scratched for about ten minutes, before I finally got rid of the four fingers of this thing, Lao Zhao made another sharp turn, it immediately rolled off the roof of the car under the action of inertia, and fell on the side of the car near the mountain wall, I finally saw its true face, this is a black and black humanoid monster covered with black hair, as strong as a cow.
I didn't expect this guy to be quite stubborn, he only had one hand left, and he still held on to it, and after breaking two arm-thick trees, he finally hung on the third tree.
I let out a sigh of relief, put the hunting knife into the scabbard, leaned on the seat and gasped for breath like a broken bone, and just gasped twice, I saw Lao Zhao slam the brake with one foot, and the car immediately stopped, almost turning forward.
I'm X, what's going on, shouldn't something be wrong again! I was thinking like this, when I saw Lao Zhao tear off his seat belt and open the car door, "What are you doing in a daze, get out of the car, the road is over." ”
As soon as I heard his words, tears came down, and there was a feeling of being reborn in an instant, after feeling a sigh, I immediately opened the car door, and the little long even rolled and climbed out of the car, this just got off the car, a fresh and friendly breath from the mountains immediately came to the face, the solid touch under the feet was so excited that I wanted to run two laps, who had wanted to walk two steps, I felt a whirlwind of the world, and the legs were soft and knelt on the ground with a soft "plop".
Seeing this, Xiao Zhang and Lao Zhao hurriedly stepped forward to help, and I waved my hand at them, and vomited on the ground with my hand until my intestines turned tendons.
After spitting up, I opened the kettle and rinsed my mouth, and sighed again and again at Lao Zhao, "Don't say anything, brother, I'd rather walk when I go back, and I will never take your car again." ”
"Your car has rotted like this, just throw it here, when we make a lot ......of money this time, Zhao Ye will give you a new one, you don't have to take the car when we go back, someone will answer it" Lao Zhao said halfway, suddenly stopped, his ears were raised, and his brows were furrowed, I immediately knew that there was a movement.
I listened intently, and sure enough, a sound of "rustling" came from a bush in the dense forest at the end of the road, Lao Zhao aimed his gun at the source of the sound, and glanced at me and Xiao Zhang, the two of us nodded, took out the folded product, walked over lightly, and gently brushed away the lush branches and leaves of the bush with a shovel.
That's when something unexpected happened.
A head suddenly poked out of the bushes!
"Hell~" Xiao Zhang and I were so frightened that we lost all our combat effectiveness in an instant, threw the shovel to the ground, and even crawled and ran away.
"Look at your little bit of talent," Lao Zhao looked at us coldly, hating that iron could not become steel, "That's people!" ”
Xiao Zhang and I stopped at this time, turned around to take a closer look, and sure enough, an old man with gray hair came out of the bushes and looked at us with curiosity.
This old man was wearing a shabby sweatshirt, hunched at the waist, as thin as a bamboo pole, carrying a rusty broken axe in his hand, and carrying a large bundle of firewood behind his back.
"You...... Are you a human or a ghost? I shuddered and pointed at the old man, "What are you doing here in the middle of the night to chop wood?" ”
"What the hell is not a ghost, you children in the city, how do you know the hardships of our mountain people, this person who eats by the mountains, goes back and forth to the city for dozens of miles, if you are not diligent, how can you make a living," the old woodcutter had a cold face, as if we owed him millions, "It's a few of you, you don't sleep in the middle of the night, what are you doing in this barren mountain and wilderness, I don't know that this place has died and is not clean?" ”
"It's not clean, and you're still here to chop wood?" Xiao Zhang asked rhetorically.
"Just my old bones, childless and daughterless, anyway, I don't have a few days to live, I really have something to hook my soul, and I don't feel pity," the old man didn't smile, "Besides, my life is cheap, and Lord Yama won't accept me." ”
"Old man, that's the case," Lao Zhao smiled kindly, and handed a cigarette to the old man, "How many of us, look at the seclusion of this deep mountain and old forest, and listen to the story of the nearby villagers tell the story of the 'Jeopard', my heart is itchy, I want to explore there, you see if you can ......."
I heard that Lao Zhao this guy is really shrewd to get home, I heard him talk before, if you want to go to the tomb of King Zhou, the "Desperate Village" is a landmark area, although we have a map in our hands, but this deep mountain and old forest are full of trees, not even a reference, we are not familiar with the place of life, it is easy to get lost, this old man is chopping wood nearby all the year round, the road in the mountains is naturally very familiar, if you can pull him into a guide, you can naturally save a lot of effort.
"You doll is not very old, but you can talk nonsense," the old man snorted coldly, stretched out his hand to block Lao Zhao's cigarette, and stretched out five fingers to us, "I know what you do, you don't have to pretend to be stunned in front of me, you want to enter the mountain ......"
The old man didn't say it explicitly, but shook his outstretched slap.
Since ancient times, the poor mountains and bad waters, the people are shrewd, this sentence is really true, this old man looks old, he actually stretched out his hand and asked us for money, where is the simplicity of the mountain people and the good quality of helping others?
Lao Zhao didn't feel embarrassed, retracted his hand and stuffed the cigarette into his mouth, lit it and took two puffs, and nodded at me, "Give him the money." ”
Why am I again?
I reluctantly took out my wallet, pulled out a fifty-dollar ticket from it, and stuffed it into the old man's hand, who thought that the old man avoided my hand, smiled coldly, and shook five fingers in the air twice.
I'm X, I cursed in my heart, five hundred?! You old man is too dark, why don't you rob it?
"You can think about it, now except me, no one else can take you there, that place is very dangerous, five hundred yuan can let a person sell your life, this deal is not a loss, if you don't want to, I have to leave, and I am in a hurry to go to the city to sell firewood," the old man looked at my painful expression, picked up the firewood and prepared to leave, "After this village, there is no such shop." ”
"Five hundred dollars is not much, give it to him!" Lao Zhao didn't even blink his eyes when he spent my money, and he didn't feel distressed at all.
I cried and mourned, counted out five large tickets from my wallet, and stuffed them into the old man, my heart hurt and dripped, this is the money I have liked for a long time to buy Overwatch, I originally planned to buy a digital collector's edition, and then get a gun that is okay, but now it seems that I can only buy the all-you-can-play version.
"I'll talk about the ugly things first," the three of us picked up our equipment and were about to leave, when the old man threw the firewood to the ground and spoke again, "I can just send you to the village, and it will be none of my business when you get to the place, whether you can come out alive or not has nothing to do with me." ”
As soon as I heard it, I was annoyed, what is "can you come out alive", old man, do you know that if you talk like this, you will be beaten to death by others.
"That's nature," Lao Zhao stretched out his hand to stop me, and even claimed that it was.
In this way, the three of us carried large bags of equipment on our backs, followed the old woodcutter who was chopping wood, and plunged into the uninhabited mountains.
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We followed the old man along the ravine for five or six miles, this ravine because there are no people all the year round, there are trees or trees, there is not even a road, we have to use a shovel to cut the mess of the entangled vines, weeds and thorns, and open up a road, I have to say, this shovel is really very sharp, the wrist thick small tree, a shovel down, not much effort, can be cut together.
Although it was early summer, in such a dark forest, I still felt a chill through the bones, at this moment it was late at night, the red moon hovered in the sky, sprinkling a series of strange moonlight, the grass flashed with a little red light, like a pair of blood-red eyes, staring at my heart, a gust of gloomy wind like a beast in the forest, accidentally bumped into the full arms, the piercing fear will seep into the bone marrow with the cold all over the body......
Along the way, I kept looking at this old man, he was very thin, and he was estimated to be only seventy or eighty pounds even if he had bones and flesh all over his body, not like a person at all, but like a skeleton poured out of a coffin.
He seldom spoke along the way, and his tone was cold, and his voice was rough and hoarse, like scraping a rusty iron plate with a razor blade, which was extremely uncomfortable to listen to, as if someone was constantly polishing your scalp with a piece of sandpaper.
Maybe it's because of the bad light, along the way I always feel that this old man is very cold, and a face is also gloomy, looking at this face I think of my five hundred dollars, I want to rush up and slap him in the mouth.
Moreover, don't look at this old man who looks weak and can't help the wind, as if a gust of wind can blow him down, in fact, his body is very tough, these five or six miles of mountain road down, Xiao Zhang and I have long been panting into dogs, although Lao Zhao is not like us, but it is also from the nostrils of hot air, and the old man did not even gasp for the atmosphere, although he is not like us, he does not carry twenty or thirty pounds of equipment, but this is somewhat abnormal.
"Lao Zhao...... I, I can't do it anymore, let's take a break. I couldn't stand it anymore, so I stopped and put my hand on my knee, and said intermittently, and Xiao Zhang echoed on the side.
"You two boys look quite strong, why are you so weak, you have only walked a few steps, and you are panting like this?" Lao Zhao smiled, "Okay, then let's stop and rest, drink saliva and continue on our way." ”
A few of us stopped, sat on the ground like this, drank some water, rubbed the numb ankles, Lao Zhao lit a cigarette, took out another one, and handed it to the old man, "The old man has a very strong body, such a big age, walking the mountain road is not ambiguous at all, much stronger than these two eighteen or nineteen-year-old boys." ”
"I don't smoke," the old man declined Lao Zhao's kindness, "Now that I'm old, a handful of old bones can't stand the toss, if I left it when I was young, I wouldn't have been able to walk dozens of miles of mountain roads in one breath without breathing." ”
Lao Zhao took back the cigarette, put it behind his ear, sat down on a big rock far away from us, took out his mobile phone and fiddled with it, and after a while, shouted at us, "You two come here, see how you get this thing." He gave us a look.
Xiao Zhang and I immediately understood what he had to say, so we immediately got up and walked over, pointed our fingers at the phone screen, and leaned over to pretend to explain to Lao Zhao.
At this time, there happened to be a gust of wind blowing from the direction of the old man, bringing a pungent stench, Xiao Zhang and I covered our noses with our sleeves, I don't know how long this old man has not taken a bath, and his body smells so big.
"You all smell it," Lao Zhao said softly, his expression strange, "This is the smell of corpses." His voice was not loud, but to me, it sounded like a thunderbolt in mid-air, and Xiao Zhang and I gasped at the same time.
"You mean...... This...... This old man, he ...... Not a living person, but a ...... But a corpse?! I was so shocked that my tongue crutched, and I asked in a trembling voice, and glanced at the old man with my eyes, which became more and more strange the more I looked at it.
His grandmother's, I have long felt that this old thing is not like a living person, and the feelings are really not!
"I'm just giving you a wake-up call, so as not to start working later, the two of you will faint directly, and you have to let me be distracted and take care of you," Lao Zhao didn't answer my question directly, but glanced at the old man and asked softly, "Do you know why he didn't answer the cigarette when I handed him a cigarette twice, do you know why he walked so far and didn't even take a breath of air?" ”
Xiao Zhang and I shook our heads and leaned our ears together.
Lao Zhao took a puff of his cigarette and replied leisurely, his answer almost breaking us.
Because, he is not angry at all!