30. Once Upon a Time in the West Village
It turned out that in the sixties of the last century, Panshui Village also fell into a great famine, there was no rain for three years, the river almost dried up, in that famine era, any luxury was a sin.
However, for those born in that era, birth was a tragedy.
It is unimaginable that at that time, after the child was born, the mother could not nurse the child's milk, because the chest had already dried up, and the mother had nothing to eat, let alone the child.
But in a family in the West Village, a very ugly child was born, this is a boy, when he was born, the child had seven fingers on each hand, his facial features were distorted, his skin was covered with black features, wrinkled like a Shar Pei, and his eyes bulged out, like a monster.
In fact, according to modern scientific understanding, because of the lack of nutritional guidance malformation in the fetal period, when the child was six years old, the family finally couldn't bear the strange eyes of the villagers, and abandoned the child in a dense forest at the entrance of the village, leaving him to fend for himself.
At that time, the village had not yet been developed, so the surrounding trees were dense, unlike the current forest, which was cut down as building materials.
It was hard for a six-year-old child to imagine that he would grow up in the woods, and twenty years later, a wild man was spotted around the village, and a closer look at the distorted features revealed that it was the child who had been banished.
It's just that it looks even more terrifying now, when the story of a man and a bear was popular in the village, so people took this man for a man bear.
However, after the famine, when they thought they were going to have a good life, the children of the West Village often disappeared, and the people targeted the man who grew up in the forest.
Many strong men went into the forest with shotguns, ready to hunt the man, and the shotguns were not strictly controlled at that time, so the existence of shotguns also became one of the factors in this matter.
Some bones were found in a cave, which were clearly the bones of children, so they said that the wild man had eaten the children.
An angry group of people set up all kinds of traps and prepared to hunt down the wild people.
It is said that the wild man was very tenacious, and he was shot more than 20 times before he fell, and he looked very sad when he died, his mouth was open, and he wanted to speak, but no one taught him to speak at all, so he couldn't speak, and when he died, he was like a beast, and he fell silently, but the eyes that were not blind made people shudder.
But the villagers later found out that the child was still missing.
The child kept disappearing, until a hunter caught a huge bear with a trap, and the truth was revealed.
They pulled out a lot of undigested bones from the bear's stomach.
People specially held a funeral for the wild man, but the strange thing was that whenever he went into the forest to dig up the body, the body of the wild man who had been hastily buried suddenly disappeared, and this disappeared without warning.
After a few weeks, the people of the West Village began to disappear one after another, and almost no bones could be found.
People say that the ghost of the wild man has come to take revenge, so the living people have also left the West Village one after another, and many people have come to live in the East Village with this secret, and the older generation is reluctant to mention the affairs of the West Village.
Speaking of this, the old lady was already very struggling, and a few simple words made this old woman who could barely speak use up all her strength.
And Li Min's face was also very pale: "If that's the case, then your friends are also in danger......"
"Is that ghost the ghost the ghost of the missing villagers?" I said.
Li Min shook his head: "I don't know about this, but ** is not far from ten." ”
Huang Gai looked at me and nodded at me, signaling that I could act, and I also stood up at this time: "Thank you, Sister Min, without further ado, then I'll go find them now." ”
Sister Min stood up and said, "Okay, then you should be careful, if it is late in the evening, come to my place to eat, I will prepare the meal and wait for you." ”
I took out five hundred-yuan bills and put them on the table, and said with a smile, "Then it's troublesome Sister Min." ”
"No, no, I'll ask you for this meal."
"Don't, Sister Min, prepare a few meat dishes and prepare some wine, our brothers love to drink." I said.
"Okay, okay, I'm not welcome." Sister Min put the money away.
But then the old lady stopped us, and the old lady said, "Wait, I have something here for you to carry." ”
"What?" I looked at the old lady in amazement.
The old lady motioned to Sister Min to take out a box under the bed, which contained some yellow paper and other things, and the old lady said: "Ten years ago, a Taoist priest helped us do it, and that time he spent the night at my house, and these things were said to come back and get them, but they never came back." ”
I took the yellow paper, and the copper coins tied up with red strings: "Thank you, old lady, then let's go." ”
"Be careful on the road." The old lady said vaguely.
We came to the outside of the house, at this time the van was quietly parked on the side of the road, a few children were playing a simple swing under the tree, Pan Feng said: "These things are too evil, although we are here to trigger the mission, but we should not do too risky things after all......
"Are you scared?" Huang Gai said with a smile.
"What am I afraid of, I'm afraid that you are afraid!" Pan Feng said stubbornly.
Guan Yinping covered his mouth and chuckled: "We're not afraid, I think it's Uncle Pan that you're scared!" ”
"Let's go, I'm Admiral Pan Feng, fearless!" He put that classic line out again.
We came to the river, at this time the river is very slow, the river is quite shallow, so we are going to take off our shoes and wade over, I walked in the middle with my shoes, in front of me is the yellow cover to take the lead, walking on the slippery pebbles, it is quite comfortable, but I walked for a while, suddenly I felt itchy on the soles of my feet, I felt wrong, I said, "Do you feel it, there seems to be something down there." ”
"It can't be prawns or crabs, right?" Huang Gai said, "There are many such things on such beaches, and the wild crabs and prawns are all big and fat, and they taste good!" ”
"Something is wrong." I muttered, and immediately leaned down to see a palm-sized black beetle, which I had never seen before, and said, "This thing is scratching my leg?" ”
I looked closely, isn't this dragon lice? But dragon lice are really rare to have such a big size, and it is very remarkable to encounter dragon lice with such a big nail cover in the countryside, can it be said that the ecological environment of this place is good.
But we don't care about such details, but before I threw away the dragon lice, I took a good look at it for a while, and found that the dragon lice had sharp teeth and teeth, a pair of large pliers on the abdomen, and the back was extremely smooth, as if it was reflected in the sun as if it had been coated with a layer of wax.
There were a lot of trees near the river beach, Guan Yinping walked over and handed me a pot of water: "Childe give it." ”
I took a sip and squinted into the distance: "Don't say it, there seems to be a house ahead!" ”
We went up to the river beach, and we had already come to the place of the West Village, and finally gained a foothold, and found a house that had been abandoned for a long time.
This house is relatively close to the river beach, so we can also look closely, it is an old-fashioned blue brick house, it is a bungalow, there are many pitted holes in the wall, it should be the masterpiece of the country bees.
The size of the soil bees is very large, the honey in the belly smells very strong, in the past when I was in my hometown, there was nothing to eat at home, but often with some friends with a small branch to ask for bricks and tiles, because the soil bees dig holes in it, we dig out the soil bees, break the body to eat honey, those memories seem to be like yesterday, the memory is still fresh.
It's just that this place is a lot of dead and silent, obviously a road, but now it is overgrown with barren grass, and at a glance, it is barren, and there is no trace of anyone.
"There are cigarette butts." Huang Gai picked one up from the ground and said.
I looked closely at the cigarette butt, it was still fresh, and there was still a little saliva on it, it seemed that it was left by those cultivators, who had just arrived, and there should be less than two hours behind our time.
"Everyone, be careful, don't be discovered, although the cultivators as a whole are not very good, but the elder among them can see that he is a capable person, we want to find them, but we can't let them discover us." I said.
"If only there were a few scouts at this time." Huang Gai said, "I think those scouts of the Jiangdong Army were all trained by Zhou Yu, and they are all old and clever. ”
"Wait, do you smell blood?" Guan Yinping, who had been speechless, suddenly said.