Chapter 264: A Man or a Ghost
Following the woman in a certain direction, she had been walking not far ahead, hidden in the fog, unable to see her figure clearly.
"Are you from Yugu Miao Village?" I asked.
"Well, I grew up in Yugu Miao Village." The woman answered.
"In this kind of weather, why are you alone in the mountains?" Xiao Qingwan asked.
"I'm looking for a fungus." She said.
The group did not speak again, and followed the woman forward.
The woods got deeper and deeper, the surrounding vegetation became denser and denser, and the fog shrouded it, and the visibility was extremely low. The woman's figure became more and more blurred, and only a gray shadow could be seen imprinted in the thick fog.
The vague shadow suddenly disappeared in front of it.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and walked forward quickly, the surroundings were white, and there was still a woman's figure.
"Why are people gone?" Xiao Qing said in the evening.
Everyone looked around, but there was no sign of the woman.
It's good, why is it suddenly gone? What the hell? But I didn't feel the slightest yin qi from her. Besides, it's not just me, Tu E and Gu Qihan are not aware of it.
This place is lush and dense, and it does not look like a village.
"Something is wrong, go back the way you came." Gu Qihan said.
We turned and walked the way we came. The place was lush and green, obscuring the sky and the sun, and the smoke and rain were hazy, so it was impossible to distinguish the direction. Soon it was impossible to tell where it was coming.
Xiao Qingwan took out the compass, and we followed the instructions of the compass. After walking for a long time, the fog around me became thicker, and the grass and trees became denser and denser, and there was no appearance of going out of the mountains and forests at all.
"Isn't it wrong to determine the direction?" I asked.
Xiao Qingwan said: "We have been walking in the direction of the compass, even if we are taken off by that person, it is almost time to arrive at Yugu Miao Village." ”
Since the direction is right, what is going on. I kept paying attention to the scenery around me and didn't go back. There is no sneaky yin around it, and it is not a ghost hitting the wall. There's no reason to go deeper and deeper with no end in sight.
Gu Qihan stopped: "I'm afraid we're fascinated by something." ”
He danced with both hands, silently recited in his mouth, opened his palms, pointed forward, and read aloud: "Evil spirits and evil ghosts have no place to hide, and all demons and demons appear in their true bodies!" ”
The thick fog around him faintly dispersed, turning back to the appearance of smoke and fog.
A rustling sound came from the bushes, and something fled quickly. I ran quickly in the direction where the sound came from, and the thing was gone.
It seems that there is something that has fascinated us just now, but what is this thing that can make so many of us not perceive.
"Who are you? What are you doing here? A voice came.
We looked in the direction of the sound, and a thin young man came from the woods. He was dressed in old and simple clothes, and his face was blue and dark.
He walked to the front and looked us up and down.
"Where did you come from? How did you get here? He said suspiciously.
Everyone looked at each other, and I said, "We are here to travel, and we want to go to Yugu Miao Village." ”
"Yugu Miao Village is over there, how did you come to this deep mountain?" The young man said, pointing diagonally behind us.
"It was a woman who picked the fungus that led us here." Xiao Qingwan said.
"Mushroom picking? What kind of mushrooms to pick this month! Aren't you the hell? ”
There is indeed something wrong with that woman, but what is her whereabouts? Why don't we notice anything unusual?
The young man said: "I am from Yugu Miao Village, I will take you there, the woods here are too dense, you are not familiar with this place, and it is easy to get lost." ”
He said as he walked in a certain direction, motioning for us to follow. We hesitated for a moment and followed.
The man said as he walked, "What are you doing in the mountains instead of taking the good road?" ”
"The road was too muddy to cross, so we had to walk up the hill." Xiao Qing said in the evening.
"Next time, don't mess around, the road is muddy, it's a big deal to change clothes, there are hungry ghosts on this mountain, especially for you outsiders, take them to the old forest, and then eat people." He said.
"In this kind of weather, why are you alone in the mountains?" I asked.
"My sheep are gone, and I came in looking for them." He said.
Looking for sheep?
After walking for a long time, a forest path appeared ahead. If there is a road, it means that someone is walking, and it seems that there is no difference now.
We walked along the path ahead. A faint barking of dogs came from ahead.
The barking of dogs gradually became clearer, and the vision ahead became wider. The young man stopped, pointed ahead and said, "Go ahead to Yugu Miao Village, you can go by yourself, I won't go with you, I'm going to continue looking for sheep." ”
As he spoke, he turned around and walked backwards, and the figure disappeared into the woods.
We continue to move forward, a quaint Miao village appeared in front, and the ancient stilted buildings were hidden in the mist, like a dream, like an isolated paradise.
This rain ancient Miao village is the closest place to the old ghost village, and the old ghost village was also discovered by the people here.
Coming out of the mountains and walking into the Miao village, the quaint atmosphere rushed to the face. It is completely different from the Miao villages in those scenic spots that have been polished beyond recognition.
"Who are you? What are you doing here? A thin middle-aged man walked from the side and said in jerky Mandarin.
"Uncle~May I ask Dong Gaoye's house how to go~" Qiu Yitong asked.
Dong Gaoye is the person Gu Qihan and they had contacted before.
The thin middle-aged man was stunned for a moment: "I am Dong Gaoye, you are ......"
"We are from the Southern Festival." Gu Qihan said.
"Oh, it's you, why are you here now?" Dong Gaoye motioned for us to go to his house first.
Following Dong Gaoye through the village, I looked around, the people in the village were still wearing old Miao clothes, and the stilted buildings in the village were all old and had gone through vicissitudes. There are people on top and livestock on the bottom. The emaciated dog poked its head out of the door and barked at us.
"Why don't you see anyone raising sheep?" I asked.
Along the way, I didn't find any sheep in the livestock pens of any family.
"We don't raise sheep here." Dong Gaopage said.
"Is there no one in the village?" I asked.
"Nobody raises it." He replied dryly.
I said how it was so strange to hear the young man say that he was looking for sheep, that there were many people in our hometown who raised sheep, but all the mountains where sheep were grazed were inevitably sheep droppings, but all the way, the woods were "clean".
"But we clearly met a man in the woods, who said that he had gone into the mountains to look for sheep." Xiao Qing said in the evening.
Dong Gaoye looked at us suspiciously: "Why did you come from the mountains?" Did you meet people in the mountains? ”