Chapter 20: Mountain Monkeys

This is a completely advanced version of the philosophical trifecta!

Who am I? Where did it come from? Where are you going?

At least others know that they came from their parents' wombs, and now I can't even figure out whether I'm a human or a ghost.

Just when I was staring at the spirit card in the small cabinet and was at a loss, the coughing sound of the godmother suddenly came from the coffin, and I was excited, quickly closed the cabinet door, and quickly came to the coffin of the godmother.

The godmother still looked extremely weak, she opened her eyes slightly, and said, "Xiaozang, listen well, the godmother has something to tell you." ”

I couldn't help but think of the episodes in the TV series that explained the aftermath, and tears suddenly fell. The godmother laughed: "Silly child, the godmother is fine, I just have something to say to you, don't think about it." ”

"Oh." I blushed and wiped away my tears.

The godmother told me that although she had hit the female corpse hard just now, the other party was not dead, and fled at the last moment, she was worried that the female corpse would come back to retaliate, so she wanted to recover her strength as soon as possible, she asked me to call my dad over, dig a grave overnight and bury her with the coffin, and dig her out again in seven days.

In the past seven days, she could no longer protect me, but she said that the female corpse was also seriously injured and should not dare to come to the door again, and waited until seven days later when she came out and helped me remove the mark on my arm.

The godmother explained to me that in the past seven days, I will stay at home honestly, I can't go anywhere, I can't make any extraneous branches, once the imprint on that arm absorbs too many souls, even if her body recovers, she may not be able to deal with it.

Absorbing the soul? When did this mark on my arm absorb the soul? To absorb souls, at least to see ghosts, right?

Seeing that I was puzzled, the godmother said: "This mark on your arm has absorbed at least two souls, and this other side flower originally controlled the soul, as long as you feel any sensory abnormality in it, it is absorbing the soul." ”

Two souls? After the extra mark on my left arm, except for the night of Zheng Zhilong's death, which was probably when I went to Yuan Ling's house to look for something in the bedroom where her father died, the mark seemed to have changed.

Could it be that the mark on my arm absorbed Yuan Ling's father's soul? Thinking of this possibility, I was startled, and I secretly made up my mind that Yuan Ling must not know about this matter.

The godmother specially explained to me that after she fell asleep, she nailed the coffin board, no matter what movement was inside, she didn't pay attention to it, and waited until she was buried in the ground for seven days before she could open it.

Just as I was about to cover the coffin board for the godmother, I suddenly found that after the godmother fell asleep, the sarcoma and pus on her face were disappearing rapidly, and she soon turned into a normal-looking silver-haired old lady.

Looking closely, the godmother's facial features are very beautiful and dignified, even if she is old and full of wrinkles, you can see that she must be a big beauty when she is young.

It turns out that those sarcomas don't always grow on the godmother's face, so how did they come about? Godmother is such a capable person, why don't you heal her face? Even if you want to keep it mysterious, you don't need to make yourself so scary, right?

Just as I was wandering in my thoughts, I suddenly heard a strange noise in the coffin, interrupting my thoughts, and I looked down to see that the godmother's face was rapidly turning black, as if there was ink spreading rapidly under her skin.

The strange sound was made by the thin hands of the godmother, whose nails were growing longer at a visible rate, scraping against the inner wall of the coffin with a piercing sound.

Seeing this scene, I was so frightened that my scalp was numb, and I quickly pushed the coffin board up, and it was strange to say that as soon as I closed the coffin board, the sound inside stopped.

I didn't dare to slack off, according to the godmother's instructions, I took out the coffin nails and nailed the coffin to death, in fact, I was also worried that burying the coffin in the soil like this would suffocate the godmother, but the godmother said that she would be fine, and I could only believe it.

I really can't do this kind of thing alone, I have been going to school since I was a child, I haven't helped with farm work at home a few times, I don't know how to shovel with a shovel, and it is impossible to dig such a big grave pit.

I left the brick kiln and walked in the direction of Murakami. It was dusk, the sky was a little dark, and my way back was full of suspicions: I had been in my godmother's brick kiln for an afternoon, why didn't my father come to me? That's too big, isn't it?

When I walked to my grandmother's door, I found that the courtyard door was closed, and no one answered after knocking on the door for a long time, and my heart couldn't help but hang - the female corpse had come, something should happen to my grandmother's family, right?

Just when I was anxious and was about to consider whether to climb over the courtyard wall and go in to have a look, Brother Xiaocheng next door ran over quickly, and when he saw me, he greeted me: "Ji Zang is here, let's take a walk and follow me to see the excitement." ”

"What's the excitement?"

"Hit the mountain monkeys."

Mountain monkeys? I couldn't help but be stunned, and then quickened my pace to catch up.

This mountain monkey is not a real monkey, we here, the water ghost will be called the water monkey, and the humanoid monster in the mountain with an inexplicable origin will be called the mountain monkey.

The legend of the water monkey haunt has almost never been broken, because parents are afraid that their children will go to the river to bathe in the summer and have an accident, and sometimes they will deliberately make up rumors about the water monkeys. But the last time I heard about mountain monkeys was sixty or seventy years ago, and I heard it from an old man.

Brother Xiao Cheng really went to see the excitement, but I was faintly worried in my heart - the mountain monkey has not appeared nearby for decades, and today the female corpse came to find the godmother to fight, and now I heard the news of the mountain monkey, who dares to guarantee that there is no connection between this?

I followed Brother Xiaocheng to the foot of the mountain, and before I could get there, a large group of villagers came to meet me, the footsteps were chaotic and urgent, and there was the sound of women crying in the crowd, my heart couldn't help but sink suddenly, could this be an accident?

When I got closer, I saw that something was wrong, a person was lying on a simple stretcher covered in blood, and a few strong laborers were trotting all the way with the stretcher, and some people were calling for them to be carried to let the godmother see.

I found my tired dad in the crowd, holding a hoe in his hand, and his clothes were torn several times, and the exposed areas were also dripping with blood.

"Dad, what's wrong? By the way, the godmother has an accident and can't treat her injuries. ”

Dad was stunned for a moment, and then said loudly to everyone, and several people came around to ask me, and I had to lie and say that my godmother was seriously ill and was bedridden, and there was no way to help people see a doctor. A group of people were busy beckoning people to drive agricultural tricycles and prepare to take the injured to the town's hospital.

"Dad, are you alright? What the hell is going on with the mountain monkeys? "When I got back to my grandmother's house, I asked while taking liquor to help my father clean the wounds on his skin.

Before my father could speak, my uncle said: "It's a mountain monkey with green hair, half of his head is broken and he is still running up the mountain, your old Uncle Lin went home and saw it, knowing that it was a mountain monkey, so he called a few people to chase and fight, who knew that half of the mountain monkey's head was broken, and it was so powerful that he grabbed your old Uncle Lin and bit his neck to suck blood, almost sucked people dry, and a few young men desperately smashed it with a hoe before the mountain monkey ran away." ”

A green-haired mountain monkey? The female corpse in the green dress appeared in my mind for no reason, and my heart suddenly burst into my heart, and I asked, "Is that mountain monkey still injured one of its hands?" ”

"Yes! It keeps curling up with one paw and can't stretch it out, how do you know that? Uncle asked with a strange expression.

Now it's confirmed, the mountain monkey is the corpse of the woman in green, it must have been injured in fighting with the godmother, and wants to escape to the mountains to recuperate and suck the blood of Uncle Lin, maybe it's also to restore strength, isn't it all played like this in TV dramas?

No, we can't delay it, we have to quickly call my father to dig the grave together, bury the coffin of the godmother, and let the godmother recover her strength as soon as possible.

Just when I was about to ask my father to go to the brick kiln to dig a grave, there was a noisy voice outside the door, and my uncle went out to take a look, and walked back with a gloomy face: "Your old Uncle Lin is dead, and the mountain monkey sucks blood, I'm afraid it will be difficult to be peaceful tonight." ”