Chapter 2: Midnight Ghost Talk (1)

Because he couldn't buy a direct train ticket for the day, Fang Rui traveled all the way to many places before arriving at the location indicated by the red dot at about ten o'clock in the evening of the same day, Hongya County, Meishan City, S Province. After finding a small hotel at random and checking in, Fang Rui nibbled on a few mouthfuls of bread bought in the commissary outside the hotel to fill his stomach. In order to save money, the small hotel where Fang Rui stayed had simple facilities, the room was old and dilapidated, and the mattress exuded a musty smell, which was a little damp to the touch. The fluorescent lamp on the ceiling flickered from time to time, making Fang Rui a little dazzled.

Taking out a change of clothes, Fang Rui walked into the toilet, in addition to a yellowed toilet and a sink, there was only a simple shower room separated by a shower curtain. The toilet has no windows, only a small light bulb that emits a dim light. took off his clothes and entered the shower room, turned on the shower, Fang Rui stood naked for more than three minutes before he felt that the water from the shower finally had a trace of heat, but this water seemed to be forever a breath away from the hot water, and not only did he not feel warm when he washed it, but also made people shiver a little cold. After taking a shower as quickly as possible, Fang Rui wiped his head with a towel and walked out of the shower room and stood in front of the sink, the mirror in front of the table did not know whether it was because of the humid weather or because the hot water in the bath was covered with fog and blurred the entire mirror. Fang Rui lowered his head and groped for a long time before he touched his glasses, put down the towel and put on his glasses, only to find that the mist on the mirror had condensed into water droplets, and it was slowly sliding down to form several water marks. These water marks are staggered and gradually form a picture... It looks like ... One eye! Eye?! Fang Rui's heart trembled, and he subconsciously reached out and quickly wiped the fog off the mirror. Behind Fang Rui was reflected in the mirror, there seemed to be a huge eye staring at him. When I looked back, I saw that there was indeed an eye on the wall in the shower, and when I looked closely, it turned out that it was just an eye-shaped pattern formed by mold spots on the wall due to the long-term dampness. Maybe he was too nervous to see everything as an eye, Fang Rui walked out of the toilet while drying his body. Lying on the bed, Fang Rui looked at his watch, it was already half past twelve in the evening, and he turned off the lights and was ready to go to bed, he would not have expected that in the next room to him, several people were chatting about a ghost story about the ghost-eyed boy.

Han Xinghua, Li Lei, Su Su, Ni Zhiwei and Sun Xiaoxiao are students of the art department of the same university, and they need to go out every once in a while to collect wind and are also members of the school's supernatural club, and the president is Li Lei. These five people came to Hongya County together this time, for the county's Wau Mountain National Forest Park. The Wau Mountain National Forest Park is one of the largest forest parks in the country, with the primeval forest landscape as the main body and rich vegetation. This mountain not only has a lot of roots with Taoist culture, but also is the birthplace of "Five Buckets of Rice Religion". At the same time, it was also a gathering place for the ancient Qiang people, and the Tsing Yi Qiang State was established here. Unfortunately, these are not the reasons that attract these university students here, they come here for the ecstasy of the Wau Mountains, where the terrain is complex, the geology is abnormal, and there are often disorienting phenomena such as compass failure and clock shutdown when entering the country, which can be described as easy to enter and difficult to get out.

The geographical location of Ecstasy is between 29°32' and 29°34'N, which is similar to the sensational Bermuda Triangle and the magical pyramids of Egypt, which explorers call the "Death Latitude Line." Over the years, the "Ecstasy Phenomenon" has left a series of unsolvable mysteries to the world, and has also aroused strong interest from experts, scholars, travelers, explorers and many people at home and abroad. These five people, who have always liked to explore supernatural places, chose Ecstasy as the destination for wind collection and exploration.

As a group of poor students, Li Lei and his entourage stayed in this old and dilapidated small hotel and prepared to enter the mountain tomorrow. This night, several of them were bored at night, so they gathered in Li Lei and Ni Zhiwei's room to play a midnight ghost story. After Su Su told everyone about an old corpse in a mountain village who thought he was terrifying, but everyone laughed at him and said that it was all a routine, her boyfriend Sun Xiao smiled at his girlfriend and decided to tell them a ghost story that was quite related to this place:

Before the story, we must first understand a people: the ancient Qiang, an ancient nomadic people in western China, also known as the "people on the clouds". Now it is mainly distributed in Sichuan Province, and most of the Qiang people live in the high or mid-mountain areas. Ancient Qiang used to be widely distributed, spanning two continents, Asia and Europe. The ancient Qiang were once established in Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, and Northwest Asia, which are now Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Indonesia.

Among them, Gu Qiang once built the "Annan Kingdom" in present-day Vietnam, which was established by the prince of Tsing Yi Qiang Shu of Shu State in Sichuan. According to historical records, the king of Anyang led part of the Qingqiang people into Funan (now Vietnam), settled in the Red River Delta, built the capital city in Fengxi, Guangqianzhang, built and repaired with terrain, coiled into a snail, so it was called Luocheng, also known as Silong City, and the Tang Dynasty called Kunlun City. The king of Anyang and his Qingqiang people lived before the development of Funan, and it was the Qingyi Qiang country. During the Warring States Period, the Qin State sent troops to destroy Bashu in Sichuan and built it as Shu County. After the death of Shu, the king of Anyang could no longer be on the side of An, so he led the army and his clansmen to Funan. In the territory of the Tsing Yi Qiang Kingdom in those years, there happened to be Meishan City, and one of the most famous tourist attractions in the city, Wau Mountain, belonged to the birthplace of the Tsing Yi Qiang Kingdom. Therefore, although our story does not happen here, it has a lot to do with it.

So where does the story really take place, in a small village on the Sino-Vietnamese border, which is where one of my children used to travel poorly. The head of that village spoke a strange language, which according to the village chief was the ancient Qiang language that had been passed down from generation to generation in their village, and only to the village chief. It's just that the age is really old, and the current village chief can only speak a few words, and he can't even complete the sentences. My hair is small, is a scholar, Sun Yat-sen University classical philology major in oracle bone research direction, so he is particularly interested in ancient writing, after listening to the village chief's introduction, he was fascinated by the ancient Qiang language, changed the travel plan to live in this small village for a few more days to study and research.

Fa Xiao, for the sake of convenience, we will call him Xiao Ming in the future, after Xiao Ming lived in the village chief's house, he pestered the old village chief all day long to talk about those ancient Qiang languages. The old village chief did not abide by the rules that could not be passed on to the next village chief, firstly, he had no children, and the young and strong people in the village all ran out to work, and no one wanted to be the village chief. The second is that this ancient Qiang language is difficult to learn, even if it is taught for free to the people in the village, they do not want to learn it, and feel that it is useless. Therefore, this time Xiao Ming is so studious, which makes the old village chief very happy, after all, this thing cannot be extinct in his own hands, even if it is learned by people from other villages, it will finally be passed on.

There are very few villagers in the village, all of them are elderly, only two or three middle-aged people with disabilities and a child. The child had no name, because he was born with only one eye, and the villagers called him "One-Eyed Dragon", and later called him Dulong for convenience. Dulong was only four or five years old, but he was actually seven years old, and his premature birth and disability made him look extremely short and thin. Dulong, who was abandoned by his biological parents to his grandmother since he was a child, does not have the innocence of ordinary children, but gives Xiao Ming a gloomy and melancholy feeling. Xiao Ming, who has always been overflowing with love, feels that he is very pitiful, gives Dulong a lot of snacks to bring over, and always talks to him. Dulong ignored him at first, and later began to speak in response to Xiao Ming's concern, but he seemed to be slurred, and he usually only spoke words and could not practice sentences. While Xiao Ming was collecting ancient Qiang languages, he began to teach Dulong to read and speak when he was idle.

On the third night of staying in the village, Xiao Ming returned to the old village chief's house after teaching Dulong how to write his name. The old village chief was also in his house with his mother, an old mute old lady. However, Xiao Ming doesn't like this dumb old lady, the eight-character eyebrows, small triangular eyes, hooked nose, pulled down corners of the mouth and sparse almost bald hair all make her look quite vicious, plus the dumb old lady doesn't speak and likes to hook the corners of her mouth trembling and trembling, Xiao Ming always feels panicked in his heart, and always feels like Qiu Qianqi in Jin Yong's novel "The Condor Heroes" is reincarnated. Xiao Ming, who came back, wanted to go to the stove to find something to eat, but saw the dumb old lady at the door bowing over and pouring some powdered things into the cauldron, and when she slowly turned around, the only remaining sunset shone on her left face from the broken window, the right side of her face was dark, and the bright and dark yin and yang faces made her look hideous.

Xiao Ming only felt that his heart was furious, and his stomach, which originally felt hungry, instantly disappeared, and he returned to his room and closed the door as if fleeing. It wasn't until the old village chief came over with a bowl of porridge that Xiao Ming opened the door. The old village chief came to deliver dinner, and Xiao Ming looked at the porridge mixed with some black powder in the bowl and was a little afraid. The old village chief explained to him that the black powder in the bowl was mountain mushroom powder, and the people in the village often dried the mountain mushrooms collected from the mountains and ground them into powder to cook porridge to eat, so that the light and tasteless porridge was particularly delicious. Xiao Ming still trusts the old village chief very much, took the porridge and drank it, it was really delicious, it was a delicacy that he had never eaten anywhere else. Xiao Ming, who was relieved, finished the bowl of porridge at this time, and felt a little ashamed of his inexplicable worry just now.