Chapter 1: Dreams

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At night, it was very quiet, there was no one on the street, only the yellow glow of the roadside lights, reflecting the black shadows of scattered leaves.

A bus drove over and leaned on the side of the road, this should be the last bus of the day, I quickly got on the bus, the car was full of people, all of them were some old people, their faces were a little gloomy but quietly sat in the car without talking and the old people who usually like to chat loudly are a little different.

I don't like to get close to strange old people, because most of the elderly people exude a smell that makes people uncomfortable, which is a unique smell of the elderly.

Looking around, there were people in almost all the seats, only the last row was empty, so I walked over and sat down, and I was very glad to have a seat on the bus.

There was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl in the car, with pigtails and a floral dress, collecting money, it should be the conductor on the bus, I subconsciously took out my pocket, it was empty, I only touched my trouser pocket.

I was a little embarrassed at the moment, I was really afraid that this little girl would drive me down, and if I got off the bus, I didn't know how far I would have to go, so I sat down in my seat, and made up my mind that if the little girl wanted to drive me down, I begged her with my face.

The little girl didn't look at me, and after collecting the money, she returned to the conductor's position and ignored me.

I sat in my seat and looked out the window, I don't like to play with my phone when I take the bus, but I like to look at the scenery outside the window, these scenery is better than the screen, at least it can make you clearly feel the passage of time, and you are one step closer to your destination.

But this bus actually has no windows, there is no window in the big car, I feel a little weird at the moment, since I was a child, I have never sat in a car without windows.

I looked forward boringly, there were no windows, there was always a windshield. The driver's face was reflected in the rearview mirror, a boar's head, a human body underneath, fangs reaching beyond the lips, and a thick mane on the head.

A bone-chilling chill rose from his back, and a cold sweat broke out in an instant, covering his mouth tightly with his hands, almost screaming. Looking at the group of quiet and somewhat excessive people in the car, I didn't dare to make the slightest sound, my heart beat faster, and I could hear the sound of my heart in my chest.

The car stops and goes, and every time it stops, there will be something on the car, which is actually poultry such as chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, etc., and some people come up from time to time.

There were more and more people in the car, and except for the last row, the seats were filled. They were standing in the car, but not near my last row, the fear was amplifying, the whole person lost strength, and now I no longer covered my mouth with my hands, because I couldn't scream at all, and people couldn't make a sound when they were extremely nervous, because they had forgotten how to control their bodies.

Finally, the car no longer stopped, but kept moving forward, driving faster and faster, and even the street lights in front of it disappeared, driving into darkness.

The little girl turned her head and looked at me, "It's not where you can go ahead, get out of the car." ”

"Ahh I woke up from bed, cold sweat soaking through my back,

"Whew~ It's okay, it's just a dream." I exhaled a long breath, patted my chest lightly, and looked at my phone, it was eleven fifty-eight o'clock, and there were two minutes to go at twelve o'clock, and it was the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar.

My name is Chen Muxuan, I was eighteen years old that year, and it was a summer vacation for high school and college, and it was the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the Midyear Festival. Everything starts three days ago, since I was a child, I have had a lot of things, some things that cannot be explained by science, but this time is the strangest thing that happened in the first 18 years of my life.

Although what happened after that was even more bizarre, but I was prepared, this time can be regarded as the closest I am to death, in this world, there are really things that science can't explain, some things, you can't see doesn't mean they don't exist, just like people have never dared to admit that they are the moths of the earth, but also for the fate of human beings to improve the environment that was destroyed by themselves and to protect the earth.

The earth does not need human protection, human beings want to protect themselves, human beings are stubborn and blind animals, vanity animals who like to prove themselves, and everyone suffers from this, and they are happy to do it.

My family is in a small town in the south, and the town is built on a hill and surrounded by mountains. In the past, it was a place that no one cared about, and it was a bit deserted, like an unexplored paradise, until my sophomore year of high school, when tourism flourished.

There was only one high school, one junior high school, and one elementary school in town, and I spent the first 18 years in this town, and I still remember the excitement and anticipation of my junior year of high school, but since that dream, the trajectory of my life has begun to change dramatically.

At that time, the town's tourism industry was just emerging, and the two tour companies in the town were very busy and short of manpower, so they began to recruit temporary tour guides. At that time, I had just graduated and wanted to earn some pocket money and accumulate some social experience, so I went there to register. As a prospective college student (who has not yet registered for university) and a local native, I was easily chosen and had my first job in life - to show the way for those tourists, and by the way, to introduce the local customs, saying that I was a tour guide, but in fact I was a guide.

It happened at the end of August, three days before the Midyear Festival.

Some tourists want to go to the mountain barbecue in the evening, and it is of course my responsibility as a tour guide to accompany them. As a place that has not been heavily developed, we still have some old customs that have been handed down from the past, and at the age of sixteen, I thought they were feudal superstitions and should not be feared. But some of the things that happened in the two years between my sixteen and eighteenth years changed my opinion, which will be mentioned below, and I only remember that I was a little reluctant at the time, and persuaded me, but I had no choice but to go with it, because of the strong demands of the tourists.

The temperature difference between the mountains is very large, and at the end of August, you sweat in a vest at noon, but you have to wear long sleeves to climb the mountain at night.

That mountain is called Pansnake Mountain, I don't know why it's called Pansnake Mountain, I once asked the old people in the town, and they all shook their heads.

But one thing is known, there have been people who have died there, many people. In the past few years, there was a heavy rain, and a lot of soil in the mountains was washed away, and when someone went up the mountain to pick grass, they found the white bones buried in the mountain, a whole piece of white bones. As far as the eye can see, they are densely piled together, seeping panic.

This incident alarmed the people in the province, sent an archaeological team down to investigate, the result of the investigation was the ancient battlefield left over from the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, because of the serious damage, there is no archaeological value, the government hurriedly buried the bones and then no longer asked, but pulled up barbed wire near there to mark that piece of the area into a forbidden area, not to let the villagers pass, saying that it is to prevent the masses from being unnecessarily frightened, and to protect the ecological environment there to prevent soil erosion from occurring again.

Snake Mountain is very large, and that place is just a part of it, and the people who should go up the mountain to collect medicine still go up the mountain to collect medicine, but they don't go to that place, and it doesn't seem to have any impact on the town. And the place I'm going to take them to is on the other side of the mountain, far from the ancient battlefield, and close to the place of departure.

At the age of eighteen or nineteen, there was always a hint of arrogance, and although I was a little weak at the time, I was much more courageous when I looked at this group of tourists with a hundred people, so I was not very afraid at the time, and after six o'clock in the evening, I took the tourists into the mountain.

Six o'clock in August is still very bright, along the way everyone talked and laughed into the mountain, there is no depressing feeling, there is nothing weird, I feel more stable, so many people, even if there is anything dirty, you have to be afraid of three points.

The barbecue place is halfway up the mountain, where there is a stone platform, which is very wide and can easily accommodate these people, and it is a great place for barbecue camping.

The snake mountain is not high, but it is very large in the mountains next to our town, this radius of thirty miles is its range, it is on the west side of our town, and to go there for barbecue, you have to take a car to the foot of the mountain and then walk up.

Six o'clock into the mountain, along the stone steps all the way, until the sky is completely dark after we are almost there, in order to develop tourism town has also made efforts, the steps are newly repaired, both sides are also newly planted street lights, so although it is dark still does not affect us into the mountain.

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