Text Chapter 3 Nine Deaths and One Life

"Why... Don't save me! A terrible scream pierced the sky.

That girl, come to me for your life! What to do? What to do!

"I can't help it!" I collapsed to the ground with my legs limp, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" "Incredible fear filled my heart, and I could only bend over and apologize over and over again. My unassuming eyes were a little moist.

The girl's face cracked open from the bridge of her nose, and her white teeth poked out of a blur of flesh...

To my horror, I found that my body was moving closer to the girl! No matter how much I struggled and cried, I was approaching the female ghost!

The girl's whining murmur pulled me into the abyss of fear.

Red, blood-soaked claws slashed through the air and stabbed me in the chest!

"Ahh I screamed miserably.

The tense string in my brain gradually relaxed, and my consciousness stayed on the girl's bloody face...

At this moment, I suddenly realized that this was the end, and let me, who was useless, disappear from the world..... Whatever rapist he is, what kind of job he does, love .... To hell with everything... Thinking of this, a wry smile of mockery squeezed out of the corners of his mouth.

The horrible scene in my brain was looping over and over again.....

A few black crows in the woods squeaked and played a symphony of descent into hell.

The sun still showed its head, and the pale of the east turned a bleak red.

Bang! The door was pushed open, and a thin figure walked in.

I curled up in the corner, my body weirdly squeezed out, staring at the ground with a blank gaze, my body trembling as if I had an epilepsy, and my dark mouth kept trembling "I'm sorry!" I'm sorry! ...ā€

"Alas!" Camel Lao Li shook his head, as if he was relieving himself. "You baby...", but the corners of his mouth seemed to raise a strange smile....

He took out the lantern and lit it, and my pale face flickered in the blood-red light.

Camel Lao Li took out a chopstick and tapped the lantern, muttering strange words in his mouth.

The flames swayed like fairies, and the light from the small flames filled the room.

The red glow from the lantern faded, and my face gradually returned to blood.

"Smack!" A shriveled palm slammed into my forehead.

I woke up suddenly, my dilated pupils gradually condensed in the center of my eyeball, and a foul black breath slowly erupted from my mouth.

I gulped in the air like a drowning teenager who had been rescued: "Ah! Yes... Ghosts! I grabbed the withered arm of the camel and shouted.

"What the hell!" Camel Lao Li pulled his arm apart and slowly lit a dryland cigarette, "You baby, if I hadn't come to save you, you would have seen Lord Yama go." ā€

"I... I saw the dead girl come to me last night. I said in shock.

"Boy." Camel Lao Li spat out a puff of smoke ring, "From the moment you enter the Yang Forest, you are already certain to die." ā€

"What? I—" I looked at him quizzically, "what does that mean?" ā€

Camel Lao Li's face was as calm as water: "The bad luck in the curtain poplar forest is extremely heavy, once you inhale the bad luck." This creates hallucinations, images that are in your subconscious. ā€

"Oh, you're saying all I'm seeing is a hallucination!" It dawned on me, "That girl's ghost doesn't exist, so I'm relieved." ā€

Camel Lao Li glanced at me playfully, "And you have taken too much, and the bad luck has gathered in your chest into yin poison, and now you are terminally ill." ā€

"What?" A delicate bead of sweat oozed from my forehead, how could it be? What a vicious, bad luck, I've never heard of it when I'm so big. Isn't this okay now? The old man won't be fooling me. "Can I still be saved?" I asked.

"There is a way." It seemed to see my thoughts, and Camel Lao Li said: "My glass cup can only temporarily suppress the yin poison, the so-called symptom but not the root cause, if you want to live, then two days later, three locust trees will find me, and then go to the purple tomb moss together to give you this baby to eat, in order to save your little life." ā€

"And where to find it?" I asked.

Camel Lao Li waved his hand impatiently: "If you come to me in two days, you will naturally know." ā€

As soon as the words fell, the camel Lao Li turned around and left, "Baby, whether you live or die depends on your life." ā€

I sat on the bed in a daze, this matter is so bizarre, it is beyond the scope of my cognition, does the big thing that Camel Lao Li said really exist? Or is he making it up for some purpose? Didn't he also enter the Poplar Forest, why is it okay? He seemed to hate me at first, so why did he save me?

To go or not to go? Puzzled, I raised my hand and glanced at my watch, "It's time to go to school." ā€

As I walked along the road, I noticed that there was something strange about the people in the village, and they were in groups of three or five as if they were talking about something, and there was a mysterious horror on their faces.

After inquiring, my face suddenly turned pale, and my heart suddenly sank into the ice cave.....

The big cow and the second cow are dead!

It is said that last night, they ran around the village like crazy, and shouted: "Let me go, let me go, I didn't kill me!" ā€

At dawn, the brothers were seen dead in the wheat straw field, and the death was extremely strange.

They were naked, their chests were purple-black, and they were even slightly heaving! But they were clearly not breathing, and the ups and downs were like something squirming inside... What's even more terrifying is that their tongues dragged on for a long time, and their seven orifices were bleeding, and they all looked in the direction of the curtain poplar forest with wide eyes, and their faces were indescribably afraid.

Is that old man telling the truth?! It's already working on the big cow and the second cow?!

I came to school in despair and pretended to be calm to teach the children.

If what Lao Li said is true, the fate of the big cow and the second cow is estimated to be not far from me. But why is Lao Li okay?

That's right! I suddenly remembered the red lantern he was holding in his hand, the only difference between him and me was his red lantern, could it have something to do with that strange lantern?

I sat in my office and thought, what is the name of the office is actually a simple room.

"Teacher Chen, your complexion seems to be getting worse and worse." Gu Ping, who was sitting next to her, said suddenly.

"I didn't sleep well," I forced out a smile.

We each wrote a lesson book, I absentmindedly looked out the window at the children chattering and playing, the room was a little stuffy, I subconsciously pulled the neckline, glanced at it, instantly gasped, my chest turned purple black, green tendons like veins of leaves densely covered the skin, agitated blood vessels as if about to explode!

Isn't this what the big cow and the second cow looked like when they died?!

I hurriedly pulled my collar to cover my chest, "Teacher Gu, I may have to leave for a while, please take care of the children..."

"Huh?" Gu Ping asked with concern, "Is something wrong with you?"

"At home... Something. I said. I don't know if this excuse can be perfunctory, it's really hard for her to take care of fifty or sixty students by herself...

"Hmm... All right. Gu Ping nodded indifferently and brushed the green silk on her white forehead, "I called my brother to help take care of it for a few days... If you have any problems, be sure to let me know. ā€

Gu Ping's voice was gentle and pleasant, which made me feel a little more warm in my heart. I can't help but feel that Gu Ping's heart is really good, looking at her pretty figure, I seem to have a strange feeling in my heart, and my cheeks can't help but feel a little hot...

This morning, three tall old locust trees rippled golden in the morning light, and I came to the tree with my bag on my back.

Unexpectedly, Camel Lao Li was already smoking against the tree there, and the ground was covered with black soot.

"Sir, it's so early." I laughed.

Camel Lao Li knocked his pipe and said: "We are not cultural people, don't take a sip of a gentleman, just call me Uncle Li." ā€

I said, "Okay, Uncle Li, I... Ready, shall we go now?"

"Don't worry." Old Uncle Li waved his hand, "Wait." ā€

"Is there anyone else?" I was a little surprised.

"Nonsense, can you do it?" Uncle Li glanced at me.

I smiled embarrassedly and had to wait against the tree...

Half a pillar of incense hours later, two men, one fat and one thin, came in the distance.

Both of them were carrying heavy bags, and Uncle Li pointed at them and said, "This fat man is an iron pillar, the apprentice I accepted halfway, the thin one is called Cai Wen, and the iron pillar was found halfway, it seems to be a college student." They're going with us, and you get to know them. ā€

When they approached, I hurriedly said, "Hello, my name is Chenyi." ā€

Tie Zhu smiled at me, revealing his white teeth, "I'm called Tie Zhu, and I'll help each other in the future." ā€

Cai Wen didn't look up at me, but said softly, "Hello." ā€

I secretly looked at the two people, this man called Tiezhu is burly, with big shoulders and a round waist, I don't think I can beat him for three, his expression is resolute, his skin is dark, at a glance, he knows that he is a strong man doing farm work in the mountains, he should be a good hand on the road, this man named Cai Wen wears glasses, looks like a thin scholar, slightly taller than me, and his combat effectiveness is estimated to be zero, what is the point of bringing him? Is it just a backpacker? He seems to have something on his mind, and his eyes always sneak a glance at Old Uncle Li.

Old Uncle Li scratched his gray hair and said, "Okay, everyone has arrived, tell you in advance, this way we will pass through barren mountains and mountains, we will eat and sleep in the open air, maybe we will encounter some trouble, you each take care of yourself, don't blame me for not telling you if there is an accident." ā€œ

The corners of Cai Wen's mouth twitched, and then he gritted his teeth with determination, and Tie Zhu smiled innocently, "I know." "The appearance of not being afraid of heaven and earth is very suitable for his strong body.

Old Uncle Li waved his hand and said, "Let's go, babies." ā€

After getting ready, the four of us set off with our luggage on our backs.

After walking for about ten minutes, I approached Uncle Li and asked, "Uncle Li, where are we going?" ā€

"Baby." Old Uncle Li smiled weirdly, "Do you know where the purple tomb moss grows?"

"Where?" I felt something was wrong.

"Purple tomb moss grows inside the coffin!" Uncle Li looked at me and said.

"What!?" A chill ran through my back.

"Hey, hey." Old Uncle Li said again, "There are no ordinary coffins, they have to be coffins that have been placed for a thousand years, and a thin layer of purple tomb moss will grow inside." ā€

That... That is, we are going to the cemetery and scrape the contents of the coffin board ?! That's crazy, isn't it? I gradually felt some tingling in my scalp.....