After this call, there were four or five more fires downstairs, and around each firelight, a few figures could be reflected.

Everyone was dressed in the same way, and it seemed that these people had deliberately worn a large hat on their heads, in order to prevent the people upstairs from seeing their faces.

But in this old village, apart from me and Li Huaishan, are there any other outsiders?

"Get on the lights!"

The big man raised his hand again and shouted in a dry voice.

After that, a large area of blood-colored firelight lit up downstairs one by one, and I also found out that there were many people standing under the bamboo building, but everyone was dressed in black, if there was no light on them, they were like shadows in the night, and there was no trace at all.

The man began to move slowly, the taller man stood at the north end of the line, and the shorter the man stood farther south of the line.

It was a long time before they formed a long line, and I looked towards the southern end of the canyon and couldn't see the end of the line.

The blood-colored firelight came from the lanterns in their hands, a little far away, I couldn't see the specific appearance of those lanterns, but I felt that the skin of each lantern was drooping, very loose, and when one of the lanterns was shaking, there was a faint human face on it, but I couldn't see it clearly.

Once they had formed their lines, they began to move slowly towards the north of the canyon.

When they walked, they all took exactly the same steps, not only the same span, but also the same legs, they took the left leg in unison, and then the right leg in unison, and the distance between each person remained the same. Coupled with the stiffness of the movements, it seems to me that these people are walking dead controlled by some kind of force.

The swaying light drove the swaying shadows, and as these people continued to move, the blood-red light and shadow were also reflected on the bamboo buildings on both sides of the road.

It was like a big red pool of blood hell moving slowly through the canyon.

Li Huaishan, who was standing next to me, asked in a low voice, "Do you want to go out?" ”

I shook my head, "Wait. ”

As I spoke, my eyes kept moving through the crowd, carefully looking for Lao Song's figure.

More than half an hour later, half of the people walked under the window, and I finally saw Lao Song.

Of all the people, only Lao Song wore a pair of white thick gloves, and the hands of the others were very dark red under the light of blood, I don't know if this was because they were wearing dark-colored gloves on their hands, or because the skin of his hands was originally dark, but it was certain that only Lao Song's hands showed a bright red different from others under the light of the lantern.

I saw Lao Song, but Lao Song didn't see me, he still straightened up, and walked with the team.

Seeing that it would take a long time for the long and narrow line to leave the small building we were in, I turned around and found Li Huaishan's location by the blood light that came in from outside.

At this time, Li Huaishan was facing me with his face, and I quickly pressed it to his ear and whispered, "Recite the mantra silently and follow me." ”

After saying that, I rushed out of the house with Li Huaishan and quickly closed the door.

Li Huaishan: "What are you doing now?" ”

His voice was visibly strained.

I didn't reply, I just lit the flashlight and lit the corridor into the hallway.

Under the beam of the flashlight, the dark corridor was empty, and the stone sculpture that appeared before was gone.

I deliberately went to the place where the stone carvings were displayed and looked, and the dust on the ground was very even, and it seemed that in this place, nothing else had ever appeared.

I shook my flashlight and asked Li Huaishan in a low voice: "When that old Song brought us up, did you see the stone carvings here?" ”

Li Huaishan shook his head: "Stone carving? Didn't pay attention. At that time, the light was so dim that I could only see Lao Song's back, and nothing else. ”

What he said was exactly what I was thinking in my heart, indeed, when Lao Song brought us up, I could only vaguely see a small piece of ground at his feet, and I couldn't determine whether there were stone carvings nearby.

Sighing in my heart, I took Li Huaishan towards the corridor again.

There were many doors along both sides of the porch, and every time I passed by, I had to carefully push them open to see.

Every room was empty, except for the one where Li Huaishan and I stayed with two beds and a table.

When I came to the entrance of the building, I smelled a faint smell of meat wafting downstairs, Li Huaishan pointed to the stairs leading to the top floor: "Do you want to go up and have a look?" ”

I looked up the staircase, which sloped upwards, and saw that every step of the staircase was covered with greasy dust, and it was evident that no one had gone up for a long time.

"Go downstairs."

After saying these two words briefly, I lowered my pace and walked downstairs, and Li Huaishan followed closely behind me.

I'm going to find the source of the aroma first, and maybe we'll know what's in the bowl somewhere.

When I got to the first floor, I shrugged my nose and carefully identified the direction in which the smell of meat wafted from.

My sense of smell has been refined, and it is much sharper than ordinary people, Li Huaishan didn't smell the smell, and asked me what I was sniffing.

Some people are used to talking non-stop when they are nervous to divert their attention, but now is not the time for small talk, and I can only tell Li Huaishan again and again to stop talking more.

Looking for the direction from which the smell of meat came from, Li Huaishan and I came to the northwest corner of the first floor, where there was a very old wooden door, and a thin layer of grease hung on the door panel, and the light hit it, and it reflected a few smears of oil.

I leaned over to the door panel and sniffed it, and a sour smell mixed with a slight rancid stench immediately crept into my nostrils.

Sure enough, this layer of grease hanging on the door panel is also corpse oil!

The door was not locked, and it opened with a slight push, and suddenly there was a very strong smell of meat wafting out from the depths of the room, and even Li Huaishan smelled the smell at this time, and by the side light of the flashlight, I saw that he was frowning constantly.

In front of him was a kitchen of less than ten square meters, and there was a mud stove near the west wall, where Lao Song had made a fire not long ago, so that there was still a smell of paste left by the burning firewood in the air.

I leaned over to the stove and looked at it, and there was only a little soup star left in the pot, and on the edge of the cauldron there were still some shiny little bones scattered around.

When the flashlight beam hit the bones, I noticed that there were still a few shiny bottles and cans standing on the edge of the stove, so I hit the beam over.

After that, Li Huaishan's retching sound came from behind me.

A miserable white beam illuminated several clear glass bottles, filled with dead babies with their umbilical cords severed, all encased in an unknown viscous liquid, which looked like they were alive from a distance, floating up and down irregularly.

One of the dead babies had their hands and feet cut off, leaving only a torso, and a large wisp of dark liquid, possibly blood, floating in the glass bottle.

When I saw the dead baby, I knew what was going on with the meat in the soup bowl and the bones next to the stove.

Li Huaishan retched violently at first, and then coughed.

I was afraid that he would alarm the people outside, so I whispered to him: "Recite the mantra silently and calm your mind." ”

Li Huaishan gasped and directly recited those mantras in a whisper, while I turned my flashlight and took a photo in the corner of the kitchen, and found nothing else.

After a while, another shout came from the canyon: "Get on the lights!" ”

Immediately afterward, a series of responses came from outside.

"Get on the lights!"

"Get on the lights!"

"Get on the lights!"

……

Everyone speaks exactly the same thing in the same voice.

If the voices and intonations of the two people are so similar that they can't be distinguished, it may be a pure coincidence, but the voices of so many people are completely identical, and it is obviously not as simple as a coincidence.

When the first shouting came, I felt that the sound was far away from me, so I quickly took Li Huaishan out of the kitchen and came to the door of the building lightly.

I held the doorknob, Li Huaishan gently pressed the door panel, and with his cooperation, I almost silently opened the door a gap.

Looking out through the crack in the door, I saw that the crowd had already crossed the bamboo building where I was, and the people walking at the end of the line were also twenty or thirty meters away from us.

I immediately turned off the flashlight, carefully widened the crack in the door, first let Li Huaishan out, and then retreated outward, while holding the doorknob, trying not to make a sound when closing the door.

When I turned around and walked towards the main road, Li Huaishan was about to open his mouth to speak.

I hurriedly reached out to cover Li Huaishan's mouth and shook my head desperately at him.

Then the light of the fire shining from the crowd, I could see Li Huaishan's expression clearly, and of course he could see mine.

He looked at me with a frown, and then nodded at me after a long time.

I breathed a sigh of relief, and when I looked up at the crowd, I saw that the fires farthest away from us had begun to move towards the top of the canyon.

It seems that the first few men are about to climb down the steep slope out of the canyon.

When the crowd was farther away, I lowered my voice and said to Li Huaishan: "Follow me, try to be as light as possible, don't die." ”

Li Huaishan immediately nodded at me.

I whispered to him again, "You better go upstairs and wait for me." ”

Li Huaishan complained: "Don't treat me as a burden!" ”

It seemed that he was determined to follow me, and I didn't talk nonsense, so I immediately lowered my pace and touched towards the northern end of the canyon.

At this time, the wind rose again in the canyon, the wind was harsh, just enough to cover the footsteps of me and Li Huaishan, while the wind was still quiet, I quickened my pace, quickly came to the end of the crowd about ten meters or so, and hid myself in the shadow of the bamboo building.

Also driven by the wind, the lanterns that emitted blood glowed and swayed.

Only then did I see clearly that on each lantern, there was a stretched human face, and the eyes, nostrils, mouth, and ear piercings were all clearly visible.

The skins wrapped around those lanterns are clearly human skins!