Chapter IV: Forbidden Areas
It's strange, I'm already out of the house, why is there another me in the house?
A lot of strange thoughts instantly appeared in my head, and the fear of a moment just now was gone, and I wanted to see what was going on.
I crept to the window, and looked through the window, and there was a dark figure in the room. Not to mention, looking at it in the dark, this figure really has a bit of what I mean, and the energy of sitting at the desk and reading a book is really like.
I grabbed the wooden stick that was leaning against the door, kicked it open, rushed in, and turned on the light as soon as possible.
Instantly, the snow-white light sprinkled throughout the room, and I couldn't help but be stunned when I looked at it again.
The room was empty, there was nothing, and the shadow disappeared in an instant. I was stunned for a long time, was I dazzled?
He was stunned for a moment, as if something had slipped out of the door, extremely fast, like light and electricity. It took me a long time to react, and I walked to the door and looked out, and there were black mountains outside, and the thing was gone.
I encountered strange things tonight, did I hallucinate, or was it really something? I sat in my chair and was stunned for a long time. The thing that slipped away just now looked very much like some kind of animal. It's not surprising that there are no animals in the depths of the mountains, and it's not impossible that occasionally they get lost and come to our forest house.
The fox was suspicious for a long time, but for some reason, he always felt a chill on the back of his neck, and there was a feeling of being peeped at, as if there were some eyes hidden in the dark. I searched inside and out for a long time and found nothing, but this feeling of being spied on lasted for most of the night.
I finally stayed up until dawn, and the three of them woke up and came to take over, and I felt extremely tired, my eyelids were as heavy as a thousand pounds, and my legs were as if they were filled with lead, and I went back to the house and slept until the afternoon.
When I woke up, I was a little tired and sore, and looking out the window at the mountains that were gradually entering autumn, I secretly prayed that I would not catch a cold. I have a hunch that if I really fall ill here, I'm afraid it will be a serious illness.
My health has not been very good since I was a child, and when I was a child, I drank Chinese medicine, and whenever I changed the environment or the season, I would definitely get an illness.
At this moment, my stomach was growling, I changed my clothes, and pulled my shoes to the front to eat. At the dinner table, Hu Tou'er saw that I was not in good spirits and asked me if I was not suitable for the night shift, and I reluctantly said that it was okay.
I have to be on duty if I don't fit in, this is work, I haven't been to the house, no one is used to me.
I remembered what happened last night, and asked, "Chief, is there any strange thing in our mountains?" ”
Hu Tou'er leisurely lit a cigarette, smiled and said: "If you want to talk about ghosts, you have to find your Uncle Zhang, he has a lot of stories about the mountains, and his level is about to catch up with the storyteller." ”
"It's not uncle, it's brother," Lao Zhang said, "It's called Brother Zhang, what is it called Uncle Zhang." ”
Cao Yuan coaxed: "Brother Zhang, come for a while." ”
Lao Zhang was interested, asked Hu Tou'er for a cigarette, crossed Erlang's legs and smoked it, squinted his eyes to brew the atmosphere first, and knocked cigarette ash in his rice bowl: "We have all kinds of strange things in the mountains." Daqingshan has a history of thousands of years, the forest is deep and dense, and it is inaccessible, how many people are buried here. Hanged ghosts dying in trees, coffins hiding in caves, decomposing corpses, etc., today I will tell you about the most tragic ones. Probably before the liberation, at the time of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there was a small mountain village at the western foot of our Daqing Mountain, called Dengjiataizi. On that day, a small detachment of the Kwantung Army entered the village, saying that it was searching for members of the anti-Japanese wing, but in fact it was burning, killing and looting. The villagers knew in advance that all of them had gone into the mountains to hide, and the captain of the Japanese Kameda squad saw that there was no one in the village and shouted angrily, and ordered to go into the mountains to search. What kind of troops is the Kwantung Army, it is the elite of Japan, and the common people can run past them with their families? And then it was blocked in the mountains......"
Cao Yuan was shocked when he heard this: "And then? ”
Lao Zhang knocked on the ashes: "Then it's killing and killing, and there is no way to live." There is such a big family surnamed Qu in the village, and there are a total of seven women in the village, all of whom are old and young, and it is said that the youngest is only twelve or thirteen years old. The old composer is really a martyr, seeing the Japanese touch, they were afraid of being humiliated before death, and collectively jumped into the mountain stream, this incident later caused a sensation in the whole Daqingshan, after the liberation, there was a big official to inspect us, to Daqingshan heard about it, and personally wrote a word, called 'full of heroes'. ”
"Finished?" I asked.
Lao Zhang said: "Hey, the focus of the story is in the back, since this incident, there have been frequent supernatural things near the mountain stream, and some people have seen ghosts, like women in the old days." Later, someone built a yin temple in the mountain stream......"
"What is the Yin Temple?" I asked with interest.
Lao Zhang said: "Most of the temples are built for the Buddha and immortals, and there are exceptions, which are built for elves and ghosts. For example, the largest Yin Temple in our Northeast worships Master Hu Sanye. Mrs. Hu is very powerful, and he is in charge of the immortal family in the entire three northeastern provinces. ”
"What about the Yin Temple in the mountain stream? Is it still there? Cao Yuan asked.
Lao Zhang said: "It's long gone, it's gone in the eighties, don't plan to go to that place, it's in the forbidden area behind the wordless stele, it's better to go to that place less." ”
After eating, Cao Yuan pulled me and muttered, saying that when the two of us patrol the mountain, find a way to explore, he has been here for almost a year, and he has not been to the forbidden area, Hu Touer and Lao Zhang go to patrol, and never let him go.
I thought it was all folklore, maybe it was made up by Lao Zhang casually, and I might really be able to find a broken mountain stream after going for a long time, what is there to see.
Half a month later, I worked two more shifts, and I didn't encounter the incident of that night, my body was still face-saving, and I didn't have a fever or cold.
After late summer and autumn, it rained, and it became colder and colder, and there were many fallen leaves, and the whole mountain was oozing with a feeling of depression and loneliness.
This day came to me and Cao Yuan to patrol the mountain. The forest farm has a big mountain patrol every half month, and the area is demarcated on the map, and the radius of the patrol will be much larger than the previous routine, and it is likely that you will have to spend the night in the mountain.
Hu Tou'er spread a map of the mountains on the table and said solemnly: "You two young people, especially Xiao Cao, have been here for a year, and they should put more burden on you. The area you are inspecting this time is in the forbidden area behind the wordless monument. ”
Cao Yuan's eyes lit up as soon as he heard this, and he was drowsy, but he suddenly came to his senses.
Hu Tou'er pointed his finger on the map: "After you enter this area, about ten miles to the west, there is a stronghold of our forest farm, here!" "He touched it with his hand, and we saw that on the map, there was a red mark.
"You can spend the night there, and this time the radius of action will end in this stronghold, and you can't act privately, and you can't move forward any further. I will tell you about this past mission, one is to survey the climate, record the real-time temperature and humidity, the second is to inspect whether there are traces of private hunting into the mountain, and the third is to prevent fire ......."
Hu Tou'er said, I was holding the notebook at the same time, Cao Yuan was impatient, and he had to pretend to listen attentively.
After all the explanations were over, we put on our mountaineering bags and prepared to go, and Hu Touer told Cao Yuan to take good care of me, a newcomer, and be sure to pay attention to safety. The two of us set off, each with a map and a compass in the field, and soon walked to the boundary of the wordless monument.
Cao Yuan rubbed his hands and told me that this was a good opportunity, and he wanted to go to the mountain stream that Lao Zhang said. I was not interested, and told him not to make any extraneous problems, just go and come back safely to complete the task.
Cao Yuan lost interest and continued to move forward. It's really looking at the mountain to run a dead horse, looking at the road for more than ten miles is not far, but to the mountain, this distance is infinitely extended, we walk very hard, there is no one here, almost no road, can only grope forward a little bit.
When I walked to the sunset, I finally saw a two-story wooden house in a clearing surrounded by trees. The surrounding area was overgrown with wild grass, the roof leaves almost crushed the house, and the walls of the wooden house were covered with green, green, yellow and yellow vines.
Cao Yuan and I looked at each other. I know that this is the stronghold of the forest farm, and those who don't know think it's a murderous house.
Coming to the door, Cao Yuan opened the door with the key, and when we entered the inside, our eyes suddenly lit up, the house was extremely tidy, exuding a faint smell of wood, there were a total of four rooms downstairs inside and outside, and there were stairs leading to the upstairs, we had a brief look, the bedroom was very clean, and the beds were neatly laid out, just like the barracks.
Cao Yuan and I went upstairs, upstairs is the office, there are filing cabinets in it, some equipment on the table, there are telephones, thermometers, pen and paper, handheld GPS or something, and what is even more outrageous is that there is a DSLR camera and laptop.
Cao Yuan wiped his hands, pulled over the chair and sat down, and opened the notebook. The history of this notebook is less than seven or eight years, the memory is pitiful, the entire hard disk is divided into two drive letters, and it takes two minutes to open Word. We flipped through the hard drive, and there was only a bunch of text files recording some weather and environmental conditions, marked with dates.
Cao Yuan yawned and turned off the computer casually.
The two of us went back to the living room downstairs, ate and fed our stomachs, briefly discussed the plan, and started patrolling the mountain tomorrow morning, taking the map and drawing the routes we were responsible for.
After the discussion, we were tired and went back to sleep. I couldn't sleep, and in the middle of the night I woke up to see a drowsy and crackling rain outside the window.