Chapter 7 Food in the Mountains
When I heard this name, I couldn't help but be a little surprised: "Bodhisattva Wenren...... It's a very unique name......."
"It's not just unique, it's just fucking hubris!" The old man snorted coldly, looking at his expression, he seemed to be very uninterested in this gentleman who cultivated Buddhism. ΡΡΡ.(vii) (ix) x.S.ΡΠΎΠΌ The update is so fast.
Old man Chen smiled bitterly and waved his hand, saying that the point is not here, the point is when are you going to go, old thing?
"You say you can go, then I won't be your nanny? Specializing in wiping your buttocks. The old man leaned on the Taishi's chair and looked at Old Man Chen leisurely: "Tell me the general situation first, where did this thing come from?" β
Old man Chen snorted and smoked a cigarette, as if he was organizing his language.
"The place where the melon appears is also in Sichuan, a little far away from Chengdu, in the mountains in the west." Old man Chen said, his expression became more and more serious, as if he was making a report to someone: "That place is called Pansnake Valley, the population base is not large, within a radius of 100 miles, there are only a few dozen people living at most......."
"Primeval mountains?" The old man frowned.
"Not really." Old man Chen smiled bitterly: "It stands to reason that no matter how big something happens in that kind of place, it will not be able to spread to the provincial capital so quickly, but it can be regarded as our luck." β
"How?"
"There are two juniors in our bureau, their hometown is in Panshegou, and in the days when the accident happened, these two juniors happened to go home to visit relatives."
Feng Zhenguo opened his mouth coldly: "When I found out about this situation, I went back to the provincial capital to report it as soon as possible." β
"So coincidentally?" The old man seemed to feel that something was wrong, and looked at Feng Zhenguo in surprise.
"I think it's a coincidence, too." Feng Zhenguo sighed: "But that's the truth. β
At this time, Old Man Chen coughed twice, snuffed out the cigarette butt, and continued to talk to us.
The first people to discover human melons were four mountain people who went up the mountain to cut pigweed.
"The place where the hogweed is cut is fixed, that is, that is, that is." Old man Chen said, and compared with us: "But the situation that day was a little different from before, they didn't have time to hunt pigweed when they went up the mountain, and they smelled a strange fragrance coming from the forest. β
"What's the smell?" Shippo asked curiously.
"Fruity." Old man Chen said uncertainly: "Listening to them, it smells very sweet, and it is also very refreshing, it seems to be 'very' appetizing." β
Appetizer?
Hearing these two words, not only Qibao was 'confused', but Chen Qiuyan and I were also confused.
"What's that?" I couldn't help but ask, "What's appetizing?" β
"I don't know." Old man Chen looked at me helplessly: "The original words of those mountain people are that they feel hungry when they smell it. β
"When ripe, the melon has a strange fragrance." The old man explained: "Whether it is a human or any other living thing, it is completely impossible to resist the fragrance, and the hunger will be aroused in an instant.........
"Sounds good." Qibao swallowed his saliva and said with excitement on his face, "Is this melon delicious?" β
"Although I haven't eaten it, judging from the ancient records, it should be 'quite delicious'." The old man said truthfully: "The melon 'meat' of the five internal organs melon is cold, similar to the chilled watermelon, and it is addictive to eat, so many people who eat the five internal organs melon will find live people to grow melons again and again." β
"Master, when they eat the five internal organs, can't they eat the seeds?" I asked curiously, "If you eat melon seeds, you will die, right?" β
The old man snorted and said, yes.
Old man Chen lit a cigarette again, and continued to talk while 'smoking'.
"Damn, I blame these mountain people for being greedy, smelling the fragrance, and looking for it without saying a word........"
Following the strange fragrance to find it, these mountain people made an unexpected discovery.
In the thorn bushes in the forest, a thick layer of melon vines grew at some point.
On the top of the melon vine, there are four things that resemble watermelons.
At the beginning, the mountain people thought that these were watermelons, but when they took a closer look, they found that these "watermelons" were small and exquisite, not to mention, there were no 'flower' patterns on them, and the whole body was turquoise 'color', which looked a little reflective!
Smelling the strange fragrance, these villagers also itched in their hearts, and they couldn't wait to smash it open and eat it immediately.......
"It's 'quite' tragic to talk about it." Old man Chen took a hard 'smoke' of cigarette, and his expression became helpless: "Those mountain people are poor and afraid, and their lives are hard, when they meet such a strange melon, they can't think of anything else, the first thing they think of is to eat, but in the end, they all held back, and they all decided to take it home and share it with their families." β
"Eat it all?" The old man was stunned.
"Well, there's nothing left." Old man Chen smiled bitterly: "I don't know how thin the melons were cut into by them, a whole twenty people, all of them eaten, and no one is willing to spit out the seeds!" β
According to Old Man Chen, these people who had eaten the five internal organs had no special reaction on the first day, but on the second day, all of them had symptoms of weakness.
"At first, they thought it was poisoned, but they all looked at the local doctor in the village, and prescribed some herbs to eat, but it didn't work." Old man Chen said, his tone gradually became solemn: "On the third day, these people can't get out of bed, and they don't want to eat or drink, they don't even want to move, they just want to lie on the 'bed' and sleep." β
In the words of the villagers, these people are like they have lost their souls, the whole person is lifeless, and their eyes look like dead people, and they can stay stunned for a night with their eyes half-open.
This phenomenon went on for several days.
It wasn't until the seventh day after those mountain people ate the melons that everyone in the village smelled a strange fragrance.
The peculiar fragrance, like the human melons brought home by the mountain people, is so fragrant that it is difficult to resist.
The villagers who were waiting for good things followed the fragrance to find them, and when they found those families, without exception, they were all scared half to death.
"All the mountain people who have eaten human melons, not one of them has fallen, and they have all died."
When Old Man Chen said this, cold sweat also broke out on his forehead, and he looked a little nervous.
"The death of these mountain people is very peculiar, they all seem to have turned into melon shelves, and the melon vines with chopsticks are wrapped around their bodies,"
"The seven orifices of those people are all stuffed with melon vines as thick as chopsticks, and they look like they have just come out of the soil, and their stomachs are all bulging, as if they have fluid in their stomachs......"
When Old Man Chen said this, the horror in his eyes couldn't be concealed at all.
When the neighbors of the mountain people saw this terrible situation, they all retreated in fright, and they ran to find the village chief.
Although the village chief is in his early eighties, and he has seen many strange things in his life, he has never seen such a strange situation in his life.
The living person has become a melon shelf, and there are melon vines in the seven orifices........ How is this different from those horrific scenes in nightmares?
Coincidentally, just when the villagers were panicking, an outsider suddenly came to the village.
The man walked in slowly from the entrance of the village, about seventy years old, with a handful of goatee, a dirty face, and some tattered clothes, looking like a beggar.
He seemed to be unable to walk, holding an uneven broken wooden stick in his hand, and he staggered as if he would fall in the next second.
The black broken wooden stick, about the same height as him, was tied to the top of the stick, and a black 'colored' hemp rope was tied to the bottom of the hemp rope........
"According to the villagers, the bag looks leather, and it looks a little reflective in the sun." When Old Man Chen said this, he glanced at the old man and asked, "Do you know who that person is?" β
"You know?" The old man looked a little surprised.
"Of course I don't know! Isn't that what I want to ask you? Old man Chen smiled bitterly: "That person is definitely not good at stubble, and it is likely that he is a Gu master who grows human melons." β
"I know a lot of Gu masters, and I've heard of a lot, but I really don't know who is dressed like this........." The old man frowned, as if he was also recalling: "Did that person introduce himself?" β
"Introduce yourself? Do you really think he's a good guy? β
Old Man Chen sighed deeply.
"That old thing, it's obvious that it's for people........"