June 15, 2016. Twilight.

This rain has been falling for five days in a row, and Wang Ziheng's heart has also been depressed for five days.

The Qingshui River in front of him became turbid and angry because of the rising water, and the waves roared all the way, disappearing into the mountains in the distance.

He and Chen Tongsheng stood by the guardrails on both sides of the wind and rain bridge, looking at the turbid current under the bridge, silent, thinking about their own thoughts. After a long time, Chen Tongsheng handed over a cigarette and asked leisurely, "Ziheng, what do you think?" ”

Wang Ziheng took the cigarette and put it in his mouth, lit it, and said "um" suspiciously.

"It's that doll!" Chen Tongsheng said, "We have been here for ten days, and judging from the current situation, do you really believe that we will gain anything?" Director Sun urged again, saying that he would give two more days at most, and if even the last advertiser was determined to withdraw, we wouldn't need to go back to Taiwan! ”

Wang Ziheng was very calm: "It's expected! Director Chen, it's a miracle that this show has survived until now, and advertisers who don't withdraw their funds are fools! Even if this doll named Bin Bin can really make some fame, it will be useless for the station, just look at the ratings. ”

Chen Tongsheng nodded, grabbed the guardrail with both hands, bent down to look at the rolling waves below, and muttered to himself: "Yes, the reason why Taili agreed to my suggestion is that he will just get off the donkey, and he should think of a way out!" The two fell silent again.

Wang Ziheng calculated, it has been a year, a month and four days since he walked out of the university. After graduating from a third-rate university majoring in Chinese, he found a job that seemed glamorous in the eyes of others - working as an editor for a program called "Yelang Qitan" on provincial television.

This show focuses on supernatural suspense, mainly collecting all kinds of strange stories in the province and presenting them in front of the audience in the form of news investigation to satisfy everyone's curiosity.

At the beginning of the program, it was also very popular, especially several series of programs such as "Strange Car in the Air" and "Red Cliff Book of Heaven" once aroused strong repercussions inside and outside the province, and more than a dozen large enterprises competed for the title of the program, which made the leaders of the station smile from ear to ear.

However, just over a year later, due to the lack of subject matter, outdated creativity, and the endless emergence of imitation programs, the ratings of "Yelang Strange Tan" have plummeted, until today it has been reduced to a situation of complete marginalization, and advertisers are competing to withdraw funds, and in many cases even need to rely on the station's special funds to barely survive.

As the founding father of the show, director Chen Tongsheng has witnessed its rise, glory and decline, and also appreciated the cruelty of the market and the coldness of the world.

Of course, Wang Ziheng's situation is not much better. When I entered the program group, the program was already in decline, and after working hard for a few months, the program began to struggle to the death, and the monthly income has dropped from more than 3,000 at the beginning to more than 2,000 now, and it can't even be in place on time. Lingering in the provincial capital, entering and exiting the provincial platform, behind the envy of others, only he knows the warmth and coldness.

Half a month ago, the program team received information that there was a boy named Bin Bin in Dong District in the southeast of the province, who was six years old, and it was said that he was born with yin and yang eyes, and could judge life and death, predict good fortune and evil, and spread it in the southeast.

After a few months of downturn, Chen Tongsheng couldn't help but feel a thrill when he heard the news: although the material is not new at all, if it is properly planned and hyped in place, this is a chance to come back to life.

So Chen Tongsheng made a military order with the station: the last fight, if it is unsuccessful, he will resign voluntarily, and the show will be offline. In this way, he won a "lot of money" funds, and Chen Tongsheng organized a capable team and drove into the Dong area.

However, after contacting Binbin, everyone was disappointed: no matter how parents and neighbors cooperated, Bin Bin did not show any unusual side at all, and he was not at all out of the ordinary.

The patience of the program team was exhausted in the course of more than a week. Everyone speculated that in view of the impoverished situation of Binbin's family, most of the supernatural rumors were made to gain attention.

Everyone was frustrated and helpless.

At this moment, Chen Tongsheng felt that the sound of the waves of the Qingshui River was like laughing at himself.

"it!" Wang Ziheng's exclamation suddenly sounded, and Chen Tongsheng was so frightened that he almost fell into the river.

"What's the situation?" Chen Tongsheng turned his head and looked at Wang Ziheng inexplicably. Wang Ziheng's lips opened slightly, and he stretched out his hand to point to the river embankment not far away, with a frightened look on his face.

Chen Tongsheng looked in the direction of his finger, and the whole person jumped up in fright:

On the embankment two feet away from the wind and rain bridge, the body of a middle-aged woman was lying on the river embankment and crawling rapidly towards the upstream area in the opposite direction of the wind and rain bridge. The woman was wearing a blood-red robe on her upper body, and a strange cry of "roar, roar, roar" came out of her mouth.

The reason why it scared Chen Wang and Wang was because the upper part of the body was only half, and the part below the waist was completely missing, and the two could even clearly see the intestines dragging on the embankment.

Chen Tongsheng stabbed Wang Ziheng with his fist and asked, "Where did it come from?" ”

"Jiang ...... Jiang Li ......" Wang Ziheng stammered in reply.

After standing for a moment, Chen Tongsheng suddenly shouted, "Chase!" "Rushing out of the wind and rain bridge like an arrow, running towards the unknown body that gradually disappeared into the drizzle.

By the time Wang Ziheng reacted, Chen Tongsheng's figure had already been submerged in the smoke and rain.

Director Chen is too reckless! Wang Ziheng thought to himself. He was worried that Chen Tongsheng had made a mistake, and he didn't have time to call his companions, so he stomped his heel and chased him out. The drizzle of June was so biting.

After running along the river embankment for more than a mile, the footprints left by Chen Tongsheng's sports shoes in the mud began to turn to the side of the hillside. Wang Ziheng shouted three times in a row, "Director Chen!" The shouts were quickly drowned out by the wind and rain, and there was no answer.

Wang Ziheng's heart tightened and he ran towards the hillside. This hillside is the burial area of several surrounding Dong villages, and is densely packed with graves under the shade of dense barmao and wild grass. Wang Zi Hengshen ran up with one shallow foot, and his scalp was numb for a while.

When you reach the top of the slope, a sea of bamboo appears in front of you. The bamboo forest, which was already gloomy and gloomy, felt even more gloomy at this time. Wang Ziheng stopped, his heart beating faster. He didn't dare to rush into the bamboo forest, and called "Director Chen" a few times.

The mountain wind was howling, the drizzle was pouring down, and Chen Tongsheng still couldn't hear the slightest movement. But the footprints show that Chen Tongsheng entered the bamboo forest.

"!" Wang Ziheng scolded secretly, which can be regarded as emboldening himself, gritting his teeth and bowing into the bamboo forest: I won't turn back now!

The bamboo leaves seem to have been cared for for a long time, and they are very close to Wang Ziheng at this moment, which makes Wang Ziheng's face hurt for a while.

After groping for a cigarette, his feet were empty, and the whole person suddenly fell, Wang Ziheng instinctively reached out to both sides to grab it, but he didn't catch anything.

"It's over!" Wang Ziheng thought desperately, he must have stepped on the cliff by mistake. He knows the topography of Guizhou Province best, no matter which city is deep ravines and high ravines, and the topography of the southeast Dong region is even more dangerous and unpredictable. If you are careless and suffer from this accident, most of the hope of survival is not very good.

When he was born without love, he suddenly felt a strange pain in his buttocks - it was caused by his buttocks hitting the ground violently, and he was secretly glad to be happy, but he couldn't hold back, and his body bent forward along the slope, rolling all the way down like a round ball, until a pair of big hands grabbed him hard and didn't stop.

The frightened Wang Ziheng opened his eyes and found that the person who was dragging him was Chen Tongsheng. Both of them were wrapped in yellow mud and were embarrassed.

Wang Ziheng thought to himself: It seems that Director Chen also stumbled and rolled down.

He looked back, and could see what was going on behind him in the shadows. It turned out that under the long-lasting rain, the back slope of the mountain that had just come up collapsed, but fortunately, the area was not large, and the height difference between the two people was only about one zhang. Fresh yellow mud covered the weeds and buried dozens of bamboos on the top of the slope.

Wang Ziheng asked, "Why don't you make a sound, Director Chen?" Otherwise, I'll ......."

Chen Tongsheng hurriedly covered Wang Ziheng's mouth with his hand, "shhhh Don't speak, there's movement. ”

"What about the woman?" Wang Ziheng also asked softly.

"It's gone!" After Chen Tongsheng replied briefly, his eyes turned to another hillside in front of him, as if he was listening intently to something.

The two hillsides are like breasts, and the place where they fell is just in the saddle of the two mountains. Wang Ziheng saw that Chen Tongsheng's expression was extremely serious, so he quieted down, held his breath, and listened carefully.

Sure enough, the sound of someone talking was coming from far and near, but because of the drizzle, the content of the conversation was not real.

About a minute later, two figures, one black and one white, appeared at the foot of the opposite mountain. Chen Tongsheng held down Wang Ziheng's body, and the two of them hibernated in a bush, not letting anyone find out.

The figure was getting closer and closer, Wang Ziheng took a closer look, and knew one of them, it was the old village chief of the Dong village where they were stationed, in his fifties, with a very white face, short and thin stature, wearing a Dong costume made of black homespun cloth, and a bamboo cigarette stick pinned to his waist; The other man had long hair and chest-length hair, sparse white hair, and a white robe over his clothes, and was taller than the village chief, but he was severely rickety because of his age.

The two of them, wearing hats and coats, walked quickly to the side of the collapse as they spoke. Because they were talking in Kam dialect and what to say, Chen and Wang were also confused.

The two old men walked two or three meters away from King Chen and stopped, looked at the slope of the collapse and looked at it carefully, their expressions were heavy, and they stopped talking.

Wang Ziheng originally wanted to see his acquaintances come out to say hello, but when he thought of what he encountered today, it was quite strange, and when he saw Chen Tongsheng again, he also had an expression of wanting to spy on the secret, so he simply kept silent and waited to see what happened.

The long-haired old man stared for a moment, and suddenly said a word nervously, the old village chief changed color when he heard it, and the two of them hurriedly walked past Chen Wang and the others one after the other, and came to the front of the collapsed slope.

The two old men made a cup of tea, and the entrance of the cave was already enough for people to bend down and get into. The long-haired old man took the lead in entering the hole, followed closely by the village chief, and the two figures disappeared.

But then the village chief's head appeared at the entrance of the cave again, and he looked around in a panic, as if to see if anyone had spotted their whereabouts. After confirming that it was safe, I saw the village chief run out of the hole, find a large bundle of bamboo sticks with lush branches and leaves, quickly cover the hole, and he himself also stealth in, and finally did not come out again.

After about four or five minutes, it was determined that the two old men had drilled into a certain depth, Chen Tongsheng and Wang Ziheng breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, and their tense nerves finally relaxed.

The two glanced at each other, and Chen Tongsheng said, "It seems to be weird!" Wang Ziheng was noncommittal: "It's weird, it's weird." What, Director Chen still wants to find out? Chen Tongsheng said: "You don't want to? The two of them smiled.

Chen Tongsheng continued: "There may be some secrets in this cave, you can just look at the nervous appearance of the village chief just now, or let's go in and have a look, of course, the premise is not to let them find out about the two of us, otherwise it will be embarrassing." ”

Wang Ziheng frowned and said: "This is not good, I really want to see it, so I should ask for people's opinions." ”

"Don't miss the opportunity!" Chen Tongsheng smiled mysteriously and took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket, "Maybe there is an unexpected gain?" ”

Wang Ziheng suddenly realized: "You mean, most of Bin Bin's affairs are yellow, but everything in front of him may be another material!" Even so, Director Chen, if I didn't pour cold water on you, could we really save this show? ”

Thinking of Director Sun's extremely annoyed but relieved expression before leaving, Wang Ziheng was already disheartened. The reason why he still accompanied Chen Tongsheng to come to Dong District to toss was completely out of affection.

Chen Tongsheng did not speak, as if he was organizing his language to prepare a rebuttal. But when the two were silent, they clearly heard the sound of "rustling" picking up blades of grass behind them, and it became louder and louder. The two looked back at the same time, but they were terrified.

I saw that the half-cut woman I found on the embankment had climbed to the heels of the two of them, a face was white and bloodless, the blisters had been swollen, and the two black holes and no eyeballs were facing the two of them, and the corners of the rotten mouth were oozing black blood, making a strange "giggle" laugh......