When I woke up again, it was dark again, and I found myself thrown on a bed, and I didn't change my dirty clothes from last night, just lying like this, but looking at the layout of the room, it was not a good place, probably some small hotel in the county.

My fingers hurt hotly, and my brain was still a little unclear, but I was able to think more or less normally.

But the most uncomfortable thing for me was thirst and hunger.

I carefully climbed up and found no one else in the room.

The phone is gone, and I don't know if it was forgotten by Lu Xiaoling or taken away by Boss Xie or who held it, I don't know the time, I don't know where I am, and I don't even know if someone was left behind to take care of me, and a panic suddenly spread in my heart.

I endured the pain in my hands and opened the door, there was no one in the hallway, and everywhere was quiet.

If it weren't for the heart-piercing coldness of the dream, and the fact that I didn't see anything unclean after concentrating on opening the Heavenly Eye, I almost suspected that I had fallen into another nightmare.

All the doors were closed, and I couldn't knock indiscriminately, so I had to carefully descend the stairs to the first floor.

There was no one at the desk, but I knew through the wall clock in the back that it was past three o'clock in the evening, and a security guard who looked to be in his fifties was asleep on a recliner at the door, snoring constantly, but the sight calmed my mind.

There were bowls of instant noodles and three or four drinks in the cabinet behind the service desk, but the glass cabinet was locked and the waiter could not be found.

Hunger and thirst made me finally choose to shake the security guard awake, and he was startled by me, and when he figured out what I was going to do, he became extremely unhappy.

I guessed he had been scolding me in the local vernacular, but I decided to ignore him.

"Eight dollars a box." He finally opened the cupboard with one of the large bunches of keys on his body.

I don't have any money on me.

"Deduct it from the room deposit." I said to him.

The kettle at the desk was lukewarm, but I couldn't care about it anymore, I just wanted to get something to eat. But my hands were bandaged and I couldn't open the instant noodle box normally, which became a big problem for me, and in the end, the security guard couldn't look at it, helped me soak the noodles, and put the fork in my hand.

"What are you guys doing? How did it come to this? "He probably couldn't sleep because of me, too, so he just chatted with me.

I mumbled a few words, and before the noodles could be boiled, I couldn't help but eat.

"Do you have twenty?" The security guard asked.

The children who grew up in the city were generally whiter and had more delicate skin, and the local people guessed that we would always be younger, and I didn't argue with him.

"Got into an accident?" The security guard continued, I don't know how he came to this conclusion, maybe it was something he heard during the day?

I don't know whether to nod or shake my head, counting the people in the village, six people have died now, but it is not exactly an accident.

"That place is wicked! It's you outsiders who dare to go! The security guard said with a sigh.

I couldn't help but stop.

"What's so evil?" I hurriedly swallowed the instant noodles in my mouth.

"You should be the same people who are doing engineering in Heihezi, right?" The security guard asked. "I heard your people say, dead people?"

Heihezi is the name of the river where we built the power station, and its name is Chahe in the hydrological data and official maps, and it belongs to the secondary tributary of the Puzhao River, the largest river in Yuanshan City.

"What do you mean by the evil sect?" I didn't think much about anything else, I just kept asking over and over again.

"No one knows about this matter, not many people even know about it in the county, but the people near Heihezi know it!" The security guard said with some sarcasm. "My wife's hometown is Dengjia Village in the upper reaches of Heihezi, and the old people in their family have told them since they were young that they can go anywhere to play, even near Heihezi, and they must not go!"

"Why?" I was unconsciously attracted by his words, and the cold hairs on my hands stood on end.

"In that place, there are people-messengers-ghosts!" The security guard said word by word.

Ghosts?

I know what he means, there are many ethnic minority villages in the mountains around Yuanshan City, and legend has it that some of them will "make ghosts" and "raise Gu", I used to laugh at this kind of thing, but now, I suddenly wanted to hear what it was.

Those terrible corpse worms, and the monster worm that came out like a giant beast at the end, could it be that the mysterious old man raised them?

"Tell me about it." I habitually wanted to reach out and take out a cigarette and give it to him, but after my hand touched the pants and hurt, I realized that I had nothing on me, and in the end, it was the security guard who evened me out.

"You know what a ghost is, right?" The security guard took a long long breath and exhaled two smoke rings in the air before asking.

I nodded hurriedly.

Although I don't know too well, I was born in a distant mountain, and I heard some related ghost stories when I was a child.

Legend has it that Yuanshan City was the territory of the barbarians a long, long time ago, and the ancient Han people expanded from the Central Plains and fought with them here, and the barbarians were not opponents, so they all retreated to the mountains. However, they were unwilling to accept that their land had been taken away by the Han Chinese, so they began to use witchcraft to attack the Han people who occupied the Pingba area, causing a plague that almost killed all the Han people in this area of Yuanshan City.

But then the Han people came from the Central Plains and a few powerful heavenly masters, they not only eliminated the plague, but also chased up the mountain to kill all the wizards who used witchcraft, so that the barbarians saw the power of the Han people, and the Han people settled down in the distant mountains.

When we were children, almost all the ghost stories we listened to, except for those in the Han tradition, were related to barbarians.

For example, barbarians will harm people in wine and food, make ghosts seek money, and confuse people's minds, etc., and warn us to be careful of barbarians, not to eat at strangers' houses, not to tell others our names and birthdays, and not to discard our hair, fingernails and other things at will.

But when I got a little older, I didn't believe in these things at all, when I was in high school, I had a classmate of Bai Man, and I also went to his house several times, his parents were very hospitable, and the family was almost no different from the Han nationality except for some national costumes and handicrafts.

"It's all the Goldentooth Barbarians who were driven from the dam before." The security guard said faintly. "Do you know what a gold-toothed barbarian is? That is to say, they used to be golden mouths, able to psychic, and able to drive away ghosts! ”

If this kind of nonsense had been put in the past, I would probably have been unable to listen to it and leave, but at this moment, I felt a chill rise from the soles of my feet and rushed straight to the back of my head, and a layer of sweat appeared all over my body.