So the three of them waited another day in this little broken yard, during which they ate and drank and had nothing else to do, and the next afternoon, after six o'clock, night fell on the town, and the middle-aged man came back from outside, took our large canvas backpack, and let us follow him.

Walking out of the alley, a dilapidated Changhe car stopped on the side of the road, we got into the car, and the black bull asked puzzledly: "Are we going into the mountains?" Can't you go again tomorrow, I'm afraid you'll go into the ditch in the dark. ”

The middle-aged man started the car and said while driving: "There has been too much rain recently, landslides often occur, and the mountain road leading to Heihu Mountain in Shaping Town was blocked by the traffic police during the day, and we can only sneak in when they withdraw their posts at night." Also, Kang Renwu has been in the mountain for three days, and if it's too late, I'm afraid you won't be able to keep up with him. ”

I suddenly remembered an important question and asked, "Did Professor Kang say where to wait for us?" Or rather, how do we go to him? ”

The middle-aged man held the steering wheel with one hand and pulled out a crumpled note from his pocket with the other and handed it to me. When I opened it, I saw that it was indeed Professor Kang's handwriting: under the two temples, walking north along the stream, you will see the logo I made. Remember, don't believe what you see!

The previous sentence is a hint of our route, which is very easy to understand; The latter sentence seems to be a warning, but it is also a bit confusing. The three of us discussed it for a while, but to no avail.

The car bumped out of the small county town, and when it reached the mountain pass, the traffic police blocking the road had already left work, and I got out of the car with the black bull and worked together to move the thick tree trunk that was blocked in the middle of the road, and after the car drove over, we moved the trunk back to the original place.

After driving a potholed cement road, the car drove onto the stone mountain road, I looked back, the lights in the small county town gradually faded away, and I couldn't help but sigh: We don't know when we will see the fireworks in the world again, the road ahead is vast, can we really find Professor Kang? Can you really find the ancient tomb of the Western Han Dynasty successfully? Even if you find it, what? Perhaps, the decision to go into the mountains was fundamentally wrong.

Gu Yixin saw my worries and said a few words of comfort, and I nodded symbolically.

Hei Niu sat in the passenger seat, clutching the gripper above the window, complaining that the driver was driving too fast. The driver told him that if he drove slowly, he would not be able to get to the place in the middle of the night.

The van turned around a big bend called the buffalo U-turn, which was a real entry into the mountains. The mountain road is built by the mountains, one side is a 100-meter cliff, the other side is a 10,000-meter cliff, the trees on both sides of the mountain road are uneven, and it looks more and more strange under the light of the van's swaying headlights.

The heavy mountains in the distance and the night merged, and suddenly, a lightning bolt in the sky illuminated the outside of the car, followed by a thunderclap, and the raindrops of beans crackled on the car window, and the car window blurred into a piece.

Hei Niu hurriedly rolled up the window in front of him, and scolded in his mouth: "Damn, I really responded to that poem, what is it called, it seems to be 'the house leak coincides with overnight rain', we will encounter a heavy rainstorm when we enter the mountain, unlucky!" After saying that, he spat three mouthfuls of saliva in a symbolic succession, perhaps he felt that what he had just said was unlucky with the crow's mouth.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier, the speed of the driver is slowing down a lot, we are silent, there are too many curves on the mountain, Gu Yixin is a little motion sick, leaning her head back on the back of the seat to rest, this is also difficult for her, a little girl who grew up in the courtyard of the capital since she was a child, I am afraid that she has never been to such a remote and difficult place. Outside the window was the boundless darkness, and it was easy for people to feel sleepy in this boundless dark environment, and I squinted and took a nap.

The winding mountain road from the bottom of the mountain according to the mountain back and forth zigzag to the mountain, and then zigzag down the mountain, walked for more than two hours, the car turned over a big mountain, drove to the halfway of another mountain, suddenly, the body was hit, although the strength is small, but we can hear clearly.

Everyone was frightened and sobered up all of a sudden, and Gu Yixin asked in a low voice, "Master, did you hear it just now?" What was that? ”

The black bull said: "If he can't hear such a loud voice anymore, it means that his ears are useless." ”

I wiped the fog from the car window, put my head against the glass and looked out, but found nothing, and comforted: "It's okay, maybe the animals on the mountain wall are running around and accidentally kicked off small rocks." In the past, when I was exploring in the mountains of Chongqing with a few travelers, we also encountered this situation, when we camped at the bottom of the mountain, and in the middle of the night, a stone suddenly hit our tent, and everyone quickly took a wolf's eye flashlight to shine it, only to see two wild rabbits were picking their nests on the hillside above our tent, and they ran away in panic when they saw the light. ”

As soon as the words fell, there were a few more banging sounds, as if a stone had really hit the van, and the black bull asked puzzledly: "Old Su, how can this be explained?" Could it be that the rabbit is in heat? ”

The driver was so frightened that his hands trembled a little, and said in a trembling voice: "Oh no, we may be going to encounter a landslide." ”

More and more stones crackled and smashed on the roof of the van, and the black bull saw that this was not good, and shouted: "Damn, don't speed up and run!" ”

After that, the black bull stepped on the driver's foot on the accelerator, the car suddenly accelerated, the driver didn't control the direction, the van rushed to the edge of the cliff and skidd, and the mud splashed on the window, so frightened that Gu Yixin covered his mouth and screamed.

The driver twisted the steering wheel as hard as he could, but fortunately the van was back in the middle of the road. The rocks above our heads are getting bigger and bigger, the density is getting more and more frequent, and the car is rushing forward desperately, and our hearts are in our throats. I thought to myself that I wouldn't be buried in a pile of rocks before I even entered the mountain, and then secretly scolded myself for being too unlucky.

The van rushed forward with all its might for five minutes, when suddenly there was a loud rumble behind him, which was amplified by the valley and made people's scalps explode when they heard it.

I looked back and saw that more than ten meters behind me, the road had collapsed with the landslide, and I was finally dragged under the cliff. The broken gap in the mountain road was like a wide open beast's mouth, devouring everything around it in the darkness. And we, thanks to God's blessing, finally escaped from the mouth of the beast.

After the catastrophe just now, we all cheered up and stared at everything ahead with wide eyes. After two more hills, when we went down, the car suddenly shook a little, as if it flew up and fell to the ground, and our body and mind also felt like it was going to rise and fall.

In a panic, Hei Niu hurriedly grabbed the handle and scolded the driver: "Have you ever got a driver's license!" Can you drive safely? ”

Gu Yixin explained that this is due to the increase in the road surface drop of the mountain road, and the weightlessness phenomenon has nothing to do with the driver's driving skills.

The driver said that this place is called the Hanging Slope, and as long as you drive by here, you will have the illusion that your heart is suspended. In the next part of the mountain road, there are more than a dozen such places on and off, with ups and downs, and I think it is very interesting.

After the suspense slope, the mountain road suddenly becomes extremely narrow, narrow only for bicycles to pass in one direction, it is estimated that this kind of deep mountain old forest is rarely open to traffic, so there is no need to worry about the situation of car.

The branches on both sides of the mountain road grew together, indistinguishable from each other, and creaked on our car. The headlights were smashed by the rocks rolling down the mountain just now, and only the lights on the right side were still lonely, barely illuminating the distance of five or six meters in front of the car. The shadows of the trees in front of the van were eerie and ghostly, and our van seemed to drive into a netherworld tunnel.

At some point, the rain stopped, and there were occasional calls of unknown birds on the cliffs, which were not really heard through the car window.

While I was thinking wildly, the van suddenly stopped, and I was hit headlong in the front seat, and the middle-aged man turned his head and told us: "There is no road ahead, I can only send you here, and after that, you have to carry your equipment and walk by yourself, and then cross this mountain, there should be a big stream, but I'm not sure if it's the one Kang Renwu told you." ”

Then, he let out a sigh of relief and said to himself, "Finally, the favor owed to Kang Renwu is over." There was a relief in his gaze that was difficult to decipher.

Seeing that the driver didn't mean to get out of the car to help, I had to unload three bags of equipment from the trunk with Hei Niu, the two of us were heavier, Gu Yixin's was much lighter, and the three of us each picked up our backpacks and groped along a narrow mountainside path.

Having just experienced the rain, the road surface was very slippery, and there was a trickle of water on the rocks at the top of the mountain from time to time, and some of it inevitably hit our bodies and soaked our clothes and pants. We walked very carefully, sometimes using our hands and feet at the same time, and even moved sideways like geckos to the rocks when we encountered narrow places. Although it is a road, it is overgrown with weeds, and I am afraid that no one has walked it for decades or even hundreds of years. For the sake of insurance, I opened the way, and after the black bull was broken, Gu Yixin walked in the middle.

After walking for a while, I was grunting with hunger, Gu Yixin couldn't help laughing when I heard it, I was a little embarrassed, and suggested that everyone take a break and eat something. However, it is easy to sit down on this man-wide mountain road, but it is a little difficult to stand up again.

I flashed my flashlight in front of me and found that there was a flat platform paved with broken mountain stones not far in front of me, which seemed to be about ten square meters, and this stone platform was an excellent place to rest in our current situation.

I told them about this discovery, and they hurried over to the flat stone platform, and with the big heavy backpacks aside, I pulled out some compressed biscuits and divided them among the two of them.

Hei Niu took the compressed biscuit and looked at it, threw it back into my bag, and asked, "My intestines are almost hungry, is there any meat?" ”

This proposal speaks to my heart, and for a fast marcher, there is nothing like meat to provide energy and motivation. I reached out and fumbled through the grocery bag for a while, and pulled out a small box of canned beef and threw it to the black cow, this can is too small, about the size of a soap box, and it is estimated that ten is not enough for the black cow to fill the stomach alone. I wanted to find a few more boxes, but they were gone, and there were only some compressed biscuits left, and I couldn't help but curse in my heart: the middle-aged man who prepared equipment and supplies for us was too picky, and I had to lock him up and starve him for a few days when I saw him again.

The black bull took a paratrooper knife and pried open the canned beef, poured it into the small marching pot he carried with him, and turned to the edge of the cliff behind him, ready to chop some sticks and build a bonfire. In the cold and wet mountains, it is necessary to build a campfire, not only to heat the beef, but also to keep warm.

The black bull fumbled for a few and didn't start, and scolded: "Damn, this is too wet, I can wring out the water with all my strength, this must not be a point." ”

I replied, "You don't have any experience in the wilderness, and it's not difficult to find dry firewood after the rain, look at me." ”

After that, I got up and took a careful look around with a flashlight, and found that there was a small cave on the side of the cliff on the stone platform, and the cave was very smooth around it, and there seemed to be some dry firewood in it, so I motioned to the black bull to go over and have a look. I shone my flashlight, and he crouched down and pulled out a pile of dry firewood of varying thickness from the hole.

The black bull piled up the dry firewood into a pile and lit it with a lighter, and the warm bonfire was instantly lit, and the beating firelight reflected our faces red, and our bodies gradually warmed up. The black cow set up a small marching pot with beef on the bonfire, and added some mountain spring water to it, and after a while, the aroma of beef stew spread out and provoked our taste buds.

The black bull reluctantly gave each of us a small spoonful, and said: "Let's say okay first, a spoonful of 1,000 yuan, I will keep an account for you first, and I will return it with the principal and interest when I go back." After speaking, he drank the remaining half spoonful of beef soup with his head up, and opened his mouth directly.

Suddenly, there was a humming sound from the small cave where the black bull had just dried the firewood. Gu Yixin was so frightened that he stood up and hid behind me, Hei Niu took a paratrooper knife, and slowly leaned over with a wolf-eyed flashlight, he squatted on the edge of the hole and took a picture of it, and said happily: "Some of them have eaten now, Lao Su, come and help." ”

I went to help the black bull with a flashlight to illuminate the child, and the black bull bent down, knelt on the ground, stretched out his arms and tossed in the hole for a while, and actually took out two little wild boars that were not yet full moon from the hole. The wild boar cubs writhed and kicked their bodies on all fours, and before I could take a closer look, the black bull had already thrown them hard against the rocks and died, and the pig's blood was splattered everywhere.

Gu Yixin complained about Hei Niu's cruel behavior, Hei Niu ignored her at all, picked up a small wild boar, skillfully disemboweled, rinsed it with spring water flowing from the mountain, wore a wooden stick, and grilled it on the bonfire.

The aroma of roast suckling pig soon spread, seeing that the skin was burnt yellow, the black cow couldn't wait to cut a piece with a paratrooper knife and put it in his mouth, chewing while saying: "This fucking is more delicious than any barbecue I've eaten before, it's just ......"

Before I could finish speaking, there was a sound of crashing against the bushes in the mountain forest below the stone platform, and I was wondering when I saw a pair of fangs shining with cold light peeking out of the bushes illuminated by the campfire!

"Run! It's a wild boar! I shouted, and the three grabbed their backpacks and ran.

The wild boar rushed to the stone platform on its hind legs, looking at its huge size, it was estimated that it was more than 300 catties. The wild boar erected its hard mane on its back, spun around and sniffed the blood of the little piglets on the ground, howled in its mouth, and chased after us like crazy. At this time, I suddenly realized that the flat stone platform that suddenly appeared on this narrow mountain road had long been occupied by wild boars and regarded as my own backyard. We slaughtered two little piglets, and now we have a deep hatred with them for destroying their families.

Wild boars are the most vengeful beasts, and they have a strong sense of revenge, coupled with their fierce nature, even tigers dare not provoke them easily. If we had known this, we would not have rested here, alas, my shortcomings in hindsight are really terrible.

We rushed forward for a while, the mountain road was slippery and very rough, and even if we ran as hard as we could, the speed was not too fast, and the wild boar was getting closer and closer to us.

As the black bull ran, he shouted breathlessly: "Old Su, it can't go on like this, we have to find a way to get rid of that guy, otherwise, we will have to become pig food sooner or later." ”

I saw a large tree on the side of the road in front of me, which was thick enough to stand out against the low bushes around me.

I ran under the tree, threw away my luggage and climbed up, found a fork to stand firm, and was about to reach out to pull Gu Yixin, and found that this chick can actually climb a tree, and she is already taller than me. The black bull was a little bulky, but it still burst out of its super potential in the face of danger, and even kicked and dragged it up.

Before the black bull could stand firm, the wild boar had already rushed under the tree where we were and slammed into the trunk several times. Although the tree was thick, it was also shaken by its brute force, and the black bull stumbled and almost fell, so I quickly reached out and pulled him.

The boar stopped striking and raised its front hooves to climb up, but failed to make two attempts. The boar sprang around under the tree, its luggage in a mess with its two fangs, and the equipment spilled to the ground.

The black bull and I took the opportunity to pull the branches and climb up two more levels. The black bull smiled and said: "It's really that the dog is in a hurry to jump over the wall, and the pig is in a hurry to climb the tree, but I don't know how capable it is, and it can't do anything to us." ”

As soon as the words fell, the trunk of the tree shook violently, and the wild boar launched a new round of impact, and it seemed that it would not stop until it shook us off the tree.

Gu Yixin said worriedly: "Master, if it goes on like this, this tree will be broken by him." ”

Hei Niu smiled and said, "Don't worry, everyone, I have a way." As he spoke, he played a trick and took out the little piglet that had not been roasted from the hook around his waist.

When I saw it, I was completely angry, no wonder the wild boar chased us like crazy, and the emotional black bull hung other people's children on his waist along the way.

Black bulls climb to the top of large trees like chimpanzees. I found a relatively wide place with no branches and leaves to cover it, and threw the piglet out with a round arm. The piglet landed heavily in the woods under the cliff, and the sow heard the movement, slammed it into the tree a few more times, and then turned around and chased the piglet.

The crisis is temporarily lifted, and I urge everyone to hurry down, for fear that in a short time, the wild boar will come back again.

At the top of the tree, the black bull suddenly shouted, "Hey, come up and see, what is that place?" ”

I climbed up the tree and looked in the direction of the black cow's finger, and found that in a col not far away, there were faint lights, which looked like it should be a mountain village. There were a few fireballs rolling up and down in the mountain village.

Hei Niu was surprised: "It seems to be a mountain village, it's quite lively, it must be a lion dance, let's go over, I can't say that we can catch up with other people's supper!" ”

Now that we had a way to escape, we slipped down from the trees, hurriedly packed our belongings, and hurried to the col of the mountain village. As the saying goes, looking at the village from the trees is not far away, but we walked for nearly half an hour with all our strength before we could faintly see the lights of the village through the cracks in the trees.

Just as he was about to slow down and breathe a sigh of relief, a violent crash sounded in the woods behind him.

I looked back, and, the boar was chasing after me with its fangs bared again.

The three men had to lift their lead-filled legs and rush forward again. Luckily, we weren't far from the village, and five minutes later, we crossed a stone bridge more than 10 meters long and arrived in the village.

There is a stone archway at the entrance of the village, there are two floors so high, the top of the archway seems to have the cornices and corners, it is faintly visible, but it is not real. Behind the torii arch are densely packed houses made of stones.

The wild boar chased to a sudden stop in front of the stone bridge, and it froze, and with red eyes, it turned around four or five times, wailed, and turned around and fled back to the forest. It seems that there is something terrible in this village, which scares it and has to give up its revenge.

Seeing the wild boar fleeing in panic, although we were drumming in our hearts, we no longer had the strength and energy to think about it deeply, just now this rush run, although the distance was relatively not long, but we all exerted twelve points of strength, Gu Yixin's tired face was pale, the ponytail was a little loose, and a few strands of long hair were on his face.

Seeing that the danger was temporarily lifted, we sat on the ground. The black bull scanned the surroundings with a wolf-eyed flashlight, the houses were all two-story tube buildings, all made of gray mountain stones, and there were windows on each floor on the side of the road, the windows were relatively small, and the small ones were a little disproportionate to the stone buildings, but more like square ventilation holes. The window is pasted with a layer of oiled paper, due to the age, most of it has long been rotten and incomplete, and some still have a small part of it stubbornly glued to the window edge, and when the night wind blows, the window paper shakes or floats, and makes a whirring sound in the night wind.

I borrowed a flashlight to look at the road under my feet, and it was also paved with mountain stones, in this deep mountain forest, stones are more common than soil, and the use of mountain stones to build a village can be regarded as local materials.

The houses at the entrance of the village are pitch black, and it is estimated that the lights have long been turned off to sleep, after all, it is now more than twelve o'clock in the evening, fortunately, there is still some light in the village in front of them.

Hei Niu got up and carried Gu Yixin's bag on his back, urging us to leave quickly: "Ink for a while, the three of us can only sleep on the street tonight, it doesn't matter if we two old men, the sky is the cover, the ground is the seat, and we should all camp." It's just that Xiao Gu, you have to be careful, don't be robbed to be the lady of the village. ”

Gu Yixin straightened his hair and replied to him: "I think you're afraid that everyone is sleeping and won't be able to fast, right?" ”

The black bull smiled and said, "Still fasting? Little girl, you're wrong, my six roots are not pure. ”

I glanced up at the sky, and the sky was like ink, and a hairy moon flickered in the clouds, and there was no sound except for their conversation and the whimper of the broken window. I had a vague sense of foreboding.

Walking along the stone road, the black bull opened the way in front, and by the way, he swept around with a flashlight, and asked suspiciously: "Hey, Lao Su, why do you say that the people in this place have built this house into a bunker?" Don't you feel bored and panicked living inside? ”

I don't know anything about architecture, but I want to be knowledgeable in front of the black bull, so I thought for a while and said: "Actually, I don't have a deep study of architecture, but I think it's that this village is in a ravine, and if it is built high, it may be afraid of flash floods in the rainy season, which will flood the house and have small windows, which must be to prevent the mountain breeze from blowing into the house." ”

Gu Yixin said: "Master, I think this may be a kind of castle with defensive functions built during the Ming Dynasty, and it may have been used to garrison soldiers at first. The openings in the stone walls are usually closed windows, but if they are opened during the war, they may be lookouts or shooting ports. In ancient times, most of the weapons used in warfare were bows and arrows. ”

Hei Niu said admiringly: "Such a learned little girl, why do you call Lao Su Master!" I think it should be the other way around. ”

While talking, we turned a narrow alley and came to another alley with three stone buildings side by side, and the dim light came out from the window on the second floor of the stone building in the middle, and finally we met the house of someone who had not yet slept.

We stepped forward and knocked on the door, only to find that the door of the stone building was iron, and it seemed that Gu Yixin's statement was right.

We knocked on the iron door twice, and the dim lights upstairs went out at once, and I looked up upstairs in a hurry and shouted, "Fellow, we are good people, and we have come to bring you money." ”

After waiting for a while, still no one answered, Hei Niu was a little angry, and shouted: "This family is too stingy, it is not a serious family at first glance, and when you hear someone knocking on the door, you turn off the lights, does this obviously not want us to go in?" I really don't believe it today! With that, the black bull raised his foot and kicked at the iron door. The iron gate was in disrepair, and it fell to the ground with a bang, which was particularly loud in the alley.

There was a puff of dust on the ground, and we choked and coughed. Now that the door has been kicked over, there is no need to be polite. The three of us went to the house together, and there was an offering table directly opposite the room, and there was nothing on the offering table. On the left side there is a pair of Ming-style tables and chairs, and on the right is a stone staircase leading to the second floor, everything is covered with a thick layer of dust, this stone building does not look like it is inhabited, but the dim light just now is clearly coming from the second floor.

What's going on? We decided to go upstairs to find out.

The three of them walked up the stone steps, which were only one meter wide, one side was close to the stone wall, and the other side was unobstructed, hanging in the air, spiraling upward. Due to the thick dust on the stone steps, leaving a clear footprint with each step, the black bull opened the way in front of him, and when he reached the corner of the two-story building, he suddenly stopped, and I didn't pay attention, hitting his big butt headlong, and one of them almost fell off the side without railings.

"Hey, be careful." Hei Niu said and looked back, found that it was me, and added: "I thought it was Xiao Gu, it turned out to be you, Lao Su, do you walk without eyes?" ”

I replied angrily: "Listening to your tone, male and female comrades are still treated differently, who knew that you stopped halfway and couldn't climb?" ”

Hei Niu disdainfully "cut", then swept the flashlight along the stone steps to the second floor, and said, "Don't talk nonsense, what do you two think this is?" ”

The black bull walked up two steps, turned around and shone a flashlight on us, and I found a pair of small clear footprints on the stone steps at the corner, which led diagonally to the second floor.

The footprints were the size of a four- or five-year-old child's feet, Gu Yixin said: "It seems that there are people living on this floor, but there is too much dust in this building." ”

The black bull shook his head and whispered, "My sister, didn't you find out?" This footprint is a single row! ”

The black bull's eyes were the most poisonous, and after he reminded me of this, I found that the footprints were really in a single row, looking at the direction, and not going up to the second floor, but walking down from the second floor.

Gu Yixin asked: "This is too strange, could it be that the child is on the first floor, we didn't notice it just now?" ”

The Black Bull asked her, "There isn't even a footprint on that staircase below, did that guy fly down from here?" ”

The three of them looked at each other, and for a while no one could say why, only felt that their scalps were a little numb.

I also took out my flashlight, and the three of them continued to walk to the second floor, Gu Yixin was a little scared and followed me closely.

The floor on the second floor is made of wood, and when you step on it, it creaks, and two flashlights illuminate the second floor, and there are two coffins on the ground on the second floor!

"Damn, morgue?" The black bull said, beckoning us to come forward and take a look. The lids of these two coffins were not fixed, the black cow held a flashlight in his mouth, and pushed the two coffin lids open one after another, only to see that there were two corpses lying in the coffin, one large and one small, and the big one was rotten and only a pile of bones remained, although the corpse in the small coffin was not rotten, but it was also dried and bacon. Apart from these two coffins, there was nothing else on the second floor.

Black Bull asked, "Didn't we see the light from downstairs just now, but there isn't even half a candle here, so how the fuck do you explain it?" ”

I thought for a moment and said, "It may be a ghost fire, a ghost fire is also called a phosphorus fire, and it is very common in places with graves or bones, because human bones contain phosphorus, and phosphorus will be oxidized when it reacts with water or alkali, and it will burn when it reaches the burning point through the stored heat." And the color of the ghost fire changes with the color of the elements contained in the human body, usually there are three colors: red, green, and blue, and what we just saw from downstairs is orange, which may indicate that the red phosphorus content in this corpse is particularly large. ”

"Damn, such a strange thing, after your scientific analysis, it seems much more reasonable."

The black bull said, shining a flashlight on the child's corpse and said, "The footprints on the stairs must be this guy's, but bacon can also raise corpses, it's really strange." ”

I shook my head: "I can't explain this, but I think it's very unlikely that this corpse is a corpse, and it may be that the ghost of this child is not gone." ”

Gu Yixin is a girl after all, although she works in the archaeological team and is not afraid of corpses, but at the mention of ghosts, she can't help but get nervous, and urges us to leave this stone building quickly.

Suddenly, a gust of mountain wind blew, and a few wisps of spider webs hanging from the beams of the house were blown and wrapped around Gu Yixin's hair, Gu Yixin screamed in fright, and quickly reached out to grab it, and then said, "Hey, when did the window open?" ”

Only then did I realize that the latticework of the window that had been closed had been propped up with wooden sticks at some point, and we did not hear a single movement in the house.

I glanced at the black bull, and the black bull understood, took out the paratrooper knife from his waist, and quietly outflanked the window with me, whether it was a human or a ghost, since it was playing tricks on us like this, we had to see what was going on this time.

Looking down from the window, it was empty, and the alley was silent as if I had fallen asleep. Hei Niu put away the paratrooper knife and asked me in a low voice, "Old Su, are we mistaken?" This window may have been open, and we may not have seen it clearly when we were downstairs just now because of the angle. ”

I was just about to answer, when I saw a flash of fire on the street at the end of the alley, and I quickly poked my head out of the window, and opened my eyes wide, and now I saw a real thing, an old man with a hunchback carrying a lantern walked slowly in front of him, and he was followed by an old dog, who glanced in the direction where we were, did not bark, lowered his head, and continued to follow the old man unhurriedly. It seems that this old man seems to be patrolling the village.

The line of sight on the stone tower was limited, and the old man quickly stepped out of our field of vision.

We decided to go down and chase him, firstly to find a place to stay, and secondly, to ask what was going on with this strange stone tower. Gu Yixin didn't want to stay here for another minute, so she walked out of the stone building first with a quick step of relief.

At the end of the alley was a relatively wide street, and we walked in the direction of the old man, and at this moment, except for the footsteps of the three of us, it was still surprisingly quiet.

Both sides of the street are two-storey stone buildings with similar shapes. The mountain wind blew from an unknown direction, and it gave me goosebumps.

Hei Niu asked as he walked: "Old Su, you said that there will not be coffins in these strange stone bunkers, right?" ”

I comforted him and said, "What has become of this village?" The building we just went to may be just an example, it happened that a family member left the coffin at home and forgot to bury it, or it could be that the man or child died, the widow remarried and ran away, or there were only two coffins. ”

Although I explained it like this, I didn't think about what the black bull said, so I scanned the stone building of the black hole with a flashlight, and I didn't want to look more.

We came to the end of the street, and two alleys appeared, leading in two opposite directions, and we took a look at each other, and found that the old man and the dog had gone deep into one of the alleys.

I opened my throat and shouted twice, but the old man didn't seem to hear it, and he didn't look back. We quickened our pace, and the hunchbacked old man walked faster and faster, and when he saw that the distance was near, the old dog looked back at us with his tongue, and turned into another alley with the old man.

After turning around like this five or six times, we suddenly came to the door of a large house.

The door of the house is half-hidden, there is a large courtyard in the door, and a stone road more than three meters wide leads directly to the opposite house, the style of this courtyard is incompatible with the whole village, and it seems a little unusual. The hunchbacked old man must have entered this house.

We pushed the door open and went in, shouting twice and no one answered. There is a stout and low old tree growing next to the stone path, the roots of the old tree are partly deep into the ground, and partly exposed, and the roots of the tree are faintly wrapped in stones. It seems that this old tree has been here for two or three hundred years, and at night, it is like a general watching the village alone.

There is a one-person tall stele under the old tree, we walked over and took a flashlight to shine it, and the three words on the stele were very clear: mortuary!

The three of them were stunned on the spot, screaming badly, and were about to turn around and leave, when suddenly, the lights in the room turned on.