Chapter 1: Unidentified Creatures
"Ah ~ Chong! Ah ~ Chong! The fool's voice was particularly harsh in the silence of the night. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Ah Chong struggled to get up and walked out, Ziyang's father hurriedly grabbed Ah Chong's arm and complained in a low voice: "Look at you, this child, is sick like this, and it is not good to lie down."
Ah Chong panted and said, "Uncle, I'm better, you can take me to my uncle, it's so late, he hasn't eaten yet."
Ziyang's mother said distressedly: "You are all sick like this...... Dad, hurry up and bring him to call the stupid uncle. ā
Zi Yang's father held Ah Chong, but Zi Yang refused to stay at home and followed behind. The three of them turned on their flashlights and walked one foot deep and one foot shallow on the muddy path, following the voice of the fool.
After a while, the figure of the silly uncle appeared in the night. Seeing Ah Chong and his entourage, they grinned happily: "Ah Chong, you see I picked up a small thing for you to play with."
Following the dim light of the flashlight, everyone saw Uncle Silly holding something the size of a monkey in his arms, curled up in his arms and squirming gently, and his body seemed to be covered with a layer of dirty dark green fluff.
I haven't even seen a person like Zi Yang's father who has a lot of "experience in the rivers and lakes", but I faintly feel that something is not good. Could this thing be the water ghost that the children just said?
"Quick, throw it away", Ziyang's father shouted.
The thing suddenly opened its eyes, and two green eyes glared at the three of them viciously. In an instant, the cold hairs on Ziyang's father's back stood up, and he was so frightened that he couldn't move.
The green-haired monster suddenly bounced up with a "squeak" and flew towards the three of them like a cannonball. said that it was too late and that it was fast, Ah Chong didn't know where the strength came from, so he rushed forward in one step, grabbed the flying green-haired monster and threw it into the distance. The thing gurgled on the ground for a few meters, rolled over and swooped into the night.
All this happened in an instant, Zi Yang's father opened his mouth wide and stared blankly at the place where the green-haired monster disappeared, and just came back to his senses, seeing the fool looking down and touching his chest and muttering, "Hey, my heart hurts so much......" Before he finished speaking, he fell to the ground like a piece of wood.
The three of them hurriedly ran over, Zi Yang's father turned the fool over, the fool was convulsed, and several blood holes in his chest were bubbling out with black blood.
Ah Chong burst into tears. Ziyang's father came back to his senses, held his breath and straightened his neck and shouted: "Out, something's wrong, something happened to a fool!" ā
After a while, adults rushed out with flashlights, and several people in gowns and big pants, apparently just woke up from their sleep.
"Isn't this the fourth master? What's wrong? ā
"Hey, Lao Li, what are you howling in the middle of the night? This kid is scared to pee his pants by you."
When they got closer, everyone was also shocked, and immediately lifted the fool up with all hands and feet, and went to the nearby fool's house, at this time every house in the village was lit up, and the village was still silent just now, and there was a lot of noise in the village.
The people carried the fool to the dilapidated little mud hut and hurriedly lit the oil lamp. I found that the fool's body was stiff, his face was blue, and the black holes the size of several fingers on his chest had black scars.
Seeing this, Ah Chong shouted "uncle" and lay on the ground.
Ziyang's father hurriedly went up and pinched the person and beat his chest. A middle-aged man next to him seemed to have seen the world, and calmly said to Ziyang, "Don't look at this, child, go home."
Ziyang's father hurriedly said: "Brother is here to watch first, and I will send the child back."
Zi Yang's father took Ah Chong home and put it on the kang, and threw a sentence to Zi Yang's mother, "You are watching the child at home", Zi Yang's mother just said the word "you ......", and the man had already rushed out again like a gust of wind.
Zi Yang's mother looked at Zi Yang suspiciously, "You...... What did you just run across? What did your dad just call like a pig? Zi Yang looked at her mother in a trembling and couldn't speak.
I don't know how long it took, Ziyang, who was lying on the side of the kang and was asleep, was awakened by a noise outside, and Ziyang, who had tears on his face, looked up at Ah Chong sleeping on the kang, sweat beads on his forehead, his chest rose and fell sharply, and his nose twitched and almost cried again.
At this time, I heard the voice of Ziyang's mother greeting outside: "Old village chief, why are you here too?" Uncle Zhang, Uncle Li, everyone sits, all sit. ā
Zi Yang walked out gently with tears in the corners of his eyes, and saw that the main house was already crowded with people, with a goatee hanging from his chin, and the thin and energetic old village chief squatting on the only Taishi chair in the house.
This old village chief is a legendary figure, who has traveled from south to north when he was young, and can be described as well-informed, and has been a leader in this small village for decades, and is very prestigious. The temper is also stubborn and weird, and he doesn't even have a problem with him.
There is one thing that can fully explain the style of the old village chief. One year, the boss sent people to the village to organize a meeting to discuss the issue of keeping the funeral simple. The commissioner sent from the township said that the state now advocates cremation, and that the burial practiced in the countryside for generations is unscientific and wasteful of arable land.
The villagers all expressed their opinions, and some suggested that there would be no need for coffins to bury people in the future, which was too wasteful of wood; Others say that it is better to bury it upright, and not to waste land.
At this time, the old village chief stood up and said: If you bury it upright, only bury half of your body, and you don't need to erect a monument, so that when you go to the grave in the future, you will know who it is at a glance.
This run choked the commissioner back to the township, and no one came to talk to them about the cremation again.
At this moment, the room is crowded with more than a dozen people, old and young, and you and I are so noisy that people can't hear clearly.
The old village chief slammed the old cigarette pouch in his hand on the leg of the chair and coughed, and the others immediately closed their mouths.
The old village chief snapped his mouth and asked, "Who did I say, did you really see the water ghost?" Our village has been peaceful for decades, don't be foolish with a big mouth. ā
Zi Yang's father pointed to the sky and the earth, beat his chest and said: "I swear, I really saw the green-haired water ghost, I don't believe you asked my son." ā
The old village chief stared at Zi Yang suspiciously, it was the first time that Zi Yang had a direct conversation with such a high-level cadre when he was so old, he swallowed his saliva and said softly: "This evening, I played with Ah Chong and them on the school playground......"
Ziyang told what had happened from evening to now. It is also thanks to his young age, so frightened, that he can still tell everything that happened in an orderly manner.
As soon as Zi Yang's words fell, a middle-aged man squatting on the ground said, "So it's true?" Our stinky boy ran home covered in mud and water to tell me about it, and I thought he was playing and lying, so he slapped him hard. ā
A man next to him also chimed in: "Yes, so am I." It seems that Ziyang's friends have all been poisoned by their parents without exception......
The old village chief glanced at everyone: "Don't talk about that useless, I said who is that, do you see the appearance of the water ghost?" ā
Zi Yang's father said hurriedly: "I can see it clearly, not to mention how terrifying the scene just now, but also because I am bold, I can see clearly when I stand motionless on the ground, that thing has a ...... Hmm, a bat's face, hmm...... It's the size of a dog...... The arms are like monkey cubs, the claws are thin and long like mountain eagles, and the body is covered with a layer of green hair, and in a few places it has been shed like a leper dog, and it looks slimy......"
The old village chief frowned and interrupted Zi Yang's father's words: "What are you talking about?" I'm confused by you! ā
An old man in his fifties and sixties who was squatting on the ground whispered, "You say, is this ghost thing related to the death of this child's father?" Back then, they ...... Isn't that retribution? So saying, Nu turned his mouth towards the back room, and suddenly he was motionless.