Chapter 10: The First Night: The Murmur of the Jungle
"What else can the lonely soul and wild ghost say, it's not that I will return my life." The fat man said. Panzi told him not to talk nonsense and listen carefully, he wasn't joking with him.
I really didn't pay attention to what the voice was saying, the voice just now sounded, and the three of us were numb, where did we still have the heart to listen to the specific content.
And this voice is not loud, if it were not for the quiet and abnormal silence of this forest, I am afraid that we will ignore it, and now I can't hear it clearly if I don't listen carefully, I just feel that it is a woman, in a very strange tone, I don't know what to say to myself.
Panzi began to focus our attention on this, and Panzi motioned for us to hold our breath and listen carefully.
The distance seems to be too far, the voice is sticky, but intermittent, even if you listen to it like this, you feel crying, and you feel like you're reading something, you really can't hear why, the only biggest feeling is that the tone is ambiguous.
"Is it called chΕ«n?" The fat man frowned and said:
Panzi slapped him with the butt of his gun and told him not to talk nonsense, and I had a little feeling at this time, "Wait, what, this voice...... Seems to be calling my name? β
"Call your name? Why can't I hear it? β
"It's not my real name, it's called 'Little Third Master', listen carefully."
The fat man listened, shook his head and couldn't hear it, I listened more carefully, but I couldn't hear it clearly, but the voice was indeed a little bit of a thing, like a ghost. "It's really calling my name, it's not, it's like it's calling my name." I'm cut to the core.
Pan Zi nodded: "That's right, how many women do you say know your name here?" I think this is really haunted, Aning's mother-in-law may have raised the injustice of her own death, and she doesn't want to be left alone here, and wants to find us to be buried together. β
I shook my head, and then I thought of another possibility: "God, could it be that she is still alive?" β
"Alive, how is it possible? Boss, it's not like you didn't see it, when you carried it to the mouth of the canyon, she was rotten. The fat man said.
When I thought about it, my heart was cold again, indeed, A-Ning's death was very certain, and there was no possible detour. It was very carefully inspected.
Pan Zi said: "I think this dead woman wants to lead us over, we must not be fooled, you follow me, we will find a way to detour the past." The situation over there is unknown, there may be a lot of poisonous snakes, and this situation is strange and abnormal, and it can't be pleased. β
I looked at the fat man and asked for his opinion.
On the one hand, there are undetermined factors, on the other hand, there is life and death, high and low, the fat man also muttered, thought about it and had to restrain his curiosity, paused, and said: "You fat man, I don't regret it, but what Da Pan said is right, we have too few guys in our hands, this time it's still leisurely, and it depends on who the ghost is, in case it's really A-Ning, I can't do it!" β
I'm relieved, I didn't want to see any female ghosts, and I don't know what the fat man thinks, nothing is better, if there is, what can we do to get out? Thinking about answering immediately.
The three of them turned and moved, ignoring the strange sound, and Pan Zi set a direction, and we cautiously continued on our way, trying to get around where the sound came from. You can also get closer and listen to what is going on. If it's really the third uncle's person who is talking, then we have enough distance to remedy it.
We didn't dare to make the lamp too bright, so we covered the lamp head with a cloth and relied on the dim light to make our way through the gaps in the trees.
It was said that we were bypassing the tree, but in fact it was not far away, and the strange voice had been lingering in our ears, and we were sweating while walking, and we didn't even dare to say a word.
As we got closer, we got closer and closer to the sound, and the more I listened, the less it sounded like a voice, it was very brittle, repeating a rhythm constantly, and I couldn't feel what was coming from.
However, the place where I can be sure that the sound is coming out is in a nearby direction, and my psychological effect is in the way, and I feel that the direction is ghostly.
As I walked, I paid attention to the sound, and as I listened, I felt as if I had heard it somewhere, and I had a little impression in my mind, and it was still very fresh.
I immediately asked them to stop and listen for a while, and suddenly, I thought about what it was: "Oops, could it be that the walkie-talkie on Aning's body is ringing?" β
"Walkie-talkie?"
I said Aning their standard equipment includes a walkie-talkie, I haven't seen her take it out of her pocket, this kind of walkie-talkie is waterproof and fireproof and fall-proof, if you don't really want to deal with it, it is not so easy to break, and it can be used continuously for three weeks without charging. A-Ning is likely to be one of them there. "Cover the microphone mouth of the walkie-talkie with a damp cloth, and then if there is static noise, do you feel like you want to talk to this sound?"
The fat man was inexperienced, but Pan Zi obviously knew, so he nodded violently: "Little Third Master is right, it's really similar." β
"And who's calling her now?" The fat man asked: "The radio signal in the jungle is weak and cannot travel too long distances. β
"But she's in the canopy, and if the other party is also in the canopy, or rather, in the extension of the canyon, then it's likely that the signal will be received. And you see that the sound is intermittent, indicating that the walkie-talkie is on the function of automatically searching for frequencies, it searches for all the sounds in the frequency in a loop, obviously there is a radio frequency being used here, Panzi, did my third uncle bring such a thing as a walkie-talkie this time? "Because I was very impressed with the walkie-talkie in Devil's Town, I memorized all these functions.
"The third master definitely doesn't use this kind of thing, because there will definitely not be a few groups scattered to go down to the sand, generally only one, it's good to be able to go down, damn it, but there is a radio in the car, could it be that the people who keep the car guarding the car on the Gobi are using this frequency to talk? I ......" Pan Zi suddenly thought of something: "I understand, they also saw the red smoke, maybe the third uncle has some agreement with them, they are scheduling." β
I said, "We have to get that walkie-talkie, so that we can talk to the people in the Gobi, and we can know their travel plan, and why the third uncle entered the swamp center before us, and when we leave, we can also let them answer, maybe we can go up directly from the cliff." β
The fat man became excited, it seemed that he was really tired of walking in the woods, and said, "Then what are you waiting for, since the fuck is not a ghost, we don't have to be polite." β
Pan Zi shook his head and said: "This matter has to be considered carefully, there are no ghosts and snakes, there are branches all around, and the snake comes out to nail you in the cold and dark, then you will really become a ghost." β
This snake actually has a headache more than a ghost, and the fat man is anxious to remember to scratch his ears and cheeks, and he can't wait to have a flamethrower on his body: "It would be nice if you brought snake medicine, it seems that you really have to bring enough everything in the future, who can know what the ancient city in the Gobi is like this." β
"This kind of snake will be afraid of snake medicine, Lao Tzu is very suspicious." Pan Zidao. "In my opinion, these things may not be snakes at all."
"What is not a snake? Yellow eel? β
"We say there that things can become charms after a long life, and these may be snake charms, demagoguery, and this ancient city is built with these things." Pan Zidao. "Bring people in and eat them. It's a trap, so let's not go over. β
The fat man patted him and said: "You have read too many feudal superstitious books, and they have been poisoned too deeply, the snake is a snake, it is its high IQ, it is just a snake, how to say that it is just an animal, we are the spirit of all things, and the fuck still climbs these hands, no feet?" Speaking of this, he rolled his eyes, calculated his heart, and said, "Hey, you see how this is, animals are afraid of fire, you take off all your clothes, I use your clothes to cover all the places on my body, and after getting wet, I pour soju, and when I light it, I rush over, these snakes will definitely not dare to bite a fire man, I took the walkie-talkie, and then came back and jumped into the swamp, it will not take more than 2 minutes at most." β
"And then? Are we going to run naked here with a walkie-talkie? I said angrily, "Why don't you use your brains?" And it's also too hard to control, the temperature of the wine we use is extremely high, what if you burn to death? We still need you to transport equipment. β
"It's so easy to burn to death." The fat man said. Pan Zi continued: "We are wearing waterproof and breathable fiber clothes, which are dried as soon as they are baked, and you can burn yourself into a fire man without pouring wine." It definitely won't work. β
The fat man scolded, and suddenly remembered something: "Hey, then let's just set a fire under the tree, pile up wet wood, burn the smoke, and smoke all those snakes." β
As soon as I heard that this method was feasible, I could not clash head-on with this kind of thing, and I must adopt this method, which was often used in the past to fight rats in the countryside.
So he nodded in agreement, and immediately began to collect wet firewood, the fat man asked Panzi to help, but Panzi grabbed us again and didn't let me move, his face was very ugly, and he was a little weak-hearted.
I looked at Panzi's face and thought of his expression on the tree, and suddenly realized something, and asked, "Panzi, did you see something just now?" β
Pan Zi nodded, a little yΓΉ and stopped. After a pause, he said: "I didn't want to say it, for fear of scaring you, but now I'll say it." There's definitely something wrong with that corpse, and we can't fucking kill it. β
"No wonder I feel like you're fucking scared." The fat man said, "What the hell are you seeing?" β
"I saw it, I don't know what to say - just now, I saw it in the tree, I saw it-"
Panzi's level of speech is very poor, what can be said in local dialect is difficult to express in Mandarin, and I don't know how to describe it after speaking for a long time.
"Did you see Aning poking out of the canopy like a snake looking at us?" The fat man said suddenly.
Pan Zi nodded hurriedly, "Yes, that's it, huh?" How the fuck do you know? β
The fat man pointed behind us with a blue face, I saw that the fat man's expression was wrong, and suddenly his scalp was numb, and he immediately turned back with Panzi.
Suddenly, behind the bushes in the shadow of the tree beside us, there stood a shadow that looked like a snake and a man at the same time. Just squatting there quietly, only five or six meters away from us, the slight sound of the walkie-talkie was coming from this thing's body.