Chapter 15: The Evil One
That smell is what Panma smelled from the later box, but the box was stronger.
For the horses, it's all the smell of the dead. Those demons who don't know whether they are humans or ghosts, the smell of their bodies must have come from the underworld.
"That friend of yours also has that smell, if it weren't for the smell of herbs, I would have smelled it the first time I saw him." Daddy Panma looked at me, "He's a monster in the lake, just like them!" ”
What does the stuffy oil bottle taste like? I'm not very sensitive to smells, I'm not a hunter, I don't have a great sense of smell, so I'm skeptical about it - I'm going to sniff it next time.
If this is the end of the matter, perhaps the matter will pass, and after a while, the person will doubt his own memories and will automatically erase those who have no explanation. However, I know that this is certainly not the end of the matter, because in that case, Daddy Coiled Horse will not conclude that the stuffy oil bottle will kill me.
Sure enough, Panma continued, saying that what happened after that made him unable to forget the smell for the rest of his life.
After this strange thing happened, Panma always felt restless, although those people seemed to be exactly the same as before, but Panma always felt that there was a trace of strangeness in their eyes and expressions, this feeling had no factual basis, it was completely a psychological effect. Panma had a hunch that something would happen in the village.
A few days later, something happened in the village that made him start to creep.
There were four other people who committed the murder with him, they all said that they were all related by blood, and the distance was slightly different, one of them was called Pang Ergui, who had the least courage, and suddenly disappeared. Panma and a few others had secrets in their hearts, and they raised their hearts at once, and no one dared to say it. The villagers went to the mountains to look for two days, and finally, they returned to the lake and found that Pang Ergui was in the camp, chatting and laughing with the people in the archaeological team.
Inexplicably, they brought him back, and when they caught him, they smelled that mysterious smell coming from Pang Ergui's body.
Panma looked at Pang Ergui and began to get goosebumps in the daytime, and he suddenly felt that Pang Ergui's expression was different from before, as if he had changed a person.
That kind of fear was indescribable, he felt that Pang Ergui must have been fascinated by ghosts, and when he returned to the village, he told Pang Ergui's daughter-in-law to tell her that if she found that her man was abnormal, she would talk to him immediately.
But her daughter-in-law didn't have a chance to find out, and the next day, when his daughter-in-law got up, she found Pang Ergui hanging by the bedside. The whole room was filled with that strange smell.
The village thought that Pang Ergui couldn't think about it, or that he was fascinated by the fox fairy, Panma knew in his heart, and he was even more sure that those people were monsters, and it must be Pang Ergui who had fallen into evil.
Pang Ergui's daughter-in-law was frightened and didn't dare to live in that house anymore, so she moved back to her parents' house, and the house was deserted. The others were so frightened that two of them moved out of the village, and Panma and the other stayed behind, not daring to sleep at night, and borrowed several dogs, lest the next one be themselves.
But the dog didn't work, and a week later, another person who stayed with him also disappeared. Two days later, a child found him in the abandoned house of Pang Ergui's family, and he hanged himself in the same position as Pang Ergui.
Panma is born xìng strong, since he was a child, he has been with the mountains as a companion, so he is very strong, after the extreme fear, he went out instead, rushed to the lake with a gun, and said in his heart that it is death anyway, and death will die to understand, and he will definitely not sit and wait. But after he entered the mountain, it happened that the archaeological team was leaving.
Panma was a team that met halfway, and it seemed that they no longer needed a guide, and Panma had thought very decisively before, but as soon as he saw them, he relented, and he followed the team out of the mountain in fear.
As Panma later said, the archaeological team left the village with the box that emitted a strange smell and never reappeared until now. The people who fled to the other two villages did not have any accidents, and after a year of fear, Panma gradually relieved himself and believed that they were really gone.
This thing has been haunting the horses like a nightmare, and I can imagine the fear. Half a month after the army left, in order to find out what happened, he returned to the lake again. Walking around the lake, he found a piece of clothing that had somehow washed up on the shore, and in that garment, he found the strange piece of iron.
The discovery of this piece of iron made him sure that these people must have crawled from the lake, because the iron was in the clothes, and it was impossible for it to be washed ashore by the lake. The piece of iron smelled like it made him creepy, and he felt that it was not trivial, so he kept it with him. In his early years, when he was living in poverty, he wanted to sell it, but now that his life is gradually getting better, he can't help but be a little scared when he remembers that year, so he wants to keep this secret and bring it into the coffin.
After that, we appeared.
This is the end of the secret of the horses.
After listening to this, I fell into a long contemplation, and rarely, I did not feel more confused, and for the first time, I felt that I seemed to have found a chain that could connect the mysteries in my heart.
These mysteries are like double-ended rebar pipes, where they are connected, there is one mystery, but if two of the mysteries are connected, then two of the four mysteries will be lost, and all the steel pipes will be connected, so many mysteries, there may only be two at the beginning and the end. So the mysteries are connected one by one, which is very pleasant.
If it was me before, I would definitely be crazy, but now that I have learned not to look at the problem itself, I am clearly aware of the truth of this matter, this matter needs to be verified, if my idea is correct, then, the third uncle, or the question that Xie Lian has been puzzled about, has the answer.
And to prove this, you have to go to the lake.
Daddy Panma took out the piece of iron and showed it to me, and it was the same as the one found under the bed of the stuffy oil bottle, the same iron lump, with a simple pattern on the face, but the piece of Panma was slightly larger. I took a special sniff, and sure enough, I smelled a strange smell, so faint that I could barely tell it. Dad said that when he first found it, the smell was very strong, and gradually, the smell disappeared little by little, and the iron was placed at home, and there were no insects at home.
I lost interest in this thing for a while, and my mind was full of my speculation.
Panma refused to go to the lake again, so I thought about asking Agui to find another guide, gave Panma the money, and got up to say goodbye.
When I got to the door, I suddenly thought about something else, and turned around and asked, "By the way, Dad, how did you get your tattoo?" ”
Panma looked at me, a little surprised, I suddenly asked this, and his son explained for him: "This is the tattoo of the anti-Gu, which was written for him by a Miao wizard who passed by when he was a child. At that time, my grandfather saved his life, he gave my father this thanks, it is said that with this tattoo, you can pass unhindered when you arrive at Miao Village, and no one will embarrass you. ”