Chapter Ninety-Five: The Answer
I don't think there is any need to think about this question at all, if these people want to come up, Brother Zhengchuan and I must hurry up the mountain.
can clearly distinguish such a simple question, but Brother Zhengchuan hesitated.
I urged Brother Zhengchuan to go down the mountain with me, but he frowned, grabbed me and said, "Third brother, you go down the mountain first, I want to stay here." ”
"Huh?" In fact, these villagers are not terrible people on weekdays, but such strange rituals, such numb and crazy behavior, I have already equated these villagers with mysterious madmen in my heart.
If they find out, Brother Zhengchuan and I break their secrets, what will be the consequences?
But it was only an instant, Brother Zhengchuan seemed to have made up his mind, and he directly dragged me around, and said: "Can't delay any longer, you came down the hill when we came, I have to stay here." ”
My brain was a little blank and let Brother Zhengchuan pull me to run, but under the hazy moonlight, I seemed to be stepping on a strange beat with every step, which made my heart tighten more and more.
It's like I'm stepping on a weird beating heart.
The thought that I wanted to accompany Brother Zhengchuan to the top of the mountain before became more and more intense, and it became that I couldn't leave, I definitely couldn't leave, I didn't dare to think about it, and I always felt that the thought in my soul was that if I really left, Brother Zhengchuan would die here.
Will die! Will die! This kind of thinking is clear, as if I saw Brother Zhengchuan fall in front of me, I almost used my strength to break away from Brother Zhengchuan, and said to him: "No, I can't go down the mountain alone." ”
"At this time, what are you messing around? I didn't go down because I felt like I had to wait until the villagers went up the mountain before I could really know the secret! I don't want to give up halfway, you don't have to stay. Brother Zhengchuan seemed to be in a hurry.
I had been dragged by Brother Zhengchuan across the bluestone field, but from this angle, we could also see that almost all the villagers had lit a torch and walked straight towards the top of the mountain like a giant snake.
Their pace is so fast, it seems like they are heading to something, and it would be foolish for us to delay at this time.
But I absolutely can't accept the result that Brother Zhengchuan will die, he pulled me while talking, but I just didn't move, and even in order to insist, I simply squatted on the ground, and felt a rush of blood.
The villagers are very fast, the location of the pig farm is not far from the foot of the mountain, and the villagers who walk in the front have already set foot on the road up the mountain, compared to our way up the mountain, the other side of the hill is not so steep, if it is a normal time, they may not take 1 hour to go up the mountain.
There was a sound of footsteps at the foot of the mountain, which was not messy, and it was not at all like the strenuous climb up the mountain.
Brother Zhengchuan's face changed and said to me; "You wait for me."
Then he ran towards the side of the mountain, hiding behind the stele, not knowing what he was observing?
When he returned, his face was unusually ugly, and he said to me, "We can't delay here, and I should quickly find a place to hide, these villagers are too cunning, there is a staircase up the hill, and these villagers cover it with plants." ”
There is also this kind of thing, no wonder the bushes just now were blown off, it turned out that it was only used by the villagers to cover up the stairs.
But at the moment, there was no time for us to discuss anything, Brother Masakawa and I ran towards the bottom of the mountain almost at the same time, and it was extremely steep here, and the descent was not necessarily much faster than the time to go up.
That strange forest is under the weird forest that you can't stay, there is no vegetation, and there is no huge rock!
Brother Masagawa and I had to go down a little longer, and the louder and louder footsteps coming from the other side of the mountain were like a 'life talisman', and I felt a kind of nervousness, as if I had once run for my life in that cave.
We almost fell and rolled down the mountain, and Masakawa's feet were turned, and we didn't dare to stop for a while! We headed straight down a little further down.
There are huge rocks there, and some messy bushes are no problem to hide in such a night, but fortunately, there is nothing strange to stop us in our footsteps, when we finally sweat profusely and hide in a boulder wrapped in bushes, the villagers who walked in front have climbed to the top of the mountain, and from our angle, we can clearly see the top of the mountain outside the bluestone field.
The villagers stood there, their expressionless faces numbed by the glare of the torches, their eyes more hollow, more like lifeless beings than weathered stone statues.
They just stood there, looking extremely weird, and Brother Zhengchuan and I hid in the bushes, enduring the thorns of the bushes and mosquito bites, and sweat on our foreheads, but we didn't even dare to breathe.
Soon, the villagers gathered at the top of the mountain.
Everyone was holding torches, as if a raging flame was burning on the top of the mountain, but the strange thing was that when the normal flame reached the top of the mountain, the color that should have been orange-red and warm was mostly a cold and strange pale green.
The last to set foot on the top of the mountain was the old man, and when he reached the top of the mountain, under his leadership, the people knelt silently, as if they began to bow aimlessly.
After kowtowing a few times in a row, the old man stood up, and the people were still kneeling silently, and the old man's numb expression also changed, and became sad, and he suddenly said in the direction of the stone tablet: "We have been worshiping for generations, and I hope that when the adults return, we can spare our children and grandchildren!" ”
After he finished saying this, he knelt down towards the stone tablet again, this time kowtowing heavily, compared to the previous numb kowtowing, this time people could feel the emotion in his heart.
After he kowtowed, the villagers beside him also kowtowed again, and this time everyone who looked up had the same sad look on their faces.
Before, I thought that this group of villagers must be crazy, but now I feel inexplicably sympathetic to them, feeling like 'slaves' who have been imprisoned for generations, living a life without freedom, dedicating themselves, and not daring to resist, the only extravagant hope is that the ruthless 'master' can give their descendants one day to be able to escape such a fate.
'Master', when I think of this word, I feel a chill on my body inexplicably, if my judgment is correct, what 'man' is it that imprisons them?
Judging from their appearance, this 'person' must not be alive, but wouldn't it be funny? A dead 'man' has enslaved them for so many years, otherwise the old man would not have said that it was for generations.
And what does it mean to return? I remembered that weird heartbeat, the powerful aura that Brother Zhengchuan said, and the idea that I was hiding a monster or something like that, and I suddenly felt very frightened, the resurrection of the dead?! This is simply something more mythical than a myth
Coupled with the 'zombie movies' I watched when I was a child, I always remember the moment when the zombie got up from the coffin, I couldn't help but grab the arm of Brother Zhengchuan next to me, Brother Zhengchuan frowned slightly, put his index finger to his mouth, and signaled me to breathe a little quieter.
At this time, the villagers did not bow down, but stood up, the old man sighed, waved his hand, and most of these villagers stood on the top of the mountain and waited, while the twelve women holding the jar were guarded by two or three men, and walked down from the top of the mountain, including me and Brother Zhengchuan.
Next, we saw the weirdest scene, which can also be said to be the answer to the question.
They did a lot of weird activities, and they worked hard to get someone's blood and pig's heart, so it turned out to be to irrigate the 'strange trees' around the top of the mountain!
Brother Zhengchuan and I watched as the women walked under the tree, first poured the human blood on the roots, and then pierced the pig's heart, which had been soaked in human blood, on the spiky branches!
I thought there would be a lot of tricky trees on this hillside, but in fact, when these women 'sacrificed', I found that the hillside that came up from me and Brother Zhengchuan was only 4 tricky trees, but their notes were too messy and crisscrossed, so I thought there were a lot of tricky trees.
The terrible thing is that under the reflection of their strangely colored torches, we can see the process of a qiē clearly.
We can clearly see that as soon as the blood is splashed on the ground, the ground is like a dry sponge, sucking the blood clean, leaving almost no trace and hanging on the 'fresh' pig's heart that is soaked in blood, and it is almost 'withering' at a speed visible to the naked eye!
It lost its vivid color faster than the fire, and in a few minutes it became a black, shriveled leather-like object, which hung on the branches and finally seemed to lose all its moisture, and cracked very quickly, and fell to the ground very slightly.
Although these things disappeared quickly, the smell of blood wafted in the air unconsciously, the hearts of twelve pigs, and the blood released by a villager was 'eaten' by the trees without any 'waste'!
Those who didn't see it just listened to the description, and couldn't imagine the cold horror in it, and Brother Masakawa and I were walking in front of these trees before.
I suddenly felt so nauseous, I couldn't explain why I was nauseous, I covered my mouth, I covered my stomach, I wanted to desperately stop my inner churning.
I thought that the matter should be over now, and Brother Masakawa and I also waited for the answer.