Chapter 5: Night Walking

The frightened eyes of the villagers made me a little uneasy, but no one answered what had happened to me. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoI'm actually quite timid, and I don't believe in any heresies. It's just that the unknown makes people feel more worried.

Hou Sanmei wanted to remind me of something, but she wanted to stop talking, and just whispered to me that I don't have to worry, I should arrive at my grandfather's place early tonight and tell him everything in detail about what happened here.

The evening breeze is cool and pours into the car, making the already hot car a lot cooler. The night was completely dark, and the conversation in the car was quiet.

Xu was too tired to rush to the market during the day, and the villagers were napping. In a drowsy state, I don't know when, I fell asleep in a blur.

I don't know how long I slept, but the car stopped, and in a blur, I felt someone sitting next to me. What makes me strange is that I am not waiting for the third sister next to my seat? I wanted to open my eyes, but my head was dizzy and my eyelids were heavy.

It's over, am I motion sickness?

Suddenly, a cold hand was placed on my shoulder, and a hoarse voice came from my ear, but I couldn't make out a word. I knew the man who had just sat down next to him, the dry hand on his shoulder, and the old man's characteristic tone. I guess it's an old man.

Before I could think about it, this man slowly approached me, like a block of ice that emitted a chill, and I felt chills all over me.

What's the matter with this man? Why is it that he keeps coming towards me, and it seems that this person is soaked all over. Is it raining outside? It is rainy in the Qiangui area, and it is normal for it to rain a little at night.

I tried to open my eyes, and a wrinkled and pale face appeared in front of me, and I was immediately frightened and leaned back.

It was indeed an old man, dressed in a blue suit like pajamas, with gray hair and a black wooden stick in his hand. But the old man's clothes were not wet, and I looked out the window, and although it was completely invisible, I could still tell that it was not raining.

I thought that I might have slept too deeply just now and had an illusion.

"Old man, are you calling me?" The old man stared at me, and I asked with a smile.

"Little Ah Lang, can you give me back my things? I'm running out of time, I need to get out of the car. The old man's hoarse voice sounded laborious.

Stuff? What is it? I looked left and right, only to find that there were only me and the old man in the car at this moment, when did the others get off the car, what about the third sister? Didn't she go to the same place as me?

I took a look at the luggage I was carrying, and found that there was a lot of it, and I was slightly relieved.

Looking back at the old man, I hurriedly smiled and said, "Old man, are you mistaken, when did I take your things?" ”

I didn't know where I went, I asked the driver loudly, shouted a few times, but the driver didn't know how to look up, and didn't pay attention to me at all. I couldn't help but curse in my heart, don't pull me to the wrong place, right? I'll be miserable then.

"Take it, take it, you take it, why don't you give it back to me, why..." The old man next to him began to chatter, and he didn't listen to my explanation, and he didn't answer his questions, so he buried his head in himself.

For a while, I was at a loss, as if I felt that the old man was very pitiful, but I couldn't figure out the reason. Just as I wanted to talk to the old man again, the car stopped. The car door opened automatically and slowly, and the old man and I were in the car, could it be that the old man was going to get out of the car?

However, the old man did not move at all and still sat beside me.

"Guest, it's time for you to get out of the car." The driver was hidden in the darkness and could not see clearly. But I'm sure it's for me.

Looking out at the wilderness, pitch black, where the hell am I going? Just let me get out of the car.

"Master, are you mistaken, I haven't arrived in Qianxi yet?"

"It's here, your car has arrived early, go back." The voice was low, fluttering and scattered, like a confession from the depths of the Nine Shadows, with charm and long-term.

"Remember to give me something back." The old man next to me suddenly pulled me and said excitedly.

It's a mess, I can't react at all. The head is mixed and blurred, the vision is dim, and the whole person seems to be about to wake up, as if he is just about to fall asleep.

"Little brother, little brother."

The voice was strange and somewhat familiar.

Hou Sanmei's voice instantly pulled me into clarity. I let out an exclamation, only to find that I was still sitting in the car, the car was not only me and the old man, it was full of passengers, and the old man beside me was gone, replaced by Hou Sanmei.

I fell asleep, and what was even more ridiculous was that I had a strange dream. It's just that I can't laugh, this inexplicable dream, and the old man makes me a little scared.

Lifting the soles of his shoes, he quietly looked at them, and the soles were stained with black burning ashes.

What did I take from him?

Shaking his head hard, he found that the clothes on his back were soaked with sweat, and the beads of sweat on his forehead kept dripping.

"Little brother, what's wrong? As soon as you get on the bus, you fall asleep, go, get off the bus as soon as you get to the station. Hou Sanmei smiled and helped me pack my things, moving neatly, but I didn't seem to wake up at all, and my head followed me out of the car.

The road leads to Qianxi, and the rest is the mountain road, but fortunately the mountain road is not far, just a few miles away. When I heard that the third sister and another villager went to the village where my grandfather was located and wanted to rush together, for some reason, I was inexplicably relieved.

The mountain road is difficult to walk, the road is low-lying and uneven, and it is such a rugged path in the mountains. The surrounding area is shrouded in forests, obscuring the sky and the sun, and even if there is moonlight, it can't be penetrated, let alone even a hairy moon.

The villagers walked in the front to open the way, waiting for the third sister to be in the middle, and I followed closely. Talking and laughing along the way, especially Hou Sanmei, sang mountain songs from time to time, and the singing echoed in the forest.

Within a few minutes of walking, I always felt someone behind me, but when I turned around a few times, it was all dark. Confused, I pricked up my ears and listened quietly. I'm sure I heard me right, I couldn't hear the footsteps, but the sound of the crutches hitting the ground...

Crutch? I couldn't help but chill.

No, it was just a dream.

After a while, there was a faint cry from behind, with a prayer and a little resentment, as if to tell.

I turned my head suddenly, and my voice stopped abruptly, except for the darkness, there was no movement.

"Third sister, do you hear someone crying?" My voice was shaking.

"Little brother is scared?" Hou Sanmei turned around and joked at me: "That's not crying, in our mountains and forests, many night birds always haunt at night, like to imitate people, don't listen carefully, it's really scary." ”

"Yes, yes, the third sister is right, it's good for the little brother to get used to it. I was scared to cry when I was a kid. "The villager was angry because he helped me carry most of my luggage." Later, I was asked to seize the opportunity, set up a few traps, caught several at once, and kept them at home, but within two days, the chickens and dogs at home were restless. ”

"What's wrong?"

"That thief bird, during the day, is peaceful, but at night it changes its voice, not to mention how terrifying that call is, my child is so scared that he has nightmares." The villagers gritted their teeth, and said with some taboos: "I was going to slaughter the wine, but the old people in the neighborhood said no, this bird has many partners, and it will take revenge in the future, and the revenge is more terrifying than Wong Tai Sin." It's annoying that when I let go of the thief bird, it turned around the house and scolded, which made me angry. ”

"Birds still curse?" I couldn't help but be amused, and I felt less nervous.

"Not really." The villagers seem to be very resentful!

"It's supposed to be an owl, but I remember that owls only make 'cooing' sounds, huh?" I asked.

"We all call it the night bird, some say it's the eagle, who knows? Listen, it's starting to bark again. The villagers stopped, and suddenly we all fell silent, quietly listening.

In the dark forest, there was a cry in the distance, like a cat's meow, with poignant, like a baby crying. Faintly, sometimes disappearing, but so real.

However, what sent chills down my back was that the sound I heard was not like this at all, could it really be called a different bird?

At this moment, the voice behind me came again, and it felt closer and closer. In order to hear more clearly, I closed my eyes tightly and stopped breathing, for fear of missing a single sound.

There was no sound of footsteps, but the sound of crutches hitting the ground. There seemed to be another voice, but the voice was hoarse, like the hoarse cry of a person who had lost his strength, but he couldn't call it out. Suddenly, a pair of hands were placed on my shoulders, and I couldn't hold my breath anymore and turned back sharply.

A miserable white face, round, with a bare head, but the seven holes were covered with blood, the eyes were bulging, the eyeballs were about to fall off, and the mouth was slightly open, spitting blood. Through the light, I could see it thoroughly, and it was clearly like a ghost who had just crawled out of a grave.

I exclaimed, and subconsciously raised my leg to kick it.

The screams frightened both the villagers and Hou Sanmei, and when they looked at me, they also let out exclamations.

"Hell!"