Soon, Xue Qian and I began to call this bamboo house a bamboo prison. Because it's really a prison.

There were people outside who were guarding us and didn't let us out at all.

Mr. Lu looked familiar. He broke up the dry food and swallowed it. Then he put his mouth on the bamboo wall, like a lover's hot kiss, and kept kissing that wall. Soon we understood that he was drinking water droplets from the bamboo wall.

After nightfall, the inside of the stockade fell silent. Even the guards of us are drowsy.

I whispered to Mr. Lu, it is better to open the door and run away immediately. However, Mr. Lu said something inexplicable: "Don't stay in this bamboo house for one night." If you don't know ten miles outside, you will die. ”

Then he lay straight on the ground and said no more.

The bamboo hut didn't have a lot of space, so we couldn't occupy a corner, so we had to lie side by side. This posture made me uncomfortable, and I always thought of the corpses that were lying side by side after the cataclysm.

I thought I wouldn't be able to fall asleep in this damp and horrible place. But I underestimated my fatigue over the past few days. I lay down for a while, and then I drifted off to sleep.

I don't know why, I slept soundly this night, and I didn't have any nightmares, however, I was woken up by someone in the middle of my dream.

It was Xue Qian who woke me up, and later I hated him for this behavior. I'd rather spend that night in a sound sleep.

That day, Xue Qian twisted my thigh hard. I opened my eyes in pain, and was about to scream twice, when he whispered in my ear, "Don't talk, here." ”

I didn't know what was coming, so I waited nervously with my eyes wide in the dark. The originally smooth heartbeat instantly slammed into the ring.

A few seconds later, I heard the sound of rushing water. I had a thrill in my heart: right down there we were, something must be swimming.

I didn't dare to move my head, I squinted at Mr. Lu, and then I found that his body was hidden in a pile of shadows, and I couldn't find him at all.

My eyes widened to see what was going on with Mr. Lu. At this time, I noticed that the pile of shadows was slowly wriggling.

I immediately got goosebumps on my back, and something was lying on top of him.

Before I could see what Mr. Lu was, what was on him. Suddenly, I smelled a strong fishy smell. Not bloody, but fishy in the water.

Then, something wet covered my head.

I quickly closed my eyes. Don't dare to open your eyes anymore.

I felt a damp body, as soft as aquatic weeds, squirming and crawling over me.

At this time, you can understand it even if you don't have to look at it. I guess my current appearance is not much different from Mr. Lu. It's all covered in a disgusting mass, and you can't see the appearance of a person.

I don't know why, but Mr. Lu's words kept echoing in my heart: "Until now, I haven't figured out what it is." ”

I lay upright on the ground, not daring to move, trying to pretend to be a corpse.

Then, I felt a soft thing touch my forehead, and then licked the blood on my brow one by one.

I couldn't stop beating the drum in my heart: Does this thing have a tongue? ”

I saw him licking for a long time, but he never meant to stop. So I couldn't help it, and slowly opened my eyes a slit. I took one look at him and was terrified.

Lying on top of me was a swollen man. His face had been blistered white, three times the size of a normal person. The night was too dark for me to tell if he was male or female, and in fact, even during the day, I was afraid I couldn't tell his gender. But I'm sure he's not alive, and no one can survive if they're swollen like this. I reckon he's a water ghost.

I don't know how he got in. He lay on top of me, and he didn't do anything other than lick the blood.

I thought to myself, "Are these water ghosts here to eat?" The blood on our heads is their food? ”

After thinking about it like this, I slowly relaxed. If it's really as I thought, although it is a little disgusting, but after all, it is not life-threatening. Maybe it's really as Mr. Lu said, just treat yourself as if you didn't see anything and just endure it.

I had just thought of this when suddenly, a tingling pain came from the center of my eyebrows. I felt like something was puncturing my skin.

I was shocked: "This kind of place is damp to death, I don't know how many kinds of poisons, and my forehead has been pierced, I'm afraid it's not a good sign." What's more, this sting may be caused by a water ghost. "Pit Hua is dying.

I wanted to reach out and throw the water ghost out of my body. But I finally held back. I don't have that guts.

After a few minutes, the water ghost left my body, and the pain in my forehead was gone.

The water ghosts retreated near the bamboo wall, and then their bodies fell softly through the cracks in the wall and back into the water.

I heard a splash, and then it got quieter and quieter, and it got farther and farther away from us.

After a few minutes, the sound of the water completely disappeared. I heard Mr. Lu, who was lying next to me, breathe a sigh of relief: "Okay, it's okay now." ”

I got up and looked at him condescendingly: "Mr. Lu, what the hell is going on?" What's that thing? ”

Mr. Lu smiled bitterly: "What is it, haven't you seen it?" ”

I said, "I did open my eyes." I think they're supposed to be water ghosts. ”

Xue Qian on the side said: "Shouldn't the water ghost find a stand-in?" How can anyone lick someone else's forehead? Moreover, Do ghosts have such flexible tongues? ”

Standing too tall in the night always has a feeling of insecurity. I stood up in a hurry just now, and after the emotion was steady, I sat down slowly.

I put my hand on my forehead and touched it gently, and the place where I had just stabbed seemed to be without a wound. "I always feel like they're licking our foreheads like they're eating," I said. ”

Mr. Lu said, "You guessed right. They are eating. The blood of the aborigines here stimulates them and can drive them to do something. ”

I asked curiously, "What do you drive them to?" Lick your forehead? ”

Mr. Lu said lightly: "Spawning." ”

Two simple words exploded in my heart like a thunderbolt from the blue. Combined with the stinging pain just now, I asked in a panic, "Spawning?" We were all spawned just now? Their eggs are on us? ”

Mr. Lu nodded and said, "Don't panic, someone will help you take it out when the time comes." ”

Xue Qian was calmer than me, and he said, "It was obviously a water ghost just now, why did the water ghost still lay eggs?" ”

Mr. Lu smiled bitterly and said, "This is what I don't understand. It may be that there is something else hidden in the body of the water spirit. ”

I asked Mr. Lui, "What happens after we are spawned?" Once these eggs hatch in our heads, we don't survive. ”

Suddenly, I thought of something, cold sweat flowed down instantly, I pointed to the water waves under the bamboo prison, and said anxiously: "I understand, these water ghosts were also laid eggs before they were born. And then they died. Soak in the river all day. ”

Mr. Lu crawled over, patted me on the shoulder, and said compassionately: "Zhao Mang, you don't have to worry. Killing is not the goal, they have no malice. These eggs are not meant to kill us, but to give us an identity that allows us to move freely through these villages. They're like passports. ”

I pointed to the river at my feet and asked, "Then how do you explain the water ghosts inside?" ”

Mr. Lu smiled bitterly: "Perhaps, the disobedient person will be killed." ”

Xue Qian, who had been sitting next to her without making a sound, said at this time: "I understand, we may be in Miao Village now, and these eggs are very likely to be Gu." ”

When Xue Qian said this, Mr. Lu was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, he jumped over, covered Xue Qian's mouth, and then shouted in a low voice: "You must not say this in front of the people here." Do you think they really don't understand us? ”

Xue Qian shook her head twice, indicating that she understood.

Mr. Lu slowly let go of him, and then said: "From now on, don't talk nonsense, if you have any guesses, hold it in your stomach." I can't even tell where this place is, but I can tell you clearly, it's not as simple as Miao Village. Moreover, in the next few days, the people you will see will not necessarily be alive. ”