Chapter 16: Midnight House
Ghosts? I couldn't believe it, although I always suspected that there were ghosts around me, but I had never seen it, and now I won't believe what this villager says.
Seeing that I didn't seem to believe it, the old man said very seriously: "You can't help but believe it, there were other people who tried to go up the mountain the night before, but none of them came back!" ”
Listening to the other party's words, my heart tightened, but no one can prove it, it was all said by the old man himself, at this moment a child broke free from a woman's hand, came over, and said to us: "No, there should be a dragon on the mountain!" ”
"Dragons?" I thought it was because this kid had watched too many cartoons that he thought of the word dragon and couldn't help but smile.
I didn't think that I would smile like this, but the old man was a little angry: "There is indeed a dragon on the mountain, if you don't believe in the past, you will know, but I still don't want you to go up, unless you don't want to live!" ”
The old man was very sincere when he spoke, and he also carried a shocking aura, which made people feel that they couldn't believe it, and at this moment Geng Simeng couldn't help but interject: "How can there be dragons in the world?" ”
Unexpectedly, he was immediately rebuked by the other villagers, and one man scolded: "There is indeed a dragon on the mountain, if you don't believe it, wait to die!" ”
I was speechless, but since they said so, I thought that it would be dangerous to have no dragons on the mountain, so I asked the old man, "Is there any place to stay at night?" ”
"There's an old house not far from the opposite!"
As he spoke, I hurriedly thanked him, and then sent the new China I bought around before leaving.
Walking in Longhu Village at night, I asked them, "Do you want to go up the mountain or go to accommodation?" ”
Uncle Trench Coat said without thinking about it: "Go up the mountain!" ”
But Geng Simeng said: "No, it's so late now, it's not safe!" ”
Uncle Trench Coat stopped talking, looked at me, Geng Simeng also looked at me, now the decisive vote is in my hands, I looked at the surrounding desolate environment, and thought of the villagers' reminders, and finally said: "It's so late, let's rest, let's go to the ancient house to see!" ”
Actually, I don't want to offend Uncle Trench Coat, but it must be dangerous to go to the mountain so late, and the villagers said that there are so many terrifying things on the Dragon and Tiger Mountain, so I have to say this to them.
Uncle Trench Coat knew that I was going to stay here, so he didn't say anything that should be acquiescing, but he said let's go to the ancient house first and check the environment nearby.
That's right, after all, we came here and didn't know what was going on around here.
If Uncle Trench Coat goes to see it, Geng Simeng and I don't have to worry about it.
When we found the old house, we found it in a dilapidated state, with a lot of damaged furniture inside, a large piece of the wall collapsed, and the surrounding area was covered with moss, the top was missing, and strangely there was an oil painting of a woman covered with a red headscarf on the wall in the middle of the hall.
Seeing it, Geng Simeng couldn't help but shout out, and I was also frightened by the deliberate picture at the same time, only the uncle in the trench coat was still standing there unfazed.
"It's okay, it's just a painting, don't worry about it, let's hurry up and tidy up here, you see it's so dirty and it has to be cleaned!"
Uncle Trench Coat gave us a suggestion like never before, and we thought about it for a while, so we quickly helped him start tidying up the house, moving the useless furniture, finding a broom in the backyard to clean it, and then taking out some outdoor equipment in the backpack to sleep in the open, tent sleeping bags or something, and when it was ready, we went to bed early.
After all, we walked a lot this morning, and now everyone is tired enough, I never thought that when I slept until midnight, I suddenly felt some forehead chatter sound from the top of the house, because the sound was obvious, so I couldn't help but poke my head out and look outside, but I didn't know that I found that there seemed to be a black figure moving at the top.
This village is full of tall willow trees, and it is absolutely possible to climb to the top of this ancient house after passing through the willow trees.
If this is the case, we are in a very dangerous situation now, I hurriedly pushed Geng Simeng's tent next to me, hoping that she could wake up, I never thought that she would be like dead, there was no reaction at all, there was no way, I had to open my mouth to her side and say: "Geng Simeng, something happened, there is a black figure above us!" ”
The other party still didn't respond, so I moved to the other side, Uncle Trench Coat, and then went to call him, who knew that he didn't seem to respond, I got closer, and now a bleak moonlight was shining into the outside of the room.
At that moment, I saw that Uncle Trench Coat had only a branch supporting a pillow in his tent, and a quilt wrapped in it, and from a distance, it looked like someone was sleeping there, but in fact, there was no one in it for a long time!
What was he doing so late, I quickly left the tent, intending to walk overhead, very lightly, and when I got outside, I sped up and ran out, I wanted to get away and see what was standing above the roof.
When I got there, I found a woman in gray clothes hanging from a tree, her body swaying with the midnight wind, the movement was straight, as if she had been dead for a long time, the woman's tongue was long and answered, because of the moonlight, reflected on the roof, so it felt like there was a dark shadow on it!!
So that's the case, who is this woman? I got closer, and at this moment she happened to turn slowly with the wind, my eyes were just on her head, she didn't know how to describe it, the whole thing seemed to be dry, and when she saw me, she fell down with a bang!!
Geng Simeng, who was in the tent at that moment, shouted, and I immediately rushed in, and found that there was nothing in Geng Simeng's tent at all, she clenched her arms and pointed at it in fear: "What are these things?" ”
I hurried over and asked her what was wrong, and she handed me her hand, and I found something like fish scales on it, and sniffed it with my nose, and a burst of fishy stench came from it.
Geng Simeng's hands actually grew fish scales, what's going on?
In surprise, Uncle Trench Coat suddenly came back, and he said: "This is a dragon scale, only in Dragon Tiger Mountain!" ”
"Dragon scales?" Geng Simeng and I turned our heads in surprise at the same time, could it be that there really is a dragon in this Dragon and Tiger Mountain.
Uncle Trench Coat ignored me, sat on the ground, wrote something on the ground with one finger, and became serious again, I talked about other issues with Geng Simeng, and asked why Uncle Trench Coat went out, and he replied that I went out to explore the terrain.
Just now I said that I want to look at the environment, and now I go to explore the terrain, is there really so much that needs to be explored in this place?
Then I walked over and saw Uncle Trench Coat drawing some words on the mud and sand, so I asked, "Do you know what this is?" ”
"I don't understand, it should be some ancient language!"
At this time, Geng Simeng came over, saw us discussing, looked at the words and said to us: "I know what it means!" ”
When Uncle Trench Coat heard Geng Simeng say this, he immediately became interested: "What does this mean?" ”
Geng Simeng stuck out his tongue and replied comically: "I won't tell you!" ”
"I don't let you say, go find it yourself, you think you're amazing!" Uncle Trench Coat replied, Geng Simeng pulled me to the back, did she want to tell me something, I asked her, "Do you really know?" ”
"I don't know, but if you have something he wants to know, he won't touch you, you know?"
Yes! It turned out to be like this, Geng Simeng did this to save me, I raised my hand and felt the dragon scales fall even more at this moment, this place feels like there is really a dragon village chief, these dragon scales are produced because of the dragon flying in the night sky, otherwise how should they be explained when they fall.
Or a natural phenomenon.
At this moment, I felt that my trouser pocket suddenly heated up, and it contained the work card, I picked up the work card, and the font in the work card was unexpectedly edged, and a sentence was written in it: "When the ice corpse weeps, the carp swims backwards, and the blood stains the dark clouds, it is your death!" ”
Seeing the words in the work card, I almost even had my heart jump out, is this work card predicting my death, is the ice corpse crying old refers to the fact that I saw Yuxuan before, her corpse is the ice corpse, so the ice corpse crying has appeared, and the carp swims backwards?
I know that fish don't swim backwards at all, and in Taiwan, a kind of monkfish is the most especially the gills that the head of the fish does not use to breathe, and the fins on both sides are shaped like frog legs, and there is a hole under the fins for exhaling and spraying water.
The swim bladder on the belly of the monkfish is swollen like a frog's belly, and it floats upside down on the surface of the water, and it is the only fish that swims upside down, and its front resembles a frog, so fishermen call it "water frog".
According to marine ecologists, monkfish grow mainly in the depths of the Mariana Trench, the deepest in the world, where no living creatures can survive, except monkfish survive and reproduce from generation to generation. Monkfish have large mouths, canine-like teeth, and a fishing rod on top of their heads, which can emit flashes to lure small fish, and are extremely rare to catch in Taiwan.
This fish actually just swims with its tail up and its head down, and its movements are similar, but in reality it is just an illusion.
I really don't know what's going on with this carp swimming backwards? In addition, it is even more impossible to stain the dark clouds with blood, how can blood fly into the sky?
I couldn't figure it out, Geng Simeng and Uncle Trench Coat went to sleep, I couldn't possibly still be in a daze with that work card alone, there was no way, and I couldn't solve it now, so I had to go back to sleep in the sleeping bag.
This book was first published in Reading Book Worm