Chapter 44: The Taste of Human Flesh
Seeing that the sky was about to darken, in order to save time, we hurriedly planned to find other mountain trails.
Fortunately, in this mountain, there are hundreds of years ago where the common people lived, and some mountain roads have also been opened, although it is still very difficult to walk like this, but like the plank road, now barely walking on it, it is estimated that there is no problem.
Walking on the mountain road, Yuxuan, who had not spoken all this time, finally couldn't help but say to me: Who is this lame old man? What's the use of you bringing him here?
I whispered to her: It's not convenient to reveal it for the time being, because he is a high-ranking person, and we will definitely get his help with him!
Yu Xuan sighed and stopped talking, we walked halfway, the sky had already darkened, Zhuge Cheng and Uncle Windbreaker, who were walking in front, turned on the prepared large flashlight.
Yuxuan and I walked behind, and at the same time turned on the medium-sized flashlight, and when we were about to climb over this mountain, I was shocked and stunned for a moment.
Yuxuan immediately asked me: Fusheng, what's wrong with you?
I slapped myself on the back of the head and said, "I think I've seen this scene around me!"
These words caused a reaction from Zhuge Cheng, who was walking in front, and he turned around and asked me: Have you been here before?
"Nope! It's definitely the first time I've been to this place, but seeing it, I just feel very familiar! ”
At the moment when I finished speaking, a feeling of enlightenment appeared in my brain!
I turned around abruptly, and the moment I turned on the medium flashlight, I yelled, "That's right! This is it! I can't be mistaken! ”
The line of the medium-sized flashlight stretched into the distance, and a strong white light shone on the mountain road behind us, which seemed calm and unremarkable, and there was nothing.
The rest of the people looked at me inexplicably, and Yuxuan asked in a low voice: Fusheng, what are you doing?
I stared at the surroundings of the mountain road, only to feel a large cold back, the location predicted by the ghost eye at that time was here, this is not wrong, although the picture at that time flashed, but this place is located on the top of the mountain, the surrounding environment and visual effects are different from the halfway up the mountain, so I will recognize it.
But the moment I turned around, I didn't see the black shadow I expected.
I said, maybe I was too suspicious, so let everyone keep going.
On the way, I whispered to Yuxuan: as soon as there is a noise behind him, turn back immediately.
I believed in Yuxuan, and she also believed in me, and when she heard my advice, she nodded silently.
It's just that the second half of the road is much easier to walk, and going down the mountain is less troublesome than going up, everyone knows?
At about ten o'clock in the evening, we finally arrived at the place where the finger lantern had occurred.
Blue Sands.
The scale of this town is really not much better than a modern small village, and the entrance of Lansha Town is densely covered with many weeds, waist-high and waist-high, I don't know if there are snakes, insects, rats and ants in it.
Lying on the weeds and carefully entering this ancient town, a terrible cold wind came in my face, I tightened my coat, grabbed the flashlight and shot around the town.
The architecture of this town is indeed a unique Jiangnan town style during the Qing Dynasty, with blue tiles and white walls, wooden doors and windows, and due to the long time, everywhere looks dilapidated.
At this moment, the lame old man said to us: everyone be careful, there seems to be something dirty in this ancient town!
A group of five of us stood on the main road of the town, stepping on the bluestone pavement, and even the cracks of the slate were overgrown with countless weeds.
On both sides of the eaves of the main road, almost every house has hung red lanterns, most of which are made of wood, which is relatively strong, but the white paper or red cloth of the lake outside has long been rotted by the rain or wind.
"Big brother, do you know the location of that ancient well?" Zhuge Cheng told me that the last time I came by myself, I didn't dare to go in here alone, and it was more than ten o'clock in the evening at the moment, so let's find a place to rest and talk about it tomorrow!
At night, especially in the middle of the night, it is especially easy to encounter dirty things, and although we are afraid, we still have to rest.
A few of us kicked off the rotten wooden door, each of us cleaned it briefly, and began to set up a sleeping place.
After being hungry all day, we start to prepare our rice bowls, and we don't know what to cook?
The moment I was cooking rice in a pressure cooker, suddenly, a strong smell of meat wafted into my nostrils, I absorbed it vigorously, and said: It's so fragrant, who brought the meat?
Everyone was stunned at the same time, you look at me and I look at you, indicating that I don't know.
I said, "Don't hide it, I'm not asking you what you want, I'm just going to see who brought it."
Everyone still looked at each other, then looked at the pressure cooker, and after looking at it for a while, they didn't speak.
I asked: Yuxuan, you brought it, right?
Yuxuan replied: I brought it, but it is cooked beef, and it doesn't need to be cooked!
"Master Li, are you cooking meat?"
When I asked Chen Ye, I asked with a smile, after all, I knew that he liked to eat meat and also liked to drink.
But he pointed to the pressure cooker and said, "No, it's just instant noodles I cooked!" ”
I asked Uncle Trench Coat again: What about you? What are you cooking?
Uncle Trench Coat said: I'm boiling water, and I haven't had time to cook anything yet.
The rest of Zhuge Cheng, he didn't bring food at all, because he was a scarecrow and didn't need to eat at all.
After I had finished asking questions, everyone couldn't laugh anymore, and the whole room fell silent.
Although everyone stared at each other without speaking, and did not move, their eyes were full of horror, and the smell of meat was still wafting back and forth in our nostrils, and we all smelled it at the same time.
Slowly, my body couldn't help but tremble, and a chill welled up on my back, since we are not cooking meat, then where does this meat smell come from?
Suddenly, Zhuge Cheng took off the large sunglasses on his eyes and said: No, this seems to be the smell of dead corpses!
If none of us have ever cooked meat, then this meat smell must not have been produced by us, could it be that there are other people living in this Blue Sand Town?
But no one has been to this place for so long? It's possible that there was a family that has been here for generations, but we don't know, but if we infer it this way, it really feels like there are other people here.
For the sake of prudence, Zhuge and I said, "Why don't we go outside and have a look, and the rest of us will stay here!" ”
I said that I wanted to go out, Yuxuan would naturally follow behind me, Zhuge Cheng thought about it for a while, and let the uncle in the windbreaker and the lame old man stay in place, they agreed, after all, we have the experience of going to Longhu Mountain last time, and we will not leave the climbing mountain or any other tools and food here, otherwise it will be troublesome if it is stolen by others as if it was last time.
Don't know how far you have to go along the way? Leaving them here, Zhuge Cheng and I each grabbed a long knife and walked outside, followed by Yuxuan.
The long knife is a weapon that we prepared before we came, you may say how to bring it to the car, these knives should not pass the inspection if they are checked, this is Zhuge Cheng does not know how to drown, anyway, he has a way.
When we came to the main road of Lansha Town, and saw the bleak streets after midnight, the old but pavilions, and the faint lanterns and candles in the distance, we couldn't help but feel cold in our hearts, and some dust was raised on the ground, and we had to cover our noses and walk a distance in the direction that smelled of dead bodies.
This section of the road is a bit difficult to walk, because it is impossible to walk on the streets of Lansha Town in the middle of the night without lighting, and our flashlight lighting range is limited, to see the road clearly, you must be slower, otherwise it will not be good to step on something.
After a dilapidated house that resembles a hotel, we went around here, and we saw some weeds and trees, which felt quite desolate, Yuxuan couldn't help but snort and shiver at this time, I asked her if it was too cold, so I took off my clothes and let her wear them.
She said thank you, and we continued to follow the smell of the dead body, hoping to find the source as soon as possible.
Take the flashlight and turn around some places, here is a tall wall, there are some garbage cans, I don't know how long I haven't taken care of it, the garbage inside has turned into sand, or with the cold wind at night flying on the street, somewhere in the street I don't know what will exist, because this blue sand town is far away from the city, so at this night there will be no lights in the distance, the whole world is good things fell into a dead silence and pitch black.
Plus the smell of this dead corpse feels closer and closer, but it's a little strange, this smell is too far away, right?
It's a bit of a problem that we haven't arrived after walking for so long, but we still have to go on, and if we don't find the source of the smell, our hearts won't settle down.
As a result, after passing through a few dilapidated houses, we felt that this smell should have come from here, and at this moment the sky was full of dark clouds, pitch black, and countless dark clouds seemed to be pressed down, making people feel depressed when they looked at it, and I don't know what it would be like to encounter a heavy rainstorm in this ancient almost town.
Seeing that it was about to rain heavily, Yuxuan asked me what to do?
The three of us came to the outside of the hall of the house, and found that there was another room here, and we carefully pushed open the wooden door and entered here, and we heard a gurgling sound like boiling water, and then saw a clay pot on top of a pile of firewood, and it seemed that there were really people living here.
I don't know what kind of meat is soaked in the water of the clay jar, Zhuge Cheng told me that this meat looks a bit like mutton, but the taste comes from people, I don't know why it is like this.
But there's no one else here, it can't be a ghost roasting meat here, if it's not a ghost, why don't we see anything, if it really wants to appear, I'm ready now, if you want to be scared, hurry up!
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