Chapter 61: Spirits
With the help of the fat civet cat, I finally had a chance to take a closer look at where I was, and after the light swept away, I saw that it was a sinkhole-like hole.
The hole I fell from was camouflaged by plants, but it was actually very large, but the sinkhole was funnel-shaped, smaller and smaller the further down it went, and the surrounding rock walls were all lumps of black rock.
The position I am in now is an irregular triangle, the light can hit the head directly, dense and colorful snakes are entangled, as the big tanuki wields, many of them have been made into two pieces, snake blood everywhere, there is a very fishy smell in the air.
Just as the tanuki was slaughtering, suddenly, a rope hung down from it, dangling right in front of my eyes.
I was stunned for a moment, and when I looked up in the light, I saw that the rope was very long, and it should have hung down from the top of the pit, but because the pit was too deep, I couldn't see the situation above.
At this moment, I heard a woman's voice shouting to me, "Xiao Su, come up!" ”
It was Ke Xiangu's voice.
As soon as the tanuki heard this, the cat turned its head and no longer went to kill the snake, but quickly climbed up the stone wall.
Cats are very good at climbing, plus the pimples on the stone wall, uneven, more convenient for its movements, so don't look at it fat a little out of shape, but the crawling is still quite flexible.
After climbing two steps, he turned around and yelled at me twice.
Without the suppression of the fat civet cat, the surrounding snakes suddenly besieged me again, and eighty percent of them were killed by some of the same kind, which seemed to be even more ferocious.
Frightened, I didn't care so much, so I quickly grabbed the rope and was about to climb up, but the rope pulled up by itself.
Shaking and falling, I gradually saw the situation above, but I saw that Zhou Xuanye and others, who had disappeared, were standing at the entrance of the hole where I fell, burying their heads in my condition.
I'm a little confused, aren't they missing?
I didn't respond to that just now, why did it suddenly appear now?
I was quickly pulled up, Ke Xiangu shook her thick arms, dragged me out directly, squatted down and began to count me: "Didn't I say you, Xiao Su, in the middle of the night, what are you tossing around." ”
The rest of the people were all looking at me, and they were waiting for me to explain what I had done wrong, and I was about to ask what was going on with them, when something suddenly burst out of the hole and rushed out in the blink of an eye.
Naturally, I was stunned and wanted to chase, so I hurriedly stopped him: "Stop chasing, it's a big tanuki, it saved me just now." Boss Brother Zhou, where did you go before? ”
Zhou Xuanye and Tan Jian glanced at each other, and finally Zhou Xuanye said: "We have been sleeping in the ancestral hall, and then we heard the movement, got up and took a look, and found that you were gone." ”
Ke Xiangu added: "When we went out, we saw your footprints and snake marks on the ground, so we chased after us." ”
I was shocked, could I have made a mistake?
Tan Jian opened his mouth without annoyance and asked me what was going on, and how did the fat civet cat come from just now.
When Ke Xiangu heard this, she immediately said that it was dangerous, and she said to us that this is the junction of mountains, deep forests and dense forests, and the land of feng shui is vigorous, but there are no big mountains.
As the saying goes, the mountains gather aura, and the small mountains produce spirits, and there have always been many folk tales of mountain spirits and ghosts in the area of small bone mounds.
What is the beauty snake ginseng essence fox spirit civet spirit mountain mao'er ghost king flower mother-in-law, Ke Xiangu grew up listening to these stories since she was a child.
This group of mountains stretches, there are no big mountains, the aura is not bellless, and the earth qi is scattered, giving birth to many mountain spirits and ghosts.
These mountain spirits and ghosts are generally avoidant of people, and will not take the initiative to approach people, most of them are relatively kind, only a small part, such as the beauty snake ghost King Hua Granny and the like, it is said that they are very vicious and like to eat people.
Ke Xiangu said, in my case, eighty percent of them helped the tanuki before, and annoyed the big snake, so the mountain spirit black snake made some tricks to lure me here and give it those children and grandchildren a pastime.
This tanuki is grateful to repay me, knowing that I have fallen for the black snake's trick, so he specially came to help me.
As she spoke, she pointed to the right, and I looked along and was suddenly startled, it turned out that there was a huge dead snake in that place, wasn't it the one that wanted to eat the tanuki before?
"What's wrong with it?"
I couldn't help but ask.
Tan Jian snorted coldly and said, "What else, naturally we killed you." ”
That's when I noticed that the natural stupid, who had been silent, still had blood on his scythe.
It seems that he came to follow my traces, but he encountered this big snake.
This snake's Taoism is not very good, so he was hacked to death by the natural idiot.
At this moment, there was no pain in my body, and my brain was buzzing, and I secretly thanked the tanuki, and I followed everyone back to the ancestral hall.
Along the way, Ke Xiangu told us about some local legends about mountain spirits, the most terrifying of which was Granny Hua.
It is said that the flower mother is a plant, no one knows what kind of plant it is, it has been a monster for a long time, it can move freely, and there are many flower buds on its body, and each flower bud is an old woman's face.
After it catches a person or prey, it will roll it up and send it to its mouth, and the old woman-like face will show a big smile, wrinkled together, and it is extremely terrifying.
Granny Hua's mouth is full of sharp thorns, no teeth, when eating people, slowly spit in, long thorns, piercing people's heads, pricking them one by one, and turning them into its nourishment.
To put it simply, it's a carnivorous plant.
The old people in the village sometimes scare children who like to run in the mountains, and they like to say: Be careful when you meet the flower mother-in-law in the mountains, who eats you as fertilizer.
Needless to say, the beauty snake has legends about it everywhere.
And this big snake that was killed was obviously not a beauty snake, and its Taoism was not as high as that of a beauty snake.
I heard that the ghost king is a very good ghost, and there are a bunch of imps under his hands, and he generally does not take the initiative to harm others, but if you enter its territory, you will become a human and become its little ghost.
It is said that someone's son went missing, and when they went into the mountains to search for it during the day, they found a dried corpse, and the family took the dried corpse back.
Unexpectedly, that night, the son's little ghost came back, saying that he had been ordered by the ghost king to punish the corpse thief.
The little ghost who was completely manipulated killed his family before his death.
The next day, when the villagers opened the door, they saw blood all over the ground.
When I heard this, I couldn't help but say, "Are there really so many mountain spirits and ghosts?" That Ke Xiangu, you usually go around the mountain alone, aren't you afraid? ”
Ke Xiangu said: "Most of the mountain spirits and ghosts are harmless, and they take the initiative to avoid people, where is it so easy to encounter, and our ancestors have been turning mountains for generations, there is a fixed road, which is very safe." ”
Avoiding people?
I couldn't help but say, "In that case, why did I meet two spirits at once?" ”
Ke Xiangu looked at me with strange eyes and said, "I also wonder, I often spend the night here, and I have never encountered these things, why did you meet two of them as soon as you came?" ”
I smiled bitterly, my heart said that I have golden muscles and jade bones, I have always been worried about thieves, I used to think that I only need to guard against people, but now it seems that I have to guard against these mountain spirits and ghosts, for a while I think Alexander.
At this time, Tan Jian suddenly said: "I'm afraid it has something to do with the corpse." ”
"Corpses?"
I thought of the hollowed-out pit, and then thought of the tanuki's appearance of digging the pit before, and I couldn't help but say, "What is the use of old corpses for them?" ”
Ke Xiangu said: "I've heard that eating Tai Sui can prolong life, but I don't know what the use of the old corpse is. The corpse of the year is random, very rare, and it is generally dug up in ancient times, and it is necessary to bury it deeply. ”
As we spoke, we were about to approach the location of the ancestral hall, and at this moment, from the direction of the ancestral hall, a burst of gunfire suddenly came out, and the sound was very harsh in the night sky.
Everyone was startled, they didn't know what was going on, and Feng Ghost Hand, who was at the back and looked sleepy and tired, was suddenly awakened by the sound of the gunshot, and said, "Damn, who is letting go of the gun!" ”
He was sensitive to the gunshots, and his expression suddenly became nervous.
In the dark, you can already see the location of the ancestral hall, Zhou Xuanye and the others did not extinguish the bonfire when they left, for such a long time, the bonfire should have been extinguished, but at this moment, from the ancestral hall, there was a shadowy light, accompanied by the light and shadow kept flashing, it was the sound of banging gunshots.
Could it be someone from the capital?
I can't think of anyone else who would shoot but them.
But at this moment, we are a little far away, so there is no way to see the situation inside the ancestral hall, at this time, Ke Xiangu stomped her feet and said: "It's over, a few 'ancestors' are still inside!" ”
I was shocked, what if those guys shot and accidentally injured the body?
But now, we can't rush in, and if we do, we're going to die.
In a hurry, Zhou Xuanye signaled us not to worry, he thought about it, and then pointed to a few big trees in the distance, let us hide first.
Feng Ghost said, "What about yourself?" ”
Zhou Xuanye said: "I will take the corpse out, but it may cause the pursuit of those people, you don't have to worry about me, I have a way." ”
After speaking, he waved his hand and motioned for us to hurry up