Chapter Twenty-Four: The Ghost in the Eater
Xiao Pepper is a Sichuan soldier, he is not big, with the unique ability to speak and be smart and clever in Sichuan. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
But after others came back from the health team, Pepper became like a different soul, becoming silent, often forgetful in doing things, and the most terrible thing is that when he was alone in the house, he always muttered a vague word to the wall, as if it was...... Plums, plums.
In his case, the first and second times he was encountered, it may be accidental, but if he meets more, it will inevitably attract everyone's attention and suspicion. Especially Zhao Hong, who was on the bunk with Xiao Chili, was even more frightened by his sudden outbreak of "habits".
After a few more days, Zhao Hong hurriedly came to me and said that Xiao Pepper was too abnormal these days, not only did he talk in his sleep at night, but also went out to steal food.
I asked Zhao Hong a little incomprehensibly: "It's not normal to eat secretly!" Didn't you eat the raw seafood Baturu when he first came? ”
"It's not that simple!" Zhao Hong waved his hand in a suppressed voice and said: "I can't describe the specifics, anyway, he will run to the kitchen at night, you ...... Come with me to the kitchen tonight and we'll find out! ”
Under Zhao Hong's teasing, the two of us planned to set up an ambush at night to see how his little pepper was stealing and why he ran to the kitchen at night.
At night, Zhao Hong and I took the opportunity to get up at night, hurriedly slipped into the kitchen of the cooking class, and the two of us found a cage drawer for steamed steamed buns to cover their heads, hid themselves, and quietly waited for Xiao Chili to visit, but waited left and right, but he was nowhere to be seen.
In a trance, the time had passed eleven o'clock unconsciously, and just when the two of us wanted to give up and go back, the kitchen door suddenly opened with a bang.
Immediately after, a thin body walked in from outside the door.
In the dark night, Zhao Hongquan and I used the cage drawer to block our bodies, and between the cage drawers, the two of us couldn't see clearly. But it was also vaguely distinguished, and the person who walked in should be Little Pepper.
In the dark of night, Pepper's hazy body was very rickety, and instead of looking for anything to eat as I imagined, he grabbed a potato and began to ...... Peel?
This action is intriguing enough.
For a long time, Pepper has been in charge of peeling all kinds of vegetables in the cooking class, but what is the matter with his peeling at night? What about skilled business? If you don't turn on the lights yet, aren't you afraid of hurting your hands?
However, after observing for a while, I was shocked to find that it was not a potato at all...... It's your own hands!
In the hazy night, Pepper held a bright kitchen knife in her hand, first cut her wrists, and then picked at her skin, muscles, blood vessels, and bones little by little in front of our eyes......
Even in the dark of night, I could still feel the blood, and I could see the involuntary excited smile on the corner of his mouth......
That scene shocked me at the time, and to put it bluntly, it was the first time I saw someone hurt themselves, and I was getting more and more excited, and I didn't even dare to breathe out of the atmosphere when I saw the scenery.
But at this time, Zhao Hong, who was not angry with me, suddenly screamed because of his huge psychological depression.
"Mom!" Zhao Hong's shouting at that time was as terrifying as it was today a few years later, and what happened because of his voice was even more terrifying!
After Xiao Pepper heard Zhao Hong's howl, he immediately gave up the act of cutting his hand, and a big white hand grabbed the kitchen knife with him and slashed at Zhao Hong. Because the whole process was so sudden and fast, that we were all scared stupid by the sudden attack of Little Pepper, and no one resisted or dodged!
Just when I thought Zhao Hong was going to die, the kitchen light suddenly turned on.
With the brightness of the lamp, the little pepper that was excited just now, and the little pepper that cut people immediately evaporated and disappeared.
Instead, it was the face of the old squad leader Tie Sensen.
The old squad leader withdrew his hand to turn on the light, looked at the two of us trembling under the cage drawer, and asked sharply: "You two! Why not sleep! ”
Zhao Hong grabbed snot and tears in fright, naturally he couldn't say anything, and I still maintained my basic ability to speak.
Indeed, I am not the one who will be stabbed.
So, I stood up, gasped for uneven breath, and said, "We just saw that Little Pepper was cutting his veins and committing suicide. ”
The old squad leader glanced at us, then pointed to the barracks adjacent to the kitchen and said, "Isn't Pepper asleep?" ”
The old squad leader's words were like a sponge in my throat.
Subconsciously, I ran back to the bed to take a look, and sure enough, I saw Pepper lying on the bed, resting quietly. It seems that he has never left the bed at all, let alone cut his arm.
I was dumbfounded, and what made me even more dumbfounded was that the old squad leader suddenly patted me on the shoulder from behind, signaling me not to make a noise and Zhao Hong to go to the kitchen with him.
When we arrived in the kitchen with the old squad leader, the trembling atmosphere was uneven, and for a long time, we looked at the old squad leader with big eyes, and our brains stopped thinking.
The squad leader looked at our bad state, and first spoke comfortingly: "Okay! Remember for the rest of your life! The more you are afraid of seeing those 'evil' things, the more they will harm you. ”
As he spoke, the old squad leader pointed at Zhao Hong and said, "What's the use of being afraid?" Wouldn't it be nice to calm down and turn on the lights like I did? Even if you can't turn on the light, what can the things in your dream do to you? Even if it's true, what are you afraid of with an iron steamer on your head? Haven't studied military boxing? Wouldn't you beat someone? Pepper is so short, will you lose if you cut it? ”
"In a dream?" I looked up and said, "You mean we were dreaming just now?" …”
The squad leader shook his head and said, "It's not that you two are dreaming!" It's Pepper dreaming! You just happened to break in......"
I listened to the old squad leader's words, and it seemed that he knew exactly what was going on!
I was no longer as scared as before, but instead told my squad leader everything I had seen, and asked him what happened to Pepper. Why do we ...... will break into other people's dreams.
The old squad leader told me very happily: "There are some things that can make dreams become real...... Pepper is fine for the time being, and it won't be available for long...... Sooner or later, he will not be able to tell the difference between dreams and reality, and I am afraid that what you see in your dreams will also become true. ”
"Huh?!" Zhao Hong and I were stunned.
After that, the old squad leader first asked me for a Beidaihe cigarette, and after a few puffs, he told us: "At this time tomorrow, mobilize all the people in the cooking class and do what I say!" Let's draw out the 'yin and evil' in Pepper's body, and his dreams will not affect himself and others. But beforehand, you have to ...... Pepper first."
The old squad leader's orders are actually very shady.
…… The next day, we trained, cooked, and were on duty as usual, the only difference was that before Pepper went to bed, I secretly put two and a half sleeping pills in the water cup he was used to drinking at night according to the instructions of the squad leader, and tricked him into drinking them all!
I promise, even if you beat him up at night, this thing will never wake up.
At about eleven o'clock in the evening, the old squad leader woke up everyone in the cooking class on time.
Before the action, the old squad leader specially told us that "the heart is born of doubt, and fear is born from the heart", and don't be afraid of anything you see for a while! If you don't want to see it, close your eyes, and if you don't want to participate, avoid it first, otherwise it will be taken advantage of by the "yin and evil", which is not fun.
After the order was in place, as expected, only Zhao Hong and I stayed.
I know, the big guys are actually muttering in their hearts. This kind of thing is typical of people who meet people want to see it, and people who don't see it don't see it. Moreover, in such a special environment as the army, it is better to have more than less.
And this is probably the result that the old squad leader wants.
Later, the old squad leader found half a white candle to illuminate it, and put a raw egg on Pepper's head.
Subsequently, the squad leader didn't know where to get some moldy glutinous rice, and after we mashed it, it was curled into a paper cigarette and lit for the chili pepper to absorb.
At that time, the old squad leader told me for the first time: "Glutinous rice is a magical thing, my older generation said, fresh can cure corpse poison, moldy can attract yin ghosts, with it, we are all ready, only owe the east wind."
So, I asked the old squad leader what Dongfeng was? The squad leader smiled mysteriously at me, took out a pair of chopsticks from his arms and said, "This is Dongfeng!" For a while, it's all up to it to 'subdue demons and eliminate demons'. ”
I looked at the guy in his hand, and I almost felt that the old squad leader was joking with me.
It's just a red chopstick, and there's nothing unusual about it.
In the face of my incomprehension, the old squad leader did not explain too much, he explained everything to me with practical actions.
The old squad leader poked the raw egg at the bottom and placed it on Pepper's head, and at the same time lit a cigarette and smoked it little by little in the dark.
He held the red chopsticks in his right hand, like a guy ready to scoop fritters at any moment, sometimes staring at the egg, sometimes looking at his cigarette butts.
In the silence, we saw the egg whites slowly flow out, down Pepper's forehead and into his nose, Renzhong, and finally ...... It flowed into his mouth.
The old squad leader looked at the slowly flowing egg white, and when the egg white flowed into the mouth of the little pepper, he raised his chopsticks at the same time, and at the same time instructed us: "Hold his hands and feet, no matter what you see, don't be afraid!" ”
We didn't know what the old squad leader's words meant, but we all meticulously carried out the squad leader's orders. After steadying Pepper's limbs, he stared at the egg motionless, just like the old squad leader.
After getting our response, the old squad leader put his face to Pepper's ear and kept repeating a word.
That word is also what Pepper has been repeating lately: "Plum, plum......"
A moment later, just when the egg white was almost running out, we suddenly saw Pepper's sleeping mouth, slowly opening wide!
Little Pepper's mouth enlarged little by little like a machine, and we were amazed to see that the mouth had grown inexorably to a terrifying size, enough to hold seven or eight eggs.
We all understand that the thing that the old squad leader called "yin evil" is about to come out of the mouth of Little Pepper.