Chapter 43: Midnight Terror
As soon as the old ghost left, my heart suddenly emptied, as he said, the lesson to the Song family was heavy enough, after he left, the people of Baoliu Village were a lot more polite to me, and they were also a lot more respectful, but I was not happy at all. I remember the old ghost's explanation when he left, he was cruising the river every day, trying to find the empty boat with the big bell and his grandfather. It took about seven or eight days before and after, and all the surrounding rivers had been searched, and if I wanted to find it again, I would have to lengthen the route. Song Baiyi said this, he said that he could ask someone from the village to accompany me, but the incident left a shadow on me last time, I was completely scared, and rejected his suggestion, just said that I could give a small boat, and I could find it myself.
That being said, Song Baiyi also gave the boat, but every day when I drove the boat out, there would be the Song family's raft behind, their human skin raft was similar to a ghost boat, and those dirty things in the river rarely made trouble for them, I couldn't tell if it was good intentions or surveillance, anyway, I felt uncomfortable. In the first few days, I can still drive back by boat when it is dark, and the route is getting farther and farther, and I can't catch up, unless I bring dry food or something to eat, I will go back to Baoliu Village once.
No one knew how tiring it was to walk the boat every day when the water was high, and after tossing and turning for several days, I went back to the village once and asked them to prepare some dry food. I was so tired that I went back to my room after dinner and fell asleep, I slept very deeply, and I had some intermittent dreams, I dreamed that the old ghost was walking on a road, and I also dreamed that my grandfather was sitting in a stone coffin in red clothes.
In the middle of the night, I woke up all at once, and there was no sound or movement around me, but I woke up violently. It was hot, the windows were wide open, and I was lying in bed, feeling a little weird, but I couldn't tell where the weirdness came from. After lying down for two minutes, the groggy sleepiness in my head had not completely disappeared, and a gust of night wind drifted through the window, and I smelled a foul smell, a terrible smell. The people of Baoliu Village fished for the God of Wealth, and the smell was not very good, but this smell was especially bad. I rolled over and sat up, ran to the window, and when I looked out, my scalp suddenly began to tingle, and I quickly rubbed my eyes for fear that I had seen it wrong.
It was a rare sunny day in the past two days, the moonlight was bright, and I saw two people crawling slowly on the road outside the window, like two snails that had shed their shells, slowly wriggling. The moment I saw these two people, my first thought was that the Song family was playing ghosts again? Then I looked at it twice, and my heart sank to the soles of my feet.
Those two may not be living people.
As they crawled, the flesh and skin on their bodies fell down one by one, and they crawled all the way, leaving two yellow stains on the ground. The stench that wafted in through the window was emanating from these two "people".
My head was bigger, and the first thing that came to my mind was Qiqi, she was in the next room, I don't know if she woke up at this time. The two crawling "men" didn't seem to notice me, and crawled along the road towards the east, farther and farther away. I turned around and tried to open the door and call Qiqi up, but as soon as I took a step, I heard someone knocking on the door.
The knock on the door was very abnormal, a dull knock on the door, like a hammer beating the heart, and every time it sounded, the heart shook. I immediately became nervous, crept to the door, did not open the door, and peeked out through the crack in the door. At this glance, my heart was furious again, and the knock on the door kept ringing, but the door was empty, and there was no one to see.
What's going on!?
I didn't dare to move, but I felt my legs and stomachs suddenly turn around, and in a blink of an eye, I suddenly realized that the knock on the door was coming from somewhere on the threshold. Seeing through the crack in the door, I slowly crouched down and moved down along the crack in the door, and when I was completely crouched, I almost screamed.
Outside the threshold, there was a "man" who no longer looked like a human being, probably dead for too long, half of the flesh and skin on his body were rotten, Bai Sensen's bones appeared from the festering flesh, and the yellowed corpse water soaked the ground. The "man" buried his head, lay on the ground, raised his rotten hands, and slammed on the door.
As I got close to the crack in the door to see it, its head, which had been buried, suddenly lifted up, half of the flesh on its face was rotten, revealing its cheekbones, one of its eyeballs was missing, and the other was hanging out of its eye socket like a bad grape.
"Damn!" I sat down on the ground in fright, out of breath.
But the rotten "person" outside the door seemed to react more than me, and at this moment, I realized that the mirror hanging around my neck slightly refracted a little light and drilled through the crack in the door. The "man" shook his head, grabbed his hand on the ground a few times, and then rolled down a few steps beyond the threshold.
"Seventy-seven!" Although I was afraid to die, I couldn't ignore Qiqi, turned over and got up, and opened the door with courage, as soon as the door opened, a smell of smoke came to my face, I was a little confused, the whole Baoliu Village seemed to be dead and silent, I could see at least five or six rotten "people", crawling around under the moonlight.
I had no idea what was going on, but I raised my feet and rushed out of the room, and as I rushed out, my head turned, and my already nervous heart felt like it was about to explode. Qiqi's door was wide open, and there was no one in the house.
I jumped down the steps and looked left and right, if in normal times, the people of Baoliu Village would not sleep so deadly, there would always be people who kept vigil, but at this moment, the whole village seemed to be completely empty, and the lights were blind. The moonlight overhead sprinkled down, and only a few "people" could be seen slowly squirming on the ground.
Panic and nervousness made me panic, I walked around those crawling "people", anxious to look around, Baoliu Village is not big, except for a few small roads that extend in all directions, that is, the big road that leads directly to the entrance of the village. I tried my best to avoid the "people" crawling around, and jumped over a clump of weeds beside the road, but before I could stand firmly, there was a noise in the grass, and a rotten man did not know how to sink into the ditch on the side of the road, pulling the weeds and trying to climb out. My mind was empty, and I couldn't think about anything.
"Fuck you!" I lifted my foot and kicked the man who was trying to climb out into the ditch again. When I looked up, my vision was a little blurry, but in front of the road leading to the entrance of the village, there was a faint thin figure who was slowly staggering.
I couldn't see it clearly, but I could feel it, it seemed to be Qiqi.
I wanted to open my mouth to call her, but I didn't dare, because I knew something was wrong in the village. I immediately turned to the side of the road and walked forward with the cat bent over, following her all the way. I walked very fast, and when I was about to approach the entrance of the village, I finally saw that it was Qiqi.
Things happened this night was so weird, it wasn't until I walked here that I saw that Qiqi was not walking alone, there was a "person" in front of her, crawling and leading her.
I was completely panicked, and there was silence around me, except for those who were crawling, as if only Qiqi was walking slowly. I steadied my mind and walked a little further, and I found that at the end of the road, that is, where I left the village, I don't know when I pulled up a very large black cloth, and the black cloth blocked the road in front of me, and invisibly blocked my vision.
I'm anxious to die, but my heart is sober, I can't act rashly at this time, something is wrong with Qiqi, I can still save her, if I also fall into it, then I can only wait for death. As I tried to calm myself down, I jumped into the ditch by the side of the road, covering my figure, and quickened my pace again, hoping to catch up with Seven-Seven.
But at this time, I had already eaten, and I saw Qiqi Mumu being led to the front of the black cloth by the rotten man, Qiqi seemed to know nothing, and slowly walked behind the black cloth along the corner of the black cloth. The light was dim and I couldn't see anything behind that huge black cloth.
However, when I walked here, I could already see that the low cellar at the entrance of the village was opened, and the floating corpses that the Song family usually fished up by boat were stored in the cellar, and the door of the cellar was opened, and the corpses inside all crawled out strangely, all over the village.
At this moment, I felt that maybe it wasn't the Song family who were playing tricks, and they wouldn't let these dirty things crawl around the village. The night watchman in the village was definitely gone, and there was silence all around, and I couldn't see anything, but the quieter it was, the more frightened I became, and my legs trembled slightly as I looked at the huge black cloth.
Qiqi walked behind the black cloth along the corner of the black cloth, and after walking in, there was no movement. I didn't dare to act rashly, but I was always afraid that something would happen to her after a long time. The black cloth that shook slightly in the wind made me feel terrified, and everywhere there was the yellowed corpse water left by the rotting corpses, and it stinked so badly that even the water in the canal on the side of the road seemed to emit a stench.
I had only been there for a few minutes, I couldn't take it anymore, I couldn't imagine what I would see when I lifted the black cloth. When the old ghost left, he specially explained that Qiqi was the granddaughter of the Sun family, and the people of the Sun family were dead, so she was the only one left, and she must not be allowed to have any accidents.
Thinking of this, my fear has decreased a lot, and I believe that if the old ghost was here, he might have rushed over desperately.
I bent over and climbed up from the canal, covered in stinking water. I walked step by step in front of the black cloth, the mottled black cloth, rotten I don't know how many large and small holes. I went to the black cloth and looked through a hole the size of a fist. Even though the light was dim, I could see clearly.
The whole village, one by one, crouched behind the black cloth.