Chapter 20: Ghost Fire in the Snow
This guess made my heart sink, Tan Jian cleared the snow from the door, opened the door wide, and then we took the shovel and began to carefully clean the snow inside the door, shouting as we cleaned, trying to let the people inside hear us.
In the wind and snow, our voices were blown into a strange tone, but even so, those who should hear it could definitely hear it, but there was still no movement inside.
The girl stood next to the cane, watching us with a blank expression. Through the current situation, she should have guessed something, so the whole person was like being drained, which made people a little unbearable to watch.
It took more than 20 minutes for us to clear the snow inside and walk into the engineering site.
It's a big place, with four houses in a row, boxy, a bit like a shipping container, and most of the things inside are easy to disassemble, and the outside is very solid.
Inside was an office with some instruments and a device that emitted strong signals, and in addition to some tools for engineering investigations, and a desk on the left side with a lot of paper on it, which had become very hard because of the snow and cold.
No one was found here, so the three of us looked at each other, and then went to the next connecting room, one left and one right. I went to the right, there was only one room on the right, Zhou Xuanye and Tan Jian went to the left, and there were two rooms connected there. On the right is a kitchen or something, with a stove and a cauldron, and on the other side there is a burlap bag with a lot of food, canned dried vegetables, tea and so on. There is no one else.
I walked out, planning to go to Tan Jian and them to have a look, but as soon as I went out, I saw Tan Jian and Zhou Xuanye, and the two of them walked out from there in a hurry. ”
When I saw that they had found nothing, I knew that something was wrong and said, "Is there anyone over there?" All killed? "If there are living people, then they should come out with them. Now only Zhou Xuanye and Tan Jian came out, coupled with that wrong look, it is obvious that even if there are people there, they should all be dead.
Tan Jian walked forward with his head borrowed, but said in his mouth: "It's not just as simple as being killed, that woman has a problem." ”
What could she have been wrong with?
I followed the two of them out to take a look, but suddenly I found that the girl was gone, and there was only a walking stick in the snow next to her, and the camp lamp on it was swaying in the wind and snow, and the dim light was swaying. There were still piles of our equipment not far away, but the girl before had disappeared without a trace.
I tried to call her, but realized I didn't know her name.
I was anxious and said, "What's the matter?" ”
Tan Jian said: "Let's let the ghost play tricks, there are no people from the engineering team in it, only one person." ”
Zhou Xuanye answered: "It's the woman who brought us." ”
I wondered if I had misheard: "You mean, there's only the girl's body in there?" But she was always outside, and never went in...... Could it be that we encountered this girl's ghost before? ”
Zhou Xuanye said: "The corpses are frozen, what we saw before should not be something clean, you see, isn't that woman disappearing now?" ”
"But haven't you ever found out who she really is?"
Zhou Xuanye said: "I can refine corpses, and dealing with these ghosts is not my specialty. She has the heart to become exactly like a living person, how can I see it. ”
Tan Jian said: "It was tricked and wasted our day's time." ”
Zhou Xuanye said: "Forget it, she probably wants us to collect her body, let's get it out first." It seemed that she must have moved her hands and feet on the corpse, and she didn't see him go back, but she felt the corpse bell and shook it, and with his movements, a woman slowly walked out of the room.
It's the woman from before.
She walked stiffly with her eyes closed, her cheeks slightly bulging, her lips slightly open, and there seemed to be something in it, about a charm. I know that when Zhou Xuanye walks the corpse, he will press a charm folded into a triangle under the tongue of the corpse. This is not the same as the one shown in the movie, where a talisman is attached to the head of a corpse.
I asked Zhou Xuanye the reason, and he said that there are many kinds of walking corpses, and the kind that sticks to the door of the head, and the corpse walks stiffly, and even jumps and jumps, which is an inferior method. This kind of person can only walk at night and cannot collide with the living. If you are as smart as Zhou Xuanye, you can make the dead body look like a living person, and naturally you won't stick the talisman on the other party's head, so wouldn't it blatantly tell others that I'm driving out the corpse? I don't know, I thought you were playing cosplay.
This female corpse is also very stiff when she walks now, and her eyes are closed, and she looks lifeless at first glance, which looks like a living person, firstly because she is frozen, and secondly, because there are no outsiders here, Zhou Xuanye is too lazy and troublesome, so he uses a simpler one.
He maneuvered the woman, stood on the southern slope, and stopped moving. I think it's a little strange, why is she alone in this project station? What about the rest? If she was the only one killed, then her companions would surely have come to exhume her body afterwards.
It seems that this avalanche must have been the most recent thing, and it is very likely that her companions did not come back to dig her up, so she was in a hurry, taking advantage of the wind and snow and the darkness of the sky, pretending to be a victim, and tricking us into coming and collecting her body.
No wonder the girl woke up just as I was about to feed her blood. The vitality of the golden muscle and jade bones is too heavy, in Zhou Xuanye's words, my blood is not only a good medicine for prolonging life, but also a nemesis for dealing with corpses or ghosts.
Although he was a little angry, it was not a big deal, Zhou Xuanye said: "Stop the body here first, and then take it out when we come back." "It was getting late, and after digging a pit for hours, it was impossible to go any further, so we pitched a tent nearby to rest.
But as soon as the tent was set up, I was going to fetch the camp lantern next to the snow so that I could hang it outside, when I suddenly found that the girl who had disappeared by the camp lamp was standing there again!
I was startled, but quickly calmed down, because it wasn't the first time I'd seen a ghost, and besides, this girl still asked us to help collect the body, so naturally it wouldn't hurt us. At this moment, if you look closely, the girl is standing next to the camp lamp, and there is not even a shadow. We didn't notice such a strange situation before, and we deserved to be deceived by her.
I still have a good impression of her, after all, such a young girl, who is engaged in scientific research and serves the people, is stationed in this ice and snow, and it is not easy to listen, but she died silently in such a place, which is really unjust. So I walked over and said, "Why did you suddenly disappear just now?" ”
She turned her back to me and didn't look back, but said thank you lightly.
I took a liking to her and was about to speak, when suddenly, she raised her hand, pointed to the northeast, and motioned for me to look that way.
It was dark now, and even if I looked over, I couldn't really see anything, but I had observed the terrain during the day. There is an extension of the snow gully, but because of the change of the mountain, the snow gully has become very narrow, and the terrain has gone downhill, so we haven't looked at it specifically.
I thought I would see darkness, but when I looked over, I saw a green mass jumping in the darkness, silent, like a ghost, and I don't know when it appeared.
I chuckled, because it looked a lot like the ghost fires that used to appear in old graveyards.
Because the old cemetery is a burial, the phosphorus produced by the bones is easy to form ghost fires, and now the new graveyards are cremated and put urns and covered with cement, so there will be basically no ghost fires.
What the hell is that?
I haven't heard of ghost fires in the snowy mountains.
At this time, Tan Jian shouted angrily in the tent: "Why hasn't the light come yet?" ”
I said, "Boss, come out and see." ”
However, when Tan Jian and Zhou Xuanye came out, the girl disappeared again, but the green, ghost-like thing was still hidden in the dark, fluttering.
I told Zhou Xuanye about the scene just now, he groaned slightly, looked at the body of the girl not far away, and said, "It seems that she didn't just let us collect the body." ”
I said, "So what now?" ”
Zhou Xuanye said: "The dead are the greatest, let's go and see." You stay here. ”
Although I wanted to follow, I knew that this was a tent, equipment, and corpses, so it was better to leave someone behind. Although there are no fierce beasts in this snowy mountain, who knows if there will be any accidents? What's more, with Zhou Xuanye and Tan Jian making a move, it should be no problem, and I can't help much if I go.
Thinking of this, I was quite frustrated and said, "Nacheng, you should be careful, if something is wrong, remember to blow the whistle." I gestured to the signal whistle around their necks. Zhou Xuanye nodded, and followed behind Tan Jian, and the two of them brought some things with their waist bags, and then went into battle lightly, heading towards the place where the green light ghost fire appeared before.
There is no fire in this place, the smokeless stove is used by us to boil water, and the fuel naturally cannot be used blindly, so it is quite cold. In order to avoid the wind and cold, I had to go into the tent and open the curtain of the tent, from which I could see the body standing straight not far away.
The figures of Tan Jian and the others became farther and farther away in the dark wind and snow, and the light of the flashlight became fainter and fainter, and finally completely disappeared from my sight.
When the light faded, I suddenly felt that something was wrong.
It's the same light, why is it that in this position, I can see the green ghost-like thing, but I can't see Tan Jian and the others? Could it be that they are going downhill? Or did they go further than the green light?
Just as I was thinking about this, the green light in the darkness, like fireworks, suddenly exploded, turned into points of light, and quickly disappeared into the darkness.
All of a sudden, there was only a snowstorm around.