3. Human skin
"What's going on?" I stood up and opened the window, and there was a stream outside, and the stream flowed from the mountain and fell down the mountain, and the bottom of the mountain was surrounded by clouds and mist, and I don't know when it began to rain lightly. A gray patch of the mountains.
"Not this way." Yang Shizhong lay on the window of the passenger seat and looked outside, I pushed the car door and walked outside, under the big trees and rocks, the rain did not spill too much on me, I turned the car and slowly walked to the front of the car, between which a gray-white thing fell there, and from a distance it looked like an inflated rubber doll.
In front of the car, Yang Shizhong and his friends were actively talking about something, I walked up to take a look, and was stunned, it was a skin, the whole body was covered with black dots like insects, disgusting, there was a shriveled thing on the top of the skin, I squeezed it hard for a long time before I saw that it was a human skin, a lifeless popularity, all limbs, proportions.
"Fuck, it's crushing." Yang Shizhong turned his head to me and said.
I immediately understood what he meant, he was apologizing to me, and it might have been delaying me for a while. I told him it was okay, I pushed a man away and walked over to the skin, I picked up the skin with my hand, and compared it to his (her) height and mine, the black spots all over the body, as if due to the soaking of the drug, from the inside out.
"It's a woman." Yang Shizhong said to me.
"That's not right." I looked at the source of Yang Shizhong's data, there was a big hole in the middle of the legs of human skin, I was a little embarrassed, if this was really a woman, she should be strong. I touched the wrinkles on my mask to indicate that there was a cold sweat overflowing, and said to him, "Judging by the proportions of this hole, it should be able to accommodate this person's entry, which means that this may be a skin that has been peeled alive, so it wasn't you who hit it." It should have been abandoned on the road. ”
I wanted to get in the car, but one of them said to me in stiff Mandarin, "I stopped when I heard a pop, and I really hit someone." ”
I frowned, took a few steps back and squatted down to look at the human skin on the ground, it is true that this position is not visible to the driver from the driver's seat, and the tires do not have long drag marks, which means that it really hit something that caused the driver to stop.
"But don't you think it's strange?" I stood up and looked around, "If it really hits someone, it can produce more than just sound, but also distance, the impact of the car is enough to knock a person 1 meter away, unless it is directly pressed under the front of the car, but the chassis of a minivan like yours is not high, so it is unlikely, so why is there a thing where people are still in place after hitting someone?" ”
"Then what explanation do you have?" A man looked at me.
I pointed to the human skin on the ground, "You hit a human skin, only a moment of contact will produce a suction force to prevent it from flying out, maybe you also hit another stone, hear the sound!" I recounted so slowly that he could see a complete crime scene.
The man bit his lip and didn't speak, but then a friend who was sitting in the back of the car with me said in a hesitant voice, "That one, that I saw a black shadow burrowing into the mountains when you parked. ”
"That place?" I turned my head to look at him.
"There." He pointed with his hand, I looked in the direction, it was a corner of the mountain, the bottom was densely covered with weeds to block the foundation of the rock, but it seemed that the water of the small stream was flowing down from above, I twisted a little bit of the stream water from the grass with my hand, it was cold and biting, there was no trace of taste, and even a little numb the tip of my tongue "This is a mountain spring, and there is at most a small stream in it." ”
After that, I pushed aside the grass pile in vain, there were quite a lot of weeds under the rock wall, like small rice in the wheat field, I slowly touched it in the direction of the water, not to mention, there is a lot of grass here, and it was not until my hand was completely into the grass that I realized that something was not right.
It stands to reason that my hand should have touched the stone wall at this distance, the spring water flowed diagonally down from the 45° angle of the mountain, and entered here to converge into a stream, but I still did not touch the stone wall, I just poked my head into it, and put my head into it without caring about the cuts of these vegetation, and when I put my head in, I saw a hole in the ground that could be crawled forward by a man.
"What's in there?" Yang Shizhong pulled me out directly, "Your ears are bleeding, if there is nothing here, we will go to the county first, otherwise it will be easy to have an accident when walking in the mountains at night." ”
"I know, but it's going to happen now." I pushed Yang Shizhong away and walked into the car, I remembered that there were two flashlights under his seat, I turned over for a long time and took one out and bit it in my mouth, and in their surprised eyes, I reopened the haystack and got in.
The area of the cave seemed to be an inverted horn shape, and the further you went inside, the more space there became, I stuck the flashlight on the mouth of the mask, turned my head with great difficulty, and suddenly noticed a little scarlet blood on the side wall of the cave.
I was stunned, this matter was beyond the scope of normal understanding.
I silently exited the cave, told them about the cave inside and the bloodstains, and told them that if it was really a person, it would not be possible to run into it, so no matter what was inside, it was not a person anyway, but the atmosphere on the mountain road was a little scary for a while with the human skin under the car.
They looked at you, I looked at me, and finally Yang Shizhong asked me, "You can't get in." ”
"I'll go in." I told him firmly that things inside were like a whirlpool, and that since he had come in, he had a strong curiosity to find out.
I rolled up my sleeves, twisted a thicker branch on the trunk outside, turned my head, Yang Shizhong and the others had already taken the flashlight, scimitar, and looked at the grass fiercely, I was speechless, walked up and patted him on the shoulder, "It's not a wild boar or something?" Maybe this human skin is good here, but you're crashing into an animal that happened to run by. ”
"Brother, don't lie to us about this, do you think we don't know? This place is a cave, and the cave is full of water, so what else can you run into but fish. They laughed again, and I couldn't help but laugh out loud.
At this time, a brother came up to me and teased me, "Friend, how long can you hear the echo when you laugh!" Then there was a knock on my mask, and then there was a burst of laughter, and I was so amused that the group of people was really funny.
"We don't have much time, we have to get to the county before dark, and we'll have up to two hours here to pay for you." One of them stepped forward and looked at me, "Friend, I know you are a literate person, you can say something!" What are we going to do? ”
"That's fine, you're welcome." I stuck the flashlight with a mask and said a word and crawled into the grass, the diameter of the hole is only 2 about 1 meter, I can easily drill through, but I don't know if he can go, I hold a wooden stick, kneeling in the water a little bit towards the front of the squirming, the water here is not very deep, I kneel can be over my knees three centimeters, I use the wooden stick in my hand while knocking on the mountain wall in front of me while shouting, "Are they all in?" Several? ”
"Well, there are five of us." Yang Shizhong shouted.
"That's good." I replied, "Be careful, call out anything." ”
"Yes, but brother! How can you talk with a flashlight? A man's voice came.
"I'm stuck in a mask." I was suddenly a little shy, I really didn't know what to say to make them less happy, I don't know what kind of creature is in this cave, if I wasn't careful, it would really scare it away. I didn't discuss it with them any further, but on the left and right sides of the cave were rocks with distinct water chestnuts, like inverted pyramids, burying their solid bases in the mountains, and exposing all the sharp tops.
In the boundless darkness, there is the occasional sound of falling stones, the sound of falling stones falling into the water, and the sound of falling stones rubbing against the rocks on the upper part of the cave behind them, like countless ants crawling in your ears. Darkness and disorientation are something that the vast majority of people never experience. The darkness and claustrophobia give people far more tension and fear than the realization of the strange shape of the cave.
The fear of the unrecognized world and the uneasiness of the existing senses in the dark and unknown are also the maximum limits of the assessment that the mind can bear.
Finally, I couldn't bear it anymore, I slowly bent over, touched my already sore knees, and carefully leaned against the wall, "Take a break!" The mountain spring is a little cool, and it is not good for the knees in the long run. ”
After I said this, I looked at their strange eyes a little frightened, and that deep contempt was imprinted in my heart, "Brother, you can't do it!" It's time to practice, we take cold showers all year round. ”
I gasped for breath "Old, you don't know how old I am under the mask, I shrugged my forehead, wrinkles twisted flesh sadly." ”
"Don't be old, look at the old man with your bulging pants can do it! I think you're a young man who hasn't tried before. I couldn't help but laugh at this kind of teasing. But then again, am I a family man? I'm supposed to be around 20, right? If you are in the countryside, you should have a wife, if you are in the city, you must have a girlfriend.
"However, brother, your body is not good, it seems that you will exercise more in the future." Yang Shizhong said.
I said, it's not bad to say that, this body is really weak, and my knees are already a little trembling because of the long-term kneeling and the soaking of the biting cold water, if I can jump now, maybe it will be better. He pressed his legs, looking at the growing space, and the rocks began to appear in a regular layer, some of which were gray and yellow, with a thin long line running all the way down.
It's been another boring time, I've slowly integrated into the topic of Yang Shizhong and his group, and finally I have to find that their laughter is so simple, a group of such people is the simplest Lohas people, I have begun to go back to their discussions from time to time, and even echo them to laugh.
The journey passed for a while, and slowly the cave had opened up, but it was only relative to the previous place, this kind of openness was still bleak openness, I stepped on the stream that was not deep or shallow, the speed of the water became significantly faster, I could tell that we were about to reach the end, but unfortunately there was no sound of falling water when I stopped.
It stands to reason that this kind of spring water should flow down from the mountain, and of course it is not ruled out that it may be from the ground, but the water at this temperature can only seep out of the mountain rock formations.
It seems that there is still a distance, I thought to myself, but at this moment, a brother behind me shouted in a low voice, "There is a lesson tree ahead." ”
"Trees?" I fixed my eyes, but there was a black thing not far in front of me, which was upside down like an old man's beard, and he was the size of an arm, strong, strong, and intertwined.
These roots fill the space, but they automatically divide into two sides like a door, leaving an arched opening in the middle.
I don't know what is bulging from the water directly below the arched opening, causing most of the water to block there, and slowly overflowing the bulge, I walked over curiously, only to see that the raised place was simply built into a Buddhist shrine with stones, and there was a stone tablet in the Buddhist shrine, which was quietly erected in the water.
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