Forty-six, the tree god

"Mask, look ahead." When I was distracted, the fat man squatted beside me and pointed to a corpse not far away, "Look there." ”

I looked in the direction of his finger and found a corpse lying there not far in front of me, the short-nosed mask on its face proved that this was the mountain god that everyone had been spreading, it was ridiculous that the temple was built for it and incense was burned, but the bottom was a broken bone.

"It's not that you look closely at the corpse."

When the fat man reminded me of this, I suddenly found that the corpse was actually tied to a black iron lock. Why would a man who had been dead for decades still have to tie him up with chains? Or is this thing not dead at all if it is placed under the mountain? But he's still dead anyway, and I tiptoe over to it, walking around a few corpses to it, and looking at the mask, I can't help but reach out.

"Don't touch him." The fat man said suddenly.

"What's wrong?"

"Do you know how people here died?" The fat man asked, "It's incredible, there's no trace of a mechanism here, there's no poisonous gas, but these people are lying on the ground in the shape of dried corpses, their faces distorted." ”

"Whatever he does, now let's take this mask off quickly, let's go quickly." I said urgently.

"Stupid, it's not so easy to get away quickly, don't you think we're here to get something less? The book says about the man's life, such as where did he come from? Where did he end up buried? It's like an epitaph, something we have to have. ”

"You go collect the things from those people, I will find a way to take off this person's mask, it's been so long, don't worry so much." I said to the fat man.

"Okay, you go and try, if you can't take it off, find a way to cut off his head." The fat man made a decapitation motion.

"OK" I also made a gesture and immediately started the work of the mask, this time I looked very carefully, the workmanship of the whole mask is very general, it can not be regarded as exquisite but it cannot be compared with me, and especially the connection of some lines can not be delicate, and soon I also found that there is a small and thin gap on the side of it, if you don't look closely, you can't see it at all, I saw here I naturally touched my mask, there was no gap at all, The only opening is the labyrinth lock behind me, so that my mask is equivalent to a head-mounted mask, and this is the real face-buckle mask.

But it looks like this mask can still be taken off, right? I thought about turning this mountain god over, but at this moment the corpse suddenly moved, very slightly, but I was still aware of it, I gasped, stood up suddenly, and saw that the corpse's fingers were constantly shaking.

"Not dead?" I watched as the withered arm twitched wildly, and finally slowly stopped.

"What's wrong?" The fat man in the distance was startled by my noise.

"Nothing, nothing." I swallowed, calmed myself, crouched down again and continued to turn the body over, I had to look at the back, if there would be a maze lock like this. If it's true, I can take this thing back and study it slowly.

It's a pity that things are not as I imagined, the back of this mask is just a simple clasp, I opened the clasp with a bell, but I never thought that the corpse suddenly struggled, and the whole body began to twitch wildly, while trying to jump, the five fingers of both hands quickly retracted. I was so frightened that I jumped away, but fortunately the corpse was bound by chains, and the corpse never got up, but the loud sound spread little by little in this empty space.

"What's going on?" The fat man ran over with his gun in hand, and before I could explain, he fired at the corpse, the sparks of bullets scurrying on the ground and flickering in the darkness. I covered my ears and looked at the corpse quietly, the fat man's gun almost pierced the corpse's chest, and did not affect the mask, but slowly the corpse's mask fell under the pressure of the fat man's bullet.

"Stop." I shouted.

Finally, the fat man's bullet stopped, and we looked at the person under the mask together, it was a human face, and what was completely inconsistent with its corpse was that it was actually the face of a living person, it was unbelievable, it was a person who had not yet died.

I looked at it, and he looked at me, his eyes without a hint of emotion like a living dead, blood gradually spreading all over his face as time passed.

"Something is wrong with this place." The fat man suddenly picked up the mask on the ground, "They wouldn't bring this man here for no reason, and they obviously knew that this kind of thing wouldn't die, otherwise they wouldn't have chained it up." ”

I listened to the fat man's words and immediately followed his footsteps and fled, asking as I ran, "Have you found the epitaph?" ”

"Those people didn't have them on them, I don't know if they were under the tree or if they were taken away by the old god. But don't worry about this place, the hunch is wrong. The fat man looked back at me as he ran to the door, but suddenly he was stunned again.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"There's a stone tablet under that tree." The fat man said, "I'll go over, you give me your phone, if something happens, you run, and as he spoke, he took off his backpack and brought only a knife and a pistol." ”

I didn't have time to stop the fat man for a moment when I saw him run over, and I gritted my teeth and ran along.

"You come and die."

"Don't worry so much, do you take a knife and prepare to kill the pig? And don't look at how many people have died here. ”

"I don't care about your!"

"Don't talk nonsense, look at the fast stone tablet." The black stone tablet stood there under the light of the flashlight, next to several pieces of bloodstained clothing and black bloodstains. But there was a blank space on the stele: "How can this be." ”

"Damn, things were worn off, and the first ones deliberately didn't want us to see them."

"So it's gone?"

"yes!" The fat man sighed, his wrist trembling slightly. "Let's go back and find a place to drill holes and drill out of here, in fact, I don't know how to get to Jackal Gully from here, because this is the only virgin land where no one has stayed for a long time!"

"Wait." When I was fat, I suddenly noticed that there were some traces of similarity and font on the bloody clothes, how could this be? Blood book? Wrong! I was desperately thinking in my head, and suddenly the only doubt jumped into my mind, that is, why the corpse of the god stick appeared at the door of the temple after many years, "I ask you something, was there anything wrong with the body of the god stick when it was found, such as the skin on the back was taken off." ”

"How do you know?" The fat man was surprised.

"It seems that this is the case, yes, these crazy people have engraved all the handwriting on their backs in order to prevent others from discovering this clue." I said, "The bloody clothes here are the best evidence, and that's the only reason why that person's body was still being carried out after so many years." ”

"When I go out, I will go to the public security bureau to find out the whole story of the case, and if the case is closed, the human skin will definitely be found."

"Can you still get out?" I looked at the fat man and said faintly, and the huge tree in front of me began to float like seaweed, and at the same time a hideous female corpse descended from the tree, and her whole body seemed to be connected to the trunk of the tree without legs.

Looking at this scene, I remembered that the willow tree that hid the outside of the cave when we first started, and that feeling brushed my face was like a woman's hair, and why was there a willow tree in that kind of place? I really can't imagine that this thing is actually doing it.

"! This is the light fruit black willow, which is one of the most evil species in the willow genus, and even more weird than the dragon claw willow. There is a complete blank in the current record of this kind of thing. ”

"How so?"

"Because they don't write that kind of superstitious stuff into a textbook. This kind of thing like willow is simply the qi eye that gathers yin qi, so the feng shui world has always called it a tree god. The fat man took out the shotgun from my backpack, pointed at the female corpse, and blasted it over, at this time, as if it was an activated program, the whole Guangguo Wuliu began to squirm wildly in the air, and countless pieces of clothing flew in the sky, like a ghost, and the scene was extremely weird.

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