Chapter 5: There Are People at the Bottom of the Well (1)
Yu Banxian's words, I want to say that I don't believe it's false. But if you want to believe it, shouldn't the credibility of old things be discounted? Seeing that the sky outside the window was white, I couldn't sleep left and right. I watched the sky dawn and thought that with my mother's perfectionist character, I would probably have to stay there and continue to investigate. Yu Banxian was a little sleepy, so I excused herself from eating breakfast and let her rest. Seeing that Wolf Qing also returned to the nest, I walked out lightly, took out a peach wood dagger from under the grinding plate, put it in my sleeve, and went to the Bai family's old house alone.
The dew was heavy in the early morning, and I didn't go far from stepping on the grass sprouts, and my shoes were soaked. But it's not sticky, it's cool. It's daytime, and if it's night, you can imagine how cold it must be.
The house looked very close, and it took some time to walk there. The road was obscured by lush vegetation, and the brick courtyard wall collapsed into a gap. The originally flat brick floor was arched by trees in the east and west, and it was almost impossible to see the original appearance, let alone the crumbling houses. It seems that the power of human beings is difficult to compete with the nature of heaven and earth after all.
Did the mother just look for a night in the dark in such an environment? He is such a hypocritical person, and he has a habit of cleanliness, it is really hard to imagine. If it were me, just being here would be half scared to death.
I jumped over the base of the wall more than a meter high on the ground, and looked left and right, the house was not regular, and there was no courtyard inside. The houses were not too big and disconnected, and they were dotted with weeds and barrenness.
This shouldn't be, the house where the family lives always has to be prioritized, and it doesn't make sense that everyone will grow the same. After visually inspecting the location, I came from the north side of the mountain, and the houses were arranged from west to east along the riverbank, and the few places on the left should have been inhabited by the Bai family. Further away is the so-called haunted house, listen closely, the sound of the river lapping on the shore comes slowly, and last night it was the green light from there.
But is it really a water ghost coming ashore? I don't like to think so. Combined with my actions this time, I prefer to believe that this is man-made. Perhaps the descendants of this family are protecting their secrets in this way.
Speaking of my mission, I also received a text message from my boss before I left. It's still concise, but by the time I got to the scene, I was able to understand the meaning of the five points.
"In the northeast house, there is a lot of good. Yellow and white gray squirrel, very huge, forest dog. ”
The meaning of this passage is that there is an entrance in a certain house in the northeast corner of the house, and there will be an underground passage and so on when you go down. Considering the height of the river, it is very difficult to find even the manhole that is likely to be filled with water by now. Huang Bai I understand as gold and silver, that is, the Bai family used to operate a gold mine, which is very likely. There are many gold reserves in the mountains of Tohoku, and if you are lucky, you can find a thin layer of gold placer in the soil near the rocks.
The grey squirrel is a species endemic to the northern pine forests, and may not refer to the presence of grey squirrel skin, but may have attracted the attention of the young and is a native. The wooddog is a species of South America, which means outsiders, and of course it is not us, but another team or teams.
But he's so "huge", I don't know if he's talking about a squirrel or a forest dog. Isn't punctuation better?
It's useless to think about it, so it's better to find your mother first. I happened to have my phone in my hand and quickly dialed him. The moment I waited for the sound to start, I actually saw it!
It's not that it's good in my eyes, but it happens to be right in front of me! In this house facing the gap in the courtyard wall, on the windowsill where the window frame has fallen, there is his slippery Nokia that is worth half my salary.
The shiny silver shell stood out against a bright green background, and I didn't care about my feet, almost rushing over. When I picked up the phone, I didn't know if it was stained with green mud or saliva, and it was wet and sticky. The aluminum shell is pitted, as if someone has smashed a walnut with it. There is still a little bit of power, and his phone has a password set, and I can't turn it on. When I dared to enter the house, I couldn't see the back window frame, and the roof had collapsed, revealing the black beams. There was also a large pit in the middle of the ground, which was stuffed with a pile of rotten wood and debris.
This...... Could it be the entrance that the boss said?
Where did the mother go? Could it be that he went in and left a phone for me to prompt? It can't be, he doesn't know about the boss's text message. But if he didn't go down, why did he leave his phone here?
At such a time, it is almost useless to call the earth and the earth to be ineffective. I pushed the slider open and the phone lit up and the moment I noticed the screensaver. It was a photograph he had taken, of black earth, and it was carefully recognizable for a few hastily written handwritings.
"The forest dog is on the side, very huge."
I understand that the flashlight last night may not be him, but more likely the big boss and the external competitor he has mentioned. And he also solved my doubts, sure enough, there are many competitors. He left me a cell phone to explain that there was no signal at that time. Nokia's standby time is very long, and now there is only half a grid of virtual power left, which may shut down at any time. I can only guess that the phone kept looking for a signal last night and ran out of battery.
He hid, indicating that the competitor was in the mansion and was likely still there. So where are the contenders? I think I can't find it with my strength, but what people can't find is something that can be found by a creature.
That's the dog, Wolf Green!
Before leaving, Niangniang taught me a mantra for a peach wood dagger, and I returned to Yu Banxian's house, and sure enough, she was still asleep. Wolf Qing went out for a stroll by himself, which was a godsend. Its owner cherished it very much, and built a small house-like nest out of bricks, and drew a window with chalk, which looked ridiculous and cute. I know that it may not be able to eat when it comes back, but it will definitely need to drink water. Seeing that there was no one around, I took out my dagger, rubbed it on my sleeve, and inserted it into the basin of water.
Seven circles and seven circles on the left, we met and were sent by me.
Three times in this way, the surface of the water is stirred up into a small whirlpool. Don't say wolf green, even if you are a human being, after drinking this cursed water, you will lose your mind in three moments. I believe in Niangniang, and there will be nothing wrong with his method.
But I didn't expect that this method was so powerful that it was far beyond my control.
I went down to the Bai family's old house again, and the wolf obediently followed me one foot deeper and one foot shallow, until I found the place where the mobile phone was found, I looked at it again. Theoretically, people can't look directly at a strange big dog, which is a provocative behavior and is very likely to provoke it. At this time, Wolf Qing is waiting for my order, I don't have anything from the other party, I can only judge that this mobile phone may have been in contact with the other party, of course, it is also stained with the smell of the mother. No matter who Wolf Qing finds, as long as he finds one.
I slowly put the phone under the wolf's nose and looked into its eyes. You don't have to say what you want to say, it's all in your eyes. The wolf was smart, sniffed and immediately rushed to the windowsill. It was looking for a high place, and a pair of brown eyes searched cautiously everywhere. The tips of the ears are constantly changing direction, catching all sounds that humans can't detect.
Soon, it made a discovery and scurried towards the southwest corner of the house. I followed far behind, not daring to get too close. Halfway through, it slowed down, and something on the ground caught its attention.
I watched it sniff at the ground and turned north. Following its footprints, there were indeed human footprints on the ground. Not much, and the distance is long, and it seems that someone has been running in stride. This is the middle line of the house, and someone ran from south to north, most likely caused by being frightened by water spirits after reaching the riverbank.
It is impossible to confirm whether this is the footprint of Niangniang, but as we travel north, the footprints become denser and more numerous. It means that there were people last night, and more than one person stayed here.
If there are many of them, I am the one who suffers when they meet in a narrow way. Fortunately, there are a lot of empty houses here, so I found a place to hide in, and when the wolf green finds anything, he will definitely bark and warn.
The door frame of this house has been peeled off by the top of an elm tree, but fortunately, the main structure of the green bricks is still standing. I got behind the door next to the elm tree, just enough to hide my figure. Seeing that the wolf ran over and turned back, sniffing on the ground, he was a little bit of a loser. I was in a hurry, and I couldn't contact my mother, so I thought about whether to call the big boss and confess, but he couldn't reach it, and it was really a dilemma.
Who knew that before I took out the phone, Wolf Qing got into the one-person-high artemisia grass and screamed, and then a Beijing scolding sounded: "Uncle, I recruited you to provoke you?" ”
Huh? What's going on?
I grabbed my phone and went out, walked around the house, and was immediately stupid. There was a well behind the house, and the reels were still there, and the ropes looked very new. Just above the edge of the well, stood a young man with narrow hips and sloppy shoulders, who looked like he was twenty years old. Although Wolf Qing didn't pounce on him, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to move, and he didn't let go of his hand with a shake in his arms.
When I saw him, he noticed me, and his expression was full of tears, and he spoke with a crying tone.
"I said you have a dog or a wolf, and I have two biscuits on me, do you give them both? Let him leave me alone. ”
I was still hanging in my heart, but when I saw him, I was alone, and I didn't look like I had any force value. At the moment, the waist board is up, I have a dog, what am I afraid of?
"Who are you? What are you doing in our village? ”
Originally, I wanted to be a local to deter him, but who knew that he was not stupid, looked me up and down, and replied: "Your village? There are five or six large and small villages in the vicinity, name them. ”
I......
I really didn't know what this little village was called, so I asked him at once. Taking advantage of the knotting of my tongue, the wolf seemed to come back to his senses and turned his head and yelled at me.
End, I'm going to jump into the well now?
When the young man saw this, he understood the scene, and immediately sighed, as if my opponent was not to be feared. Gu Zizi took out a biscuit from his pocket and threw it away with a whistle. The wolf was fed, turned into a blue-gray shadow, and disappeared in an instant.
I had to confront him directly, only to realize that his clothes and pants were dry and clean, not like he had spent the night here. Dressed casually, with sunglasses pinned to the back of his head, I didn't know that I thought it was a fashion magazine.
"I said," he said, pointing to the well at his feet, "how much will it cost you to go down for me?" ”