The old man smiled, grinned his still neat teeth, and said, "You guessed right, I have been timid since I was a child, but since my father's death...... I didn't come back for so long, and I thought he was dead, and I seemed to have grown up all at once, and the things I had feared before were not worth mentioning at all, and I went into that canyon almost every month, and searched every place several times, but found nothing, until one day I happened to rest against a tree. ”

Chen Yuan glanced at the old man with a mysterious smile, and couldn't help but think of the black woods.

"I looked at the tree for a long time, the more I looked at it, the more weird I felt, I was short when I was a child, and I was often bullied, so I carved horizontal lines on the tree behind my home, and from time to time to see if I had grown a little taller, which caused me to be very sensitive to the height of the tree, I found that the trees here were much taller than the outside, and they were originally a little taller than the outside, but only a few years later, they suddenly reached the development period, and they were much taller, and I immediately realized that there was a problem in this field."

Chen Yuan listened carefully.

The old man stopped, took out the cigarette roll, put it in the pipe, took out a match and lit it, and took a sharp breath and said: "The more I thought about it, the more wrong it became, so I immediately went home and got a hoe, and dug it under the tree, and the ground was very soft, and I dug very deep without much effort, and then I saw a scene that I will never forget." ”

"I dug up a corpse." The old man's voice became lowered, "The corpse has long since decomposed, only clothes and bones remain, that one is very similar to the clothes of the men in the village before, I took a closer look, and found that it seems to be the one that my father wore when he entered the mountain, my family is poor, my father usually has two clothes, one is worn in the mountain, and the other is worn on happy days on weekdays, so I am very impressed." ”

"I could hardly believe my eyes at the time, I looked through it carefully, there were many patches on the dress, and the color was exactly the same, and finally I saw the skeleton, which was not very tall, similar to my father, and I was confused for a long time, it was blank, and it took a long time to wake up, and I took my father's body out, and then continued to dig to the side, and after a while, I saw a skeleton again, also wearing the clothes of the village."

"That day, I don't know if I was stimulated by my father's corpse, like crazy, desperately digging the ground under the black forest, I don't know how long I dug up, I only know that when I finally stopped, the whole person almost collapsed, and the sky was dark, I lit a torch, looked at the bones dug up, densely packed I don't know how many, most of them were wearing village clothes, and some were wearing the clothes of officers and soldiers."

"I lay down under the tree to rest, looking at the bones of these people, I didn't feel scared, but there was an inexplicable emotion, lying down my mind gradually became clear, I got up and took out the dry food and water I brought to eat, because I was too tired, my heart was also tired, and I fell asleep directly."

"When I woke up, the corpses were still there, I looked at them, I still couldn't believe it, there was a feeling of entering a nightmare, but by this time my mind had regained its clarity, I thought about it for a while, and began to dig down in various places throughout the forest, just as I thought, there were corpses buried everywhere under this forest, some were people from the village, some were officers and soldiers, and the previous group of people who went into the mountains all died here."

"Later, it took me a day to bury these bones again, except for my father's one, my mother was dead at that time, and I was the only one left in the family, I usually go alone, so no one will suspect it when I go into the mountains for two days and then come back to the village, I buried my father's bones with my mother's, and then I began to investigate the things in the canyon, and at the same time spread some ghost stories, so that the people in the village would not enter the canyon, I was afraid that they would find the corpses in the woods."

"Many of those who died still have wives, fathers and children, and even though they haven't been back for years, they still hold on to hope, and I can't imagine what will happen when people find out about it, and I think it's weird, and I don't want the villagers to risk it until it's clear."

Chen Yuan noticed the change in his tone, and asked, "Uncle, you want revenge, right?" Did you find anything later? ”

The old man shook his head and said: "Later, the people in the village slowly prospered again, and there were some people who went out of the mountains and did not come back, and I gradually became the most senior person in the village, but I have always been a loner, running up the mountain with a shotgun all day long, and no one in the village will care about me as an old man, how do they know that I have been looking for the truth of this matter." ”

"How did those bodies die?" Chen Yuan asked.

The old man shook his head and said, "I don't know, when the corpses were found, they were already decomposed, and no wounds were found, and I don't know the specifics." ”

Chen Yuan was silent, this matter is a little bizarre, according to the old man, tens of thousands of people entered the canyon, but all of them died, and the bodies were still buried in the ground, how did this happen?

Just as he was thinking about it, the old man's voice sounded again: "Until the new century later, a group of experts suddenly came to the mountain. ”

"Oh." Chen Yuan pricked up his ears again.

"There are about five or six people in this group of experts, and there are two very young people in it, I thought it was a student brought by an expert, but I didn't expect it to be an expert, they came in for the same purpose as you today, they were very polite, at that time the people in the village were almost gone, they gave me a thousand yuan, I took them up the mountain, and intentionally took them to the canyon."

"After all this time, I don't worry that they will find the bones under the forest, and I am too old to do anything, and I feel that it is impossible to find the truth of the matter by myself, so I wondered if these people could find something wrong, but what I didn't expect was that there was an accident in the valley this time."

Chen Yuan listened carefully.

The old man paused, and then said: "When we were walking in the mountains, suddenly a black shadow flashed in front of us, it looked like a tiger, and a young expert surnamed Ke among the experts immediately rushed up, looking very excited, his speed was very fast, and soon left us behind, and disappeared, the other experts were relatively old, and they didn't have the strength to run a few steps, they said that this Ke expert was like this, so we thought about walking slowly, but I didn't expect that just a few steps away, I heard a scream in front of us." ”