Chen Yuan quickened his pace, climbed to the top of the steps, walked to the right, and when he was about ten meters away from the figure, he was about to shout, but the figure had already turned around.

Even though there was moonlight, it was still very dark on the ground, and this person looked at Chen Yuan a few times in the dark, and said loudly: "You came from outside this afternoon, right?" ”

Listen to the voice is older.

Chen Yuan walked over, and when he got closer, he saw his face clearly, this was an old man about fifty or sixty years old, dressed in gray clothes, holding a pipe in his hand, but it was not lit, but his body was relatively straight, and his eyes were quite bright.

"Uncle, I'm here to investigate the tigers that have appeared here, South China Tiger, have you heard of them?" Chen Yuan also sat down and sat opposite the old man.

The old man smiled: "There are tigers on this mountain, but that was a very early thing, why do you have it now?" ”

Chen Yuan nodded and said: "I only discovered it recently, it really surprised the relevant experts, I didn't expect that there would be traces of the South China tiger in Daqingshan, uncle, when was the last time you found a tiger?" ”

The old man thought for a while and said: "It seems to be the nineties of the last century, I don't remember it clearly, I only know that I happened to have a sixtieth birthday that year, at that time there were still a lot of people in the village, there were more than a thousand people, the birthday was unified, the village was particularly lively in those days, in the village of the threshing field to set up a banquet, almost the whole village came, there was a tiger took this opportunity to run down, the sheep of a family in the village was taken away, and then the village chief gathered a lot of people to go up the mountain to find, but did not find. ”

Chen Yuan was taken aback when he heard this, glanced at the old man seriously, and asked, "Uncle, ...... you this year?"

The old man coughed and said with a smile: "I'm almost ninety this year, and I'm almost in the coffin." ”

Chen Yuan sighed: "The old man doesn't look like a ninety-year-old person at all, so young." ”

The old man just smiled, and Chen Yuan continued to ask: "Uncle, you have been in the village for so long, do you know that there is a strange canyon in the mountain, and I heard that the woods there are all dark. ”

The old man glanced at him, shook his head and smiled: "The woods are not dark, but they are relatively dense, and there is no sunlight, it looks like black, I used to be curious and wanted to go in, but my father solemnly warned me not to go in, until something happened behind." ”

"Oh?" Chen Yuan pricked up his ears.

"When I was ten years old." The old man knocked on the pipe at his hand and said slowly, "That year happened to be the era when the devil left, and we all knew that the day of victory was coming, and the traitor landlord in the village fled overnight, just when we were looking forward day and night, one day a bunch of officers and soldiers came to the entrance of the village. ”

Speaking of this, the old man stopped, continued to knock on the pipe, and then said: "There are many officers and soldiers in this group, and the black pressure is so crowded that the mountain road is so crowded that you can't line up the edge, and you can see it from here to the distance, I have never seen so many soldiers, and my father was so frightened that he even took the whole family up the mountain, hid on the mountain and secretly looked down." ”

"How many people are there?" Chen Yuan blinked and asked.

The old man thought for a while, and said: "There are about 10,000 people, no one counts the specifics, we saw on the mountain, this group of officers and soldiers is very strange, some people still have a small shovel in hand, and there are two foreigners in front of the officers and soldiers, and they don't know where, they entered the village after they arrested the village chief, and then organized a group of villagers to go into the mountain, this large group of officers and soldiers all went up the mountain, a day later we saw that they did not come back, and they were hungry and panicked, so they secretly ran back home. ”

The old man stopped at this point.

"And then?"

The old man sighed and said: "Later, after three days, I didn't see anyone come back, not only did the group of officers and soldiers not come back, but even none of the people who were arrested in the village came back, my fourth aunt was also arrested, and the fourth aunt came to my house to find my father, my father and a few of them organized the remaining middle-aged men in the village, and went up the mountain to find it together, I was very curious at the time, and secretly followed, but I didn't expect to be found by my father and them halfway, and at this time it was already in the mountains, and they didn't drive me away, It gave me the opportunity to see what happened next. ”

"We followed their trail until we reached the mouth of the black canyon, which had been warned by the old people in the village a long time ago that we could not go in, so we all hesitated at the time, and finally considering that so many people were missing, my father gritted his teeth and took people in, leaving only the younger me and the son of the village chief."

"We waited outside the canyon for a long time and didn't see them come out, and gradually it got dark, I felt a little uneasy, and I was also very scared, the village chief's son was a few years older than me, and he was bold since he was a child, so at this time he said that he wanted to go in and have a look, I looked at the black forest, and I didn't dare to go in, so he went in alone, and then ...... All I knew was that it was completely dark, and there was not a single ray of light in sight, and I was so frightened that I hid in a corner of the rock, and closed my eyes and did not dare to open them. ”

"I don't know how long later, I heard a rustling sound from the forest, as if someone came out, I jumped up with joy and ran towards them, there was only one person who came out of the forest, and the image was the village chief's son, at this time, I didn't care how many people came out, someone was fine, and immediately rushed over, the village chief's son hugged me, and then I saw his face, it was not very clear at night, but I also saw it clearly, his face was full of blood, and his eyes were a piece of black hole, and I was directly frightened and fainted."

"Hey." At this, the old man sighed heavily.

"What happened next?" Chen was interested.

"When I woke up, I was already lying in my own house, it turned out that the remaining people in the village saw that my father had not come back from the mountain for so long, so they organized a group of people to come up to look for me, and soon found me who had fainted and the village chief's son, the village chief's son was not dead, but his eyes were hollowed out and completely blind, and the rest of the people in our village were all very scared, and they never dared to enter the mountain again until three years later."

"The liberation team came, after they heard what we said, they immediately organized a group of people to search in the canyon, at that time I also grew up a lot, as a guide to follow in, but in the canyon except for the dense forest, there is nothing strange at all, I remember that there is a clear stream and a few tall trees, everywhere search and found nothing, in the end they all thought we were feudal superstition, the story of gods and monsters heard too much, and no one believed our words."

Chen Yuan was silent, he looked at the old man for a while and said, "Uncle, you should go in and search later, right?" ”