Chapter 5: The Ghost Strikes the Wall
In a new environment, I seemed to be much more sensible, and through that experience, I seemed to be more mature than my peers, and my personality began to become calm.
I went to primary and junior high school at Yangbei Wushu School, practiced martial arts routines for three years and sanda for four years, and I also learned to smoke and drink.
Those of us who were put in boarding schools were like a bunch of wild children who no one cared about or asked.
Towards the end of my graduation semester, my classmates and I often went out late at night to play computer games.
At that time, there were no Internet cafes, only computer game rooms, and all that could be played was the Big Red Alert, StarCraft and Half-Life CS or something.
Our school is far away from the town, and we have to walk for more than an hour every day to get to the computer room in the town.
And we usually don't go out until the lights go out after the school rounds are out.
My three roommates and I used to sneak out late at night over the wall and play computer games all night.
At that time, for some reason, the thought of computer games could not stop our fanatical hearts.
I vividly remember that it was late at night when the drizzle had just stopped, and I was drunk and asleep. The roommates in the dormitory, Xiaolin, Big Fat, and Feipeng. The three of them dragged me to the playroom in town.
The dark path was muddy and difficult to walk, and after not going far, our shoes were soaked, and the big fat mouth began to curse and complain about the path.
From the school to the computer game hall in the suburban town, there is only a remote path, which is a forest path, on both sides of the road are more than ten meters high poplar trees, surrounded by farmland, and occasionally a few isolated grave bumps, standing in the endless fields.
After dark, the dense foliage of the poplar trees blocked even the only moonlight, and we often walked this path in the dark.
Every time the wind rises, the rustling of the wind, blowing the leaves of the poplar trees, swings in the dark night sky, and at first glance it looks like a dead person hanging from the tree, which is creepy.
Today we were traveling very slowly, and when the time of the watch was fixed at 12 o'clock, we obviously hadn't even finished half the journey, when suddenly the wind started, and the leaves on both sides of the road began to sway in the wind, and the rustling sound rose and fell with each other, and then the whirring raindrops began to pour down.
The four of us had to take shelter from the rain under a stout poplar tree for the time being.
I don't know how long it took, but the rain got heavier and heavier, and there was no intention of stopping.
A few of us gave up going to the town to go back to school, the night sky was dark, a trace of black fog was filled, the rain hit us, it was damp and cold, and I even felt that the path was much longer than usual.
The endless poplar trees, as if they could never go to the end, a few of us gradually felt a little tired, and the big fat suddenly asked me, Brother Bing, I heard them,
"You grew up in the crematorium" Have you ever seen a ghost, listening to him ask, Xiao Lin and Fei Peng are also interested.
I replied perfunctorily: "I've read too many horror novels!" There are no ghosts in this world!
Chubby obviously didn't believe it, he continued: "When I was a child, I heard my mother say that the place in the Big Bone Pile Crematorium was very evil, and my father was buried there.
Once my father gave my dad a dream, saying that his house was leaking and uncomfortable.
At first, my dad didn't care, but one day at noon, a fool in our village came to my house and called my dad by his nickname, all in the tone that my grandfather had done to my dad before his death.
My mother was frightened and ran to find the goddess in our village, and when the goddess came, she looked at the fool and shouted my father's nickname and scolded,
"Lao Ding, you have been dead for so long, what are you doing when you come back?"
When the fool saw the goddess, he seemed to see a nemesis, and turned around and ran.
The goddess walked around my house a few times and didn't find anything unusual, so she asked my dad if he had dreamed of anything recently.
Later, my dad remembered the dream that his grandfather gave him, so he said to the godmother: Some time ago, I dreamed that my grandfather said that his house was leaking and he was uncomfortable.
When my father went to the cemetery, he saw that my father's grave had been washed away by the rain because it had been in disrepair, and that the coffin had been painted red, and that one corner was exposed, so he asked someone to renovate my grandfather's grave.
Later, my mother carried half a basket of eggs and thanked the goddess, who said:
"In the future, be a man with some heart, although the person is dead, but filial piety continues, fortunately, the old man just gave you a warning, if there is a next time, I can't save you."
Xiao Lin, Fei Peng, sarcastically and sarcastically, said:
"Big fat, can you, brag b don't talk about your family, haha it's like it's real, it is estimated that your mother deliberately made up nonsense in order to scare you and prevent you from peeking at the little girl in the village taking a bath at night.
The big fat was obviously a little excited, and shouted:
"Believe it or not. Xiao Lin and Fei Peng continued: "I don't believe it, you have the ability to let the ghost come out and let Lao Tzu see it."
If there is really a ghost in the world, Lao Tzu will definitely hit it all over the ground looking for teeth.
After Xiao Lin finished saying this, I suddenly felt a cool breeze passing by, and that feeling was the same as what I felt in the corridor of the funeral home, and I suddenly had an inexplicable fear, and hurriedly asked what time it was, why haven't we reached school yet.
Fei Peng looked at his watch and said in an incredulous tone:
"I'm cāo! It's past four o'clock, and I obviously don't believe it, "It's past four o'clock, how is it possible, is your watch broken?"
Fei Peng shook his arm as if showing off, my father bought this watch for me from Shanghai, a 100-meter underwater anti-pressure waterproof watch.
He looked at it again and said firmly, "Forty-four, that's right."
I repeated in my mind: "Four forty-four, how can it be so coincidental." Three fours, it is clear that there are three deaths.
I couldn't help but say, "Could it be that we have been walking on this path for more than four hours?" Hearing me say this, Xiao Lin also looked a little nervous, and he said while holding the BB machine, :
"No way, there must be something wrong with Feipeng's watch.
Then I heard Xiao Lin say in a very surprised tone, ", it's really hell."
And I can clearly see from the faint light from the small forest BB machine, that series of numbers is 04:44.
Then the big fat said about us, and a few of them didn't want to say anything,
"It's really tmd's evil, could it be that a few of us met the legendary ghost hitting the wall, and then Da Fat, Xiaolin, and Feipeng shouted in unison:
"Look, there's someone up ahead? I looked in the direction they were told, and it was pitch black and there was nothing.
However, Da Fat, Xiao Lin, and Fei Peng seemed to have fallen under a spell, and they quickened their pace to chase what they saw.
After a while, the three of them distanced themselves from me, and I hurried to catch up with him and asked, "Where is anyone?" , the three of them pointed to the front firmly and said:
"Look, it's right ahead! More than a dozen people, with boyfriends and daughters walking side by side!
Listen to the three of them so firm.
I gasped. I knew very well that the direction they were pointing was clear and empty.
I suddenly felt the hairs all over my body, and instantly stood upside down, from the soles of my feet to my scalp, and I yelled with some anger:
"Don't play tricks on me, no, people will be scary!
The three of them stopped and looked at me inexplicably, saying:
"Brother Bing, are you okay with your eyes? You can't see the row of people in front of you?
I looked forward with my eyes wide open, and the rain was hitting my face, and it hurt a little.
But I couldn't see what they said, it was a dozen people.
I didn't bother to say anything more, I thought maybe they really saw something they shouldn't, and the three of them walked so fast that they left me far behind.
Just as I was chasing them with all my might, a crisp and sweet voice sounded in my ears in a trance:
"Don't chase them. The voice was familiar and unfamiliar, and my legs were unusually heavy as if they had been filled with lead.
Then the three of them gradually disappeared into the darkness, the rain gradually faded, the soaked clothes wrapped in the hot skin were a little cold, and I was sleepy and tired, like a toddler old man, walking the muddy path.
As the day began to dawn, I found that I had been staying under the thick poplar tree when I was sheltering from the rain, and the cigarette butts we had smoked that night, and I was stunned, and I kept asking myself, did I walk under this poplar tree all night?