Chapter 82: Mountain Spirits
I was startled and said, what the hell is this? … I hurriedly looked at it, but the thing was gone. From that impression just now, I feel that it is a bit like the kind of UFO that many people use as false rumors in normal times...
The cliff itself is less than ten meters high, and most of these trees in the east are taller than the cliff, and the thing flashed and disappeared for a while, and I don't know if it was blocked by the trees...
These thoughts passed through my heart, and it was only a matter of moments. The little fox suddenly let go of the bite on my trouser legs, and the hair on his body exploded all of a sudden, and his ears were erect, staring at the forest to the east...
"Master!" I hurriedly whispered.
Master's hand quickly waved at me, and at this moment, I faintly heard the sound of 'sand and lala' in the forest, as if something was walking and stepping on fallen leaves...
Suddenly, Uncle Yang, who was standing behind me and had not said a word, suddenly stretched out his hand and pulled me, and said loudly and eagerly, "Xiao Zhang, Xiao Leng, hurry up and go down from here!" ”
I was frightened by Uncle Yang's sudden performance, and I didn't react for a while, until Master also said, 'Go down!' I came back to my senses. There was no need to think about it, but when we rushed to the place where we had slept before, Master, Uncle Yang, and I, each picked up a package, and went down the slope where we had come up before, and as soon as our buttocks hit the ground, we heard a strange sound of 'woo-wow', and then a strong wind blew...
The wind blew from the back of the cliff, that is, from the east, the big one was unusual, flying sand and rocks, if it wasn't for the cliff blocking, it is estimated that we would be blown away, and we were facing the trees in the dense forest, 'gurgling' poured a large piece... If Uncle Yang hadn't reacted in time, the consequences would have been unimaginable. No matter how good the master is, he is also flesh and blood, standing on the top of the cliff, he can't resist the power of this wind, as for me and Uncle Yang, not to mention...
The wind is so weird, it feels like there's a huge powerful blower blowing on the back side of the cliff... The three of us were close together, against the cliff, and I thought about all the performances of the little fox, from the first roar, to pulling my trouser leg from behind... It shows that it senses danger coming... I thought that this sudden gale might have something to do with the 'glowing' I saw, so what the hell was that? …
Faced with the unknown in the mountains, I suddenly felt extremely small...
The strong wind blew for nearly half an hour, and the wind gradually weakened and finally stopped. If it weren't for the trees that had been blown down, one wondered if that had just happened.
Master stood up, looked around to the left and right, and said, "It's all right. ”
Uncle Yang 'poofed' and blew the dust on his body, muttering, "His grandmother's, it's too dangerous..."
"Uncle Yang, what happened just now?" I asked.
Uncle Yang smiled, "You ask me, who do I ask?" ”
"Then how do you know it's going to be windy, let's come down?"
"We may have run into the spirits of the mountains..."
"Spirits?"
"Hmm..."
Uncle Yang said that there is a saying among the mountain people for generations, the deep mountains and evil forests produce spirits, and people who walk on mountain roads at night may encounter spirits if they get lost and strayed into the inaccessible deep mountains and old forests, and they may encounter spirits, and they will get sick at least and die at worst. Generally, people who grew up in the mountains rarely go out at night, and even if they do walk at night, they take familiar routes, and they will not get lost and strayed into some deep mountains and evil forests. So, no one can say whether there is such a thing as a spirit or not. Therefore, Uncle Yang didn't take this kind of legend seriously, until one year, he personally encountered it once, and he couldn't help but believe it...
As mentioned earlier, Uncle Yang used to go into the mountains often to look for his uncle Yang Niansheng, and he went back and forth in the mountains many times. Once, when he was walking at night and it was raining, he was walking in the rain, but he lost his way, and he walked and walked, and he did not know where he was. Climbing a small hill, Uncle Yang saw that there was a small col not far below, so he wanted to go to the col to find a place to shelter from the rain, and when he was about to go down, he suddenly saw that there was a faint moving thing in the col, black... Uncle Yang was startled and almost didn't fall. Because of the movement, he seemed to have been spotted by the thing, because the thing crawled in his direction, and as he crawled, the thing was faintly glowing, and it also made a 'shasarala' sound... Closer, Uncle Yang found that the reason why there was light and sound was caused by the friction of the scale armor on the thing's body...
It was also Uncle Yang's life, because of the fright, he dodged in a panic and fell into a tree hole on the top of the mountain. Then, a strong wind blew ... The next morning, Uncle Yang climbed out of the tree hole, cleared his direction, and left there. Later, he told the mountain people about what happened to him, and they all said that what he encountered was a kind of spirit in the legendary mountains...
"That thing just now, I don't know if it's the same thing I encountered back then, I only reacted when I heard that 'hiss-la-sac' sound, so I quickly told you to go down..."
Master said that he had heard about the spirits in the mountains before. Spirits are similar to natural evils, and they are also formed in places where feng shui is bad and the magnetic field is chaotic. To put it bluntly, the spirit monsters are actually a kind of mutated beasts in the mountains, they can instantly change the surrounding aura and magnetic field through the energy they have accumulated due to mutation, and create bad weather for the surrounding areas...
The three of them talked about it, and they all felt that since there are ghosts like spirits in this place, the legendary 'ghost mountain' may not be far from us.
We only took the bag off the top of the cliff, the cooking pot, the sleeping bag, those things were blown away by the wind. After dawn, Master and I started to look for it, and found that the pot was broken, and the sleeping bag was all scraped by the branches. There is also a plastic bucket filled with water, there is still a small half bucket of water left over from cooking noodles last night, and the bucket has already broken the water flow, fortunately, we still have mineral water in our bag.
Take out a roast goose from the bag, tear it apart, and make breakfast with drinking water and bread. After eating and drinking, we went around to the east of the cliff. Last night, the wind blew from the east of this cliff, and compared to the east of this cliff, it fell quite little, which is really strange.
The master measured with a compass, counted from the base of the cliff, walked about a hundred meters to the east, and stopped. I saw that the spacing between the trees here is quite large, and the fallen leaves on the ground between the two trees seem to have been burned by fire, showing a jet-black color... Master said that this should be the place where that thing 'made' the strange wind last night...
Thinking about the wind last night, my back was cold, and I lifted the zipper up.
"Master, where are we going, continue north?" I asked.
Master didn't answer, but looked around, and I looked around, and suddenly, my gaze was fixed on the top of a tree in the distance to the east.
"Look, what's that!" I pointed to the thing at the top of the tree.
"Huh? How could someone be there?! …”
Uncle Yang was right, that thing did look like a person.
We came to the tree, looked up, and saw that it was a paper figure, hanging from the treetops...
The three of them looked at each other, how could there be paper people in this hellish place?
The Master took two steps back, ran to the tree, jumped up, grabbed a branch, climbed up, and soon reached the top of the tree, throwing the paper figure down.
This paper figure looks like it has been doing it for a long time, the oil paint on his face has long faded, and the shell of the paper paste is wet from the rain. Tearing open the shell, I saw that the inside was made of rattan, and after Uncle Yang saw it, he said that these rattans were picked in this mountain.
"Master, look." After Master came down, I said.
The master looked at it over and over again, then sniffed it with his nose and said, "This paper figure was hung on this tree not long ago, and I think it must have been blown by the wind...
Wind? … The location of this paper figure is located on the east side of the 'scorched leaf zone', and the strong wind blew west last night, so it is impossible for this paper figure to be blown onto this tree last night. The night before, we were in that village, drinking and chatting with the old lady's son, and the wind was blowing outside all night, so we thought that this paper figure must have been blown the night before.
The night before was a southeast wind, we walked from this big tree, to the southeast, walked about a mile or more, around two big trees, the dense forest came to the end, out of the forest, all the eyes were chaotic rocks, high and low, hideous and sinister. Not far away, on a large rock, stood a dilapidated house.
Master's face was full of doubt, and Uncle Yang and I were full of surprise, how could there be a house in this ghost place? … I think of Gao Qien... Could it be that this is his hiding place? …
When I came to me, I realized that I had just thought wrong, because the house didn't look modern at all. On one side of the rock, there are holes in the rock wall for people to climb up and down, and these holes look like they must have been dug for years. We climbed up the holes with our feet and came to the top of the rock, where we saw that the top was very flat, with an area of hundreds of square meters. The house is located in the middle of the top of the rock, with doors and no windows, blue bricks and black tiles, which looks particularly abrupt and weird.
Behind this rock is a dense forest, and to the east of the rock is the mountain we saw on the top of the cliff last night, from here this mountain is in a northwest-southeast trend, and the top of the mountain is misty...
After looking around, we came to the house, pushed the door open, and entered.
Inside, the master turned on the flashlight, only to see that this was actually a temple, with a statue of a god in the center, with a human head and a fox body, and it was actually a fox fairy! Next to the fox fairy, there are several paper figures... Compared with the whole temple house, this fox fairy statue seems to be much newer, depending on the situation, this temple, or this room, originally did not know what it was for, and now it is enshrined a fox fairy here...
What came to my mind, I thought of the collapsed fox fairy temple in the west of Gaojia Village by the Yellow River, and the temple monument engraved with the words 'Gao Qien, the founder of the temple'... When I hurriedly looked up, I found that there seemed to be a temple monument on top of it. I was about to tell Master when Uncle Yang, who had been standing at the door of this temple house, suddenly said...
"Xiao Leng, Xiao Zhang, come and see, there seems to be someone on the other side of the mountain! …”