In the middle of the fat man's and swallow's intangled words, I hurriedly pushed the dead man's feet hanging on my chest away, and moved my body back a little, but I didn't expect that there was also a dead body hanging on my back, and I shook when I hit it, and the sound of thick hemp rope rubbing the wood immediately came from the top of my head, and I didn't know how many hanged ghosts there were around in the dark, I had to lie back on the ground, but I could still feel a pair of feet wearing cotton shoes like a "pendulum", hanging above my body and swaying back and forth.

I was already sweating, I had just fallen down the stone steps, I didn't know where I had lost my satchel, and I couldn't find it in the dark, so I had to quickly say to the swallow: "Swallow, hurry up!" Let's see where we've fallen. The word "fire" must not be mentioned near the forest farm, even the word "fire" can not be mentioned, such as "light", "candle" can not be said, if you have to say "light" and the like, you can only use "on the brighter" instead, this is not superstition, but out of taboo, just like the fire department that responds to the fire, the name must always use "fire", not "extinguishing the fire".

The swallow just rolled down from the stone steps, hit the meat and eight vegetarians, the brain was a little dazed, listen to me call her "on the bright", finally came back to his senses, took out a pine candle and lit it, although the air can circulate in the depths of the kiln, it was still full of turbid gas that was so spicy that people's eyes watered, the pine candle can be lit is already good, the faint bright green is cold and clear, plus there are too many impurities in the air, blocking the conduction of light, making the light of the pine candle not much stronger than the ghost fire, even a meter square area can not shine.

Under the flickering candlelight, I was anxious to see if there was a hanged ghost overhead, but I don't know if the light of the loose candle was too dim, or if I was dizzy and dizzy when I just rolled and fell, my eyes seemed to be suddenly pasted with a layer of gauze, no matter how hard I opened my eyes, I couldn't see anything clearly, and only the light of the candle was faintly recognizable, but the candlelight seemed to me to be a hazy green light, fluttering in front of me, sometimes far away, sometimes near.

I rubbed my eyes vigorously, but I couldn't see clearly, but I heard someone behind the light whispering softly, as if he was saying something to me, and I couldn't help but wonder, who was talking? The fat man and the swallow are both cannon barrels, and they speak with a lot of confidence, but if it weren't for them, who was muttering behind the candles? I can't see or hear clearly, but people have a kind of subconscious, and the more I can't hear clearly, the more I want to hear what I hear, and I craned my neck to get closer.

At the same time as the body moved, I suddenly felt a chill in my heart, faintly felt that this was not quite right, although I haven't figured out what is wrong, but the hazy light shadow in front of me, but it seems that I have seen it somewhere, it is dangerous to get close to the pine candle, and I have repeatedly warned myself in my mind, but the thought of realizing the danger of the candle is completely overwhelmed by the ** who wants to get close to the candle in my heart, and still involuntarily continues to move forward, and it is getting closer and closer to the green light emitted by the pine candle.

Just now I obviously touched the feet of the hanged ghost wearing cotton shoes, and after lighting the candle, the hanging corpse, as well as the swallow and the fat man, all seemed to have disappeared suddenly, only the fluttering light of the candle remained, I suddenly thought of the hanged ghost to find a stand-in, that is, to lead people to drill into the rope sleeve, seeing that the green light was close at hand, I wanted to quickly shrink back and retreat, but the body was like a nightmare, not stop calling at all, at this time only the head and neck can move, it is this damn ghost fire, I was completely instinctive for survival, and without thinking about it, I tried my best to aim at the green light of the pine candle and blew it out in one breath.

The green light of the pine candle was blown out by me in one breath, and the whole hole lit up at once, and there was no choking stench, I looked down and saw that I was standing on the edge of a clay kang, and my hands were holding a thick hemp rope sleeve, putting it around my neck, I secretly cursed and quickly pushed the hemp rope aside.

Before I had time to look at where I was, I found that the fat man and the swallow were also standing beside me, pulling the hemp rope sleeve that fell from the roof with their eyes straight and intending to hang themselves, and the swallow was still holding a lit pine candle in his hand, but the flame was no longer green, I quickly reached out and took the pine candle in the swallow's hand, and by the way pulled off the hemp rope in front of them, and the two of them coughed and woke up again from the state of trance.

I don't care to think carefully about the nightmarish and thrilling encounter just now, first look at the surrounding situation, raise my eyes to see, the depth of the manhole is a hut with an earthen kang, we fell down from the stone steps, made a pile of rolling to the ground, I don't know when I climbed up the earthen kang in a daze, stepped on the edge of the kang and almost hanged in the house, the size of the inside of this underground manhole is similar to that of ordinary houses, the interior is very dry, there are earthen stoves, earthen platforms and fire kangs, just like ordinary people in the mountains, there are a few sorghum on the top, and there are countless rope sleeves tied to thick hemp ropes on the wood, Raw copper wire is added to the hemp rope, and it will not decay and break like ordinary hemp rope after a long time.

Among the countless nooses, there were four male corpses hanging, the corpses had been drained by the cold wind in the ground, the four "old hangers" all stuck out their tongues and stared, the purple skin of the dried corpse sauce made the expression after death even more terrifying, because the noose had been hanging for too long, the neck of the deceased had been stretched a lot.

The swallow is too afraid of ghosts, whether it is a mountain ghost, a water ghost or a hanged ghost, in the light of the pine candle like a bean to see the four thrilling scenes of the "old hanging man", frightened and quickly covered his eyes, I and the fat man did not speak for a long time, and when we met the hangman, we were really unlucky.

I saw that there was a copper oil lamp in the head of the kang, and there was still a remnant of pine oil in it, so I took the fire with a pine candle and lit it, this time the room was much brighter, holding the oil lamp by the light, and found four hanging male corpses, all dressed in the same clothes, black clothes, black shoes, black pants, and even the hat on the head were all black, except for the belt and socks tied around the waist, and the hat thorn was red, in fact, the same red was also divided into many kinds, they were bright red and bright red that kind of pig's blood red, I don't see what to say about this outfit, but it shouldn't be too old, It seems to be the old clothes of twenty or thirty years ago, I estimate that the Wong Tai Sin Temple buried in the soil, probably dug out by this group of people, I can't imagine that they can't get out after they come in, as soon as we enter this manhole, we drill into the rope sleeve like a hypothesis, if I don't blow out the ghost fire, now there are already three more hanged dead people in this manhole at this time, the folk say that the dead who hanged themselves must deceive a living person to hang themselves, in order to be reincarnated, is it that we have just been "old hanger" on the body, in the magic barrier?

The fat man relieved himself at this time, pointed to the four "old hangers" and scolded, almost let these hanged ghosts be trapped, thinking about it, he hated the root of his teeth, there was a jar of lamp oil in the manhole, the fat man scolded endlessly, and on the other hand, he was going to pour lamp oil on the hanged dead man and light their sky lanterns.

I thought to myself that it would be better to burn them, lest they cause harm to people's lives in the future, but as soon as I got together, I found that there was a crack in the wall on the side, and the crack in the wall was not cracked by the old billet, but it was specially set aside, and there was still space behind the manhole, but the earthen wall partition was hit, and I didn't notice it in the dimness, but in the crack in the wall on the earthen partition, there were two small green lamps peeping at us behind the crack in the wall.