Chapter 34 The people in the old photographs
"What to do? Then we can't get over it? I asked, leaning on the ground.
The fat man hesitated, and the peanut in front of him squatted under a boulder and said to us: "You must go, even if it is not your father, those people should know your father's whereabouts." ”
"But those dogs shoot indiscriminately, and the lights are blind, and it must be dangerous to go any further." The fat man said.
"Let's take a detour." As he spoke, Peanut pointed behind him. The three of them lowered their bodies and quickly navigated through the rubble. Soon, we made a detour out of the gravel road, following the gunfire in front of us, and quickly passed between the stone statues on the side.
As we got closer and closer to the gunshots, we couldn't help but feel a little strange.
With the size of a giant bird, if it attacked those people, there would definitely be movement in the air next to it. But after walking for a long time, we didn't see a black shadow flashing in the air.
The fire from the muzzle of the gun suddenly flashed in front of our eyes, and those people didn't know what the road was about, and none of them turned on the lights. But it can be seen that they haven't gone any further.
We walked around and hid behind a crumbling stone statue. From time to time, bullets hit the stone statues, and the stone slag splashed up, and we didn't dare to move at all.
After listening for a while, the fat man frowned and said, "It seems that something is wrong, why are there only gunshots and screams, why doesn't the big bird bark?" ”
Peanut was also a little confused. "The air here is so quiet, it doesn't look like the traces of the giant bird just now." Peanut is right, if the giant bird is nearby, then it only needs to spread its wings, and it is afraid that there will be a strong wind around it.
At this moment, shouts were heard from the sound of gunshots.
"Platoon commander! The road behind is also blocked, what should I do!? "The voice was very fast. It's almost a little hideous. This is how people cry out only when they are in despair.
"No matter what, now it's just a matter of fighting with them. You take a few people to look at that thing, and you don't have any stubble. The person who replied should be the platoon commander in the mouth of the previous one.
As soon as we heard this, the three of us couldn't help but look at each other. "Fuck, platoon commander? Aren't those people from the big girl's gang, the border guards nearby? I suddenly lowered my voice and said.
"Maybe it's true." The fat man said, "I hear the sound of this gun, it seems that many of them are submachine guns, and even if the big girl and the gang are well-armed, they may not have these guns." ”
"Let's go! We cover! "Behind the stone statue. The platoon commander suddenly shouted, and then the gunfire intensified.
In such a situation, we no longer dare to go out. But the three of them pricked up their ears and listened for a long time, and everyone didn't hear it. What are the targets of those people who are slashing with guns. It was as if what they encountered was completely silent.
When I was puzzled, suddenly. There was a dark green shadow flashing in front of us. It was as if someone had jumped from the other side of the statue. Immediately after, two or three more figures ran out.
The men in the back were carrying a large box. That thing should be heavy, and the three of them had a hard time moving forward.
"Move fast." The man who ran in front of him kept whispering and urging, and then these people disappeared from our sight.
Behind the gunfire was rapid, but. The three of us were all a little stupid.
For what?
Just because of our flashlight. Originally, we should have turned off the flashlight, but the visibility in this place was completely zero, and we couldn't walk without lighting. By the time we duck under the stone statue. Perhaps because they were so nervous, all three of them forgot whether they should turn off their flashlights. So, when these people ran in front of us from the hail of bullets from behind, our flashlights were still on.
Under normal circumstances, even if those people have urgent matters and suddenly see the three of us, they will definitely stop for a while, even if they don't ask anything, they should turn around and look twice.
However, as if they could not see us at all, they did not stop at all, and ran into the darkness without looking at us.
Is our flashlight too inconspicuous? Or have their things really gotten to the point where they need to ignore everything around them?
None of them are right. It occurred to me right away that the reaction of these people was completely abnormal.
Besides, those people don't have any lighting equipment, and they are carrying such a big box, where do they want to run? I estimate that even if Peanut and Fat Man run 20 meters, they will definitely hit the stone pillar.
With this thought, the sound of gunfire behind us began to make us feel strange.
"Little brother, this thing is a little wrong, these people" The fat man wanted to say something, but Peanut stretched out his hand to stop him.
At this moment, the suspicion on Peanut's face was completely different from before. He quieted us all and seemed to be putting all his attention on his own hearing.
After a full four or five minutes, Peanut suddenly frowned, "These voices are repeating. ”
"Repeat?" I was taken aback. But before I could ask anything, there was another hoarse shout from behind the statue.
"Platoon commander! The road behind is also blocked, what should I do!? ”
"No matter what, now it's just a matter of fighting with them. You take a few people to look at that thing, and you don't have any stubble. ”
All of a sudden, the fat man and I were stunned. This conversation is not as simple as what we just heard, it is obviously a complete repetition. Every word, every intonation, even the sound around them as they spoke was exactly the same.
"I'll go, isn't there anyone behind us, just a repeater?" The fat man exclaimed.
Then "Hurry up!" We cover! "More gunfire
The three of us subconsciously turned our gaze to the place three or five meters away from us. I don't have a complete idea right now, but I still have a hunch that something is going to happen in that place right now.
Less than a few seconds later, a figure flashed out of there. Even though I was prepared, I was still terrified when I saw his back. Immediately afterwards, there were three more people dressed in the same costume. He dragged the big box and followed.
Everything is just like the replay of the picture. The horror was written on the faces of me and the fat man, and the men, as before, ignored us and hurried into the darkness.
The fat man moved around, and I immediately knew what this guy wanted to do. He wanted to see what was going on behind the statue.
I squeezed him, "Don't mess around, it's so weird, we need to figure it out." ”
Fat people also feel a little impulsive, but that's not surprising. If it weren't for someone trying to play with a few of us. Then what we see in front of us and what we hear with our ears cannot be explained.
"Did you see the clothes of those four men?" Peanut said suddenly.
I thought for a moment, "It seems to be green, sort of, a bit like a military uniform." ”
The fat man's eyes narrowed, "I remember." It was an old military uniform. It's not that no one wears it now, and it's still sold in labor insurance stores. But it's been decades ago. ”
Peanut nodded. Then he pointed to my clothes. I didn't understand what he meant, "What the hell are you trying to say?" ”
The fat man immediately understood, "Eh, yes,, it's such a cold place." The clothes on their bodies are also too cold, and ordinary people wear them like that, and I am afraid that they will quickly freeze to death in such an environment. ”
"So, they're certainly not people." After Peanut said this. The atmosphere around them suddenly became gloomy.
"But, how can we prove it, what if there are other accidents?" I said. If anything we don't understand is not based on a certain basis, it is obviously too much to say that it is not done by people or that it was not done by people. Although everything that happened just now was weird, I still tried to make my mind as rational as possible.
"It's simple." As he spoke, Peanut stood up, and although the stone statue was still able to block him completely, his actions still made me a little nervous. "We'll catch one and we'll know it."
As soon as Peanut's words fell, the shouts behind the stone statue appeared for the third time.
"Platoon commander! The road behind is also blocked, what should I do!? "No matter, now I have to fight with them. You take a few people to look at that thing, and you don't have any stubble. "Run, we'll cover!"
The fat man and I also stood up and watched Peanut move to the side. According to the previous situation, soon, the man in military uniform will run out. Peanut's shot, whether the other party is a human or a ghost, you can judge it at once.
I suddenly felt that what Peanut was about to do was terrifying. If it wasn't a human who ran by, what would we see later? The figure would not have passed directly through Peanut's body
The thought of this made my hair stand on end. In the blink of an eye, the dark green figure did burst out, and Peanut's eyes were quick, and he reached out and grabbed the man's shoulder.
"Poof"
The sound was very soft, and it was supposed to be like this when you slapped your hand on your clothes. However, if the conclusion of Peanut is taken as a premise, this is not right. My fingers began to tingle, and it was only then that I realized that he was far more terrifying than a ghost. Because the other party is a ghost, then we don't need to be confused about what happened just now, because the logic of ghosts is different from that of people. But once he was a human being, what happened before was terrible.
The moment Peanut grabbed the man's shoulder, he stopped, bowed his head slightly, and stood there frozen, not surprised, nor turning his head to look at us. At the same moment, there was a deathly silence around us, as if the gunshots just now were our hallucinations.
At this moment, even Peanut didn't know how to react. I took a closer look at the man. He was not tall, had very light hair, and his military uniform was covered in dirt. There was a trail of blood left under his ear, and his body seemed to be wet.
The thing that best refutes Peanut's judgment is that this man's chest is rising and falling.
"Damn, it's really personal." As he spoke, the fat man took a flashlight and shone it on the man's face.
As soon as the light flickered on his face, the fat man jumped in place with a strange scream, and I was even more shocked to take several steps back, only Peanut remained calm.
"Who are you?" Peanut asked in a low voice.
The man in military uniform did not answer. And in my opinion, that person probably won't have normal communication with us. I saw that the side of his face was completely ulcerated and swollen, covered with dark red spots, as if it had been splashed with sulfuric acid.
"Peanut, you let go of him first. Can be dangerous. I said.
Peanut ignored me, still staring at the man, and asked again, "Who are you?" ”
The fat man frowned, looking at him like that, he should be planning to do something. However, just as the fat man stepped forward, the man who was caught by Peanut suddenly raised his head up. We immediately became nervous again, and the fat man's pistol was already aimed at the man's head.
The man turned his face slightly to look at Peanut, his mouth slowly opening. I could even see the skin that had been glued to the corners of his mouth cracking little by little.
"Who am I?" His voice seemed to echo from the eighteenth floor of hell, low and hoarse, making people's scalps tingle.
Peanut was very close to him, and he didn't know what Lu Dao was for, and a frightened expression slowly spread on Peanut's face, and then. His right hand, which was pressed on the other person's shoulder, moved away little by little.
"You" Peanut stopped talking, as if he had seen something he couldn't believe at all. And at the moment. Everything about that person was in front of my eyes. Only the remaining half of his face.
The fat man slowly moved the flashlight over, and the remaining half of the man's face was completely visible to us.
To my surprise, the left half of his face turned out to be intact. A smile appeared on that half of his face, and the whole thing looked very terrifying. But I still don't understand why Peanut would be so shocked when he saw this man's face.
"I'll fuck Yuan Jie, you. You take a good look at him, he" suddenly didn't know what to do, and the fat man was also surprised, and he couldn't say a word clearly for a long time.
I looked back at the fat man. Then he carefully examined the remaining half of the man's face. At first, I really couldn't think of anything about this man's face that surprised Peanut and Fat. The fat man's reaction should be to say that I have seen this person with him.
"Hey, I haven't seen this person, no" Suddenly, a flash of lightning flashed in my head, and I suddenly realized that the half of the smiling face in front of me was so familiar.
"Who am I?" The man spoke again, and at the same time, the whole person was completely facing us.
For more than 20 years, I did not have any contact with this person, but in the letter that Liu Jinsun wrote to my grandfather, there was a photo of him. I've seen that old picture countless times, and I remember it very well, he was sitting on a black coffin, smirking on his face, and he was wearing a very exaggerated six-finger glove on his right hand.
At this moment, the half of the face is almost the same as in the photo. The moment I recognized him, I held my breath and looked down at his right hand.
"One, two, three, four, five, six."
Suddenly, my heart almost shrunk into a ball, and this person's right hand really had six fingers, exactly like my father's hand.
"It's the guy in the picture." I couldn't help but say.
"Photos?" Peanut turned to look at me.
Then I remembered that I hadn't even told Peanut about that letter. But at the moment, I didn't care so much, and immediately asked Peanut: "Do you know who he is?" ”
Peanut looked at me, then at the man. "He is your grandfather's biological brother, your uncle, Yuan Wuyang."
As soon as Peanut's words fell, suddenly, the person in front of us took a step towards us. We were immediately on guard, but strangely, the man suddenly raised his right hand and slowly looked over his head. He seems to be telling us not to talk.
"Run, we don't have a chance."
The fat man had made such a speculation before, if the person in the photo really had six fingers, he might have something to do with our Yuan family. And now Peanut says that, I find it hard to accept. Staring at his right hand, all of a sudden, the fat man's previous unintentional words began to swirl in my head.
But now the big question is, Yuan Wuyang, my uncle, why did he appear here like this?
At this time, Yuan Wuyang in front of him suddenly shouted next to us: "Hurry up!" ”
Then, as he had done twice, he began to run forward again. In this case, we were going to chase. But before the three of them could step out of their feet, there was a sudden sound of footsteps behind them. We immediately reacted, according to the previous situation, as soon as Yuan Wuyang in front ran out, the three people carrying the box should have appeared.
We all turned around, and this time, the flashlight shone accurately on the faces of the three men in military uniforms and carrying large boxes in the back.
Seeing this, the three of them were all stunned in place.
Because I had already thought of that old photo just now, when I saw the faces of those three people, I immediately reacted.
The first one that appeared in my eyes was my grandfather when I was young, and behind him was the person I thought might be Liu Jinsun. On the other side of the box, as soon as the remaining man's face appeared in the flashlight, my mind was completely in chaos.
It was actually the face of a peanut.
"My grandma" watched the three people hurriedly flash in front of them, and the fat man's eyes were straight. As soon as he turned around, he looked at Peanut with some suspicion.
I didn't know what to do, and as soon as my mind was hot, I pulled my legs and chased forward.
Peanut stopped me.
"Stop chasing, that's not true." Peanut suddenly calmed down, and the horror on his face could no longer be found.
Instead of struggling, I stretched out my hand and pointed in the direction the people left, stared into Peanut's eyes and asked, "What was that?" ”
I thought Peanut would say something perfunctory to me, but he didn't say anything, grabbed my arm, and walked to the other side of the stone statue.
Before I could reach the place, Peanut let go of me, reached out and lit three fires and threw them away.
It took a few seconds for the fire to fully light up, and as far as the eye could see, a horrific scene appeared before our eyes.
Five large trucks lined up, and there were a lot of discarded jeeps next to them. Some boxes of unknown origin are scattered on the ground and can be seen everywhere. The vehicles were riddled with bullet holes, and some old firearms were scattered on the ground.
I recognized the fat man at a glance that these jeeps were the same style as the one we met on the edge of Ka Lake. The same old, the same eerie atmosphere. (To be continued......)