Chapter 41: The Mound
Wu Qi only had a few thread clothes on his body, and the military uniform that could be a little thicker before let him stuff it into the smelly and hot hole, but the surroundings were very warm, reaching out and touching the wall to explore forward, and after a while, this hand was wet, it seemed that there was a big pot of boiling water, and the heat spread to the entire secret military site, but everywhere was quiet, there was not even a ghost shadow, Wu Qi wondered where the people went? There were two shots just now, and it seems that someone just passed by the door of the exhaust chamber, why was there no one after Wu Qi came out? Could it be that Chengdu is hiding?
The military site built in this cliff, from the outside, it just looks like the door is quite big, but I didn't expect the inside to be even bigger, I don't know if they hollowed out the entire cliff, or dug it all the way to the bottom of the Tianchi of Changbai Mountain, Wu Qi felt a little confused. The surroundings were pitch black and could not be seen, and the lights behind him were getting smaller and smaller, Wu Qi found that this passage was straight forward, and he did not touch the fork in the road, and there was no such thing as a door, it seemed to be a road to the end. Wu Qi faintly felt bad in his heart, and he couldn't help but mutter: "Damn, what kind of place is this?" Why don't you even have a door, where are they all dead? He was muttering in a low voice, and suddenly a white shadow flashed in the darkness in front of him, because it was too dark, and the white things looked green, that is, four or five meters away in front of him, it was gone, I don't know what it was and I didn't know where it went, anyway, Wu Qi felt that it was definitely not a good thing, so I had to be careful.
The walls of the passage should have been made of bricks, and they were painted with a layer of wall powder, but they were invaded by the damp heat and wiped them like mud with their hands, exposing all the bricks and stones inside, and they looked quite strong when they could touch the cracks of the bricks with their fingers.
Wu Qi shook his hand, picked up the gun and stuck it against the wall as much as possible, moving it forward slowly. This feeling reminded him of the time when he was in Lushi County, Henan, when the brothers of their grave team found the secret arsenal in the grave slope, the situation at that time was very similar to this time, they were all the same narrow and endless passages, they were all so dark, and the feeling of emptiness and silence was the same. Thinking of this couldn't help but make Wu Qi a little nervous, because there were monsters in the arsenal under the grave slope, and it was the group of rat-faced people, and this thing still made Wu Qi a little trembling when he thought about it.
After slowly moving forward a few more steps, Wu Qi felt that the location at this time should be the place where the white shadow appeared and disappeared in a flash just now, but when he walked over, he didn't find anything strange, and there was not even a door on the left and right, it was completely the solid brick wall, which followed into a downed chimney. Except for the two ends that can walk, there are walls around it, up and down, left and right, and there is nothing else. Staying in this dark and depressing place for a long time, Wu Qi's heart became more and more uncomfortable, the white shadow that flashed by looked a bit like a person, but it felt like he was dazzled and misunderstood, obviously he came out from one side and entered the other, this person can't go through the wall, unless he bumps into a ghost.
To be honest, Wu Qi is not afraid of ghosts. for he does not believe in demons. In the past, when I was in my hometown to drive graves, I was not allowed to believe in ghosts and gods. Otherwise, digging up the grave will cause an accident, and now in the army, it is even more forbidden to mention ghosts and gods, they are all superstitions of the old times, and they are extremely ignorant ideas and sayings, and this world is dominated by people, so there can be no ghosts. But then again. No matter what time it is, as long as this thing is weird, and its inexplicable appearance makes people unable to see the end clearly, that is, it can't explain things temporarily with science, then it will naturally be pulled to the demons and monsters. There are relatively few things about this ghost in the folk. The old things in the house and some animals that have lived for a long time, they have spirituality, and basically the things they say are pulled from these things, what becomes a substance and harms people, and so on, not so straightforwardly saying that ghosts strangle people.
Wu Qi's greatest interest in the past and even now is to listen to stories and listen to the folk tales of the old days. What is folklore? The story of the previous grave is actually weird, but it is not folklore enough, because the age is still relatively shallow, and it is best to be at the end of the Qing Dynasty before the Republic of China, when the country was unstable, and the people's suffering could not be alleviated, so they forcibly held back a lot of strange things, and that kind of story sounded particularly interesting, and everyone in the older age would basically know something, and it would not be a problem to write 1,800 books together.
I like to listen to stories, and it is not linked to believing in ghosts and gods, but it will have a subtle impact, Wu Qi was a little affected at this time, and after seeing Bai Ying, he was stunned to think of the scary stories he had heard before, saying that ghosts can go through the wall and window to enter the house without going to the door, just look at the people sleeping on the kang, if they look up and see it when they go to the toilet at night, they must be frightened to pee directly on the kang, and they don't need to go to the toilet.
When he thought of this, Wu Qi secretly complained to himself, the more he didn't think about it, the more he thought about it, he couldn't see the black stuff around him, and the walls on both sides were quite close to him, and he suddenly stretched out a hand to grab him from either side, or poked out a head and grinned at him, do you say that at this time, shoot that strange thing, or shoot yourself?
The last thing that shouldn't be done is to think wildly, Wu Qi scared himself enough, his hand holding the gun trembled a little, he even felt that the bullet should be useless to the ghost, it was better to smash it with the butt, he was so frightened that he stood in place for a long time without moving, and he didn't dare to get too close to the wall, so he trembled and took the gun and aimed indiscriminately.
"Smack!" But suddenly there was another crisp gunshot, Wu Qi thought that he had fired a gun for a moment, but then he immediately reacted and quickly squatted down, listening carefully to the source of the gunshot, but this place was so strange that he couldn't tell where the gunshot came from. But right now, Wu Qi can't help it, he has already walked far along the passage, it is better to keep walking without hitting the south wall and not looking back, if there is a dead end in front, then he will turn around and run back, in short, his legs are long on himself, only this place is still ventilated, he will definitely be able to get out.
After touching the gun again and determining the position in front of him, Wu Qiyi gritted his teeth and picked up the gun and ran forward, and stretched out his hand in front of him for fear of hitting his head in the place where he turned forward again. Holding back his strength, Wu Qi ran twenty or thirty steps, he was panting and his mouth was dry, he hadn't drunk serious water for more than a day, and after running like this again, the lung tube felt dry and cracked, and there was no spittle in his mouth, so he was tired and almost didn't arch his head to the ground, and quickly reached out to help the wall next to him, but after his hand stretched out, he didn't touch anything, Wu Qi quickly stood up, stretched out his hand in one direction and slowly moved a few steps, and then walked out of a circle, there was no wall around, And the gun can't touch the top when it is held upright, only there is nothing around the ground.
Wu Qi felt a trace of cold sweat flowing down his cheeks, turned his eyes and looked around, maybe the things he saw were only black, there was no difference between opening and closing his eyes, and he didn't know if his eyes were out of sight, or there was no light around, anyway, this feeling was not good, and Wu Qi took a few breaths of nervous panic.
"Hey!" Wu Qi shouted in a low voice, feeling the echo floating around, estimating the size of the surroundings. But then he realized that the place he was in was definitely not in the passage, there was a big space around him, and there was something wrong with the ground, it seemed that he was stepping on the dirt, or the kind of path that seemed to be muddy after the rain, Wu Qi's instinct told himself, something was wrong and walked quickly.
But at this time, it was too late to leave, after Wu Qi turned around just now, he couldn't tell the direction at this time, and he didn't know where he ran from, so it was impossible to find the same way and walk back, he seemed to have come to a strange place.
Wu Qi slowly squatted down, reached out and grabbed a handful of soil at his feet, put it in his hand and rubbed it slowly. According to his previous experience in digging graves, this kind of soil is very soft, there are no impurities in the soil, it is a bit like sand and something, it is not very sticky in the hand, but the texture is a little strange, like a deliberately sifted fine soil to fall on this place. The strangest part is the temperature of the soil, the surface layer of the soil is cool and very wet, but after inserting your hand into it, it is actually warm and very dry, as if there is a heat source below to dry the soil, but the water vapor on the surface does not know what is going on.
With full of doubts, Wu Qi got up and took a few steps forward tentatively, but he almost tripped over something, and Wu Qi was so frightened that he quickly hid aside and picked up the gun, but then realized that something was wrong, and slowly walked over and stabbed the head of the gun at that place, the touch was very soft, Wu Qi changed to touch it with his hands, it was a dirt bun, and it was still with a sharp point, and he could rub it with his hands, and he touched the delicate sand out of shape, and there seemed to be something buried in it.
Wu Qi tilted his head and poked his hand into the mound, the soil was too soft, and it hardly took much effort, so he stretched his arm into it completely, and stretched out his fingers to grope inside.
Suddenly, Wu Qi touched something, he was stunned at first, and then his whole body bounced up as if he had been electrocuted, and his hand was pulled out of the mound, frantically shaking the dirt on his hand, howling and taking a few steps back, but he tripped over another mound of dirt behind him.
Wu Qi fell on his back in the dirt, his teeth chattered with each other, and his mind recalled the feeling of touching just now, there seemed to be a dead man curled up in the mound, and the cold and dry touch startled Wu Qi. When he waited for him to recover, he felt several mounds of earth beside him where the dead were buried, and he was almost in the graveyard. (To be continued......)