Chapter 284: The Strange Baby in the Valley
Inspired by this incident, the Feng Shui master immediately returned from Shanghai and began to search around his residence in the hope of finding a headless chicken as well.
At this time, almost a third of the corpse worms had died, and they continued to die, which made the feng shui master restless, and if this continued, the consequences would be really unimaginable.
For two days in a row, Feng Shui masters would nibble on steamed buns when they were hungry and drink saliva when they were thirsty, and they would search around their residences from morning to night. To his dismay, however, he didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.
Because the amount of rain that year was very large, the mountains were full of mud and puddles, so the feng shui master was very careful when searching, because he knew that this mountain is not like flat land, the depth of the puddles is difficult to judge, many puddles do not look deep, but they are actually several meters deep, even more than ten meters, plus the terrain is steep, once you slip in, it is almost impossible to climb out, and people can easily drown alive.
After two days of hard searching, nothing was found except muddy water and exhaustion. This made the feng shui master feel more and more desperate.
In the evening of the third day, the feng shui master found nothing again, and when he returned home, he was so tired that he almost collapsed, and he didn't even have the strength to take off his dirty clothes, but even if he was so tired, the feng shui master still didn't forget to close the doors and windows before lying down, because he knew that the tall blind man would attack him at any moment.
After all the doors and windows were closed and locked, he suddenly lay on the ground and fell asleep groggyly.
I don't know how long it took, when the feng shui master woke up in a daze, he felt very sore all over, cold and hungry, he struggled to get up, turned on the light in the house, got himself some food, and after a long while, he slowly eased up, took off his clothes full of muddy water, took a shower, and then climbed into bed.
The feng shui master picked up the pocket watch on the table and looked at it, it was already past eleven o'clock in the evening.
It seemed to be windy outside, and the windows creaked. He turned off the lights and lay down, ready to rest early, because the search would continue early tomorrow morning.
However, in the darkness, he was not sleepy at all.
He lay on the bed tossing and turning, but he couldn't sleep, thinking of his bumpy fate, thinking of the person he loved the most was mutilated and ruined by a blind man, and thinking of himself, as a dignified man, not only powerless to take revenge, but also unable to protect himself, which made the heart of the feng shui master feel like overturning the five-flavor bottle, which was very unpleasant.
And the most urgent problem is to find the headless chicken and keep those corpse worms, so that he can not be killed by the blind man.
But why can't you find headless chickens? The feng shui master pondered for a long time.
In this way, the feng shui master sat up for a while, and lay down again for a while, and he didn't know how long he tossed in the dark, and suddenly, a thought suddenly popped up in the feng shui master's mind, and this thought made him feel like he had been electrified, and he was extremely excited.
Because he suddenly realized a very important information - Huizhong only found the headless chicken at night, so could it be that kind of chicken only appeared at night? The reason why I have been looking for it during the day these days is that I feel that it is very unsafe to search at night, not only will I encounter wild beasts, but it is also easier to fall into deep puddles than during the day.
Not only that, but there is also a point, if you go out in the middle of the night, you are more likely to be attacked by the high blind man, which is also the reason why every time the feng shui master goes out, he must bring a bottle of corpse worms, because this is the only nemesis of the high blind man.
Thinking of this, the feng shui master gritted his teeth and got up from the bed, he wanted to change his strategy and wanted to go out at night to find out. The feng shui master brought a bottle of corpse worms, then took a flashlight, a dagger pinned to his waist, and a German-made revolver.
The wind outside is very strong, it is already the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, in the middle of the night, there is already a slight chill in the night wind, a full moon hangs high in the sky, and every grass and tree in the mountains is shrouded in this cold moonlight.
A cool breeze blew, and the feng shui master couldn't help but shiver, and his mind cleared up a lot. Perhaps in the dead of night, the human brain can produce more inspiration, and in this environment of "quiet night and empty mountains", the feng shui master suddenly thought of one thing - he suddenly thought that there was a place within three or four miles of his residence that he had never visited.
In the past few days of searching, he has always ignored that place, intentionally or unintentionally.
For ordinary people, the reason why they don't want to go to that place is because the place is too dirty and terrible, but for him, he doesn't want to go to that place because he is afraid that the "addiction" that has been cured will be hooked up again. And that kind of "addiction" is his kind of "necrophilia".
This strange "habit" seems to be innate, and the tragic and lonely fate of the feng shui master is also related to this "habit", which makes it impossible for him to live an ordinary life, otherwise, he may be his little open in Shanghai, get married, have children, and enjoy the joy of family.
The feng shui master finally quit this "habit", and that place is likely to hook this "habit" again.
So what is that place?
It's a "Valley of Dead Children" that specializes in throwing dead babies – that's what the locals call it.
At that time, the medical and health conditions were poor, so the infant mortality rate was very high, and people often threw the dead baby to a relatively fixed place, and the "Valley of the Dead Child" was the place where the dead baby was thrown in several villages under the mountain.
Although it is called "valley", it is actually not big, just a narrow strip of land more than ten meters long and seven or eight meters wide. But to the average person, this place is both terrifying and disgusting, and often mountain beasts, or wild dogs, come to the valley to eat the corpses of dead babies, so if you accidentally enter this valley, you will often see extremely horrible scenes - many broken and various human organs.
But for the feng shui master, because he once suffered from Yan zhòng's necrophilia, although he has basically been cured, the feeling of this kind of place is still very different from ordinary people.
In the middle of the night in early autumn, when the feng shui master suddenly thought of this place, he suddenly vaguely felt that since other places had been searched and no abnormalities were found, could it be that kind of "headless chicken" hiding in this valley?
He decided to check it out.
By the bright moonlight, on the slippery mountain road, the feng shui master walked one foot deep and one foot shallow, and from time to time he would fall on his heels, and soon, the clean clothes he had just changed into were full of muddy water again.
In this way, after about dozens of minutes, the feng shui master finally arrived at the "Valley of the Dead Child", and before he entered it, he faintly smelled a foul smell, which may be disgusting to ordinary people, but for the feng shui master, this smell is so familiar and cordial, he took a few puffs hard, as if a big smoker smelled the smell of tobacco paste.
Intellectually, the feng shui master realized that this was dangerous, because he was really afraid that his "necrophilia" would revivenation, but in order to find the "headless chicken", he had to let it go.
The feng shui master waded through the muddy water and slowly entered this long and narrow valley. Due to the topography, the moonlight could not shine into the valley, so the feng shui master turned on the flashlight and slowly searched inside.
At this time, for some reason, the feng shui master could feel his heart beating very strongly.
On the muddy ground of the valley, you can occasionally see the wrapping of small mattresses, which were used to wrap dead babies, stained with blood, and scattered bones and rotten flesh, which the feng shui masters knew were the work of wild dogs, wolves, and other wild beasts.
The feng shui master walked very slowly, and he used the flashlight to search the ground in the valley inch by inch, for fear of missing something.
At this time, the wind had already lightened a lot, and the bright moonlight made the valley even more dark and mysterious.
Suddenly, after walking a few meters inside, the feng shui master suddenly felt that in the darkness not far ahead, there were two chilling green lights, and his heart suddenly shrunk into a ball, according to the experience of living in the mountains for many years, he knew that those two points of green light might be wolf eyes.
And the feng shui master knows that this kind of wolf that has eaten human flesh is the easiest to attack people.
The feng shui master jerked out the revolver on his waist, calmed down, and shone his flashlight on it.
He guessed correctly, it was a brown wolf! Under the light of the flashlight, the two green lights in its eyes were even more gloomy, and looking up at the direction of the flashlight, it was even more chilling, the wolf bared its teeth, and there were some blood stains on its mouth, it seemed that it was eating a dead baby.
The feng shui master didn't think much about it, and raised his hand to the wolf is a shot, this shot did not hit, but in this narrow valley, the gun sound was particularly loud, and it reverberated back and forth, the wolf seemed to be jumped, first bowed back a few steps, and then rubbed a sound, and the feng shui master passed by, and fled out of the valley in a panic.
The Feng Shui master stood there, frightened, and after a long while, he came to his senses and continued to search inside.
But almost to the innermost part of the valley, there is still nothing.
Isn't the "headless chicken" here either? This made the feng shui master feel a little frustrated, but he still searched patiently little by little.
Suddenly, just as the feng shui master was searching for the end of the valley, he seemed to hear a special sound, which was very similar to the sound of a baby, and this sound was not a baby's cry, but a baby's babbling voice.
The feng shui master wondered: could it be that among the abandoned babies here, there were still alive? But maybe, it may be that kind of illegitimate child or something will be left here alive, and this kind of thing is not unprecedented. It is said that an old medicine farmer who collected medicine the year before last had picked up a live baby in this valley.
The feng shui master followed the sound and slowly looked for it.
He carefully identified the direction from which the sound had passed, and found that it was not coming from the ground, but from a recess in the rock wall, and that it was probably the baby who was still alive and had been put there.
The recess on the rock wall was about a meter above the ground, so the feng shui master walked over and took a flashlight to shine inside, while he poked his neck into the recess.
Almost the moment he saw the thing inside, the feng shui master screamed in fright, sat on the ground, and the flashlight also fell to the ground, his body was shaking violently, as if he was greatly frightened.