Crazy Six is a native of the country, and is already in his nineties, much older than his cousin, and in terms of life experience, of course, he is richer than all of us, and he should know something about the old man.

After listening to our story, it really brought back some memories of the madman Liu, and these memories are related to the mysterious old man.

That was probably decades ago.

That year, there was a great famine here, and many people starved to death, and even the bark of the trees was eaten.

Generally speaking, the inhabitants of the seashore or in the mountains are not very prone to great famine, and when there is nothing to eat, they can go into the mountains to hunt some prey and catch a few nets of fish in the sea, so that they can fill their stomachs, unlike the inland plains, once they encounter a major drought and flood, they will have no harvest and can only starve.

In the past, there were a large number of deaths in the mountains of our area, and on several occasions they became almost no man's land, but it was because of plague or war, but there was never a great famine.

We are sparsely populated here, and most of the people make a living by collecting medicines, hunting, or cultivating crops on flat land, even if the year is bad, you can go into the mountains to hunt and pick some wild fruits to fill your stomach, so that you will not starve to death.

But in that year, all kinds of unbelievable strange things happened, including those long-lived old people, who had never encountered such a situation, and it was this kind of weirdness that made many people in the village almost die.

What happened?

That year, it was already late autumn and early winter, and in previous years, the temperature would drop significantly at this time, and the mountains would often be covered in fog.

But I don't know why, at this time of the year, it suddenly rained heavily, and this heavy rain lasted for almost three days and three nights, leading to flash floods, and many low-lying villages completely disappeared in this unprecedented heavy rain.

When my cousin heard Madman Six say this, he couldn't help but nod his head and added: "What the old gentleman said is right, this incident you said is recorded in the county annals, when I was still young, I followed my parents in a foreign land thousands of miles away, so I couldn't experience it personally, but I heard a meteorological expert in our province say that the climate change that year, as well as various other natural phenomena, was really abnormal, and he studied it for decades, but he still couldn't find a reasonable explanation."

The madman nodded: "Well, I experienced it myself that year, but fortunately I lived in the county seat, and the terrain here in the county seat is higher, so many people around the disaster came to the city for refuge."

It rained for three days and three nights, and I remember it very clearly, until the evening of the third day, when the rain suddenly stopped, and everyone hurriedly came out to repair the roads and houses that had been washed away.

In the early morning of the fourth day, although it did not rain again, there was a heavy fog, and the fog was so big that it was almost impossible to see anything two meters away.

And this fog inhaled into the nose, there is a strange sweet taste, making people dizzy, as if they have drunk wine, and this fog has lasted for more than 20 days, and people are like being covered in a quilt every day, suffocating people crazy.

What's even more incomprehensible is that after smelling this mist, you can still make people feel hungry, even if you haven't eaten for a day, but smelling the special sweetness of this mist, you will not feel hungry at all. Do you think it's weird?

At that time, many of our people here were hunting for a living, and they were used to eating wild game directly, or taking the prey to the bottom of the mountain to exchange food, so each family did not have much grain in stock, and it rained for so long and there was this kind of fog, many families had already run out of food.

In addition, there are many people who have entered the city, which makes food more scarce, but in this kind of foggy day, which can hardly see the five fingers, it is impossible to go up the mountain to hunt, not only the problem of visibility, but also the more terrible thing is that this fog also makes people weak and weak, even if someone wants to enter the mountain in this foggy day, he is also powerless.

Add to that the smell of this fog that makes people not feel hungry, which makes it even more dangerous.

Probably more than 10 days after this kind of fog appeared, people began to starve to death on the streets of the county seat, and I heard some people who fled into the city say that the situation in the city is still good, and many surrounding villages are either flooded by the heavy water, or in this fog, the whole village and the whole village are starved to death.

At the time, people said that the sweetness of the fog might be a mixture of fog and corpse stench, but no one knows if this is the case, but the fog is weird anyway.

But our family is lucky, at that time the family was good, my grandfather is still alive, he was originally from the Central Plains, when he was young, he came to us to do medicinal materials business, and later settled in our place, but his living habits are still the same as those in the Central Plains.

Therefore, he is different from us locals, usually always store a lot of food at home, and said that only in this way, he can be sure, we, the children and grandchildren, at that time still felt that this was not necessary, in our mountains with such abundant products, do you still have to worry about not eating?

I didn't expect my grandfather's approach to really save the lives of our whole family during that special period. Because there were enough food rations at home, we didn't starve to death in a family of dozens of people, and we later learned that this is extremely rare in our county, and in that disaster, basically everyone in every family starved to death.

In addition, in our house, there is an ancient well, as for what age this well was dug, no one knows, only know that this well is very old, it is strange to say, in the three or four zhang around this well, there is no fog!

During those days, except for going into the house to sleep, my grandfather told everyone in the family to stay in an area around the wellhead without fog.

Because we stayed at home like this every day, we didn't know much about the situation outside, until one day, a servant of our family, went outside to inquire about the situation, when he stumbled back from the fog to the well, his face was full of horror, saying that the streets of the county town, there were dead bodies everywhere, I don't know whether these people were starved to death, or smoked to death by the fog, we listened, we knew how strict the situation outside was.

As a result, we were even more afraid to leave the area around the wellhead. And they also set up pots around the wellhead, and even ate there, but the weather was already very cold, so they only went back to the house when they were sleeping.

I still remember that it was early one morning, and it was just dawn, because the house I lived in was next to the well, so every morning, I was usually the first to get up and clean the area around the well.

When I woke up that morning, I was about to get up, when suddenly, from the side of the well, there was a very sharp laugh, which was very small, and it seemed to be nothing, but I heard it, and I felt very terrible, and I got goosebumps at that time.

Surely that laughter is not the laughter of our family or servants, who has broken into our courtyard?

I hurriedly turned over and sat up, put on my clothes, a stick from behind the door, and then gently opened the door, and walked to the wellhead, although this fog was extremely thick, almost invisible to the five fingers, but after all, this is my yard, of course I am extremely familiar, so I just by feeling, I effortlessly touched the back of a pile of firewood near the wellhead, and then quietly looked near the wellhead, only to find that at the wellhead, there was a strange old man, this old man is of medium stature, mediocre appearance, nothing special, But the only thing that stands out is that the back of his head is very large, and it is a little deformed.

He looked around for a minute or two, and then he sat down on the edge of the well, and his body slipped into the well, and the whole person disappeared into the well, and there was no sound.

The water surface of the well is two or three meters from the ground, although the water surface is very close to the wellhead, but if such a big person falls in, there will be a sound, how can it be so quiet? Could it be that this old man is not human at all? Is it a soul that died in a well?

Thinking about it made me break out in a cold sweat.

But because it was during the special period, I was afraid of causing greater panic in our family, so I didn't tell anyone about it, including my grandfather.

So many years have passed, but I still remember that scene very clearly, but because this incident is so weird, so I sometimes wonder if it is my hallucination, today I heard you talk about the old man in the old house, and the old man in the tunnel, and it also made me suddenly remember this incident, because the characteristics of the old man you talked about are too similar to the one I saw by the well, and they are all so weird, so I also wondered, could this be the same person? ”

After listening to Maniac Six's speech, we felt more and more the mystery of that old man.

The cousin nodded, and said thoughtfully: "What you said is right, old sir, I think that the old man in the tunnel, in the ancient house, and the old man you saw on the edge of the ancient well are probably the same person, and it is certain that there is a parasitic fetus in the back of this old man's head, and I pay attention to a detail you just said - when you were in the house, you heard a sharp laughter, and that laughter was probably made by the parasitic fetus behind the old head." ”

We all felt that my cousin's speculation was very reasonable.

"Is the ancient well you mentioned still there? I want to take a good look at that ancient well", the female translator suddenly asked the madman six.

"The big house we live in was confiscated after the liberation, first it became the station of the Water Conservancy Bureau, and then it became a dry rest house, and the original house was demolished and changed into a building, but as far as I know, the ancient well should still be there, and I sometimes go there for a walk after dinner, and see that the ancient well has been covered with a lid, but it is still quite intact."

After listening to the answer of the madman six, the female translator's eyes lit up, we all know that the female translator wants to take a good look at the ancient well, since the strange old man has haunted the ancient well, maybe there is some mystery in that ancient well.