Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Strange Mountain Village

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The time was 2:22 p.m., a shady hill in the Shennongjia primeval forest, several of us unloaded our equipment and rested in the shade of the mountain. The bonfire in front of me was burning brightly, and a plucked pheasant and a wild monkey who had suffered the same fate kept making a "zizi" sound under the scorching fire, and slowly, the fat under the skin began to melt, and the golden oil beads continued to flow down the roasted game.

I leaned against a dirt slope, and I confessed that the aroma of the game was so enticing that my saliva could not help but increase, but I could tolerate the pheasant, but I was disgusted to look at the wild monkey that looked like a little baby.

These two wild meats were ordered by Chen Bing to be hunted by Old Man Yuan's repeated requests, although Shu Jingcheng is a vegetarian, but he doesn't seem to care about such a thing as killing, I look at his proficiency and accuracy with a gun, in my eyes, his profession should be a killer. However, he didn't have the grim expression of a killer, he was usually very quiet, almost never spoke, and at this moment, he leaned to the side and didn't know what book he was reading, all in all, he looked very serious.

"Tut-tut, look, this is what people should eat." Old man Yuan was already drooling, and his nose was in front of the fire to smell the fragrance vigorously.

What they got hunting, I and Gao Peng, Ryazan naturally can't share, we don't have guns, even if we see any pheasants and hares, we can't catch them, but Ryazan climbed up the tree to get a few bird eggs and put them in Gao Peng's big water cup, pour water for us to boil eggs, although I know that the eggs will not be poisonous, but I still feel a little uncomfortable to eat, but, in such an environment, the physical consumption is huge, and it is not a way to always eat compressed biscuits after all.

After a while, Chen Bing's group also began to eat game. Old man Yuan stepped forward unceremoniously and broke off the two chicken thighs of the pheasant, so hot that he hung up and threw the chicken legs to the ground. We smelled the fragrance and swallowed, but we could only chew on compressed biscuits to satisfy our hunger. I don't want to, at this time, Chen Bing suddenly turned his head to us and said, "Brother, come over and take a bite?" ”

Gao Peng and I glanced at each other, and for a while they were speechless, but it was Ryazan who smiled unceremoniously: "Okay, okay, then I will thank Brother Xie Bing for hospitality." ”

As he spoke, Ryazan actually came to Chen Bing's side, and he didn't know whether he had a piece of meat from the pheasant or the monkey, and ate it. I hesitated, shook my head, and still refused Chen Bing's invitation. However, since this incident, I suddenly found that this Chen Bing is actually a very righteous and hearty person, he doesn't want to be as unfathomable as Zhang Hefang, Officer Liu or Qin Ye I saw before, he has a kind of Jianghu Qi on his body, but this Jianghu Qi is not as smooth as Old Man Yuan, but like a brother who cares for each other. In fact, in this world, there is no good or bad for people, but sometimes we have different goals, different means of doing things, and different values, so there are all kinds of differences, and there may really be no clear boundary between justice and evil.

After dinner, we continued to walk westward, and I knew that the road was far away, but I did not expect that we would walk for three whole days and nights. In these three days and nights, we did not encounter any retaliatory attacks from the mountain boys, nor did we encounter any impact on the demon tree, but the mountain road was difficult, and everyone was very tired, especially Gao Peng, who had almost lost weight for three days and nights. In the past few days, I tried to communicate with Gao Peng, and the previous estrangement between the two of us has disappeared little by little, after all, no matter what, he and I are a group of people, and in this mountain forest, we always need to take care of each other.

At dusk on the fourth day, we finally found the small mountain village hidden in the primeval forest of Shennongjia that Jiang Daolin said. It was a very small mountain village, and it could almost be called a small camp.

The style of the small mountain village is not very shabby, but it always feels ghostly. I don't know why, in this mountain forest, all the houses in the small mountain village are built in the shade, only more than two meters high, the walls of the small houses are all white, some of the wall skin under the corners of the wall close to the ground has fallen off, revealing dark shadows, and some weeds crawl out of the cracks in the stones. At this time, it happened to be a cloudy day, and the sky above the small mountain village was covered with gloomy clouds. It stood alone among the trees in the mountains, and when it came up close, it looked very abrupt and unnatural, but from a distance, this small mountain village was very difficult to find, and all the houses were buried in the shade of the mountain, and occasionally a few crows perched on the eaves, making a hoarse cry.

A few of us looked at the mountain village from afar, and it was a very strange feeling, as if the mountain village was beckoning you to enter it quickly, but your biological instinct was resisting this temptation.

Chen Bing stopped and glanced back at Old Man Yuan with a submachine gun. Old Man Yuan, like us, also showed a very confused expression, so Chen Bing asked, "Master Yuan, how is it?" ”

Old man Yuan smacked his lips, shook his head, and sighed: "It's a little awkward, but I can't say it." ”

When Chen Bing heard this, he snorted coldly, and then he heard a "click", the submachine gun was loaded, and then said, "Go." ”

When we walked to the first house, we found that the mahogany mottled door was hidden, and Chen Bing did not hesitate and pushed the door directly and walked in. Where did he think that when he pushed the door, a puff of black dust rushed towards us, choking a few of us and coughing.

"Damn, how many years has this house not been occupied?" Hong Yi said while fanning the dust that came over with his palm.

Just as Chen Bing was about to stride into the house, the emaciated man named Liu Yi suddenly stopped: "Wait." ”

Hearing this, Chen Bing stopped there with a foot hanging in mid-air, hesitated for a moment, and then retracted.

I saw Liu Yi walk to the door, carefully touched the door frame with his hand, as if looking for something, and then he stood up and said, "There is no mechanism, go in." ”

It dawned on me that I thought I had become very defensive after all that had happened, but in many cases, I still seemed too immature.

After a few of us walked into the house, the facilities inside were very old, the style of the whole house was very classical, and when we opened the door, the first thing that caught our eyes was two chairs against the wall facing the door, and there was a small coffee table between the two chairs, and in addition, there was nothing else in this room.

We gave up on the place after a closer look, and went to check on the other houses, and to our surprise, there was no sign of anyone in this small village, and the doors of every house we looked at were open, and there was a thick layer of dust inside, and the facilities of the houses were all the same, it was an empty village.

There are not many houses in the small village, only a dozen, and after we checked most of them, Hong Yi said, "There is no fucking person here." ”

Chen Bing lit a cigarette, looked a little disappointed, and said, "It's true that there is no one, but I always feel that something is wrong, but I can't say it." ”

"There are no beds." Ryazan and that Liu Yi were exactly the same, and said in unison, and then the two of them also glanced at each other, Liu Yi was older, showing a hint of appreciation, and Ryazan just smiled stupidly.

"That's right!" Gao Peng said: "This is indeed a little wrong, let's not talk about whether there are people in this village, but since there are houses here, and there are so many, then it must have lived in people before, since it is for people, then there should not be no beds, unless those people don't have to sleep at all." ”

"Not necessarily." Old man Yuan twisted his mustache on the side and said, "This may be a transfer station or something." ”

Chen Bing took a puff of cigarette and said, "However, looking at the dust, even if this is a transit station, it should have been idle for a long time." ”

"Hey! Why do you want to do so much? There's also the last room here, so it's not too late for us to jump to conclusions when we go in! Ryazan said.

"Well, that's right." Chen Bing said.

With that, we came to the last house, only this time, we had just reached the door, and we realized that this house was different from all the previous houses.

This house has a red door that looks like a side, and the gap between the door is exactly the width of a human head, and through the crack of the door, we see that a very old Taishi chair is placed in the door, almost close to the door.

A few of us looked at each other, here, except for me and Gao Peng, the others were not fuel-efficient lamps, something awkward, something was wrong, they could see at a glance, they immediately noticed the difference in this house, Chen Bing and Hong Yi The submachine guns that they had originally put down were picked up at this moment.

Chen Bing pointed at Ryazan with the muzzle of his gun and said, "You go and open the door." ”

Ryazan did not hesitate, very happily agreed to push open the door, suddenly, I heard a "squeak" scream, a black shadow flew out of the door against the ground, before I could react, I heard a "bang" gunshot, the black shadow was immediately collapsed a few meters away, I looked up, only to see Shu Jingcheng expressionless holding a pistol, the muzzle of the gun emitted a faint smoke, but his expression seemed to be all this is not what he did.

We looked at the black shadow again, and we were relieved, it turned out that it was just an unusually large old tree, at this time, our attention returned to the interior of the house, this look, found that this house is really different from the others, it turned out that the wall opposite the house was actually filled with dense tablets of the dead, it seemed to be a place to worship ancestors.

We were about to step in, when Liu Yi called out to everyone again and said, "Don't move yet, there are people in this room." You see. ”

We didn't know why, so we looked forward in the direction of Liu Yi's finger, and saw that on the ground covered with thick dust, in front of the Taishi chair, two footprints suddenly appeared.

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