Chapter 44: Footprints
In this desolate uninhabited village, after standing for a while, Zhang Xin patted me on the shoulder, "Don't think about it, life and death are not something that ordinary people can grasp, we have done our best!"
Besides, Zhang Yuanyuan is at least alive when she is so crazy, maybe she can run out of here by mistake! ”
I know that Zhang Xin is comforting me, after disappearing in Yangqu Village, there are ghosts everywhere, and the probability that she is a little girl who can run out alive is infinitely close to zero.
However, Zhang Xin is also right, life and death are fate, as early as when they were under the mountain, if Zhang Xin hadn't made a move, they would have died at the hands of the ghost old woman like the first couple.
Now, it's just a few more days to survive.
was supposed to leave immediately, but Zhang Xin suddenly said, "You wait first, I'll go get something, and I'll come later!" ”
His words made me and Li Xue a little confused, in this Yangqu Village, what is worth him for.
After about ten minutes, Zhang Xin came back again, and we saw that he was carrying a few wrapped bags in his hands, and I didn't know that they were all loaded on them.
In his hands he was also carrying two small folding shovels. "I'm going to the burial site soon, and I'm going to borrow some necessary supplies, which should be usable by then."
He glanced at me and Li Xue, and said, "Don't worry, this is what I took from Xiao Xiao's house, there is no corpse on it, and you two will each take one, I was just trying my luck, but I didn't expect her to really have it at home!" ”
After he finished speaking, he gave the small package in his hand to me and Li Xue, one each, and he left a big one.
The package is not heavy, we carry it on our backs, there is no pressure, there is still some dirt on the shovel, and some fragrance, this should be used to plant those roses!
"Alright, let's go!"
After Zhang Xin finished speaking, I took one last look at Geng Wei's corpse and walked out of the other side of the village with them.
Out of the village, what is imprinted into the eyes is an endless, foggy forest, even the sun does not shine in the slightest, no one knows how many souls are in this forest, and what deadly things are hidden.
Zhang Xin said: "Let's go, that burial place should be in the middle of the forest, move quickly, we should be able to reach it at noon, and then it is best to leave here before the night comes, otherwise those dirty things should come out and be active again." ”
After speaking, Zhang Xin turned his head and walked in front, and Li Xue and I followed behind.
This section of the road is difficult to walk, and it is said to be a road, but in fact, it is just a path in the forest, which some predecessors have stepped on and walked.
According to Zhang Xin, Yangqu Village has lived here for generations, and this burial place should be the place where the people of Yangqu Village were buried after death.
After walking deep into the forest for about twenty minutes, the fog around me became thicker, and the visibility was only a few meters.
The temperature around us was even lower, and Zhang Xin asked us to open the backpack we had given us earlier, and there were some simple clothes and other things in it.
Seeing the shabby clothes and a lot of patches on them, I knew that these were also the female ghost's.
The clothes of the dead, Li Xue and I were originally reluctant to wear them, but feeling the colder and colder around us, we had to suppress the fear in our hearts and drape the tower on our bodies.
In the following time, Zhang Xin asked Li Xue to hold me, and then he pulled Li Xue to prevent us from scattering due to the fog.
In this way, I walked a short distance, and I saw a lot of snakes and insects in the middle.
Zhang Xin told us that under normal circumstances, if we encounter these things, as long as we don't provoke them, it will be fine, but in the forest of Sukou Mountain, due to the resentment of Yangqu Village, and the fact that no one has come for a long time, these animals are like Chengjing, and they are not afraid of people at all!
It is best to stay away from it.
When Li Xue and I couldn't walk, Zhang Xin looked at the map, "In about twenty or thirty minutes, we will be able to get to the burial place, let's work hard!" ”
With such a long mountain road, I felt like I was falling apart, and I almost sat down on the ground, but when I heard that it was about to arrive, I felt inexplicably more energetic in my heart, and my whole body seemed to have strength again.
This time he didn't go far, and Zhang Xin suddenly stopped.
Seeing that he wasn't leaving, I asked strangely, "Zhang Xin, what's wrong?" ”
"You look down at your feet." Zhang Xin's voice was heavy.
"Foot?" I lowered my head, and only then did I see countless footprints on the dirt under my feet.
The previous rain had made the soil softer, so the footprints were clear, and judging from the dense extent, at least a few hundred people passed through here.
I followed the source of the footprints, not from the same road we had come from, but from the other side of the mountain, in the dense forest.
This sudden appearance of strange footprints made me swallow hard, and I suddenly remembered what I often heard others mention when I was a child, the Yin Soldier aisle, which made my heart tremble, could it be them!
My voice trembled a little, "This is ......, the ghost walked by?" ”
mentioned the word ghost, and Li Xue's expression on the side also changed.
Zhang Xin slowly squatted down, picked up the soil near the footprints, gently twisted it twice in his hand, and shook his head, "There is no ghost on it, this is not a ghost, it is a person!" ”
"It's a human?" I was dumbfounded, and my tone was full of incredulity, "On Sukou Mountain, or in the depths of this dense forest, how could anyone come!" ”
It took a lot of effort for us to come here, and it was a diamond cave and an uninhabited village, I don't believe that these hundreds of people came here like this!
Even if they are human, what is the purpose of their visit?
My first thought was that it might have something to do with Wang Yu's corpse, right? However, I quickly shook my head, only a limited number of us know about Wang Yu's affairs, and Wang Yu is just a powerful ghost, which will definitely not cause such a big effect.
Then the only explanation is that these people must be related to the ghost king, or the god of killing in the mouth of the old Taoist priest in the mountains!
Could it be that this is the rescuer invited by the old Taoist priest who went down the mountain in order to resist the killing god.
But he's a ghost, can he invite so many people?
Zhang Xin's face was also cloudy, and finally he just said, "When you get to the front, everything will be known!" ”
In the last distance, with those people walking, the distance has become much better, but each of us has a little heaviness on our faces.
Variables are often the most worrying thing because you can't grasp them.
As the field of vision in front of me slowly widened, all the towering trees around them turned into locust trees that were not too tall, but the branches were very luxuriant.
The locust tree is the first of the three major trees that attract ghosts, and the yin qi is extremely heavy, and there are so many at this time, which makes people inevitably feel worried for a while.
According to the map in Zhang Xin's hand, the burial place has arrived!
Zhang Xin shook his hand at us, signaling not to go out immediately, but took a few steps forward, hiding behind a relatively thick locust tree.
Through the branches, I finally saw clearly, there was a large open space in front of me, and there were many people standing in the clearing, and these people had different expressions, some angry, some happy, and some surprised.
It's strange that their expressions remain the same, what they were a few minutes ago, and what they are still like a few minutes later, as if they were imprisoned there by an inexplicable force.
After a few glances in the crowd, I saw the widow of the Wang family and the two villagers at the bottom of the mountain, and I also understood that these people were clearly the ones who went to Yangqu Village yesterday!
The previous footprints should also be left by them.
But when they passed by us yesterday, they saw very clearly, they were obviously dead, why did Zhang Xin say that they were left by the living, and they had already arrived in Yangqu Village last night, and they walked directly from the road we came from, why did they get to the burial place so fast that these footprints came out from the woods on the side!
Just when I was confused, I suddenly heard a crisp bell sound, coming from my ears, this bell sound with an inexplicable rhythm, very good, it sounded floating, far and near.
I felt dizzy, and I had a faint feeling that something was wrong.
By the time I could react, it was already a little late, and I felt my footsteps and involuntarily walked out behind the trees where I had been hiding, towards the crowd in the middle of the burial ground.