Volume 2 Tuoshi Ridge_Chapter 2 Not Dead
After walking for a while, the voice behind us became louder and louder, and the voice was getting closer and closer to us, as if it was close at hand, and it could catch us up in the next second!
As we got closer, the sound became clearer, not so much like the sound of the wind as it was like the low roar of some animal, and it didn't sound like a beast, but rather a little eerie.
After the events of our village, I am not a hairy young man without a little knowledge, but this sound still makes me feel numb in my scalp, I feel trembling when I walk, I am full of yo-yo in my arms, I heard the sound to poke up my little head to look back, I held it down, and my heart was pounding.
I unconsciously quickened my pace, my back was tense all the time, and I always felt like the thing behind me was going to pounce on me and bite my throat.
As I walked forward, I tugged at the trendy man and pointed behind me. He turned his head and shook his head at me, then pointed ahead again, signaling me to leave it alone and keep going. I looked at the cold man, who was striding forward without squinting, as if he had turned a deaf ear to the noise behind him.
I was a little relieved, I have seen the skills of the two of them, if the things behind are really so terrible, then the two of them will not be so calm and composed, I will quickly follow forward.
This time, needless to say, the three of us picked up the pace.
Looking at the funeral procession in front of them, they walked fast carrying a coffin when they came, but now that there is no burden of a coffin, they are even more brisk, and they almost trotted back. I wonder if they know that what follows them is so scary, that's why they're going so fast?
But what is behind this, and why is it so scared of them?
The sky was dark, the surrounding mountains and weeds were everywhere, and the dead silence of the mountains was only the footsteps of a group of people walking hurriedly, and this sound made people panic when they heard it.
Just when the team was about to turn a corner, in the team that was walking quietly forward, someone suddenly let out an "ah".
The sound was too sudden, short and low, but it was very abrupt in such a dead silence, as if a bomb had been dropped on the surface of a calm lake!
The marching procession suddenly stopped!
Everyone's nerves tensed up almost instantly.
The three of us looked ahead, and saw a person in front of us squatting down and clutching his ankle, as if he had hit his foot, but he only screamed like that, and he didn't dare to open his mouth anymore, but just looked up at his companion, probably wanting them to help.
Several people stood next to him, looking a little overwhelmed, as if they didn't know whether to squat down to help him.
What makes us even more puzzled is that after hesitating for a moment, those people actually raised their feet and ran forward, and the others were also like that, they all hurriedly walked forward, as if they were afraid that something would catch them, and soon left the person who had broken their feet behind!
After they left the man behind, the man with his feet gritted his teeth and stood up, and walked forward with difficulty, but he had only taken a few steps before he suddenly turned his head, and I didn't know what he saw, but I felt that his eyes widened suddenly, and we could vaguely see his face, and we could see that his expression was terrified!
At that moment, a black shadow rushed towards him like lightning, and before we could see what the black shadow was, we heard a scream tearing through the night sky, and the black shadow flashed again, and jumped to the grass next to it!
We watched in horror as the shadow jumped into the grass, and the grass was still shaking slightly, but the shadow was so fast that we didn't even see what it was!
When we looked back, the man was lying on his back on the ground, his body was still twitching violently, and we hurried up to take a closer look, and saw that he had been scratched with a deep wound on his neck, and it was this wound that killed him!
And next to that fatal wound, there were a few shallow scratches, as if something had been scratched with sharp claws!
Could it be that the black shadow just now turned out to be an extremely ferocious animal?
We are all skeptical about this, after all, now that the population is more and more dense, and the living density is becoming more and more dense, this kind of animal that can hurt people almost no longer exists, let alone such a ferocious, lightning-fast animal, how can it still come out to hurt people?
But if the wound on the man's neck was not scratched by an animal, then what was it? People?
Looking at the deep wound on the neck of the man in front of me, thinking of the low roar behind us just now, I didn't feel a cold sweat on my back!
This village is so weird!
The man on the ground was no longer twitching, and the cold man probed his pulse and shook his head at us with a solemn face, obviously this man had no hope of being saved.
Since there was no way to save this man, the three of us did not delay any longer, and immediately stood up and chased after the funeral procession in front, this time the three of us walked very fast, and no one wanted to be harmed by the unknown thing.
The three of us were very fast, and soon caught up with the funeral procession in front of us, and when we caught up with them, they had already walked on the flat road back to the village, and the honest man was still standing and waiting for us, and when he saw us coming, he waved at us and motioned for us to hurry up.
The three of us didn't talk nonsense, and immediately followed, and the man didn't speak, and after we followed, he turned around and left, and his steps were still fast. As I walked forward, I looked at the group in front of me, and they were all almost to the village, and we were surprised by how fast they were.
In this way, the three of us walked quickly back to an old house in the village on the street with the man, who looked around vigilantly and knocked on the door.
While he knocked on the door, we quickly looked around, and saw that the street was empty, and we could only see a few figures of mourners who had not yet walked back, but those figures quickly turned into the alley and disappeared.
The village seemed unfathomable in the darkness, and the funeral procession was even more mysterious and weird, only the three of us looked at each other, and our hearts were secretly vigilant.
The door soon opened, and it was a middle-aged woman of the same age as the man, who was a little surprised to see the three of us, and looked at her man suspiciously, and the man nodded at her, and she suspiciously let us in.
As I walked through the aisle into his yard, I turned my head to look at the woman who opened the door, and I saw that she looked around vigilantly, and then carefully closed the door, and then quickly followed us towards the house.
It was completely dark at this time, but I could vaguely see that this courtyard was an ordinary farmhouse, and the hall was still lit up, and it should be that this woman was waiting for her man.
The man beckoned the three of us into the house, and told the woman to boil some water, and the woman was still very wary when she looked at us, but apparently listened to her man, and turned around and hurried to the kitchen to boil water.
The man lifted the curtain and entered the house first, and the three of us followed.
After entering, I was surprised, this room was full of paper people, paper horses, and wreaths of gold and silver, piled up everywhere, and it was difficult to find a place to stay.
After we came in, the man hurriedly pushed a few paper figures on the kang aside, politely asked us to sit down, and then said in a low voice: "I embarrassed the three little brothers just now, but this is the custom of our Tuoshiling, and I don't dare to disobey, are you afraid?" ”
By the light, I took a closer look at this man, and saw that his complexion was dark, and his face was full of vicissitudes and roughness left by years of hard work.
"Big brother, you just ...... Funeral? After reassuring myself, I carefully considered my words and asked the man cautiously.
When the man heard the word "funeral", he stood up and looked out of the window in horror, and then warned me in a low voice, "Little brother, I will say that I will send God in the future, and I must not say anything else, I will ...... if I say it."
What would happen if he said it, but he never said it, but his eyes were frightened and his whole body trembled slightly.
The trendy man hurriedly appeased the man, saying that we are strangers and don't know much about the customs here, and when we see the coffin, we will naturally think of mourning.
This man is honest and honest, and the hip man's mouth is sweet, and the man who said in three or two sentences hurriedly made amends to us, saying that he knew that we were strangers, and he didn't blame us, but he was afraid that we would go out and talk nonsense and anger the people in the village.
After being polite again, the woman brought water, and we took a symbolic sip, and then asked the man what was going on, why he sent God at night, and there were so many rules.
After talking to us, maybe seeing that we are not bad people, this man introduced himself and said that his name was Wu Daneng, but the people in the village thought he was honest and honest, and they all called him Wu Dahan.
The god sent today is his father, as for why he sent the god at night, and there are so many rules, he said that he doesn't know, the village has been doing this for thousands of years, and it has continued until now.
Wu Dahan's name is quite consistent with his appearance and temperament, and the trendy man is also familiar with him, so he took the initiative to pour water for him, and asked him carefully, "Big brother, when I went to send God, I heard the coffin ringing all the time, wouldn't it be the old man who came back to life?" Don't you want to open the coffin and see? ”
This question was asked on time, and I looked at Wu Dahan with the cold man, tense and waiting for his answer.
Wu Dahan glanced at his woman, then looked at the window again, then lowered his voice, and said nervously: "It's not that my father is alive again, it's that he didn't die at all!" ”
it!
I was bending over to listen to it, but after hearing Wu Dahan's words, I was so frightened that I suddenly straightened up and looked around unconsciously.
Several paper figures on the bed had pale faces and black and empty eyes, looking straight at us.