Volume 2 Toshi Ridge_Chapter 4 Midnight
The night in the countryside seems to be very dark, I can't see my fingers, from Wu Dahan's house to the time I walked out of the village, there was no movement in the whole village, and it was quiet and panicked. When I turned my head, the huge shadow of the whole village looked like a huge tomb, and it was full of dead people!
I held Yoyo in one arm and the paper figure in the other.
In the darkness, I could still see the paper man's face, miserable and white, looking at me with a pair of dark and empty eyes. Yoyo was tightly curled up in my arms, his big eyes were urgently closed, and I didn't know if he was asleep.
Wu Dahan walked in the front, holding the dim kerosene lamp in his hand, which was covered by a glass lampshade outside, and the wick flickered on and off, as if it could be extinguished at any time.
The cold man and the trendy man walked side by side with me, neither of us spoke, but we were nervous and hurried, and the surroundings were so quiet that it seemed that we could disturb something hidden in the darkness if we whispered a word.
We walked slowly, and soon walked out of the village, and then turned onto the path leading into the mountains.
After turning onto the mountain path, I looked up and saw the mountain peaks standing quietly in the darkness, the huge shadow of the mountain range enveloped the trees and grass in it, and everywhere I saw it were all kinds of strange shapes.
After turning onto the path to the mountains, Wu Dahan paused and whispered to us: "The road in the mountains is not easy to walk, you slow down." ”
When he said this, his voice was obviously trembling, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva nervously halfway through the sentence, and his body trembled even more, and the kerosene lamp in his hand trembled with him.
It can be seen that he is terrified to the extreme, and he reminds us to pay attention, perhaps just to distract ourselves and make ourselves less afraid.
After seeing that he was scared, the trendy man patted him on the shoulder and comforted: "With us here, you can rest assured ......"
Before the trendy man finished his sentence, a burst of crying suddenly sounded in the deep mountains!
The cry suddenly sounded very much like the sound of a cat barking at spring, weak, tactful, like a child crying, the moment this cry sounded in the silent mountains, I felt as if a needle had pierced my heart, trembling all over, unconsciously looking towards the deep mountains, what is this crying?
When I trembled suddenly, the yoyo in my arms also opened my eyes, and poked up my little head to look deep into the mountains, a pair of eyes were round and round, and I was very vigilant!
Wu Dahan, who was walking in the front, trembled like chaff all over his body, and the kerosene lamp in his hand also trembled with him, I was terrified to see it, and quickly reminded him not to shake it anymore, otherwise the kerosene lamp will go out, if it goes out, we have to rush back, then his father has no hope.
As soon as I finished speaking, I saw that the wick that was originally faintly lit by the flame suddenly burst out, just like the flames suddenly burst out after adding kerosene to it!
Except for the frightening cry, there was still no sound around, and there was not a trace of wind, how could this fire suddenly jump so high?
The four of us stared closely at the kerosene lamp in Wu Dahan's hand, and even our breathing instantly froze.
The wick kept shaking, and my heart was holding on to the wick that kept shaking in the firelight. I could clearly hear Wu Dahan's spitting voice, and then he opened his mouth with difficulty, "This, is this kerosene lamp going out?" ”
We all thought so, this wick has been shaking like this, and it should be extinguished soon.
But this time, we all thought wrongly, the flame of the wick shook for a long time, and it burned more and more, and even through the glass cover, we could hear the beeping sound of the kerosene lamp burning.
"This, the old people all say that the kerosene lamp is a ghost lamp, and if the soul lamp is extinguished, it means that the old man in the grave has gone, if it is not extinguished, it means that the old man in the tomb is still alive. But now that there is no wind and no oil in the lamp, why is this flame still burning bigger and bigger, is it what my father wants to tell us? Wu Dahan stared at the kerosene lamp tightly and guessed lowly.
As soon as he had finished speaking, the cry suddenly stopped, without warning, as if it had sounded without warning!
When the crying stopped, the four of us looked out into the mountains!
The mountains were still dark, there was no wind, no moon, and even the air seemed to be no longer flowing, and I could hear my heart pounding, and I whispered to the cold man, "Shall we go or not now?" ”
The trendy man frowned tightly and didn't speak, the cold man didn't answer me immediately, but looked ahead for a moment, and then walked forward, "Since the kerosene lamp hasn't been extinguished, let's continue to move forward." ”
In the things I experienced before, the trendy man has invisibly become the backbone of the two of us, he said to go forward, I and the trendy man did not object, and immediately followed him forward. Wu Dahan hesitated for a moment, and hurriedly followed, but his legs and stomach were trembling all the time when he left, but it was his father in the cemetery, and a few of us outsiders still insisted on going, so he had no way not to go.
Only this time, Wu Dahan didn't dare to go to the front anymore, and always hid behind intentionally or unintentionally, obviously he was scared just now.
The trendy man couldn't stand it anymore, frowned, snatched the kerosene lamp from his hand, and walked a few steps briskly to the front to light us.
After the crying stopped, there was a dead silence again, not even the sound of a single worm, as long as the footsteps of a few of us, the dim light of the kerosene lamp, pulled the figures of the four of us for a long time, and kept shaking as we walked, which at first glance looked shocking.
After not taking a few steps, the trendy man who was walking in front suddenly paused, and then said in a low voice, "There is someone in front!" ”
We were forced to stop, and I couldn't hold back and almost hit the back of the trendy man, but I didn't care about almost falling, and I hurriedly raised my head and squinted my eyes to look ahead, and at this look, I felt that the hairs all over my body stood on end one by one.
On the road about five or six meters away from us in front, there was a figure walking slowly forward, looking at the back, it looked like an old man, walking very slowly, and very hard!
We looked at each other, how could there be an old man walking in the deep mountains and wilderness in the middle of the night, and he was still walking into the mountains?
When we were wondering, Wu Dahan pushed us away, walked to the front in a few steps, stared closely at the figure that kept staggering forward, and then called out in a trembling voice, "Dad!" ”
, the staggering figure in front of me is actually Wu Dahan's father!
When we were shocked, Wu Dahan had already caught up, screaming in his mouth and walking fast. The three of us were afraid that something would happen to him, so we also quickened our pace and followed closely behind Wu Dahan, but our eyes were firmly fixed on the figure in front of us.
It stands to reason that the one in front of us is an old man, and he is walking so slowly, he is only five or six meters away from us, and after a few of us young people speed up our pace, we should soon be able to catch up with the staggering figure in front.
But the strange thing is that no matter how fast we walked, the staggering figure was always five or six meters away from us, no more, no less. Wu Dahan ran towards him wildly, and kept shouting a lot in his mouth, but the figure didn't even twist his head, and kept walking forward so slowly.
Wu Dahan finally felt that something was wrong, and after he ran wildly for a while, he suddenly listened to it, and muttered in his mouth, "It's strange, how can my father go so fast, I haven't caught up after chasing for so long!" ”
We also followed closely behind him, looked at the figure in front of us who continued to walk forward, and asked Wu Dahan in a low voice, "Brother Ang, can you confirm that it is your old man?" ”
"That's not it, he's an old man in my family, and I know it's my father just by looking at his back. You guys are looking, my dad broke his right leg before, and his right leg was a little lame when he walked, and you look at the person in front of him, he was also a little lame when he walked, that's not who my dad is! When Wu Dahan said this, his tone was a little excited, "But why didn't he agree?" ”
We don't know what's going on either.
Several people paused together, staring closely at the figure walking slowly in front, and after walking for a long time, I suddenly thought of a question, "Angkor, can you see where this figure is going?" ”
Wu Dahan stared at the figure for a long time, and then suddenly looked up at us, "He, he's going to my family's cemetery!" ”
We Sang personally looked at each other, always felt that something was not right, we came to dig the grave in the middle of the night to save Wu Dahan and his father, but his father appeared but did not go home, but walked in the direction of the cemetery?
Also, if that figure is really Wu Dahan's father, how did he crawl out of the coffin?
I didn't dare to think about the answers to these two questions, looking at the back that was getting farther and farther away, my whole body was cold.
The cold man also stared at it for a long time, and finally said, "Let's go, let's go to the graveyard!" ”