I listened quietly to Ding Yan's narration, and the scene from five years ago began to emerge in my head following her words.

It turned out that in December of that year, the non-governmental organizations of Dujiangyan continued to hold a ceremony to worship the insect god in the insect temple according to the previous practice. But in the middle of the festival, when the visitors who watched the ceremony entered the main hall in turn to offer incense to the insect god, a middle-aged woman squeezed through the crowd outside and rushed into the main hall.

The middle-aged woman rushed into the hall violently, found a pair of men and women who were making incense and quarreled, and in the quarrel between the two sides, the surrounding people figured out their relationship and the reason for the quarrel. It turned out that the man who was incense and the middle-aged woman who rushed in to quarrel were a couple, and the man secretly kept a mistress outside, and the two came to participate in the insect god festival this time, but they didn't expect to be known by his original wife, so they rushed over to catch the adulterer.

Maybe the emotions of both sides were too excited, and the people around them couldn't persuade them at all, and the original wife rushed up to the mistress in anger and slapped him a few times, and the man was also provoked at that time, so he stepped forward and moved against his wife. But no one expected that this woman's personality was also extremely pungent, and under her anger and sorrow, she actually swore a poisonous oath to the statue of the insect god in the temple, and the viciousness of her words made the people around her feel numb when they heard it.

After the woman glanced at her husband and mistress with her eyes, she rushed directly to the statue of the insect god in the hall, she slammed her head on the stone statue, and it was a broken head on the spot, and the splashed blood and brains splashed the faces of the people around her, causing chaos in the entire hall, and in this chaos, I don't know if the impact of the woman caused the center of gravity of the insect god statue to be unstable, and finally the stone statue fell down, just smashed on the woman's corpse, and in an instant, Bone residue was splashed everywhere, minced flesh was all over the ground, a good woman was smashed into a puddle of flesh, and the red blood slowly penetrated into the stone statue, and the already hideous statue looked more and more terrifying.

After a period of extreme chaos, the situation was finally brought under control by the police who arrived on their way. Men and mistresses, who had fallen into a stupor, were taken to the messy hall to identify the scene, while the women, who had been smashed into pulp, were placed on a stretcher and covered with white cloth after being sorted out by medical personnel.

Ding Yan stopped at this point and said no more, but I saw a hint of hesitation in her expression.

"Sister Ding, what's next? Could it be that the man or mistress was taken by a female ghost? I hurriedly asked, according to the general situation, that woman died unjustly, and she was angry, and she would definitely turn into a terrible ghost after death.

Ding Yan shook her head and said: "I don't know, these things are also heard from other old drivers who often run here, it is said that the woman's smashed body was placed on a stretcher covered with a white cloth, but when the doctor opened the white cloth, a gray strange bird flew out of it, and the woman's bones were missing." ”

"What! It's impossible, people are dead, how can a corpse become a bird? ”

I was shocked and said, this thing is simply incredible, if I can still believe that the woman became a ghost after death, but the corpse became a bird, this is too mysterious, completely unreasonable.

Ding Yan rolled her eyes at me and said disdainfully: "How is it impossible, haven't you heard the legend of Jingwei reclamation?" Even Jingwei can be transformed into a bird to reclaim the sea when he dies, this woman ......"

"What happened after that? Could it be that the strange bird killed someone? ”

I hurriedly interrupted Ding Yan's words, and after some conversation, I felt that Ding Yan's character was a little chattering, as long as she opened the conversation, she was like a river of words, and she was talking endlessly.

Ding Yan glanced at me with some unfinished eyes, and said, "I don't know, I also heard what others said." I don't know exactly what happened later, but I heard that on the second day, a group of locusts from nowhere swept the entire Worm Temple. The locust swarm had left nothing left, and all the plants and food had been gnawed clean. ”

I frowned and asked in a low voice, "Dead?" ”

Ding Yan was stunned for a moment, and then said slowly: "Of course, although those locust swarms can be seen from afar, and the people nearby basically hide in their houses and close the doors and windows tightly, and escape this catastrophe, but there are still many people who don't have time to run away and are surrounded by locust swarms, and in that case, they will naturally die." ”

"What about the man and his mistress? They shouldn't have been in this Worm Temple at the time, were they okay in the end? I asked, stretching out my hand and rolling down the window to look at the silent mountains outside the road, feeling an inexplicable sense of depression welling up in my heart.

"Dead, it is said that they were found dead at home, when the police went in, the whole house was full of locusts, the man and a woman were lying naked on the bed, their expressions were very hideous, and then the forensic doctor dissected their bodies, and found that the stomachs and chests of the two of them were all locusts, and the internal organs and flesh were all eaten by the locusts."

Ding Yan said this, her face showed a touch of happiness, she waved her little fist and muttered: "It's good that the adulterer and adulteress died, this is retribution, hum." ”

I felt a little chill in my heart, not because of Ding Yan's attitude, but because of the story she told. I also saw locust plagues once when I was a child, and I only remember that they were found in the entire back mountains and roadsides as long as there was vegetation, and they could trample a few to death if they stepped on it, but even this ordinary insect could one day become a killing weapon.

Is there really a worm god enshrined in that insect temple?

I thought to myself, I don't know if the story told by Ding Yan is true or not, but there is no doubt that this insect temple has some kind of weirdness, otherwise the sacrificial ceremony that has lasted for hundreds of years would not have been abandoned because of this. It's just that I don't know if Yang Kun and Cai Yawen are clear about this matter, if they know, then their purpose of setting the location in this extremely weird temple is somewhat debatable.

A night breeze brushed my cheeks, and a chill came from my body.

I looked at the sky, it was basically dark, it was almost time to go, although there were still a few hours before twelve o'clock, but I was also here for the first time, and I was not familiar with the road conditions, I am afraid that it will take a while to get to the Worm Temple.

I opened the car door, said goodbye to Ding Yan and walked out.

"Are you really going up the mountain? Are you sure someone really asked you to meet at the Worm Temple on the mountain? It's not a good place to be! Ding Yan shouted behind me.

I turned around and replied, "No way, I have to go this time, even if it is the Longtan Tiger's Den in front of me." ”

After I finished speaking, regardless of Ding Yan's reaction, I took out a flashlight I bought just before getting into the car from the schoolbag behind my back, turned on the switch, and suddenly a bright light shot out far away, which was particularly eye-catching in this dark night sky.

"Do you want me to come with you? Looking at your appearance, you shouldn't be familiar with this place, I went to the Worm Temple when I was a child, I'll help you lead the way, so that you don't take some wrong roads. Ding Yan actually opened the car door and walked down and said loudly to me.

My heart moved, this night was dark and windy, and I was not familiar with the road conditions, if someone who had been there showed me the way, it would indeed save a lot of effort. But then I thought that the photo said that I had to go alone, and if they found out that there were other people around me, they would do something to Yaoyao and Li Xiaohui.

At that moment, I hurriedly rejected Ding Yan's proposal, and under the suspicion on her face, I walked along a mountain road by the light of a flashlight.

Although I have never been here, since this insect temple used to be worshiped by many people every year, and even tourists from other places came to visit, it must be in a convenient place, and I should not deviate too much if I walked up this right road.

Darkness covered the land, and a bright moon hung high in the night sky, shedding patches of hazy light.

Because few people had come for five years, the concrete pavement under my feet was covered with a thick layer of dust, and I looked around with the beam of the flashlight, and it was bare, all bare sand and dirt, and it looked desolate. I saw a few small things on the side of the road constantly jumping, which seemed to be a little infiltrating, and I took a closer look, only to realize that those beating things were actually a few locusts.

Worm Temple, unjustly killed woman, strange birds, locusts, Yang Kun and Cai Yawen.

I walked slowly and thought about it in my mind. What Ding Yan said about the Worm Temple is very mysterious, if ordinary people listen to it, I'm afraid it will only be a ghost story, but for me, who has experienced countless adventures, the things in it are really not necessarily fake. At least the fact that the villages near this insect temple were relocated by the government, if it weren't for the government's inability to control it, it would not have allowed all the surrounding villages that had existed for hundreds of years to move away, and I looked at the bare earth around me and the locusts that danced in the lights from time to time, and I believed a little more in what Ding Yan said.

I walked a distance of about a few hundred meters, observed the surrounding environment and the road ahead with the help of the light, and quietly turned off the flashlight in my hand. In this dark environment, walking with a flashlight is too eye-catching, and I don't want to attract Yang Kun's attention too early. If I can, I hope I can quietly touch their side, and it is best to rescue Yaoyao and Li Xiaohui directly.

I remembered what I had often seen on TV before, where the big bad guys grabbed the protagonist's relatives or friends, and then used their lives to make the protagonist lay down their weapons and be captured. Although this kind of thing was solved by the protagonist in the end, and the hostages were rescued perfectly. But that's because they are both the protagonists of the TV series, and I am different, so I have always been a little worried that if Yang Kun and them threaten me with the lives of two girls and let me be arrested, at that time, what choice should I make?

I walked forward in my thoughts, and after walking a mountain trail, a light suddenly crossed in front of my eyes. I was shocked, because the area was already deserted, and if there was any light at this time, it would be either me or the kidnappers of the two girls.

I was wary and looked forward vigilantly, but then I was stunned, because in front of my eyes there was a scene of thousands of lights, and in a col not far ahead, there was a brightly lit village......