Chapter 22: A Face Without Five Features
My head exploded with a buzz, and I secretly regretted that I hadn't told Li Ming about it earlier, and I didn't expect him to know about it.
"What, you know her?" Li Ming saw that something was wrong with me, and hurriedly asked.
I shook my head, I didn't plan to tell them the truth for the time being, the stakes were high in the village, and I wouldn't tell anyone else about it until it was clarified.
So I didn't tell the information I saw in the ghost building yesterday, and I was thinking about going with them tonight to see what was going on.
I spent the whole day restless, and after lunch, I still couldn't help but go to the grove that Zheng Jie said, and planned to go over to see it first, I had never heard of such a grove in the school before.
The woods were in a very remote place, desolate all around, surrounded by barbed wire, and with a large lock hanging from a tattered iron fence door, and I could feel a strong yin aura coming from it just by standing next to it.
Next to the fence gate stood a sign with a few large bright red letters: No one is allowed to enter!
It seems that not only Zheng Jie and them, but also the school may have noticed that something was wrong in the grove, and deliberately fenced it with barbed wire, which looked like no one had been here for a long time, and many cobwebs could be seen on the barbed wire.
"Young man!"
Just as I was in my mind, I suddenly heard a voice from behind me, and when I turned my head, I saw that it was a dry-looking old man, wearing a simple dark green cloth robe, with a skin wrinkled like the bark of a dead tree, and sweeping the dead leaves on the ground with a broom.
I was taken aback by his look, and the old man swept the floor and said, "Go away, this is not the place for you." ”
I thought the old man seemed to know something, so I asked him, "Uncle, why is this place surrounded by wire?" ”
The old man looked up at me and said slowly, "This is not what you should ask, the person you are looking for is not inside, and this place is not where you should come, so let's go." ”
I was stunned for a moment, and instantly a spirit stirred, "How do you know that I am here to find someone?" Who are you? ”
The old man didn't speak, he walked slowly in one direction, I was about to catch up, when I suddenly felt something tripped under my feet, and my whole body fell to the ground, and when I looked up, I found that the old man was gone!
I kicked the ground in anger and found that it was a branch that had tripped over me, and it looked so fresh, as if it had just been broken off.
I picked up the branch and secretly thought it was strange, how could such a big person suddenly disappear?
At this moment, the trees in the grove suddenly shook and rattled, and I felt no trace of the wind, and the trees shook violently for no reason like living creatures.
I was so frightened that I ran away, and met Li Ming halfway, and after learning that I had gone to the grove by myself, he scolded me, "You are looking for death!" ”
Then he told me that the grove was so overcast that no one dared to enter it, even in broad daylight. After the death of the inside, the school was ready to cut down the grove, but when the trees were cut down, something strange happened, as soon as the trees were cut down, bright red blood flowed from inside, and no one dared to cut down these trees anymore.
In desperation, the school fenced it with barbed wire and made an unwritten rule that no one was allowed to trespass into the grove.
Then I told Li Ming about the strange old man I had just met, and Li Ming shrugged down after hearing this, his eyes showed a fierce light, and he muttered, "This old thing!" ”
I asked him, do you know the old man? Li Ming waved his hand and said that he didn't know, maybe it was a madman talking nonsense, and then asked me to quickly go with him to the rooftop to gather.
I felt a little puzzled, I always felt that Li Ming must know that old man, otherwise how could he scold other people's old things just now? But I didn't continue to ask, and now I don't have the heart to care about it.
Zheng Jie and the others were already waiting on the rooftop, and when they saw me and Li Ming, they immediately walked over.
"It's all set, let's do it tonight!"
I asked what I needed to prepare, and Zheng Jie patted me on the shoulder, telling me not to worry, they have been preparing for a long time to break this game tonight, just follow them later, and do what they say.
Zheng Jie looked at the time and said that he would start in the early hours of tonight, and there were still a few hours left, so that everyone could sleep well in place and recuperate.
When the members of the Paranormal Society heard this, they lay on the ground and fell asleep as if they hadn't slept for a long time.
I secretly admire these people, they can still sleep peacefully at this time, which is like me, I feel that my heart is about to rise to my throat, and it is strange to be able to fall asleep.
I almost survived for a few hours, and when it was almost early in the morning, these people were like clockwork, and they didn't need to be screamed, and they bounced up almost at the same time, which made me secretly admire again, even the soldiers were not as neat as them.
Zheng Jie walked in front to lead the team, and a few of us followed him all the way to the side of the grove.
This grove is already gloomy enough during the day, let alone at night, just standing next to it can feel an extreme chill, and goosebumps rise from the cold.
No one came here during the day, and now there was no need to worry about being discovered, and several people worked together to pull the iron fence open, and the sign in red that said no one was allowed to approach was thrown aside.
Even with so many people around, I felt a sense of fear as I first stepped into the grove. The surrounding darkness is oppressive, because no one has been taking care of it for a long time, the only path is overgrown with weeds, and the trees next to it are like monsters with teeth and claws, and walking in it makes people feel an indescribable depression.
The further I went, the more intense this feeling of oppression became, and I experienced it once in the mountains behind the village, as if the air was compressed, and every step I took felt extremely difficult.
The grove didn't look big from the outside, but we walked inside for a long time before we reached the end, and the winding path felt longer and longer.
After struggling through it for about ten minutes, I suddenly felt a great cold air rushing towards my face.
"Everyone, be careful, there's an evil array ahead!"
Zheng Jie, who was walking at the forefront, suddenly suppressed his voice and said, as soon as I heard it, my heart suddenly felt tight, and my already weak legs couldn't help but tremble.
Zheng Jie patted me on the shoulder and comforted me and said that there was no need to be afraid, they had made sufficient preparations, and that ghost could not hurt us for the time being.
Then he continued to walk, and after walking for less than five minutes, an open field suddenly appeared in front of him, and Zheng Jie pointed forward, "This is it!" ”
I followed the direction he was pointing, and then looked in the faint moonlight, and saw that in the middle of the open field in front of me grew five willows about two people high, and these five willows formed a circle, and in the middle were a pyramid-shaped pile of white stones.
I looked at this scene and felt a little familiar, and suddenly remembered that the last time I went to the village chief's house, I had seen a similar layout in his yard, but his yard was made of locust trees instead of willows.
Just when I was thinking about the connection between the two, Zheng Jie suddenly shouted in a suppressed voice, "Everyone is in place, ready to break the formation!" ”
After saying that, he and several people dispersed, forming a large circle around this strange formation.
"Zhang Zhanning, up!" Zheng Jie's expressions looked a little weird, not like nervousness or fear, as if they were particularly painful, anyway, they looked weird.
I don't know what he asked me to do, Li Ming added, "You go over, pee on that pile of stones, and then break a willow branch and hit the stones until the stones are broken!" ”
Li Ming's expression when he spoke was also the same as Zheng Jie's, his facial features were twisted together, as if he was suffering great pain, and he almost squeezed out between his teeth when he spoke.
"Come on, we can't hold on!" Zheng Jie saw that I didn't move, so he gritted his teeth and urged.
Seeing their appearance, I didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly ran to the pyramid-like pile of stones and poured a soak of urine, then broke a willow branch and hit the pile of stones hard.
Rumble!
I was startled at the first blow, and the willow branch was about the thickness of a little finger, but when I threw it on the stone, it made a loud noise, like thunder, and even the ground shook with it.
Rumble!
I gritted my teeth and struck hard at the stone mountain again, this time louder, except for the loud noise, I felt a great force spread through my whole body along the soft willow branches, and I felt like my bones were about to be shattered.
When I pulled it the third time, my tiger's mouth was directly cracked, and blood suddenly flowed down the willow branches.
Before I could hit the ground, I saw the pyramid-shaped pile of stones fall with a bang, and a yellow talisman with a strange picture floated out of the pile of stones, burning in mid-air for no reason, and disappeared in an instant.
At the same time, the already cold air suddenly seemed to freeze, and a strong wind blew up, and the surrounding trees began to shake wildly.
"Hey, hey, hey....... hahahahaha...... Woowoowoo......"
Suddenly there were all kinds of sounds from all over the woods, like laughing and crying, and the sounds seemed far away and seemed to be close to the ears.
I was so frightened that I stepped back again and again, feeling that my neck seemed to be touched by something soft, a little itchy, and when I turned my head to look, I suddenly screamed in fright.
A woman with long hair was hung upside down from a willow tree behind her, swaying with the wind, and it was her upside-down hair that touched me!
The most terrifying thing is that this woman is as pale as paper, but she has no facial features, only a bare face!
I instinctively flashed to the side, but I felt that I had bumped into something else, and when I saw it, it was a woman hanging upside down in a tree.
I was so frightened that I ran away, and the wind blew more and more, and I saw that on the trees in all directions, there were countless long-haired women's bodies hanging upside down, and those bodies were swaying with the wind, all of them had no facial features, and their bare and white faces let out bursts of sad sneer!