Chapter 013: What's in the Well
That night, just as my grandfather had said, the ox came to my yard again, and it was still lying on the ground silently, and I knew it was asking me to ride on his back, and I touched its head and said nothing.
The oxen carried me to the old well, and there was a wooden frame above the old well, on which was a lamp that was not very bright, and under the lamp were four people, who were the young men with black-rimmed glasses. This time, the scalpers were carrying me very close to them and stood right next to them, but these people ignored us as if we didn't exist at all.
I don't know what the scalper has to do with this, but I shudder at the thought that the monster he killed during the day looked the same as the one he gave birth to earlier.
Dasha's house is two or three hundred meters away from the well at the head of the village, so why do their cattle have anything to do with the things in this well?
What puzzles me even more is why the scalpers carried me over, and what do I have to do with this evil thing?
"Master, do you really want to go down? He ...... the third," said the man who had previously been called the second.
"Let's not talk about the third child, we can't identify the body if we die, but the reason for the death of the third child must be investigated, I don't believe that the third child will be scared to death by a coffin!" The person who spoke was none other than a young man with black-rimmed glasses.
"But in charge, how did the third child die, and what is the monster in the coffin?" Lao Wu asked.
The young man said: "I don't have a clue how the third child died for the time being, but I am sure that he was not scared to death by the coffin, as for what is in the coffin, if you guess correctly, it is likely to be an ancient creature called Qian." ”
"Huh? I've never heard of it! The second said with a frown.
"It is an evil beast recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", he is different from the rumored unicorns, Pixiu and other mythical beasts, its statue can only be used to suppress the Yin House, but if someone can catch a live one, the use is different, but this is almost impossible." The young man thought of a record he had seen in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
"But it's really alive! Why didn't it die after being locked in a coffin for so long?! The second child asked.
The young man said: "You must have heard the saying that the dragon gave birth to nine sons, the nine sons are the sage, the owl kiss, the pulao, the relent, the gluttony, the eye, the shy, the pepper, the prison cow, but there is no scarf, so the fierce nature of the sand resentful, exclusively feed on the little dragon, the adult slinger is even more ferocious, even if it encounters a real dragon, it can fight." ”
"This is too exaggerated, I'm afraid that even a python can't beat such a thing, if you can eat a dragon, you won't hack that old man and a fool to death." Lao Wu said disapprehantly.
The young man shook his head and said, "We have been here in this Wangjia Village for half a year and have found a lot of incredible things, but in fact, what makes me most curious is the person who is called Secretary Wang, this old man is definitely not as simple as it seems. Everyone said that he was a practitioner and had been a bandit in Shandong before, but the bandits did not have the skill of opening the coffin nails, and they would not be afraid of the corpse acid in the coffin, even if the ancestor of the tomb robber came out, he did not have this ability, it was strange, too elusive, he was willing to squat in such a poor place for decades, there must be some ulterior secret. ”
"I took you out to make a fortune, I can't always let you be in danger alone, this time I have to see where the well is sacred, and, if I go down and have any accidents, you will leave here, this village is too evil, I'm afraid what we are looking for is not here at all, someone deliberately put news to lure us here, that Secretary Wang is weird, and the old Taoist priest in the back mountain is even more amazing, we can't afford to provoke it."
After the young man finished speaking, he took out his wetsuit and prepared to put it on, but the man who had been squatting on the side and had been silent suddenly spoke: "Master, let me come, although I don't know as much as you, but my water nature and eyesight are second only to the third, in case you have three long and two short, our stinkers should be disbanded, you are the brains of the team, this kind of work is not your strength." ”
"Yes, the master, let the fourth go, he has good water nature, his skills are the best among us, he can be brought out when he was surrounded by wolves in Qilian Mountain, and a broken well can't kill him, don't worry!" The second child also persuaded.
Without waiting for the young man to agree, the person who was called the fourth child put the diving suit on himself, and before going down the well, the fourth child patted the young man on the shoulder and said: "The master, our brothers were all poor at the beginning, if you didn't reach out to take us, we might starve to death by now, how could we live so many years of chic life." ”
The fourth didn't say more, took a deep breath, pulled the hanging rope with both hands and went down the well, the young man watched the rope in his hand being dragged into the well little by little, his heart was uneasy, and a layer of cold sweat unconsciously appeared on his face, and several other people were no exception, all of them were so nervous, they could only vaguely see a little light occasionally coming from the well, it should be the fourth child in the well with a searchlight to observe around.
After about ten minutes, seeing that the rope in the young man's hand had bottomed out, at this moment, the bell hanging on the wooden frame suddenly made a rapid sound, but it hadn't sounded a few times, pop! The thread hanging under the bell was pulled off!
"Pull it!" The young man roared and wrapped the end of the rope around himself, while the other three men pressed their feet on the eaves of the well and pulled the rope desperately. "You must save the fourth child!"
Several people wrapped the rope around their arms, and they made enough effort, it stands to reason that the gravity of a person in the water will become lighter, who knows that the four of them pulled one person and didn't pull it up, and the rope still has a faint downward trend.
A strange sound came from the well, followed by the cooing of bubbles rising from under the water, and several people were pulled into the well with a loud cry, and the young man was the last to be pulled down the well, his hands clutching at the eaves, his knuckles turning white from too much force.
It's just that the young man didn't hold on for a few seconds and was powerless to resist anymore, he took out a quaint knife from the tool bag on the eaves, at first I thought he was trying to cut the rope, but I didn't expect him to suddenly let go of his hand and let himself fall, the young man said, "I want to see what you are!" ”
Immediately, the sound of a splash of water came from the well, and the old well soon returned to its original calm.
I hurriedly jumped off the cow's back and ran towards the well, the ox mooed and bit my clothes to prevent me from passing, I turned back and touched the ox's face and said, "Let go of me, I'm not going to jump." ”
When the scalper heard this, he let go of his mouth, and I lay down on the edge of the well and looked inside, I remember that I had not dared to look into the old well for more than three years, and it was not as dark as usual, and I could see the faint light coming from the well water, and the huge black shadow that swayed under the light.
Suddenly a human face came out of the well, he screamed in horror and climbed up the stone on the wall of the well, his arm was cut by the sharp stone tip and he didn't seem to notice, I saw that it was a young man, his originally handsome face had been distorted, completely changed into the appearance of another person, he climbed up with purple lips, his mouth kept trembling and humming, he curled up by the eaves of the well and shivered, like a frightened beast, but soon he got up and fled away in a panic.
I could still faintly hear him sobbing because he was too scared.
I don't know what is in this well that can scare a man who is already mentally prepared like this, even if there is a female ghost with a cloak in it, right?
I don't know, I can't think of it, but I know that if I jump down at this moment, I can see what's in the well by their light.
But I didn't dare.
I think that perhaps the only one who knows what's in the well is the young man who escaped death.
I got on the cow's back, patted it gently on the neck and said, "Let's go." ”
The scalper turned around, carried me away slowly, walked about a few dozen meters away, my child looked back at the old well again, so it didn't matter, I actually saw a person, he was standing on the eaves of the well, and the light pulled his emaciated figure to the old elder.
It's Wu Zhenren.