In the deep mountains of the remote areas of the southwest, dark clouds are thick, and the mountains and forests are foggy.

Two men and two women climbing the mountain are supporting each other to climb, and from time to time they look up at the sky with worry, and the gloomy clouds in the mountains are bleak, heralding the arrival of the next rainstorm.

"Don't be in a hurry, slow down, according to the information gathered before, there should be a town around here, let's just go and spend the night." The man in the lead calmed down for a moment and calmed the members of the group.

"Brother Zhang Xing, but we seem to have been wandering around here for a while, and the marks we made before are there, so we won't get lost." A female voice came out timidly.

"Li Ping, don't say such frightening words! We have to believe in the experience of Brother Zhang Xing. The other girl was also scared, but she still wanted to help boost the morale of the team.

"Zhao Lin is right, Brother Zhang is a very experienced veteran who often climbs mountains, we have to believe him." The man in the team named Liu Qingyue agreed with the girl's words.

The four of them are the travelers who agreed to climb the mountain together in the post bar, and they are all from cities near the mountain, but Brother Zhang Xing and Li Ping met by climbing the mountain before, Zhao Lin and Li Ping are best friends in college, and Liu Qingyue joined temporarily.

Everyone said that they climbed the mountain on the weekend to relax, and they also studied the weather forecast for this purpose, but no one expected that the weather would get worse and worse from the beginning of entering the mountain, and the fog would become thicker and thicker, and the oppressive atmosphere would be like a mountain covering everyone's heart, which made people panic.

"There's light ahead." Following Liu Qingyue's fingers, there was a vague red light in the fog ahead, which was eye-catching in the fog.

Red? Is it a lantern? Why didn't you notice before? Zhao Lin's heart was hot, and his heart rate increased by a few points.

"Well, let's go over there." Zhang Xing frowned, although he didn't feel normal, but there was no good place to go for a while.

"But, it's too red, how does it look like a lantern? Linlin, you also saw it. Li Ping expressed Zhao Lin's doubts worriedly.

"This town is far away from the big city, and it may have its own customs, and it is not necessarily a lantern, so you can go and see it first." Zhang Xing made a rational judgment, and others agreed with it.

"Well, it may rain soon, and we need to find a place to hide from the rain, and there are lights to indicate that there are at least people."

Liu Qingyue opened her mouth again and added, as soon as she finished saying this, everyone felt that there were raindrops falling, and the fog was so thick that they were about to look down on the mountain road, and it was better to go there than to run around now.

But Zhao Lin was always faintly uneasy in his heart, always worried that something bad would happen.

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The group slowly walked towards the faint red light, and the closer they got there, the clearer the outlines of several houses that were a little further away than they could be seen.

With less than five meters away from the red light, all three of them breathed a sigh of relief, because the red light was not a paper lantern but a big red bulb hanging under the eaves, surrounded by the normal flat-roofed small buildings of the township.

Three people? What about Liu Qingyue?! Zhao Lin was frightened in his heart, and the ominous premonition was like a substance.

"Brother Zhang, Pingping, what about the little brother who walked last? Did we leave him behind? ”

"What little brother?" Li Ping looked at Zhao Lin with a puzzled expression, and touched her forehead worriedly, "Linlin, don't deliberately scare me, you know that I am too timid." ”

Zhao Lin brushed her hand away, "That's the one called ......"

What's it called? What was I thinking? Someone seems to be missing? Who is it? I can't spit out the words that come to my mouth.

"Zhao Lin, no problem, right? We've always been three people, are you sick? Zhang Xing was also worried, perhaps infected by the current atmosphere, and a little impatient.

Yes, we've always been three people, three people get off, three people go into the mountain, and then three people decide together to come to the red light.

But why? I always felt a sense of strangeness, blocked in my heart, dull and uncomfortable, something was about to come out, but I couldn't get rid of it.

Just when Zhao Lin was about to collapse, a gloomy wind swept by, passing through Zhao Lin, and a little spiritual light dissipated.

"Why did I feel irritable just now? Maybe it's really uncomfortable. Zhao Lin pillowed his forehead with the back of his hand, but he felt that something important had been forgotten.

"Well, Linlin is fine, Brother Zhang, knock on the door, let's take Linlin in to rest." Li Ping looked at her roommate's state and was really a little flustered.

"yes, okay."

Knock knock.

Knock knock.

Knock knock.

No one responded, only the lights swaying left and right with the yin wind, and the three of them swayed in the red light, their faces white and red reflecting each other.

"Well, it looks like no one is home, shall we try the next one?"

After the decision, everyone just turned around.

There was a thunderclap, and the downpour flooded the lifeless-looking town, the window and door frames were crackled, the shadows of the trees were messy, and the branches were dancing wildly, like hideous demons, fangs and claws.

In the face of the three of them looking at each other, there was a long "squeak" sound of opening the door behind them, and the air suddenly dropped a few degrees.

The three of them slowly turned around together, and in a thunderbolt, they saw a pale old man's face in the crack of the door.

"Ah!!!h

"Hell !!!!!"

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Autumn is rainy, especially in the deep mountains and old forests after the cold dew, the rain washes everything in the mountains and forests, and the whole mountains and forests are in a roar, and the thunder that comes and goes.

In a house in a small town in the woods, Zhao Lin and Li Ping, who were holding hot water cups, were apologizing to an old man.

"Grandpa, I'm sorry! I really didn't see it clearly just now! ”

"Yes, old man! I'm really sorry! You don't remember the villain! Also let us in! ”

Zhang Xing also looked embarrassed.

"Old man, why does this town feel ......?"

The old man was still immersed in the anger of their previous words and deeds, and naturally he was not angry when he spoke.

"What can't be said! Ghost Town! No popularity! ”

"Old man, you are angry, we were really frightened just now, after all, the atmosphere just now was really scary, we were too impatient, and I hope you don't mind." Zhang Xing could only keep playing the round.

"Young man, you can still talk, and so are the little dolls, don't climb the mountains and rivers, come and climb these uninhabited deep mountains and old forests, and you are not afraid of danger."

"It's not that there are too many people in the famous mountains and rivers, although the deep mountains and old forests are dangerous and not uninhabited, we can still spend the night, and we also made plans before we came."

"The little dolls really want to come out of it, the mountains and forests are taboo, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will... Doom to come. ”

"Old man, what you said is too serious, it's just a mountain, don't we have nothing to do? I wonder why this township is so depressed? ”

"It's not that young people are looking forward to life in big cities, and they have gone out to work, leaving us who can't do without the mountains, which is also a helpless thing, and young people who want to stay in the mountains and waste their time?"

"So many children have gone out, but who wants to come back after seeing the prosperity of the big city, and most of them have even completely cut off contact with the town."

"What about grandpa, your child too?" Zhao Lin looked at the wrinkles on the old man's brows and gray hair, and felt a little unbearable.

"yes, he's completely cut off contact too, I don't blame him, but I just hope that he can come back to see me again if he has time."

The old man's eyes were red, his cloudy eyes suppressed tears, his body trembled under the gray and thin clothes, and the dark hands outside the patch cuffs rubbed slightly, which made people think of Luo Zhongzhong's famous painting "Father" in the art textbook.

It seemed that he couldn't hold back his tears anymore, the old man's tears were about to gush out of his eyes, at this moment, the incandescent lights in the room flickered wildly, and in the transition of light and darkness, Zhao Lin saw that the old man was holding blood and tears, his face was white and terrible, and his body was stiff.

Zhao Lin's heartbeat paused for a moment, the incandescent light returned to light, the old man was wiping his cheeks, there was no blood and tears, he seemed to be wrong again, really sick?

Li Ping and Zhang Xing kept comforting the old man, the old man just waved his hand, but Zhao Lin still couldn't get rid of the feeling of palpitations, and stood aside blankly.

"Linlin, what's wrong with you, are you tired?" Pingping turned her head and saw Zhao Lin who was stunned.

"The little girl must be tired, so let's eat something and rest early, and I'll send you down the mountain when the rain stops tomorrow."

"Two little girls can sleep in my wife's big bed, I sleep in my child's room, young man, you have been wronged to sleep on the sofa, it's okay, my wife passed away two years ago, just me."

"Well, okay, thank you, old man, we'll pay."

"You don't have to pay for it, rest early, I'll go to sleep too, and the quilt will trouble the young man, you can go to the cabinet in the living room and get it yourself."

"Okay, okay, thank you."

After arranging the rest of the night, the old man entered the child's room alone, leaving only the lonely backs of the three people in the living room.