"Because of that wall...... That wall...... It's a ghost wall! At this time, after I asked that question, he kept pulling his hair hard, and his hair was not long, but at this moment it was all pulled up, like a freshly clamped electric clip. A male star with hair standing on end.

"What is a ghost wall?"

"After 12 midnight, horrible faces often appear on that wall. Or a broken human face! "The old man stared at me.

"With your guts, even if you see a human face, you won't be afraid of being like this, right?" I looked at the time, it was a quarter past five in the morning, and at this time, all the patients and medical staff on duty in the hospital should be sleeping. So apart from the sound of me talking to him, everything around me was quiet.

That's why I didn't talk to him very loudly.

"When I saw the faces on the ghost wall, I was very young, and it was a terrifying image for a child who was not yet 10 years old!" As if caught in a memory, he said, "The look of that person's face is very peculiar. It's like there are cracks on the face, dividing that face into countless pictures! And at that time in the whole slum kiln. There are often cases where children suddenly disappear mysteriously, and some people say that those children are eaten by ghost walls! ”

It is conceivable that many people will have deep memories and fears in their hearts in their childhood.

For me and Xiao Qicai, the memories of our childhood are that adults often say in our ears that there is a fox spirit in the back mountain of Beiling in Fengtian City. Therefore, whenever I think of Beiling, there is a faint feeling of coldness in the back of my backbone. Almost a conditioned reflex is formed. (This memory.) It is described in "Thousand Miles of Strange People". Here is a reiteration. Because it will appear in the future, that story will be recorded in "Pen Fairy", just pay a little attention)

And in the ward, when I saw the ghost wall mentioned by the old man, I knew that maybe the ghost wall was the nightmare of the old man's childhood! So, is the old man's attempt to break down the ghost wall just to dispel the shadow of childhood?

"The face on the wall is a woman with long hair! The proportions of her facial features are very harmonious, but on the whole face, there are many spider webs, dividing her face into pieces after pieces, which at first glance looks like her face, shattered on the wall! ”

He took the trouble to describe the face of the woman on the wall over and over again, and it was obvious that the woman who appeared on the wall made an extremely deep impression on him.

"Later, my companion Ngawang and I were asleep in the middle of the night when we heard the screams of another child! We ......"

Hearing this, I couldn't help but interrupt him, "Is Ngawang the one with the red birthmark on his neck?" ”

"That's right! Ngawang is my best friend, and he, like me, is an orphan. When the old man said this, he couldn't help but walk back to his hospital bed, went to the bedside and touched a cigarette, lit it and took a deep breath, his eyes didn't know whether it was smoked or some kind of fog, and said, "Since we were sensible, we have been in that place where coffins are everywhere." It's like a cemetery and a church, ironically, right? Ngawang and I didn't have names at that time, but later Ngawang said that he was like a wild dog that had been abandoned by others, and after saying that, he also learned how to bark a few times, and then told me that it would be better for you to call me Ngawang in the future. ”

"Is he Chinese or Filipino?"

"We are all Chinese. But I don't know why, it appears in such a place. Maybe my parents were rich and were calculated by my business partners, and I was sold to the Philippines. Or maybe I was abducted by human traffickers and something went wrong along the way, so I was abandoned! This kind of thing, who knows? There are so many abandoned babies in the world, and they are not worse than me, Ngawang! ”

Judging from the mental state of the old man at this time, he is completely an ordinary normal person. But maybe once his brain starts reading some weird memories, I have a hunch that he's going to go into a state of madness, so I'm prepared to pounce on him and hold him down as soon as he looks like crazy.

At this time, the old man stood at the head of the bed, looked out the window, and said, "I was a very extreme person when I was a child, and when I found that I was different from other children and had no parents, I named myself "Wokasa". This is a local local word in the Philippines, which probably means "there is no concern in this world." Later, when I returned to China, I thought my name was too long, so I changed my name to "end" to indicate that everything had come to an end. There is nothing to be nostalgic about in this world, and there is no one to care about. ”

I see. Maybe a lot of times, the old man seems to be acting stupidly, just because in this world, he doesn't care about much. If it were me, I might be the most painful time for myself every time I go to the Spring Festival, watching every house with lights and a joyful scene everywhere. Blood-soaked in the last battle.

After learning about the old man's background, I quickly got into the topic and said, "Go ahead and talk about the person you bumped into the face on the ghost wall at that time. ”

"That afternoon, Ngawang and I were sleeping soundly on the coffin, when suddenly I saw a Chinese standing in front of me and woke us up. He was very sympathetic to us at the time, especially after seeing a big sarcoma in Ngawang's lower back, saying something strange and then giving us some money. I don't remember those words now, but I remember the moment I received the money, and I was very moved. I suddenly felt that person was the best person in the world. So I told myself to remember that man's face, and that man, as I later learned, had a nickname, called the Mechanical Ruler, and that he was a tomb robber in his early years. ”

"What does that have to do with the faces on the ghost wall?"

"It has a lot to do with it! Because when the mechanical ruler was giving us money, I saw a mirror-like thing hanging from his waist. It had a very peculiar shape, like a large pebble, but it had a strange pattern on the surface that reflected light. So that thing attracted me at first sight, and of course, it also completely attracted Ngawang next to me. Ngawang was more curious than I was, so he wanted to see what looked like a mirror. ”

"Agreed?" This episode, when Liu Jinsong called before, did not elaborate. Maybe it was because Liu Jinsong didn't know what was going on at the time, so I listened very carefully.

"Because the mechanical ruler may have thought that Ngawang was a dying man at that time." For a child who was about to die, the mechanical ruler did not object, and quickly took the thing from his waist and handed it to Ngawang. ”

"And then?"

"Ngawang (that is, the red neck), I couldn't put it down, and after playing with it for a while, Ngawang turned it over, although at that moment, Ngawang's hand shook and the mirror fell to the ground, but I was sure that Ngawang and I were not mistaken. On the back of that mirror, there was a face that resembled the face on the ghost wall. It's also like a human face, but it's very small, so it can be said to be a miniature version of a woman's face! Even the face has a crack that makes us feel scared when we look at it. ”

I said, "What is the expression of the mechanical ruler when the mirror falls to the ground?" Mirror front, what's changed? ”

"I don't know what happened to the mirror at that time, because as soon as the thing fell to the ground, the mechanical ruler picked it up and put it back on his waist. I don't think the mechanical ruler of the time was used for. Later, I investigated, and it was made from an ancient tomb by a mechanical ruler, but I didn't find out where the tomb was. Maybe the ruler just thinks of it as a very ordinary souvenir. ”

"And then the mechanical ruler is gone?"

"Yes." The old man nodded, "But on the night when the mechanical ruler just left, Ngawang slept until midnight, and suddenly woke up, saying that he had dreamed of another person who was exactly like himself, and he stood beside him, trying to wake him up. ”

"I thought it was just an ordinary nightmare, but the next day, Ngawang dreamed of the same person who looked exactly like him, and kept doing the things he had done, such as secretly drawing a portrait of a woman in the church, peeing at the little girl next door when he got up in the middle of the night to pee, and many other similar things. And in his dream, two Ngawang appeared, one was Ngawang who kept doing bad things, and the other was Ngawang who was quietly watching everything happen. In the dream, he couldn't tell which was the real self! ”

"It's a harbinger of schizophrenia!" I thought about it. But in fact, to a certain extent, this represents the world of doppelgangers, which has begun to reincarnate.

I'm curious to see what happened next. So I went ahead and asked him that question.

"This strange dream lasted for seven days. At that time, we just thought it was a strange dream, and if we said it, we might be ridiculed by others, so we didn't tell anyone. But on the eighth day, Ngawang was gone! The last time I saw him was when he got up in the middle of the night and said he was going to pee! ”

"You've never seen him again?"

"That's right! After this incident, many people said that Ngawang was eaten by the ghost wall! At that time, many adults said that they were going to smash the wall, but it was just talking. Because that wall is so weird, many people lose their courage in the daytime, and I know that they are afraid that after smashing the wall, the next unlucky one will be their turn. ”

I pondered, but did not speak.

"Actually, on the night Ngawang disappeared, he secretly left me a note. No one knew about it, because there were no words on it, and Ngawang was illiterate, but he left me two graphics to convey some information. ”

"What graphics?"

The old man said, "I'll draw it for you!" As soon as he finished speaking, he went to look for paper and pen, but after he found that there was no paper and pen in the entire ward, his movements became very rough!

I suddenly had a premonition that my mood had become very impatient!

Just as he was about to stop his behavior, he suddenly bit his finger with his teeth, and then he was impatient to use his own blood to quickly draw stick figures on the ground!

Soon, I was stunned when I saw that I had drawn all the stick figures made of blood with all the strokes of the old man!

I've seen that painting!

It's in the church before that!

It was a man with limbs and a body, but no head!

The moment I saw this picture, I suddenly felt like I was empowered!

Perhaps, I have been able to grasp some secrets that are even more terrifying than the Mothman I have experienced!