As the saying goes, water, fire, wood, stone, thunderclouds, rain and electricity are all earth spirits, and all the spirits have been transformed into essence after tens of millions of years of self-cultivation since Pangu opened the sky.

In the place where I stayed in the army for a long time, there were many things related to feng shui hidden in the corners of the camp, which I slowly discovered. As I wrote earlier, the company I was in had a lot of strange things happening, so I specially brought back a big stone from the place and put it at the main entrance of the company. Originally, the gate of our company was facing the main road of our training ground, and there was an artificial river in the middle.

Let me briefly talk about it, the most exaggerated time is that at the same time, there was a strange illness among the soldiers of nearly a squad of the company, some of them suddenly lost hearing in their ears, and some of them had a lot of rashes on their bodies inexplicably. The most exaggerated thing is that a soldier is talking nonsense like an evil spirit, hiding in the toilet and crying, asking him what is wrong, but he can't say it. In the end, they were all pulled to the military hospital for examination, but they couldn't find out what was wrong, and they didn't stop until they put the stone at the door.

I heard that it played a role in blocking evil, and when I was free, I carefully observed the stone, although there was no special shape, but I could vaguely see that the whole stone was in the shape of a monk standing and chanting, facing the main road of the company gate and the training ground. Listening to the company commander, this seemingly ordinary stone is worth 30,000 or 40,000 yuan, and the time for placing it is all set after asking Mr. to see it.

Some things still can't be explained, and since the stone has been in charge, nothing strange has really happened until I am discharged from the army. There were many times when I stood at the gate of the company at night, I would stare at the stone for a long time, and after staring at it for a long time, the stone really slowly transformed into a monk holding a rosary.

Speaking of bizarre, there is an even more legendary stone in the camp, which is a monolithic milky white boulder that is more than two meters high, somewhat similar to quartz. It also has a very significant feature, that is, the shape, like the image of Guanyin sitting on a lotus, holding a jade bottle in one hand, folding the other hand in front of the chest to chant the scriptures, it was placed in the southeast corner of the camp, because it was too big, it had to be placed flat lying in the open space between the road and the poplar forest.

Speaking of the strangeness of this stone, there is also the strange thing that happened around it, and almost all of the soldiers who were in the same period as me were hit. For a while, it was a nightmare for the night sentinels, and we privately called it the Guanyin Stone.

The closest to Guanyin Stone is a sentry box at our gas station, and it is also the sentry post I talked about in the first chapter of "Men and Boys", and between the sentry box and Guanyin Stone is a poplar forest. It's fine during the day, but at night, when I stand in the sentry box and look in the direction of the Guanyin Stone, the scene is like in front of the ghost house, the breeze blows, and the poplar forest makes a rustling sound, as if there are countless ghosts shuttling back and forth in it. This situation is most memorable in the foggy days of winter, when it is like a fairyland, and at night it is like falling into a ghost market.

My courage now has also been practiced from standing at this sentry post again and again, from the timidity and nervousness at the beginning to the numbness and indifference later.

I don't know what happened to the other companies, but anyway, many of our comrades in the company have witnessed it, such as when I was on duty in the middle of the night, I saw a woman dressed in white floating from the poplar forest to the other side of the river, and some people saw an old lady walking into the depths of the forest at night. Although there are many such things, they have not caused us substantial harm and impact, and some veterans say that this is the reason why there is Guanyin Stone to guard.

One of my comrades-in-arms who has a good relationship, his experience is the most bizarre, and it also makes Guanyin Stone cast another veil of mystery in our hearts. This is what he told us on the eve of his discharge after the expiration of his two-year service, and for a period of time after that, the night sentry of our gas station was nested in the sentry box and did not come out until the next sentry came to take over.

My comrade-in-arms' surname is Zhang, he is of upper-average height, and he is very strong, and the incident happened when we were in the backbone training team. After the training of the recruit driver, a group of soldiers were left in the regiment as reserve squad leaders for the second year, and we were both among them. The entire camp went from overcrowded to sparsely populated, and the posts were shifted from double to single, and the length of standing guard was increased.

There is a saying in the army that the deputy squad leader is not the deputy squad leader, and the squad deputy is the first executor of the squad leader's orders, and there is a lot of dirty work, and the second sentence means that the second shift and the fifth squad are the most painful, the former just sleeps, and the latter can only sleep for more than an hour after being laid off.

On this day, Xiao Zhang was unfortunately placed on the second shift, and was called up as soon as he fell asleep in bed, and Xiao Zhang dragged his tired body and climbed up from the bed. After getting dressed, he took a flashlight and a warning stick and walked towards the sentry box of the gas station, although it was not yet midnight, but it was already dark, and the mist of winter was scattered in the air.

"Stop, password!"

"Eight!"

"One!"

The sentry on duty at the gas station asked the password loudly, although he was sleepy, Xiao Zhang still replied loudly without the slightest hesitation, in fact, these are also the muscle memory of soldiers.

"It's cold tonight, pay attention to yourself~ I guess no one will come to check the post~"

After the handover of the sentry at the previous post, he muttered a word to Xiao Zhang and walked quickly in the direction of the company.

Today, I don't know what's going on, he feels extremely tired, and he unconsciously wants to doze off when he stands at the door of the sentry box. In order to survive the more than an hour of standing guard, Xiao Zhang jumped on the spot a few times, and then took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it.

After swallowing the clouds and spitting fog, the fatigue faded slightly, and when he took the last sip, Xiao Zhang began to pace back and forth at the door of the sentry box. It's close to the training ground, there are a lot of grass and trees, and it's by the river, so there is a moisture mixed in the fog, which can make him feel the winter humidity clearly.

After a while, Xiao Zhang still couldn't resist hiding back in the sentry box, and the temperature around him rose a lot, which made him feel very warm and comfortable for a while, as comfortable as lying on a soft bed wrapped in a quilt on a snowy day. As soon as this thought came out, a voice vaguely appeared in Xiao Zhang's head: "Sleep if you're comfortable, sleep if you're comfortable..."

Thinking about it, his upper and lower eyelids began to fight, and the only shred of reason left was desperately resisting the dark sleepiness. In the end, Xiao Zhang still couldn't hold on, and fell asleep standing with his back against the back wall of the sentry box. In the poplar forest behind the sentry box, there was a sudden "rustling" sound, as if something had climbed down from the tree, and then a white shadow floated from the depths of the forest, targeting the sentry box.

Xiao Zhang slept soundly, and in his dream he was in a forest full of thick fog, as if he was lost, and he couldn't find a way out. Confused and panicked, he found a direction and began to run as hard as he could, running as hard as he could. Running and running, suddenly a large white stone in front of him blocked the way, and somehow, looking at the stone, he felt like looking at a person.

didn't dare to think about it, Xiao Zhang turned his head and ran in the other direction, this time it didn't take long, there was a big white stone in front of him blocking the way, and he sat on the ground. The dense fog around him still did not dissipate, but suddenly there was a gurgling sound in the thick fog, as if many people were laughing in the depths of the thick fog.

In an instant, the frightened Xiao Zhang sat on the ground and moved to the big white stone with two hands, leaning against the stone and staring at the surroundings vigilantly, and the gurgling sound in the dense fog sounded from far to near, but it did not appear for a long time. There was an enchantment within ten meters of the big white stone, resisting the owner of these voices, but the terrifying sound still caused a huge sense of fear in Xiao Zhang's heart.

He got closer to the big white stone behind him, and his movements became faster and faster, like a freshly wound frog toy. At this moment, a familiar voice suddenly came from the surrounding gurgling, and the voice seemed to be calling his name, louder than louder.

Xiao Zhang was a little excited, like grasping a life-saving straw, a breath of air surged up to his throat, and he replied loudly.

"I'm here! …”

Xiao Zhang was awakened by his own voice, and when he opened his eyes, he immediately judged that he was dreaming, and then gradually relaxed. When the rationality of his brain slowly returned, he suddenly remembered that he was standing guard at the gas station at this time, and when he thought of this, another voice came from afar.

"~ Zhang ✘✘, where are you going?"

Xiao Zhang, who realized that something was wrong, realized that the place he was staying in was a little strange, and when he looked around, a cold sweat came down from his back. He was surprised to find that he was lying on the Guanyin stone in the poplar forest behind the sentry box, his brain was still thinking about a solution, and Xiao Zhang's limbs had subconsciously run towards the direction of the sentry box.

Seeing Xiao Zhang rushing out from the depths of the poplar forest, the sentry on guard was obviously a little stunned and puzzled.

"You're not in the sentry box, what are you doing in the woods?"

"Oh... Oh... I—I'm in a hurry! ”

Xiao Zhang was a little incoherent, blurted out a reason for himself, and the sentry didn't dwell too much, after the two handed over, Xiao Zhang quickly ran back to the company.

It was also from this day that Xiao Zhang, who was originally in good physical condition, began to feel unwell, and within two days, he was sent to the hospital of the military region.

I know exactly what happened after this, I remember what happened before he went to the hospital, and I know what led to him being sent to the hospital. His behavior at the time scared me so much that I almost thought he was going to die suddenly.

One of the items in our unit's daily life system was physical training, and the company was running three kilometers when doing a card, that is, less than a lap around the inner circle of our training ground. Xiao Zhang and I ran one after the other, and I was playing a song with a stereo in my hand, and I teased each other with Xiao Zhang. The first two kilometers were easy and there was no discomfort, but in the last stretch of the road he had a problem.

The two of us quickly ran to 500 meters from the finish line, although a little out of breath, but not a big problem, I shouted a sprint to Xiao Zhang, and then accelerated out. Coincidentally, this acceleration point happened to be leaning on the Guanyin stone, and Xiao Zhang saw that I was speeding up, and he also sprinted. And he quickly overtook me, and at this time he was less than 200 meters away from the finish line, and he just overtook me by a position, and then turned his head to look at me.

At this point, I saw him start bleeding from his mouth, and this scene startled me at once, but the inertia of the sprint did not stop me to ask him until I crossed the finish line. I immediately turned to look for him, and soon I was able to locate him in the crowd, where he was hunched over a tree and retching.

I quickly ran up to him and saw a scene that shocked me, there was a huge pool of blood on the ground in front of him, and he was still vomiting blood. I quickly called the company commander, and the ambulance of the health team that had been following me also heard the news and took him directly to the hospital.

This is really surprising, usually when we train intensively, there will be blood in the urine, and it is the first time to vomit blood. And we were both together along the way, and he was in good shape until he passed the Guanyin Stone.

Later, when he came back from the hospital, he didn't find out what was wrong, and he didn't feel any discomfort himself. But one thing is strange that every time we pass by that Guanyin stone, he will have a headache. At this point, it was as if it could be contagious, and several comrades-in-arms ran past the Guanyin Stone, and they would have a panic and headache, and everyone felt that it was very evil.

Until our troops were reorganized, the Guanyin stone was still lying in the corner of the camp, but now I don't know where it went.