Chapter 14: Entering Xuejia Town at Night
I don't know if there is no signal under this mountain, or if there is something wrong with my mobile phone, in short, my idea of relying on mobile phone map navigation is shattered, and I have no choice but to follow the rutted marks of the broken van and go back.
I used to be in a car, and I didn't think it was too far, but now I walked back on my feet, and it took me more than an hour to walk on a dirt road.
There was not even a figure on the dirt road, and it seemed to lead to a forbidden area of death.
Not far away, a striking sign looms under the cover of dense plants, and a hint can be faintly seen on it: Xuejia Town 1km.
With that sign as the boundary, this side is lush and green, the fields are abundant, and there is a scene of abundant agricultural production, while on the other side of the sign is a barren grass, which is desolate and dilapidated, and it is unusually quiet.
I went along the way, and not long after a huge carved dragon carved phoenix blue stone archway first caught my eye, which was clearly engraved with the words of Xuejiazhen.
Behind the torii is an antique town, and there is no trace of modernity at a glance, which makes me feel unreal.
From a distance, there are many people lounging at the entrance of the town, seemingly harmless people with ordinary heads, but in fact it is not, although these people are dressed plainly, but there is a faint fierceness under their faces.
Seeing this, I frowned, if I guessed correctly, those people should be the ones in charge of the entrance to Xuejia Town.
The old monk with the IP name Mystery Man 2 once told me that this Xuejiazhen is not so easy to enter, coupled with the reaction of those taxi drivers after hearing the three words of Xuejiazhen, it can be concluded that it is obviously impossible to swagger in.
I didn't want to startle the snakes, so I sneaked up among the man-tall weeds beside me while the guards didn't notice me, intending to wait until it got dark to find an opportunity to sneak into the town.
It's still early, so I can take this opportunity to rest and make up for last night's sleep.
I sleep very lightly, especially when I have something on my mind, I am basically half asleep, and even the slightest sound will arouse my alarm.
I don't know how long I slept, but suddenly I heard a heavy footstep in my ears.
I opened my eyes suddenly, looked through the gap in the weeds, and saw in the distance two men from the town carrying a huge sack, and the direction of travel was where I was at the moment.
"It's so bold, stealing everything to Xuejia Town, don't ask what kind of place this is, you have to go out sideways if you stand and come in." One of them said.
"Don't talk so much nonsense, hurry up, Lao Tzu's cards are about to be heard, this time they have to be big!" Another said.
The two of you are talking to me one by one, and they are getting closer and closer to me.
"Alright, just throw it here!"
At that time, the two men were only two or three meters away from my location, and they only had to take two more steps to see my presence.
But they didn't seem to bother to take the extra two steps, just threw the sack into the grass, and then turned around and left.
The discarded sack was thrown in front of my eyes, and though the mouth of the sack was strong, I already knew what was inside.
I knew that the sack contained a corpse, but what I didn't know was how they could be so rampant that they dared to disregard human life or even throw corpses in the wilderness in broad daylight?
What kind of existence is the Xue family in Changsha City, can they ignore the royal law and base themselves on this, so can Xue Tianhu be able to reach the sky with his hands and eyes.
Thinking about this, I'm glad I didn't trespass on my brain fever, otherwise I might have been put in a sack and exposed to the wilderness.
I wanted to dig a pit and sell that buddy in the sack and give him a place to live after death.
But if I did, I would be exposed, and my intents would be in vain, so I could only say sorry to that guy for the time being, and wait until I had the chance.
Although it was autumn, the weather in Changsha City was still very hot, and it was quite comfortable to be in the shade of weeds, so I closed my eyes again unconsciously.
This time there was no disturbance, and when I opened my eyes again, it was pitch black.
Looking at the night sky through the weeds, the bright moon was in the sky, the stars were all over, and the direction of Naxuejia Town was also lit up with a ghostly light.
The probe looked at the archway at the entrance of the town, and it was already silent, and there was no longer a swaying figure.
Seeing this, I think the time should be almost right, when I even think about getting up and walking out of the grass, and then sneaking in.
But before I could move, I suddenly heard a heavy wheezing sound in my ears.
The voice sounded so close that it felt right in my ears.
Immediately after, a huge figure appeared beside me, it was pitch black and invisible under the moonlight, only the pair of quiet eyes kept shining with a strange light.
I can't see the appearance of the figure, but it looks like it is walking on all fours, and it must be some kind of beast.
It was clearly there with me, but it didn't mean to attack me, it just sniffed at me and skimmed me as if it were air.
It didn't leave, and after passing me, it walked towards the corpse in the sack.
Then, sniffing at the scarlet sack, it took a bite of the sack and dragged it deeper into the grass......
I don't know if the beast was a dog or a wolf, but apparently it was feeding on dead bodies, and it sent chills down my back.
It was at this moment that I finally understood why those two guys would abandon the corpse so fearlessly, it turned out that there was such a strange and fierce existence to clean up the aftermath for them.
The beast dragged the sack away, and I feared that it might return, so I didn't dare to continue to lurk, so I immediately got up and crept out of the thick grass.
In the dead silence of the night, I floated like a ghost.
I didn't go directly into the town, but hid on the side of the archway and looked at it carefully.
Not far away, at the entrance of the town, there were still people guarding them, but they were much more relaxed than during the day, and those people seemed to be dozing off.
"Aha...... It's fucking sleepy, there's not even a ghost shadow in this big night, what is there to guard, it's better to find a mother to sleep beautifully! ”
"Who says it's not, our Xuejia Town is a terrifying place in the entire Changsha City, even a fly has to fly away in broad daylight, let alone a person."
"Alas, I said that you two can be quieter when you complain, if this is heard by the tiger master, you two must be fed to the beast, or say a few words, and obediently do your job."
A few people sat around chatting, obviously sleepy and about to close their eyes, but suddenly they were all refreshed, which made me hurriedly retreat again after just taking two steps.
The three guards were sober, but they couldn't stop me from entering the town.
I looked around and found that the end of the stone backbone of the archway was just very close to the roof of a moving house, so I quietly climbed up the archway, like a nocturnal monkey, and jumped onto the roof.
Crash!
I was very light, but I accidentally stepped on a piece of green tiles from the roof, making a sound that was enough to cause alarm.
"Who? What people?! ”
The guys all stood up at the same time, their faces wary as they looked over the roof where I was.
Or God intended to help me, and at this time, patches of dark clouds appeared in the night sky, blocking most of the moonlight, making the eyes become more and more dim.
Meow......!
I didn't say that this cat meow, although I had such thoughts, but before I could say anything, a real cat barked.
It was a snow-white cat that was sitting half-crouched on the ridge in front of me, looking at me with a pair of dark eyes.
Suddenly, it came to its senses, turned and leaped off the ridge, flashed past the guards, and disappeared into the silent streets of the town.
"Damn, it's a cat, scared me to death, count it fast, otherwise I have to skin it alive, but why does that cat look so familiar, not like a wild cat running in from outside the town?"
"Nonsense, there are fierce beasts around the town at night, not to mention cats, even if a mouse wants to come in, you have to weigh it, do you know why the cat is so familiar, it's our Mayor Xue's cat, if you dare to skin it, your skin will have to be skinned tomorrow!"
Those people started the conversation directly with the cat that suddenly appeared, obviously thinking that it was the green tile that the cat kicked off, and I escaped by luck.
The guards gathered again to gossip, and I took advantage of the opportunity to move quickly above the rooftop, and in a few moments I was away from the entrance of the town and at what appeared to be the center of the town.
As far as the eye can see, this place seems to be the most brightly lit place in the entire Xuejia Town, it is an open field that is not too small, and it seems to be the square of this Xuejia Town.
Although there were many lights, it was still a deathly silence, and there was not half a figure in sight.
Seeing that there was no one, I jumped off the roof.
But at the moment when my feet landed, a white shadow appeared in front of my eyes, and it was the white cat I had just met on the roof.