Chapter 8: Secrets

"Ahh

I don't know who shouted, suddenly from all directions out of the dense red poisonous insects, everyone scattered for their lives, we saw countless red poisonous insects rushing towards us, the sound of squirming sounded very numb, everywhere the eyes were all this red poisonous insects.

The size of the red poisonous insects is not large, but the number is unusually large, and the small insects in ten miles and eight villages may not add up to so many, and those poisonous insects rush forward one by one, crawling up along people's feet. I saw Uncle Camel drowned by the swarm of red poisonous insects, and after a while, his body exploded on its own, like a powerful time bomb.

Dad swept the bugs around us with his hoe, but their shells were too hard to kill with a hoe.

Bang bangs rang out one after another, looking at those relatives and neighbors on weekdays, there was not even a whole corpse left, and my father's eyes were red.

I don't know how Dad's strength could be so great, and I don't know where Dad's courage came from, and he kept waving the hoe in his hand to save me out.

"Tianlei! Come on! ”

Dad scavenged a way out of tens of thousands of bugs.

The viscous blood of the poisonous insect accidentally splashed on Dad's skin, and Dad just frowned and didn't take it seriously.

I hurriedly followed my father's footsteps, but for a moment those insects blocked me from my father again, but they didn't seem to hurt me, but... I'm afraid of something.,Always keep a certain distance from me.。

But the situation on my father's side is not very optimistic, my father's strength is obviously about to run out, and I see that my father is about to be overwhelmed by that group of insects, and I can't control so much in my heart.

I just ran two steps before I saw the group of red poisonous insects in front of me retreat a little, I walked a few steps forward, those poisonous insects retreated a few meters, I looked down and saw the iron gourd bottle pendant jump out of my clothes at some point, I suddenly knew in my heart. Rushing to his father's side to join him, as I guessed, the group of poisonous insects did not continue to attack, but also retreated again and again.

I looked at my father, and I pulled him and ran to the exit, and the insects began to scramble away from me and my father.

When I was running, I accidentally scratched the stone at the ankle, and the blood remained on the stone, and I saw those red poisonous insects desperately rushing towards the stone, and my father and I had a chance to breathe.

Dad just wanted to turn his head to save the others, but there was no one left, and the red poisonous insects gradually dispersed, leaving only a beach of blood on the ground and a red body affected by the explosion.

Dad's legs were weak, and he knelt directly on the ground without standing firmly, looking at the former neighbors buried here in such an unknown way, Dad's heart couldn't say what it felt.

This grand reclamation ended due to the insect plague, but I have always had a question in my heart, why did the village chief try his best to hold this reclamation, and what was his purpose?

Dad's legs have been weak, and I helped my father step by step to go back, and I had a tacit understanding with my father along the way. I don't know what my dad is thinking now, why didn't my dad ask those red poisonous insects to pounce on people when they saw them, but he was afraid to avoid them for me alone.

I glanced at my father, only to see that my father's face was full of tears, and my heart was also very heavy, and when I came out in the morning, there were still a group of living people, but the day's work had not yet arrived, and only two people were left, me and my father. If I didn't have this iron gourd bottle pendant, I'm afraid my father and I would have explained it in it today.

The village chief clearly said that no strange things will happen in that mountain, sixty-five years ago it was a rat plague, and sixty-five years later it is an insect plague, so what will happen in the next sixty-five years? I don't dare to think about it anymore.

It is impossible for this matter to be turned over so plainly, so many lives have been lost, even the village chief cannot be suppressed by himself, I must investigate the real cause of this matter.

Before my father and I arrived at the village, we saw a group of old and weak women and children waiting at the entrance of the village, and I caught a glimpse of the village chief standing on the side with a wooden crutch, and he looked at us with an incredible face, like... It's like hell.

The mother trotted over with her sister in her arms, "How did you get it on this body?" Why is it still bleeding! ”

Several aunts also wore aprons around their waists to meet me and my father, "Old Qi's family, what about my family?" ”

"yes, why did you come back with your family? What about the others? ”

Looking at the eager eyes of a group of people, Dad really couldn't bear to tell them the bad news.

"They... Lao Li, Lao Shen, Lao Kang, they all... Didn't come out..."Dad's eyes were full of red bloodshots, the tears on his face could still be seen in the afterglow of the setting sun, and he clenched his fists in resentment, he blamed himself for not being able to save a few more, blaming himself for being so selfish.

Aunt Li jumped forward and grabbed her father's clothes tightly, "What did you just say?" What do you mean it didn't come out, huh? What is called has not come out! You say! You say! ”

Dad powerlessly let the Li family's aunt cry and scream on his body, and his mother couldn't stop him, and the families were dizzy and crying when they heard the news, but the village chief moved his mouth like a person who had nothing to do, as if he was talking about something.

I looked at the scene in front of me, and I couldn't care about it so much.

"Village chief, I have a question I want to ask, I think you must know the answer."

I looked the village chief in the eyes, and he kept dodging my gaze, whether intentionally or not.

"At the village meeting that day, you told a story, which was very beautiful, and everyone present sympathized with you, but I had a question, at first I thought I was thinking too much, but what happened today just confirmed my thoughts."

Some people were attracted by my words and stopped crying, my father looked at me in surprise, I gave my father a look, and continued: "You said that sixty-five years ago, your father was the village chief at that time, and it was also because of the increase in population that needed to be cleared and supplied, so that mountain was naturally included in the scope of land reclamation. ”

I glanced at the village chief and continued, "The clearing of the wasteland is going well, but at this time, the strange thing in your mouth happened, thousands of mutant rats gnawed at the living people, and only your father escaped.

So the first question, how do you know so clearly?

It is impossible for ordinary people who have escaped death to sort things out so clearly in their minds right away, and you said that your father fell ill after he returned, and it is impossible to tell the whole thing completely, but the village chief, you know so much... Unless, you were there at the time! ”