Volume 1, Ghost Town of the Bone Forest_Chapter 4, Empty House on a Rainy Night
The tractor walked bumping along the mountain road, and the speed was very slow. The fat man asked the driver that he could not get to the town until the sun set in the evening, and everyone was bored to sit and chat.
After chatting for a few words, the topic turned to the matter of gods and ghosts. Fat people have been able to speak since they were children, and they grin when they open their mouths.
"Let me tell you, I have been to Yunnan several times over the years, and I have seen a lot of strange things. It's nothing to get married and meet a female ghost! You haven't seen the really strange thing! ”
The fat man said in a daze, but I said disapprovingly next to me: "Then tell me, what is more strange than when I bumped into this?" ”
The fat man glanced at me, then suddenly stood up from the tractor, turned back and pointed around, and shouted, "Do you think there are only people and animals in these mountains of Yunnan?" The last time I took a regiment to the border, I saw a mouse the size of a dog, jumping around! The mountains are not peaceful, and there are many monsters in Yunnan that even scientists have not discovered, and the locals call them earth beasts. Hehe, many of them are the ghosts we Han people say, and they can eat people! ”
The fat man gestured with his hand while talking, but the big guys laughed one after another, always thinking that the fat man was joking and his funny face, so no one took it seriously.
Suddenly, the tractor shook violently, the overall force was very large, the big guy almost didn't fall, and the fat man almost fell off the tractor, holding on to the bar next to the tractor, and scolded in his mouth: "Damn, what's going on!" ”
As soon as I turned my head, I vaguely saw a black figure leap out from under the tractor at a rapid speed and into the haystack next to me. After a while, the fellow who drove the tractor ran over, and after a few words with the fat man, the fat man turned around and shouted to us: "The fellow said that the tractor is broken and can't run." ”
"What's going on?"
I asked curiously.
"I don't know, the fellow said that it was originally driving well, but suddenly I don't know what popped out of it, and it hit the front of the tractor like a stone, and a large piece of the nose was broken, hey, it's really bad luck!"
The fat man shook his head, but I jumped out of the tractor and walked to the front of the nose to take a look. I could clearly see a hole about the size of my fist, with sparks bubbling from it. Thinking of the black shadow I had just seen, I was slightly worried in my heart, don't really meet the "earth beast" that the fat man said.
"Bad luck!"
The people on the tractor complained, grabbed their luggage and flipped off the tractor.
After a while, we decided that another tractor would go first, and we would follow the mountain road towards the town on our own, and when they arrived, they would find someone to come back and carry us.
I shook my head helplessly, the divination results were so unsatisfactory during the day, but near the evening, the tractor broke down, and I was a little worried that something might happen.
The mountain road was fairly smooth, and we didn't walk slowly. But the weather was not beautiful, and after a while, the humidity in the air began to rise significantly. Wang Jianjun, a veteran soldier in the team, glanced at the sky and said in a deep voice: "It may rain." ”
His "crow's mouth" was really accurate, and after a while, fine rain began to float in the sky, and after waiting for a while, the rain began to get heavier, and everyone suddenly panicked.
After the rain, if there is a landslide on the surrounding wooded hillside, it is very likely that it will kill several of us unprepared. Therefore, I suggested that we find a place to shelter from the rain to avoid accidents.
Everyone nodded, and the fat man looked out along the mountain road, vaguely seemed to find something, and pointed to the distance and shouted: "There seems to be a house there, let's go and have a look!" ”
The rain was loud, the sky was completely covered with dark clouds, and although it was still evening, it was already dark, and in the distance there was a lonely light floating, and two bungalows stood on the edge of the ridge.
Everyone quickened their pace, and when they reached the front of the house, the fat man came up and knocked on the door. But he didn't expect that as soon as he walked to the door, his fingers touched the wooden door, and the fire inside suddenly went out, silently, and everyone was stunned when they saw this situation.
The fat man frowned and shouted, "Fellow, we are passing by, it is raining heavily, and we want to come in and hide from the rain." ”
But after shouting several times, there was no reaction at all, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, I could only walk up and push the wooden door heavily, but I didn't expect that the wooden door that seemed to be closed tightly was actually hidden, and I pushed it like this, and the whole door opened immediately. The house was dark, as if there was no one.
"Nobody, where did the lights come from?"
A girl named Li Qian asked strangely at this time.
"Don't worry about it, it's raining so hard and go take shelter first."
The fat man took the lead and walked into the house.
The house is not big, one large and one small in the front and back, separated by a cloth curtain in the middle, we wandered around the two houses for a long time, but no one was found, only a candle was placed on the table, but it was obvious that it had just been extinguished.
"It's strange that there is no one. You put down your luggage first, and change your clothes if you have spare clothes to dry. Cui Zhen, you and I have to find a way to find something to start a fire! ”
Wang Jianjun shouted, Li Qian is a lesbian and went next door, and I and a gay man named Xiaoliu, an intellectual, and I were undressing. Suddenly, I heard "Ah! A scream, it was Li Qian's voice, there was fear in the voice, and Xiao Yanagi and I suddenly changed their faces!
"What's wrong?"
I opened my mouth and shouted, and at the same time Koyanagi and Koyanagi stood up and walked behind the curtain of the door. But he didn't step in.
"Can you come in? Li Qian. ”
Koyanagi asked.
"Hmmm......"
After hearing the sound of promise from inside, Koyanagi opened the door curtain, and I walked quickly into the room. The next room was smaller than ours, but it looked more empty.
"What's wrong?"
I saw Li Qian bowing her head and asked hurriedly.
"Just ...... Just now I saw a dark shadow flash through the window. ”
Li Qian pointed to the window on the wall next to me, I hurriedly walked to the window, this window is paper-paste, but it has been in disrepair for a long time, and many places have been broken, standing at the window entrance, there is still a cold wind pouring into it. I glanced out the window and saw nothing but a field that was dark and deserted.
"Nobody."
I said confusedly.
"When I came in to change my clothes, I felt like someone was staring at me, and I didn't pay attention to it at first, but then it got stronger and stronger. He turned his head to look out of the window, but unexpectedly, he saw a dark shadow suddenly jump from the outside. ”
Li Qian herself said a little ambiguous, Xiao Yanagi and I looked at each other, and no one could give a positive answer.
"Probably...... I read it wrong......"
Li Qian saw that there was a dangerous expression on both of our faces, so she lowered her head and changed her words.
"I guess I'm too tired, just change my clothes and eat something, and take a break."
I saw that the atmosphere was a little tense, and I wanted to make a haha to round this matter over, but I didn't expect that Xiaoyanagi next to me seemed to think of something, turned around and walked quickly to the next room, and after searching for some eyes, he showed a puzzled expression and muttered in a low voice: "Why is it so strange?" ”
"What's wrong?"
Li Qian and I stepped forward and asked.
"You see the candlestick has just been extinguished, and there is still unclumped wax on it, and we have all seen the fire, but there is no one here. Could it be that we are dazzled? Or are we encountering something we can't see? ”
Xiao Yanagi said more vaguely, and I didn't react for a while, but Li Qian next to me widened her eyes, and her lips trembled a little and said, "You mean, we hit a ghost?" ”
Li Qian's face turned very white in an instant, and her pupils seemed to be a little dilated, and even I could see that this girl was frightened.
"It's okay, don't scare yourself, maybe this candlestick was blown out by the wind. After a while, the owner of this house came back, how can there be such an unlucky thing in the world, I met two ghosts at once? Haha......"
I laughed dryly, and Li Qian sat on the ground wrapped in a blanket and leaning against the wall without saying a word.
I couldn't rest assured, I put on my clothes and walked outside the house, went around to the outside of the room where Li Qian was changing, and looked at the window, but I didn't expect that when I looked down like this, I saw something unusual. There were a few footprints on the dirt under the windowsill, I looked closer, each of these footprints was half the size of my palm, it looked messy, I couldn't tell what animal left it, anyway, it wasn't a human!
What has been wandering outside Li Qian's window? And deliberately avoided us! I looked back at the dark field and felt as if something was watching us.