Chapter 17 Traces of People
In the empty stone chamber, there was a depressing aura, and a thud sound came and echoed around, like the tremor of the earth, which immediately drained all the air, and the surroundings became extremely strange.
The four soldiers kowtowed their heads hard and hit the ground, making a harsh sound. At a glance, the soldier with blood oozing from his forehead was almost at an extreme of madness.
Mitsuru Fujiwara could no longer help it. He didn't know what strange things would happen if he let this continue, so he shouted loudly, "Get up quickly, why are you doing? Get up for me." He was uneasy, not knowing what happened to these soldiers. He took out his pistol in panic and fired several shots into the void. The bullets shot on the wall, making a harsh and muffled sound.
Along the way, dozens of soldiers were left, only the four remaining. As the soldiers knelt down piously, a bitter wind blew, and the oil lamp in front of them gradually went out. Fujiwara San and Gao Liangjun trembled unconsciously and looked around with caution. Fortunately, the oil lamp in Fujiwara San's hand was not extinguished, and they could barely see a little space around them.
The soldiers still kept bowing devoutly, like loyal believers, with the sound of kowtows echoing around, inexplicably combined with the heartbeat of Gao Liangjun.
The light around dimmed, and Gao Liangjun groped and lit the oil lamp in his hand. The oil lamp lit up and gathered with the oil lamp in Fujiwara San's hand, illuminating the head carving, and a dim light appeared, like the afterglow of the sunset, falling into the eyes of the two, it was very dazzling. They could hardly open their eyes, hurriedly glanced over their heads, avoiding the light reflected by the heads.
Suddenly, the sculpture was giggling, just like a strange laugh, and the soldiers' devotional kneeling sounds gathered into a strange tone, as if the old man who was stuck in his throat was a strange smile. Gao Liangjun and Fujiwara San changed their faces. They were alert to investigate and did not find anything strange. Just when they turned around and stopped distracting, the soldiers' devotional kneeling sounds disappeared for no reason. When they turned around, they hurriedly looked at the soldiers in place. They were shocked to find that just a place not far away, the four people who were not willing to pay piety to pay piety disappeared for no reason. The two took a deep breath and looked at each other. The face with the mask removed was very ugly under the dim light. They couldn't understand why the soldiers suddenly disappeared in place.
In a panic, Fujiwara San looked towards the conical building, but accidentally saw Xu Hui's head again. The corners of his mouth, which had raised his eyes and a strange smile, broke into the back of his neck gloomy, as if he was mocking him. The half of his pants that were bitten in his mouth had long been missing.
Fujiwara Mitsu took a deep breath and stood there. Gao Liangjun saw all this clearly and seemed very scared. He screamed in horror, stumbled, climbed up the steps.
Fujiwara San originally wanted to stop him, but let him call him. Gao Liangjun ignored him and ran faster. Fujiwara San turned around and looked at the strange head carving, and accidentally saw Xu Hui's head again. Under the light, Xu Hui's smile was introverted, and there was no ghost laughter just now. Fujiwara San's heartbeat, thinking that he had read it wrong, but after confirming, he found that the strange smile had indeed disappeared. He immediately sweated coldly, and did not dare to stop, and chased Gao Liangjun.
I dreamed of my father's sad eyes again, as if I had hidden many secrets. I kept asking him, "Tell me, tell me?"
However, his lonely and obscure eyes were as secretly as if they were frozen in time and space, and there was no reaction at all. They just looked on a carving of a cow head hanging on the walls of the old house.
I have forgotten what kind of patterns and inscriptions are there on the carving of the bull's head, but no matter how I open my eyes to see, I find nothing to see; in front of me was a dark phantom, and in the browsing view of the flowers, the past was vivid in my mind. I saw Ouhong again, feeling that I was still lying in Ouhong's arms, and happily thought that I was still alive at the beginning. Everything I experienced was a dream demon. I hurriedly opened my eyes, looked up carefully, and wanted to see Ouhong's pretty face. I had a lot of enthusiastic words and wanted to talk to her. Maybe he didn't want to listen. Of course, she was only interested in money, but I felt that as long as he wanted to, everything would be fine. However, when I raised my eyes, a beautiful face appeared. After I saw it clearly, I slowly put away my smile and took a deep breath. The pretty face that appeared turned out to be beautiful.
I was extremely reluctant, but I was helpless, so I asked, "Why are you?" I also understood that all this was true. I was very reluctant to accept it. I shook my head hard, wanting to wake myself up. Undoubtedly, the beauty of the beautiful woman made me very worried, so I looked over again and realized that Yini got up and just looked at me, leaving slowly with an unpredictable smile, but she walked very slowly, as if she had something to do, which aroused my curiosity.
I slowly walked off the bed and wanted to reach out to grab him, but after I grabbed it, it was lost, so I could only call again, "Style, beautiful..." I let me catch it, but it was useless. Suddenly, the scenery in front of me suddenly changed, and my father's thin and desperate face appeared, which was a dry, dark and terrifying face. He smiled strangely, and opened his mouth and swallowed it down towards my head. I was actually swallowed up, and I couldn't help but scream, "No, Father, I am Cheng Geng, Geng'er?" The figure paused, and I took the opportunity to escape the huge mouth. In fear, I rolled and crawled, but unfortunately rolled down the cliff. By falling, I could clearly see that under the cliff, the surging group of giant rats, I could no longer help, and woke up from my dream.
The world in front of me is bright, with strange birds singing, like the crying of a child, constantly approaching from a distance. The bonfires beside me have burned out, leaving behind a huge ball of ashes, emitting residual heat.
The air in the deep mountains is very sweet. I don’t know if it’s the effect of my heart or because of the dream just now, I always decided that everything in front of me was not real. I reached out and pinched myself, and the pain poured into my mind. Finally, I believed in the truth in front of me. A strong jasmine fragrance poured into my breath. After a brief moment of loss of mind, I realized that this was not the jasmine fragrance, but the smell of camellia. This reminded me of the camellia trees that could be seen everywhere in the mountains and valleys along the way, and I didn’t realize it was strange.
"Yini, don't waste clear water. I don't know how long you will stay in it?" Zhuo Bufei's heavy and hoarse voice sounded, as if he was blaming Yi Ni for wasting Living Li. I looked at the sound and then saw clearly that not far away, Yi Ni was using the clear water in her skin to squire the square tray in her hand. After Zhuo Bufei's advice, she stuck out her tongue, hurriedly stuffed the kettle, put it into the huge backpack on the ground, and then wiped her pure cheeks with the square tray. I remembered what was in my dream, and a heat rose in my heart. Then I took a deep breath of irritability, slowly resisting the impulse in my heart, but I couldn't help but look at Yi Ni a few more times, as if Yi Ni was a magnetic tinplate that attracted my eyes.
"Uncle Zhuo, it's okay. The girl in Yanni is a girl, so it's time to waste some water." At this time, the little monkey laughed, "I can drink a few sips and give it to the girl in Yanni." He began to care about Yanni everywhere again, which really made people feel disappointed and annoyed.
The white-headed man looked at him and brushed away the grass roots on his clothes and laughed, "Silly boy, what do you know? There are all kinds of strange ghost things in this place from ancient times to the present. It is said that people here are good at using Gu, and poisons are very rampant. We cannot be careless. We only have the water we have prepared. If we waste it now, it will be really miserable. Even if we encounter a pool, we cannot get water casually just in case, just to prevent accidents."
The little monkey blushed and kept nodding, but secretly turned his head to look at Yanni and made a grimace. Yanni chuckled, charming and beautiful in the morning light. The little monkey ran towards his backpack, reached out to grop for a while, took out a handful of strange iron claws, blew with his hands, and wiped it up.
I remembered the conversation with Zhuo Bufei last night. It seemed that the iron claws were the little monkey's secret weapon. Looking at Yan Ni again, she was frightened under the attack of the bat and rested overnight. At this moment, she looked much better. Without the anxiety of last night, it made him look even more charming under the morning light.
"Old Zhuo, it's strange. Why don't these snakes leave?" The Luohan walked over in disappointment, shook his head. He searched for a long time, but the result was not very ideal. The snake group did not leave as expected.
Zhuo Bufei found me, walked towards me with a smile, moved his wrist, and asked, "Brother Cheng, what are you doing? It is obviously not a solution for us to waste time like this. If we continue to waste this, the dry food and water will not be able to hold on." He seemed to value me very much, which made me very uncomfortable. I seemed very immature to them and did not dare to act rashly.
The old monkey happily took out the prepared pancake from his backpack and distributed it to everyone. Everyone happily took the pancake and chewed it in big mouths.
I stood under the tree and looked away, and found the phantom of the snake group at the entrance of the cave, but I couldn't see the actual situation of the cave, but the dense group of snakes appeared in my mind, my mind was buzzing, and my backbone trembled.
His eyes fell on the ashes on the ground, and a sudden light of inspiration appeared and he hurriedly said, "Driving them with fire, I don't believe they will not disperse." This is the most basic common sense. No beast is afraid of fire.
The Luohan was caught by the big cake in his mouth, coughed a few times, swallowed the big cake in his mouth hard, and didn't bother to drink water. He pointed at me excitedly and coughed, "Yes, Brother Cheng'er's method is good, it works. What these snakes are most afraid of is the fire."
After eating the big cake quickly, we moved and lit the remaining dead branches. The arhat divided a lot of oil from the oil lamp, soaked the square vegetation, wrapped it around the branches and lit it. In the blazing flames, he ran towards the entrance of the cave. Before he could finish it, he threw the torch in his hand towards the entrance of the cave. He had a very strong heart and skillfully threw the torch into the group of snakes. The group of snakes that had never dispersed began to get restless when they encountered the fire.
It's strange that the fire fell on the ground, and the flames flew on the ruins and burned, as if the collapsed wall was covered with oil. When it encountered a flame, it immediately started to burn wildly. The flames soared into the sky, and its power was unstoppable.
These snake groups could no longer bear it. They struggled and jumped in the flames, making crackling sounds, and the burnt smell came from afar, which was very pungent, making people unable to help but retching.
I just felt very stuffy. There was an indescribable feeling in this strange smell. The stone walls were roasted by the fire, and the loose stones slowly melted, and eventually turned into black floating and floating, wandering and floating in the air.
Yini fell to the ground, followed by the little monkey, Bai-headed Weng, Zhuo Bufei, and Arhat. I watched them fall down in shock, wanting to call, but I also became head-heavy, lost my center of gravity, and fell head-on to the ground.
I lay on the ground and gasped, not sleeping like the rest of the people. After a while of retching, sweat as big as beans were constantly oozing out of my forehead. After a long period of time, I improved a little. At this moment, I only saw those group of snakes that were burned out in a different way, and the remaining walls that fell on the ground disappeared without a trace in the fire. But I knew that in the fire, the group of snakes was not burned to death, but when the fire appeared, the group of snakes began to wander and slowly leave the entrance of the cave. The constant rustling sound made my hair stand up, but I didn't have the strength to explore where the group of snakes went.
For some reason, I always feel that the Buddhist beads on my chest begin to exude a warm and cold feeling, which is very comfortable and my head becomes clear.
I climbed up with difficulty, looked at everyone's situation one by one, and found that it was much better than I thought. I took out the water and poured a little water on everyone's cheeks. After a long time, Yini woke up first.
"Brother Cheng, what's going on?" She rubbed her temples, her eyes full of confusion.
I thought, "These burning dust may contain something like a smoky."
Yini stood up and wiped the water stains on Zhuo Bufei's forehead. It was unknown how long it took, but all the people gradually woke up and kept breathing heavily.
Zhuo Bufei was weak and had been awake for a long time. He looked at the residue of the stone wall that disappeared at the entrance of the cave, and even the group of snakes, and hesitated. He got up and took out a long piece of cloth in his backpack, and said meaningfully to Yan Ni, "Tear this long cloth into a long strip to protect everyone's mouth and nose to prevent poison gas."
Yini obediently picked up the cloth piece, and the little monkey came up to help.
The Arhat shook his dizzy head hard and cursed, "This ghost place is really not from humans. I almost reimbursed here today." He looked at the entrance of the cave with lingering fear and found that the group of snakes was gone, so he breathed a sigh of relief.
The white-headed man said, "No wonder these snake groups are unwilling to leave the collapsed stone wall. It turns out that the stone wall contains poisonous powder."
The old monkey looked at the stone cave with concern and said vigilantly, "I am really worried about whether the cave is safe. I don't know if it is a blessing or a disaster this time." His eyes fell on the little monkey and Yan Ni, and his face was even more worried.
At this moment, the mountain wind blows, and the cloth strips in the beautiful hand are flying in the wind, like the ancient soul-summoning banner, awakening the filth of time. The distant call and the mystery buried in the years seem to be like a giant hand, grasping everyone's curiosity, and the mystery that is gradually awakening is staring at them step by step.
Chapter completed!