Chapter 5 Chapter Four Wrong Understanding
Subconsciously, Zhou Jue quickly picked up the books in his schoolbag and hid them behind his back, and followed the teachers out of the dormitory.And Feng Laojiu didn't seem to die on the spot, a group of nurses surrounded him, gave him first aid, and quickly put him in an ambulance and left.
Seeing Feng Laojiu's appearance, the thin monkey was too scared to say a word.Fat San stammered, "Did you all see it before?"
Zhou Jue opened a corner of the backpack to reveal the cover of the book and said, "Feng Laojiu also took this book."
The thin monkey asked irritably, "Huh? It's him? What's going on here!"
Zhou Jue's hand holding the book was trembling, he took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and said, "I don't know, the only one who can help us now is Chen Hao."
Both Fat San and Thin Monkey were surprised at the same time: "Why him?"
Zhou Jue told them about the conversation between him and Chen Hao in the basement, and they all fell silent. In the end, Zhou Jue spoke first: "How is it? Do you think it's reliable to find him?"
Fat San nodded helplessly, and Thin Monkey spread his hands and said he had no objection, so Zhou Jue called Chen Hao's cell phone and told Chen Hao about the matter.After a long while of silence on the other end of the phone, Zhou Jue heard Chen Hao say, "Wait for me at Qingteng Teahouse."
Zhou Jue said to Fat San and Thin Monkey: "He asked us to wait for him at the Ivy Tea House, are you going?"
The thin monkey looked at Fat San a few times: "Go, since you said that only he can help us now, but are you sure?"
Zhou Jue covered his forehead and muttered: "I don't know, let's talk about it later."
When he came to the tea house, Chen Hao was already there. He sat down and meditated. Seeing that Zhou Jue had brought two more people, he was startled for a while, and then asked them to sit down.
Zhou Jue took out the book from his backpack and went straight to the point: "This is it."
Chen Hao looked at the book and adjusted his sitting posture, but he didn't take it with his hands.Everyone kept a very depressed silence. Finally, the thin monkey couldn't bear it anymore and broke the silence: "Teacher, can you really help us?"
Chen Hao pinched the bridge of his nose and shook his head and said, "I don't know, but I can't help you now, I have too little information at hand."
Fat San couldn't hold it any longer, he knocked on the table and complained: "Damn it, didn't you say there are no ghosts?"
Chen Hao lit a cigarette and exhaled habitually: "How did you do the test?"
The thin monkey replied: "We follow the poles of yin and yang, draw the energy of the sun to open the eyes, and measure the qi of the yin and soul. The only thing we can find for yin and yang is the magnet."
Chen Hao nodded with a cigarette between his fingers, "You guys are smart if you can think of a magnet."
Usually Zhou Jue would laugh and pretend to be modest after being praised by others, but at the moment he didn't care what they said, but since Chen Hao nodded, it meant that there was nothing wrong with the way they tested, so why was it distorted?
Chen Hao asked the thin monkey to continue talking, and the thin monkey licked his lips and told all about the situation at that time. At the end, Chen Hao let out an oh, flicked the cigarette ash, and said: "This book actually has Evil, and the tests have told you so."
The three of Zhou Jue listened to his words, but Monk Zhanger couldn't figure it out. Zhou Jue asked, "No, we know... oops..." Zhou Jue suddenly understood what Chen Hao said. He clenched his fists, raised his head and rolled his eyes and shouted loudly He came out and attracted the attention of the waiters around him, but he couldn't restrain the excitement in his heart at all.
Chen Hao smoked and didn't talk to each other, Fat San and Thin Monkey still didn't understand, they asked: "What do you understand? Didn't we all follow the steps? Since the steps are correct, how could we get it wrong?"
Zhou Jue held his head and said, "It's wrong, it's not the steps that are wrong, it's the result! We misunderstood the meaning of the result!"
The two asked at the same time: "What do you mean?"
Zhou Jue held his head, feeling very unstable.Chen Hao saw that he couldn't answer, so he opened his mouth and said: "You have mistaken the meaning of the final result. The blood is drawn to the extreme yang position, but the blood itself is very repellent of yin and cold, so when it feels yin , it will be naturally drawn by the extreme yang energy, just like the reason why birds can sense the changes of yin and yang between the heaven and the earth, and migrate according to the yang energy."
Fat San couldn't help being speechless when he heard this, but he still defended himself: "That's not right! If this is the case, then if there are no ghosts, the blood will be drawn to the extreme yin? It doesn't make sense, I think this The test itself is flawed."
Only then did Zhou Jue raise his head, and replied as if giving up: "No, if everything is normal, my blood will disperse in the water. This is a basic physical phenomenon, and there will be no blood lead at all..."
Fat San and Thin Monkey couldn't help exclaiming as if they were enlightened.When the two fools realized it, they were immediately shrouded in a haze of terror, because they had both touched the book, which meant that they were all involved.Chen Hao further explained: "If it is led to the position of extreme yin, it means that this thing has very strong yang energy, and it has become a good thing to avoid evil spirits, but it has too much influence on one's life, so big that it is not enough for life. , will be restrained to the point of death. Just like some things can be held by the emperor and some respected people, anyone who touches this thing will die suddenly. In order to avoid these two extreme things, so there is' "Taiyin Qiankun Measuring" This kind of measuring technique."
After Chen Hao finished these explanations, no one asked a second question, and they all fell into deep fear and regret.Seeing this, Chen Hao could only change the subject and said, "Why did Feng Laojiu take that book?"
Zhou Jue shook his head, because he might have thought about everything, but he just didn't understand why he wanted to take that book.Finally Fat San said: "There is one thing... I find it very strange..."
Everyone turned their attention to Fat San, who looked a little embarrassed seeing everyone staring at him, and said guiltily: "That happened last night, you and the thin monkey both started snoring, and I couldn't hold on in the end. Now, Feng Laojiu wants to continue reading, he is the last person who is still reading. And when I was half asleep, I heard him laughing very eeriely alone... But I didn't care Fall asleep."
Zhou Jue quickly said: "That is to say, Lao Jiu is the last one who is still watching? So... what did he find?"
Chen Hao said at this time: "According to the rules of this book, he should have reacted after reading the book. But what did he find? Also, what forced him to jump off the building? "
The eyes of Zhou Jue and the others stared at the book. Zhou Jue picked up the book and looked it over carefully, but still found nothing, it was just an ordinary old book, and he threw the book back irritably.
Fat San felt a little unhappy, he complained: "What the hell is going on? I was dragged into this inexplicably? It has nothing to do with me, right Skinny Monkey?"
The thin monkey also wanted to get out of his body, so he nodded repeatedly.Everyone saw Feng Laojiu's tragic situation, and they were all unwilling, and this matter did not have much to do with them, so Zhou Jue became their primary target of venting, and he brought the book.
Zhou Jue was aware of the grievances of the two people around him, and he wanted to calm down the mood of the two of them as much as possible, and replied: "Everyone, don't be upset, to be honest, I am also innocent, I don't know why this book appeared so inexplicably You are wronged, am I different from you? Besides, what happened to Feng Laojiu this time is not simple. Think about it, although many of the things I said above are more or less connected with reality, they will not Threatening our safety, but what exactly did Feng Laojiu do that would cause him to have an accident?"
Everyone's thoughts were once again pulled back to Feng Laojiu by Zhou Jue, and Zhou Jue himself was not sure about it.Chen Hao suddenly remembered something. He asked Zhou Jue, "Do you remember anything weird about the first time you read a book? I mean the book."
Zhou Jue looked at the book with his forehead propped up and said, "This book...it is an old book, and it also has a very strange blood fingerprint...you can touch it whenever you turn the book."
Zhou Jue opened the corner of the book, pointed to the edge and said, "Here, this is it."
Chen Hao was smoking a cigarette, looking at the fingerprint with squinted eyes, Zhou Jue said to himself: "It would be easy if we could know who this fingerprint is, maybe he will give us some useful clues."
Chen Hao shook his head and said, "I can't do it... wait!"
He grabbed Zhou Jue's wrist with one hand, while Zhou Jue kept turning the pages of the book.Then Chen Hao pointed to the middle of the page and said, "Look, what kind of pattern is this?"
Then he asked Zhou Jue to open the book a little more, and a pattern was formed between the pages of the book, with a string of numbers "5P-3C-I3436-368742" written on it.Chen Hao said excitedly: "This is my sister's handwriting, yes, it was written by her!"
Zhou Jue said, "That is to say, your sister marked it?"
Fat San asked: "What does this mean? Password?"
At this time, everyone stared at him with big eyes and small eyes, but they couldn't say a word about Zichou Yinmao.But Zhou Jue felt that this was a very valuable breakthrough, and he felt that Chen Hao's sister might not be dead.
Chen Hao quickly copied these numbers, and he said: "I will go back and check this, and I will notify you as soon as there is any new news. I think you'd better stop reading this book."
Zhou Jue said: "Mr. Chen, doesn't your sister have many letters and diaries? Can you let us have a look? Just show us the ones about this book."
Chen Hao shook his head and said: "No, the day my sister disappeared, I also took the letter away. I can bring the diary, but there is not much information in it, she just mentions it in the diary occasionally."
Fat San bumped into Zhou Jue, meaning that Chen Hao was lying, and Zhou Jue couldn't pursue it for a while.Seeing that it was late, Chen Hao left after saying goodbye, leaving behind Zhou Jue and the other three, each with a pensive expression on their faces.The thin monkey muttered to himself: "I actually made a mistake in the result, but this mistake is really low-level. If we had noticed it earlier, maybe we would have nothing to do with us now..." He felt a little sorry for Zhou Jue when he said this , then abruptly swallowed what he wanted to say later.
Zhou Jue felt that what he said was not wrong, and he also found that the thin monkey and fat three subconsciously attributed the fault to him. It's not a complaint against Zhou Jue.However, his mind was still thinking about the string of codes and Feng Laojiu, and he didn't deal with them anymore.Suddenly Fat San's cell phone rang, and when he picked up the phone, his face froze instantly, his eyes opened wide, and tears welled up in the corners of his eyes.
He hung up the phone silently, and said to the two of them, "Old... Lao Jiu is dead..."
The thin monkey's head hit the table heavily.Zhou Jue felt his jaw go numb all of a sudden, his lips trembled uncontrollably, his fists were clenched tightly, and his whole body trembled violently.Various complex emotions such as sadness, anger, and fear alternately hovered in Zhou Jue's brain that was about to collapse.
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, using all his mental strength and self-control to calm himself down.He slowly opened his eyes, and found that Fat San and Thin Monkey were looking at him, and their eye sockets were also red.
Zhou Jue opened his mouth and said bitterly: "Now...we have no way out. If we don't want to die, we have to find out why Lao Jiu died first. He has seen more than us, and I'm afraid we will meet too. that time……"
Fat San was covered in cold sweat, and stammered, "Then...then why don't we continue watching? Will..."
Zhou Jue shook his head and said, "That book can automatically disappear and reappear, what else do you think can't be done?"
Both Fat San and Thin Monkey had guilty expressions on their faces, but why did Feng Laojiu hide secretly?What on earth is he trying to do?
In the end, the three of them returned to the dormitory, and it began to rain heavily outside the window after five o'clock. According to the weather forecast, the temperature would drop sharply. The lights in dormitory 306 looked very dim in such a heavy rain environment, as if they would go out at any time.It was supposed to be a dormitory for four people, but now there are only three people left.This afternoon, Feng Laojiu's family took away all his belongings, leaving only an empty bed and a set of desks and chairs.Usually Feng Laojiu would review his homework there, and then turned his head impatiently and said that the three of them were too noisy, and now this dormitory can no longer be tossed about.Zhou Jue sat by the bed, looking at the book, his eyes became more and more dull, because he really couldn't think of the reason for this.
Fat San scolded impatiently: "Damn, I don't believe it anymore, second child, thin monkey, let's just watch! Maybe there will be a reminder below!"
The thin monkey was lying on the bed with its whole body, and its eyes were fixed on the book.Zhou Jue's face also showed a look of giving up resistance, he sighed: "Okay, then let's watch it together, it's too uncomfortable to hold back like this!"
So the three of them immediately sat in a circle, and Zhou Jue opened the pages of the book again.
Along the way, Lin Xu followed Cuiniang through the mountains and forests for a long time. It wasn't until the sun was nearly three poles that the fog completely dissipated, and the desolate wild forest showed a little of the gentleness that should be in the south of the Yangtze River.Cuiniang finally brought Lin Xu to a slightly crowded place.Although it is a place where there are people, but when I walked in, I realized that it was actually just a small mountain village. Because of the war, it has become a deserted village. There are corpses and rats gnawing on dead bodies everywhere. The whole mountain village is filled with a rotten stench. . Cuiniang didn't talk much along the way, but sometimes she pouted, as if trying to suppress a cry, and then looked back at the road she had walked.Lin Xu felt that she was always vigilant behind her, and he followed her silently all the way.Cuiniang looked at an abandoned tea stand in a deserted village and said, "Here, I'll go find something to eat and something to take away, I'm so hungry!" Lin Xu wiped off the dust on the bench, and then put down his medicine box.He looked around the surroundings, the surroundings were very desolate, not far away were some corpses lying in disarray, and a dead woman was hanging from a crooked neck tree nearby. Cuiniang searched for a long time, and finally came back cursing and said: "There is no food at all." Lin Xu touched his stomach. To be honest, he hadn't eaten for almost two days, and he was already hungry.Suddenly Cui Niang's eyes lit up, and she strode into a haystack.She actually picked out a rifle from the haystack. Fortunately, there were still bullets in the gun.Cuiniang looked at the gun as if she saw a roast chicken.She handed the gun to Lin Xu and said, "Here, aren't you a soldier? Let's hunt some game. Let's not stay here, it's scary. Anyway, it's not a loss to pick this guy up." Lin Xu took the gun, loaded it and found that the gun could indeed be used, which made him somewhat at ease.He nodded and said, "I'll go to the back of the forest to catch some wild rabbits, but it's winter now, so I don't know if I can catch them." Cuiniang hurriedly grabbed him and said: "Don't, don't go back! We can't go back. Go forward with me, and I'll see if it's really not possible. I'll see if I can pick up fishing guys. This place is near the river, so it should be home. There are fishing tools at home." Cui Niang's over and over again godlike words made Lin Xu's resentment and doubts reach the breaking point. He asked coldly, "What are you afraid of? What are you hiding? If you don't make it clear, I won't go!" Cuiniang bit her lip and looked at Lin Xu, Lin Xu's heart softened after being stared at like this, he sighed and shook his head.Seeing him like this, Cuiniang said, "Let's go to the front first, don't let me talk about this beside a group of corpses." Hearing what she said, Lin Xu also felt that he had gone too far.He shook his head embarrassingly and said, "It's because I'm a little emotional. Let's go forward first. I guess we can cross the boundary in a little further. The situation will be a little better then." Just when the two of them were about to get up and leave, Lin Xu found a pair of eyes staring at them in the grass next to them.He raised his rifle and shouted into the grass: "Who is it, come out!" There was no sound in the grass, Cui Niang hid behind Lin Xu, the two of them approached the grass a little bit, and suddenly a monkey jumped out of the grass, it felt like a juggler was following, maybe the juggler was dead , this monkey is hiding here.It was very psychic, knowing that the thing in Lin Xu's hand was dangerous, it jumped aside, bluffed and grinned at them, making a piercing cry. Cuiniang sighed and said, "Monkey, I thought it was a devil. Come on, let's eat it today." Lin Xu didn't put down his gun, but he didn't shoot either.The monkey seemed to understand human speech. Seeing the woman in front of him swallowing saliva, he realized that she was treating her as a dish, and let out an even harsher scream, making this already gloomy deserted village even more eerie.Lin Xu felt that there was something alive hiding in this seemingly dead village, watching them from the haystacks and the broken bricks.In fact, he always felt that there was a pair of cold eyes watching their every move. Lin Xu didn't pull the trigger. He put down his rifle and said, "This monkey is also a Chinese monkey after all, and it has a special spirituality. Let's let it go. I'll catch wild rabbits later." Contrary to Lin Xu's expectation, Cui Niang did not protest.She approached Lin Xu suspiciously, and said in a low voice, "Then let's go, I think something is wrong here." Lin Xu asked: "You said there is something wrong with this village?" Cuiniang frowned and said, "Yeah, this village is abnormal, didn't you notice it? All the dead were women, and there was not a single dead body of a man." Lin Xu immediately looked up and looked around, and he found that all the bodies lying on the ground were women's bodies, not even a man's, which was very abnormal.There have been many massacres in history, some killing and looting, some killing all men, taking all women who can bear children, and killing only women, which is really unreasonable. Lin Xu asked suspiciously, "Where did all those men go? They didn't come out after seeing their own women being killed? That's not right." Cuiniang held tightly the hatchet she picked up from the side just now, and said next to Lin Xu, "Don't talk about it, in this year of war and chaos, it is not surprising that anything strange happens. Let's go, anyway, this place is too evil." Lin Xu stopped talking and put his rifle on his back, so the two went straight through this weird village full of corpses, and the weird monkey didn't run away, but kept following, keeping a distance of about three meters, sometimes Let out one or two strange roars, and more often follow Lin Xu and the other along the ruined walls.From Lin Xu's point of view, the monkey seemed to be avoiding the sun. Lin Xu and Cuiniang quickly withdrew from the deserted village, and the surrounding scenery became more and more desolate. Not to mention wild rabbits, they didn't even see a bird. Along the way, Lin Xu just followed Cui Niang, and Cui Niang built a pergola with her hands from time to time to look at the sun, and after thinking for a while, she led Lin Xu to continue on the road.She said that they first had to go to a place called "Danliyu" under Huanggu Mountain, where someone would come to join them. In short, they had to get there alive no matter what. They soon came to a body of water, because it was in the south, although it was a severe winter, there were still fish, and they were not small in size.Lin Xu found a pole, and Cui Niang took out a purse from her bag, with a few embroidery needles pinned to it, she took out a bent one, then pulled out a thread, and tied the bent needles to the on the bamboo pole.Lin Xu crushed the earthworms into balls and put them on the needles to start fishing, while Cui Niang lit the fire.Fish in winter don’t have much to eat, and when they see bait, they just bite it without thinking about it, so fishing is easier than hunting wild rabbits.Lin Xu hastily scraped off the scales of the fish, removed the viscera, and roasted it on the fire grill, and the aroma soon spread. At this time, the two of them were screaming with hunger, and neither of them thought the other was worthless.As soon as the fish was cooked, I rolled my eyes and started eating.Swallowing the fish whole, regardless of the fact that the fishbone might get stuck in the throat, is really starving. After eating almost, Lin Xu hiccupped, and Cui Niang realized that she was a woman, and began to tear open the fish delicately to pick out the fishbone, instead of spitting with her mouth open like before. Lin Xu picked up the fishing rod and went to catch some more, then cleaned the internal organs, wrapped them in dead leaves and put them in the box.At this time, the monkey who had been following them was also seduced by the smell of fish and hid in the distance scratching its ears and cheeks.Lin Xu burst out laughing. Seeing that the monkey was really spiritual, he threw a big fish he had just caught to the monkey. The monkey tentatively pushed it twice with his hand, and then chewed it when he saw that there was no danger.Lin Xu unexpectedly discovered that the eating appearance of this monkey was somewhat similar to that of Cuiniang. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but secretly laughed.Seeing him snickering, Cui Niang threw a fish bone over and asked, "What are you laughing at? Isn't it just getting along with a monkey?" Lin Xu didn't stop laughing. Seeing that it was getting late, he said, "It's getting late, let's continue on our way. We shouldn't meet devils now. Where is the place you mentioned?" Cuiniang squatted on the side of the road, looked at the monkeys that were still eating fish, and said in a low voice: "It's not far away, I think you are knowledgeable, let me ask you something... Do you believe that there are ghosts in this world?" ?” Lin Xu didn't immediately deny it. He shook his head and thought for a moment and said, "I believe that there is karma in this world." Cuiniang froze for a moment, then giggled, her voice sounded very mocking, she said: "Retribution? What is retribution? Everyone says that we grave robbers have a bad death and that we are wicked. You think we are born wanting to As a gravedigger?" Lin Xu sat next to her, and Cuiniang said, "Actually, I didn't do this job from the very beginning. I used to work as Yao Jie. Ha ha, I didn't expect that. There is no hope for us low-level people. We just do it every day. Flesh and flesh trading, I also killed people and stabbed a beast. He is a pervert, he hits me every day, and whips me with a whip dipped in salt water. If I go on like this, I will die in his hands sooner or later. Stab." Lin Xu noticed that Cuiniang's eyes were full of hatred, and she darkened her eyes and said, "I escaped later and became a beggar. My life was not much better than that of a dog. You officials I don’t know how people like us live, and the next day I don’t know if I can breathe. Later, I met Brother Huzi. He saw me pitifully, and said he accepted me as a younger sister, and then taught me a lot about tomb robbery. But, he never let me fight, I just watch and cook for him. In the eyes of others, I am not his sister, I am his woman. Actually... I also thought about it..." Cuiniang's voice became smaller and smaller, and then she stopped talking.Lin Xu knew that Cuiniang liked Huzi, but Huzi didn't know why he didn't want her. Could it be because she was a prostitute in the past?It's hard for Lin Xu to say, and it's hard to ask, he can only wait for Cuiniang to talk. Cuiniang said: "We are just ordinary mountain people during the day. At night, brother Huzi will go to the place where we stepped on during the day to fight. Sometimes we can bring some gold ingots, sometimes we can't get anything, and we are wounded." .Although life was bitter and mean, we still lived like that. Until the devils came, we couldn’t live a life at all. We had to flee with everyone. This actually happened on the way to escape..." At this time, the originally quiet monkey suddenly made a noise. It kept rolling and twitching, and then kicked its feet, spitting out a lot of blood foam from its mouth.Lin Xu yelled badly: "Fish meat is poisonous!" He quickly took out the few fish he had caught. These fish were very common crucian carp, nothing unusual, and they ate much more than this monkey.Why were they fine and the monkey died? Cuiniang looked closely at the monkey's death condition, and she gasped and said, "It's so strange, why does this monkey's death condition look so...poisoned to death by corpse poison?" Lin Xu threw away the fish meat, and then went to look at the monkey who had rolled his eyes, and found that the monkey's lips were black and purple, his gums were bleeding non-stop, and his body had a very strange smell. It is sweet and feels like the smell of hair oil of a big girl. Lin Xu saw that the monkey died in a blink of an eye, so he turned to look at the fish that the monkey had eaten, and found that the fish meat was very normal, and the meat was still very elastic. Then why did the monkey suddenly be poisoned to death? This terrified Cuiniang and Lin Xu, because after all they ate so much fish, the scent that they hadn't been able to get enough of was no longer repulsive. Cuiniang shook her head and said, "This is a male monkey, you see it has a dick." Lin Xu didn't know what she was doing to study the monkey's body at this time, so he ignored Cuiniang's words.Cuiniang went on to say, "Lin Xu, tell me...does this have anything to do with the absence of male corpses in that village?" Lin Xu shuddered and asked, "What do you mean?" Cuiniang shook her head and said, "I just think there might be a connection, but not necessarily. Why are you looking at me? But seriously, this monkey died too evil, and I'm sure it died of corpse poisoning , but the corpse poison is generally those old corpses that had a lot of resentment when they died, fresh corpses can't accumulate such powerful poison." Lin Xu murmured: "Corpse poison?" He thought for a moment, took out a scalpel from the medicine box, and cut open the monkey's stomach on the spot. Immediately, the monkey's abdominal cavity emitted a stronger odor.Lin Xu said: "Since it is poisoned, let's look at its liver first. If there is any color change in the liver, it means that it is indeed poisoned, and you can tell the time based on the color, so you can know whether there is something wrong with the fish or not." Cui Niang hummed to agree with him, and urged him to cut the knife quickly.Lin Xu slashed open the monkey's liver and found that there was nothing abnormal about the liver, it was very normal.Lin Xu looked up at Cuiniang suspiciously and said, "It's not poisoning..." After speaking, he looked at the stomach to see what the monkey had eaten, because it took at least three hours to digest food, and even eight hours to digest protein, so he could see what it had eaten from the stomach. Lin Xu cut it open with a knife, and the monkey, whose eyes had been closed, suddenly let out a strange cry, a strange light flashed in its eyes, and then bit Lin Xu viciously.Although Lin Xu immediately withdrew his hand, a piece of flesh was still rubbed off by the monkey's paw, and blood flowed continuously.Seeing that the dead monkey had such a reaction, Cuiniang immediately shouted: "Ghost! There is a ghost!" Lin Xu stopped and said: "No, maybe its brain is not completely dead, so the conditional emission occurs. Don't be afraid." After speaking, he cut open the monkey's stomach, and the stomach was filled with the food that he had just eaten. Fish, mixed with some very disgusting white scum.Lin Xu used a scalpel to rummage through his stomach, and suddenly found that there was a human finger in it, which seemed to belong to a woman, because the nails were dyed red (Chinese people have long had the habit of painting nails, young girls would use red impatiens as a dye on the nails). Lin Xu picked out the part of the finger with a knife, and found that it was a woman's little finger, and it was the top section.Lin Xu said to Cuiniang, "Has this monkey ever eaten human flesh?" Cuiniang said: "It's not surprising. There are only women's corpses there. It is so hungry that it will naturally eat the corpses." They checked everything they could, but there was nothing out of the ordinary.Lin Xu bandaged his hands and said, "Let's go, maybe we are worrying too much." Cuiniang reluctantly nodded and followed Lin Xu.Just as they turned to leave, suddenly a pair of black-haired hands protruded from the nearby grass and desperately grabbed the monkey's corpse, dragging the exposed internal organs of the corpse to the ground. Without further ado, Lin Xu just raised his gun and fired in bursts, but his hands were faster than Lin Xu's reaction. He quickly let go of his hands, retreated into the grass, and fled quickly towards the deserted village.Because the grass was very dense, Lin Xu could only see the grass moving, but did not see the owner of the hands, but judging from the movements in the grass, the owner of the hands should be a person. Cuiniang wanted to chase that thing, Lin Xu grabbed her arm and said, "Stop chasing, let's go quickly, this place is not normal, that person just now should be..." Cuiniang was stunned for a moment, and asked suspiciously: "Human? Can a human have such claws?" Lin Xu was confused by her question, he said to himself: "Even a primate can't run like that..." Cuiniang was frightened by his words, she didn't dare to continue asking, she picked up the bag: "Don't say anything, let's go, and don't bring any fish." Cuiniang kicked the fish and the monkey's internal organs into the river. The fish meat and internal organs soon sank into the river, muddying the clear river water. Those tiny pieces floating on the surface of the river looked very disgusting. Lin Xu put the gun on his back, picked up the medical box on the ground and was about to leave when he found Cuiniang staring at the river with a very complicated expression. She covered her mouth and said, "Corpse...these fish...gosh...they eat corpses !" Lin Xu asked her what happened to these fish?Cuiniang's face was getting whiter and paler, and finally, with a wow, she vomited out all the fish that she had eaten earlier.This made Lin Xu's stomach feel nauseous, and he almost vomited along with him. Cuiniang stretched out her hand to pull Lin Xu, and Lin Xu found her hand was trembling constantly. Lin Xu asked, "Are you okay, what's wrong? These fish..." As soon as she finished saying the word fish, Cui Niang turned her head and screamed violently again, but there was really nothing to vomit. Cuiniang said: "These fish... are disgusting. There are corpses all over the bottom of the river! Who the hell is so wicked!" Lin Xu didn't understand, Cui Niang pointed to the village and said, "Do you know why there are no men in that village?" Lin Xu shook her head, and Cui Niang suppressed the nausea in her heart, and said, "Actually, all the men and women in this village are dead, and no one is alive. It is a real ghost village." Lin Xu couldn't help but look back, the village seemed very hidden among the dense tree trunks, and now it looked even more unreal.Lin Xu repeated: "Ghost village? You mean the man's body is actually in the river? Are the fish eating the man's body?" Cuiniang nodded and said: "That's right, the man's corpse is indeed in the river, and those fish eat the corpse, but it's not just the corpse. Men's yang energy is stronger than women's, so if they have strong resentment, they will become 魑.After a woman dies, her resentment will turn into a charm. They are the ghosts on the ground and in the water, and they cannot be reincarnated." Lin Xu couldn't understand Cui Niang's fragmented explanation, so he simply sighed and comforted: "It's a bit disgusting. After all, it's a fish that eats dead human flesh. No wonder you are like this. But a dead person is a piece of meat, and a fish eats bait." , we eat fish to survive.” But unexpectedly Cui Niang shook her head like a rattle again, she pointed to the fish and said: "These fish eat the corpses of men, but their souls belong to those women. Look at the eyes of those fish, they are not fish Eyes are clearly human eyeballs." Lin Xu asked in puzzlement, "How do you know it's those women's? It's just that the eyeballs look like people." Cuiniang scolded: "Oh! Why did I come across a solid wood like you? Didn't I say it? After a woman dies, she turns into a ghost, and the ghost turns into a ghost. They live in water, and the place where Yin energy gathers is Their nests, so these fish are actually the ghosts of those women, and... and the ghost of the man is... the monkey just now. It is a ghost, I dare say there are many monkeys here, these monkeys are actually It's not a monkey, but a mandrill. The man's soul is attached to the monkey's body, like a kind of puppet. These monkeys have the memory and thinking ability of those dead people, so they will always follow us, and they still retain some human actions. " Lin Xu still didn't understand, and Cui Niang didn't bother to spread the knowledge to him, she just said: "This village has been tampered with, but I don't know if the tampering is human, but the man's body sank into the river and became The bait of women's souls, the corpses of women are dumped in the village, and become the food of men's souls. This... This is actually a kind of magic. Here, it doesn’t take even a minute to cheat a corpse. This place has been designed as a gathering pool.” Lin Xu asked, "What do you mean?" Before Cui Niang could explain further, she heard screams coming from all around, and the fish in the river began to splash water non-stop.Cuiniang said: "Not good! Run away! That thing is approaching again!" After speaking, he stumbled and dragged Lin Xu to run. Lin Xu glanced at Cui Niang when he ran, and found that Cui Niang unexpectedly showed a very vicious smile at some point, that kind of smile was like a sinister smile of revenge .And the whole face was as pale as lime.Lin Xu was so frightened that he threw away Cuiniang. Cuiniang was taken aback by his actions. Lin Xu looked at Cuiniang again and found that she was normal, but her face was a little pale, but definitely not that ghostly pale.He rubbed his temples, and finally regained his composure. He grabbed Cuiniang's hand and continued on his way. The strange village and the ghosts who preyed on each other's corpses gradually disappeared in the distance.树影婆娑之间，变得越来越远。但是林旭感觉到那种被窥视的阴寒一点儿也没有消失，反而越来越浓重。
Along the way, Lin Xu followed Cuiniang through the mountains and forests for a long time. It wasn't until the sun was nearly three poles that the fog completely dissipated, and the desolate wild forest showed a little of the gentleness that should be in the south of the Yangtze River.Cuiniang finally brought Lin Xu to a slightly crowded place.Although it is a place where there are people, but when I walked in, I realized that it was actually just a small mountain village. Because of the war, it has become a deserted village. There are corpses and rats gnawing on dead bodies everywhere. The whole mountain village is filled with a rotten stench. . Cuiniang didn't talk much along the way, but sometimes she pouted, as if trying to suppress a cry, and then looked back at the road she had walked.Lin Xu felt that she was always vigilant behind her, and he followed her silently all the way.Cuiniang looked at an abandoned tea stand in a deserted village and said, "Here, I'll go find something to eat and something to take away, I'm so hungry!" Lin Xu wiped off the dust on the bench, and then put down his medicine box.He looked around the surroundings, the surroundings were very desolate, not far away were some corpses lying in disarray, and a dead woman was hanging from a crooked neck tree nearby. Cuiniang searched for a long time, and finally came back cursing and said: "There is no food at all." Lin Xu touched his stomach. To be honest, he hadn't eaten for almost two days, and he was already hungry.Suddenly Cui Niang's eyes lit up, and she strode into a haystack.She actually picked out a rifle from the haystack. Fortunately, there were still bullets in the gun.Cuiniang looked at the gun as if she saw a roast chicken.She handed the gun to Lin Xu and said, "Here, aren't you a soldier? Let's hunt some game. Let's not stay here, it's scary. Anyway, it's not a loss to pick this guy up." Lin Xu took the gun, loaded it and found that the gun could indeed be used, which made him somewhat at ease.He nodded and said, "I'll go to the back of the forest to catch some wild rabbits, but it's winter now, so I don't know if I can catch them." Cuiniang hurriedly grabbed him and said: "Don't, don't go back! We can't go back. Go forward with me, and I'll see if it's really not possible. I'll see if I can pick up fishing guys. This place is near the river, so it should be home. There are fishing tools at home." Cui Niang's over and over again godlike words made Lin Xu's resentment and doubts reach the breaking point. He asked coldly, "What are you afraid of? What are you hiding? If you don't make it clear, I won't go!" Cuiniang bit her lip and looked at Lin Xu, Lin Xu's heart softened after being stared at like this, he sighed and shook his head.Seeing him like this, Cuiniang said, "Let's go to the front first, don't let me talk about this beside a group of corpses." Hearing what she said, Lin Xu also felt that he had gone too far.He shook his head embarrassingly and said, "It's because I'm a little emotional. Let's go forward first. I guess we can cross the boundary in a little further. The situation will be a little better then." Just when the two of them were about to get up and leave, Lin Xu found a pair of eyes staring at them in the grass next to them.He raised his rifle and shouted into the grass: "Who is it, come out!" There was no sound in the grass, Cui Niang hid behind Lin Xu, the two of them approached the grass a little bit, and suddenly a monkey jumped out of the grass, it felt like a juggler was following, maybe the juggler was dead , this monkey is hiding here.It was very psychic, knowing that the thing in Lin Xu's hand was dangerous, it jumped aside, bluffed and grinned at them, making a piercing cry. Cuiniang sighed and said, "Monkey, I thought it was a devil. Come on, let's eat it today." Lin Xu didn't put down his gun, but he didn't shoot either.The monkey seemed to understand human speech. Seeing the woman in front of him swallowing saliva, he realized that she was treating her as a dish, and let out an even harsher scream, making this already gloomy deserted village even more eerie.Lin Xu felt that there was something alive hiding in this seemingly dead village, watching them from the haystacks and the broken bricks.In fact, he always felt that there was a pair of cold eyes watching their every move. Lin Xu didn't pull the trigger. He put down his rifle and said, "This monkey is also a Chinese monkey after all, and it has a special spirituality. Let's let it go. I'll catch wild rabbits later." Contrary to Lin Xu's expectation, Cui Niang did not protest.She approached Lin Xu suspiciously, and said in a low voice, "Then let's go, I think something is wrong here." Lin Xu asked: "You said there is something wrong with this village?" Cuiniang frowned and said, "Yeah, this village is abnormal, didn't you notice it? All the dead were women, and there was not a single dead body of a man." Lin Xu immediately looked up and looked around, and he found that all the bodies lying on the ground were women's bodies, not even a man's, which was very abnormal.There have been many massacres in history, some killing and looting, some killing all men, taking all women who can bear children, and killing only women, which is really unreasonable. Lin Xu asked suspiciously, "Where did all those men go? They didn't come out after seeing their own women being killed? That's not right." Cuiniang held tightly the hatchet she picked up from the side just now, and said next to Lin Xu, "Don't talk about it, in this year of war and chaos, it is not surprising that anything strange happens. Let's go, anyway, this place is too evil." Lin Xu stopped talking and put his rifle on his back, so the two went straight through this weird village full of corpses, and the weird monkey didn't run away, but kept following, keeping a distance of about three meters, sometimes Let out one or two strange roars, and more often follow Lin Xu and the other along the ruined walls.From Lin Xu's point of view, the monkey seemed to be avoiding the sun. Lin Xu and Cuiniang quickly withdrew from the deserted village, and the surrounding scenery became more and more desolate. Not to mention wild rabbits, they didn't even see a bird. Along the way, Lin Xu just followed Cui Niang, and Cui Niang built a pergola with her hands from time to time to look at the sun, and after thinking for a while, she led Lin Xu to continue on the road.She said that they first had to go to a place called "Danliyu" under Huanggu Mountain, where someone would come to join them. In short, they had to get there alive no matter what. They soon came to a body of water, because it was in the south, although it was a severe winter, there were still fish, and they were not small in size.Lin Xu found a pole, and Cui Niang took out a purse from her bag, with a few embroidery needles pinned to it, she took out a bent one, then pulled out a thread, and tied the bent needles to the on the bamboo pole.Lin Xu crushed the earthworms into balls and put them on the needles to start fishing, while Cui Niang lit the fire.Fish in winter don’t have much to eat, and when they see bait, they just bite it without thinking about it, so fishing is easier than hunting wild rabbits.Lin Xu hastily scraped off the scales of the fish, removed the viscera, and roasted it on the fire grill, and the aroma soon spread. At this time, the two of them were screaming with hunger, and neither of them thought the other was worthless.As soon as the fish was cooked, I rolled my eyes and started eating.Swallowing the fish whole, regardless of the fact that the fishbone might get stuck in the throat, is really starving. After eating almost, Lin Xu hiccupped, and Cui Niang realized that she was a woman, and began to tear open the fish delicately to pick out the fishbone, instead of spitting with her mouth open like before. Lin Xu picked up the fishing rod and went to catch some more, then cleaned the internal organs, wrapped them in dead leaves and put them in the box.At this time, the monkey who had been following them was also seduced by the smell of fish and hid in the distance scratching its ears and cheeks.Lin Xu burst out laughing. Seeing that the monkey was really spiritual, he threw a big fish he had just caught to the monkey. The monkey tentatively pushed it twice with his hand, and then chewed it when he saw that there was no danger.Lin Xu unexpectedly discovered that the eating appearance of this monkey was somewhat similar to that of Cuiniang. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but secretly laughed.Seeing him snickering, Cui Niang threw a fish bone over and asked, "What are you laughing at? Isn't it just getting along with a monkey?" Lin Xu didn't stop laughing. Seeing that it was getting late, he said, "It's getting late, let's continue on our way. We shouldn't meet devils now. Where is the place you mentioned?" Cuiniang squatted on the side of the road, looked at the monkeys that were still eating fish, and said in a low voice: "It's not far away, I think you are knowledgeable, let me ask you something... Do you believe that there are ghosts in this world?" ?” Lin Xu didn't immediately deny it. He shook his head and thought for a moment and said, "I believe that there is karma in this world." Cuiniang froze for a moment, then giggled, her voice sounded very mocking, she said: "Retribution? What is retribution? Everyone says that we grave robbers have a bad death and that we are wicked. You think we are born wanting to As a gravedigger?" Lin Xu sat next to her, and Cuiniang said, "Actually, I didn't do this job from the very beginning. I used to work as Yao Jie. Ha ha, I didn't expect that. There is no hope for us low-level people. We just do it every day. Flesh and flesh trading, I also killed people and stabbed a beast. He is a pervert, he hits me every day, and whips me with a whip dipped in salt water. If I go on like this, I will die in his hands sooner or later. Stab." Lin Xu noticed that Cuiniang's eyes were full of hatred, and she darkened her eyes and said, "I escaped later and became a beggar. My life was not much better than that of a dog. You officials I don’t know how people like us live, and the next day I don’t know if I can breathe. Later, I met Brother Huzi. He saw me pitifully, and said he accepted me as a younger sister, and then taught me a lot about tomb robbery. But, he never let me fight, I just watch and cook for him. In the eyes of others, I am not his sister, I am his woman. Actually... I also thought about it..." Cuiniang's voice became smaller and smaller, and then she stopped talking.Lin Xu knew that Cuiniang liked Huzi, but Huzi didn't know why he didn't want her. Could it be because she was a prostitute in the past?It's hard for Lin Xu to say, and it's hard to ask, he can only wait for Cuiniang to talk. Cuiniang said: "We are just ordinary mountain people during the day. At night, brother Huzi will go to the place where we stepped on during the day to fight. Sometimes we can bring some gold ingots, sometimes we can't get anything, and we are wounded." .Although life was bitter and mean, we still lived like that. Until the devils came, we couldn’t live a life at all. We had to flee with everyone. This actually happened on the way to escape..." At this time, the originally quiet monkey suddenly made a noise. It kept rolling and twitching, and then kicked its feet, spitting out a lot of blood foam from its mouth.Lin Xu yelled badly: "Fish meat is poisonous!" He quickly took out the few fish he had caught. These fish were very common crucian carp, nothing unusual, and they ate much more than this monkey.Why were they fine and the monkey died? Cuiniang looked closely at the monkey's death condition, and she gasped and said, "It's so strange, why does this monkey's death condition look so...poisoned to death by corpse poison?" Lin Xu threw away the fish meat, and then went to look at the monkey who had rolled his eyes, and found that the monkey's lips were black and purple, his gums were bleeding non-stop, and his body had a very strange smell. It is sweet and feels like the smell of hair oil of a big girl. Lin Xu saw that the monkey died in a blink of an eye, so he turned to look at the fish that the monkey had eaten, and found that the fish meat was very normal, and the meat was still very elastic. Then why did the monkey suddenly be poisoned to death? This terrified Cuiniang and Lin Xu, because after all they ate so much fish, the scent that they hadn't been able to get enough of was no longer repulsive. Cuiniang shook her head and said, "This is a male monkey, you see it has a dick." Lin Xu didn't know what she was doing to study the monkey's body at this time, so he ignored Cuiniang's words.Cuiniang went on to say, "Lin Xu, tell me...does this have anything to do with the absence of male corpses in that village?" Lin Xu shuddered and asked, "What do you mean?" Cuiniang shook her head and said, "I just think there might be a connection, but not necessarily. Why are you looking at me? But seriously, this monkey died too evil, and I'm sure it died of corpse poisoning , but the corpse poison is generally those old corpses that had a lot of resentment when they died, fresh corpses can't accumulate such powerful poison." Lin Xu murmured: "Corpse poison?" He thought for a moment, took out a scalpel from the medicine box, and cut open the monkey's stomach on the spot. Immediately, the monkey's abdominal cavity emitted a stronger odor.Lin Xu said: "Since it is poisoned, let's look at its liver first. If there is any color change in the liver, it means that it is indeed poisoned, and you can tell the time based on the color, so you can know whether there is something wrong with the fish or not." Cui Niang hummed to agree with him, and urged him to cut the knife quickly.Lin Xu slashed open the monkey's liver and found that there was nothing abnormal about the liver, it was very normal.Lin Xu looked up at Cuiniang suspiciously and said, "It's not poisoning..." After speaking, he looked at the stomach to see what the monkey had eaten, because it took at least three hours to digest food, and even eight hours to digest protein, so he could see what it had eaten from the stomach. Lin Xu cut it open with a knife, and the monkey, whose eyes had been closed, suddenly let out a strange cry, a strange light flashed in its eyes, and then bit Lin Xu viciously.Although Lin Xu immediately withdrew his hand, a piece of flesh was still rubbed off by the monkey's paw, and blood flowed continuously.Seeing that the dead monkey had such a reaction, Cuiniang immediately shouted: "Ghost! There is a ghost!" Lin Xu stopped and said: "No, maybe its brain is not completely dead, so the conditional emission occurs. Don't be afraid." After speaking, he cut open the monkey's stomach, and the stomach was filled with the food that he had just eaten. Fish, mixed with some very disgusting white scum.Lin Xu used a scalpel to rummage through his stomach, and suddenly found that there was a human finger in it, which seemed to belong to a woman, because the nails were dyed red (Chinese people have long had the habit of painting nails, young girls would use red impatiens as a dye on the nails). Lin Xu picked out the part of the finger with a knife, and found that it was a woman's little finger, and it was the top section.Lin Xu said to Cuiniang, "Has this monkey ever eaten human flesh?" Cuiniang said: "It's not surprising. There are only women's corpses there. It is so hungry that it will naturally eat the corpses." They checked everything they could, but there was nothing out of the ordinary.Lin Xu bandaged his hands and said, "Let's go, maybe we are worrying too much." Cuiniang reluctantly nodded and followed Lin Xu.Just as they turned to leave, suddenly a pair of black-haired hands protruded from the nearby grass and desperately grabbed the monkey's corpse, dragging the exposed internal organs of the corpse to the ground. Without further ado, Lin Xu just raised his gun and fired in bursts, but his hands were faster than Lin Xu's reaction. He quickly let go of his hands, retreated into the grass, and fled quickly towards the deserted village.Because the grass was very dense, Lin Xu could only see the grass moving, but did not see the owner of the hands, but judging from the movements in the grass, the owner of the hands should be a person. Cuiniang wanted to chase that thing, Lin Xu grabbed her arm and said, "Stop chasing, let's go quickly, this place is not normal, that person just now should be..." Cuiniang was stunned for a moment, and asked suspiciously: "Human? Can a human have such claws?" Lin Xu was confused by her question, he said to himself: "Even a primate can't run like that..." Cuiniang was frightened by his words, she didn't dare to continue asking, she picked up the bag: "Don't say anything, let's go, and don't bring any fish." Cuiniang kicked the fish and the monkey's internal organs into the river. The fish meat and internal organs soon sank into the river, muddying the clear river water. Those tiny pieces floating on the surface of the river looked very disgusting. Lin Xu put the gun on his back, picked up the medical box on the ground and was about to leave when he found Cuiniang staring at the river with a very complicated expression. She covered her mouth and said, "Corpse...these fish...gosh...they eat corpses !" Lin Xu asked her what happened to these fish?Cuiniang's face was getting whiter and paler, and finally, with a wow, she vomited out all the fish that she had eaten earlier.This made Lin Xu's stomach feel nauseous, and he almost vomited along with him. Cuiniang stretched out her hand to pull Lin Xu, and Lin Xu found her hand was trembling constantly. Lin Xu asked, "Are you okay, what's wrong? These fish..." As soon as she finished saying the word fish, Cui Niang turned her head and screamed violently again, but there was really nothing to vomit. Cuiniang said: "These fish... are disgusting. There are corpses all over the bottom of the river! Who the hell is so wicked!" Lin Xu didn't understand, Cui Niang pointed to the village and said, "Do you know why there are no men in that village?" Lin Xu shook her head, and Cui Niang suppressed the nausea in her heart, and said, "Actually, all the men and women in this village are dead, and no one is alive. It is a real ghost village." Lin Xu couldn't help but look back, the village seemed very hidden among the dense tree trunks, and now it looked even more unreal.Lin Xu repeated: "Ghost village? You mean the man's body is actually in the river? Are the fish eating the man's body?" Cuiniang nodded and said: "That's right, the man's corpse is indeed in the river, and those fish eat the corpse, but it's not just the corpse. Men's yang energy is stronger than women's, so if they have strong resentment, they will become 魑.After a woman dies, her resentment will turn into a charm. They are the ghosts on the ground and in the water, and they cannot be reincarnated." Lin Xu couldn't understand Cui Niang's fragmented explanation, so he simply sighed and comforted: "It's a bit disgusting. After all, it's a fish that eats dead human flesh. No wonder you are like this. But a dead person is a piece of meat, and a fish eats bait." , we eat fish to survive.” But unexpectedly Cui Niang shook her head like a rattle again, she pointed to the fish and said: "These fish eat the corpses of men, but their souls belong to those women. Look at the eyes of those fish, they are not fish Eyes are clearly human eyeballs." Lin Xu asked in puzzlement, "How do you know it's those women's? It's just that the eyeballs look like people." Cuiniang scolded: "Oh! Why did I come across a solid wood like you? Didn't I say it? After a woman dies, she turns into a ghost, and the ghost turns into a ghost. They live in water, and the place where Yin energy gathers is Their nests, so these fish are actually the ghosts of those women, and... and the ghost of the man is... the monkey just now. It is a ghost, I dare say there are many monkeys here, these monkeys are actually It's not a monkey, but a mandrill. The man's soul is attached to the monkey's body, like a kind of puppet. These monkeys have the memory and thinking ability of those dead people, so they will always follow us, and they still retain some human actions. " Lin Xu still didn't understand, and Cui Niang didn't bother to spread the knowledge to him, she just said: "This village has been tampered with, but I don't know if the tampering is human, but the man's body sank into the river and became The bait of women's souls, the corpses of women are dumped in the village, and become the food of men's souls. This... This is actually a kind of magic. Here, it doesn’t take even a minute to cheat a corpse. This place has been designed as a gathering pool.” Lin Xu asked, "What do you mean?" Before Cui Niang could explain further, she heard screams coming from all around, and the fish in the river began to splash water non-stop.Cuiniang said: "Not good! Run away! That thing is approaching again!" After speaking, he stumbled and dragged Lin Xu to run. Lin Xu glanced at Cui Niang when he ran, and found that Cui Niang unexpectedly showed a very vicious smile at some point, that kind of smile was like a sinister smile of revenge .And the whole face was as pale as lime.Lin Xu was so frightened that he threw away Cuiniang. Cuiniang was taken aback by his actions. Lin Xu looked at Cuiniang again and found that she was normal, but her face was a little pale, but definitely not that ghostly pale.He rubbed his temples, and finally regained his composure. He grabbed Cuiniang's hand and continued on his way. The strange village and the ghosts who preyed on each other's corpses gradually disappeared in the distance.树影婆娑之间，变得越来越远。但是林旭感觉到那种被窥视的阴寒一点儿也没有消失，反而越来越浓重。