Chapter 22 Chapter 21: The Hamo People

As if waking up from a heavy drunk, Luo Fei's head was dizzy and swollen badly.His thinking is also like a kite with a broken string, still floating outside the control range of his body and mind. I don't know how long it took, the remaining rationality finally regrouped bit by bit, and the once-strike sensory system also resumed its work.Luo Fei opened his eyes in a daze and looked at the bright world around him, as if it had been a lifetime away. This is where?What happened?Luo Fei tried hard to remember.Many messy memory fragments jumped and cleaned in his mind, and finally some clues were sorted out.

Starting early in the morning—passing through Yijian Gorge—reaching Qingfengkou—camping—resting and eating—sudden laughter, fear spread—like falling into a dark hell, thinking gradually blurred, and memory stopped— — Luo Fei's heart sank with a "thud": Although he took strict precautions, he finally got his way!At this moment, he didn't have time to think about anything else, he took out the pistol from his waist, and at the same time narrowed his eyes, looking around for his companion. The situation in front of him made his mood more dignified.He remembered that before the accident, everyone was on the river beach, preparing to continue their journey.But now, Yue Dongbei was the only one sitting not far from his right.

This fat man lacked any of his usual aggressive emotions, his eyes were staring straight, and his body was still trembling involuntarily. Luo Fei stepped forward to support his shoulder, and shouted a few words: "Mr. Yue, Mr. Yue!" Seeing that the other party was still in a daze, Luo Fei handed the gun to his left hand, and pinched him hard. After a while, Yue Dongbei seemed to have recovered a little bit of sanity. He looked at Luo Fei, his eyes still full of horror: "The devil, the devil...it has come!" demon?Luo Fei frowned, he seemed to see that black figure again, coming from the mist like a ghost.And those blood-red eyes, are these terrifying scenes an illusion or reality?

Suddenly, Luo Fei noticed a few dry bloodstains near the corners of Yue Dongbei's mouth, his heart moved, and he rubbed his cheeks with his thumb. A dark red powder appeared on the fingertips.That's right, it's blood!Memorizing those fuzzy things is not an illusion! Luo Feishang didn't have time to think deeply, the most urgent thing was to figure out the situation in front of him first. "Where are the others?" He asked Yue Dongbei. Yue Dongbei was stunned for a long while, apparently trying to organize his disorganized thoughts, then he shook his head: "I don't know, I just remember a burst of laughter from the forest, and what happened after that was like a devil, a blur. "

It seems that Yue Dongbei's situation is the same as his own.While Luo Fei was thinking this way, he turned his head and looked at the jungle not far away. A man came out of the jungle just at this time. He covered the back of his head with his hands, and staggered, as if his mind was not very clear. Luo Fei saw at a glance that this person was Zhou Liwei, and hurried to meet him. Zhou Liwei also saw Luo Fei, he stopped in place, staring blankly at the other person walking towards him, his eyes were blank. "What happened? Bai Jian hated them?" Luo Fei hurriedly asked as he walked.

Zhou Liwei didn't answer, his expression was a little dazed, and he didn't know where his thoughts flew.It wasn't until Luo Fei came in front of him that he murmured back: "You... what happened to you just now?" Luo Fei waved his hand: "This question is not clear now. Tell me quickly, where are Bai Jian'e and the others?" Zhou Liwei rubbed the back of his head vigorously again, his thinking ability seemed to have recovered a bit, and then he told Luo Fei how the two Bai Jian and E had rushed into the jungle, how he followed them, and how he was attacked by surprise. Tell it again.

"I fainted from that blow. I just came to my senses," he said at last. Luo Fei checked the back of Zhou Liwei's head. There was an obvious swelling, but there was no trauma. It seemed that he was hit by a blunt object. The injury was not serious, but the scream from the jungle made Luo Fei quite worried. "Let's go in and have a look." After pondering for a moment, Luo Fei made this decision. At this time, Yue Dongbei also rushed over.With Luo Fei holding a gun in front, the three walked into the dark jungle together. The forest was overgrown with weeds and trees, and there were no roads to follow.Luo Fei and the three of them were not familiar with this place, so wandering around was not only blind, but also dangerous.Luo Fei raised his left hand to signal everyone to stop, then he mustered his breath and shouted twice: "Master Baizhai! Master Baizhai!"

The shout pierced the still air.A few birds were frightened and fluttered out of the branches and leaves above everyone's heads and scattered away.A moment later, a faint echo came, but there was still no response from the caller. Luo Fei frowned and thought for a moment, then turned his head and asked Zhou Liwei behind him: "Where were you attacked? Can you still find it?" "It should be possible." Zhou Liwei nodded and looked around.Then he stepped forward and walked towards the southeast, Luo Fei and the two closely followed.After walking about ten meters away, Zhou Liwei squatted down, pointed to a trace of being crushed on the forest floor and said, "This is it."

Luo Fei also squatted down, centered on the trace, and searched out carefully.Soon, he found his target not far away: a dripping bloodstain. This method works!Luo Fei's heart moved, and he ordered the two companions beside him: "You help me find it together, and see where the blood is coming from." Zhou Liwei and Yue Dongbei immediately understood Luo Fei's intentions, and searched far away from different directions. About one meter to the west of the bloodstain just now, Zhou Liwei found the second bloodstain. Continuing to look down along this direction, bloodstains appeared one after another, and the distance between them became shorter and shorter, extending to four or five meters away.It seems to have been lost since then.

"You don't need to look slowly any longer." Yue Dongbei got a little impatient, stood up and said, "Just walk in this direction." Luo Fei shook his head, "No, he didn't come from this direction." Yue Dongbei curled his lips: "Why not? The blood has always been in this direction." "Several bloodstains appeared here at once, which means that he stayed for a while when he came here." Luo Fei pointed to the last bloodstain, but looked at Zhou Liwei, "Because he found you, he stopped quietly. , waiting for the opportunity. When you turned your back to him, he began to approach you quietly. The blood around here is thicker, indicating that his initial moves were slow and light. When you were within his attack range, he suddenly rushed to you. Two steps, gave you a heavy blow."

Luo Fei used words to describe the situation when Zhou Liwei was attacked, and everything was so consistent with the traces left on the scene that it was unconvincing. Zhou Liwei nodded thoughtfully: "Well, so to speak. This line of blood only shows the route he took when he attacked me, and it doesn't mean that he came from this direction." "But it's not difficult to find this direction now." Luo Fei said, scanning the ground with sharp eyes, then he kept squatting and took a step towards the south, "Look, it's here. " Sure enough, the disappearing bloodstains reappeared under Luo Fei's feet. Continuing to search to the south, the bloodstains continued, and after another seven or eight meters, Luo Fei stood up, looked ahead firmly and said, "It's right now, it's this direction!" The three of them turned towards the south like this.The further you go, the more treacherous the terrain and the denser the jungle.Not long after, a huge boulder suddenly appeared in front of their eyes.The three of them stopped at the same time, with surprised expressions on their faces. After the stone wall was hacked by Zhao Liwen, although the branches and vines were messy, the sixteen scarlet writings were still impressively visible: "Walk with the devil, be happy and carefree. With a different mind, go to the horror prison! " Both Luo Fei and Zhou Liwei turned their heads to look at Yue Dongbei. Of course they remembered that when Yue Dongbei first came to Luo Fei's office, he had shown the bandages worn by Li Dingguo's soldiers in battle. the same word. Yue Dongbei stared at the stone wall with fascination, then he softly recited the sixteen characters, and walked towards the stone wall step by step. Numerous large and small centipedes are tightly clustered together, forming handwriting.Yue Dongbei, who came to the front, discovered this secret. He was stunned for a moment, then showed pious eyes, and stretched out his right hand, gently touching those "writings".Immediately, two or three centipedes coiled up along his chubby fingers. Luo Fei and Zhou Liwei followed behind him, seeing the situation clearly, they couldn't help feeling a little tingly. Yue Dongbei didn't seem to care, he looked at those centipedes almost reverently, and murmured: "Are you also following 'it'?" A centipede suddenly tensed its body, opened its jaws and bit the base of his index finger, which was regarded as an answer.Yue Dongbei was in pain, he yelled "Ah", he hurriedly waved his hands, and threw those centipedes to the ground.The biting centipede happened to land next to Zhou Liwei, who showed disgust on his face, stomped on it, and trampled it to pieces. "These are all spiritual things, you dare to step on them to death." Yue Dongbei sucked the wound on his finger, and couldn't forget to babble. "Spirituality?" Zhou Liwei sneered, mockingly said, "Yes, this bite is indeed full of spirituality." Yue Dongbei had a serious face, and said seriously: "If there is no connection with that 'demon', how can these lowly arthropods use their bodies to form ancient words on the stone wall?" "Do you really not understand or are you pretending to be crazy?" Zhou Liwei looked at Yue Dongdong coldly with sharp eyes, "This kind of trick appeared more than two thousand years ago, but there are still people trying to use it to confuse people." When Luo Fei saw the centipede forming characters, he was a little startled at first, but after calming down and thinking about it, he had some clues. Now that he heard what Zhou Liwei said, he immediately pointed to the stone wall and asked, "Why, this method of forming characters is still Is there a history to follow?" "In 202 B.C., Chu and Han were in conflict, and Liu Bang gained power. Zhang Liang, his military adviser, expected that Xiang Yu would flee to Wujiang, so he sent people to Wujiang to write down the six characters 'The Overlord slays himself in Wujiang' with honey. The ants smell the honey They gathered together to lick and eat, and finally squeezed into a dense pile, which looked like those words were crawled out by ants. After Xiang Yu saw it, he thought it was God's will, and he became more determined to draw his sword and kill himself." Zhou Liwei finished speaking eloquently. This story, he said to Yue Dongbei, "Although this is just unofficial history, but you claim to have studied history, have you never heard of it?" "Ants are ants, and centipedes are centipedes." Yue Dongbei was still not convinced, "Ants can be lured with honey, but tell me, what do centipedes use?" "No matter what you use, the reason is the same." Luo Fei waved his hand, lest Yue Dongbei would continue to be entangled. At the same time, he secretly thought: What can attract such a large number of centipedes?Most people really don't understand this kind of knowledge.Reminiscent of the previous events, this mysterious "demon" seems to be very familiar with the terrain and biological habits of the jungle. "Bai Jian'e and the others should have been here." Zhou Liwei made a new discovery at this time, pointing to a pile of messy vines and said, "Look, these have just been chopped off with a sharp weapon." Luo Fei nodded, agreeing with Zhou Liwei's judgment.Then he stretched out his left hand to pull over a broken vine, but suddenly felt a cold on the back of his hand, but a drop of blood fell on it. Luo Fei raised his head suddenly, and saw a small bulge on the top of the boulder, just like the eaves of a roof.It was mottled and mottled, already stained red by a large amount of blood! "There's a situation up there!" Luo Fei snorted, the gun was locked with his right index finger, and at the same time he took two steps back to expand the angle of upward observation.But the stone top is covered by lush branches and leaves, so it is hard to find details. "Officer Luo, you can go to the rock from there." Zhou Liwei scanned around and found a hillside on the left side of the boulder that seemed to be climbable, so he poked Luo Fei with his hand and reminded him softly. "Go and have a look." Luo Fei immediately took a few steps forward and stepped up the hillside.Seeing that Zhou and Yue were also following, he turned around and said, "You two are behind me. Be careful and safe!" The three followed each other and slowly climbed up the steep hill to the top of the boulder.About two or three minutes later, Luo Fei made a leap and was the first to reach the boulder. A platform was formed here, about ten meters square.Bai Jian'e and Zhao Liwen, whom everyone was looking for, were on the edge of the platform. The few big trees growing beside the stone can only see the dense crown of the branches and leaves here.Part of the canopy extends inward and covers the platform, like a small shrub rooted on top of a stone.Zhao Liwen was hanging upside down among these branches and leaves, his arms drooping limply, motionless, obviously dead for a long time. Bai Jian'e stood two or three steps away, staring blankly at Zhao Liwen's body.It seemed that he didn't suffer any harm, but his expression was in a daze, and he was completely unaware of Luo Fei's arrival. At this time, Zhou Yue and Zhou Yue also boarded the platform one after another. Seeing the situation in front of them, they were a little apprehensive and did not rush forward.After a moment of silence, Luo Fei tentatively called out twice: "Master Baizhai? Master Baizhai?" Hearing the call, Bai Jian'e turned his head slowly, and looked at the three people not far away, his eyes shrank and blurred.Although it was only twenty or thirty minutes since everyone separated, Bai Jian'e seemed to have completely changed himself at this time. When I saw Bai Jian'e for the first time, he was a capable and domineering village lord; the sudden change in the Yushen Temple revealed Bai Jian's evil, shrewd, wise and hazy side; even after entering the jungle and being in danger one after another, he was still fearless and possessed the true qualities of a hero ; But now, on this person, you can only see two words: Lonely. His eyebrows were no longer raised, his waist was no longer straight, and even the corners of his eyes suddenly had a few wrinkles.He is no longer a village owner, but a poor mountain villager who is burdened with the burden of life and full of worries. What is it that can cause such a huge change in a person's spirit in such a short period of time? With this question in mind, Luo Fei walked slowly towards the edge of the stone platform. Bai Jianxi's gaze stayed on Luo Fei for a moment, then turned to the bushes, and murmured: "...Zhao Liwen is dead too..." Yes, Zhao Liwen died too.His right ankle was entangled in a vine rope and hung upside down from a thick branch.In his throat, there was a terrible incision. The incision was big and deep. The trachea, esophagus, and carotid artery were all cut off, and blood continued to flow out. Because the corpse was in an upside-down state, the blood in the deceased's body was almost drained.A large pool of blood formed on the stone surface below, and Zhao Liwen's machete was soaked in the pool of blood. Without Bai Jian's evil words, Luo Fei can roughly deduce the situation before and after the death of the deceased: he was hit by a trap under the stone wall, and his whole body was pulled up high. The "devil" was already waiting for him on the top of the boulder, and before he could react, the sharp blade had already scratched his throat.His body was forced to rotate accordingly, and blood sprayed out from the wound during this process, forming a splash-like blood ring in a large circle below. The blood must have been sprayed on the "demon", right?Even when "he" walked out of the jungle and came to the river beach, the blood hadn't dried up. When all this happened, what was Bai Jian'e doing?Obviously, only the parties themselves can answer this question. "Did you see him?" Luo Fei asked Bai Jian'e. Everyone knew what "he" Luo Fei was referring to, Zhou Liwei and Yue Dongbei also took two steps forward at this time, with expressions of concern. "Him? Yes... that 'devil', I saw him..." Bai Jian'e seemed to be subconsciously answering Luo Fei's question, his eyes drifted away, and his thoughts drifted away. "Really? You saw him?!" Yue Dongbei became excited all of a sudden, he grabbed Bai Jian'e's arms on both sides uncontrollably, and asked in a trembling voice: "He... what does he look like?" "What does it look like?" Bai Jian'e's arms were tightly strangled by Yue Dongbei, the pain seemed to make his mind move again, he shook his head in a daze, "I can't see what 'he' looks like. 'He' He was wearing a long black coat with a big hat, and his face was covered with a black cloth, with only his eyes exposed." "Those eyes are blood red, right? That's right, it's him!" Yue Dongbei said while looking at Luo Fei excitedly.Luo Fei understood what he meant, such a "person" had appeared in their "illusion" not long ago. Zhou Liwei's mood at this time was completely different from Yue Dongbei's. He stared at Bai Jian'e and asked with a serious expression: "You have watched so carefully, why did you let him run away?" Bai Jian'e grinned, as if he wanted to laugh, but he couldn't make a sound.It was an expression of extreme helplessness, and then he said: "'He' wants to leave, and there is no way for me to stop him." "Why?" Luo Fei also felt something strange here, frowning and asking. "All three of my subordinates are dead. Zhao Liwen, the most outstanding fighter in Nihong Village." Bai Jianxi pointed at the corpse beside him, his voice became a little hoarse, "In front of 'him', even a chance No. What do you want me to do? Do you want me to die in this jungle? I only promised to be your guide, not to work for you. " "But you didn't make any effort at all!" Zhou Liwei seemed a little annoyed, he raised a machete in his right hand, "This is your weapon, but you threw it on the hillside! When he appeared in front of you , you surrendered right away, right? I really didn't expect, Bai Jian'e, you turned out to be a coward." Two nights ago, facing the terrifying threat from the "demon" for the first time, Bai Jian'e held the knife and laughed wildly in the dark forest.But now, the arrogance he had at that time was gone.He didn't seem to care about Zhou Liwei's ridicule, he just looked at him with a strange look, and then said lightly: "You don't understand, I have no way to resist the power of 'him'." "Really?" Zhou Liwei was extremely disappointed, but laughed instead, "Hehe, with such a terrifying power, why does 'he' still hide from us and do some sneaky things? Tell him to come here, if he has the ability , treat us all as sacrifices to the 'demon'." Zhou Liwei hadn't finished speaking when he heard footsteps on the hillside, and someone actually came over. Everyone on Shiding immediately turned to face the entrance, Luo Fei raised his gun, Zhou Liwei slashed his saber, and they all put on guard and defense postures. A young man turned over and jumped onto the platform, appearing in everyone's sight.He was in his early twenties, with a strong build and a dark complexion.Seeing Luo Fei and the others, he was obviously also a little surprised. With a wave of his right hand, he had already compared a gleaming scimitar to his chest, and at the same time uttered a series of strange words sharply. "Don't get me wrong. This is from the Hamo tribe!" Bai Jian'e explained next to the crowd, then walked forward by himself, and muttered to the young man again.Luo Fei nodded secretly: Yes, this tone of voice is very familiar, it is the Hamo language that I have heard in the Kunming Mental Hospital. While listening to Bai Jian'e's narration, the young man looked at Luo Fei and the others with alert eyes, and the hostility had dissipated a lot.Finally, he nodded, turned back to the edge of the platform, and yelled something under the boulder.Immediately someone responded from Shixia, it turned out that he still has companions.A moment later, four more men climbed onto the stone wall.Just like the young man just now, they are all dressed in short black linen clothes, with black square scarves tied on their foreheads, only one of them has white light shining on his temples and waist, but he wears a lot of exquisite silver ornaments. The young man just now had put away his knife and stepped aside, but his gaze was always following the man wearing the silver jewelry, his expression was even respectful. Bai Jian'e took a step forward, put his right hand on his chest, bowed his head in salute, and called out, "Master Anmi." The man recognized Bai Jian'e, his expression was rather surprised, he folded his chest and saluted, and asked, "Master Baizhai, why are you here?" Although the tone of his Chinese was stiff and inaccurate, it was not bad. fluent. With a solemn expression, Bai Jian'e raised his hand and pointed at Luo Fei and the others, and replied, "We are all here for the demons in the 'Uncanny Valley'." The man's face suddenly changed, and then he changed the language of the Hamo tribe, asking Bai Jian'e something.Bai Jian'e also responded in the language of the Hamo tribe. At first, the two of them asked and answered each other. Later, Bai Jian'e was talking alone, while the man listened attentively, only interjecting a question or two occasionally. sentence. This conversation lasted a long time, presumably Bai Jian'e explained in detail the ins and outs of their trip to the Uncanny Valley.The Nahamo man frowned, the more he listened, the more worried his expression became, and he looked up at Luo Fei and the others from time to time, with a look of scrutiny in his eyes. The other four Hamo men seemed to be subordinates. They stood on both sides, waiting patiently like Luo Fei and the other three, without saying much. Finally, the two finished talking, and then Bai Jian'e led the way, and everyone from the Hamo tribe walked towards the place where Luo Fei and the others were.When he got close, Bai Jian'e first pointed to the man wearing the silver jewelry and introduced: "This is the leader of the Hamo tribe, Lord Anmi." Luo Fei had somewhat guessed the man's identity, imitating Bai Jian'e's previous action, saluted this man with a smile, and looked at him carefully at the same time. But I saw that the leader of the Hamo tribe named An Mi was about thirty years old, slightly taller than Luo Fei, strong but not fat, with dark complexion, thick eyebrows and sharp eyes, with a natural expression A heroic spirit. Seeing Luo Fei taking the initiative to salute, An Mi raised the corners of his mouth slightly, showing a happy expression.But he didn't immediately return the salute to Luo Fei, but first came to Zhao Liwen's body, knelt down on one knee, and bowed deeply. The four followers followed the leader and did the same.Bai Jian'e explained to Luo Fei and the others in a low voice: "The Hamo respect the dead, especially the warriors who died in battle." Luo Fei nodded, expressing his understanding.However, Zhou Liwei cast a cold glance at Bai Jian'e, as if he was still concerned about his previous cowardice. At this time, the Hamo people murmured something in their mouths, and then stretched out their right index fingers, dipped some blood in the pool of blood under the corpse, and sucked it in their mouths. "They believe that the soul of a person is attached to the blood. If you drink the blood of a war dead, you can get his courage and strength." Hearing Bai Jian'e's words, Luo Fei couldn't help but think of the blood bottle. It seems that the Hamo people really have extraordinary respect for human blood. After comforting the dead, An Mi stood up, glanced at Luo Fei and the three of them one by one, and said in blunt Chinese: "The devil is our enemy. We are all friends. Now, please follow me." Horror Valley' bar."