Chapter 14 Chapter 12 The Weird Mountain Village

The tombstones in the cemetery are fully ten meters high, and the graves made of cement and loess are relatively smaller. In front of the graves are vigorous bonfires and countless burning incense and paper money. Bai Shan said a word, she said, fire, water, and theft are especially important to guard against acquaintances.The more you are familiar with people, the lower your vigilance, so a martial arts world champion will be killed by a familiar female friend who is helpless.Because you are not on guard against the other party, your life is always in that person's hands. I clearly knew that Yi Gu had a problem, but I still chose to believe him and didn't strengthen my guard, so I was framed by Yi Gu, the vice president, and thrown into the seventh floor. I still don't understand the reason why he did that.Regarding the two Yigu, I am still confused and can't figure out why.On the one hand, I don't believe that Yi Gu, who wrote to me, framed me, on the other hand, I am annoyed.

The human psyche is really complicated. So when the stern Bai Shan didn't look like herself, I immediately became alert.Are you out of danger, especially in this already weird situation. The sixth sense tells me that threats are in the air in all directions and everywhere, which makes my nerves tense all the time, as if the strings of a piano are about to break.However, it also made me more sensitive. Unexpectedly, after I let go, Bai Shan who fell to the ground laughed loudly, giggled for a while, then gave me a coquettish glance, and generously admitted, "Yes, I am indeed not Bai Shan. "

Both Mu Ru and Zhou Yu were taken aback by this sudden scene, they looked at me dumbly for a while, and for a while at the strange girl in front of them. "Who are you?" I tightly held the branch in my hand, as if ready to attack at any time. "Don't be nervous. After all, I saved you. I am your savior. Do you think Bai Shan will take the initiative to let you out because of that little bastard's character?" The girl curled her lips, and a sophisticated smile appeared on her pretty face, "As for who I am, guess it! You're so smart, you probably guessed it too."

I looked at her calmly: "Are you Bai Shan's third personality besides Bai Yan?" "I told you, I'm not a multiple personality split." The girl said dissatisfiedly, "I am Bai Shan's older sister, Bai Qing." "Bai Yan once said that she grew up in her elder sister Bai Shan's belly since she was a child. At that time, I guessed that you had a rare medical disease, which is parasitic birth phenomenon." I simply made my guess clear, and I didn't care if I offended her. "Yes, we are indeed parasitic in Bai Shan's body, and we haven't separated yet."

Bai Qing blinked her eyes, her long thick eyelashes moved like a deer, and said with a smile: "Look, you are so smart, you have guessed it right again." "In reality, Baiyan, then Baishan, and now you." I squinted my eyes and looked at her, "How many other personalities do you have that haven't appeared?" If you really follow the meaning of Bai Qing's words, it will be a little creepy.They are all parasitic in Bai Shan's stomach, knowing that they have not undergone surgery now, and each of them has developed an independent personality system, and they usurp Bai Shan's brain to show their existence... This is simply impossible, no matter what Whether it is medical or pathological, there is no case to prove it.

But for some reason, I don't think the girl in front of me is lying. Bai Qing looked at me, still smiling: "You are really interesting, you can guess how many live in my sister's belly. There will be prizes for guessing!" "I'm not interested." I shook my head, too lazy to talk to her, "You should tell me directly." After finishing speaking, he looked at the ground threateningly. The ground was dyed red by the setting sun, making the scene of the intensive phobia patient's attack even more profound. Following my eyes, Bai Qing immediately understood my threat, and hugged my body tightly again, "You really don't know how to be sympathetic. If I tell you, I'll tell you. Except for me and Bai Yan, there is no one else. Oh, do you think Bai Shan's belly is really that big, it can accommodate all of us!"

Damn it, what kind of freak is Bai Shan's mother? How did she give birth to such a freak! I was entangled with this girl who was as cold as Siberia's biting cold wind not long ago. In comparison, Bai Shan's personality is a little more acceptable to me. "You better ask Bai Shan to come out, or I'll throw you in the wilderness and let you fend for yourself." I throw her away again. "You really don't understand style. It's okay, I've had enough fun anyway." Bai Qing stretched out her hand to touch her painful buttocks. Before her slender hands could touch the soft flesh, her expression and temperament completely changed. Her eyes became stern and slanted in a short time He glanced at me, stood up silently, and patted the patient gown.

"Let's go." After she finished speaking, she walked forward. Mu Ru and Zhou Yu hadn't reacted to the series of sudden and unexpected changes. They knew that I reminded them to leave, so they scratched their heads and followed me away with a bewildered expression on their faces. And the sky was completely shrouded in darkness. The night on the Loess Plateau is a bit scary, the surroundings are dark, and we can only move forward with the help of the stars in the sky and the faint moonlight. Walking along the way is very disturbing and uncomfortable.I use the moon to identify the direction and try not to deviate from the direction, but in fact, at the end, I can't figure out which side the east is on.In an unfamiliar place, with no reference objects and insufficient light, I can only move forward with intuition and instinct.

I don't even know if I have a chance or even go somewhere inhabited. The Loess Plateau stretches from the Taihang Mountains in the east to the Wushaoling Mountains in the west, connects to the Qinling Mountains in the south, and reaches the Great Wall in the north.The loess is 50 to 80 meters thick, the climate is arid, the precipitation is concentrated, the vegetation is sparse, and the soil erosion is serious. It is really not suitable for human survival. Although I can't tell how long I was locked up on the seventh floor, I can't escape for about a month. It was the end of March when I came to Shaanxi, and it should be the beginning of May now, but the surrounding area still looks like early spring.

All around was dead grass, green weeds, nothing edible.We hadn't eaten food for most of the day, we were tired, thirsty and hungry, and the four of us gradually became depressed. "starving." Mu Ru rubbed his stomach. "There are more soil mice and rabbits under the grass here. Let's catch a few and roast them." Zhou Yu suggested. I was noncommittal, and Bai Shan, who had maintained a cold attitude for a long time, suddenly rolled her eyes, and at some point she changed into Bai Qing's personality again. This eccentric girl raised her hand and said to me: "Handsome Ye, I didn't come out on my own initiative. Shanshan wants to go in and rest by herself, and that guy Baiyan is afraid of the dark, so he can only wrong me."

I immediately distanced myself from her. Bai Qing curled her lips, "I'm not a nymphomaniac, I'll pounce on every handsome guy I see and eat him up. She's a lady." She looked at the surrounding environment and touched her stomach, "I'm hungry, isn't there anything to eat nearby?" "Zhou Yu suggested catching rabbits or mice." Mu Ru seemed to be very afraid of Bai Qing, but he still spoke because of hunger. "Rabbit? Rat?" Bai Qing's black and white eyes are bright even at night, she nodded quickly, "Who would catch rabbits? I haven't eaten roasted rabbit meat for a long time." Zhou Yu recommended himself: "I know a little bit, I caught it when I was young." "Go, go." The girl waved to him, as if dismissing a servant. The old fox quickly ran away with small steps. "Hi, Handsome Ye." She turned her head and looked at me with wonderful eyes, "Do you think it is possible for us to get out? Get out of the confines of the reincarnation mental hospital and return to the civilized world?" I nodded without hesitation, "That's absolutely possible." Bai Qing tilted her head, "You're not the old pervert and the director of the Samsara Mental Hospital, how do you know they can't catch up with us? It is said that no one has ever escaped from that nursing home." I smiled slightly, "Because I am not them, and you are not me, how do you know that I don't know the chance of escaping?" Bai Qing confronted me, "Because I'm not you, I don't know if you know or not. Similarly, you are not from the nursing home, so I don't know if the people from the nursing home can catch up!" I snorted coldly, "Look, back to the starting point of the question, you asked me if I could escape. Since you asked the question, you assumed that I might know, otherwise you wouldn't have asked this question; since you To ask a question is to trust me to know the answer to it. I have answered your question, and my answer now amply proves that you will trust my answer, thank you!" Mu Ru on the side was stunned and asked after a long time, "What charades are you playing?" "I want you to take care of it." After losing the verbal battle, Bai Qing glared at her unhappily. Mu Ru lowered his head and asked me again: "Mr. Ye Buyu, haven't we already escaped?" "It's not that simple." I shook my head and didn't say much more. Not long after, Zhou Yu walked back dejectedly. Seeing that there was nothing in his hand, Bai Qing sarcastically said, "Why did you come back by yourself, where is your food?" "Now the mice and rabbits are too cunning to catch them all the time." Zhou Yu smiled awkwardly. I stared coldly at his not-so-dirty arm, and said with a sneer, "I think it's fake for you to catch a rabbit, but it's true for you to want to slip away. Why, can't find the way alone?" "Where is it? We escaped together. We were supposed to support each other. How could I sneak away by myself? You think that I, Zhou, are too insignificant." Zhou Yu waved his hands repeatedly. "starving." Bai Qing saw him from head to toe, "Since I can't eat rabbits, I might as well eat you. When there was a famine in the poor era, it was nothing to eat people. Although your meat is old, it should be enough for the three of us if you remove the internal organs. Eat a full meal." There was no trace of joking in the girl's tone, as if she really thought about which part of Zhou Yu would taste better handcuffed. Zhou Yu was taken aback, and subconsciously took a few steps back. "Just kidding, seeing you scare Che Yang, am I that scary?" Bai Qing blinked her eyes, very dissatisfied. I have always been puzzled, for some reason, Mu Ru and Zhou Yu seem to be very afraid of the girl in front of them, but I think she has a terrible aura besides her multiple personalities, and there is nothing to be afraid of. Do the two of them know more than me? I remember that on the seventh floor, Bai Shan's nurse was also very wary of her.I'm afraid this girl is really not simple, but she keeps giving me special treatment. What ulterior purpose does she have? We endured the hunger and continued to walk forward. After turning over a mountain, our eyes suddenly opened up a lot.The moon was hanging high in the sky, and it was already midnight on the culmination of the moon.Just when we could hardly walk any longer, the flame of meaning jumped into our eyes from afar. "It's fire!" I'm also a little excited.Where there is fire, there are people. Not surprisingly, there must be food, drink and human villages in the mountains over there. Zhou Yu couldn't help speeding up his pace, "Let's hurry up, while the moonlight is still bright, we can find our way, and see if we can go to the village to ask for some food." Wangshan ran a dead horse and walked for a century before the fire was truly revealed to us. But just after taking a look, everyone was stunned. The whole mountain, from its foot to its unreachable summit, was lit with lamps.Densely packed lights, along both sides of a rough dirt road, have been circling towards the endless distance, each light is not bright, and the orange light is dancing in the wind.But after all, there are so many of them, it seems quite spectacular. The wick is placed in a small lamp oil dish filled with a pale yellow liquid. I smelled the smell in the air and judged: "The oil lamp uses kerosene, and it looks like it has been burning for a while." "It's amazing, who lit up the whole mountain. How much manpower and material resources will it cost? There are tens of thousands of these oil lamps!" Mu Ru was surprised again and again. "I'm not from here, but feel like it's supposed to be some sort of ritual." Zhou Yu scratched his head, "Could it be that some cult organization was summoning our ancestors, and we met them? Uh, there's no danger in getting close, right?" "Idiot, you have been in the madhouse for too long, I think you are mentally ill." Bai Qing curled her lips and looked at me, "Smart man, seeing your calm face, do you know what's going on?" "Probably know something." I squatted down, looked at one of the oil lamps in front of me, touched the wick with my hand, and finally confirmed what kind of ceremony it was, "This is spreading the lamps." "Salu Lamp?" The three of them repeated what I said, but they still didn't quite understand. "Scattering street lamps is a custom in many places in Shaanxi. As long as cotton balls, newspapers, etc. are soaked in gasoline or diesel and lit, they are called 'street lamps'. They are scattered on the side of the funeral road during funerals to pay homage to the dead. Usually Simply twist cotton or hemp paper into a lamp, soak it in clear oil, or use crushed corncobs, soak it in gasoline, diesel oil or sesame oil and ignite it, and sprinkle it along the avenue to the cemetery from before the spirit to the cemetery, pointing out a bright road for the dead to enter heaven. .” I explained silently, but my thinking was very confused. "That is to say, there is no danger?" Mu Ru breathed a sigh of relief. "Not necessarily, the road is full of weirdness, and I have no way of judging whether it will be dangerous." I stared at these street lamps intently, feeling a little melancholy, "After all, I have never seen such a large-scale street lamp spreading ceremony. It seems that the whole village's financial and material resources are used to act together. How many people died?" Highly respected." Respected people passed away. In some remote areas of Shaanxi, outsiders are not allowed to watch, especially the ceremony of spreading street lamps.Superstitious villagers believe that the spirit of the elder will leave with outsiders instead of returning to the place where it should go.If the souls of the elders have no home, it will bring disaster to the whole village, so they are very unfriendly to outsiders when they hold ceremonies. Zhou Yu was so hungry that he couldn't stand it anymore. He rubbed his stomach, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "Since it's a funeral, according to the custom, there will be sacrifices. Do you think there will be something to eat on the top of the mountain, at the end of these street lamps?" ?” Bai Qing nodded immediately, "Wow, that's right, there must be something delicious." "I object. I think it's a bit weird here. It's better to leave as soon as possible." I speak up immediately. "The objection is invalid. Old man Zhou, Mu Ru, let's go up the mountain quickly." The girl didn't care about my opinion at all, her eyes were full of hunger for food. I sighed, after all, I didn't leave alone, but followed.Humans are social animals. Although I always feel that I am not out of danger, and the three people are not reliable, they are much better than one person after all.Especially in the wilderness of the Loess Plateau, my chances of surviving alone are basically negligible. What's more, for the situation in front of me, I got too little information. I remember that Kenneth Arrow, an economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics, once gave a definition of information.Information, he said, is any observation that effectively alters the odds according to the principle of conditional probability. In fact, all social resources have the characteristics of effectively changing the probability. In other words, social resources are such valuable and rare things that can help us get good luck, increase the certainty of success, and reduce the uncertainty of risk. .However, how to balance the limited time and limited social resources, so that the calculations between the two are comprehensive, reasonable and accurate, is a big question. I have encountered many thrilling, weird and terrifying things, and I survived in the end, not because of pure luck, but because I understand a truth-that is, the balance between calculation and calculation. Walking slowly on this dirt road covered with street lamps, there was little conversation between the four of them, and everyone didn't have much strength.The light from the street lamps illuminated the surroundings. It was obviously very bright, but for some reason it seemed very gloomy. The endless street lamps were placed at just the right distance, endlessly, filling the range of sight.The further I go, the more creepy I feel. The surrounding air seemed to be getting colder and colder. After walking this road for about an hour and a half, it finally became clear, and the distance between the street lights on both sides suddenly widened a lot.After going around a detour, a newly repaired open cemetery appeared in the eyes. The target tombstone is a full ten meters high, and the grave made of cement and loess is relatively smaller. In front of the grave is a vigorous bonfire and countless burning incense and paper money. I looked up and took a look at the tombstone, on which was written the deceased's date of birth and the cause of death, and also introduced his life in detail.This man passed away due to illness. His surname was Zhang and his first name was Xiuquan.His birthday is one hundred and thirty-two years old, and he lives in Zhangjiaya Village, Lunsan County.His wife passed away three years ago, and they have raised nine sons and seven daughters, with 1,517 descendants.Five generations live under the same roof, enjoying family happiness. The death of such a person should be regarded as "happy mourning" in China.There is also a line of congratulations written in big characters on the tombstone: People who live to be a hundred years old will inevitably die. The old man is happy when he is alive, and he can smile in Jiuquan after death.The ancestral items are buried in the ground together to comfort the missing body of the elderly. Zhang Xiuquan, an old man, actually has more than 1,500 descendants. I am afraid that everyone in the whole village is related to him. No wonder there was such a big battle after his death!And judging from the inscription, the village did not cremate him. It seems that the old man is afraid of fire, so he must be buried in the ground so that he can rest in peace. Before I finished reading the inscription on the tomb, Zhou Yu shouted excitedly: "There is really something to eat!" The sacrifices in front of the tomb are very rich, and there are nine whole pigs at the head, each of which weighs more than 300 catties. The pigs that are roasted to a golden color, crispy in skin and tender in the inside have long mouths, and the fangs in the mouth are more obvious. up.The village turned the pig's head to the direction of the cemetery, and cut off the pig's eyelids. Nine pigs with eighteen eyes stared straight at the tombstone, looking very scary. Below the roasted pig are eight treasures from the mountains, and there are also eight treasures from the sea, which occupy an area of ​​several square meters. There are a lot of sacrifices, and there are even a few bottles of Moutai. "Looks delicious." Bai Qing couldn't help drooling, and wiped her dirty hands on the patient's gown without a ladylike image, then eagerly tore off a roasted chicken leg and ate it. Not to be outdone, Zhou Yu rushed forward. Mu Ru hesitated a little, but in the end he couldn't satisfy his hunger, so he shyly picked some vegetarian dishes to eat. "Handsome Ye, don't you want to eat some?" Bai Qing took the time to look up and ask me. I frowned, shook my head and said, "I'm not hungry." "Cut, fake Sven. Forget it if you don't eat." The girl suddenly lost interest, she ate something casually, then walked to the towering tombstone and began to visit. After looking at it for a while, she leaned close to me and said in a low voice, "That Zhou Yu, do you know what he used to do?" "He never told me." I wondered, "Why do you care about this?" Bai Qing smiled mysteriously, "It's just a feeling, I remembered. This person is considered a celebrity in the Samsara Mental Hospital, I have heard a little bit about it. Do you want to hear it?" "Put your farts away." I waited for her angrily.To be honest, I really want to know. "I remember many, many years ago, there was a case in Shaanxi, in the outskirts of a certain place in Xi'an. For a while, tourists always disappeared in the outskirts. Of course, the police went to the outskirts to investigate the case-this is often the case Yes, the more the same method is used, the easier it is to solve the case, because it is easy to find the common ground and the starting point for analyzing the case. "It was a tourist area. Many local residents turned their homes into a place to entertain guests. They wanted to cook some farm meals and run a homestay by the way. During the investigation, there was a place that caused The attention of the police. A family who runs a homestay often has beautiful clothes hanging out at home. Everyone is very surprised. How can they afford those good clothes from an ordinary family? "After the focus fell on this family, the case was solved. It turned out that the couple in this family were a little psychopathic. They couldn't bear to see others better than them in any way, so they killed those passengers. Since they are psychopaths, maybe they don't Feel guilty about these things! Of course, this is my guess, and I don’t know exactly what happened. In short, you and your wife have confessed their crimes. But what makes people chill is the way they deal with the corpse. They We dug a big pit in the yard, gathered enough corpses, put them side by side in the pit, put cement on them, killed people after that, hid the corpses to make up the number, and laid them out before putting cement on them. That's it. , When the police excavated the corpses, those people looked like they had been built into a 'corpse building'. There were more than 40 corpses in total, living in the 'building' with several floors underground." I immediately understood the meaning of her words: "Where is the place you mentioned? What does this have to do with Zhou Yu?" "Of course it has something to do with it! Why are you so impatient? You're about to get to the point." Bai Qing blinked, "Zhou Yu is very famous in Xi'an. He is a developer who builds buildings for the dead. He bought a haunted house at a low price, knocked it down and built a new house and sold it to outsiders. He made his first pot of gold, and then went back and forth He used the same method to build houses all over China and got rich instantly. This man has a characteristic, he only buys places with bad feng shui, and then attracts customers through publicity and low housing prices to make huge profits. The fierce place in the story just now , He also bought it and turned it into a nursing home.” I was stunned by the meaning of her words, "You mean, the 'tourist area in the suburbs of Xi'an' in your story is the Samsara Village? Zhou Yu built the Samsara Mental Hospital on top of the 'corpse building'?" "Look, how smart you are, you can guess it as soon as you hear it." Bai Qing smiled, her eyes turned into crescents. "I think you have another meaning." I looked into her eyes without blinking, and highlighted a few words with difficulty, "Zhou Yu, it is very likely that he is the mysterious director of the Samsara Mental Hospital, right?" Just as my voice just fell, the entire mountain top suddenly vibrated...