Chapter 40 Chapter Eleven: The Essence of Mountains and Rivers

We entered Xiaoshishan and looked around with a flashlight, but we couldn't find any trace of the real clay sculpture.Fragments of real people's clay sculptures were scattered on the ground, but the real people were nowhere to be found.We picked up the fragments of clay sculptures that fell on the ground and observed them carefully.I held the fragment of the clay sculpture tremblingly. How could the patterns on the inside of it be exactly the same as the one I saw today? ! In this real person clay sculpture, all the clothes of the real person are removed first, and then the clay sculpture is applied, so the clay sculpture is all covered on the real person's skin, and the inner side of it will leave the lines on the real person's skin.However, on the inside of the piece of clay sculpture in my hand, there is a row of scale patterns, which are exactly the same as the three scales I saw today.I picked up a few more fragments on the ground, and one or two fragments also had scale patterns on the inside.

"Xinhong, come and take a look at the inside of these fragments. The patterns on them are..." I said impatiently. Xinhong walked to my side, glanced at the fragment in my hand, and didn't make a sound.Xinhong also squatted down to look at the fragments of clay sculptures on the ground. He turned over the fragments, some of which had scale patterns on the inside, and some did not.These clay sculpture fragments have been scattered and messed up, and it is difficult for us to tell where the scale-patterned fragments should cover the real person.What I can only be sure of is that the real person has scales on his body!

"Jin Wei, during the day, you said that you picked up three scales in another Xishui village, are they the same as this one?" Xinhong asked holding the scale-patterned fragments. "You don't need to ask. I didn't lie to you. You still don't believe me. If you have anything to say, you'd better wait until you get back to the village!" I stood up while talking, "If someone comes over later, don't Thought we killed the guards and lost the real clay sculptures." Xinhong didn't talk too much, he stood up and walked out of Xiaoshishan with me.I deliberately walked around the guard's body, not daring to take another look at the guard.It's not because I'm afraid of his death, but because I actually ate his brain, which makes me feel particularly sick.Under the cold moonlight, this place is like a slaughterhouse, and the atmosphere is indescribably weird.We hadn’t walked far before Xinhong stopped. He thought it was better to call the police. We had already been to the scene with the note function. If we didn’t tell the police honestly, in case they found evidence of our presence at the scene, Even if we jumped into the Yellow River, we wouldn't be able to clean it up.Xinhong had just finished reporting to the police with his mobile phone, when the mobile phone shut down automatically because of insufficient power.

"Sha la... Sha la..." There was another strange sound in the woods, as if someone was tearing something.I hurriedly asked Xinhong to look towards the place where the sound was coming from.Beside a small bush, there seemed to be a person lying down, and a small thing beside him.We bravely walked over slowly, trying to make the noise while walking as small as possible.The moving little thing seemed to be biting something. His hearing seemed to be sharper than mine, and he noticed us only a few steps away.The little thing turned around and wanted to run, but Xinhong quickly turned on the flashlight, and the little thing was clearly illuminated by the light.

That little thing turned out to be the baby we saw earlier!At this moment, he opened his mouth, covered with dark red blood, the teeth in his mouth were sharp and sharp, and covered with dark red minced meat, I couldn't stop feeling numb when I saw it.After the baby was illuminated by the light, it ran away quickly, and the speed was almost comparable to that of cats and dogs.Can babies run so fast?I wanted to catch up, but Xinhong grabbed me. "Stop chasing, look at the man next to the bush!" Xinhong's tone was a little confused. I looked along the light of the flashlight, and was immediately speechless.The man lying next to the bushes has no clothes on his body, and he is probably the real person in the clay sculpture.His body has been bitten beyond recognition, bloody and bloody, no piece of skin is intact.His internal organs were already somewhat rotten, and these things mixed with light yellow liquid gushed out of his abdominal cavity, and the bones of his hands, feet and chest were also exposed.What chilled me the most was that there was a hole in his head, and his yellow brain was scattered all over the floor like tofu.

"Did that baby do it? Was that baby biting his body just now?" I barely suppressed the fear in my heart. This person's body was torn apart by that baby, let's go over and see if there are any scales you mentioned.I bravely walked to this person with Xinhong.The person's internal organs and yellow blood exuded a disgusting stench, and I quickly covered my nose.There were indeed several seven-colored scales among the shredded flesh torn apart by the baby. Why did this person have scales on his body?Isn't he human? "So that baby is so vicious. If I had been tricked into hugging him, I would have ended up like this." I said with a sigh of relief.

"Why were the guards and this person's brains pulled out, as if they wanted to eat their brains." Xinhong said looking at the person's head. "You don't need to ask, that baby must have done it, and I don't know where he came from?" I glanced at the brain scattered on the ground, and turned my head away quickly. "Tell me first, where was the first time you saw this baby?" Xinhong stood up and said. "It's Xishui Village, no, it's another Xishui Village, the one that no one lives in!" I said incoherently. "There must be many mountains here, there must be!" Xinhong turned the topic aside, which made me a little puzzled.

"What mountain, didn't you see it yourself? It's a plain here. Are you sick and your brain is not working?" I couldn't help but glanced at the corpse in front of me, but then turned my head to the side. "Do you know what that baby is? He is the spirit of mountains and rivers!" Xinhong said a little excitedly. "You mean that baby is a sprite, the spirit of mountains and rivers? How is this possible?" I couldn't believe it. "That's right! When I saw him at the time, I thought he might be the legendary sprite. But you dragged me away, and you thought I was so easily fooled?" Xinhong said every word said.

"So you already guessed that he was a ghost? I thought you wanted to go and hug him. You pretended to be pretty." "Spirits look like three-year-old children, with black and red skin, red eyes, long ears, red and black, and like to imitate human voices to confuse and attack people." Xinhong said. In ancient times, people described sprites as monsters of wood and stone, or spirits of mountains and rivers. Simply put, they were monsters, so everyone thought he was a fiction.I saw it today and realized that there really is such a thing, but it is just a primate-like animal with high intelligence, but it is not a monster.People call them monsters of wood and stone, or spirits of mountains and rivers because they often appear in the mountains and fields. They are very rare animals, but they are ferocious by nature.

"So sprites are monsters of wood and stone, or spirits of mountains and rivers. He often appears in the mountains. Is there really a mountain here?" My tone was very calm. Animals are frightened. Is this the so-called growth? "Yes, there must be a mountain near here. Let's go to your Xishui Village tomorrow or the day after tomorrow to see. There must be some secrets there." "However, there seems to be another place that doesn't match the title. I remember that ancient books only said that sprites like to imitate human voices to confuse and attack humans, but sprites don't deliberately dig out human brains and eat them, do they? "I took a look at the hole in the man's head.

"This is what I don't understand. The previous guard just had a hole in his head and his brain escaped from it, but his body was not bitten badly by sprites like the corpse in front of us. The guard was definitely not killed by the ghost, I guess, the corpse may have been dug out by so many other things, and the monster came to bite him." Xinhong's tone was a bit regretful, but it was no wonder, this But it is the most research-valuable thing in archeology, but it is a pity that it has been destroyed for no reason. "You mean," I mused, "that besides sprites, there is another ferocious thing?" Xinhong didn't say anything, just nodded to me.We checked the surrounding environment, but couldn't find any valuable clues.Xinhong just called the police, so we have to wait for the police here.I hope they will not be wronged because we have done all this. Generally, those who report to the police will be regarded as criminal suspects by them.I just don't know how to explain all this to the police, if we say it's a monster, it's no wonder they don't send us to a mental hospital.However, it is a pity to lose a rare real-life clay sculpture.I am more and more curious about the origin of the clay sculpture of real people. Although there are many Buddhist monks in history who passed away without decay, this person has scales on his body, and he is neither Taoist nor Buddha, which is really strange. We waited a long time in the dark woods for the police to arrive.We were very tediously questioned, and the questioning almost drove me crazy, because I didn't know how to explain it all, and I felt a little tired and wanted to go back to the village to rest.After a lot of trouble, the police were willing to let us go. It was nearly twelve o'clock in the evening when we returned to the village.We walked lightly in the village alleys, feeling overwhelmed.I asked softly: "Xinhong, do you think this village is a fake Xishui Village?" Before Xinhong could answer me, a black shadow suddenly appeared in front of us, which shocked me. "Where did you go?" The voice belonged to the old woman! "I still want to ask where did you go?" I said in a low voice. The old lady didn't pay attention, she just turned around and led us to her house.It was dark at night, and the village became a little cold.Along the way, the old lady was unwilling to talk to us, and we didn't know how to tell her what happened in the woods.When we got back to the house, the old lady told us to rest and not to run out again.As soon as Xinhong came back, he lay down on the bed to rest, but I felt a little urgent to urinate, so I went to the latrine. When I was about to walk into my room, I saw that the light was still on in the old woman's room. I wondered if she had disappeared again?So, I looked in through the crack of the door, and the old lady was still sitting in the room, and my heart immediately became more at ease.I thought the old lady had disappeared again.However, when I saw the portrait in the old woman's hand, I couldn't help being surprised!