Chapter 36 Chapter Eleven: The Essence of Mountains and Rivers

We picked up the clay sculpture fragments that fell on the ground, but found that the patterns on the inside of it were exactly the same as the seven-color scales I saw today? ! In clay sculpture of a real person, all the clothes of the real person are removed first, and then the clay sculpture is applied, so the clay sculpture is covered on the skin of the real person. Naturally, the inner side of the clay sculpture will leave the lines of 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 pieces on the ground, some with scale patterns, some without.

"Xinhong, come and see the inside of these fragments. The patterns on them are..." I said in a low voice, as if I was a thief. Xinhong walked to my side, glanced at the fragment in my hand, and didn't make a sound.He also squatted down to look at the clay sculpture fragments on the ground, turned over those fragments, and found that the situation was the same as mine.These clay sculpture fragments have been scattered in a mess, and it is difficult to tell where the scale-patterned fragments should cover the real person's body.The only thing that is certain is that the real person also has scales on his skin!

"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 have to ask. I didn't lie to you. You still don't believe me. If you have anything to say, wait until you get back to the village!" I stood up while talking, "If someone comes over later, they must think We killed the guards and got rid of the real clay figures." 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 were not far away when Xin Hong stopped. He thought it was better to call the police. After all, we had been to the scene. If we didn’t tell the police honestly, if they found evidence of our being there at the scene, they would jump into the Yellow River. I can't wash it off either.As soon as Xinhong finished reporting to the police with his mobile phone, 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. Hearing this sound, I hurriedly told Xin Hong to look towards the place where the sound came from. Beside a small bush, there seemed to be a person lying down with a small thing beside him.We bravely walked over slowly, and our steps were as light as possible, for fear of frightening that thing.Who knows, that little thing has a sharper sense of hearing than mine. We were only a few steps away before we were noticed by it. It turned around and wanted to run. Seeing this, Xinhong quickly turned on the flashlight, and the little thing was clearly illuminated by the light. It turned out to be the baby we saw earlier!

At this moment, it opened its mouth, which was stained with black and red blood. Its teeth were sharp and sharp, and they were covered with pork liver-colored minced meat, which made my heart feel numb.After being illuminated by the light, the baby ran away quickly, even faster than cats and dogs. How could a baby run so fast.I wanted to catch up, but Xinhong quickly grabbed my arm. "Stop chasing, look at the man next to the bush!" Xinhong's tone was a little confused. I followed the light of the flashlight to look over, and was immediately speechless. The man lying next to the bush didn't have any clothes on him. He was a real person in the clay sculpture.Its body has been bitten beyond recognition, bloody and bloody, not a single piece of skin is intact.Some internal organs in the body had already rotted away, and these things mixed with light yellow liquid gushed out of its abdominal cavity, and the bones of its hands, feet and chest were also exposed.What chilled me the most was that there was a big hole in its head, and its yellowed brains were scattered all over the ground like tofu.

"Did that baby do it? Was that baby biting its body just now?" I barely suppressed the fear in my heart. "Nine times out of ten, we can't be wrong. Let's go over and see if it has the scales you mentioned." I bravely walked up to this person with Xinhong. Its internal organs and yellow blood exuded a very disgusting stench, and I quickly covered my nose.There were indeed several seven-color scales in the shredded meat torn apart by the baby, but why did this person have scales on his body? Isn't he a human? "That baby is so vicious, if I had been tricked into hugging him, I would have ended up in the same way." I said with a sigh of relief.

"Why were the guards and this person's brains pulled out, as if he 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 my brain scattered on the ground, and then quickly turned my head away. "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, did you see it yourself? This is a plain. Are you sick and your brain is not working?" I couldn't help but glanced at the corpse in front of me again, but then turned my head to the side. "Do you know what that baby is? It's not human at all, it's the spirit of mountains and rivers!" Xinhong said unhurriedly. "You mean that baby is a sprite—the spirit of mountains and rivers? How is that possible?" I replied in great surprise. "That's right! When I saw it at the time, I thought it might be the legendary sprite. But you dragged me away, and you thought I was fooled so easily?" Xinhong said every word said.

"So you already guessed that it was a sprite? I thought you wanted to go and hug it, but you acted like it." "The sprite looks like a three-year-old child, with black and red skin, red eyes, long red-black ears, and likes to imitate human voices to confuse and attack people." Xinhong briefly described it. In ancient times, people described sprites as monsters of wood and stone, or spirits of mountains and rivers. They are very rare animals, but they are ferocious by nature.For a long time, people have rumored that the monster is a monster, so everyone thinks it is fictional.After seeing it today, I just realized that there is such a thing in the world, but in fact 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.

"So sprites are monsters of wood and stone, or spirits of mountains and rivers, and they often appear in the mountains, so there are really mountains?" My tone was calm, and I didn't feel overwhelmed by seeing the animals called monsters in ancient times. frightened. "Yes, there must be a mountain near here. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, let's go to the Xishui Village you mentioned. There must be some secrets there." Xinhong's eyes lit up, as if the village was right in front of him. "However, there seems to be another place that doesn't match the name. 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. "I glanced at the hole in the man's head and said seriously.

"This is exactly what I don't understand. The previous guard just had a hole in his head, and his brain escaped from it, but his body is not the same as the previous corpse, which was bitten badly by sprites. The guard It was definitely not killed by the monster, I guess, this real clay sculpture may have been dug out by other things, and the monster came to bite him." Xinhong's tone was a bit regretful, but it's no wonder, this is an archaeological project. 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.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 just hope they don't wrong us. Generally, those who report to the police will be regarded as criminal suspects.I 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.The only pity is that a rare real-life clay sculpture is gone, and anyone in the archaeological field can't help but sigh. Looking at the weird real-life clay sculpture, I became more and more curious about its origin. Although there are many Buddhist monks in history who passed away and their bodies did not rot, but this person has scales on his body, and he is neither Taoist nor Buddha, which is really strange .We waited for a long time in the dark woods before the police arrived, and the questioning was so complicated that it almost drove me crazy.Because I don't know how to explain all this myself, and I feel exhausted physically and mentally, and I just want to go back to the village to rest.After a lot of trouble, the police were willing to let us go. When we returned to the village, it was almost twelve o'clock in the evening.We walked lightly in the alleys of the village, feeling agitated, and I asked softly, "Xinhong, do you think this village is a fake Xishui Village?" Before Xinhong could answer me, a black figure suddenly appeared in front of us, which startled me. "Where did you go?" The voice belonged to the old woman! "I still want to ask where you have been." I replied softly. The old lady ignored me, she just turned around and led us to her house.In the dark night, the village is full of cold, making people shiver uncontrollably.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.Back in the house, the old lady told us to rest and stop running around.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 thought to myself, will she disappear again?So, I glanced 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, but when I saw the portrait the old lady was holding in her hand, I couldn't help being shocked!