Chapter 18 Chapter 1: A Ghost in the Pine Forest

The soul wanders in the underworld, and the wind disperses, and the corpse is buried in the barren hills with the fragrance of grass and trees. When a person dies like a lamp goes out, no one knows what the world will be like after death. All people know is that the body of the deceased must be respected. "Put in the soil to be safe" is the traditional thought of the Chinese people, but is it sure to be "safe" after being buried in the soil? It was already dark, and I stepped on the accelerator to the bottom on the highway, letting the Hummer with the word "public security" printed on the body go wild.My right foot is almost numb, and I doubt I'll be able to move my foot to the brake button in time if there's a red light ahead.Fortunately, there are no red lights on the highway.

My name is Mu Shenyu, an unlucky criminal policeman just recovering from a serious illness.Not long ago, in the process of arresting a prisoner, I was injured, and the injury was not serious.After all, he was injured on duty. He thought he would be able to rest for at least ten days and a half months, but as soon as he was able to get out of bed, he was arrested by the boss and went back to work.After finally finishing the case, the boss suddenly said to me with the appearance of a weasel wishing a chicken a new year: "Amu, you have been working hard these days, how about this, I will let you take a vacation and have a good rest."

"Did I hear you right, Boss! I pretended to be my grandson and begged you a hundred times before, and you didn't let me have a vacation. Why do you take the initiative to drive me away now?" This old fox must be uneasy and kind, so I have to be careful Handle. "My surname is not Zhou, don't treat me as a skinny Zhou, I will let you take a break occasionally." The boss showed a very weird smile, which made me feel like I was about to be betrayed. "I've been with you for several years. I don't know whether you sell Viagra or Tetramine in your gourd. If you have something to say, just say it. Anyway, I don't have much room to resist." I looked at him with contempt. strafing.

"Actually, it's nothing. I just want to give you a government-funded tour and a chance to go on a blind date." His smile made me shudder. "Boss, although I'm still single, you don't have to give me unsold Luodi oranges!" I complained. "Does this girl look like a leftover cane?" The boss handed me a photo. ("Luodi Orange" and "Selling Leftover Sugarcane" are both Cantonese dialects. They both mean overstocked goods and are mostly used to describe leftover women. There is also "Shentai Orange" with a similar meaning, which is used for worshiping gods and letting go. The shriveled oranges on the altar are mostly used to describe old maids.)

I took the photo and saw that it was a girl in a police uniform with a good appearance and figure, the type I like, so I replied: "Well, it's okay!" "I heard she's still a virgin." The boss showed ambiguous eyes, "I'll give you a chance to pick her up." I looked at the boss suspiciously and asked, "Is there such a good thing?" "That's right, there is such a good thing. Your job this time is to pick up girls, so go now, there are many people who want to pick up her, don't miss the opportunity..." That's how I was kicked into the car by the boss in a daze, and set off for a small county that I had never heard of and could hardly be found on the map.

When I drove the car out of the expressway, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and my stomach was croaking with hunger, so I randomly found a restaurant on the side of the road to worship the Wu Zang Temple, and inquired about how to get to the small remote county on the side of the road. "You are going to Chongyuan County. Go straight ahead on the road until you pass through a pine forest, and then walk for about 20 minutes. It is quite far from here. I advise you to go tomorrow. If you I want to stay, we have a room here." I asked the hotel owner about the destination of my trip, but he sold me rooms and kept trying to persuade me to stay in a hotel.

The boss looks like a philistine, and the taste of the food is unpalatable, even the rice is cold.Such a black shop also wants to keep me, bah!Bite my head and swallow the food like a pig, I paid the bill and prepared to leave amidst the boss's urgency, but he was still determined and advised me to stay in the hotel again: "You should stay for one night first, go to Chongyuan The road in the county is not easy to walk without street lights! Moreover, there are graves everywhere in the pine forest, and it is said that ghosts are often haunted, so no one dares to walk that road at night."

I thanked the boss hypocritically, and then slipped away like oil on the soles of my feet.However, I soon regretted it. The road to Chongyuan County was exactly as the restaurant owner said, there was not even a street lamp, the road surface was uneven, bumpy along the way, almost knocked out the pork I had just stuffed into my stomach.Moreover, the road was much longer than I thought. After driving for almost an hour, I still haven't seen the pine forest that the boss mentioned. It seems that he didn't lie to me.Alas, it's all my fault that I judge the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.

Around midnight, I finally saw a pine forest, but at this time, there should be no hotels in such a remote area!It's better to drive the car to the county seat quickly and find the police station.However, when I drove the car into the middle of the pine forest, such a small wish was also disillusioned-the car suddenly turned off! Longevity God!The car was fine all the way, why did it turn off for no reason at this time?After starting it several times without success, I can only spend the night in this wilderness, thinking that there should be no bandits in such a remote place, right?Uh, I'm a policeman, and I drive a police car, even if there are bandits, they won't attack me.

Although there will be no one who doesn't have a good eye for my idea, it is still hard to feel at ease if you want to spend the night in this wilderness.As the saying goes, "you don't fight ghosts when you're ugly", the early hours of the morning always make people feel eerie, and it's still in such an unpopular place.Fortunately, there was a powerful flashlight in the car, so I got out of the car and opened the hood to check.However, I didn't know how to repair a car, and after looking at it for a long time, I didn't see any tricks, so I had to give up.When I was about to go back to the car to survive the long night, I suddenly caught a glimpse of the pine forest on both sides of the road out of the corner of my eye. It seemed that there were some red, red and white things. I took a flashlight and shone on the pine forest, which almost scared me to death—the pine forest was full of people They are all red-faced and white-clothed guys!These guys are standing next to the pine tree... to be precise, they are floating next to the pine tree, because I found that they are all about half a meter above the ground, floating around against the pine tree.

I immediately jumped back into the car, closed and locked the car door, and closed all the windows, closing my eyes and praying to the gods and Buddhas in the sky to come and rescue me.After a while, I dared to open my eyes when I found that there was no movement.Fortunately, those strange guys are still floating around, and they don't seem to have the intention of attacking me.Although they didn't come to attack me, there were so many of them, and I could see close to a hundred of them. Being surrounded by them was a very uncomfortable thing.If I were to stay up all night under these conditions, I'd be insane before dawn. In order not to be driven crazy by these guys, I had to find out what they were, so I bit the bullet and shone a flashlight on them through the car window.It’s okay not to take a photo, but I frightened myself again because I saw myself appearing out of the window-damn!The car window reflects light, and I am frightened by my own reflection.I wanted to open the car window, but I was afraid that if I opened the car window, a big bloody hand would come in from the window and grab my neck, so I had to stick the flashlight to the car window and shine it outside.Although this effect is not ideal, but it will make me feel safer. After careful observation, I found that the range of those guys' floating is not large, and it feels as if they are hung on a pine tree.Could it be mass suicide?Nearly a hundred people hanged themselves together in the same place in the same attire?It's too scary!However, that wasn't necessarily the scariest thing, because I then found out that almost every guy had a raised dirt bump near each of them, and on closer inspection, there was a gravestone-like stone in front of the dirt bump - I thought I'd be damned up! No wonder the owner of the restaurant said that no one would dare to walk this road at night. There are such red-faced and white-clothed hanged ghosts all over the mountains and plains. Who would dare to stroll here!Alas, it's too late to regret it now, and we can only hope that this police car, which inexplicably stalled, will start again inexplicably.But this hope may be relatively slim, because the headlights on the front of the car seem to be a little dimmer than before, and I think the battery is almost dead. Turn the headlights off, turn the key again, and hopefully start the car.After twisting and turning several times, it still didn't work. When I was about to give up, I succeeded.It seems that the luck tonight is not too bad. It would be perfect if I can drag a beautiful woman away.However, in such a wild place, the chances of seeing a beautiful woman are not necessarily higher than that of a female ghost... I almost forgot that I was surrounded by hundreds of hanged ghosts. I put it in second gear and started, and when I stepped on the accelerator to the bottom to escape from this terrible ghost place, a black figure suddenly appeared in the pine forest, rushing towards the car like a headless fly.This frightened me, and I saw that I had to hit it soon, and I stepped on the brakes immediately, but it seemed too late.When the other party entered the lighting range of the headlights, I saw a beautiful female face, which seemed familiar, but before I had time to wonder if I recognized her, I heard a collision, and then she was right in front of me Disappeared. Did I see a ghost again, and this time I really met a beautiful female ghost. The sudden emergency brake stopped the car again, oops, could it be that the hospitable ghost in the pine forest wants to treat me well!Suddenly I felt very cold and shivered all over.Although I think I have a good chance of going to hell, but as a people's policeman, I can't just pat my ass and leave!But if I want to get out of the car and check it now, I'm not willing to do it in millions.When he was hesitating whether to get out of the car to check, suddenly there was a "pop" sound beside him, and he turned his head as a natural reaction, and immediately cried out "wow" - a white and tender palm covered with blood and mud pressed on the car window. I immediately checked the car doors and windows, and after confirming that they were all locked and closed, I closed my eyes and said silently: "I can't see anything, I can't hear anything..." However, before I could say a few words, the sound of slapping on the window came again. It rang again, so I read it out loud.Unexpectedly, I heard the sound of pulling the doorknob. Fortunately, I had already locked the car door, but if I continued to stay, there would be no good fruit. It was better to walk, so I started the car. "Are you a policeman? You want to run away after bumping into someone!" An angry female voice came from outside the window.Only then did I feel a little relieved. Fortunately, it turned out that I hit someone, not a ghost.But when I moved my eyes to the car window, I was intimidated again, because what I saw was a distorted face. "If you scare me to death, I'll sue you for murder as a ghost!" I opened the car window and let the guy outside the window who put his face on the car window to scare me feel "cool". After the car window was opened, a female face with a lot of dirt appeared in front of my eyes, but she scolded me as soon as she opened her mouth: "You hit me and left, and now you want to disfigure me! " "Miss, please make it clear that I haven't run away yet, so I don't mean I'm going in spite of myself. And I didn't intend to disfigure you, but you scared me to death." I replied angrily, thinking: What are you doing now? Does my appearance need to be disfigured? She stretched out her white tender jade hand that was still bleeding, grabbed my shoulder, and said angrily: "Don't argue with me, follow me back to the police station immediately!" "Miss, didn't you see clearly that this is a police car?" I didn't know whether to be angry or funny. She said righteously: "What about the police car? Can the police get away with breaking the law? What's more, you are not wearing a police uniform. Who knows if you stole this car. I know everyone in the Chongyuan County Police Station. Never seen you!" "Oh, forget it, anyway, I'm going to the police station here, get in the car!" I didn't want to keep entangled with her in this ghost place, so I reluctantly gave in. As soon as I drove the car away from that horrible pine forest, I thought of a question-why is this girl sneaking out to this hellish place in the middle of the night?The hotel owner said that no one would dare to walk this way at night, and of course no one would come for a walk in the middle of the night, so why did she appear here?I suddenly remembered the Spanish supernatural video circulating on the Internet. Could this girl be a female ghost who just hitches a ride?Maybe she knocked me over on purpose, tricked me into letting her get in the car, and then took me while I was driving... In order not to frighten myself, I tentatively asked: "You are a girl who comes here for a stroll in the middle of the night, aren't you afraid of meeting bad guys?" Her body trembled suddenly, then she gritted her teeth and said, "I'm here to catch a bad guy like you!" "It's wrong, you ran out suddenly, and I bumped into you! In the middle of the night in such a barren mountain, who would have thought that someone would run out suddenly." I watched her every expression sideways. "You bumped into me, and you still want to say it's my fault! Even if there is something wrong with my running out suddenly, you can't ignore it!" Her attitude was quite arrogant, which was really unbearable. "How could I go without thinking? Who dares to get off the car casually in such a place where the front is not close to the village and the back is not near the shop!" "Coward." She glanced at me dismissively. After chatting with her for a while, I think it's time to get down to business: "Did you run out onto the road in fright when you saw those white things?" She hesitated for a moment, and her body suddenly trembled violently: "Did you see it?" "What did you see?" I had to make sure she was talking about the hanged man I saw. "It's those mandrills with red faces and white clothes." Even her voice trembled. "Mandrill? What is it? Can it harm people?" I told her with a feeling of palpitation, but luckily I had already left the pine forest. "I heard from the local people that there are many red-faced and white-coated mandrills in the pine forest. Anyone who looks at them at night must stay in the pine forest forever. Once they leave the pine forest, they will be torn into pieces and eaten..." As she spoke, she shrank her body, and her voice became smaller and smaller. Telling her like this, goosebumps all over my body came out, but I still forced a smile: "It's just a legend, it can't be true!" She suddenly pointed to the rearview mirror and shouted: "Look, they are really chasing after you!" I looked in the rearview mirror and saw nothing, so I immediately turned back to look directly behind the car.However, before I could see the situation behind the car clearly, screams of panic sounded from beside me. Before I could react, a terrifying face appeared in front of my eyes...