Cheng Yan asked me, "How are the Three Northeastern Provinces sinister?"
I pointed to the distant undulating and hazy mountains and asked her, "Do you know what those mountains represent? Dragon veins! There is dragon energy underground and dragon shapes on the surface, so it's not just an ordinary sinister place."
Then I pointed to the ground and said, "Do you know what's buried here?"
"What's buried? Isn't it ghosts and monsters?"
"Of course," I said. "In China, there have been wars for many years. In ancient times, this land gave rise to the Jin Dynasty, the Liao Dynasty, and the Later Jin. There were many battles on this land, and how many bones do you think were buried here? Later, the Japanese came and occupied our country's Three Northeastern Provinces. They established many military bases underground, and many Japanese stayed in the Three Northeastern Provinces. Also, there are many wild people in this region."
"Wild people? I thought only the Shennongjia area had wild people? How come there are wild people in the Northeast too?" Huang Xin, curious about what I said, asked me.
I said that I heard from my grandfather that there are often wild people in this Northeastern area. These wild people have a cruel nature, are shorter than normal people, and eat raw meat and drink blood, which is especially terrifying.
One time, the son of the village head in my grandpa's village was taken away by the wild people, and footprints could still be seen in the snow.
The village head was anxious at the time and immediately took all the men in the village to chase the wild people overnight.
They pursued the wild people until they found their nest, where a dozen wild people were sitting on the ground eating the son of the village head.
It was such a bloody scene that the village head almost fainted.
That was his only son.
Back then, the villagers were so tough, and it was justifiable to kill for revenge, not like now with the nonsense of "animal protection laws" and not being able to retaliate against enemies without reporting to the police first.
At that time, they were prepared for life and death and would act immediately if they encountered their enemies!
The village head didn’t waste words and immediately fought with the wild people alongside the other villagers.
Many men in the village had "bird rifles" and fired at the wild people.
After a few shots, they got rid of all those wild people.
When they were about to leave, my grandfather and the others accidentally fell into a pit near the wild people's nest. Guess what they found there?
"What did they find?" Cheng Yan asked eagerly.
I looked at her, blew a smoke ring, and said in a soft voice: They found a Japanese bandage flag and some rusted Japanese rifles. Only then did my grandfather and the others realize that these people were not wild people at all; they were some Japanese soldiers who had gone missing during the war and had stayed behind in the mountains when losing contact with the emperor. They had been unable to withdraw from China and remained as wild people in the mountains.
Those little Japanese were so cruel; when there was no food, they would catch some isolated women, and children to eat!
"And then? Did the incidents of Japanese soldiers turned wild people committing crimes continue?"
"Of course not!" I said in a deep voice. When my grandfather and the others returned to the village, they immediately reported the matter to the areas nearby. Many villages went to the mountains to deal with those Japanese turned wild people.
Back then when they invaded, they played a sweep as well, didn't they? My grandfather's village also gave them a taste of their own medicine by setting mountain fires to catch them.
From then on, there were no more incidents of Japanese wild people eating human flesh.
After listening to my story, Cheng Yan felt a bit shaken, and Huang Xin's speech was not very fluent, obviously she was very scared.
On top of that, they were inside the mountains and forests, with the wind howling, and not long after, the two 'women' were shivering with fear, one on each side of me.
Hey hey, this feels quite cool.
I hugged the shoulders of the two 'women' with both hands and continued walking with them.
Cheng Yan asked if we could stop, saying that walking on a mountain road in the middle of the night always made her feel anxious.
"Why be afraid, I'm here." I'm not afraid of walking at night.
"Why are you so brave?" Cheng Yan praised me.
This compliment makes me a little embarrassed. Actually, I want to say that I'm not very bold. But in front of the girls, how can I be cowardly? I pat my chest and loudly say, "From now on, please call me Li Dabian!"
The two girls burst into laughter. We walked along the road and descended the hill, arriving at a place called Jia Shan'ao.
This Jia Shan'ao has a story.
Because the terrain here is low and flat, it has always been regarded as a place for random burials, a place where dead bodies are casually discarded, a bit eerie.
Before entering the mountain, I forgot about Jia Shan'ao. When I came to find the Northeast Fox King before, he told me that this road was difficult to walk, and it was easy to encounter evil at night.
Today, I overlooked this. When I thought about it, I actually wanted to back out, but in front of the two girls, how could I say that? I just boasted about being Li Dabian, and if I backed down now, wouldn't I become a laughing stock?
I can’t back down.
I bravely led the two girls to continue forward.
Just before we were about to leave Jia Shan'ao, I finally breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that we had made it out. But things never go as smoothly as I hoped. Just as I was about to step out of Jia Shan'ao, suddenly, a gust of cold wind hit me in the face.
Following that, came a series of ghostly wails and howls.
"Return my son!"
"Kill! Soldiers, follow me and make a bloody path out."
"Bagha!"
I heard the crying of a "vengeful woman," the sound of ancient generals commanding soldiers to bravely kill the enemy, and also the curses of "Japanese devils."
These mixed voices made me shiver uncontrollably.
What am I afraid of? I'm afraid of encountering evil in Jia Shan'ao, and it seems that I really have.
The sound waves came one after another, not only did I get goosebumps, but beside me, Cheng Yan and Huang Xin, disregarding my behavior, held onto me tightly.
Cheng Yan cried and exclaimed, "Brother, let's go, let's go back, this, this is too scary."
"Yeah," Huang Xin, keeping relatively calm, just echoed Cheng Yan.
I shook my head, saying we can't go back. These ghosts are also afraid of tough people. If we retreat, they will know that we are afraid, and who knows what harm they may inflict.
Cheng Yan couldn't bear it and burst into tears.
Her crying intensified the ghostly wailing.
Various kinds of ghostly cries resounded incessantly.
Children's crying, women's crying, wolf howling, strange cries, filling our ears, making it difficult for me to move forward.
Even if we covered our ears, those sounds still reverberated in my heart.
It was then that I remembered, Cheng Yan was a person possessed by a fox spirit. Now she belonged to the "ghost-calling" body type.
Accompanying such a person on the road, the probability of encountering evil is much higher than an ordinary person.
I cursed inwardly, but since I was the one leading the way, I couldn't back down.
I forged ahead.
Passing one hurdle after another, those ghostly cries continued to echo in our ears, and we couldn't shake them off at all.
I murmured to myself, questioning how the souls at Jia Shan'ao kept haunting us despite the distance we had covered. It shouldn't be happening, should it?
I, who was presently confused, was fortunate to have Huang Xin, a girl with strong observational skills. She tugged at my clothes and carefully said, "Li ge, I feel like here...we have...we've been here!"
Been here? I looked around and realized something was wrong. Indeed, we had been here before, and there was a crooked-neck tree on my right, crooked as if a woman had been hanged on it.
When we passed by earlier, Cheng Yan was so scared that she cried, and I comforted her. I couldn't believe that we had walked back here again.
We were in trouble, we had encountered a ghost block.
Ghost block, also known as ghost obstruction, means that your eyes have been obstructed by ghosts. No matter how you walk, you can't walk out of this area!
"What should we do? Can we still get out?" Cheng Yan asked me anxiously.
Huang Xin, being more composed, asked Cheng Yan not to speak, saying that I would certainly find a way out.
I certainly had a way.
We are attracting 'Yin' people! Although I have a small amount of courage, I still have my own way to deal with ghost blocks.
I asked Cheng Yan and Huang Xin to hold onto me tightly and not let go no matter what happened.
"Okay!"
The two girls agreed very obediently and cleverly grabbed onto my clothes.
I took out a pack of yellow paper money from my backpack.
Grabbing one of them, I threw it into the air and shouted, "The underworld lends its path, ghost spirits retreat!"
These yellow papers floated slowly in the air. When they reached a height of over two meters, they exploded with a bang and quickly ignited, illuminating the darkness around me.
As I scattered the paper money, I continued to move forward.
"The underworld lends its path, ghost spirits retreat!"
Stacks of paper money were scattered, and soon we saw the mountain road ahead.
Cheng Yan is curious about everything and asked me how the paper money could burn by itself.
I said that this is not ordinary paper money; it's called yellow spirit money, sold to me by a "ghost witch." These funds can be used in the underworld. I pretended to be a spirit and spread the ghost money. The spirits would then clear a path, and the burning was because the spirits accepted my paper money.
Now, firstly, these wild spirits are greedy for money, and secondly, they're afraid that I'm a spirit and are wary of my abilities, so they dare not provoke me. They sold me face and made way for us.
"Alright, next time lend me some of your paper money. If I encounter something scary, I'll just sprinkle the money," Cheng Yan joked.
I chuckled and said that this paper money is almost as valuable as Renminbi, it's expensive, and you can't afford to just sprinkle it like that; it's too costly.
"What? It's that expensive? How can you bear to use it?" Cheng Yan suddenly exclaimed.
Bah! Of course, I wouldn't normally bear to, but now I have you two, and the consumption of this paper money will be covered in your hiring fee!
I don't feel bad!
"I do!" Huang Xin exclaimed and at the same time, let go of my hand.
I didn't know this girl was so greedy; if I had known, I wouldn't have said those words just now. [^ [><] ~]
When Huang Xin let go of my hand, I felt doomed.
Because she let go of me, the spirits thought she wasn't with me and would definitely entangle her.
Sure enough, in the instant that Huang Xin let go, a faint black mist enveloped her.
"The underworld lends its path, ghost spirits retreat."
I scattered all the paper money.
But it was no use; Huang Xin was already tightly enveloped by the black mist.
It seems that this slightly greedy young model is going to perish!