Hearing Da Jinya's words, I also felt anxious, could something have really happened?
I anxiously looked at the positions where Duan Guangyi and the old lady had left, as well as the location where the black shadow appeared behind me, my heart was in turmoil.
After thinking for a while, I said to Feng Ying and Da Jinya, "You stay here and watch over Cheng Yan and Huang Xin, I'll go check."
"Xiao Li, can your timid heart handle it?" Da Jinya teased me.
I said that sometimes I have a very small heart, but sometimes I also have a very big heart.
Actually, this was just me boasting. I've always had a small heart, and now I'm especially nervous going to check on Duan Guangyi and the old lady. But what can I do?
I don't have any 'yin' skills, but I stayed behind and ended up becoming a drag, now that I'm checking alone, at least Fengying and Dajinya can ensure that Huang Xin and Cheng Yan are safe.
Sometimes, a man has to be a man, even if he's cowardly, he has to step up, otherwise, he won't even respect himself.
Spiritual faith is the only good 'medicine' to overcome cowardice.
I rolled up my 'pants' legs, patted the dust off my butt, and was about to enter the woods, just as I entered, suddenly a pair of arms grabbed my shoulder.
"I'll be damned." I raised my leg to kick, but halfway through, I pulled it back, why... because the person was Duan Guangyi.
"Where did you go, kid? You didn't come back for a long time?" I asked Duan Guangyi.
Duan Guangyi pointed to the old lady behind him, saying the old lady had diarrhea, and it took a long time.
The old lady chuckled and said that from childhood, she had eaten human 'flesh' and developed a stomach disease, every time she went to the bathroom, it took over half an hour.
I said you should go to the hospital to take a look at this 'problem,' don't let the stomach trouble transfer to the brain, getting a mental illness wouldn't be good.
"Don't worry! It's been years with this old 'problem,' and it's never not gotten better." The old lady didn't get angry at my sarcasm, then led us on the road.
I followed the team for a few tens of meters, still unable to help looking back at the grass pile where the dark shadow had just appeared. I wanted to go back and check, but thinking about it, what would be the point of going back to check now? The dark shadow had completely disappeared.
When I completely stopped looking back at the grass pile, I suddenly remembered something.
It was Xia Bao who told me about the villagers' relatives going into the mountains in the car.
He said that the group of city relatives had trouble as soon as they reached the first hill, with one person half-buried in the ground, and even their skull had been smashed with a shovel.
I think that this weird incident might not have been caused by ghosts, but may have been done by people.
Think about it, on the first hill, there's a strong smell of sodium nitrite, city people probably don't know what sodium nitrite is.
You should know that sodium nitrite has a strong hallucinogenic effect, a hundred times stronger than the hallucinations caused by drinking alcohol. In this situation, those city relatives must have had hallucinations, and then one of them, using a shovel and weapons, killed all the other team members.
Xia Bao said that the city relatives looked for three days, but they couldn't find one body at all, right?
It's possible that person didn't die at all, and was the real killer, killing all of the other team members, then he came to his senses, realized he had killed someone, and ran deep into the mountains, disappearing without a trace.
By the way, Xia Bao said that when those city relatives went into the mountains, he and his friends were playing in the water.
The season for playing in the water must have been summer, the mountains were hot, the temperature was high, the smell of sodium nitrite would be stronger and more easily dispersed, those city relatives as they went up the mountain, must have inhaled large amounts of sodium nitrite, which also indirectly supports my conjecture... is quite reasonable.
Thinking about this, I shivered, the person who had been listening to our conversation in the grass pile just now, could he be the only city relative who survived?
A person spending thirty to forty years in the wilderness must be physically much stronger than an ordinary person, more importantly, how did he survive?
Animals? Not likely. I just walked a section of the road to Fengmen Mountain, observed for a long time, such a big mountain, not even a rabbit, where did he find enough wild animals to ward off hunger?
The most likely reason that person survived was the countless burial mound corpses in the mountains.
He has also become... like the old lady, a living dead person who eats solid 'flesh.'
"Damn, what's going on." I hit my head in fear, being followed by a living dead person in the dark.
This feeling was like a thorn in my back.
I couldn't help but walk to the back of the team, continuously observing behind and beside me, keeping a high vigil to protect the back of my teammates.
Following the old lady, we crossed three or four hills, I asked the old lady: Grandma, how many more hills do we have to cross?
The old lady pointed to the mountain road ahead, saying: Now the coffins in the four or five hills have all been dug up, where we carried the coffins, it's seven or eight hills away.
"So far, how did you all get the stone coffins out?" I maintained a certain level of suspicion about this matter.
The old lady smiled and said: Ox cart, pulled by two oxen, the seven brothers were just helping out when the ox cart wheels got stuck in the mud, they pushed it.
"Well! Continue leading the way." I asked the old lady to continue leading the way.
A few of us continued to follow, and when we reached the top of the fourth hill, suddenly, I smelled a very strong smell of blood.
"No, there's the smell of blood." I raised my hand, and the whole team stopped.
The old lady sniffed hard and said, "Where's the smell of blood? She hadn't smelled it at all."
Dajinya also sniffed, he hadn't smelled it either.
Fengying gave Dajinya a slap on the back of his head: Why are you sniffing, are you a dog? Stop sniffing, you're making me lose face. Let's listen to Xiaoli, Xiaoli is good at dealing with 'yin' people, he has opened his heavenly eyes, and has a more sensitive perception than us.
Cheng Yan also hastily said: Yes, yes, Xiao Li's nose is just like a dog's nose.
"Shame on you, it's totally unscientific, nonsense, how can Xiao Li's nose be like a dog's nose? His nose is even stronger than a dog's nose." Huang Xin 'supported' me.
But I didn't want her to be supportive, I said with a black face: Don't talk anymore, the more you elaborate, the darker it gets, later I might really become a dog's nose.
Haha!
Everyone laughed, I didn't expect that at such a tense moment, I inadvertently created a joke, allowing everyone to relax a bit.
I asked them to follow closely, and I followed the smell of blood into the nearby small forest along the road.
This patch of forest was relatively sparse, not many trees, and the place was spacious.
After walking seven or eight meters, I actually saw a tent.
The tent was blood red, and the smell of blood inside was especially strong.
Next to the tent, there was a large black pot, a stone stove was built, and there were some compressed biscuits and some beef and mutton on the ground, to the right of the tent, there was a long pole, horizontally on the branches of two trees, with some clothes hanging on it.
Such as undershirts, underwear, long johns, and so on.
Outside the tent, there were two pairs of hiking boots.
The old woman was an experienced driver; she took one look and said that the ones living inside the tent must be hikers who had come camping here, seeking death!
I asked the old woman, "Are there many hikers around here?"
"Plenty! Doesn't our ‘Men’ Village boast being the most enlightened in the country? There are quite a few hikers who come here, some have died in the ‘Men’ Mountain, of course, others have been lucky and found me or the village elders to guide them. These people are smart, they haven't lost their lives, but before leaving, they all lamented, 'What's so enlightened about ‘Men’ Village? We haven't even seen a single ghost.'” the old woman said.
At this point, the old woman shook her head and said, "Ah, curiosity sometimes leads to the death of people."
I nodded my head, indeed, sometimes people are killed by their curiosity. I went to the front of the tent and fiercely pulled it open. Inside, there were two bodies, one male and one female, covered in countless bite marks, their flesh torn and mangled, their arms already reduced to mere skeletons.
There were clear bite marks on the throats of the man and woman, clearly made by human teeth.
Human teeth and animal teeth are different - human teeth are flat and not very sharp, while animal teeth are sharp, like steel knives. As long as your eyes aren't blind, you can tell the difference between bites from a human and an animal.
"Damn, they were killed by a person; the throat is the fatal wound," Big Gold Tooth also noticed.
Feng Ying was a refined person, and upon seeing this scene, quickly closed his eyes and said, "Good lord, why would anyone come to ‘Men’ Mountain? Isn't that seeking death?"
At this point, the old woman chuckled, "Ah, this man-eating beast really knows how to enjoy itself. Aside from randomly biting their bodies for a while, it specifically ate the flesh from the hands of these two people. It sure knows how to feast."
"Is there a reason for this?" I asked the old woman.
The old woman chuckled and replied, "Hehe, you wouldn't know about this, would you? People use their hands the most, so the flesh on their hands is lively and delicious."
Hearing this, I felt a shiver down my spine. At the same time, I saw a mirror lying inside the tent, which the female body probably used for makeup during her lifetime. Now, through the reflection in the mirror, I happened to see the expression on the face of the old woman next to me.
Her expression was sinister, intoxicated, constantly licking her lips, as if she really wanted to eat the flesh of the male and female corpses.
"Disgusting old woman," I forcefully suppressed my internal anger and said, "Brothers, let's quickly bury these people. It's not our style to leave the dead unburied. If these male and female corpses have met us, it's fate, and we can't just leave them exposed in the wilderness."
"We should just light them up, carry the tent out, and cremate them. I'll recite a soul-calling incantation for them," Big Gold Tooth said.
We all agreed; everyone pitched in to carry the male and female corpses out. As we were carrying out the male corpse, a piece of paper suddenly flew out from under his buttocks.
On the paper was a strange pattern.
The pattern was of a yin and yang fish, with half of it black and the other half white. Its head resembled a dragon and its tail a tiger's, this yin and yang fish was also known as "Chi", a mythical ferocious beast in legends.
"Let's just burn it together," I took the "Chi" pattern and threw it onto the male corpse, since he had drawn it, let it go with him.
I brought a lot of firewood and threw it on the bodies of the two people, after lighting it for a while, both bodies caught fire.
Just as they were lit, a shocking scene occurred...
Author's message: Brothers, I present two chapters. Although I'm very busy during the New Year and have many things to do, heaven will never break, or write some filler. Everyone can see from my writing that I'm genuine.