After hearing this sentence, I immediately shivered like a conditioned reflex. Psychological fear is the most difficult thing to bear. Maybe you won’t have much reaction when you see a corpse with your own eyes, but others will tell you with complicated expressions that this corpse is similar to
When you look alike, the feeling is completely different.
Cao Shi saw that I was very uncomfortable, so he turned around and scolded the guy who reported the news, telling him to stop talking nonsense. Although the other guy didn't dare to speak anymore, it could be seen from his expression that he still insisted on his opinion.
People's psychology is sometimes very complex. The more terrifying and bizarre something is, the more they want to know the truth. I am no exception. I am naturally curious, not to mention it concerns myself, so I told Cao Shi.
Check out the cave.
"This is a bit inappropriate." Cao Shi advised me: "If you really make a mistake, I will have to raise my head to see Master Ba."
Wei Mian also interjected: "Uncle Tian, it's better not to go, it's dark... it's scary."
I ignored their advice and insisted on going to see it in person. Cao Shi couldn't resist me, so he asked the guy again and again if it was safe down there. After getting the answer in the affirmative, Cao Shi wrapped up his clothes and said, "Let's go, I
Take you with me."
The three of us got into the pit one after another. The hole under the pit was not particularly wide, but it was still easy for us to get in. After passing through the hole, we saw a stone staircase sloping down in front of us, all paved with whole stone slabs.
The guy who led the way said that after passing this stone step, turn left and there is another one.
After walking all the stone steps, the entire underground cave appears in front of you, but if you look carefully, you can find that this is not a naturally formed cave, but a giant basement dug by humans, which may be hundreds of square meters.
Look, as the flashlight swayed back and forth, I saw four very thick pillars at a glance. Moreover, several iron cables extended from the top of the pillars. After being dragged to the ground, they coiled into a large circle, which was as big as my forearm.
It is thick and rusted beyond recognition, but it is still very strong and cannot be shaken. It is obviously a very laborious project to get such a heavy thing and then fix it to the top of the pillar. I really don’t know how people did it in the past.
My thoughts at this time were all about the bodies in the stone pit, so I could only temporarily put aside the issue of the iron rope. The guy who led the way pointed to the left and said that the stone pit was there.
Another guy who came down from the front was squatting next to the stone pit. As soon as Cao Shi took me over, he shined his flashlight on a body that had just been fished out of the black water. The guy behind was afraid that I couldn't see clearly, so he
Added a flashlight.
As soon as I saw the face of the corpse, my scalp began to feel tight, my heart beat rapidly accelerated at a sickly speed, and all the blood in my body suddenly rushed to my forehead.
How evil!
I don’t know what the black water in the pit is, and I don’t know how long the corpse in the pit has been dead. It is well preserved. Although it is a little swollen from being soaked, the outline of the face is very clear. I can identify anyone by mistake.
, but the only thing he couldn't admit was himself. The guy was right. The corpse that had just been fished out looked very much like me. Not only did it look very similar, but it also looked like the same person!
The person holding the flashlight and the two assistants seemed to have agreed upon it, and they shifted the light downwards together, and finally fixed it on the left hand of the corpse. After seeing the left hand of the corpse, I almost went crazy.
The little finger of the corpse's left hand had a ring-shaped six-finger exactly like mine!
If the face shape and facial features happened to be similar, I could reluctantly accept it, but the six fingers of the corpse made me really lack the courage to admit this fact.
Is this true? I stretched out my hand and slapped myself hard out of habit. It hurt so much that stars appeared in my eyes. It was obviously not a dream. Others looked at me strangely. Only Cao Shi patted me on the shoulder.
, let someone take me back to the ground first.
My head was completely dizzy and my thinking was in a mess. When I was going back, I tripped over the iron rope on the ground and suffered a lot of pain from the fall.
After returning to the ground, the guard reluctantly came over to talk to me, but I ignored him and continued to smoke one cigarette after another. This kind of thing is really weird. It would be a bit far-fetched to explain it by coincidence. After smoking a few cigarettes, my mind
After I woke up a little, I didn't know why I recalled something the old man told me in the past.
When the old man was young, he had to collect ginseng for a period of time in the Northeast because of the pressure of life. There seemed to be more stories in the deep mountains and old forests than in other places. Some of the hunters and ginseng customers who relied on the mountains to make a living were themselves legends. The old man liked to work alone.
However, the old forests in the northeast are completely different from going down to the pit to rob a tomb. A skilled crawler can get in and out of the pit freely, but if you go deeper into the forest, the risk factor is much higher than going into the pit.
One can never know what will happen suddenly in the dark woods.
The reason why the old man temporarily abandoned his principles and went into the mountains with a man in his thirties from Guanzhong. The two of them wandered around in the mountains for several days without gaining anything, and they were both a little discouraged. The man from Guanzhong just followed the old man.
We discussed it and said we should go deeper.
The old man was young and very courageous at the time, so he agreed without much hesitation. The two of them walked into the mountains for two more days and happened to find a shack. There are such simple shacks in the mountains in many places.
To provide convenience for people coming and going, some shacks have firewood and food left by people in front of them. People who stay here temporarily usually replenish the supplies they consume when they leave, so that they can be used by those who come after.
It wasn't very dark at this time. If you go forward in this little time, it would be difficult to find a place to stay. So the old man and the others planned to have a good night's rest and set off early tomorrow morning. The Guanzhong man was good at marksmanship and shot nearby.
Ordered some game meat and lit a fire to roast it after nightfall, preparing for a good meal. Before the meat entered their mouths, there was some movement outside the shack. The two of them watched carefully for a long time before realizing that they were four people traveling together.
Many people who are struggling to make a living in the mountains are poor people who have no choice but to take this road. As long as they have a few acres of land to fill their stomachs, they will not risk their lives to come here to find food. The man from Guanzhong is a warm-hearted person.
, letting these four people into the shack, the old man vaguely felt that something was wrong at the time, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. In short, he felt uneasy.
A few gangsters got together and had a good chat. The four of them brought wine and started drinking freely over the game roasted by the men from Guanzhong. The old man was uneasy and his food was tasteless. Occasionally, when he glanced at the four people behind him, he felt that
There was an indescribable evil look on their faces.
Just after taking two mouthfuls, the old man suddenly felt his stomach churn, and he hurriedly ran out to relieve himself. The diarrhea was very severe. After he finished defecating, he reluctantly put on his pants and stood up, but his stomach felt unsatisfactory again. He went back and forth for more than ten years.
This time, the old man's face turned green. He was a little confused, he didn't eat anything randomly, how could he turn like this?
This went on for more than an hour, and the people in the shack were still drunk. When he came in, several people seemed to not see him. It was not until the old man sat down weakly that the man from Guanzhong asked him about his face with a red face.
Why is it so bad? The old man said he felt sick to his stomach. The man from Guanzhong smiled and said: "You are cheating. You obviously want to escape from drinking. You also said you feel sick to your stomach. Since you feel sick to your stomach, why haven't you seen me out after drinking for so long?"
shit?"
The old man didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he said that the man from Guanzhong had drunk too much, and he almost couldn't come back from the situation. Several people who were drinking laughed together, and they all said that the old man didn't go out at all and had been drinking with everyone.
At first, the old man thought they were all drunk and joking, but those people laughed very strangely. One of them said to the old man: "You burned your cotton-padded clothes by smoking when you were drinking, and I doused it for you. If you don't believe me, keep your head down."
have a look."
At this time, the old man started to feel nervous. He couldn't help but untie his sheepskin jacket. There was actually a freshly burned hole in the cotton coat, and the surrounding area was still wet. The old man's expression immediately changed. Could it be that there are really two of him? One was drinking in the house, and the other was wet.
One has diarrhea outside?
Several people looked at the old man's surprised expression and laughed even harder. The old man kept his head silent and looked for opportunities to wink at the man in Guanzhong, but the guy was drinking happily and didn't look at the old man at all. The old man felt more and more
These four people were so evil that they had no choice but to grit their teeth and make excuses. After leaving the house, they ran towards the mountain without looking back. They fought tooth and nail to get back alive.
This incident gave the old man a long memory. When he went into the mountain again, he always went with a few people, but the man from Guanzhong never showed up. Three months later, the old man went into the mountain with a few tourists and walked to the last time in a daze.
In that shack, after opening the door, the room was in a mess, and there was also a complete human skeleton. This skeleton was not the result of natural decay of the corpse, but rather what was left after someone took a knife to shave off the flesh of a living person.
Looking at the skeleton, the old man suddenly broke into a cold sweat, because scattered around the skeleton were all the clothes of the Guanzhong man, as well as his shotgun.
I don’t know why I thought of this thing at this time. All I could think of was the skeleton in the shack and the corpse in the pit. If I hadn’t seen this kind of thing with my own eyes, I would have thought it was ridiculous, so after the old man finished talking, I
I always thought of it as a story to scare children, but the corpse in the pit completely changed my mind.
I sat there for a long time. Just as I was about to stand up and stretch my numb legs, I saw Cao Shi's head emerging from the pit. Then, the people who had entered the hole came out one by one. Three people.
There was a touch of excitement on his face, and it seemed that things were done.
Sure enough, Cao Shi said as soon as he came up: "I got the things. Call everyone to evacuate immediately. You can't spend the night here anymore."
"Old Cao." I looked up at him and said solemnly, "Where is the body in the pit?"
"Let's go back first." Cao Shi comforted me and said, "It's just a coincidence. You can't take the body down there with you, right? Relax..."
The old man's prediction was correct. There was nothing fishy about Ma Zhancheng itself, it was very safe, and Cao Shi got the things smoothly. What happened to Mr. Fang was an accident, and the corpse always made me feel uneasy.
After the team gathered together, we immediately left Machan City. I absentmindedly walked at the end of the team with Cao Shi. He kept saying good things and being gentle to me. He said that there are all kinds of wonders in the world, which is simply not a big deal. I admired it.
She looked at him and said, "If it's not a problem to stand and talk without back pain, then what is?"
Cao Shi's eyes suddenly hardened, and he glanced coldly at the team in front: "The real thing is among these people."
We returned to Alxa from Ma Zhan smoothly, and then rushed back to Jiangbei as quickly as possible. I don’t know why, but the moment we left Ma Zhan, my mental state was very bad. When Cao Shi reported the situation to the old man
He deliberately praised me. The old man seemed to be in a good mood because he got the things smoothly, and he also gave me a few rare words of praise, but I couldn't cheer up at all.
The night I returned to Jiangbei, I had a nightmare. I dreamed that I ran back to Mazhan alone, got into the ruins of that building, went deep into the basement, and wanted to see the body. The body was still lying quietly on the cold stone slab, waiting.
When I cautiously approached him with a flashlight, the corpse suddenly opened its eyes, and then moved its mouth slightly, as if it wanted to say something, but it never came out.
I woke up when the dream reached this point, breaking out in a cold sweat. I can't remember the details of the dream clearly, but the only thing that is firmly imprinted in my mind is the look in the eyes of the corpse.