The road winds around the mountains like a ribbon, slowly going down and around to the back of the mountains.
The black Passat drove through the curve and stopped slowly in front of a boundary monument.
The driver glanced at the mobile phone navigation next to him and said to Zhou Yang in the passenger seat: "I can only take you here.
Something happened in Longshan Town recently, and it's not peaceful.
I won’t send you there.”
"Okay, okay, just bring it here." Zhou Yang nodded to the driver with a smile on his face, "Master, please open the trunk and I'll get the equipment."
"Um."
The driver nodded and opened the trunk.
Seeing Zhou Yang take off his seat belt and push the door to get out of the car, he finally couldn't help but said: "That place is really not peaceful, we are not spreading rumors.
Where do you want to go to broadcast now?
If you have a life to earn money, you have to have a life to spend it..."
Zhou Yang paused for a moment, the smile on his face became more forced, and he only said: "I'm just wandering around outside, I won't go in.
Master, please don't worry, I'm very afraid of death."
He pushed the door open and got out of the car, and took out his backpack from the trunk - which contained a mobile phone holder, gimbal, power bank and other equipment needed for live broadcast.
Standing on the side of the car, Zhou Yang watched the car slowly retreat, then turn around and return to the original road.
Vaguely, he heard the driver's words coming out of the car: "I'm going crazy thinking about money!"
The car drove away.
Zhou Yang looked at the departing car and stood on the side of the road for a while before coming back to his senses. Carrying his big backpack, he turned around and walked along the road to the end of the road covered by the shadows of the trees.
The boundary marker on the roadside says "Longshan".
Below is a brief introduction to Longshan, focusing on the ‘Yunlong Temple’ on Longshan and the ‘Longshan Ji’, a village formed by gathering near the mountain.
Nowadays, transportation is becoming more and more convenient, and roads have been built almost everywhere.
Therefore, even though Zhou Yang was walking around the mountain, he was still walking along the main road.
Although there were many ups and downs on the road, which accelerated his physical exertion, it was still better than walking on a mountain trail.
Especially when walking on the avenue, the sunlight filtered through the shade of the trees, finally dispelling some of the fear lingering in his heart.
We walked for about ten minutes.
The trees seen along the way became thicker and thicker, the sunlight became scarcer, and the temperature dropped by two to three degrees.
Zhou Yang stood at a fork in the road and looked at the collapsed sign at the intersection.
The handwriting on the sign made of iron sheets has been blurred. You can vaguely see a route drawn on it that branches off here. There are two words "Yun, Ji" on the left, but nothing can be seen clearly on the right.
He was also prepared for this,
He took out a piece of paper from the side of his backpack.
There are also some route maps drawn on it. Zhou Yang is standing at the intersection of the road. If he goes to the left, he will go to Yunlong Temple halfway up Longshan Mountain and Longshan Ji at the foot of the mountain.
Go to the right and go to the other side of Longshan, where there is a residential house.
——Zhou Yang’s ‘big job’ for tonight’s live broadcast is to explore the abandoned residential house.
"I heard that something strange happened in Longshanji down the mountain. It's still far away from that residential house. It should be fine..." He murmured to himself.
In fact, I don’t believe the nonsense I told.
But I can only say this to embolden myself.
On the route map he drew by hand, he also sketched some escape routes. If he finds that something is wrong, he can follow the escape routes to escape from this place.
"Let's go!"
Zhou Yang gritted his teeth and turned towards the road on the right.
The road leading to the abandoned houses changed from a cement road to a dirt road within a mile.
Waist-deep weeds grew unchecked on the road. Zhou Yang picked up a stick in his hand and kept hitting the weeds in front of him, walking one foot deep and one foot shallow.
Who knows if there are any snakes or insects in the grass in the mountains?
Hitting the grass with a stick is just to scare away any snakes and insects that may be dormant in it.
Last time Zhou Yang was investigating here specifically for the live broadcast, he saw a snake emerging from the grass. Although it was just a non-venomous red chain snake, the snake was quite big, so he was still surprised.
This gave me a new perspective.
The path has twists and turns and ditches.
On the way, Zhou Yang tripped over a small mound. He was still wondering why he hadn't encountered this small mound last time.
After picking up the grass and observing the mound carefully, Zhou Yang's expression changed.
——This should be a grave bag.
Just because no one came to offer sacrifices and add soil over the years, the grave became lower and lower, and finally turned into a small mound that only reached a person's knees.
After realizing this, Zhou Yang felt a little numb.
He didn't dare to stay any longer. He kowtowed to the mound and asked for forgiveness, then hurriedly left.
I walked another two or three miles along the trail whose traces were almost gone.
The front suddenly became clear.
A symmetrical two-story building built against the mountain appeared in Zhou Yang's field of vision.
The white paint painted on the exterior walls of this abandoned residential house has been mottled and peeled off, showing gray and black marks. In some places, the wall skin has collapsed, exposing the dark red bricks inside.
Zhou Yang stepped onto the flat open space in front of the residence and turned to look at the road he had walked.
call!
At this time, a gust of mountain wind blew,
The waist-deep weeds were bent over.
As soon as the dense weeds bent down, they suddenly appeared underneath - there were actually two or three rows of small mounds neatly arranged from one end to the end of Zhou Yang's sight!
They are all barren tombs that have not been worshiped for many years?!
A sudden chill suddenly hit Tianqing from the soles of Zhou Yang's feet. Before he could react, the wind stopped and the weeds returned to their original state.
The rows of mounds are hidden in the grass.
The scene just now seemed to have become Zhou Yang's hallucination.
But how could what he saw with his own eyes turn into an illusion?
Zhou Yang retreated in his heart, took out his mobile phone, and prepared to call 'Brother Xiang' to talk about the situation here.
'Brother Xiang' called first: "Zhou Yang, what's going on over there? Is everything in place?"
"We've arrived, we're in place." Zhou Yang spoke quickly, with a troubled look on his face, "But Brother Xiang, there's something wrong with this place. I see that there are some small tombs next to this residence. I didn't see so many tombs last time I came here.
…”
"oh.
That's normal." Brother Xiang said casually, "You took the road from Yuchuan this time, right?
Last time we took the road from Jingchuan.
It's not a single road up the mountain, so it's normal that we didn't see any graves last time.
——The area you are in used to be a cemetery. Cremation had just been implemented at that time, and such a cemetery was built in Longshan.
That abandoned residence is not an abandoned residence.
It's a memorial hall in a cemetery, where photos of dead people were stored for people to offer sacrifices there.
However, at that time, Longshan Cemetery lacked management, so people often buried their family members there, only to have their graves ripped open at night, the urns stolen, and the ashes spread!
So the cemetery was abandoned.
Don’t worry, the ashes in those grave bags have been removed by their families and they are all empty grave bags, so don’t worry.”
Listening to Brother Xiang's story, Zhou Yang broke out in cold sweat on the spot.
His calves were shaking, and after the other party finished speaking, there was no response for a long time.
Brother Xiang couldn't help but wonder: "Zhou Yang, is Zhou Yang still there? You j8 want to give up the idea halfway again?
Let me tell you, the company put a lot of effort into getting recommended on today's homepage this time.
If you dare to do it again, don’t even think about the signing bonus later!”
"Brother Xiang, I, I..." Zhou Yang took a deep breath and finally spoke, thinking about how to choose his words.
In my heart, I started cursing crazily: wrnm, wrnm, wrnm...
He didn't dare to curse, but Brother Xiang scolded him bloody: "wrnm!
Zhou Yang, do you think your wife is about to recover from her illness and you can relax?
Although she has recovered from chemotherapy now, she has cancer after all! Can you guarantee the future?
What's more, will future rehabilitation and physical therapy cost money?
Do I need nutrition fees?
You used to work as a water ghost on a construction site - you weren't afraid of that kind of work. Now, what are you afraid of sleeping in a memorial hall in an abandoned cemetery?
It's not like I haven't slept in a graveyard before.
Come on, brother, men should stand up..."
…
Hang up the phone.
Zhou Yang stuffed his cell phone into his trouser pocket,
He looked up at the abandoned residence, which was entangled with vines and surrounded by trees. Thinking of what 'Brother Xiang' said about the true purpose of this abandoned residence, he felt that this building was full of gloom.
Without any hesitation,
Su Wu turned around and walked back along the way he came.
——Whoever likes to earn this money can earn it. It is impossible for him to stay here anyway.
In the past, when I watched the horror movie "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" and fell asleep in the cemetery, it was because there were no ghosts before.
Now everyone knows that there is something wrong, and I also learned from that bitch Xiang Jinqiao that this place used to be an abandoned cemetery, so what reason do I have to stay?
In order to earn that little money, you risk your life?
When you are really short of money, you can really work hard to make money - but the key is that you are really risking your life. It is unlikely that Xiang Jinqiao will transfer the money to his wife's account...
Maybe he would swallow it up for himself!
In that case, why are you still here?
When Xiang Jinqiao asked again, he said that the signal on the mountain was not good and a strange incident happened at night. He obviously had a live broadcast here, but it seemed that he couldn't see it outside.
Anyway, you can just fool around with it.
Zhou Yang was planning in his mind, but he didn't pay attention to the road under his feet. He tripped over a mound again and fell into the grass with a 'pop'.
"Ouch!"
His knee hit a square object in the grass.
Suddenly there was a burst of pain.
Zhou Yang yelled, turned over and sat in the haystack, and picked up the thing that hit his knee.
It is a rectangular box.
Most of the red paint painted on the surface of the box has peeled off, revealing the wood grain underneath.
There are three words "merit box" engraved on the front.
There is a small opening on top that you can put money into.
'Is this something from the cemetery memorial?'
An idea came into Zhou Yang's mind, and he suddenly became excited and threw the box far away.
…
Silver white car driving on the highway.
inside the car,
Su Wu sat in the back row, closed his eyes and rested for a while, then seemed to think of something, took out his mobile phone and called Fa Xiao: "Xiao Hao, it will take me six or seven hours to get to the city.
There is no need for you to pick me up.
I called an online taxi and just asked him to take me home when the time came."
"Okay, you just have to arrange it.
Just wait for me at my house."
He hung up the phone and glanced at the various prompt messages on the home screen.
A certain social software: Struggle Week asks to add you as a friend.
A live broadcast platform: The ‘Outdoor Brother Zhou’ you follow has sent you a live broadcast reminder.
A certain video site: ‘Sister, is it okay? My sister is not at home today.’ The up owner you follow has updated.
…
Whoosh!
Just a tap of your finger,
All prompt messages are cleared.
He clicked on the social software and first agreed to the friend request of ‘Struggle Week’.
"Struggle Week" is the bald man Zhou Yang.
Then I scanned various chat messages.
Jiang Yingying sent him several messages yesterday, telling him that she had arrived home, and asked Su Wu if he had arrived home.
Su Wu replied last night.
She sent another message today: "Aren't you home yet? Pay attention to safety."
"On the way back to the car." Su Wu replied.
The chat box soon displayed ‘the other party is typing’.
He exited the chat box and clicked into the 'Fishing Guys' chat group.
Recently, the fishing guys in the group have stopped posting pictures of their results, and have begun to discuss some strange situations at the moment.
Some people said that they could not contact their relatives in Mingzhou, so they called the government agencies.
They said that it might be because the main signal base station in Mingzhou City collapsed, so they couldn't be contacted at the moment, so they asked them to wait patiently.
Some people said that when they were fishing, their buttocks got soaked in water.
When I went home and took a shower, I found ringworm on my butt.
I also sent pictures of ringworm.
——Su Wu took a look and found that it was not ringworm at all, but two purple-red slap marks.
All in all, everything is covered in the group.
It's just not as lively as before.
He looked at the group chat records for a while and then left the group.
At this time, two more people sent him messages.
One is Jiang Yingying: "I washed the emergency can with the medicated bath soup left after the medicated bath. It seems to have grown a little."
"[Image] [image]."
Su Wu looked at the picture and replied: "I didn't notice any changes.
But if it doesn’t have any adverse reactions, you can give it the rest.”
The other one is ‘Taoist Master Xie Yunqing of Yunlong Temple’: “Friend, I take the liberty to disturb you. Do you still need to use the Imperial Bell?
If not needed, can you help us send it to Longshanji?
Something strange happened here in Longshanji.
I didn't want to open my mouth to you at first. After all, asking you to deliver something at this time would be like dragging you into a pit of fire.
But my master said you might have a way, so let me ask you to help us.
look……"
Su Wu looked at the news and was silent for a while.
He made a voice call to the other party.
After answering the phone, Su Wu asked directly: "Did you encounter something strange?"
The voice on the other end of the phone was noisy, as if there were many people talking around Xie Yunqing, making it very lively.
Fortunately, Xie Yunqing's voice was very clear: "Cunning?
It shouldn't be weird, right? I personally speculate that it may be something like the earth's magnetic field, which is why we can't leave Longshan Ji now..."
The little Taoist priest's tone was no longer as firm as when he asked Su Wu to go to the psychiatric department of the hospital for treatment.
It can be seen that these days,
He did encounter some strange things that science cannot explain.
“Is it just that you can’t get out of Longshanji?
Has anyone died inexplicably in the village now?" Su Wu asked again.
"No no.
Everything is fine." Xie Yunqing replied quickly.
"How long has this been going on?"
"About four or five days."
Hearing Xie Yunqing's answer, Su Wu breathed a sigh of relief.
After four or five days, Weiyi has not appeared to kill anyone, which means that Weiyi is not that strong, or it has not fully recovered.
This is a good thing.
"good."
"I'm here to help you with this matter."
Su Wu gave the answer.
Without the Imperial Bell, he would not have been able to pass through the shadow shrouded area and would have died in the Peace Garden long ago.
He accepted this help and should repay it in equal measure.
What's more, the Imperial Bell is someone else's property, and I am just borrowing it.
Now when others need it, you should return it yourself.
Especially if this thing is held in the hands of others, it may really be of great use.