"Master, what do ghosts look like?" This is a question I asked Master when I first became a disciple a few years ago.
"They look similar to us." That's what Master answered me at that time.
But at this moment, I once again felt that Master had lied to me. Although the face in front of me is humanoid and weird in appearance, if I were to look at it normally, I might just think it was a person making a grimace. There needs to be a buffering transition between sleep and wakefulness, but I didn't have one at the moment. At that moment, because of the fright, almost all the internal organs from my chest to my bladder felt a sudden tightening feeling. , instinctively stretched out my hand to push that face away, but my hand clearly passed through its head. Along with it, not long ago, I hit with Ziweibao for the first time. When he touched the old woman with a grimace, he felt the helpless touch and a slight numbness like an electric leak.
With the force of a push, I rolled out of the bed. If it weren't for this sudden fright, I wouldn't even know that I could move so quickly. After landing, I didn't have time to think about it. Let alone putting on clothes, I didn't even bother to put on my shoes. I opened the door like crazy and ran outside.
I am a religious person, and I had no reason to run away like this, but I don’t know why I ran away at that moment. It seemed that my body was not under the control of my brain at that moment, or my body was already running away before my brain could react. On the way. This was cowardly, I knew it, so I soon paid the price for my cowardice.
Outside the door of my room is the main room. The main room is about six or seven meters deep. The door leaving this room is at the end of this six or seven meters. When I rushed to the door, I hurriedly tried to open the wooden bolt holding the door, but because I was not familiar with how to open the door, I tried for a long time without success. At this moment, a cold feeling suddenly came from my lower body, which was only wearing underwear.
This cold feeling is completely different from being cold. When it's cold, it's usually because the temperature is too low, and the flow of air causes a cold feeling on the skin, which is a transmission from the outside to the inside. But Yin cooling is just the opposite. When this feeling occurs, there is often no such process, but a sudden moment, and it is transmitted from the inside to the outside. This feeling is a bit like a person suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Every time it rains, there will always be a clear pain in the joints.
I was a little more awake at the moment, and I knew what the coldness in my lower body meant at this moment. Even though I didn't want to know, my eyes still looked at my feet uncontrollably. The main room was very dark, and there was no moonlight even when the door was closed. Technically speaking, when I lowered my head to check, I could only see a mass of darkness, but I found a seven or eight-year-old boy in tattered clothes, sitting on the instep of my left foot. On the ground, his hands and feet wrapped around my left leg. Its head was tilted at a weird angle so that it could hold my feet and look at me head-on. It looked very thin and had no expression on its face, just staring at me without blinking.
I shouldn't have seen this scene in the originally dark main room, but the little boy's body seemed to be emitting a faint, bluish-white light, or maybe it was because his face and body were too pale. As a result, I can clearly distinguish it in the dark, but there is no doubt that I see it at this moment because it "wants" me to see it.
So I started a new round of desperate kicking. Although it looked like the child was sitting on my feet, I couldn't feel its weight at all. Instead, the cold feeling continued, so that I Every time I kicked my legs hard, it felt like I was going to break my feet. Suddenly there was a clang, and because the movement was too large, I kicked the door onto the threshold of the main room.
In the cold winter, the hands and feet are in a semi-frozen state. If you hit something hard at this time, the pain will be far worse than in any other season. And that foot of mine happened to be the little toe of my left foot, which was the finger that I couldn’t move freely. The heartbreaking pain rushed straight into my brain, and I had an uncontrollable feeling of wanting to cry. At that moment, many times when I was a child, Everything came to mind.
Seeing that I couldn't get rid of it, its expression and posture did not change. In desperation, I had no choice but to resort to violence. I escaped in a hurry and threw all my tools in the room, so I had no choice. I opened my mouth, bitten the middle finger of my right hand with the pain, and smeared the blood on the palm of my left hand with the blood from it. Zi Weibao didn't even have time to recite the protective mantra a few times before he hit the little boy on the head with a firm palm.
When I struck at it, I felt a sense of pleasure that I was about to win, and at the same time, I also had an intention to kill. But when his palm was about an inch away from it, the little boy suddenly let go of my foot and ran away on both hands and feet. The feeling of its movement also made me feel unnatural, like a black-and-white film camera that had encountered a jam. It was still at my feet, but the next moment it was one meter away from me, and between the two moments, there was only the dragging feeling of a fleeting but clear ghost.
I have no intention of chasing it. At this moment, I just want to escape from this room quickly, because only when I get outdoors can I move my hands and feet. Although the starlight and moonlight at night cannot allow me to see clearly, at least I can distinguish the outlines and places around me. When it's bigger, even if I have to dodge, I won't encounter obstacles everywhere like in the house. So I continued to scratch at the door, and finally opened it. I dived into the small yard outside the door in a posture that was almost like a hungry dog grabbing shit.
After falling to the ground, I breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, my mind was basically awake. I knew what kind of danger I was facing at this moment, but I didn't have time to think about why these two ghosts suddenly found me in the middle of the night. , he immediately turned over and faced the door, and moved back a few steps with his hands and feet on his back.
Reflecting the weak light outside, I stared at the door of the house without daring to take a breath. As my movements stopped, the strange quietness of the night seemed particularly clear in my mind. I was afraid that it would be anything. I would hear the slightest sound. At this time, there was a slight, slow, creaking sound coming from the direction inside the door.
This sound is a bit like the unpleasant sound an old wooden door makes when it is opened and closed. I was sure that the sound came from the door. I stared hard, my eyes gradually adapted to the dark environment, and I could see more and more clearly. I saw a pair of feet slowly emerging from the door. It was about half a meter high in the air, with the heels facing me and the toes pointing toward the house. Accompanied by the creaking sound, the feet were dangling in the air and swaying gently from side to side.
I knew that those feet were that of the landlord, and what I saw in front of me now was what he looked like when he hung himself. Then the creaking sound gradually stopped, and the feet stopped swinging, but slowly, counterclockwise, they turned towards me.
After half a circle, he stopped with his toes pointed at me. A pair of hands hanging on his sides remained motionless. Perhaps because of the color of his clothes, his hands looked particularly pale. The blocked part above the lintel is the upper body of the landlord. Although I can't see his appearance and expression, when I woke up just now, that face was already engraved in my mind like a brand. It didn't move, and I didn't dare to move. It's not that I don't want to run away, but I know that if I run away, it will definitely chase me, which makes me passive. I might as well maintain the status quo and just confront it silently.
At this moment, from behind the one-foot-high threshold, the head of a blue-white boy appeared. The lower half of his face was obscured by the threshold, but judging from the height of the threshold, I couldn't believe that his body was a kind of What a twisted state. It just looked at me, motionless.
This series of processes just now seemed to me to have taken a long time, but in fact, it was only maybe thirty or forty seconds. My series of violent noises naturally woke up everyone in the room. Just after I heard Tian Deping loudly asking what happened and opening the door, the hanging landlord and the little boy under the threshold suddenly appeared. The space was like smoke, dissipating and disappearing.
I finally breathed a sigh of relief, and my body suddenly felt weak, so I didn't care that I was only wearing a pair of underwear, and lay down on the ground, intending to take a breath first. In the countryside in the 1960s and 1970s, although the environment was dirty and backward, the natural ecology was not destroyed. I could easily see the dazzling stars in the sky. Just when I fell down and touched the ground, the previous scene remained the same. It left me with lingering fears, but the sense of relief that I had just escaped a disaster at this moment made me extremely satisfied.
Tian Deping probably ran to the door of the hall while getting dressed. He saw the door open, and I was lying still in an inelegant posture in the yard. He probably thought that I was dead, so he didn't dare to step forward rashly. , just stood inside the door and asked in a somewhat frightened tone, "Hey!" Little Master Situ...what's wrong with you? Don't scare me...
I lazily raised my hand and waved it loosely a few times without saying anything, which meant to tell him that I was still alive, don't cry and don't be afraid.
However, just when I lowered my hand again, from the perspective of me lying down and looking at the sky, above my sight, which is the direction of my head, the weird and terrifying landowner's ghost face that woke me up from my sleep appeared upside down again. When he came out, it was like he was standing on the ground above my head, then his body turned toward me, his face faced me, and he bowed at 90 degrees. But this kind of bowing was not like bending down at a constant speed, but more like his waist was suddenly broken. He suddenly put his face in front of me about an arm's length away, and looked at me with that weird expression, sticking out his tongue. .
