The boundary of Biluo Village is not very large. Xiong Ming and I quickly passed the wooden archway and ran into the village in large strides.
And the moment the two of us entered the village, a figure suddenly flashed and ran towards a house on the far right.
I was startled and shouted: "There is someone!"
Xiong Ming naturally saw the figure and said loudly: "He is not the child just now. This guy is bigger than that child. Hu Tian, what should I do now? Should I chase him or not?"
Just when the two of us hesitated for a moment, those damn green snails had already followed us, and the unique "squeaking" sound they made when their tentacles touched the ground could not help but make people's scalp tingle.
The sound sounded like the silent war drums of these green snails at this moment, and also like the call of death. As long as Xiong Ming and I were not paying attention, they would swarm up and devour us both cleanly.
Seeing these damn green snails crawling to my feet in minutes, I no longer hesitated, raised my foot and kicked away four or five green snails that were about to escape their shells, and shouted: "Chase!"
Xiong Ming responded, "Okay!"
After saying that, Xiong Ming and I ran towards the room on the far right together.
Xiong Ming took the lead. When he ran over, the door of the room was open. This kid was really the kind of person who wouldn't mind eating a hundred beans. When he saw the door was open, he didn't care about what was inside or what traps there were. He lowered his head and rushed in.
Fortunately, there was nothing in the room this time. After I rushed into the room, Xiong Ming closed the door, found a cabinet and two chairs, and put the door on top, and then quickly closed the door. The windows were all sealed, keeping out all the green snails.
In order to prevent those green snails from crawling in from elsewhere, I placed Hua Muling on the bed in the back room, and then checked it carefully with Xiong Ming. After making sure that everything was safe, I pulled the He sat down on a chair and breathed heavily.
Xiong Ming looked at me, then at his badly injured arm, and said with a wry smile: "Damn it, I was so careless in Jingzhou this time. Let me tell you..."
Halfway through Xiong Ming’s words about flowers, I suddenly interrupted him, “Wait a minute!”
Xiong Ming looked at me in surprise and asked, "What's wrong?"
I said word by word: "Don't you think this house is weird?"
Xiong Ming looked at me and said, "What's the problem?"
I said: "This house has three rooms in total, front, middle and back. Just now the two of us have checked the house inside and out, but don't you think something is missing?"
Xiong Ming asked: "What's missing? Hu Tian, why don't I understand what you want to say?"
I looked at Xiong Ming and asked, "Don't you think there is one less person here?"
Xiong Ming suddenly realized: "I understand, you are talking about the guy who ran in just now. You are right, we saw that guy running in, but now he has completely disappeared. Grandma, Didn't he enter this house? Or..."
I continued: "In other words, there is another way out of this house!"
Xiong Ming nodded and said: "Yes! It must be like this, otherwise how could a good living person suddenly disappear?"
I nodded and said: "If we can guess that there is another way out, it means there is a problem in this village. If you think about it carefully, no matter how small a village is, it is impossible for there to be only eight families, let alone Install a secret tunnel in your house. Unless..."
Xiong Ming nodded and said: "Unless this village was built at that time to hide from others, their real purpose was not to live here, but..."
Xiong Ming did not continue speaking, and pointed to the ground with his index finger. His meaning was very obvious, and I naturally understood it, so he nodded and said, "In that case, let's look for it separately and see if we can find it." Find out the secret passage."
Xiong Ming nodded and said, "Yeah! Mr. Xiong, I'll dig this place up and down for him!"
After saying that, Xiong Ming strode into the back room.
I just briefly mentioned before that this house has a rectangular layout of three rooms facing south and north, inside and outside. To be honest, houses with this structure are very rare. Even if the geographical conditions are limited, few people will build them. Such a house.
Because such a house has poor lighting conditions, people think that a house with a north-facing door is too gloomy, and its rectangular design also looks like a tomb, so many people think that it is only suitable to be placed in a cemetery.
Therefore, according to the concept of normal people, almost no house where living people live has doors opening to the north, and there is no such pattern. If you don’t believe it, you can keep an eye on the houses around your home, especially those in older residential areas.
After a few digressions, let’s go back to the house I’m in right now.
Except for the odd house layout, the rest of the B&Bs here are very ordinary and there is not much difference. The front room is the kitchen and dining room. There is a shrine covered with red cloth in the back of the dining room. I don’t know that there are many gods and Buddhas enshrined in it. The one inside.
The middle hall is a regular living room, which contains an old-fashioned leather sofa, three chairs, three short cabinets, and an old-fashioned black and white TV from the 1980s.
The back room of the house is the bedroom. In addition to a large stove, there is a large yellow wood wardrobe and a dressing mirror mounted on the wall. It looks very fashionable and does not match the house.
After Xiong Ming rushed into the back room, I simply walked around the front hall and finally walked to the front of the shrine.
There was a thick layer of dust in many places in the house, but the shrine was spotless. It looked as if it had been cleaned just now, which made me curious.
I reached out and pulled off the red cloth covering the statue, and as the red cloth slowly fell, a strange statue with a shiny black body, left hand raised high, and right hand touching three inches below the navel was instantly revealed.
This statue is very different from our common gods and Buddhas. It is completely a statue of an evil ghost.
I saw it had a pair of short horns on its head, red eyes and fangs, a thin body, valgus ribs, an upright left foot, and three people with pleading expressions on their right feet.
I looked at this evil ghost statue and couldn't help but be surprised: "What kind of statue is this? Is it the god believed in by the entire Biluo Village? Or is it just a ghost believed in by this family?"
And just when all my attention was attracted by this unknown statue, Xiong Ming, who had rushed into the house, suddenly ran back, and I heard this kid shouting loudly: "Hu Tian, look, I found it." What?"
I asked in surprise: "Have you found the entrance to the secret passage?"
Xiong Ming shook his head and said, "No!"
I asked in surprise: "What did you find that made you so excited?"
Xiong Ming said and handed me something. I took it and took a look. It turned out that what Xiong Ming found was a shabby and yellowed old photo.
The content of the photo was very ordinary. It was a group photo of more than thirty people. The photo was taken in the open space outside Biluo Village. Every one of them is laughing, but I don't know why. I always feel that these people are smiling a little weirdly.
At the beginning of the period, I didn’t find anything strange. Xiong Ming obviously noticed this, so he pointed to a person in the middle of the first row and reminded me: “Look at this person, is he? Looks familiar?”
Under Xiong Ming's reminder, I focused all my attention on this person, and it didn't matter if I didn't look at him. At first glance, I couldn't help but take a breath, because the person Xiong Ming pointed out to me I recognized it, it was none other than the one-eyed old man we saw in front of the dilapidated house in the wasteland a few hours ago.
And I actually recognized the person who smiled brightest next to the one-eyed old man. This person's surname was Hu and his name was Hu Jing. He was none other than my grandfather.
Xiong Ming seemed very satisfied when he saw my shocked expression. He smiled and said, "It seems that the fourth girl from the Hua family guessed right. The old man you met is indeed from Biluo Village. It's just..." "
I didn't wait for Xiong Ming to finish what he said, so I continued: "But how come they are together? Could it be that the people the old man said he met sixty years ago were my grandfather?"
Xiong Ming couldn't help but be surprised when he heard what I said: "Your grandfather? Why is this matter still related to your grandfather?"
I pointed to the person next to the one-eyed old man in the photo and said slowly: "The person in the photo is my grandfather. It seems that he came here sixty years ago, and he seems to be very familiar with the people in this village. look like."
Xiong Ming nodded and said: "Well! Grandma, the whole thing is getting more and more complicated. What is all this going on?"
I frowned and thought for a while, and then said slowly: "Okay! Don't think about it now. For us, we can only take one step at a time. Let's focus on looking for an exit! I don't want to die. In the hands of those disgusting green snails outside the door."
And just when I finished speaking, suddenly the black and white TV in the middle hall flashed violently, and then bursts of snowflakes accompanied by a harsh rustling sound came from the TV.
Xiong Ming frowned and said, "How can this broken TV turn on so well?"
I didn't speak, but stared at the old black and white TV with a puzzled look.
After a while, the TV screen suddenly shook a few times, and then a picture appeared on the black and white screen.
The playback speed of the picture is very fast, and the actions of the characters in it feel like they are fast-forwarded several times. It feels like watching a black and white silent film from the 1970s and 1980s.
At the beginning of the picture, there is a person walking around in front of the camera, blocking most of the lens. This person is moving left and right as if he is playing with the camera. It is not difficult to see from the vague background behind him. , this video was shot in Biluo Village.
This man tinkered with the camera for a while and seemed to have figured it out. So he turned his back to the camera and walked forward step by step, as if he was measuring something. After a while, he stopped and started shouting loudly from side to side. I told people this, but since the movie playing on the TV had no sound, and the person’s back was turned to me, I had no idea what he was talking about.
After the man finished speaking, he stood there for a while, and then seven or eight people walked into the camera carrying a huge black coffin.
The coffin was large and tightly locked with chains as thick as an adult's arm.
I don’t know whether it was the weight of the coffin or the weight of the arm-thick iron chains. In short, these seven or eight strong men felt like they were using their weight to carry the coffin.
A few seconds later, the man motioned to the strong men to put the coffin down, and he reached out to touch the big black coffin, as if he was appreciating his most beloved collection.
But at this moment, the camera that was originally placed was suddenly moved and fell sideways. The man obviously realized this. He hurriedly turned back to check the situation, and at this moment , the picture that had been playing suddenly stopped.
The picture was frozen on the frightened and angry face of that person. This face might not mean anything to others, but to me, it was enough to make me feel chilly in my heart, because this person was none other than the person before. My grandfather Huzi Jing appeared in the photo only once.
