Xiong Ming stared directly behind me and said softly: "Hu Tian, there is someone behind you..."
Xiong Ming's words made all the hairs on my body stand up in an instant. I looked at the motionless person behind Xiong Ming, swallowed, and said, "Dali Xiong, there is someone behind you..."
"What?" My words made Xiong Ming stunned, but Xiong Ming did not act rashly, but gritted his teeth and whispered: "What should we do now...?"
I took a deep breath and whispered to Xiong Ming: "Do you still remember the cat and mouse we used to play when we were soldiers?"
This "cat catches mouse" is not the kind of catching game we often played in the fields and community yards when we were children.
It is an extremely practical tactical technique, also called "one point and two sides".
This "one point and two sides" is also known as the seven classic tactics of our army.
To put it bluntly, "one point and two sides" means that when attacking the enemy, we must start from its most important point, and then encircle and flank it from both sides. Concentrating your main force on one point and opening from this point can more fully defeat the enemy and turn it into a trapped beast.
When we were in the army, Xiong Ming and I made slight changes to this point. When facing the enemy, Xiong Ming served as the main firepower point, while I was responsible for coordinating and encircling the enemy.
Many times, the scene looks like two extremely cunning cats, playing with a mouse that is about to be swallowed.
Therefore, Xiong Mingcai and I call this style of play "cat catching mouse".
Speaking of "cat catching mouse", Xiong Ming couldn't help but grinned and said, "Of course I remember...!"
I nodded slightly and said, "That's fine!"
Xiong Ming followed up and said: "Where do you plan to start from? My side? Or the one behind you...?"
I thought about it and then said slowly: "Start from behind you..."
Xiong Ming nodded and said, "Okay!"
I looked at the motionless figure behind Xiong Ming and said softly: "I said three..."
Xiong Ming did not speak this time, but nodded slightly.
I slowly raised the torch in my hand, then gritted my teeth and said word by word: "One...two..."
The moment the word "three" came out, Xiong Ming and I moved almost at the same time.
Xiong Ming turned around suddenly, shouted loudly, rounded his arm and punched the person behind him in the face. I stooped short and used a hugging move often used in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and pounced. The guy's legs.
The two of us moved extremely fast, but what the two of us didn't expect was that the guy who was standing motionless behind Xiong Ming actually disappeared at this moment.
Not only did the person behind Xiong Ming disappear, but the person who was standing behind me also disappeared at this moment.
Xiong Ming and I stood stunned on the spot, unable to recover for a long time.
After a long time, Xiong Ming swallowed and said, "Grandma! Where did the person go? Why did he disappear suddenly?"
I frowned and said, "Could it be that what we just saw was an illusion?"
"Hallucination...?" Xiong Ming couldn't help but shook his head when he heard what I said, and said: "It's not like a hallucination! If it is a hallucination, it is too real..."
I gritted my teeth and said, "If it's not a hallucination, then how can we explain all this?"
As I was talking, I took two steps forward. Suddenly, I stepped on something under my feet. I looked down and found that it turned out to be a pair of old glasses, but they had been broken into pieces by my step.
I bent down and picked up the pair of glasses on the ground. Then I looked at them in the firelight and found a line of very small words engraved on the legs of the mirror, "To my beloved daddy." Behind these small words, there was a row of English letters. ——linyuexin, this may be the manufacturer of this pair of glasses, and behind the English letters, there is a Chinese character, "Hu"!
When I saw the words on the temples clearly, I couldn't help but take a breath, because I knew these glasses.
Seeing me in a daze, Xiong Ming walked over and asked, "What's wrong, Hu Tian? Where did you pick up such a pair of glasses?"
I didn't look at Xiong Ming, but looked intently at the broken glasses in my hand, and said slowly: "I picked it up on the ground here!"
Xiong Ming asked doubtfully: "Isn't it just a pair of glasses? Is there anything special about it? Look at you like that..."
I pointed to the word "Hu" on the temples of my glasses and said, "Have you seen this?"
"Hu?" Xiong Ming said with some confusion: "Why do these glasses have the word "Hu" on them? Could it be..."
"That's right!" I nodded and said, "I gave these glasses to our old man a long time ago."
Xiong Ming was stunned and then asked: "Hu Tian, are you sure?"
I nodded and said, "I'm sure! These glasses are from a famous craftsman in Beijing called Lin Yuexin..."
Xiong Ming frowned slightly when he heard the name "Lin Yuexin" and said, "Is she that weird old lady who lives in Dongguaizi Hutong, Xizhimen?"
I nodded and said, "That's right! It's her! Although Lin Yuexin's income is good, she has a quirk. She only makes the same thing and will never make a second one, so this pair of glasses... can't be other's!"
After Xiong Ming heard what I said, he frowned and said, "According to what you said, your old man has been here before?"
I nodded slightly and said, "It's very possible. Maybe the person holding the flashlight before was him."
Xiong Ming asked doubtfully: "If that person is really your old man, then why is he hiding from us?"
I shook my head and said, "I don't know, maybe he has some reason to avoid us..."
Xiong Ming said in surprise: "But all this can't be explained?"
I said: "I know it doesn't make sense, but I really can't think of any better reason right now..."
Before I could finish my words, a series of strange wailing sounds suddenly came from the front of the passage.
The wailing was not loud, appearing and disappearing from time to time, but at such a time and in such an environment, it could be heard clearly.
What's even worse is that the scalp-numbing wailing sounds come from not just one person, but from a group of people.
The sound was like the roar of hungry ghosts in hell, going straight into people's ears.
Among these voices, there was one person's voice that sounded extremely familiar to me - Hua Muling's voice.
"Fourth girl..." I was startled and said, "Fourth girl is in front!"
Xiong Ming was stunned and asked, "How do you know?"
"I heard her voice... Not far ahead..." Before I could explain too much, I held the torch high and ran towards the front of the passage.
Xiong Ming said with a look of shock, "I'll go, Hu Tian, okay! Since when did your ears work so well?"
Then, he followed suit in stride.
The place where the wailing sound came from was not too far away from the two of us, only fifty or sixty meters at most.
The two of us ran very fast, and within a few minutes we ran into a very spacious natural stone cave. The stone cave was very high, and the vertical distance seemed to be about four or five meters. The roof was in a semicircle. The ground is an irregular polygon, surrounded by naturally formed holes. There are no less than a hundred in total, making this place look like a sieve full of holes.
What's even worse is that the holes are surrounded by terrifying faces.
Human faces are made of stone, and each face has a different appearance. What makes people feel even more chilled is that the expressions on these human faces are extremely ferocious. They open their teeth and claws, and their eyes widen with anger, just like a A hungry ghost from hell.
In my opinion, rather than saying that these weird human faces are artificially carved, it is more appropriate to say that each living person was forcibly sucked into the stone wall and became what it is today.
