Twenty years ago, the camp soldiers protecting Yehe Town would patrol at night. One of the soldiers heard Ye Lin calling for help. He thought it was a villager trapped by an animal. He followed the sound and never came out. When the soldiers realized that they were missing, they immediately searched for them all over the mountains and fields.
When they found the battalion soldier, they found that he was already sitting by the roots of a tree, and all the flesh and blood on his body had been sucked clean. A young man with a vigorous body suddenly withered and aged like an old man.
As soon as this incident came out, Yehe Town began to capture mandrills and drive away wild beasts. It took five years before the birds and beasts near Yehe Town were brought under control.
The stories recorded on the pages are not true or false, but this mandrill reminded Yue Guanchao of the strange things he had heard before.
He grew up in the Yingpanling Forest Farm since he was a child. The old hunters in the ridge have lived a long life and have seen a lot of things. They have experienced a lot of anecdotes and wild things. Whenever they take a break from work, there are always a lot of old men. They carried wine bottles and gathered around the wooden house to talk about the mountains. He also liked to listen to these people talking about ancient times.
It will snow in Xing'anling since September, and it will probably wait until March next year before spring starts to warm up again.
The seven-month-long winter, coupled with the harsh white-haired wind and thick snow, makes it too cold to leave the house. Most people save enough food to survive the winter in their villages.
In addition to harvesting corn, sorghum, buckwheat and brown rice, we also need to save enough meat to feed the family for half a year.
People in the villages were not that wealthy. Although they had chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs, the taste of domesticated food was not as good as that of wild game.
As soon as September comes, these old hunters will prepare enough dry food and take them into the mountains to hunt.
This season happens to be a good time for wild animals and birds to put on their autumn fat and save fat for the winter.
Most hunters who are capable can catch enough prey for the whole family and sell it in the town. If they encounter incompetent hunters, they may not be able to catch the prey, but they may also lose their lives.
Old hunters are most afraid of seeing tigers and lions in the woods, and the third is the mandrill. This is one of the terrifying legends in the deep mountains and wild forests.
Three generations back in Yingzui Ridge, there is such a person named Yue Damao
This hunter is a young and strong man. He has been waiting for half a month of winter drought, and he has not hunted enough game for the whole family.
Unable to hit anything and with no shame on his face, Yue Damao was at an age where he was not afraid of anything, so he continued to drive his horse into the deep mountains and forests, hoping to try his luck again.
When he got out of the boundary monument of Yingpanling, it was already in the deep mountains and wild forests where no one had set foot, and there was not even anyone to open up the wilderness for hunting. In addition, it was getting dark, so he thought of turning around and going back.
As soon as I turned my head, I suddenly heard crying behind me, and followed the sound and opened the grass.
The plump girl was rubbing her calf. It looked like she had sprained her foot.
He didn't want to take care of it at first, but the girl was as beautiful as a flower, with a face like a silver basin, and she cried so much that he became lustful, so he volunteered to send the girl home.
It turns out that this girl is the only daughter of a rich man. Her real surname is Yuan, and she is called Yuan Guifen!
Looking at the mahjong-shaped courtyards, he was quite envious of the wealth of the thousands of acres of land.
The two of them were still young. Yue Damao had a flat head and a straight face and was full of strength. He took advantage of the darkness at night to hook up with the daughter of the landlord's family. The two of them secretly went through clouds and rains in Wushan. When Mr. Yuan found out, this family My daughter is already pregnant with dark knots.
The landlord originally intended to recruit a son-in-law, so he went with the flow and asked him to marry Yuan Guifen and recruit him as a surrogate son-in-law.
Within two years, the old landlord passed away hurriedly, and Yue Damao succeeded the old rich man and became the head of the family.
He looked at the grain pits full of grain and dozens of boxes of gold, silver and jewelry, and thought of his suffering mother-in-law and children. He felt that he could not help them, so he escaped privately while the landlord's wife was out doing business.
Yue Damao fully planned to bring his children and wife to enjoy his happiness. Who would have thought of returning home? His wife has been dead for twenty years, and even his grandson can play soy sauce.
His son didn't believe that he was rich, so he followed him to the old rich man's farm.
When we arrived at the place, the farm had long since disappeared, and there were only weeds and wild forests all over the mountains and plains.
They searched for a long time before they saw a stone cave on a certain hillside, with the Yuan Family Courtyard faintly carved on the cave.
There are many mandrills lying on the old locust tree next to the cave. They are all as shrewd as humans. When they see a strong man, they call them master.
When Yue Damao saw this scene, he was so horrified that he fainted on the spot.
He was getting older and older in the past few days, and in less than half a month he became an old man with white hair and gaping teeth, and he died not long after.
Many elderly men in Yingpanling knew about this matter. The second uncle often used Yue Damao's affairs to scare Yue Erpao who came home late.
Although Yue Guanchao has heard such strange stories, he dare not say that they are true. People in the village like to add extravagant words to their stories. The specific circumstances cannot be determined for a long time.
The only thing that is scary is the wild mandrills in the wild forest that can capture people's energy. They can confuse people to this extent. They are probably hundreds of years old beasts.
Yue Guanchao thought that if he told the strange things he knew, it would only increase his fear, so he simply put on a disapproving face and joked around:
"I've heard that mandrill saliva can confuse people, but if you want to say that you become an old man after being sucked into it, that's too bizarre."
"You, Aweng, are not writing stories to relieve your boredom, are you?"
Ah Ying shook her head like a rattle: "Impossible, this is what I stole from my old man. He can't write stories for himself. I thought the mandrills were really extinct in Yehe Town, but I didn't expect them all to escape." Entering Witch Coffin Town."
Song Siyuan listened to Ah Ying's introduction and suddenly realized: "If it is a mandrill, then I understand. It must be the mandrill smearing its saliva on the leech vine to make us unconscious. In addition, we saw that we were being sucked dry. The old hunter had the hallucination just now."
"You must have seen that hallucination too."
Everyone shuddered unconsciously when they thought of the hallucination, and Ying even got goosebumps!
He scratched the back of his head, still feeling frightened: "Fortunately it's an illusion. If it were true, it would be a complete mess."
Song Siyuan's eyes became mysterious: "Do you think that what we saw in the hallucination was very unusual? Why were Tang Dianrong's soldiers and bandits torn apart and chopped into pieces by the people of Wu Coffin? Is this what we have seen?"
Everyone was confused and no one knew.
However, one thing is clear. If their hallucinations are true, what Tang Dianrong did in Wu Coffin Town was lacking great virtue!
Song Siyuan thought for a moment and looked at everyone: "I think we have to go out and get reinforcements first. We encountered such a strange mandrill before we even started investigating. Who knows what we will encounter later."
"What do you think?"
Ah Ying and Lu Fengjian raised their hands first, they had no objection.
Yue Guanchao thought for a moment and nodded: "Then let's go back quickly and bring in the reinforcements first."
"etc!"
When Yue Guanchao was about to go out, Song Siyuan stopped him.
"If there are mandrills out there, we're in danger. We have to find something that can make noise and bang them all the way."
Yue Guanchao glanced around. He looked at the unburnt gong, and his eyes lit up: "If there is anything louder than a gong, let's take it."
Dang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang clang~
Yue Guanchao and Lu Fengjian took the gongs out of the Nuo Dance Ghost Tower and banged them in the grass. As expected, there were many mandrills hidden here. Wherever the piercing roar reached, they screamed out of the grass and swam away until they were completely away. In the grass, they put down the gong and breathed a sigh of relief.
They groped and turned back along the route they came from. They thought they would go back smoothly, but they thought Witch Coffin Town was too simple!
After they returned to the pallet, what appeared in front of them made everyone's hearts pound!
Yue Guanchao tentatively stood on the shore of the burnt planks. It was difficult for him to see anything through the thick gray fog. It was as if he was standing on a cliff standing thousands of feet tall. The wind whined and blew by, stirring up even finer fly ash. Hot mist rises from the deep valley. If you get closer, you can feel the heat wave hitting your face.
"You...who are you?"
Everyone was in a daze when an old lady came out of the ruins nearby. Suddenly she saw a living person who was unknown to good or evil. No one dared to let her get too close.
Yue Guanchao observed the old lady carefully. She was wearing a black coarse cloth trousers. The pattern on the cuffs of the trousers had been worn off and faded. Maybe she had not taken care of it. Her long gray hair was stained with grass roots and dead leaves. It looked like It was like a chicken's nest, but the scariest thing was her face.
The old lady's face was full of strange wrinkles, which were piled up in a messy manner. It was only after a closer look that it became clear that these lines were caused by old knife wounds, which formed ravines on her face over time. From a distance, it looked like a face full of wrinkles.
The old lady didn't know what she was smearing on her body. She was always greasy and dirty. Her cloak reached to her ankles and was patched with holes. Even if she was far away, she could still smell the sour smell from not taking a shower for more than ten days.
The old lady was also wary of them. She was holding the stone tightly in her hand, her cloudy eyes were full of blood-red threads, and she was extremely disgusted with everyone.
"Old lady, do you know what's going on?"
Yue Guanchao calmed down and decided to get close first.
"Shhhh!"
The old lady didn't answer, she put her finger on her mouth and shushed her.
Out of curiosity, she looked around Yue Guanchao for a few times, her eyes gradually changing from curiosity to shock, and her bloodshot eyes became redder and redder, like an old voodoo woman in urgent need of casting a voodoo.
Then, tears welled up in her eyes, and she grinned weirdly:
"After running away for so many years, you shouldn't come back, you shouldn't come back... Hahahahaha, ahhahahahaha!!"
