Nine out of ten fears in the world come from being caught off guard.
People can scare people to death, not because they are too ugly to look at. If you suddenly put a big face in front of others, people with poor psychological quality may get over it in a moment.
What's more, ghosts scare people?
Now I have a high immunity to such unclean things, but the moment I was caught by the other party, I still felt a chill rushing from my buttocks to my forehead, and I jumped up and instinctively retreated.
In theory, such unclean things are basically much stronger than living people, and it is difficult to compete with them.
I was tense and ready to fight the opponent, but I easily got rid of the opponent's entanglement. Instead, I stumbled and almost fell to the ground because I was too exhausted when retreating. For a moment, I was a little confused, but before I could react, a scream of "Ah" suddenly rang in my ear. It came more suddenly and had a deafening effect. It made my head "buzz". The remaining clarity was completely yelled away. My legs softened and I sat on the ground directly. I felt that my lower abdomen was cramped. If I hadn't reacted quickly and immediately clamped my legs, I would have peed in fear.
After a little recovery, I saw Lao Bai's hateful face.
I swear, if I was really scared to pee today, I would definitely stuff my pants into her mouth. How can a grown man scream so scary and coquettishly?
Fortunately, Brother Yaozi and Zhang Xinya reacted quickly. They blocked me the moment I broke free from them. Two bright flashlights were aimed at the direction of the hand. Brother Yaozi had raised the short knife in his hand, but strangely he did not swing it. Instead, he tilted his head, as if thinking about something...
I was extremely confused by the strange attitude of these two people. I glared at Lao Bai fiercely, and then I stood up by pulling his sleeve.
On one side of the wide corridor, there were several iron cages of different sizes, connected in a row. At first glance, they were the iron cages used to hunt wild animals in the mountains. Some of them were already rusty and looked like they had been here for many years, while some of them were still shining with a cold metallic luster under the light, at least 60% to 70% new. These things should have been picked up by the old fox from the mountains.
However, these iron cages were now filled with embarrassed men and women.
Under the strong light of the flashlight, these men and women huddled in the cages, looking haggard. Perhaps they had stayed in the dark for too long, and their skin was pale and sickly. They could not adapt to the strong light of the flashlight, so they covered their eyes.
The one in the lead looked like a woman, with long hair stained with mud and filth, so that it was all stuck together. The sides of her cheeks were sunken. She was sitting on the ground with her eyes covered, and her throat was suppressed with low roars.
I was deeply impressed by the pair of dry and pale hands. It was this person who pulled me!
"Is this a human or a ghost?"
Lao Bai exclaimed softly.
Brother Yaozi glanced at him unhappily: "Can't you see that he is still breathing?"
Indeed, the tomb was quite cold. You can see that the people in the cage are spraying a faint white vapor between their mouths and noses. They must be living people.
However, their appearance is really no different from evil spirits.
"Are these people from the pastoral area?"
Zhang Xinya sighed softly: "They have been tossed into this state, neither human nor ghost!"
I glanced at several cages and saw about 20 to 30 people. Their clothes were tattered, but I could vaguely see that they were the clothes of fellow villagers, but there were fewer people. They must have been harmed by this group of evil spirits.
Probably because she heard the word "pastoral area", the woman who was pulling me across the fence suddenly raised her head. Under the light of the flashlight, she could not open her eyes, but she was roaring "Yiyaya", and her pale and dry hands kept hitting the iron fence, making a "clang clang" sound, but tears kept falling from her eyes.
Here, it seems that only she still has some strength. The others can only cover their eyes with their hands and collapse in the cage...
This scene is absolutely irritating. They were captured, and they could probably think that nothing good would happen. But seeing so many people being tortured like this is indeed a challenge to people's endurance.
Brother Yaozi hesitated for a moment, walked over, squatted down and looked at the woman carefully, and at the same time gently comforted her, telling her not to be nervous, we were entrusted to save them.
I came closer, and was immediately forced to take a step back by the stench in the cage. The environment inside was really... I guess they ate, drank, defecated and urinated in it during this period. I guess they can hold on until now only because of their will to survive.
I observed the woman in front of me. Her lips were chapped and her throat was surging, but she couldn't say a word. Seeing this, I immediately knew what was going on.
This is clearly thirsty and hungry, with a dry throat and no words at all.
I took out water and dried beef from my backpack. When the other party saw these things, he immediately stretched out his hand in front of me.
"You are in too bad a condition now. If you eat this, it will kill you!"
I said softly, and waited for the other party to calm down. Then I crushed the beef and threw it into the water. For a starving person, rationality had long gone. I didn't dare to give it to the other party directly. I waited until the beef bubble expanded and the clear water became turbid, like mud, and then I handed it to the other party.
The other party took the things and raised them to pour into his mouth, but soon stopped. After hesitating for a moment, he actually stood up to feed a man next to him...
Seeing this scene, something seemed to be touched in my heart.
People are actually afraid of hunger. It's okay to have no clothes, but if you really lack that food, anything will happen. There were so many cases of exchanging children for food in the past. At this point, she was still willing to give the food in her hand to others. That look always made me feel a little sour.
At that moment, I grabbed her and whispered, "You eat first. We still have a lot of dry food, enough for you to eat and drink separately. You should recover first. This place is not safe. We still have some questions to ask you!"
The woman was stunned. She was a calm person. She probably rushed to pull me regardless of everything. She also heard us talking. After a little hesitation, she took the bottle and drank it in small sips. To be honest, this thing definitely doesn't look good. Normal people probably don't bother to look at it, but in her hands, it looks like the most precious treasure in the world. She drank it in small sips.
But even so, for a person who has been hungry for a long time, it is still unbearable. Soon her face changed, she bent over and vomited, coughing repeatedly, and there was a faint blood in the vomit...
"Okay, don't eat anymore, recover your strength first!"
I reminded.
At this time, Lao Bai and Zhang Xinya had taken out all our dry food. Fortunately, we didn't lose anything this time, so there was still a lot of dry food left. Then Brother Yaozi cut the locks on the iron cages one by one and let them go in to rescue people, while he himself was on guard, staring at the end of the wide corridor, where there was a dilapidated wooden door...
The woman took a while to recover a little, and her face became more spirited. Although her voice was still hoarse and intermittent, she could at least speak: "Thank you..."
"I was entrusted by someone, so it should be so."
I sighed, pointed to the wooden door, and asked: "What's in it? Is there anything harmful?"
The woman thought about it and told me that there were many scary things there before, but they all ran out recently, and now there is only a fox left.
She also said that not long ago, the fox chased them into a cage, locked it, and said to himself - "The time has come, the world has been decided, who can turn the tables? As for you, just fend for yourself in the cage. I am old, and it is time to return to the reward of the Panshe God. One day, I will follow the god back together."
Then, the old fox never came out again.
The woman only knew that before the old fox went in, he ate a lot of food, so much that it was scary. All of them combined might not be able to eat that much, and it felt like they were about to die of fullness...
After hearing this, I couldn't help but frown and fell into deep thought.
The time has come, the world has been decided?
Could it be that we are still a step late after all?
Has the old fox achieved his goal?
Also, why did the old fox eat so much before going in?
I was puzzled, so I just put the problem aside. Since there was only one old fox left, the threat was gone for the time being. As for the two evil creatures, they must not have returned yet. Otherwise, with just a small wooden door, they could hear everything we said. It would be impossible to hide it from them and they would have come out to kill us long ago.
After thinking about it, I asked again: "What did it do by catching you?"
When she talked about this, the woman trembled all over, and fear flashed in her eyes. Obviously, it was a nightmare more terrible than hunger.
"There is a corpse, a woman's corpse. I once heard the fox mutter that it was their king!"
The woman trembled and said, "We were forced to sleep with that corpse every day. The corpse was very scary. As soon as we lay down, she immediately turned around and hugged us in her arms. Moreover, she asked us to bleed to feed her every day.
I noticed that on the two arms of the female corpse, one was tattooed with a monster with a human body and a snake tail, and the other was tattooed with a strange fox. The weirdest thing is that it was just a pair of tattoos, but when the female corpse hugged me, I felt that the two tattoos came alive and were staring at me!
That feeling... It's too scary, and not only I have this feeling, everyone has it!"
Female corpse hugging people?
This should be swallowing human essence.
Feeding blood, I think this is related to the evil ghost-raising technique.
In addition, the two tattoos seem to be alive...
Connecting everything in the tomb, I vaguely seem to guess what Donghu is going to cultivate?
At that moment, I immediately asked: "Is there no sign of decay on the body?"
"Yes!"
The woman said without thinking: "At first I thought it was a living person who fell asleep, until I was hugged by the other party, I found that the other party had no body temperature and no heartbeat. He must be dead, but his body was not stiff at all, his skin was white and elastic, and he didn't smell at all. He even exuded a faint fragrance, which was very pleasant..."
After hearing this, my expression was already very strange.
If nothing unexpected happened, it should be that kind of thing...