Awakening Day Collection

Chapter 35 Grave (2)
Guan Xueying's 17-year-old life can basically be summed up in the few words her father said when she was insulted.She was the first child in the family, and her father, Guan Suo, was extremely disappointed in giving birth to a daughter, so he beat and scolded her frequently, and blamed her for the low IQ of the son born in the second child.After reluctantly letting her go to elementary school for three years, her mother passed away, and Guansuo didn't allow her to study anymore.She could only secretly ponder on a dilapidated Xinhua dictionary and old textbooks from neighbors while her father was not paying attention.

This hidden cave was discovered by accident when she was beaten too hard by her father and couldn't bear to escape from the house.Since then, this place has become a small world that only belongs to her. She can read books and practice calligraphy here without being discovered, but she never thought that this cave unexpectedly saved Feng Si's life.

"It turns out that your mother also passed away when you were in the third grade, and we were the same." Feng Si suddenly felt a sense of sympathy for each other, "Is it sick?"

"Someone is robbing (robbing). Kill with a knife." Guan Xueying lowered her head and wrote these words.

"They all died by accident..." Feng Si sighed, feeling that his fate and Guan Xueying's fate had something in common again.

Another two days later, Feng Si waited for Guan Xueying's arrival in the middle of the night as usual.Guan Xueying usually came to the cave around one o'clock in the middle of the night, but this night, she did not arrive on time.Half an hour later, an hour later... Just as Feng Si was gradually feeling anxious, wondering if something had happened, there was a "swishling" crawling sound outside the cave.Guan Xueying hastily got in through the narrow opening, and without even thinking about saying hello to him, she hastily took out her homework book—the pen and notebook that Feng Si gave her, she dare not use for now, lest she be found out — and began to write on it.With the help of the light from the flashlight, Feng Si could clearly see what she wrote.

Minute.

Minute?Separation points?A cent for two cents?Molecular points?

Feng Si was baffled and didn't understand what Guan Xueying wanted to say.Guan Xueying was also a little anxious. After making gestures with him for a while, she simply drew a semicircle in the shape of a steamed bun on the notebook, and wrote a few words below: "The place where the dead live."

Feng Si suddenly understood.What she wanted to write was not the word "fen", but "grave".

Grave of graves.

two

Fons has been out of touch for almost a week.Wen Xiaolan called Feng Si's cell phone over and over again, but the receiver always heard the cold "The user you dialed is temporarily unavailable".She wanted to explain it with the poor signal in the mountainous area, but when she thought about it carefully, with Feng Si's jovial but cautious temperament, she had to go out of the village every day or two to find a place with a signal to report to her. Safety.

Thinking about it this way, she inevitably felt a little anxious, and it was really disgusting to bite the bullet and help Feng Si take care of the Weibo account. She really wanted Feng Si to come back soon, at least to have news as soon as possible.So after returning from the internship unit that day, she began to search for all information related to Shuangping Mountain on the Internet.Last time, after she found out the place name and route for Feng Si, she didn't ask again, but now it seems that there is something hidden in this unknown distant mountain.

This search does not matter, but I did find a lot of related posts, but after flipping through the pages, they are basically some ordinary travel notes or travel tips, mixed with a lot of complaints, accusing the local mountain people There is no concept of tourism development, indifference to tourists, and poor conditions in mountain villages.

"This idiot...couldn't be fighting with the locals with itchy fists and then being chopped into meat paste?" Wen Xiaolan muttered.She thought that He Yifan should know something, but that dead girl had an innocent face, but in fact she kept her mouth shut and probably wouldn't tell her.

Suddenly, the title of a post came into view: "A friend was killed in Sihe Village, Shuangping Mountain. The police determined that the death was accidental, please seek legal assistance."

Killed?Wen Xiaolan's heart tightened, and she quickly clicked on this post, only to find that this post had already been deleted.Oddly enough, even the snapshot of the search engine was deleted.Fortunately, she has been with the technical youth Ning Zhangwen for a long time, and she also knows several foreign websites that store historical and old webpages, and finally found this webpage in one of the websites.It was a long post, and the poster described everything that happened at that time and her own psychological changes in great detail.After reading line by line, she suddenly couldn't help but stood up and turned off the air conditioner in the dormitory.

it's too cold.It was so cold that the hairs on my body stood on end.

The incident happened ten years ago. According to the poster's description in the post, there were two female donkey friends traveling to Shuangping Mountain.They are freelance illustrators by profession, and they don't have to work every day, so they often travel with their companions in their free time, and they can work as long as they carry a computer and a drawing board.This time, their destination was Shuangping Mountain.

Since they had searched for the strategy in advance and knew that this place was not a tourist hotspot, the two of them didn't need to book a room in advance, just look for it again when they got there.In fact, the two of them didn't have a choice, only the village chief's house had a spare room to receive tourists.

The village head's attitude is lukewarm, the food and accommodation conditions are terrible, and the rest of the villagers are not very friendly. Fortunately, the nearby scenery is really good.The two stayed for three days, took a look at the surrounding mountains and rivers, and planned to return to the county as planned, and then go to other scenic spots in Guizhou.They took the long-distance bus that only leaves once a day and returned to the county.However, at noon that day, after returning to the county seat, the friend of the poster found that he forgot one thing when he left—a mobile hard drive with him.A large number of drawings and important materials are stored in this hard disk, which must not be lost.

So she immediately decided to go back to the village to look for it.If it is too late, it may become a toy for children to kick around on the ground.It's just that there were no buses to take that day, so she wandered around the hotel for a while, and found a black car, and finally persuaded the driver to take her back with a high price.

"Do you want me to go with you?" the poster asked.

"No need, I just went to get something, and I can come back at night." Her friend said.

Then she never came back.The poster made calls all night, but the other party's phone was always turned off.And she didn't accompany her friend to call a black car, so not only did she not know the license plate number, she didn't even know what kind of car it was.In desperation, she called the police the next morning.

The police acted very quickly and gave her a response that afternoon that completely overwhelmed her: her friend was dead, in that village, from a fall off a cliff.An official autopsy afterwards also came to the same conclusion, and there was no other cause of death.

But she was sensitively aware that there was a lot to it, because her friend just went back to the village to pick up the mobile hard drive, and it was impossible to wander around the scenery that the two of them had seen long ago, not to mention that it would be almost dark when she arrived in the village. up.

What is even more puzzling is that when she checked the relics, she found that all valuables were not lost, including the cash, mobile phone and the mobile hard drive.But the memory card in my friend's digital camera disappeared. I asked the police, but the answer I got was that I didn't know anything.She suddenly understood that the accident of her friend was probably related to that memory card, and there was probably only one possibility that the memory card could pose a threat to people: photos or videos.

My friend may have photographed something dangerous, so he was silenced!The poster draws this inference.She calmly accepted the police's explanation, took back the belongings of her friend, and waited for the deceased's parents in the hotel.But after the police left, she immediately opened the back cover of her friend's phone, took out the memory card in it, and put it in the card reader.

——Ten years ago, shortly after the camera phone was invented, it was not popular in mainland China at all, and not many people even used digital cameras at that time.But it just so happens that her friend prefers to be fashionable, so she asked someone to buy one from Hong Kong.So even if the villagers knew to remove the memory card from the digital camera, they never expected that the mobile phone used for making calls could also take pictures.

With trembling hands, she opened the memory card, which contained hundreds of low-resolution mobile phone photos.The first dozens of photos are all ordinary random landscape pictures, but after that, an unusual photo suddenly appeared.

The angle of this photo is taken from above, probably from a cliff. On the screen, you can see an open space in the village. The open space is full of villagers, most of whom are adults.But several women held a baby in each arm.It seems that this is some kind of collective activity in this village.

The second photo shows that the villagers have moved to another location, which looks like a small mountain depression, but they did not notice such a place near the village when they were traveling. She guessed that the entrance to this place was probably taken by the villagers. They went into hiding.The villagers were standing in front of a dense forest at this time, arranged in several rows in an orderly manner. The people in front seemed to be older, and they should be standing according to their seniority.But in this photo, the women holding the babies are no longer visible.

The third photo is still in the same position, but everyone has changed to a kneeling position. In this photo, the women from before can finally be seen. It turns out that they have been surrounded by the rest of the villagers.From standing in order of honor and inferiority to kneeling and prostrating, it seems to indicate that what these photos record is a very solemn ceremony.

Of course, although the first three photos are somewhat unusual, there is nothing wrong with them.In the remote mountain villages of our country, all kinds of ancient and peculiar customs are not uncommon. It is not wrong to understand it as worshiping ancestors or worshiping mountain gods.But the fourth photo that follows is a bit more terrifying.

Judging from the surrounding landscape and the standing position of the people, the fourth photo and the third photo should be in exactly the same position, but compared with the two photos, there has been a huge change: the dense forest in the photo is inexplicable A large area of ​​the ground disappeared, revealing something hidden behind the dense forest.

a grave.A huge, hill-like tomb.Because the pixels of the photo are too low and the background light is very dim, it is almost impossible to see the redundant details, but you can vaguely see several strange statues at the entrance, at least two people tall.

In this seemingly boring and uninteresting mountain village, there is such a huge tomb hidden.At this time, the poster began to understand that this village is definitely not simple, and this tomb may be the secret they need to protect.She also guessed that her friend must have suffered misfortune because of witnessing this weird ceremony.

She collected herself and looked at the fifth photo next.At this time, the light was already very dim, and I didn’t dare to turn on the flash, so the photos were basically blurry black shadows.She zoomed in on the photo, stared wide-eyed and tried to identify it. She could barely see that the crowd had dispersed to the side, and there was an open space outside the entrance of the tomb. There were a few small things placed on the open space. These things were—babies!The babies who were held in the arms of the women before were all placed on the ground at this moment, and a huge black shadow appeared at the entrance of the tomb.

What is that black shadow?This picture was really hard to see, so she skipped to the next one.

The shooting angle of the sixth photo has changed. It seems that the person who took the photo was attracted by something, so he ventured to climb forward on the cliff for a while, or climbed to a tree. In short, the distance from the scene is much closer .So in this photo, the huge black shadow in the previous photo is slightly clearer.Although it was still a dark mass, some outlines could barely be seen.In addition, compared with the fifth picture, the position of this shadow has also changed. It was at the entrance of the tomb before, but now it has moved to a position closer to the babies.

It was an object close to an ellipse, but it was not a regular ellipse, and it looked a bit flat.If you don't pay attention, you may regard it as a rock, after all, you can't see any movement in a photo.However, if you look closely, you will find something faintly shining brightly at the front end of this oval object.She zoomed in on the photo, looked at the light, and then covered her mouth to keep herself from screaming.

—that's an eye!An eye that shone with green light!
All photos are only these six.Afterwards, there were neither photos nor any information about the photographer.The poster said that she pretended not to know anything and hurried back to the big city.She thought that if the two of them did not act separately, but both returned to the village, maybe both of them would be killed.

She also felt that the local police might be colluding with the villagers, and besides the blurry photos, she didn't have any evidence, so she had to post for help first and ask netizens for their opinions.What's interesting is that, like Feng Si back then, even though she saw a strange phenomenon that could not be explained by common sense, she still refused to believe in any strange powers, but believed that the monster with eyes exposed in the photo was dressed up by the villagers.

"There is probably a cult hidden in that village," she said in the post. "Those villagers are controlled by the cult and hold such horrific sacrifices."

It was so naive, Wen Xiaolan couldn't help sighing when she saw this.The poor illustrator probably couldn't imagine what kind of dangerous things she encountered.However, now Wen Xiaolan has no extra time to lament about the fate of others, and the first thing she worries about is Feng Si.Judging from the description of this post, that mass of blurry things is likely to be the kind of monster that Fence has been tracking down, which is similar to the flesh, and it is a rather huge individual.

She further thought that if such a monster really existed in that village, and it was the object of worship of the whole village, then it was very likely that everyone in that mountain village was in the same group.Feng Si ran to the village carelessly like this, which was basically a sheep in the mouth of a tiger.

Wen Xiaolan hurriedly entered the place name into the search engine, wanted to find the local area code and dial 110, but immediately thought of it, this village has not had any negative news for so many years, and there is a way to deal with the police, maybe there is an internal response , in that case, it may be more dangerous to call the police.In other words, no matter what happened, now he could only rely on Feng Si to solve the problem by himself.

She thought of something again, opened the chat tool, found a friend she knew who was an amateur illustrator, and reported the online name of the person who posted: "Have you heard of this person?"

"I know this name. I'm a decent illustrator, but she's dead. She's been dead for a long time. Ten years ago, she got into a car accident and was killed on the spot. The culprit has not been found yet." The other party replied quickly Say.

This answer did not surprise Wen Xiaolan.She looked at the strange black figure with one eye on the screen, and suddenly sighed.

"Seek good fortune for yourself, I hope you can always have shit luck..." Wen Xiaolan murmured to herself.

three

Guan Xueying wrote Chinese characters for a while, and pinyin for a while, and occasionally drew a simple picture, or made gestures, and finally explained to Feng Si clearly what she wanted to explain.

"There is a big tomb in the village, and my father never allowed me to go close to it. But the adults in the village go there every year." Guan Xueying said, "That tomb seems to be a secret. It is usually hidden and no outsider can see it. I overheard them talking, saying that you came to find that grave, so you must not be allowed to leave alive."

"Have you ever heard of what's in the grave?" Feng Si asked.

"I overheard someone talking about it," Guan Xueying "said", "There seems to be an... old ancestor buried there."

"Ancestor?" Feng Si was a little surprised, "Is an ancestor's grave kept secret?"

"The old ancestor doesn't seem to be dead, but still alive." Guan Xueying "said".

(End of this chapter)