Awakening Day Collection

Chapter 36 Grave (3)
"Zombie?" Feng Si frowned slightly, but he wasn't too surprised.After experiencing all kinds of adventures in the past few months, if there is something more ordinary hidden in this village, it will make him feel unbelievable.Of course, this is definitely not an ordinary zombie, it can't be solved by jumping out of Lin Zhengying and throwing some glutinous rice and sticking stickers.What's more, Feng Si is far inferior to Lin Zhengying, who can't even draw out a wooden sword.

But he has no choice.At this point, let alone a mere zombie, even if an Ultraman is standing there, he still has to play the role of a monster.

"Can you tell me how to approach the tomb?" Feng Si asked.

"You should run away first," Guan Xueying "said", "It's too dangerous."

Feng Si shook his head: "I came here with great difficulty, and they have already remembered my face. If you don't figure things out this time, you won't have another chance in the future."

"Is it that important? More important than life?" Guan Xueying "asked".

Feng Si smiled: "I really want to answer you with pride, 'A lot of things are more important than life', but the fact is not like that. Like everyone, I am afraid of death, and I don't want to die at all. But If this matter is not investigated, I really don't know how long I can live, and I might die in the end without knowing why. Rather than that, I might as well fight."

Guan Xueying bit her lip, hesitated for a moment, and then began to write.Seemingly a little excited, she pushed so hard that Feng Si heard the sound of paper being torn.

"Okay, I'll take you there. But I also want to ask you to help me." Guan Xueying wrote.

"What do you want me to help you with?" Fons asked.

"Take me out of here."

This is another problem.Of course, Feng Si is full of sympathy for Guan Xueying's situation and is willing to help her, but it is one thing to stop her father who beat her, but it is another thing to take her away from this mountain village and bring her back to the city—wouldn't that be abduction? population?Not to mention that the relevant laws to protect minors from domestic violence are not yet perfect, even if Guan Xueying's jerk father's custody is really deprived according to law, she should never go with an unreliable college student like Feng Si .

He wanted to refuse, but seeing Guan Xueying's eyes in the dim candlelight, his heart trembled for some reason.This is an ice-snow and smart girl, and she has already seen the answer from Feng Si's hesitation, so her eyes are full of disappointment and sadness, but there is no trace of resentment.

"No, I'll still help you." Guan Xueying crossed out the last sentence and wrote this one, and then she silently started packing matches, candles, flashlights, food and other items, as if she didn't want to delay for a second .

Will this girl stay like this in this mountain village until she dies of old age?A few years later, she will be married to a rough man in a mountain village, suffer the same beatings and abuses as her father, bear children, and serve her husband's family as a cow and horse, and will soon become a lifeless old woman. Die without a sound.No one will remember that she has ever been in this world, no one will remember the pencils and homework she secretly used to practice calligraphy, no one will remember that she once had a pair of clear eyes that yearn for knowledge.

Feng Si took a deep breath and said slowly: "I promise you, I will take you away."

Guan Xueying shook slightly, and Feng Si continued, "Of course, the premise is that we can escape from the village alive this time."

No matter so much, he thought, while his head is hot, he should agree to come down quickly.Cold reason is often easy to make people make mistakes. Sometimes, you still have to follow your own heart.

Guan Xueying stretched out her hand, pretending to wipe away a tear from the corner of her eye inadvertently, then smiled silently, and gave Feng Si a thumbs up, meaning "we will definitely survive".

However, half an hour later, the passion they had just ignited disappeared, as if a bucket of ice water had been poured on a pile of burning firewood.

"Why are there so many people guarding there?" Feng Si looked bitter, "I thought all the men in your village ran to find me."

"Not only our Sihe Village, but also people from two nearby villages," Guan Xueying wrote, "Three villages, one family."

"The scale is huge enough..." Feng Si sighed, "Even if it's 007, it's not easy to get close."

Guan Xueying seems to have no concept of "007" and has no connection.The two hid in the dark, looking at the more than 20 big men standing in front of the dense forest, feeling a little helpless.Guan Xueying told Feng Si before that the big tomb called "ancestral grave" was hidden behind the woods.That seems to be a very ancient mechanism, once activated, the bushes will automatically move away.

"Can you find a way to detour?" Feng Si asked.

Guan Xueying shook her head, she didn't even bother to write, stretched out her hand to point to the distance, and then drew the shape of a mountain.That means that the back of the tomb is a cliff, there is nowhere to climb, and it is impossible to detour.The dense forest in front of him is the only way to the tomb.

The secret is hidden there, maybe it is the greatest secret that is closely related to me, but I can't make any further progress. This kind of situation is really frustrating.Feng Si even thought that it would be great if that stupid Yu Han was there. With his brain-attached awakening power, it shouldn't be a problem to hit 20 of them with one, right?

He was thinking helplessly, when suddenly, he felt a slight pain in his head.The pain was fleeting, and he didn't notice it, but half a minute later, it hurt again.After that, every few tens of seconds, there will be intermittent pain in the head.

It can't be such a coincidence, can it?At this most critical moment, I actually had a headache, or that benign tumor that was "temporarily harmless" broke out?But soon, he realized that things were by no means that simple, because at this moment, there was a sudden bang in the woods tens of meters away, and then those tall trees seemed to be mounted on wheels, moving towards both sides It slid away, revealing a burial mound behind the woods.

Guan Xueying was right. This is indeed a large tomb. The hemispherical tomb is almost as high as two floors. The stone gate in front of the tomb has been opened. Companion to the caretaker.

"Zhang Nianshun, are you fucking crazy? You were asked to take turns inside, who told you to come out?" A villager who looked like a leader was very angry.

"I heard something!" A villager named Zhang Nianshun hurriedly shouted, "It came from the ancestral grave, as if... a cow was barking."

"The cow barking?" The leading villager grabbed his collar, "Did you hear me right?"

"I'm not deaf!" Zhang Nianshun angrily shook off the opponent's hand, "I thought I heard it wrong the first time, but then I called two or three more times."

"Then it's not a fucking bull!" The leading villager stomped, "Maybe the old ancestor is about to wake up!"

Grandpa is waking up.As soon as these six words were uttered, the villagers seemed to be blown up, and they started talking about it.Feng Si could barely hear a few of the sentences: "Isn't it time yet?" "How could it be so fast this time?" "The sacrifice is not ready yet. The ancestor is going to get angry because he has nothing to eat?"

"Shut up for me!" the leading villager yelled, and the people fell silent. He waved his hand resolutely, "If the ancestor wakes up before the time is up, that's a big deal. Go, go and have a look."

He ran towards the grave first, but after running about ten steps, he found that the footsteps behind him were not quite right.Looking back, there were only eight or nine people following him, and the remaining ten people stood there coweringly and motionless.Even if the expressions were not visible from a distance, Feng Si could guess that the faces of these people must be full of timidity.

"Uncle Yu, the village chief is not here now. If the ancestors go crazy, no one can stop them!" A villager who stayed where he was said to the leader.

The leader known as Uncle Yu thought for a while, and snorted: "That's true. Then let's go in with me if you have the guts to have a look, and the others hurry back and call for someone to go."

The villagers were eager for him to say that, and began to run back quickly.Uncle Yu cursed something, and walked to the grave with the remaining nine people, and quickly disappeared into the doorway.

"Good luck," Guan Xueying wrote on the paper, "There is no one left."

Feng Si smiled slightly and nodded, but he was thinking in his heart: This is not luck.I just happened to be close to here, and I just happened to have a headache, and then my ancestors started to bark, it's not such a coincidence.I am afraid that the ancestors smelled me, he thought, no matter whether it is the desire to find food approaching, or the joy of finding the approach of the same kind, or the fear of feeling the approach of the enemy, in short, it is probably I, Feng, who awakened me. old ancestors.

Could it be that the adventure on the train was also because I "awakened" a certain monster?
He trembled slightly in his heart, but there was no time to think about it now.When the two groups of people running in two directions disappeared out of sight, he dragged Guan Xueying to the tomb on tiptoe.After getting closer, he found that the mound on the cemetery was made of brown-black rammed earth. It looked dark and inconspicuous, but the stone statues in front of the tomb caught his attention.

"Hi, we meet again." Feng Si raised his hand with a mocking expression, and actually greeted one of the statues.He could clearly see that these evil statues were all deformed monsters that did not exist in the world. The carvings were not exquisite, but combined with the creepy atmosphere here, they did not have a certain momentum.

And one of the statues was impressively something he had seen before.A few days ago, he had seen such a monster on the train coming to this place, in that bloody illusion.A horse shaped like a horse, but taller than ordinary horses, with a mouth full of fangs, and a pair of bat-like black wings behind it.

Sure enough, that hallucination was not just a nightmare, Feng Si thought, and he seemed to smell that stench again.

Guan Xueying pulled Lavons sleeve, as if asking, as if frightened by his weird expression.Feng Si patted her on the shoulder: "It's okay, let's go in. I was just thinking, either I'm crazy, or the world is crazy."

Uncle Yu and the others went in too hastily, without even taking care to close the stone gate, Feng Si and Guan Xueying slipped in smoothly.After passing through a tomb passage tens of meters long, a spacious hall appeared in front of him.The hall is unexpectedly bright, because there are many old-fashioned oil lamps fixed on the walls, and each lamp is burning.With the help of these oil lamps, Feng Si could see everything in this hall clearly.

"I've seen it in TV dramas." Guan Xueying wrote down these words.

"That's right, it's indeed a common thing in TV dramas." Feng Si said, "I didn't expect it, so your ancestor was a Taoist priest. If my dad saw him, he would be very kind..."

In front of you is a large hall, the main hall of the Taoist temple.

There is actually a Taoist temple hidden in this mountain village tomb.At this moment, opposite Feng Si stood a mighty spirit official statue, staring at him with three eyes open.There is a strong smell of incense candles in the temple, which shows that the incense here has never been cut off.

In a numb, ignorant, and closed mountain village, a tomb was built deep in the village, and a Taoist temple was hidden in the tomb.What could this mean?

"Could it be some kind of cult?" Feng Si muttered to himself, his eyebrows knit together.There are too many such cases or stories.The remote mountain village, the evil gods, and the ignorant villagers can always evolve many horror stories.It's just that those horror stories are covered with a layer of mystery, and no matter how many times they go back and forth, they will eventually fall into human conspiracy and deceit.But now, what I am facing is far from that simple...

As soon as I thought of this, I felt another pain in my head.This time the pain was very severe, and he could not help moaning slightly, as if he had been cut by a knife when he was on the train.But Guan Xueying didn't notice his groan, because it was covered by another series of loud noises.

That was the screams from the depths of the Taoist temple, the screams of the ten villagers.

Feng Si didn't care about the headache, he pulled Xueying through Guan and retreated outside the Lingguan Hall, hiding by the door.The shouts inside sounded extremely painful, Guan Xueying's body couldn't help shaking, even Feng Si couldn't help feeling hairy.

Mixed with those screams, there were bursts of low-pitched roars, somewhat similar to the chirping of animals.Feng Si suddenly thought of what Zhang Nianshun, a villager who ran out of the tomb before, said, "It seems like some cow is barking."

It's really a bit like a cow's cry, he thought, is this the sound made by the ancestors?

After a while, the screams gradually subsided, but the ancestor did not make any other sounds.The cow-like panting disappeared in an instant, and there seemed to be no other sounds in the tomb except for the breathing of Feng Si and Guan Xueying and the "hissing" sound of the burning wick, not even the sound that kept appearing before. The severe headache also stopped.

How is this going?Could it be that the ancestors fell asleep after eating?Feng Si was puzzled for a while.Guan Xueying tugged at his sleeve and pointed forward, meaning to take a look.Feng Si hesitated for a moment, thinking that it was not an option to keep hiding outside, not to mention that the villagers who rescued the soldiers might come back with hundreds of big men carrying hoes at any time. Since there is no way out, it is better to take the risk.

Thinking of this, he and Guan Xueying re-entered the Lingguan Hall together, and just a few steps away, they could smell the bloody smell coming to their nostrils.When he was on the train, he also immersed himself in a blood-stained river in hallucinations, but that was an illusion after all, and even if it was stenchy, it was still within the range that his body could bear.And now, smelling like this in the real world, he almost threw up.Looking back at Guan Xueying, although she was also pale, she was in better condition than him, which really made him feel a little ashamed.

The two walked through the Lingguan Hall and came all the way to the Sanqing Hall, which is usually located in the center of Taoist temples.As soon as she walked in, Guan Xueying nervously hid behind Feng Si.This move is not surprising, and Feng Si can see it very clearly. There is a long bloodstain on the ground here, leading to the door behind the Sanqing Hall, as if some huge bloody object was dragged all the way. .But apart from this weird bloodstain, nothing else can be seen here.The ten big men just disappeared.

Could it be that they were tied together and then dragged in like a bale of straw?How were the ten strong mountain people subdued so quickly?Feng Si was full of suspicion, and said in Guan Xueying's ear, "You stay outside first, I'll go in and have a look."

Guan Xueying shook her head and gestured a few times to show that she would never leave.Feng Si was straightforward by nature, and he didn't force himself: "Okay, let's go together, even if we die, we still have a companion."

He walked in front and took Guan Xueying into the door. Inside the door was another hall, but the ones enshrined inside were not the Jade Emperor, Sanguan, Zhenwu Emperor, etc. that you can see in ordinary Taoist temples, or even Guan Gong, the God of Wealth, and the City God are commonly seen in small local temples.There is a statue of a devil with a strange shape.

Devil, this is the first reaction in Feng Si's mind.This statue is not a traditional Chinese clay statue, but has a bronze texture.Its shape is similar to that of a bull-headed human, with a burly body, a head with a pointed nose and big mouth with two long horns, and two broad wings stretched out from behind.This devil-like statue sits on a stone pier, with its knees spread out, hands spread out, its head angled slightly upwards, and its bloody mouth open, as if it is screaming ferociously.

Guan Xueying wrote a few words "swish" on the paper, and handed it to Feng Si: "foreign?"

This is exactly what Feng Si thought.This statue of a devil, or an evil god, has strong western characteristics.Although Feng Si knew very little about sculpture art, he could tell at a glance that this statue did not belong to Chinese culture.He pulled out his phone, took a picture of the statue, and noticed that the trail of blood on the ground extended right to the foot of the statue.

(End of this chapter)