Long night dreams

Chapter 3 The most important place for corpses, please do not enter!
The driver's fluent speech suddenly stuttered a bit, and he said in a little panic, "The road ahead is a rural machine farming road, and it will be muddy when it rains. When the car goes in, the tires will get stuck in the mud, and there is no way to drive away." Car. You see, it’s going to rain soon, and I don’t want to get out if I go in. You know, once you hear the name Curse Village, it’s not a good place..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the sky outside the car window flashed white light a few times, a thunderclap hit their eardrums for no reason, and light rain fell outside the car.

Guo Haoran was still about to have a fit, but Ye Mei stood up and said softly, "Don't bother the driver, let's get out of the car and go." Under the grateful eyes of the young driver, Ye Mei walked out of the minibus first .

Seeing this, Guo Haoran quickly followed Ye Mei out of the minibus compartment.He watched the drizzle falling from the sky, and quickly took off his coat and put it on Ye Mei's back.Fortunately, Ye Mei didn't refuse again this time, she put on Guo Haoran's coat, and walked in the front silently.

The young couple and the muscular middle-aged man got out of the car reluctantly, and walked together with Ye Mei and Guo Haoran.One kilometer of road is not long, but it is not short, but such a small distance is enough for five people to exchange names with each other.

As expected, the couple and the middle-aged man both went to Curse Village for tourism. They both read Zhuang Qin's horror novel "Night Burial" and happened to see the promotional brochure of Curse Village, so they decided to This trip to the Cursed Village in early winter.

The young couple, the man's name is Wang Yang, and the woman's name is Xia Qingqing.They are all students of the city university, and they happen to be schoolmates with the college students in "Night Burial".They saw their classmates appear in the novel, so they became very curious about this strange place called Cursed Village.So they took advantage of the internship holiday and came here together.

The fit, middle-aged man was a policeman on leave, Roger.He happened to know Zhuang Qin, the horror novelist who wrote "Night Burial". Zhuang Qin once said at different gatherings that his "Night Burial" described all the real things.

For this point, Luo Jie always scoffed. In order to refute Zhuang Qin's statement at the next meeting, he happened to be on vacation and bored, so he came to the cursed village alone, trying to find the loopholes in Zhuang Qin's novel.

As long as people talk to each other, the one-kilometer journey will be very easy. After a while, the five of them walked to the end of the machine farming road and came to a chain bridge.It was already dark, and amidst the sound of rushing water, Roger held a powerful flashlight and took a picture of the opposite bank, and then said excitedly: "Yes, this is here, this is the cursed village! I have already seen the opposite bank. A big banyan tree, exactly as described in "Night Burial".

Upon hearing this, Wang Yang and Xia Qingqing ran across the rickety chain bridge happily.The chain bridge was a little loose, and when they ran to the middle of the bridge, their shoes were still wet from the river under the bridge.Ye Mei was also infected by the vitality of this young couple. She jumped and ran across the cable bridge, and Guo Haoran couldn't help exclaiming loudly: "Ye Mei, slow down, pay attention to safety—" He was only halfway through his words. I heard a thunder above my head, and the light rain that was originally pattering suddenly turned into a torrential rain.

In the night, the huge banyan tree stood at the entrance of the cursed village, its trunk and branches stretched out in all directions, like a trapped animal struggling desperately to escape the shackles in the dark night.

The rain was getting heavier, the river under the cable bridge was raging, and the wind was scraping sharply past people's eardrums, the sound was like chalk scratching on a blackboard.But the strange thing is that this place has reached the entrance of the cursed village, but there is no light to be seen, let alone human voices.

It stands to reason that Curse Village is already engaged in tourism development, even if there are fewer tourists, the local residents should live here.What's more, it's just getting dark now, and it's not time to go to sleep, but why can't I hear a little sound?

The five people walked quickly along the bluestone path into a ruined village. With the occasional lightning, they could easily tell that the village was full of ruins and crooked houses with earthen walls.It's already early winter, the rain has drenched their whole bodies, and the wind cuts across their faces like knives. Although there will be no dripping blood gushing out, this feeling is also like a bird watching The missing hand tried to rip their skin away viciously.

"Did we go the wrong way?" Wang Yang said to himself, Xia Qingqing held Wang Yang's arm tightly, her body was trembling from the sudden cold.

Guo Haoran cheered loudly: "No, we will never go wrong. When we came here, the road sign pointed in this direction, and at the entrance of the village we saw a big banyan tree like a sign, and the book "Night Burial" Exactly as described in the book."
At this moment, Guo Haoran suddenly heard Ye Mei's scream: "Ah-"
He turned his head and saw Ye Mei's eyes widened, raising his arms and pointing at a place not far away tremblingly.Guo Haoran looked in the direction Ye Mei pointed, and saw a scarlet light spot, like a burning cigarette butt.

"Who?" Guo Haoran scolded loudly. When Roger heard Guo Haoran's cry, he also turned his head and shot the flashlight in his hand. But at this moment, the flashlight in his hand suddenly flashed. In the dark, the light gradually weakened until it disappeared, and the surroundings were plunged into a hopeless darkness.

"Oops, the battery is dead!" Roger cursed.And the cigarette butt-like light in the distance also flickers on and off rhythmically, just like someone is smoking a cigarette.

With a "wow", with a flash of lightning, the five people present finally saw what was not far away.

It was an old lady wearing a black poncho and holding a black oilcloth umbrella.In her mouth was a half-burned cigarette.She kept smoking, and the white smoke spit out from the corner of her leaky mouth, and was immediately swept away by the raging mountain wind.

Roger asked loudly: "Who are you? What are you doing here pretending to be a ghost?" After all, he is a policeman, and the words he speaks are extraordinarily majestic, with an irresistible force.

The old lady laughed, and her shriveled laughter rushed back and forth in the stormy night, and was torn into fragments, making the five people standing here feel their scalps numb and their hair stand on end at the same time.

Guo Haoran and Luo Jie took a few steps forward, and stepped in front of this mysterious old lady.Roger held the old lady's arm tightly with his hands like steel pliers, and he asked, "What on earth are you doing?"
The old lady spat out the cigarette she was holding in her mouth to the ground with a "pooh", and the light from the burning cigarette butt was immediately extinguished by the rain.She turned her face and said to Roger slowly with a dry voice: "I am the owner of the hotel in the village. My name is Jin. You can call me Mrs. Jin. You must be here to stay at the hotel." Come on, come with me, and make sure you live cheaply and comfortably." She turned around, turned on a flashlight, and walked deep into the village with a black oilcloth umbrella.

It turned out to be a false alarm, Guo Haoran smiled wryly, then walked to Ye Mei's side, hugged Ye Mei's shoulders, and said: "Don't be afraid, come on, follow me." Ye Mei obviously hasn't recovered from the previous situation. Freed from panic, she did not express any objection to Guo Haoran's hospitality.

In the heavy rain, the five people followed the old lady Jin who appeared suddenly, and walked slowly through the ruined village.Wang Yang couldn't bear the confusion in his heart, and couldn't help asking: "Old lady Jin, why is there no one in the cursed village now?"
The old lady Jin was stunned for a moment, and then asked back: "Who said this is a cursed village?"
"Ah? Isn't this the cursed village?" Xia Qingqing asked again in surprise.

"There is a three-way intersection one kilometer away from the cable bridge. If you walk one kilometer to the southeast, you will be the cursed village. But if you go one kilometer to the northeast, you can only go to our village—our village is called Corpse Tsukamura."
"Wow, Shizuo Village--" Xia Qingqing's voice trembled a little, "what a terrible name."
"Hehe, this used to be a mass burial mound. When Huguang filled the southwest, many people in Huguang died from the plague and miasma. They had no money to build a grave, so they just wrapped the corpse in a blanket and buried it in a pit. .At that time, this was the place where the most people were buried in Huguang. After a long time, there were unnamed skeletons and skeletons everywhere in the ground. On clear nights, you could still see gloomy green will-o'-the-wisps. So, this That's the origin of the name Shizuo Village." Mrs. Jin patiently explained.

Ye Mei took over the conversation and said: "But we clearly saw that the cursed village on the road sign points in this direction."
The old lady Jin continued to walk forward without looking back, and a dry voice came out of her mouth: "It may be that the truck traveling at night hit the road sign, let's change the direction where the road sign points. Once we arrive At night, the trucks that go by are like a gust of wind."
After walking for a few minutes, they finally saw a ray of light that made people feel warm—on the mountainside behind the village, there was a courtyard shining with dim lights.

In the middle of a stormy night, what could be more attractive to a drenched traveler than a hot bath and a hot meal?

As soon as they saw the light, Wang Yang and Xia Qingqing cheered and ran up the mountainside.Ye Mei's heart surged, and she followed the young couple towards the warm light.But she only ran a few steps, and fell to the ground with an "oops".

"Oh, why are you so careless--" Mrs. Jin said to Ye Mei with a drawn out voice.She pointed the flashlight at Ye Mei's feet, only to realize that Ye Mei tripped over a road marker.At the same time, Ye Mei also saw the road stele, her eyes immediately showed a look of fear, her mouth opened wide, and a hysterical scream came out of her throat.

Guo Haoran rushed to Ye Mei's side, only to see that there were only eight simple words written on the road stele - "Privately important place, please do not enter!"
However, I don't know who was so bored, and used red paint to draw a shocking cross on the word "私", and wrote a crooked big character with the same eye-catching red paint on the side of the word "私"——"corpse" "
"The most important place for corpses, please don't enter unless you have!"
(End of this chapter)