Adventure Code

Chapter 386: Snow Trench (8)

I stood in the dark, the light hit the place where the red belly doll disappeared, and countless muddy horses ran through my heart.

How could a child appear in the middle of the night in the freezing Northeast, the temperature close to zero, the dense virgin forest, and the edge of the Sanjiang Plain?Could it be that there are people living in this mountain?Even if it is a child from the mountains, it is impossible to come out with bare limbs and only a bellyband in this winter!

I recalled the face of that child just now in my mind.

It stands to reason that it should be a particularly scary thing for a strange red child to appear in the middle of the night, but I just saw the child's face clearly. There is also a soaring braid tied with a red string on the top, and there are many red decorations on it.

Recalling the child's attire at this moment, I immediately thought of the legend of the ginseng doll.

The legend of ginseng dolls has been widely spread in the northeast area, and it has existed throughout the ages, especially in the Changbai Mountain area. There are countless theories about ginseng essence and ginseng dolls.

Ginseng, the older it is, the more human-like it looks.

According to legend, ginseng grows for a long time, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, it can become fine.Ginseng that has grown for 500 years can move in the soil, and after a thousand years, it can turn into a human form, that is, a ginseng doll.If the time is longer, the human form of ginseng will gradually grow up, that is, it will become a ginseng mother-in-law or a ginseng father-in-law.

However, because ginseng mother-in-law and ginseng father-in-law are extremely rare, in folklore, after ginseng becomes sperm, most of them appear as ginseng dolls.It is said that ginseng dolls like to play with children the most. In ancient times, in order to catch ginseng dolls, people would specially find children and let them go for a walk in the mountains.

When the game is familiar, the person who catches the ginseng doll will take out a red string and ask the children to give the ginseng doll to put on the doll's hand.

In this way, the hiding place of the ginseng doll can be found according to the red rope.

After ginseng dolls are caught, they are often tied up with illegal red ropes, unable to break free, and change into sad tears, which is very endearing.

But those who come here to catch the ginseng dolls for money will not soften their hearts because of this. They will boil a pot of boiling water, throw the ginseng dolls into the cauldron to boil, and then cover it.

The ginseng doll struggled and cried in the pot, and the lid was kicked and thumped.

But the high temperature will force the ginseng doll to show its original shape, and the movement of the lid will stop soon. When you open the lid again, you will see an old human-shaped ginseng covered in golden light.

The old ginseng is the prototype of the ginseng doll, and those golden lights are the ginseng doll, a protective cover sacrificed with meager mana to resist boiling water.

People who sell money naturally cannot sell boiled ginseng. They know that ginseng will cast spells to protect themselves from being hurt by boiling water, so they specially came up with this method to force out the prototype of ginseng doll and consume the mana of ginseng doll.

Once it shows its original shape, the ginseng doll can no longer run away.

And the child I saw just now is very similar to the image of the ginseng doll in folklore, and this is the Northeast region, which is a place rich in ginseng, so I can't help but suspect: Is it possible that what I saw is a Ginseng doll?
Although in Huangquan Village, I have seen a clever white-haired old thief who can learn to speak, but they are animals after all. After training, there are many animals that can learn to speak, so although the white-haired old thief is rare, it is not Not non-existent.

But ginseng is a plant...can a plant take human form?Is this a bit too exaggerated?
The flashlight in my hand kept scanning around, trying to find the child again. According to folklore, ginseng dolls are kind spirits and are not dangerous. I am curious at the moment. Being hung up, I especially wanted to know what that child was just now.

Just as I was looking for it with the light on, the red shadow flashed past me again, and I immediately chased after it. After doing this several times, I found that I was already some distance away from the camp.

This made me feel a little uneasy.

The kid seemed to be tempting me on purpose.

This more than a year of exercise has made me a lot more courageous, but even so, in the middle of the night, I was chasing a child who didn't know if it was a ghost or something in the deep mountains and old forests. Infiltrate.

I immediately planned to withdraw, but at the same time I felt a little strange, I felt like I was in a daze just now, and I chased after him without thinking much. Now that I think about it, I feel a little reckless.

Normally, I would never do this, but why did I get so excited just now?

Could it be that kid in the red bellyband is confusing me?

Could it be that it is not a ghost, but...

I thought of an unfavorable possibility, shivered, and immediately walked back, but just now the kid in the red bellyband led me from left to right, but now I couldn't figure out the north and south for a while.

After walking a few steps, not only did I not find the direction when I came, but the more I walked, the more bushes there were.

When we camped, in order to expand our vision, we were looking for an area with relatively few bushes. Now looking at the surrounding terrain, we obviously went astray.

Just when my heart was trembling and I felt something was wrong, at the end of the flashlight, I suddenly saw a red child again.

But this time, the red kid made me shudder and goosebumps formed on my body.

I saw a very strange tree at the end of the flashlight.

The tree's trunk and canopy grow thick and wide, but the trunk is very short. After the light is turned on, one can see a red doll hanging on its thick trunk.

The doll was blood red all over, and her face was also red. She was grinning, but her eyes were black. Putting it together, it was so weird!At first glance, I was so scared that I almost lost my soul, and then I realized that it was a fake doll painted with red paint.

The light was turned upwards, and the situation on the big tree was revealed more clearly.

There are all dolls, all kinds of dolls are hung on the tree, without exception, they are all bright red, there are still many strips of cloth hanging on the tree, the color is a little faded, as if it has been tied to the tree for a long time .

This reminds me of the blessing trees in some tourist attractions.

People's tourist attractions are either hung with red strings, blessing locks, or blessing cards. Why is there a strange red doll hanging on the tree in front of you?
In just a moment, my body was covered with a layer of white sweat.

The night wind blew, and the faded red cloth and red dolls on the tree swayed gently. The strange situation made my heart jump uncontrollably, thinking: What are these red dolls for?What does it have to do with that kid I just saw?
(End of this chapter)