The Haunted

The flashlight in his hand fell to the ground and rolled aside, creating a small circle of light on the ground.

The surroundings suddenly became darker.Chi Yan huddled into a ball in Ye Ying's arms, not daring to move for a moment.

He tentatively called his lover's name in a low voice: "...Yingzhi, Ye Yingzhi...don't scare me..." In the empty stone hall, his voice became weaker and more helpless.

Ye Yingzhi kissed his ear lightly: "I won't scare you."

The warm body under his palm trembled slightly in his arms, like a poor little animal caught in his palm, Ye Yingzhi could even hear his lover's uncontrollable sobs from his throat .

Afraid to be like this, both hands are still pressed against his chest, and he doesn't know how to escape, like a little lamb relying on the hunter, completely letting others slaughter him.

Ye Yingzhi suddenly felt that it was difficult to restrain himself, and kissed her lover's ears down carefully, all the way along the neck to the collarbone of the other's collarbone before stopping slightly and taking a light breath.

Because Chi Yan cried.

His vision is not affected in the dark, and he can clearly see his lover's eyes tightly closed, lips pursed, eyelashes trembling and dripping with fear.

He likes Chi Yan's appearance, but it may be because of his nature, he can't deny that he really likes to see the little baby being helpless and obediently dependent in his hands like this.Distressed yet heartbroken.If you want to coax him to be happy, don't be so sad; and you can't help but secretly want to bully him more, forcing him to reveal all the tender and sweet insides.

I really want to eat him right now, skin to bone.In my mind, I couldn't help recalling the appearance of Chi Yan taking the initiative to serve him, the appearance of being bullied so tenderly that he would not hide and bear it obediently, the appearance of being intimate and shamelessly asking him to greet him... the breathing became more and more unbearable.

That was the treasure he held on top of his heart.Every move touched his heartstrings, making him haunted and unable to control himself.

I'm so bad.

Ye Yingzhi sighed silently, lowered her head and gently sucked away the teardrops on Chi Yan's left and right eyelashes, and said again: "I won't scare you."

However, this sentence seemed to break something, Chi Yan suddenly choked with sobs, opened his arms and hugged him tightly, snuggled into his arms, and called his name: "Ye Yingzhi..."

He was afraid of him, but intuitively believed that this was his lover.Hold on and don't want to let go.

He could sense that something was wrong with Ye Yingzhi, but in such an environment where his nerves were oppressed, he couldn't figure out what was wrong for a while, so he could only call the other person's name in a low voice.

"Ye Yingzhi..." There was a tear in her voice.

This hug made Ye Ying's heart melt, and his heart was full of helplessness and distress.

Ever since he understood love, he really has nothing to do with Chi Yan.

She can only embrace her lover back, and gently kiss his eyelids: "Yan, baby, open your eyes and look at me. I'll be with you. Don't be afraid."

Chi Yan slowly opened his wet eyes in his voice, and looked at him: "Ye Yingzhi...how did you...you just..."

He wanted to ask Ye Yingzhi why he looked so scary just now and why he reacted so strangely, but he suddenly couldn't ask when he opened his eyes.

The stone hall lit up at some point, but it was impossible to see where the light source came from. Ye Yingzhi stood in front of him, and behind him was a pure black passage leading to nowhere.Chi Yan faintly felt that there was something on the other side of the passage that was pulling him, familiar, warm, sweet...and hopeless.

Before he could react, Ye Yingzhi had reached forward to cover his eyes, and said in a low voice, "Ayan, don't be afraid, it's just that we should go home. You promised to accompany me. Don't be afraid, it will be soon." , it won't take long for you to remember. Then I will tell you why I must bring you here..."

Think of all the memories about us.

Chi Yan's eyes were suddenly covered by him, his eyes were dark, and he subconsciously grabbed the other's arm in a daze.

However, in the next second, the world was spinning and the consciousness was instantly stripped away.

……

The universe is prehistoric, the end of eternity, the cycle of life and death... Where on earth have I seen you?

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During the summer vacation of the first year of graduate school, Chi Yan took on an errand—to send the wife of the village party secretary to the mountains to meet the village party secretary.

The thing is like this: Yan Zhu, Chi Yan's best friend since he was a child, was transferred to a remote mountain village in southwestern Yunnan to be the party secretary after graduating from university, and got a certificate with his girlfriend Han Feixue, who was in the same class, on the eve of graduation.And Han Feixue chose to continue her graduate studies after graduation, and the young couple began to live apart.

Chi Yan himself has never even talked about love, so naturally he doesn't understand the affairs between husband and wife.But he continued to study in graduate school, and because the same school and major happened to be in the same class as Han Feixue, during the summer vacation of the graduate school, he planned to visit Yan Zhishu, who was said to have a hard life, and Mrs. Yan naturally went to visit her husband. Zhuzai's village was hidden in the mountains, and the traffic was inconvenient. It was not safe for the girl to be alone, so he took over the task of escorting Han Feixue to see Yan Zhu.

Of course, his actions were very loyal, but Chi Yan finally came to Lingsan Village, where Yan Zhu lived, after several twists and turns, and Chi Yan had two personal experiences: one was that the conditions in the village were indeed difficult, and the other was that he was really redundant.These two points are prominently reflected in the accommodation issue.

There are no hotels in the village at all.The house Yan Zhishu lived in had only one room, and there was only one single bed in the room. Of course, his husband and wife slept together.Chi Yan was nowhere to be found.In the end, Yan Zhu arranged for him to stay at the old man Zhang's house in the village.

The old man Zhang’s son and daughter-in-law have all gone out to work, and he and a four- or five-year-old granddaughter are the only ones at home, so there is a vacant room.Han Feixue planned to stay here with Yan Zhu for a holiday, while Chi Yan planned to see his brother and leave after two days. The living conditions in the village were not good, but it was only for one night, so of course there was nothing to be picky about.

Chi Yan felt shallow at first, and couldn't adapt to the new environment when he first arrived. In addition, it was hot in the house in summer, and mosquitoes disturbed people's peace. He lay in bed for two or three hours at night and couldn't fall asleep, so he simply got up and prepared. Go easy and come back.

Old man Zhang’s house does not have a toilet, so he has to go to the public toilet at the entrance of the village for convenience.Because he couldn't get used to it, Chi Yan didn't take off his clothes when he was sleeping, he got up, unlocked the door, pushed the door and went out.

After coming out of the public toilet, Chi Yan saw a familiar little figure lying on the grass pile in front of him, squinted his eyes and took a closer look to see that it was Xiao Xing, the granddaughter of the old man's family.The little girl squatted there, as if she was catching crickets.

Old man Zhang's wife is gone, he is the only one at home, not only half-deaf but also blind in one eye, it is inevitable that there is something he can't take care of to take care of the little granddaughter, and he even let the little girl slip out to play by himself in the middle of the night.Xiao Xing didn't know how to be afraid, and when she saw the cricket running away, she ran out of the village.

Chi Yan was afraid that something might happen to the little girl, so he chased after her.But he has slight myopia, and he didn't wear glasses when he came out. The lights in the village are not turned on at night to save electricity, and there is no lighting. He almost tripped over a stone before taking two steps, and then had to be more careful, squinting his eyes to look at the road under the faint moonlight, and didn't dare to run fast, and couldn't catch up with Xiao Xing for a while.

Suddenly, the little girl settled on the edge of a mountain depression outside the village, and stopped running.Chi Yan heaved a sigh of relief, just thinking that the little girl finally stopped, and after chasing after her, he was also stunned.

There were about ten people standing in the col, all of them were grown men, holding various tools in their hands, they were discussing something quietly together.Chi Yan vaguely saw two people with guns in their hands.

Xiao Xingren hadn't caught their attention yet, but the movement of Chi Yan's approach caused the two of them to turn their heads to look this way.

Subconsciously, Chi Yan felt that the other party was not kind, so he picked up Xiao Xing and ran towards the village.But as an adult, he was spotted as soon as he started running, and the three of them immediately chased after him.

Chi Yan is not good at running, and he is short-sighted and hugging a child, who soon chased him up.He didn't know where the other party came from. There were not many people in the village, most of them were old and weak women and children. Most of the young and middle-aged people went out to work, so he didn't dare to call for help rashly. Xingren is small, with him as a cover, he might be able to run home smoothly.As he ran, he whispered in the little girl's ear: "Uncle put you down, run home quickly, and let grandpa go find Uncle Yan."

He wasn't sure how much the child knew, but he should at least know how to "run home".

After saying that, he then bent down and put Xiao Xing on the ground.Sure enough, the little girl quickly ran in the direction of the village.Almost at the same time, the pursuers had already caught up, and the two directly pushed Chi Yan to the ground, one on the left and one on the right.

The group appeared to be a gang of grave robbers.

In the end, they didn't kill Chi Yan directly, but tied him up and took him underground after discussing it.

Chi Yan didn't know the reason, maybe it was because they were particular, it was unlucky to kill someone before going to the grave; maybe they were afraid that his dead body would cause trouble if it was found; maybe they wanted to keep him as a hostage.But it's better to be alive than to be dead, Chi Yan is glad that he escaped, and secretly hopes that Yan Zhu can find a way to save his life in time.

And if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Chi Yan would have found it hard to believe that such a magnificent civilization was buried under the mountain on which the remote and backward Lingsan Village relied.

They went down from a well-drilled robbery hole in the mountain depression. The location was a stone corridor, and at the end of the corridor was a stone carved gate.The door is decorated with simple and strange patterns.These patterns are very different from the decorative patterns of ancient tombs in the traditional Central Plains. The images chosen are not gods, beasts, birds, auspicious flowers, but something that looks a little evil.

For example, there are seven hydras hovering over the door, and these seven hydras form a pattern that looks like a human smiling face; at the position of the "nose" of this "human face", a three-legged smiling chicken is engraved—although It is a chicken head, but it can make people feel that the chicken is laughing, even showing the neatly arranged fangs in the beak-this is obviously very different from reality.Under the chicken's three paws, there are four people twisted into a ball like snakes.The postures of those people look painful, but the strange thing is that when you look closely at their faces, they are all smiling.

After those people used some methods to open the door, Chi Yan was forced to enter the underground palace with them.

The underground palace is majestic and majestic, with exquisite decorations, but there is a hint of weirdness in the magnificence. Some bronze-style objects and decorations are similar to the unearthed cultural relics in Sanxingdui, but there are not small differences.Compared with the cultural relics that Chi Yan saw in the museum, the objects here are more completely preserved, more delicately crafted, and full of bold imagination in decoration and carving.The selected imagery and feeling are similar to the moment on the door, there are hydra, smiling chicken, and half murloc with fish head and human body.The murloc was the same as the three-legged chicken. It was a fish head, but it showed a human-like smile, and the neat and fine fangs could be faintly seen.

Chi Yan also noticed one thing.All the human figures that can be seen in these wall carvings or object decorations are twisted and painful suffering postures, but they are all smiling.The painful body language and joyful expression formed a stark contrast, Chi Yan couldn't help but feel chills in his heart, and shuddered.

This shocking underground palace is like a huge underground labyrinth, which also hides dangers and crises proportional to its mysterious charm.

It was also because of Chi Yan's luck that he was forced to follow the gang of tomb robbers deep but was safe and sound. During this period, even two people were lost in the gang of tomb robbers.

It was also during this process that Chi Yan gradually discovered that the group of people who captured him did not look like simple tomb robbers just looking for money. The most simple point was that it would be difficult for ordinary tomb robbers to obtain information about such an underground palace. .

The underground palace he was in didn't look like a tomb, but more like an altar.