Third watch

"Is it so mysterious?" Lu Xiaolu was tired from standing, and squeezed away half of Wang Xiaoming's bench.

"This kind of thing is nothing." Another old man also said, "What's so special about mass graves? There was a flood in 97, and it was said that a mass grave was washed out in the mountain next to my hometown. At that time, the water receded Everyone went to fish, but they found a lot of bones, and the government even sent people to dig them."

"Mass graves?" Zhong Yi said, "Is there such a thing here?"

"Where is there not? In the past when there were bandits, the king of the mountain would arrest people, and they would dig mountains and dig holes for them. If they were captured, they would not come back. I heard that they were all tied together and beheaded. Later, when it rained heavily, some people saw those The headless man knelt on the ground and dug the mud, saying that many people's heads were buried too deep and were not dug out."

"Old Xie also said this." An aunt said, "There were also bandits in their house."

"Yes, I also heard from my distant cousin that in their village..."

"Which one is it? The one surnamed Huang on the street below? Her daughter and Ah Ying are in the same high school..."

The post-dinner chat unknowingly turned into a ghost story meeting. Wang Xiaoming was so hooked, so Lu Xiaolu simply bought two more packs of melon seeds, moved some stools into the guest house, and the three of them sat by the door of the guest house full of mosquitoes. An evening of local ghost stories.

The discussion didn't start until they returned to the second floor of the guest house with the bag of mosquito bites on their lower legs.

"It's the same with minor differences." Wang Xiaoming said, "Ghost stories are the same as nursery rhymes, and the legends are similar in every place."

"There are also useful things." Zhong Yi passed them the county annals of several nearby counties that they downloaded in the Internet cafe: "For example, mass graves."

"That's all hearsay." Wang Xiaoming said: "The place where the ghost story happened is either a mass grave or a mass grave. Isn't this a basic standard?"

"It may not be completely hearsay." Zhong Yi said: "There are records in several nearby county annals that banditry was rampant in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China."

"Legends are always based on facts." Lu Xiaolu said, "Are we going to find mass graves?"

"This is just a hypothesis." Zhong Yi said slowly: "We guess like this, and we can't find it after time passes."

"That's why I need to inquire." Wang Xiaoming said.

Zhong Yi shook his head: "That's all the locals can say. These legends are just after-dinner conversation, and their authenticity and accuracy have yet to be verified."

"And we don't have much time to do research," Lu Xiaolu said.

"I saw something interesting." Wang Xiaoming slowly flipped through the pages of the county annals: "After the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was a local emperor in Guangxi."

Both Zhong Yi and Lu Xiaolu leaned over.

"Assembled soldiers and horses, refused to accept the government's appeasement, occupied the mountain as king, recruited more than 5 people in its heyday, bullied the village, built a city in Qinglong Mountain there, and was wiped out by all the people in 52 years." Wang Xiaoming read.

"Execute on the spot." Lu Xiaolu said, "This way..."

"There are mass graves." Zhong Yi said.

"This was a habitual bandit at the time." Zhong Yi said: "At that time, there were not so many resources to support them in reform through labor, so it was probably not wrong."

"Then hurry... look at the map and it's not far away." Lu Xiaolu said: "The locals who chatted just now also said that it's just next door."

"Will the ghost market be there?" Wang Xiaoming was a little skeptical: "Anyway, mass graves sound scary, and it's just because too many people died at once. More than mass graves."

"This kind of ghost market is not like the second-hand market in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but requires the gathering of extremely dark resentment, attracting many wandering ghosts. The general cemetery is too quiet, but it is not suitable."

Zhong Yi thought for a while: "I'm still prepared, so I won't go looking around with my eyes darkened. Tomorrow, I'll sort out the information, ask the locals to inquire, and then decide whether to go there or not."

The three reached an agreement, washed up separately and fell asleep.

Lu Xiaolu came to Guangxi for the first time, and he still came to do such exciting things as looking for a ghost market. He was so excited that he couldn't sleep. He lay on the bed for a long time, but instead of feeling sleepy, he felt like urinating.

They lived in a three-person room, and the bed was as narrow as a dormitory. Lu Xiaolu's bed was near the window, Wang Xiaoming was in the middle, and Zhong Yi's bed was near the bathroom.

He sat up, the air conditioner stopped at some point, and the air became a little stuffy.

So Lu Xiaolu opened the window to breathe, then put on his shoes and got out of bed to pee, and was about to close the window and turn on the air conditioner when he came back.

As soon as he got out of bed, Lu Xiaolu was startled by a pair of bright eyes.

"Master Bai?" Lu Xiaolu picked up the cat that jumped onto his bed at some point: "Are you awake too? Let's pee together."

One person and one cat got into the toilet, Mr. Bai knew the rules very well, he jumped on the toilet to pee first, and then went to the door to wait for Lu Xiaolu to pour water for it.

When Lu Xiaolu came out of the toilet, his eyes adapted to the darkness, and he realized that the moonlight tonight was very bright. The moonlight came in from the window, and it actually illuminated half of the room. The toilet and the bedroom had a [-]-degree corner. , before he even turned around, he could see the moonlight on the carpet in front of the toilet.

Lu Xiaolu closed the bathroom door casually, inadvertently remembering what he heard during the chat this evening.

The old man said that the moon in July is not a moon, but a lamp, which can guide the ghosts below to climb to the human world.

From this point of view, the moon tonight is indeed as bright as a lamp... Lu Xiaolu yawned, and was about to get mineral water for Master Bai, when suddenly the fur of Master Bai who was following his feet exploded!

Lu Xiaolu was wearing big underpants with his calves bare, and Mrs. Bai was walking next to him. The feeling was especially sharp in the middle of the night.

Lu Xiao couldn't help but pause, and looked down to see Master Bai arching his back.

wrong!

There was a blackout curtain in the room, and when he got out of bed just now, he just opened it a little bit casually, there was no way that so much moonlight could shine through that gap!

Lu Xiaolu's neck felt cold, and the hairs on his arms stood on end.

He retracted the foot that was about to take a big step, and slowly poked his head out halfway to look.

The first thing that caught his eyes was Zhong Yi's feet, followed by Wang Xiaoming's.

They were all still in bed.

Lu Xiaolu held his breath and turned around the corner, a gust of wind immediately came in from the window, and the curtains fluttered high.

The window had been fully opened, and there was a person squatting on Lu Xiaolu's bed!

Lu Xiaolu suddenly met the man's eyes, suddenly his brain buzzed, and he took a step back in fright!

This is the scariest face Lu Xiaolu has ever seen - he has seen a boy with flying head and red dots, with so many eyes and horns, but it is not as scary as the face in front of him.

Because the flying head clearly looks like a monster, but the person squatting on the window sill is an old woman with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks!

The old woman bent her body, her back was strangely bent, and her face was wrinkled—but this was not the most terrifying thing.

What made Lu Xiaolu hairy the most was that his wrinkled face was densely covered with fluff!

Apart from the facial features and outline, it doesn't look like a human face at all!

As soon as the old woman saw Lu Xiaolu, her eyes immediately shone with a gloomy light. Lu Xiaolu's heart was shocked, and he felt that she was going to rush over, so he quickly reached out and fumbled around for something to defend himself.

Unexpectedly, the old woman jumped from Lu Xiaolu's bed to Wang Xiaoming's bed, as agile as an old cat.

Wang Xiaoming didn't seem to be aware of it, and fell asleep on his back.

The cat-like old woman didn't care about Lu Xiaolu at all, stretched out a bony paw, and was about to reach for Wang Xiaoming's throat!

Lu Xiaolu grabbed blindly in desperation, and threw the thing he caught towards her viciously, hitting her head, but was bounced to the ground with a slap.

It is a disposable toothbrush.

The lethality is [-].

The old woman turned her head: "..."

Lu Xiaolu subconsciously raised his hands, thought it was wrong, and put them down quickly.

His movement successfully shifted the focus. The old woman arched her back high and stood between Wang Xiaoming's legs in a non-human posture. A second later, Lu Xiaolu felt a blur before his eyes, and the skinny hand had already arrived. In front of him.

At this moment, Lu Xiaolu didn't even have a toothbrush at hand. He saw the cat's face instantly enlarged in front of his eyes, and subconsciously bent down and raised his hand to protect his face.

But the yellow-looking sharp nails didn't catch him.

Lu Xiaolu only heard a hoarse cry, followed by a crisp copper bell.

He opened his eyes and saw that Zhong Yi had already bounced off the bed, ready to confront the old woman. Master Bai was standing at the foot of Zhong Yi's bed, with a threatening light in his eyes.

Presumably, when the old woman rushed towards Lu Xiaolu, she was stopped by Zhong Yi in the middle.

She jumped onto the TV cabinet, and her nails drew three long marks on the cabinet.

Lu Xiaolu finally found another toothbrush.

This time he aimed at Wang Xiaoming's face.

"Wang Xiaoming, you pig!" Lu Xiaolu opened his throat, "Heishan old demon is here!"

Wang Xiaoming woke up from fright.

He has always been in the habit of staying in bed. The movement before had actually startled him, but he was half asleep, half awake, thinking that he was dreaming, and resolutely ignored it.

It wasn't until Lu Xiaolu yelled that voice that he started to play in fright.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he was terrified by the old woman monkeying on the TV cabinet.

"Fuck!" he yelled, "What is this!"

Is there really a Montenegrin old demon? !

With a kick on Zhong Yi's toes, he stretched out his hand to grab the old woman by leaping forward—the old woman shrank nimbly and jumped out of the cabinet. Wang Xiaoming, who didn't know where he was, instinctively wanted to go up and grab her. The eyes that were glowing in yellow were met, and he was frightened.

Those yellow eyes were extremely muddy, but what made Wang Xiaoming shudder the most was that the moment he met those yellow eyes, greed and longing burst out in those eyes—as if the next second, she Only by swallowing Wang Xiaoming into his stomach recklessly can he slightly relieve the hunger and thirst in his eyes.

Master Bai yelled, his sharp claws had been shown, and he rushed over like lightning.

The old woman raised her hand to block it, Master Bai grabbed her arm fiercely, and took off a piece of worn sleeve, but there was no blood.

Master Bai didn't give up, and was about to turn around and rush again, but the old woman kicked over a vase, Master Bai moved to dodge, but she threw him away, turned around and jumped out of the window.

Zhong Yi refused to relax at all, jumped over Wang Xiaoming's bed with his long legs, and chased after him.

Master Bai followed immediately.

At this time, Lu Xiaolu also reacted, stepped over the window frame without hesitation, and jumped out of the window one after the other with Zhong Yi.

Wang Xiaoming hurried over to look down, and saw Lu Xiaolu landed on the ground, he only staggered, and then the two rushed out quickly.

"Damn!" Wang Xiaoming also dared to step forward and looked at the height of the window.

Their room is on the second floor, no more than six meters from the ground——

Wang Xiaoming hesitated for a moment, stepped on one foot, and rode on the window sill: "Hey! Wait for me!"

But the two of them and the cat had already disappeared into the night, without even leaving him behind.