our supernatural life

Mai Mai felt that he was in a fog, until they abandoned the car and began to climb the mountain on foot, he was still confused: "Well, what's going on here?"

Qi Ren squinted at him with his big eyeballs: "You come to continue your life, why do you ask me?"

"No..." Maimai didn't know what to say, so she sorted out her thoughts and asked first, "What's the matter with that whistle?"

"Oh, back then..." Qi Ren looked up at the sky, "Ten years ago, a man named Xue Zheng came to visit us. At that time, um, I was collecting medicine in the mountains, and the rope broke and fell. In the valley. It’s nothing to fall or fall, the main thing is that after dark, I encountered miasma ghosts—ah, the kind we met on the road yesterday. It was Xue Zheng who rescued me and sent me back to the village. He shrugged, "He gets along very well with my brother, but we don't know that his surname is Zhang."

"Oh, his name is Zhang Xuezheng." Mai Mai had already guessed, "You also learned that whistle from you?"

"Yes. My brother is a top pharmacist, and the relationship between pharmacists and Gu masters is also very close, so when Xue Zheng lived in my house, he also made friends with some Gu masters. But he is really powerful, and Gu masters use it to expel Gu. They are all local special bamboo whistles, but he can actually make the sound of bewildering Gu with a silver whistle, it's really amazing."

"Then are you a Gu Master or a Medicine Master?"

Qi Ren's babbling stopped suddenly, he stretched his neck as if he was choked by something, and his big eyes rolled over the wheat: "I'm not, I'm a tour guide, and occasionally go up the mountain to collect some medicine."

Mai Mai shut her mouth wisely, and asked after a while, "Is that the one I came to look for—Mr. Bai?"

"It's old man Bai." Qi Ren rolled his eyes again, "You don't need to call me old man. People in your city are so polite, including Xue Zheng. Everything is fine, but your speech is too polite and boring."

Mai Mai couldn't help laughing: "But isn't it too rude to call you an old man? You are acquaintances and you can call me that, but I can't."

Qi Ren waved his hand carelessly: "You don't understand that. An old man is an old man. He is the only one in the village who calls him that, and the people outside also call him that. This is an honorific title, understand?"

Mai Mai really didn't understand: "...Okay, but... I really can't make it out." It's just too rude.

Qi Ren snorted: "Don't worry, you won't be able to see him for a while."

"Why?" Mai Mai suddenly remembered what Qi Song said, "He went to the Dudao? Isn't that the Dudao with many bugs?"

Qi Ren was surprised: "You know? How did you know? That bastard Qi Song said it? He just wished the old man would die inside."

Mai Mai tried to think back: "I, I heard people say that Du Dao is actually a Gu Dao, translated into Chinese as 'Du'. The bugs in Gu Dao devoured each other, and finally evolved into Gu..."

Qi Yi grabbed him: "Who did you listen to? It's impossible for Qi Song to tell you this, how do you know? It's impossible for foreigners to know!"

His hands are so strong that Maimai grinned when he grabbed him, and he used all his strength to break his hands apart: "Am I right?"

"Yes!" Qi Ren stared at Mai Mai with an uncharacteristically gloomy expression, "How on earth did you know?"

Mai Mai hesitated for a moment, but said, "I'll walk by."

"What?" Qi Ren's foot slipped, and he almost fell to the ground, "You walked by? You entered the unique way? You came out alive? You, are you a human or a ghost?"

Mai Mai didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Of course it's a human, but if it's a ghost, can you touch me?"

Qi Ren's eyeballs almost fell out, and he walked around him twice, looking up and down: "How did you get in? No, how did you get out?"

In fact, Mai Mai still doesn't know how he got out, so he turned his eyes and asked, "Tell me first, Bai, Bai Lao, what is Bai Lao doing in the independent way?"

"you answer me first!"

"you answer me first!"

The two stared at each other for a long time, Qi Ren surrendered first, and muttered, "If you hadn't been recommended by the Zhang family, and Xue Zheng's whistle, I wouldn't have answered you. Say it or not..."

Mai Mai laughed: "What kind of secret is this, can't you tell it? If you can't tell it, then forget it. As for me, I had no choice but to be hijacked by a group of escaped drug dealers and had to go—" He didn't say anything After that, Qi Ren uttered an earth-shattering cry, which made all the birds in the forest fly away.He didn't care, and grabbed Mai Mai's hand again, "You, you are the one who entered the solo path with Bai Wan back then!"

"Bai Wan?" Mai Mai tried her best to recall, remembering that on the bus at that time, the man really seemed to have called Wan'er, "Is her name Bai Wan? She is about 27 or [-] years old, and she looks very beautiful..."

"That's it!" Qi Ren was very excited, "She is Baidie's sister, does she look a bit like her?"

Wheat thinks about it carefully, it does look a bit like it.It's just that the woman's face was pale and haggard at that time, but Bai Die was pretty in the dark, he didn't see it for a moment.But in retrospect, both of them have a pair of watery apricot eyes, just looking at their eyebrows, they really look alike.

Qi Ren grabbed him and ran away: "Hurry up, hurry up! Go to the village quickly! The old man finally got the news!"

Mai Mai was staggered by him: "Don't drag me, I'm going to fall down! You mean, Mr. Bai went to Dudao to find Bai Wan?"

"That's right! Bai Wan is his granddaughter! It was said at the time that she was hijacked by gangsters, but there is no news about it—" Qi Ren stopped suddenly, turned around and stared at Mai Mai, "She, why is she still No news? Is it—"

Wheat smiled wryly.Qi Ren's reaction was too slow, did he understand now?

"Yes, she, she is dead."

Qi Ren stared blankly at him for a while, then squatted down in despair: "No wonder... no wonder she hasn't heard from her all this time..."

"Didn't you see her husband's body? The police should have taken her husband's body back."

"Husband?" Qi Ren was at a loss, "She is still married to Liu Jiacheng? Then why did Liu Jiacheng die again?"

Mai Mai was really convinced: "Then what do you know?"

"I just heard that she was hijacked. Six gangsters took her, and another person—you, entered the old forest. The police searched for half a month, but there was no news...but her Gu worms never came back, So everyone thought she was still alive..." Qi Ren covered his face with his hands, "The old man objected to her marrying Liu Jiacheng, and he hadn't contacted her for several years. He was the only one in the village who got the news from the Dali Police Station. He felt like Bai Wan. ...After checking the people in the car and seeing the ID card, I was sure it was her. The old man went into the mountain to look for it, but he couldn't find it. But because her Gu worm didn't come back, I thought she was still alive, but I didn't know where she was. Where. Last month, the old man walked all the forests he could walk, but he couldn't find anyone, so he said that he might have entered the independent way and was trapped in it, and he wanted to go in to find her..."

Mai Mai said in a low voice: "She died in a Gu Dao..."

"But why hasn't her Life Gu come back?"

Mai Mai was at a loss: "What is Life Gu?"

"You don't understand, there will always be a Gu on a Gu master. When a person is alive, when a person dies, the Gu will fly back to the place of birth to report. This is called Fate Gu, and it is usually a flying insect."

"Beetle?" Mai Mai remembered the little beetle that the woman gave him, "She gave me a little beetle when she was dying, but she said that it was called Concentric Gu, one was on her body, the other was On her husband. Not long after her husband died, she gave it to me just before she died, saying that the beetle could lead me to the stone chamber."

"What about the beetle?"

"I don't know..." Mai Mai was at a loss, "When she gave it to me, she said that the beetle would not survive for 48 hours without her, and it probably died later? I don't know when it disappeared."

Qi Ren was full of disappointment: "Oh, it should be that she refined Fate Gu into Concentric Gu...Indeed, both of them are dead, and the two halves of Fate Gu can't survive..."

Seeing his distraught appearance, Mai Mai said sympathetically, "You—do you like her?"

Qi Ren smiled wryly and nodded: "Yes. But I'm not born to be a Gu master or a pharmacist. She said she wouldn't marry someone who doesn't know how to raise Gu... But in the end, she left with Liu Jiacheng. That guy is a Han. , let alone know Gu, it's really unfair..." His eyes gradually filled with tears, and finally he raised his head and stared at the sky, trying his best not to let the tears flow down.

Mai Mai squatted beside him, not knowing what to say.After a few minutes, the tears in Qi Ren's eyes dried up, and he turned over and jumped up from the ground: "Go! The old man may not have entered the solo path yet, cut him off quickly!"

Mai Mai ran after him: "Do you know how to go alone?"

While running wildly, Qi Ren turned his head and rolled his eyes: "Idiot! Of course let the people in the village use Gu to stop him!"

Mai Mai ran after him: "Then, why don't you call the village..."

Qi Ren froze, took out his phone for a long time...

When Mai Mai followed Qi Ren into the village, he felt that his legs were weak, and this rapid march was actually more tiring than his running for his life last night.The mountain road is extremely long, and after walking for six hours, Qi Ren's long legs are like windmills. Xiaomai is embarrassed to say that he can't keep up, so he can only grit his teeth and hold on. When he enters the gate of the village, he can't wait to sit on the ground .

The houses in the village are basically made of wood. Mai Mai looked at them and felt that these buildings were of various colors and seemed to be different. He couldn't help but ask Qi Ren: "Which ethnic group lives here?"

Qi Ren said hello to the villagers who were coming towards him, and said casually: "There are many. Naxi, Bai, Miao, Jingpo, Dai, all of them. Most of the people in this village are Gu masters or medicine masters, aren't they?" They are divided by ethnicity. In the Gu village, there is only the difference between Gu masters, pharmacists and outsiders, not ethnicity."

Mai Mai looked left and right, and felt that the fresh air was mixed with the aroma of grass and soil, but it also had such a fishy smell, which was extremely weird, which reminded him of the fishy smell of every meal he ate at Shuihuamei’s place. Meal, feeling uncomfortable for a while.Qi Ren didn't know how he felt.He has lived in this village for more than 20 years, and he has long felt very used to it. He greeted and joked with people all the way, and brought the wheat to a wooden building, and shouted to the above with his hands on his hips: "Wu Shengliang, hurry up!" Come down to me!"

After he finished shouting, the window on the wooden building creaked open a few seconds later, revealing a wrinkled face and looking down.This glance made Qi Ren half a head shorter, and quickly put down his hands: "Second Uncle Wu, you, are you at home?"

Uncle Wu glanced at him indifferently: "Shengliang has gone out, come up."

Qi Ren lowered his voice and said to Mai Mai: "Second Uncle Wu is the Gu master second only to the old man in the village, but he has a weird temper, so you have to be careful what you say."

Mai Mai also whispered: "Can you not go up?" He also felt that Uncle Wu was a bit difficult to deal with.

Qi Ren scratched his hair: "No, Second Uncle Wu has spoken. If you don't go up, you're disrespecting him. Let's go."

The two walked up to the bamboo building, which was actually very spacious, with a firepit in the middle, on which tea was boiling and gurgling.Second Uncle Wu sat by the firepit and said flatly, "Shengliang has gone to gather medicine, you sit down."

Worried about offending the taboos of ethnic minorities, Mai Mai carefully sat down by the firepit after observing Qi Ren's movements.Qi Ren rubbed his hands: "Second Uncle Wu, I called Shengliang and asked him to use Gu to inform the old man not to enter the independent way—"

"Really?" Uncle Wu was smoking a cigarette in a long bamboo tube, "I just came back from the river. Why did you stop people?"

Qi Ren was very cautious in front of Second Uncle Wu, and told about Mai Mai in a straight line, and Second Uncle Wu raised his head to look at Mai Mai: "Have you ever been in Dudao? How did you get out?"

His face was wrinkled, his eyes were sunken deep in the eye sockets, the light in the bamboo building was dim, and the dancing flames reflected him, he looked like a skeleton, his eyes were also gloomy, and Mai Mai's heart trembled: "I, I don't know either. How did it come out..."

Second Uncle Wu said coldly: "Nonsense! Dudao is not a forest, you can walk around as you please! Tell me, how did you get out?"

Mai Mai felt that he was clearly interrogating a prisoner, but in someone else's territory, he could only endure it: "I followed the beetle given by Bai Wan to the stone room, and met a strange insect in the stone room. I managed to burn the strange insect to death Yes, but I was bitten too, and I was groggy, and when I woke up, I was in the hospital, and the doctor said that I was rescued by someone by the river, so I really don’t know how I got out.” He I always felt that I couldn't fully trust this Second Uncle Wu, so I kept Shao Jing a secret.

Second Uncle Wu stared at him coldly: "Bai Wan brought you into Dudao, but she died instead? She is the old man's daughter, and got the old man's direct heir, how could she die while you are alive?"

Mai Mai held back her anger and said, "She was beaten to death by the robbers. At that time, the gatekeeper Shenlong was about to swallow the robbers. Seeing that there was no hope, that guy shot her."

Second Uncle Wu didn't speak any more, and knocked the chimney next to it for a long time: "Our village has not had Han people come in for many years, and Han people are not welcome either."

Mai Mai thought that this was racist, if it wasn't for saving her life, she would never have come to a place full of bugs like you.

Second Uncle Wu lowered his head and pretended to smoke, and said coldly: "The Zhang family you mentioned is the celestial master of the Han people, and has no friendship with us Gu masters."

Qi Ren hurriedly said: "Second Uncle Wu, you can't say that. The old man asked me to pick them up, so he should have agreed to go into the mountain."

Second Uncle Wu glanced at him: "The old man has entered the independent way, and if he doesn't come back, no one will know if it's true or not. Besides, it's a taboo for Han people to enter the village, don't you know?"

Qi Ren opened his mouth, and said with little confidence: "Second Uncle Wu, that's all the old calendar, how many years..."

"Stupid! Gu Wang agrees? How many years, this is also the rule!" Uncle Wu gave him a hard look, and pointed at Mai Mai, "The old man can only be dealt with when he comes back. Lock him up now."

"Ah?" Mai Mai stood up abruptly.Which show is this in?How come it's time to lock him up?

"Why do you want to lock me up? Besides, I didn't want to come here! If you had said that the Han people would not be allowed to enter the village, then I would not have come!"

Qi Ren tugged at him, and said in a low voice, "If you don't come, you won't be able to see the old man. You——be wronged for a while, and you'll be fine when the old man comes back."

Before Mai Mai had time to distinguish, two strong men had already entered the bamboo building. Second Uncle Wu pointed at him casually: "Shut him up under the old tree. Qi Ren, you violated the rules of the village, so you know what to do!"

Mai Mai was surprised and angry: "You—" the two men couldn't help but walk out with him, Qi Ren followed, and whispered: "Second Uncle Wu is a bit more rigid, just wait for the old man to come back, they won't do anything Don’t be afraid. I will go to the east of the stockade to watch the night and come to see you tomorrow morning. Don’t be afraid.”

Mai Mai was so angry that she could not speak, and was dragged into a diabolo building by two men.The two men tied his hands and feet with a rope, threw him into the bamboo building and left.

Mai Mai sat on the floor of the bamboo building and was so angry that he couldn't move for half an hour. What the hell is this?Half an hour later, he comforted himself that it was useless to be angry, just wait for the old man to come back.After a few seconds, he raised his heart again, what if the old man is like this Uncle Wu?Then he thought again, since Zhang Shengyi said he had friendship, he wouldn't feed himself to Gu, would he?However, thinking about it again, his scalp became numb again. What if Zhang Shengyi wanted him to never go back?However, if this is the case, Zhang Shengyi doesn't need to spend so much effort to send him so far, right?

I thought about it over and over for a long time, until the sunlight penetrating through the wooden window had turned dim, and those messy thoughts were chased away by my stomach singing empty plans.

It seems that no one came to deliver the food.Mai moved to the window, took a long time to stand up, and glanced out.In front of the eyes is a huge camphor tree, which can only be surrounded by seven or eight people. Its luxuriant branches and leaves cover several nearby bamboo buildings.But—after spying for a while, Maimai found that there was no smoke coming from these bamboo buildings near the camphor trees, and no one lived there.Are they all used to shut people down?Why is it built next to this tree?Mai Mai tried to hit the wall and window of the bamboo building with his shoulder, but found that it was actually very strong, and he couldn't break it with his strength.That’s right, before liberation, ethnic minorities had to rely on this bamboo building to keep out wild animals. How could it not be strong?

Mai sat down against the wall.It was almost winter, it was getting dark quickly, and the wind blowing in the bamboo building made him a little cold.Until it was dark, no one came to bring him food. When he was hungry, he became colder.Mai Mai sneezed, and couldn't help but let go of her voice and shouted: "Is anyone there? At least give me a meal!"

no response.Depressedly, Mai went to the window to look again.This giant tree seems to be on the edge of the stockade. Except for a few bamboo buildings beside the tree, the other houses are far away from the tree, and the nearest light is also about [-] meters away. No one can hear you until your voice is clear.

Wheat muttered a curse, sat down again and began to study the rope on her body.These seem to be brown ropes, thick and hard, twisted around the wrist like iron wire.Mai Mai's backpack also fell on Uncle Wu's bamboo building. At this time, he didn't even have a knife all over his body, so he couldn't cut the rope.He sat dejectedly, the outside of the bamboo building was very quiet, even the chirping of insects could be heard clearly.Mai Mai listened boredly. After a while, the insects stopped screaming, and the surroundings were extremely quiet.About half a minute later, Xiaomai heard a very light sound, as if something was rubbing against the bamboo building.Every few seconds, there was a slight hiss.

what?Wheat shuddered.The sound sounded from under the bamboo building, all the way to the window. Mai Mai raised his head and saw a triangular-shaped thing protruding through the window through the moonlight. There was a thin letter stretching and shrinking at the front. It was a snake...