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"Auntie, why can't you go into the mountain?" While wiping her hair with a towel, Xie Yuhua pretended not to know anything while asking the busy auntie.

"Ah, because, because there are graves on the mountain, I'm afraid you will go up and bump into it." Prevaricating with the same reason, the aunt's wandering eyes didn't know where to look.

"Hey, isn't it because there are zombies?" The blind man leaned forward and asked with a smile, "When we came here just now, we heard them say that there are zombies up the mountain."

"Zombie—" the pupils constricted in an instant, and the aunt avoided the blind man and walked aside, faltering, "Where are the zombies, don't listen to those men's nonsense—"

"Dong dong dong—" the strong knock on the door interrupted the aunt's lie, "Open the door, open the door!"

"Who is it so late?" Going to the door and opening the door, the aunt looked at the village chief and villagers holding torches, not knowing what happened, "What's wrong?"

"Hurry up and drive those men out. That man went up the mountain this afternoon. What if we are bitten by a zombie!" the village chief said in a low voice, pointing to sit on the chair Xieyu flower. "Go away, we don't welcome you here!"

"What, what?" Staring dumbfounded at Jieyuhua covered in mud, the aunt's face was pale, "Why did you go up the mountain? You can't go there—"

"Is it because there are zombies?" Shi Shiran stood up, and Xie Yuhua threw the dirty towel aside, "Everyone of you said that there were zombies, but have any of you seen them?"

"Stop talking nonsense with them, drag them out quickly!" The village chief waved the torch, "Otherwise, don't blame us for using the way we deal with zombies to deal with you!"

"Tsk tsk, it's really barbaric." Hei Blind shook his head, walked up to Zhang Qiling and said, "It's been so many years, why are people still so ignorant."

"Come on, we don't want to hurt the innocent!" The villagers dragged the aunt out, and the aunt who kept looking back seemed to have something hard to say, and looked at Xie Yuhua frequently.

"So, have you really seen zombies? Are we going to be burned to death just because of something that no one knows if it really exists?" Xie Yuhua stared at the aunt, trying to provoke her further. What she wanted to say but didn't dare to say, "Don't you have sons and daughters who are as old as us? Don't you have the heart to burn us alive who are as old as your sons?"

"We've all seen it—" Throwing off the village chief's hand, the aunt squatted on the ground and began to cry. "I've seen it! That's why I don't let you go up the mountain! But you are too disobedient—"

"Stop talking, just drive them away." The village chief, who also knew what happened, tugged at the aunt, but she swung her away.

"Our friend may be on the mountain right now. If you really don't want innocent people to be hurt, please tell us what happened, okay?" Seeing the aunt finally relieved, Xie Yuhua stared at her full It was the teary eyes that began to gradually control her consciousness with force, urging her to tell the truth.

"There are zombies on this mountain. It is a saying passed down from generation to generation by our ancestors. Although we are in a rural area, we are no longer as superstitious as before in this age. That is, a little more than four years ago, my son, and other people in the village There are a few children who insist on going to the mountain to see what’s there.” While talking, she glanced at the village head, and the aunt slowly stood up while leaning on the wall, “We were worried at first, but we couldn’t stop them at all. A few children went up the mountain and came back that day."

Listening to the aunt's narration, the faces of the village chief and several older villagers gradually became painful.They thought that this was the end of the matter, but they never expected that this was just the beginning.

There were a total of four children who went, and they returned home unscathed except for some mud on their bodies.Listening to their description of the mountain, the family felt that it was not as scary as the ancestors said, and there was nothing else but a little barrenness, so they were relieved.

Unexpectedly, the next night, all four children had exactly the same dream.

The aunt's son said that he dreamed that he went to the mountain again, but this time he saw a temple on the mountain.A man was crushed under the temple, begging for help in great pain.

The aunt who didn't care about it just thought that the child had watched Journey to the West too much, but when she heard the parents of several other children talking about such a dream that afternoon, she suddenly felt a little shivering down the back.After returning home in a hurry and looking at his son who was still taking a nap, the aunt hurriedly shook him awake, wanting to ask him what else he dreamed about, but the son asked inexplicably if it was time for lunch.

As long as the son was sleepy and drowsy, he didn't think much about it. After admonishing him, the aunt went to make dinner.But when she prepared dinner for her son to eat, there was no sign of her son in the house.He hurried to the village chief's house to see if his son had gone to play. When he entered the house, he saw the village chief and his wife holding the red-eyed child tightly.The parents of the other two children stood beside them as anxiously as they did not know what to do.

The three children disappeared at the same time, and the remaining one was tied up at home by the village chief and his wife.Several adults stayed up all night, wanting to wait until the next day to ask what happened to the only child on the mountain, but when the next day dawned, the tied child could not remember what happened the day before.

The child cried and asked the village head why he was tied up, but the village head didn't dare to untie the rope at all.But when it was time for lunch, the child's question made these parents suddenly realize that if they didn't take it seriously these days, it was actually a harbinger of the children's disappearance.

Facing the lunch served, the child asked in a daze, didn't he just have breakfast, why did he have to have breakfast again?

As if there was jet lag, although the children who were tied up in the house did not struggle to escape again, their daily routines were completely different from those of the villagers.From treating lunch as breakfast at the beginning, to turning day and night upside down, until one day the village chief suddenly discovered that the child who kept repeating the same sentence seemed to go back in time to the day when he was tied up.

"Then what happened afterwards?" Xie Yuhua glanced at the weeping village chief and asked in a low voice.

"Later, he died." Sighed deeply, although this incident was not a secret to everyone in the village, but talking about it again in front of strangers still made the village head burst into tears. "I went to deliver food to him that day, and when I opened the door, I saw him fall to the ground."

The village chief who pushed the door in with the food probably will never forget what he saw for the rest of his life.The child who was originally tied to the bed broke free from the rope and fell to the ground. He stepped forward quickly to help him up, but the moment he turned around and saw his face, the overly frightened village chief seemed to have fallen. As if going out, he threw the child on the ground.

A boy of eighteen or nineteen years old fell to the ground without making a sound.It was as if the whole person had been drained, leaving only a shriveled shell.His eyes stared blankly at the village head leaning against the wall, the skin on his face wrinkled tightly as if he had lost all moisture, his yellowish complexion looked like a mummy that had been dead for a long time.

"Even if I don't need to do it, I can see that this is not the appearance of a normal person when he dies. It is obviously the appearance of a zombie." Trembling and covering his eyes, the village chief seemed to see those cloudy eyes again. "We cremated him overnight and the other children have not been found since then."

"They must have been hooked by the zombies on the mountain!" While crying, the aunt wiped her tears and looked at Xie Yuhua, "I have always told you not to go up the mountain, why are you so disobedient?"

"If it's really a zombie, it's impossible to do such a thing." Zhang Qiling, who has been silent all this time, said lightly, "Why are there rumors that there are zombies on the mountain in the village?"

"This has been passed down from generation to generation. A long time ago, our village was caught on fire by the zombies that had been coming from the mountains. The whole village was almost burned to nothing." Under the appeasement of everyone, the village chief gradually calmed down. Zhang Qiling said, "This is something that everyone in our village knows."

"On fire?" Frowning slightly, Zhang Qiling flashed the previous dream again.Could it be that the village in the dream is really here?

"Okay, I've told you everything, go away, you guys go away." The village head urged, looking at Xie Yuhua worriedly, fearing that the person standing in front of him would turn into a zombie in the next second.

"We will leave after dawn without your telling us." The black blind man patted Zhang Qiling's shoulder to signal him not to be impatient, "If you are afraid, take this aunt away first, we will just stay here tonight .Tomorrow morning, I promise not to appear in front of you again.”

"You—" Gritting his teeth and looking at the blind man, the village chief said helplessly, "Okay, if you are still here tomorrow morning, I will really burn this place down."

"Walk slowly, don't send~" After closing the door, the blind man closed the curtains tightly.Hearing the voices outside the house finally gradually dissipating, the blind man walked up to Xie Yuhua and Zhang Qiling, "Why are you dumb, did you get any clues?"

"It's not a zombie." Zhang Qiling said coldly, but Zhang Qiling, who wanted to put the dream behind him, could no longer think that Wu Xie disappeared here, and that it was a coincidence that he dreamed of this place in the past few days.

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