One Pillow Huaxu

Speaking of which, this was Wu Xie's first visit to the wizard's house in the village. Although he had been wandering around before, and had been to most of the people's homes, the village witch had always been an extremely mysterious figure. Wu Xie only confirmed this at the bonfire party. human existence.

They inquired all the way where the village witch lived. This man was old but lived in a very remote place. The two climbed along the plank road all the way to the top corner of the mountain wall before stopping in front of an old blockhouse.

There is a Tibetan carpet hanging on the door, with countless and complicated patterns painted on it, some of which are eyes, and others look like various human organs at a glance, and the painting method is extremely primitive.Wu Xie only glanced at it and then looked away. At this moment, he suddenly heard an old voice from inside: "Guest, please come in."

Wu Xie's hand that was about to knock on the door stopped.He shrugged, said "excuse me", and pushed the door open.

An old woman was sitting in the house, with a complicated Tibetan-style hair bun, extremely complicated clothes, and several strings of colored beads around her neck.He is about seventy or eighty years old, but very energetic. He is sitting upright in front of the fire pit.

Wu Xie saluted, Zhang Qiling followed behind him, but the old woman suddenly added: "Only one person can enter."

"The two of you need an extra seat fee?" Wu Xie put on a surprised expression, he knew that the other party's eyes were focused on Zhang Qiling.When the eyes swept over, they changed to calm, revealing a little scrutiny and vigilance.

The old woman said, "You don't belong here. This is not your place."

"Everyone who comes is a guest, how can the old man distinguish?"

Wu Xie said so, but gently pressed Zhang Qiling's shoulder with his hand, then walked around the other party and walked into the house: "Wait for me outside."

Zhang Qiling frowned, he glanced coldly at the old woman in the room, paused for a moment, then turned and walked towards the door: "I'm at the door."

Wu Xie gave an "um" and sat down cross-legged in front of the old woman without looking back.With the sound of closing the door, the light in the room suddenly dimmed.The old woman raised her hand and picked up the fire stick to fiddle with the charcoal fire. The light of the fire flickered a few times, and the wrinkles on her face were more and more deeply reflected.

After Wu Xie was left alone in the room, she put away the faint hostility that she had just looked at Zhang Qiling, and said slowly, "What's the matter with the guest."

Wu Xie didn't answer in a hurry, and slowly scanned the decorations in the room.There are much more Tibetan carpets and bronze wares here than in other fort houses, and there are religious utensils and colorful Tibetan paintings, which are enough to show the status of this person in the village.Finally he focused his eyes on the row of Bam masks behind the old woman.

At this time, the fire light was flowing on these masks, as if the human faces were alive.

Wu Xie withdrew her gaze, focused her gaze on the old woman's face, and suddenly said, "Does the old man have eye problems?"

There was no heresy on the surface of the old woman, her eyes were peaceful and clear, and her movements of picking up the water bottle were smooth.It's just that Wu Xie noticed that when she looked to the left, she would turn slightly to the side.

The village shaman said: "If the heart is free from disease, everything will be bliss."

"If you think about where you want to go, where you are is where you stay." The old woman raised her head and smiled slowly, "Has the guest ever gotten used to it?"

"Excellent." Wu Xie looked directly at her, and slowly raised a smile, "I have lived for decades, except for one place and one person, I have never seen such indifference."

"Everyone is out of the world." The old woman squinted her eyes, as if she was satisfied with his answer. She leaned forward while talking, trying to close the distance between the two, but touched Wu Xie's smile, for some reason Sit back again.

She still spoke kindly: "Guests can stay longer, the village is not afraid of people's words, does not tolerate fighting, does not drive interests, and does not doubt each other."

"If the guest is tired, this is your place to stay."

"I haven't finished yet." Wu Xie still smiled, but his tone gradually became a little foolish, "The last place was in the temple, and everyone has become a monk. That person was in the mountains, and everyone else said he was killed by the snow. Buried, hopeless, but I don't believe it."

"A monk can't do without food, clothing, and daily necessities while chanting scriptures. But he..."

Wu Xie tilted her head, as if recalling something long ago, glanced at the door behind her from the corner of the eye, and quickly answered lightly:

"He's just a man, too."

After finishing speaking, he made a slightly exaggerated gesture of clasping his hands: "I am a layman, and I can't get rid of these for the time being."

After listening to the old woman, her amiable expression remained unchanged, but her eyes sank slightly: "Why do you have to come here because of fate. The world is complicated, and I must have been overwhelmed."

Wu Xie said: "It's absurd since it started, so why continue."

After he finished speaking, he planned to end the topic, bowed his head and saluted, then got up and prepared to leave.Just when he stood up, his eyes scanned the room again and fixed on one of the decorations, which was a bamboo hat.

"Old man, there are pros and cons to this." Wu Xie asked casually, the village witch seemed not expecting him to ask this, and replied reflexively: "Following the pattern is positive."

Wu Xie nodded, standing up completely at this time.He passed the old woman, looked at the row of Bam masks behind her, and said: "You have a lot of masks here. I am a secular person, but I can't see this kind of female ghost meeting scene. It's so terrifying."

"Bam is a ghost, just a walking dead in the world. All we can do is pray."

The village shaman said, her smile became wider and wider, when the firewood crackled suddenly, and the light of the fire flickered suddenly, causing her face to be immersed in a small shadow.

Wu Xie watched condescendingly, was silent for a while, and said:

"Farewell."

When he was about to go out, he suddenly thought of something, laughed, turned around and added to the other party:

"In addition, don't bother, life is hard, and you can bear it."

Wu Xie's expression turned cold the moment he walked out of the room.Zhang Qiling had been waiting at the door, and now Xunsheng looked at him.

Wu Xie clicked his tongue and said coldly: "There is a problem in the village, but the old woman doesn't speak human language."

He walked forward for a while, and was in no hurry to go back.Now that Wu Xie's injury is mostly healed, he glanced around and found a direction, then stepped on the window frame of the bungalow, and climbed up to the high place with agility.

This is already the end of the plank road, and the only way to go up is to climb rocks with bare hands.Zhang Qiling followed closely behind him, and when he saw that he had climbed to a protruding fault on the roof, he stopped continuing and stood there expressionlessly looking down.

From this height, the whole village can be seen at a glance, just like the scene they saw when they first entered this place standing on the top of the mountain behind the sea of ​​trees.It's getting late now, the moon is slowly climbing up from behind the mountain, stars are gradually appearing in the night-shrouded sky, and the village lights are lit up one after another.

Wu Xie looked at it for a while, then sat down on the spot.Zhang Qiling also sat next to him on the edge of the cliff.

"I've now identified the source of that sense of abnormality. It's not just a feeling of being out of common sense. It's not normal for these things to appear here."

Wu Xie looked at the scene below, the night was getting dark, and the surrounding wind began to blow.The wind at night was very cold, and the moonlight blew across the wasteland and walked around.He put his hands in his clothes and continued:

"For example, an oasis can appear in the desert. It cannot be called an oasis here. It's like walking in the desert and seeing a playground. All the equipment is activated, tourists come and go, music is playing, and the surrounding is full of happy people. Air."

Having said that, he laughed, freed a hand, and nodded to himself and Zhang Qiling: "Except for you and me, we didn't buy a ticket and came in over the wall. Normally, the staff in doll costumes around Would have thrown us out at any moment, but they didn't and applauded us for our fare evasion."

Zhang Qiling didn't answer, he watched Wu Xie shrinking his shoulders and speaking, a piece of moonlight hit his neck.The jade-like moonlight made his skin, which had been exposed to the sun and wind all year round, return to temporary whiteness, smoothed the edges and corners on it, and made his neck more beautiful.

But it also made his knife wound sewn with thread extremely hideous.

He sighed in his heart, took off his outer robe and put it on Wu Xie without saying a word.The opponent's movements paused for a moment, and then immediately returned to normal.

Wu Xie continued: "Now there are other things. Among the staff in doll costumes, villains appeared."

"These villains also wear costumes. At first glance, there is no difference. They are even the same in one point."

Zhang Qiling also spoke at this time: "Disappear."

Wu Xie lowered his head and let out a "hmm", and then replied casually: "If you solve this problem, other problems can be solved as well."

He pulled up the collar, covered half of his face, and looked down again: "This kind of 'disappearance' is not only a phenomenon, but also has a certain frequency. We only checked a few bungalows on the first day. After repeated inspections, it will take more time and timing to confirm everything. How big is this range, and when will this frequency occur? If you can find this pattern, you can directly determine a single target.”

"Among normal villagers, this is an active behavior." Zhang Qiling said.

"That's right." Wu Xie said, he took his hand out of his pocket, wanting to touch a cigarette, but then realized that he had finished the last one during the day, and couldn't help frowning, feeling a little anxious.

He quickly said: "Something caused this 'disappearance', and at the same time, there was some signal that determined this frequency."

"These signals are hidden in the village, so they are not easy to detect, but they can let everyone know." Wu Xie stared at the shadow of the building below, and continued to whisper, "What is it? Running water, buildings, sunlight?"

His brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and he began to mutter something.Without the help of nicotine, Wu Xie felt that his brain was in a deadlock.This made him more irritable, but he continued to think at high speed in his brain reflexively.

Forced thinking is a habit developed by Wu Xie under the pressure of the environment.This habit exists at all times of his waking hours without the intervention of others.

Zhang Qiling looked at Wu Xie quietly, and after a while, he stretched out his hand towards him.

Accompanied by the movement of his hand gently resting on Wu Xie's shoulder, suddenly, there was a muffled "pop" not far away.

Wu Xie noticed the weight of Zhang Qiling's hand, stopped chanting, and turned his head in a daze.

At this moment, another "pop" was heard.In the night sky above the village, a group of faint light spots suddenly exploded.The light was not dazzling, and after the orange sparks dispersed, they quickly fell into the wind and disappeared.It's just that with the height of the two of them, the sparks are close at hand, as if they exploded in front of their eyes.

The light that lit up instantly flowed on the faces of the two of them.Wu Xie looked sideways at the person beside him, who happened to be sitting in the shadow cast by a mountain wall, the simple firework lasted very short in the air, the light was fleeting, and the face soon disappeared into the shadow again.

Zhang Qiling also looked at Wu Xie quietly in the dark.Wu Xie's expression was very light, but there was a moment of complicated emotions in his eyes.Fireworks lit up one after another constantly changing the hues of his body, illuminating the shadows on his face.

The light from the fireworks brightened Wu Xie's whole body.

Zhang Qiling looked at his face, increased the strength of the hand pressing Wu Xie's shoulder, and leaned forward to see the other party more clearly.

At this time, Wu Xie seemed to wake up from a dream, and suddenly raised his hand to press the back of his hand, and said, "Don't move."

He finally glanced at the people around him who couldn't see their faces clearly in the darkness, and turned his gaze to the night sky where the fireworks exploded expressionlessly.

Then Wu Xie's eyebrows gradually frowned, and his fingers began to tap on the back of Zhang Qiling's hand.

Some events are often held in the village. This kind of simple earthen fireworks is more like a kind of entertainment. It will be released every few days, including the day of the bonfire party.At this time, the sound of the fireworks had gradually faded away, as if they had moved out of the village, and sounded above the empty plain.

Wu Xie stared closely at that direction, tapped his fingers one round, tapped again, and then stood up abruptly.

"It's similar to Morse code." Wu Xie said quickly, and at the same time he slid directly down the ramp and quickly slid down the edge of the fault.

"11, 2, 5, 5." When Wu Xie just started tapping, Zhang Qiling realized that there was a certain pattern, and he reacted very quickly. He followed Wu Xie to the roof below, and then moved lightly. Jump onto the plank road, "Eleven o'clock direction, right, five floors, positive number five."

Wu Xie nodded, and he scanned a circle of blockhouse buildings, and finally fixed his gaze on a window opposite.