Chapter 016
Seeing Hong Siqi keep grabbing his knees, I want to remind him to calm down. He is already skinny and bone-bone. If the skin on his knees is really torn, the bones will really be exposed.
Before I could speak, Qin Huailiang glared at me, and I quickly turned around and finally didn't make any sound.
Hong Siqi just left a few blood marks on his knees and did not really tear the skin. He took a deep breath and continued: "At that time, the Zanglong Grotto was already full of holes, and the ditch was not big. In the end, there was no place to dig, so I thought about going to the ridge to dig a few times."
"Actually, some people went up to the ridge to dig, but the dug out were all hard rocks and there was no iron ore at all, so everyone gave up."
"It was just that time, and I don't know what happened. When I got down that hammer, I felt like I was digging on the cotton, and it was soft."
"So I used my hands to dig the soil. I lowered my head and dug it with my hands for a while and found that there was nothing special except soil and stones. But when I raised my head, I found that there was a huge change around me."
"The mountains are gone. I stood in a lush forest. I was shocked at that time. I also heard a woman crying all the time. I felt that I must have been possessed by evil spirits in broad daylight."
"I slapped myself a few times, and it hurt so much, but there was no change around me."
"I held a pickaxe in my hand and walked into the depths of the forest with the courage. Along the way, I saw many crooks, spiders, and mosquitoes flying in the air. When I walked inside, I was inevitably bitten by bugs, and my legs and arms were covered with red bumps."
"But at that time, I no longer knew what fear was, nor did I know the pain or itch, and I only knew how to walk inside."
"I don't know how long it took, but I saw a three-story building in front of me. It looked like an old building. The windows and doors were gone, the walls were dilapidated, and only a rough building shelf was left."
"And the woman's crying came from the shelf."
"I slowly went upstairs, then walked a few steps, and followed the sound to the door of a broken room. I looked up and saw a few blood-red words on the door, 203."
"After seeing those words, I felt something bitten on my neck, and then I fainted."
"When I woke up again, I went to this health center. My parents told me that I was wandering around the hill and then fainted. Except for a big red bump on my neck, there were no traces of being bitten by insects in other places."
"And then, many people were sent here one after another. At the beginning, the restrictions here were not very serious, so patients could meet and chat. I asked them, and they were just bitten for no reason, and they didn't see anything bitten. Then they were sent here and did not have hallucinations like I did."
Speaking of this, Hong Siqi breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued: "I'm sorry for my parents, maybe I've hurt them..."
Speaking of this, Hong Siqi stopped again, and Qin Huailiang continued, "You don't have to hide anything. I've seen through the things in your heart. I'm just too lazy to talk about them. Let's continue talking. Don't talk about your parents, all the people who were bitten have something to do with you, right?"
Hong Siqi couldn't help but be a little scared. Judging from his expression, Qin Huailiang was right.
And I was a little surprised. Didn’t Hong Siqi keep in the health center? How could he bit those people?
Hong Siqi was silent for a while before continuing: "Actually, I have always been unwilling to admit it, and I don't want to believe that all the people who are infected have relationships with me, because all this is too ridiculous. I just dreamed of them, and then bit them in the dream, and then they would get sick. In a few days, I would see them in the health center. Some of those people are from the next village, and I can't even call their names."
"There are some people who came from other places to the town. I have never seen them before. But no matter who they are, as long as they are dreaming about, they will be sent to this health center. I don't know what's going on."
"So I was so scared that I didn't dare to sleep, for fear that I would harm others if I fell asleep. In addition, sometimes when I fell asleep, I would dream of the 203rd room of the dilapidated building, and I often heard a woman calling my name. I was really scared."
"That feels too real, that building is too scary."
As he said that, Hong Siqi's mental state began to collapse a little.
Qin Huailiang said loudly: "Okay, let's talk about this. There are some special reasons for your bite. But some parts of your memory were severely damaged too much. I can't see through it for the time being. When your mental state recovers, I should be able to find out the reason. At that time, it is also the time when the whole thing is solved."
Hong Siqi didn't say anything anymore.
While he was telling the story, our car had already driven into the mountain, but the mountain road was not easy to walk, and we were bound to bump along the way.
Fortunately, there are many cars that pull iron ore on this mountain road, and our cars can barely pass through. Otherwise, it would take several hours to walk over.
At about ten o'clock, we arrived at the Zanglonggou, which Hong Siqi mentioned. There is also a small legend about the origin of the names Duanlong Mountain and Zanglonggou. According to legend, there was an evil dragon hidden in this Zanglonggou, but it was later killed in the mountains by a passing Taoist.
The dragon was cut off, so it was called Duanlong Mountain.
Qin Huailiang said that this legend was too general and would not help us in this action, so he did not delve into the legend.
When we arrived at Zanglonggou, we got off the bus and saw the undesirable place dug in Hong Siqi's story. Looking down from the mountain, the entire valley was full of pits. Moreover, because it rained heavily some time ago, there were still water in many pits. After a long period of precipitation, the water became dark blue. From a distance, it did not give people a feeling of devastatedness, but an indescribable beauty.
Zu Xiwei asked: "Why is no one digging ore?"
Qin Huailiang said: "Who dares to come if such a thing happens? Money is important or life is important?"
Hong Siqi also added beside him: "The town has come forward to manage it and will not let it dig randomly. Moreover, it is said that there are poisonous insects in the Burial Dragon Grotto. If it is bitten, people will die, so no one will go."
Fang Yue smiled beside him and said, "No one is going out in this town at night. Is it true that poisonous insects will fly to the town at night?"
Hong Siqi nodded, then murmured in a low voice: "Actually it's all because of my dreams."
Qin Huailiang said: "It has something to do with your dream, but it is not what you bite directly in the dream. It is really a 'poisonous insect' that is causing trouble. The poisonous insect will follow the form of your dream. To a certain extent, you are the signal that the command is sent to the worm."
Hong Siqi asked in surprise: "Ah, who is using me to send signals? Is that woman?"
Qin Huailiang said: "It's hard to say, but it needs to be investigated."
We stood on the mountain for a while, then Qin Huailiang turned to Zu Xiwei and said, "Xiaowei, let's see you next."
Look at Zu Xiwei, what does this mean?
I looked at her in surprise, and she gave Qin Huailiang a blank look, then turned to look at me and said, "It is the ability of my eyes. All the people in the Lingyan Gate have special features. I am a person in the Lingyan Gate, and my eyes naturally have their own special features."
There is also something special about Zu Xiwei's eyes?
Zu Xiwei and I have been together for more than a year and a half. I have never thought that her eyes are special?
Qin Huailiang patted my head and said, "You don't know a lot. Xiaowei's eyes are no worse than your fox eyes."
After hearing Qin Huailiang say this, I asked with some concern: "Are you eating her soul too?"
Qin Huailiang was stunned for a moment, and then slapped me: "What nonsense are you talking about? What is the soul-eating thing? Let's talk about it again. Let's see how I punish you."
Only then did I realize that Qin Huailiang didn't want to be heard by outsiders, and Fang Yue was next to him at this time.
However, Fang Yue had an expression that he could not hear anything, pointed to Shan Lingzi opposite and said, "There is some evil spirit there. I'm afraid that something happened to Hong Siqi before, so I'll go over and check it out."
After saying that, Fang Yue went down the ridge, crossed Zanglonggou, and went up the opposite ridge.
Qin Huailiang looked at Fang Yue's back, and the expression on his face also changed slightly, and I saw some dangerous aura from Qin Huailiang's expression.
I couldn't help but worry that what I said just now wouldn't hurt Fang Yue.
At the same time, I turned around and looked at Hong Siqi. He looked at everything around him and fell into deep thought. He was afraid that he really didn't hear the conversation we had just now. Even if he heard it, he wouldn't understand what it meant.
And Fang Yue, he seemed to be Qin Huailiang's driver on the surface, but after getting along with each other for the past two days, I vaguely felt that he, like Qin Huailiang, was also an insider, but he was just a little worse than Qin Huailiang.
The more I thought about it, the more I felt that Qin Huailiang's expression was not right.
I thought of asking Fang Yue for pleading, but Qin Huailiang leaned over and said in my ear: "You little brain, you have become much smarter in a year, but you'd better not care about my affairs too much, otherwise your fate will be even worse than Fang Yue."
I was immediately panicked.
Others can't hear what Qin Huailiang said to me, even Zu Xiwei didn't hear it.
As for Zu Xiwei, she seemed to be busy looking around with her eyes. She was in a state of concentration and did not seem to have heard our conversation just now, so she didn't know that Fang Yue was going to be in danger at all.
Qin Huailiang stood up and said slowly: "You can also look around carefully. Maybe there are traces left by my senior brother here. Since he has entered the mountain, Duanlong Mountain and Zanglonggou will definitely come."
Chapter completed!