The Rise of the Peninsula

Chapter 159 The World Reunited Again【Wake】

The old man told me that not only cemeteries are equipped with tomb guards, and he even said that the cemetery guards cannot be called grave guards.Tomb guards are a very traditional occupation, and they have been around since ancient times. Their duty is not just to guard a few stones that have been blown by wind and rain.

I stopped in my tracks, turned around and asked him, "If you don't guard the tomb, what are you guarding?"

The old man glanced at the empty forest: "Shou Ling."

The old man said something to me that I may never forget: Some people will stay in this world after death, maybe for a few years, maybe forever, maybe because of nostalgia, maybe because of unwillingness, but they all have one thing in common. The name is a lonely ghost.

Seeing the old man's suddenly cold face, I couldn't help shivering: "Don't scare me."

"They won't bother us. The premise is that we don't want to bother them." The old man first smiled, and then became serious again. It's not going to end well."

I let the flow take its course and asked, "What rules?"

"Don't look directly at the cemetery," said the old man seriously.

Honestly, I was intimidated because I just did it a while ago.

"Are there any other rules?" I asked.

"Passing through the cemetery, be in awe, at least, don't laugh and play." The old man continued to lead me forward, "It's also simple. Those who have gone to school know how to be polite."

I have already reached the exit of the forest, and I faintly saw the lights on in the villa in the distance, and my heart was relieved a lot, and I wished I could run back immediately.

"During the time when the yin is the heaviest, and when you pass the place where the yin is the heaviest, don't talk to strangers." The old man stared at me for a long time before slowly saying, "How do you know, is that a human?"

I was about to answer when the phone rang, and it was Guo Zi calling.Guo Zi is one of my roommates, and another roommate named Daan.The two of them yelled on the phone, saying that they were all done, and told me to go back quickly, and asked me where I was going when it was twelve o'clock.

After I hung up the phone, I glanced at the time, and sure enough, it was exactly twelve o'clock.I was about to thank the old man for sending me back, but when I turned around, I found that he had already left.

The woods behind me were dead silent, as empty as if I was the only one there.

My body felt cold and I hurried into the villa.

Guo Zi and Da'an's girlfriends fell asleep first, and they shared their great achievements with me enthusiastically, but my mind was full of the old man's vicissitudes of face and the words he said to me.

That night, I had a nightmare.

On the second and third nights, I had the same nightmare.

In my dream, I pushed open the door of my house, and there was a tomb inside the door. I was lying down and sleeping, and there was a tomb beside me. In any scene, in any place, there were tombs everywhere, with a few pieces of paper money pressed by stones on the tomb.

The continuous nightmares made me depressed. In the next few days, I was extremely lethargic, but the more I slept, the more tired I became, and the more tired I became, the more I fell asleep, as if I was in an endless loop.

To be honest, I felt such fear for the first time.I said that people are scary and scary. In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with this sentence. If he hadn’t said those few words, I would only feel that this was a very unpleasant trip, but when he said After that sentence, there was a time when he told me who the owner of that tombstone was.You guys know that feeling?

Very frightened, very frightened, they will be plunged into the endless abyss in the next second.

Guo Zi and Da'an never let up, even if there was a lot of noise at night, they took their girlfriends back to the room if they seized the time during the day.This made me even less rested.

Guo Zi and Da'an also teased, saying that they play with each other during the day and sleep with them at night, and they are not as tired as I am.

By the last day of the holiday, my spirits had recovered, and I almost forgot about the old man.

But that incident and what he said are still imprinted in my mind, and I can't forget them for a long time, but I have to force myself to forget them, because if I think about these things again, I will feel more and more scared.

That night, Guo Zi proposed to drink all the remaining wine.It was the last carnival of the long holiday. In order to cater to everyone's atmosphere, I also drank a lot of alcohol for myself.In the middle of the drink, everyone was in a state of tipsiness. Da'an fiddled with the TV in the living room of the villa for a long time, pulled out a disc from the drawer, stuffed it into the DVD, and joked: "In this day and age, people still use DVDs. .”

We didn't know it was a horror movie until the movie started playing, and the two girls unconsciously nestled into the arms of Guo Zi and Da'an.I'm not very courageous, and I don't really want to watch it, but I'm afraid of spoiling everyone's interest, so I bite the bullet and read it.

Everyone nestled on the sofa, drinking the rest of the wine while watching TV.

Under the influence of alcohol, I can't remember many things that happened in the middle. By the time I woke up from the alcohol, we had already split up to copy the tombstone.

Still later, I bumped into that face.

It belongs to the old man.

Just like when we first met, he smiled, but in that smile, there was no kindness anymore, only gloomy.

I tried to calm myself, I must be wrong.I rubbed my eyes vigorously, and looked at the photo on the tombstone again, there was no mistake, the Xu Zhenguo in the group photo was the old man.

It was still a skinny hand, but it was so powerful, he strangled my neck, no matter how hard I struggled, I couldn't break free, and there was a strange smile in my mouth.

I was almost suffocated, and I touched the stone on the grave mound with the paper money on it.I picked up the rock and threw it hard at his head.In an instant, blood was dripping, but he still just took a step back, continued to stretch out his hands with a sinister smile, and wanted to pinch my neck again.

I continued to smash hard, and he continued to laugh sinisterly, with more and more blood, but it still seemed like he couldn't die.

I fell down, I don't know if I fainted from shock or exhausted all my strength
I am in a coma, but I have not lost all consciousness. I can faintly feel that he is stroking my face with his rough hands, and he is still whispering that I can’t understand, as if Some kind of weird ritual is going on.

When I woke up, it was already dawn, and I was lying on the big bed in the villa.Guo Zi and Da An anxiously sat on the sidelines and watched.Their girlfriends had to catch the high-speed train early in the morning and had already left.

Seeing me wake up, Guo Zi let out a long sigh of relief, and said that when they found me, I was lying in front of a tombstone, my face was pale, my whole body was cold, as if I hadn’t caught my breath, and my closed eyelids were twitching constantly. .When they carried me down the mountain, I kept talking nonsense that they couldn't understand.

My eyelids are heavy, and the spirit I just recovered yesterday seemed to have been emptied overnight, and I couldn't squeeze a word out of my mouth.

Da'an told me that they suddenly couldn't contact me in the WeChat group, so they joined up and followed the fork road I took to find me. At first, they couldn't find me no matter what, thanks to the old man they met halfway.When the old man heard about the game we were playing, he scolded them and led them to continue looking for me, and finally found it.

The doorbell rang, and Daan immediately went to answer the door.

"The old man said that when you wake up, he will come to see you. He must be here." Guo Zi added, "I heard that he is a grave keeper."

My heart tightened suddenly, I didn't know where the strength came from, and I shouted: "Don't open the door!"

But it was too late, Da'an came in welcoming one by one old people.When I recall the experiences of the past few days, my heart jumps from my throat.
However, it was not Xu Zhenguo who caught his eyes.

False alarm one by one.

The old man came in with a bowl of water and asked me to drink it.i can hardly move
After the water, less than five minutes

Yes, it was Guo Zi who poured it in for me.With Da'an's support, I actually felt that my strength had returned.

I sat up, thanked the old man, and asked what water he gave me.

The old man glanced at me: "Ordinary grapefruit water"

I don't believe it: "Why is grapefruit water so amazing?"

The old man was expressionless: "You have been dehydrated for too long, even if I give you a bowl of urine, it will have the same effect."

Immediately afterwards, the old man scolded us again, scolding us for being the youngest, not knowing the seriousness, and daring to play any game.It’s not easy for Hao Xing to wait for him to finish scolding.” Then he asked me: “What happened last night?”

I tentatively asked: "Here, are there other grave guards?" My heart became cold for the second time, and I shook my old man's head. I told him one by one. Everything I experienced,

Guo Zi and Da'an were startled when they heard this.The old man looked solemn, and after a long time of contemplation, he slowly said: "You are dreaming." I looked at the list of tombstones on the bedside and hand-copied, and I was absolutely sure that those things really happened, and they were definitely not dreams.

The old man told us: "Leave the village as soon as possible, and don't mention this matter to anyone, so as not to bring bad luck."

After all, he left.

I sat by the bed with Guo Zi and Da An, silent.

I feel very uncomfortable. I have gotten used to staying in this village.

Both Guo Zi and Da'an looked sad. They are two men, and when they are together, they seldom have anything to talk about.

"Let's go back to the city." After a long silence, I suddenly said this sentence. After I finished speaking, I was also taken aback. At this moment, I realized that my voice was hoarse and dry, and it didn't look like me at all. the sound of.

I don't want to be in this village.

Guo Zi and Da An also fell silent.

But in fact, I didn't want to go back to the city, but because I was too scared, and the old man insisted that he was the tomb keeper, but now the tomb keeper is not the old man, which is too bizarre now.

We finally decided to check it out.

We don't have horses, and I have to be sure about going to and from the village.Whether it is true or not, the idea is very simple. Whether it is true or not, it is best to try to feel at ease; whether it is true, find a way to crack it.

I heard that if you hit a ghost, if you don't solve it, won't you be inherited forever?This kind of thing would rather be believed than not. If this kind of thing really exists, the scourge will be huge, but if it does not exist, what kind of significance will it have?Damn it, no matter how I think about it, I feel that if I don't find out, the result is very important to me.

After experiencing a desperate fear, I suddenly became open-minded and not afraid anymore.

Both Guo Zi and Da'an supported me and helped me walk again.The way up the mountain.During the day, the light is very good, and what I fear at night is nothing when I look at it again.

We soon arrived at the couple's tomb. I took a deep breath and took a closer look.

Both Guo Zi and Da'an asked me anxiously: "How is it, really?"

After a long time, I nodded with difficulty: "Yes."

The expressions of Guo Zi and Da'an changed completely. It could explain that I drank too much the previous time, but it can't be explained at all in the experience of copying the tombstones.

Drinking can be interpreted as a fantasy, but if you don't drink, it is definitely your true feelings, and it is absolutely impossible for someone to fabricate it outdoors.

When I ran into Xu Zhenguo in the forest, I didn't drink much.What made us even more flustered was that Guo Zi suddenly found a big crack in the tomb behind the tombstone.

The tomb seemed to have been chiseled open by someone, so it was plugged up when it collapsed after being pushed lightly. Before the cement could be applied, it was temporarily supported by chiseled stone slabs.

I glanced into the tomb. The tomb was deep and wide, and there was a coffin lying in it.

Guo Zi suddenly said, "Did he really come out?"

Daan turned pale when he heard this, swallowed, and finally refused to follow Daan's nonsense and walked down the mountain.When people really arrived and waited, they waited without saying anything. Guo Zi is not bad. When he is afraid, what kind of loyalty is there?

You didn't forget to pull me up before you left.

I turned around in two steps and three times until I could no longer see the graves.

The three of us tacitly stopped mentioning this matter. This matter is really too weird.

After returning to school, I don’t say it but I know they will never forget things, but they don’t say: like walking dead, by the way, during that time, the three of us were like walking dead.

I am not interested in anything anymore, and go back and forth between the classroom, Shilei and Fushe every day at three o'clock.Sometimes, we don't say a word all day.The only time we get together is when we eat.

Guo Zi and Daan were also under great psychological pressure.

I don't know, who the hell are we to mess with these horrible things.We always thought it was me, but in reality, it wasn't.

I dare not ask Guo Zi, and Guo Zi has never asked me, so we can only bury this secret deeply.

These days, my heart is very disturbed. I always feel that there are two eyes staring at me, which makes me feel cold all over.

I even had an urge to go to the temple to ask the Bodhisattva to bless me, and bless me to be safe, but in the end, I resisted this urge.

I'm afraid of the ghost, afraid of the ghosts, afraid of the dream, afraid of my mother.I was scared, I really didn't dare to face those ghosts.I'm afraid, I don't dare to think about that dream again.

My life with Da'an is getting worse and worse.I am haggard and thin every day, but I am very happy.We didn't go to class and hid in the dormitory every day to sleep.Sometimes the three of us would secretly go out to work at night, and we were busy every day.After a month like this.

(End of this chapter)