Paper horse incense shop

Chapter 46 Explore again
  I fanned for a few more minutes.

No one showed up until a mule that smelled the smoke popped out of the cave with a choking sound.

This time, even the dullest Mother Lu realized that something was wrong and quickly lowered her voice and asked me:

"Little girl, what's going on? Why is there no movement inside even though the mule is out?"

Yes, why is there no movement?
  Is the smoke not strong enough? Or do they think the smoke is not important and are not afraid of the fire burning the mountain?
  Or.
  "There's no one inside!"

"No one's inside?"

I made eye contact with Father Lu, who said the same thing, and crawled out from the hiding place of the weeds.

The smoke was so thick that even the mules were smoked out. As long as there were still people inside who could move around, they would definitely come out to check!
  If he didn't come out, the greater possibility is because there was no one inside at all!
  In this short half hour, are we battling with the air? !
  I looked a little confused, and after a few words of caution, I took the lead in tearing apart the vines outside the cave and walked in.

The cave is still as dark and closed as yesterday.

There was no sound in the silence.

There is really no one!

Before I could feel a sense of joy in my heart, the next second, I just felt that something bad was going on.

The stagnant air in the cave was mixed with the smell of blood that could not be ignored. After just two or three breaths, I felt something sticky blocking my breathing.

The torch that burned the paper figurines was also extinguished at some point.

Only weirdness and coldness spread throughout the cave.

The light from the small lighter I got from Father Lu in my hand was almost negligible in the darkness.

I pretended to be calm and took small steps with a lighter to explore the way forward, my mind in chaos.

When those beasts left, did they take the women with them?

But what’s with the smell of blood that fills the cave?

Maybe my paper figures last night scared them. They abandoned the cave and ran away, giving away all the women before running away.
  no, I can not!
  I was startled by the thoughts in my mind and quickly shook them off.

Mother Lu behind me was obviously very scared. In this deep cave, the echo of her teeth chattering could be clearly heard:

"This smells like a pig farm. Ugh."

The environment was dark and it was difficult to see. I could only try my best to calm my voice and comfort the other two people as much as possible:

"Hold on, if the three of us get into chaos, the situation will only get worse."

I can feel my voice trembling, but in this situation, there's nothing I can do if I don't stay calm.
  "what!!!"

A sudden scream interrupted my thoughts.

In just one second, I turned back to check. In the faint light of the lighter, I could barely tell that the screaming person was not Lu's mother, but Lu's father!

"what happened!?"

Mother Lu was so frightened by this sound that she screamed several times before reluctantly stopping and looking at her husband with a pale face.

Father Lu's face was livid, and his whole body seemed to have been struck by lightning. It took him a long time to squeeze out the words from between his teeth:
  "I, it seems, stepped on some flesh."

Meat?
  What meat?

In this obviously wrong cave, I'm afraid I may have stepped on human flesh!

I was startled and immediately squatted down to check with the lighter.

I swear, this is definitely the worst thing I have done in my twenty years of life.

I should have been more cautious. Even if I had raised a torch before entering the cave, I would not have seen such a shocking and terrifying scene in my life.

The lighter's light was very dim. I seemed to squat down along Father Lu’s body, and then I saw the hand that Father Lu was stepping on.

A pale, bloody human hand.

That's the forearm. The skin is rough and full of wrinkles. Near the wrist, you can vaguely see some calluses left by farm work.

Connected to this section of the forearm is half of the upper arm.

I read that right, only half of it, because wherever I looked I couldn't find the remaining half.

At the broken end of this arm, tendons and muscles were connected. It was not as if it had not been cut off, but rather as if it had been forcibly rotated and 'twisted off' and thrown here casually.

This is not a woman's arm.

Because I looked along the bleeding place of the severed hand, and the blood from all directions had gathered into a pool of blood, and when the light of the lighter followed it away.

The head of a man whose neck was twisted at 360 degrees appeared in front of me.

The human body is far more powerful than I thought. Even if the man's neck is broken like this, there are still several "veins" in the man's head connected to the body.

Further down, the body twists and folds.

Next to him, there was another body, torn into pieces.

The fragments of flesh stuck to the soil like mud, exuding a scalp-numbing stench.

My mind went blank, I held the lighter and walked close to the ground in the direction of the blood flow.

One, two, three, four
  eleven twelve.
  These men were killed from the entrance of the cave to the second inner cave
  No, or rather.

This group of men were ‘chased’ in the second inner cave. They panicked and scrambled to get out——

Of course, it didn't work out.

What happened in this cave, in this second inner cave? ! !
  The clothes on my back were grabbed by a force. The force was not too strong, but my soul was shaken and my limbs were stiff, so the other party quickly picked me up from the ground.

Father Lu held his old wife, who had been unconscious for some time, with one hand, and grabbed my clothes with the other. His whole body was shaking like a pendulum, and his face was frighteningly white:

"Come out, vomit - let's come out first"

I nodded stiffly and numbly, supported my body, and almost relying on instinct, grabbed Lu Mu's arm and carried her out of the cave.

We entered the cave and actually walked not very far, twenty or thirty steps at most.

But, for us, it has been too long.

The moment they broke through the vine wall at the entrance of the cave and felt the light, everyone took a deep breath.

Even the unconscious Mother Lu vomited several times unconsciously, while Father Lu on the other side knelt on the ground unable to vomit.

I sat on the ground blankly, unable to reflect on the situation in front of me for a long time——

what happened?

What happened to this cave after my paper man left?
  I don’t know how long I sat paralyzed at the door of the cave, until a harsh ringtone of my cell phone woke me up from my sluggish state.

ring?

There are no signal base stations in our villages, so where do the ringtones come from?
  I turned my head stiffly and looked around. Father Lu, who was also pale, didn't react for a long time. It wasn't until I looked at him that he regained some consciousness and hurriedly rummaged around himself:
  "I brought a satellite phone. These are what you told me."

"Yes, it's the group of people I led at the door. They called me."

Father Lu's face showed no joy at all. The scene in the cave had already made this originally calm middle-aged man panic. He said in surprise:

"No way, something happened over there too?!"

(End of this chapter)