Yin Yang Antique Shop

Chapter 124 The Tomb in the Mountain ([-])
We parked the car outside the village, and Zhang Blind’s subordinates knocked on the door first to seek accommodation. I don’t know if they have this custom here or they are afraid of outsiders like us. Only three families were willing to let us stay, and they seemed to be on guard. It can be seen, but as long as we have a place to sleep, we should leave some things alone.

It was quite cold in the mountains at night. The clothes that the master asked us to bring worked. At least I had a good night’s sleep. When I woke up the next morning, there were beautiful clouds and mist outside the window. I was stopped when I wanted to open the window up.

"Don't open the window! You will die!" A girl took my hand and whispered.

I saw that she didn't seem to be teasing me, so I put my hand down, "Isn't this just ordinary fog? Why do people die?" I still don't believe it. I know there will be miasma in the forest, but most of them are In the evening, it should be ordinary water vapor at this time.

"It's fine if you don't believe me!" Seeing that I didn't believe her, the girl turned around and left without explaining.

Although I don't understand, I still choose to believe her. In other people's territory, others will always know more than us, so it's better not to play dead.

The mist slowly began to dissipate, as if there was a track. When the whole village appeared in the window, I realized that all the people in the village had closed their doors and no one was there. Could it be that what the little girl said was true? of?

Puzzled, we ate breakfast, which we had paid for. We stayed here with an old couple and the little girl who just took me. Their attitude towards us was neither bad nor bad. , but can still say a few words to us.

Their son and daughter-in-law are all dead, and they rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, but the mountain can also eat people. Their son had an accident when he went hunting. They don’t want to charge us money to let us stay overnight. They can’t do anything about it, but when asked why they don’t welcome outsiders so much, the two old people stopped talking, and we didn’t force them. We left some extra money and prepared to leave. .

"This is for you, you are a good person, don't touch the ants on the mountain!" The little girl pulled me aside when I was about to leave, she looked around and stuffed a small sachet into my hand , whispered a word and ran away.

Before I had time to call her back, the master was already urging me. I had no choice but to put the sachet in my arms. What she just said must be reminding me not to touch the ants on the mountain?What does it mean?Do ants also kill people?

I was a little puzzled, and I didn't even take it to heart, but it was later proved that what the little girl said was true, the ants on the mountain can indeed kill people.

We originally wanted to find a guide, but the people in the village saw that we were avoiding snakes and scorpions. After several times of rejection, Zhang Xiazi’s face became ugly. Finally, we decided to go to the village in front. There is a guide to find the place. If there is no guide in the forest, it is tantamount to courting death. All kinds of unknown snakes, insects, rats and ants can make you go home immediately. We have no time to delay any longer.

The villages here are all separate. The previous guide was not found by Zhang Xiazi, so he didn't know. We went to another village. They didn't guard against us like the people in the previous village. Zhang Xiazi and one of them The middle-aged man said a few words, then gestured with his fingers, the middle-aged man hesitated for a while before nodding.

Blind Zhang immediately asked people to remove the things in the car. The guide told us to prepare food and water ourselves, and not to eat anything in the forest unless it was absolutely necessary.

We put the food and water in several parts and put them in the backpack. Even Xiaotong carried a part of food and water on his back. These things are enough for us to get out of the tomb, but no one knows what will happen on the way, so It is better to divide things into several parts, so that even if one person loses his backpack, there are others to eat, so as not to be hungry.

After packing everything up, we were ready to go, and I saw what the girl under him was wearing, a test tube tied around her waist, but I didn't see what was inside, It seems that this girl should be very important to them. You can see that she is in a protected position, just like Master and I put Xiaotong in the middle.

The guide walked in the front, and our position was relatively in the middle. The road ahead was cleared by Zhang Blind and his men. It was not so difficult for us to walk, but there is one uncomfortable place in the forest, which is stuffy.

The sweat on my head almost soaked all my clothes, which also means that the water on my body is consumed very quickly. I can only sip water constantly, which will make me feel better.

Lack of water is not a joke. I don’t want to faint in the forest at the beginning, and I can’t take off my clothes in it. The naked parts of my body may be bitten by leeches, and there are all kinds of poisonous mosquitoes and snakes. I would rather Heat didn't want to be stared at by these things at all.

The speed of the guide is getting faster and faster, and it is getting dark now. We must rush to the foothold at the foot of the mountain before dark. It was made by the mountain people and allows us to spend the night safely.

"Wait!" the guide suddenly shouted, and he waved his hands to signal us to stop.

I looked in front of him in confusion, because the light was not very good, I could only see that the vegetation coverage in front was not very high, and it was clearly separated from the one behind us. What is there?
The guide picked up a big stone from the side and rolled it over the edge. Suddenly, a big pit collapsed in the open space in front of him, and the stone rolled down. We couldn't help but be surprised. Could this be a trap set by the hunter? ?

The guide led us to detour through another road. In fact, there is no road in the mountain. We have to cut down the bigger bushes to barely pass. The guide has been very careful, and he has an extra stick in his hand to detect the road ahead. Is the road the same as just now? We met two or three times on the way down the mountain.

"It stinks!" We covered our mouths and noses one after another. When we got to the foot of the mountain, we smelled a stench. This smell was like a rotting corpse, and the smell was so strong. The rotten things must be around us. It's not surprising that some things die in the forest, but the smell is really intoxicating, we can't stay here for a long time, this smell will be poisonous if smelled for a long time.

"Ouch—" one of Zhang Xiazi's subordinates vomited out. There was a big pit next to him. We leaned over it. Under the light, we could barely make out a wild boar inside. A half-eaten wild boar was eating its food. It was a group of black ants, they crawled around on the wild boar, pieces of meat were cut off, and each of these ants was as big as a baby's finger. All the ants in the forest are like this.

We didn't provoke them. Under the guidance of the guide, we arrived at the resting place. At first I thought it was a shed or something, but I didn't expect it to be a big hut. This made us relax a lot and sleep in the woods Is the most unwise choice.

We divided the labor and cooperated, and soon built a fire in the hut. The guide lit a torch and scalded the ground of the hut to prevent some poisonous insects that burrowed into the ground from hiding in it. The centipede and ants came out. The guide trampled the centipede to death, but carefully picked up the ants and threw them into the fire.

"Why are the ants here so big?" Long Lan asked. Long Lan is that girl. I just remembered her name when I heard someone call her.

"We don't know. They eat everything. They used to be on the mountain over there, but now they are getting closer and closer to the village. We will move soon." The guide said helplessly after taking a sip of his wine.

"Moving? Can't you kill them? Or do you mean they have no natural enemies?" Long Lan was very interested in this and asked.

"You saw it just now. I burned it to death. If you trample it to death, a large group of ants will come over soon. They are numerous and poisonous. If you get bitten, your hand will swell up. After two days It will rot unless the mountain is burned, but this is impossible, so we have to move it away. Fortunately, there is only one nest on a hill, and as long as their queen dies, these ants will not live long." The guide took the ants Tell me about the habits of the ants, I heard it in a cloud, why do these ants not live long when the queen is dead?Long Lan helped me to find out the doubts in my heart.

"We don't know. When these ants first came out, we went hunting on the mountain and accidentally fell into their nest. It is the kind of pit you see today, and that is their nest. There is a person in our village who likes to soak Medicinal wine, I wanted to take the queen and some ants back to make medicinal wine, but I was bitten, and the queen was killed by him. When we went to see it the next day, all the ants died in the pit. For some unknown reason, the man in our village also died, with pus all over his body, and died of pain."

The guide threw a branch into the fire and made a crackling sound. His flat tone seemed to be saying what the weather was like today, but it sounded like thunder to our ears.

I suddenly remembered what the little girl said to me. It turned out to mean this. These ants really kill people!
(End of this chapter)