Mantra

Chapter 58

Xiaojiao is a Sichuan soldier. He is not big, but he is eloquent and clever that is unique to Sichuan people.

But after he came back from the health team, Little Pepper seemed to have changed his soul. He became reticent, often forgetful when doing things, and the most frightening thing was that when he was alone in the room, he always faced the wall. Muttering a vague word, it seems to be... plum, plum.

In this situation, it may be accidental that he is met the first time and the second time, but if he meets too many times, it will inevitably arouse everyone's attention and suspicion.Especially Zhao Hong, who was sleeping with Xiaojiao, was even more frightened by his sudden outburst of "habit".

After a few more days, Zhao Hong came to me in a hurry and said, Little Pepper is very abnormal these days, he not only talks in his sleep at night, but also goes out to steal food.

I didn't understand and asked Zhao Hong: "There's nothing abnormal about stealing food! Didn't Batulu also steal food when he first arrived?"

"It's not that simple!" Zhao Hong waved his hands in a low voice: "I can't describe the details, anyway, he runs to the kitchen at night, you... come to the kitchen with me tonight, you will know !"

Under Zhao Hong's teasing, the two of us decided together to set up an ambush at night to see how he secretly ate peppers and why he always ran to the kitchen at night.

At night, Zhao Hong and I took advantage of the opportunity of getting up to sneak into the kitchen of the cooking class. The two of us found a steamed bun cage to cover our heads, hid ourselves, and waited quietly for the arrival of the little pepper. Patronizing, but waiting left and right, but there is no sign of him.

In a daze, it was past eleven o'clock before we knew it, and just when we both wanted to give up and go back, the door of the kitchen suddenly opened with a bang.

Immediately afterwards, a thin body walked in from the door.

In the dark night, Zhao Hongquan and I used a cage to cover our bodies, and the two of us couldn't see clearly in the blink of an eye.But it was also vaguely discernible that the person who walked in was undoubtedly Little Pepper.

In the dark night, Little Pepper's hazy body was very hunched. He didn't look for something to eat as I imagined, but he grabbed a potato and started... Peeling?
This action is intriguing enough.

For a long time, Little Pepper has been in charge of peeling all kinds of vegetables in the cooking class, but what's the matter with him peeling at night?What about skilled business?Don't turn on the light yet, aren't you afraid of hurting your hands?
However, after observing for a while, I discovered to my astonishment that what Xiaojiali was cutting was not potatoes at all... but my own hands!

In the hazy night, with a bright kitchen knife in his hand, Little Pepper first cut his wrist, and then bit by bit his skin, muscles, blood vessels, and bones under our watchful eyes...

Even in the dark night, I can still feel the blood, and I can even see the involuntary excited smile on the corner of his mouth...

That scene shocked me at the time. To put it bluntly, it was the first time I saw someone self-harm, and I became more and more excited. The scene made me dare not even vent my breath.

But at this moment, Zhao Hong, who was not as good as I was, suddenly yelled because of the huge psychological depression.

"Oh my god!" Zhao Hong's yelling at that time was as horrifying as it is today a few years later, and what happened because of his voice was even more horrifying!
After hearing Zhao Hong's howl, Little Pepper immediately gave up cutting his hand, and a big bony hand grabbed the kitchen knife with him, and slashed towards Zhao Hong.Because the whole process was so sudden and fast that we were all frightened by the sudden attack of the little pepper, and no one resisted or avoided it!

Just when I thought Zhao Hong was sure to die, the light in the kitchen suddenly turned on.

With the brightening of the lights, the little chili pepper who had been slashing his hands and slashing people with his face of excitement just now disappeared like a vapor.

Instead, it was the old squad leader Tie Sensen's face.

The old squad leader withdrew his hand to turn on the light, looked at the two of us trembling under the cage, and asked sharply, "You two! Why don't you go to sleep!"

Zhao Hong scratched his nose and tears in fright, so naturally he couldn't say anything, but I still maintained the basic ability to speak.

Definitely, it wasn't me who got the knife.

So, I stood up, panting with uneven breath and said: "We saw just now that Xiaojiao committed suicide by cutting his pulse."

The old squad leader glanced at us, then pointed to the barracks adjacent to the kitchen and said, "Isn't Little Pepper asleep?"

The words of the old squad leader felt like a sponge was stuck in my throat.

Subconsciously, I ran back to the bed and took a look, and sure enough, I saw Little Pepper lying on the bed, resting quietly.It seems that he never left the bed at all, let alone cut his arm.

I was dumbfounded, and what made me even more dumbfounded was that the old squad leader suddenly patted me on the shoulder from behind, motioning me to keep quiet and go to the kitchen with Zhao Hong.

When we arrived in the kitchen with the old squad leader, both of us trembled out of balance. For a long time, we just stared at the old squad leader like that, and our minds stopped thinking.

The squad leader looked at our poor state, and first comforted us: "Okay! Remember it for the rest of your life! 'Being suspicious of death, fear is born of your heart', the more you are afraid of seeing those 'evil' things, the more they will It hurt you."

While talking, the old squad leader pointed at Zhao Hong again and said: "What's the use of being afraid? Just calm down and turn on the light like me, wouldn't it be good? Even if the light can't be turned on, the things in the dream can What will happen to you? Even if it is true, what are you afraid of if you have iron steam hanging over your head? Have you never learned military boxing? Can you beat people? Little Pepper is so short, you will lose if you are hacked?"

"Dream?" I raised my head and said in surprise, "You mean we were dreaming just now?..."

The squad leader shook his head and said, "It's not the two of you who are dreaming! It's Little Pepper who is dreaming! You just happened to break in..."

From what the old squad leader said, it seemed that he knew exactly what happened!
I was no longer as scared as before. Instead, I told my monitor everything I saw and asked him what happened to Xiaojiali.Why do we break into other people's dreams.

The old squad leader told me happily: "There are some things that can make dreams come true. Pepper is fine for the time being, and it won't be long... sooner or later he can't tell the difference between dreams and reality. I'm afraid the things you see in dreams It will also become true."

"Ah?!" Zhao Hong and I said in astonishment.

After that, the old squad leader first asked me for a Beidaihe cigarette, and after taking a few puffs slowly, he told us: "At this time tomorrow, mobilize all the people in the cooking class and do as I say! If the 'yin and evil' in Xiaojiao's body is drawn out, his dreams will not affect himself and others. But first, Xiaojiao must be..."

The old squad leader's order was actually very sinister.

... The next day, we trained, cooked, and were on duty as usual. The only difference was that before Xiaojiao turned off the lights and went to bed, I secretly put two and a half tablets of sleeping pills into the glass of water he used to drink at night, and Lie this product and drink it all!

I promise, even if you beat him up at night, this guy will never wake up.

At about eleven o'clock in the evening, the old squad leader woke up everyone in the cooking class on time.

Before the action, the old squad leader specially told us that "the heart is born of suspicion, and the fear is born of the heart", no matter what you see for a while, don't be afraid!If you don't want to watch, close your eyes, and if you don't want to participate, avoid it for a while, otherwise it is not fun to be taken advantage of by "yin and evil".

After the order was given, as expected, only Zhao Hong and I stayed.

I know, everyone is actually muttering in their hearts.This kind of thing is typical that people who encounter it want to see it, and those who haven't seen it don't.And in such a special environment as the army, it is better to have more things than less things.

And this is probably what the old squad leader wanted.

Later, the old squad leader found half a white candle for lighting, and put a raw egg on the little pepper's head.

Afterwards, the squad leader got some moldy glutinous rice out of nowhere, and asked us to mash it, curl it into cigarettes, and light it for the little peppers to absorb.

At that time, the old squad leader told me for the first time: "Glutinous rice is a magical thing. My older generation said that fresh one can cure corpse poison, and moldy one can attract ghosts. With it, we will be ready for everything. I only owe Dongfeng.

So, I asked the old squad leader what is Dongfeng?The squad leader smiled at me mysteriously, took out a pair of chopsticks from his pocket and said, "This is Dongfeng! It will all depend on it for a while."

I looked at the guy in his hand, and felt that the old squad leader was joking with me.

It's just red chopsticks, nothing unusual.

In the face of my confusion, the old squad leader did not explain too much, he explained everything to me with practical actions.

The old squad leader poked the bottom of the raw egg and placed it firmly on Xiaojiali's head. At the same time, he lit a cigarette and smoked it bit by bit in the dark.

He held the red chopsticks in his right hand, like a guy who was always ready to catch fried dough sticks, sometimes staring at the egg, sometimes looking at his own cigarette butt.

In the silence, we saw the egg white flow out slowly, along the forehead of Xiaojiao, into his nose, into the kernel, and finally into his mouth.

The old squad leader looked at the slowly flowing egg white. When the egg white flowed into the mouth of the little pepper, he raised his chopsticks at the same time and told us: "Hold his hands and feet, no matter what you see, don't be afraid!"

We didn't know what the old squad leader meant, but we all carried out the squad leader's order meticulously.After holding Xiaojiali's limbs firmly, he stared at the egg just like the old squad leader.

After getting our response, the old squad leader put his face next to Little Pepper's ear and kept repeating a word.

That word is also what Little Pepper keeps repeating recently: "plum, plum"

After a while, when the egg whites of the eggs were almost drained, we suddenly saw Xiaojiali's sleeping mouth, slowly opening up!

Pepper's mouth was enlarged little by little like a machine, and we were amazed to see that the mouth unstoppably expanded to a terrifying size, enough to hold seven or eight eggs.

We all understood that the thing called "Yin Xie" by the old squad leader was about to come out of Xiaojiao's mouth.

(End of this chapter)