Forbidden City

Chapter 3 Who is alive and who is dead
Everyone discussed again, and finally everyone decided to send people to the city to report the crime first. If no one comes from the city tomorrow morning, we will send people down.

It was getting dark, and Uncle Zhou was afraid that I would do something stupid, so he repeatedly told me not to go down, and he dragged me back from the entrance of the cave.

At night, I sat at the door, looking at the road, waiting for my father to return, and also waiting for my second uncle. I was expecting a miracle. Maybe my second uncle would climb up from the hole by himself and come back.

I was looking up, when suddenly, a beautiful figure appeared not far in front of me. I looked closely and found that she turned out to be Ling Ziyao. My heart moved, and I hurried towards her, but she turned and ran away.

"Ling Ziyao!" I called out, but she didn't pay attention to me. She walked very fast ahead, and I couldn't catch up no matter how hard I tried.She walked all the way to the black hole in the land and stopped, looked back at me, then jumped up and disappeared into the hole.

"Ling Ziyao!" I yelled, waking up from my dream.

Yes, it was a dream just now, very real, everything that happened in the dream is still vivid in my mind, I really think about it day by day, dream about it at night, I went to find Ling Ziyao during the day, and she entered my dream at night.But, in the dream, how could she jump from that black hole?Could it be that she wants to guide me down to find my second uncle?

I decided to go there and have a look.

I took a flashlight, and when I came to the land, I was shocked by the scene in front of me. The land was leveled by the excavator, and now, on this flat land, there are strips of black objects. .I took a closer look with a flashlight and saw that it was all tree roots.These tree roots are thick and thin, intertwined, like black snakes lurking in the soil!
Why are there so many roots all of a sudden?An inexplicable terror welled up in my heart, which made me suddenly at a loss.I looked around, there was no moonlight tonight, my eyes were full of darkness, a gust of cold wind blew by, I just felt the chill on my back, creepy.

How dare I look at that black hole at this time?I just want to go back and tell the villagers about the situation here. I am really worried that those tree roots will grow more and more, and they will grow stronger and stronger, and finally cover our entire village.

Just when I turned around and wanted to leave, suddenly there was a sound in my ear, which I vaguely felt was a human moan?
"Humph! Humph..." It seemed very strenuous.

And this voice seemed to come from that black hole.

My heart sank, and I subconsciously looked in that direction, and saw a very thick tree root "growing" out of the black hole, and that tree root was shaking slightly at this moment, like a snake crawling forward.

The roots are alive?Or is that tree root growing?My heart was in my throat, and I wanted to run, but my legs were filled with lead, and I couldn't move at all.

I was hesitating, when suddenly, a hand stretched out from the black hole!
My heart sank suddenly, and I subconsciously took two steps back.The hand was covered with mud, and the fingers were bent, like a ghost hand that just came out of the grave.Is there really a monster under the cave?I wanted to shout, but my throat was so congested that I couldn't make any sound at all. Then I thought, could it be my second uncle or Wu Banxian? If it was them, I had to go and give them a hand.However, I was afraid and hesitated for a while.

The hand scratched twice on the ground, grabbed the tree root, pulled it hard, and then, a head popped out from below.

His face was dark and his hair was disheveled. When I took a closer look, it turned out to be Wu Banxian!

Wu Banxian looked towards me through the flashlight, probably because the flashlight was so strong that he couldn't open his eyes, half-closed his eyes and asked, "Who's there?" I hurriedly said it was me.Wu Banxian immediately shouted: "Come and pull me up?" I hurried over and pulled Wu Banxian up with all my strength, only to see that his whole body was covered in mud, his hair was unkempt, and he was very embarrassed.

"Where's my second uncle?" I asked hastily.

"Don't mention that damn it!" Wu Banxian patted his body a few times, and walked towards the house, I glanced under the black hole, followed quickly, and asked anxiously: "What's wrong with my second uncle? Why didn't he come up? He..."

"He's dead." Wu Banxian said coldly and walked faster.

Second uncle died?I froze on the spot, speechless for a while.I don't believe it, Wu Banxian is not dead, why is my second uncle dead?Wu Banxian walked about ten steps, looked back at me and said, "Yu Feng, you go home immediately, don't go near that field again."

"What about my second uncle?" I asked again.

Wu Banxian said coldly: "He's dead, what can we do? We'll find a way to bring him up tomorrow." After speaking, he went home without hesitation.

As for Wu Banxian's words, I am dubious.But I really didn't dare to go to the black hole anymore, and I gave up the idea of ​​looking for my second uncle under the black hole.After returning home, I felt sad for a while, thinking that my second uncle had died like this, tears flowed uncontrollably.

With so much going on, I can't sleep anymore, looking forward to the dawn.

At about four or five o'clock in the morning, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door. My heart tightened, and I sat up from the bed reflexively. I listened carefully, and there were really footsteps.Is the second uncle back?I quickly got out of bed, opened the door, and looked towards the second uncle's house opposite. The moment I looked, a person pushed open the door of the second uncle's house and walked in.

Because the other party walked too fast and was far away, I didn't see clearly who that person was.

I wanted to call my second uncle, but I didn't dare to. Wu Banxian said my second uncle was dead, how could he come back?Could it be that the person who went in just now wasn't the second uncle?But who would it be if it wasn't the second uncle?The second uncle is single and unmarried, and has always lived alone. No one will enter the house except him.

Could it be the soul of the second uncle?When I thought of this, my heart skipped a beat.

Suddenly, the lights of the second uncle's house turned on.I thought again, ghosts can't turn on lights, could they be thieves?
I picked up a hatchet and walked towards my second uncle's house.

When I got to the door of my second uncle's house, I pushed the door lightly, and the door opened.There was no shadow of the second uncle inside, but two pieces of clothes and pants were thrown on the ground, and the clothes and pants were all covered with mud.I recognized at a glance that it was the second uncle's clothes.Is the second uncle really back?I boldly called out: "Second Uncle? Second Uncle?"

Called twice in a row, but did not hear the second uncle's response.

Suddenly, there was a sound from the direction of the bathroom, I held the hatchet tightly and walked over cautiously, when I heard the sound of water pouring from the bathroom, I tentatively called again: "Second Uncle, is that you?" But stop.After about ten seconds of silence, the bathroom door opened, and then a head stuck out.

It's the second uncle!
"Feng Feng?" The second uncle looked at the hatchet in my hand and asked, "What... are you doing?"

"Second Uncle, are you back?" I was overjoyed, I really wanted to ask, Second Uncle, you are not dead, but I felt that this was inappropriate, so I hurriedly said, "I...I thought your house was a thief." Second Uncle With a snort, he closed the bathroom door again.

After waiting for about ten minutes, the second uncle came out of the bathroom. I looked at the ground and saw a shadow, so I was relieved that the second uncle was not dead.

"Wu Banxian said you were dead, and scared me to death!" I couldn't help but say.

"What?" The second uncle was wiping his hair with a towel, and when he heard this, he stopped suddenly, looked at me and asked, "Wu Banxian is back?" I said yes, I have been back for about five or six hours. "How is that possible?" Second Uncle frowned: "He is obviously dead, why did he come back?"

When I heard it, I was confused. Wu Banxian said that the second uncle was dead, and the second uncle said that Wu Banxian was dead. So who is alive and who is dead?
"Wu Banxian is really dead?" I looked at my second uncle and asked tentatively.

"It's true, I saw him die with my own eyes." The second uncle swore: "I'm not your second uncle if I lie to you!"

My heart was up and down, could it be that the Wu Banxian I saw was his ghost?

The second uncle threw the towel and said to me: "Come on, let's go to Wu Banxian's house to have a look, I don't believe that a dead person can crawl out of the ground!" I was startled, and hurriedly said: "This... so It’s late, let’s go after dawn.” The second uncle said, “Go now.” Then he pushed me out of the house, closed the door, looked at me, saw that I was dazed, grabbed my flashlight and said: "If you are afraid, stay at home and don't go." How dare I stay at home alone?He hurriedly said, "I'll go, I'll go."

I followed my second uncle straight to Wu Banxian's house, only to find that the door of his house was closed.The second uncle pushed the door, and the door creaked open.The second uncle turned on the light and called out loudly, "Half-immortal? Half-immortal?" After calling for a long time, there was no response.

Wu Banxian is over 40 years old and has been a bachelor all his life, so naturally he is alone in the vacant house.He is not at home, and there is no one in the house, which means that he has not come back.Did I really see a ghost?
Coming out of Wu Banxian's house, I curiously asked my second uncle what happened after he and Wu Banxian fell from that hole, and what happened next. The second uncle shook his head and said lightly: "You'd better not ask. Don't know, down there, I promise, once people go down, they will die."

I really want to ask, then how did you come up?

(End of this chapter)