Urban Oddities: Strange Tales of Mountain Villages

Chapter 10Search

Huang Da stood outside the door in a daze, obviously seeing it too: "That thing is a cat???"

This time Luo Yi didn't answer him, Huang Dafa suddenly "sucked", turned and ran into his room.As soon as he ran away, Lin Yang knew that something bad was going to happen, so he caught up and saw that Huang Dafa was about to go out with a net bag in one hand and a DV digital camera in the other.Lin Yang blocked the door: "Dafa! What are you doing?!"

"Needless to say! Of course it's to catch the cat!" Huang Dafa blushed with excitement.

Lin Yang was terrified: "How dare you mess with that thing?!"

"What are you afraid of! Don't talk about cats, I have even caught snakes!" Huang Dafa pushed him, "Give it up!"

Lin Yang didn't dare to let him go out, so he grabbed him tightly: "Dafa! Don't go!!!"

Huang Dafa was bold, broke through the haunted house and entered the snake's lair alone, and ran wherever there was fun.He also likes to post the videos he takes on the Internet, saying that posting videos can make money, so he specially chooses exciting things to shoot videos... Some time ago, he planned to run to the top of the building with a digital camera, but Wang Jingxiang scolded him before giving up. .Huang Dafa is not stupid, but he is careless and lacks a brain. Lin Yang feels that something will happen to him sooner or later.

Luo Yi also stopped Huang Dafa: "Dafa, calm down!"

The door of the next room opened, and Pu Junying yawned continuously: "What the hell are you arguing about in the middle of the night?!"

Huang Dafa said: "You are right, we really met a ghost!"

Pu Junying was jolted awake at that time, he looked at Lin Yang, Lin Yang secretly waved his hand, indicating that it wasn't Liu Qi.

Huang Dafa's impulsiveness passed, he went back to the room, put away the net bag and digital camera, and motioned them to sit on the bed.Pu Junying was confused: "Are you really seeing a ghost? Male or female?"

Huang Dafa patted his thigh and laughed loudly: "What kind of man and woman are they not human at all!"

"Huh? Not human?"

Huang Dafa gestured: "About this big, it's an ordinary black cat!"

Pu Junying sneaked a glance at Lin Yang, but Lin Yang couldn't hide it, so he nodded.Pu Junying wondered: "How capable is a black cat to make you mess up like this???"

"Hey, don't tell me, those are really not ordinary cats." Huang Dafa gave each of them a cigarette, lit it, and puffed, "Do you still remember, that idiot beat a cat with a stick?" A black cat? Probably that one... that black cat has a flat head!"

"Skull shattered?"

"Guess so!"

"How can you still be alive with a broken skull?!"

"That's why the blame is here. At that time, I heard the movement and ran to have a look. The black cat fought with the two of them... That movement was really fast, like lightning. How could it look like a disabled cat?"

Pu Junying also became interested this time, and stared wide-eyed: "Luo Yi, are you sure you hit a cat???"

Knowing what Pu Junying meant, Luo Yi nodded and said, "It's a cat. It's the real thing when you hit it with a stick, not those ghostly things on TV."

Everyone looked at Pu Junying, hoping that this talented medical student could give a reasonable scientific explanation.Pu Junying was silent for a moment, and said, "Did you take a picture?"

"Hey, return the photo! At that time, it rushed up and bit, who has time to take a photo!" Lin Yang suddenly remembered something, "Didn't you be bitten by a cat before, could it be it too?"

"No, it's a little tabby cat." Park Junying said, "I thought it was a frog at the time, and when I opened the bushes, it rushed towards me. Fortunately, I avoided it."

frog?Lin Yang vaguely sensed something, and asked: "And then?"

Pu Junying spread her hands: "No, then... that little cat escaped."

Pu Junying's wound is not deep, it's just a cut through the skin, and now there are only a few traces left.

Everyone didn't feel sleepy, and stayed in Huang Dafa's room until five o'clock in the morning, and the sky began to get dark. Huang Dafa put out his cigarette, adjusted the digital camera, and said: "Taking advantage of the daytime, even the flashlight is saved."

Lin Yang knew he couldn't stop him, so he got up and said to go with him.It's daylight, and there are villagers everywhere, so it's good to have someone to take care of you if you have something to do.Park Junying was also very interested and said to go and see with them.Huang Dafa picked up the net bag, Pu Junying found out a folding knife, Luo Yi took the wooden stick, but Lin Yang was empty-handed.Huang Dafa just laughed that he was thinking of fighting the cat with his bare hands, right?Lin Yang searched all over his pockets and only found a lighter, which still wouldn't ignite after pressing it a few times.Luo Yi directly threw Lin Yang's tattered lighter into the trash can, and said, "Just follow me."

When they went downstairs, Yang Chunhua also went downstairs. Huang Dafa asked her if there was any household nearby that had a black cat. Yang Chunhua said no, no one in the village kept cats, and those cats were all wild cats from the mountains.

After Huang Da went out, he went straight to the rear of the farmhouse. There was a concrete platform behind, with several racks for drying clothes, and some bushes grew around the platform.Everyone went around and didn't find the cat. Instead, they sniffed the smell of dead mice and followed the smell to find scattered chicken heads and some chicken feathers in the bushes.Huang Dafa took a sip: "Which guy from X is so wicked, he doesn't clean up his bones after eating chicken!"

Pu Junying suddenly stopped Huang Dafa: "Wait! Something is wrong...don't go any further!"

Luo Yi also saw it: "This is a live chicken!"

After a while of silence, Lin Yang was the first to react: "Is there a beast stealing chickens here?"

Pu Junying pushed the weeds away, there were more chicken feathers deep in the weeds, and the reddish-brown blood had seeped into the soil.Pu Junying took a few glances and then backed away: "There are chicken feathers and blood everywhere, and there are a few chicken heads, but the body is missing, and it may have been eaten... I am afraid that the beast is not small. If it is not a big snake, it is likely to be a wolf." some type of."

At this moment, Huang Dafa asked, "Could it be a cat?"

"Cat?" Lin Yang thought about it seriously, "I've heard of cats catching mice, but about chickens... do cats eat chicken???"

Huang Dafa said again: "Could it be that black cat?"

Pu Junying shook her head: "Impossible?"

Huang Dafa couldn't figure it out either, so he said, "Let's talk about it after we find that cat!"

After walking for about ten minutes, I met a thin middle-aged woman along the way.The middle-aged woman was about forty years old, with a bun on her head, wearing a fancy short jacket and black cotton linen trousers. At first glance, she really looked like a fairy.Huang Dafa felt that she was quite "fashionable", so he took a few more glances at her.The middle-aged woman asked, "Young man, are you from the city?"

Huang Dafa was taken aback for a moment: "...Yes."

Unexpectedly, the middle-aged woman shouted: "What are you doing here?! Hurry back to the city!"

"……what???"

"This village is at the end of its life, it's almost over! If you don't leave, it will be too late!" The middle-aged woman left without saying a word, and walked away with a wave of her hands.Everyone is baffled - what does this person mean by talking in a daze?

Ah Hui's house——

The villagers who watched the fun gathered at Ahui's house, and Ahui was waiting at the door. When he saw Aunt He coming, he hurriedly went up to her and gave her a red envelope.He Xiangu is the only witch in the village. It is said that she knows the secret method of Maoshan. She is invited to preside over all funerals and happy events in the village. She is very prestigious in the village.He Xiangu put the red envelope in her pocket, and asked angrily, "Is everything ready?"

"Okay! Everything is ready!" Ah Hui shouted into the room, "Where's the child? Hurry up and bring it out!"

A Hui's wife came out with the child in her arms. A Hui took the child and showed it to He Xiangu, saying that his child was always in a daze recently, neither noisy nor fussy, didn't play with toys, didn't eat food, and didn't answer questions. , as if the upper body of a ghost.

The child drooped his head and looked listless, He Xiangu told him to look up but he didn't lift his head, so He Xiangu pinched the child's chin to make him lift his head, the child suddenly opened his mouth and bit her, fortunately He Xiangu stopped soon Bitten by him.Ah Hui slapped the child: "Little brat, are you tired of working?!"

The child stared at A Hui viciously, and made an indistinct grunt from his throat.Ah Hui said: "Look, Daxian, he looks like this recently."

He Xiangu: "Open the altar and offer incense—"

To the east of the village is an old dilapidated building, which was built in an unknown era, with plants covered with red bricks.

There are few people here, and there are usually many wild cats gathered here.Lin Yang found that the red brick building is actually not far from the farmhouse. The straight-line distance is about a few hundred meters. You should be able to reach the back of the farmhouse by crossing the shrubs and ditches.No wonder I often heard cats meowing a few days ago. It turns out that the base of cats is here!

Huang Dafa held up the digital camera to shoot a circle, but didn't see a single cat. Huang Dafa pushed through the weeds and walked deeper.Weeds overgrown around the red brick building, and the weeds, which were as tall as half a person, covered the doorway.Feeling guilty, Lin Yang picked up a brick and wanted to protect Huang Dafa, but Luo Yi dragged him behind him so that he wouldn't get lost.Luo Yi followed Huang Dafa with a wooden stick, while Pu Junying unfolded his pocket knife and walked cautiously at the end.The closer you get to the red brick building, the stronger the smell of dead rats is. Everyone can smell it. There must be dead rats in the house, if not rats, then something else.Luo Yi picked up a branch as thick as an arm and handed it to Huang Dafa. Huang Dafa refused to take it at first, but then he stood in front of the dark door and took a few glances. Pass Luo Yi's branches and push away the weeds blocking the door.

The moment the weeds were pushed aside, a cold wind blew out.The house has been unoccupied for too long, and there is still a strange smell in the air.Huang Dafa covered his nose to allow the air to circulate for a few minutes, and got in first. After walking a few steps, he found that there were too many debris, and there was nowhere to set his feet.

"Enter through the window." Huang Dafa pointed to the broken window on the left, "The ground over there is cleaner."

The window is not high, even a fat man like Huang Dafa can climb over it with a single breath.When Lin Yang climbed up the window sill, a thought suddenly popped up—in case something happened to him, wouldn't it be very difficult to escape?

This thought was fleeting, Luo Yi thought he was inconvenient to move, and reached out to help, but saw Lin Yang leaning on the window sill with one hand, kicking his foot, and fell into the house with a handsome rollover.When he landed on the ground, he stepped on something. Lin Yang looked down and saw a black mass. He didn't know what it was. It was slippery when he stepped on it, like some kind of meat.Lin Yang took out his mobile phone and wanted to turn on the light, but Luo Yi stretched out his hand and dragged him away.

There was an iron door on the stairs, behind which it was pitch black, and nothing could be seen clearly.Huang Dafa shook the iron door, and the rusty lock fell to the ground. "Dafa...you can find it on the first floor, don't you go up?" Pu Junying was a little scared. Although it was broad daylight and the sky was clear outside, this red brick house seemed to be isolated from the outside world. It was damp and cloudy.

"What are you afraid of? Is there a ghost?" Huang Dafa didn't care, and pushed the door open.The door hit something with a bang when it was opened halfway. Huang Dafa poked his head over and saw that there was a wooden board stuck behind the door. No wonder the door could not be opened wide.Huang Dafa raised his breath and squeezed in sideways. Just as he was bending over to pick up the plank, Lin Yang caught a glimpse of two light spots on the stairs above. "Be careful!!!" Lin Yang shouted.Huang Dafa turned his head and saw the two light spots, which seemed to be cat's eyes.Luo Yi immediately knocked on the iron door with a wooden stick, and there was a loud "dang", and the light spot disappeared all of a sudden.Huang Dafa threw away the board and ran upstairs. Lin Yang raised his foot in a hurry and chased after him, but found that the iron door was still not wide open. It turned out that besides the board, there was also a brick behind the door.Lin Yang didn't care about other things, and got in sideways.Luo Yi followed Lin Yang and ran upstairs, Pu Junying's legs trembled, stomped his feet, and bit the bullet and got in.

Behind the iron gate is a flight of stairs, turn the corner and go up another flight of stairs to the second floor.Lin Yang went up to the second floor and found that the doors and windows were sealed by wooden strips. No wonder the house was cloudy and airless.In addition to the lobby, there are three rooms on the second floor. When Lin Yang chased up the stairs, Huang Dafa was already standing in front of the door of the nearest room.The room is full of rubbish, bricks, stones, broken boards, broken sofas and cabinets, and everything is impossible to get in.Huang Dafa took a picture with the light on his mobile phone and walked to the second room.The second room should be the master bedroom, with a relatively large area, a tattered double bed, and the mirror of the dressing cabinet facing the door.When Lin Yang came to the door, he was taken aback by the vanity mirror. A figure was reflected in the gray mirror. Lin Yang calmed down and realized that it was himself in the mirror.Luo Yi followed Huang Dafa into the master bedroom, Lin Yang stood at the door, and suddenly saw two light spots around him, about the same height as him, seemed to be a person, standing next to him at this moment!Lin Yang's brain exploded and he almost jumped up. "What did you find?" At this moment, Pu Junying poked his head and looked into the master bedroom.The only person standing next to Lin Yang was Pu Junying, and the only one who was about the same height as Lin Yang was Pu Junying.Lin Yang looked into the mirror again, only his and Pu Junying's figures were reflected in the mirror...the two spots of light disappeared.

"Hey, it's really evil, there's blood under the bed!" Huang Dafa lay down on the floor and took a photo of the bed with his mobile phone, "There's still half of a cat's tail... all the hair on the ground, tsk tsk, those cats are fighting under the bed, right? ??"

Luo Yi suddenly patted him and made a silent gesture, Huang Dafa stopped talking immediately.The surroundings suddenly became quiet, and there was a faint "clucking" sound somewhere. Huang Dafa looked for the sound and opened the closet, and there were two wild cats sleeping inside.The cat didn't wake up when the cabinet was opened, and the two wild cats opened their eyes at the same time when I took a photo with my mobile phone.Lin Yang panicked at the time, feeling that something was about to happen, and almost subconsciously grabbed Huang Dafa's shoulder.Before Huang Dafa could understand, the cabinet door was closed by Luo Yi. "Dong dong" a few wild cats slammed into the door of the cabinet, and then there was a cry like a frog in the cabinet.The innermost room also started to make noises. It seemed that several cats had woken up. For a while, the "clucking" sounds rose and fell with each other. When Lin Yang heard this sound, his scalp went numb. He recognized this sound. If he guessed right, The cats here are some kind of bloodthirsty monsters!

"Hurry up!!!" Lin Yang roared, circled Huang Dafa's arms and dragged them out.Luo Yi immediately surrounded Huang Dafa on the other side, and the two dragged him to the stairs with Huang Dafa on their left and right sides.A few black shadows flashed behind him, and several pairs of light spots lit up in the darkness.Lin Yang rushed to the iron gate and pushed Huang Dafa out. Huang Dafa was too fat and stuck, and Luo Yi kicked him out.Pu Junying followed closely and recklessly passed the iron gate sideways, and Lin Yang also passed by afterward.When Luo Yi was about to turn sideways, he found a few black shadows pounced on him, and he immediately picked up the wooden board on the ground and shot towards the black shadows. "Luo Yi! Hurry up!!!" Lin Yang reached out and grabbed him.Luo Yi threw away the wooden board and walked sideways through the iron gate, and immediately closed the iron gate after passing through.A few black shadows hit the iron gate, and a wild cat poked its head out from the gap, and it was about to crawl out, Luo Yi swung a stick and knocked it back.Lin Yang dragged Luo Yi to the window, Huang Dafa and Pu Junying were waiting outside, reaching out to grab them.The window was only big enough for one person to pass through. Lin Yang asked Luo Yi to go first. Unexpectedly, Luo Yi grabbed Lin Yang and threw him out with an over-the-shoulder fall. He also climbed onto the window sill and jumped outside.

After running out of the weeds and standing on the road, Lin Yang realized that his whole body was dripping with sweat, as if he had been fished out of the water.Huang Dafa sat down on the ground, panting for a long time and finally got his breath. He asked them if they were injured, and everyone checked it out. Fortunately, no one was injured.Huang Dafa asked Park Junying to return the digital camera, and looked through the recorded video.The video started to sway from the moment the cabinet was opened. At that time, Pu Junying was also flustered. He didn't see what was in the cabinet clearly. When Lin Yang yelled at him, he started to run back.The camera shakes and I can't see anything clearly. "Cluck cluck" the frog croaked all the time, Huang Dafa watched it for a while, turned off the digital camera, and asked Lin Yang, "You seem to be very afraid of those cats?"

Lin Yang also sat on the ground and said angrily, "Have you ever heard of a clucking wild cat?"

"No...but the one in the closet is really a wild cat." Huang Dafa scratched his head, "I even took a photo with my mobile phone, it's really an ordinary wild cat, but why does it sound so strange? It's like a frog, it's impossible... those Are cats dangerous?"

Lin Yang said perfunctorily, "Didn't you say that the bottom of the bed was full of blood! Maybe it was all caused by those cats!"

Huang Dafa was silent for a while, then suddenly said: "Lin Yang, do you know something?"

Lin Yang swallowed the words again.Huang Dafa didn't know about Uncle Liu's family, nor about Liu Qi.In fact, Huang Dafa didn't know anything. In his opinion, he just found a black cat with a crushed skull and some wild cats with strange sounds...

He didn't know what these things meant.