Urban Oddities: Strange Tales of Mountain Villages

Chapter 23 Escape 2

Lin Yang fell asleep again after eating, and heard Huang Dafa and Luo Yi discussing in a low voice in a daze, saying that they would mix sleeping pills with water and give Yang Chunhua a drink, once at night and once during the day, so as to prevent her from suddenly running to Liu Qi .Lin Yang also heard the heavy rain outside, and the thumping sound of Dasha's knocking on the reinforced railing.Lin Yang fell asleep and dreamed again. He dreamed that Liu Qi turned into a skeleton and chased him, and after a while he dreamed that Dasha turned into a zombie and chased him.Lin Yang ran and ran, and bumped into Teacher Chen. Lin Yang saw the white eyes of the other party, turned around and ran away.Teacher Chen chased after him and turned into Assistant Su again.The road became narrower and narrower, surrounded by villagers, Lin Yang ran to the isolated island, felt a chill go down his spine, turned around and saw Pu Junying rushing towards him...

Lin Yang kicked his legs and opened his eyes.

The door of the house was ajar, and the wind blew in with moisture.Lin Yang sneezed, and the snot came down again.The firewood was burning, and Huang Dafa sat beside him and took a nap.Lin Yang pushed him a few times but nothing happened, his head was still resting on Lin Yang's shoulder as a pillow.Huang Dafa didn't wake up, but Luo Yi did.Lin Yang said: "Sleep, I'll keep watch." Luo Yi shook his head and pointed out the window. Lin Yang went over and saw a person sitting in the dark outside - Dasha sitting on a small horse, guarding like a door god. outside the door.Lin Yang leaned against the glass and looked at Dasha's face, but unfortunately the angle was wrong, Lin Yang couldn't see Dasha's eyes.Dasha seemed to have noticed something, and turned his head to smile at Lin Yang.When Da giggled, his eyes were particularly gentle.Lin Yang couldn't see clearly.Luo Yi asked Lin Yang what he found, and Lin Yang casually said that he was just looking at Dasha.

There was still some time before dawn, but Dasha was in high spirits, standing up and walking around from time to time.Lin Yang lay on the ground, stared at Dasha with his eyes open, and covered Lin Yang's eyes with a warm palm. "Go to sleep, don't read." Luo Yi said.Lin Yang turned over and opened his eyes to look at Luo Yi.Luo Yi smiled and said, "Does it look good?" Lin Yang said, "It looks good, and it looks even better when you smile. What's that called, Smile Alluring?... No, no, it should be called Ru Mu Chunfeng!"

Luo Yi doesn't take his flattery: "If you've seen enough, go to bed early, and you have to climb the mountain early in the morning!"

Lin Yang let out a "hmm" and kept his eyes open.

Luo Yi: "Didn't see enough?"

"No."

"Where else do you want to see?"

"You can show me where I want to see?"

"Wherever you want to see, I will show you."

Lin Yang touched Luo Yi's waistband with a hooligan look: "Really?"

Luo Yi poked the firewood, and said lightly: "I'm afraid you will feel inferior after seeing it."

Huang Dafa woke up at some point, and said cheerfully: "Come on, come on, take off Bibi soon, your Brother Fa will be the referee!"

Lin Yang: "I'm afraid you will feel inferior after seeing it."

Huang Dafa: "Tch!"

Luo Yi took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, shared one with Lin Yang, and picked one up himself, saying, "You have something on your mind, let's hear it?"

Lin Yang glanced out the window and said in a low voice.Luo Yi nodded and said that he also noticed Dasha's wound, and it is estimated that Dasha met a wild cat, otherwise he would not have braved the heavy rain to strengthen the fence.Luo Yi said that being bitten may not immediately mutate, and they left early in the morning, so they don't have to worry so much.Huang Dafa ran out and took a look at Dasha, then came back and shook his head, saying that Dasha could only smirk, and asked him if the wound hurt, he still smirked, but fortunately Dasha was simple-minded and would not attack them.The three smoked around the fire, and Luo Yi suddenly said, "Listen, there is a voice!"

There seems to be the sound of "dong dong dong" knocking on things in the sound of ticking rain.Huang Dafa said casually, "Is there someone knocking on the door?"

Besides the villagers, who else would knock on the door in the middle of the night?Huang Dafa said that he was not afraid, anyway, there was a fire in the house, so no matter how hard the thing knocked on the door, it would not dare to break in.As soon as the words fell, Dasha stood up, stepped on the water and ran to open the yard door.Lin Yang was so startled that he dropped his cigarette, and Luo Yi and Huang Dafa were also startled. After all their calculations, they never expected that fool to open the door.The three stood up at the same time, Huang Dafa grabbed a piece of firewood and rushed out, he planned to drive the man away with fire before he attacked Dasha.He yelled all the way and ran to Dasha's side.The man outside the door was bleeding and messy, looking at Huang Dafa like he was looking at a fool.Huang Dafa waved the firewood at him again, and when nothing happened, he said to Luo Yi and Lin Yang who were rushing over: "He is not afraid of fire."

"Junying?" Lin Yang subconsciously called out, and when he got closer, he realized it wasn't Pu Junying.

"Lin Yang..." The man covered his forehead with a painful expression, "Can't you let me in?"

Lin Yang was dumbfounded, he didn't expect to see him in this situation: "Mr. Chen..."

I haven't seen him for a few days, Teacher Chen is covered in blood, and his expensive suit has disappeared.Lin Yang saw that his shirt was dirty and torn, and his suit trousers were cut several times; his arms and chest were wrapped in gauze, and the most serious was the wound on his forehead, as if he had been bitten by something.

If it was a few days ago, Lin Yang wanted to hug Teacher Chen's thigh and let him join them, but after a few days, Lin Yang didn't dare to let him in, and said cautiously: "Mr. Chen, have you also met a villager?"

Teacher Chen confessed: "I was attacked as soon as I entered the village."

"Bite?"

"No."

"..."

"Don't look at me like that, I'm not lying." Mr. Chen pointed to his arms and chest, "I fell down a slope while running away. I wasn't bitten to death, but almost fell to my death."

Luo Yi spoke at this time: "Your forehead was eaten by a wild cat?"

"No." Teacher Chen got angry when he said it, "I was hiding from wild cats, and a brick flew diagonally downhill while I was running, and knocked me downhill!"

Teacher Chen rolled from uphill to downhill, in a mess, got up and went into the woods, but the woods were not safe, and met a wild cat in the middle of the night, so he had to run around the road and came to Dasha's house, There is light in the house.Teacher Chen saw Dasha and them in the house through the gap in the fence.

Dasha was not afraid of him, he stood by the door and giggled.Luo Yi looked at Dasha, then at Teacher Chen, nodded and said, "Let's talk when we come in."

Teacher Chen was seriously injured, and when he entered the room, he sat down on the ground, tore off his tattered shirt, and took out a tightly hugged object from his backpack.Everyone stared intently, watching him open layer by layer, take out a delicate steel bottle, and uncover the cap, a small flame burst out from that little thing!What a rare thing, Huang Dafa praised: "This lighter is good and scientific enough!"

"What lighter? This is an alcohol lamp! The shell is made of stainless steel, which is explosion-proof and corrosion-resistant. We use this kind in our laboratory." Teacher Chen took tweezers and baked on the alcohol lamp, and took out a scalpel to bake on the alcohol lamp. The potion was placed on the ground, Teacher Chen took out some medicine powder and half a roll of white gauze in his backpack. "Experts are experts, too particular!" Huang Dafa flattered, then leaned into Lin Yang's ear and whispered, "Embroidering flowers."

Lin Yang couldn't help laughing, and heard Luo Yi ask: "Mr. Chen, is your charger still charged?"

Teacher Chen waved his hand: "The battery is long gone."

Lin Yang said: "Teacher, did you hear from me before?"

"Received, I also found the farmhouse, but I was besieged by several villagers before I went in. Fortunately, I ran fast." Teacher Chen took off the gauze and began to treat the wound on his body.

Lin Yang saw that Mr. Chen still had dirt and small leaves stuck to his body, apparently from rolling downhill.

Teacher Chen gritted his teeth: "If you find me that bastard who threw bricks, I will definitely not let him go!"

A certain bastard felt guilty: "Well, maybe the villagers lost it."

Teacher Chen is skilled in techniques, disinfecting and debridement, and bandaging the wound in twos and twos. During the whole process, he frowned and didn't even hum. He is really tough.Luo Yi chatted with him and asked him what he thought of the village.Teacher Chen said that the whole village is full of monsters. He originally planned to take Liu Qi back to the city for treatment, but he didn't expect to come in and find that something was wrong with the village. He has been hiding in the wild and dared not enter the village for the past few days.Teacher Chen found that the villagers were afraid of fire, and said that according to his observation, the villagers retained some daily habits, for example, most of them knew how to go home and would not go to the wrong place. "As for other things, it's hard to say." Teacher Chen sighed, "This trip may have been in vain...By the way, did you meet Assistant Su?"

Lin Yangqi said: "I still want to ask you!"

Teacher Chen: "He also fell downhill, I thought you would meet him."

Lin Yang was startled: "No."

Teacher Chen didn't care, he said that Assistant Su would leave marks along the way, but there were no marks in the village, which meant that Assistant Su did not enter the village. "Don't look at his delicate skin and tender flesh. That little slope won't kill him." Mr. Chen flipped the firewood and said, "He must be alive... Maybe he went in another direction."

Lin Yang thought for a while, and then told him about Pu Junying. After all, Pu Junying was his student, so he had to explain.Teacher Chen listened silently, and did not say anything after listening, but expressed regret for the loss of talents.He said that in the current environment, it is not bad to be able to protect oneself, and it will not be too late to move rescuers after leaving the mountain.

As a meeting gift, Mr. Chen donated a windproof lighter, and also gave Lin Yang a bottle of nasal congestion lotion, saying that it was like draining a sewer, dripping it in would clear it up.Huang Dafa likes the small alcohol lamp, and Teacher Chen is unwilling to give it to him.Breakfast was very simple, the old mother made them gnocchi soup and sweet potatoes.Wang Jingxiang went to the kitchen to help, and when she came back, she secretly told them to eat, don't say they were hungry, just fill their stomachs, because there was no food in the kitchen except for a few wilting vegetables.The old mother ran out of stock to accommodate them.The food for the mother and son was hard-won, but the old mother didn't complain.Until the time of departure, the old mother gave them an extra bundle of firewood and a bag of ashes, and told them to apply the ashes on the injured, which can reduce inflammation and stop bleeding. "Auntie, come with us!" Wang Jingxiang couldn't bear to leave this kind old mother behind, "I can carry you on my back."

Teacher Chen, who was covered in bandages, opened his mouth and swallowed the words again.

Lin Yang said, "Let me recite it."

"All of you save your strength to carry the lady boss." Jin Minxian threw away the cigarette butt, squatted down, and turned her back to the old mother, "Auntie, come on, I will carry you."

The old mother waved her hands again and again: "Oh, no need..."

So Jin Minxian picked her up and said that he must take her away.As soon as the old mother left, Dasha followed suit.Dasha quietly followed his old mother, neither arguing nor making trouble, just giggling.The old mother didn't want to drag them down when she was old, but if she didn't leave, Dasha would definitely not leave either.Dasha followed her since she was a child, and the old mother only hoped that Dasha would be safe.But what else can a fool do if he goes to the city alone?Besides sleeping on the street and picking up trash to eat, who else will take care of him?

There was nothing to clean up at home, so Dasha took the burning firewood and followed behind the old mother.Lin Yang and Jin Minxian walked behind the team with firewood.Luo Yi didn't take them around, but took the village road directly.They can't afford time and energy.Ahui's wife was still sitting on the balcony laughing.The child stood behind his mother, his white eyes staring at a group of people passing by. "Oh, Ali...Xiao Haohao..." The old mother recognized the mad woman and the child on the second floor.The child was lying on the railing, making strange gurgling noises.Dasha waved the firewood at him, and the child shrank back timidly.Teacher Chen said it was strange, why didn't this woman become a monster?Lin Yang looked up and saw that Ahui's daughter-in-law's eyes and voice were normal, but her mind was abnormal.The child was lying beside his mother, obediently seeming to be guarding her.There were many fires in the procession, the children were very frightened, and the villagers were also very frightened, some avoided and some followed far behind.The old mother knew each of them, Aunt Cai with a loud voice, Aunt Li who loved to play cards, Akun who liked to grow flowers, and Uncle Chen who often gave her sweet potatoes... "Can they change back to their original appearance?" The old mother asked, "Is it still cured?"

Everyone didn't make a sound, and anyone with a discerning eye knew that it couldn't be cured.Teacher Chen said: "It's hard to say, you have to wait for the test before you can draw a conclusion."

Lin Yang asked him if he got the sample.Teacher Chen said that it was too late to escape, and he even took a fart sample, which is not bad for saving his life.

There were a few small wild cats on the brick stairs. Luo Yi drove them away with fire, and the wild cats scattered and rushed into the weeds.Everyone stopped, planning to wait for the wild cat to go far before going up.The weeds moved, and it was obvious that the wild cat hadn't left and was lurking waiting for a surprise attack.Luo Yi took a few steps to chase her away with fire, Huang Dafa carried Yang Chunhua up, and followed Luo Yi up the stairs. "Auntie, I'll carry you." Lin Yang knelt down in front of the old mother.Jin Minxian was really afraid that he would be exhausted and roll halfway down, so she volunteered to carry the old mother on her back.The old mother was thin and not heavy, and Jin Minxian walked like flying with her on her back.Halfway up the stairs, a small tabby cat the size of a palm rushed to Lin Yang's feet. Fortunately, Lin Yang reacted quickly and chased it away with firewood.The kitten failed to sneak attack, and got into the weeds again.Huang Dafa couldn't walk fast behind his wife's back, and everyone had to give in to him, but the longer the time, the more dangerous the road would be.Lin Yang also found two children squatting on the tree, they turned out to be the twins who followed them last time.Turning around the curve, Lin Yang looked back, and the twins were gone. "Minxian, you go forward and follow Dafa." Lin Yang stepped aside, and Jin Minxian overtook him to catch up behind Huang Dafa.Dasha took firewood and protected his mother like a bodyguard.Lin Yang walked at the end, looking back from time to time, but the twins were nowhere to be seen, but the weeds shook for a while, and a few little wild cats that had been following them for a long time suddenly scattered and fled.There must have been something that the little wild cat was afraid of. Lin Yang looked behind, and a big yellow dog appeared a few meters away.The big yellow dog was so happy to see the acquaintance, he stuck out his tongue haha, and wagged his tail at Lin Yang.