Urban Oddities: Strange Tales of Mountain Villages

Chapter 5Search

Outside Uncle Liu's yard, the old man was fidgeting, walking up and down for a while, and leaning on the fence to look in.

The light was turned on in the room, but no one came out, and the young man didn't know what happened after he went in.

It was late at night, and usually Uncle Liu would come out to collect the dried fish, but the dried fish was still hanging outside, and some flies were buzzing around the dried fish.

The old man felt that something had happened to Uncle Liu, and he might need help in case of an accident. He planned to go into the yard to see for himself.But after all, I am getting old, and I can't use my hands and feet.The old man recalled Lin Yang's movements, imitating him leaning on the wall, kicking his feet hard, but he didn't step firmly, and his feet slipped——

"what!"

"Be careful!" A hand stretched out beside him, firmly supporting him...

In the house—

The moment Lin Yang saw the old woman, he almost jumped up. At this moment, a strange wind blew past, and the door slammed shut.

At that time, Lin Yang only felt that his mind was blank, and his hands and feet were shaking.

what is that? !

Lin Yang asked himself.

What is that... What I saw just now, is it really a human? !

Or... something strange like a human? !

Lin Yang's heart was beating violently. Fortunately, there was a gust of wind and the door was closed just now, otherwise there would be some terrible consequences.He didn't dare to open the door to make sure. He had a feeling that if the door was opened, he probably wouldn't be able to get out alive.

Must escape! ! !

"Boom!" There was a sound behind the door.

Lin Yang's legs went limp at that moment, and he fell to his knees on the ground with a plop.

go!go! ! !

Lin Yang's hands were soft and his feet were soft, his mind went blank.He gritted his teeth and crawled towards the door, propping himself up on his arms to move.

"Boom...boom boom boom boom boom boom!!!" The door panel shook, and the things inside were about to come out!

Help……

Someone help me... Help! ! !

"Lin Yang?" As if heaven really heard the cry for help, a man ran out of the corner and appeared in Lin Yang's sight.

"What's wrong with you?" Luo Yi helped him up, "Where did you get hurt?"

Lin Yang shook his head, gritted his teeth and said, "Go... hurry!!!"

There was a sound behind him, as if someone had turned the doorknob.

Lin Yang grabbed Luo Yi's shirt and squeezed out a word between his teeth: "Quick!!!"

Without saying a word, Luo Yi helped Lin Yang walk out the door quickly.

With the last of his strength, Lin Yang raised his leg and swung the door shut with a "bang".

Luo Yi supported him all the way, opened the yard door, and rushed out.The old man was still waiting, and when he saw Lin Yang's pale face, he was startled: "Young man, what's wrong with you?"

Lin Yang shook his head, Luo Yi said, "He fell and it hurts."

The old man said: "Be careful, young man, is Lao Liu at home? Have you found him?"

Lin Yang didn't say anything this time, the old man was about to enter the yard to take a look, but Luo Yi raised his hand and closed the big iron gate.

"There is no one inside." Luo Yi said, "There is a wild cat, which has been driven away."

"Oh... oh..." The old man still wanted to ask something, but Luo Yi ignored him and helped Lin Yang go back.

Lin Yang was blown by the wind, sneezed, and returned to his soul, only to find that his clothes were soaked in sweat.

Luo Yi deliberately took a long way, keeping a long distance from Uncle Liu's home.On the edge of the village, there was a dilapidated tile-roofed house surrounded by railings with three floors inside and three floors outside.It was night, and Dasha was still reinforcing the fence. Seeing the two of them, Dasha giggled silly.

Lin Yang sat on the big rock, and Luo Yi sat next to him.Dasha smirked for a moment and went to work on his own.A white-haired old woman walked out of the broken tile house, and she called Dasha to go home.Dasha smiled and refused to return.The old woman went to the fence and saw that there were two young men sitting on the side of the road.

"Are you injured?" the old woman asked Lin Yang.

Lin Yang trembled and stammered, "No, it's all right..."

But the old woman said, "Then why are you bleeding?"

Lin Yang was not injured, let alone bleeding.He followed the old woman's line of sight to look at his palm - there was a reddish-brown mark.

"Oh, that's not blood." Lin Yang couldn't see what it was, and said casually, "It's just soy sauce."

"How could it be soy sauce? Look at your sleeves and knees, those are traces of blood!" the old woman said, "If you don't believe me, smell it, is it soy sauce or blood?"

Lin Yang's scalp exploded, and his hair almost stood on end.

Luo Yi helped him up and said he was going back.Lin Yang's legs were so weak that he couldn't stand still. Luo Yi helped him all the way back to the farmhouse. Lin Yang only drank a glass of water and went back to his room to lie down.After lying down for a while, I suddenly remembered that the clothes and pants were stained with blood. Fortunately, the blood had dried and did not rub against the bed.When changing clothes, Lin Yang fumbled in his pocket, but the phone and flashlight were gone. Lin Yang thought about it, and thought it might have fallen into Uncle Liu's house.Lin Yang brushed his hair angrily. He didn't dare to approach Uncle Liu's house, at least he didn't dare to go there before dawn.

After lying down for half an hour, my body was still shivering under the blanket.Lin Yang got up wrapped in a blanket, groped out of the room, ran to Luo Yi's door and knocked.

Luo Yi opened the door, and Lin Yang sat on the bed wrapped in a blanket after entering.Luo Yi pulled the bench and sat down, and asked him, "Do you want some water?"

"No."

"Oh." Luo Yi opened a bag of potato chips and handed it over. Lin Yang waved his hand and said he had no appetite.The two sat silently for a while, and Lin Yang finally said, "Why did you go to Uncle Liu's house?"

"I'm afraid something will happen to Uncle Liu."

"Oh……"

"In his house, what did you see?" Luo Yi took out a piece of potato chips and put them in Lin Yang's mouth.

Lin Yang clearly remembered that the old woman's eyeballs were gray and white, and they glowed like the eyes of a wild animal in the dark.The first thing Lin Yang saw were the two shining eyes in the darkness, and then he saw the old woman's face.

The traces of soy sauce on the floor and the wall, the clucking sounds that looked like frogs...he carefully described what he remembered.

After Lin Yang finished speaking, he waited impatiently for some advice from Xueba. Luo Yi sat in the chair and didn't say a word. He just told him to go to bed early and visit Uncle Liu's house tomorrow morning.At sunrise, many villagers went to work in the fields. If something happened, someone would definitely come if they shouted casually.

Lin Yang has to go again, at least to get his cell phone back, at worst, call a few strong villagers to go in together, bring rakes and sticks, what monsters and ghosts are there to be afraid of?

Lin Yang pondered deeply, but Luo Yi turned off the light.

"Go to bed early."

"Oh... can I sleep with you tonight?"

"Well, go to sleep." Luo Yi agreed.

Lin Yang occupied half of the bed, Luo Yi lay on the other side, and the two were back to back.With Luo Yi by his side, Lin Yang felt inexplicably at ease, and fell asleep unknowingly, dreaming messy dreams all night, dreaming of an old woman chasing him for a while, dreaming of Liu Qi chasing him for a while, and being caught again at dawn. Awakened by the sound of cock crowing, Luo Yi got up to make breakfast, and Lin Yang yawned and followed him.

Huang Dafa went downstairs and saw Lin Yang, and immediately rushed forward and grabbed Lin Yang's shoulder, looked left and right: "Hey, brother, I didn't dare to ask you because you looked bad last night, where did you get hurt? Do you want to go?" See the hospital?"

Huang Dafa was righteous, like a big brother, Lin Yang was moved: "It's nothing, it's just a fall."

"I didn't reply to your message in the morning, and my phone turned off again. I thought something happened to you!"

"The phone dropped, maybe it's out of battery."

"Where did it fall?"

"Go look for it in a while."

"Is it too late to find it now? Shouldn't someone pick it up?"

Lin Yang was confused: "I don't know..."

After hastily eating breakfast, Lin Yang excused himself to find a cell phone, and hurried out with Luo Yi.They didn't tell their companions, and even if they did, it would be useless, lest they scare the girls.

It happened that some villagers were knocking on the door of Uncle Liu's house.Uncle Liu usually fishes in the morning, rain or shine, but now time has passed but there is no movement.The tall old man came again, he was very worried about Uncle Liu.Lin Yang said that his mobile phone might have been dropped in the house, and he wanted to find it.The old man instructed his son to go over the wall and open the yard door.

The dried fish was still there, no one swept the fallen leaves all over the ground, and the lights were still on in the house.The old man shouted into the house: "Old Liu! Old Liu!"

A smell of dead mice rushed straight to the tip of his nose, and the old man held his nose and backed away again and again.Lin Yang's face was too pale last night, obviously something happened.At that time, the old man didn't have the guts to go in alone. The old man couldn't sleep all night, and he planned to go to the old Liu's house to see where the old Liu really fell.Especially Lao Liu's wife, he always felt that Lao Liu's wife was getting more and more wrong, looking like a walking dead.

Several villagers also smelled the stench, and someone said: "Wow, it smells so bad! Someone died in the house?!"

"Hey! Don't talk nonsense!" The old man took out a key from the bottom of the flower pot, opened the door, and walked in first.

As soon as he entered, he found the drag marks on the ground. "Old Liu! Old Liu!" He yelled a few times, but there was still no response.The old man told the villagers: "Quick, look for them separately!"

Lin Yang picked up the vase by the door and followed the villagers, walking around the corner, Lin Yang saw his mobile phone and flashlight.

"Hello, is anyone there?" The villagers first knocked on the door and opened it, which was full of sundries.He closed the utility room and came to the door on the left. Lin Yang was really afraid that something would rush out of it, so he immediately picked up the vase to be on guard. The villager thought it was funny, knocked on the door, and shouted: "Is anyone there?"

Opening the door, Lin Yang stared at the gap that was getting bigger and bigger, and almost smashed the vase in ahead of time.Luo Yi stopped him and stood beside the villagers.The door opened, and there was a bedroom inside, but no one was there.

The traces of dragging stretched all the way under the bed, Lin Yang grabbed the villager: "Wait!"

"what happened again?"

"You don't need to look under the bed, do you?"

"What's the matter with taking a look?"

"No matter how much Uncle Liu falls, he can't fall under the bed, right?"

"They're all in, just take a look!" said the villager, and lifted the hanging sheet——

Lin Yang's eyes widened, and the villager's eyes also widened. Luo Yi glanced under the bed, frowned and said, "What is this?!"

"What's the matter? Did you find Old Liu?!" The old man and several villagers hurried over.

They lay down on the ground and looked under the bed. There was a lump inside, which looked like a person's head from a distance.

"Uncle Liu's head fell off the bottom of the bed?" someone said.

This sentence was like icy water poured down his head, and Lin Yang was chilled from head to toe.

The old man was no longer calm, and angrily scolded: "What nonsense!"

Luo Yi saw the trick, and hooked the clothes hanger towards the bottom of the bed, and the ball fell into the light. Lin Yang looked at it and said in surprise, "Isn't this just a ball of cloth?!"

Luo Yi pulled the rags with a hanger and shook out a few broken bones.

"Hey, it's really scary. I think the wild cats and dogs dragged the bones under the bed." The villager lay down on the ground and looked under the bed, and pulled out a few small broken bones.

"This reddish-brown thing is blood, it's so smelly, it's all over the bed!" The old man pinched his nose and said, "Old Liu is really serious, he doesn't care about wild cats and dogs!"

It turned out to be broken bones, Lin Yang breathed a sigh of relief.Suddenly I changed my mind: No, this is not like a pig bone left over from eating!He turned on the flashlight and looked under the bed. There was indeed nothing under the bed. Lin Yangzai looked carefully several times. Inside, something reflected light, like a grain of golden metal.The old man has gone out, only Luo Yi and Lin Yang are left in the room.Lin Yang pointed to the metal and showed it to Luo Yi. Luo Yi glanced at it, but didn't say anything at the time, maybe he wasn't sure what it was either.

After a round of searching, he did not find Uncle Liu, but Lin Yang found an overhead storage room in the corner of the second floor. The storage room is quite high from the ground, and a ladder is needed to go up, but there are no ladders around.The villagers didn't plan to go up to look for it, after all, no one can go up without a ladder, besides, it is impossible for Uncle Liu to climb up with his bare hands and sleep soundly?

The old man helped Uncle Liu put away the dried fish, closed the window, locked the door, and then walked out of the yard.

"It's really strange, Lao Liu and his wife are gone." The old man wondered, "Could it be that he traveled far away?"

The villagers said: "That's not right, if Uncle Liu wants to go out, he will definitely put away the dried fish before going out."

At this time, Luo Yi suddenly asked: "Uncle Liu has a big gold tooth?"

The old man said: "Yes, it is inlaid with gold."

Lin Yang followed Luo Yi to the fork in the road. Luo Yi didn't speak, and seemed to be thinking about something.Lin Yang didn't say anything, he kept thinking about where the scary old woman he saw last night went.His intuition told him that the old woman was still in the house, but none of the crowd found her.

Lin Yang's thoughts were mixed, thinking about the old woman for a while, thinking about the traces on the ground for a while, jumping to the rags for a while, and then thinking about the golden thing under the bed...

Suddenly, Lin Yang thought of something.

"Where are you going?!" Luo Yi grabbed him.

"I, I..." Lin Yang hesitated, "Is Uncle Liu gone?"

"Yes, he's not at home."

"Luo Yi, you know what I'm asking..."

In fact, when he entered the house for the first time, Lin Yang had a faint suspicion that something had happened to Uncle Liu. At that time, he only thought that Uncle Liu fell down and lost consciousness, so naturally he didn't think about it elsewhere.

Until I saw the old woman in the room.

as well as……

"Is that golden thing under the bed Uncle Liu's big gold tooth?"

"I don't know, let's go, it's time to go back."

"Luo Yi, you've actually seen it a long time ago, right? Otherwise, why would you ask Uncle Liu's teeth? Uncle Liu may have been caught by that old woman..."

"Lin Yang!" Luo Yi stopped and turned to look at him.

Lin Yang choked, stopped and looked at Luo Yi.

Luo Yi lowered his voice and said seriously: "Don't be troublesome!"