"Monk, have you noticed something is wrong?" Li Qi asked.
Wei Gang turned to look at Li Qi, frowning: "Sir, we seem to be lost."
Li Qi shook his head: "It's not that I'm lost, it's that there's something weird about this place."
Li Qi paused and said: "Think about it, there are only two directions here, one is the direction we came from, and the other is the direction straight ahead. But we have walked for so long and still haven't walked out. This
What does it mean? It means we have been standing still.”
As he said this, Li Qi suddenly thought of the folklore "Ghosts Breaking the Wall".
Grandma, it can't be so evil, right?
"Let's not leave yet. Let's find a place to rest." Li Qi said.
Wei Gang nodded, cleared an open space with a steel knife, and the two sat down.
Wei Gang took off the package from his body and took out some dry food and water.
The two of them ate some casually and regained some strength.
Li Qi looked up at the narrow sky and saw that it was already getting dark, and it would obviously be dark in a few moments.
I can't see the road clearly during the day, but it's dark now?
"I think we have to spend the night here tonight." Li Qi said, "You can light a fire later, and you can sleep for a while. When you are almost asleep, you can switch to me."
"Sir, you should rest first, I'm not very tired yet," Wei Gang said.
"That's okay, but if anything happens, you have to call me immediately." Li Qi said.
Wei Gang nodded.
After clearing a clearing and lighting a bonfire, Li Qi lay on the haystack and squinted for a while.
Just when he was half asleep, Wei Gang woke Li Qi up.
Li Qi opened his eyes and looked at Wei Gang's frightened face. His heart skipped a beat. What happened to grandma again?
"What's wrong?" Li Qi asked.
Wei Gang wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to say it.
This was the first time Li Qi saw this guy showing such an expression, and he felt completely sleepless for a while.
"Young master...there is...there is a ghost..."
Li Qi was stunned: "Ghost? Where is it?"
Wei Gang didn't dare to look back and pointed behind him.
Li Qi got up and took a look, and found some green fire not far away.
He was shocked at first, but then he understood what was going on.
Grandma, isn't that a will-o'-the-wisp?
Seeing Wei Gang sitting there not daring to move, Li Qi couldn't help but want to laugh.
"Okay, there's no such thing as a ghost." Li Qi said angrily, "That's a will-o'-the-wisp."
"Will-o'-the-wisp?" Wei Gang was a little confused: Didn't you say there are no ghosts? How could there be a will-o'-the-wisp if there were no ghosts?
"That's the phosphorus element in human bones. Phosphate oxygen will be produced after the corpse decays. It's not a ghost." Li Qi explained.
Wei Gang couldn't understand what Li Qi was talking about and was completely confused.
"That's just a natural phenomenon." Li Qi said, "Come with me, go over and take a look and you will know."
Will-o'-the-wisps were not uncommon in the countryside when Li Qi was a child. I remember that several times, he and his friends had sticks to poke the will-o'-the-wisps.
So now that he saw this kind of thing again, he didn't feel anything at all.
After all, for him, time travel has already happened, and if you do something outrageous, I can handle it.
After Wei Gang hesitated for a while, he followed Li Qi to the will-o'-the-wisps.
When seen from a distance, the will-o'-the-wisps are still very bright, but when you get closer, you find that these will-o'-the-wisps are actually not that bright, but rather resemble fireflies.
Wei Gang watched for a while, and the fear in his heart finally disappeared.
"How's it going? There's nothing to be afraid of, right?" Li Qi asked with a smile.
Wei Gang nodded and showed a silly smile.
At this time, a sound of "ring, ring, ring" suddenly sounded. In this dark night, the sudden appearance of such a sound was still a bit creepy.
Then the voice got closer and closer, and through the faint firelight, a woman in red clothes emerged from the weeds.
When he saw this woman, Li Qi was frightened on the spot and ran behind Wei Gang in a flash.
However, Wei Gang, who was originally afraid of will-o'-the-wisps, seemed very calm at this time: "Young Master, you are a human being and you have breath."
After hearing what he said, Li Qi came back to his senses.
Grandma, isn't it too weird to wear such an outfit in the middle of the night?
The woman seemed to be very curious. She walked up to Wei Gang and glanced at him a few times, then glanced at Li Qi who was hiding behind.
Then the woman pointed to the fire not far away and made several gestures with her hands, as if she was asking something.
Li Qi noticed the appearance of this woman. She was about seventeen or eighteen years old. Although her skin was very white, there were many pockmarks on her face.
Seeing that she was a human and not a ghost, Li Qi stood up and said, "What are you talking about?"
The woman looked very anxious, gesticulating and stamping her feet. It took Li Qi a long time to realize that this girl is a mute in terms of feelings?
"You mean that fire will attract something?" Li Qi asked, trying to translate.
The woman nodded sharply.
Li Qi looked at her and said, "Who are you?"
She made a gesture, but Li Qi didn't understand it for a long time, but he finally understood "extinguish the fire".
After thinking about it, Li Qi asked Wei Gang to put out the fire, and then the woman asked Li Qi and Wei Gang to follow her somewhere.
It took a while to get used to it in the dark night.
Although Li Qi didn't know who this woman was, she didn't seem to be a bad person.
Besides, Wei Gang has already said that she doesn't know how to do martial arts.
Since you don’t know martial arts, what is there to be afraid of?
After a while, the woman led the two of them to a cave. There was a big stone at the entrance of the cave. There was a gap on the edge of the stone, just enough for people to get in.
After seeing the woman get in, Li Qi hesitated and followed her.
After entering the cave, the woman took out a fire stick and lit the torch placed on the wall.
After the three of them walked away with torches, the space in the cave became larger and larger. When they rounded a corner, Li Qi was dumbfounded.
I saw a lot of wooden houses built in an open space as big as a football field, and they were brightly lit. There were torches everywhere, illuminating the surrounding area.
When I looked up, I could actually see the sky directly.
The structure of the entire cave is like a well, except that the space below is exaggeratedly larger.
As soon as the woman came back, many people came out to greet her.
Each of these people had pockmarks on their faces. They were old and young, male and female.
An old man on crutches came over, squinted at Li Qi and Wei Gang for a while, and said, "I am the village chief here. Did you two also escape?"
Li Qi was a little confused: "Escape?"
The village chief nodded, looked at Li Qi and Weigang for a moment, and then asked, "Are you two not infected?"
After hearing this, Li Qi finally understood where the pockmarks on their faces came from.