The area on the car window that was wiped with the tissue soon became foggy, and the shadows of the fields and trees became blurred again, but Qi Chen still maintained his posture of looking out the window, not knowing whether he was in a daze or not. thinking about things.
"What are you looking at?" Xu Liang glanced at him and asked.
"Oh, it's nothing." Qi Chen played with the little wet tissue with his fingers and looked back, "It's not easy to live in this area, the house is too far apart, and it's probably quite a night to live in. Horrible panic, it looks like I have a lot of dogs, we came here all the way, and the barking of the dogs from far and near never stopped."
"Dog barking?" Xu Liang stared intently at the road ahead for a while, then quickly turned to look at Qi Chen, and said with a smile, "What kind of ears do you have, why didn't I hear the dog bark?"
Qi Chen made two "hey hey" and pointed at the windshield wipers that swayed left and right in front of the car window and said, "Look at your road while driving, don't look elsewhere, the snowy road is slippery and foggy. Dogs bark in the fields. , the windows and doors of the car are closed, how can you hear it so clearly, it's normal that you didn't pay attention while driving."
Xu Liang said "Oh".
"How far is the road?" Qi Chen was still rubbing the ball of tissue in his hand, without looking up, looking like he was idle.
Xu Liang replied, "It's coming, it won't be long."
Qi Chen responded with a "uh" and nodded.
This time Xu Liang's estimation was correct, and after driving for another ten minutes, he looked around, finally slowed down, and finally stopped the car on the side of the road.
There is just a dirt road where you park, but it is a little narrow, and it is a bit difficult to drive the car in, especially when the ice and snow on the ground have been turned into muddy black mud, and the wet spread all the way, even if Reluctantly drive in, if you are not careful, it is easy to slip into the field beside the dirt road, which can be a little troublesome.
"Here?" Qi Chen asked Xu Liang in surprise, and then he didn't bother to pull out the tissue, so he wiped a piece of the car window with his fingers and looked outside.
At the end of the dirt road, I saw a pitiful little slope like a tomb. There were a few trees in front of the slope that blocked the wind. Through the trees, I could vaguely see a gray house, which resembled inferior neon lights and simple signboards. Light shines through the branches.
"Well, it's just behind the tree. It's a farmhouse. Even if the decoration is not good, it tastes pretty good!" He and Qi Chen got out of the car one after the other. Xu Liang locked the car and turned the hat of the down jacket over his head. Protecting against the wind and snow, while leading Qi Chen along the dirt road, he stretched out his finger and pointed to the end of the road.
Qi Chen put him under the umbrella under the umbrella, and couldn't help but look back at the side of the road. There were dozens of private cars parked there. It is estimated that they all came here from the city to eat like them. Had to get out of the car and walk across the dirt road.
It's just that it's past the lunch hour, and everyone who came here has already gone in. Apart from him and Xu Liang, no one else can be seen on the entire dirt road.
There are no street lights on both sides, only a few tall trees that are sparsely planted here. They are completely bald. It is a joke to expect them to block the wind. Their only function is to set off this dirt road after dark. Not only is it dark, it is also gloomy.
Qi Chen was afraid of stepping into a puddle, so he had to take out his mobile phone and wanted to turn on the flashlight to take a picture.
The weather was abnormally cold and cold. Just a few steps out of the car, my hands became cold, and it was a little awkward to even hold a mobile phone. He moved his stiff fingers, just as he was about to open the screen lock, a dog bark suddenly sounded not far from his feet, and Qi Chen's hands trembled in shock. fell to the ground.
The road, which had just been bright, suddenly plunged back into darkness, and the bark was just the beginning.
Its barking seems to have aroused the interest of other dog neighbors in this deserted suburb, and they all made noises in harmony, one after another, barking into pieces.
Qi Chen wasn't afraid of dogs, but he had never been barked by so many dogs, so the phone just froze when he picked it up.
He didn't know if the light on his phone's screen was too conspicuous on this dark dirt road, so he attracted these guard dogs and wolf dogs, so he had to stop his finger when he wanted to turn on the phone's flashlight. , not open nor not.
But soon, he found that it seemed not to be the case—
Just looking at the bright light on the phone screen, Qi Chen noticed that the dogs not far away didn't seem to want to pounce on them, but they just lowered their bodies not too far away, their hair blown off, and they barked. Ya Chong made a threatening sound of "huchichi". But that gesture was a bit defensive, it seemed that if Qi Chen and Xu Liang moved here, they would run away wildly.
With this thought in mind, Qi Chen tentatively took a step forward while holding an umbrella. With this move, he discovered another problem—
Those dogs didn't even move their heads at all, still maintaining their original posture and angle, staring in the original direction...
And now, only Xu Liang is still standing there.
Are these dogs targeting Xu Liang
Qi Chen was a little puzzled for a while... If you say they are life guards, why only guard one of them and completely ignore the other
Just when he was stunned, a small group of dark objects rubbed past his feet, and quickly and lightly scurried to a branch beside him, hidden in the night, only a pair of eyes glowed with gleaming serenity. Light.
With the limited light on the phone screen, Qi Chen felt that it should be a black cat.
The moment he saw the black cat, Qi Chen suddenly remembered a sentence he had heard somewhere before—
Cats and dogs kept talking at night, maybe they saw something dirty.
The black cat squatting on the tree let out a very soft meow.
Hearing that, Qi Chen's heart skipped a beat, and when he fell, he felt like he was smashed into a pool of ice water, which made him shudder, and the strange and somewhat uneasy emotions along the way also flowed up.
Xu Liang, who was half a step away from him behind him, finally moved a step, and the soles of his shoes made the sound of rubbing water in the icy slush.
This slight sound of water was like someone threw a firecracker in front of the group of dogs in front of them. The explosion caused them to turn around and run. Without hesitation for a second, they shot out like arrows. It's just that on the way to escape, he still barks in a low voice as if he can't keep his mouth shut.
Before Qi Chen could recover from the sight of the group of dogs running away, he felt a hand suddenly placed on his left shoulder.
He subconsciously took a breath, and his body shook violently.
"Orange—" Xu Liang was stunned for a moment, then walked to the place beside him with a smile, "How could you be scared like this by a group of dogs."
Qi Chen patted his chest and laughed dryly: "Yeah, I probably haven't been surrounded by so many, they are all wolf dogs, and so are the people here, no big dogs are tied." At this time, he was extremely happy. The road is dark enough, and the flashlight of the mobile phone has not been turned on, otherwise the stiff expression on his face will definitely be clearly illuminated.
"Let's go." Xu Liang said, taking his shoulders and walking forward.
Qi Chen subconsciously struggled, and pretended to be relaxed: "Let's go, you still let me hold an umbrella with your paws on?"
Xu Liang "hehe" laughed twice, and let go of his hand as if he didn't care. He took the lead and took a step: "What kind of umbrella is it, just wear a hat, now Xue is small, can you get a few pieces on it, just you Poverty pays attention!"
When Qi Chen heard his words, it seemed that there was not much difference between normal and normal days. He suddenly felt that he had really opened his mind just now. That night, he had the nerve to tell Team Leader Long that he didn't believe in ghosts and ghosts. It's only been two days. "Clap" and slapped himself in the face.
He blamed his overheartedness just now on the atmosphere of this environment, so he shook his head and cleared up those messed up gods and ghosts.
"It's also a kind of ability to be like this. I'll turn on my flashlight." Qi Chen opened the screen saver of his mobile phone, raised his head, and said to Xu Liang, who was one step ahead. , to be able to associate that kind of thing with Xu Liang, how is it possible, the materialistic scientific view has gone to the belly of a dog—
Before he finished complaining, he was dazzled by something in the pocket of Xu Liang's down jacket at the moment when the flashlight of his mobile phone was turned on.
He had put his hand in his pocket before, and Qi Chen couldn't see anything, but now he took out his hand and pulled the hat over his head. A small section of that thing, and that section happened to be the gold-coated interface part, and it was lit by the flashlight of the mobile phone, which happened to be somewhat reflective.
That thing was nothing else, it was the gold-encrusted jade bracelet that was allegedly stolen by Sister Qin but disappeared inexplicably.
The step Qi Chen had just taken suddenly froze there again.
And Xu Liang, who had already walked a few steps, turned around suddenly without warning, and pulled the corner of his mouth to reveal a smile. That smile only touched a piece of flesh around his mouth, which looked stiff and cold, not like a living person at all.