"My leg is broken."
"Throw the sign up, we will rescue you. Sorry, Master Ke, I think it will be more useful if we get this sign."
I threw the sign up. I didn't want to die in this pit. However, I never expected that they would do such a thing. After they left, I couldn't climb out of the pit, and my leg was broken.
I didn't curse, yell or shout, it was all in vain.
I knew that I would die in Bone Village sooner or later, but I never thought it would be this way.
Just when I felt like I was about to lose consciousness, a rope was thrown down, I grabbed it, tied it around my waist, and I was pulled out. However, I didn't see anyone, no footprints, only the rope.
I don't know what happened, but I was saved.
I found a tree stick, broke the rope, fixed my legs, and then used the stick to move towards the village entrance. I wanted to leave the Bone Village, but there was no sign, so I didn't know if I could leave the Bone Village.
When I was halfway there, I saw He Dana coming. He carried me out of the Bone Village and went to the hospital.
That day, my old father and Xiaozhe came. Xiaozhe was crying and my father scolded me a few words. I could see that he felt sorry for me.
Lu Pin came and I only said one sentence.
I went home to heal my broken leg, and that day I asked He Dana about it.
"There is a kind of prediction science in Yin studies. It uses Yin measurement, which is very accurate. I knew that something would happen to you. A ghost I kept was following you, and then the ghost told me. I didn't expect the result to be like this."
I never thought that if it weren't for He Dana, I would be dead too.
However, the Bone Village is not as everyone says, that if you go in you will die. I don’t have my badge, and neither does He Dana. We went in and came out fine. Maybe we are refiners, or maybe there are other reasons.
So what about Shang Mei and that person
I didn’t expect that three days later, the leaders of the Municipal University came to see me and sat down to talk.
"Our school has a Bone Village exploration team. This is forbidden by the school, but they are still constantly researching everything about the Bone Village. There are seven people, and now two of them are missing and can't be contacted. We found out today that they entered the Bone Village and followed you in. They saw you go in, and Shang Mei and Duan Qiang followed you in. You are responsible. You came out injured, so what about them?"
This is to blame me.
"It has nothing to do with me."
I told the school leaders what happened and they were stunned for a long time.
"Impossible, they can't possibly do such a thing. Here is the testimony, take a look."
Testimony? They're going to sue me.
"This is all nonsense. It's useless. I've already told you the facts. If you don't come to me, I'll come to you."
"Don't say anything else. The student left the school. The parents asked us for the release of the student. We can only ask you for the release."
"I'm sorry, you got the wrong person."
I didn't expect that the school would call the police. I told them what happened and they looked at me with suspicion.
Only Shang Mei and the man named Duan Qiang can explain this matter clearly. If they are dead, this will probably remain an unsolved case again.
Something happened to the Huo family. A huge fire almost destroyed the entire family. Only one person was left alive. The family was burnt beyond recognition. No one had expected it to be so severe. The fire started from six points at the same time. It was a human-set fire. It was set by the six people who saved the family. After setting the fire, they jumped into the fire themselves. I closed my eyes. This might be retribution!
He Dana said that if they didn't do these things, even if they wanted to set fire, it wouldn't catch fire. This is the so-called retribution. From the perspective of Yin science, if there is no disaster, then even if there is a disaster, nothing will happen. You should avoid it. I kind of believe this.
Mie Ge came to my house and I sat there drinking with him. Lu Pin was unhappy and didn't want me to drink, but I wanted to drink.
"That's a good job. I found the Huo family's stuff, but I just took back my stuff. The wildfire will happen in the spring, and I can live for a while. I will give you the stuff then."
I haven't said much.
When spring came, my wounds healed and I could walk around, He Dana came to me and said he was going to Mie Ge. I knew that Mie Ge's death was coming.
He Dana and I went there. When we arrived at Mie Ge's house, he was already dead, sitting on the kang. His expression was weird. I remembered that when he laughed, it was like a scream, and I shuddered.
He Dana put the Mie Ge on the door panel, and we carried it to the cemetery of the Green tribe. The cemetery was a pit-type tomb, and the tombs were all in the pits. There were stone tablets laid flat in the pits, and there were words on them. They were Green's words, which we didn't recognize. There was an empty pit.
"It's right here. Put the Miege in the pit, put firewood underneath, and spread firewood on top, and burn it."
I have never cooked in this way, but He Dana seems to have done it before.
After the fire had burned for four and a half hours that day, He Dana and I covered the tombstone with Mie Ge's name on it. That's how a person ended his life. He chased, he obtained, and in the end he lost it completely. People live in the process of gaining and losing.
He Dana took a piece of paper from Mie Ge’s pocket. I couldn’t understand what was written on the paper, but He Dana could.
That day, he took something away from Miege's house. It was a bone box, a box made of large pieces of bones. It should be the spine, not one person's, because a person does not have so many large flat bones.
Go to He Dana's place.
"This thing is the strangest thing, something from the Miege Clan."
The box was opened, and there was something inside. I saw it clearly, it was gossip, absolutely, but there was something different about it.
"This looks like the Eight Diagrams, but it's not. This is a kind of bone hexagram from Yin studies. This bone hexagram has been used by the Green people to protect the tribe for thousands of years. It can predict what will happen within a week. It is used to avoid disasters. It is a very effective bone hexagram. A hundred people form a hexagram, and a hundred people form a plate. This bone hexagram plate is what I also want to get."
"Try?"
I glanced at He Dana.
"You kid, you're so curious all day, well, what do you think?"
"What big thing is going to happen to me this week?"
He Dana took out the bone hexagram. There was a base underneath. He put it on the base and wrote my date of birth on one side of the bone plate. It actually turned. This was quite interesting. It seemed that the Green people liked to do these weird things.
The pelvis stopped and He Dana looked at the words on it. There were actually words on it. Those words were symbols of the Grimm tribe. If you say they were completely words, then they were not completely.
He Dana was sweating and his face turned pale. He quickly put the things away.
"Forget it, no, this is bullshit."
I knew something was wrong, but actually, I didn't take it seriously. I was no different from those fortune tellers on the street.
However, I found that something was wrong with He Dana, so he asked me to go home.
I didn't expect that when I returned home, the leaders of the city university and the police were sitting in my house.
"What do you mean?"
"Ask about Shang Mei and Duan Qiang. They have been found, but they are unconscious."
I was so surprised that they stayed there for a whole winter without dying. Maybe the sign worked.
"Five other people said this brand was yours. How do you explain it?"
"It is indeed mine. I said it at the beginning. They stole my sign."
"Maybe it was this brand that made them faint. I think you should have a solution."
"You always blame me for everything. My leg is broken because of them. How do you explain it?"
"The parents said that they were wrong, but they hope you can help wake the two children up. Compensation is certain, there won't be any problem. The parents will apologize to you. Master Ke, we are also investigating a case, please understand."
"If that's what you say, I can go take a look. Bone Village is very strange. If it weren't for this sign, they wouldn't have come out. As for what this sign is, I can't explain it clearly."
I went to the hospital that day and found Shang Mei and Duan Qiang in coma. We didn't know why and the hospital couldn't figure it out. I don't know what they did in there during the winter.
I lifted the quilt, touched it, and realized that it was a frozen corpse. Although everything was normal, the person was already dead. That is to say, there was an ice cellar in Yougu Village. No matter what it was, the ice cellar was so cold that people would turn into ice within half an hour after going in. But the strangest thing was that the person was not dead, but at least we had no idea whether he could come back to life, including whether he was conscious or not.
"This is very troublesome. I will go find someone."
I'll go to He Dana's place, he said after listening.
"Frozen corpses, we should go to the Bone Village again. They may have entered the ice cellar, which is why this happened. We need to see what happened."
I don't want to go to the Bone Village. I have always been afraid of it, but I have no choice but to go now.
I went to the police to ask for the badge, but they refused to give it to me at first. I told them the situation, and they gave it to me, saying it was evidence.
We entered the Bone Village and found an ice cellar in a ditch, in a cave. When we went in, we immediately felt like we were walking on ice. We came prepared and wore coats and cotton-padded jackets, but we were shivering all the same. How could it be so cold? It would have been impossible if we had only relied on ice.
We walked inside for ten minutes and came to a hall, which was the center of the ice cellar. There were corpses standing and lying in various poses. This was something I had not expected. There were hundreds of corpses. Their expressions, looks, and clothes were all from ancient times.
"These frozen corpses should be people of status. I didn't expect that the bone village also buried them in different levels. Ordinary people were just refined."
This definitely took me by surprise.
"Let's go, I can't stand it anymore."
He Dana couldn't stand it anymore.
We came out and relaxed outside for more than an hour.
"What's strange is, they were frozen, how did they get out?"
I'm also curious about this.
There is something strange about the frozen corpses in the Bone Village, said He Dana.
"I analyzed that this kind of corpse could come back to life under certain conditions. I don't know what the conditions are, but the freezing conditions are absolutely right, and the timing is also correct. It freezes slowly, not all at once. All human functions are slowly weakening, and when it reaches the lowest point, it is completely frozen. What if it slowly recovers? Will it be alive?"
I don't have this idea. I always think that people will die if they freeze. Shang Mei and Duan Qiang are always frozen, dead. So where is the point and what method should be used to thaw them? Using warmth is definitely not right.
We left the Bone Village without any gains, except that the ice cellar was incomprehensible and inexplicable. So what about finding an expert? I don’t know if the expert will have a reasonable explanation for this. (To be continued)