Under the dark night sky, the bitter cold wind blows the weeds in this ancient cemetery.
At the most remote grave mound away from the graves of the ancestors in the village, there is chaos after being dug by robbers. The dilapidated stele fell, and the coffin that had been buried deep in the ground was dug out and thrown aside, the cover was broken, and all the bones inside had been stolen, with not even a trace left.
"Maybe it's because they have different customs in other villages. Uncle Gou's family is very strange in our village."
Chen Shuhuai sat on a military folding stool brought by someone else, with a complicated expression, slowly talking about the events of that year.
Whether it was the young Gu Jun, the mature Xue Ba, or the old Yao Shinian, everyone begged the old man to tell him everything he knew about the Old Dog's family, no matter how absurd it sounded.
Some old people like to talk about the past with their younger generations, and Chen Shuhuai is such an old man.
"There are about ten people in their family. The adults all look weird, and the young ones look just like us. I was a child at that time, and I followed everyone to point and make fun of the old dog. He's a countryman from outside. But the old dog uncle never gets angry with us, and I've never seen him get angry."
"At first, everyone drove them away, but Grandpa asked them to stay. But they are foreigners after all, and they don't marry daughters or wives. We usually don't go to their house very much. Their family lives at the end of the village. Almost everyone After going into the mountains, I cut some wood and mixed mud to build a few houses, surrounded by a circle... "
Hearing this, Gu Jun couldn't help asking: "Is Old Dog's old house still there?"
Village head Chen continued to act as an interpreter, and Chen Shuhuai sighed after hearing this: "It's gone, it's all collapsed, it's rotten... there are no people living there, it's been fifty or sixty years, and you young people don't know why." Shi Sansam added a few more words: "I really don't know, it means that there is a lot of yin over there, and the feng shui is not good."
"At that time, I was still young, and I liked to run around, but I was also afraid of going there."
Chen Shuhuai talked about what happened more than 80 years ago, as if it had been a lifetime ago, "Uncle Gou, they don't raise pigs, chickens and ducks, and they don't even have a dog, but there is always a strange smell coming from their yard... "
Gu Jun mentioned it in his heart, and the others also heard the situation, strange smell
But at this time, the 90-year-old village elder who was sitting in a wheelchair said contemptuously: "Shuhuai, isn't that just the smell of foxes, and they always say it smells weird."
They refer to body odor. Most Chinese people do not have body odor, but there are some groups.
"It's not fox smell, you don't remember it as clearly as I do..." Chen Shuhuai sighed, and it was hard to argue with his old partner, "I don't know what that strange smell is. Dead bodies are coming, and the smell is like…”
A thought flashed in Gu Jun's mind, the old dog's strange appearance and the smell of corpses, could it be that the old dog and even his whole family are really ghouls...
"We poke those floating corpses with bamboo poles to let them float downstream, otherwise they might be left somewhere, but everyone thinks it's unlucky to do this kind of thing. Later, the old dog uncle and his family did this work, and there were no corpses in the village. People want to drive them away again, but they also avoid them even more.”
Chen Shuhuai sighed continuously, his old freckled face gradually turned pale, "The strange thing I said also started around that time..."
"I had to go up the mountain to collect firewood every day, so I passed their house every day. Every time I walked by, I felt uncomfortable. They were always there. They didn't do anything in the yard or by the door, just looked at you. Go, don't say a word."
"I don't remember the day, but once when I walked by, I heard a bang inside, as if something had hit the wooden door, and there was a deep cry like some kind of beast... I said old Is there some roe deer hiding in Uncle Dog's house?"
Now, more than eighty years later, Chen Shuhuai still can't understand these things.
"At that time, there was a war. It was not easy to have a full meal. If you want to eat some meat, you have to wait until the holidays. I wondered if the old dog and the others caught some wild animals from the mountains and hid them at home as food. …I went back and told my father and uncle, and they came to find Grandpa and asked the old dog uncle to take out the roe deer meat and share it with everyone.”
Gu Jun frowned, Xue Ba, Uncle Dan and the others also felt a sense of personal danger...
"Damn." Lou Xiaoning muttered, it sounded like she wanted to see the red door again.
But Chen Shuhuai still lived to be 95 years old now, "Grandfather really went to ask the old dog uncle, and the old dog uncle really took out a whole roe deer after that, and then divided it several times. Everyone ate the roe deer meat. Only then can we slowly and truly accept them, Old Dog Uncle can be buried here even after he dies."
"But when I heard the sound of the roe deer being slaughtered, I didn't think it was like that. The strange sound disappeared for a while... and then it sounded again."
"At that time, I was young and bold. I just wanted to see clearly. One day I climbed up a nearby tree and stared at their yard..."
Speaking of this, Chen Shuhuai stopped, and opened his mouth a few times before he could continue to say the horror:
"I hid in the middle of the night. I was hungry and cold. I was about to go down the tree. Suddenly I saw... the old dog uncle's family came out of the house and into the yard. Round and round...seems like their custom?"
"But I did see it! Right in the middle of the yard, a strange black figure emerged from the mud..."
"I was so scared that I almost fell from the tree... I felt like they noticed me, I didn't dare to make a sound, I didn't dare to look again..."
"What happened afterwards, I don't know anymore. When there was no movement in their yard, I immediately went down and ran back home. Along the way, I noticed that the dogs, chickens, ducks and other beasts in the whole village stopped barking and threw them all away. They didn’t move like a ghost, and they all died the next day.”
"At that time, the whole village didn't know what was going on. They thought that someone from a neighboring village came to poison us. I told my grandpa about it, but after negotiating with the old dog, my grandpa said that I was just dreaming, don't Bring it up again."
"How could it be a dream? I can see it clearly... But this incident never happened again, and the strange noises from Old Dog's house have disappeared. They are very peaceful."
"I don't know if it was a dream."
After Chen Shuhuai sighed about the past, the horror in his old eyes was still there, "What is that black shadow, I really don't know..."
Village head Chen was a little embarrassed that the old man was talking nonsense in front of so many leaders, but he wanted to translate it truthfully. After all, he was not the only one here who understood Dongzhou dialect.
But the members of the Demon Hunter Team, Yao Shinian and Gu Jun all had calm faces, so they thought a lot... The summoning ceremony
Uncle Dog's family, whether it's a ghoul or summoning a ghoul, is inseparable from the relationship.
What is the connection here? Yao Shinian showed Chen Shuhuai a few pictures with his mobile phone, the haggard face of the leader of the Afterlife Society leader in red, and the appearance of some dead skin, but Chen Shuhuai shook his head and said that he had never seen them before.
"Old Chen, look at this portrait picture again." Yao Shinian changed another picture, and specially told Gu Jun and the others not to look at it before showing it, because it involved that nightmare.
"Huh?" Chen Shuhuai was startled when he saw it this time, "Yes, I'm getting old, but that's what old dog uncle looks like!"