The night in the mountains is not quiet, there are all kinds of insects and beasts, the sound of wind and water, but no matter what the sound is, it will not be more disturbing than the human voice.
Huo Ran and Kou Chen stared at each other for a while. He picked up the swinging stick and the flashlight, put his head outside the tent, and saw Lao Yang, who also stuck his head out.
"What's the matter?" Lao Yang asked in a low voice.
"I don't know," Huo Ran said softly, "what's going on with those tents over there?"
"I didn't hear anything, do you think Kou Xiao is singing?" Lao Yang said.
"Go and see." Huo Ran said.
He was particularly reluctant to watch it, but if he didn't take a look at it now, he wouldn't be able to finish the night well.
"Wait for me." Kou Chen struggled to get out of his sleeping bag, regretting that he had stripped down so early.
Huo Ran didn't wait for him, he put on his shoes and got out of the tent, probably because he was afraid of the wind coming in. When he tried to stick his head out, he pulled down the tent zipper with his backhand.
"Fuck," Kou Chen scolded under his throat, and hurriedly put on clothes on his body, "Why are you so daring? How dare you..."
"Have you watched too many ghost movies?" Huo Ran opened the tent again, "When did you see ghosts appearing in the wild in ghost movies? There are no graves nearby."
"There are no ghosts in the wild," Kou Chen said.
"Check the vicinity of the camp, your sister is still hiding in the tent and dare not come out," Huo Ran arranged the task, "I and Lao Yang are on the edge of the woods."
"Okay." Kou Chen finally put on his trousers, put on his shoes, and quickly got out of the tent.
Huo Ran and Lao Yang were walking towards the forest one after another, while Kou Chen looked around the camp while noticing their movements.
No one came out of the tents over there, and no lights were turned on. I don't know if I had fallen asleep, or if I was doing something, I didn't hear the song just now.
When passing Kou Xiao's tent, Kou Chen took the trekking pole at the door: "Sister."
"Well," Kou Xiao responded inside, "they went to Linzi?"
"Go," Kou Chen opened the tent curtain and handed in the trekking pole, "You take this..."
Kou Xiao was sitting in the tent, holding a barbecue iron stick in his hand.
"I'm good, I can tie it into a shower for you." Kou Xiao said.
"...Okay, you can use the sign," Kou Chen nodded, "I'll take a look over there and call if you have anything."
"Don't worry, who am I." Kou Xiao raised his eyebrows.
Kou Chen glanced at Huo Ran and Lao Yang again. They had already arrived next to the woods, and were looking into the woods with strong flashlights. Kou Chen followed the light and looked into the woods, but saw nothing that could move.
He walked gently to the tents of the couples of dogs and men, and listened before speaking.
In two of the three tents, someone was talking in a low voice, and one was breathing... Kou Chen didn't speak any more, and quickly retreated lightly.
I feel like an obedient person, especially wretched.
However, after retreating, he still circled around several tents, and found nothing unusual.
When they returned to their tent, Huo Ran and Lao Yang also returned.
"How is it?" Kou Chen asked.
"There are people in the woods." Huo Ran said.
"It's probably a woman," Lao Yang said. "We heard her talk, but we didn't see anyone."
"Huh?" Kou Chen was stunned, "Didn't you ask her what happened?"
"At midnight, a woman singing and talking alone in the woods," Huo Ran looked at him, "Do you still want to talk to her?"
"Didn't you say there are no ghosts in the wild?" Kou Chen said.
"Did I say she's a ghost?" Huo Ran said, "This is obviously a mental illness..."
"Oh," Kou Chen reacted, "Damn, are you a lunatic?"
"80% of the time," Lao Yang sighed, "In a village like this in the mountains, whoever has a lunatic can't be sent to the hospital, and no one cares, just run, run and die. "
Huo Ran led the two of them to scatter all the branches around the tent that were not used up for the barbecue. If someone or an animal was approaching, they would be able to hear if they stepped on it.
After standing in the cold wind and saying a few more words, they returned to the tent.
"Do you think those fellow villagers came to look for the mentally ill?" Kou Chen asked.
"I don't know," Huo Ran wrinkled, "if they are really looking for something, no matter what they are looking for, they will be shameful. If they are looking for people to find animals, they will not ask us. As long as they don't ask, it must be something wrong."
"Well," Kou Chen started to undress again, stripped himself clean again, and got into the sleeping bag, "I'll sleep for a while, you can hold on for a while, and you'll wake me up when you're sleepy. Change the vigil."
"Okay." Huo Ran smiled.
Kou Chen tightened the mouth of the sleeping bag, revealing only his nose and eyes, and then closed his eyes.
Huo Ran looked at him.
Two seconds later, Kou Chen opened his eyes: "Fuck, don't you feel touched? Now you're not sleepy, so I'll let you stay vigil first, and I'll get up and replace you when you're the most sleepy, don't you understand? This sequence?"
"I understand." Huo Ran smiled.
"Then you won't be moved?" Kou Chen asked.
"Moved." Huo Ran nodded.
"Fuck," Kou Chen looked at him and closed his eyes after a while, "This is the first time I've seen someone who can be moved so calmly."
Huo Ran laughed: "Actually, I just wanted to ask, do you have to take off only a pair of underwear when you are in a tent in the wild?"
"Otherwise? If it wasn't in a tent in the wild, but in my house, I wouldn't even have any underwear left." Kou Chen said.
Huo Ran took a piece of chocolate and said, "Don't take off like this, in case of any accident, others can stand up and run..."
"I can run even when I stand up," Kou Chen said.
"People have clothes," Huo Ran said, "you Guoben, it's different, Guoben is still safe in the city."
"Hey!" Kou Chen sat up, "You mean I get out now, put on my clothes, and then get back in again, I'm not fucking annoying enough!"
Huo Ran didn't speak, just waved at him.
Kou Chen lay back and closed his eyes.
It was very quiet in the tent, and the woman's voice was gone outside, neither singing nor speaking.
Huo Ran took out his phone and looked at it, but there was no signal.
The mobile phone signal has to continue to move forward, heading towards Laoxikou. When it is almost a few kilometers away, there will be a signal.
But also get tomorrow afternoon.
In the middle of this time, the mobile phone signal is the ghost in the wild, whether there is or not, there is no.
He sent a message to both his father and Xu Zhifan at the place where there was a signal before, reported his location, and also told the next itinerary. If there is anything wrong, they can find it...
Gee.
Don't think about this, this line started when he played outdoors, and he had never heard of any donkey that had any trouble on this road.
Kou Chen never fell asleep. He didn't have the habit of going to bed at eight or nine o'clock, but he still closed his eyes and slept hard for a long time. After all, he and Huo Ran had to change shifts to watch the night this night and needed to keep their spirits up.
When he finally started to feel a little sleepy, his phone rang softly.
This is the alarm clock he set for himself.
It's 11 o'clock.
He should get up and change Huo Ran.
Hold
A little sleepy at first, I'm about to get up!
Kou Chen regretted the arrangement of the vigil just now.
He opened his eyes reluctantly, and saw that Huo Ran was still sitting in the previous position and didn't move, but lowered his head, as if falling asleep.
Too unprofessional, what kind of professional ethics! Did you fall asleep during the vigil
"Is it going to replace you?" Huo Ran said suddenly.
"Fuck," Kou Chen was stunned, "I thought you fell asleep."
"Close your eyes and rest." Huo Ran opened his eyes, raised his head and smiled at him.
"Okay," Kou Chen sat up, "Go to sleep, I'll call you at two o'clock."
Huo Ran didn't wait for him to sit down before he got into the sleeping bag and lay down.
"...Aren't you taking off your clothes?" Kou Chen looked at him in surprise.
"That's how I slept," Huo Ran twisted a few times in the sleeping bag and threw his jacket out, "Call me at one o'clock, not two, it's too late."
"Oh." Kou Chen nodded.
He didn't have any clothes on, so he sat in the tent wrapped in a sleeping bag and stared blankly.
After Huo Ran fell asleep, he felt for the first time what a long night was.
But at one o'clock he didn't wake up Huo Ran as scheduled.
Not even at two o'clock.
Not how great he is.
But it was because he fell asleep after holding on for half an hour after Huo Ran fell asleep.
The moment he fell, a word flashed in his mind in a trance.
If someone really came over, you should be able to hear it when you stepped on a branch.
Obviously, Huo Ran didn't wake up consciously at one or two o'clock.
The first sentence Kou Chen heard when he was pushed awake in the morning was: "I knew it was the result."
Kou Chen suddenly laughed: "Hey, I forgot to set the alarm clock."
"Fortunately, it's uncertain," Huo Ran said as he packed his sleeping bag, "it affects sleep."
"What happened last night?" Kou Chen sat up.
"Yes," Huo Ran's hand that rolled the sleeping bag stopped, "the chicken wings we didn't finish are gone."
Kou Chen suddenly felt a hair on his back: "Why is Hua Hua here?"
"Go away," Huo Ran laughed, "it could be a small animal... of course it could be a human, so get up quickly, eat some instant noodles and set off."
The men and women over there didn't know what happened last night. After they had breakfast and packed up, only two men over there got out of the tent and went to the edge of the woods to pee.
Huo Ran reminded them to pay attention to strangers in the past, and then he came to check his camp to make sure that there was nothing missing, and then waved: "Let's go."
"Let's keep this," Kou Xiao took out the remaining two sausages, "Do we still have dry food and a supply point ahead?"
"Yes." Huo Ran nodded.
"Then..." Kou Xiao hesitated, "If someone came over to eat chicken wings in the middle of the night last night..."
"Let's put it on the edge of the forest," Lao Yang understood what she meant, and pointed to a stone on the edge of the forest, "Put it there, it's easy to see."
"Okay." Kou Xiao went over and put the sausage on the stone.
Because of last night's experience, this time it was just an ordinary itinerary of watching the scenery and sweating hard, but it suddenly became exciting. In the three hours after departure, they walked along the small river valley. The topic has always been Hometown and midnight singing.
"Seriously, if something really happened here, the police couldn't report it," Kou Xiao said. "My cell phone has no signal."
"There's a signal going forward," Huo Ran said. "It doesn't come from time to time. Do you want to call the police?"
"What did the police say? Someone sang in the middle of the night, and the three chicken wings we ate were stolen?" Kou Xiao sighed.
Kou Chen was very unhappy as he walked and poked around with a mountaineering pole: "If I run into any fellow villagers again, I'll definitely rush over to catch one. If it's a lunatic, the fellow villagers in this area will definitely..."
The sound of rolling stones came from behind, and there were faint echoes in the valley.
Underfoot is the dying riverbed. It is common to make such a sound when stepping on a stone, but the sound is behind them, and there is a certain distance.
Several people turned around suddenly.
A figure flashed behind a dirt slope.
"I'll fuck you, uncle." Kou Chen threw his backpack to the ground and chased after him.
Huo Ran didn't have time to stop it, so he could only throw the bag on the ground, whipped the stick, and chased after Kou Chen: "Brother Yang, take care of your sister."
"Take care of your ass, Lao Yang, let's go!" Kou Xiao was in a hurry, two minors ran over, and one was her own younger brother. Something really happened, and she was the one who went back and turned into a sausage.
The two of them threw their bags and chased after them.
If this is a trick to steal from the mountains, they will basically have their clothes left.
The soil slope was very low, Kou Chen rushed to the top of the slope in a few steps, and saw a dead grass and a few sparse trees there, all of which were ugly in shape, like a herniated lumbar intervertebral disc.
There was a man dressed like a monk, running in the grass.
"You fucking stand!" Kou Chen roared, jumped directly from the top of the slope, stepped on the floating soil and slid down to the flat ground, and continued to chase after him.
"Fuck." Huo Ran didn't want Kou Chen to chase after him, but he wanted to catch that person and find out what was going on. Otherwise, it would be too unsafe for them to travel for a few days.
He didn't have the dashing kung fu of Kou Chen. When he went down the slope, he squatted and slid down. When he ran out, he looked back and saw that Kou Xiao and Lao Yang were sitting and slid down.
"Kou Chen, wait for me!" Huo Ran continued to run, "Don't be alone!"
"Stand!" Kou Chen ignored his request at all, rushing as if he had been kicked to "fly for Lao Tzu", swish, swish, and ran on the bumpy ground as if he was sprinting for 100 meters on the runway .
What kind of basketball is he playing at this speed, he should be introduced to the school track and field team!
Farmland could be seen far away, but the place they were in was a wasteland, with only weeds and some fallen bushes. Out of concern for the strange fellow yesterday, Huo Ran glanced over there. , I was slightly relieved that I didn't see anyone in the field.
"Ah—" A woman exclaimed in front of her.
"Kou Chen!" Huo Ran roared.
"Come on!" Kou Chen also shouted.
Huo Ran instantly ran out of the speed of the track and field captain, and when he rushed over, he saw that Kou Chen had already pinned the eminent monk to the ground.
The monk was struggling frantically, grabbing Kou Chen's face and neck, and kept kicking him with his legs.
Huo Ran rushed over, first holding down the high monk's kicking leg.
The monk was very thin, so thin that when Huo Ran pressed his leg, he felt that with a little more force, he could break it directly.
"Help! Don't kill me! Don't kill me!" The monk began to shout, "Mom! Mom! Kill me! Kill me!"
"We won't kill you!" Kou Chen shouted, "We won't kill you! We are good people! Good people! Police! We are police!"
The eminent monk paused for a moment, and Huo Ran saw clearly that this was a woman. She was no longer young, she looked like she was in her forties, her face was very dirty, and her body also stinks.
The confused eyes made him almost certain that this is a lunatic, and it should be her who was wandering around the camp last night.
"Mom is here!" Kou Xiao shouted as he ran over, "Mom is here!"
"Fuck!" Kou Chen took time to turn his head to look at her amid the high monk's struggle.
"Is she looking for her mother!" Kou Xiao asked as he ran.
"...Yes." Kou Chen was distracted, and was slapped in the face by the eminent monk, he was immediately angry, turned his head and roared, "How dare you beat your uncle!"
The eminent monk did not calm down because of Kou Xiao, the fake mother, and still struggled desperately, muttering indistinctly, and sang a few words in the middle.
Lao Yang heroically pulled out the rope on his trousers waist: "Tie it up first, there's no way to communicate."
Several people were prompted, including Kou Xiao, and they all pulled out the drawstrings on their trousers.
The scene was once very unbearable.
But at this moment, he couldn't care about anything else. Several people pressed the eminent monk, and Kou Xiao tied her hands and feet with drawstrings.
When he released his hand, the monk finally calmed down, lay still on the ground, and stared at the sky.