The old man spoke a little louder, and the actress and the man heard it and looked at us strangely. Except for her and the two of us who were dressed more fashionably, most of the people in the car were dressed like mountain people, and it was obvious that they were not locals.
Shen Bing and I felt a little guilty about being stared at, so we quickly turned our heads and looked out the window. The woman whispered to the man, "Duck, why do they look so familiar to me?" Although she spoke in a low voice, we were too close to each other, so we could guess what they were talking about from the sound.
The man named Yazi said, "I think I've seen him at the train station. Maybe he's related to Nanwupo." He spoke loudly, not afraid that we could hear him. Then he asked us loudly, "Hey guys, are you going to Nanwupo too?"
I turned around and looked at him, and said with a smile, "Yes, are you going to Nanwupo too?", pretending not to know them.
"Yes, our family is from Nanwupo. You are going to Nanwupo..."
I glanced at the curious actress and said with a smile, "A friend of mine sent me a message a few days ago saying that he went to Nanwupo and couldn't come back because he had no money, so we came here specially to pick him up."
When I said this, Ya Zi asked with interest, "No outsiders came to Nanwupo a few days ago. Did your brother lie to you?"
Shen Bing and I looked at each other and wondered if we had heard wrongly. Wasn't the demon surnamed Wang they were talking about in Nanwupo? If that was true, we would be in big trouble. We would run to the mountains of Northeast China just for a word. Isn't that asking for trouble
"My brother Wang Zijun is a very honest man. He would never lie to me. Brother, have you never met this person?" I asked, staring at the duck.
The faces of Duck and the woman suddenly changed color. I saw it clearly, and they were indeed very different from before. Duck turned around and looked at the woman, then shook his head and said, "I haven't seen it. There is a North Third Slope opposite the South Fifth Slope. Did you hear it wrongly?"
Judging from his intention, he didn't want us to go to Nanwupo, and from their expressions, the demon was most likely Wang Zijun. Otherwise, they wouldn't have changed color when they heard the name. But they didn't seem to be bad people, because they took in this demon and brought disaster. I always felt that the disaster that happened to this woman's family was related to the evil cult of the demon.
I smiled and said, "There's such a big difference between south and north, five and three, how could we have heard it wrong? Since we're here anyway, let's go take a look. If he's not here, we'll go back."
The Duck and the woman looked at each other again, and then fell silent.
The old man was quite talkative and kept talking to us all the way. We were not lonely on the bumpy road. As the sky gradually darkened, the dust outside turned black, like the air filled with ghosts, which was a bit creepy. The old man told us that most of the people on this bus were three or five miles away from Heixugou, and generally they would not walk in the mountains at night after nine o'clock. He saw that we were from other places, so he reminded us that there were ghosts in the mountains.
Shen Bing asked with interest what kind of monsters there were. We have seen ghosts and foxes, and killed wolf monsters. What monsters could be more powerful than wolf monsters
The old man said that in the mountains of Northeast China, the most famous monster is the yellow-skinned weasel. Because it absorbs spiritual energy from the deep mountains, it becomes a monster over time and harms people. Many children are stolen in the middle of the night, and only a pile of bones are found the next morning.
However, in recent years, the number of yellow foxes has been decreasing, but walking on the mountain road in the middle of the night is still prone to accidents. Two days ago, a young wife quarreled with her husband and returned to her parents' home in the middle of the night. The next day, someone found one of her shoes, but she was missing, and not even a bone was found. Therefore, those who live far away from Heixugou dare not rush back at this time. The old man also said that there is an inn in Heixugou specially provided for long-distance travelers, and advised us to stay there for one night and go to Nanwupo tomorrow morning.