Chapter 7 The Horrible Past
Xiaohu shone it with a flashlight and found that the box was in a short and broken cement room.
He Weican didn't have the intention to think about how the cannon would appear in that kind of place. He was overjoyed and was busy picking up the cannons on the ground, while Xiaohu ran over first. He bent down and squatted on the ground, put his hand into the hollow door hole of the cement room, and wanted to help He Weican take out the box.
Just then, He Weican heard Xiaohu scream.
He looked up and found that Xiaohu was sitting on the ground with his hands covering his hands, and the flashlight rolled to the side. His face turned pale and he was panting, as if he was greatly frightened.
He Weican hurriedly stepped forward to help his companion up, but found that Xiaohu's body was icy and cold to the touch, and was still trembling.
"Huzi, what's wrong with you?"
He Weican quickly glanced at the other party's hand, thinking that he was bitten by a snake in the mountains. After hearing the cry of Xiaohu, the other companions hurriedly surrounded him.
"There are people in that house." Xiaohu pointed to the cement stone tower not far away and shook even harder.
Originally, among the few children, Xiaohu was the most courageous. But now he seemed to have become a different person, and his tone was mixed with crying: "As soon as I reached into the hole, I felt someone grabbed me. Her hands were so cold and kept giggling inside, saying that we could stay and play with them."
He said, tremblingly lifting his sleeves. Under the light of the flashlight, everyone found that a black handprint actually appeared on Xiaohu's right arm. The handprint was small and looked like the physique of a seven or eight-year-old child.
But the door of the stone tower is narrow and small, and can only accommodate animals of the size of wild cats and dogs. No matter how thin an ordinary child is, it is absolutely impossible for him to get in.
Although all the children were present, everyone realized the strangeness of the matter at this moment.
There was death silence in the open space.
It seemed that a very light sound was faintly sounding in the vague place, echoing in all directions. The crows staying on the branches were startled and disappeared into the forest with their wings. In an instant, a strange atmosphere that made people stand tall was filled with everyone.
"How about we go back, Hu Zi will be like this. It seems that the adults are right, it's really haunted here."
Sweet potato remembered the rumors in the village and spoke first with a crying voice.
Xiaohu is upright and never lie to tease everyone. Seeing that he is now shocked, something is wrong with him. Zhao Gang, who was the first to propose to come, no longer objected.
Immediately afterwards, Lai Hou, Xiaohe, Caibao and Huazi all agreed. Everyone supported Xiaohu, and the children were about to leave.
At this moment, the laughing voice came from the crowd: "Don't leave, I haven't had enough fun yet."
This time, no one said anything.
The laughter sounded sharp and thin, and it was clearly a girl. The eight boys looked at each other and finally found that there seemed to be an "person" among them.
He Weican walked at the end of the team. At this moment, he felt as if one hand had grabbed the corner of his clothes behind him, and his ears were itchy, as if someone had blew at him.
The girl pressed her back tightly against her ear, and giggled, "Your cannon is still here with me, can you play with me?"
After hearing this, everyone was so scared that they screamed and ran quickly outside the Tallinn.
The weird laughter echoed throughout the clearings, constantly calling them and inviting them to stay and play.
In desperation, He Weican took off the newly bought jacket that his mother had for herself, broke free from the power, and accelerated his pace to catch up with everyone.
The moonlight appeared and disappeared through the slowly moving black clouds. On both sides of the gloomy path, the woods and shrubs were rustling by the wind. The children only felt cold all over their bodies. In the darkness, countless pairs of eyes seemed to be staring at them. Several boys cried and howled, stumbled all the way through the darkness, but did not dare to stop at all.
I don't know how long I had escaped, but suddenly, they saw a little light ahead.
It is that abandoned and dilapidated temple!
Although they were far away, the children still vaguely saw a dark figure standing under the crooked old tree at the entrance of the temple with a lantern. Although they couldn't see the other person's appearance clearly, the man had long hair and a loose skirt, and looked like an adult woman.
Could it be that whose adult went up the mountain to find the child?
Zhao Gang, who was running in the front, was overjoyed, and his original fear was also replaced by joy.
"Auntie, we're here!"
He kept shouting at the figure, trying to attract the other party's attention. But who knew that the woman holding the lantern seemed to have not heard it, and pushed open the gate in front of the temple, crossed the threshold and walked in slowly.
Seeing this scene, the strange feeling in He Weican's heart surged up again.
He clearly remembered that when he was passing by, the gate of the temple was still locked, with a thick and thick chain wrapped around it. Besides, adults were very taboo about the temple on weekdays, and almost no one would go there. Moreover, the woman's outfit just now... didn't look like the people in the village.
"Let's go find that aunt! She has a lamp in her hand, so it's safer to let her lead her down the mountain." Huazi suggested while running.
Just now, everyone was rushing to escape and didn't have time to pick up the lost flashlight. If it weren't for the moonlight now, the few people wouldn't be able to tell the way ahead.
Now, the light coming from the temple gate has become the hope of the children. Although I don’t know who the woman is, no matter what, an adult can lead them down the mountain. Thinking of this, everyone accelerated their pace and just wanted to quickly find the woman in the temple for help.
On the contrary, Xiaohu's speed slowed down because he was frightened and sprained his ankle and was gradually thrown at the end of the team. Xiaohu's ankle had swollen into steamed buns, and he limped when walking, which was very difficult.
Thinking that his friend was injured because he helped him find something, He Weican quickly went to help him. Soon, the two of them became out of touch with the team.
The other six children worked hard and rushed into the temple in a short while. Seeing this, He Weican thought that he had found a rescue, so he breathed a sigh of relief and encouraged Xiaohu around him to persevere.
The two of them walked slowly, seeing that they were less than ten meters away from the temple, just now, Zhao Gang and his group of people screamed and ran out of the temple quickly.
They seemed to be extremely frightened and kept shouting words like ghosts.
Because the sweet potatoes were short and fat, they didn't pay attention to the threshold when they ran away, and they fell to the ground. However, Zhao Gang's group of people didn't care about him at all, and they ran away in the blink of an eye.
He Weican saw the sweet potato sitting on the ground, looked back at the back, and cried while saying something to the temple, as if begging for mercy.
Chapter completed!