Chapter 0310 – Hurry Up and Go
”Chen Ge, why don’t we quit first and wait for Team Yan’s support to arrive before we go into the mountains together?” Lao Wei looked at his cell phone that no longer had a signal, and the time shown on it was 0:50 pm.
”Driving from Jiujiang to Lin Guan Village will take an hour at the earliest, and by the time they come over and enter the mountains again, it will be dawn.”
Chen Ge and the others had been walking amongst the mountains and forests for nearly two hours, and they still couldn’t see the shadow of any villages, and there were only one big mountain after another in the distance.
”But will it be possible for just the three of us to go over there?” Old Wei’s headache was that if there was really a conflict, he was afraid that his side would have to spare one person to take care of Grand Master Bai.
”It’s not a big problem.” Chen Ge was also quite worried about Grandpa Bai’s health at first, and after walking for an hour, he realized that his worries were unnecessary.
Growing up in the mountains, Grandpa Bai was not only physically tough, he was also very familiar with the mountain environment.
”What are you two muttering about?” White moncler outlet online held a branch and walked in front: “Going forward is a fork in the road, from the top of the mountain to go through will be a very long way around the road, probably need to walk for another two hours to get to the place. But if you go through the middle of the valley, it will only take thirty minutes to get to Coffin Village.”
”Isn’t that road in the middle of the valley bad?” Chen Ge knew in his heart that since Master Bai had specifically said it, there must be a reason.
”En.” Master Bai looked grave, “The valley is haunted.”
”Haunted is fine, I thought you were going to say there were wolves.” Chen Ge patted his backpack, and the white cat was disgruntled as it arched its head through the zipper gap.
”No, I’ve always been quite curious, are wolves scarier than ghosts in your world?” The white cat leaned on a tree branch, he was completely unable to understand Chen Ge’s thinking.
”Ghosts are ethereal, while wolves are real.” Old Wei didn’t believe in the ghosts and monsters bit either.
Chen Ge rolled his eyes, and he didn’t argue, “Let’s just go through the valley.”
”You guys have to think clearly, there are some things in this world that are really hard to tell.” Grandpa Bai once again asked the two for their opinions.
”Grandpa, have you encountered something before?” Chen Ge could see that Grandpa Bai looked unnatural and was very reluctant to enter the middle of the valley, “This road is so familiar to you, you must have traveled it more than once before, we are both trying to save the child now, so I hope that you won’t go and intentionally hide anything.”
”I’ve never hidden anything, I’m just afraid that you won’t believe me if I say it.” For the first time, moncler outlet online Bai told about his youth, “My father knows a little bit about medical pathology, when smallpox and measles were rampant in the 1940s and 1950s, he almost ran through the nearby mountain villages, and Coffin Village was also discovered by him at that time.”
”This village was isolated from the world, there were not many people who could read and write, when they got sick they all relied on their own local methods to tough it out, when my father went over the epidemic in the village was already very serious.”
”In order to cure the people in that village, my father went there several times.”
”I was young then, and my father wanted me to study medicine as well, so that I could make a living off of it in the future, and there were times when he would take me with him on his trips.”
”The first few times we went through the middle of the valley there was no trouble, but once my father seemed to have quarreled with a man from Coffin Village, the cause of which I’m not sure.”
”Usually we leave at two or three o’clock in the afternoon, but that day it was already evening when we came out of the coffin village.”
”It was still light outside the village, so my father and I entered the valley without much thought.”
”Halfway there, my father suddenly urged me behind him to walk faster.”
”I thought that early home can still eat a hot meal, so I accelerated the pace forward.”
”But after walking for a while, I heard my father urging me to walk faster.”
”I realized that this time is not right, just turned my head ready to look back, my eyes were covered by my father’s hand.”
”He still urged me to walk faster, I followed the gap between his fingers to sneak a glance toward the back.”
”It turned out just in time to see a man lying on my father’s back!”
”My father’s face was very bad, shielding behind me, constantly urging me to hurry forward and walk faster.”
”Maybe it was because my father usually practiced medicine and did a lot of good things, the thing crawling on his back didn’t move him in the end.”
”But I remember that day especially clearly, it was still light when I entered the valley, and it was completely dark when I came out.”
”When I got home, my father was very sick, and never went to Coffin Village again.”
”I still don’t know why he argued with the patients in the coffin village that day, nor do I know what exactly was that thing lying on his back that day.”
It was a little hard for Grandpa Bai to talk about this experience.
Chen Ge also kind of understood why moncler bai went to help Jiang Ling’s sister out of guilt, he had seen ghosts when he was very young, so he believed in this more.
”Are you guys still going to go through the valley now?” Master Bai had a mental image of that valley.
”Going around would be too delayed, just go through the middle of the valley.” Chen Ge held the penny back in his hand, “You two go in front, I’ll break the back.”
”Can you do it?” The one who originally broke the back was Old Wei, who was walking while making various markings in the woods.
Master Bai originally wanted to advise Chen Ge as well, and when the words came to his lips, he suddenly remembered the events of that night, when Chen Ge ran out of the room after Sister Jiangling, and seemed to want to retain that stern ghost.
The corners of his mouth twitched, and Master Bai had some suspicions that Chen Ge had deliberately gone that way because he had heard that the valley was haunted.
”What are you both looking at me for? Don’t worry, hurry up and go.” Chen Ge wasn’t panicked at all, he was carrying a backpack with a white cat in it, even if that ghost really plopped over, it would first plop on the white cat.
Gently stroking the white cat’s little head, Chen Ge followed behind Master Bai and Old Wei into the middle of the valley.
The sound of the wind blew past his ears, as if someone was crying, and the barren grass didn’t go past his knees, in which something would occasionally run past and rub against his calves.
The trees on both sides gradually became more and more strange in their growth, and everything around them seemed to be slowly changing.
”Hurry up, try to walk out in twenty minutes.” Master Bai was not very stable, it seemed like the horrible memories of his youth were slowly surfacing again, he looked very nervous.
”Chen Ge, be careful at the back.” Old Wei walked in the middle, he was still relatively assured of Chen Ge.
After walking in the valley for five or six minutes, the narrow dirt road was completely blocked by barren grasses and tree branches, while many half-buried coffins could be seen on both sides of the road.
Those coffins seemed to have been intentionally placed nearby, and some of them weren’t even covered tightly.
”Don’t be afraid, you guys.” Master Bai’s voice seemed to be trembling, he was forcing himself to calm down, “This is the custom of the coffin village, those are empty coffins, along both sides of the road, the knuckle cushioning, to obtain is the meaning of ascension and wealth.”
”It’s not true to be afraid, but it’s better for you guys to walk faster.”
Chen Ge looked back, there seemed to be a shadow following behind himself.
He didn’t tell Old Wei or Grandpa Bai about this, and just rummaged around in his backpack for something.
”Just one? Then don’t say that I’m bullying you based on the number of ‘people’.”