Mantra

Chapter 60

The old squad leader said that what he gave us were not maggots, but his inner fear and hesitation.

"Fear?" I frowned and looked at those fat insects.

"Fear!" The old squad leader emphasized again: "Fear, just like this 'fried egg-eating finger'! If you don't eat it, they will devour you! I let you eat it, and I want you to remember it for the rest of your life... ... Fear is born from the heart! The heart is born from suspicion of death! Remember, it will be good for your future journey."

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What the old squad leader said at the time was entirely for the two of us. Today, I recalled his eyes and tone at that time, and suddenly felt...he seems to have noticed something? !

Perhaps at that time he had already noticed what happened to me and Zhao Hong today.

"Fear is born from the heart, and death is born from the heart", these words are burned into the deepest bottom of my heart like a soldering iron.

Because of this special and supernatural past event and memory, when Zhao Hong and I saw the foxy white shadow in the miscellaneous woods on the side of Laoqi Road, I would say such a sentence "the heart is born of suspicion, and the fear is born of the heart".

I was just reminding him, Zhao Hong, don't forget the fear of eating, and don't forget the calmness that the old squad leader said...

And my words quickly achieved the desired effect.

Hearing this, Zhao Hong stopped shaking his hands, strangled the dog leash, and calmed down his breathing. He looked up at me, and smiled again: "I forgot, we ate maggots together."

"That's not maggot!" I patted his fat shoulder and said, "It's fear."

While talking, I analyzed again, there is no way for us to go around like this now, let alone follow the white shadow blindly, we still have to calm down first, and think about the way out, otherwise we will be too blind in this forest, just like a blind man touching an elephant , let alone find Wang Hou and Hongye.

It has to be said that after people calm down, their thinking will come alive, and the sooner they calm down, the better their minds will be.

As soon as I said that, Zhao Hong quickly came up with an idea.

Old Zhao lit another cigarette. After thinking about it for a while, he suddenly raised his head, pointed at the mobile phone I used for lighting, and said, "What brains do you two have! Don't you have their phone number? Give them a call." Why don't you get in touch?"

After Zhao Hong finished speaking, I wanted to slap myself a few times in the back!

How can I be so stupid?Get caught blind when encountering special circumstances?Holding a mobile phone as a flashlight, isn't this riding a donkey to find a donkey?
Of course, I'm lucky enough to think... I can't blame everything just now!Because in the continuous changes in the dark night, none of us could remember this incident, but we all flew around like headless chickens.

After realizing my stupidity, I immediately raised my phone and called Xian Hongye and Wang Hou successively!
At this moment, because we are in a mountainous area, the signal of the mobile phone is only one bar, but I am relieved that although Hongye's phone is not connected, Wang Hou's phone can still be dialed. Although the waiting time is very long, we Still received the long-lost notification sound.

After the trembling voice rang for a long time, Wang Hou finally... still didn't answer.

Although the result was disappointing, I was not surprised because it suddenly occurred to me that if Wang Hou could answer the phone, he would have called us long ago.Moreover, he and Xian Hongye disappeared in a hurry, and it was obvious that something serious had happened. In the rush, maybe like us, we might not be able to think of things like answering the phone.

"Can't get through?" Zhao Hong asked me slightly disappointed.

I can only reply with a disappointed shake of the head.

I thought that the hope that had just been ignited would be extinguished soon, but I didn't expect that at this moment, Ah Si, a dwarf who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said to me: "Brother Buer! You actually made a call!"

I replied: "No one answered!"

Little Ah Si stretched out her small hand, made a silent gesture, and then motioned for me to make a call.

I looked at his slightly excited look, and suddenly realized something.

So, I quickly replayed the number again.

In the silence, the three of us listened with bated breath. In order to maintain the silence, Zhao Hong even covered the mouth of the black dog...

Soon, we heard...

In the open wilderness, besides my cell phone call, we also heard the ringtone of Wang Hou's cell phone. The intermittent ringtone reverberated in this piece of miscellaneous woodland, appearing and disappearing from time to time.

Although the sound was far away, I could hear it very clearly. The ringtone was Wang Hou's favorite song... "Joyful, beautiful, lazy, Big Big Wolf, don't look at me as a sheep..."

This little Si, once again helped me a lot.

Surprised by the surprise, the three of us quickly looked at the direction of the ringtone, and followed the ringtone of the phone and chased it out.

This time, we were not trying to catch the blind, but quickly found a fork in the woodland through the night in the middle of the sky.

The direction of the fork in the road was exactly the same as the ringtone of Wang Hou's cell phone.

Under the moonlight, I probably judged that this road was heading southwest.

Listening to the sound of Wang Hou's mobile phone, and looking up at the long path, I suddenly felt something inexplicable, so I didn't chase after it immediately, but stopped first, and stopped Zhao Hong and Ah Si.

"Isn't that right?" I said, "The phone is so loud, it's impossible for Wang Hou not to answer it...unless!"

I didn't go on, but Xiao Ah Si understood: "Unless they can't pick it up...or, the phone is not with them!"

I was silent, and everyone was silenced by this assumption.

It is very possible that Wang Hou and Hongye have already lost the ability to answer and make calls. If that is the case, they will either be seriously injured or unconscious, but it is more likely... This mobile phone is the same as that Wang Hou's jacket, and it is another kind of person's cloth. Doubts or traps.

For a while, we were in a dilemma again.

In this dilemma, I suddenly realized deeply what the old squad leader once said, "Being suspicious of death".

This kind of pressure caused by doubts can really suffocate people to death!

But after the three of them looked at each other for a long time, they finally came up with a safe decision. Otherwise, it would definitely not be a solution to procrastinate like this, as time passed by every minute and every second.

In desperation, I realized that people needed an idea from me.

Under the overlapping pressure, I listened to the intermittent "joyful..." and glanced at Zhao Hong who was involved for no reason and the short and disabled Ah Si, a deep sense of self-blame welled up in my heart.

I can't let everyone follow me into the trap again and again.Even in the first place, I shouldn't have been self righteous and nosy...

As I thought about it, my fists gradually clenched, and my breathing became heavy.

I said to the two of them, "Go back! Wait for me in the pickup truck. You won't get lost with the black dog. I... go and see for yourself."

My words are not out of anger, but the result of careful consideration.

I then proceeded to tell them, despite their surprise, that there were many advantages to doing so.

I said, we are now in a maze, and we don't even know what ghosts and monsters we meet. Instead of bumping around like headless chickens, why don't some people go back first, and I go find the phone by myself.

Moreover, I don't have much illusions about Wang Hou's cell phone. If the situation is wrong, I can retreat at any time, and it is convenient for me to advance and retreat alone.

After Zhao Hong heard what I said, his expression was very ugly. He even pointed to my nose and said, "Don't you trust my brother? What are you doing?"

I didn't have much time to argue with him, but I couldn't let my old comrades misunderstand, so I patted him on the shoulder and told him: "Now is not the time to be a soldier..."

"Stop talking nonsense!" When Zhao Hong spoke, he didn't give me any room at all. He twisted his fat body, led the black dog, and walked straight along the road. Gun, brother who has eaten maggots, you let me escape by myself, I am not so worthless!"

Zhao Hong's words made me feel that I was the worthless person.Even I feel a little bit... individualistic and hypocritical.

His simple reproach made me speechless even more.

The so-called brother is just a few words...

Indifferent and speechless, I followed Zhao Hong's trembling steps, and searched in the depths of the miscellaneous forest along the way... towards the ringtone of the mobile phone.

In the moonlight, the outlines of those miscellaneous trees are extremely clear. Although it is not a full moon today, the sight line is also very good.The most important thing is that the black dog of Zhao Hong's family is very powerful. He has his ears upright like a living radar, listening to his master for possible dangers ahead at any time.Let us not lose our way.

Moreover, he has already proved his worth with his performance just now.

When we reached the distance where we could clearly hear the ringtone of Wang Hou's cell phone, everyone stopped in unison again.

There is a row of short trees in front of us. After passing these trees, it is the place where Wang Hou's cell phone rang.

I know that the distance to the phone is already very close, so close that I can even feel the faint blue fluorescence and vibration when the phone rings on this side of the tree.

At this time, the dog in Zhao Hong's hand was not barking, but it was sniffing the air frequently with its nose, and occasionally made some low-pitched grunts, as if it had encountered some incomprehensible problem.

I grabbed Zhao Hong who was opening the way ahead, pointed at him to the woods and said, "I'll go there first!"

Zhao Hong looked at my serious face, nodded, and didn't argue with me.

So, I tightened the zipper of the jacket, walked through the row of bushes that were not dense in one step, then raised my head, and immediately saw Wang Hou's cell phone.

It's sitting under the headstone of...a grave? !

The distance between me and the tombstone is less than five meters, and the tombstone is also very large. At that distance, I can see the words on the tombstone very clearly.

Quite different from other tombstones, only three large Chinese characters are written on the heavily weathered body of the tombstone..."Yin Bing Tomb".

And Wang Hou's mobile phone was shaking slightly on the stone altar in front of the Yinbing Tomb...

(End of this chapter)