Human bone cart
"Didn't Mu Mu say before that this person is usually difficult to contact, and he never answers the phone. I've never heard his voice. Could it be that he can't actually be reached?"
Yu Fu remembered what she said during the casual chat yesterday. At that time, he thought she was busy with work, but now he vaguely sensed something strange.
Although the Internet has become an important way for strangers to communicate, it is not normal to find many reasons to avoid conversation when it is necessary.
Yang Qi tried to understand: "Are you saying that the person who used the phone to contact other people was not actually Wang Zhi, or that Wang Zhi didn't even exist?"
From the moment they entered Nanhu Village, since everyone was gathered together through Wang Zhi, it was inevitable that they would mention his nephew when talking with the village chief, Lao Wang.
It is said that although the child was very naughty when he was young, he grew up quickly after puberty, studied hard and wanted to live a better life. He really achieved it and was admitted to a good university and left the village.
From those words of praise, it was not clear that he felt there was anything wrong with Wang Zhi. He just said that even though his nephew was working outside, he still missed his family in the village, and his words seemed very satisfied.
But in other words, this person hasn't returned to the village for many years. If you really want to do something with him, you can indeed find some loopholes.
Gao Wenwen looked at the battery level in the upper right corner of his phone screen. It was almost full. "How do I charge this thing?"
"Someone has already died mysteriously, so being able to charge something out of thin air is not a big deal." Ding Can handed the phone to him, walked forward a few steps, and continued to catch up with Zhai Ting who was still looking for something.
She had almost circled this place. Could there be some ingenious mechanism that could lead them to another place and take them to the next area?
In a corner of the inner room, there is a table similar to that for offerings, but there is nothing on it. However, there is a blank scroll on the wall. I don’t know whether the content on it has disappeared over time or if there is no content on it at all.
The futon on the ground was already covered with a thick layer of dust, almost filling up the patterns on the rattan surface.
Zhai Ting walked to the cushion and knelt down, muttering something in a low voice. Her voice was just as unclear as before.
In order to hear more clearly, Ding Can walked behind her. Although he still couldn't distinguish what the individual bytes were, he realized that the tones and timbres of many words were obviously different.
The speaking speed is even faster and slower, as if... as if technology is used to piece together the words of many people into one sentence.
It gave her a feeling that there was more than one person in this body now.
Ding Can turned her head and was about to tell others about her doubts, but she didn't expect Zhai Ting to suddenly reach out and grab her forearm and pull it forward.
She stumbled and lost her balance. Zhai Ting was very strong and she couldn't break free for a moment. She could only kneel on the stone floor.
The piercing pain spread from the knee upwards, and the other companions around him noticed it at the same time and ran over to rescue him.
Gao Wenwen was the closest and arrived first. He wanted to pull the two people apart, but found that his strength was not enough in front of Zhai Ting's current situation.
"Is this hand made of stone?" He wrinkled his face and began to doubt his life.
Zhai Ting seemed to be completely unaware of the pain. She just stared at herself with her eyes wide open. Her dark pupils were even more dilated than before, like a puppet.
She spoke slowly: "I actually made a mistake and missed you. We have been waiting for you for a long time."
Everyone was confused by this strange remark. Ding Can endured the pain and asked, "You? Who else is here?"
Zhai Ting raised her other hand and pointed at the painting hanging on the wall. A chilling hoarse sound came from the back of her throat: "It's right there, can't you see it?"
It would be strange if he could see it. Although Ding Can was complaining in his heart, he still looked at the painting as she said.
Small black dots began to appear, similar to the symptoms of floaters, and then she realized that these were not actually in front of her eyes, but something surging out of the yellowish scroll.
The dots gradually turned into strips. A gust of wind blew from somewhere, and the moment the scroll was blown down, the wall in front of it collapsed.
At this time, Zhai Ting had already anticipated what would happen, so she let go of her hands in advance. Several people dodged backwards. It was not until the dust from the falling objects gradually dispersed that they could see that Zhai Ting was not the only one in front of them.
Beside her stood a taller, more blurry figure.
Yu Fu stepped half a body closer to Ding Can and waved his palm to disperse some of the swirling dust around him. "What is that?"
Judging from his figure, he is much taller than Zhai Ting and has a wider body. If he is a human, there is something wrong with him.
Slowly, light was seen coming out from it, and the appearance of the object was finally fully revealed to everyone's sight.
It is indeed a human figure, but it is a human figure made up of countless human leg bones. The slender tibia forms the torso, and the shorter fibula forms the head and limbs.
Strictly speaking, it is actually square, reminiscent of the Lego figures displayed in the window.
In addition, because the body is hollow, dust still flows through it, and the whole body looks like a huge incense burner.
It is not a burial vessel that suddenly appears, but a body with living consciousness that can walk freely.
Zhai Ting lowered her head. The moment the skeleton man moved, she seemed to have lost all her strength and fell directly to the ground, then lost consciousness and fainted.
It was unknown how those bones were connected to each other, with no visible joints, but they seemed to be held together by a strong adhesive. The shape of the facial features could barely be discerned through the hollow skull.
"We have been waiting for you for a long time." The skeleton began to speak, accompanied by a few bursts of low laughter, and the voices of men, women, young and old were mixed in.
I finally had the chance to talk to someone. Voices came in a chaotic manner, but they were almost all repeating the same sentence.
Ding Can frowned and looked over, knowing that the other party had been talking to her all along, but she just couldn't understand what this sentence meant.
From the moment the skeleton appeared, the atmosphere became more eerie, and the temperature of the entire inner room dropped a few degrees.
Gao Wenwen looked at the bones that were crossed and pieced together, and felt more and more weird. He began to imagine whether these bones would turn into sharp swords. When that time came, thousands of swords would be fired at the same time, piercing through everyone's body and making countless blood holes.
Seeing that he was right in front of the bone, he silently moved half a step to the side and pulled Ding Can to the side as well.
"It's a bit weird, Sister Chan, you should not get too close."
Ding Can didn't leave. He endured the discomfort in his heart and asked, "Why are you waiting for me?"
First, the old man's voice appeared: "For many years, we have been trapped here, hoping to find the rest of our body. Unfortunately, our heads and bodies have been separated. We have searched the tombs and found no trace of them."
In the past, the Nanhu Kingdom built a lot of human bone chariots. Countless lives were tragically lost under the butcher's knife. The human bone chariots buried underground were just a batch selected from the many chariots.
It was no longer known when the prisoners of war were killed, let alone finding the other body that was separated from the leg bones.
This skeleton, made up of leg bones, is looking for other parts of its body, but no one knows where they are buried. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
And judging from the current situation, it seems that due to certain restrictions, these leg bones cannot leave the tomb and can only rely on contact with the outside world to act.
"What does your search for a body have to do with me?"
No matter how hard she searches, she will end up looking for dead bones buried in the ground. What does it have to do with a living person like her? Or, why are those visitors attracted to Nanhu Village every time?
This time, the middle-aged woman spoke again: "We've tried many methods, but still can't find any trace of our own bones. So we thought it would be great if we could find bones from the same source and then build a new body for each of us."
The homologous bones in the skeleton refer to the leg bones that can still function normally if they are placed in another person's body.
They cannot walk out of the tomb, but the broken human bone cart parked in the Nanhu Village house is like their first pair of eyes.
Wang Zhi was the first person to walk out of the skeleton in recent years. When he was young, he was playful and after entering the air-raid shelter, he accidentally strayed into the tomb. He did not leave in time, but was driven by curiosity and wanted to go in to find out what was going on.
It was this time that the leg bones underground discovered a way to parasitize the human body.
As long as bones with a high degree of compatibility are exchanged, they can gradually erode the original owner's consciousness and eventually successfully occupy this body and gain new life.
After Wang Zhi left, he did not forget those like him who were buried deep in the tombs and had lost their freedom. He gradually let more people know about the existence of Nanhu Village on the Internet.
But the whole plan is destined to be long and arduous. In order not to cause a commotion and be discovered by people with ulterior motives, the number of people coming to visit each time can only be controlled at a small number.
This old-fashioned mobile phone placed in the tomb was left behind by "Wang Zhi" before he left.
The leg bones search online for living people who may be highly compatible with themselves. After arriving in Nanhu Village, they usually visit the abandoned human bone carts in the village houses first.
The three-day tour plan also deliberately separated these people. Once they were left alone, it would be easier to manipulate them into the tomb.
"What about the curse of the bone cart?"
Ding Can didn't understand why, if they just wanted to go out, there would be a curse that prohibited taking photos and eliminated those unrelated lives.
"Camera technology has only been around for a hundred years. Any curse that only appeared recently is just a rumor, and they're just scaring themselves."
The skeleton lifted its "leg" and took another small step forward. At this time, the dust had completely dissipated. Every time it moved, it made a teeth-grinding friction sound, which sounded like torture to the ears.
Could it be that what this means is that those travelers who died previously just happened to meet by chance?
Before anyone could raise their inner questions, a gloomy voice sounded again from the skeleton's mouth.
"But don't forget, there are wheels there too."
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