Chapter 47: Underworld Fire
Several people responded.
It is unknown whether the people in the program crew took these words to heart, but Lu Jiamu remembered them firmly as soon as he heard them.
Xiao Liang asked: "Village head, if we go further into the mountain, is there still a village? Why is everything behind the mountain burnt?"
The village chief smoked a tobacco leaf and rocked back and forth at a fixed frequency in the rocking chair, his face gloomy under the shadow of the eaves.
He thought about it for a while before saying, "Yes... there seems to be one or two villages, but there are only a few families. I haven't paid much attention to their situation in the past two years."
Seeing that the village chief was having a hard time recalling, Lu Jiamu pushed Xiao Liang from behind and said with a smile, "It's getting late. Let's go and come back quickly. Don't let the village chief worry."
Xiao Liang had no doubts: "Okay, let's go quickly and come back quickly."
The group went to the deserted well, set up the camera and hurried back.
When I returned to the village chief's house, it was completely dark and the village chief was no longer lying in the rocking chair, obviously he had returned to the house.
There was no cell phone signal in this desolate mountain area, and he was bored. As soon as the security guy entered the room, he took out a deck of cards from his bag and asked others to come over and play cards.
Xiao Liang and Miss Cai Jing both brought books and went to read on their own.
Lu Jiamu had no interest in this kind of game. He sat on the bed, wrote a few words in his diary, and then prepared to go to bed.
In the end, only Wang Biao joined their game.
After a few rounds, there were wins and losses, but probably because Wang Biao used to play cards frequently, he won the most overall.
The security guy was a little depressed. He drank the fruit wine prepared by the village chief and took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket: "I'm going to the toilet."
Xiao Liang raised his head and said with some concern: "Didn't the village chief say that it's best not to go out at night? It's so late now, it's better not to go out, right?"
The security guy glanced at her and showed an inexplicably vulgar and frivolous smile: "If I don't go out, then I will pee in the room?"
Xiao Liang's eyes widened immediately: "Get lost."
"Besides, I want to smoke a cigarette. You don't want the whole house to be filled with cigarette smell when you sleep at night, do you?" The security guy waved his hand. "The toilet is not far away. It's okay. Even if there are wild animals, they won't be here."
Wang Biao sorted out the cards and looked at him without saying anything.
Lu Jiamu, who was originally sleeping, quietly opened his eyes and looked at the security guard.
Judging from their experience, if they ran out again after the village chief specifically reminded them not to go out during curfew and after dark, they would definitely encounter something.
So when they came back, they took turns going to the toilet and then no one drank water again.
Only this security guy would excitedly gulp down several big gulps of fruit wine when he lost the game.
It was perfectly normal for him to want to go to the toilet now.
In fact, several people were very curious about what would happen if someone went out at night.
It is actually quite welcome to see people who are so brave and fearless that they are willing to go out and try and make mistakes. Maybe this can provide them with more information.
They were not saints, so they had no right to persuade him to stop. Besides, he probably wouldn't listen. So they just looked at him and said nothing.
The security guy took out a lighter, lit a cigarette and walked out.
The photographer saw him leave and said, "Then let's do one more?"
Wang Biao nodded absentmindedly.
Because this village is too closed and has not yet reached the level where glass can be used, the windows are just broken wooden windows with a small ventilation hole. If you are far away, you can't see the situation outside clearly.
While shuffling the cards, Wang Biao pricked up his ears to listen to the noise outside.
The footsteps of the security guard soon faded away, and nothing unusual happened along the way. However, the few people did not relax their vigilance.
When Wang Biao was absent-mindedly playing the card game halfway through, a few "click" sounds were heard in the quiet night outside.
At first the photographer thought it was the sound of the security guy coming back, but after listening carefully, it didn't seem like that. He turned back in confusion: "Is he urgent to pee and can't pee all the time? Why hasn't he come back in such a long time? Should we go find him?"
He had just finished speaking when suddenly there was a "boom" sound and a dazzling orange light came in from the vent above the window.
A heart-wrenching scream came from outside: "Ahhhhhhhhhh!"
The scream was so tragic that it didn't sound like something a human could make, so it was impossible to tell whose voice it was.
The photographer jumped up in shock: "What's going on?"
He immediately went to the wooden window and looked out through the vent.
The burning orange-red light illuminated most of his face and reflected in his eyes.
"Ah!" The photographer gave a short cry of surprise and took two steps back in astonishment. "It's...it's on fire! It's on fire! The house is on fire! What a big fire!"
Xiao Liang put down the book and stood up in surprise: "What did you say?"
She leaned over to take a look, and then she also saw the overwhelming orange-red color, which was so rich and unreasonable: "How is it possible!"
It turned out that the slight crackling sound just now was the branches being set on fire.
"Let's get out!"
Lu Jiamu immediately stopped her: "Something is wrong. Let's not go out."
Several people in the house saw it clearly, the fire really started in an instant. Even if the old house was flammable, it would not be possible to have such a scene comparable to igniting gasoline.
This is all so beyond common sense.
Xiao Liang also realized that he had no idea how big the fire outside was, and opening the door rashly would only lead to his death faster.
She immediately took out clothes from her luggage, poured water on the door and blocked it to try to stop the fire.
The screams outside had not stopped yet. The voices had changed and were unclear, as if the throat had been burned.
And it's getting closer.
Xiao Liang was pacing around in a panic. After two seconds, he suddenly asked in fear, "Is the security guard not back yet?"
That voice outside...could it be him?
The screams were close at hand, mixed with the sound of heavy footsteps, and then a "bang" that hit the wooden window of the old house.
The thing outside was screaming and slapping wildly, as if trying to get in. One slap after another hit the hearts of the frightened people.
They all had a question: If only the old house was on fire, why did the things outside run here? How could something survive such a big fire?
The window was shaking, and no one dared to go to the vent to look out, and with the flames so dense, it was unlikely that anyone could see anything.
The screams of the thing that was banging on their window were too vague, but because they were so close, they could already make out its clear meaning: Save me, teach me! Let me in!
The girl shuddered: "He's still alive!"
She would feel guilty about ignoring the suffering of a living person.
She trembled and said, "We...we still have water, and the window is not big. The village chief will come to rescue us soon."
No matter who was outside, she wanted to rescue that person and bring him in.
Lu Jiamu held her down and said, "If we let him in, we will all die."
The girl in the scene hesitated.
When the thing outside saw that they didn't open the window, it started screaming and banging on the door again. After a full fifteen minutes, it collapsed with a loud bang amid screams, and everything became completely quiet.
There were no more screams, and the only sound outside was the sound of flames burning. For such a long time, no villagers came to put out the fire.
All of this is so abnormal.
Several people in the room were stunned, either sitting there or pacing around like ants on a hot pan, not knowing what to do.
But what was strange was that even though the fire outside was raging, there wasn't even the slightest smell of smoke, and the people in the house could still breathe normally, without any signs of suffocation.
Moreover, the dilapidated house didn't seem to be affected and it looked like it wouldn't collapse at all.
Lu Jiamuduo observed for a while, and after realizing this, he lay back down and continued to sleep.
Xiao Liang and the others' hearts were pounding as they looked at the firelight coming in from outside in horror.
The fire outside burned for most of the night and only stopped when dawn approached.
There were knocks on the dilapidated wooden door of the old house.
Xiao Liang had a big dark circle under his eyes and jumped up in fright: "Who?!"
The man outside sneezed. "It's me. Why did you lock the door?"
It turned out to be the security guard who went to the toilet at night.
"You, you, you...you are not..."
Burned to death?
The man outside smiled frivolously: "I, I, I, what's wrong with me?"
Xiao Liang asked: "There was a big fire at night. Did you see it?"
"I saw it. Because of that fire, I was trapped in the toilet with shit and piss all night, and now I'm out. Let me in."
Then who was that person screaming and banging on the door outside last night?
Xiao Liang didn't dare to follow him to open the door.
The person outside saw that no one opened the door, so he started knocking on it: "Let me in!"
Still no one dared to open the door.
He filmed for a while and then left cursing.
They had originally planned to take a nap before daybreak, but now they were too scared to fall asleep.
But Lu Jiamu had already woken up. When he heard the noise, he walked to the window and looked out through the narrow ventilation hole.
The pale face of the man outside was just in time to meet his. It turned out that the other person was also looking in through the vent, and their eyes met immediately.
He really is a security guy.
Lu Jiamu smiled at him.
The security guy sneezed and cursed: "You just want to freeze me to death! I beg you, please give me some clothes at least."
After listening to him, Lu Jiamu took out a piece of clothing from his luggage and stuffed it out through the vent.
The security guy probably didn't know what happened last night, so he didn't understand the situation. He kept saying while pulling his clothes: "Okay, okay, you are really something!"
He put on his clothes and left alone, as if he was going to find the village chief.
Soon the village chief followed him over and asked outside the door: "What's going on? Why did you lock people out?"
Xiao Liang was still very scared and asked through the door: "Village Chief, what happened to the fire last night?"
The village chief said bewilderedly, "It's underground fire. Didn't I tell you about it? I also specifically told you not to go out at night."
This... this is a little different from what the program team originally imagined.
Xiao Liang asked back: "...You call that earth fire?"
The village chief replied as a matter of course: "Yes, if it's not underground fire, then what is coming out of the ground? If you throw something outside, it will be roasted in no time."
He spoke so seriously that Xiao Liang didn't even know whether they were talking about the same thing.
Shouldn't underground fire be a very deep small hole in the wild, with a fire burning inside like a bonfire, which can occasionally be used by villagers to cook?
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