I survive in a high-risk world by writing essays

It was a night spent in a small village in the mountains.

However, I am a very light sleeper, and I often suffer from insomnia in my own home, let alone in such a strange place where I am not sure whether it is safe or not.

So I didn't fall asleep as a matter of course, smelling the cold fragrance of decaying wood unique to older houses, leaning against the bed and staring blankly.

Of the two beds in this room, Wild Rose sleeps on the bed against the wall, and I sleep on the one by the window. Open the window a little and you can see the quiet, sleeping, A dark village.

Because I was worried that the wind outside the window would blow in and blow the briars in the same room as me, I only opened the window a small crack to feel the cool night wind blowing on my face at night in the mountains.

The mountains did not block the moonlight, so the scenery in the village could be seen clearly through the moonlight.

The uninhabited path, the old wooden houses in the rural style of the last century, and some stone sculptures with unknown meanings on the side of the village road, which seemed to be placed there randomly, all made my DNA of a horror novelist start to move.

A long time ago, probably when I was in middle school in our country, Ryoko and I skipped class together to watch that movie theater in Aomori, which was almost closed. I remember that there was only one horror movie at that time. It was about to start and we didn't want to wait for the next movie so we bought tickets for the horror movie.

I don't remember the name of that horror movie now, but I still remember a plot in it.

The protagonist of the movie is like me now, borrowing to live in a certain villager’s house in the village, looking out the window at night, and seeing the doors of every house being pushed open in the village late at night, and the person who had a friendly conversation with the protagonist during the day The villagers looked pale and gathered outside the house she borrowed like a zombie besieged city. They stretched out their hands and pressed their faces to the windows trying to come in. At the same time, the owner of the house the protagonist lived in also became like this. Bumping your body against the door to break in...

Just thinking of this, I suddenly heard a noise from the next door, as if someone had fallen to the ground.

"What's the matter, what's the matter?!" Wild Rose, who was lying down with all her clothes on, woke up startled, grabbed the hammer beside the pillow and looked around.

"It seems that there is something wrong next door." I replied, I was about to leave the bed to knock on the door next door to see what happened, when I turned my head, I saw something moving outside the window from the corner of my eye. .

Wait, am I wrong?

I quickly turned around and looked out of the window, opened my eyes wide and carefully scanned all the places I could see.

Wild Rose had already pinned her purse to her waist and was about to open the door and go out. Only then did I finally see the flashing shadow that I just glimpsed out of the corner of my eye.

It was a human-shaped shadow, it looked a little short, and it moved slowly along the edge of the house, for fear of being discovered.

Seeing that figure was about to leave my sight, I thought for a while, opened the window and gave a decisive command, "Jiao, follow."

"What's wrong?" Wild Rose turned her head.

"I saw a figure outside, let Jiao follow and have a look. Let's see what's going on next door first." After Jiao jumped out of the window to follow the shadow, I turned around and got out of bed, together with Briar Go to the door next door and knock.

Not long after the door knocked, the door next door opened. I looked in through the opened door and found that there seemed to be nothing else in their room except a little mess.

"What's going on here?"

Hearing Wild Rose's question, Fu Hei's eyes flickered strangely when he came to open the door.

In the end, the result of the final inquiry was that because the environment of [Mountain Village の Night] is really suitable for watching horror movies, Junpei made such a proposal and got the approval of Knotweed, and then the two of them pulled Fuhei to watch together Horror movie.

When the plot of the movie was at its scariest and frightening, the knotweed suddenly patted Fu Hei on the shoulder from behind, and Fu Hei, who had focused all his attention on the movie, was taken aback and fell off the bed too much. .

Wild Rose and I didn't know what to say for a while.

Maybe this is the boy.

"I'm sorry to disturb your sleep. It's all my fault. I shouldn't scare Fu Hei suddenly. Let's sleep right now and make sure we don't make a sound..." Knotweed sticks out a hand on the bed, Sui Sui Nian admits his mistake.

Junpei also looked left and right with a guilty conscience, scratched his cheek, "I'm sorry I suggested watching the movie..."

"...Forget it, you guys have a good rest, and you have to go to the cave tomorrow." I stood outside the room of the boys, and after listening, I suddenly turned my head and glanced at the end of the deep and dark corridor.

I don't know if our movements woke up the owner of this house, but we haven't heard any movement for so long, so it should be because we didn't wake up, or the owner of the house decided to pretend that he didn't hear it.

I said to Fu Hei who came to open the door and stood at the door, "Fu Hei, pass the summer oil here."

According to his words, Fu Hei brought me the motionless black-haired ball-headed figure.

[What's the matter again? ] Xia You's voice sounded helplessly.

And this word is used with essence.

"Let's go out for a while." I briefly talked about the shadow I saw from the window just now.Because my intuition is a little concerned, I plan to go out and have a look, but because this is just something I am a little bit concerned about, and it may not be useful, I don't plan to ask the four children to go with them.

After all, if there is a curse in the deep pool tomorrow, it should not be easy to deal with. It is better to let them have a good rest tonight.

"Wait, how is it possible to sleep here!" Knotweed jumped off the bed and quickly put on his shoes, "Let me go too!"

"Even if I lie down, I guess the horror movie they just played will be in my mind for the whole night." Fu Hei calmly expressed his intention to go.

Junpei and Wild Rose released a jellyfish shikigami, and the other put a hammer on their shoulders and turned their necks, speaking with actions.

...

In the end, everyone went out.

Of course, it is impossible to go through the main entrance at night. Walking through the main entrance is equivalent to telling the host that we have been out at night.

So we flipped out the window.

The temperature in the mountains at night was slightly lower, so I zipped up my jacket after I got out of the house.With so many conjurers, it is still very easy to follow the traces left by the reef.

We walked carefully all the way, and finally came to the yard of a house on the outermost side of the village. There was an open cellar in that yard. When we arrived at this yard, Jiao was standing quietly at the mouth of the cellar. look.

In this scene, if I let the person who followed Jiao run into the cellar, and that person could see Jiao, this situation should be a standard horror movie for that person... right?

I took out the flashlight from the mouth of Ugly Treasure, and shone it in from the cellar.

A bright light glows in the dark and finds the inside of the cellar.

I saw two people in the cellar.

One was a woman with a pale face, and the other was a child with dark, alert eyes.

When we found out, the pale woman hugged the little child tightly in panic, curled up in a corner of the cellar.

"...People?" Hu Zhang and the others looked at each other with hesitation.

After persuasion, it may be that our obviously not village attire played a role, and the women and children in the cellar finally crawled out.

After climbing out, the woman's footsteps softened and almost fell, but Wild Rose quickly helped her up.

"...Thank you." The pale woman thanked us softly, looking at all of us, "Are you from outside?"

"Yes." I nodded and asked, "Are you from this village?"

"I don't know where to start." She smiled wryly, "I grew up in the village, but..."

In her narration, we learn that her name is Mio Maeda, and the child's name is Kaname Maeda.

It's a mother and son.

The reason why they stayed in this cellar was that they were driven here by the villagers, which was equivalent to a disguised form of imprisonment.

During the day, they will be found as soon as they leave the cellar, and only at night can they go out to find something to eat.

But about why the villagers treated them like this, Maeda Mio didn't say it directly, and looked at her child hesitantly.

"Can this child see it?" Seeing that Ma Zhiyao's gaze had been on Jiao, I asked.

"You mean...!" Mio Maeda was startled, her eyes slid across the direction Ma Zhi was looking at in a daze, and she subconsciously hugged Ma Zhiyao who was staring straight at the reef with a pair of black eyes blinking, "There is something here Something like that?"

This child can also see curses.

Knotweed and the others took the initiative to explain the curse to Ma Zhi's mother and son, and gradually asked why Ma Zhi's mother and son were confined in this cellar.

In fact, this story is not novel, but because Mazhi can see things that the villagers cannot see, since ancient times, people who are different from the crowd have always been jealous and malicious.

Then, because of some ignorant and outdated habits, they believed deeply in the instruction that "sacrificing to the snake god with a person who can see the snake god will bring blessings", and they wanted to sacrifice Ma Zhi to the snake god when he was about to turn ten years old. .

"The snake god is talking about the snake in the deep pool at the source of the Xu River, right?" After listening to it, I found some doubts. "Who gave the instruction that the priest will receive blessings?"

"It was a person who came to the village more than ten years ago, and there was a strange suture on his forehead..." Asaki Mio recalled, "At that time, Kao was just born."