Secret Track

Chapter 1 Old Sha-9

The magnetic noise in Dana's phone suddenly stopped and then emitted a continuous buzzing sound. Then a woman's shrill voice came from inside!

Dana almost didn't throw the phone to the ground.

"Is it a woman crying?" The second son stammered a bit, "How, how can there be such a sound."

"It sounded like a laugh to me." Dana also said with a shudder.

Old Sha snatched Dana's cell phone and put it to his ear to listen, and the woman's screams in the phone stopped. Turned into a noisy life, seven mouths do not know what is buzzing around.

This is certainly not the sound of a radio channel program that the phone is connected to.

"This forest," Old Sandy said, "has an odd magnetic field."

When Lao Sha said here, I subconsciously pulled out my phone, then plugged in the headphones, tuned out the radio frequency, but my phone inside the radio channels are tuned. No matter how to turn the station, it is the standard radio program sound.

Old Sha suddenly took a thing in my phone next to a shake, the radio voice suddenly changed the tune, emitting a sharp whistling sound.

I hastily pushed Lao Sha's hand away, "I just bought the phone, more than three thousand, you improper a thing ah."

Obviously, the old sand holding a powerful magnet, who knows where he got the thing from, probably from what the speaker removed inside.

"This thing, it's what I brought out of that forest." Old Sha showed me what he was holding, and I could see that it was a stone with an ochre color.

"Ore?" I asked Lao Sha.

"Not only is it ore," Old Sandy replied, "but the magnetism is very strong."

"Oh." When I heard that, I understood that there must be a huge iron mine under the black forest, so there was magnetism on the stones.

But the villagers of that village near Hu Fu Town, how many years do not understand this, it is thought that the black forest haunted evil.

I gave my thoughts to Lao Sha

Lao Sha said, "This stone was picked up by me from the ground, not the ore underground."

"Even if it is an open pit mine, the ground will not be littered with such stones." I suddenly remembered something, Lao Sha had already said earlier, in the sixties and seventies, the reason why the steel mill was built near Hu Fu Town was because someone from the address survey team had discovered that there was iron ore here.

This stone from Lao Sha made me more interested. So I continued to listen to him.

At that time, after Lao Sha said the magnetic field in the black forest is odd, the second son did not read what books, do not understand what Lao Sha said in the end, but at least one thing he knows very well, is that the forest is different from the outside.

Three people just continue to walk in the woods, Lao Sha heard something like a huge wheezing sound, and this wheezing sound, the sound is not small. Old Sha looked overhead, Dana said, "Not the sound of the wind."

Lao Sha nodded, "You heard it too?"

"Could this forest be hiding large beasts?" Lao Sha asked.

"It's not a single voice." Dana stood still and inclined his head to listen intently, "It was many voices."

Old Sha suddenly found that this Dana's hearing is more than ordinary people, such as now the second son saw the two of them talking, simply do not know what is happening, terrified. And old Sha dry this line of work, would have been a little special skills, can hear this fuzzy voice, while Dana can hear the details of the voice.

"It's not far from us." Dana said, "If we follow this sound, we won't get lost in a circle."

"In case it's something we can't deal with ......" Old Sha was a bit hesitant, "or we can simply stay here and wait for daylight."

"What did we come in for," Dana waved his hand, "Don't worry, I have kung fu."

Lao Sha thought to himself, you have kung fu, but what is the use. Encounter unknown danger, martial arts can not help. But see Dana has gone through the dense woods, forced to go ahead, but also can only follow. Three people barely through the woods, the natural moon slowly emerged from the black clouds again, the light brightened a little. Then it got brighter and brighter in front of them.

Old Sha then found that there are four or five torches not far ahead.

The second son also saw, and quickly to shout. Old Sha a hand to the second son's mouth to cover.

The torch was held in the hand, and in the light of the fire, there was a clearing in front of it, surrounded by numbers. This dense forest, there is such an open place. The reason why Lao Sha did not let Erzi shout out because, these people's posture are very odd.

They were all on their knees.

Dana is relatively more calm than the second son. Called two people and himself, are lying down, slowly move to the front of the clearing. Three people slowly crawled to the edge of the clearing. Lao Sha found that the ground had changed, in front of himself, no longer the mud in the woods just now, but hard stone ground. No wonder this place can not grow trees. Old Sha out of professional habit, instinctively survey the surrounding environment. See the open space in front of you, almost a circle with a radius of 11 or 12 meters. And the shape is very regular. The number of black forest on the uniform growth around the perimeter of the circle.

This open space is not a natural occurrence, but a man-made place.

The second son saw the appearance of these people, is the head is not good, also understand that there is something fishy, he looked for a while gently said to Lao Sha and Dana: "They are the villagers who came out to look for children."

Old Sha and Dana looked at each other and both frowned. If this is really the case, then the matter of losing two children is not as simple as what Black Xiao and Erzi just said.

Old Sha continued to observe, see those villagers kneeling on the ground, both hands together, head down, are very quiet.

The light of the moon strengthened even more, the natural black clouds seemed to all dissipate in an instant, the moonlight shone in this open space, Lao Sha suddenly found that he could see the faces of several villagers have problems. Their faces were dark, and when they looked more closely, they could tell that they were wearing masks.

Just when Lao Sha's heart was astonished, a villager stood up.

This old Sha and Dana at the same time to see clearly, the man's face indeed a mask, the mask in the moonlight glowed ochre red and indigo two colors, with two huge eyes and a pair of long fangs.

Dana reacted quickly, early on the second son's mouth to cover. Sure enough, the second son saw the mask, to exclaim, but the mouth and nose by Dana tightly pressed, can only emit a subtle mmmmm sound, it is this sound, in this quiet environment, the old sand are feeling too big.

Two more villagers stood up, their faces also wearing masks. Then the three men started slowly rotating around the center of the circular clearing - the direction where everyone was prostrating and kneeling.

That loud wheezing sound appeared again, and now both Lao Sha and Dana heard it coming from the mouths of each villager.

Old Sha gestured, first backward back, Dana understood that Old Sha is something to say. So the three people slowly creep back on the ground. Back almost twenty meters, the three people exhaled a long breath.

Erko stammered, "He, what are they, what are they doing?"

"Sacrifice." Lao Sha said coldly.

Dana said disdainfully, "What era is it now, there are still people who engage in such feudal superstitions."

Old Sha pressed Dana's shoulder, "Listen to me, you do not look down on these things, passed down for thousands of years, not as simple as you think."

"Do you see what's telling?"

Lao Sha asked, "Do you know that there are temples in this area of Hu Fu Town?"

"Haven't heard of it." Dana replied, "In addition to a pagoda forest nearby, then there is a Buddhist temple on each of the two pillars of the mountain, that are things left behind ages ago, there are no monks here at all."

"People in this village have always believed in this," Old Sha said, "but they don't want outsiders to know."

"And what about the lost child?"

"That's probably the way they're looking for the child." Lao Sha added, "There may be some other reason."

"You just asked if there was a temple here," Dana wondered, "they're not monks."

"They're Tibetan Buddhists," Lao Sha explained, "not like the monks we usually see."

"We're a couple of thousand kilometers from Tibet here," Dana said, "Bringing in Tibetans?"

"The way I see them doing it," Old Shah said, "the bouts, that's how they've been doing it for generations."

"You say they are the descendants of Tibetans?"

"I don't know, but it's definitely related." In his heart, Lao Sha wanted to say the ancient tomb, so that he could barely make sense. But this kind of talk can not say to Dana, said his identity will be exposed.

Lao Sha was hesitating when he suddenly heard a clamor from the villagers in the clearing in front of him. An old man's voice was shouting, "There are outsiders!"

Old Sha and Dana looked at each other, then looked at Erzi, who quickly waved his hand and said softly, "What am I doing? I'll just be quiet and listen to what you guys are saying."

Villagers were already starting to make a commotion towards the forest, looking back and forth.

Old Sha looked at the trees around him, all dead. Old Sha then realized that the trees around the clearing were all dead, even the bark was gone, the bare poles. These trees have been dead for a long time, and there are no leaves on the ground, not even bushes.

"Let's run." Erko said anxiously.

"Where to run?" Lao Sha replied, "We can't even find our way in the dark woods."

"We can't fight with them." Dana said, "That would be a bad influence."

"Find a place to hide." Lao Sha said.

Dana looked at the surroundings, "We can only climb the trees."

"How can I climb." The second son was about to cry out, "The tree pole is so slippery."

Old Sha was about to take the initiative to help the second son to follow himself to climb the tree. But Dana spoke first, "I'll carry you."

After the words, Dana put the second son on his shoulders, and then giggled and climbed the tree, so that the second son sat on a branch, holding the tree pole tightly, in the dark, others can not tell.

Dana was about to go down the tree, as the method of the old sand also on his back. But saw the old sand has been firmly attached to a tree next to it.

Dana stretched his thumb to Lao Sha and climbed to another tree himself. He had just climbed up and stood firm when the villagers ran under the tree. Looked around. Old Sha saw that the villagers did not even remove the mask. Face is a green-faced fang appearance, the heart also fear, disturbing this hidden religious rituals, is a big taboo.

Villagers in the woods for half a day, did not find people, and slowly returned to the clearing.

The three men, Dana Lao Sha Erzi, heard them quiet again, before slowly slipping down the tree and climbing next to the clearing again. At this time, they saw three people wearing masks, with iron picks in their hands, desperately digging the ground in the middle of the clearing.