The cable car stopped steadily after arriving at the station, without testing the speed of passengers getting on and off.

The people in the car rolled and climbed down the cable car, feeling their legs weak for a while.

Xie Liuyi jumped off the roof of the car, turned around and glanced at the dusky sky.

The afterglow of the setting sun scatters softly on people's faces, quiet and beautiful, only a ray of golden sky light is left on the horizon, and the night is about to come.

Feeling the corners of her skirt being pulled, she turned around and saw three children approaching cautiously. Xie Liuyi still had no expression on his face, but his eyes softened a lot, "Let's go."

She took the lead out of the ropeway station, and the three children followed behind her with the corners of their skirts. The others glanced at the sky and knew that they had no time to delay, so they hurriedly followed.

The inn is not far from the ropeway station. After walking along a path that was stepped on for ten minutes, I finally arrived before night.

The inn is a square three-story building with white walls and black tiles. The incandescent lamp at the door on the first floor emits dim light, like a lighthouse guiding the way home.

The outline of the village in the distance could be vaguely seen.

The night has come, the village is not lit, it is silent and silent in the darkness.

No time to take a closer look, the group quickly walked through the small courtyard and entered the inn. The first floor of the inn looked like a restaurant, with a few square tables on the left and right, and the stools were placed upside down on the table.

There is a log counter opposite the door. When the last person stepped over the threshold, an alarm sound suddenly came from behind the counter. The bell was harsh and loud, accompanied by the sound of the legs of the alarm clock bouncing on the wooden table, which was especially abrupt in this silent night.

Everyone was so frightened that their hearts stopped. After reacting, some people got under the square table, and some people huddled on the edge of the pillar, sticking tightly to the pillar.

Zhou Haiyang and Chen Xiaofeng squeezed among the three junior high school students, grabbing Xie Liuyi's skirt and shrinking behind her.

It was really embarrassing for Xie Liuyi's slender body, he had to block a bunch of people, and the corners of his skirt were pulled by five people.

Song Ye didn't hide, he was also afraid, but he acted more calmly. He stepped forward under the light of the incandescent lamp outside the door, reached behind the counter, and when he turned around, he held the A brass alarm clock.

The alarm clock is a classic retro style, the main body has a round dial with a big belly, two metal feet below, the two ears on the top of the head vibrate very happily, and there is a switch in the middle of the ear.

The alarm clock was so powerful that it made his fingers numb.

"Seven fifty." He showed the dial to Xie Liuyi, turned around again, and exposed the back of the alarm clock, "The alarm clock is clockwork, and someone needs to wind it up regularly. Someone should live here."

As he was talking, the alarm sound began to weaken, and finally rang the bell feebly twice before moving. The space returned to silence, and the sound of the door opening in the southeast corner was particularly striking.

Squeaky-, the disrepaired hinge let out a groan, and the sound of sluggish footsteps in the southeast corner gradually approached, and the short and rickety figure staggered from the darkness.

I experienced the conductors at the bottom of the mountain and the monsters on the ropeway. The group was like a frightened bird. When they saw a moving one, they thought it was a monster. They screamed and hid in the distance. Even Song Ye was tense. to step back.

Xie Liuyi was pulled by five people behind her, struggling to keep her balance, but she said helplessly, "It's a living person."

Then everyone calmed down a little and looked closely.

The man had already walked into the light from the incandescent lamp at the door. It was an old lady with her little feet wrapped and walking tremblingly. His face is densely wrinkled, his gray hair is gathered behind his head, and although his eyes are cloudy, he can see the whites of his eyes, which is a normal human eye.

It is now June, and the temperature on the mountain is neither hot nor cold, but she is wearing a heavy jacket, and the black fabric is very resistant to dirt.

She didn't seem to see a group of big living people in the hall, she walked to the counter on her own, fumbled for a while, but couldn't find the alarm clock, and then slowly turned to look here Group of uninvited guests.

Song Ye put the alarm clock on the table next to him winkingly and took a step back. The old lady saw it but ignored the alarm clock. She walked tremblingly to the gate, closed the two gates silently, and laboriously lifted the wooden board standing by the door and stuck it behind the crack.

Everyone was not sure whether she was human or not, so they dared not go up to help easily.

She walked to the post by the door again, and felt the rope and pulled it twice.

The incandescent light outside the door went out, and the fluorescent light in the hall came on, dispelling the darkness of the room.

This move made everyone present breath a sigh of relief, and they climbed out of their hiding places, but they did not dare to get too close.

The old lady trembled to the table with the alarm clock again, Song Ye took a step forward and raised her hand to stop it, "Old man, may I ask..."

Before she finished speaking, the old lady turned a blind eye around him, picked up the alarm clock on the table, and turned around and walked away.

Zhou Haiyang consciously dealt with the older generation quite handy, rushed out from behind Xie Liuyi, stepped forward to block the old lady in three or two steps, raised a pleasing smile, raised his voice and said: " Hello, grandma, come and sit down."

Because the road was blocked, the old lady finally looked up at him, and before Zhou Haiyang spoke again, she lowered her head indifferently, bypassed him and continued walking.

The old lady carried the alarm clock back to the house in the southeast corner, closed the door with a creak, and left the people in the hall to look at each other.

When Zhou Haiyang came back, he was still a little aggrieved, "I usually like my grandparents, why did she ignore me?" After speaking, she suddenly realized, "Will she be deaf?"

"What do you need an alarm clock for when you're deaf?" Song Ye asked rhetorically.

Zhou Haiyang is speechless. He shouted so loudly that his voice was almost broken, and his voice was not much smaller than an alarm clock. It can be seen that the old lady simply doesn't want to pay attention to him.

Just as she was about to say something, she was suddenly pulled by Xie Liuyi, and she saw Xie Liuyi's gaze fell somewhere else, and her index finger stood on her lips to signal everyone to be quiet.

Following her gaze, she saw two windows on the left and right sides of the gate, which were criss-crossed and sealed by palm-wide wooden slats.

Everyone focused on the old lady just now, but no one noticed.

Her steps were very light, and there was almost no sound when she landed.

Walking to the window, she put her eyes on the irregular square holes made of horizontal and vertical wooden strips and looked out, and she saw a deep darkness.

This is not normal.

When she entered the inn and the lights were not turned on, she found that she could see clearly in the dark, not to mention that there were no clouds tonight, and the moonlight was still bright, and there would never be a cloud of light from the gap. dark.

Unless…

A dark yellow eyeball suddenly appeared, looking at Xie Liuyi through the gap. Xie Liuyi touched the back of his neck reflexively, but felt empty. His right hand gripped it uncomfortable twice, and when he regained consciousness, his eyes rolled twice and then moved away.

The moonlight shone on the courtyard, and Xie Liuyi clearly saw a man-high black shadow gradually moving away from the window. It turned out that it was just lying on the window blocking her sight.

It didn't seem to find anyone in the house, it retreated to the center of the yard, beckoned upstairs, and made a grunting sound in its throat. Two more shadows of the same size jumped down from nowhere, looking at the direction of their whereabouts, they should have been upstairs just now. Then the three shadows left together.

Xie Liuyi saw the shadow clearly, and more doubts arose in his heart.

She had never seen this kind of thing that appeared in the yard, but she had heard of it. Many legends compare them to evil spirits, but no one has ever confirmed that they can hurt people.

Back in the crowd, Song Ye asked her what she found just now, Xie Liuyi shook his head without hesitation, "I didn't see clearly." The tone was firm, not guilty at all. It is easy to mislead others when you say things you are not sure about yourself.

Everyone doubted that he was there, Song Ye greeted everyone to go upstairs to rest.

The second and third floors have the same layout, the stairs are facing the windows and are sealed with wooden strips. There are four rooms on each floor, with a key on the door. They are all double standard rooms.

No one stipulates that they have to rest in separate rooms, everyone dared not to separate, so they simply tore down the quilts and mattresses from all the rooms and spread them in the corridor on the second floor, everyone huddled together to take care of each other.

Xie Liuyi was not sleepy and took the initiative to keep watch. The others tossed for a long time, exhausted, and fell asleep immediately.

It was a good night.

The next morning, eight elderly grandparents and three junior high school students developed a low-grade fever. Yesterday, my clothes were soaked with water vapor when I was walking in the thick fog. Later, when the mountain wind blew, I got cold. In addition, the temperature on the mountain is very low after nightfall, and the bedding is damp again, and those with weak resistance will fall ill directly.

"You have to take medicine," Song Ye gave them a general examination and frowned, "Put the quilt back on the bed first. It's best for people who are sick not to sleep on the ground."

After putting people in bed, Chen Xiaofeng and Chen Meiyi, the woman in pajamas, couldn’t hold it any longer. One of them lacked exercise all the year round, and the other was dressed in thin clothes, compared to eleven seriously ill patients who had difficulty moving. It's just being able to move.

"Brother Xiaofeng and Sister Meiyi should rest first, Brother Song, let's go to the grandma downstairs and ask if there is any medicine." Zhou Haiyang suggested.

Song Ye heard him mention Xie Liuyi, and subconsciously searched for him, but found that the man was missing.

"Where is Xie Liuyi?"

The four of them stared at each other, not knowing when Xie Liuyi disappeared. Xie Liuyi was taciturn most of the time, and it was easy to ignore her when she had nothing to do. Just now, she was so busy that no one noticed where she was going.