The lizard man"
In the dark room, the sun was blocked out by the dirty glass that had not been wiped for more than ten years, and the corners around were hidden in the darkness. Clearly it is the height of summer, but I have no reason to shiver, clenched the hand of the wireless mic. In front of the old woman wrinkled as if off the water of the pickle knot. She squinted at me and whispered in her native tongue, "The village monster? Don't you, Nell?" I REPEATED A TIME JUST THE QUESTION: "OLD WOMAN, WHAT I SAY IS WHEN YOU FRIGHTEN THE CHILD OF THAT STORY, NOT AT THAT TIME ALL SAY THE VILLAGE HAVE THE MONSTER THAT EAT A PERSON, YOU STILL REMEMBER NOT TO REMEMBER THIS STORY IS THE BEGINNING WHO SAY?" The old woman, who had almost lost all her hair, huddled at the foot of the kang, sucking her toothless mouth. She thought for a moment and said, "Well, that's already there." "My dad told me when I was a baby..." My eyes light up, this with a mysterious color of the old legend this is what we need! Also ignore harm is not afraid, I excited way: "SPECIFIC is what kind of, you tell me Bai? !" After a pause, she raised her head with some difficulty, and a faint light flashed into her cloudy eyes. "Little baby listen to this why, listen to the night to frighten pee pants yo." It's better to piss your pants than no business! I urgent way: "YOU TELL me, I work to use!" "Ah..." The OLD WOMAN SQUINTY EYE LOOKED AT THE TWO BOXES OF MILK THAT I RAISED TO COME OVER, WHISPER TO MUTTER A WAY: "YOU CALCULATE TO SEEK RIGHT PERSON, THE VILLAGE IN ADDITION TO AN, OTHER KNOW PERSON EARLY ALL DEAD." After a while, she said softly, "Nell, do you know the lizard?" 'What? I'm a little confused. "The human lizard." She spoke every word at a slow pace. I don't know why, but I always think the old lady's expression is a little subtle. I suddenly felt a kind of unspeakable spooky, especially in this bleak little room made me covered with white hair sweat. I persisted with discomfort. "People... Lizard? What is it?" That sounds kind of gross. "Be," A OLD WOMAN DROOPS EYELID "AN FATHER BEFORE SAY WITH AN." "Three hundred SKKS. Do you know what a skink is?" "I know," I nodded. "Grass lizards." "Yes, three hundred grass lizards will be fed with live flesh, and when they are small, they will be fed with human flesh, so that the grass lizards will grow bigger than cats..." My whole body a tremble: "WHERE come the human flesh?" The old woman glanced at me: "You say?" She didn't answer my silly question, but continued, "Those who eat human flesh are not called grass lizards. They are called flesh lizards." "Put a living man in a cage with 300 male fleshed lizards, and ask for a female." "Thirty days in a dark room without food or water, Nell, what do you think?" I felt a chill in my heart and an unspeakable nausea. Mostly lizards, cold-blooded creatures that are really kind of... Yellow vertical pupil, slender and forked tongue, hissing sound, cold sticky scales... I was a little uncomfortable, but I held it together for the sake of the material. "People starve to death, people die of thirst, lizards eat people and eat each other." "No," she shook her head. "Not dead," she whispered. "A man without food and water won't be able to hold on by the third day." "The first thing the woman does is kill the lizard and eat it." "But flesh-eating lizards also need to eat. They are used to eating human flesh, so they will eat this woman first and then eat each other..." Her eyes, which had just been dim, glowed eerily: "It's like a venomous insect. After 30 days, three hundred male lizards and a woman will be combined, and they will become something different. I don't know whether the flesh lizards will become people or people will become lizards." I was already feeling a little physiologically uncomfortable, and I waved my hand to get her to stop. But the old woman seemed not to understand my meaning, she continued: "That is the human lizard, long a human face, is the lizard's body." "Human lizards have huge appetites and only eat one thing. Guess what?" ... An unspeakable smile appeared on her shriveled lips. She didn't have to tell me what to eat. I have some queasy way: "That keep this thing good why? To eat people?" "No," did not know when a ray of sunlight into the room, the old woman's pupils were reflected light brown. There was something strangely excited about her face. "It is said that if you eat the hearts of human lizards raised by your closest relatives, you will live forever." ... I gawked at her, goosebumps popping up all over me. But the old lady burst out laughing. She put out a hand as dry and wrinkled as a tree bark and waved it in front of my eyes. "Nell, do you really believe it?" I was a little stunned: "... ?" The old lady grinned with delight. "You look so scared that you are turning white." "Why is so adult STILL AS EASY to cheat AS a child, people talk what letter what?" I THIS JUST REACTION COME OVER OLD WOMAN IN DELIBERATELY FRIGHTEN ME, RELIEVED A BREATH SMILE WAY: "YOU MAKE UP A STORY TO RETURN STRANGE FIERCE OLD WOMAN, THIS STORY AT THE BEGINNING IS YOU MAKE UP?" The smile on her face faded away. "I'm not making this up." "The village has had this saying since I was a child." Do not know why, at that moment I all over the hair stand up, I was almost some panic bid farewell to the old woman ran out of the yard. In the yard, the sun is straightforward and poisonous spread on the ground, a sultry wind blowing, my bones sent out the Yin cold was blown away some. I looked back at the gloomy, dingy little house and shivered. In fact, this story, I think the most terrifying is not the women and lizards locked together, also is not eating close relatives transformed human lizards can be immortal. Instead, a fleshy lizard the size of three hundred cats has to be fed with human flesh... How many people do we need to kill? ... Half a month ago, right after my manager blasted me for getting bad news hits, Grandpa called. I picked up the phone, but it was not my grandfather, but my second uncle. "Nell, are you coming back this week?" I just want to say no back, but afraid of grandpa's body has any problems: "How two uncle, is grandpa not feeling well?" "No NO," THE VOICE OF THE SECOND UNCLE HAS SOME ABNORMITY, "IS WANT TO ASK YOU, THE CITY HAS SELL MONITOR OF?" "Monitoring... A monitor?" "Yes, yes, the monitor, the village recently something happened, the family is a little afraid, thinking to buy a monitor." "This epidemic express also stopped, we also do not understand this, you see you can take one back, second uncle to give you money." I frowned. During the epidemic prevention and control period, no one goes out. What could happen to the village? "Why second uncle? What the hell is going on?" From the other side of the phone came the sound of my second uncle swallowing. He seemed afraid. "It's nothing, just a few dead cows..." I breathed a sigh of relief: "THIS HAVE WHAT OF AH, COW DEAD RETURN NOT NORMAL, PROBABLY BE SICK Bai --" MY WORDS did NOT FINISH saying. The second uncle interrupted me with a trembling voice: "It wasn't disease that killed him, but he was eaten by something I don't know!" ... Be ate? How is this possible? There is no mountain near our village, only a small soil slope at most, how can there be any large beast that can eat cattle? But it quickly occurred to me that this might be a selling point! I don't know where the beast ate the cattle in the village, how strange it is! I hurriedly CHARGE TWO UNCLE: "Uncle, you take a few pictures to send to me, tomorrow I will return to the village, you want what kind of monitoring I take back together!" The second uncle was silent for a while, and then hesitantly said, "Nina, what do you think that thing is doing? It gives you nightmares at night." I explained: "Second UNCLE you know, I do news, our leaders want big news!" "... Ok." After hanging up the phone, I waited a long time for my uncle's wechat message to come. The pictures showed several cows lying on the ground, their bodies deflated, as if only a piece of hide remained. My pupils constricted. Their insides, they've all been eaten up. On the ground, not a drop of blood. My hands shook uncontrollably. Not right. This is definitely not a beast!