Chapter 1928 Resentful Village
Electricity!
The blood of industry, the light of humanity!
The greatest invention in human history.
It is precisely because of the control of electricity that mankind has entered the modern electrical age from the cumbersome steam age.
Humans use electricity to light up light bulbs and use colorful neon lights to dispel the night, making thousands of lights a beautiful landscape representing modern civilization.
In this boundless night, even a solitary lamp will make people feel at ease.
The most obvious manifestations are that Nakajima's hands stopped shaking, Koda Toshiyuki's face did not turn pale, and even Kibi Gosuke secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The road just now was too weird, and the atmosphere was too scary. Everyone was so tense that they were about to break. If it were an ordinary person, they would have gone crazy and stupid.
Fortunately, when I was about to collapse, I met this old man and came to this cabin next to the railway.
The white paint on the wooden walls is already mottled, with many peeling off and falling off. The parts near the ground are even rotten due to moisture. The bench at the door is covered with moss, and the original color can hardly be seen. , even the wooden board was broken into several pieces. Let alone sit on it like this, it would fall apart at the slightest touch.
The house is also in a state of disrepair. It creaks when the wind blows. It feels like if the wind is stronger, it can blow down this old house made of iron and wooden boards. .
Zhila
When the old man opened the door, the door bolt made an impatient long sound, and when he closed it, the entire door frame was shaking with a whoosh, which was very disturbing. Worry, don't let this door fall down by itself in the middle of the night.
Fortunately, although the house is old, it has all the appliances.
Electric lights, televisions, rice cookers, and the most surprising thing is a telephone.
Although it is an old-fashioned landline phone, it can be put into a museum for people to view, but it is better than nothing.
Nakajima Tsutomu couldn't wait to say: "Uncle, can I borrow your phone?"
Wireless communication cannot be used. I don't know whether the signal is blocked or interfered, but wired communication It can't be cut off.
"Use it as you like," the old man sat down with great effort. Zhongdao ran over happily, picked up the phone and started dialing, and said, "I just don't know if it can still be used."
"Beep beep"
The sound coming from the receiver tells its powerlessness.
“How could this happen?” Nakajima was about to cry. He finally found a phone, but he still couldn’t make a call.
“Because it is connected to the line from the next station, but this line was abandoned six years ago, and no one has maintained it. The signal gradually deteriorated and was intermittent. .”
“Waste line?” Why? He checked the phone unwillingly, trying to convince himself that there was something wrong with the phone and the line was still good, because he could only repair the phone and couldn't check the line. If there was something wrong with the phone, he could still try to fix it. If the line was out of order Question.
It was so dark that he didn't even want to step out of the door, let alone go deep into the darkness to check the wiring.
"It's probably because there are too few passengers."
Toshiyuki Koda guessed that this is nothing new, and it is not even enough to make headlines. Every year, old lines are exposed to safety hazards Abandoned or abandoned for other reasons, some will be replaced by buses, while others will not be discussed further.
“There is no way, everyone has left the village, only some old people like me are left. Everyone lives in the village and basically does not go outside. No one takes the car, and slowly there are no cars. "
The old man sighed, helplessness revealed in his cloudy eyes.
Young people are going out, and they don’t want to come back. There are fewer and fewer people in the village, and it is getting quieter and quieter. One day it will become dead silent, no more sound can be heard, and no one can be seen. People. Kibi Gosuke, who had been observing the entire room since he entered the door, inserted the Brest gun into the holster and asked: "What is the name of this village?"
"Hoshino Village, it is said that a star fell into the fields a long time ago, and then the name came into being. I It’s the mayor of this village, Yamada.”
“Hello, Mr. Yamada,” Kibi Gosuke sat down cross-legged and said, “Can you talk about this village?”
Yamada chuckled and said bluntly: "Do you want to ask about the sneak attack you just encountered?"
"Crooked?!"
Nakajima Tsutomu and Koda Toshiyuki almost jumped up and collapsed the roof. Their faces, which finally got better, started to turn pale again at this moment, and Kibi Gosuke He frowned slightly.
Yamada Village Chief saw their reactions in his eyes, and still said with a smile: "I used to think that there were no monsters in this world, until that day, I saw a huge monster coming out of the mountain with my own eyes. Wielding a giant sword."
"You mean the Suna ghost?" Kibi Gosuke pondered for a moment and then thought of a monster that fit the description of Yamada Village Chief.
“Everyone says it’s just a monster, but I know it’s a ghost. A ghost that was sealed a long time ago, but was resurrected by human darkness and became extremely powerful. The same is true here. , the resting souls turned into resentful ghosts, and the originally peaceful village was now haunted by resentful spirits.”
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Nakajima Mian listened and opened his mouth wider and wider. He wanted to say, "Old man, I understand you so well."
Isn’t this the legendary mountain master?
“Have you ever been to Suna Mountain?”
“I used to be a patrolman there, and I came back here after retirement. All the young people have left, and only us old men are left. , there was really no one left, so they chose me as the village chief, alas!”
"Is there very few people in this village?"
Gosuke Kibi originally wanted to say 'no one' truthfully, but when he thought that the people in front of him were from the village, he changed it to 'very few'.
"There used to be many, thousands of people in this big village, but now there are probably only two to three hundred people, and most of them are elderly." Village Chief Yamada sighed and said, "If that reservoir If the cultivation is completed, maybe some people can stay. Unfortunately, in the end, the cultivation was not completed, and the young people left the village.
More and more people went out, but came back less and less. No one took the bus, so there were no buses. First they stopped, and then the line was canceled and they left. The more people come back, the better.”
This is a very heavy topic and an unsolvable problem.
Train operating companies pursue profits. If their revenue decreases, they will naturally find ways to reduce costs. Armistice and scrapping lines become the first choice at certain times.
For a village like this located deep in the mountains, the train is the most convenient and extremely low-cost way to travel. Once there is no train, getting in and out will become very difficult and long.
Of course no one wants to stay, and naturally no one wants to come back.
(End of this chapter)