Chapter 13: The Candle Yin River

It's okay that the fat man didn't scream, as soon as he screamed, the two spotted snakes immediately raised their heads and began to crawl towards the fat man along the roots of the tree, the air suddenly quieted down, Ye Feisong stood beside Wu Er but didn't have the slightest attitude to deal with it, it was more like watching from the sidelines, maybe it was this sudden silence that made Song Pan also feel unusual, and said vigilantly: "There is danger?"

"Yes, there's a snake coming. Ye Feisong replied calmly between his words, which made the fat man's butt shake, and he couldn't help shouting: "Snake?!", and then without waiting for Wu Er's strength, the body that was still stuck at the entrance of the cave just now suddenly moved, and squeezed into the hole in a blink of an eye.

But now Song Pan is safe, but the movement made at this moment is not small, the two spotted snakes noticed the vibration, turned their heads and began to stare at Wu Er, there was a strange sound of deflating the wind in their bodies, Wu Er raised a flashlight to shine at them, I don't know if it was a hallucination, in just a moment, Wu Er saw that the dark snake pupils were slowly turning dark red. Wu Er moved to Ye Feisong's side, saw him holding a cigarette butt, spit out the last puff of cigarette, suddenly stomped his feet, the sound started, the two snakes ejected like arrows, and instantly opened their mouths to reveal two coveted fangs, Wu Er saw this and wanted to dodge and found that his feet were soft, seeing a snake approaching the door, feeling the wind in his ears, Ye Feisong stretched out his index finger and middle finger to buckle, and actually held the snake heads of the two snakes accurately with both hands, Wu Ershang was stunned, Ye Feisong closed his hands again for the ring finger and little finger to clamp the tail of the two snakes, and when they were not completely curled up, he suddenly pulled his hands together, The two snakes were immediately cut into two, and the action was done in one go, Wu Er looked stupid, how could ordinary people have such strength, seeing that Ye Feisong usually just ordered Ding Mian to do things, looking inconspicuous, and at the critical moment, it turned out that he was the real terrible master.

"Don't be stunned, hurry up and keep up. Ye Feisong threw away the broken snake and spoke, Wu Er came back to his senses and leaned into the hole, Song Pan thought that something big was going to happen, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Wu Er's peace, Mo Yuxuan in the distance They had already lit a fire, by the light of the fire, Wu Er saw a section of seven or eight meters wide river that plunged into the depths of darkness, the water was gentle, and there were gravel banks on both sides.

Wu Er took off his raincoat as he walked, and immediately understood their intention to make a fire, although it was still the end of summer, and the climate outside was sultry, but as soon as he arrived in this underground space, he felt a slight coolness coming. Mo Yuxuan and the others surrounded the fire and began to take out the jacket from the backpack and put it on, Wu Er and Song Pan stared wide-eyed, and there was nothing else in the bag except food and drink.

"You didn't bring any clothes to wear into the mountains?" asked Hu Yanzheng in surprise.

Song Pan cleared his throat: "I always thought that going out to travel was a pleasant way to visit the mountains and rivers, and this is the first time I have encountered this mode of adventurous tomb exploration." ”

"Then you better put on your raincoat, this cave wind is easy to fall into the root of the disease after a long time. ”

Wu Er quickly put on the raincoat again when he heard it, but it was difficult for the fat man, he had just drilled the hole card for half a day and squeezed it in, and the raincoat had already been torn into a big hole, so he had no choice but to continue to use it at the moment.

And next to the fire, Mo Yuxuan raised his hand and glanced at the time, it was already two o'clock in the morning, he discussed with Ye Feisong and decided to rest in place for one night first, and then continue to move forward tomorrow, so everyone began to get up and set up a tent, Wu Er roasted the fire for a while, and looked up to find that Ye Feisong walked not far away, his eyes kept looking at the direction of the river, which was completely different from his calm demeanor outside the cave.

"Uncle Ye, what's wrong?" Wu Er walked up to Ye Feisong's side, guessing that he must be worried about something.

Ye Feisong pointed to the mountain above the river, signaling him to look over, Wu Er raised the flashlight, and found that the mountain wall was hung with something like a pimple, at first Wu Er thought it was a special form of the rhizomes of some trees, but Ye Feisong said lightly: "There are a large number of black worms sleeping in every air root knot, once they wake up to feed, no creature on either side of the river bank can live." ”

Wu Er's hand shook, and a lot of his brain made up the picture of man-eating ants gluttonously eating beast corpses, Ye Feisong continued: "Look at the water again. Wu Er hurriedly took the flashlight and swept towards the river again, not thinking that the water of the Candleyin River was extremely clear, but it didn't seem to be too deep, and it could shine on the bottom of the water covered with white flakes.

"What are so many round, pointed stones in the water?"

"No, the Candle Yin River was originally recorded to be ten zhang deep and existed for thousands of years, and now the depths you see are filled with the bones of all kinds of creatures. ”

"These white bones are all bones?!"

"Hmm. ”

"......" Wu Er's face suddenly turned pale, how many bones are there!

"Black roundworms, like ants, will drag their food into their nests for storage, whether they are prey they have caught themselves or leftover carcasses of other animals, and finally all the bones that remain will accumulate in the river. But fortunately, in the last hundred years, it has not been as easy to find food as in previous years, and these insects have gradually fallen into a long sleep. Ye Feisong seemed to be telling a thriller story, and Wu Er didn't care for a while about the time angle of standing a hundred years away in his words, he just swallowed his saliva and asked, "Then are there any signs of these insects waking up?"

Ye Feisong smiled lightly and walked towards the camp: "In the past, there was a smell of burning delicate grass that could wake them up, but now, this kind of grass is extinct, and I don't know how they will wake up now." ”

Wu Er followed him, but listening to him feel relaxed, his heart was a little calm. Mo Yuxuan led people to set up five tents around the firelight, and then took out his mobile phone to search for signals, and gave up in vain after walking around, the mountain where the Candleyin River is located is empty, as if blocking the sound of wind and rain outside, and the subtle sounds made here can be heard much more clearly.

"It seems that Ruth will have to do the rest on our own. Mo Yuxuan sat in front of the tent and threw in a few sticks of firewood, all of which were dead branches cut from the hanging rhizomes on the mountain wall.

"But the two ends of this dark river are so dark, which direction will you go in when the time comes?" Song Pan turned his head to look at it a few times, and also noticed the 'wooden bumps' hanging on the top of the mountain wall, but he didn't ask more.

"Just look in the water. Ye Feisong lowered his head and took out a military kettle from his backpack, and replied casually, Song Pan was surprised, and shone the candle Yin River with a flashlight, and found that the river was flowing very slowly, and it was really difficult to distinguish the trend of the river at first glance, Ye Feisong saw that he was confused, and chuckled: "Those white flakes in the water are all bones, after so many years of erosion of the undercurrent, the shape deposited must have a tendency to follow the water trend, and it is easy to distinguish the downstream direction with a little more attention, tomorrow, we will follow the downstream direction." ”

Mo Yuxuan didn't care about this, he just frowned and said, "How long does it take to walk here to the Hill Sacrifice Tomb?"

"Half a day, if you hurry. Ye Feisong still lowered his head, as if he had made the military kettle in his hand, and threw it directly to Wu Er, who was roasting the fire on the side, without saying a word, this time it came down suddenly, Wu Er hurriedly took it, and was about to thank him, but Ye Feisong picked up a cigarette and reminded: "The pot is not filled with water, you prepare it on your body first, maybe you can use it." ”

Seeing Wu Er's stunned expression, Ye Feisong didn't explain much, but turned his head to Mo Yuxuan and continued: "If it's slow, it may never be ......."

"......" Everyone was silent for a while, although Ye Feisong's tone was flat, but this sentence made people's backs cold.

"Okay, look at the scare of you, it's a big deal that everyone will go back the way they came. Ye Feisong added, but I don't know if it's an illusion, Wu Er felt that the light in his eyes was terrifyingly cold.

I don't know how long it took to wake up from this sleep, and when I opened my eyes, Wu Er felt that there was a wet liquid on his face slipping down, and subconsciously turned around, Wu Er sat up in shock, and found that the top of the tent was cut open at some point, and there were water droplets dripping from the mouth, and then I heard the snoring sound in my ears, Song Pan slept soundly on the side, Wu Er didn't wake him up, got up and pulled out the tent and went out, there were sporadic fires outside, looked at the time, it was 5 o'clock in the morning, and he slept for less than three hours, he continued to add firewood to the fire, and looked up at the top of his head with the slowly brightening light, and found that the water droplets dripping on his face were formed from the rhizomes at the top of the wall, and his heart was a little peacefulHowever, the moment he lowered his head, he caught a glimpse of a black shadow flashing in the corner of his eyes.

"Who?!" Wu Er Huo Ran turned his head, in the blurred light in the distance, something quickly melted into the darkness, Wu Er hurriedly walked back to the tent, inspected the scratch, there were two hairy scratches above and below the mouth, as if it was cut by some kind of animal claw, could it be that in this dark river channel, in addition to black roundworms, there are other beasts?

Wu Er's mind has not slowed down, and he heard the almost static river beside him sounding the sound of splashing, he subconsciously clenched the thick branch in his hand that had not been thrown into the fire, and hurriedly touched the flashlight, as soon as the light hit the source of the sound, Wu Er's face suddenly turned pale, and on the calm water, a head slowly drilled out! The face was completely covered by the scattered black hair, and the skin exposed outside the water was festering purple-black, perhaps not sensitive to light, the raised head gradually brought out the neck, shoulders, chest and abdomen, and did not react to the flashlight on the shore at all, but what Wu Er didn't expect was that the 'person' who came out of the water was as skinny as firewood, and his whole body seemed to be only a withered skin, like a dry corpse!

"Bang", Wu Er was a spirit, stepped on the stone under his feet, and the sound started, the body like a dry corpse suddenly bent, and it was actually 90 degrees prostrate on the water, and the head began to slowly turn to the direction of Wu Er, and with its movements, the neck of the dry corpse was released. The sound of clucking and breaking bones turned around a whole circle, and when it was on the surface of the water with both palms, it was only for a moment that the dried corpse crawled towards him frantically, and under the black hair, a pair of empty white eyes stared at Wu Er, and he suddenly realized that the face of this dried corpse was none other than Ding Mian!

"Ah!" Wu Er finally shouted, and the next moment, the scene he saw suddenly collapsed, there were droplets of water dripping from his forehead, and Song Pan's snoring in his ears was still there, he stared at his eyes and gasped, and found that he was still sleeping in the tent, it turned out that it was just a nightmare he had!

Feeling a sudden chill on the back of his neck, Wu Er suddenly raised his head and found that the wind was coming in through a hole in the tent, and soon, a shadow passed from outside the tent, Wu Er quickly pulled open the tent and poked his head out, the fire outside was not extinguished, and something quickly rushed into the darkness in the distance, Wu Er's face tightened, and he was surprised, how could there be a cat in the corridor?

"You don't sleep in the middle of the night, what are you doing?" Song Pan woke up in the movement and saw Wu Er lying on his stomach looking outside.

Wu Er turned around suddenly, although the dream just now was very real, it was still a dream after all, so he lay down and replied casually: "Look at the cat." ”

"Cat?" Song Pan was stunned for a moment, gave him a blank look, didn't take it seriously, and then soon found the opening on the tent, and exclaimed: ", there are really wild cats? ”

"It's hard to say whether it's all the same as a domestic cat, but just now I had a bad dream, and now my heart is blocked, and I feel like I can't say it. Wu Er glanced at the time, it was really the same as the time in his dream, 5 o'clock in the morning.

Song Pan lay down next to him again: "Don't be like a crisisist all the time, why do you always like to fantasize about something to persecute you?"

Wu Er didn't refute, Song Pan was not wrong, since he came into contact with the box of the Qili family, many things have indeed become a little unusual, he groaned slightly, and asked: "Eh, fat man, do you say that there are really supernatural forces in this world?"

"Tell the truth?"

"Don't talk nonsense, say!"

"In the past, I definitely didn't believe it, but since a few years ago, I didn't dare to say that. ”

Wu Er propped it up with one hand, knowing that he had something in his words: "Come, say it." ”

Song Pan saw that he was sleepy, and he was also interested: "Let's just talk about my uncle, you know, he usually chatters, he has been doing criminal investigation work for so many years, it stands to reason that this job pays attention to conclusive evidence and scientific logic, but there are still many cases that have become unsolved, I remember that there is such a case that impresses me very much......" Song Pan paused, as if he was sorting out his mind to decide where to say, Wu Er reminded: "Is it related to your uncle's ancestral point of water asking for directions?"

Song Pan patted his head and nodded: "Yes, yes, yes, it's just a little water to ask for directions, just a few years ago, when I was in college, there was a murder near my grandmother's house, it was a female corpse, and there was a fist-sized blood hole in the chest, and later a forensic doctor came to the scene to judge that it was a wound caused by rare metals, but the most puzzling thing is that this female corpse only has skin and flesh left, and no bone has been found in the whole body!" In other words, the bones of this female corpse seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and it was by no means removed from the only wound, no one had ever encountered such a situation, and at that time, careful investigation of the vicinity did not find evidence to further promote the case, because it was too weird, this case was finally classified into the secret file, after the body was taken away, my uncle has been at ease with this case, one night in the middle of the night to my house knocking on the door, that night I hid and played games and never slept, through the crack in the door I saw my uncle standing at the door entrance with a nervous expression, anxious to say something to my mother, and then my mother looked not quite right, busy to change clothes and prepare to go out, taking advantage of this gapI climbed out of the window and the cat was on my uncle's broken pickup truck, at least an hour's drive before stopping, not long after getting out of the car, I saw my uncle holding something like an ink bottle in his hand, dipped it on the ground with a brush and didn't know what to draw, and finally put the brush on the ground, and then my uncle began to pour the water in the bottle along the barrel of the pen, guess what kind of unbelievable scene I saw?", Song Pan talked again, Wu Er slapped him angrily, Song Pan continued to describe: " I'm afraid you won't believe it, the water is like a living, and it flows down the pen and actually begins to gather in one direction at the moment it touches the ground, and soon my uncle chased it in that direction, and really let him find the murder weapon that pierced through the woman's corpse. ”