Chapter 6: Night Terrors
"Who? Who's where? Is it Wang Zhi? ”
Seeing someone lying on the riverbank for help, my first reaction was that Wang Zhi, who had just been chasing, fell into the water.
So I walked slowly in the direction of the dark shadow, and at the same time I tentatively shouted a few words, but the man did not respond, but writhed himself to climb ashore, and from time to time a hoarse whimper came out of his mouth.
Seeing this posture, I suddenly stopped, and a terrible conjecture suddenly surged in my heart for no reason.
"Isn't it....... Isn't it a water ghost? ”
People are like this, I don't want to pay it back, once the thoughts are together, I can't control it, and in an instant, dozens of pictures of water ghosts devouring me alive appeared in my heart, and even the black shadow lying on the ground began to become more and more weird in my eyes.
In fact, it's no wonder I'm too timid, at that time the legend of the ghost of the Huansha River was quite popular in the city of Anyi, and the women in the area of Huansha Street were convinced of it, not only that, but they were also particularly keen to spread this kind of story when they had nothing to do, and the original boring story became clear and clear in an instant after their adaptation, and the plot was more exciting than the market novel, even I, a person who didn't believe in ghosts and gods, listened to it with relish.
The content of the story is like this: according to legend, when the excavation of the Huansha River was about to be completed, the upstream gate suddenly collapsed, and the river water quickly poured into the river, and some workers who did not have time to escape from the river were directly flooded by the river.
Originally, I only had an attitude of listening to this kind of story, but it really coincided with the scene I was seeing now, and I secretly cried out in my heart, cold sweat had broken out on my back, and my legs began to tremble incessantly, so I stood there and kept a distance of about ten steps from the black shadow, and the two sides confronted each other.
After a while, the "water ghost" was still lying on the ground and struggling, and I saw that he did not seem to have the intention of taking me away at once, so I begged him with fear and trembling in my heart:
"This.... This ghost, ghost master, raise your noble hand and let go of the little one, the little one has an eighty-year-old mother and a three-year-old child below...... Want...... If you really don't want to let go of Xiao De, please move faster and twist awkwardly, so that the little one dies more happily......"
With that, I closed my eyes and waited for my fate.
Who knew that the "water ghost" not only did not kill me, but shouted with a crying voice:
"I ..... It's not a ghost, it's ...... Pull me out! ”
After shouting, he was completely motionless.
This voice finally really came to my ears, and I thought to myself, why did this ghost cry before he wanted to kill? Is it a cry of joy? It's not right to think about it again, this ghost would have done it a long time ago, so why bother listening to my nonsense here?
"Oh no, is it true that someone is in distress and is calling for help?"
I slapped myself at the thought of this.
"Xu Junwen, Xu Junwen, what do you want? Are you worthy of letting the water ghost take away your house, and what good is it to take your house? Do you want to go to the shop? ”
So I hurried over to the black shadow, and when I leaned over, it was not a water ghost, but a handsome young man of seventeen or eighteen.
The young man was dressed in a blue brocade, which had already been soaked by the river at this time, and his clothes were covered with blood stains, as if he had been injured a lot.
I scrambled to drag him out of the water and reached out to probe his sniff.
It's okay, although the boy's snort is weak, it is quite stable, and he should not be able to die for a while.
It was only then that I felt a little relieved that it would be ridiculous if I had not been able to save this boy because of my own little care......
But before I could feel at ease, a serious problem was placed in front of me again.
What should I do to save him?
At this time, the pharmacy and medical hall have long been closed, if you really want to save him, you can only take him home and bandage him briefly, and then go to invite Lang Zhong tomorrow morning. But I didn't know who he was, and I didn't know why he was killed, and it was too dangerous to take him home so recklessly.
After hesitating for a moment, I still chose to save him, after all, he was still young and had a great future, and he shouldn't just expose his corpse in the wilderness without knowing it.
Besides, judging by his dress, he doesn't look like some kind of villain, so there shouldn't be any problems.
"There is a way to save people's lives and build a seventh-level floating slaughter, boy, you are lucky to meet me."
I muttered as I tried to lift him off the ground, but I realized I couldn't pull him at all.
It's no wonder that I had already exhausted all my strength when I was chasing Wang Zhi, and now I don't have the strength to carry an unconscious young man back home, not to mention that this place is still several miles away from my house, even if it is usually difficult to do it with my small body bones that struggle to resist sandbags.
How is this good, although I don't know how badly this young man is injured, but just looking at his state at this time, if he ignores it, I am afraid that he will die here unconsciously in a few hours.
After thinking about it for a while, I had an idea, since I couldn't bring him home alone, it was better to go back on my own first, and see if I could find one or two helpers and come back to rescue him together.
Thinking of this, I quickly took off my clothes, thinking that I would change his soaked clothes first, and with his current body temperature, if he was still wearing wet clothes, I was afraid that he would not be able to support it before I moved to the rescue.
Just as I was reaching out to take off his clothes bare-chested, a snow-white blade suddenly came out of my side silently, right on my neck, and in an instant I felt a chill on my neck, and the whole person froze on the spot as if struck by lightning.
At the same time, a cold voice behind him slowly sounded:
"Don't move, you'll die."
I instinctively wanted to look back, but when my head turned slightly, the man with the sword suddenly exerted a force and pressed the sword to my neck.
I had no choice but to stop, swallow my saliva and beg for mercy in a trembling voice:
"Good...... Hero...... A good man spares his life, I'm not a villain, I'm just ...... Just trying to save people. ”
The man didn't have the slightest intention of putting away his sword, and said coldly:
"Why do you strip to save people?"
He ..... He, he, he..... His clothes were wet, so I changed them first, and then moved the rescuers......"
I was so confused that I didn't know what I was talking about.
Fortunately, the man didn't seem to have any intention of entanglement with me, and with a cold snort, he pulled the sword from my neck.
"Just stand here and don't move."
"Yes......"
With that, the man stepped out from behind me, came to the young man's side, leaned over and looked at it.
"Young master, young master?"
He snorted a few times, and when the boy on the ground did not respond, he turned back and stared at me again.
I knew that at this time I could see the appearance of this person clearly, he was wearing a black power suit, his face was resolute, his expression was fierce, and his eyes were as sharp as an eagle falcon, like a martial arts master described in the novel.
I was stared at by him, my heart was straight hairy, and I was covered in cold sweat like a pillar, and I only felt weak limbs, cold hands and feet when the night wind blew, and I was about to collapse to the ground at any time.
"Bitter, bitter!"
I wailed in my heart, I don't know what's going on tonight, since I took the foreign wealth of more than four taels of silver, strange things have happened one after another, I knew that this silver was so hot, no matter how Li Gongzi coerced and tempted, I would definitely not give in!
As the saying goes, people are swords, I am fish and meat, and now it is useless to be afraid, so I have to say timidly:
"Hero, listening to what you called this little brother just now, you must be friends and enemies with him, oh no, friends and not enemies, eh....... The little one happened to pass by here, and saw the little brother lying on the riverbank for help, so he wanted to take him home to find someone to heal, but the little man was weak and couldn't take him away alone, so he wanted to return to ask for help by himself. The hero came in time, and now it's useless for the small one to stay here, and the small one will retire first......"
The black-clothed swordsman continued to stare at me, without the slightest intention of letting me go, and he said coldly:
"No, just go to your house as you say."
"Okay...... There are just some gold sore medicines in the small home, so you can deal with them for a while......"
The swordsman didn't talk much nonsense, and stretched out his hand to me and said sharply:
"Clothes!"
I hurriedly grabbed the clothes on the ground and handed them to him, but after he took them, he still didn't give up, and continued to stretch out his hand and said:
"Hakama pants"
At this moment, I was dumbfounded, and said in a daze:
"Hakama....... Hakama pants too? ”
He didn't explain much, just shook the glittering sword in his hand at me.
This was the most effective action for me, so I took off my pants and handed it to him.
"Uh....... Do you want to take off your pants? ”
"What do you say?!"
Just as I was about to take off my underwear, the hero immediately stopped me with a stern look, and finally didn't let me completely bare my butt.
After a while, the hero had already changed my clothes and pants for the little brother, and he picked up the little brother from the ground and said to me:
"Lead the way!"
"This way~~~"
So I wore only a pair of underwear on my whole body, and walked slowly in the direction of home with the two of them......