Chapter 3: The Shadow in the Rain

"I've heard that, two more corpses have been transported."

"I haven't heard of it! One big and one small, the big one died miserably, and it is said that half of the head is missing! ”

"Shhhh......h

I first heard strange conversations between several women, then I gradually regained consciousness and opened my eyes only to find myself lying in a bed. On the top, white sheets, white pillows, and two small packets of liquid hanging from the top of the head.

Is this a hospital? My thinking is also slowly becoming clearer.

"Yo! You're awake! How does it feel? ”

Tilting my head, I saw a nurse dressed in white smiling at me.

"My head hurts a little...... As soon as I finished speaking, I realized that it was actually a pain in my neck, and a spicy feeling came from my neck, and I wanted to reach out and touch it.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he was halfway through his hand, he was stopped by the little nurse beside him.

"You can't touch it! You have medicine on your neck - scared to death yesterday, you ...... Your neck is a blur of flesh and blood. ”

My neck? The scene before fainting came to mind, what was the situation, what were those furry black hands and white shadows?

"Director He, he's awake!"

The nurse's sweet voice pulled my mind back to reality again.

"What do you think, young man?" Again, I tilted my head again and saw a tall, thin doctor in his fifties with glasses standing next to the nurse.

"I have no strength and my neck hurts......"

The doctor pinched my chin and looked at my neck: "It's not a big problem, I'll be fine after two days of rest!" ”

"Doctor, what the hell happened to me?" The doctor turned to leave, and I hurriedly called out to him.

"My surname is He, just call me Doctor He - you were arrested by a few police officers yesterday morning. Cha arrived, when you were in a deep coma, and the skin on your neck was open. I don't know anything else. ”

After thanking the doctor, I remembered last night's incident again, and my scalp was numb again.

After lying down for a while, I tried to sit up, and just as I was about to get out of bed, I saw several people walk in outside the door.

"Lu Dong, how do you feel?"

I recognized Li Guozhi at a glance and Director Liu, whom I had seen that day.

"It's just that my neck hurts a little - by the way, how the hell did I get hurt, why am I lying in the hospital?" I asked Li Guozhi.

Without waiting for Li Guozhi to answer, Director Liu next to him spoke: "It was our people who sent you to the hospital, as for the first question you asked, I should ask you!" ”

Director Liu found someone to record a confession for me, and after retelling the experience of last night in detail, everyone in the ward was dumbfounded.

"What you say is true?" Director Liu's throat moved, and he asked me with doubts.

I didn't bother to explain any more, so I just nodded.

"What's wrong with Brother Hong?" Alarm. After asking the question, I quickly asked rhetorically.

Li Guozhi smiled bitterly: "It's dead!" And it was a terrible death! When the people in Director Liu's office went in the morning, they found his body and you in a deep coma. ”

"Dead? How did you die? I continued to ask.

Director Liu continued: "The case is being investigated, and it is preliminarily judged that he was bitten to death by some fierce beast." ”

Beast of prey? This area belongs to the plains, not to mention fierce beasts, even hares and pheasants are rare, as far as I know, there are a few families nearby that raise Tibetan mastiffs.

White Shadow? Suddenly I thought of the huge splash I heard before I lost consciousness last night and the long white shadow I saw, what kind of fish it was? The Yellow River carp is not so long, let alone so large, and the saury and grass carp are even more impossible.

The more I thought about it, the more confused I became.

Alarm. After the people from the inspection bureau left, Li Guozhi picked a banana for me and told me in detail what happened.

Speaking of which, I've been in a coma for two days and one night.

According to the requirements of the Municipal Bureau, early yesterday morning, Director Liu sent three policemen. I went to the puddle to collect the corpse and measured the terrain, and I saw me fainting and Lao Hong who died tragically from a distance.

Li Guozhi smiled bitterly and told me that when Lao Hong's body was found, he was wearing diving equipment and a strange animal skin glove on his right hand.

I was a little confused - what was Lao Hong doing with such a glove, and then his scalp was like being electrocuted-could it be that Lao Hong was choking my neck? But why! The two of us had no grievances in the past and no enmity in the near future.

Li Guozhi should have thought of this as well, and after finishing speaking, he lit a cigarette, smoked it to himself, and stopped talking.

Lao Hong died, he died very tragically, and it was also very strange, and I had a faint feeling that the real purpose of Lao Hong tricking me to the puddle last night was definitely not to find any treasure.

Until he was discharged from the hospital the next day, the police. Cha came to me five times and asked me to recount the experience of that night five times.

When I was discharged from the hospital, it was Yu Jin who picked me up, and when I returned to the station, I found that Li Guozhi and Tian Zhen were not there.

"Brother Jin, where are the people in the station?"

"Let's all go to the Yellow River Beach to help! I thought there were many professional salvage workers from the city! Don't you have to ask our brother to come out? ”

Yu Jin said that after letting me go, he would also rush to the Yellow River Beach to help, so I waved my hand: "Brother, go directly!" I've also learned a lot! ”

Yu Jin couldn't resist me, so he had to turn the car and drive up the embankment.

"Brother Jin, have you caught anything in the past two days? Is there a box of gold? ”

"Gold? Pay back the money! The corpse of the child in Hewang Village was fished up, and there were several large glass jars, each of which was soaked in a specimen of the corpse of a deformed baby, and there seemed to be a few black boxes. If you don't let us get closer, you don't know what it is. ”

These words solved a doubt in my heart, and at the same time there were two new doubts, it turned out that the corpse under the glass that Lao Hong saw that afternoon was a baby specimen in a glassware, how could these specimens sink in the riverbed. What about it? Is the black box the gold in Lao Hong's mouth?

Today, the scene on the river beach was even more spectacular, with four police cars parked alone, surrounded by do-gooders from several nearby villages from a distance.

Director Liu saw me coming over and shook his head: "There are really more and more frustrations and bravery, your kid is healed and forgot the pain!" ”

I touched the bandage around my neck and laughed a few times in response.

Listen to a police officer at the scene. Cha said that in the past two days, some strange things have been salvaged, including ancient bronze vessels and various utensils used by modern people, and it may be that this depression is low-lying and has deposited a lot of things washed down from the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River for a long time.

Tian Zhen, Li Guozhi, and Yao Liguo were three colleagues helping the two salvage workers sent by the city bureau to work in the water.

"Lao Wangshu. Remember, what big fish are in the rivers in our area? ”

Lao Wang's complexion was not very good, and he muttered: "The carp of one hundred and ten catties is the largest, but when the dredging was carried out in the eighties, a white snake more than ten meters long was dug out...... This incident later caused a stir, and more than a dozen people died! ”

I was curious, and I was about to ask again, when I heard a loud noise in the air, and when I looked up, I saw dark clouds on the southwest side.

Director Liu hurriedly shouted into the water: "Everyone hurry ashore, it's going to rain!" ”

It's already September, and the rainy season is said to have passed, but the rain comes quickly, and the raindrops the size of soybeans have fallen on his face as he spoke.

The onlookers dispersed as if they were in a hurry. Cha and a few of our brothers were wet when they hid in the car. Thoroughly.

I thought it wouldn't be long in coming, but I didn't know that the torrential rain didn't catch my breath for three and a half hours, and through the car glass, I saw that the river had been connected into a piece, and the surrounding water was like a flood of water gathering, it was estimated that the rain stopped, and there was no way to salvage it again.

I was thinking about it when suddenly a policeman was sitting behind me. Cha shouted, "Look, who is that? ”

Looking in the direction he was pointing, I saw a figure moving slowly towards the river in the heavy rain. The rain was so heavy that my vision was a little blurry, and I looked at it like a woman.

It's raining so hard and running to the river, isn't it stupid! As soon as my idea came to me, Director Liu beside me shouted, "Not good! This man wanted to kill himself by jumping into the river! ”

Alarm. Cha's reaction was faster than ordinary people, and as soon as Director Liu's voice fell, he heard a car door knock, and when he turned to look, the two policemen sitting behind me. Cha had already rushed out.

The car was at least five or six hundred meters away from the river, and the ground was full of potholes, and before the two of them arrived, the woman's figure had disappeared into the heavy rain.

"What about people?" Director Liu shouted.

"It can't be a fall, right?" Another policeman. Cha explained.

After waiting for five or six minutes, two police officers rushed out. Cha returned to the car, panting like a cow.

"Bureau Liu, I'm afraid that people really jumped into the river, the rain is too heavy, and they can't go down to fish!"

Director Liu nodded, did not speak, and there was a deathly silence in the car.

Even I know that it doesn't take more than five minutes to rescue a drowning person, otherwise even if they do, they won't be able to save them.

After more than half an hour passed, the rain gradually decreased, and before the rain stopped completely, Director Liu and a few policemen. Cha got out of the car and approached the river again to look for the woman just now.

The woman was not found, but she ushered in more than a dozen villagers led by Lao Wang, the village party secretary, who were drenched. Wet, jumping down the river embankment.

The other people in the car didn't know what was going on, and they all gathered around.

"You ...... Have you seen Guanglin's daughter-in-law? Lao Wang asked with a pant.

Most people were stunned, Yu Jin seemed to have slept in the car for a while, yawned and asked, "Who is Guanglin's daughter-in-law?" Who is Guanglin! ”

Lao Wang glared at him: "The mother of those two boys who drowned in the river!" ”

"What the hell is going on? It's raining so hard, what is that woman doing by the river!! Director Liu wiped the rain from his face, "When the rain was falling, I saw a figure moving towards the river, and our people wanted to chase it, but they didn't catch up!" ”

Lao Wang slapped his thigh: "That's it!" The daughter-in-law of the Guanglin family is crazy, and more than a dozen of us were stunned and didn't stop it, it seems that this time there is more luck and less luck! ”

Li Guozhi sighed: "This is crazy thoughts!" ”

"That's right! You're all here, and you save me from reporting the crime. Lao Wang's face sank, and his words changed, "Guanglin hanged himself, in the side room of their house, and this was just when it rained, and the neighbor heard his daughter-in-law shouting at home." ”

It's been three days, why can't the two of them think about it at this time! I felt that this matter was a little strange, so I didn't wait for Director Liu to speak, and asked first: "Lao Wangshu. Remember, what did her daughter-in-law shout? ”

A bald old man behind Lao Wang replied: "I am his neighbor, and the younger brothers and sisters of the Guanglin family actually shouted one sentence repeatedly." ”

"What's that?"

"My son was killed by a demon!"