After listening to it for most of the day, I still didn't understand what I was fishing for.

I couldn't help but cough and interrupted him, saying, "What happened just now, I know there must be something taboo. However, Old Tan, you have to tell me, what exactly did you catch just now? ”

Old Tan lame swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his Adam's apple moved very loudly, and he looked underwater with some fear, the bright lights shone on the sea, the water was very calm, and occasionally some small fish and shrimp jumped out of the water, causing a circle of ripples.

He lowered his voice and said, "The one who caught it just now is a water ghost." ”

"Water ghosts?" I was surprised: "I thought it was a fish!" It's pulling the line hard under the water! ”

Old Cripple Tan took another puff of his cigarette and asked, "Think about it, is that thing different from usual fishing just now?" ”

I thought about it for a moment and said, "Something seems wrong." ”

Old Tan asked me, "What's wrong?" ”

I said, "It stands to reason that after the fish is hooked in the mouth, it will jump out desperately, and the strength is almost the same, and only in the end it can't swim anymore, and the momentum gradually decreases, and it is slowly dragged ashore." Isn't that so? ”

Old Tan and the lame man all nodded yes.

I said, "But that's not the case with this fish." It's very strange, it's not like it's running out desperately at the beginning, it's more like a sudden sudden, sudden, then stopped, and then stopped, and then stopped, and it felt strange.

Old Tan lame smiled, his face was pale and miserable, and his smile was very miserable.

I haven't lived in the ocean, I'm not familiar with the sea at all, I thought that the fish hook caught out were all the creatures of the ocean, but now the old lame Tan taught me a lesson.

I saw that Old Cripple Tan was smiling bitterly, so I asked, "What's wrong?" ”

He took a puff of his cigarette, then spit it out, and said to me with a foggy look in his eyes, "Look, did you feel like that just now?" ”

He asked me to lift my arm up, and he tugged at my sleeve with his hand, and he pulled it down, and stopped, and then he pulled it down, and he stopped again, and looked at me.

I reminisced and said, "Yes, that's it!" ”

He sighed, "You know now, why I said it was a water ghost." ”

I still didn't quite understand, and said, "When I first started fishing, I saw that the thing was a little whitish, but I didn't see it clearly at all, you said it was a water ghost, but it was fishing like a tentacle." ”

Tan Cripple lowered his voice and said, "These words are not good to say at sea. That's what I'm going to say, don't ask again. ”

I saw that he was cautious, and I promised not to ask him anything again.

He leaned his head over and lowered his voice and whispered a word.

The sound of that sentence was small, but it sounded like a bolt from the blue to my ears.

"What you just caught was a rotting human hand"

A rotting human hand, clutching a fishing line in its hand, was slowly being pulled out of the sea.

I can make up the picture in my head.

When I was fishing, there was a rotting corpse under the bottom of the sea, and he staggered over, tugged at the hook with his hand, tugged at it again, and then grabbed it with all his might, and then grabbed it with all his might, and then grabbed it in the palm of his bone-revealing hand.

On the boat, it seemed to me that there was a big fish under the water, devouring my bait, which made me excited.

Next, the rotting human corpse grabbed the bait in its hand and began to continue walking into the water.