To be honest, tomato still can't swim, hydrophobia is very serious, usually walking by the river are a little frightened, for fear that something terrible will drag me into the river, and I was a good swimmer, but since I was a child, I never wanted to swim anymore.

When I was a child, tomatoes used to swim in reservoirs not far from my hometown. Especially with many friends who are the same age as tomatoes, I often go to the reservoir to swim, which feels super cool. At that time, my hometown was relatively close to the reservoir, and many of the children in the neighborhood were about the same age as me.

There were even times when Tomato and his friends were still in class, they secretly skipped class and went to the reservoir to swim, for which they were criticized by the teacher, and the teacher also told our parents, who had always forbidden us to swim in the reservoir, and dragged us over to pick up the slippers on the buttocks was a slap, and asked us to promise not to go to the reservoir again before stopping. But we were all children at the time, and swearing was commonplace, and none of them were taken seriously.

At that time, I had just learned how to swim, and I could only dog-plane, and my other friends were more and more vigorous one by one, when the center of the reservoir was very deep, said to be fifteen meters deep, and the water around was shallow, and it was our paradise at that time.

Many of the friends were tired of splashing in the water, so they tried to climb the steps of the reservoir, and those steps were three or four meters high above the water, and they stood there and dived. I remember one time, a neighbor's child jumped down there and slapped his chest directly on the water because of the wrong jumping posture, and almost didn't catch his breath.

There are many legends of dead people in the reservoir, and I often hear people say that people drowned in the water, but every time I only heard about it and didn't see it with my own eyes.

However, I did not expect that such a painful and terrible thing would soon befall me.

At that time, there was a legend of a water ghost in our time, and it was said that many people drowned in the water, and the souls of these people did not ascend to heaven, but only turned into water ghosts, and they were very resentful, and they were always ready to pull the people who swam above the water to be their substitutes. According to the old man, water ghosts can be divided into two categories, the first is accidental drowning, that is, the soul of a dead soul who dies in vain, often floating in the sea, and needs to find another person as a stand-in to be reincarnated. The second is self-killing, because the resentment is great, so the revenge is heavy, for example, the water ghost who commits suicide for love will attack the mandarin duck playing in the water, and break up the good relationship to eliminate the resentment in the heart.

Moreover, the old man also told us not to go into the water, especially on the night of the full moon, especially not to go into the water on the days of the full moon on the 14th, 15th and 16th days of the lunar calendar. Because the night of the full moon is the time when the yin energy and spiritual energy are at its most vigorous, the water ghosts will take advantage of this to confuse people to get rid of the sea of suffering. In addition, the three days before and after the 14th day of the seventh lunar month, the Qingming Festival and the Chung Yeung Festival are also days of heavy yin qi, and it is also not suitable to swim in the water.

And when I was in junior high school, I was drinking with a few good friends, and it was the same day after the Chung Yeung Festival, and the weather was equally hot. We chatted and chatted in front of a small wine stall, and we talked about the drowning people in the reservoir every year, and the drowning people were all swimmers.

At this time, the owner of the wine stall told us in a dark voice that it was all done by water ghosts, and that a few substitutes were pulled every year, so many people drowned in the reservoir every year. From time to time, a few friends and I were a little upbeat because we had drunk some wine, so we were all, and scolded the boss for bragging nonsense, who knew that when the boss heard this, he was furious, and he was also energetic, and bet with us that if we dared to swim in the reservoir tonight, then all we spent tonight would be free.

As soon as we heard that it was just swimming, and that we could save a lot of money on drinks, why not, so we went to the steps of the reservoir in a drunken rage, and it was very hot, and we drank some more and felt hot. So there was a plop and a few plops, and we all jumped into the reservoir. The sudden cool water was about to seep into almost every sweat pore in my body, and it was extremely comfortable, and just as I was enjoying this coolness, I suddenly felt my ankles tighten, as if I was grabbed by something unknown and dragged into the deep water. I struggled to kick and kick the thing that was clutching my feet, but I was still pulled by it and dragged into the water. I suddenly had a ringing in my ears, and then there was a dark in front of me, and the water in the reservoir was almost along my ears, mouth, nose, and eyes, but my eyes were squeezed by the water pressure and suddenly hurt, and I looked down faintly, only to see a black mass below, but fortunately, the water in the water area was not too deep, and I clung to the rocks raised from the cliff in the water, so as not to continue to be pulled. At this moment, I heard the loud exclamation of my friends who had come with me, and then I felt seven or eight hands grasp my arms at the same time, and pull me by the hair and drag me outward, and finally they dragged me out with all their might, so that I was not dragged into the lake.

But afterwards, I was miserable enough, and my hair was torn off a lot, because I was frightened and choked in the reservoir water for too long, and I was sick for a long time. Looking back now, I can clearly feel that a human hand was clinging to my ankle and dragging me down the water, and the strength of the thing was still great...... Since then, my friends and I have rarely swam in that reservoir again, for fear that we would run into something terrible and end up losing our lives.

Later, I heard that the scientific name of this monster is the water horse (water monkey) this mysterious animal that lives in the river, is an animal of Chinese folklore, from their description, we know that the water monkey is a humanoid underwater animal, full of hair, it is characterized by long hair is red, the buttocks are also very red, it is monkey-like and a bit like a child, Cantonese people say that the scientific name of this underwater creature is Feng Shui monkey, they live on fish, but they also like to suck blood, Just like mosquitoes because of a certain physiological need and suck the blood of other creatures, including humans, Guangdong Maoming, Huazhou, Chaoshan area heard that there are many people killed by this water monkey, and then suck human blood from the heel, it is said that the water monkey is infinitely powerful underwater, on land there is no force at all, even the rooster can not fight, its biggest feature is that it can emit a strange chemical, can make people unclear will to listen to its call, trick people into the water to become his prey, the society is that some people use this chemical, confuse people and cheat people money

It is said that this kind of monster often lives in the kind of reservoirs and mountain ponds that have not been dry for decades or even hundreds of years, or sparsely populated rivers with very clear water but very deep to swim and play, so if we have to swim in these areas, do not swim too far, do not get out of the crowd, swim in the designated swimming area, the more people swim, the better, the less people in the remote places and few people come to make noise and disturb the waters, it is very easy to be caught by the water horses, and it is dragged into the water as a substitute for the dead ghosts.

Therefore, if you want to swim in a lake or river, or even a reservoir, especially listen to the locals or administrators, and don't swim in a reservoir or river where people drown every year, and if you have to swim, then be even more cautious!

Well, that's it for the story of the water ghost, Tomato will give you a terrifying and sweet cocktail - Bloody Mary, and the next story is the horror story that takes place in the nightclub "Night Rose" mentioned in the fifth volume, with dark red, sometimes flickering colored lights, and hideous faces...... For all of this, please see the next case file, "The Case of the Dried Corpse Girl of the Night Rose".

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