We followed Zhang Kailong out of the cafeteria, and more than a dozen people had gathered in front of the office building, and the acting captain Lao Guo was counting the people in the task force.

"What's wrong, Lao Guo?"

Zhang Kailong ran to the front of the task force and asked Lao Guo.

"Oh! Team Zhang. I thought you weren't back! It's good if you're there. The brothers on duty today called and said that there was another accident with the salvage and cleaning boat in the Yellow River, and more than a dozen people had died......

"A dozen people?? You know what's going on? Zhang Kailong was taken aback and hurriedly asked.

"I didn't make it clear on the phone, as if after the huge figure was hoisted, many people present seemed to have encountered a magic barrier, first talking nonsense, and finally jumping into the river."

Chen Laosan interjected and said: "This river is almost dry, even if you know a little bit of water, you can't drown!" Why did so many people die? ”

Lao Guo glanced at Chen Laosan with a wry smile and replied: "Forensic doctors Xiao Zhang and Xiao Li are both present, they have examined several corpses, and the cause of death is ...... The cause of death doesn't seem to be drowning! ”

"Did you die of a heart attack?" Zhang Kailong asked hurriedly.

"Hmm." Lao Guo nodded and replied. "Xiao Zhang and Xiao Li said the same thing, I don't quite understand ......"

This was followed by another burst of sirens of varying lengths, and several police cars waved off in a row, ready to go.

"Let's get in the car, let's talk in the car!"

After speaking, Zhang Kailong and Lao Guo jumped into the nearest police car.

Chen Laosan and I and the others also followed closely and got into the car.

In the car, Zhang Kailong communicated with Lao Guo and shared the information he knew.

Zhang Kailong was the first to arrive at the scene during the day today, and the cause of death of those workers at that time made him very suspicious.

Five or six police cars roared along the crooked embankment of the Yellow River, turning the otherwise quiet night into a tumultuous one. As I listened to them discuss the case, I tilted my head and looked out the window.

Suddenly I saw two people standing on one side of the embankment, an old man and a child.

At that time, it was just a flash, and I couldn't see it very clearly, but I always felt that these two people were the strange old and young people I had seen on the bus before.

When I got up and tried to reconfirm from the rear window, there was still the shadow of these two people behind the car!

At this time, I was already full of doubts, if I saw these two people three times in a row, would there be such a coincidence? And it's weird every time, which has to be suspicious.

"What's wrong, Xiao Zhen?"

Zhang Kailong saw me suddenly get up and look back, and hurriedly asked me.

"It's okay...... It's okay...... It's probably dazzling! ”

I explained as I sat back down.

Soon the car stopped, and I saw that the lights in the Yellow River beach were bright at this time, and there were originally many people from the police and fire brigade here, plus Wang Er and their workers, the number was no less than 100.

A huge sculpture stands on a large ship.

At first glance, this sculpture is four or five meters high, and it is the same as the bronze statue of Nuwa seen in the huge banyan tree in the illusory world before, but after a few more glances, you can see that there are still many differences between the two statues.

The first is the sculpture's mouth. I remember that the mouth of the bronze statue of Nuwa was slightly raised, but the corners of the mouth of the statue in front of me were downward, and it looked angry.

In addition, the statue in front of me is holding up the left hand, and the fingers show the gesture of "eight", which is different from the gesture of Nuwa before.

In addition, there are many details that the two statues are also different.

I followed Zhang Kailong and the others closer to the boat with the huge sculpture, and when they saw us passing, the policemen who stayed at the scene hurriedly came over to say hello.

"Team Zhang! Team Guo! You've come fast enough, and you've already recovered fifteen corpses, all of whom are members of the dredging team. ”

As soon as I heard him say that the dead were all workers working here, I was shocked, and immediately thought of Wang Er's trouble-or-treating, so I looked around and saw that on that small boat, there were more than ten or twenty uniformed workers, and one of them was Wang Er's trouble-or-treater with his head bowed and his eyes drooped.

Seeing that Wang Er was fine, I was also relieved, and my attention returned to the police's report.

Zhang Kailong asked: "When this person was salvaged, he had no life characteristics?" ”

The policeman replied, "Yes! It's already dead. ”

Zhang Kailong hesitated, then turned to me and said, "Let's go over and see the corpse, you can see if you can see something from the corpse!" ”

The bodies were all placed to the side, and a dozen were lined up in two rows.

Strangely, each corpse was covered with silt, which looked like the yellow sand and mud of the Yellow River.

Perhaps only those of us who live on the banks of the Yellow River know that the sediment in the Yellow River is different from that in other rivers. The sand grains of the Yellow River sediment are particularly fine, so the mud is also exceptionally soft. When we were children, we liked to soak in the river every summer, and the most common game we played was to rub mud on each other's faces.

Sometimes I touch my face, as long as I close my eyes, put mud on my palms and touch my face, and suddenly the whole face is black and yellow except for the eyes and mouth and nostrils, so that no one can recognize anyone.

Now the ten corpses were covered with yellow mud on their bodies, heads, and faces.

"What's going on? Xiao Dong"

"Oh! I forgot to make it clear to you just now, after these people jumped into the river, they disappeared, and then they were all dug out of the silt under the Yellow River, so ...... So that's it. ”

Zhang Kailong asked rhetorically, "What? They're all in the mud? Have you seen the scene...... Can you tell how they got into the mud? ”

Xiao Dong hesitated for a moment and replied, "It should be you who got into it!" ”

In fact, as soon as we saw the appearance of these corpses, we have already guessed that this group of people should have been bewitched, just like the neighbors of Laomiao Village lined up towards the Yellow River before, and now I think about it, I am really afraid, if I didn't happen to be in the village at that time, I am afraid that more people will die than today.

When Zhang Kailong walked past me, he quietly pulled me and whispered, "Look at the statue of Nuwa above your head, it seems to be different from the one we have seen before!" ”

I nodded, and was about to answer, but Chen Laosan lowered his voice and replied: "It's not different, this is not a person at all!" ”

The three of us walked to the side where there was no one.

Zhang Kailong asked: "Third brother, what do you mean by this, isn't this sculpture Nuwa?" ”

"It's not! If I'm not mistaken, this should be Nuwa's twin sister, it seems...... It seems to be called Ha Po! ”

"River Po?" I almost laughed when I heard the name, I knew there was a Hebo, and now suddenly I heard the name Hepo again, as if they were two people.

Zhang Kailong asked Chen Laosan with a puzzled face: "Why have I never heard that this Nuwa has a twin sister!" You...... How do you know? ”

Chen Laosan smiled and said: "This legend about ancient times, in fact, is different from region to region, most of the legends written in the book are from the Central Plains region, and over time, most people feel that these legends are authentic legends......

It turns out that in the Yellow River Basin of Ningxia, where Chen Laosan lives, there is a legend about Nuwa:

Legend has it that Nuwa's parents were both gods, and she also had a twin sister named Hepo. Nuwa and He Po had the same temperament when they were children, they were both kind and innocent, but later He Po's personality changed greatly and became violent and murderous.

It is said that the species of human beings at that time were like rainbows in the sky, in addition to whites, blacks, and yellows, as well as greens and reds.

It's just that many species went extinct in that hunt.

Later, when Nuwa learned about this, she was very sad, so she told the god of nature, who was in charge of life and destiny at that time, and the god of nature was very angry when he heard about it, and in a fit of rage, he trapped Hepo in the mud and sand of the Yellow River.

Although he was a daughter, she had great strength, and after he was trapped for 35,000 years, she finally broke free and became more violent, this time she even wanted to destroy everything in the whole world, so she smashed a hole in the southwest corner of the sky.

This is the later story of Nuwa mending the sky.

The reason why there is no river woman in the current myths and legends is because she broke through the sky and broke into a catastrophe, was divided into dozens of pieces, and scattered into the world's extreme cold, extreme heat, as well as deserts and lakes, and it is rumored that part of her body was thrown into the Yellow River, which led to the catastrophe of the Yellow River to the entire human history thousands of times, and there was also the story of Dayu's water control.

When Chen Laosan said this, he smiled again.

There are also very detailed legends about Dayu's water control in Ningxia.

In the legend of the Yellow River Basin in Ningxia, Dayu grasped the cause of the repeated floods of the Yellow River - that is, a giant snake generated by the resentment of the river woman.

This giant snake is more than ten meters long and black, and it caused the Yellow River to flood hundreds of times in the more than 100 years of the Yao Shunyu period.

Later, a master pointed out that the snake was trapped in a special coffin, and the master put on a very powerful formation to subdue demons and eliminate demons, and firmly controlled the giant snake.

Hearing this, I suddenly realized, no wonder Chen Laosan's expression was a little unnatural when he saw the huge coffin dug out of the ground of Laomiao Village and the long shadow inside.

Zhang Kailong looked at me dumbfounded and muttered, "We have never heard of these legends!" ”

Chen Laosan replied: "Actually, it's a legend! Most of them are not credible, but I think there is one thing we should understand, that is, whether this legend is credible or not, and it has nothing to do with whether it is the Central Plains region or not, maybe the legends of those remote frontier areas are more true! ”

Zhang Kailong and I nodded in agreement.

After a long night's work, a total of 21 corpses covered in mud were brought up.

I found an opportunity to walk up to Wang Er's trick-or-treat, asked him to go back to Laomiao Village first, and reminded him not to go near the sculpture.

Wang Er was already frightened, he saw his colleague with his own eyes, and suddenly he jumped into the river one by one as if he had changed his mouth, and never came out again.

By the time it was fished up, it had turned into a cold corpse.

Death brings a sense of fear that no other thing can replace, whether the person is really afraid of things or not!