Chapter 214: The Man in the Water Tank
For those of us who grew up living near the water, frogs are all too familiar. When I was a child, on summer evenings, I used to follow Li Xiaobai and Wang Er to trick-or-treat along the rice fields or ditches, shining a flashlight on the frogs. There are two types of frogs in the area, one is what we call the big frog, and the other is the toad.
We've seen a lot of frogs, but I don't think I've ever heard them make such noises.
The courtyard door of Lao Yu's house was open, and we stepped in one after the other, and as soon as I entered the door, I saw a messy shoe print on the ground, as if there were many people in this courtyard just now.
If you look closely at these shoe prints, you can see traces of leather soles, and there were very few people in the village who wore leather shoes at that time, let alone in such a remote and poor village.
The door of the house was also open, and after poking half my head in, I saw Lao Yu sitting on the chair of the Eight Immortals facing the door, his eyes slightly closed.
Thinking with your toes, you know that old Yu is not normal at this time! It's almost two o'clock in the morning, how can a normal person sit motionless?
"Old Yu! Old than! ”
I knew that this time was not normal, but I couldn't help but shout a few times. People are like this sometimes, knowing the result, but still wanting to try.
shouted twice, Lao Yu was still sitting upright, his body did not move at all, and I knew that Lao Yu, like the neighbors of Lao Miao Village, had also become a "wooden man" at this time.
"It's not going to be dead, is it?"
Li Xiaobai whispered in my ear. I shook my head.
At this time, Chen Xiaozhen is no longer the hairy boy of half a year ago, I did not hesitate at all, walked over in two steps, reached out and probed his snort, the snort was still there, but it was very weak.
At this time, there was another frog call, and the sound came from the inner room of Lao Yu's house.
Could it be the frogs in the tank? At this moment, the previous experience came to me instantly, and I noticed that there were half a tank of frogs in each water tank in this room, and several of them were very huge.
With that in mind, I turned and walked to the inner room, and when the curtain was lifted, several huge water tanks appeared in front of us again. At this time, I calmed down, this inner room was very narrow, and there was nothing but four water tanks, and the strange screaming thing should be in one of the water tanks.
When I walked to the first tank, my heart beat faster, and when I poked my head into the tank, I thought I would see the frog in the half tank, but all I saw was an empty tank.
It can't be said to be an empty tank, because there is still a little water at the bottom of the tank, but this water can't hide even a frog.
What about those frogs? That's a half-tank of frogs!
I remembered the last time I came to Lao Yu's house, I saw a cat-faced Gu man eating these frogs.
My brain spun rapidly, there should be no such possibility, at that time, we followed the cat-faced Gu people all the way, and dozens of policemen were dispatched the next day, in that grave, all the child Gu people were eliminated, and the Gu people were also rescued, could it be that they were also like the old grandson Tou, "the old disease has relapsed"?
Confused, I walked into the second tank, which was still empty. This is really evil!
When I walked to the fifth tank, I thought it was empty, but when I saw it, I was so frightened that I took several steps back.
There was a person squatting in the water tank!
The man was curled up in the water tank with his head bowed.
At that time, Li Xiaobai was closely following me, and I suddenly fell backwards, so frightened that he also jumped up.
"What's wrong, there's something in the tank?"
At that time, I didn't bother to explain to him, because I really wanted to notice just now that the person in this vat seemed to be wearing a police uniform!
Although Zhang Kailong is the captain of the special case team, he rarely wears police uniforms except for necessary occasions, and other members of the special case team rarely wear police uniforms when handling cases.
After calming down, I leaned over again.
It was a man in a police uniform, and he had his head down, and I couldn't see the appearance of this person.
Could it be that Zhang Kailong and they were killed here? I was startled and quickly ran to the next water tank.
There was also a person squatting in this water tank, also a man in a police uniform.
Then I went through the rest of the water tanks in one go, and in each one there was a man squatting, a man dressed as a policeman, to be exact.
In the end, I roughly counted the seven water tanks with people, and all seven of them were wearing police uniforms. I suddenly remembered this kind of police uniform, isn't it the uniform of the Liuhe Police Station? Could it be that these people are from the local police station?
"What's going on? Xiao Zhen, are all these people dead? Who is the one who screamed? ”
At that time, when I saw a person squatting in the water tank, this strange scene made me also blindfolded, and I woke up like a dream when I heard Li Xiaobai say this.
That's right! We were attracted by the strange frog-like sound, but what was it that made such a call?
Could it be the compartment hidden above your head?? I suddenly thought that Yu Lina, who had become a Gu person before, had also hidden in the compartment on this roof, and immediately looked up at the compartment of about one square meter.
But I didn't see anything.
At this time, there were two more rapid frog cries in succession, which actually came from a water tank a few meters away from me.
At this time, Li Xiaobai was so frightened that he retreated to the door.
I also chuckled in my heart, could it be that the two sounds just now were made by the people in the water tank?
My hand stretched out to the water tank was trembling all the time, and I was silently cheering for myself in my heart: I, Chen Xiaozhen, are not afraid of poison, I am not afraid of ghosts, am I still afraid of a corpse......
I carefully flipped over the man's neck and saw a familiar face. My heart suddenly trembled: I really want to see this person! Maybe it was because I saw the police uniform on this person, and I instantly remembered that this was not the little assistant police officer of the Liuhe Police Station who I had met twice before? Could it be that these seven people are all from the Liuhe Police Station?
I was in the middle of a fugue when I suddenly heard Li Xiaobai yelling: "There's something in the tank!" ”
Almost at the same time, I saw a brown toad in the man's abdomen pounce on my face, but fortunately I reacted quickly! Hurriedly turned sideways, and the toad brushed my ear.
At that moment I smelled a pungent fishy stench, like the smell of a rotting corpse.
The frog had fiery red eyes, a brown back, and abscesses on it, the size of a rabbit.
"Get out of the way!" I yelled at Li Xiaobai, who was still standing at the door in a daze.
The huge toad didn't pounce on me, it seemed to be very angry, and after a few croaking monsters, it turned around and pounced on Li Xiaobai.
This toad is poisonous! It should also be a Gu worm...... When I smelled the strange smell of the toad, I already had a number in my mind.
Li Xiaobai was still slow to react, he heard my shouting, he was stunned for a moment, and this stunned was delayed.
The toad has already jumped up, Li Xiaobai wants to hide again, but where can he dodge!
"Ahh Yes! ”
With a scream, the frog pounced on Li Xiaobai's face, and he fell down instantly.
The frog seemed a little afraid of me, jumped out of the door, glanced at me, and jumped into the yard.
"Little bad brother!" I shouted three times in a row, but Li Xiaobai didn't react at all.
Looking at his face again, it was already red and swollen, and I quickly stepped forward to touch it
The Gu poison of this Gu worm is powerful enough! I was shocked, it seems that Zhang Kailong and they are more than lucky.
At that time, I didn't care about it, so I hurriedly took out a dagger from my pocket (I was in the ancient tomb under the Yellow River before, I wanted to save people with blood, but I didn't have a dagger, so I found a dagger and carried it with me when I came back), and scratched it on my middle finger.
I wiped my blood-soaked fingers on Li Xiaobai's mouth, and at that moment, I felt his body tremble, and it seemed that my blood had also worked.
said that it was too late, it was fast, and I expected that in the middle of the night, Li Xiaobai would not have an accident if he fainted on the ground, so I rushed out with an arrow step.
After chasing out the door, I saw that the huge red-eyed toad was actually jumping towards the back of the house.
I thought so at the time, since Zhang Kailong asked me to come by name on the phone, saying that only I could save them, the danger he said must be related to Gu worms, so can you find them by following this red-eyed frog?
In comparison, this frog jumped very fast, but after all, it was a frog, and I chased after it in a few steps.
At that time, I was quite calm, and I thought in my heart: I should put a long line of big fish! With my current skills, it is not difficult to catch this toad, but what is the use of catching it alive?
There was another family behind the old Yu family's house, and the toad continued to jump back, and after jumping over this house, a wheat field appeared in front of my eyes.
Maybe my friends who grew up in the city don't understand what a wheat field is, at that time, farmers had not yet popularized mechanization in farming, and wheat, corn and other crops had to be transported to a flat place after they were ripe, and then rolled and peeled.
From a distance, this wheat field is very large, and it is probably used by more than a dozen families.
The first thing I saw was dozens of haystacks of various sizes, and I knew from experience that they were wheat stalks, firewood (cotton stalks), and corn stalks.
At a second glance, I saw several people standing in the middle of the wheat field, and they were probably standing back to back with each other, as if guarding against something around them.
It's about five people! One of them facing me was Zhang Kailong.
So they're here! What's going on? There is nothing else to see around here except the haystacks!
The toad in front of me actually jumped in the direction where Zhang Kailong and the others were.
At this time, I paid attention to Zhang Kailong and the others, only glanced at them, and suddenly couldn't help but exclaim. OMG! There were countless little red dots scattered on the ground around them, and I realized after a second, what little red dots, isn't this the toad's eyes!