22. On the banks of the Yellow River
I don't know what Beard caught, but is there a water monster? What all the fuss about?
Because I was in a bit of a hurry, only Feijing and Yang Xiaoqi brought flashlights, which were not very bright, and the road was slippery in the rain, so Lao Bai and I finally got to the shore after a few falls.
The rest of the people had already arrived, and when I got closer, I realized that Beard had caught not a water monster at all, but a corpse.
The body of a man.
The man had been in the water for an unknown amount of time, his skin was pale, like a ball of gas, his eyes bulging, and his eyelids turned outward, making them look like they were about to fall out. The mouth is very open, and you can see the gums inside. He was wearing a black jacket, leather pants, and snow boots.
Although there were flying mirrors around them, the death of this person still sent chills down my spine and made me feel eerie.
Feijing and the others are much stronger than me in terms of courage and psychological endurance, they are not afraid of the horror of this corpse at all, and several people have taken it ashore. The flying mirror kept shining a flashlight on the man's face, as if he had found something.
Sure enough, he soon snorted and said, "Huzi, do you think this person is a little familiar?" ”。
Hu Zi shook his head and said, it's almost fucking soaked into mustard, how can you see it.
"It seems like someone from the line in front of us. I really want to see this kid, he is in Qi Yuying's team, his name is .... Call..... I forgot too, but I've definitely seen this guy. Feijing frowned, constantly looking at the corpse.
"Have you seen it?" I asked Lao Bai, Junzi and the other three.
They nodded and said it sounded familiar, but not sure.
I glanced at Yang Xiaoqi and probably had a bottom in my heart. This person may really be someone from the front line.
This is strange, how could the people in the front team die in this river, what really happened?
My heart went up and down, and I couldn't help but look at the corpse a few more times. Suddenly, I noticed that the corpse had a metal object about the size of a thumb in its mouth. took Yang Xiaoqi's flashlight and took a photo, and immediately gasped. The corpse had a fish hook hanging from its mouth.
"What's the matter with this hook?" I hit the pillar of light in the corpse's mouth and asked the beard.
He took one look and said, "That's what I find scary." When we pulled him up just now, this guy was still biting the hook. It's strange or not, it's just evil. ”。
I knew what he meant, the hook was so small, the corpse was so big. If you really hook the corpse, the biggest chance is of course to hook the clothes worn on the corpse, but it just hooks the position of the mouth, is it really possible for such a coincidence?
"Could it be that the corpse took the initiative to bite your hook?" Scar uttered this sentence in a gloomy voice.
Feijing tells him not to talk nonsense, then turns his face to Ayumi to ask her opinion.
Ayumi crouched down, looked at the corpse, and said to us, "This man is drowned." It was about seven days ago, but there was something strange. She stopped talking, as if organizing the language.
"What?" Yang Xiaoqi asked.
Ayumi glanced at him and stood up, clapped his hands and said, "This person's body is too clean, except for the place where it was hooked by the fishhook, there are no scars on the body." Isn't it strange that there is no shortage of fish in the Yellow River that eat corpses, and that the corpses have not been damaged in any way after such a long time? ”。
Her words are good, and this is indeed a bit unreasonable.
"What's next?" Beard asked everyone.
We looked at each other, and finally turned our gaze back to Ayumi, who had grown up on the banks of the Yellow River and was the guide of the group, and there was no reason why we should not ask her opinion.
Ayumi was not verbose, and after thinking about it for a while, she said: "Look at this rain, we can't go tonight, let's keep the plan the same, and we will leave early tomorrow morning." But at night you have to keep a vigil. ”。
Her words added an invisible layer of haze to the team, which meant to tell us that there was something wrong with the corpse, otherwise how could someone arrange a vigil. Is there anything unspeakable, or is this thing too weird to say for fear that we can't bear it. That's not right, beard and others are not the kind of timid lords.
I couldn't figure it out after thinking about it for a long time. See if the others don't have any opinion on Ayumi and unanimously agree with her idea. Feijing and Yang Xiaoqi found a place to cover up the body, and prepared to dig a pit and bury it at dawn tomorrow.
Originally, Hu Zi was going to keep vigil, but Ayumi said that his vigilance was too low, so he arranged for Feijing and Yang Xiaoqi to keep vigil together. The rest of the people rested in the cave. The cave was very warm because of the fire, and after only sitting for a while, it made people sleepy.
I fell asleep in a daze, and had a terrible dream in the middle.
In our dream, we came across a boat, a fishing boat with iron sheets. It was encountered in the middle of the voyage. It was raining heavily, and at this time we were at the place where the boat was parked, and we discussed it for a while, and finally decided to abandon the raft and get on the fishing boat.
The horror is that from then on there was an unseen person in our ranks, who ate with us, slept together, took a boat together, and went to Yinyang Island together. The man was following us on a tin fishing boat.
The invisible man followed all the way, and we encountered many unexpected dangers on Yinyang Island, and in the end, Yang Xiaoqi Feijing and the others died, leaving only myself and the invisible man.
When the dream came here, I woke up, and my forehead was covered with cold sweat.
The scene in the dream was so strange that I didn't recover for a while. Leaned against the earthen wall and lit a cigarette. The rest of the people slept very hard, I couldn't sleep, I wanted to find Feijing and Yang Xiaoqi to chat, and by the way, let Feijing interpret my dreams.
Unexpectedly, when I came out, the ghost mastiff also followed. I smiled, patted it on the head, and got out of the hole without a flashlight.
It was still dark outside, but it wasn't raining anymore. After getting used to the darkness, you can see a distance in front of you. I took a deep breath, woke up and took a nap, looked around, and vaguely saw Feijing and Yang Xiaoqi squatting on the bank of the Yellow River.
Are these two buddies enjoying the night view?
I lit a cigarette and put water on the side of the hole. Then he walked in the direction of the flying mirror.
The mastiff was in front of me, like a guide for me. Halfway through, Feijing suddenly turned around and whispered, "Who?" ”
This buddy's vigilance is really not covered, although I can't hide the sound of footsteps, but I can clearly capture my footsteps from such a distance, which is still admirable.
"Me. What do you see? Have a fairy bath? ”。
Beard immediately made a silent gesture to me, and then whispered, "Come and see, there's a ship there." ”。
I was startled, my heart immediately sank, and I immediately lowered my body and went over, and Yang Xiaoqi pointed me in the direction.
Almost immediately I saw the ship, the green tin boat. Exactly like the ship I saw in my dreams.