The drowning patient, named Li Sihai, was rescued from the Minjiang River. At that time, Li Sihai, Zhao Wuling, and Ruan Qixing took a boat to find people in the Minjiang River, unfortunately capsized, and after getting them up, one died, one went crazy, and one was dying, and the county-level people's hospital could not treat him, so he was transferred to the U City People's Hospital. A medical expert who was holding a medical seminar in U City was urgently recalled by the hospital to treat the patient.

Li Sihai lives in a village on the Minjiang River, where the waterways are relatively well developed but still very poor. The villagers have lived in this village for generations, and they have thrived under the nourishment of the Minjiang River. Not long ago, there was a torrential rain in the sky that had not been seen for decades, and the mountain torrent flowed to the low-lying areas wrapped in sediment, and the water level in the Minjiang River rose sharply. The murky surface of the river is littered with dead leaves, plastic waste, filthy foam, and small animals such as dead rats.

Landslides and collapses have occurred in many parts of the nearby mountains, and some sections of the highway have been blocked by collapsed boulders, and passengers on long-distance buses are stranded on the road, waiting for rescue. In Hekou Town, where Li Sihai lives, a flash flood has washed away a mound halfway up the mountain. There is a stone tomb under the mound, I don't know if it's from that era. Some people suggested that the police should be called and archaeologists should be brought to excavate. Some people say that this ancient tomb is very simple, just a stone pit, not like the tomb of ancient dignitaries, maybe the tomb of some old ancestor in the village, now washed out by the torrent, there is no need to alarm archaeological experts.

The village chief called someone from the village, dug open the tomb, and found a corpse lying inside, with a lifelike face, wearing the clothes of the Ming Dynasty, judging from the costume, it was a female corpse. The villagers believed that the corpse was an ancestor of someone else's family and was buried in a feng shui treasure place, so the body did not decompose. After a few seconds, the face of the hundred-year-old female corpse suddenly turned black, her body dried up, and the clothes on her body melted and turned to ash when she saw the wind.

The village chief was afraid that the villagers would hurt the ancient corpse, and he was afraid that the ancient corpse would hurt the villagers, so he built a simple shed at the entrance of the village and sent people to carefully guard the ancient corpse. That night, all the grave-diggers went mad, babbling nonsense, running around the village without clothes, laughing as they ran, and wreaking havoc everywhere. People said that this ancient corpse was an evil spirit, and the people who dug the grave were all evil, so they went to the goddess and the god stick to fix it. The villagers, fearing the corpse, demanded that it be burned, and the village chief, under pressure, agreed to everyone's opinion.

Except for the person who dug the grave went crazy, the other people who touched the ancient corpse were fine, and the village chief thought that the moment the ancient corpse was dug out, its evil aura dissipated after hurting the few grave diggers, so the others were fine. The village chief thought that the ancient corpse would no longer hurt people, and was not afraid of it, but instead started the idea of the ancient corpse.

On the day of the burning of the ancient corpse, the village chief found someone to pile up a pyre, put a wooden board on it, put the ancient corpse on the wooden board, and covered the ancient corpse with a cloth so as not to frighten the onlookers. When it was ready, it poured gasoline on the pyre, lit it, and the ancient corpse was reduced to ashes in the raging fire.

The villagers saw with their own eyes that the ancient corpse was burned, but in fact, this was a ploy by the village chief. He burned a fake corpse, and he hid the real corpse. It turned out that the village chief heard that someone specially bought ancient corpses and sold them abroad at a very high price, so he became greedy and made a fake corpse out of mud, dead branches and rubber.

That night, several villagers guarded the ancient corpse in a shed at the entrance of the village. The village chief wrapped the bamboo mat and futon in a ball, carried them out, and said to the villagers: "Everyone is tired, go back and rest!" I'll take care of you! ”

"How dare you bother the village elders with such a thing? Let's keep it! The villager said.

"I'm old, I don't sleep well, I always have insomnia at night, I just came to guard the corpse, I brought all the bedding! You young people are sleepy, go back to sleep! The village chief said.

The villagers no longer refused and returned to their homes. The village chief opened the bamboo mat he carried, took out the fake corpse wrapped in the futon, and wrapped the real corpse in it, and quietly completed the dropping of the two corpses.

It is not an easy task for the village chief to transport the ancient corpses to other places for sale. If you take public transportation, the corpse is too long, it is easy to expose the target, and it is difficult to escape various inspections. He didn't buy a car himself, and was going to ask the buyer to drive his own car to Lagu's corpse, but the buyer said that the wind has been very tight recently, and if he doesn't go out, it is easy to expose the target. In fact, the buyer was mainly afraid that the seller was fake, and that the other party was bait to lure him into the bait, so he agreed on a place and asked the village chief to send the ancient corpse there.

The village chief rented a small boat and planned to transport the ancient corpses along the course of the Minjiang River. In order to keep it as secret as possible, and to prevent others from sharing the spoils, the village chief carried out the operation alone. He drove a small boat and drove on the Minjiang River section, but disappeared for no reason. The village chief's wife was very anxious when she saw that the village chief had not returned home for two days, and she didn't know if he was in trouble when he went out to do business or if he had an accident on the road.

When the village chief went out, he only told his wife that he went out to do business and drove his own boat to take the waterway. According to this clue, the village chief's wife paid a high price and asked Li Sihai, Zhao Wuling, and Ruan Qixing to go out to find the village chief, each of whom was paid 500 yuan per day, and the village chief's wife paid for the charter boat.

The boat was small, mobile, and had just enough room for three people. After Zhao Wuling and Ruan Qixing sat down, Li Sihai took the helm, stepped on the accelerator, and the boat emitted black smoke and sailed towards the river. They came to an unknown section of the water, and saw that the water was very wide, and as far as the eye could see, there was water everywhere. The boat opened a waterway and staggered forward.

The sky was gloomy, the surroundings were quiet, there was a faint mist floating on the water, the water surface looked very calm, but there was an undercurrent underneath the water, Li Sihai did not dare to take it lightly when driving the boat. As we walked, the boat jolted, as if it had hit something. It stands to reason that there should be no reefs or anything like that on such a wide river. Li Sihai stopped the boat, listened carefully, and heard the sound of a sharp weapon rowing across the board.

"What's that sound?" Zhao Wuling asked in horror.

"Maybe it's a fish in the river." Li Sihai said. In his mind, a large fish bared its sharp teeth and gnawed at the plank, so he had just heard the sound of a sharp weapon rowing across the board.

Li Sihai took out the oar, snatched it into the water a few times, and knocked on the side of the boat, but found no movement.

"Maybe we heard something, there was no sound just now." Zhao Wuling said.

"I also heard a strange sound just now, it can't be that all three of us heard it wrong, there is a legend that there are water ghosts in this area, we have to be careful." Ruan Qixing said.

Night had fallen, Li Sihai was a little scared, quickly engined, turned the direction, increased the throttle, and the boat rushed forward with a jolt. Li Sihai felt that the boat was running faster and faster, so he simply turned off the engine, only to see the water under the boat retreating sharply, and the boat was actually walking by itself. However, they could neither hear the running water nor feel the boat moving.

"What a evil thing, there's got to be something under this boat! Which one is better to go down and take a look? Li Sihai shouted.

Zhao Wuling's face was as frightened as earth, although he was proficient in water, he didn't dare to go into the water. Li Sihai wanted to start the engine, shake the boat vigorously, and get rid of the monster at the bottom of the boat. However, the machine suddenly emitted a few bursts of black smoke before it stopped running and could not start.

"Village Chief, is that you? If you die here, please don't take us for burial! We usually respect you very much! When you ran for village chief, we all voted for you! Ruan Qixing prayed silently in his heart.

Suddenly, the bottom of the boat seemed to have been hit by something, and with a sudden shake, Zhao Wuling was unstable on his footing, and fell into the river with a "plop". Zhao Wuling had good water quality and swam desperately towards the shore. Li Sihai and Ruan Qixing kept building on the bottom of the boat with the oar, trying to scare the monster away. The monster seemed to be enraged, and suddenly overturned the boat with force, and Li Sihai and Ruan Qixing fell into the water one after another.

Ruan Qixing was a landlubber, and he fluttered a few times before slowly sinking. Li Sihai wanted to swim over to save him, but saw something floating in front of him, black, floating on the water, very fast. Li Sihai thought it was a wooden plank, and was about to reach out to grab it, when suddenly something wrapped around his arm, which turned out to be a lock of hair floating out of the water.

Li Sihai saw its appearance clearly, and the thing floating over turned out to be a woman! Strictly speaking, it should be a female corpse, dressed in strange black clothes, with a pale face and floating stiffly on the water. Li Sihai realized that it was this female corpse that he was grabbing, so he suddenly let go of his hand, kicked the female corpse hard, and swam forward. The female corpse also followed, and she was able to move on her own. The sound of sharp objects crossing the plank, the boat's self-movement and overturning were all attributed to the woman's corpse.

Li Sihai was so frightened that he couldn't care about saving Ruan Qixing, and swam desperately towards the shore. Not far away, a dark shadow sneaked towards him. He felt a chill on his ankle, and a hand like an iron pincer clamped his foot. This hand was very cold, without a little heat, it was the hand of the female corpse. A force dragged Li Sihai underwater, and slowly, he stopped struggling, and his consciousness became more and more blurred......

In the end, Ruan Qixing, a landlubber who fell into the water, died, and Zhao Wuling, who was proficient in water, swam ashore but went crazy. Li Sihai was rescued by a passing boat, although he was given first aid for drowning, saving his life, and his heart was still beating, but he was unconscious and his life was in danger, and he was sent to the U City People's Hospital for treatment.