Chapter 184: The Old Ghost of the Yellow River
I saw a walking corpse standing in front of me, and my first reaction was to kick the walking corpse away, but in the water, my movements became much slower, and the water corpse, like a fish, easily dodged my kick, and then suddenly grabbed my neck, cold hands, just like that.
Then he dragged me down, my ears began to chirp like cicadas, my eardrums hurt so badly that my whole lungs felt like they were about to explode, my brain began to lack oxygen, and I couldn't think anymore. The water corpse in front of me was still pinching me like that, and when I grabbed it with my hand, it was like a fish, and it dodged my hand very dexterously.
I was almost dying, and then I suddenly had a hallucination in front of my eyes, seeing that I seemed to be going out, and the hands on my neck were gone, and I could breathe freely, so I opened my mouth and wanted to spit out the waste gas in my stomach, and when I opened my mouth, suddenly a mouthful of water poured into my mouth, which woke me up all of a sudden, I was still underwater, and I didn't go up, but the water corpse no longer pinched my neck.
As soon as I saw that the water corpse didn't pinch my neck, I wanted to hurry up, but I was wrong, although the water corpse didn't pinch my neck, but my body was still entangled by the hair in the water. At this time, I heard a sneer in my ears, the sound came from the water, and with each laugh, my head would grow larger, and my already swollen head would hurt even more.
At this time, the water corpse continued to say to me in that ethereal voice, through the water waves: "This will be your home from now on, and you will be like me, drifting in this cold water all day long, neither alive nor dead. ”
As soon as I opened my mouth, I was choked by a mouthful of water, and I felt that I was almost drowning, and the water corpse continued in my ear: "I don't want to die now, I can't help you, with the lake as a companion, this is your future home." ”
I slowly became a little confused, I felt that I was confused, I couldn't hear the words behind the water corpse, I felt my body float up and fall again, I didn't have to breathe anymore, my ears stopped ringing, my head didn't hurt anymore, I had never been so relaxed.
It feels good to wander freely in the water, as if the water is no longer an obstacle, you can freely pass through the water, I saw a water corpse below, wrapping a person in the hair, I didn't know that it was me at the time, I didn't think I knew that person, the old man was right, once the human soul leaves his body, he will not know himself, which is why many people do not know that they are dead after death.
Anyway, I saw that the man was no longer able to do it, just floating in the water like that, with his eyes closed and his hands open and motionless. I was looking at it in a daze, suddenly a whistling sound came from the water, the whistling sound was very terrible, I suddenly flew towards the person floating in the water, and then my heart suddenly hurt, and then it beat violently, and the water corpse in front of me, as if afraid of the whistling, hurriedly retreated to the side.
I knew that this was my last chance, so I gritted my teeth, with the last strength in my body, I floated upward, I felt that I was about to fail, I suddenly surfaced, it felt so good to float out, I opened my mouth and breathed hard, then suddenly there were a few dog barks, I followed the dog barking to look over, only to see a small boat floating in the distance, the boat was very strange, not like a fishing boat, very narrow, very long, like an arrow flew over, on the bow of the boat, there was a small lantern, Glows with a dim yellow glow.
As the boat approached me, I could see clearly that on the bow of the boat was a black dog, very large, with green eyes shining green. Behind the boat stood a middle-aged man, this middle-aged man had a resolute face, and his body stood there steadily, like a mountain.
The boat seemed to have long eyes, and it came to me quickly, and I was breathing there with my mouth open, when the black dog on the boat barked at me a few times, and the middle-aged man said, "Fortunately, we came quickly, and it seems that it is not too late." Then the middle-aged man stretched out a hand and said to me with a smile, "Come, give me your hand." ”
I stretched out, and felt that there was no strength in my body, and I couldn't stretch it at all, and then I saw a bamboo pole on the bow of the boat, so I said in a very small voice: "Uncle, use, use your bamboo pole." ”
The middle-aged man said, "My bamboo pole only catches the dead, you are a living person, you don't need this bamboo pole." ”
After finishing speaking, the boat slowly approached me, and the middle-aged man stretched out his hand and said, "Hand it to me, and I'll pull you up." ”
I stretched out my hand, the middle-aged man grabbed my hand at once, and then pulled me onto the boat with all his strength, my body fell into the boat, only to feel safe, after a while, I arched my hand towards the middle-aged man and said: "Uncle, thank you for saving your life, please ask the uncle's surname, I will repay it in the future." ”
The middle-aged man smiled and said: "I am a person who floats on the Yellow River, floating on the water, without a name or surname, they all call me the old ghost of the Yellow River, you can see me call me Uncle Sheng, and I won't be angry if you look down on the old ghost who calls me Sheng." ”
The old ghost of the Yellow River has a strange name, although I feel strange in my heart, but I still say in my mouth: "Uncle Ghost, thank you for saving your life." ”
The old ghost of the Yellow River said with a smile: "My old ghost is fishing for the dead in the Yellow River, and today it can be regarded as setting a precedent and saving the living." ”
At this time, they came over in a small boat, and they also hurriedly greeted the old ghost of the Yellow River, and the second stunned man said to the old ghost of the Yellow River: "You are the master of the Yellow River who we invited, right?" ”
The old ghost of the Yellow River said: "I am not a master, just a person who fishes out corpses in the Yellow River, in the Qing Dynasty, we were sailors, and when we arrived in the Republic of China, we became water ghosts without Yulu." ”
As soon as I heard that this was the case, I said, "Uncle Ghost, since you are a person who specializes in collecting corpses, you are not afraid to deal with these walking corpses in the water." ”
The old ghost of the Yellow River said: "I just looked, this matter is not simple, let me tell you, these are not ordinary corpses, but corpses in the water." ”
I heard that the corpse in the water was a little strange, and I hadn't heard the master say anything about the corpse in the water, so I asked the old ghost of the Yellow River, "Uncle Ghost, what is the corpse in the water?" ”
The old ghost of the Yellow River thought for a while and said: "To explain this matter, I have to start from what I did, the Yellow River where I am located is a river with the most violent temperament, in the Yellow River, anything impossible can happen, the Yellow River is diverted, a thousand miles, everywhere you go, people or adult fish and turtles, under the thick silt, I don't know how many unknown secret stories are buried."
My ancestors were the river soldiers who governed the Yellow River, and then changed the dynasty, our ancestors' Yulu is gone, we started the water ghosts in the Yellow River, specializing in fishing for corpses, you don't know, even if the Yellow River does not have a big flood, it will drown many people, of course, there are many people, who are dragged into the water by the water ghosts and spirits in the water and drowned.
This line of work we did is a very strange line, although after the Republic of China, there is no Yulu, but the county has to come up with money to support us, not because we are powerful, but there are many strange things in the Yellow River, ordinary people dare not deal with it at all, so they can only invite us old water ghosts.
After the person drowns, after the corpse sinks to the bottom of the water, as the corpse decays, the body gradually flatules, these corpses turn people into hideous, lips turned out of the big-headed ghost, at this time, with more and more corpse gas, the corpse will gradually float to the surface, first the upper limbs float up, and then the lower limbs, because the pelvis of women and men are different, so the floating corpse also has a characteristic, called "men and women leaning down", which is said to be these dead people floating on the water, leaning over is a man, and leaning on is a woman.
So don't say that we old ghosts who specialize in fishing for corpses, that is, ordinary fishermen, and we also know that people who drown in the Yellow River will float up on their own within three or five days, at this time, as long as we are specialized corpse fishers, we can fish the corpses out of the water. But this is only a superficial phenomenon, there are many rules for recovering corpses, and saying them can scare people to death. ”