Chapter 244: Searching for the Missing Person (5)
Bai Ling's delicate brows were almost twisted into a knot, slowly squeezing towards the man's stomach, and pushing the water up with the palm of his hand, trying to use external force to help the person squeeze the water in the abdominal cavity out of his throat.
After a few times, it finally had an effect, and I saw that the person who was originally motionless shook all over his body, and then sat up violently and vomited out the contents of his stomach.
This vomit made everyone look stupid, and what the person vomited out was not water, but a belly of black silt, mixed with gastric juice and rancid stench, very disgusting.
Bai Ling, who was closest to him, was directly smoked by this rancid smell, and everyone also covered their noses with their fingers.
"That's not right!" Liuying frowned and said, "Drowning is also drinking water, why does he have so much mud in his stomach?" Could it be that he fell into the swamp? β
"How is it possible, maybe there is mud in the lake?" Bai Ci covered his nose and took a few steps back with a look of disgust.
"That's not the case, Young Master Bai." Liuying explained, "If a person falls into the water, if he can't swim, he will drink a lot of water at first, which is normal, but if a person who can swim falls into the water, he will instinctively hold his breath, unless he really can't hold it, he will choke on water, but if he can swim, how can he choke on water?"
Even if he can't swim, he should instinctively struggle on the surface of the water first, and will not sink into the lake until he is exhausted, so when he sinks to the bottom of the lake, it can be basically determined that he has lost consciousness, so how can he swallow mud in his stomach? β
Speaking of this, except for Bai Ci, everyone's faces changed, and they couldn't help but gasp.
Bai Ci was still confused by the second monk, glanced at everyone inexplicably, and asked, "What's wrong?" β
Zhuge Fan shook his head and sighed, "Should I say that you are naΓ―ve or stupid?" There was a lot of sarcasm in that tone.
Bai Ci glared at Zhuge Fan and scolded, "You fucking talk a lot!" Less nonsense, say what you know. β
"This can only mean that after this person drowned, something stuffed mud into his mouth, I guess this person can swim, and see that he spit out not much water, he should start to hold his breath after falling into the water.
But something in the water grabbed his feet and kept him from coming ashore. Later, I don't know what method he used to get out of the water, and that thing didn't pester him later, otherwise how could he still have half of his body in the water? Zhuge Fan rolled his eyes as he spoke, and secretly complained about this IQ, how did he live so big?
"Could it be a water monkey?" Zhang Ling thought for a while and said, "When I was a child, I heard my grandmother say that there is an animal that looks like a monkey in the water, and they are so powerful in the water that the buffalo can't get out if they are pulled!"
They will drag the animals into the water, and then stuff them with mud, and wait for the animals to die, and then slowly eat them, I heard that this kind of water monkey has a long lifespan, can live for dozens or hundreds of years, we all call it a water ghost. β
Bai Ci has been pampered since he was a child, where have he heard this, he couldn't help but feel nauseous, shivered, and hurriedly stayed away from the lake.
Seeing this, the military commander teased with a smile, "Young Master Bai, don't be afraid, if you fall into the water, and I'm here, I can knock him down with ten water ghosts." β
Everyone laughed when they heard this, only the judge still had a calm face, without saying a word, and the commander had a big heart, and still asked, "Why do you have a straight face?" Could it be that you are also afraid of water ghosts? β
"You're thinking too simply." The judge took out a fan, with a hint of melancholy between his eyebrows, and pointed to the drowning man's feet, "Show his feet out." β
Bailing rolled up the man's trouser legs, revealing his feet, only to see that there were strangulation marks on the man's feet, which did not look like they were grabbed by hand, but more like they were tied by rope, and there was no rope knot mark on it, but a piece of smoothness.
"What is this?" Bailing looked at the man's feet in bewilderment, and his hand continued to press on the man's stomach.
The judge shook his head, "I don't know what it is, but intuitively, I don't think it's the water monkey's doing, have you ever thought about it, he was stuffed with so much silt at the bottom of the water, logically speaking, if he was awake, his mouth would definitely be naturally closed, where would it be so easy to be stuffed with a mouth of mud?"
If someone had been forced into it, there would have been marks of stretching open on his mouth, but it was clear that no, there were no other scars around him, and if he had been stuffed with mud after he had fallen unconscious, how would he swim back to shore? β
This seemed very strange indeed, and everyone fell silent without knowing what to say.
"Okay, this can't be speculated at the moment, let's ask when he wakes up, and now hurry up and leave the lake, this lake is very weird." As he spoke, the judge looked at the sky, adjusted his direction, and walked away.
The drowning Bai family had already vomited, and although his stomach was still a little swollen, he couldn't continue to spit out the mud by external force, so he could only let another person carry him away.
After walking for a while, the sky became darker and darker, and thunder sounded from time to time, as if a storm was coming.