With that scream, people rushed to the outside of the Fishbone Temple, followed by more screams.

When I was still wondering what was going on outside, Lian Mingche had already dragged me up from the ground: "Go!" Go out and see what's going on! "We went out with the black sunglasses.

I yawned and ran out of the Fishbone Temple in a daze, where people gathered on top of the platform and pointed at the waterhole in front of me. It took a few of us to squeeze to the front of the crowd, and then I saw a horrible image, and the sleepiness immediately disappeared and was replaced by deep fear.

Above the cold pool, hundreds of dead bodies of all sizes floated. The dead bodies were all swelled, and the outside was wrapped in a layer of white frost, like a huge white pupa carrying and sinking on the water, and as far as the eye could see, the white flowers on the water looked disgusting and terrifying.

This scene is almost a match of the terrifying scene that Lian Mingche and I saw that night at the West Moon Pier, I turned my head to look at Lian Mingche, and sure enough, his face turned iron.

There was a rancid smell in the air, and many people covered their noses, expressions of disgust on their faces.

Li Dawei asked the goatee boss with a solemn face: "Uncle Nine, how can there be so many putty here?" ”

The "water putty" mentioned by Li Dawei has the same meaning as the river drifters we usually say, referring to these floating corpses, but the local people's colloquial idioms for floating corpses are different due to regional reasons.

The old man, Uncle Jiu, stroked the goatee, stretched out his hand and pinched his fingers to calculate, then shook his head and said in a heavy tone: "It's not good! Not good! I've been with so many flocks of kinship, but I've never seen anything as strange as today. This must be the Rakshasa who is angry and blames you for not giving the bride into his hands at the right time! ”

Li Dawei was sweating nervously and walked around impatiently: "What can I do about this?" What can I do? We didn't mean to break the contract! ”

Speaking of this, Li Dawei glared at his daughter-in-law fiercely and scolded her: "It's all your fault for this dead old woman, if you hadn't cried and cried when you came yesterday, you wouldn't have made the sea rakshasa unhappy, and the result was a change in the sky." If it weren't for the change of the sky, we wouldn't have hid here, but we missed the auspicious time and made the sea rakshasa even more unhappy, all of which is to blame on you! ”

Li Dawei's daughter-in-law drooped her head, her hands tightly tugging on her clothes and did not dare to make a sound, as if the words "sinners through the ages" were written on her face.

Li Dawei said to the old man Ninth Uncle: "Ninth Uncle, do you have any way to crack it?" ”

Uncle Nine looked at the river drifter in the pool, then at Li Dawei, and hesitated: "There is a way, but..."

"But what?" Li Dawei asked eagerly.

"We need a blood lead!" Uncle Nine pondered for a long time before he spoke.

"What is a blood channel?" Li Dawei asked suspiciously.

Uncle Nine leaned against Li Dawei's ear and whispered like this and so for a while.

Li Dawei's face changed: "Is there no other way?" ”

Uncle Nine shook his head silently, the meaning was already obvious.

Li Dawei sighed and nodded as if he had made up his mind: "Okay, just do as you say!" Guys, pack up and get ready to get out of here! ”

The people who came to see off their relatives turned around and went back to the temple to pack their things, and Lian Mingche asked me, "Do you know what the old boss just said about the blood channel?" ”

I shook my head.

Lian Mingche said: "Aren't you known as an encyclopedia in the water? ”

I gave him a blank look: "Tianjin Weida has been built since the Ming Dynasty was founded for more than 600 years, not to mention how long the sea and river have changed, how can I know everything!" "This is the truth, I remember when I was a child, when my grandfather was still there, he often said that there were many strange changes in the lower ends of the nine rivers, and it must not be trusted.

After hearing what I said, Lian Mingche nodded, looked at the river and said, "But seriously, how could there be so many floating corpses here overnight?" ”

I shook my head and said, "I don't know, we didn't see it yesterday when we went into the cave." ”

Looking at the hundreds of white floating corpses on the water, my heart beat uneasily, and my mind was full of questions.

Why are there so many floating corpses here?

Where did all these floating corpses come from?

Is there any connection between these floating corpses and this fishbone temple?

Who built such a magnificent fishbone temple in this hidden water cave?

Is this fishbone temple really a place where people worship the Water Dragon King?

It stands to reason that the fishbone temple used for worship should be a sacred place, but why is there so much filth here?

And does the vision of this place have any connection with the night of the West Moon Pier?

Too many questions are like bubbles on the surface of the water, constantly popping up in my head and popping and bursting.

At some point, Black Sunglasses walked up behind us, stared at the floating corpses on the water, and said, "I talked to a few local boatmen for a while last night, and they told me that this section of the river is actually called 'Jiuqugou'. I don't know if it's because of this cave, but after the water rushes from the upper reaches here, it will form a roundabout section of the river in the nearby waters, and it will be very difficult for boats to travel, and boats will often be wrecked here. ”

After hearing this, I fell into deep thought, if I speculate according to this line of thought, there are many corpses floating down the upper reaches, and when they pass through Jiuqugou, they will be sucked into this cave.

Over time, more and more dead bodies were inhaled into this cave, forming a natural corpse hiding cave. On weekdays, the bodies may have been hidden under the waterhole, or stuck in a crevice in the rocks, and the light was dim, so we didn't find them when we came in yesterday. But after a night of stormy and high tides, the floating corpses emerged from under the water.

After listening to my speculation, even Mingche and them felt very reasonable. We leaned over to look at the water level below the platform, and found that the water level had risen a lot, and the row of ghost-headed stone sculptures under the platform were all submerged under the water, leaving only the cable to pull the boat to float on the water.

I suddenly remembered the blurred face I saw underwater when I entered the cave yesterday, and I must have seen a floating body hiding underwater. This thing pierced my heart like a sharp thorn, and now that this sharp thorn has been removed, my heart can't help but be relieved.

Lian Mingche said: "Let's go, let's get on the boat too, the storm outside should stop, there are too many floating corpses here, it will definitely not be beneficial to stay for a long time, and we still have a case to investigate, time is running out." ”

After Li Dawei said a brief goodbye to us, the fishing boats that were close to each other slowly started moving.

We also boarded our own boats, followed the fishing boats, and slowly headed out of the cave.

This cave is so evil that no one wants to stay here for a long time, and the sooner you leave, the better.

I don't know how, but as our ship passed through the pile of corpses, the floating corpses drifted over one by one, surrounding our ship and making it impossible for the ship to move on.

In desperation, I jumped on deck and used my oars to push the floating corpses away from the side of the ship. But the floating corpses gathered more and more, until they almost blocked the whole water, and I couldn't hold them up with my oars. The snow-white and swollen corpse floated around us, and although we usually saw more dead than alive in our system, I was still a little frightened in the face of this overlapping and piled up of corpses.

At this time, I heard the voice of the old boss Ninth Uncle from the fishing boat in front of me: "Yin and Yang are separated, don't ask about the future!" Ask the sea rakshasa to be kind and let us live! With that, Uncle Nine knelt down on the deck tremblingly.

Seeing this, the others knelt down with him, clasped their hands into fists one by one, kowtowed like garlic and shouted: "Ask the sea rakshasa to be merciful and let us live!" ”

The old man was lifted up and threw a wad of paper money into the air, and the paper money fluttered in the air, like yellow butterflies circling and flying, and then he stood up tremblingly and shouted at Li Dawei on the third fishing boat: "Do blood guide!" Fast! Do the blood induction! ”

Li Dawei stomped his foot hard and pushed his daughter-in-law to the ground.

The middle-aged woman was terrified and screamed, "What are you hitting me again?" ”

Li Dawei didn't say a word, grabbed Xiang Qinmei's hair, and dragged her to the edge of the deck.

Everyone looked at Li Dawei in confusion, not understanding what he was going to do to his daughter-in-law.

Li Dawei pressed his daughter-in-law's arm and took out a sharp short knife from behind his waist: "Old woman, don't blame me, I have no choice but to do this!" You bear with it, only in this way can you save everyone's lives! ”