I was stunned, and said in my heart, what does this mean, what water is dry or not? There's no such sentence in the lip dictionary taught by grandpa.

I didn't know how to answer for a while, so I could only keep my mouth shut, but the person on the boat opposite seemed to be very persistent, and when I didn't respond for a long time, he asked in a hoarse voice: "Is the water dry?" ”

Lian Mingche gestured to me with his eyes next to me, and I understood that he was asking me to deal with it quickly and get out as soon as possible, so I replied casually: "It's not dry, the water is big." ”

As soon as the words fell, the crunch of the iron chains sounded on the water again, and through the thick fog that covered the sky, the boat turned around and gradually sailed away towards the other end of the Kakejia Temple, and it didn't take half a cigarette to completely disappear on the surface of the river, as if it had never appeared.

It wasn't until the strange boat was completely gone that I breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and picked up the oars and continued to row with Lian Mingche to the shore, but before I had gone far, I suddenly remembered something, and my heart chuckled at that time.

I remember when I was a child, the old water ghost in my family told me that there was a saying in the corpse fishing shop that if you came across a canopy boat with iron chains tied to the river when you went down to the river, if someone on it asked you if the water was dry, you had to answer that it was dry.

As for what the head of this saying came from, no one said clearly, but I heard some old people say that there was a famous water ghost in Tianjin Wei back then, because his wife and children were drowned in the Haihe River, and he couldn't think of it for a while, and he was angry after his death, and he drove a strange boat to patrol the water all day long, and when he met the corpse, he had to ask if the water was dry, and if someone answered that he didn't do it, he would definitely fold at the bottom of the river when he went into the water in the future, and became a little ghost who helped him pull the boat, and so on enough to make up the number of unjust souls, can go with the dragon lord to exchange the lives of his wife and children.

Although it is very popular, but hundreds of years have passed, no one has ever seen this strange life-seeking ship on the bottom of these nine rivers, and I just listened to it as a story at that time, but I didn't expect to meet it today.

The worst thing is that because we tossed on this water for half a night, and we were in a hurry to go ashore, I didn't remember this matter for a while, and I gave a wrong answer.

Thinking so wildly, the ferryboat had approached the shore, and the people on the shore were so excited to see that we had finally come back that they came and pulled the boat over.

The moment I went ashore, the breath that I had been carrying finally leaked down, I was out of strength and slumped on the ground, the whole person had a sense of relief for the rest of my life, Lian Mingche was much better than me, just rested for a while and recovered his spirits, and was busy helping the salvage team to do the aftermath work.

"Come and see what this is?" Suddenly someone shouted, and I followed the sound and saw a large group of people chattering about something around the ferry boat we were on.

By the way, I almost forgot that there were two river drifters on the boat that we brought back.

I went over to separate the people, and the salvage captain was squatting on the ground and muttering to the two corpses: "I've never seen such a strange corpse after so many years, you see, fish scales have grown." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, I noticed that the hands, feet and faces of the two river drifters were full of layers of flaky objects, and I had not paid attention to them because it was too dark on the surface of the water, but now I realized that they were large fish scales.

My brain is not enough in an instant, the matter of the missing female corpse has not been resolved, and I have fished out such two corpses that I don't know if they are fish or people, how many unknown secrets are still hidden under the river of this Jiajia Temple?

"Let's pull it back first, and wait for tomorrow's autopsy." Lian Mingche came over and patted me on the shoulder.

As soon as the salvage captain heard that we were going to take the body away, he was as happy as if he was going to take the body away, and he shook my hand and said, "Then I will trouble you police comrades, or you will see that this matter will be really difficult for us to handle." ”

In fact, the most troublesome thing about this kind of strange thing is the salvage team, because if you find the master, the corpse has become like this, how can you explain to others, if you encounter an unreasonable person or someone with some background in the family, not to mention that you can't get a reward, and you have to eat a lawsuit if you don't do it, so he is naturally happy to see us take the matter over.

When everything was settled, it was already the second half of the night, as soon as I pondered this point and went back, I was so embarrassed that I would inevitably be interrogated by my family, especially my mother, who didn't ask when she nagged, so I followed the police car back to the Ministry of Public Security on the river, thinking about making do with the office for a few hours, anyway, the black shadow and the female corpse were lost for so long, and she would not come back to me as soon as I went.

After a simple rinse, I didn't wait to close my eyes when I lay down on the marching bed, and suddenly there was a burning pain in my calf, which made me sweat all over my head, and I rolled up my trouser leg to see that the place where I was bitten by the river drifter on the ferry boat at night was all swollen at this moment, and it was black and purple, and there was pus flowing out when I touched it with my hand.

I don't know if it's because I've been busy and haven't been concentrating, so I don't feel anything, and now I feel abnormal pain when I'm free.

Damn, it looks like the river drifter had corpse poison on his body.

Grandpa told me when he was there before, all the people who died because of the filth in their hearts, they will become corpse poison over time, and because the river itself is yin, and the corpse is soaked in the water for a long time, the filth and gloom are difficult to vent, so among all the dead corpses, the corpse poison of the drowned person is the strongest, and it is precisely because of this that the Qin family, who had a blood toad back then, was able to dominate the underwater.

But it's not a coincidence, the blood toad is not around tonight, there is no way, I can only find the medicine box and deal with it briefly, and then make plans when I get home.

There are so many knowledgeable old water ghosts in the family, there should be no problem in curing corpse poison, and maybe I'm just a mediocre person to disturb myself, and those two small river drifters are not toxic at all, so I fell asleep.

I didn't say anything all night, early in the morning I was woken up by the little policewoman in the household registration department next door, rubbed my drowsy head, I got up and stretched, when my feet stepped on the ground, I suddenly felt that the pain in my calf seemed to disappear, and I took a look at the bandage, and the wound that was particularly serious last night had healed and scabbed, and I jumped on the spot a few times, and there was no strange feeling.

Strange, could it be true for me to say that those two corpses were not poisonous? But it's all too fast.

At this moment, the mobile phone in my pocket rang, and I didn't have time to dwell on it anymore, so I hurriedly picked it up.

"Mo San, where are you, I have already made an appointment with a forensic doctor here, and the autopsy will be performed at six o'clock in the evening, don't forget." Lian Mingche's voice said on the other end of the phone.

I said don't worry, I will definitely arrive on time, so I hung up the phone, took a taxi home and slept for a while, and when I woke up again, it was already afternoon, so I casually put on a piece of clothing and drove straight to the autopsy center of the city bureau.

When I arrived, everyone was ready, I walked into the dissection room, and found a very familiar figure standing next to the bed, the man heard the movement and turned to me and said, "Little comrade, meet again." ”

"It's you!"

Yes, the medical examiner was the one who helped us open the black sunglasses of the corpse cocoon, and he was chewing gum and looking at me playfully.

Lian Mingche whispered in my ear: "Originally, I wasn't looking for him, I was sent from above." ”

I don't bother to say anything, although I don't really like this guy, but I have to admit that his methods are really clever, which I don't think even Mingche will refute.

The black sunglasses are not nonsense, I put on a white coat and started to operate, and then I found that the two small river drifters on the dissecting bed were fixed and tied with a strong belt, so I asked Lian Mingche: "Do dead people still use this?" ”

"I don't know very well, I heard the person on duty in the bureau say that there seemed to be an accident last night, and two little policemen were directly scared sick, which may be related to them." Lian Mingche said with a serious expression.

Scared sick? How is this possible.

Don't let me think about it, the black sunglasses over there have already cut the bodies of the two river drifters, and he suddenly exclaimed in a low voice: "Eh, what is this?" ”

As he spoke, he used tweezers to pick out a slender and wriggling thing from the corpse of the drifter from the river, and when he looked at it through the light, he found that it was a worm with the thickness of a finger.

The insect was extremely ugly, bronzed, covered with branches, each with countless tentacles wiggling, and its mouthparts were hidden under its body, and as its body crawled, its mouthparts opened and spit out some brown liquid.

"Wow, that's a lot."

Black Sunglasses put the bug down and beckoned me and Lian Mingche to come over: "You two also come over and have a look." ”

I stepped forward to take a look, and almost vomited all the food I had eaten yesterday, only to see that the body of the river drifter was densely packed with this unknown strange worm, crawling on the bones and internal organs, and it was uncomfortable to look at.

"What the hell is this?" I asked with nausea.

Black Sunglasses didn't seem to care about these things, and said to us with great interest while teasing the strange insects, "You didn't encounter anything strange when you fished up these two corpses last night, you must tell the truth." ”

As soon as I thought that there was nothing to hide, I told us about the two corpses of the river drifters who attacked us on the water, and after hearing this, Black Sunglasses sighed a few times, looked down at the insects, and said, "If so, according to my inference, these two corpses can move as freely as living people, it must be the masterpiece of these things." ”

"What do you mean?" Lian Mingche asked.

Black sunglasses covered the corpses and bowed a few more times before they came back to us and said, "I mean, these two corpses were manipulated by them. ”