"I know where the woman's body is."

There were only seven words on the screen of my phone, but I read them several times, but I couldn't calm my heart.

I glanced at the sender's number and found that it was an unfamiliar number, and it was not from the city, so I hesitated for a long time, but I finally dialed back according to the number.

"I'm sorry, the number you dialed was empty."

There was a cold and emotionless robot voice from the phone, I didn't give up, I hung up and called again, tossing more than a dozen times, but there was still no way to connect.

Empty number? Since it's an empty number, why is the owner of this number able to send me a text message? And he said he knew where the woman's body was, so who was he? Or is it just a prank.

I thought about going through the people who knew about it, and found that no one would make such a joke on me, so I got out of bed, lit a cigarette, stared at the phone for a while, and then quickly typed the words "who are you" on the phone and sent it.

I don't know what's going on, but I always feel like the other party will definitely write back to me.

Time passed minute by minute, just when I was about to give up, the phone rang again, I hurriedly grabbed it and looked, sure enough, it was a message from a mysterious person who gave me a reply, the content was "don't ask more".

It's weird, what does this person want to do, and he doesn't say who he is, and he doesn't say what he wants to do, but he just gave me a clueless sentence to know where the female corpse is, how can he be so sure that I will believe him.

I decided not to reply to him again and see what he would do.

So he rolled over and lay back on the bed, and about half an hour later, another message came on his phone, still the mysterious number, this time the content on it was shorter, only four words.

"Saizuki Pier"

Looking at these four words I fell into contemplation, this place I know, is located in the suburbs of the city near the mouth of a deserted wharf, in the early years Tianjin Wei because it is located at the lower end of the nine rivers, the city is full of all kinds of large and small wharves and ferries, among which this Xiyue wharf is quite famous, it is said that the Eight-Nation Coalition Army entered Beijing City is from there to the shore, after the liberation because of the Tianjin Port, these old wharves are gradually abandoned.

I used to hear my family say that during the Republic of China, there was a big flood that had not been encountered for decades, and many people were drowned, and then it was my grandfather who took those old water ghosts to fish for three days and three nights, so as not to let the river drifters dirty the water of the Haihe River.

Could it be that he said that he knew where the female corpse was, referring to the Xiyue Wharf?

It's impossible, the place where the bird doesn't is probably a ghost, and it's on opposite sides of the city with my river, unless it's a night when the female corpse and the black shadow swim through here after they go into the water.

The more I thought about it, the more unreliable I felt, so I had to make up another text message and send it to ask what it meant, but this time the message sent out was like a stone sinking into the sea, there was no news at all, there was no way, I had to wait for the next day to make plans.

The next morning, the first thing I did when I got up asked someone to help me check the mysterious phone number last night, but the reply I got was still empty, and there was no such person at all.

I had a big head, so I drove to the city bureau to find Lian Mingche, and experience told me that it is best not to make your own decisions at this time, otherwise it is easy to make mistakes.

Even Ming Che didn't react when he saw me coming, he still buried his head in the case as usual, I pulled him to the toilet, and he was still very dissatisfied and said, "What are you doing during this working time." ”

I lit a cigarette and handed it to Lian Mingche, and told him with a calm face about the text message I received last night, and he was very clear about that place, and said with a puzzled face after hearing it: "This is very unreasonable, what do you plan to do, to go or not to go?" ”

In fact, this is also the purpose of my coming to him, I also struggled for a long time last night, go, I'm afraid that someone has set a trap waiting for me to drill in, but I am unwilling to go, after all, I have been tracking for so many days and I have some clues.

I don't know how valuable the clues are, but they're better than me stumbling around like headless flies.

After thinking about it for a long time, I finally sighed and said, "I'm still going to take a look, I'd rather believe it than believe it, time is running out." ”

Even Mingche didn't dissuade or object after hearing this, just nodded and said, "Tell me the time, I'll go with you, and I can take care of it." ”

I glanced at him, and knew that it was impossible to say that it would not be possible not to let him go, so I said, "I'll go home and get ready, and we'll see you at the dock to-morrow night, so that we don't have too many nights." ”

In this way, I left the city bureau and returned home, probably because the family heard some rumors about running in and out of the case recently, and held a few three-hall trials for me in a row.

The next night in the blink of an eye, after I explained everything clearly, I called a car and went straight to Xiyue Wharf, because the last time I met the octagonal copper coffin and the small river drifter in the Jiajia Temple, I suffered a loss, so this time I was on guard, not only took the blood toad with me, but even the old objects left by my grandfather were all stuffed into the backpack.

Since my destination was already on the outskirts of the city, the low-lying hills and plains were all over the window, and I was even more invigorated to see the riverbeds that had been washed by the sea and rain all year round and turned black and gray.

I don't know how long it took to bump around, but when I was almost drowsy, I finally arrived at the old ferry port where the Xiyue Wharf was located, because this place had been deserted for too long, and it was very late now, except for some fishermen's huts with sparkling lights, there was no one around.

Lian Mingche arrived later than me, and this guy was also fully armed, not only with a gun, but also with a sapper shovel and a dagger from Tibet that I had brought him, like a soldier who was about to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy.

I couldn't help but laugh when I saw him like that, but even Mingche didn't care at all, and asked me what I should do next, whether to go down to the river or take a look at the situation on the shore first.

His question immediately stumped me, in fact, I didn't have any other information except for the place of Xiyue Pier, and it was difficult to decide what to do for a while.

At this moment, the mobile phone in his pocket screamed, and when he took it out, it was actually the mysterious number again, which read: There is what you want in the water.

Strange, how did he know that I had arrived at the Xiyue Pier, could it be that this mysterious person was spying on me?

Thinking of this, I turned on the flashlight and searched around, and even Mingche looked nervous when he saw me, and thought something was wrong, so he also followed the alert.

After looking around, I didn't find anything suspicious, which made me even more wonder what the mysterious man was trying to do, and what was his purpose in bringing me here? Or is he really just someone who helps me behind the scenes?

After thinking about it, I decided to take a gamble, so I said to Lian Mingche: "Go get a boat, let's go to the river and have a look." ”

As I mentioned earlier, there are many fishermen living in this area, so there are many boats of different sizes parked at the ferry, and Lian Mingche picked the one that looked the most sturdy, untied the cable and dragged the boat over.

After checking our gear, the two of us jumped on it, and I realized that the boat under my feet was made of very hard black wood, and it didn't look like an ordinary fishing boat, but at this time I couldn't care so much, so I grabbed the oars and sailed towards the center of the river.

I just walked around the river aimlessly for more than an hour, and I didn't find any ghosts, and I was a little deflated, when Lian Mingche suddenly stopped the oars and said, "Wait." ”

"What's wrong?" I asked.

Lian Mingche circled the boat twice and said to me in a very strange tone: "Mo San, haven't you noticed that we have been circling around this body of water for a long time, we have been circling and have not advanced at all. ”

He confused me by saying this, it is said that the water surface is different from the land, and there are at least some landmarks or things on the land that you can use as a reference, but the river surface is the same as you can see, and it is very difficult to discern the direction.

"Come and see." Lian Mingche pulled me over, pointed to the black reeds and said to me: "I paid special attention when we came over just now, and there is only this one bush of reeds on the entire river, which means that we have turned back again." ”

Even when Ming Che said this, I also reacted, and I thought to myself, yes, the two of us have been paddling for almost two hours, and according to the normal speed, the river should be more than half over, how can it not even move.

Didn't you encounter a "ghost hitting the wall"?

I used to hear some old Taoist priests say that sometimes people are trapped in an open area, or in the deep mountains and old forests with grave circles, and they can't get out, no matter how you go, they are all wandering around in the same place, and this situation is that there are ghosts who blind your eyes and don't want you to go out, which is very similar to the situation we are encountering now.

But I've never heard of anyone hitting a wall with a ghost on the water.

But it was useless to dwell on this now, and the most important thing at the moment was to get out of this obstacle, so I took out a bamboo tube containing rooster blood and duck spit from my backpack and poured it into the river.

This is the old way for water ghosts to prevent river drifters from raising corpses in the water, and I don't know if it is useful to deal with this river ghost hitting the wall.

Almost as soon as I was finished, before I could get up, there was a sudden roar from underwater.