At first I thought I was dazzled, but when I stared at it again, it moved again.

It was as if someone below was deliberately shaking, swaying from side to side on the ground.

The side of Xiangyin Cliff facing the Yellow River has always been used as a place to dry corpses, where there can be no living people except dead bodies, but how could dead people shake ropes?

Thinking of this, my heart began to feel weak, thinking of the strange phenomenon of this way, I didn't dare to stay for a second, I was about to leave, and suddenly, a baby's cry was blown into my ears from under the cliff by the wind.

The sound was like a sleeping baby being woken up in the middle of the night, and it kept going, and the sound got louder and louder, and it drilled into the ears one by one.

I stood in place and twisted in my heart, hesitated for a moment, then turned back to the edge of the cliff, and looked down at the edge of the cliff with courage, and at the same time pulled the thick rope with my hand, and the moment the rope was pulled, the cry suddenly stopped.

There's not going to be a kid hanging down here, is there?

My heart jumped, but the weight of the rope in my hand was definitely an adult, and at that moment, the baby's cry appeared again.

It was even more miserable than before, it had reached a state of dying, like a newborn baby about to die, and a burst of unconcealable compassion arose in my heart, and my hand began to pull the rope up little by little uncontrollably.

Beads of sweat fell from my forehead and smashed to the ground, I desperately tried to shake off the rope and run, but my limbs were completely uncontrollable, my hands mechanically pulled the thick rope, I felt that the thing hanging under the rope was getting closer and closer to the ground, I didn't have the courage to look down, I was in a hurry but there was no way at all.

Seeing that there were more and more rope loops coiled on the ground, a fiery red figure appeared in sight.

It's a female corpse.

The female corpse was lying flat on the ground, wearing a bright red long-sleeved robe, with a ruddy complexion and closed eyes, as if she had fallen asleep.

Especially the bulge on the belly of the female corpse, without the cover of cloth, the belly of the white flower seems to be coated with oil, reflecting bursts of luster in the sunlight.

My legs and stomach were weak, and an extremely ominous premonition rose in my heart, and after feeling the limbs regain sensation, I turned my head and was about to run, but my ankles suddenly cooled, as if I had been grabbed by something, and a cold yin qi went straight into my body, and I shivered, and my body fell to the ground.

I struggled to turn my head and glanced at my feet, and saw that one of the female corpse's hands was grasping my foot and neck, and her head was tilted to my side, and she opened her eyes and looked at me coldly.

……

In the darkness, the whole world was shaking back and forth with ups and downs, accompanied by the sound of "hulala" water in my ears, I felt extremely cold, but in the dog days, it was like an ice cave, and my body kept shivering.

I woke up from the cold, my eyelids were heavy as if they were frosted, and when the eyes of the female corpse came back to my mind, I suddenly opened my eyes, and found myself lying in the canopy of a black canoe, with the old-fashioned kerosene lamp hanging in the middle, swaying with the undulation of the canopy, emitting a dim light.

I sat up with difficulty, and when I looked inside the boat, I saw a man sitting at the stern of the boat, with a hunched figure and gray hair, holding a smoking gun in his arms, and the familiar smell of tobacco drifted into my nostrils along the river breeze, which made me look at the back of the person in front of me in a trance for a while.

"Wake up."

After hearing the movement, the old man turned around, and by the light, I could see his appearance clearly, it was actually another corpse collector who came to my house to look for my grandfather that day.

"Did you save me?"

As soon as the words came out, the hoarse voice almost made me mistakenly think that it came from someone else's mouth, and the voice was hoarse.

The old man didn't speak, he knocked on the bonnet with a cigarette stick, squeezed into the canopy with a hunched waist, looked me up and down with a pair of cloudy eyes, and then nodded, "It's okay." ”

"So, what about the female corpse?"

Thinking of the appearance of the female corpse when she finally opened her eyes, I couldn't help but open my trouser legs, the old man reached out to stop but was a step too late, and I saw that there was a black and purple finger print on my ankle.

"What's going on?"

The old man didn't make a sound, took out the dry tobacco stick, stuffed some tobacco, lit it, snorted and inhaled the dry smoke, and slowly spit out the smoke and said, "It's a corpse." ”

I was a little at a loss for a moment, and asked him what the corpse was, but the old man didn't answer, his eyes fell on my chest, and he asked, "Who gave this thing around my neck?" ”

I was stunned for a moment, and when I looked down, I realized that he was talking about the amulet that Lao Wu gave me.

"If it weren't for this yellow charm to block the catastrophe, I'm afraid that the baby would have been hanging under the corpse cliff at this time."

The old man's faint words startled me into a cold sweat, and my hand subconsciously wanted to touch it up, but the amulet turned into black ash in the moment my fingers touched it, and was blown away in the air by the river breeze, and flew towards the outside of the canopy.

"The water in Sanchawan is very deep, let's put it down early."

The old man didn't come to say a word, and I remembered the purpose of the trip, so I hurriedly asked him if he had seen my father.

"Daddy has something he has to do, it's inconvenient to show up now, go back and tell Daddy to live a good life, he's fine."

I looked at the old man suspiciously, shook my head and said, "No, I won't give up until I find my father, old man, you can do it, where has my father gone, I want to find him." ”

The old man raised his eyelids and met my eyes, muttered for a while, and said three words: Rakshasa City.

I'm all over, Rakshasa City is a legend we have here, this Rakshasa City, in fact, is a ghost city built under the Yellow River, all the ghosts who died in the Yellow River will gather there, there are Yin soldiers in the city, no one knows where it is, how could my father go there, could it be said that he has ......

"Daddy is not dead, but there are some things to be returned, and he will be back in a few days."

The old man seemed to perceive my thoughts, took out a golden fish-shaped pendant from his arms and put it in my hand and said: "Give this to the mother, don't come back in the future, it's not as simple as you think, the old ghost Bai has been working hard for decades, in order to let the descendants of the Bai family continue smoothly, don't waste his hard work." ”

I held the pendant in my hand, and my eyes unconsciously fell on the tattooed fish on the old man's neck, the two were the same, but the length of the horns was different.

"When the river patroller arrives, there is only one single seedling left here, my son, I want to live well."

Looking at the tumbling river outside the boat through the canopy, the scene of the grandfather sinking to the bottom floated in front of me, I wanted to ask the old man what was going on with all this, but the old man held a cigarette stick and kept silent, just said, the time has not come, and when the time comes, everything will be revealed.

The boat gradually approached the shore, and the old man tied the reins of the boat to the shore, and I stepped out of the canopy, and found that I had come to the ancient ferry port of Sancha Bay.

"Let's go, don't come back after you're gone, this is not the place to stay."

The old man stood at the bow of the boat and took my hand and dragged me ashore, and when I raised my head, I saw a cluster of black shadows not far away, and I rubbed my eyes, it turned out to be the ghost of Sanchawan.

"Don't be afraid, they won't be harmed, let's go with confidence, burn some paper money for them on the Qingming Halloween Festival, if it weren't for them, they would have died in their mother's womb."

The old man said and glanced at the unjust souls, who seemed to be afraid of him, and a trace of fear appeared on Mu Ne's face, and then they all turned around and walked into the river.

Seeing that all the unjust souls were about to disappear into the water, I gritted my teeth and took a few steps forward, calling out to Da Zhuang, who was walking at the end.

"Da Zhuang, what the hell are you looking for me to do that night, why don't you let me come back?"

Half of his body was already soaked in the water, and when he heard my call, he stopped, turned his head to look at me, his eyes showed an indescribable look, and he moved his lips, but after glancing at the old man, he shook his head bitterly, and his body turned into a bubble in the water, and he could no longer be seen.

I stayed where I was, feeling as if Da Zhuang had something to say to me, but he was afraid of something, he was afraid of the old man!

When I reacted, the old man had already untied the reins and rowed the boat off the shore, and stood at the bow of the boat, and said to me: "Be careful of a woman with a tattoo on her neck in the future, you have left her corpse, she will find you." ”

Corpse? Woman? Could it be the female corpse?

I shouted at the old man twice, but the boat with its lights had rowed into the river, turning into stars on the surging surface of the river, and gathering in the starlight of the sky.

Rakshasa City, Female Corpse, Sancha Bay......

When I left Sanchawanzi with a stomach full of doubts, it was already the second half of the night, and there was not even a ghost on the national highway, just when I hesitated to call Sister Yu to ask where the person she arranged was, a dazzling light lit up across the road, I blocked my eyes with my hand, and I saw Lao Wu's broken Buick roaring towards me with the engine.

"Damn, I watched over there for a long time, and I thought it was a ghost coming out, but I didn't expect it to be you."

Lao Wu had China in his mouth, staring at his bloodshot eyes and stepping on the accelerator all the way, I was both grateful and embarrassed to say: "What, your talisman was lost by me, where did you ask for it, I will compensate you for another one then." ”

Lao Wu didn't even look at me, and said with a big grin: "It's okay, this thing is for use, don't think about anything, go back and take a shower and sleep well, this person, it's true to be alive." ”

I leaned against the window and didn't speak, looking at the night outside the window, just like a three-way bay, I couldn't erase it, and I couldn't disperse it.

When I arrived at home, it was almost dawn, and when I opened the door, my mother was sitting at the door anxiously waiting, and when I saw that I was the only one who came back, my body was about to fall to one side, I hurriedly held her up, and handed the fish-shaped pendant that the old man gave me to my mother, and the expression on my face was very complicated when I saw it, and it took a long time to sigh as if I was fated.

I asked my mother what this thing was, and my mother shook her head, "Your father told me that if he suddenly disappears one day, if he can see this thing, it will prove that he is still alive, so don't worry." ”

"Nothing else?"

My mother frowned and said I don't know, your father said it a long time ago, I thought it was a joke, but I didn't expect it to be true.

A long time ago?

Could it be that Dad knew that there would be today?

My mother looked very tired, I helped her to the bed to rest, and called Sister Yu again, Sister Yu asked me to go back quickly if I had nothing to do, saying that there was an accident at the helm of the door and it was ahead of schedule.

I didn't dare to wake up my mother, I left her a note and hurried back to Chengdu, Sister Yu has been waiting for me in Changshengdang, after meeting I asked her what happened, Sister Yu said with a little embarrassment: "Something happened to the eighth master." ”