Chapter 9: Singing on the Shore

Looking at their strange movements, I felt as if my body was frozen by the cold wind here, and I didn't know what to do in this indescribably strange atmosphere.

Eyes moved from their side to the sea, where there was nothing but endless water, and nothing else?

Looking back, the friends around me seemed to be pulled into another place by the invisible singing, following the undulating melody of the song, constantly swinging their bodies and limbs.

I didn't know what I was supposed to do for a while, and it took me more than ten minutes before I realized that they were walking in the water ahead.

The fast deck supported by the sea is only about a meter above the ground, and it is nothing to fall down, and there is seawater, but if they keep walking like this, there will be problems.

I walked over quickly, reached out and grabbed the arms of both of them, and shook them vigorously a few times, trying to make them wake up, but they still didn't react, as if they were two puppets, controlled by a force to continue their movements.

Seeing that it had no effect on them, I was so anxious that I didn't notice that we had reached the edge of the deck, and one of them was taken down by them without accident.

I felt a fishy astringent taste when I took a mouthful of seawater jar, and after getting up, I took a sip before I looked back at them.

They stood up from the water, seemingly not paused for a second because of the temperature of the water around them, and continued to walk forward after getting up.

In the thigh-high water, even though it was summer, I felt cold, as if there was a hole in my body, and the surrounding sea water was constantly drilling through the hole.

Ahead, the figures of the two men were getting farther and farther away, the wind passed by them, and the white spray rose on top of each other, and I felt that my heart was in a mess, and I didn't know how to stop them.

The more confused I became, the more I had to calm myself down, and I thought about it, thanks to the sea water around me, which allowed me to concentrate slowly.

After calming down, my first reaction was to turn around and ask someone else for help, but when I looked back, I realized that it was just a few of us.

On the coast, I soaked in the sea and thought about the song they had heard at first.

Song? Song? Song? I tried to calm myself down, and mentally asked about the auditory nerve to which these two words corresponded.

A fishy wind blew in my face, and it was as if a bug had crept into my ears, and when I finally calmed down, I felt an itch in my ears.

I instinctively reached out to touch my ears, but just then, a song appeared that seeped out of the sea.

The song had an indescribable feeling, as if it curled like smoke and water, gradually penetrating into the body through the other reflex nerves of the body.

It was a woman, singing in the water, her voice wandering, crooking, and when the wind blew, she avoided the cold in the water, and she wanted to get deeper into her ears.

In this kind of singing, there is a kind of guidance, as if by following this singing, you can find what you remember, and you can also escape the water around you.

But in this beautiful and lively singing, I faintly found a trace of resentment, which was only a momentary instinct, as if you suddenly realized that you were actually sleeping while dreaming.

That moment subverted the real senses, and made me smart, and my own instinctive consciousness woke me up from the song.

This was the end of this sudden dream, the sea in front of me was already up to my chest, and when I stopped, I also noticed some slender bugs floating in the sea water in front of me.

Their bodies are translucent, with many feet, and their heads are located with two extremely thin antennae that they use to explore other objects in the vicinity and swim with their strength.

Their body length is no more than three or four centimeters, and if you don't look closely, you won't be able to find them in the gray water.

The song was small, but I could hear it in the wind, and a tickling sensation tickled at the walls of my ear, and when I reached out and put my middle finger into my ear, a small worm found in the water.

Is this strange song because of these bugs? I frowned, and immediately remembered the two of them, and looked up, and saw that the water around them had already reached their necks.

As I walked briskly, I immediately ripped open their ears, and sure enough, I found the same bugs in their ears, and I carefully gouged them out with the nails of my little thumb.

At this time, I noticed that the insects were head-outward, and their bodies were like a drill, piercing their ears and controlling them further.

After I dug it out, the insects kept writhing their bodies, secreting a green liquid in the cold wind, and I didn't dare to get closer, so I immediately waved my hand and pushed the sea water away.

Without the little bug in their ears, they finally stopped, but their eyes were still a little dull, probably because they had been drilled into by this bug for too long, and they didn't slow down for a while, and they couldn't wake up from this strange dream.

It wasn't a place to rest either, so I swam to shore with one in my hand and plugged their ears with a wet tissue.

After going ashore, I "dried" the two of them on a splint to sober them up, while I went down carefully, grabbed two small insects from the water and put them in a transparent bag.

Because I was doing paperwork, I had an instinctive curiosity about some unknown things, so I packed up these unknown little guys and prepared to show them to the well-informed old clock.

Thinking about this, another detail made me think deeply, and that was the resentment that woke me up in the song I heard.

Looking at the things in my hand, I couldn't help but wonder if there really was something similar to a water ghost sea monster in this water.

The song is so vague when I think about it now that I can't even hum the rhythm.

These bugs give us a kind of sound paralysis, I think it should be.

After a few minutes, they finally woke up, looking at the sea around them, and me sitting on the side, Chen Haidong slowly sat up.

"What just happened?" As bewildered as he was, I patted him on the shoulder and showed him the bugs in the transparent bag.

"I don't know what happened, but what I know for sure is that the song we just heard was because of the bugs in the water."

"When did they get in! Why didn't I notice it at all? Dongfang subconsciously touched his ears and took out the wet wipes inside.

"Nope! That's not true! Chen Haidong looked at the sea water in front of him, his eyes were still a little confused.

Hearing him say this, we all looked back again, and saw that he had another abnormal look, as if he still had a longing for this sea, and I couldn't help but wonder if he was in the way again.

"No, it's her soul that lives here, and that singing voice is her singing, and I remember her voice, it's she who guides me, after so long...... I owe her! ”

Hearing him say this, I could vaguely guess something, and then I looked at Dongfang again, just in case, let's faint him before leaving.

With the two of us, if we wanted to sneak attack a big man from the armed police, I was afraid that it would be impossible, but now he was completely defenseless, and was punched in the back of the head by Dongfang, and he went down immediately.

We carried him out of here and took a taxi all the way back to the tavern, and when I told Lao Zhong about these things, he nervously turned Chen Haidong's eyelids and saw that there was no problem, and finally he was relieved.

Turning back to take the worm I handed him, the old bell sat under the lamp and stared at the bug with a magnifying glass for a moment before finally speaking, "This is a kind of sound bug in the sea, and its tentacles can emit a very low sound wave. In close proximity to the human ear and resonance by tapping the eardrum, to hypnotize humans. ”

As he spoke, the old bell pointed to the tail end of the worm, "When it enters the human ear, it first excretes a hallucinogen, and what can catalyze this liquid is an emotion, whether angry or sad, and all kinds of emotions will make what they hear." As you said, after Chen Haidong was drilled into his ears by this bug, what he heard may be the singing voice of that woman, that is, his girlfriend before her death. It is also because of this strong emotion of longing that he is easier to control. And people like those who are a little dull and emotionally coarse, that is, people who don't have any mood swings, are more likely to wake up. ”

Although Lao Zhong didn't say it, his words were dull, and his emotions were rough, and there were no fluctuations, but he seemed to deliberately refer to me as being too emotional.

I gave him a blank look, saying that I was also helpless!

"Do you know the habits and provenance of this sound bug?" Liu Ran asked again.

"I found them in an underwater exploration file, a group of insects that feed on underwater microorganisms or naturally occurring fungi, they are used to living in shallow waters, and because they are small and the toxins in their bodies are not lethal enough, they will avoid large fish. ”

"In that case, they should be rare, but why are they here now, and start attacking intelligent beings like humans? What motivates them to change their habits so much? ”

Lao Zhong thought for a moment before then replied to Liu Ran, "In fact, this group of insects was raised in a fish tank by people in ancient times, and it is one of the necessary products for a warlock alchemy. ”

After putting down the magnifying glass, Lao Zhong continued, "Being able to control human hearing so powerfully, these insects are much stronger than the ones mentioned in the data, and the sound waves they create may have become stronger because they were driven here. ”

"It may be a bit complicated to say, but I have to say that we make them stronger, because they are also learning from us when they get close to intelligent beings."

"If I'm not mistaken, the reason why there was no one at that beach at night was probably because something like what you met today happened before we came, and more than once."

"These bugs are here to learn and make themselves more aware of human intelligence."

"It's crazy, it's like the Planet of the Apes rising!" I couldn't help but interject.

Lao Zhong didn't continue, but looked back at Chen Haidong on the bed, and said paradoxically, "Maybe what I found is right, there are indeed ghosts in this world, his girlfriend died under the bewitchment of these sound insects back then, and now he uses the same method to deal with him!" ”

Lao Zhong's words mean something, and I can understand seven or eight without saying it thoroughly.