"What's wrong with the river?" Qin Muchen and Yu Rui asked at the same time.

Deng Wei frowned with a serious face, "In previous years, the river was muddy, and there were a lot of dead trees and garbage in the river, but this time it was different, this time the river water was extremely clear, but I couldn't see the bottom, and I always felt that the bottom of the river was black and pressing, like aquatic plants or something." ”

"The water is so clear?"

Qin Muchen and Yu Rui both frowned, it was indeed too abnormal, and there was that black oppressive thing, they were sure that it was definitely not a water weed.

Yu Rui took a deep breath, "Is there any other news about my father?" ”

"The helicopter flew to check, and found that the damage to Xiazi Village was very serious, Xiazi Village is isolated from the world and can be regarded as an autonomous region, this time we found that their population is far more than we imagined, the big water should not be able to wash away Xiazi, but Xiazi Village was destroyed, these people should have escaped by themselves because of something, it is said that the last place where the Secretary-General marked was in Xiazi Village."

"Alright, I got it!"

Yu Rui got up and walked out, the army outside had already been assembled, and there were about a few thousand soldiers, and that person only combined some generals, otherwise they were all crowded here, and it was estimated that they would not be able to squeeze in.

Although Yu Rui is only twenty years old with Shen Bing's body now, none of the rows of soldiers in front of him are not in awe, this is probably all due to Shen He, I heard that he has a high prestige in the army, and the soldiers are willing to follow him to the death.

Yu Rui glanced at it quickly, and said with a raised breath, "Major General Deng has already told me the basic situation just now, the frequent strange things on the flood control embankment are indeed frightening, but we are soldiers, soldiers who defend the masses and protect their homes, and the river embankment must be repaired immediately!" ”

Unexpectedly, some people were encouraged, but some people questioned him a little, thinking that he didn't understand anything when he was a fledgling, and didn't know the danger of the levee, if the levee burst at the moment of blocking the embankment, then everyone there would have no chance of survival.

Yu Rui's eyes were cold, he automatically ignored the eyes of those people, and said a lot of morale-boosting words, and finally said after the end, "Now, I need to select a hundred people to go to the river embankment with me, and Deng Wei will be responsible for arranging the transportation of sandbags for the rest." ”

"Now! A hundred people who are willing to follow me are out of the ranks! ”

As soon as Yu Rui's loud voice fell, almost two hundred people stood up, occupying more than two-thirds of those in front of him.

At this moment, I saw the emotion and satisfaction in Yu Rui's eyes, he should be excited at the moment, although Shen He was missing, he left him with so many soldiers, he was not alone.

He casually pointed to the hundred on the right part, and asked them to prepare first, and let a few of us go to the river embankment to have a look, in order to facilitate the use of spells, we did not let Deng Wei follow.

When I passed by the refugee camp in Xiazi Village, I felt that their eyes were very strange, and when they saw us, their eyes did not look like gratitude or fear, they just looked at you in a daze, and they fell on you motionlessly, which made people feel creepy.

Just as we were about to pass through, an old voice suddenly roared, like an orangutan roaring, and in a short time a group of Xiazi villagers dressed in coarse cloth surrounded us, almost two hundred people, men, women and children, some with babies in their arms.

Deng Wei led the troops over after hearing the noise, Yu Rui hurriedly scolded him back to prepare sandbags, saying that we can solve it ourselves, Deng Wei had to go back obediently, leaving a few people with guns to guard here, and ordered them to shoot directly if there was any change.

We are trapped here, Su Ye first automatically asked Ying to see the flood control embankment, he used to be the monarch's adviser, he won the world to seek the people's livelihood, and his heart was also tied to the people, Qin Muchen had no choice but to agree that he would go first.

After a while, a white-bearded old man with cloudy eyes walked out with a strangely shaped Zen staff, and a strange bell hung on it, and as he moved, the bell rang softly, and everyone consciously gave way.

He walked up to us, looked at all three of us, and finally swept his gaze over my shoulder, and then landed on my face, his pupils were almost all whites, only a little black, and there was a terrible smell of corpse on his body, which made me frown.

This old man is not a corpse, the corpse qi on his body should be left by dealing with corpses for a long time, looking at the respect of the people in Xiazi Village, this person should be an existence like the village chief wizard.

Seeing him looking at me, Qin Muchen and Yu Rui subconsciously stepped forward and blocked me behind, "You should be the old man, we are going to repair the river, what are you stopping us for?" ”

The old man used crutches to push Qin Muchen and Yu Rui away, and pointed at me, he may rarely speak outside, speaking our Mandarin is a little slurred, but he can still understand, he said, "As long as you sink her to the bottom of the river to sacrifice to the water ghost, the water ghost can retreat, and Sanwanxia will be safe!" ”

"Nonsense!"

Qin Muchen shouted violently, and pulled me and wanted to leave, but those people all came up with excited eyes, it is estimated that they have been looking for the woman who the old man said for a long time, how can I let me go so easily.

Mu Chen wanted to make a move, but was stopped by me, and I shook my head at him, "Leave it to me to solve it." ”

He knew which villagers couldn't catch me, so he could only follow me to protect me, so I walked up to the old man, "Old man, I'm very glad that you chose me, about the memorial service, let's go to the tent to talk, how about you let them go over to clean up the river embankment first?" ”

"No way!" Before the old man could speak, Qin Muchen and Yu Rui spoke.

I turned to look at him, "You two hurry up, take care of the embankment, we still have important things to do, there are many people and miscellaneous eyes, all stay here, let the soldiers see what they are like, don't forget your identity!" ”

I deliberately said a lot, the focus is on a few words that are too many people, I am afraid that no one will find out if I disappear in the crowd alone, if there are three people, it will be different, and I don't want to delay time, I have to act separately Someone went to find Shen He.

Yu Rui thought that he was arrested because of me and refused to leave, and was pulled away by Qin Muchen.

The old man looked at me with his pupils narrowed slightly, and then waved his cane to lead me into his tent, and the people outside quickly surrounded the tent, but they were so measured that they should not be able to hear the conversation inside.

He walked to the edge of the simple bed and sat down cross-legged, pointed to the wooden stool next to him with his cane, motioned for me to sit down, I was now wearing a camouflage military uniform, and it was very convenient to move and sit down, and quickly asked.

"Old man, you want me to go to the memorial, I think it is necessary for me to know what happened, don't let me die in vain, the water ghost can't feel your memorial intentions."

The old man smiled lightly, probably seeing through my careful thinking, but he still put down his crutches and made a gesture of putting his hands together at me, and then said in some stiff Mandarin, "I am a water ghost, this water ghost is not a real ghost, but the honorific title of Sanwanxia for the corpse collector." ”

Then he told me what a corpse collector is, and that the terrain of Sanwan Gorge will accumulate a lot of driftwood garbage in the bay, and of course there are many corpses that have fallen into the water and died, and some of them may be corpses buried in the water upstream.

Therefore, there are already professional corpse diggers in the ancestors of Xiazi Village, and it has been passed down to his generation, exactly eighty-nine generations.

Some time ago, Sanwanxia suddenly had a lot of corpses, his apprentices went down to salvage all of them and did not return, the only one who came back was bitten by an unknown thing, it is estimated that he encountered something to be afraid of at the bottom of the river, and he was so frightened that he couldn't say anything after he came back.

So, the old man, who had already collected the mountain, had to go out of the mountain again, and after going into the water, he found that the black pressure under the water was full of corpses, and those corpses were all standing upright, like an army walking underwater.

The standing corpses were all people who had died in vain, and they were deeply resentful, although the old man had also encountered this, but it was the first time he had seen so much, and the first time he saw the underwater corpse showing a strange smile, so he fled back to the village, and at this time his apprentice who had been bitten before began to fester.

Moreover, the people around him also began to get infected, and the whole body ulcerated, rancid, and pus, and the feeling was like a complication caused by fishing something that should belong in the water to the shore and not adapting to it, so he asked people to put them in the water, and sure enough, this method worked.