When I arrived at the farmhouse, after releasing my bladder, I went to weigh the fish, selected and killed, cooked and eaten! Very good! I ordered some side dishes, in addition to the vegetables that boiled the hot pot, there are also fried sand milk fans, radish zha button meat (that is, on the pickled sour and sour and spicy shredded radish put a very thin sliced pork belly, after steaming out, the aroma of radish zha will all enter the meat, the meat becomes not greasy at all, and the taste is unique), and I also ordered a plate of fried small whitebait, cold salad folded ear root. Then they sat on the small grass mound, and a hungry group of people waited for the fish to be served.

As a bad guy who likes to flirt with waiters, I stopped the waiter who came over to deliver the dishes and asked her: "Little girl, are there a lot of dead people in Chengjiang?" (The dialect effect is not translated, and the villagers automatically make up various pronunciations in their brains, "Ge is the right")

The little girl was startled and said, "I don't know, I don't know, I'm new, I'll call the boss." ”

After a while, the proprietress came over with a smile, followed by the little waiter with a bad face, it seemed that the proprietress was probably misunderstood, thinking that we had something to blame. After hearing this, she showed an expression of "Hi~~" on her face, that is, a breath of air erupted from her nose, and her shoulders on both sides collapsed, instantly relaxed and arrogant. Sent the little waiter away.

The proprietress said: There must be dead people, many of them fell into it and drowned and didn't catch it. But which lake has not drowned, Chengjiang is powerful, there are big fish in Chengjiang! It's very big, it's too common for the door panel to be that big, and there are many speedboats that are so big, but there are bigger ones. There used to be two lonely mountains, but now there is only one, because one of them has been overturned by a big fish. Therefore, it is a very reasonable choice for you to come to us to eat fish, because our family has our own boat, and we all know where to fish, and all the fish we catch are good fish, but some people's nets are torn off by fish, and they can't catch fart. You will come here often!

After listening to her self-promotion and illogical words, I was hehe. When the master heard about Gushan, he said he had a story to tell.

N years ago, the master held a meeting in Gushan, and lived in Gushan at night.

Gushan is a small island in Chengjiang, lonely, there was no admission fee before, but now it seems that you have to charge tickets, and you generally take a boat to go there.

Master Gemini, when he was young, he was also a more playful person, saying that it was a meeting, but he didn't stay honest anyway, and he slipped out and walked around when he took the opportunity to go to the toilet or something. At that time, there was no development of tourism, the lonely mountain was very quiet, lush everywhere, but it was very quiet, as if there were no insects and birds. Looking at the surrounding water from the lonely mountain, I feel that the color is very deep and dark, and the lake water is very clear, but it looks black. After eating too much fish at night, my mother went to bed early, but in the middle of the night, it suddenly became very noisy and noisy, and there was a feeling of being overwhelmed. He got up and found that there were indeed a lot of people outside, some of whom were colleagues. He followed the army with flashlights and walked to the edge of the island like a night tour, but saw that the water around the island was bubbling like a boil. When I took a flashlight, it was all black, and when I looked closely, it was all black herring nearly half a meter long, squeezed one by one, floating on the water, all swimming around the island. The scene is terrifying.

At this time, a man rushed over and snatched their flashlights away, and insisted on harshly demanding them to return to the hotel where they were staying.

The man told them that today was the day of pilgrimage of all fish, and they should not shine with a flashlight! You young people don't understand! The fish were frightened by the photo, and they couldn't catch fish when they went out to sea!

One of the young men asked, what is the pilgrimage of ten thousand fish?

The man explained that the island was a hollow island in which the king of fish was trapped. Therefore, one day every year, the fish of the entire Chengjiang River will gather on the isolated island to meet the king of fish. So not a single fish can be caught in any water today, because all the fish have come here to bring food and news from the outside to the king of fish.

Then the young man asked, "Why didn't you catch all the fish near the island today?"

The word stupid must have slowly emerged in the man's heart, and he said helplessly: If you can catch it all at one time today, can you eat it all at once?

After listening to the master's story, I ate at least three bowls of herring, which was really satisfying! The young people were going to play cards (although I was also young), so I decided to go to the car to take a nap, because there was still the heavy task of shooting, and I always stayed up late so I was always very sleepy in the afternoon, and after a while, I fell asleep and began to have all kinds of dreams, thinking of the city under the sea, those fish the size of a torpedo, the walking dead in the water...... When I woke up from the dream, I suddenly remembered that this was a good reason to harass one of my classmates, Liu Quan, so I secretly dialed his number.

Liu Quan, as an unfortunate yin-yang-eyed teenager, is now studying for a doctorate at a first-class university. The first thing he said when he received the call was

"Hey, I haven't slept for almost two days, don't make trouble." Haha, but he patiently listened to my question and then told me: yes

Uh-huh, your sister, uh-huh.

I asked him, do you eat fish in Chengjiang?

He asked me, I am a vegetarian and you don't know?

I asked him again, is it true that there are dead people floating in Chengjiang?

He said, "I don't know, I haven't fallen into it."

He knew that I was the one who would never give up and didn't care whether he lived or died, so he wisely relented and told me to wait 10 minutes, he was almost blinded by the laser, and he would call me back later.

Sure enough, I knew that it was reliable to look for him, and then Eun-chan told me the exact answer on the phone......

Liu Quan first told me that there is a thing called Baidu in the world, and if there is any problem, just Baidu. (It's this sentence every time, I actually thought about it a long time ago, but my mobile phone traffic is very expensive, and his computer traffic is free, right!) ）

Then he explained: It is indeed possible that the Fuxian Lake corpse bank exists.

First and foremost, the most crucial point is the nature of the lake's water. Deep water, cold water, and high water pressure can indeed create a freezer-like environment, where the dead are similar to those placed in a funeral parlor's freezer, rotting at an extremely slow rate. (After all, there are some microorganisms on the body, and these microorganisms cannot die immediately after falling into the lake, like frozen meat in the freezer of the refrigerator, they will eventually spoil, but the decay is particularly slow)

Secondly, the direction of the internal flow of such a huge body of water is very complicated, and there is a spring eruption at the bottom of the lake, which is completely possible so that the dead thing will not sink to the bottom immediately, or even not sink for a long time, but it will be swept up in the vortex and cannot float, but maintain a floating state. As for why the corpse is in a standing position, it boils down to the balance of forces, the gas produced after decay accumulates in the chest cavity, and the buoyancy generated is upward, guiding the corpse to maintain a standing posture.

Thirdly, the large number of bodies may indeed come from the former subsidence of the city, as well as from people who fell into the water for various reasons and were not recovered. Assuming that the corpses do not decompose, then there are very considerable numbers over time.

Finally, and most importantly, a link he sent me by the way. And this link explains everything.

The link leads to a news story about a case that happened in Chengjiang in the past. Probably in the 80s.

This thing is like this, in the 80s, a ship sank on the Chengjiang River, the wind and waves were strong, unfortunately the ship sank, and about 10 people were killed. One of them is a pregnant woman who is almost full-term, and her family is grieving and cannot help herself, and the police also feel a heavy responsibility, thinking about helping the family find the body no matter what.

The salvage work was very difficult, but the public security officers still dispatched the maximum police force, paid 10 times the hardship, and tried everything to finally get something.

The frogman diver who was very primitive in that era, floated up and said, it should be, looking at the figure of a pregnant woman, yes, and another man was fished.

The people on the boat were full of anticipation and nervousness, and they dragged the net up little by little, and when they came out of the water, everyone was shocked!

The corpse was a pregnant woman, yes, but her body was grayish and waxy, naked, stiff and flexed, and her skin seemed to have a thin layer of ice, and the water began to bubble up after it came out. After a closer look, it was found that this was not the pregnant woman who drowned a few days ago, and the villagers identified that this pregnant woman had actually fallen into the water and died two years ago. In an instant, the corpse was gradually deformed until it disintegrated.

Everyone present was horrified. The director immediately decided, and the other body did not come out of the water first, and found an expert to study it.

This was a very wise decision, the other corpse was dressed in Qing Dynasty costumes, it was a male corpse, it was very well preserved, and the later end was to be made into a specimen and placed in the county public security bureau.

In fact, this unlucky salvage was scooped up with two floating corpse wax.

The corpse wax resembles a grayish-white translucent human shell. Stick a paragraph of Baidu Encyclopedia for everyone to see:

"Cadaver wax, a special cadaveric phenomenon, obese corpses stay in water for long periods of time or are buried in damp places that are not ventilated, and the decay progresses slowly. After about 3-6 months, the subcutaneous fat of the cadaver is broken down into fatty acids and glycerol. Fatty acids combine with ammonia in protein decomposition products to form ammonium fatty acids, and then form a gray-white waxy substance with calcium and magnesium in water, so that part or all of the corpses can be preserved, which is called cadaveric wax. It can roughly preserve the original shape of the corpse, and can preserve some traces of violent effects, but it is difficult to infer the time of death, which has certain forensic significance. ”

To sum it up: if someone dies in cold water, the corpse does not decay fast enough, and all the fat will be calcified and formed into a waxy shell that covers the whole body.

Summing up all of them, the imaginary picture of the dark center of Chengjiang completely emerged in my mind:

The inverted gourd-shaped sunken lake is very deep, and the huge invisible water flow in it forms an endless vortex like a drum washing machine.

The deceased who died in the lake in successive dynasties gradually turned into a uniform gray and white because of the formation of corpse wax, floating and floating in the vortex.

These cold dead things, some wearing ancient clothes, some wrapped in some broken strips of rotten cloth, headless, missing arms and legs, except for the calcified shell, the part that can be corroded by microorganisms inside, gradually dissolved, and finally the total mass became lighter and lighter, like a white and lifelike human shell, walking down the river in the dark green water.

At that time, those members of the underwater archaeology team, holding the camera, pointed at the underwater ancient city for a while, and then focused on it and found that the ancient city was full of shadows and shadows, and it seemed to be full of vitality. Excited, I continued to move forward, only to find that something was completely wrong, not the colorful underwater fish in my imagination, not corals or shrimp and crab shells, but strange white shadows.

Around the ancient city, in the sky, hovering were corrupt and obscure gray dead human shells, with long hair floating around, nodding with the flow of water as if they were gasping.

Then the director must have a black line...... This kind of thing is seen by thousands of viewers in front of the TV set, and it is ??? Banana you Barra, I bought a watch last year, don't play with me okay! Who the told me to shoot this obscure! In a fit of rage, the entire documentary was cut in half.

The long-awaited investment in the "Archaeological Diving Amusement Park", in addition to CCTV's frenzy, the developer's donation absconding, and the provincial leaders scolding several times, the local government actually never dared to mention it again.