The female corpse was dressed in plain white mourning clothes, I don't know why it could be seen even in the dark water, the flare had just been extinguished, and I only saw a hazy figure, she was facing the sky on her back, her hands were stretched out and slightly hanging behind her, the female corpse gradually floated from the bottom of the water, and as the distance between us gradually shortened, the outline of the facial features of the female corpse in white was also faintly presented.

The body of the female corpse is wrapped in a faint blue light, which is a kind of light that has no temperature, symbolizing death and coldness, and at a glance, it feels cold to the bone, just like the ghost fire in the cemetery, I don't know why this female corpse or female ghost suddenly floated out of the water.

I tried my best to reduce my heartbeat, but this inexplicable panic in this body could not be eliminated, I thought to myself: "The one who comes is not good, the good person does not come, she seems to be dressed in ancient costume, not modern costume, suddenly appeared under the deep water under the tomb of the king, it is definitely not a good type, we must strike first." So he reached out to fetch the black donkey's hooves, intending to wait for the female corpse to approach from the bottom of the water, and then suddenly moved and shoved the black donkey's hooves into her mouth, and said, if it is not a zombie but a ghost, then greet the other party with glutinous rice dyed with cinnabar.

Shirley Yang and the fat man also had the same idea, they each took their own instruments, quietly stared at the female corpse floating from the bottom of the water, and waited to make a move.

Unexpectedly, the female corpse that slowly floated up from the bottom of the water diagonally below us suddenly disappeared into the dark water, that is, in the blink of an eye. Looking at the bottom of the water again, it was already pitch black, and the dark blue light wrapped around the female corpse disappeared into the invisible darkness like the light of a flare.

However, the inexplicable sense of panic disappeared immediately, and I thought that I was the only one who had this feeling, but when I looked at the other two people's expressions, I knew that they felt exactly the same way as me, and they were all entangled by a sudden sense of panic just now. The three of them looked at each other, what the hell is going on? Regardless of whether she is a demon or a ghost, if she directly lets the horse come, the two sides will see a real chapter of life and death, which is better than appearing silently and disappearing silently like this, which makes it even more difficult to figure out the intention of this female corpse.

We float on the surface of the water with our upper bodies and are in the water from the chest down, and the bottom of the water is unfathomable. As if swimming in a dark and bottomless abyss, the fat man couldn't help but worry: "I said Lao Hu, did you say that female corpse is the kind we usually say?" Dead drifters in the river (floating corpses floating in the water)? ”

I shook my head and said, "Who knows if it's a dead drift or a water ghost, but it's more likely to be a water ghost, otherwise how could the corpse emit a blue and faint cold light, I haven't heard that there is also phosphorescent ghost fire in the water." ”

Fat people and I have always been bold, but we are only afraid of the same in our lives, because there was an incident that left too deep an impression on us before, sixteen or seventeen years old is an important stage in the formation of a person's world view and values, and what happened during that period often affects a person's life.

So as soon as I talk about female ghosts, the fat man and I immediately think of the legend of the water ghost pulling the foot, in the past, every summer, children like to swim in the river or pond, adults for safety, often scare children, saying that there are female ghosts in the river to catch the stand-in, specifically use the ghost claws to grab the swimmer's feet and neck, once caught, with their own strength can never break free, will suffocate alive at the bottom of the water, become a ghost in the cold deep water. But when I was a kid, Fat Man and I didn't believe it at all, because we knew in the first grade that the thing that caught people's feet in the water was aquatic weeds, not ghost hands.

But then we were sixteen or seventeen years old, when we became Red Guards, and we were coaxing bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods everywhere every day, once we were catching up with the dog night, the weather was so hot that it was like a fire, and we were tired of making trouble, and we happened to pass by an abandoned small reservoir, which was located in the area of the current flat x (a Lei character under the grass word), and when I went home at night, there was a lot of mud under the old reservoir, but the water above had a circulation system and was quite clean, but this reservoir was very deep, and it was not easy to touch the end. Some people wanted to go down for a swim because they couldn't stand the heat, but a few were hesitant and had reservations about going down for a swim.

At this moment, an old lady in a white jacket came and beckoned us: "Come and swim in the water, this water is a cool world, there is a hole under the water, and my grandson swims and plays in it every day." ”

As soon as they heard that someone was playing in it every day, it was not dangerous, so everyone jumped down to swim, and when they came up, the old lady in the white coat was long gone.

There was also a child who was with us who said that his brother was gone, but we didn't know who his brother was, because except for a few people who knew each other, were all revolutionary comrades-in-arms who came together spontaneously during the revolutionary struggle, that is, when they were fighting in groups, and there were quite a lot of people, so we couldn't figure out who was about whom, so we asked the child what his brother looked like and what he was wearing.

But the child was too young to say it clearly for a long time, so we didn't take it seriously, thinking that there was no such person at all, and it was more likely that the revolutionary will was not strong enough, and he escaped halfway through the swim, and went home for dinner, so he scattered as birds and beasts, and went home separately.

I didn't expect that after two days we passed by the small reservoir again, and saw that there were many people there who were starting to release water, it turned out that the child told his parents about his brother's disappearance after swimming, the kid's father was a head of the military region in charge of logistics, and brought people to find his son.

As a result, after the water in the cistern was drained, there was indeed a young corpse of a boy of the same age as us, who had been swollen and white by the blisters, his body was entangled in the bottom of the water by a large mass of aquatic weeds, and his left leg was pulled by a hand stretched out from the aquatic weeds, but people were very strange, where did so many aquatic plants come from?

There will be no aquatic weeds in the cistern, so when you scoop up all the aquatic weeds and clean them up, there is a white bone in it, and it is this human bone that is rotten at the bottom of the water and grabs the ankle of the Red Guard with his hand, and he is drowned alive under the cistern.

At that time, it was a materialist world, and no one dared to believe in the ghosts in this world, and even if they did, no one dared to say it, it could only be attributed to coincidence. This half-grown child must have accidentally inserted his foot into the aquatic weeds while swimming in the water, just in time for a person who had been drowned a long time ago in the aquatic weeds, and they were entangled together while struggling.

But as for the five deep bruises on his legs, where the dead man grabbed his ankles, no one can justify them, and the old lady in white who lured us into the water is said to be a lurking spy. At that time, there were many versions of this incident in our area, but I and the fat man were the few witnesses, and although we did not believe that there were ghosts in this world at the time, the corpses soaked in water and rotted made me so sick that I did not eat properly for three months.

It was really an indelible memory, and this time I suddenly saw a female corpse floating under the water, and suddenly disappeared like a ghost, so naturally I didn't feel very good. Although the female corpse suddenly disappeared underwater, we all knew very well that it was only because of the loss of light, we couldn't see it, and the strange female corpse still existed in the dark and cold deep water, and sooner or later it would reappear, and what would happen at that time, the ghost knows.

These thoughts crossed my mind, and the more I thought about it, the more inappropriate it became, and I had to make my way through this gloomy water as soon as possible, so I paddled forward.

Following the slowly flowing veins of water, through a large forest of fossils, I finally found a semicircular hole in front of me, small in diameter, which could only be passed by one person, and the hole was half exposed on the surface of the water, and the groundwater flowed through it, and there was another cave on the other side.

Shirley Yang and I said, "These underground caves are one after another, and I don't know how far we are from the tomb of King Xian, but since we have already entered, we will simply go to the end in one go, and then repair them after we get out." ”

Shirley Yang nodded and said, "Judging from the mountain range trend in this section of the Lancang River and the Nu River, the depth of the Worm Valley should not exceed thirty or forty miles, I just estimated the distance we have traveled, it has exceeded two-thirds, it will not be too far." ”

The mountain wall inside the cave entrance is smooth as ice, and the stone wall emits a flickering red reflection when illuminated by spotlights, and the whole cave is trumpet-shaped, the more you go inside, the bigger it gets, and there are many plant rhizomes hanging down from the head and falling in the air, and the fossils formed by the ancient forest are more dense, and the shape is extremely strange, these things are mixed together, making the terrain in the cave extremely complicated.

The fat man and I tightened our airbags and hiking bags a little tighter, and prepared to pass through the area quickly, where the air seemed to be far less fluid than the other cave outside, the smell of humidity and stuffiness was very strong, the mosquitoes began to increase, and the water did not have that cool feeling, making people's breathing extremely heavy.

In the underground cave, there is such a strong plant belt, the water seeping down the valley, along the vine rhizomes of those plants, dripping down constantly, falling into the water, the whole fossil forest, it seems to be constantly raining, everywhere is the sound of water droplets falling into the river, hesitating the arc-shaped structure of the cave, making the sound of water droplets very ethereal, quite like the sound of monks knocking on wooden fish in the temple, adding some mysterious atmosphere to the originally silent cave.

We had to endure the scorching heat, and continued to move forward for a distance of about hundreds of meters, and the speed had to slow down, because the fossil trees in this cave were getting thicker and thicker, and we had to swim around to get around, in the pitch-black hole, the water flow was divided into fragments by those huge fossil trees, forming a lot of whirlpools and turbulence, and it was no longer possible to completely rely on the direction of the water flow to judge the direction, once it deviated from the direction, it was necessary to use a compass to relocate it, which was particularly troublesome.

There are a lot of floating aquatic plants on the water in front of us, blocking our progress on the water, so we have to take out the sapper shovel and keep pushing away these floating aquatic plants, duckweed and aquatic plants grow a lot of mosquitoes, water spiders, leeches, and constantly pounce on people's faces.

Just when we were overwhelmed, I suddenly heard a buzzing insect wing vibration in front of me, I subconsciously pulled the submachine gun out of the waterproof bag, in order to see what it was, the fat man had to shoot another flare, in the light, I saw that the roots of the plant hanging down in front of the vine were tightly blocked, countless huge black flying insects, looking like dragonflies, but without eyes, thousands of them, like black clouds transiting, circling back and forth around the roots of the plant.

This insect has never been seen before, probably only in the special environment of the damp underground, the insect is the largest group in the world, and about a third of the species are not yet recognized by humans.

However, this flying insect that looks like a black dragonfly does not seem to attack people, but such a large group of people can't help but make people's scalps flutter.

I saw that something was not right, the air was sweltering, and there seemed to be a danger of restlessness, so I asked Shirley what kind of insects those flying insects were.

Shirley Yang said: "I seem to have seen it somewhere, it is a kind of black worm mosquito that only has hot flashes and humid sources, but the largest insect is only the size of a fingernail, and these flying insects on the other side are as big as dragonflies in the valley......

Shirley Yang stopped talking before he finished speaking, because the three of us saw a fist-sized water spider crawling from the front, and the ordinary water spiders we had seen were all very small and could walk on the water with their feet propped up without falling into the water, and why was this one so big?

Seeing such a big water spider, the three of them felt horrified in their hearts, their skin trembled, and before they could think about it, two water spiders the size of a fist swam in front of them, and climbed up a nearby fossilized ancient tree that collapsed and broke across the water.

The fat man was surprised and said, "Why are the bugs here getting bigger and bigger?" There aren't any water spiders out there. ”

I seemed to think of something suddenly, and said to Shirley Yang and the fat man: "Have you noticed this cave, the stone wall is smooth and abnormal, and it has a great arc, and it is red, quite like the gourd we saw in the mountain temple, we have fallen into the gourd......

Shirley Yang looked around, looked at the insects of the nearby plants, and said to me and the fat man, "There is a question that must be clarified, is the insects and fossil trees in this cave getting bigger and bigger?" Or are the three of us getting smaller and smaller? ”