I don't know if it's a human being or if it's a hallucination I have. Anyway, I can't stay on the water anymore, I'm afraid that something will happen again.

As for whether there was any danger in the river beach in front of me, I didn't care so much, and after waiting for the two reluctant boatmen to get off the boat and get to the shore, I said: "You two are here for a while, we are looking for someone, if we find it successfully, we will come and meet you, if you don't come back at dawn, you can leave, whether you call the police or hold your heart, it's up to you." ”

I knew the two boatmen wanted to leave, but the fog on the surface of the water and the unfamiliar waters kept them moving, so they had to stand still and nod.

Dong Bing suddenly came over and patted me on the shoulder, handed a hand to my eyes, only to see him holding a burned-out cigarette butt between his fingers, and said in a deep voice: "Bamboo, it seems that your intuition is right, someone must have been here before, you look at what is written on the cigarette butt." ”

I pinched the cigarette butt and looked around, there was a string of pinyin on it, and the group together was: Zhongnanhai.

Zhongnanhai brand cigarettes are more distinctive cigarettes in Beijing, which means that some Beijingers have been here, and they really came here by mistake.

Dong Bing used a flashlight on the river beach to identify possible clues on the ground, and after a while, he said: "I guess we came late, they should have landed here, but there is no trace of the boat around, most of them have already left." ”

I threw the cigarette butt on the ground, looked at it, pointed to the bushes not far away that had been trampled on, and said in a low voice: "Go over and see, if Lei Hong is dealt with by them, we will collect his body anyway." ”

As soon as we walked into the half-waist-high bushes, the cough came again, and this time we heard it clearly, and we saw a tall black shadow crawling there in front of us, and the sound seemed to come from behind the black shadow. Dabao was a little worried, and said in fear: "That black shadow seems to be a big rock, could that cough come from behind that stone?" I don't think there's anyone waiting for us here. ”

Dong Bing said with a look of disdain, "If you're afraid, go back and stay with those two boatmen." ”

In fact, Dabao's words reminded me, at first I also suspected that it was a human cough, but no matter how loud a human cough is, it is impossible to spread from here on the river or even one or two hundred meters away, isn't it a human voice? But I haven't heard of any animal sounds that resemble a human cough.

Just as we were thinking, we had already walked over, and the moment the light of the flashlight hit the big black shadow, the three of us trembled in our hands, and as soon as we looked at each other, we hurriedly pulled out our legs and ran to the left.

Where do you care about the stone that separates the foot, I ran for a while before I half-bowed and panted, Dabao kept looking back at the movement behind him, and found that the thing didn't follow before saying: "Big... Big toad...."

The huge black shadow of the creeping black shadow was not a big rock at all, and the light on the hands of the three of us shone over, and we saw a toad with its head puffed out and eyes glaring, lying motionless on all fours, and the skin of the whole body was covered with blood-red bumps, which looked more like poisonous sores, and it was terrifying to see the pores, we have lived for so many years, and it was the first time he had seen such a big toad, the size of a small car.

Looking back, the terrifying appearance of the toad still makes people shudder. But there is one detail, I only notice now, there is a trace of red thread around the toad's mouth and then near the bulging big eyes, as if someone deliberately put it on.

"Not good!" Dong Bing straightened his waist, looked back, and said, "That toad is not far from the river beach, won't the two boatmen be in trouble?" ”

I hurriedly picked up Dabao, pinched the gun in my hand, turned around and ran back, back to the place where I had just seen the big toad, there was not even a single hair in the place, and only a dent mark was left on the ground.

Immediately, he didn't stay any longer, and hurried back to the river beach, and at a glance, the boat was still quietly docked and swaying on the water, and there was no one else on the shore, not even a ghost shadow.

Even if the two boatmen were to run away from us, they would never go on foot. Then there was only one possibility, and I checked it out with Dongbing at the place where the boatman had stood, but the stone pebbles were wet, and there was no clue at all. Dabao sighed and said, "I knew about the mountains and forests here, so I brought the monkeys." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly bulged, and he said, "Brother Xia, over there!" I saw a figure running over there! ”

Figure? Aren't those two boatmen?

Before they had time to think about it, the three of them hurriedly followed towards the place where the figure had just flashed, the road was rugged and difficult, full of stones of different sizes, and between the surrounding forests, there was a layer of white mist, and the shadows made people feel a trace of unease and fear.

Dabao ran as he ran, panting and said, "Brother Xia, will there be any treasures or anything like that here?" Look at the atmosphere here, and the toad as big as a car, I used to hear the old man in my hometown say that this natural treasure likes to grow in such a place that is difficult for ordinary people to reach. ”

I don't know if Dabao said about the heavenly material and earthly treasure, but the red line on the side of the toad's mouth becomes more and more absolutely suspicious, and it doesn't look like it was born like that at all.

The more I walked into the woods, the thicker and thicker the trees became, some of them looked strange, some of them were twisted like snakes, some of them looked like human faces with their eyes closed, and the place felt more and more wrong.

In the back, the white rising and tumbling mist gradually dispersed, and as far as the eye could see, there were all dense tree bodies, the big ones had to be hugged by two people, and the small ones were only about seventy or eighty centimeters.

There were layers of rotten leaves on the ground, and I was walking on it, when Dong Bing pulled me and pointed to a tree in the distance in front of me, only to see a person squatting there, holding his head and shaking.

Hurriedly ran over, it was one of the two boatmen, the dark-skinned man. The sturdy body was curled and squatting on a thick layer of leaves, trembling with fear like a child, and when he heard the footsteps, he raised his head in a hurry, and his face was full of horror.

As soon as they saw us, they immediately wanted to get up and run away.

Dong Bing rushed over and subdued him, and pressed hard against the tree, and he slowly came to his senses, and after knowing that it was us, he actually cried out like a woman.

"What happened after we left?" I asked, standing across from him.

The swarthy man only cared about crying and didn't speak, Dong Bing impatiently straightened his head and yelled loudly: "What happened, you said, a big man just cries and farts." If you don't believe it or not, I'll use this dagger to poke a few holes in you. ”

I don't know if the threat of winter ice played a role.

The boatman stared at the empty place stupidly, as if he was sluggish, and said: "It's the toad in the Zhenhe River, the legend on the Yangtze River is true, we can't go back if we're done!" ”

PS: There is still in the afternoon or evening! Ask for tickets, brothers!