Chapter 80: The Ghost Lamp—The River of Death
That's right, it was a very strange sentence, and if I want to say what the strangeness is, I can only say that I didn't understand it at all. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
It wasn't because he was too quiet or my ears weren't able to hear it clearly, I'm pretty sure, I heard it very clearly, but it wasn't our language, or rather, it wasn't human language at all, and even though I didn't know how all foreign languages were spoken, I had never eaten pork and I'd seen pigs run, and I was pretty much sure that Wanhe's words weren't within my range of recognition.
What surprised me was not only Wanhe's words, but also Wanhe's state of burying his head in the future, I don't know if he noticed that a few of us were following him, I only knew that we followed him up the river for more than a hundred meters, and Wanhe didn't turn back to say a word to me.
"Wanhe ......" I finally couldn't help it, but I didn't know what to say, so I could only whisper his name.
Wan He continued to walk forward as if he hadn't heard it, and Qin Xin and the others behind me didn't speak, and the group walked forward quietly back and forth, and the atmosphere became more and more weird as time went by.
Suddenly, Wan He stopped, and I was about to step forward to pat him on the shoulder, but he rushed forward with an arrow step, and before we could react to what was going on, Wan He suddenly squatted down and pressed him to the ground.
Qin Xin and I both stopped, watching Wanhe behave completely unaware of the reason.
Wanhe squatted on the ground for a short time, because it was too dark I couldn't see what he was doing, but I could probably see that his hand had not been idle, as if he was getting something on the ground, suddenly, he stood up again, and there was already a more than half-meter-long "rope" in his hand, but the strange thing was that this rope did not hang down straight along Wanhe's arm as we would in common sense, but it was wrapped around Wanhe's arm.
It wasn't until we all walked to Wan He's side that I realized that Wan He's hand was not holding a rope at all, but a snake more than a finger thick, and Wan He's hand was now holding the snake's head.
Qin Xin and Liu Xiaowei were so frightened by this scene that they took a few steps back, but I wasn't so afraid, after all, these things will only have a certain deterrent effect on women, but in the same way, I just took a few steps forward and suddenly remembered something, it is already late autumn, or it is already in the time period at the junction of autumn and winter, according to reason, the snakes at this time should have hibernated, even if they are not completely hibernating, they should not come out to move in such a cold time.
"Wan He......" I called Wan He's name again, but he still ignored me.
I didn't know what Wan He's purpose was in catching the snake, so I could only stand beside him and watch him stare at the snake with doubts in his eyes, but after a short time, Wan He's frown relaxed, and he turned around and put the second half of the snake into the river.
The snake that was only struggling slightly in Wanhe's hand suddenly shook violently, and its tail quickly wrapped around Wanhe's hand the moment it touched the river, and from Wanhe's loose clothes, the snake's winding strength was getting stronger and stronger, Wanhe did not give up, he still grabbed the snake's head with one hand, and grabbed its tail wrapped around Wanhe's arm with the other hand.
Circle after circle, soon, Wanhe pulled a whole snake into a straight long rope, and then stretched out his arms above the river, and suddenly let go, the snake no longer had any points to cling to, and fell directly into the river.
I have seen snakes swimming in the water, their heads sticking out of the water, their bodies half above the water, half under the water, meandering forward.
But the snake sank directly after falling into the water, my first reaction was that the river was too cold, the snake was frozen, and until now I have not been able to figure out what Wanhe's purpose was, I don't believe that he went so far just to catch a snake and throw it into the river to play.
Sure enough, just a few seconds later, the snake slowly surfaced, the white snake scales on its belly rushed into the air, its extremely curly body seemed to have suffered a great pain before it died, and what was even more strange was that the snake did not move at all after it surfaced, I could see the small water streaks formed by the water flowing around the snake's body, but the snake seemed to be fixed by something, and did not move.
At this time, Wanhe turned around, walked under a big tree, used his mobile phone to shine on Ming, and walked back and forth under the tree, as if he was looking for something.
After a while, Wan He came over with a stick in his hand, he squatted by the river, and gently played with the snake floating on the water with the stick in his hand, but the snake was completely unresponsive, Wan He saw this and inserted the stick into the circle that the snake bent in, and picked up the snake with a light pick, put it on the shore, and at the same time threw the stick in his hand into the water, I noticed that even if it was a wooden stick, there was no drift in the water.
Wanhe pointed his mobile phone at the snake, looking up and down at the life that was still alive a minute ago, when the light of the mobile phone moved to the head of the snake, I saw a scene that I had never seen in my life, the snake's eyes had protruded and exploded, but the burst was not very obvious, only a little liquid left out of the eyeball, and its eyeballs were not as sharp as they were before they were alive, now speaking, it was more like a boiled fish eye, it was completely a white ball.
"See?" Wan He suddenly spoke, and I didn't react for a while, but I quickly understood that Wan He was talking about snake eyes.
"Well, what's going on?" I asked.
Wan He stood up, no longer studying the dead snake, his eyes were cast into the darkness of the upper reaches of the river, and after a while, Wan He shook his head and said, "I don't know, but perhaps, what the old man said that day was right......"
The old man that day, must be referring to the old man we met when we came to see the wonders together last time, I don't know what happened to the old man, if Wan He didn't mention it, I even forgot that the old man said at the time, but Wan He said this, I suddenly remembered, yes, the old man said that day This is not a good omen, it is a bad omen, but no one listens, including us, Wan He said that the people who were taken away are the most direct victims of this lesson......