Qiao Wei and I didn't stop much after we arrived in the town, and the local police soon sent a police officer named Zhang Xixian to drive us to Heitong Village in a police car. Because the case involved a perverted serial killer, Lei Qishan also sent Tang Hui to follow me and Qiao Wei out of safety considerations.

Unlike Tang Hui, who does not wear a police uniform, he seems to be not angry and arrogant, Zhang Xixian does not look like a police officer at all even if he wears a police uniform.

He was chubby and round, and his skin was white and tender, like a big steamed bun. And the most interesting thing is his two little bean eyes, perhaps because his face is too big, it feels like his eyes are like two holes poked with chopsticks on a white-flour steamed bun.

After leaving the town, Zhang Xixian drove like a tour guide to give us a brief introduction to the situation of Heitong Village.

Heitong Village is not far from Jiangkou Town, and it is only twenty minutes away at most. In the past, the village was just a small fishing village near the river, but in recent years, a large resort has been built in Heitong Village, although the reputation of the mountain villa is not big, but because the price is cheap and the scenery is really good, so every year there are many employees of enterprises to go there for vacation and play.

The tourism industry has risen, and some other peripheral industries have also been driven. That is, in the past five or six years, Heitong Village has suddenly changed from a small fishing village with no name to the richest village around Lianjiangkou Town.

Later, Zhang Xixian also specially recommended several famous fish restaurants in Heitong Village to us, and it seems that in his opinion, we are not going to work, but to play.

After he introduced the situation of Heitong Village, I also asked him what he thought of the legend of the black fish.

Zhang Xixian smiled after hearing this, and said: "I grew up in Lianjiangkou Town, if there is really any legend of the black fish, I must have heard it when I was a child." ”

"So you mean that the black fish is just like the water monster in Kanas Lake in Xinjiang?" I asked.

Zhang Xixian nodded and said: "Anyway, in my opinion, that's the case, there is no need to spend any time on this legend, when you go to the village to see what I mean." ”

In fact, you don't have to look at me to imagine it, and you can completely understand Zhang Xixian's thoughts.

All tourist attractions have to be a bit of a legend gimmick to attract tourists to play there. Just like the lake monster in Kanas Lake in Xinjiang, although various explorations and decryptions on TV, countless scientists try to prove that the lake monster is a big red fish, but there are still countless tourists who come to Kanas Lake every year to play, and most of them are in order to see the legendary water monster with their own eyes.

According to Zhang Xixian, Heitong Village is now vigorously developing tourism, and the legend of the big black fish is very gimmicky, but it is not very widely spread, if it really spreads, it is estimated that more people will go to the village every year.

The road from Jiangkou Town to Heitong Village is full of mottled boulevards, and the eyes outside the car window are full of green space, looking at such a beautiful scenery and blowing a small breeze, the mood is extraordinarily comfortable, and the time of twenty minutes seems to pass in the blink of an eye. Soon, a stone archway appeared in front of it, with three big characters written elegantly on it: Heitong Village.

Just like Zhang Xixian said, after entering the village from the main road, there are two-story inns and various fish restaurants on both sides of the road.

The most famous resort is leaning on a hill near the river in the distance, and the buildings of the villa stretch from the foot of the mountain all the way to the halfway up the mountain, and from the entrance of the village, the buildings of the villa seem to be made of wood, which is very close to nature. Zhang Xixian said that the mountain was originally a barren mountain outside the village, but it was later taken by the developer and became the current wholehearted appearance.

We drove straight to the resort, because the man who saw the blackfish caught ashore 40 years ago now lives in the lodge, and his daily job is to tell the legend of the blackfish to the guests who come here.

The police came to handle the case naturally all the way unimpeded, and the four of us quickly entered the villa, and met the eyewitness Xu Old Man under the arrangement of the duty manager.

Old man Xu is a little older, and his hair has turned gray, but he looks full of energy, his back is straight, and he feels very healthy.

I briefly explained my intention to Old Man Xu, but Old Man Xu did not immediately tell us about his sighting of the black fish, but asked me what I thought of the legend of the black fish.

I told the truth: "Before I came, I thought there might be some strange fish to do, but now it's a situation...... I'm a little skeptical that there's a bit of a commercial flavor here. ”

Old man Xu nodded and smiled at me, then looked at Qiao Wei, Tang Hui, and Zhang Xixian, and asked them the same question. Zhang Xixian and Tang Hui agreed with me, but Qiao Wei replied with an interested look: "I believe it!" I don't feel like you're someone who lies for money. ”

"Well said!" Old man Xu praised and gently patted Qiao Wei's shoulder and said, "I didn't expect that the most discerning thing is you, a foreigner." I'll just tell you this, I'm seventy-seven years old this year, and I've never done anything to lie and deceive, and there's really something in that river, and it's a big thing! I saw it with my own eyes, but the young people of your generation don't believe me. ”

"Are there more believers now?" Qiao Wei asked with a smile.

Old man Xu smiled meaningfully, and then swept his eyes towards me and said, "Basically, everyone listens to it as a story, and there are few who really believe it." Besides, if anyone really believed it, they wouldn't have rented a boat to go to the river to play, let alone stayed in the village for so long. ”

"You mean that the black fish still exists in the river?" I couldn't help but ask.

"I'm not sure. After all, it was decades ago, but the second boy of the Sun family was indeed thrown into the river by a strange fish, and it was the kind of fish he caught before. ”

"You saw it with your own eyes?"

"I didn't just see it with my own eyes, I dragged the fish up with Sun Erxiao. I'm not the only one who knows this, and if you ask the people in the village who are fifty years old or older, they've almost all seen the big fish. Later, Sun Erxiao sold the fish and said that he wanted to share my money, but I didn't ask for it. Looking back now, it's good that I didn't ask for it at the time, otherwise it wouldn't have been a good thing and I'd be drowned now. ”

"What the hell is that fish? Is it a blackfish? I continued to ask.

Old man Xu shook his head and said, "I can't say this well. It looks like a black fish in appearance, and it also has a snake-like head, full of fangs, black on its body, and a python-like pattern. But that thing was too big, and it didn't have scales on its body, and it was a bit slippery like a catfish, so Sun Erxiao and I used hooks to hook into its body to catch it. The other thing was so good that we both caught it on the boat and wore a hook, and it went ashore for hours, but its gills were still fanning. If anyone touches it, it will turn around and bite with all its might! You see, this is the scar from that thing's bite. ”

After Old Man Xu finished speaking, he pulled the library tube, and there was a row of fan-shaped black round pit-shaped scars on his calf. These pits go down to the neck of the feet and close to the knees, and if they are the scars left by a bite from something, then the mouth of the biting animal must be at least half a meter wide!

"I heard that Sun Erxiao's body is not a whole corpse, do you think it was bitten by this thing?" I stared at the shocking scar on Old Man Xu's calf as I continued to ask.

"It's not so much a bite as a tear, it feels like there are several big fish in the river that have robbed Sun Erxiao alive. Since Sun Erxiao's accident, our fishermen at that time did not dare to go back to the river for two or three years. Later, Sun Erxiao's son also had an accident at home, and his house was as smelly as a dung pit, and the smell was exactly the same as the smell of the big monster fish we caught! ”

"That fish stinks?"

"It's a special smell!"

"And someone else buys it to eat?"

"Who knows. Maybe it smells bad and tastes good. But the people who ate the fish did not end well, and more than twenty years ago four people in the village drowned in their homes, and the houses of the dead people at that time also had a foul smell. The stench in Sun Erxiao's house doesn't seem to have dissipated yet. ”

"You mean the house where the Sun family lived before is still there?"

"The house has long been demolished and a new one has been built, but the new house has always had a strange smell, and according to those who lived in the house, strange movements were always heard in the house. It's been empty for three years now, and if you're interested in it, I'll show you there. ”