Chapter 15: The Underwater Ghost Hand
"I don't understand, how can you say that if you see a ghost, you will see a ghost?"
Xia Beifeng is very puzzled.
"In this ghost place, let alone a big sunny day, you put a Buddha statue in the middle of the night and there can be ghosts to lift the offering table, why do you feel surprised?"
Shen Qingge was also puzzled.
Xia Beifeng maintained the posture of putting his hands into the water, and looked at Shen Qingge for a while.
"So what's your situation now?"
Shen Qingge jumped down from the stone and walked towards him slowly.
"What did you encounter? How does it feel? How far are you from death? ”
"My arm seems to be frozen." Xia Beifeng replied very calmly: "It should be quite far from death, but the arm may fall down in a while." ”
Shen Qingge glanced at Xia Beifeng's so-called "frozen arm".
There was a thin layer of ice ballast hanging from it, which had spread to the elbows.
"Tsk...... It's all frosty. She shook her head with a complicated expression, stretched out the tip of the gun and knocked on Xia Beifeng's arm: "It's okay, it's still soft, it's not frozen hard, it shouldn't be so easy to fall." ”
"Thank you, I don't feel relieved at all."
The water down there is getting colder. By feeling alone, it should be much lower than the freezing point. But the stream was still flowing merrily, and there was no sign of freezing.
"I've always been weird." Xia Beifeng asked Shen Qingge very curiously: "Don't these guys have any other means besides cooling down?" ”
"Because most of the time this trick is enough."
Shen Qingge probed the tip of the spear into the river, quickly took it back, and handed it to Xia Beifeng to show him.
The silver tip of the spear was quickly covered with a layer of hoarfrost, and within seconds it turned into steam and floated into the air.
"Yin Qi enters the body, mortals with poor physique will die in a short time, and those with better health will be able to last a little longer, and the disease should still be the same. That is, your breed, except for feeling a little cold, there is no adverse reaction, and you can still have time to complain here. ”
Then I should be happy, right?
Xia Beifeng rolled his eyes helplessly, and turned his head again to look at the stream under his feet.
"Hey! Friends below, did you hear that! Your trick won't work for me, don't cool down anymore, think of something else. ”
After he finished shouting, he waited for a while.
Although the water temperature has not become normal because of his words, it seems that it has not continued to get colder, and I don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing.
"Do you want my help?"
Shen Qingge held the gun, his face full of eagerness.
"You can save it! I'm getting a little colder now, and if you shoot it, ......"
Xia Beifeng stared defensively at the head of the gun dangling in front of him.
"One shot went down, and all the water in this creek turned into boiling water. My hands are still in there, do you want to stew my hands and eat them? ”
"Your hands are cooked and not delicious...... Shen Qingge complained quietly, and retracted his robbery: "There is not much meat, not even salt, in your eyes, I eat so tastelessly?" ”
"No, you're quite tasteful, you obviously eat raw meat with blood."
During the time when the two of them were staying put, endlessly gagging. The "friend" in the river seemed to be impatient to wait, and after simply cooling down for so long without any effect, he began to take the next step.
Xia Beifeng suddenly began to feel a slight change in the feel of the stones under his hands.
He wondered, "Huh? With a bang, he closed his eyes and began to concentrate on feeling the feel of the stone, no longer paying attention to the sound of Shen Qingge jumping beside him in protest.
The originally hard and smooth rocks seemed to be slowly becoming soft, and soon they were soft like a mass of plasticine, and some uneven lines began to appear on the surface.
"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Seeing this, Shen Qingge immediately put the anger he had just put behind him, and asked excitedly, "Is there something biting you underneath?" ”
"I didn't bite me, but it seems like there's something there...... How much you want to see me unlucky! ”
Xia Beifeng whispered, still with his eyes closed, carefully groping for something underwater.
As the stone grew softer, the shape became clearer.
A guess began to pop up in his head.
"This thing has softened, and it feels like something."
"Normally, it should be a certain part of the human body." Shen Qingge said thoughtfully: "Anyway, 'they've been around for so many years, and there's nothing too new. ”
It should be said that the alien really understands the alien, and Shen Qingge's words are not wrong at all.
Xia Beifeng moved his fingers a few times, and after pinching the "stone" under his hand, he confirmed his conjecture.
It's like ......
One hand.
The soft "stone" under his hand moved slightly.
"Ah, it's moving." Xia Beifeng said, and opened his eyes suddenly: "I'll go, I'm just talking, I really came out to shake hands with me!" ”
The pebble just now has completely turned into a cold and soft little hand, almost two-thirds the size of Xia Beifeng's hand, the fingers are slender and cold, as if they will be broken with a little force, but the strength is not small.
A hand grabbed Xia Beifeng's wrist fiercely and dragged him down the river.
"Oops, hello hello, nice to meet you!" Xia Beifeng squatted on the bank, grabbed the wrist of the ghost hand with his backhand, and pulled it towards the surface of the river with force, while gritting his teeth and saying, "The contemptible person has a reluctant request-dare to ask Miss Fang's name?" ”
"Miss? Is it a woman? ”
Shen Qingge's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he shouted excitedly: "Pull it up and see what it looks like, I remember that there are often beautiful girls in this village......"
As she spoke, she walked around to Xia Beifeng's side and bent down to look into the river.
There was not a beautiful girl in the river as she expected, but her swaying face was reflected.
She smiled at herself in the river and waved her hand in greeting.
"Hey!"
The reflection in the water did not wave with her, nor did she laugh. Instead, he glared at her viciously, as if he had seen some father-killing enemy, with endless killing intent in his eyes.
Xia Beifeng gritted his teeth and used his best strength to fight against the hand in the river, and a few bits of sweat gradually appeared on his forehead.
That hand also strengthened under his resistance.
Xia Beifeng faintly heard the sound of fine bone joints coming out of his wrist bones.
Even so, he didn't forget to joke about the "friend" in the stream.
"I didn't expect me to be so popular, even in the water, there are people willing to shake my hand, it's really gratifying!"
After he said this, he glanced back at Shen Qingge again, and deliberately asked loudly, "How is it?" Is that girl in the water good-looking? ”
"I don't know, she didn't show me a straight face at all, and she still glared at me!."
Shen Qingge pursed his lips in disappointment, took two steps back, pointed to the water and said; "If you want to see it, pull her out and see it yourself."
"I ......," Xia Beifeng said with difficulty, "I'm ...... Step up your game...... But...... There are operational ...... A little bit of ...... Blunder. ”
The "friend" in the water probably didn't expect the opponent he met this time to be so tricky. When one hand failed to do anything to him, it reached out again.
A pair of hands clenched Xia Beifeng's wrists and pulled him into the water hard.
"If I just fell in."
Xia Beifeng's body slid forward a little, and several cyan veins burst out on his arms.
"Isn't it going to fall into another world?"
"Possibly, maybe that little sister down there just wants to catch you and be the groom over there."
"That's not good, I don't know how many beautiful women are lining up here to get to know me, how can I be married like this!"
As he spoke, he lowered his head to look at the water, took a deep breath, and slammed it hard.
Pulled his arm up a little bit.
The water he saw was still the same as before, it was crystal clear, and the only thing he was holding on to was a light-colored rock, and there was no hand grasping his wrist.
But the bruises that gradually appeared on his wrists were not fake, and it was also true that someone was grabbing him below.
"I say, Ancestor, could you please do me a favor?"
"Okay, okay, you can say it."
Shen Qingge raised the snatch in his hand with great interest, aiming at the direction of his arm. It seemed that as soon as he spoke, he would poke the gun down.
"Forget it." Xia Beifeng smiled bitterly, feeling that his body seemed to slide down a little more: "You help me take out the knife and pin it to the belt at the back." ”
Shen Qingge let out an "oh" in disappointment, crouched down, lifted his clothes, and fumbled around his waist to find his knife.
Xia Beifeng gritted his teeth and endured it for a while, and finally couldn't help laughing.
With this smile, he suddenly lost the strength in his hands, but let the owner of those hands find an opportunity to take advantage of. If it hadn't been for the timely reaction, he would have really been pulled down.
"Don't be so fussy, okay? Itchy! Xia Beifeng grabbed the underwater hand hard, avoiding the hand that was groping back and forth on his waist. shouted loudly at Shen Qingge: "You did it on purpose, you can find a knife for so long!" ”
"That's right, I did it on purpose."
Shen Qingge admitted happily, with a proud expression of what kind of you can do to me.
She handed the knife to Xia Beifeng and raised her chin at him.
"The knife is here, what else is going to happen?"
Xia Beifeng's tone was full of despair: "Draw a knife in my hand, you won't even forget this." ”
"I didn't forget, I just did it on purpose."
A wisp of blood flowed down Xia Beifeng's arm, dripping into the river one by one.
Under normal circumstances, blood falling into the water should melt quickly.
However, this is clearly not a normal situation at the moment.
The blood fell into the river, still maintaining its original shape, dissolving at all, like drops of red mercury, slowly sinking to the bottom of the water.
There was a strange noise on the pebbles at the bottom of the water, which sounded like something had fallen into a boiling oil pot, and it sounded a little dull because of the layer of water.
The hands that were fighting with Xia Beifeng seemed to tremble violently, and then they became more and more forceful.
"It seems to be angry." Xia Beifeng's body was almost lying on the water, and he tilted his head hard and said to Shen Qingge: "The strength is great again, can you come and pull me." ”
Shen Qingge stretched out a hand and pressed it on his shoulder.
The hand on his shoulder pressed him steadily against the river like something heavy, and stopped moving forward.
Xia Beifeng suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a lot less pressure.
It's just that the strength is a little big, and it is estimated that the shoulders will have to rain and blood tomorrow.
As for the arm that was suspected of being torn in two, he didn't want to think about it anymore.
Xia Beifeng thought to himself, and completely put his mind on the hands underwater.
As the blood on his arm flowed more and more, the small area under the water had been stained red. Where the blood droplets fell, bubbles continued to float upward, and after they surfaced, they shattered instantly, making a "gurgling" sound.
The temperature at the bottom of the water has also eased considerably. And the hands that grabbed him began to weaken.
Shen Qingge looked down at the large blood stains in the water, and said thoughtlessly: "Xiaobei, you are not a virgin." ”
"It's been a long time coming, why are you asking this?"
The hands under the water were already showing some signs of retraction, but the owners of the hands still seemed to refuse to give up, and embedded the long nails on its hands into Xia Beifeng's wrists, like a drowning man grasping the last straw.
As its hand slid to the bottom of the river little by little, the sharp nails also left several long blood marks on Xia Beifeng's wrist.
As a result, more blood fell to the bottom of the water.
"It actually pinched me!" Xia Beifeng shouted angrily: "It actually plans to pinch me, it's too hard." ”
"You're not a virgin anymore, why is blood still so useful?" Shen Qingge didn't seem to be listening to him at all, just immersed in his own thoughts: "Why don't I know about this?" When did you get a girlfriend? No, how many good girls have you harmed! ”
She muttered to herself for a while, but she didn't know what she remembered, and suddenly raised her head and glared at him angrily, shouting loudly: "You liar! Big carrots! I'm not afraid of kidney loss and death!
The hand under the water tugged hard one last time, trying to drag Xia Beifeng into the water in a dying struggle.
But it was useless, Shen Qingge's hand was still firmly pressed on Xia Beifeng's shoulder, nailing him to the stone, motionless.
My arm is going to break.
Xia Beifeng seemed to hear a crisp sound from the joints of his shoulders.
The water began to boil, and the originally calm water began to bubble upward, like a freshly boiled soup pot.
As the temperature under the water gradually warmed up, Xia Beifeng also felt the control of his arm again.
The underwater hand had completely lost its strength, and after leaving marks on Xia Beifeng's wrist as if it had been scratched by a cat, it finally retreated.
Xia Beifeng blinked.
He seemed to see a girl's face in the water.
Her face was covered with blood and tears, and her facial features were quite delicate when she looked closely, but her expression was too hideous, making her look like she could only give people a terrifying feeling.
She glared at Xia Beifeng viciously, opened her mouth, and seemed to say something.
The face was just a vague and illusory reflection, fleeting, leaving behind a sentence of unknown meaning, and then completely disappearing into the water.
At the same time, both of them heard a sharp roar coming from underwater.
There seemed to be endless resentment and unwillingness in that voice, which made those who heard it feel creepy.
The river boiled for a while before it gradually settled down.
The powerful little hands at the bottom of the water have completely disappeared, and only the pebbles that had been lying there quietly remained.
"Sure enough, it's a woman." Xia Beifeng stretched out his hand to show Shen Qingge the wound on his hand: "The nails are so long, and I am not afraid of hurting others." ”
"People's purpose is to hurt people! What is there to be afraid of. ”
Shen Qingge breathed a sigh of relief, and also let go of the hand that was pressed on Xia Beifeng's shoulder.
"It's a pity that I didn't see what that woman looked like in the end."
"Hmm......" Xia Beifeng looked at his hand thoughtfully, and said slowly: "It's okay, I saw it at the end." A little above the passing line, with a round face and big eyes, she is an ordinary delicate little girl. ”
"Oh." Shen Qingge nodded with satisfaction: "It sounds pretty cute." ”
"It's a pity that you have to get yourself bloody, and you still want to bite me, it's not cute."
"Condolences."
"Each other, each other."
Shen Qingge patted him on the shoulder sympathetically and stood up with a sad face.
"Your hands should be washed now. Let's go, then...... Hurry up and find a place in the village and eat lunch first. ”
"If you don't say it, I'm going to forget that I wanted to wash my hands in the first place."
"Who told you to play in the water and be retributed...... Deserve! Let's see if you dare to play in the future! ”
"Although your words sound quite reasonable, but why does the tone sound so strange, I'm not a three-year-old child anymore, how can I say it's playful?"
"Or else? What should be said? ”
"Like...... That's right, too. I was wrong, I'm never going to play again, please don't give up on me! ”
The figures of the two gradually moved away from the seemingly calm stream, and walked noisily towards the ruined village in front of them.
The large blood stains in the stream still did not disperse, and they gathered on the pebbles under the water, which looked a little fluttering and changing shape under the reflection of the waves.
A figure appeared by the stream without warning after the two had gone away, crouched there and observed the bloodstains at the bottom of the river, and only after a long time did he snort coldly and stood up.
"Rubbish!"
After the man spat out these two words, he reached out and scooped up the pebble under the water, and threw it into the grass in the distance.
"I can't even do this thing, so I might as well follow the 'one' who lives there, and he collects all the garbage there anyway."
As soon as the man said this, he disappeared out of thin air as if he had suddenly appeared half of the time.
The blood at the bottom of the river quickly deformed, blurred in the clear water, and flowed into the distance with the current, leaving no trace.
It's like it never existed.
(To be continued.) )