Chapter 6: The Lake of the Dead
The sound of reading has been around An Yan's ears, he came to a strange place, but there is no half a figure here, some are just hazy.
What is this place?
Just as he was in doubt, the scene suddenly became clear, surrounded by green hills, and in front of him there was a lake, which was placed in an arc in the middle of the mountains.
Looking at the lake, An Yan suddenly felt thirsty, he squatted down, picked up a handful of water and drank a few sips, the lake water was very sweet, but there was an indescribable taste.
Wiping his face, he suddenly noticed that the originally calm lake surface rippled in circles, and he always felt that something was rising at the bottom of the lake, but unfortunately, the lake gradually calmed down.
Just as he turned to leave, something grabbed him by the calf and seemed to drag him into the water.
When An Yan turned around, he was horrified to find that a pair of rotten hands had grabbed his legs, and the owner of the hands gradually climbed ashore from the water. It was a woman with a disheveled head, half of her face completely corrupted and mutilated, not even her eyes.
The upper and lower lips of the woman have been put together because of the corruption, and she seems to want to express something, but she can only stare into Shen Ren's eyes, An Yan's face turned blue, and he was trying his best to break free from her restraints.
The woman suddenly dragged him into the water, An Yan fell into the water defenselessly, splashing countless splashes, and the terrifying woman was long gone when he came back to his senses.
What frightened him even more was behind, there were countless hands at the bottom of the lake, they were desperately swimming up, some of them were holding on to his trouser legs and refused to let go, and human heads appeared on the surface of the lake not far away, all of them were like the woman, most of their faces were incomplete. An Yan hurriedly climbed ashore, but it was too late, the woman actually grabbed his leg and never let go, the woman dragged him, An Yan was dragged to the bottom of the water, and all the people around gradually surrounded him, gradually submerging his body, at this time there was a person standing on the shore, but he couldn't see the person's appearance clearly......
An Yan opened his eyes violently, and his forehead was covered with dense cold sweat.
He exhaled, it was a dream!
But this dream An Yan cares about this dream very much, and he can't sleep all night tonight.
On the morning of the second day, Jiang Xiaosheng stretched out after waking up and breathed the fresh air outside the window comfortably, but he found An Yan standing alone outside the window.
"It's very early" Jiang Xiaosheng walked over and said hello, but his own mind didn't seem to be here.
"Look at it, it's like this again!"
He couldn't help but be a little worried, since he came here, An Yan began to be distracted.
I only heard him muttering to himself, and I couldn't understand what was going on.
When the sky was still slightly bright, looking at the mountains outside the window, An Yan unconsciously remembered the scene in his dream, which seemed to be very similar to here.
Jiang Xiaosheng boasted of being bold, and shuddered when he mentioned the dream he had last night, "I had a dream last night, which scared me so much that I didn't dare to get up in the middle of the night to pee." ”
After hearing this, An Yan asked with interest, "What kind of dream?" ”
Jiang Xiaosheng thought about it for a while, and probably said: "Anyway, it's a terrifying-looking woman, with a cloak and a cloak, who follows me everywhere!" ”
An Yan felt weird when he heard it, and remembered that there was also a terrifying-looking woman in his dream, "Actually, I also had a dream last night, I dreamed of a lake, there were many corpses under the lake, and a woman dragged me into the water. ”
"Is it a woman with a rotten face on one side?"
An Yan glanced at him in surprise and nodded.
"Looks like she's not just looking for me, she's finding you too! I think I should tell Uncle Zhou about it. ”
After listening to their story, Zhou Qiankun said with great certainty: "It should be a dream." ”
The old man next to him and Yang Mianmian also agreed, and the old man said, "Maybe it's because you are alive, that's why they found you." ”
Then Yang Mianmian's deep voice sounded, "I told you that this mountain behind this is a mass grave, and many people died in the war at that time. ”
Mass graves? Bomb shelter?
An Yan asked, "So where did all the people who escaped later go?" ”
The old man shook his head, "I don't know where they went, but I've heard from people in the village who said they saw people coming down the mountain." ”
If someone has descended the mountain, why does no one know where they have gone?
Uncle Zhou looked at An Yan's hesitant appearance and asked, "Did you think of something?" ”
"I suspect those people didn't escape at all!"
Yang Mianmian and the old man looked at each other, "But someone saw them go down the mountain with their own eyes." ”
Such a statement contradicts An Yan's inference, of course, it is only because of a dream that makes a guess.
"Uncle Zhou, maybe we can go somewhere......"
The old man has lived here for decades and should be familiar with the terrain in this area, so An Yan and his party came to the back of the air-raid shelter.
The bomb shelter had fallen into disrepair and was now covered with moss and vines.
There was a lake in front of them, and the muddy shore was covered with aquatic weeds, which showed that it should have been a part of the lake, but for some reason the lake that was originally quite large had dried up. What's even more unbelievable is that this lake once appeared in An Yan's dream.
Yes, the environment was exactly the same as the place he had seen in his dreams, and if there was one more thing to prove, then his guess would be correct. Still, he hoped his guess was wrong.
Before it was his turn to speak, Uncle Zhou also sensed that something was wrong, "This lake is very yin!" ”
Everyone looked at the lake, and suddenly a big fish jumped out of the water and splashed a string of splashes.
"What a big fish!" Jiang Xiaosheng muttered: "I can't imagine that the wild animals now eat better than the domestic ones!" Uncle Zhou, we can catch one tonight and cook it. ”
I didn't expect this resource-poor lake to be raised so big by the fish in the lake.
"Xiaosheng, you want to find a way to get a fish up," Uncle Zhou said.
After a while, a big fish full of anger fluttered on the river bank, Uncle Zhou cut it open, and the fat fish intestines leaked out of Bai Huahua's belly, which showed that this fish did not worry about eating or drinking.
Uncle Zhou opened the fish intestines and smelled it, and suddenly felt that it was wrong.
"The fish in this river feed on carrion, and these fish should never be eaten, because the corpse in the fish is too heavy, and you will get sick if you eat it."
Hearing what Uncle Zhou said, An Yan felt that his guess was correct, and he said: "Those people back then must have been in this lake, and the riverbed was full of their bones. And those fish all feed on their carcasses. ”
The rest of the people looked at each other at first glance, and at first glance they thought it was incredible.
"But An Yan, you're not right, they've been dead for so long, and their bodies have long since turned into white bones, and now how can those fish grow up eating their flesh?"
When they heard it, they felt that it made sense, the war was decades away now, if An Yan's statement was true, then these fish had already eaten the corpses in the past few decades, how could they be left now? Could it be that there is a steady stream of corpses?
Throwing a corpse? The thought was a wake-up call to them, could it be that someone was raising these fish, so what was the purpose of that person?
"If there were human bones under the river, then it would prove that the so-called half of the survivors did not exist at all, and all of them died in the process of fleeing for their lives," he said, glancing at the village below the mountain, "proving that the man who saw the survivors was probably lying!" ”
Uncle Zhou nodded and replied, "The people who throw corpses to feed the fish must be weird. ”