Chapter 47: The Strange Fish
No wonder this 'person' is not human, it turns out that it is not a human being, but a paper figure tied with reeds. After the clothes were pulled away by the fox and Xiao Hei, they immediately appeared in their original form. However, this is even more scary, how can the paper man move?
My first thought was that the paper figure might have been magical.
Under the pull of the fox and Xiao Hei, the paper figure jumped up and down, unable to break free. All three of us were dumbfounded, forgetting that we were afraid.
There was a lot of mud in the paper man's 'body', and as the paper man struggled violently, mud ideas splashed everywhere. Struggled and struggled, there was a 'snort' sound, and the sleeve of the paper man was pulled down by Xiao Hei, and the fox lost his strength and fell to the ground with the paper man. The fox rolled twice, and when he was about to pounce and bite the paper man, something suddenly jumped up from the paper man's body. The thing flew up two stories high, and landed on the ground with a muffled thud, splashing me with mud.
I escorted Miss Bai back three or four meters away, and shone a flashlight at the thing. I saw that this was a monster like a fish, the size of a child of two or three years old, with a shriveled body wet, reflecting flashlight, and in a closed mouth, two rows of snow-white teeth were like sharp serrations, and there were two tentacles on the upper lip, writhing like earthworms. No wonder the paper figure jumps, it turns out that it has such a thing in its stomach! Thinking of what I had seen earlier, the wriggling thing in the hole on the paper man's face must be the tentacles of this monster.
"It's... This is the water ghost! The old man shouted at the strange fish.
"Water ghosts?" I asked.
"Hmm."
The old man told us that about 10 years ago, there was a time when the flood season of the Yellow River was so heavy that it almost flooded the house where Gao Laosan lived at the highest point of the river beach. The children of the village all went to swim in the pond, and as they swam, one of the children screamed and was pulled into the bottom of the pond by something. The people in the village thought that there must be a water ghost at the bottom of the pond, so they pulled the machine over and drained the pond water, only to see a strange fish lying in the silt at the bottom of the pond. The villagers went down into the mud, and the fish jumped out of the pond. After the fish jumped out, it scabbed over after a while, and then it couldn't jump. A villager brought a knife and just cut open the belly of the fish, and the child's head rolled out...
The old man said that the fish in front of him was exactly the same as the one that ate children back then, because this fish eats people, the villagers of Gaojia Village called it a water ghost, but it is actually a mutated catfish in the Yellow River, this catfish has amazing bounce power, and has a certain IQ. I squatted down and looked closely, and there was a hole in the lower lip of the catfish, with traces of wire tethering, so I thought that the fish had been domesticated.
The fish jumped out of the paper man's belly, quickly formed a scab on its body, and then died. The paper man has a lot of wet mud in his stomach for this fish to live in. In addition to the reeds, the skeleton of the paper figure also has many criss-crossed, thin wires. It seems that someone tricked the fish into trapping the paper man, putting a hat on the paper man, putting on clothes, and making it jump around like a ghost in Gaojia Village at night. Who could this man be? What was his purpose in doing this? I used the compass to get close to the fish carcass, and the pointer wobbled slightly, indicating that this mutated catfish has a strange magnetic field. Looking at the situation, it was the one who ran into the ancestral temple of the Gao family and scared Gao Xiaowen to death.
Although I learned the truth about the haunting of Gaojia Village, my mood was not easy at all. If the thing that kidnapped Yang Shujun was also like the 'water ghost' in Gaojia Village, it was artificially created and manipulated, and things would become tricky, because, compared to things like ghosts, people are sometimes much more terrifying. If it was really man-made, I really couldn't think of what purpose that person could have for kidnapping Yang Shujun. Therefore, I think there is only one possibility, that night, Yang Shujun took Xiao Hei over the river embankment to wait for Miss Bai and me to go back, but he ran into the man, who was afraid that Yang Shujun would shake out the matter of him going to Gaojia Village to get paper people, so he killed people. At this moment, Yang Shujun is sinking in the Yellow River... Master told me that some people who drowned, because of their resentment, could not float under the water after they died, and the ghost was trapped in the water, and it took seven days for the ghost to get out of the body, and then the body would float. Once the ghost is freed, it will turn into a terrible ghost due to resentment. And during those seven days, it was impossible to measure the death of the man by the way of Qimen... Although Yang Shujun has a good heart, he has one of the biggest shortcomings is that he loves to eat, he didn't eat before, so he always feels that life is boring, and he comes to a 'ignition**' at every turn, and now the conditions have improved, and he can eat whatever he wants every day, not to mention how much he loves life. I was killed before I had enough of the good days, and maybe I was really angry and sank to the bottom of the water... My poor Uncle Yang, may God bless you if you are alive...
Before we entered the village, Miss Bai let Xiao Hei go and let him play by himself, but unexpectedly, he somehow got together with the fox. The two guys probably sensed that we were in danger and ran over. If it weren't for the two of them rushing out and biting the paper man, I don't know how long I would have had to stalemate with the paper man. The paper man wasn't a ghost, and it didn't work on it whether it was a lonely rune, a god, or any other spell. In the end, I may not know what this thing is, I have nothing to do, and I will watch it run away, and the spell of Qimen Finding Objects will not work the second time, and it will be difficult to find it again...
The fox lay on the ground, staring at the village elder, sometimes licking its fur and scratching its back with its paws.
I watched it interestingly, and said to Miss Bai, "You black dog seems to be abandoning the master, falling in love with this little fox..."
The old man of the village had been hiding on the ground and fiddling with the paper figure, and at this moment he suddenly jumped up, causing Miss Bai and me to jump up at the same time.
"This reed was made from the reed in front of our village. The beast that put the fish in the belly of the paper man and pretended to be a ghost should be from our village, and I found out, and Lao Tzu had to pick his skin! "The old man's mania has done again.
I swallowed my saliva, and suddenly my eyes lit up, and I thought of the tall father and son who lived on the beach of the Yellow River. The two fathers and sons fish in the Yellow River all year round and do not live with the villagers, so they have the conditions to catch and domesticate this strange catfish. The people of Gaojia Village forced Political Commissar Xu to death back then, and now they are crowding out the two fathers and sons everywhere, and under the previous hatred and grudges, they made ghosts to scare the people of Gaojia Village to retaliate against them, not without this possibility.
The village chief didn't seem to think of this, so I didn't tell him. The two fathers and sons were already pitiful enough, and until they were sure whether they had done it, it would only increase the misunderstanding, and if the other villagers found out, they would definitely run to find them trouble.
After thinking about it, I decided to go over with Miss Bai early tomorrow morning to have a look. The village chief and the old man had already repaired the small wooden boat, and I was busy for most of the night, I only felt sore, and I sat next to the pile of miscellaneous things with Miss Bai and slept for a while, and when I woke up, it was already dawn, and Xiao Hei seemed to really want to abandon the master, and I didn't know where to run away with the fox.
"You two wait here, I'll go find an ox cart, and a few more people will come over, and I'll send the boat with you when the time comes." The old man said.
"So be it." I said, "Let's go over and wait at the beach." ”
The old man thought about it, nodded and said, "Whatever you want."
Miss Bai and I left the village, and after a while we crossed the embankment and came to the riverbank, where the Yellow River was covered with fog. When I came to Gao Dashang's house, I saw that the door was stuck with a branch, and it seemed that the two fathers and sons were not at home.
"It's strange, these two have gone there...", I wondered.
"Ah Leng, there they are." Miss Bai pointed to the distance.
I looked down, and in the fog, there were vaguely two people squatting by the Yellow River, looking at the tall father and son.
The father and son were eating intently, and there was a fishing net next to them, and they didn't notice anyone coming from behind them.
"Uncle." I screamed.
Gao Laosan was so frightened that he almost plunged into the river.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I scared you." I smiled.
The tall man knew us well, grinned, and smiled at me.
"It's fine." Gao Laosan wiped the oil on his mouth, "Why are you two babies still here?" ”
Counting it up, Gao Laosan is about sixty years old, but rural people generally look old, plus they live by the river all year round and blow the river breeze, they look like they are in their seventies.
My heart moved, sighed, and told Gao Laosan about Yang Shujun's disappearance. The old man's face was full of wood, and he couldn't see anything unusual, so he could only nod his head submissively.
"Maybe your uncle was pulled away by something in the Yellow River." Gao Dashang said.
"Something in the Yellow River?"
"Uh-huh." Gao Dashang pointed to the muddy yellow river, "There are many strange things in this Yellow River, when I came to the big water, my father and I saw a big king, bigger than the house, old and scary..."
"Also, are there any water ghosts in this river?" I asked quietly.
"Yes, why not." Gao Dashang said, "In addition to the drowned water ghost, we also call a kind of fish water ghost, the fish thief is a thief, and it can jump up a room high in one jump, which is rare to see in ordinary times." ”
"Have you seen that then?"
"Of course we've seen it, and we've even caught one."
"Oh?" My heart sank and I asked coldly, "What about the fish?" ”
Gao Dashang didn't notice the change in my feelings, and said to himself, "We originally planned to sell it to fishermen who came upstream, but they said that the fish was caused by that, a mutant fish caused by industrial pollution, and the body was full of toxins, and the meat could not be eaten at all, so we put the fish back into the river." ”
Looking at Gao Dashang's appearance, it didn't look like he was lying, Gao Laosan kept staring at the river without saying a word. I bit my lip and nodded.
After a while, voices were heard in the distance. When we got up and looked, we saw a group of villagers carrying the wooden boat like a coffin towards us.
Because the village elder came to him, Gao Dashang and Gao Laosan hurriedly got up, and only promised to say hello to the old man. Then, Gao Dashang helped Gao Laosan and walked towards the stone house on the high part of the river beach.
"Arrange for someone to help us row." I said to the village elder.
"What's that, Gao Fushuai, you help them row."
The 'rich and handsome' is the one who said last night that his mother pulled a trouser pocket, and the boss nodded reluctantly. Miss Bai and I swallowed saliva at the same time, the two of them looked at each other, and I said in my heart, although this Gaojia Village is closed and backward, but the names of the villagers are not backward at all.
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