The body of the female corpse was wrapped in a faint layer of blue light, which was a kind of light that had no temperature, symbolizing death and coldness, and it felt cold to the bones at first glance. I don't know why this female corpse, or a female ghost, suddenly surfaced from the bottom of the water.

I tried my best to keep my heart rate down, but the inexplicable panic in my body never got rid of it. I thought to myself, "Those who come are not good, and those who are good are not coming, we must strike first." So he reached out to get the black donkey's hooves, intending to wait for the female corpse to approach from the bottom of the water, and then suddenly put the black donkey's hooves into her mouth, and said, if it is not a zombie but a ghost, then greet the other party with glutinous rice dyed with cinnabar.

Shirley Yang and the fat man also took their own instruments and quietly watched the female corpse floating from the bottom of the water.

Unexpectedly, the female corpse that slowly floated up from the bottom of the water below us suddenly disappeared into the dark water, that is, in the blink of an eye, and then looked at the bottom of the water, it was already pitch black. The faint blue light that enveloped the female corpse disappeared into the invisible darkness like the light of a flare.

The three of them looked at each other, what the hell is going on? Regardless of whether she is a demon or a ghost, if she directly lets the horse over, the two sides will see a real chapter of life and death, which is better than appearing silently and disappearing silently like this.

The water is unfathomable, and we seem to be swimming in a dark and bottomless abyss. The fat man couldn't help but get worried: "I said Lao Hu, did you say that the female corpse is the dead drifter in the river (floating corpse floating in the water) that we usually say?" ”

I shook my head and said, "Who knows if it's a dead drift or a water ghost, but it's more likely to be a water ghost, otherwise how could the corpse glow blue and faint, but I've never heard of phosphorescent ghost fire in the water." ”

Fat people and I have always been bold, but we are only afraid of the same in our lives. Because there was one thing that left too much impression on us before.

The age of sixteen or seventeen is an important stage in the formation of a person's worldview and values, and what happens during that period often affects a person's life.

In the past, every summer, children like to swim in the river, or in the pond, adults for safety, often scare children, saying that there are water ghosts in the river to catch stand-ins, specially use ghost claws to grab the swimmer's feet and neck, once caught, with their own strength, absolutely unable to break free, will suffocate to the bottom of the water. However, when I was a child, Fat Man and I didn't believe in this at all, because we knew in the first grade of elementary school that the thing that caught people's feet in the water was aquatic plants, not ghost hands.

Later, when we were sixteen or seventeen years old, we became Red Guards, and we were coaxing bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods everywhere every day. We were tired and happened to pass by a small abandoned cistern, there was a lot of mud under the old cistern, but the water above had a circulation system, and it was quite clean. However, this reservoir is very deep and not easy to touch, and some people want to swim because they can't stand the heat at the time, but a few others are hesitant and have reservations about whether to go down for a swim.

At this moment, an old lady in a white coat came and beckoned us: "Come and swim in the water, this water is a cool world, there is no hole under the water, and my grandson swims and plays in it every day." ”

As soon as they heard that there were people playing in it every day, it would be no danger, so everyone jumped down to swim, and when they came up, the old lady in the white coat was long gone.

Another kid who was with us said that his brother was missing, but we didn't know who his brother was. Except for a few who knew each other, our group of people were all revolutionary comrades-in-arms who came together spontaneously in the revolutionary struggle, that is, when they were fighting in groups, and there were quite a lot of them, so it was not clear who they were. So he asked the boy what his brother looked like and what he was wearing.

But the child was too young to say it clearly for a long time, so we didn't take it seriously, thinking that there was no such person at all, and it was more likely that the revolutionary will was not strong enough, and he escaped halfway through the swim, and went home for dinner, so he scattered as birds and beasts, and went home separately.

Unexpectedly, two days later, we passed by the small reservoir again, and saw that many people there were releasing water, and it turned out that the child told his parents about his brother's disappearance after swimming, and the boy's father was a head of the military region in charge of logistics, and brought people to find his son. The fat man and I liked to watch the excitement at the time, and we worked tirelessly to see what happened, and since we bumped into it this time, there was naturally no reason not to watch it.

When the water in the cistern was drained, there was a young corpse about our age, which had been swollen and whitened by the blisters. His body was entangled in a large mass of aquatic weeds at the bottom of the water, and people at that time were very curious, where did they get so many aquatic weeds?

There will be no aquatic weeds in the cistern, and when you fish them up and clean them up, there is a white skeleton in it, and it is this human bone that has rotted at the bottom of the water, which hooked the ankle of the Red Guard, and he was drowned alive under the cistern.

At that time, no one dared to believe that there were ghosts in the world, and even if they did, no one dared to say it, so it could only be attributed to coincidence. This half-grown child must have accidentally inserted his foot into the aquatic weeds while swimming in the water, just in time for a person who had been drowned a long time ago in the aquatic weeds, and they were entangled together while struggling.

And the old lady in white who lured us into the water was said to be a lurking enemy. At that time, there were many stories and versions of this incident in our area, but I and the fat man were one of the few witnesses to it, and the dead body soaked in water and rotted made me so sick that I didn't eat properly for three months.

This time, I suddenly saw a female corpse floating under the water, and disappeared like a ghost, which was naturally terrifying. Although we know that the female corpse suddenly disappeared underwater, but we can't see it, the strange corpse still exists in the dark and cold deep water, and sooner or later it will reappear, and what will happen at that time, the ghost knows.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt that it was inappropriate, and I had to do my best to pass through the gloomy and dark waters, so I paddled forward.

Following the slowly flowing veins of water, through a large fossil forest, I finally found a semi-circular hole in front of me, with a small diameter, allowing only one person to pass through guò, and another cave on the other side.

I said to the fat man and Shirley Yang: "These underground caves are one after another, and I don't know how far we are from the tomb of King Xian, but since we have already entered, we will simply go to the end in one breath, and after we get out, we will rest again." ”

Shirley Yang nodded and said, "Judging from the mountain range trend in this section of the Lancang River and the Nu River, the depth of the Worm Valley should not exceed thirty or forty miles, and I estimate that we have already traveled two-thirds of the way, which will not be too far." ”

The mountain wall inside the cave entrance is smooth as ice, with a spotlight, the stone wall emits a flickering red light, the whole cave is trumpet-shaped, the more you go inside, the bigger it is, there are also many plant rhizomes hanging from the head, falling in the air, those ancient forest fossils are more dense, and the appearance is extremely strange. These things are mixed together, making the terrain in the cave extremely complex.

The fat man and I re-tightened our airbags and hiking bags a bit, ready to get through the area quickly. The air here seemed to be much less fluid than in the previous cave, damp and muggy, mosquitoes began to increase, and breathing became a little difficult.

There was also such a dense belt of plants in the underground cave, and the water seeping down the valley kept dripping down the vine rhizomes of those plants, and it seemed that it was raining all over the fossil forest. Due to the arc-shaped structure of the cave, the sound of water droplets sounds very ethereal, quite like the sound of monks knocking on wooden fish in the temple, adding some mysterious atmosphere to the originally silent cave.

We had to endure the dampness in the cave and continue to advance for a few hundred meters, and our speed had to slow down. In the pitch-black hole, the surface of the water is fragmented by huge fossil trees, forming a lot of whirlpools and turbulence, and it is no longer possible to rely entirely on the flow of water to determine the direction, and once it deviates from the direction, it must be repositioned with a compass.

There were a lot of aquatic plants floating on the water in front of us, blocking our progress. We had to take out the sapper shovel and keep pushing away the floating weeds. Duckweed and aquatic plants grow a lot of mosquitoes, constantly pounce on people's faces.

Just as we were overwhelmed, I suddenly heard the buzzing sound of insect wings vibrating in front of me, and I subconsciously pulled the submachine gun out of the waterproof bag. The fat man fired another flare, and in the light, he saw that the roots and vines of the plants hanging down in front of him were tightly blocked, and countless huge black flying insects, looking like small dragonflies, but without eyes, like black clouds transiting, circling back and forth around the roots of the plants.

No one has ever seen this insect, and it may have existed only in the special environment of the damp underground. Insects are the largest group in the world, and about one-third of the species are yet to be recognized by humans.

This black dragonfly-like flying insect doesn't seem to attack people, but the large group can't help but make people feel angry.

I always felt that something was not right, and there seemed to be a danger of restlessness in the sultry air, so I asked Shirley what kind of insects those flying insects were.

Shirley Yang said: "I seem to have seen it somewhere, it is a kind of black midge larvae that can only be found in hot flashes and humidlands, but the largest insect is only the size of a fingernail, and these flying insects on the other side are as big as large dragonflies......

Shirley Young's words stopped before we could finish our words, as we saw a fist-sized water spider crawling towards us. The average water spider we've seen is so small that it can walk on the surface of the water with its feet propped up without falling into the water, but why is this one so big?

Seeing such a big water spider, the three of them felt horrified in their hearts, their skin trembled, and before they could think about it, two water spiders the size of a fist swam in front of them and climbed on the fossil of an ancient tree lying across the water nearby.

The fat man said in amazement, "Why are the bugs here getting bigger and bigger?" There aren't any water spiders out there. ”

I suddenly thought of something, and said to Shirley Yang and the fat man: "Have you noticed this cave, the stone wall is smooth and abnormal, and it has a large arc, and it is red, quite like the gourd we saw in the mountain temple, we have fallen into the gourd......

Shirley Yang looked around, looked at the nearby plants and insects, and said to me and the fat man, "There is a question that must be clarified, is it that the insects and fossil trees in this cave are getting bigger and bigger, or are the three of us getting smaller and smaller?" ”