"Hu Zongren! Hu Zongren! I started screaming in a little panic. Since I met Hu Zongren, although we have experienced a lot of dangers, that danger is only relative to ordinary people, not to the extent that it can directly threaten life. I know my own water nature, and when I was 9 years old, I crossed the Jialing River with my father. And although Hu Zongren has always told me that he is also good at water, I have never been in the water with him. In addition, the weather in May, although the weather has begun to be a little hot, but it is still a little early to swim, not to mention that we are still wearing spring clothes, the water soaked clothes, and the feeling of sticking to the skin is really not good.

After more than ten seconds, Hu Zongren still did not surface, and now I was really anxious, and as soon as I gritted my teeth, I turned over and dived into the water.

When I was a child, I watched those boring movies and felt that it was a very sharp thing to open my eyes in the water, but when I grew up, I realized that although my eyes could quickly get used to the feeling of filling my eyes with water, I couldn't see anything clearly at all. The feeling was like my eyes were full of tears, so it was very blurry, and I started to look around with a flashlight after I dived, and no matter how clear the water was, there would be mud and sand underneath, and Hu Zongren was by no means a person who was willing to be caught with his hands tied, so I looked around looking for where the water looked the most turbid. Soon I found a cloud of muddy water less than a few meters from where Hu Zongren was sinking, and although I couldn't see clearly, I could still vaguely see him kicking his legs desperately in the mud.

I got in the right direction, snapped the flashlight on my belt, and swam over quickly. There was a lot of mud in the water, and I was worried that my eyes would not be able to stand it, so I saw that it was you who was about to get closer, closed my eyes, and then reached out and grabbed around, hoping to catch Hu Zongren because of this, and then pull him up. I caught it quickly, and I held on to it, and I felt like I was almost underwater, so I turned around, put my feet on the ground, and pedaled to swim to the surface.

After I came out of the water, I instinctively took a big breath and shook the water off my face, and since I had long hair that year, I bet I was shaking my head a lot like a horse. Then I pulled the hand that grabbed Hu Zongren towards the water, but the hand was very heavy, as if I was in a tug-of-war with the water ghost, and Hu Zongren was the tug-of-war rope. Although I know that Hu Zongren is physically strong, he was suddenly pulled into the water, and he didn't have time to hold his breath, so it was inevitable that he would lose his strength in such a short period of dozens of seconds. And at this time, about four or five meters away from me, Hu Zongren suddenly came out of the water like an otter, snoring, after coming out of the water, he coughed a few times, and then looked around, after seeing me, he asked me, are you okay?

I grabbed Hu Zongren, but Hu Zongren appeared a few meters away from me, so what was my hand holding? When I thought of this, my vest suddenly felt cold, and I can clearly remember the feeling of skin tension and contraction. So I took a breath and drank my milk with all my might, pulling the thing in my hand out of the water with all my might.

In this violent drag, the first thing to emerge from the water was a lotus root-shaped thing, and it was obvious that it was a foot. But on the feet are long toes and nails, which resemble the back spines of fish. And then there's a black thing that looks like an ass. Since my hand was only so long, I couldn't pull it out of the water entirely, and I knew in my heart that there were only two possibilities for the thing I was holding in my hand. Either it was a body that had drowned in the water earlier and had not been recovered, but I quickly dismissed this idea, because even if the corpse was in a vacuum under water, it was a corpse after all, how could it still grow such long nails? So there is only one remaining possibility, this thing in my hand is the water ghost we tried so hard to catch but didn't catch earlier, and ripped Hu Zongren to the bottom of the water.

Hu Zongren probably saw what I was holding in my hand by the faint light of the flashlight in my hand, and he quickly understood, so he plopped and swam towards me, because I was not far from him, so we met quickly. I was holding the lower body of the water ghost upside down, and it was still underwater above the waist, and I must say that its force was much greater than I had imagined, but it was by no means irresistible. It wasn't until Hu Zongren came to my side that he reached out and grabbed the other foot of the water ghost, so the two of us began to swim towards the shore with all our might.

And it was only at this point that I had time to feel the thing I was holding in my hand. Actually, it's hard to describe the touch, I don't know if you've ever played with that kind of balloon filled with water, and that's how it feels when you pinch it. But it's not the plastic feeling of the balloon, it's more like a fluffy thing, if you pinch it a little harder, you will feel a kind of toughness, but it is not a bone thing, if you pinch your wrist or ankle at the moment, you will definitely feel the bone not far away through the skin, but at that time, the thing in my hand, it felt like there was a layer of liquid in it. I couldn't help but rub my thumb against it, and it felt like skin, but it was slightly jerky, and it was slippery, with a snotty feeling.

So don't ask me how I know what it feels like to have snot, I can't tell you how I liked to play with snot when I was a kid.

Maybe it's because we've been a little exhausted by this thing when we were fishing for water ghosts, and tearing us out of the water is like a desperate fight. And pulling Hu Zongren into the bottom of the water is even more instinctive, because I don't think it deliberately chose Hu Zongren, but randomly selected one between me and him to pull into the water. Hu Zongren is just the one who happens to be more unlucky. Because the water ghost is a very special supernatural thing, usually once the soul and body of a living creature are separated, they will become corpses and ghosts respectively, that is, the body is a container for the soul. The water ghost was originally a drowning ghost, but because it had to move underwater, it entered the container with the help of the corpse of a dead person, but the flesh was already a dead thing with no function. The sole purpose of its existence is to constantly alternate killing people in order to achieve its own goal of escaping.

Until Hu Zongren and I had stepped on the shore, the water ghost was still struggling as hard as he could, but his strength was much smaller than at the beginning. The water itself also has the effect of dissolving the force, so when Hu Zongren and I worked together to drag it all to the shore, he was no longer struggling, but motionless.

Hu Zongren and I were both exhausted, and after sitting on the ground and gasping for breath for a while, I found that both of our flashlights were miraculously not out of order due to water ingress. At least not at that stall. So I reached out and grabbed the water ghost we caught on the shore and turned over, and then said to Hu Zongren, come on, let's see what this thing looks like.

Under the light of the flashlight, the little monster in this human figure paralyzed on the ground was in full view. It was about the size of a child of seven or eight years old, and it was swarthy, not as black as it had been dipped in ink, but more like the pig's trotters we bought, the black of the skin that had been scorched by fire. The surface of the body is full of that fine hair, much thicker and denser than our human hair, and the hair is also brownish-black. The whole face looked the strangest part, because its eyes were never closed, and the black pupils of the original human were gone, turning into a little black the size of a mung bean, which looked very much like the eyes of a sea fish. There is no bridge of the nose, but there are two deep, long small incisions, which look like nostrils. But when I think about it, they're all dead anyway, what's the use of asking for nostrils? The ears looked like fakes, not contoured like ours, but clinging to our heads, and I looked closely and saw that they were stuck to something we didn't know how to do. The mouth is the most uncomfortable place, if according to our proverb the mouth can be eaten, then the mouth of this water ghost is the kind that can be eaten in particular, I opened the mouth with my fingers, and saw that there were some white, rice-like things that seemed to be teeth, and it looked disgusting. The hair was sparse and sparse, and there was hair on the top of the head, and I didn't see the rumored small groove on the top of the kappa's head.

Hu Zongren and I both know that the water ghost is a form, and some of its forms are specific, such as body size, skin color, the appearance of hands and feet, etc., and other things will be a little different depending on the place where the accident occurred. It's like Europeans and Africans, they all look the same in their bones, but there will still be differences in what they show. This is the second time I've caught a water ghost, and it's Hu Zongren's first time, I don't know, but we all know that every time we catch it, it will definitely not look the same. Hu Zongren smiled and said to me, it seems that the legends of those river gods and kappa are really legends.

I ignored him, we both got wet, and I said what happened to you, how did you get caught. After Hu Zongren spit out a mouthful of saliva, he said indignantly, I heard you ask me, and when I was about to answer you, I was grabbed by something on my ankle and pulled it down. Of course I was going to struggle, but this guy knows how to control your hands and feet in the water, so that you can't use your strength, and I went into the water very suddenly, choked a few mouthfuls of water, and couldn't help but pour water into my nose and mouth, and then I felt a cold hand start to stuff mud in my mouth and nostrils, and I knew that this thing was about to kill me. But my hands and feet were trapped, and I couldn't move.

When he said this, Hu Zongren lifted his trouser legs, and then shone a flashlight and said to me, "Look what this is." I looked over and saw that the ankles of both of his feet seemed to be tied with hemp rope. Aquatic weeds are very resilient things, and many people who drown normally lose their lives because they are entangled in their feet. Hu Zongren tore off the aquatic weeds on his feet, threw them on the ground, opened his socks, and there was an obvious bruise, he smiled bitterly and said, fortunately this time we are two people, if it is just me, Lao Hu's little life will be said to worship Lu.

Hu Zongren took off his socks, one hand kept rubbing between his toes, and the other hand held the wet socks while smoking the water ghost on the ground, while scolding, you shit, you want to kill me, let's practice my muscles again!