The coffin pressed directly down on me, and even though there was a cushion of water, the huge impact still smashed me all over my body and turned my head black, and then the cold river rushed in, drowning my mouth and nose.

The river in the mountains is not like the river in the plains, the drop of the river is very large, the water is turbulent, I and the coffin rolled violently in the river, out of a survival instinct, I clung to it, I knew very well that if I did not grasp the floating objects in the raging rapids and rely on my own physical strength, the only end was to be drowned.

I followed the coffin in the water, and at first I could occasionally hear the screams coming from behind, but the sound soon faded down, and the river turned a bend around the back hill and appeared on the other side. By the time the water was less turbulent and the coffin had completely surfaced, the people behind it would have long been out of sight.

I struggled to flip the lid of the coffin, vomiting all the water in my stomach, and the person gradually came to his senses, but my nerves did not relax a little.

Because there is a coffin underneath, and this coffin was haunted a few minutes ago!

I'm scared, maybe the ghost is on the coffin right now, staring at me coldly on the other side, ready to come up and kill me. Even though the end of the coffin was empty, there was nothing.

I clung to the ink rope that bound the coffin, and shrunk into a ball of fright, staring at the other side, afraid that if I took something in the blink of an eye, I would turn into a monster and pounce on it.

I don't know what that ghost wants to do, and who is it who asked me not to help just now, Ma Jialiang said that it wasn't what he said, who said it, is it the ghost who pressed the coffin?

Why didn't it let me help, did it know that the coffin was going to fall into the water?

If it's it, why notify me, and if not, is there another ghost?

The more I thought about it, the more frightened I felt, my body trembled uncontrollably, and I instinctively wanted to jump out of the coffin and swim ashore, but reason told me that I couldn't. Because there are quite a few whirlpools and undercurrents in this section of the waterway, once I leave it, the probability of me being drowned is almost 100 percent, and I am not very good at water, at best I will only be a dog planer, not much better than a landlubber.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, the more you are afraid, the faster you will die."

I forced my fear to be suppressed, telling myself that I had to wait, and that when the river had bypassed Hong Village to the south, I would have a chance to escape, because the river would meet another stream, and the flow would be slowed.

Hongcun said that it was not big, but it was not small, I was so nervous that I lost my sense of time, and I don't know how long it was, when the river in front of me suddenly widened, and a slow-flowing area appeared.

I grew up here, so I know it. The river here meets a stream, and although the flow of water is usually large, it often breaks out in torrential rains, so that a huge pool of water is pounded at the place of the confluence, which is particularly deep, and there is a huge eddy in it, but it is not turbulent, and it is relatively gentle.

When the opportunity came, I hurriedly looked around, looking for the best position to go ashore, and soon found it, not far downstream, a big tree fell, the nearest place was more than 20 meters away from me, and now I could jump just enough to float along the current.

I have a rough estimate of my physical strength, and the dog planer should be able to get there.

But just as I was about to jump, the coffin suddenly shook, and it quickly moved away from the position of the tree.

I almost didn't fall into the water, and when I grabbed the coffin and took a closer look, I was dumbfounded.

This coffin is actually swimming against the current!

How can a coffin without power swim against the current?

I don't have enough brains.

It didn't go up against the river, but up against the water of the stream.

"Bang!"

Just when I was dazed, a large splash suddenly appeared behind me, and a huge black tail curled out of the water and slipped into the water with a snap.

There's something underwater!

It's so big!!

I was so excited that I hurriedly looked to the bottom of the water under the coffin, and I didn't know it, but when I saw it, I almost didn't scare my soul out.

In the water under the coffin, there was a huge black shadow.

It was it that carried the coffin up the stream.

My teeth began to fight, and the thing was so big, that it was the size of two large sheets, in a triangular shape, like a pair of wings on either side, and a huge barbed tail that often curled out of the water, covered with green burrs.

What's that?

I was almost paralyzed by fright, my legs and stomach were shaking, should I jump or not?

Is there such a big creature in a freshwater river? Where is it going to take the coffin, and if I jump down now, will it nibble on me like a snack?

For a moment I hesitated, the shadow had already carried the coffin into the stream, and there were cliffs on both sides of the stream, and I did not dare to jump now, or even make a sound, for fear that the shadow would find me and throw me into the water and eat me.

But what's worse is that something even more terrifying happened!

In the coffin under me, there was a "zilala" sound.

Because it was attached to the coffin, it was heard very clearly, like the sound of some kind of claw scraping wood.

"There's something in the coffin!"

I'm cold, if this dark shadow under the water can still make me understand a little, then who made this voice in this coffin!

Hong Qingsheng's wife?

She rose from the dead?

Corpse?

Zombie?

Countless fragments flashed through my mind.

"Zilala......"

The sound was getting clearer and clearer, and I could even hear the sound of sawdust flying, and the slashing position was exactly the position of the piece in front of me.

"Ah......h

I couldn't stand it anymore, and the terrifying sound completely broke the string in my heart, screaming and jumping into the water desperately, and slashing towards the shore frantically.

I've lost my mind, I just want to escape from this coffin, and I just want to escape from that black shadow, and as for whether I can escape, I don't think about it, I just want to run, and if I don't do something, I'll be scared crazy.

It's like someone with a gun pointed at their head, or they will run away desperately, although they know that running away is death, but this is irrational, because death is not terrible, waiting for death is the most terrible.

I was frantically planing, no matter what posture was incorrect, useful or useless, I was squeezing hard, and after a while, the sequelae came, and my right foot hurt and cramped.

To add insult to injury, the coffin turned a big bay in front of me and came towards me.

I was almost scared out of my body.

The big black shadow has spotted me, and now it's coming to eat me!

And I am now at least ten meters from the shore, and the worst thing is that even if I get to the shore, I can't go up, because there is a cliff next to it.

Dead!

Just when I was at my most desperate, a voice suddenly came from above me: "Quick, grab the rope and come up!" ”

As soon as I looked up, I saw a rope tied to a stick falling in front of me, and the man holding the other end of the rope was a leather-clad man standing on the edge of the cliff.

I burst into tears and struggled to hold on to the rope.

The leather-clad man pulled me up, and I was dragged and smashed against the rock wall, and I gasped in pain, but I couldn't do that much at this point, because if I slowed down, I might be buried in the mouth of the monster under the water.

In order to survive, I even did not hesitate to bite the rope with my teeth, for fear that my hand would cramp and fall into the water. The force from the other end of the rope was so great that by the time the coffin reached the shore, I was already suspended in the air.

As if seeing that there was no chance, the coffin turned around and headed upstream again, and soon disappeared at a turn in front of it.

I breathe a sigh of relief, the feeling of being in a desperate situation, it's really good!

Tears could not hold back.

I thought that today was my death, but I didn't expect to be saved in the end, looking at the leather coat who was also tired on the side, I kept saying thank you nervously.

"You don't have to thank me, I was careless today." The leather-clad man wiped his sweat and smiled at me, it was very stiff, even a little infiltrating, it was better not to laugh.

I gasped for a while, feeling that my cramped leg was already healed, so I stood up against a nearby tree and asked him in horror, "What the hell is that thing under the water?" ”

The leather-clad man looked at me very seriously and said, "It's okay to tell you, that thing is called a manta ray, and it's the pet of the underwater ghost king." ”

"The pet of the Underwater Ghost King?" I swallowed a mouthful of saliva, it was definitely the size of a whale in the sea.

"Of course, that's just a legend, and its real name is Ghost Ray."

The leather-clad man took out a cigarette and lit it, took a puff, and then said: "This thing is often seen in the Indo-Ganges Valley of the South Asian subcontinent, and it eats carrion, but it is rare to grow so big, let alone this deep mountain stream. ”

I nodded, I have read it on the Internet before, India has a tradition of water burial, and people are proud and destined to return to the Ganges River after death, so the Ganges River is full of rotting corpses, and it is easy to understand that there are ghost rays there, but it is too unbelievable that it appears in the small stream and ditch of Hongcun, where did so many carrion corpses come from for it to eat?

With such a large body size, how much do you have to eat in one meal?

Not to mention Hongcun, even the whole of China is a popular burial, who dares to throw the body into the river?

The leather-clad man seemed to see the doubt in my heart, shook his head and said, "Don't ask me, I also think it's strange that there is such a big ghost ray here, and besides, it only eats carrion." ”

"Eat only carrion, not the living?" I wondered, what did it do at me? Greet?

The leather-clothed guest said: "Don't get me wrong, although it only eats carrion, but the living thing bites to death, doesn't it become a carrion?" ”

When I heard this, I shuddered.

Then I remembered the thing in the coffin and told him what I had heard.

The leather-clad man's face changed when he heard this, but he didn't speak directly, but muttered for a while before saying, "Don't talk about this matter, it will cause panic." ”

When I saw him so solemn, I asked, "Is it a corpse?" ”

Although I have never heard of or seen such a thing as corpse transformation, there are always some TV series about zombies on the Internet, and I can imagine a little.

The leather-clothed man shook his head and said, "It's better that you still don't know about this matter, it's not good for you to know, the more you know, the deeper the involvement." ”

I was frightened and didn't dare to ask again, the matter of Hong Qingsheng's family was really too evil, and it almost killed me twice, I was really afraid, and secretly swore that I would take a detour when I met someone from the Hong family in the future.

I can't hide if I can't be provoked!

At the same time, I was also a little curious, this is a mountain road seven or eight miles away from the part of the road where the coffin was carried just now, and the leather-clad man actually arrived so quickly, and found exactly where I was, and recognized such things as ghost rays.

This man is not simple, at least not a timber merchant.

Who the hell is he?

What does it have to do with Hong Qingsheng's family?

I secretly speculated.

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