It took a long time for me to wake up, trembling and crawling to the cow maniac, grabbing his sleeve and feeling a little more at ease.

The cow madman didn't even look at me, but just stared at the lantern in the river, and the whole person was stupid.

"Old Niu, that ...... What is that? I was afraid that he was really crazy, so I groped my way up, called softly, and asked.

"Soul Lamp." The cow madman still didn't look back, and spit out three words faintly.

Soul Attracting Lamp, I naturally know.

In the evening, the family of the deceased will light a lantern made of white paper at the gate and write the word "underworld" to guide the ghost to return home smoothly and not get lost. The lantern used is the soul-attracting lamp.

The next morning, before dawn, the lamp will be burned in front of the grave of the deceased to guide the soul to report to the underworld.

On the way back from Linhe Village that year, the ghosts I met were carrying the white lanterns that were soul-attracting lamps.

It's just that at this moment, the night is as thick as ink that can't be dissolved, and such a light suddenly appears on the dark river, especially after experiencing such a terrifying scene just now, it is inevitable that you can't remember it in a hurry.

"Could it be the female ghost just now......" Before I could ask the doubts in my heart, the cow madman turned his head sharply and looked directly at me.

There was an indescribable emotion in his eyes, there was entanglement, there was unbearability, and there seemed to be a trace of determination and uncertainty.

I was furious when he saw it, and I couldn't help asking, "What's wrong with the old cow, ...... you?" Why are you looking at me like that? ”

The cow madman touched my head, pointed to the white lantern on the river, and said in a cordial tone that I had rarely seen: "O Changsheng, you row to the lantern for one night, and I will pick you up after dawn." ”

"What?" I exclaimed, seriously suspecting that something was wrong with my ears or that my brain was having a convulsion, "Let me paddle to the middle of the river alone?" Old Niu, are you kidding me? ”

The cow madman shook his head: "Didn't you hear it all just now, it asked you to go by yourself." ”

Have it? I was so frightened just now that I could not care about listening to what it said, and now that the cow madman said this, I began to try to recall what the female ghost said.

She said that she wanted innocent people to feel the kind of despair and pain they went through, am I the innocent person?

"I'm not going, I'm not going ......"

I retreated again and again, hiding from the cow madman, for fear that the old boy would throw me into the boat regardless of the three, seven, twenty-three.

As soon as I exited less than ten meters, the sight in front of me made me tremble again as if I had a swing, and my cold hair seemed to be alive and stood straight.

The surface of the river is no longer black, but there is some light, an arched ancient stone bridge appears out of thin air, and a group of ghosts wearing shrouds and carrying soul-attracting lamps walk stiffly on the bridge, silent, like a moving ink painting, so strange that people feel suffocated.

"O immortality, there is a certain number in the underworld, and although this thing started because of me, it is destined to end with you. Although it is a bit difficult to kill them, it is not impossible to do it, but I can't do it, after all, this willow beach can't do without them, and tens of thousands of people in willow beach can't do without them. Besides, there is naturally a little responsibility between the world and the earth, don't you often say that you want to be a big hero who stands up to the sky......"

I quietly looked at the river, looking at the strange picture on the river, my ears were full of the sound of gurgling water, and my heart was full of taste.

What was fate? What is the righteousness of the world? What stands up to the sky? Bull madman, are you brainwashing me?

But I was moved by his words, and my heart actually gave birth to a heavy emotion, like a kind of responsibility, and like a passion.

To put it bluntly, it's just impulsive, and I cover my face with shame!

Eventually, I straightened my back, tried to look a little taller, and said, "I'll go, old cow!" ”

The cow madman was stunned for a moment, looking at me with a look of disbelief, obviously not expecting me to say this.

Just at this glance, I immediately felt a little stunned, and even began to regret the impulse just now, swallowed my saliva and asked with a stalk on my neck: "I...... Won't it be ...... if you go? Dangerous? ”

"There will definitely be danger, but don't worry, I'll protect you." The cow madman glanced at the jujube wood sword that had been pinned to my waist, "If it embarrasses you, you will jump into the river." ”

Cow maniac, are you sure you're talking about people? What am I dancing? It was the middle of the river, a few hundred meters from the shore, and at the level of my dog's swimming, I had to sink down to feed the fish if I could pounce five meters at most. Besides, people are water ghosts, this is people's home field, what's the difference between me jumping down and looking for my own death?

Fortunately, Lao Tzu had the foresight to bring the jujube wood sword, and he also carried a ghost exorcism charm in his arms, and he beckoned to her when the time came.

There were three small wooden boats on the river beach, and the cow maniac flattered me to untie one and push one into the water, and I jumped up one of them, and then beckoned to him.

The night was dark, and the moon, which had never known which cloud to hide, quietly peeked out and hid again. I rowed the boat mechanically like a marionette, and the sudden blood in my heart had long been blown frozen by the cold night wind, and I only felt that there seemed to be five or six poisonous snakes scurrying around my back.

To get close to the lantern, you have to pass under the stone bridge.

It's broken, I forgot to ask the cow madman what the origin of this bridge is. It can't be the bridge of the underworld, right?

At this time, the boat was less than ten meters away from the stone bridge, and the bridge was cloudy and windy, and there were many ghosts, which was obviously not a hallucination. Suddenly, I had the illusion that I was on my way to the underworld with the ghosts on the bridge!

The thought scared me so much that I even wanted to turn around and row the boat back.

It was this distraction that one of the oars fell into the water and drifted away with the water.

The boat, which had lost the support of its oars, suddenly spun in circles on the surface of the river.

But at this moment, suddenly a gust of wind blew, and the boat moved with the wind, turned faster, and drifted towards the center of the river.

Closer, closer, closer...... I looked at the lantern that was getting closer and closer, as if I saw the end of my life.

Suddenly, the boat stopped, and a viscous black mist formed around me at a speed visible to the naked eye, covering the entire boat cage in an instant, and a biting chill immediately enveloped me.

At this moment, I feel like I am in the ice and snow, the cold is like a needle, piercing into every pore of my body, reaching my heart, I shiver and fight my teeth.

I vaguely remember that the cow madman once said, most of the unjust souls and evil ghosts are with great grievances and died in vain, after death, the soul is not scattered and depressed, scattered is the formation of qi gathering, the darker and thicker the fog means that the grudge is deeper, the more yin and colder the heavier the anger, the fog in front of you is as thick as ink, cold to the bone, maybe what a powerful ghost!

I grasped the hilt of the jujube wood sword with one hand, and reached into my arms with the other hand, ready to take out the exorcism charm at any time and scatter it, my eyes were closed, and my body trembled very honestly, waiting for the other party to appear.

I don't know how long it took, but the wind stopped and the fog cleared......

What's going on? Could it be that she is gone? Did you call me here just to scare me? Or is she afraid of the jujube wood sword and the exorcism charm and dare not attack me?

Just as I was thinking, I opened my eyes timidly......

it!

The white lantern that had been floating on the water appeared on the boat at some point, right in front of me!

Looking further, I saw a thin little girl with a turnip head sitting on the bow of the boat with her back to me!

In the middle of the night, the boat in the middle of the river seems to be a poetic and romantic environment.

But what about a little girl who appeared strangely?

I think most people will react similarly to me.

Fighting back my fear, I stroked my heart, which was about to burst out of my throat.

I'm extremely sure that the little girl in front of me is definitely not human, is she the female ghost? But the voice just now sounded like an adult, how could it be a seven or eight-year-old child?

I mustered up my spirits and stared at her with unblinking eyes.

After a long time, she turned around faintly......