Chapter Twenty-Nine: Melting!
After listening to this, Ren Yi was shocked, and the food he ate in his stomach surged up one after another.
"We're all scared to death, and when we close our eyes, we're ghosts."
"Xiao Wang is gone...... Who knows if there will be another ......"
"The guy surnamed Liang will deal with us, put a few whips and it's over. Tell us all day not to waste time. Human life is so worthless? ”
The workers gradually became fierce.
"Since then, we have not dared to sleep at night, and we are always in a trance during the day. It's really not going to work like this. So everyone discussed it and pooled the money to hire a dart master to have peace of mind. ”
"No, as soon as the ship docks, we'll come to you." Li Meng said.
Strange sounds, floating corpses underwater......
In fact, only Li Meng heard and saw all this, and it cannot be ruled out that he was in a bad mental state that day and had a delusion.
The only thing that is certain of what happened that night was that the porters were missing one person, and Xiao Wang was missing.
Ren Yi pondered silently.
"Liang Chongbo said that Xiao Wang escaped." Li Meng scratched his head and said, "The treatment of workers in our city is poor, and signing a contract is basically selling your life to others." Taking advantage of the fact that I was out to escape, there have indeed been a lot of incidents. ”
"Xiao Wang is different from us, he didn't have a family, and it's normal to run away. We don't dare. Someone next to him muttered.
"There are three possibilities for this." After listening, Ren Yi raised three fingers.
"First, Captain Li's idea was right, he did encounter a water bandit that night, and when the water bandit boarded the boat, he was discovered by Xiao Wang and was killed. The body was thrown into the sea. The worker in the bed next door noticed that Xiao Wang had disappeared and immediately called for someone, but the bandits noticed it and did not continue to board the boat. The floating corpse that Captain Li saw may be a school of fish attracted by Xiao Wang's corpse. Due to the psychological effects or the illusion of lightning rays, you will mistake it for a corpse. ”
Perhaps, there is really a corpse among the fish you see, it is Xiao Wang.
Ren Yi thought sadly.
"Second, those who are able have their eyes on you. After all, Boss Zhao is a well-known figure, and his interests and hobbies are not a secret, and it is too easy to attack him through this channel. ”
"Huh?" The stevedores were puzzled.
Ren Yi explained, "For example, if Xiao Wang was killed by the able, then his purpose was to disguise himself as Xiao Wang, blend in the team, and take the opportunity to enter Qinnan City. But unfortunately, as soon as Xiao Wang disappeared, he was discovered by you. His vision was not completed, so he would most likely hide nearby, waiting for an opportunity to strike again. ”
As soon as these words came out, the stevedores jumped up from the couch.
"Third," Ren Yi shook his last finger and looked around at everyone, "there was an Adventist on the sea that day, and it happened to be met by you. ”
At the sound of the "Advent", the stevedores opened their mouths in horror and silence.
"But it's all speculation. Judging from the substantial evidence available so far, this business is nothing to be afraid of, and I took it. Ren Yidao.
They just need someone, and I'm going back and forth, and the vacation is almost over, and no one can find out...... It's a great opportunity to improve again!
"Great, great!"
The workers looked at each other, and finally showed a little excitement on their faces.
"We have a car, you can just come."
Ren Yi nodded.
"I'll wait for you at the port tomorrow afternoon. Let's leave on time and deliver the things before the birthday party. ”
The workers finally let go of the burden in their hearts and left with great gratitude.
"It's a good opportunity." Suddenly, the figure of Xunfeng in the air slowly took shape, "You can try it." If it's dangerous, I'll help. ”
At the agreed time, Ren Yi came to the port parking lot on time and drove an armored jeep.
It's easy to get there, just take someone's car, but you can't walk on two legs when you come back.
"Here, here." Li Meng caught up from afar and pointed to the blue flatbed truck beside him.
Ren Yi looked over and saw an irregular triangular body covered in a dark canvas, tightly tied with nylon rope on the outside, fixed to the guardrail of the flatbed truck. Seven or eight workers, some carrying horses, some directly on the ground, on the same truck as the stones, scattered around the guardrail, sat and smoked.
Ren Yi frowned, maybe it was the influence of yesterday's story, he always felt hairy when he looked at this thing, but he couldn't say why.
Then, Ren Yi mobilized the "round sky" towards the boulder to cover it, and the surroundings instantly fell into darkness, and countless dense strings like puppets stretched out from the loaders who came and went.
However, there are no silk threads extending out of the boulder. There really is no living creature in it.
Ren Yi shook his head, not finding anything.
"Don't you have a single car?" Then he looked at the workers in amazement.
Someone laughed, "How can there be so many cars for us." We're all used to taking a car with the goods. ”
Li Meng patted the handrail, "Holding on to the railing, I can't fall down." ”
"I can still have people in the car, come over a few," Ren Yi said, "While it's still early, let's set off quickly." We don't rush to travel at night, and we also find regular hotels for accommodation. I was in charge of the vigil. ”
"What are you rubbing?"
Suddenly, a car in the front row opened the door with a bang, and a middle-aged fat man with a slight fortune walked out.
The collar of the man's gray shirt was open, and it was deep and shallow from the sweat.
"Lao Li, what are you talking about, why don't you hurry up? Can you afford to lose time? ”
He yelled impatiently at Li, wiping the sweat from his neck with a piece of paper as he walked, and a jasper wrench on his short and thick fingers.
"This is our group, uh, Manager Liang." Lao Li explained to Ren Yi embarrassedly.
Oh? This is the person who discovered this strange stone, Liang Chongbo?
Ren Yi glanced at the rich middle-aged man's face.
"You are?" Liang Chongbo found that Ren Yi didn't seem to be a casual chatter, so he looked back with some vigilance.
Ren Yi nodded: "Ren Yi." Lingzhou Ren's dart bureau. ”
"Lao Li, you are really, what are the gods talking about." When Manager Liang heard that he had actually paid for a dart master, he was angry and walked back to the car with a shake of his hand.
The silver-gray sedan whined, creaked and stopped in front of the flatbed truck.
"Hurry up and drive!"
It was inconvenient for him to yell at Ren Yi when he was angry, so he could only yell at the driver.
Ren Yi sat in the driver's seat of the jeep and looked at the small gourd hanging on the reflector swaying rhythmically, and the familiar scenery on both sides regressed.
The buildings are becoming more and more dilapidated and sparse, and the barriers are getting closer and closer.
Slowly drive out of the gate of Lingzhou Fort.
When passing through the sentry, two guards of the City Patrol Division checked the documents and scanned the contents of the car, and then waved their hands to let them go. Layers of warning poles rose in front of Ren Yi's eyes, and at the end of the passage, two towering gates slowly opened.
Nothing happened along the way.
"You are the transportation company of Derun Group?" Ren Yi quickly got acquainted with the worker sitting in the co-pilot and began to chat casually.
"Yes, our group has its own transport team to deliver medicine to various cities." The man's name was Sun Laiwang, he was in his early forties, and he was also very talkative, and his face was red and black.
"Also responsible for transporting stones? You Mr. Zhao are wealthy, why don't you spend money to hire a dart bureau to transport it to him? ”
"Harm, we're cheap." Sun Laiwang crossed his arms and laughed at himself, "You don't understand the rules in our Qinnan City. Overlord clause, the contract is basically equivalent to the deed of sale. As soon as the contract is signed, you have to ship whatever people ask you to ship. ”
"Besides, he can't trust outsiders." Sun Laiwang lowered his voice, "He's afraid that he will leak the news and make the thief worry about it." ”
After listening to this, Ren Yi nodded and smiled.
Three cars, lined up, sped on the dilapidated highway that appeared and disappeared in the grass.
Entering a tunnel ahead, the car made a noise of wind.
The light dimmed suddenly, Ren Yi turned down the headlights, and two snow-white lights lit up.
"Ahh
At this moment, the walkie-talkie next to Ren Yi suddenly flashed red, and the screams of the workers on the truck came from inside.
Ren Yi stopped abruptly and turned around.
I saw that the flatbed truck behind suddenly lost its direction for some reason, the headlights shook, and the wheels popped up two Z-shaped arcs on the ground, and at this time it was piercing towards the tunnel wall, and white smoke was billowing out!
Squeak –
At the moment when it was about to hit the wall, the runaway truck finally stopped.
"What's wrong!" Ren Yi yelled, immediately jumped out of his seat, and rushed backwards.
The moment the flashlight lit up, Ren Yi saw the frightened faces of the stevedores, everyone's pupils contracted tightly, and the muscles on their faces trembled uncontrollably.
The workers, who had been scattered throughout the body, were now strangely huddled together in front of the left. It seems that in the corner on the right, something terrible has just happened.
The flashlight lit up, and the dim yellow light distorted over the faces of the group of people, who looked at Ren Yi in horror and raised their right hands tremblingly.
"He is always allowed, he is ......"
Ren Yi instantly became vigilant, mobilized the "round sky", jumped onto the car with an arrow step, turned on the flashlight, and tiptoed towards the deepest part of the darkness.
Snow-white light flickered in the dark tunnel, enveloping a lone figure in the white circle of light in the right rear, and quickly retreated into darkness.
Ren Yi hunched over and approached quickly, raising the flashlight in his hand-
The dark corners instantly brightened.
It was a half-melted human body, wearing the same dark blue overalls as everyone else, sitting casually on two legs. There was also a thermos pot at his feet, which was unscrewed but fell to the ground, and the hot water spilled into a puddle as the body swayed, soaking the trouser legs of the overalls even bluer.
And his upper body has melted.
The white bones were exposed, melted and deformed, the skull was not rounded, and the eye sockets and nasal bones were condensed.
The flesh and blood on his body flowed down like wax oil, and half of his shoulder didn't know where it went, leaving only the half-cut and twisted collarbone lying there, as if the whole person was instantly scalded by the high temperature, and at the same time cooled and solidified.
The stevedores huddled in a ball on the left witnessed this tragic situation at the same time, and could no longer bear it, and finally howled:
"Lao Xu...... He's dead! ”
Ren Yi was startled and hurriedly took a step back.
"Poisoned in the water?"
Ren Yi frowned, and immediately reached into the bag behind his back to rummage.
A fountain pen rolled into his hand, Ren Yi pinched it, and carefully squatted down, close to the water stain that had been knocked over at the feet of Lao Xu's corpse.
The silver cap was clubbed in. For half a day, nothing happened. The water stains are still bubbling with a white heat, rising and disappearing.
"It's not about the water."
Ren Yi took back the pen, leaned under the lamp and looked at it for a long time, and wiped it with his hand.
"What the hell just happened?" Ren Yi turned his head and looked at the crowd on the left.
The crowd turned their heads at the same time, looking at the one who shouted first.
"No, nothing."
It was a young man who was not a few years older than Ren Yi, his face was dirty and thin, and everyone called him Little Monkey.
Suddenly asked, he stammered and panicked, "He sits on the top, and I am next to him." ”
"I felt like he was leaning on me gradually."
"I wonder if he's tired, leaning on it, who doesn't have a time to sleep. But the water cup in his hand was not screwed on, and the car spilled on me......"
So I smacked him and told him to screw it on. Who knew that Lao Xu didn't react for a long time. ”
"I turned my head ......"
The little monkey opened his mouth, and the terrifying scene of that moment reappeared in his mind, so frightened that he couldn't say a word.
It seems that things happened quietly.
Ren Yi listened and pondered.
He thought of Xiao Wang who mysteriously disappeared in Li Meng's narration - it was also at night when he had an accident! An unusually dark night!
Ren Yi looked around at the dim tunnels, could the abnormality be related to the light?
"Why haven't you caught up yet!"
The walkie-talkie in front of the car rang, and a signal came from the silver-gray sedan that Liang Chongbo drove in the front.
"Hurry up and get out of the tunnel!" Ren Yi said to the driver.
"Nothing happened along the way, only when we passed through the tunnel did we have an accident. I suspect that weirdness can only happen in the dark. ”
Maybe Xiao Wang, like Lao Xu, was suddenly melted by a strange force. It's just that Xiao Wang melted more thoroughly, and even the bones were not left, and it directly turned into a pool of bloody water, attracting schools of fish at the bottom of the water......
Could it be that Xiao Wang's disappearance is not accidental?
That thing didn't go and quietly followed?
Ren Yi looked around at the darkness vigilantly and slowly, and in the void consciousness, the "heaven and round place" were constantly rotating, and the water was sparkling.
There was silence in the darkness.