Chapter 12: The Water Walker

The bubbles in the water disappeared, and the second uncle led us down, and there were a few wooden boats parked on the shore, all of which were very simple.

"How much does a boat rent for a day?" The second uncle asked.

"It depends on what you're up for." The man standing by the boat looked us up and down.

"Scoop up the corpse." The second uncle did not hide it, the owner of the ship had a treacherous face, and the second uncle would definitely raise the price if he said this.

"Two thousand."

A broken boat costs 2,000 yuan a day, which is similar to robbing money, and the second uncle actually agreed directly.

"Get on board."

The second uncle jumped up, and Zhao Dazui and I also followed on the boat, and the boatman pulled the cable away.

"Ugly words ahead, this water is not clean, don't come to me if something happens."

"Don't worry."

The second uncle agreed, and then he loosened the rope, and the second uncle picked up a long bamboo pole and clicked it a few times in a row, and the wooden boat slowly rowed towards the water.

"Which of you can row?"

I shook my head, there was no such boat in the village, and Zhao Dazui kept shaking his head.

The second uncle glanced at us, "Now the division of labor, I am responsible for the ship, and I will stare at the incense burner and Lin Mu for a while, and you will be responsible for retrieving the corpse." ”

"Second uncle, I haven't fished out the corpse."

I'm a little reluctant, although it's a division of labor, it's obviously different, Zhao Dazui is the simplest, as long as he sits in the boat and guards the incense burner, fishing for the corpse is equivalent to facing the corpse directly, which is definitely the most dangerous.

"There must be a first time in life, do you want to do it?"

Thinking that my grandfather was still lying in the hospital, it was not easy to earn 10,000 yuan last time I carried the corpse, and the treatment fee was far from enough.

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I can only agree, people are under the roof, and they have to bow their heads.

"Use this."

The second uncle's foot kicked towards the backpack, I bent over to open it, there was a gray wooden pole inside, and a black rope was attached to one end of the wooden pole, and when I picked it up, I could vaguely smell a fishy smell from the rope.

"This is made of black dog hair mixed with black dog blood, and when you see the corpse, you only need to put a rope trap around the neck of the corpse, and you can bring the corpse back safely."

"Oh."

I nodded, no wonder it stinks, "Second uncle, the corpse is in the water, how do you know which one is?" ”

The second uncle laughed, "Scooping up corpses is the most exquisite eyesight, and those who have experience can judge it at a glance, of course I can't, so I have to rely on this." ”

After the second uncle finished speaking, he took out something from his clothes, a black box, and a circle of red rope was wrapped around the outside of the box, "I just asked the hair of the girl's parents to put it inside, and the parents who received the hair and skin of the body were wrapped with red rope, and such a red rope will appear on the girl's corpse hair, as long as you see it, you can just fish it directly, but remember that the corpse can be fished up to three times, if it can't be fished up three times, it means that the corpse doesn't want to get out of the water, so you can only give up, you can't force it." ”

I nodded and agreed, this time I learned a lot from my second uncle, Zhao Dazui set up the incense burner, and then lit three incense sticks and inserted them in it.

I don't think this thing is useful, I tried it when I was on the shore, and all three sticks of incense were broken.

"Second uncle, the three incense sticks are broken, what does it mean?"

The second uncle sighed, "It's bad luck to break one incense, two big murders to break incense, and it's difficult to return three incense." ”

I chuckled in my heart, I didn't expect it to be so serious, when I was on the shore, the scene of three incense sticks disconnected at the same time kept appearing in my mind, the second uncle knew that this time the corpse was extremely dangerous, why did he insist on picking up the corpse?

I didn't dare to ask the second uncle, at this time, I could only hold on to the corpse rod and keep my eyes on the water, because of the dam below, the water flow here is very smooth, and there is hardly a single wave, and it is precisely because of this that the corpses washed down upstream will eventually stop here.

The boat was still slowly rowing forward, my nervous palms were sweaty, there was nothing on the water, I had been staring at it for a long time, my neck was sore, and just as I was about to turn my head, something faintly emerged from the back of the boat.

I was about to make a sound, and the thing was gone again.

Am I mistaken? When the sun falls on the water, the surface of the water is white, and it is particularly uncomfortable to stare at it for a long time.

"Big mouth, what's going on?" I asked in a whisper.

"It's fine."

Zhao Dazui guarded the incense burner, I was relieved to hear him say that it was okay, as my eyes moved, the thing that had just disappeared from the water appeared again, this time it came out much bigger than the last time, it looked like a large cloud of algae, and as it slowly rose, it was obviously a person's head that came out of the water.

It was an underwater corpse, with its head coming out of the water, and the algae-like mass I saw at first was actually human hair, with a miserable white face under the hair.

This face is very scary, it has been soaked in water for a long time, it is very white, and the whole face is swollen like a huge steamed bun.

The corpse is not floating on the water, only the head is exposed from the water, and the body is still in the water.

This is obviously not normal, when a person dies, the corpse must be floating on the water, not like it is now, just when I was about to say it, the corpse seemed to sense it, and actually shrank back again.

I let out a sigh of relief, there should be a lot of corpses in the water, as long as we find the corpse we are looking for, the other corpses don't need to be ignored.

The boat continued to row forward, approaching the middle position, and the speed slowed down significantly.

"Lin Mu, do you see the corpse?"

"Nope."

The second uncle frowned, "It feels like it's almost there, why don't you have a corpse, it's a bit evil!" ”

I stared at the water, the second uncle is a master in this area, he knows more than me and Big Mouth, and this time the corpse is completely up to him.

"Broken, broken."

With the shout of the big mouth, his body was obviously trembling as well, and the incense in the incense burner broke one, then the second, and then the third.

The three sticks of incense were broken almost at the same time, and although they had prepared in advance, the moment the incense broke, their hearts were still tight, and then the boat suddenly shook.

The water surface was unusually stable, there was no wind and waves, and I quickly squatted down, and the shaking under my feet became more and more severe.

"There's something underwater."

The second uncle was also nervous at this time, and the bamboo pole in his hand clicked into the water several times in a row, but the boat didn't move.

"Damn it!"

The second uncle exerted his strength again, the bamboo pole was obviously bent, and the boat still did not move, there was only one possibility in this situation, there was something under the water blocking the corpse boat, but we couldn't see it.

There was a bang, the water splashed, and a corpse suddenly came out of the water, a miserable white and swollen human face, although the facial features were almost crowded together, I still recognized it, this is the corpse I had seen before, and it had been following the back of the boat.

"Don't panic."

The second uncle shouted, I raised the corpse rod in my hand, the corpse that came out of the water was approaching the boat, the corpse was shaking in the water, the two arms were shaking back and forth, it felt like walking in the water.

This is a corpse walking in the water, I remember the second uncle said, if you encounter this kind of corpse that walks like a human in the water, you must not touch it, this kind of corpse is very fierce.