Chapter 122 Dead Drift

The female corpse of the whole body white onyx mourning clothes, somehow, even in the dark underwater can be seen, at first the flare has just been extinguished, only to see a hazy figure, her back to the sky, her hands stretched out horizontally slightly draped behind her back, the female corpse gradually from the bottom of the water to float up, with the gradual shortening of the distance between us, the outline of the features of that white female corpse is also vaguely rendered.

The body of the female body wrapped in a layer of weak blue light, that is a kind of no temperature, symbolizing the death and cold light, a look will feel cold through the bones, just like the ghost fire in the graveyard, I do not know why this female body, or female ghosts, why suddenly floated out from the bottom of the water.

I tried my best to lower my wildly beating heart rate, but this inexplicable panic in my body could not be eliminated. I thought to myself: “The one who comes is not good, the one who comes is not good, she seems to be dressed in ancient costume, long robe and big sleeves, not the costume of modern times, and she suddenly appeared under the deep water under the graveyard of the King of Hian, she is not a good person by any means, so we have to make the first move. ” So reached out to fetch the black donkey hooves, intending to wait for that female corpse to approach from under the water, then make a sudden move, stuff the black donkey hooves into her mouth and then say, if it is not a zombie but an apparition, then greet the other party with glutinous rice dyed with Zhu Sha.

Shirley Yang and the fat man is also the same idea, they each took the instrument, quietly watching the female corpse floating up from the bottom of the water, just waiting to do it.

Who expected that the body of a woman, from our diagonally below the bottom of the water slowly floating up, suddenly disappeared in the dark water, is a blink of an eye, and then look at the bottom of the water, it has been pitch-black, that group of clusters wrapped in the body of the dark blue light, also seems to be the light of the flare as well, disappeared into the darkness of the invisible.

However, that kind of inexplicable sense of panic followed by the disappearance, I began to think that only I have this feeling, a look at the other two look, know that they and I feel exactly the same, just now were a sudden sense of panic entangled, the three looked at each other, what is going on? Regardless of whether she is a demon or a ghost, if the direct horse over, the two sides to see a real chapter of life and death, but also better than this kind of silent appearance, and silent disappearance, this way, it is more difficult for people to speculate on the intentions of this female corpse.

Our upper body floating in the water, chest below the water, the bottom of the water is unfathomable, as if swimming in the darkness of the abyss, the fat man can not help but worry about: “I say old Hu, you say that the female corpse is not we Ping is the kind of said? The dead drift in the river (floating corpse floating in the water)?”

I shook my head and said, “Who knows whether it is a dead drift or a water ghost, but it is a little more likely to be a water ghost, otherwise how would the corpse glow blue and cold, I have never heard of phosphorescent ghost fire in the water as well.”

Fatty and I have always been bold, but only afraid of the same life, because there was something to give us a deep impression, sixteen or seventeen years old is a person’s world view and values of the formation of an important stage of what happens in that period, often back to affect a person’s life.

So when I talk about water ghosts, Fatty and I immediately thought of the legend of water ghosts pulling feet, in the past, every summer, children like to go to the river, or pond swimming, adults in order to be safe, often scaring children, saying that there are water ghosts in the river to catch the double, specializing in ghost claws to catch the swimmer’s ankles and necks, once grabbed, by their own strength, absolutely unable to break free, will be suffocated alive underwater, to become a ghost of the cold, deep water in the Spiteful souls, but Fatty and I did not believe in this matter at all when we were young, because we went to elementary school in the first grade, we know that the things hanging in the water to hold people’s feet are water plants, not ghost hands.

But then we were sixteen or seventeen years old, when the Red Guards, every day uproar everywhere to picket the cow ghosts, snakes and gods, once just in time for the night of three days, the weather is hot as if under the fire, we are tired of all these people, just passing by a small abandoned cistern, the location is probably in the area of the current Pingjian, night time when I went home, there is quite a lot of mud at the bottom of the old cistern, but the top of the water with a recycling system, it is still quite clean! The cistern was so deep that it was not easy to reach the bottom, and some of the men could not stand the heat and wanted to go down for a swim, but a few others were hesitant and had reservations about going down for a swim.

At this moment, came an old lady wearing a white jacket, greeted us, “Come to swim in the water, this water is a cool world, there are holes in the water, my grandson every day to play in the swim.”

I heard that some people play every day in the inside, then there is no danger, so everyone jumped down to swim, and so come up when, that wear white Gua Zi old lady has long disappeared.

There is a child with us said his brother disappeared, but his brother in the end who, we are not too clear, because we are in addition to a few people know each other, are in the revolutionary struggle, that is, when the fight, spontaneous come together revolutionary comrades, people and more, so who said who is also not too clear, so ask the child what his brother long, what dress code.

But the child is too small, said half a day can not say, we did not take it seriously, thought there is no such a person, more likely is not strong enough revolutionary will, half of the swim on the battlefield to escape, go home to eat, so they scattered, each went home.

I did not think that after two days, we passed by that small cistern, see there are many people are doing to put water, it turned out that the child told his brother after swimming after the disappearance of the parents, the kid’s father is a head of the military district management of logistics, with people looking for his son, I like to see the fat man and I was watching the fun, which went out of the way to go to see, this time, since the collision, naturally, there is no reason not to see.

As a result, when the cistern of water drained, there really is a and our age and the body of a teenager, has been swollen by the blisters of white, his body is a large mass of water plants entangled in the bottom of the water, his left leg, from the water plants out of a hand pull, then people are very strange, where so much water plants it?

The cistern will not have water plants ah, the water plants are fished up and cleaned out, there is a white bone, it is this underwater are rotting the human bone, with a hand grabbed the red guard’s ankle, he was drowned alive in the bottom of the cistern.

At that time it was the world of materialists, no one dared to believe that there were ghosts in the world, and even if they did, no one dared to say that it could only be attributed to coincidence, and that this half-grown boy must have been swimming in the water when he accidentally stuck his foot into the water plants, just in time to catch up with the water plants and another person who had been drowned a long time ago, and became entangled when he struggled.

But as for his legs, the place where the dead man grabbed his ankle, deep five bruises, but no one can not explain themselves, and that lure us into the water of the old lady in white, was said to be a lurking hostile molecules, this matter was in our area, the rumor is very wide, the version is also a lot of, but the fat man and I is one of the few eyewitnesses, we did not believe that the world of ghosts, but that were Although we didn’t believe in ghosts at that time, the dead body that was soaked in water and rotting disgusted me so much that I didn’t eat properly for three months.

That is really an indelible memory, this time suddenly saw a female body floating underwater, and suddenly disappeared like a ghost, naturally feel not too good, although the female body suddenly disappeared underwater, but we know very well, that’s only because of the loss of light, we are not as good as our eyesight, the weird female body still exists in the dark cold water, and sooner or later will reappear, between what will happen? What will happen then?

My mind flashed these thoughts, the more I think the more I feel wrong, must pass through this gloomy dark waters as soon as possible, then paddling forward.

Following the slowly flowing water vein, through a large fossilized forest, finally found a semi-circular hole in the front, the diameter is not large, only for one person to pass through, the hole in the water to reveal half of the groundwater, from which the underground water flowed through, over there is another cave.

I said to Fatty and Shirley Yang, “This underground caves are one after another, and I don’t know how far away from King Xian’s Tomb it really is, but since we have already come in, we might as well just take a breath and walk to the end, and wait for a rest when we get out.”

Shirley Yang nodded her head and said, “Judging from the mountain range trend in this section of the Lancang and Nujiang rivers, the depth of the Bug Valley shouldn’t be more than thirty to forty miles, and I just estimated the distance we’ve already traveled, and it’s already more than two-thirds of the way, so it won’t be too far.”

The mountain wall inside the cave entrance is as smooth as ice, with a spotlight, the stone wall are emitted flickering red reflections, the whole cave is in the shape of a trumpet, the further inside, the larger, which also has a lot of plant roots hanging down from the head, falling in mid-air, those fossils formed by ancient forests, even more dense, and the appearance of the extremely strange, all these things are mixed together, suitable for the cave in the topography of the cave is extremely complex.

Fatty and I re-tighten the airbag and mountaineering bag some, ready to quickly through this area, here the air seems far less than the outside of the other cave smooth, humid and stuffy breath is very big, mosquitoes began to increase, the water flow is no longer that kind of cool feeling, so that the person’s breathing has become extraordinarily rough.

Underground caverns, there is also a so dense plant belt, streams and valleys in the water seeped down, along those plants vine rhizomes keep dripping down, into the water, the whole fossil forest, seems to be in the constant rain, everywhere is the sound of the water droplets falling into the river, due to the structure of the cave curved, so that the sound of the water droplets is very ethereal, rather like a temple monk knocking the sound of the wooden fish, to the originally silent The sound of water dripping is very ethereal because of the curved structure of the cave, rather like the sound of a monk knocking on a wooden fish in a temple.

We had to endure the hot environment, and continued to advance about hundreds of meters of distance, the speed had to slow down, due to the cave in the fossil tree is getting thicker and thicker, you must swim around the past to line, in the dark dark cave, the water is divided by those huge fossil tree fragmentation, the formation of a lot of eddies and turbulence, can not be completely rely on the flow of the current to determine the orientation, once the direction deviated, you have to use a compass to reorientation. Once you deviate from the direction, you have to use the compass to reorient yourself, which is extraordinarily troublesome.

Ahead of the water on the surface of the water has a lot of floating water plants, blocking our progress on the water, had to take out the engineer shovel, constantly these floating water plants aside, floating and water plants on the growth of a lot of mosquitoes, water spiders, locusts, and constantly to the face of the people to pounce.

Just when we are not tired of the moment, suddenly heard a burst of buzzing insects in front of the vibration of the wings came, I subconsciously pulled the submachine gun from the waterproof bag, in order to see what is something, fat man had to play a flare, the light only to see the front of the hanging down the roots of the plants and vines, blocked tight, countless huge black flying insects, look like dragonflies, just no eyes! The number of thousands of them, like black clouds in transit, circled back and forth around that piece of plant roots and tendrils.

This kind of insect no one has never seen, may be underground humid special environment only exist, insects are the world’s largest group, there are about one-third of the species, has not yet been recognized by mankind.

However, this kind of flying insects like black dragonflies do not look as if they will attack people, but such a huge group of them can’t help but look scalp-scorching.

I see the situation is not quite right, the air is hot, there seems to be a danger of restlessness, so I asked Shirley Yang what kind of insects are those flying insects?

Shirley Yang said: “seems to have seen somewhere, is a kind of hot and humid wet source of black mosquito larvae, but that kind of insect, the largest only the size of a fingernail cap, and the opposite side of these flying insects, as big as a large dragonfly in the valley …….”

Shirley Yang’s words have not finished stopping not to say, because the three of us saw a fist-sized water spiders crawling from the front, we have seen the ordinary water spiders, are extremely small, can use the feet to support the water surface to walk, without falling into the water, and how this one is so big?

See such a large water spider, three people feel appalled, skin up chestnut, has not yet cared to think carefully, there are two also such as fist-sized water spiders swam through the front, climbed on a nearby fossilized ancient tree after the collapse and break across the water.

Fatty said in amazement, “How come the bugs here are getting bigger and bigger? There aren’t any water spiders this big out there.”

I seem to suddenly think of something, said to Shirley Yang and Fatty: “Have you noticed that this cave, the stone wall is smooth and unusual, but also with a great curvature, but also red, quite like the gourd we saw in the mountain temple, we are not falling into the gourd in the …… ”

Shirley Yang looked around, looked at the nearby plants and insects, said to Fatty and I: “There is a question that must be clarified, is it that the bugs and fossilized trees in this cave are getting bigger and bigger? Or are the three of us getting smaller and smaller?”