Chapter 701 Mind, Lake God
The old man sat alone in front of the freezer, wielding the knife skillfully with both hands. The sound of the fish scales being scraped off combined with the short song she was humming made goosebumps appear all over the body of those who heard it.
Han Fei, who was standing at the door, coughed slightly. The old man's movements immediately stopped, and the room instantly became quiet.
The hand covered with fish scales and blood slowly stretched out. The old man pulled down the turban, covering half of his face, and then timidly turned back to look at the back door.
The bright eyes are like black gems, full of luster, as if they have been continuously polished by water.
"Are you here to eat? Sorry, the chef is not here. If you are really hungry, I can make something for you." The old lady's voice looks much younger compared to her age, and does not have the old and hoarse tone.
My feeling: "Don't worry, we won't charge you."
Smelling the stench that filled the room, Yan Le and the player lost their appetites, but Han Fei had a smile on his face: "Sorry to trouble you."
He spoke politely, and his gentle and gentle look was completely different from before.
"It's no trouble. Our town has developed by relying on tourists. Helping you is helping ourselves." The old man seemed to have something in his words. When Han Fei wanted to see her expression clearly, the old man had already turned around.
She took off her apron that was stained with fish scales, threw it into the pool nearby, and entered another room in the back kitchen holding the knife specially used for scraping fish scales.
"Han Fei, are you sure you want to eat here?" The player who is a lifeguard in reality is a little scared. He knows some survival skills and is very good at water, but that is only compared to ordinary people. It really makes him suffer from water ghosts.
He would also be frightened if he tried to rob someone.
"It's rare to meet a living person, so it's better to have a good chat." After the old man left, Han Fei walked towards the freezer and sink. He looked at the fish scales on the ground and picked up a black scale with flesh and blood: "You
Do you know what kind of fish scales these are?”
"I have never seen such big and hard scales. Could it be a giant-bone snake fish?" The lifeguard frowned and followed Han Fei. He covered his mouth and nose. Acid water kept rising in his stomach. This room was really full of fish.
It stinks so much.
"Then look at what kind of fish are in this freezer? Are there any special species?" Han Fei asked the lifeguard to check the freezer while he stood next to the water tank.
When the old lady left, she made a seemingly casual but actually deliberate move. After taking off her apron, she did not put it on the hook, but directly threw it into the sink, letting the apron float in the sink and cover the
water surface.
"What are you looking at?"
"When we came in, the old lady was shaving fish scales, but after we came in, the fish she was shaving was gone. I suspect that when she was getting the apron, she wrapped the fish in the apron and threw it directly into the apron.
In the sink." Han Fei said some details that no one else noticed at all. He stopped talking to Yan Le and picked up the iron hook next to him to fish out the apron.
I don’t know what the water tank, which is two meters long and one meter wide, is used for. It is filled with a pool of sewage, which is turbid and dirty and exudes a pungent odor.
"Whether you use this water to raise fish or clean fish, eating it will kill you, right?" The lifeguard had already checked the freezer: "There are some very common fish in there, nothing special."
Han Fei didn't respond to the lifeguard. He stared straight at the sink, simulating the old lady's action of throwing the apron just now.
"If there is really a fish hidden in the apron, it will probably fall here." Rolling up his sleeves, Han Fei put his hand into the water tank under the surprised gaze of the lifeguard.
Contrary to his expectation, the water tank that looked small was actually very deep, and his arms were completely submerged in it without even touching the bottom.
"So deep?"
Unable to find the thing thrown into the sink, Han Fei had to give up, but just when he was about to take his hand out of the sink, his fingertips touched something greasy, like fish with scales scraped off.
.
He spread his fingers and started grabbing there, but what made his expression slightly change was that what he caught was not a fish, but five fingers.
"That's a human hand!"
What the old lady has been scraping off the scales of is not a fish, but a severed hand?
While thinking in his mind, Han Fei suddenly felt a huge force. His arm seemed to be bitten by the mouth of a big fish, and his whole body fell towards the water tank!
At the critical moment, Han Fei stepped on the edge of the water tank, and the ugly cat in his backpack also meowed, and then the "big fish" let go.
Water splashed everywhere, Han Fei's face was only one foot away from the turbid and dirty water, and he quickly pulled his arm out.
The fish's internal organs and blood stains slid down his arm. Han Fei didn't care at all. He stared at his hand carefully. There was a circle of teeth marks on his wrist. They were not sharp teeth marks, but the teeth marks of a living person.
"Are there mutated corpses in the pool?" Han Fei wanted to continue checking, but the old man walked out of another room in the kitchen. The lifeguard also stood in front of Han Fei with a wink, and blocked Han Fei with his body.
That arm.
The old lady didn't notice anything unusual. Her head and face were wrapped in the scarf, and she couldn't see any expression: "This place is quite messy. You should go to the restaurant and wait."
The clothes on her body also exude a fishy smell, and it seems that they have not been changed for a long time. Except for her eyes, only her hands are exposed. Her left wrist is still wrapped in a bandage. It is unknown whether it is due to injury.
, or to hide something on the skin.
"Sorry to trouble you." Han Fei and the lifeguard left the kitchen side by side, with Yan Le following closely behind.
There is a long corridor between the kitchen and the hall where diners eat. The diners cannot see the kitchen at all, and it is difficult to smell the smell of the kitchen.
Sitting down anywhere in the hall, Han Fei wiped the blood from his arms and looked around.
This fish restaurant does not look like an abandoned building. There is no dust on the tabletop, seats and bar, and there are only some water stains, as if the diners who come here are soaked in water.
Generally speaking, the place is clean, the decoration is very unique, and there are various photos hanging on the walls. Most of them are tourists who caught big fish by the lake and then took photos together.
"Han Fei, look at this." The lifeguard pointed to a photo frame on the wall: "Why does this fish's face look like a human's?"
The closer the photo is to the bar, the weirder the fish on it looks. The place closest to the bar is just a photo frame, and the photos inside have been removed.
After waiting for almost twenty minutes, a faint fragrance came from the dark corridor, and the old lady came out carrying an iron basin.
"I've been waiting for a long time. I'm the only one in the restaurant now and the cooking is slow." The old lady placed the iron basin on the dining table. The milky white fish meat was dyed red by the chili peppers. It was delicious and spicy, which made people very appetizing.
Tourists who have never seen a kitchen scene will definitely feast on it, but Han Fei and the others have no appetite.
"There are no rice noodles in the restaurant now. If it's not enough, I can make you another fish."
"A fish?" Han Fei's lips moved slightly. He had only heard of one person. This was the first time he heard such a term about a fish. He felt that the fish was not an ordinary person.
Neither the lifeguard nor Yan Le dared to touch it. Even the ugly cat shook his head and meowed non-stop.
"Eat it while it's hot. It'll be fishy when it's cold." When the old lady put down the iron basin and was about to go to the kitchen, she seemed to have thought of something again. She stopped and warned: "It's dark, you'd better not be in the lake."
While running around, let’s find a place to stay in the town.”
"Is the lake dangerous? We are also planning to fish at night." The expression on Han Fei's face looked very innocent. At first glance, he looked like an ordinary fishing enthusiast.
"Don't go." The old lady's voice was very serious: "I don't want to lie to you. The reason why this town was half built and had to be stopped is because there seems to be a water monster in the lake, and several people have disappeared there.
"
"Water monster?" The lifeguard wiped the sweat from his forehead. He knew that Han Feilai wanted him to go into the water. If there was really a water monster in the lake, then he would be seeking death if he went down.
When he thought of the unknown and terrifying monster, he couldn't help but start to panic.
"It turns out that this town is very lively. There are many fishing enthusiasts coming to play before it is built. They have a good relationship with the night shift workers. The fish they catch will be cooked directly in the restaurant, and we only charge a processing fee. Everyone is friendly and friendly
I was so angry that the boss and investors were very optimistic about this place, but starting from one night, everything changed." The old lady didn't seem to be a bad person, she reminded Han Fei seriously.
"What happened?" Han Fei and the other three were all attracted by the old man's words.
"First, people who fished at night disappeared. Witnesses saw different situations. Some people said that the missing person seemed to have caught a very big fish and was accidentally dragged into the lake, and then never came out again.
. Others said that the missing person walked into the lake while fishing and disappeared silently."
"Later on, accidents happened to the workers building the town one after another. Some people died mysteriously in their sleep, with their bodies lying on the bed, but the cause of death was drowning and suffocation."
"More weird things happened later. People nearby who often ate big fish in the lake began to grow fish scale-like things on their bodies. Those people would make strange noises in their bodies at night. When it was daytime, everyone went to check it out.
At that time, they found that only fallen fish scales and some flesh and blood were left on their beds, and the people were gone. Everyone suspected that they had ran into the lake and became water ghosts."
There was only one small light on in the fish restaurant, and the flickering light illuminated the old man's face, which was covered by a scarf, which was a bit scary.
"In short, don't go near the lake at night. Get a good sleep and leave when it gets light."
"Thanks for the reminder." Han Fei was not ready to let the old man leave just like that. He noticed a detail: "You just said that starting from a certain night, everything became different. Do you still remember what happened on that special night?
?"
Meng held a resurrection ceremony by the lake, and that night was probably when Meng prepared for the ceremony.
"That night was a day to worship the lake god. The lake was closed to fishing. People who lived near the lake would come over. Everyone was busy and prayed for good weather in the coming year. In the second half of the night, the old people in the village would invite the statue of the lake god enshrined in the ancestral hall out.
Then find an orphan and bring three animals as tribute to the island to worship."
"Going to the island?" Han Fei blinked.
"There is an isolated island in the center of the Great Lake. When worshiping the lake god, he will find an orphan who has no father, no mother, no worries, and grew up eating a lot of food. The biggest problem that night was the orphan."
The wife's tone became urgent: "Life has improved in recent years, and there are no more orphans and witches in nearby villages and towns. The owner of the resort went to the orphanage to pick up a child. As a result, the child was taken to the island by boat, and the statue of the lake god was lost.
He fell into the lake and his body has not been found yet."
"It's really not a good sign." Han Fei felt that the old lady didn't know the existence of dreams, so she blamed everything on the god sacrificial ceremony. The orphans that night were most likely related to dreams, and even the boss who built the resort here was probably...
The person bewitched by the dream: "Then is there anything we can do to make up for it?"
"I don't know. Now we don't even know whether the person living in the lake is the lake god or the lake ghost." The old lady shook her head: "If you are interested in these, you can wait until dawn and go to the boat rental center to ask.
Ask, the person in charge there grew up by the lake and was specially hired by the resort owner."
"Okay, I know."
As soon as Han Fei finished speaking, there was a sudden sound of the door panel being smashed in the back kitchen, and with a creaking sound, a door in the back kitchen seemed to be opened.
The old lady's eyes suddenly became a little panicked: "Please remember, don't get close to the lake. Just stay in the room at night and don't think about it. By the way, the most important thing is, don't sleep.
With."
After saying that, the old man hurriedly ran towards the kitchen. Perhaps because of her haste, her left hand accidentally touched the bar. The bandage wrapped around her wrist spread out a little, revealing the bright red and bloodshot skin underneath.
Meat.
"The meat is so tender, like fish with its scales scraped off."
Han Fei's eyes were completely different from before. He turned to stare at Yan Le: "The dream ceremony is held by the lake. This lake is called the mind. The old lady told us not to fall asleep at night. The three of them seem to be related to each other.
"
"The longer you delay, the greater the chance of the dream coming back to life. Should we take action tonight?" Yan Le's mother was a little uneasy. She didn't like Meng, and she didn't like Han Fei very much either.
"Of course." Han Fei took out a banknote from his pocket and put it on the table. He picked up his bag and walked to the boat rental center.
In the entire resort, the boat rental center is the building closest to the lake. Han Fei and the others carefully checked all the rooms this time, and finally they gathered in the person in charge's private bedroom.
The house was filled with a fishy smell, and there were a few smelly aquatic plants scattered on the walls. There were large water stains and blood stains on the bed in the bedroom, as well as some thin fish scales.
"It seems to have just left."
Han Fei was rummaging around in the house for useful things. When he lifted the bed board, he found a strange statue under the bed.
This chapter has been completed!