The female corpse was dressed in plain white silk mourning clothes. For some reason, it could be seen even in the dark water. At first, the flare had just gone out, and only a hazy figure could be seen. She was facing up to the sky, with her hands stretched out slightly behind her. The female corpse gradually
Emerging from the bottom of the water, as the distance between us gradually shortened, the outline of the facial features of the female corpse in white also appeared faintly.
The body of the female corpse is wrapped in a weak blue light, which is a kind of light without temperature, symbolizing death and coldness. At first glance, it feels cold to the bones, just like a will-o'-the-wisp in the cemetery. I wonder if this female corpse is also
Or why the female ghost suddenly emerged from the bottom of the water.
I tried my best to slow down my racing heart rate, but the inexplicable panic in my body could not be eliminated. I thought to myself: bad people come, and good people never come. She seems to be wearing ancient clothes, not modern clothes.
, it is definitely not a good thing to suddenly appear from the deep water under the Xianwang Cemetery. We must act first. So we reached out to get the black donkey's hooves, planning to wait for the female corpse to approach from the bottom of the water, and then suddenly attack the black donkey.
He stuffed the donkey's hoof into her mouth and said, if it's not a zombie but a ghost, then greet her with glutinous rice dyed with cinnabar.
The fat man and I had the same idea. They each took their equipment and quietly watched the female corpse rising from the bottom of the water, waiting to take action.
Unexpectedly, the female corpse, which was lying on its back and slowly floating up from the water diagonally below us, suddenly disappeared into the dark water, in the blink of an eye. Looking at the bottom of the water, it was already a pitch black mass, with the female corpse wrapped in it.
The dim blue light also disappeared into the invisible darkness like the light of a flare.
However, that inexplicable feeling of panic disappeared immediately. At first, I thought I was the only one who felt this way. When I looked at the expressions of the other two people, I knew that they felt exactly the same as me. They were both struck by a sudden feeling of panic just now.
Entanglement. The three of them looked at each other, what is going on? Regardless of whether she is a demon or a ghost, if she were to come over directly, it would be better for both parties to see a life-and-death battle than to appear and disappear silently like this.
This makes it even more difficult to figure out the intentions of this female corpse.
Our upper bodies were floating on the water, and our chests were submerged in the water. The bottom of the water was unfathomable. It seemed like we were swimming in a dark and bottomless abyss. The fat man couldn't help but worry: Lao Hu, do you think that female corpse is the one we usually talk about?
The kind of dead floats in the river, floating corpses floating in the water
I shook my head and said: Who knows whether it is a dead float or a water ghost, but it is more likely to be a water ghost, otherwise why would the corpse emit a blue and cold light? I have never heard of phosphorescent will-o'-the-wisps in the water.
Fatty and I have always been bold, but we have always been afraid of the same thing in our lives, because something happened in the past left such a deep impression on us. The age of sixteen or seventeen is an important stage in the formation of a person's world view and values. Things that happen during that period are often...
Affects a person's life.
So when I talked about female ghosts, Fatty and I immediately thought of the legend of water ghosts pulling their feet. In the past, every summer, children liked to swim in rivers or ponds. For the sake of safety, adults often frightened children and said that the water ghost pulled their feet.
There is a female ghost who catches a stand-in and specializes in grabbing the ankles of swimmers with her ghost claws. Once caught, she will never be able to break free with her own strength. She will be suffocated to death at the bottom of the water and become an innocent ghost in the cold deep water. But I and I
Fatty didn't believe this at all when he was a child, because we knew in the first grade of elementary school that the things catching people's feet in the water were aquatic plants and not ghost hands.
But then when we were 16 or 17 years old and became Red Guards, making noises and harassing bullfighting ghosts and snake gods every day, one time it happened to be the night of the dog days of summer, and the weather was so hot that it seemed like there was a fire.
I passed by an abandoned small reservoir, probably located in the area with the word "Lei" below the prefix "Ping"
, but this reservoir is very deep and it is not easy to touch the bottom. Some people could not bear the heat and wanted to go for a swim, but others were more hesitant and had reservations about whether to go swimming.
At this time, an old lady in a white coat came and greeted us: Come and swim in the water. This water is a cool world. There is a cave under the water. My grandson swims and plays in it every day.
As soon as I heard that someone was playing there every day, there was no danger, so everyone jumped in to swim. When they came up, the old lady in the white coat had long disappeared.
There was also a child who was with us who said that his brother was missing, but we didn’t know who his brother was, because except for a few of our group who knew each other, they were all in the revolutionary struggle, that is, fighting in groups.
There were a lot of revolutionary comrades who had gathered together at that time, so I couldn't figure out who was to whom, so I asked the child what his brother looked like and what he was wearing.
But the child was too young and couldn't explain clearly after talking for a long time. We didn't take it seriously, thinking that there was no such person at all. It was more likely that the revolutionary will was not strong enough and he escaped halfway through the swim and went home to eat, so he dispersed.
, each went home.
Unexpectedly, two days later we passed by the small reservoir again and saw many people releasing water there. It turned out that the child told his parents about his brother’s disappearance after swimming. The child’s father was in charge of logistics in the military region.
The boss brought people to find his son. The fat man and I liked to watch the excitement at that time, and we would go out of our way to watch whenever something happened. Since we bumped into him this time, there was no reason not to watch.
As a result, after the water in the reservoir was drained, there was indeed a corpse of a young man about our age. It had been swollen and turned white by the water. His body was entangled in large clumps of water plants at the bottom of the water. His left leg
He was grabbed by a hand stretched out from the water plants, but people were very surprised, where did so many water plants come from?
There will be no aquatic plants in the reservoir. We pulled up all the aquatic plants and cleaned them up. There was a white bone in it. It was this human skeleton that was rotten at the bottom. He grabbed the Red Guard's ankle with his hand.
He was drowned alive under the reservoir.
It was a world of materialists at that time. No one dared to believe that there were ghosts in this world. Even if they did, no one dared to say it. It could only be attributed to coincidence. This half-year-old child must have accidentally slipped his foot while swimming in the water.
It was inserted into the water plants, and just in time there was a person who had drowned a long time ago in the water plants, and they became entangled in the struggle.
But as for the five deep bruises on his legs where the dead man grabbed his ankles, no one can explain them. And the old lady in white who lured us into the water was said to be a lurking spy. This
The incident was widely circulated in our area and there were many versions, but Fatty and I were the few who witnessed it with our own eyes. Although we didn't believe there were ghosts in the world at the time, the corpse soaked in water and rotting made me sick.
I haven't eaten properly for three months.
That is really a memory that cannot be erased. This time I suddenly saw a female corpse floating under the water, and then disappeared suddenly like a ghost. Naturally, I felt not good. Although the female corpse suddenly disappeared underwater, we all knew it very well.
, that’s just because the light has been lost and we can’t see clearly. The weird female corpse still exists in the dark and cold deep water, and will reappear sooner or later. What will happen then, only the devil knows.
These thoughts flashed through my mind, and the more I thought about it, the more inappropriate I felt. I had to pass through this gloomy and dark water as soon as possible, so I paddled forward with all my strength.
Following the slowly flowing water veins, passing through a large fossil forest, we finally found a semicircular hole in front of us. The diameter was small and could only allow one person to pass through. Half of the hole was exposed above the water, and underground water flowed through it.
Over there is another cave.
I said, "The underground caves are one after another, and I don't know how far they are from the Tomb of King Xian, but since we have already entered, we can simply walk to the end in one go, and then we can repair it after we get out."
He nodded and said: Judging from the trend of the mountains in the area between the Lancang River and the Nu River, the depth of the Insect Valley should not be more than thirty or forty miles. I just estimated that the distance we have traveled has already passed two-thirds. It will not be
Too far.
The mountain wall inside the entrance of the cave is as smooth as ice. When you shine a spotlight on the stone wall, it emits flashing red reflections. The entire cave is trumpet-shaped and gets bigger as you go inside. There are also many plant roots hanging down from the head and falling in the air.
The fossils formed by those ancient forests are denser and have extremely weird shapes. These things are mixed together, making the terrain in the cave extremely complex.
The fat man and I re-tied the air bag and mountaineering bag a little tighter, and prepared to pass through this area quickly. The air here seemed to be far less fluid than the other hole outside. The smell of humidity and heat was very strong, the mosquitoes began to increase, and the water flow disappeared.
The cool feeling makes people's breathing become particularly heavy.
There is actually such a rich plant belt in the underground cave. The water seeping from the valley is dripping down along the vine rhizomes of those plants and falling into the water. The entire fossil forest seems to be constantly underground.
When it rains, there is the sound of water droplets falling into the river everywhere. The curved structure of the Hesitation Cave makes the sound of water droplets very ethereal, rather like the sound of monks knocking wooden fish in the temple, adding a mysterious atmosphere to the originally silent cave.
We had no choice but to endure the scorching heat and continued to move forward for about a few hundred meters. We had to slow down because the fossilized trees in the cave were getting thicker and thicker, so we had to swim around in the pitch black darkness.
In the cave, the water flow was fragmented by the huge fossil trees, forming many whirlpools and turbulences. We can no longer rely entirely on the direction of the water flow to determine the direction. Once it deviates from the direction, we must use a compass to reorient it. Especially
trouble.
There were many floating aquatic plants on the water in front, which blocked our progress on the water. We had to take out the engineering shovel and keep pushing these floating aquatic plants away. There were many mosquitoes growing on the duckweed and aquatic plants.
Spiders and leeches kept jumping on people's faces.
Just when we were getting annoyed, we suddenly heard the buzzing sound of insect wings in front of us. I subconsciously pulled out the submachine gun from the waterproof bag. In order to see clearly what it was, the fat man had to fire it again.
A flare. In the light, only the front was tightly blocked by hanging plant roots and vines. Countless huge black flying insects looked like dragonflies, but they had no eyes. There were thousands of them, like black flies.
It was like clouds passing by, circling back and forth around the roots of the plants.
No one has ever seen this kind of insect. It may only exist in the special humid environment underground. Insects are the largest group in the world, and about one-third of the species are not yet recognized by humans.
However, this kind of black dragonfly-like flying insect does not seem to attack people, but such a huge group can't help but make people scratch their heads.
I saw that something was not right. The air was hot and muggy, and there seemed to be a restless danger, so I asked what kind of insects those flying insects were.
Said: I seem to have seen it somewhere. It is a kind of black mosquito that is only found in hot and humid places. But the largest insect of that kind is only as big as a fingernail, while these flying insects on the opposite side are as big as a valley.
big dragonfly in
We stopped talking before we finished, because the three of us saw a fist-sized water spider crawling in front of us. The ordinary water spiders we have seen are so small that they can support themselves on the water with their feet.
Walk up without falling into the water, and why is this one so big?
Seeing such a big water spider, the three of them felt horrified and their skin trembled. Before they could think about it, two more fist-sized water spiders swam in front of them and climbed up a nearby tree that collapsed and broke.
Fossils of ancient trees on the water.
The fat man was surprised and said: Why are the bugs here getting bigger and bigger? There are no such big water spiders outside.
I seemed to suddenly think of something and said to the fat man: Have you found this cave? The stone walls are extremely smooth, with a large curvature, and are red. They look quite like the gourd we saw in the mountain temple.
Could it be that we fell into a gourd?
He looked around, looked at the insects on the nearby plants, and said to Fatty and me: There is a question that we must figure out. Are the bugs and fossil trees in this hole getting bigger or are the three of us getting smaller?
Chapter completed!