"Hu Zongren! Hu Zongren!" I began to shout in a panic. Since I met Hu Zongren, although we have experienced a lot of dangers, the dangers are only relative to ordinary people, not to the point where they can be dangerous.
It is a direct threat to life. I know my own water quality. When I was 9 years old, I crossed the Jialing River with my father. Although Hu Zongren always told me that his water quality was good, I never
I have never been in the water with him. In addition to the weather in May, although the weather has begun to get a little hot, it is still a little early to go swimming, not to mention that we are still wearing spring clothes, and the water soaked the clothes and stuck to the
The feeling on the skin is really not good.
After more than ten seconds, Hu Zongren still did not surface. Now I became really anxious. I gritted my teeth and turned over and dived into the water.
When I was a child, I watched those boring movies and thought opening my eyes in the water was a very sharp thing. When I grew up, I realized that although my eyes can quickly get used to the feeling of water filling my eye sockets when I grow up, it is not at all
I couldn't see anything clearly. It felt like my eyes were full of tears, so it was very blurry. After I dived, I started looking around with a flashlight. No matter how clear the water is, there will be sediment at the bottom. Hu Zongren is absolutely amazing.
I am not a person who is willing to catch him without any help, so I looked around for where the water looked the turbidest. Soon I found a group of turbid water less than a few meters away from where Hu Zongren sank. Although I couldn’t see it clearly with my eyes,
You can still vaguely see him kicking his legs desperately in the mud.
I pointed the direction, stuck the flashlight on my belt, and swam quickly. There was a lot of mud in the water, and I was worried that my eyes wouldn't be able to bear it, so I saw that you were approaching me, so I closed my eyes, and then I reached out and grabbed hold of you everywhere.
, hoping to catch Hu Zongren and pull him up. I caught him quickly, so I refused to let him go. At that time, I felt that I was almost at the bottom of the water, so I turned around, stepped on the ground, and kicked as hard as I could.
Swim toward the surface.
After I emerged from the water, I instinctively took a big breath and shook the water off my face. Since I had long hair that year, I bet the way I shook my head looked like a horse. Then I shook my head hard.
I grabbed Hu Zongren's hand and pulled it toward the water, but it was very heavy. It was like me and the water ghost were tug-of-war, and Hu Zongren was the tug-of-war rope. Although I knew Hu Zongren was strong, this
I was suddenly pulled into the water and had no time to hold my breath. It was inevitable that I would lose strength in just a few dozen seconds. And at this moment, about four or five meters away from me, Hu Zongren suddenly emerged with a purr like an otter.
After he came out of the water, he coughed a few times, then looked around. When he saw me, he asked me, are you okay?
I was holding Hu Zongren, but Hu Zongren appeared a few meters away from me. So what was I holding on to? When I thought of this, my vest suddenly went cold, and I could clearly feel the tension and contraction of my skin.
I remember. So I took a breath and used all my strength to pull the thing in my hand out of the water.
During this violent tug, the first thing to emerge from the water was a lotus root-shaped thing. It was obvious that it was a foot. But the foot had long toes and nails. The nails looked a bit like fish.
A kind of backstab. Immediately afterwards, there was a black thing that looked like a butt. Since my hands were only so long, I couldn't completely pull the thing out of the water, and I already knew in my heart that I was holding on to it.
There are only two possibilities for this thing living in it. Either it is a corpse that drowned in the water earlier and was not fished out. But I quickly rejected this idea, because even if the corpse is in a vacuum state underwater, it is still a corpse after all.
, how could it grow such long nails? So there is only one possibility left. This thing in my hand is the one we tried so hard to catch but failed to catch, and pulled Hu Zongren.
That water ghost at the bottom of the water.
Hu Zongren probably saw what I was holding in my hand through the weak flashlight light in my hand. He quickly understood and swam toward me. Because he and I were not far away, we quickly
We just met. The lower body of the water ghost I was holding in my hand was held upside down. The position above the waist was still underwater. I must say that its power was much greater than I imagined, but it was by no means impossible.
The kind that resisted. Until Hu Zongren came to my side, reached out and grabbed the other foot of the water ghost, and then the two of us began to swim towards the shore desperately.
And it wasn't until this moment that I had time to carefully feel the thing I was holding. It's actually hard to describe the feeling. I don't know if you have ever played with the feeling of pinching a balloon filled with water.
That's it. But it doesn't have a very obvious plastic feel like a balloon, but more like a downy thing. If you pinch it a little harder, you will feel that there is something tough inside, but it is definitely not a bone.
, if you pinch your wrist or ankle at this moment, you will definitely feel the bones not far away through the skin, but at that time, the thing on my hand felt like there was a layer of liquid in the middle. I couldn't help but use
I rubbed it with my thumb and it felt like skin, but it was a little bit raw and slippery, with a feeling of runny nose.
So don’t ask me how I know what snot feels like. I can’t possibly tell you that my favorite thing to do when I was little was playing with snot.
Maybe it’s because we were already a little exhausted when we were fishing for water ghosts. Pulling us into the water was just a desperate attempt. And pulling Hu Zongren down to the bottom of the water was even more instinctive, because I think
It didn't deliberately choose Hu Zongren, but randomly selected one of him and me to drag him into the water. Hu Zongren just happened to be the unlucky one. Because the water ghost is a very special supernatural thing, usually
Once the soul and body of a living creature are separated, they will become a corpse and a ghost respectively. In other words, the body is a container for the soul. The water ghost is a drowned ghost, but it uses the body of the dead to move underwater.
The corpse has entered the container, but the body is no longer a dead thing with no functions. Its only purpose of existence is to constantly kill people alternately in order to achieve its own purpose of escaping.
Until Hu Zongren and I stepped on the shore, the water ghost was still struggling, but his strength was much smaller than at first. The water itself also has the effect of dissolving power, so when Hu Zongren and I worked together, we dragged it to the shore.
By that time, he had stopped struggling and was motionless.
Hu Zongren and I were exhausted. After sitting on the ground and catching our breath for a while, I discovered that miraculously, our flashlights had not malfunctioned due to water ingress. At least not at that stall. So I reached out and pulled out the quilt.
We caught the water ghost on the shore and turned it over, and then said to Hu Zongren, "Come on, let's see what this thing looks like."
Under the light of the flashlight, the little humanoid monster lying on the ground was clearly visible. It was about the size of a seven or eight-year-old child, and its whole body was dark, not as black as dipped in ink, but more so.
For example, the pig's trotters we bought have been burnt by fire and are as black as the skin. The surface of the pig's trotters is covered with fine hairs, which are much thicker and denser than our human hairs. The hairs are also brown and black.
The whole face looks the strangest, because its eyes have never been closed. The original black pupils of human beings have disappeared and turned into a black pupil about the size of a mung bean, which looks very much like the eyes of a sea fish.
There is no bridge of the nose, but there are two deep and long small openings, which look like nostrils. But then I thought about it, since they are dead anyway, what is the use of nostrils? The ears look very fake, and they are not
They grow out like our ears in an outline, but they stick closely to the head. I took a closer look and found that they were just stuck on by something we didn't know about. The mouth is the most eye-catching thing.
The uncomfortable part, if according to our common saying, the mouth of this water ghost is particularly easy to eat. I used my fingers to open the mouth and saw that there were some white rice grains growing densely inside.
It looked like something shaped like teeth, and it looked disgusting. The hair was sparse, and there was hair on the top of the head. I didn’t see the small groove on the top of the kappa’s head that was rumored.
Both Hu Zongren and I know that the water ghost is a form, and some of its forms are specific, such as body size, skin color, appearance of hands and feet, etc. In addition, it will also vary depending on the place where the accident occurred.
.This is like Europeans and Africans, they look the same in their bones, but they still show differences. This is the second time I have caught a water ghost. I don’t know how many times it was Hu Zongren.
But we all understand that the ones we catch will definitely not look the same every time. Hu Zongren smiled and told me that it seems that the legends of the river gods and kappas are really legends.
I ignored him, both of us were wet, and I said what happened to you just now, how did you get arrested. After Hu Zongren spit, he said angrily, I heard you ask me,
Just when I was about to answer you, something grabbed my ankle and pulled it down hard. Of course I had to struggle, but this guy knows how to control your hands and feet in the water so that you can't use your strength, and
I entered the water suddenly and choked a few mouthfuls of water. I couldn't help but fill my nose and mouth with water. Then I felt a cold hand start to stuff mud into my mouth and nostrils. I knew this thing was a safe and secure thing.
It's killing me. But my hands and feet are trapped and I can't move.
When he said this, Hu Zongren lifted up his trousers, then shined a flashlight on me and said, "Look what this is." I looked over and saw that the ankles of his two feet seemed to be tied with hemp ropes.
A lot of water plants were wrapped around it like a bundle. Water plants are very tough things. Many people who drowned normally lost their lives because their feet were entangled in water plants. Hu Zongren tore off the water plants on his feet.
, threw it on the ground, opened the socks, and there was an obvious bruise. He smiled bitterly and said, "Fortunately, we are two people this time. If I were the only one, Lao Hu's life would have to be said goodbye."
Hu Zongren took off his socks, one hand kept rubbing between the toes, and the other hand held the wet socks while slapping the water ghost on the ground, while cursing, you bitch, you want to do it