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Chapter 123 Death Drift

The female corpse, which had a plain white mourning clothes on her body, could be seen even under the dark water for some reason. At the beginning, the flare had just turned off and she saw a hazy figure. She was leaning against the sky, with her hands stretched out and slightly hanging behind her. The female corpse gradually floated up from the bottom of the water. As the distance between us gradually shortened, the facial features of the female corpse in white also appeared faintly.

The body of the female corpse was wrapped in a faint blue light, which was a kind of no temperature, symbolizing death and cold light. When you look at it, you feel cold and bone-like, just like the ghost fire in the cemetery. I wonder why this female corpse, or the female ghost, suddenly floated out from the bottom of the water.

I tried my best to reduce my heart rate of beating wildly, but this inexplicable panic in my body could not be eliminated. I thought to myself: "The person who comes is not good, and the good one does not come. She seems to be wearing ancient costumes, long robe and big sleeves, not modern outfits. It suddenly pops up under the deep water under the cemetery of King Xian. It is definitely not a good person. We must first do it." So I reached out to get the black donkey's hoof, intending to wait until the female corpse approached from the bottom of the water, and suddenly put the black donkey's hoof into her mouth. If it is not a zombie but a ghost, then I would like to greet the other person with the glutinous rice dyed with vermilion.

Shirley Yang and Fatty also had the same idea. They both took their own equipment and quietly watched the female corpse floating up from the bottom of the water, waiting to take action.

Unexpectedly, the female corpse, which was slowly floating up from the bottom of the water diagonally below us, suddenly disappeared into the dark water. After blinking, she looked at the bottom of the water. It was already pitch black. The dark blue light wrapped with the female corpse disappeared into the invisible darkness like the light of a flare.

However, the inexplicable sense of panic disappeared immediately. At first I thought that I was the only one who felt this way. When I saw the expressions of the other two, I knew that they felt exactly the same as me. They were entangled by a sudden sense of panic just now. The three of them looked at each other. What was going on? No matter whether she was a monster or a ghost, if she came over directly, the real sign of life and death between the two sides would be better than such silent appearance and disappear silently. This made it even more difficult to understand the intention of this female corpse.

Our upper body floated on the water surface, and the chest was below the water. The bottom of the water was unfathomable, as if we were swimming in the abyss of the dark five bottoms. The fat man couldn't help but worry: "I said Lao Hu, are you talking about the kind of female corpse we are talking about? The dead float in the river (the floating corpse floating in the water)?"

I shook my head and said, "Who knows whether it is a dead float or a water ghost? It's a little more likely to be a water ghost. Otherwise, how could the corpse shine a blue and cold light? I have never heard of the phosphorescence ghost fire in the water."

Fatty and I have always been brave, but I am afraid of the same in my life, because something in the past left a deep impression on us. Sixteen or seventeen years old is an important stage in the formation of a person's worldview and values. What happened during that period often affects a person's life.

So when I talk about water 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 the river or ponds. For safety, adults often scared children, saying that there are water ghosts who grab substitutes in the river, and they use ghost claws to grab the ankles of swimming people. Once they are caught, they will never be able to break free with their own strength, and they will suffocate to death at the bottom of the water and become resentful souls in the cold and deep water. However, Fatty and I didn’t believe in this at all when we were young, because we knew in the first grade of elementary school that the things that hang on human feet in the water were water plants, not ghost hands.

But later we were sixteen or seventeen years old and were the Red Guards, and were busy fighting with monsters and monsters everywhere. Once, on the night of the dog days, the weather was so hot that it seemed like a fire. We were tired of making trouble and happened to pass by an abandoned small water storage puddle. The location was probably in the area of ​​Pinghua. When we went home at night, there was a lot of mud under the old water storage pool, but the water on it had a circulation system, which was quite clean. However, the water storage pool was very deep and not easy to touch. Some people couldn't stand the heat at that time, so they wanted to go down and swim happily, but there were a few more hesitant and kept their reservations about whether to go down to swim.

At this moment, an old lady in a white jacket came and greeted us: "Come in the water and swim. This water is a cool world. There is a unique world under the water. My grandson will swim inside every day."

When I heard that someone was playing inside every day, there was no danger, so everyone jumped down to swim. When I arrived, the old lady who was wearing Bai Guazi had long disappeared.

There was also a child with us who said that his brother was missing, but we didn’t know who his brother was, because except for a few of us who knew each other, we were all in revolutionary struggles, that is, when fighting in groups, and there were many revolutionary comrades who spontaneously got together, so we didn’t know who he was very clear about, so we asked the child what his brother looked like and what his clothes were.

But the child was too young and couldn't explain it clearly after a long time. We didn't take it seriously. We thought there was no such person at all. It was more likely that the revolutionary will was not firm enough. After half of the swim, we escaped at the last minute and went home for dinner. So we scattered birds and beasts and went home.

Unexpectedly, two days later, we passed by the small reservoir and saw that many people were letting go. It turned out that the child told the parents about his brother's disappearance after swimming. The boy's father was a head of the military district's logistics department, and brought people to find his son. The fat man and I liked to watch the fun at that time, and we went to watch whatever happened. Since we had bumped into each other this time, there was no reason not to watch it.

As a result, after the water in the reservoir was shining, there was indeed a corpse of a boy of similar age as us. It was swollen and white in the water. His body was wrapped in large balls of water plants. His left leg was held by a hand stretched out from the water plants. At that time, people were very surprised, where did so many water plants come from?

There is no water grass in the reservoir. I took all the water grass and cleaned it up. There was actually a white bone inside, which was rotten at the bottom of the water. I grabbed the Red Guard's ankle with my hands and was drowned under the reservoir.

At that time, the world was a materialist, and no one dared to believe that there were ghosts in the world. Even if they believed, no one dared to say it. It can only be attributed to coincidence. This half-aged child must have accidentally inserted his feet into the water grass while swimming in the water. Just as he happened to catch up with a man drowned a long time ago in the water grass, and he was entangled when he struggled.

But as for the five deep bruises on his legs, where the dead man grabbed his ankle, no one could justify it. The old lady in white who lured us into the water was said to be a lurking enemy. This incident was widely circulated in our area and had many versions. However, Fatty and I were among the few witnesses. Although we didn't believe that there were ghosts in the world at that time, the dead body soaked in water made me disgusted so much that I didn't have a good meal for three months.

It was really an indelible memory. This time, I suddenly saw a female corpse floating on the bottom of the water, and disappeared like a ghost. Naturally, I felt that it was not very good. Although the female corpse suddenly disappeared under the water, we all knew very well that it was just because of the loss of light and we were unable to see it. The strange female corpse still existed in the dark and cold deep water, and sooner or later it would appear again. What will happen to the Shishi? Only ghosts know.

These thoughts flashed through my mind. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that it was inappropriate. I had to pass through this gloomy and dark water as soon as possible and paddled forward.

Following the slowly flowing water veins, passing through a large fossil forest, I finally found a semicircular cave entrance in front of me. It was not very large in diameter and only allowed one person to pass through. The entrance was half exposed on the water surface, and groundwater flowed through it. There was another cave on the other side.

I said to Fatty and Shirley Yang: "The underground caves come one by one, and I don't know how far away it is from the tomb of King Xian, but since we have already come in, we can just walk to the end in one breath and wait until we go out before we rest."

Shirley Yang nodded and said, "Judged from the trend of the mountains in the Lancang River and Nujiang River, the depth of the insect valley should not exceed thirty or forty miles. I just estimated that the journey we have already walked has exceeded two-thirds and will not be too far."

The mountain wall inside the entrance of the cave is as smooth as ice. When the spotlights are illuminated, the stone walls emit flashing red reflections. The entire cave is trumpet-shaped, and the bigger it is, many of the plants are hanging from their heads and falling in the air. The fossils formed by ancient forests are even denser and extremely strange in appearance. These things are mixed together, making the terrain in the cave extremely complex.

The fat man and I tied the airbags and the mountaineering bag a little tightened and prepared to pass through this area quickly. The air here seemed far less smooth than the other cave outside. The humid and stuffy breath was very strong, mosquitoes began to increase, and the water flow disappeared without the shady feeling, making people's breathing particularly heavy.

There was such a rich plant belt in the cave underground. The water seeping from the valley kept dripping down along the rhizomes of the plants and fell into the water. The entire fossil forest seemed to be raining constantly, and the sound of water droplets falling into the river everywhere. Due to the arc-shaped structure of the cave, the sound of water droplets was very ethereal, quite like the sound of monks knocking on wooden fish in a temple, adding some mysterious atmosphere to the originally silent cave.

We had to endure the hot environment and continued to move forward for about hundreds of meters. The speed had to slow down. As the fossil trees in this cave became thicker and thicker, we had to swim around. In the dark cave, the water flow was divided into fragments by the huge fossil trees, forming many vortexes and turbulences. We could no longer judge the direction completely by the flow direction of the water flow. Once we deviated from the direction, we had to reposition it with a compass, which was particularly troublesome.

There were many floating aquatic plants on the water surface in front of us, which blocked our progress on the water surface. We had to take out the engineer shovel and constantly push the floating aquatic plants apart. Many mosquitoes, water spiders, and leeches grew on the duckweed and aquatic plants, and kept pounceing on people's faces.

Just when we were so upset that we suddenly heard the sound of buzzing insect wings vibrating in front of us. I subconsciously pulled the submachine gun out of the waterproof bag. In order to see what it was, the fat man had to shoot another flare. In the light, the roots and vines of the plants hanging in front were blocked tightly. Countless huge black flying insects looked like dragonflies, but had no eyes, and there were thousands of them, like black clouds passing through the border, hovering back and forth around the roots of the plants.

No one has seen this insect before. It may exist in a special wet 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 flying insect, which looks like a black dragonfly, does not seem to attack people, but such a large group looks a bit sudden.

I saw that something was wrong. The stuffy air seemed to be in danger of being restless, so I asked Shirley Yang which type of insects were?

Shirley Yang said: "It seems that I have seen it somewhere. It is a black mosquito larvae that is only found in hot flashes and wet sources. However, the largest insect is only the size of a fingernail, and the flying insects on the opposite side are as big as a dragonfly in a valley..."

Shirley Yang stopped before he finished speaking, because the three of us saw a fist-sized water spider crawling past. The ordinary water spiders we have seen are all small and can walk on the water surface with their feet without falling into the water. Why is this so big?

When they saw such a big water spider, the three of them felt shocked and their skin was shaking. Before they could think about it, two water spiders, the size of fists, swam past and climbed up a nearby fossil of an ancient tree that collapsed and broke and crossed the water surface.

The fat man said in surprise: "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 Shirley Yang and Fatty: "Have you noticed that the stone walls of this cave are extremely smooth, with a very large curve, and are red, quite like the gourd we saw in the mountain temple. Have we fallen into the gourd..."
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