Chapter 14 east passing water

It was the same starless, unfathomable night, the same ominous fishing boat and the terrified boatman.The only difference is that the passengers on the boat have changed, because the wife, Lin Ying and Deputy Director Wu are sitting with us.As the sound of the boat's engine broke the silence on the river again, I was already extremely nervous in my diving suit, because no matter whether there were monsters underwater, whether there was a legendary soul image or the entrance to the netherworld, this pitch-black place alone The night makes people uneasy. I looked at these passengers by the faint light of the ship's lights. They all seemed to have their own "ghosts" and showed no sympathy for me.Because I failed to revolt during the day, my wife and Lin Ying naturally wanted to fight back and put on a face; Kai Ruo didn't know why she was suddenly indifferent to me, but Rocco and Livia were sitting together hand in hand , comforting each other; Seamus kept looking at Rocco nervously; Deputy Director Wu looked confident, and he didn't know whether he thought he was sure of winning or the arrival of his wife and the others gave him He suddenly relieved the pressure - he didn't have to worry about it, and he had no responsibility to follow the advice of these two women.

But I sadly found that no one noticed me.It wasn't until the boatman moored the boat in the middle of the river like last time and turned on the searchlights on the boat that these people looked at me in unison, just like a group of tourists visiting armadillos in a zoo. Old Wu moved his arm closer to look at his watch and said, "It's exactly twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, it's time." Everyone watched me silently again. Since they all sat with their backs to the lamps, I couldn't see clearly whether they were expecting, pinning or gloating on me in their eyes.I cursed these people who didn't need to go into the water over and over again in my heart, and pretended to be resolute and went to the side of the boat and stepped into the water.

Although it was still summer, the river water became colder as we went further down. Coupled with the rushing water flow and the choking muddy smell, my nervous mood suddenly became depressed.I groped to turn on the searchlight on the top of the diving suit, and a beam of light instantly split the dark and chaotic underwater world like a Pangu axe, opening up a bright path. The rushing water of the river pushed my body forward non-stop. I grabbed the tight safety rope nervously with one hand, and waved my other hand aimlessly in the water.Since I don't have much diving experience, I can't control the torrent of the Yangtze River. Fortunately, the headlight on the diving cap has enough wattage, and I can vaguely recognize the direction of Caishiji.Looking through the turbid river water, it was a huge black monster, like the huge corpse of an ancient behemoth, and like a bottomless black hole in the universe.I knew that the location of the iron box should be on the reef in the direction of Caishiji. Although I hesitated for a moment facing the "black monster" in front of me, I still mustered up the courage to swim slowly towards it.

I suddenly heard the roaring sound of the river, and I thought that there must be a strong turbulence not far away. Thinking of this, I suddenly became afraid-because after all, except for the two dives in Hainan, I have never dived deep without guidance. Come to such a harsh deep water environment.I gasped for breath, suppressed the heart that was about to jump out of my throat, and slowly turned the headlight to shine forward and downward. I gradually saw a platform-shaped reef not far ahead, and when I swam closer, I found a half-meter-square box-shaped object on the reef.My mood suddenly became agitated, so I quickly adjusted my body posture and swam vigorously in that direction.

But a horrible scene happened, I suddenly saw two black figures flashing from behind the reef, they swam to the box skillfully, saw off the fixed rope and threw it there, then grabbed the box and headed towards the blood basin of the "black monster" Swaggered away. Seeing that the treasure was snatched away by Cheng Yaojin, who came out halfway, I became very anxious, and was trying to find a way to swim after it, when I saw the most splendid scene in my life.Under the light of the boat lights on the water and my headlight, the colorful colors suddenly spread magnificently from the water.I looked up at the ever-expanding and changing colors in amazement, and suddenly felt that I had fallen into the sunset or the rainbow.This is a sight that can only be seen from outside the human world. At that moment, I was completely stunned by the fireworks in the water, so that I forgot to chase after the suspect who had just stolen the iron box.

I saw the spheres fall slowly to the bottom of the water one by one, and then made a "sizzling" sound one by one, stirring up bursts of bubbles, and then disappeared into the endless darkness at the outer edge of the lamppost of my head.When I realized that this was my wife imitating the ghost image of that night, when I looked back, the two black shadows who had stolen the treasure had disappeared into the vast river.It seems that my current expedient measure is to swim to the surface of the water and report the situation to my wife and others, so as to quickly mobilize the police force to block the river and Caishiji, so as to hunt down the two thieves in time.Like here, I gritted my teeth and went upstream regardless of the soreness in my arms and legs.

But the moment my head came out of the water, what came to my eardrums was the scream of a woman who was terrified.I frantically took off my diving mask, but was surprised to find another corpse floating up on the river——it turned out to be Seamus, who has always been cautious! "How did Seamus die?!" I yelled loudly and looked towards the boat. But once again I was completely stunned on the water. There was Seamus on the boat, staring at the body of "myself" on the river, his eyes seemed to pop out of their sockets.He was covering his face with his hands, and he was screaming horribly at the frequency of piercing metal against each other.

I watched the iron box salvaged from the bottom of the water and put it in the evidence room of the police station, and I was once again angrily questioning the two women: "Since you have arranged for two police officers to take the box away, do you want me to take it away?" What are you doing in the water?" "Isn't it just to let you watch the 'fireworks' we set off underwater, how about it? It's spectacular in the water, right? Don't worry, the non-toxic pigments we basically use will not cause harm to your body." My wife smiled while holding my arm.

"It won't pollute the Yangtze River." Lin Ying said with a smile, "Shen Yu and I feel that we have been teasing you before, and our conscience is disturbed! The place where the iron box is located has turbulent currents. We are afraid that you are not experienced in diving. People were in danger in the past, so I hired two police officers who grew up by the river to do it for me—Deputy Director Wu, did you find someone to open the box?" "It's opened, and there's a box inside." Old Wu said dejectedly. "Go ahead and open it!" "It was opened again, and there were still boxes inside. We opened six boxes in a row, and found inside..."

"have what?" "It's empty!" "Ah, I see! The cultural relics that Fafara wants to smuggle are boxes!" Lin Ying said suddenly. "I have checked every box with cultural relics experts. They are all ordinary iron boxes, with simple materials and rough welders. They were made in the past year or two. Moreover, Fafara refused to admit that the box was hers. We have no direct evidence to prove this." "It's enough for her to admit that she killed someone." The wife stood up from behind and said, "I talked to her in the hospital just now. She already had a heart disease. This time she was really scared. In fact, everything was her. It's just a set up, using an unwarranted cultural relic to attract our attention, and then committing murder to make Fafara, a character whose crime is gradually exposed, disappear, and finally return to the United States with a different identity, and continue his business of reselling cultural relics .”

"What about Rocco? Is he the assistant of Fafara?" I asked reluctantly. "Rocco was just used by Far Farah. As the manager of the community forum and a devout religious believer, he knows more about the unknown evils in society than others. However, he just wants to remind these people not to commit evil No, I just hope they get lost and come back. Fala understands his mind and cleverly uses his psychology to help him organize this expedition. Didn’t Zhao Zheng find the printer in his house? ? He printed out those notes and secretly stuffed them in other people's doors." "Is he the one who stuffed the note the morning I first arrived?" "Of course, when he was inserting the note, he heard movement in the room, so he hurriedly hid in Livia's room! So when you opened the door suddenly, you saw Livia who was covering him to enter the room—it doesn't matter if they have anything to do with each other. Did I say more?" "Then who is her assistant?" "Of course Zhao Zheng pretended to be Fafara's Taiweisi! Why did he dive down in front of everyone, then shed his shell, went around the headland, changed into neat clothes, and then ran across the ravine to the burning rhino pavilion? " "I also feel a little weird, but I can't think of the reason." Lin Ying couldn't help but said. "There is only one explanation. He did this to create his own alibi, because he was going to kill people at the Rhinoceros Pavilion." "Kill your mouth? Whose mouth should you kill?" "Justin, do you still remember that Zhao Zheng once told this fat and old man about Tai Weisi's loss of the horn cup?" "He suspects that the death of the first 'Farfara' was caused by Tevez? So you want to coerce him?" "Farfara said Justin wasn't that smart, he just missed the rhino horn cup and wanted to force Tevis to give it to him. So Farfara came up with the idea to have Tevis lie to him that The horn cup was sealed in the stone hole under the water surface. The two agreed that Tai Weisi pretended to dive, took out the horn cup, and secretly went to the burning rhinoceros pavilion to give it to Justin. Unexpectedly, Justin was paying attention at this time Son, he was also afraid that the tall and burly Tai Weisi would have some schemes and schemes, so he acted preemptively when he arrived in the pavilion, and killed Tai Weisi immediately as Yan Guang had speculated before, took the rhinoceros horn cup as his own and sent it out. Scream, divert attention from yourself." "Seeing that Tewis was dead and Justin got the horn cup again, Fara was afraid that if he found out about his abnormality, she used her false identity to trick Justin into opening the door of his room and killed him. Then He treated his own body in the same way, pretending to have just discovered the body and yelling. He deliberately left the horn cup in Justin's room, hoping to attract the attention of the police again." "What about the printer in Justin's room? Isn't that Rocco's?" "This is purely by chance. Rocco's room is diagonally opposite to Justin's. It just so happened that he forgot to lock the door that day. Because Fafara already knew the real purpose of Rocco's coming here, after she found the concealed door, she went to Immediately ran into his house, took the printer out, hooked it up to the computer Justin was turning on, and created the illusion that Justin was a religious fanatic. Don't you see, this is a man who won't give up everything to make The murderer of false chance?" "And she had a very unobtrusive identity at that time, that was Seamus. But Zhao Zheng played Seamus's body really well, especially the part that floated up in the water. She was frightened and confessed directly." "That's because first of all, she is good at water, and the movement of the corpse floating up is more realistic; second, she is originally shaped like Seamus! Don't forget that she is a substitute on the boat that Fafara found, and Seamus is Fafara. Fara found a dead body substitute!" "Oh, who would have thought that the real Seamus was a woman!" I sighed. "Farfara confessed how she met Seamus. Seamus was a prodigal daughter. Since her parents died, she had been making a living by selling goods. She met Farfara when she was selling antiques. Later, Farfara After discovering that she was a woman with transsexualism, when her business gradually showed its flaws, she thought of finding Seamus, who had always pretended to be a man, as her substitute. That night she and Tevis wanted to turn Seamus into a drug And then tied him to the bottom of the boat, so that he would drown him by overturning the boat before departure, and the time of death should be closer to the time when the body was found. Unexpectedly, they drugged too much, and Seamus died early, but they had to Don't continue to carry out your own plan - let the boat pretend to be Zhao Zheng to put paint behind the boat, untie the cable that tied the corpse, and then dive into the water while in chaos. "Their plan was almost successful, but there were still some loopholes left. First, when Zhao Zheng, who played the role of Fala, saw a figure in the distance on the boat, he subconsciously called out 'what is that' in Chinese, and Fala La is a person who grew up in the United States, and he naturally shouted in his most familiar mother tongue when encountering an emergency; moreover, Livia recalled that the found Fafara's body had the smell of Montblanc's Starwalker. It is a men's perfume, but we have already examined the corpse, and it is clearly a female corpse; most importantly, Seamus claims to be able to tell the authenticity of his horn cup at a glance, why when he took it out and lit it that night, How long have you never questioned the counterfeit in your hand? Finally, you all saw that the Fafara on the boat and the Fafara in the water were both wearing the same clothes. It was a long-term plan and carefully designed by someone. I carefully compared the looks and figures of Fafara and Seamus, and found that they were indeed very similar except for their gender. Moreover, Seamus only came for one day at that time. Everyone still doesn't have a deep impression of him, so Li Daitao's trick is entirely possible. "Because I had so few clues to get to the truth of other murders, I decided to gamble with the same deception and force the later 'Seamus' to show his feet. At first I asked Kai Ruo to help me with this. Later, after Zhao Zheng confessed, I found that she was the most suitable candidate. However, I didn't expect that although this plan of pretending to be a ghost is old-fashioned, it still succeeded." "Those who have ghosts in their hearts are the most afraid of ghosts." Lin Ying added with a smile. "We all have sins, don't we?" Kai Ruo suddenly said after dinner, "Rocco, is the sin you summed up for each of us true?" Rocco smiled bitterly and said: "Yes, although I later found out that I was wrong about you, the crimes on those warning notes all happened in real life, but I didn't expect that my stupidity would add even more trouble to this world. Much sin." "The core of the seven deadly sins is greed, right? People are greedy for property, life, love, enjoyment or a life for nothing... Faraday sacrifices the lives of others in order to keep her own property, freedom or life. As a price." After Livia finished speaking, she fell into deep thought again. "This rhino horn really shows all kinds of monsters, but they are not monsters at the bottom of the river, but monsters in people's hearts." Rocco sighed. "By the way, speaking of monsters, I would like to ask, what exactly are the black shadows on the water surface and where Tevez dives that we saw?" It was I who turned the heavy topic around with all my might. The wife sitting next to me yawned and said, "Didn't you read the newspaper? It was just a stray finless porpoise. You and Lin Ying were on Caishiji that day. Didn't you see many people by the river?" Do you want to watch it? The weather was bad those few days, and whenever it was cloudy and windy, the finless porpoise would be active.” "Miss Shen, you are so smart, can you speculate how Wen Qiao died because of burning rhinoceros and lighting monsters more than a thousand years ago?" "Well, there is not enough evidence, I can only talk nonsense based on the historical stories Yan Guang told me--First of all, Wen Qiao is a very preoccupied person. He was always nervous, afraid of being criticized by others, right? Besides, lighting was inconvenient at night in ancient times. He visited Niuzhu at night, with large boats and small boats, and many torches. It is normal for some phantoms to be reflected in the water? Finally, Wen Qiao passed by here on his way to quell the Sujun rebellion and took office in Jiangzhou. You think, as one of the coaches who put down the rebellion, he was already physically and mentally exhausted. He is a very heavy person, so it is inevitable to exaggerate the reflection seen in the water. There is a shadow in his heart, so it is inevitable to have a related nightmare at night, so his mood is worse and his body is worse. Ancient medicine is not developed, and his body is also Is it possible to explain that because of overwork, one gets sick due to illness, and one suffers from illness due to fright, and finally dies at an early age?" I saw everyone at the dinner table applauding in admiration, and suddenly felt that my wife's image was unusually tall. But his wife bowed lightly and said: "I don't talk about strangeness, strength, chaos, and gods. Please forgive me for the crime of judging the ancients. In fact, using today's science to explain ancient things is worth considering in itself. Perhaps those truths It has long been buried in word of mouth.”