Chapter 10 Chapter 8 Dream

"Look, this is the photo. Take a closer look at the arm of the statue!" Back at the hotel, I took out my digital camera and retrieved the photo of the golden baby statue I took in Santuchuan. Although Zhao Yunhan was puzzled, she still looked at it obediently, and asked after a while, "Is there anything special about this claw?" "Of course not." I said excitedly, "But the problem is, with I've seen this claw with the exact same shape." She was a little surprised: "Where is it?" "On the right arm of the boatman Zhao Fan. The red mark on the corpse is exactly the same as the golden baby's claw!" I sat down excitedly: "What do you think this means?" "I don't know." Zhao Yunhan answered quite honestly.

I rubbed my hands and said, "Fool, this means that the golden doll really exists!" She immediately looked at me: "Aren't you a person who doesn't believe in ghosts and gods? Why are you transgender now!" "This is not a chaotic monster God." I retorted: "Most of the aborigines in the Yangma River Basin agree that the golden baby is a kind of water ghost. Since there is such a legend, there must be evidence of its existence. Perhaps as early as thousands of years ago , their ancestors once saw the golden baby with their own eyes, and then passed down the legend from generation to generation." "You mean, the golden baby is a kind of creature?" "Yes, it should be a species that has not been discovered in the world today. Perhaps before the Ice Age, it already existed in the Yangma River Basin. Geologists have investigated that the 300-kilometer-long Yangma River has miraculously never changed its course for 100 million years. If there are ancient species left behind It's not surprising that it came down. It's just that due to frequent human activities, this species called golden baby has been on the verge of extinction in the past few thousand years, and it has begun to hide under the instinct of self-protection." Zhao Yunhan said noncommittally: "Aye, you His imagination is too rich!" "Then how do you explain the imprint on Zhao Fan's hand?" I said loudly, "Judging from his facial expression, it was definitely a sudden death. He should have received the golden doll by accident. I was dragged into the river by it, so I died before I could feel the pain!" She obviously couldn't agree with it, she shook her head: "Aye, after the young boy who appeared in Yangma Village drowned, he had a fake life. How to explain the state?" "Perhaps before or after they died, they came across the golden doll by chance. That unknown species can secrete a certain substance, which will continuously activate the human brain after death, and finally in a certain period of time Trigger the fake life phenomenon!" I boldly speculated.

"Impossible. Since you said it was accidental, can there be so many accidents?" Zhao Yun sighed, "Aye, the problem now is that every child who drowns in the Yangma River will have false accidents. It’s a living phenomenon. Could it be that all of them met the golden doll? This kind of accident is too frequent!” I was speechless for a moment, that’s right, there are so many accidents.But the golden doll is definitely related to the fake status!I absolutely believe this, but suffer from no evidence. It seems that it is really necessary to go to the Corpse Hall again tonight to examine Zhao Fan's corpse. It is best to trick Uncle Crazy over here. Top.With the help of his equipment, it should be possible to detect whether there are any other or unknown secretions on the corpse!

The thought of discovering unknown species fills me with excitement.It can be guessed that the ancient tablet that looks like a yaksha seen in Santuchuan should be the basic image of the creature that the locals call the golden baby.When the ancients saw it by accident, they were panicked and enshrined it as a water ghost or water god. It should only exist in the Yangma River Basin, and the customs gradually formed by the local people for thousands of years almost revolve around it. There are such cases all over the world. The so-called totem worship started with the most ferocious beast near the place of residence as the object of worship. Maybe it is the same here, so can it be considered that the golden doll itself is a kind of ferocious beast? What about hunting aquatic creatures?

Seeing that I was lost in thought, Zhao Yunhan didn't bother to disturb me, and just looked around in the room.Then her eyes caught something on the table. It was a small bowl, tightly covered with a white lid. When I came to this room this morning, I didn't find this thing.And I have been acting with her all the time, which means that this bowl of food was not brought back by the two of us.After thinking for a moment, Zhao Yunhan pulled my arm. "A Ye, your careful lady has brought you food again." She pointed at the table. I waved my hand to her absent-mindedly, "Hidden, shady guy, I don't want things sent by this kind of person. I'll give it to you!" "You said it, then I'm going to eat it! Hehe, first Let's see what's good!" She walked over and opened the lid, only glanced inside, and suddenly her whole body became stiff.

She trembled, her feet backed up with difficulty, almost collapsing to the ground.Then, there was a loud scream that did not belong to humans at all! I raised my head suddenly, walked over to support her, "What's wrong!" "Wanli, so...so scary!" Zhao Yunhan stammered. I immediately looked into the bowl, and then my brows were all wrinkled together. I saw that the bowl was densely filled with dragonfly eyes.It was green with a cold luster, as if the eyes of countless dead were staring at me resentfully, making me break out in cold sweat. Taking a deep breath, I packed the eyes with the bowl and the lid in a bag, and threw it into the trash can downstairs.Zhao Yunhan was so frightened that she hid under the quilt and dared not come out, her body was still shaking.

"It's terrible, who sent it? That person must hate you very much!" Her voice was dry, "I'm so scared to death, my legs are still shaking!" I didn't speak, just sat on the edge of the bed , has been sitting.Then he finished his dinner in silence, stayed in a daze until it was time to sleep, went back to his room, lay on his back on the bed, and closed his eyes. Those dragonfly eyes, although I also feel fear, but more of a familiarity.It seemed that someone had sent the same thing before, but it was forgotten in the deepest part of memory. I don’t know if the girl who gave me soy milk and fried dough sticks a few days ago is the same person who sent me my eyes today?

And how much intriguing place is there in that lost memory?There is also the eight-tone stone I bought today, as if I have seen it before and even owned it. The heavy fog is entangled in the memory of the past, making me unable to breathe. I always feel that I am a little scared. Could it be that in the half a year between the age of five and five and a half, something that I don't want to remember happened?Or was it forgotten due to some external force? Thinking about it carefully, it seems that after moving out of Yangma Village, my parents never mentioned the details of living in this place, and they were even unwilling to mention it at all, and they even didn't want me to come back here.

Since I was young, I often encountered weird and inexplicable things around me, and my attention was often attracted to it. Instead, I forgot that I had lost a memory. This is normal, but why, now I want to recall it urgently Are you up? What happened in those half a year?Even if it happened, it shouldn't be a memorable event. After all, I was only a five-year-old child at the time, and no matter how smart I was, I couldn't do anything that would harm the country and the people, or be superhuman.Then, could it be that my parents did something, and then it hurt me? I fell asleep in my wild thoughts.That night, I had a dream, which was very strange and very jumpy.

Lian Lian, you and I make an appointment for a hundred years.If someone dies at the age of ninety-seven, he will wait three years on the bridge. The girl, the girl in the blue dress, is braiding her hair.She was sitting on a stone by the river, her slender body seemed to be blown away by the river wind at any moment. She combed her shiny hair in front of her body, and looked forward every time she combed it.The delicate nose sets off the fair complexion, and the pink lips are slightly pursed from time to time, so beautiful that people can't look away. "Xiao Ye, does this look good?" Her voice was very thin and soft, caressing her ear canal like a spring breeze.The five-year-old me sat across from her, nodding absently.

So the girl pursed her mouth, helped my face with her hands to a position where my eyes could meet hers, and then continued to comb my hair. This series of behaviors is very difficult for me to understand. Combing my long hair by the river is purely looking for trouble.No matter how many times you comb it, no matter how well you comb it, the river wind will blow your long hair out after a while. Girls are really as unreasonable as dad said, didn't they say they want to braid their hair?Why haven't you tied it up yet?Take your time, why do you still have to watch from the sidelines, even if your mind wanders a little bit? The girl stared at me with big black and white eyes, but there was no trace of childishness on the five-year-old face. Seeing that I was waiting impatiently, she quickly tied up the braid, then stood up and slowly combed my short hair with a comb.The new horn comb has very sharp teeth, so she combed it slowly and carefully, as if trying to count every strand of my hair. "Xiao Ye, does he look good?" "So-so." "Do you like playing with him?" "No." "Then, will you keep playing with him?" "It depends." , means forever." She looked up at the tumbling Yangma River, her big beautiful eyes became a little hollow, "Forever, forever." "I don't know." It seems that in memory, such conversations are staged every day.Sometimes I really admire myself when I was a child. I learned Tai Chi so early. It seems that there is a scientific basis for the saying that you can see the old at the age of six. Every time the conversation reaches this point, the girl will ask calmly: "Why don't you always answer other people's questions directly?" "No, I answered very seriously." I scratched my head, "Someone came to ask for debt At that time, Dad replied in a very cool way. Then that night, our family of three sneaked out through the back door and moved to another place.” The girl smiled rarely, that kind of sweet smile, although light , but it will make people feel comfortable from the bottom of their hearts.Probably the smile of a beautiful woman has a healing effect. She smiled, tied my combed hair up with a red rope, and sat beside me. When the river wind blows, the hair on her temples will always brush against my face, itching, but I like this feeling very much at that time.She has a sweet smell that no one else has, which makes me often wonder if she is hiding some delicious fruit in her clothes. Whenever I asked her like this, showing a greedy look, she always smiled and said nothing, and opened her hands to ask me to search. When I searched enough, I got nothing, and my face was full of frustration.There will always be a big, red apple coming out of nowhere. Of course the five-year-old me would be very happy, so I grabbed it and took a big bite.The girl likes to support her head with her hands, eyes open, smiling and watching me gobble it up, and then take out a towel and carefully wipe the corners of my mouth clean. After eating and drinking, we will lie on the riverside and bask in the sun.She was lying on my left side, holding my hand, holding it firmly.Then he squinted his eyes and looked at me carefully, as if trying to imprint my appearance on the retina. "Xiao Ye, what do you want to do when you grow up?" "I don't know." I burped, "First of all, you have to eat enough and have a big house to live in. Then if you have the conditions, you should thoroughly implement the essence of laziness and eat every day. Go to sleep when you wake up, and play when you wake up. Live a lifetime of mediocrity." "What a high goal! How can I achieve such a standard?" She asked naively. "My dad said, just marry a rich woman." "What is a rich woman?" "Probably something like a rich old woman." The girl fluttered her big eyes, "Then, Xiao Ye, when you grow up, you will be rich." Marry me." "Are you a rich woman?" I sat up. "Not yet." She took my arm, "But when I grow up, I will work hard to make money, and then you will implement the principle of eating, sleeping, and playing." "No." I turned my head away. "Why?" "Because of marriage or something, Dad said that it is not a topic that a five-year-old child should talk about." "Xiao Ye is so cunning, you obviously mentioned it first." "Is there? I have a bad memory, no Sorry, completely forgot!" "Liar!" The afterglow of the sunset began to sprinkle on the ground.The broad Yangma River is like the sea, and it is reflected in blood red, which is very beautiful. We sat leaning against each other, watching the sunset, and waited silently for the sky to become dark before preparing to go home. I finally remembered that this girl was called Li Xiaoyou, she was my first friend after coming to Yangma Village, and also my best friend.We played various games together, and our footprints were left in every corner of the river beach. It's been said that girls mature earlier than boys, but do five-year-old girls too?I don't know, but to me, Xiaoyou is a very special girl. She is smart and sensible, no matter what she does, as long as we are together, her eyes never leave me.She will center on me when she does things and speaks. Although I didn't understand why at the time, I didn't hate it. She is one month younger than me, but many times I feel that Xiaoyou is much older than her actual age. Perhaps because of family reasons, she lost her parents when she was very young and grew up eating a lot of food.But the people in the village were inexplicably kind to her. When they saw her, they were all respectful, stuffed her with delicious and interesting things, and then shook their heads and sighed. I can't understand the behavior of the villagers, but she is good, and it is always me who benefits, so I don't bother to think too much. I don’t know how much the time in the dream is compared to the reality, but I feel that the sun keeps rising and setting, and there are always only a few pitiful scenes.By the river, at home, by the river, her. Li Xiaoyou became more and more beautiful in my dream, but her eyes still only focused on me.Wipe the corners of my mouth after eating, fan the wind for me when it’s hot, hold an umbrella for me when it’s raining, and take care of me like a wife treats her husband. I also enjoy her care and concern safely, taking it for granted.During those days when I didn't see my parents almost once a month, I was with her every day except sleeping.until one day…… Although that memory was lost, in my dream, it was a night when Li Xiaoyou invited me to the bank of the Yangma River. The moonlight was very bright that day, it was a full moon, and the snow-white light condensed like frost on pebbles of various sizes. The originally beautiful scenery became weird when it came into contact with the nearby large and small soul-calling towers. She sat with my back not far from the river bank, heard my footsteps, turned her head, and then smiled sweetly: "Xiao Ye, you are late." "You don't have a watch, how do you know I didn't arrive on time? "I said unconvinced. She looked up at the sky: "The moon told me." "It's a lie, I was taught in school that the moon has no life and can't speak." "I didn't lie to you. The moon is my pet. Follow my shadow and follow me." Xiaoyou blinked her big eyes, the sparkling clarity in her pupils could even reflect my appearance. I curled my lips: "The lying child has to swallow a thousand needles. Since it is the promotion period, you have to swallow a total of 1,500 needles!" She smiled and didn't speak, but stood up: "Xiao Ye, I Let me show you a little dance." So she danced, stepping on the moonlight, dancing slowly to the rhythm of the river beating the shore.The blue skirt glowed softly under the moonlight, and the corners of the skirt fluttered in the wind, indescribably elegant. Her long hair spread out, dancing in the air, reflecting the light, it was beautiful, but there was an indescribable sadness. It was a dance that all the girls in the village played, but no one danced it better than she.She can jump in various poses, not to mention jumping, other children have never even seen it.Xiaoyou never seems to dance when there are people, except in front of me.She once said that her dance is only for me, and no one else is entitled to see it! Although I am still young, I still have the ability to distinguish between beauty and ugliness.Today she danced with great devotion, as if she had integrated her life into the dance. I don't know how long it took before she stopped and said to me in a soft voice: "Aye, the name of this dance is Luo Yinhun. In two days, I'm going to dance for the great god to see!" Who is the Great God?" I asked curiously. "I don't know. The Great God is the Great God. I was raised by the villagers to serve the Great God since I was a child. From now on, I will go to the place where the Great God lives." "Where does the Great God live?" "I am also very unfamiliar with that place. I heard it's very beautiful." I scratched my head: "When will you come back?" "I don't know." There was a gloomy look in her bright eyes, "Maybe I won't come back again, I won't be able to take care of Xiaoye in the future, I can't be Xiaoye's wife anymore. Xiaoye, you have to take care of yourself!" "No." My five-year-old me felt chaos for the first time in my little head, "I don't want you to go, who will play with me when you leave? Who will bring me an apple? I will be bored!" "I can't bear you!" Xiaoyou sobbed softly, she forcefully kept the tears in her eyes, opened her eyes so strong that her whole body was shaking. She stared at me, tears glistening: "But many things are beyond our control." "But you said you would take care of me for the rest of your life." I looked at her angrily: "You don't mean anything." "I'm sorry." "But I've already decided!" She avoided my eyes, "What did you decide?" "I want to marry you when I grow up, supervise your hard work, and provide me with food, drink and entertainment." I said confidently. She laughed, and the more she laughed, the more tears shed, like a river, reflecting the moonlight, dyeing her entire face in twists and turns. Xiaoyou took out a stone from her skirt pocket, and said softly, "Xiao Ye, do you know what this is?" It was a slightly oval stone, and the whole thing was gray-black.There are four round holes in the top, each with an opening, forming eight protruding corners, very strange things, never seen before.So I shook my head. "This is the eight-tone stone. It is the only relic left to me by my parents, whom I have never met. I have always cherished it like life." She stared blankly at the stone in her hand, and slowly read the inscription The above verse: "Lian Lian, you and I have agreed for a hundred years. If anyone dies at the age of ninety-seven, he will wait three years on the bridge. The elder said that this is my father's token of love when he proposed to my mother, and it is the most loyal love. , The ultimate performance. Two people love each other, so they can live and die together. My father did this. When my mother fell into the horse raising river, my father who couldn’t swim jumped in without hesitation. Maybe he understood He knows that he will die like this, but he doesn't want his mother to wait for him in pain for three years on the Naihe Bridge!" She wiped away her tears and looked at me: "Xiaoye, have you really decided to marry someone?" Nodding without hesitation. "Okay, then I will marry you! I will marry you now!" She threw the eight-tone stone, which was as precious as life, to the ground, and watched the stone break into three pieces with tears in her eyes.Xiaoyou picked it up, tied a piece of it with a red string, and hung it gently on my chest. "This is our wedding ring. One piece for you and one piece for me. The remaining piece is given to Yang Mahe, so that the God of the Golden Baby can bear witness for us!" Her voice was trembling, but there was a smile on the corner of her mouth, gently Throwing the extra eight-tone stone fragment into the river, Xiaoyou finally cried out loud. She hugged me tightly and never let go, as if I would disappear from her life forever... That night, the two of us snuggled up to each other and sat by the river all night. Waking up from the dream, it was already morning. The birds outside the window kept chirping, but my brain was so confused that I didn't want to move.There is an indescribable tiredness all over the body.It felt wet on the face, and when I touched it with my hand, it turned out to be water and tears.When did I cry?