Chapter 2 Chapter 1 The Three Footprints of the Water Ghost

Going into the water to pick up corpses sounds creepy, but in fact it is.There are always unexpected dangers in rivers that can drown people, and it is doomed that the waters related to corpse hunters will not be too calm.Half a year after I came to the ferry, Tang Erye was gone, completely gone, and I searched all over the reservoir, but I didn't find the body. Tang Erye is a veteran of the Yishan ferry. He was an engineer in the pontoon and bridge troops during the Vietnam War. After retiring, he has been engaged in salvage work at the ferry.The person who has the most salvage experience is also Tang Erye. In addition to salvaging corpses and criminal evidence, he has also repaired bridge piers, bombed underwater reefs, and cleaned up garbage in the river.In the past six months, Master Tang has taught me a lot of skills. He took me through mountains and rivers and got familiar with the environment of the ferry.

That day, an old woman ran into the ferry crying, saying that her grandson had drowned in the Yishan Reservoir and asked us to salvage the body.There are three reservoirs in Yishan Town. The Yishan Reservoir is the oldest and was completed as early as 1959. Its source is the Yijiang River, which is the largest river in northern Guangxi.Since the relocation of the reservoir management office in 1996, the reservoir has been in disrepair for a long time and is not suitable for launching. Although the management office left a sign saying "no launching", people enter the water every year and drown for no reason. .

April has not yet passed, the sky is full of lead clouds, and the spring rain is pattering. The town of Yishan seems to be covered with white hair.This kind of ghost weather is not good for entering the water. Not to mention ordinary people, salvage crews dare not choose this time to go swimming in Yishan Reservoir.But some people did that, either by suicide or dragged away by ghosts.Tang Erye wanted to take a break, but the old woman was crying and shouting. It is not auspicious for the corpse to soak in the water for too long, so the ferry immediately arranged for people to salvage the corpse from the reservoir.

In the afternoon, we drove a few miles of mountain roads, and when we arrived at the reservoir, there was a lot of water smoke, and if we wore glasses, the lenses would be covered with fog.I was a little worried, but Mr. Tang didn't say anything, put on the diving equipment and went into the water.I was holding the safety rope on the shore, and I had an ominous premonition, perhaps disturbed by the atmosphere.During this, Second Master Tang came up to change his breath, and when he got into the water for another half an hour, the safety rope tied to his body shook violently. I thought it was because of the rushing water, but in the end the safety rope broke.

The toughness of the safety rope is very good, and it can not stop rushing in the big waves. Before going into the water, we have checked it as usual, and there is absolutely no quality problem, or someone has tampered with it.When I dragged the fluffy safety rope back to the shore, everyone gathered together to see that the broken section was severely worn, and no one could figure out what was going on.Seeing that Mr. Tang was in trouble, I jumped into the water without even touching the diving suit and oxygen tank. As everyone thought, nothing was picked up. Later, the family of the deceased asked the reservoir to be opened. We saw that it was getting dark, so we agreed.Here, I want to explain why the water gates of the reservoir were closed earlier.This is because if the reservoir is opened, the water flow will be accelerated, and there will be eddies near the culvert, which is a very dangerous situation for salvage personnel.The strange thing is that after the reservoir was opened, the corpses to be salvaged before were quickly released from the culvert, but the body of Mr. Tang has never been seen.

One day later, the people at the crossing field fished it twice together, but still failed. Seeing that it was getting dark again, everyone was urged to leave by Captain Hu of the crossing field.Captain Hu's name is Hu Jiaheng, and he is also a veteran of Yishan Ferry. He has been in the pontoon and bridge troops, and we call him Captain Hu. That's how he came here.However, Captain Hu and Erye Tang couldn’t get along, and there was a fight. I heard that before I came to Yishan Ferry, Captain Hu was beaten by Master Tang until his calf was broken, so Captain Hu was a little limping when he walked. It can never be salvaged again.

I went back to the ferry and took a shower, so I couldn't help but go to Mr. Tang's room, to see if he came back suddenly. Maybe he made a joke, broke the rope secretly, and swam out of our sight. landed.I don't want to be stunned when I walked to the door of Second Master Tang's room. The door of Mr. Tang's room was opened. There was no sign of picking the lock, and there was a row of wet footprints on the ground. Only those who went in did not come out.I was startled, and luckily thought, Erye Tang is really a fool, he is not dead.Then, I pushed open the half-covered door, wanting to scold Erye Tang for overplaying the joke, but at this moment, I saw that there was no one in the room, and the water-stained footprints disappeared in the room, only those who came in and no one went out.

"No way?" I murmured to myself, I couldn't help thinking about the haunting, but Second Master Tang had only been away for a day, did he come back so soon? The room was small, with only a wooden bed, two chairs, a table, and a locked wardrobe. It was impossible to hide and scare people.Just as I was hesitating, I lowered my head to take another look at the wet footprints, and my brows furrowed even tighter.Earlier, I mistakenly thought that Second Master Tang was not dead. I was just joking. I didn't notice the strange arrangement of footprints walking into the room.There are two footprints in one row, one in the next row, and two in the next row... Repeatedly, on the last row of footprints, the person seems to have stopped, and there are three footprints in a row.

Do people have three legs?Could this be the footprints of the water ghost? A chill hit my body, I didn't tremble, but I couldn't help thinking, are there really ghosts in the world?It's a pity that the footprints dried up so quickly that I couldn't find someone else to take a look in time.Even if it was a trick, who would do it?Why do footprints only come in and not go out? Others were still taking a shower or tidying up their things. I didn't bother, closed the door, walked outside the ferry alone, and looked back at the ancient building.Yishan Ferry Field is an old courtyard surrounded by mountains and facing the river. Camphor trees are planted outside the courtyard, and a thick layer of ivy climbs on the surrounding walls. It is only separated from the Yishan Teachers College in the town by a camphor forest.In the past, many college couples liked to come to Camphor Forest for dates at night. Later, the incident of drowning people in the Yi River became more and more serious, and the legend of water ghosts spread fiercely. Only then did the crossing become quiet.

Both the ferry and the teacher's college are on the banks of the Yi River. Before the 1980s, there was a wharf outside the ferry, but it was later moved to another place.College students from the Normal University like to swim in the river outside the ferry to cool off the heat. First, the water here is clear, and second, the salvage crews live inside the ferry. If they shout for help, they will be rescued ashore soon. I was staring in a daze when a man came out and asked me, "Huang Dingyi? Brother Huang? Are you outside?" Huang Dingyi is my name. When I heard someone calling, I hurried in, helped the man who was about to step out, and said, "Old Jia, why did you come out?"

Lao Jia is a blind man, everyone calls him blind man Jia, who almost died a few years ago because of a salvage accident.Later, the man was rescued and returned, but his eyes were blind.No matter what the ferry is responsible for, he can only raise Xiazi Jia in the ferry and take good care of him.To be honest, Blind Jia looks very energetic. If he hadn't lost his eyesight, he would probably have married and had children long ago. "I heard from Jin Lele that Mr. Tang had an accident in the reservoir? I waited all night yesterday, and none of you came back to tell me. I'm really terrified." Blind Jia pushed me away as he spoke, with a stubborn temper, Never help. I nodded, acquiesced, and then thought that Jin Lele was so quick to talk, Erye Tang would have to curse her to death even if he didn't die.The Jin Lele that Xia Xiazi said was a ferry worker. Her father used to be a salvageman, so he came in through connections, but she was not happy about it. Seeing that I didn't reply, Jia Xiazi asked, "Brother Huang, didn't any of you come back yesterday?" I shook my head in denial, everyone stayed at the Yishan Reservoir yesterday, who is free to come back?Besides, the distance between the two places is several miles, and it takes too much time to go back and forth. We brought everything we needed before we set off, and no one would come back and be lazy.Blind Jia listened to my categorical denial, and muttered, as if someone walked into the old courtyard of the ferry last night. Although the courtyard was very large, he could hear clearly when he got up to go to the toilet at night. He walked towards the small building behind the yard, but there was no sound of footsteps leaving. "Is there such a thing?" I hurriedly asked, and Jia Xiazi nodded quickly, expressing his affirmation. I walked into the old courtyard of the ferry. There were two small two-story buildings in the courtyard, and there were three rows of tile-roofed houses on each side. Everyone lived in the tile-roofed houses.The building in the middle is an office building that used to process documents, and the other building has become a dilapidated building because of the age and too much rain, and no one has lived in it for a long time.After Blind Jia became blind, his sense of hearing became much sharper. He couldn’t hear wrong, and if he wasn’t sure, he wouldn’t tell me.But that building is uninhabitable, who would walk in and not leave? As I sent Jia Xiazi back to the Wafang dormitory, I asked him, "Then did you hear someone going to Master Tang's room just now?" "What's the matter? I didn't hear it! You came back together, the noise was too loud, I couldn't hear it." Blind Jia replied, shaking his head. "It's okay, you go back and rest first, I still have something to do." Blind Jia had experienced life and death underwater, so he understood that feeling very well. He didn't say much, sighed and walked back to the room by himself.I want to talk to someone about the strange footprints. Everyone who came here before me must have seen such strange things.But everyone was busy with their own things, I don't know if it was indifference or I didn't want to talk about Mr. Tang, so I had no choice but to go back to my room.At this time, just as I was about to walk to the door, I suddenly noticed someone walking around in the small building in the shade. I didn't have time to call other people, so I chased after him on the spot, thinking in my heart, that building is a dangerous building, who is playing tricks there.Now that the spring rains are continuous, the walls in the building are moldy, and it feels like the building is about to collapse from a distance.When I got closer, the man disappeared. I don't know if he ran upstairs or slipped to the back, climbed over the wall and fled into the camphor forest outside the courtyard.I didn't see the appearance of that person, but that person didn't dare to meet me, he must have a ghost in his heart, he would never be a person from the crossing, maybe a thief, but the crossing is so poor, there is nothing to steal, and he is still there In this dilapidated small building? It was getting dark, and I couldn't help but feel that the crossing was shrouded in yin, and I wanted to go back to the Wafang dormitory and stay with everyone.Unexpectedly, as soon as I turned around, I kicked something under my feet, making a clanging metal rolling sound.I looked down, my eyes widened, and I picked up something on the ground. It was an oxygen cylinder used by a salvageman, which had been removed.It is not uncommon for the equipment of the ferry to be scattered everywhere. I thought it was lost by someone, but when I looked closer, I was shocked. There are numbers on the oxygen cylinders, each of which is different, and is used to record the usage.Before going into the water, I handed the oxygen cylinder to Mr. Tang. The number he used was "7106", which was exactly the same as the number of the oxygen cylinder in my hand.I froze in place, wondering in amazement, was the person in the small building just now Mr. Tang, what kind of tricks was he playing? Unexpectedly, at this moment I heard Jin Lele shouting loudly in front of the yard. "Captain Hu, someone called to say that someone found Erye Tang's body in the reservoir." The quiet ferry exploded. Other people who were going to sleep all opened the door and asked if Jin Lele's news had been confirmed.Jin Lele was just passing on the microphone, and didn't go to the reservoir to take a look, so naturally he wasn't sure.But this is not a joke, Jin Lele thinks that since someone said so, it is true. I heard everyone talking about it, so I quietly walked out of the shady building with an oxygen cylinder in my hand, not knowing how to speak.It's not that I don't want to talk about it, but that this matter is too absurd. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I'm afraid I would have thought someone was playing tricks on me.Except for the oxygen cylinder and the weird pair of footprints, there is nothing normal people can do.If Second Master Tang died, who would leave his oxygen cylinder in a small building in the shade? What's the purpose of this? Including me and Mr. Tang, there were seven people who originally lived in Yishan Ferry. The other five people saw me coming and asked me what I was holding in my hand.I looked at everyone, but still didn't say it directly, but glanced at them suspiciously.I don't believe in ghosts. All these things seem to be ghosts. There must be some people who are suspicious, but they can't find a reasonable reason.Second Master Tang only had trouble with Captain Hu, and had a good relationship with everyone else, so it was impossible for him to be serious enough to conspire to murder someone. One of the salvagemen was uncomfortable with my eyes, and asked angrily, "Huang Dingyi? What are you looking at? What the hell?" These words stung my nerves, and when I came back to my senses, I replied, "Yue Mingfei, you were at the scene yesterday, do you remember the serial number on Mr. Tang's oxygen cylinder?" Now, there are three salvagemen in the ferry, besides Tang Erye and me, the other one is Yue Mingfei.This person used to win the championship in the city-level swimming competition. He had a bright future, but he didn't get any official position after retiring. He was reduced to a ferry three years ago to make a living.Relying on his glorious past, Yue Mingfei always looked down on the other people in the crossing, and he always spoke in a nonchalant manner, even Captain Hu couldn't handle him. At this time, Yue Mingfei glanced at it, his face changed abruptly, and he wondered: "Isn't this bottle supposed to be under the reservoir? Why..." "I picked it up in the small building behind." I told the truth. "What are you doing in that building?" Blind Jia asked sensitively as he fumbled out of the Wafang dormitory. "I just saw someone..." Before I finished speaking, a middle-aged woman came from the tile-roofed house on the other side and stepped across the grass that was never mowed.The woman's name is Mrs. Han, and she is a pyrotechnic worker at the ferry, who cooks for everyone.In the past, Mrs. Han’s husband was the head of the Yishan Ferry, but later died in an accident during the salvage, so she stayed in the ferry to do pyrotechnics in the name of her family.Mrs. Han's husband is dead and she has no children. She is the most miserable person.However, Mrs. Han doesn't feel sorry for herself, she is cheerful and kind, so everyone is very polite to her on weekdays, even Yue Mingfei will not yell at her. As soon as Mrs. Han came over, she said loudly: "Are you guys going to eat? Dinner is ready!" "I'm not free now, Sister-in-Law, keep it for us." Captain Hu yelled loudly, and urged us to go to the reservoir to see the situation, and don't get entangled in such strange things. I nodded, thinking that there is a priority in everything, and the most urgent thing is to find Mr. Tang. If you are born to see people, if you die, you want to see the corpse.I carried a bag in the dormitory, and immediately followed Yue Mingfei and ran out first, leaving Captain Hu to follow slowly.Before leaving, I handed the oxygen cylinder to Mrs. Han and told her to keep it safe and keep it away from fire sources. On the way to the reservoir, I counted in my mind as I ran: there are seven people living in the ferry, me, Jin Lele, Tang Erye, Yue Mingfei, Jia Xiazi, Captain Hu, and Mrs. Han.Except me and Tang Erye, the other five people were at the scene just now. After Jin Lele broke the news, everyone gathered quickly. If any of them hid in the small building and made small moves, he would never show up so soon . If it's not a ghost, and it's not one of our own, could it be someone outside the ferry? The closest to the ferry is Yishan Teachers College. The students there used to sneak over there, but why did the students do this?I quickly ruled out this idea. There are some fishermen in the area near the river. They have had conflicts with the ferry. If they have hatred in their hearts, it is not impossible to scare people.As the saying goes, troublesome people come out of poor mountains and bad waters. Although this statement is not entirely true, it is not false.In many mountain villages, family extermination, dismemberment, and kidnapping often occur, but no one exposes them, and some things are resolved by themselves in the mountain villages. I remember Tang Erye mentioned to me that in the late 1990s, when the ferry went to fish for corpses, he had a fight with fishermen. The reason was that the ferry was owned by the state and the family members of the deceased could not be charged for salvage fees, but the fishermen could.Some fishermen salvaged corpses part-time. They thought we had robbed them of their jobs. Once there was a fight on the Yi River, and everyone in the town saw it.If the police hadn't fired shots, the fight would have intensified and become uncontrollable. Lin Mi Road is narrow, just when I found out that I was close to the reservoir, Yue Mingfei cursed "It stinks" in disgust, and interrupted my thoughts at the same time.Several miles of mountain roads are no easier than highways. It took us a while, and when we arrived, a fisherman was pinching his nose by the side of the reservoir, looking constantly at the water.That fisherman was called Zhang Dahu, and he was the one who had fought with Duchang. I have met him several times in the past six months since I came to Duchang, and every time he didn't give us a good face. This time, when Zhang Dahu saw us, he no longer put on a bad face, but said sympathetically: "Look quickly, is that person Second Master Tang?" I looked around, and there was a corpse in gray clothes floating on the calm blue water, but the face of the corpse was facing the water, so I couldn't see clearly for a while.Yue Mingfei glanced at it, and immediately decided that it was not Tang Erye, the reason was that the dead body was not wearing a diving suit, which was completely different from what we wore at the crossing.Besides, Second Master Tang had only been dead for less than a day, so the body wouldn't generate gas so quickly and surface. This must be someone who had been dead for many days. "Others?" I wondered, "I haven't heard of anyone falling into the water, let alone anyone missing in the town." "That's murder. Someone wanted to destroy the body, but it was discovered." Zhang Dahu was very excited. This was the first time he had seen such a situation, and so were we. "Let's not talk about it, the town has never heard of anyone missing, murder you ghost!" Yue Mingfei stared, and then looked at the way he came, Captain Hu was chasing after him panting. This time, none of us dared to confirm whether the salvage was civil or not. If it turned into a criminal salvage, it would be up to the ferryman to decide. Maybe the salvage crew would destroy the criminal evidence on the body.But having said that, there are no professional salvagemen in many places, and some policemen can't swim themselves. They can't wait for the ferry to intervene. After a while, Captain Hu ran to the dam of the reservoir. When he found out that the deceased was not Mr. Tang, he seemed to be in a panic, even trembling when he spoke.Captain Hu's legs and feet are not flexible, but he is a person who has been on the battlefield, and he can't be troubled by running a few miles on the mountain road. of? After a while, Captain Hu saw the corpse floating more than ten meters away from the shore, so he asked us to cut two bamboos by the side of the reservoir, stretch them out to the surface of the water, and row the corpse over.I don't really want to go into the water. This kind of corpse has been soaked in the water for too long, and the ones that float up usually have a bad smell. Using bamboo to pick up the corpse is just what I like.Zhang Dahu was watching from the side. When he heard that we were going to cut bamboo, he enthusiastically took out his electric fishing rod and stretched it out just enough to reach the floating corpse. "Be careful, don't let him leak air, or you will sink again." Yue Mingfei said nervously, also curious why Zhang Dahu was so enthusiastic today. "Is there such a saying?" Zhang Dahu asked suspiciously. "Don't listen to his nonsense, quickly get the body to the shore, or it will drift away again." I urged. After much tossing and turning, the corpse finally landed on the shore in the evening, when the water beside it was already muddy and turbulent.The sunset in spring is not so red, and when it is about to set, it is like a light bulb with insufficient voltage, which can only emit a dim light in the gray clouds.Under the faint glow of the sun, the corpse seemed to be covered with colorful ants, which made people get goosebumps just by looking at it.Except for me, everyone can get used to it, only I can't smell the stench, it seems that the breath not only penetrates into the body through the nose, but also penetrates into the skin. Captain Hu went down first, and when he reached the water's edge, he put on black rubber gloves and was about to turn the body over.Zhang Dahu is old, a little superstitious, and dare not look at the corpse facing up. It is said that this kind of corpse is very powerful, and water ghosts are all transformed from them.I hadn't picked up the corpse, so I couldn't stand it, but in order to confirm that the floating corpse was not Tang Erye, I immediately followed Yue Mingfei to the water's edge. "It's definitely not Mr. Tang, you don't need to be nervous. We have fished the reservoir twice, and we won't miss it. Maybe Mr. Tang was taken away by the Water Dragon King." Yue Mingfei elbowed me half-jokingly, Let me stop putting on a dead face. "Slow down." I didn't care about it, so I just told Captain Hu to turn over the corpse slowly, so as not to slip into the water. "Don't block the light." Captain Hu put on the black rubber gloves, and said something after turning around. Yue Mingfei and I took two steps back, we couldn't wait any longer, wishing we could find the corpse by ourselves.Zhang Dahu turned back to us and kept asking who the deceased was and if he recognized him.I was even more curious than Zhang Dahu, but after Captain Hu turned over the swollen corpse, we all froze for a while.Although the corpse was distorted and its facial features changed greatly, it was easy to recognize its identity from the clothes he wore. Captain Hu reacted the most. As soon as he saw the dead body's face, he bounced away and hit me who was standing behind.I supported Captain Hu, but he still hadn't calmed down. Instead, he said again and again: "This is impossible! How could it be him!" The clothes worn by the corpses were the engineering uniforms of the pontoon bridge force. I have seen a group photo of the group of engineers on the wall of the ferry office.Unfortunately, I recognized the clothes, but not the person. Seeing how excited Captain Hu was, I subconsciously thought, did I see a ghost?When I first came to Yishan Ferry, they often told me ghost stories, saying how uneven the Yijiang River was, and people were drowned every year, which scared me so much that I dared not go out at night. Yue Mingfei looked at it, but also didn't recognize it. He winked at me, meaning to ask if I know you?I have only been here for a short time, and I don't know many people, so I shrugged.Hearing such a big commotion, Zhang Dahu couldn't help leaning over and peeking back. He didn't expect that he knew the man, and just like Captain Hu, he kept muttering whether he had seen a ghost. Then, Captain Hu stopped his frightened expression, stood up, and said that this man was Hong Ke, who used to be the captain of the pontoon bridge unit and the first director of the Yishan Ferry.After Hong Ke's death, Mrs. Han's husband succeeded as the director of Yishan Ferry, but later Mrs. Han's husband also died unexpectedly.Hu Jiaheng is the third director of the crossing field. It may be to avoid the bad luck that the director will definitely die badly, so he insists on being called Captain Hu instead of the director. The people at the ferry didn't know about the past, and Hu Jiaheng didn't mention it often. No one knew how Hong Ke died, let alone that there was such a person.But I think Hong Ke died earlier than Mrs. Han's husband, so the body would have been rotten into mud long ago. How could it suddenly float to the Yishan Reservoir?Captain Hu didn't explain too much, but said that he died long ago, and he should find a place to bury Hong Ke again, so there is no need to inform other people. I understand what Captain Hu meant by saying that the police won’t care. In fact, they really won’t care. After all, Hong Ke died a long time ago, and the police are not responsible for investigating ghosts and strange things. .In the camphor forest between the ferry and the Yishan Teachers College, there is really a dilapidated nunnery, but before the "Cultural Revolution", all the nuns went back to their hometowns to farm. I heard that there is a fisherman who is called the king nun. Um is also vulgar. Captain Hu saw that I was distracted, and said, "Go quickly and dig a hole on the top of the mountain over there, and bury him." "Don't you need to tell the Public Security Bureau? Will it be handled privately like this..." Yue Mingfei was a little worried. "Hong Ke died a long time ago. He was not killed by someone. Like Tang Erye, he disappeared halfway through the body. How many years have passed, and no one is looking after him. His wife and children have already left Guangxi." Without doubt, Captain Hu forced us to dig a pit to bury the corpse. Zhang Dahu was terrified, but he said enthusiastically: "I remember that there is a grape field near here. The owner recently loosened the soil, and all the tools were thrown in the field. Why don't I go and get them for you... with empty hands, the pit needs to be dug By when?" "We'll go with you." Captain Hu was in a hurry to bury the body, and when he heard that there were hoes and shovels, he asked us to go with Zhang Dahu to get tools. There are several mountains near the reservoir, and the white paint slogans used to seal the mountains for forestation can be seen everywhere. When summer comes, you can also see all kinds of snakes and insects swimming into the reservoir.After a detour, there is a grape field one mile away from the reservoir. The grapes grown there are used for making wine and are not suitable for consumption.There are hoes, shovels, fertilizers, etc. on the edge of the field. The farmers have already left, and they will come back tomorrow, so the tools will not be taken away. It is an extremely hard job to carry tools back and forth in the mountains. When I got the tools and walked back, I couldn't help being curious, so I asked, "Captain Hu, is that person really Hong Ke? It stands to reason that something happened to him a long time ago, right? How could there be no corpse yet..." "I don't know either. Anyway, it was a long time ago. I hadn't been on the field yet...the captain, Mrs. Han and her husband are still building bridge piers." Captain Hu replied. "Then how do we tell them when we go back?" Yue Mingfei asked. "Of course I won't say anything. Will anyone believe me if I say it?" Zhang Dahu said. "Brother Huang, there will be more weird things in your salvage in the future. Don't worry too much, just bury it." Captain Hu was indifferent, and seemed to want to bury the strange floating corpse under the loess immediately. I sighed, since Captain Hu has said so, then just listen to him.Anyway, Hong Ke has long since returned to the West, and he is probably declared dead, and no one will hold him accountable.After thinking about it, we walked back to the edge of the reservoir. It was already dark in the middle of the day, and I began to worry that digging and burying the corpse would take midnight.Unexpectedly, when we returned to the original place, everyone would freeze. For a long time, no one spoke, because there were no corpses on the grass by the river, and even the turf had been shoveled clean.There was no trace of the corpse in the nearby haystacks or bushes. After searching around, it seemed that the corpse had gone away by itself. I widened my eyes and asked after a long time, "Where's Hong Ke's body?" "We were still on the shore when we left..." Captain Hu couldn't believe it. "It doesn't look like it fell back into the water, does it? Look, the grass here has been shoveled clean." Yue Mingfei wondered, "I just want to erase all traces..." I looked at Captain Hu, he was shocked, he didn't seem to be pretending, not to mention that he was the one who proposed to destroy the corpse, and he was with us all the time.Since everyone agreed to bury the body, who would have done it for us, and even shoveled away the turf where the body had been lying.After thinking about it, I became more and more confused. I don't know what the purpose of this is, who is playing tricks?First, Second Master Tang's body disappeared, and now Hong Ke suddenly appeared and disappeared again... "It must be a ghost!" Zhang Dahu took a shovel and fanned the flames, "I think it's just right that the corpses are gone. Let's go back to our respective homes. I want to bring home all the fish caught by the electric shock, otherwise it will stink." Zhang Dahu fled quickly, picked up the electric fish machine and fish basket and left without even putting the hoe and shovel back into the grape field.We are not the police, since the body is gone, we should be confused by ghosts and have hallucinations.By the time we put the tools back in the grape field and walked back to the ferry, the furry moon had already climbed to the top of the mountain in the east, and the moonlight on the Yi River was hazy, like a dragon ball shining brightly at the bottom of the river. On the way back, Captain Hu couldn't walk fast, and Yue Mingfei and I deliberately walked slowly in order to wait for him.Captain Hu knew very well that this strange incident could not be solved by the theory of ghosts, so he took the initiative to tell us that Hong Ke had indeed died twenty years ago.It was 1988, floods hit various places in Guangxi, and a bridge on the Yi River was washed away. At that time, there were many pedestrians on the bridge, and Hong Ke disappeared when he went to rescue them.The people at the ferry searched for many days in the lower reaches of the Yi River, but found nothing. After a few years, Hong Ke's household registration was cancelled, and his wife took their children and married to Hunan. After finishing speaking, Captain Hu added: "You are still young, and you don't know how to take into account the overall situation. If you don't bury Hong Ke, then this matter will definitely disturb his wife and children. Are we still not getting enough corpses? With those No matter how much the family members say to comfort them, they are all in vain, why bother to bring up the past and make them cry to the death." I nodded knowingly, and Yue Mingfei did the same. We both thought that Captain Hu had some shocking secret, and it turned out that it was all for the sake of Hong Ke's family.This explanation is very reasonable, so I didn't worry about it any more. I followed them back to Duchang, which is surrounded by mountains and rivers. There are no roads and only waterways. Usually, no one comes here. The ones who come are the ones looking for someone to pick up the corpse.When it was dark, usually only the lights in the courtyard were turned on in the ferry, and the lights were usually not turned on at the gate, but this time it was turned on.I saw it from a distance, and I thought what happened, are you afraid of ghosts? When we got close to the ferry, Jin Lele just walked out the door to look around. When she saw us, she ran over and said anxiously: "Captain Hu, why did you come back? Something happened!" "What's wrong?" Captain Hu asked. "Second Master Tang found it!" Jin Lele said incoherently, "But I didn't find it in the water, just now... I wanted to call your mobile phone, but you didn't bring it with you!" "We're going to retrieve the corpse, who will bring a mobile phone into the water." Yue Mingfei said. Jin Lele gave Yue Mingfei a blank look, then held her breath, and told us that the police came just now because Tang Erye's body was found in the ferry!It turned out that not long after we left, everyone was hungry and went to Wafang Canteen for dinner together.Jin Lele saw the door of Erye Tang's room open, and wanted to help close it, but saw Erye Tang lying on the ground, his body was already cold, and he was wet all over.When everyone arrived, they immediately called the police. After the body was carried away, Jin Lele kept trying to contact Captain Hu, but none of the three of us went out with a mobile phone. While we were listening, we walked back to the ferry. No one knew how Erye Tang got back and who killed him.After we left, there were three people in the ferry, Jin Lele, Jia Xiazi, and Mrs. Han. If anyone came in, they should have noticed it.However, the ferry is huge, the gates are never locked, the small buildings and tile-roofed houses are far apart from each other, and the weeds are taller than people. If someone drags a corpse in, it can still be done if they want to. The question now is, what is the purpose of doing that?Just for the fun of killing?The thrill of playing tricks?This is impossible! When Mrs. Han saw that we were back, she ran to say that something had happened and told me not to blame her.I thought Mrs. Han was going to talk about Mr. Tang, but just as I was about to tell her that I knew about it, I heard her say that the oxygen cylinder was missing.I let out an unexpected ah, and hurriedly asked why it disappeared, and Mrs. Han replied that she didn't know. She put the oxygen cylinder on the table, left for a while and then came back and disappeared. "That's weird." I muttered, and didn't blame Mrs. Han. If someone wants to steal something, it's useless to put ten dogs on it.Then, I asked again, "The police took the body away, so Er Master Tang's room is locked?" "Of course! They said that they can't open it until the notice comes out." Jin Lele replied. "Are you back?" At this time, Jia Xiazi came out of the room and touched the open space. He said slowly, "Didn't Master Tang happen in the water? You have been fishing for a long time but you haven't found it. Why did he find it?" Came back by myself? I didn’t even hear anything!” "You can't hear it all the time. Sometimes when the wind is strong or the rain is heavy, you will lose your mind." Captain Hu said. "What about Mr. Tang's oxygen tank? And how did he come back? If someone walks into the ferry with a corpse on his back, we won't notice unless he walks back by himself." Jin Lele said After she finished, she trembled, as if Second Master Tang had cheated on his corpse, and walked back to scare her. "But Mr. Tang is not wearing a diving suit. He is wearing a floral shirt. You all have seen it..." Mrs. Han just changed her words, "No, Lele, you saw it." Jin Lele was tired, yawned, put his hands on his hips and said: "Anyway, the police asked you three to go to the Public Security Bureau tomorrow, probably to ask about the situation. I guess they suspect that we didn't let Mr. Tang wear a diving suit Just went into the water, and after a safety accident, they did a strange thing to get away, and those policemen really had nothing to do...By the way, Mr. Tang must have been wearing an oxygen cylinder and a diving suit, right?" Both Yue Mingfei and I nodded, this matter is absolutely true and no falsehood is allowed.If the police suspect, we have nothing to hide, just tell the truth.Captain Hu was probably afraid that we would reveal the matter about Hong Ke, so he kept winking at the side, and Yue Mingfei closed his mouth just as he was about to open his mouth.After everyone dispersed, Captain Hu went back to his room and picked up his mobile phone to contact the police. He is familiar with the people there, so there shouldn't be any problems. Afterwards, Yue Mingfei and I went to Mrs. Han to get some food, and when we were full, we lay down without taking a shower.So many things happened in the past two days that I can hardly digest them. Is it man-made or is it a ghost?I'm going to see the police tomorrow, do you want to tell about the pair of strange footprints?They don't think I'm crazy, do they?But what if that's evidence?What if Second Master Tang was murdered?Unfortunately, the floor of the Wafang dormitory is concrete, and the wet footprints dried up in the blink of an eye. I didn't take any pictures, and I have no evidence. Perhaps, there are really unexplainable phenomena in the world. It was late at night, and I was lying on the creaking wooden bed, unable to fall asleep. When I closed my eyes, I saw the scene of Mr. Tang struggling under the water.After everyone turned off the lights and went to sleep, I sat up, quietly opened the door and walked out, wanting to breathe the outside air.Erye Tang's dormitory is next door to mine. If I hadn't found his body, I always thought he was still sleeping in it.I held the flashlight, did not turn on the light in the room, took a deep breath, and the urge to urinate came. 渡场的厕所都是公用的，宿舍里没有独立厕所，只有在办公楼才有。我轻轻地带上门，拿着手电就想走去小楼，这时却习惯性拿着手电往唐二爷的房间照了照。以前，我刚来的时候怕鬼，夜里上厕所都故意找唐二爷一起去，他夜尿频多，正好有个伴。照进去后，我才想起来，唐二爷死了，里面没人了。 正当我想把手电挪开，走去厕所，怎知却发现唐二爷的宿舍里有一个不对劲的地方。