Chapter 19 Chapter 18 The Oldest Underwater Elves

The rainstorm is a nuisance, people in the town hide when they see it, and there are many closed shops on the street.Wearing a raincoat, I came to look for a key-distributing store. I searched for four or five stores in a row, but none of them were doing business.I went around against the wind and rain, but except for banks and mobile phone business halls, which were still open, almost all other shops were closed. "Damn torrential rain is coming again. Is there already a flood in the upper reaches? The water level of the Yi River is rising so fast." I stood on a street by the river and thought to myself, "If we want to hold a party at the Teachers College, we must It can be done indoors, if it is done outdoors, then they are waiting to be washed to Vietnam by the flood."

"Huang Dingyi?" I was walking around the street when a woman called me from behind. The voice was very familiar, but I couldn't remember who it was for a while.When I turned around, I saw a petite woman standing under a small peach-colored umbrella. She is the little girl from the mobile business office. Some time ago, she helped Yue Mingfei and me to locate the mobile phone.I hadn't seen the little girl for a long time, so I thanked her for what happened last time and said something nice and flattering. Unexpectedly, the little girl's eyes were red, and she replied angrily: "Thank you? I have nothing to do with Yue Mingfei. If he wants to find other women, let him find them. If you want to ask me for help in the future, I will help you." Yours, but if it's related to him, I won't help."

"Did you quarrel?" I asked while thinking, why is Yue Mingfei still arguing with his girlfriend, where can I find such a good girl. "I went to the ferry to look for him a few days ago, but I found other women's things in his room. What do you want me to do?" The little girl struggled to grab the peach-colored umbrella. To be scraped off the ground. I have never been good at matters between men and women, so I reluctantly said some comforting words, but I couldn't break out any more content.The little girl held back her tears, pretending to be strong, and then took out a letter from the pouch on her body and asked me to give it to Yue Mingfei.This is a breakup letter. After reading it, I will never feel happy. It is like a bomb, and whoever passes it will be in bad luck.The little girl originally planned to send it from the post office, but now that she meets me, she simply regards me as a "breakup messenger".If there are, the little girl can't speak on the phone, and the number of words is limited when sending text messages, so she chose the most primitive way to vent.

The little girl expected that I would not agree, so she ran into the rain after delivering the letter, as if blown away by the wind, and she couldn't catch up.The location of the ferry is remote, and it took a long time for the postman to come. After thinking about it, I decided to help the little girl once.Yue Mingfei was really too, he didn't cherish such a considerate girl, instead he fell in love with other women.God gave him a handsome face, and he used it to hook up. I let out a long sigh, stuffed the letter into my pocket, and went on looking for a store with keys.I have searched all the streets on this side of the Yijiang River, and this time I plan to walk across the bridge to the other side and try my luck there.The river continued to soar, and when I passed the bridge, I even felt shaky.According to past experience, the intensity of floods in Yishan Town this year will exceed previous years, and the bridge will definitely be flooded.

Fortunately, I found an old shop for key distribution in an alley on the opposite bank. The master craftsman was superb. He helped me glue the two truncated keys together, and a complete key was prepared in a blink of an eye.At the same time, the master looked at the sky and saw that the rain was getting heavier, so he told me to go back quickly, otherwise I would not be able to go back after the bridge was closed.Sure enough, when I was wearing a raincoat and trotting all the way over, people from the town government were sealing the bridge. The flood was so fierce that it was far worse than before. I asked the town government to find out that a reservoir upstream had burst its embankment.People from the ferry also came out in full force to check along the river, fearing that the flood would flood into the urban area.

When I returned to the ferry, no one was in the dark room, not even Mrs. Han.Sister Miao probably couldn't find me, she was scolding fiercely, and then looked at my phone, I don't know when it ran out of battery.I was looking around the house for a charger and trying to contact other people to find out where they were checking for flooding, but the light on the outlet went off and the lightbulb wouldn't come on.I thought angrily, why is it so unlucky, even if the flood came, there was a power outage. "Why are you coming back now? It's almost night, Captain Hu has been looking for you for a long time."

A male voice came from outside the door, I turned around and saw that it was Yue Mingfei.Then, I told Yue Mingfei about my experience with Tang Ziyue in the crematorium last night and the process of key distribution.Unexpectedly, Yue Mingfei listened intently at first, but when I mentioned the little girl, he asked me angrily, what did the little girl tell me.I've told the truth, but Yue Mingfei didn't believe it, and was so angry that his teeth itch.I had a rough day today, I was too lazy to quarrel, I wanted to hand over the little girl's letter, so Sister Miao called Yue Mingfei.

After a while, Yue Mingfei hung up the phone and said to me: "Something happened. The water has flooded the teacher's college. Two students were electrocuted to death. Sister Miao asked us to help." "How could this be?" I asked in surprise. "Those students were hanging lanterns for the party, and the water flooded into the auditorium, and there was an electricity leakage. Now the first floor of the school is completely flooded, and you have to use a boat to get in and out." Yue Mingfei replied. I thought to myself, if something really happened, the party stopped before the party was held.Immediately, Yue Mingfei and I took our things, ran out and loosened one of the boat reins at the ferry, trying to steer the boat into the school from the place where the embankment broke.Unexpectedly, after we climbed into a small boat, something even more terrifying happened.I turned on the flashlight and scanned the dark river, my eyes widened.Yue Mingfei couldn't help muttering, what are these people up to, no one noticed that such a big thing happened—on the river, a lot of fishing boats got out of the rein and drifted with the waves on the turbulent river.There are several larger fishing boats upstream, which are rushing towards the bridge at the moment.If the fishing boat crashes into the bridge, the consequences will be disastrous.

"You go to the school to find Sister Miao and Captain Hu, call them here, and I will stabilize the boats." After I finished speaking, I wanted to jump into the water. "The water is so fast and it's getting dark. If you swim over, you may be hit by a boat and die. The bridge is so old, it will collapse if it collapses. Besides, you are not Liu Xiang, so it's too late." Yue Mingfei said while standing on his side boat pole. "Liu Xiang is a runner, not a swimmer. Fortunately, you were a champion swimmer before." I ran out of words, stopped talking, and immediately jumped into the water, trying to swim to control the fishing boat.

Yue Mingfei also wanted to jump off, but the two of us are not supermen, and we can't stop so many fishing boats running away in time, so we can only find the nearby fishermen.In desperation, Yue Mingfei turned around and drove the boat into the school, anxiously looking for someone to help.When I turned my head back, it was pitch black on the shore. Perhaps due to an electric leakage accident, the power facilities on the riverside were shut down by the power plant.Most of the facilities in this area are left over from the 1980s. After being soaked in water, they will not automatically trip. There have been tragedies of floods and electric shocks to passers-by before.

After Yue Mingfei left, I waved my arms and swam forward. I couldn't see anything in the wind and rain. After swimming three or four meters, I was washed down more than ten meters.After several rounds, instead of reaching the fishing boat, I was hit in the face by foam, weeds, dead leaves on the water surface, and the most annoying thing was, there were used sanitary napkins and condoms.Fortunately, a fishing boat rushed down the current. I seized the opportunity and climbed up. There are three types of fishing boats in the Yijiang River, which are motorized, sailing, and manual. The fishing boat I climbed on is a small motorized fishing boat. I thought I could drive the fishing boat to the upper reaches quickly and control other fishing boats, but the motor on the boat was damaged by the reef. I can't start it at all.Except for a few working flashlights, there is nothing on board. It is really nothing to ask for, and the things have been transferred by the boatman long ago.The fishing boats in the upper reaches were like wild horses running wild, and they were about to hit the bridge. At this moment, I saw many people jumping into the river and swimming towards those fishing boats. "Great, Yue Mingfei should tell Captain Hu and Sister Miao about the situation." I breathed a sigh of relief. However, the fishing boat I was in was broken, and there were no oars or poles on the boat. I couldn't control the hull and could only let the fishing boat continue to drift down.I stood at the bow of the boat in the rain, picked up the flashlight in the boat and kept shaking it, hoping that someone would come to rescue me, but everyone's attention was on the upstream boat, and no one looked over.I thought, if I drift further, I will drift to the reservoir, and I should swim back to the shore by myself. At this moment, clusters of red light appeared on the pitch-black river surface, as if a fire had ignited underwater.Standing on the bow of the boat, I stopped my movements, lay down and opened my eyes wide, thinking, isn’t this the Jiangxin will-o’-the-wisp I saw in the reservoir some time ago?The first two times, I only saw one cluster of red light, but this time there are so many clusters, are they water monsters or aliens?While hesitating, the rising tide raised all boats, and the fishing boat drifted faster and faster.When I stood up from the bow again, I could no longer see any lights or human buildings on both sides of the river, only jagged river cliffs and dense forests.Those red lights swam down with the fishing boats, sometimes getting closer and sometimes far away from the fishing boats, but the river water was too turbid to see their true colors clearly. Unknowingly, the fishing boat was pushed by the water near the Yishan Reservoir. I was afraid that the boat would hit the dam, so I picked up a piece of wood on the water and rowed desperately.With my own strength, it is impossible to row this fishing boat back, at most I can only change the direction in which the fishing boat drifts.In front of the reservoir, there are several tributaries, not all of which flow into the reservoir.Only one of those tributaries is relatively large, which can barely accommodate the hull of the ship. The other tributaries are very narrow, and a pig swimming across it will be crushed to death.I gritted my teeth and worked hard for half an hour before turning the fishing boat around and swimming towards the tributary. It's a pity that the red light didn't flow into the tributary with the fishing boat. I was afraid of missing the opportunity and seeing those red lights at the bottom of the river rarely, so I grabbed the reins of the fishing boat and jumped into the water with a plop.The river water was not as clear as it used to be. When I opened my eyes underwater, I couldn't see anything except the turbid liquid.Fortunately, there were a lot of red lights, which illuminated the dark underwater. After adapting to the underwater environment, I finally got a glimpse of the real body of the red lights. "It's so beautiful!" I exclaimed in my heart. Under the undercurrent of the river, there are a large number of peach blossom jellyfish scattered, like peach blossoms and crystal parachutes falling into the water, floating up and down sometimes, which is extremely beautiful.Peach Blossom Jellyfish, shaped like a peach blossom, is a unique underwater creature in Yishan Town. It is extremely rare and only appears frequently during the peach blossom season.At first glance, jellyfish seem to exist in the ocean, but many people do not know that there is a freshwater jellyfish that is more precious than giant pandas living in deep freshwater pools in the mountains in the southwest. The whole body of the jellyfish is transparent, just like a small transparent umbrella, which opens and closes in the water. Some are poisonous and some are not; unsolved puzzle.In recent years, peach blossom jellyfish have been found frequently in Yishan Town. Some scholars have done research and determined that they have a survival history of at least 600 million years. They can be called the oldest underwater elves. List, classified as endangered species. "It turns out that the will-o'-the-wisps in the middle of the river are peach blossom jellyfish. These things are so precious. I didn't expect there to be so many in the Yijiang River. If I catch them all, wouldn't I be rich?" I held my breath and thought, " Having said that, peach blossom jellyfish are very demanding on the environment, and the number is very small, so it is too strange that they appeared here tonight. I wonder if these peach blossom jellyfish are related to the strange incident at the ferry?" I used up all my breath in one go, and was about to float to the surface for a breath, when all the jellyfish dived under the deep water.Before the red light disappeared, I looked into the water again in horror, and then I choked with fright and sucked in the cold river water. Piranhas! My whole body was shocked. If I were pregnant, the amniotic fluid would definitely burst.The piranha is the king of Hades underwater, everyone fears others, and ghosts worry about ghosts.That piranha came out fiercely from the opposite side, I thought it was weak, there was only one, but I blinked under the water, and a large black piranha came from behind, Guan Gong would turn red and white when he was there Face. I drank a few sips of river water and hurriedly climbed back to the boat along the reins, thinking that no matter how powerful the piranhas' mouths were, they would not be able to swallow the boat.But I never thought that there are many reefs hidden under this tributary, and the fishing boat almost capsized when it drifted for a while.Suddenly, the hull shook, and I couldn't stand still, and almost fell into the water again.I held the flashlight tightly and looked at the water surface uneasily, only to find that the river was flowing backwards.The water no longer flows in, but flows back out from the tributaries. There are many dead leaves and foam on the water surface, and these things serve as reference points for me. Fortunately, the tributary was not so big, and the river bank was in sight, and I was barely able to jump from the boat back to the bank.The fishing boat had tilted and was about to sink underwater. I jumped up and returned to the weedy shore in a blink of an eye.However, there are many stones on the shore, and after the rain, they are as slippery as mud eels.As soon as I stepped on it, I almost fell back. Fortunately, someone held me, otherwise I would fall back into the water. "Tang Ziyue? Yue Mingfei? Why are you two here?" I stabilized my body and asked in amazement. Yue Mingfei said solemnly: "You are gone, will we leave you alone? I saw you climbed into a boat and was washed downstream, so when Captain Hu and the others got the boat under control, I will talk to you right away. Teacher Tang is here to look for you." "Are you okay?" Tang Ziyue was wearing a purple raincoat, exuding a mysterious beauty in the night rain. I wiped off the rain on my face and replied with a smile, "It's okay, I just became Robinson for a while... By the way, there are piranhas in the water. I didn't expect to be bumped into by me. I was almost eaten by them just now, and there are piranhas in the water." Peach Blossom Jellyfish..." Before I finished speaking, Tang Ziyue picked up the flashlight and took a photo on the water, then asked, "Are you sure there are piranhas?" "Oh my god, the things on the water are too scary, this is...is..." Yue Mingfei followed and looked, and suddenly said loudly, "Huang Dingyi, look quickly, is this person Hong Ke that we fished ashore that day?! " I was confused and turned around quickly. There were no piranhas or peach blossom jellyfish on the sparkling water, but a swollen and twisted corpse floating out of a tributary, surrounded by many white maggots and carrion. , On a stormy night, the stench of the dead body was stronger than that of the public toilet at the station. One can imagine how smelly the dead body was. I can't remember whether the corpse is Hunk, after all, I have only seen it once.At that time, when we picked up Hong Ke from the reservoir, Hu Jiaheng and Zhang Dahu said they would bury the body. When we got back with the shovel, the body on the grass by the bank was gone, and the turf was also shoveled away.Now, the body floated back to the surface, except for the old uniform of the pontoon bridge unit, which had changed again, with a swollen face and stomach that looked as if it would explode at any moment. "The corpse flowed out from the end of this river. Over there is the Lychee Cave. Is there something strange in the cave?" Yue Mingfei said thoughtfully, looking at the mountains in the distance. Litchi Cave is a water-eroded cave at the foot of Bailong Mountain. The wall of the cave is like the skin of a litchi, hence the name.To enter the Lychee Cave, you can only go in by boat or swim in. No one has ever reached the end.I looked at Hong Ke's body, nodded, and replied: "The water is flowing backwards, and the body is flowing out of the litchi hole, which means that there must be something wrong in the hole. But the most urgent thing is, let's go back to the ferry first and look over there. Things are getting better." "Tell him." Tang Ziyue winked at Yue Mingfei, as if there was something hard to say. Before I asked what was going on, Yue Mingfei took out his mobile phone, handed it to me, and said, "Look at the call log, I received another call just now, you should be able to tell who the number is. He called We went to Lizhi Cave to look for him, he had something to say, and he emphasized that we must see him tonight. By the way, he also said, if you want to know who Li Xiaoai is, then go to the cave right away." I looked down, and there was a group of familiar mobile phone numbers on the lit phone screen, and the call time was half an hour ago.After just one glance, I froze, and I couldn't believe what was displayed on the screen.That number belongs to no one else, but Erye Tang's.Ever since Jin Lele fell off the cliff, I thought that the mobile phone fell into the bottom of the water with her, but I didn't expect that there were still people using the mobile phone. Seeing that I didn't speak, Yue Mingfei told me that Mr. Tang Erye called just now and told us to go find him. He has something urgent to say.Yue Mingfei was even more shocked than I was. We had only come into contact with Second Master Tang indirectly before, but this time we heard his voice directly.Everyone sent Erye Tang to be cremated in person. This is absolutely true. Why did he come back to life? Could it be that Tang Shanquan was pretending to be? "It's impossible for me to get it wrong. It's really Second Master Tang." Yue Mingfei assured, and then sighed, "Oh, if your phone didn't run out of battery, Second Master Tang wouldn't have called me." "Even if Second Master Tang is not in the litchi cave, now that we see the corpse floating out, we still have to go in, don't we?" Tang Ziyue persuaded. I was hesitating, but I heard a noise on the surface of the water, and looked over, oh my god, a group of piranhas jumped up from the water and scrambled to eat Hong Ke's body.The three of us retreated one after another, not daring to approach, and a fat corpse was quickly eaten up.Speaking of which, it has been a long time since we first discovered Hong Ke's body, and it should have rotted into mud.However, Tang Ziyue calmly told me that corpses are the least likely to rot in water. It is actually normal for Hong Ke's corpse to rot and swell to such an extent. Next, Tang Ziyue reminded: "There is a boat here, we can row into the cave, and the water starts to flow downstream." Sure enough, after the current flowed smoothly, the crooked hull was lifted upright and began to drift slowly towards the Lizhi Cave.I was braving the heavy rain and shivering from the cold, but Yue Mingfei heard it clearly. I really wanted to ask Second Master Tang what was going on, so I followed them and jumped on the "thief" boat.In the wind and rain, we passed through waves of subtropical jungles. After a sharp turn in the tributary, we saw a hole like a tiger's mouth at the foot of Bailong Mountain, and the water was pouring in continuously. "That's the Lychee Cave. There are still a few flashlights on the boat. Take them with you, so as not to cause trouble." I told the person standing in the cabin. Tang Ziyue nodded to me, then looked at her mobile phone, and asked Yue Mingfei: "Does your mobile phone still have signal?" "Don't worry, and the signal is full." Yue Mingfei replied. "That's good. If there is no signal on the mobile phone, we will retreat, so that if we encounter danger, at least we can call the police." Tang Ziyue said cautiously. Unexpectedly, just after saying this, the fishing boat hit a rock and we collided with each other. The mobile phones in everyone's hands slipped out of the cabin and fell into the water together.After Yue Mingfei stood up straight, he immediately questioned Tang Ziyue why he bumped into him, and even knocked off his cell phone.Tang Ziyue looked apologetic, saying that she didn't stand firm, and she didn't expect that the fishing boat would hit the reef at this time.Fortunately, the fishing boat didn't leak water, probably just brushed against the reef, and it can still float on the water. I didn't want Tang Ziyue to feel guilty, so I opened the conversation: "It doesn't matter if you have a mobile phone or not. Anyway, Qin Wang didn't believe us from the beginning to the end. It would be useless to call the police to him. Besides, Second Lord Tang will definitely not harm us. Don't Can you treat him as a bad guy? It’s the piranhas in the water, which makes people worry, and I hope they don’t follow into the hole.” "I'm afraid that if there is any danger, we will be called out every day in the cave, and the earth will not work." Tang Ziyue explained. Yue Mingfei patted his chest and replied with a smile: "I'm here, don't worry." Tang Ziyue's eyes flickered suddenly, and then she replied with a half-smile: "I hope." I'm in a complicated mood. Is there any special reason why Erye Tang chose to show up tonight?Why not choose tomorrow or yesterday?However, I really want to know how Second Master Tang managed to deceive everyone.Even if the litchi cave is the underworld, I will break into it.When the fishing boat drifted into the entrance of the cave, the water surface became wider. We all turned on our flashlights and carefully observed the cave wall like lychee skin. There was nothing unusual about the opening, but when I looked up, I saw a few dusty wires extending into it.If you don't look closely, you won't find it at all.I hurriedly called everyone's attention, but Yue Mingfei said that there were piranhas in the water, and they swam in with the fishing boat.I have lingering fears about piranhas, and I dare not get too close to the side of the boat, for fear of falling, and I will end up in the same place as Hong Ke. Seeing this, Tang Ziyue told me not to be afraid. Will hit the fishing boat again.Moreover, the cave is not full of water, maybe there are rocks and ground in the deeper cave, and we can jump on it to hide at that time. I said in my heart, since it is here, it will be safe, and it is too late to retreat now, it is better to move forward all the way.As the fishing boat went further, the litchi cave was indeed wider, and a piece of land appeared. There were traces of fire and pots and bowls on it.The wires on the roof of the cave have been looming, and I also saw a broken light bulb. Obviously, the Lizhi Cave at the foot of Bailong Mountain has traces of human existence. "Could it be the teachers and students of Zhejiang University? Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhejiang University moved to Yishan Town to run its school. At that time, the town was bombed by Japanese devils. It seems that it happened in 1939. Their teachers and students escaped. After entering Bailong Mountain, I guess it's here?" Yue Mingfei said to me. I admitted: "It's very possible, but the wires don't make any sense. They came here to take refuge, so how could they have the ability to pull the wires in. I think this Lizhi Cave may be a military base, and it may have produced nuclear weapons. No wonder Tang Er Master said there is a big secret!" "The military base can be built elsewhere, why put it in a water hole, it's so inconvenient to get in and out." Tang Ziyue disagreed. At this time, wooden boats tied to the cave wall appeared one after another in the cave, some were broken, only a few planks were left floating, and some were still intact.Seeing this situation, Tang Ziyue no longer doubted it, and watched the scene in the cave with us.The fishing boat drifted into the cave for about an hour, and finally the current slowly eased, and we started calling Tang Erye's name loudly, hoping that he would come to see us. Unexpectedly, small transparent red umbrellas suddenly rose under the water, and the peach blossom jellyfish appeared again!For a moment, the Lychee Cave was illuminated with crystal red brilliance, which was breathtakingly beautiful.We were about to enjoy the spectacle, when we stood at the bow and looked down, everyone was stunned.It turns out that there is really a big secret in the Lychee Cave, and the secret lies in the clear water!