Chapter 10 tenth night water monkey

It still takes a few days to go to his hometown from here. In this case, why not tell me how I met him. I am an editor, an ordinary editor. I invite manuscripts, review manuscripts, proofread and typeset every day like a grandson. Day after day, it seems that the repetitive work will never end. Until one day two years ago, when there was so much news at that time, there were not enough reporters. The boss swiped a pen in the air-conditioned room and asked me to work as a part-time reporter for a few days.Note that there is no additional remuneration. The euphemism is that young people should exercise more and learn more.

So after a tiring day, I still have to find time to interview news.But it's a good thing, I finally don't have to sit in that damn office for more than ten hours at a time. The first incident I received was a child drowning while playing in the water.The kid was only twelve years old, and his parents were almost insane.However, in our city where the natural river is very close to the urban area, a large number of children go swimming every summer to escape the heat. Of course, a certain number of children are separated from their parents forever every year. To be honest, I don't want to interview the relatives of the parties involved, which is tantamount to opening a wound.I focus on what went wrong.

It's a very ordinary river bank, and it's not far from the newspaper office. I often ride by.There are still many people swimming now, and there are even younger children than the accident child.I interviewed a few people at random, asked a few questions about the prevention of falling into the water dogmatically, and was about to call it a day.A young man was found standing in the distance.He is slender and fair-skinned. Judging from his attire, he seems to be a tourist, because he is carrying a huge luggage.I saw him standing there very still, very strange, obviously, he wasn't here to swim.

I put it aside for the time being, but not long after, another child had an accident on that river bank, but luckily, the child was rescued, and I was right there at the time. I was also passing by by chance, and I heard a middle-aged woman with disheveled hair yelling for help, so I threw my bicycle and ran over.There were a few people around the river, but all of them were not good at water. The child fell into the deep water area. He seemed to have exposed his head just now, but now he was completely invisible. I was about to make a phone call, when I felt a gust of wind behind me, I saw that it was the strange man from yesterday, but he quickly dragged off his coat and rushed to the surface of the water, I seemed to see something tied around his wrist when he entered the water , It seems to be a red string.

After a while, the man came up with the child in his arms, and the child's mother hurried over to pick it up like crazy, forgetting to even say thank you. The child who had the accident was about eleven or twelve years old, his face was bruised and purple, and he was motionless. He was also so tired that he sat down on the ground. "You are so brave, I am a reporter from XX newspaper, can I interview you?" First-hand information cannot be ignored. He glanced at me and said coldly: "If you have time, you might as well help that poor kid." I shrug in embarrassment. "All I can do is call the police, but why do you hang around here every day?"

He looked at me and left without saying a word. I thought to myself that the airs are very big, this is our first conversation, and it is still very interesting. However, the child was not saved, and the story gradually spread. It was said that there were water ghosts in the river. It is said that there were black handprints on the ankles of the corpses that were fished up. I didn't look carefully last time, and I didn't know if it was true. Yes, but the boss told me that we must find the young man who saved the life and take a close-up. The newspaper office is always like this, lest the world will not be chaotic. Isn't the media spreading bad news?

I didn't look for him, I knew he would come here again, and sure enough, the next morning, in the name of an interview, I saw him again by the river. "Sure enough, you are here again." I walked over and extended my hand in a friendly way.He looked at me a little surprised, and then returned to his cold attitude. "Why are you here?" "Because I know you will come, don't worry, I won't interview you, I just intuit that there is something wrong with so many children drowning recently." He stared at me with sharp eyes, which made me feel uncomfortable, and suddenly asked me with a smile: "Do you believe in ghosts and gods?"

I smiled, "If you believe it, you have it. If you don't believe it, you don't believe it. Although I don't believe it, I don't completely deny it. It's like asking whether there are aliens. Although there are many rumors, none of them can produce evidence. Do you believe it?" "You are a kind and rational person, you only believe in your own eyes, you really are a reporter." He laughed loudly, revealing two rows of neat and white teeth. "Well, if you have time and are not afraid, I will let you see the evidence today." He took off his luggage, rummaged for a long time, and took out some diving tools.

"Can you dive?" He threw the tool to me. I nodded. In fact, my diving is only limited to the depth of a few meters in the city swimming pool last summer. "That's good, come on, tie this up." He threw me a red string, and it really was the last time I saw him tie it on his wrist. I didn't ask. If someone like this would tell you, he would take the initiative to say, It's no use not wanting to ask. Said to be a diving tool, it is actually very simple, but it is a goggle with a tube.We go down by the river.I haven’t actually crossed the river before, but after I entered it, it was about six or seven meters deep. The surface of the river was very clean, but I didn’t expect that the bottom was blurry, and there were still many flocs floating there. Fortunately, the smell of the water was not strong. can bear.

Just as he was approaching the deep water area, he stopped, made a blocking gesture, and then pointed ahead, probably asking me to pay attention. But I didn't see anything, only a few children were still playing naughtily on the water near us. But I suddenly found that something seemed to come up from the blurry waters in front of me. The color is not very clear, but there are limbs that can be seen vaguely. , like a seal. I didn't see clearly until I got a little closer, but it looked like a monkey. It is said to be a monkey because all its characteristics are monkeys except for the protruding forelimbs in front.Round head, furry body, and that curly monkey tail.However, there seems to be something similar to Pu on the forelimbs, and the strangest thing is that there seems to be a hand at the end of his tail.

The monkey cautiously approached the child swimming above.Now it's closer to us, but it's strange that it can see that the child can't find us? I saw it approaching the child's underwater legs like a hunter. It stretched its tail over, and the upper hand wrapped around the child's ankle tightly. I was very surprised and wanted to row over to stop him, but he blocked me. I looked at him angrily, but he looked calmly as if nothing happened. I cursed secretly, pushed his hand away and swam straight to the child. The child had already been dragged far away by that strange monkey. I was not very good at swimming, so I had to speed up. The monkey is not fast at all, and it is dragging a child, and it is about to be overtaken by me. I looked at the distance and stretched out my hand. I thought I could grab the child's hand, but I was surprised to find that I didn't catch anything. live! I stayed where I was and watched the monkey drag the child in and out of sight. Then he came over and pointed up, and we had no choice but to go ashore. "What's going on?" I didn't understand. "What you saw was the scene I saw when I rescued the child a few days ago. The strap on your hand is actually connected by small red crystal fragments. This is a shadow spar, because I also have it on my hand. I can let you see what I saw that day." I took a closer look, and it really wasn't any kind of rope, but it was made too small, and I couldn't tell if I didn't look carefully.I saw him stretch out his hand towards me, and asked for that shadow spar back. "What is that? It looks like a monkey." I was confused by the monster I just saw. "Water monkeys, they live in rivers or lakes with a lot of mud and sand for a long time. Under normal circumstances, they should not take the initiative to attack people, but this child is already the third, and they can be clearly seen on the ankles of every corpse. Dragging hand marks." "Didn't the child be dragged away by him? How did the body come up?" I remembered that he seemed to have carried the child up. "It's the soul that's being dragged away." He looked at the many people swimming, "I'm afraid that more people will be killed if we don't solve it quickly. It is also difficult for me to save the victim, just like the child that day, although I tried my best." He was a little sad when he said this. "That's not your fault, but why does the water monkey keep attacking children?" "Because the water monkey itself is the ghost of a drowned child. They have different names in different countries. It is rumored that they are half-human and half-monkey. They like to hunt and kill people by the water and eat their eyeballs. In American mythology, In Japan, through the research of the famous folklore scholar Ishikawa Junichiro, there are indeed Kappa in some remote rivers. In fact, the earliest Kappa legend originated in the upper reaches of the Yellow River Basin in China. At that time, they were called "Shuihu" or "Hebo" when they were young. Isn’t there a story about Ximen Leopard breaking He Bo’s marriage? Later, when he came to Japan, he was known as Kappa.” He began to explain incessantly, but I was stunned. "Water monkeys were exaggerated later. In fact, they never take the initiative to attack humans. They generally feed on animal souls in the river and hide in extremely deep sand. They are very rare." "In other words, if you want to deal with the water monkeys first, you must first know the reason for their mutation, right?" He nodded. I looked across the river and saw several huge boats. "I think I get it." I pointed to the boats. "That's a sand dredging boat. In the past, the sediment resources here were very rich, but in recent years, the mining has been flooded, and they are all used for construction on the construction site. There is almost no cost to mine the sand. Now there are more and more sand dredgers. Yesterday it seemed He also said that even the foundation of the bridge was in danger of collapsing." He lowered his head and thought for a while, "Yes, that's right, the water monkey can't bear to be disturbed to take such crazy revenge. This water monkey has already taken away the souls of three children, and I'm afraid it will attack adults when its ability grows." Before I finished speaking, the people swimming by the river rioted, and it turned out that someone else had an accident.We rushed to the river and the person was washed away. It is said that he was a college student, and his classmates were so scared that he could not speak and trembled all over his body. I hurriedly asked one of them what was wrong, and he replied very frightened: "Monkey, the monkey dragged him away!" "Oops, ordinary people can see it now, we have to stop them digging sand immediately and let the water monkey go back to where it should be." The young man packed up his things and walked towards the road.Next to the river bank is the road, which was also built by filling the river. "Wait for me, and, what should I call you?" I also rushed over, I don't want to let go of this opportunity, not because I want to report something, but because I've always been very interested in this kind of thing. "My name is Ji Yan, you can call me Xiaosi." He turned to me, "What about you?" "Ouyang Xuanyuan." He laughed and said, "Your name is quite impressive." I also smiled, "Xiao Si is also very interesting." Half an hour later, we came to the Water Public Security Bureau. "Four people have already died. I hope you will quickly organize them to collect sand and temporarily block the river bank. Just give me one day." Ji Yan begged the police on duty. The policeman on duty looked at him jokingly, made a gesture to go out, and went to read the newspaper again.Just as Ji Yan was about to explode, I rushed to stop him and gestured for me to come. "I am a reporter from the XX newspaper. The recent drowning death of many people has caused panic among the general public. If you don't cooperate with us, our newspaper will report on you with the title of negligence of duty." dangled in front of it.The face of the policeman on duty changed, but he recovered immediately, but his tone was better. I didn't expect our newspaper office to be quite famous. "This, I can't decide, but I can let you go to see the next director, he is inside." I thought I was right, it would be nice to see each other. The director is very thin, subverting my idea that official titles are directly proportional to weight.It can be seen that he often works outside and his skin is dark. I can't see what he looks like because he was reading some report when we came in. "Hello." I took out my editorial card and planned to continue fooling around. "Put it away. I heard you when you were outside." The chief didn't even raise his head, which made me feel ashamed. "I can agree to your request, but you must give me a clear reason." The director raised his head, staring straight at us with hooked eyes, looking a little hairy. Ji Yan walked over and put her hands on the table. "Someone will be killed at any time now. As for the evidence, I will convince you after the matter is over." The director shook his head, "Blocking the river bank is not a trivial matter, how can I implement it without a single reason in the past?" I pulled La Jiyan and whispered, "Why don't you tell him about the water monkey." "Can he believe it?" Ji Yan muttered.Unexpectedly, the director suddenly stood up and shouted harshly: "What did you just say? What water monkey?" I was frightened by the director, and Ji Yan said seriously: "It is indeed a water monkey. It was affected by the sand dredger and came out to attack humans. It just attacked a college student today. If I don't stop it, I'm afraid it will be too late." The director stared at Ji Yan for a long time, and finally said: "Okay, I will block the river bank as soon as possible, and tell the sand boat to leave. In fact, I told them not to over-exploit, but they didn't listen." I was surprised why the director believed it so easily. ,really weird. The river bank can only be blocked for six hours, but Ji Yan said it was enough.Waiting for the water to cool down after dusk is the most suitable for dealing with water monkeys. We had to wait anxiously by the river bank, but I actually fell asleep.I don't know how long I slept until I woke up suddenly and it was already pitch black. I quickly checked the time, it was seven o'clock, almost.But I didn't see Ji Yan.I was the only one on the entire river bank, and the silence was a bit scary. "Ji Yan!" I stood up and shouted loudly, but the only sound was the wind. "Stop barking, I'm here." I looked towards the sound, and sure enough, he slowly walked up from the river. "The temperature of the river water has reached more than 20 now. It's a bit cold. We need to lure it out now." "Well, well, it's a good way, but there is no one now, how could it come out." I nodded, and then saw him look at me with a smirk. I quickly waved my hand, I have seen the water monkey drag people, I don't want to die in its hands so early. "How can this work? What if I hang up?" "It'll be fine, bring the shadow spar with you, it's consecrated by the eminent monk, it has the effect of exorcising evil spirits, and once he catches you, I can use the shadow spar as a conductor to force it to go ashore, and it will be an ordinary monkey once it lands There's only one." He said it clearly and logically. Finally I agreed, but when I really walked into the cold river, I regretted it again. Curiosity is really harmful. I slowly swam to a place not far from the deep water.Ji Yan stood on the shore.The surface of the water was very dark and nothing could be seen.Occasionally, a gust of river wind would make me shiver all over, but I didn't expect it to be really cold. According to his words, the water monkey will only come out when the temperature of the river drops and the human body temperature can spread rapidly. Its vision is not good, and it attacks people by sensing the temperature in the water. I am probably already some distance away from the shore, and even though I am not moving, it seems that the river is still sending me deeper.I had to keep paddling. About half an hour later, I felt that it was too cold, so I yelled to Ji Yan on the shore to come up, and then I swam to the shore. At this time, there was a pain in my left foot. At first I thought it was a cramp, but soon the burning sensation of needles made me know that it was definitely not a muscle cramp. The force was so powerful that it pulled me deep, but fortunately, Ji Yan didn't lie to me, at least I wasn't pulled out by it. I yelled and swam to the club.So for the first few seconds I barely moved in place.Maybe it was the first time that the water monkey pulled me who was so prepared and stronger than me. But soon I found that my strength had already been exhausted in the icy river.I was pulled violently by the water monkey, and I was dragged into the water. My mouth and nose were immediately filled with water, which made me uncomfortable, and then I couldn't breathe.A huge force quickly pulled me.I immediately held my breath and turned on the emergency light on the waterproof watch I had prepared.I used to think that this function was purely redundant, but I never thought it could save my life at a critical moment. The lamp shone straight on the water monkey's face.The light is not strong, but it scares it.With the light, I could see its face clearly. This time was different from the last time, the water monkey was completely and truly displayed in front of me.It was bigger than that time, and its hair stood up, and its entire face still retained a bit of monkey features.But the eyes were bright red, and the corners of the mouth actually showed fangs.The muscles in many parts of the face are protruding, which is very scary.It was its tail that grabbed my foot, and there was a barbed hand at the end of the tail, no wonder it hurt so much. I screamed in my heart, where did that dead guy go? Seeing that I am about to be dragged to the deep water area, and I can't hold it for long, is it really going to kill me? At this time, the shadow spar on the wrist suddenly emitted a dazzling red light, illuminating the entire river bottom red.The water monkey actually let go of my feet, and just stood there in a daze, just like being stupid. The opportunity was rare, so I immediately went upstream and took a big breath of air as soon as I came out of the water.I looked back, and the kid was standing on the shore, and the shadow spar in his hand was also shining. "Catch it up!" he yelled to me, holding his hand. That's right, pull it up?Reluctantly, I went down again, the water monkey was still in a daze, I approached cautiously, and was considering where to start. Looking around, I had to grab its tail. The tail is more than 2 meters long. I didn't dare to grab its barbed palm, so I just grabbed the tail and swam slowly to the shore.During the whole process, it remained motionless as if hypnotized. I don't know how long I swam, but I just swam and looked back, afraid that it would suddenly wake up.The light of the shadow spar on the wrist is also fading. I sensed that the water monkey would return to normal once the light disappeared, so I hurriedly speeded up and landed before the red light disappeared. As soon as I landed, my legs were weak and I fell to the ground.Water monkeys don't feel heavy in the river.When I got ashore it was about the weight of two adults. "Help!" I yelled, thinking I'd almost hang myself in the river.But Ji Yan's face was as white as paper, and he fainted.I was shocked, and ran over to see a deep wound on his wrist, and the ground was full of blood.I was terrified and didn't know what to do. Ji Yan woke up by herself, smiled wryly, and comforted me and said, "It's okay, just bleeding profusely and I'm a little weak, I'll hold the wound, and quickly use my blood to draw a swastika on the water monkey's head." "Wanzi?" I asked strangely. "Yes, the swastika in Buddhism, that is, the swastika symbol is reversed, go quickly, it will wake up soon." He pointed at the water monkey on the ground, and sure enough, the water monkey had already started to move. I dipped my finger in Ji Yan's blood and wrote the word ten thousand on the water monkey's head. The water monkey suddenly made a creaking sound, just like the sound of fingernails scratching on a blackboard, and disappeared after a few rolls. "What's going on? How did you get hurt?" I helped Ji Yan up, he looked much better, the bleeding had stopped, but he was still panting for words. "As I said before, the shadow spar is interlinked. I used my blood as a barrier to temporarily control the thinking of the water monkey, so you can subdue it." "It just disappeared? Gone?" I looked at the place just now, but there was nothing but a mark. "No, we're just destroying its entity. It doesn't have an entity in the first place, but it was produced after absorbing people. As long as you don't disturb it, it will be fine." His face finally looked better. We sat by the river for a long time, then called the director, and he immediately sent a car to take us back to the hospital.Fortunately, I was only injured on the skin, and Ji Yan's resilience was even more astonishing. When he arrived at the hospital, he was fine. I was surprised that he recovered so quickly after bleeding all over the place. Later, the police completely stopped unlicensed sand mining, and strictly controlled sand mining even if it was necessary.Sure enough, I didn't hear any rumors about someone being pulled into the deep water area by an unknown object. The reason why the director believed us was that he had seen water monkeys when he was a child, but fortunately, water monkeys did not hurt people at that time.This is what the director told us later. He also said that most of the children in the water used to have seen water monkeys. In fact, they used to be very safe and never approached people easily, but now they have turned them into murderous demons. The director sighed. tone. "I'm leaving. In fact, I'm a senior student in the medical school, and I'm here to spend the summer vacation." Ji Yan bid farewell to me after her recovery. "Why can your blood subdue water monkeys?" I kept wanting to ask him, but I didn't have a chance, and I would suffocate to death if I didn't ask again. "I don't know, but I heard that my blood has the effect of warding off evil spirits when I was a child, and it also has the effect of shadow spar, so I tried it." He laughed happily. "Try?" I was very cold. "So you've never had the experience of catching water monkeys before?" "Well, I think there should be no problem." He touched the back of his head and smiled, said goodbye to me and got into the car.Leave me there alone, forgetting even goodbye.Thinking that if the method didn't work at that time, I would probably sleep forever at the bottom of the river, and I felt chills. Two years later, I did not expect that we would meet again miraculously in this city. Perhaps we are destined to come together and fulfill our respective missions. "What are you thinking?" He pushed me next to me. "No, I was thinking about the first time we met to catch water monkeys." I was pushed awake by him. "Oh, it happened a long time ago. It's still very interesting. By the way, it's only a few minutes away. Let's get ready." He began to pack his things. "Are you really going on a blind date?" I asked curiously, wondering if he would really marry a girl from his hometown as his wife. "I don't know, let's talk about it, but I always feel that there is something bad. You know that there is nothing interesting around me." He said casually, and then realized that he had made a slip of the tongue, and quickly explained: "Of course, I am not I'm talking about you." I squinted at him and stopped talking. The operator on the car is already reminding us that we have arrived at the terminal.