Chapter 87 Buying Life
On the bridge across the lake in Yunmengze, vehicles come and go. Snow-white cruise ships are like white geese floating on the blue water, carrying early-rising tourists across the lake to go out. Yunshan.
Izumo Mountain and Yunmengze are both famous scenic spots in the country. They are overcrowded every holiday. Although it is not the peak tourist season yet, there are still many tourists who have money and leisure to visit during the off-season.
The mist on Yunmeng Ze is vast, and the people on the cruise ship are noisy. From time to time, the sound of clicking shutters can be heard, and the birds and birds are chirping.
There are girls discussing with their boyfriends whether to go to the island in the middle of the lake or the summer resort on the mountain to take pictures first; there are groups of college students who are traveling in small groups and are looking for snack guides before coming to review. What are the old restaurants where locals eat, and which ones are online celebrity shops that prey on tourists? There are also middle-aged and elderly women in bright clothes who come to the mountains specifically to dig the Izumo Mountain wild ginseng that is said to increase longevity and cure all diseases.
Although they don't know that these so-called wild ginseng are actually the graduate students of the Agricultural College of Yunlu Academy.
On a semi-carrying cruise ship full of young people, a clear-eyed male college student walked to the bow of the ship with a selfie stick and his mobile phone, and pointed with his other hand to the lake in the distance where the statue of Confucius stood. Xindao said to the camera:
“We arrived at the largest lake in the Central Plains, Yunmengze! Yunmengze is so beautiful... Oh, isn’t this Confucius.”
“Let’s look at the distance. Izumo Mountain, my family ..."
The male college student was happily pointing the camera at the famous landmarks in Yunmengze. Suddenly, the cruise ship came to an emergency stop, and the white hull drifted out diagonally. Everyone on the ship was stunned. Leaning forward uncontrollably, the student standing on the bow stumbled and fell onto the guardrail. The newly purchased mobile phone specially for taking photos fell into the water with a plop, leaving only an empty selfie stick.
"I'll go, what's going on..." Several students got up from their seats and looked at the captain in front of the driver's seat with confusion, only to see that the captain himself was also confused.
"Don't look at me, I didn't pull the emergency brake..." The captain quickly defended: "The cruise ship's route across the lake is all planned, and it is basically driven slowly by computer autopilot. We just Responsible for the necessary supervision in response to emergencies, the ship is rarely driven manually. "
In other words, the emergency stop and drift just now was the emergency braking of the ship itself, not the captain's manual braking.
“The camera recognized a humanoid object in front of it, so it braked urgently... It’s strange, why is there someone in the middle of the lake?” The captain looked like he had seen a ghost. Yunmengze is known as the largest lake in the Central Plains. It’s not a waste of money. Even in the dry season, the diameter of the lake is hundreds of kilometers. How can human beings swim to the central area of the lake?
Has any tourist fallen or jumped from the cruise ship? Or is it that large aquatic animals are bubbling in front?
Thinking of this, the captain did not dare to neglect. He immediately took over the control of the ship manually and used the lowest gear of horsepower to slowly drive in the direction where the suspected humanoid object was detected.
College students who knew the situation also poked their heads and cameras out of the gaps in the guardrails on both sides of the cruise ship, looking around for anyone who had fallen into the water.
In the early morning, Yunmengze was filled with light mist, and the visibility was slightly worse than on a sunny day. The mood was slightly hazy. The captain turned on the searchlight on the bow and groped forward cautiously for a long time. Finally, a human-shaped A silhouette appeared in front of the cruise ship.
"Found it! It is indeed a person!"
"Wait, what happened to this person...?"
Everyone's brief joy was replaced by confusion, because the blurry figure that appeared not far away was not half submerged in the water, with only one upper body exposed out of the water, nor was it lying flat or floating on the lake with its back upwards.
The figure appearing directly in front of the searchlight is a complete person.
Or to be more precise, it was a person standing on the lake.
"I don't remember that there are plum blossom piles in Yunmengze Lake? That's a trick of Taoist monks..." The young people on the boat were talking about it, and it was impossible to say that the water depth in the middle of Yunmengze Lake was there. What kind of plum blossom pile one can stand on. Could it be that the man was standing on a bamboo raft or raft?
That's not right. The figure stood motionless on the water. His body was stooped and stiff, like a chopstick stuck in the sand. There was absolutely no sign of his center of gravity shifting or losing his balance. It would be difficult for any bamboo raft to be as stable as this. degree.
How do you say that word? ——Walking on flat ground. It's like standing on the ground.
"Why are there people standing in the middle of the lake? Could it be that they are making trouble..."
"Don't talk nonsense. It's better if you don't say this kind of thing. If you say it, it might... ”
The noisy young students quieted down one after another, and the cruise ship fell into a strange silence. The captain held the joystick in his hand and could neither advance nor retreat for a while. The engine rumbled behind the butt of the boat, and it stopped in place, not daring to move forward at all.
The ship didn't move much, but the figure was getting closer and closer.
There was no movement of walking with legs, and there was no unnecessary shaking. He just 'panned' over silently. The old man's loose Confucian shirt was not stained by any water, and it was round and round. There was a stench of corruption in his stomach.
“What is that?”
“The devil knows!” the captain yelled, and hurriedly steered the ship to escape from this strange place, but it was on the lake. However, the moving figure was faster than the engine-driven cruise ship. On the face of the old man with a stooped body, there were a pair of dark red eye sockets filled with flesh and blood.
It is said that the eyes are the windows to the soul. The early morning sun shines down, illuminating the lifeless old face of the God of Wealth. You can vaguely see the milky white rotten brain in his head from the eye sockets.
The searchlight on the bow of the boat swept through the thin mist on the lake, stretching the old shadow of the God of Wealth very long.
Screams and shouts of collapse arose one after another on the boat. The people who fled in a hurry were filled with fear. In their excitement, they did not notice that when the searchlight swept across the lake, more than one shadow was reflected.
Behind the rickety body of the God of Wealth, there was nothing in the air, except for a dark figure that flashed across the sparkling clear lake in the blink of an eye, shooting towards the back of the God of Wealth like an arrow from a string.
If you slow down the movement of this shadow, you can barely make out the twisted human shape. It looks like a tall and thin adult man, holding a long stick in his hand. The object, maybe a stick or a sword, or maybe even a mop?
The black shadow rushed behind the God of Wealth with lightning speed, raised his hands high, and then quickly fell down, cutting off its head with a knife.
When the shadow was beheaded, the neck of the stooped old man was also broken, and a round head fell into the lake with a plop, spreading a bright red like a dark cloud.
The God of Wealth is dead.
But the sound of the head sinking into the water has not disappeared, and then there is another clear sound of metal collision on Yunmengze, like a copper coin rolling down from a holed pocket, jingling. Landed.
The God of Wealth is alive again.
(End of this chapter)