Leaving behind two editors, I finally arrived at Xinhua Road after taking a taxi to enjoy the scenery of Shangjing again.
Xinhua Road is not a very prosperous main road, but the flow of people coming and going gave me a new understanding of the prosperity of Shanghai.
Moreover, what the two editors said about a child falling into the sewer yesterday should be true. On the side of the road, behind the yellow cordon, the manhole cover of the manhole has been opened, and several policemen are maintaining order.
From the side of the maintenance well, it can be seen that a rope is firmly tied to the special life-saving device on one side, while the other end is stretched into the maintenance well, shaking from time to time, it seems that someone is searching for rescue below.
The surrounding area was already surrounded by whispering passers-by.
In order to learn more about the sewer, I also squeezed in. Although I was stopped far away and couldn't see anything, I could still see from the restless eyes of the policemen who occasionally looked at the manhole. Worries in mind.
Not long after, a pale policeman crawled out of the manhole, shaking his head disappointedly at his colleagues.
The policemen began to pack their things, and the surrounding crowd discussed more intensely.
Listening to the discussion, I also understood that the child who disappeared yesterday fell from here. Moreover, a nearby store owner said that the manhole cover was fine until the call for help was heard.
I silently remembered this place, planning to start from here at night, maybe I could save the missing child, but I also knew in my heart that such a possibility was unlikely.
Having made up my mind, I turned around and was about to leave, when suddenly, among the noisy crowd, I heard a faint cry for help. Looking back, the police were slowly closing the manhole cover.
Looking at the policeman who didn't seem to have any abnormalities, I was sure that I was the only one who heard the faint cry for help. Could it be that the child was still alive, and it was his ghost just now.
Strolling around until midnight, the number of people gradually decreased, and people who appeared occasionally avoided the maintenance well.
I checked the surroundings and found no monitoring or anything like that, but for the sake of safety, I still had the cheek to knock out a street lamp with stones, and then opened the manhole cover with great effort.
For safety, I still slightly closed the manhole cover, and suddenly, there was no light in the manhole.
There was only the sound of slow running water and a suffocating stench.
I put the miner's hat I had prepared on my head, looking for the traces left by the police in the afternoon.
In the afternoon, from the crowd of onlookers, I knew that the direction the police were looking for was the sewage outlet of the sewer, which would get bigger and bigger, which was convenient for me to check.
However, the strange thing is that I couldn't find any traces, even the moss on the stone was very complete. I looked at the dark passages on both sides, silently recalled the location of the sea, and finally chose a direction.
This is one of the main sewage pipes in the old city. It has a diameter of nearly two meters. Although there are tens of centimeters of water, there are special walkways on both sides for people to clean the pipes, but they can barely pass by one person. .
I released five mummy corpses from the awl, front, back, left, right, protecting my whole body in the middle, and one followed closely behind me, ready to deal with emergencies at any time.
I made what I thought was the best arrangement, but I far underestimated the complexity of the sewer. Apart from the disgusting smell, it was like a maze. In just half an hour, I lost my way directly.
I can only silently walk the path I think is right.
I don’t know how long I’ve been walking, but I suddenly heard a strange crying sound coming from a pipeline only about 50 centimeters away, which seemed to be mixed with some strange sounds.
I looked at the pipeline silently, unless I used a crawler, it would be impossible to pass through that pipeline.
I frowned, looked at the sewage flowing out of the pipe, and gave up the idea of entering to check, after all, it was too dangerous inside, and at the end, I didn't even have a way to turn around.
I was about to leave, but I heard a strange sound in the pipe that seemed to be getting closer.
I turned around in surprise, the light above my head was just shining in the pipe, and I was suddenly staggered in fright.
I saw a child sitting at the mouth of the pipe, holding a bloody mouse in his hand, crying while eating.
I let out a long breath, I am not afraid of ghosts, but they still startled me when they appeared suddenly.
"Why don't you reincarnate?" I tried to keep my tone gentle, as if I was afraid of scaring the other party, but in fact, this was just the first reaction of many people when they saw a child.
The child turned his head towards me slowly, two lines of tears separated the stain on his face into several parts, and the tears flowed all the way to his bloody mouth. At this time, there was still blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, matching that immature face, it looked extremely weird.
I swallowed and repeated: "Little friend, why don't you reincarnate?"
The child said slowly: "If you don't reincarnate, there is nothing delicious to reincarnate."
A drop of sweat dripped down my forehead, and I smiled dryly: "After reincarnation, there are more delicious foods. Besides, since there are delicious foods, why are you still crying?"
The child shook his head: "I miss Mom and Dad."
"Where are your parents?"
The child hesitated for a moment, and said a little shyly: "I, I, I couldn't hold back last time, and ate up Mom and Dad."
As he said that, the child turned his body slightly. Behind him, I saw bones all over the ground, shaking slightly in the sewage.
I opened my mouth wide, and before I could speak, the child scratched his head in embarrassment: "Uncle, you look delicious."
Saying that, the child seemed to have discovered some novel toy, his eyes were fixed on me, and his saliva was already dripping down.
A trace of disgust flashed in my heart, I clenched my right hand and waved it at the child.
The child backed away a little in fear, but his eyes were still bright. He stuck out his small tongue and licked his blood-stained lips.
I was a little tired and planned to leave, no longer intending to help the child reincarnate, but just when I turned sideways, the child screamed like a wild animal and rushed towards me.
I was always on guard in my heart, and when I saw the child rushing towards me, I punched him directly. The imprint of the awl on the back of my hand seemed to flicker with black light, and hit the child on the shoulder all of a sudden.
The child suddenly let out a scream, and a large transparent hole appeared on the entire shoulder, and was punched back into the pipe.
Afterwards, the child gave me a resentful look, turned around and quickly crawled deep into the pipe.
Seeing the child leave, I set my sights on the thick white bones.