After the first encounter with the black figure holding a knife, Ji Thrush, Mo Tiangen, and the Fan family siblings had to deal with it for two hours, but they still couldn't find a breakthrough.
They found that it seems that the "strange talk sites" in this city have their own trigger ranges.
For example, the "Tzu Chi Hospital" opened up by Ji Thrush and others last time, the place where Zhong Bin transformed into a ghost is haunting the entire abandoned hospital.
But this time in the "Death Surge", the scope of activities of ghosts is much narrower.
The four were chased and killed by the knife-wielding men all the way, but they couldn't fight back, so they just ran around, running for their lives like headless flies.
However, they gradually became aware of the opponent's behavioral patterns.
The knife wielder would swing the machete every time and attack the person closest to it. If the victim escaped, the black figure would suddenly turn sharply and lock the target on the other person who was closest to it at that time.
At the beginning, Ji Thrush and the others hadn't figured out the rules, and were forced back by the machetes waving wildly. Accidentally, all the members left the area covered by the bridge hole, and the knife-wielding person stood still in place. His figure flickered and shattered into pieces. Countless fine powders dissipated as soon as the wind blew.
Everyone was stunned on the spot, not knowing what to do.
At the beginning, the first thought that crossed their minds was, could this be solved
However, after thinking about it, I immediately worried that this more likely meant that their operation tonight had failed!
At this time, they no longer have any extra "opening certificates" on hand, and they can't even rush to the nearest other "10" to make up for the loss.
Just when everyone was frustrated, Ji Xiaoniao felt that he could not give up so easily, anyway, it was still early, so he could try harder.
So everything has to start all over again.
Ji Thrush and the others went back under the bridge hole, lay down again, and nervously began to pretend to be asleep.
This time, they waited longer.
After half an hour, they heard the sound of dripping water and the humming of the man.
"... I'm... so hungry, can you lend me your teeth?... I'm so cold... your skin... can you lend me?"
Of course, the song was not as ethereal and melodious as the music box nursery rhyme version that Ji Thrush and the others downloaded from the Internet, and even the tune was completely different.
The singer seemed to have phlegm in his throat, and he struggled to make a hoarse voice, and he sang a line of lyrics intermittently.
What came at the same time as the singing was the machete of the black figure.
This time, the four of them had already prepared for it. One second before the blade fell, everyone jumped up on the spot, hula la dodging out of the blade.
It's just that the scope of the bridge hole is too narrow.
The four of them seemed to be forced to play a game of dodge ball in a small circle that would be fatal if they were not careful. attack.
Every time someone is forced out of the bridge opening, at least one person must enter under the bridge opening to ensure that the knife holder will not disappear again.
This crazy game of dodgeball lasted half an hour.
Everyone was more or less scarred, and because they were too busy avoiding knives, they didn't have time to seek treatment from their dad. They were sore, tired, physically and mentally exhausted, and even their dodging movements became slow.
On the contrary, the black figure holding the knife looked like a robot that would not get tired at all, and his movements were not slow at all. A machete was dancing vigorously, and he greeted several people with his head covered.
"Jile! How do you fight this thing!?"
Mo Tiangen was going crazy.
For half an hour, he tried everything he could think of.
He tried to attack the opponent with his fist, a folding stool, and a branch he picked up at random, but without exception, they all missed the black figure.
Then he simply unfolded the folding stool as a shield, trying to block the sharp machete, but the machete pierced through his alloy chair, almost splitting his head in half like chopping a watermelon.
"Could it be that, to deal with it, you don't need to fight at all!?"
Ji Thrush: "!!!"
— No, wait!
He jumped back three steps in a row, barely leaving the area covered by the dome of the bridge, the knife-wielding man stopped, turned 180 degrees to the right with a stiff and mechanical movement, and threw himself at the Fan family siblings behind him. past.
- That's right! That's it!
When he learned that he was about to go to a supernatural "world", Ji Thrush also did a lot of homework during the more than 20-day preparation period.
In all kinds of supernatural works, there is a very common type of ghost called "earth-bound spirit".
They usually have a lot of resentment due to their sudden death, or they had a strong wish that could not be fulfilled during their lifetime, and they turned into ghosts after death, lingering at the place where they died all the year round, or where they were particularly missed.
A very important feature of the Earthbound Spirits is that they will only appear in a fixed place, as if they are "bound" by that place, unable to leave even half a step.
Obviously, the black figure holding a knife in front of him fits all the characteristics of the earthbound spirit, and the space for movement is very narrow, with only one bridge hole...
—So, does it mean that this ghost died under the bridge hole
With this thought in mind, Ji Thrush carefully looked at the other person's appearance, and suddenly a flash of light came to his mind.
The knife-wielding man in front of them was dirty, dripping with water, and covered in a layer of gray-black mist. At first glance, he looked like a clay figurine squeezed out of watered cinders.
However, Ji Thrush had been dealing with it for a long time, and when it was close enough, it still seized the opportunity to see the opponent's appearance clearly.
That black shadow is indeed a "person".
He looks about forty or fifty years old, with thin cheeks and high cheekbones. He is not short, but he is very thin. His thick beard almost covers the lower half of his face. We can only judge from the shaking of his beard that his lips move when he sings. Xi Zhang.
It has unkempt shoulder-length hair, which seems to have not been trimmed for a long time, and is tangled into a ball. It is mixed with rotting leaves and mud, and emits a stench of fishy smell.
Look at its clothes—a tattered jacket full of patches, a T-shirt and sweatpants that can’t see its true color, and a piece of torn canvas around its waist that I don’t know if it’s clothes or something else…
—Looks like a... bum...
Seeing that the Fan family siblings were about to leave the area of the bridge opening, Ji Thrush hurriedly dodged, and before the knife-wielding man had time to look back, he jumped past him and completed a swap with the two of them.
-correct!
He remembered an early reasoning movie he had seen before.
In that movie, a mathematician designed to kill a homeless man in order to take the blame for the neighbor’s wife who killed his ex-husband by mistake, and replaced the real dead man with the homeless man’s body, thus creating an unbreakable alibi.
Ji Thrush remembered that there was a line in that movie.
The detective said to the murderer:
[The person you killed is a person who will not be found even if he disappears... he must be a tramp, right?]
— Yes, here is a bum who won't be noticed by anyone!
—So, in this supernatural place, simply trying to "eliminate" the knife-wielding person is not enough!
While avoiding the oncoming blade, Ji Thrush saw the eyes of the knife holder from a very close distance.
Those are a pair of haggard and out-of-focus pupils, like stagnant water, so empty that there is no slight ripple.
—Yes, I know!
—The situation on our side might be the same as that on Ren Jianmo's side!
Before setting off, Ren Jianmo told Ji Thrush about the situation on his side, and asked him about his guess about the Longxing Mountain Tunnel.
At that time, classmate Ji Xiaoniao gave an answer, but Ren Dameier immediately denied it, and provided another completely opposite idea...
As soon as Ji Thrush gritted his teeth, a bold and adventurous plan had already taken shape in his mind.
"Brother Big Gen, Little Crane, Little Lu!"
He stepped back and shouted loudly:
"Hold on first, I'll go back as soon as I go!"
Mo Tiangen and the Fan family siblings: "!!!?"
The three of them were going crazy, and said in unison: "What are you going to do!?"
However, Ji Thrush has already jumped out of the bridge hole like a rabbit, and at the same time, he took out his weapon, the longbow "Silence and Silence".
He took out an arrow from his quiver, and took out a long hemp rope with the thickness of a tail finger from his pocket, tied it to the arrow tail, then drew the bow and set the arrow, and shot the arrow tied with the rope to the bridge hole. the top of.
The arrow whizzed through the metal frame of the dome and got stuck between two screws.
The other three: "???"
After fixing one end of the rope, Ji Thrush raced against time to tie the other end of the rope around his waist. Immediately afterwards, under the astonished gazes of his other three companions, he turned around and jumped into the river with a "plop".
The river was pitch black, even Ji Thrush could not see clearly what was in the water.
Fortunately, it is now April, the water temperature is not too cold, the water flow is not too fast, and the water quality is still relatively clear. Although there is some strange smell, the visibility is not bad at all.
But after all, this is a river with a water depth of more than three meters, and it is in the middle of the night without any light. Even if the water quality is good, the season thrush does not dare to push it too far. It plunges down and immediately activates the supernatural power, like an electric shock. Like an eel, it crackled and set off a circle of electric arcs.
The bottom of the water is briefly illuminated by electric sparks.
Season thrush held his breath, opened his eyes wide, and tried his best to search the bottom of the water.
He was sure that since the knife wielder was an earthbound spirit, and was bound within a narrow area with only one bridge hole, the "thing" he was looking for must not be too far away.
The electric flare lasted only a second and then went out quickly.
Ji Thrush's field of vision was once again pitch black.
He released the second arc without hesitation.
Still nothing. At this time, while avoiding the black figures, the three people on the bank saw the river rushing directly in front of the bridge hole. There seemed to be some luminous objects on the bottom of the water, which lit up three times in succession.
They all realized that it was Ji Xiaoniao's ability, but no one knew what their captain was doing in the water!
After the lightning flashed three times in a row, everything suddenly became quiet.
One second, two seconds... nine seconds, ten seconds...
"Fuck!"
Mo Tiangen felt a little numb:
"The little bird must have stunned himself! It's been a minute since I've been in the water, why haven't I come up yet!"
Mr. Dagen is actually a landlubber, but he knew a lot about biology when he was a freshman, and he used to care about subjects such as extreme diving because of his interest.
He once read a study that said that the breath-holding time that a person can maintain in a resting state is completely different from that during strenuous exercise.
Usually, if you just simply hold your breath, boys with better lung capacity, as long as you have enough exercise, three or four minutes is not a problem. However, when diving, due to the influence of water pressure, complex hydrological environment, and the body's oxygen consumption during exercise, etc. , ordinary people can persist for more than ten seconds is already considered good!
Thinking of this, cold sweat broke out on Mo Tiangen's forehead.
He jumped to the shore in two steps, grabbed the hemp rope hanging in mid-air, and was about to drag the thrush up.
And at this moment, the rope in his palm suddenly shook violently!
The author has something to say:
The movie stalk in the article is actually "The Devotion of Suspect X" from Mr. Higashino's "Detective Galileo" series, because it is a remake of the domestic version, it should be the most famous one XD
This time I am quoting lines from the Japanese drama version~