Lao Song's tone was chattering, and his expression was also very strange.
I smiled and said, "How is that possible? It's just an accident."
Although I also know some spiritual practices, I rarely think about it when something happens. After all, there are too few cases of ghost sightings these days. If the world is really full of ghosts like what is shown on TV, what kind of chaos will this world be? What does it look like?
Seeing that I didn't believe it, Old Song sighed again, "Oh, maybe I'm overthinking it, but a lot of strange things have indeed happened on construction sites recently."
"What's weird?"
I'm a little confused. I usually don't like to be nosy. Except when I'm at work, I usually stay in the work shed to study my own affairs and rarely go out, so I don't know much about the situation in other departments.
Old Chen shook his head in frustration, "Let's not talk about that for now. I'm here to ask for your help. Zhou Xuan, I heard that you are good at water. Can you help me go to the back mountain to salvage Old Chen's body?"
Let me retrieve the body?
I was a little embarrassed and said that I was not professional in this kind of thing.
Lao Song lost his cigarette butt and said, "The construction site belongs to you because of your good water quality. Lao Chen's family members have received the news and went to the construction site to make trouble with me. They clamored to see people alive and dead or to see corpses. I really had no choice. Zhou Xuan, just be a helper and I will give you a bonus of 10,000 yuan after salvaging Old Chen, what do you think?"
I was a little excited when I heard about the 10,000 yuan bonus.
In 2013, wages were generally not high. I worked so hard that I only earned four to five thousand yuan a month. Retrieving corpses earned me two and a half months' income, so it wasn't a loss at all.
I agreed without hesitating for long, simply packed up my things and accompanied Lao Song to the place where the accident occurred.
This construction site is very large. Except for the area we are responsible for construction, there is a deserted forest in the back mountain. There is a small ditch under the forest, which is a tributary of the Jialing River. The water is usually quite gentle. In the summer, many workers go down to the river to take a bath. .
But during heavy rains, all the accumulated water in the mountains washes away into the river, forming a turbid torrent that makes it impossible for ordinary people to get into the water.
When I arrived at the river where the accident occurred, I saw many people gathered around. In addition to several leaders of the construction unit, there were also several uniformed police officers who had set up a cordon along the river.
Lao Song couldn't help but walk up to the policemen to introduce the situation, then pointed at me and said,
"His name is Zhou Xuan. He has lived by the river since he was a child. His water quality is good. I asked him to help me salvage the body."
Several policemen showed puzzled expressions, and the fat middle-aged police officer who led him looked me up and down and said, "It's not a trivial matter to retrieve corpses from the river. Can you do that?"
Lao Song hurriedly said that it was no problem, patted my shoulder, and kept praising me for my good water ability.
The leader of the construction unit also hurriedly urged, "Let's go into the water and try it first. The river is too steep. The professional salvage team has not come yet. It has been delayed for a long time. We don't know where the bodies will be washed away. Please hurry up." Bring the body ashore, give an explanation to the family as soon as possible, and the construction site can resume work as soon as possible."
The upper-level leaders at the construction site didn't care about the lives of the workers at all. They just wanted to fish out the bodies as soon as possible and resume work as soon as possible after appeasing the families. This is why they were willing to pay me a high price to fish out the bodies.
The two policemen looked embarrassed and said that this was not in line with the rules. The leader of the construction unit immediately pulled the policeman aside and muttered something in a low voice, wondering what kind of bullshit transaction they were conducting.
After a while, the policeman leading the team agreed. As soon as several people gathered together, they quickly found a search and rescue boat. Lao Song and two policemen accompanied me on the boat to salvage the place where the worker fell into the water.
It rained all night and the water in the river was very turbid. We rowed the boat upstream of the river. When we arrived at a large inlet with relatively gentle water, Lao Song pointed to the place where the accident happened and said,
"Someone watched Old Chen fall into the water from here. His body should be underneath."
I looked at the turbid water and secretly encouraged myself. I turned to Lao Song and said, "Okay, then I'll go down and give it a try. Don't forget to agree to my conditions."
After saying that, I took off my coat and wore only a pair of large pants. I turned over and jumped into the river, groping along the current.
The river was very fast, but it was not a problem for me who had lived by the river since I was a child. I tied the lifeline around my waist and dived five or six meters in one breath. I stretched out my hand and groped on the river beach for a while. I waited until I couldn't hold it in any longer. After regaining his composure, he resurfaced and shook his head at the people on the boat.
"No, the water is too turbid. I can't see anything clearly. I can't find the body at all."
Lao Song thought for a while, took out a fishing net from the lifeboat, and asked if he wanted to try the fishing net?
I thought about it and felt that this was a good idea. I climbed back on the search and rescue boat, took the fishing net, and spread it along the place where the worker fell into the water.
However, after several nets, we still couldn't find the body. The two policemen who were accompanying us were a little discouraged and suggested that we go back to the shore first and wait for a professional salvage team to come and take over.
I thought for a while, stopped them and said, "Let's try again upstream!"
Usually there are undercurrents in deeper rivers. After the body falls into the water, it may be washed by the undercurrent and drift away to higher ground. The places where we just cast the net are mainly concentrated in the lower reaches of the river. It may be possible to change the place.
The middle-aged policeman who took the lead glanced at me, frowned and said, "We've already come, so let's try again."
Soon we rowed the search and rescue boat up to the end of the inlet and continued to cast the net.
I tried three times in a row. When the fishing net was thrown into the water for the third time, I tried to lift it up, but found that it couldn't be pulled. It seemed like something was hooked under the fishing net. It was so heavy that no matter how hard I pulled, it didn't help.
My eyes lit up, and I thought there was a way, so I quickly said to Lao Song, "You guys first think of a way to fix the boat, and then I'll go into the water and take a look."
Lao Song nodded hurriedly and told me to be careful myself.
I smiled and patted my chest and said, what's the point? I haven't taken a bath in the river?
After boasting about Haikou, I immediately tied the life rope around my waist and jumped into the water again.
But this time I regretted it as soon as I got into the water. I don’t know why, but the river water upstream of Backwater Bay was extremely cold, as cold as an ice cellar. Not long after I got into the water, I felt a cold air coming from the river bed, which froze the soles of my feet. I was so stiff that I almost had cramps.
what's going on?
Chongqing in May is not cold or hot. It stands to reason that the water temperature cannot be so bone-chilling. Secondly, I also caught a particularly gloomy atmosphere under the water. This cold feeling has nothing to do with the water temperature, but more like The yin energy emanating from the dead.
Lao Song lay on the bow of the boat and shouted, "Zhou Xuan, how are you?"
I came back to my senses and gritted my teeth and said it was no problem. In order to get the 10,000 yuan bonus, although I obviously felt something was wrong with the breath under the water, I still dived underwater.
The water here is not as turbid as downstream. When I opened my eyes underwater, I could barely see the water plants under the river bed. After continuously diving for five or six meters, a dark mass appeared in front of me. I quickly paddled towards it. As he approached the place, he soon saw a corpse that was swollen and foamed by the water, standing upright before his eyes.
Lao Chen's body was found!
With excitement on my face, I hurriedly paddled closer, but as the distance got closer, a strange and strange feeling flooded into my brain.
The body's posture in the water was wrong.
