As soon as I got closer to the body I noticed something was wrong.
People who drown usually have their bodies turned upside down, stuck on rocks or at the bottom of a river bed.
But the strange thing is that the corpse in front of him is standing upright.
It was like a straight wooden stake stuck straight at the bottom of the river bed, maintaining the same standing posture as before his death!
The cold water washed over the body, and with the ups and downs of the water, the body swayed up and down, not to mention how weird it was.
The fishing net that had just been dropped had already wrapped around the body's neck. Logically speaking, the body should have been pulled out of the water by the fishing net. But when I got brave enough to get closer to the body, I discovered that there was a heavy coffin dragged under the body!
This was a black coffin. The surface of the coffin was severely rotted, and the swollen coffin lid was covered with water plants and mold.
"Hold the grass!" When Leng Buding saw the coffin, I was shocked and almost choked with anger.
When I calmed down and continued to look down, I discovered an even weirder scene.
I saw that the lid of the coffin had been lifted open, revealing a half-foot-long hole, as if a shark had opened its fangs in the water and "bited" the ankle of the corpse viciously.
The left leg of the corpse was inserted into the coffin and was stuck tightly. From a distance, it looked as if the left leg had been "eaten" by the coffin. No wonder it was hanging in the water and unable to float.
This weird scene made my heart beat faster. I quickly held the corpse's hard thigh and tried to pull it out.
But the left leg of the corpse was stuck very tightly, and I couldn't pull it out no matter what. Secondly, the closer I got to the coffin, the colder the surrounding water became. I persisted for a while, and I couldn't hold my breath anymore, so I quickly let go of my hands. , try your best to float upward.
Ten seconds later, I put my head out of the water again and breathed in fresh air. Old Song pulled the safety rope and said anxiously,
"Zhou Xuan, how are you? Have you found the body?"
I nodded with an ugly face, "The body was found, but he was stuck under a coffin and couldn't be moved at all."
"What... a coffin?"
After hearing my words, Lao Song on the boat twitched the corners of his mouth, and the two policemen also showed surprised expressions.
The middle-aged police officer leading the team looked suspicious, "Why is there a coffin under the river bed? Are you kidding us?"
Lao Song also looked unbelieving and said, yes, you must have read it wrong.
Seeing that they didn't believe it, I was about to defend myself when another young police officer standing on the boat seemed to have discovered something. He suddenly pointed to the river behind me and said with a look of horror on his face,
"Look, there's something wrong with the water there!"
Um?
We were all stunned and turned to look at where the little policeman was pointing. Only then did we realize that there were many bowl-sized bubbles under the water less than two meters away from me.
These bubbles gurgled upwards and exploded quickly as they approached the water, emitting a strong stench that made everyone cover their noses.
As the bubbles exploded, there was a splashing sound on the river, and at the same time there were streams of black liquid that spread along the water surface, rendering the water surface dark like ink.
It seems to be corpse gas...
My eyebrows twitched, and my expression suddenly changed. I quickly put my hands on the side of the boat, hurriedly climbed onto the search and rescue boat, and stared at the water with a surprised look on my face.
The bubbles under the water lasted for more than ten seconds. When the last bubble exploded, an extremely unpleasant rancid smell spread to the entire surface of the water.
This is not the weirdest thing. The really weird thing is that as the corpse air from under the river bed floats up, the corpse stuck in the crack of the coffin also floats up little by little with the help of the buoyancy of the water flow.
I saw a numb and pale human face, swollen from being soaked in the river water. As the body floated up, it appeared in front of me bit by bit.
The corpse's expression was very peaceful, without any trace of pain or ferocity. Instead, it kept the corners of its mouth slightly raised, as if it was smiling at us on the boat.
His neck was stretched very long, facing us, his eyelids were turned outward, revealing a pair of white eyeballs, coupled with the weird smile on his face, which made everyone feel a cold air rushing straight to the sky, and a kind of shuddering horror. .
For many things, you may not necessarily have a reason for it, but you just feel bad about it.
Such as the coffin that appeared inexplicably under the river bed.
Another example is this floating corpse that suddenly surfaced, face up, smiling at us.
The corpse's fists were clenched, and its whole body was stretched straight. The clothes washed away by the water clung to the hard chest, like a piece of driftwood, floating in the water, and kept that posture without moving.
After looking at each other for three seconds, Lao Song was the first one to lose his legs in fear and fell to the deck with a thump.
The two policemen who accompanied the search for the body were so frightened that they took out their walkie-talkies and shouted,
"The body has been found. Hurry, go to the construction site and bring a crane over. In addition to the body, we also found a coffin soaked in water..."
Fortunately, the accident occurred not far from the construction site.
Half an hour later, the workers got an excavator, fixed it with steel cables, and fished out the coffin.
Looking at the body lying flat on the white cloth, I felt infinitely weird.
Generally speaking, after a drowning person suffers severe suffocation pain, he will open his mouth desperately to breathe and struggle wildly underwater.
Any drowned corpse will have a bulging belly, be filled with river water, and the mouth and nose will be filled with sediment.
But the body of my co-worker Lao Chen was extremely peaceful, so peaceful that it made me feel too much.
Except for those tightly clenched fists, there was no sign of struggle on his body, and there was even a faint smile hanging on the corner of his slightly raised mouth. No matter how you looked at it, you felt something was wrong.
I walked towards the body curiously, and was about to open Lao Chen's fist to take a look, when I heard someone calling my name.
After turning around, I saw Lao Song, the contractor, standing out of the crowd, striding towards me and saying,
"Zhou Xuan, you are tired after soaking in the water for so long. Go back and have a bowl of ginger soup, change into clean clothes, and hand the body to the police for disposal. Your mission has been completed."
I hummed and had no choice but to leave the place where the corpse was placed and said to Lao Song, "The corpse died in a very strange way. I suspect he didn't simply drown. You'd better report these circumstances to the police."
"I know, you're not a policeman, and you're still studying corpses."
Lao Song waved his hand impatiently, urging me to go back and change clothes quickly.
I didn't think much about it at the time. I really felt uncomfortable after soaking in the water for a long time. I went back to the work shed early, put on clean clothes after taking a bath, and planned to have a good sleep.
But I didn't sleep well, and I felt drowsy. I kept feeling something swinging by the bed, and my forehead felt cool, as if I had a fever.
I also had a strange dream at night. I dreamed that I had returned to the place where the body was recovered. It was pitch dark all around, and a woman in white clothes was sitting on the coffin, crying behind my back.
I walked up to the woman in a daze and said, "Beauty, why are you lying on the coffin crying and not coming home in the middle of the night?"
"You destroyed my home and I can't go back."
The woman stopped crying and suddenly turned her head 180 degrees, revealing two hole-like eyes, staring at me and smiling sinisterly.
"Hold the grass!"
I shuddered in my sleep, turned over and sat up from the bed, wiping off the cold sweat with lingering fear. The more I thought about it, the more something was wrong.
