Daomu Biji

I froze all of a sudden, my legs felt weak, and my whole body was exhausted. I didn't dare to move any more, and I didn't dare to look away. The search light kept shining in that direction.

Under the penetration of the powerful searchlight, the figure is quite clear. What is creepy is the posture of the person. The posture of this person is very weird. The whole person is almost upright, and the entire shoulders are slumped. My first feeling is this The person was floating there like me, but it seemed that the figure was motionless, as only corpses can do.

The feeling of suffocation at that time had reached its limit. This may be the most incredible thing I have ever encountered. If this were on land, there could be countless explanations, but this was at the bottom of a lake, with a water depth of sixty or seventy meters. This shadow stood there leisurely, motionless, definitely not a diver.

What on earth is this? Is it a monster or a water ghost?

No one can survive underwater without an oxygen tank, and no one can stand like this underwater. I felt really bad. I really got lucky this time. If I told Agui correctly, I’m afraid he’s just a water ghost. I couldn’t help but not believe him.

When I think of water ghosts, I immediately think of the bones we were looking for before: Are these the rice dumplings that turned into corpses in the water after the people from the archaeological team died? Are those the undead souls from the previous flooded village? The disappearance of Menyou Ping and Fatty were caused by these things?

If it were Zongzi, it would be easier to handle. With all my equipment, there was no way I could run slower than it. If it were a ghost, I might have to be his scapegoat. If Fatty and the others were in trouble, I don’t know if they would come out to help me. I was completely at a loss. I didn't dare to move forward or turn around, because I was afraid that if I turned around, this thing would pounce on me immediately. I would rather watch it kill me than suddenly feel something strange behind my back.

He could only stare at the shadow. However, I froze for a moment, only to find that the shadow was motionless. The motion was very strange, like a stone sculpture, with no movement visible at all. At the same time, I had an even stranger feeling. I felt like I had seen this shadow somewhere before.

This feeling miraculously became stronger and stronger, as if my subconscious mind was guiding me. I mustered up the courage, but the shape of the shadow on the screen began to change little by little. Cold sweat broke out again uncontrollably. I watched the changes in the shadow, and the feeling of déjà vu became stronger and stronger, even overpowering my fear for a time. After walking about seven meters, this feeling reached an extreme point. At that moment, I remembered. Oh my God, this shadow, this screen, isn't it the shadow in Brother Chu's photo?

Before I came to Banai, I received a photo, which was sent to me by Brother Chu, an old friend of my third uncle. The photo above showed the interior of an old building, with a screen inside. And behind the screen, there was also the shadow of a person. Looking back, this figure is exactly the same as what I see now.

Because the photo said Golmud Haunted Tower behind it, I judged that the photo was taken at the Golmud Haunted Tower.

Now it seems that I was wrong. Could it be that the annotation after the photo was not an annotation of the photo itself? Could it be that the photo was taken here?

But the photo at that time did not have any underwater traces. In other words, if this was the photo taken, then the underwater ancient village had not been submerged when the photo was taken.

That kind of photo must be from the 1930s and 1940s at the earliest. Could it be that the time when this ancient village was submerged was not as long ago as I thought? Photo... shadow... underwater... Could it be that the photo Brother Chu gave me contained a deeper meaning that I didn't understand, and I just regarded it as a piece of letter paper? Did he give me that photo just because he wanted me to look for the shadow in the photo? My mind suddenly became clear, and then filled with countless weird years.

What confused my mind was the shadow. In that photo, the shadow's posture was so weird, but now this shadow is almost the same as in that photo.

If the photo was taken here, does that mean that the shadow did not move at all after the photo was taken and has always been here? Then it couldn't be a water ghost, because it wasn't submerged in the water at that time, so the shadow should be a dead thing.

I was stunned there, and suddenly I felt courageous. I found a brick, swung my flippers, and swam towards the screen. When I was about to reach the screen, I threw the brick against the screen and said to myself, "Fuck you." But before I finished speaking, I regretted it.

The screen was soaked in water and could no longer bear any strength. Stones hit the pillars of the screen, causing the screen to fall over. Corrosion floated up like snowflakes and rushed toward me. I immediately backed away and took a searchlight to look at it, but at first glance I saw only floating objects. I pushed the desk lamp away with my hand and shone it forward. In the confusion, something stuck out from the floating objects and rushed toward me.

I exploded immediately, struggled back, and at the same time started stabbing randomly with the military thorn. I stabbed more than a dozen times, but nothing was hit, and the respirator in my mouth fell off.

I hurriedly grabbed it back, but the floating objects in front of me had been washed away by the current, and there was just a white driftwood in front of me. I cursed, kicked it away, and used a searchlight to look at the shadow behind the screen.

The shadow still stood there, the floating objects gradually became thinner, and its true identity was more or less revealed. It was a human-shaped thing, with a head, hands, and feet, standing there. The whole body was covered in white attachments, showing a very stiff movement, as if it were a dead person who had been petrified. After being hung up, the wax somehow melted, and the body was wrapped up. It also looks like a stone statue, which is very difficult to describe.

Its face is completely covered, and I don’t know if it has any expression, but it does look like a dead thing, because if it could move, the attachments on its body would definitely not be so thick...

What is this? The doubts in my heart were even greater. ④Read on Tianshu Chinese website