Dawn and Dusk Fishing Ground 4
If you don’t participate in a formal event, you won’t know that there are so many people working in the same industry.
There were men and women, young and old, tall and short, fat and thin, all kinds of people, but the proportion of those who were visibly stronger was higher. The few elderly and overly thin people were often a group of their own, probably clerks. She noticed a stack of documents in the arms of two of them.
"There's a mixed bag of people in there, most of them aren't part of our organization. Some are small, spontaneously formed groups, and there are also other departments that received the news and sent teams to investigate the situation—"
Ji Xunjin turned his gaze and greeted the man who came through the crowd: "Uncle Liu, Wei Qi."
Having been given a shot of warning in advance, Yin Sui silently allowed him to entertain him, and took advantage of the gap in their conversation to secretly look at the young man who was traveling with Liu Dong.
He was tall, with long hair and sharp features. He looked like the type who would change into a leather jacket and pants after work and go to a bar to sing rock music. He had a particularly cool and cheerful laugh. He noticed me after just a few words and extended his hand for a handshake. His tone was particularly enthusiastic, but the words that came out of his mouth were not so pleasant to hear: "Yin Sui? You look so young. Another unlucky kid. You usually have a lot of topics to talk about with Xun Jin, so we should be able to chat."
As the middleman, Liu Dong should have introduced the two parties separately, but he was rejected by waving his hand.
"It's no use. We're two adults, and we'll naturally become familiar with each other as we chat. We'll know whether we can be friends right away. Right now, I think your new student is a good match. I feel comfortable standing here looking at you."
No wonder Ji Xunjin said such unpleasant things about others.
Although there is an element of exaggeration in advance to raise the threshold, there is a reason for it - he has a straightforward and aggressive personality, and he is not that bad, and he has no intention of saying flattering words.
She had never dealt with this kind of person before, so she sorted out her words a little before bringing up the topic. However, before it was her turn to introduce herself one-on-one, Wei Qi was called away by an acquaintance.
Only his own people were left. Uncle Liu turned to her, without any airs of superiority, and said solemnly: "I want to apologize to you. This incident was caused by me, but I can't get away to deal with it."
"Don't worry about it, it's just an accident." Besides, I was determined to go in.
Fish is the most closely associated with rivers so far. This makes it easier as there is no need to look for opportunities to get involved.
Yin Sui's mind moved, and she subconsciously glanced at Ji Xunjin who was still fiddling with his mobile phone. In the dim light, half of his body was glowing blue, and his drooping eyelashes were also blue. She already knew that this person usually took time out to do electronic work.
"Hmm?" He tilted his head slightly and looked back.
In the gap of a millimeter, another pair of eyes was looking over. Behind them, a familiar figure in the ever-rippling crowd turned and sank seamlessly into the undercurrent.
"I met someone I know."
"That girl from the botanical garden? Do you want to go say hello?"
Working every day was useful. He could easily identify the right person among the new hires—Lin Xiao. Jiang Kesong had gone on an early trip with her parents to the university where she was attending, under the pretext of "being unfamiliar with the place, so I could adapt in advance." The other girl, while not having survived the ordeal, at least didn't face any new challenges. This unlucky girl, who was a bit of a shrewd person the first time around, was hired the second time around.
"No, she probably doesn't want to talk to me."
After a while, Wei Qi squeezed out from the circle of several excited young men and women. One of them who had been chatting with him pulled him aside and asked, "Who is that girl?"
"Uncle Liu, a new student, or an old student? I haven't left the cave for a long time, so I don't know."
"She made me feel uncomfortable."
"It's a bit spooky, isn't it? But Old Liu hasn't said anything yet. Who knows where this esoteric inheritor was recruited from. I remember that not long ago, someone from Miaojiang came to a meeting, and you spread rumors that he was the living dead."
"They're Yin in different ways! Last time, the body was alive but the soul wasn't. She's the complete opposite."
Wei Qi seized the opportunity to mock these incoherent remarks and called them "gypsies." The short-haired woman who enjoyed crystal divination grinned and pushed the person she had just grabbed away: "Forget it, I can't explain it clearly to mortals like you who have no wisdom."
The method of entering the abnormal space was simple and unpretentious. A group of "high-risk" people were sent to the front to try to attract the fishing grounds. Among them, Yin Sui, Ji Xunjin and Wei Qi, who had joined the team at the right time, went through the back door and were dragged to the center left by the organizers.
Dark colors are stain-resistant and easy to hide, so almost everyone at the gathering wore dark sportswear.
When the sun completely sank to the west and even its tail swung to the other side, people lined up on the narrow earthen embankment like a colony of ants. If you look down from a high place, it is just a straight black line in the vast green.
"Haha, you're looking for death and still have to queue up." His tone was light, as if he had completely forgotten that he was among them.
Yin Sui really couldn't follow Wei Qi's words, and moved to the left without making a sound.
The tall foxtail grass was hunched over, its leaves swaying, opening gaps. Cracked snail shells were inserted obliquely into the mud at the bottom. The landing ladybugs were caught off guard and stepped into the dew, waving their slender claws and slipping, sliding to the bottom of the embankment.
She had counted the five stars on the insect shells three times when she was bored. Then a gust of wind blew, carrying with it a faint, all-too-familiar fishy smell. She whispered, "I smell fish."
"Where?"
Underground, water dug up the soil, and then long strips of water, large and small, slid across the leaves. The vast tide of fish overturned the earth, and even those hiding in the outermost forest were not spared.
The silence was suddenly broken.
The man being pulled down from the tree: "Hey, no, buddy, why are you pulling me?!"
"Come closer, hold hands and don't get separated."
The fish flooded the water, and their scales formed an undulating, slippery, and cold platform. Standing on it, the pale moonlight poured down, covering everyone's head and face with a white veil. Their facial features were still dim and blurred, as if they were staggering to a funeral.
Wei Qi gripped Yin Sui's shoulders tightly with both hands. He had once been blessed by a certain deity in the dimension, possessing the ability to send a person out of the dimension. This was why Uncle Liu had specifically requested him to come.
Because of the previous agreement, Ji Xunjin stood quietly behind the two of them.
Before they could move, Yin Sui suddenly raised his voice and interrupted, "Wait a minute, there's something else down there."
With the previous fishy smell as evidence, Wei Qi not only believed it but also completely diverted his attention: "Let me take a look." After that, he reached his hand in directly. The fish tide had already risen to his feet and was about to overflow the pond embankment. He could touch it by bending down slightly.
It is unique to exploration enthusiasts. When they encounter a puzzle, they must find the answer, and they are anxious and cannot wait for a moment.
But after stirring it like dough for a while and trying to remove the mixture of fish bath water and corpse water with my hands, I got nothing.
"There's something moving down there, bigger than a fish." Sharp-eyed, she spotted a darker smudge of color near her feet amidst the darkness and helpfully pointed, "There."
"You come."
It is estimated that only beings who have established a connection can discover and touch each other. Yin Sui was picked up, and with the help of their relationship, he was able to see it.
"I'll try."
Under the fish, she hooked her index finger with another cold finger and grabbed it with her backhand, picking up the thing like pulling a carrot. It was quite heavy.
Ji Xunjin took it quickly.
It also looks like a radish, but even more transparent. Its skin is bulging with liquid. Its limbs are squirming in my arms, and its smooth face is rubbing against me randomly.
It was a white, fat dead baby.
Now its round body was undulating, and its translucent mouth was opening and closing as if it was hungry, just like the school of fish below with their cloudy eyes.
Noticing the legs that were stuck together from the knees down, Yinsui was shocked. It was the predecessor of a fish.
During this process, the complete fish have rolled onto the shore in waves, retreating again and again, with no room for retreat. Many people are standing on the top of the fish waves.
"Okay, we should--" Wei Qi began.
Before he could finish his words, he watched Ji Xunjin behind him reach out and pull his target away. The two of them fell into the tide of fish as planned. He opened his mouth wide to try to stop it, but thinking that it was not his fault that the person was not sent out, he could still stay and play alone, so he withdrew his hand.
When Mr. Liu asks, it has nothing to do with me anyway.
Never mind, one, two, three, dive.
It's hard to describe the feeling. There was no suffocation from losing air, but my body became lighter and lighter as if it was being dragged up by the ocean. The same went for the hands of the people next to me, and in the end I could hardly feel them.
I want to go down.
Yinsui pointed down and gestured.
People have different buoyancy in water. Ji Xunjin has already stopped and is able to hold the other person firmly to prevent him from falling. The person being pulled can't bear it and wants to leave on his own.
There is another person, even lighter, above my head, with a mottled black outline that rises and falls like a warning buoy on the seashore. Only when you pass through the school of fish and lose your line of sight can you see that the fish are constantly climbing up.
The word "crawl" is used because there is no water above, and there are too many fish and they are too dense. They are close to each other and their movement looks more like they are climbing up by stepping on their own kind rather than floating.
He shook his head, and Yinsui continued to point. As he pointed, he remembered Wei Qi's mocking voice, "Haha, you're looking for death and still have to queue up." He actually found it funny and laughed.
Ji Xunjin saw the slightly curved eyes and the shining curved hooks, and followed her without saying a word.
The moment their hands let go, they immediately lost sight of each other.
When the living people on the shore left, the fish in the underground river surrounded them like crazy, like leeches smelling blood.
She saw many familiar phantoms wriggling around the fish's head: the village aunt whose internal organs would fall out if her clothes were torn open, Master Chen who dug up someone's ancestral grave and then died for no reason, Aunt Qin who hanged herself...
They wanted to pull her down with the crying of a baby and the chewing of fish lips.
Then Lin Pan, who looked like a plaster statue, also floated up. She still had Lin Pan's head, and her blood vessels were like a cluster of exploded willow branches, forking, extending, and swaying, hard and soft. Countless human faces were biting the end and hiding there.
In the water, the bright red blood vessels are the most lush coral reefs, and pale ghosts shuttle back and forth, feeding them and protecting them, while the blood and fishy smell are entangled together.
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