Chapter 88 Strange Breath
He aroused my competitive spirit, and I was unwilling to leave in such a humiliating way.
I picked up the cup of water to drink tea and accidentally saw the psychic bracelet on my wrist. A light bulb went off in my head: yes, I have the bracelet, maybe I can really do something.
I wanted to refuse, but I changed my mind at this moment and pondered for a moment: "How about going there? I have to go to the scene to take a look."
He Qingyou looked at me. In fact, he was also considering it. After a while, he said, "How about this, Mr. Lin? I have an international conference soon. I am afraid I don't have time today and can't accompany you in person. If you want to go, I will let the driver take you the whole way. My car is at your disposal. You can go wherever you want."
He obviously didn't trust me, but he didn't want to offend me. I thought, well, I don't know what to do, I can go alone, if it works, that's better, if not, it's just a formality, I don't need him to accompany me.
I nodded and said okay.
He Qingyou immediately asked his assistant to arrange a driver, and the car was ready in a short time. I followed the assistant to the underground parking lot. He Qingyou was quite good and prepared a Mercedes-Benz, which was enough for running in the city.
The driver was a taciturn old man. It was obvious from the looks of him that he had been driving for leaders for many years. He was steady.
After getting in the car, the driver briefly told me about Chairman He’s arrangements. The place we were going to was called Jiangxia Reservoir, which was where the village was flooded that year. It was less than 100 kilometers away from the city. If the road conditions were good, we could arrive in a little over an hour.
We didn't talk much along the way, and arrived at the destination around 10 am. This place has been developed into a reservoir park, surrounded by mountains and water, with pleasant scenery, and there are residential areas nearby. The scenery is very good, but it is indeed far from the city, so there are not many people.
The driver asked for my opinion and parked the car on the winding mountain road next to the reservoir. He went aside to smoke.
I got off the car and told the driver to take a look, then walked slowly along the asphalt mountain road with my hands behind my back. I was a little scared when I saw it. Why? The reservoir is really too big, and it is not a regular large area. Some waters meander in the mountains, hiding many invisible corners, which increases the difficulty of exploration. It is just like what the professional rescue teams said, it will take more than ten or twenty years to go through the whole area of water.
I went around the intersection and there was a guardrail next to it. I looked around and saw no one, so I climbed over the guardrail and went down the slope. After about ten minutes, I slid to the water's edge.
There are many big trees and ginseng forests here, and the ground is covered with weeds. You can even see beer bottles, chicken feet, and vacuum-packed skins of tea eggs. A long time ago, someone came here for a picnic.
I walked around the water and found a deserted spot where the sun didn't shine and the wind was out of the way. The environment was really good. I found some flat branches and laid them on the rocks to isolate the cold air as much as possible, then sat cross-legged on them.
I slowly closed my eyes and began to connect with the psychic bracelet.
In the past I used the psychic bracelet to observe a certain person, but now the difficulty has increased, as I have to observe the entire area of water. I have no idea whether it will work, so I can only give it a try.
Soon, the spiritual bracelet heated up, and I connected with it, and my perception suddenly expanded. I closed my eyes and began to visualize the large reservoir opposite .
As soon as the perception passed, I suddenly gasped and almost came out of my state of concentration.
I saw misty smoke over the entire area of water, most of it was white smoke. In the farthest place, where the area of water was blocked by the mountains, black smoke was coming out.
This black smoke doesn't look evil, on the contrary, it has a heavy feeling, lingering in the air, sometimes large and sometimes small. It gives me the feeling that there seems to be some creature hiding there, with a huge body, breathing in and out, which creates this visual feeling.
If you want to see it more clearly, you have to go to the other side of the mountain. It is too far away here and you can only perceive it vaguely, but you can't see the specific details clearly.
I slowly opened my eyes, stroked my chin and thought about it.
To be honest, the black smoke there gave me a very bad feeling. It's not that it was evil, but it felt dangerous, as if there was a giant Godzilla hiding there.
Although I don't know where He Qingyou's child died, I now have some clues. I can only know whether there is a connection between the two by seeing it in person.
I was thinking about one thing, whether it is worth it for me to go deeper. It is so dangerous there, and it is better to have less trouble than more. However, this is the first mission I have received after all, so I have to save face no matter what.
I've made up my mind, let's see what happens first.
I went back the same way, found the driver, asked him if he could get to the other side of the mountain, and pointed me in the direction.
The experienced driver turned on the navigation, found the road, and started driving there.
It was really a case of running a horse to death. The straight-line distance didn't seem very far, but it took a long time to go around it. It took about 40 minutes to reach the outer perimeter. There was no road ahead, the ground was covered with weeds and uneven, and you could vaguely see a barbed wire fence blocking the road ahead.
The driver apologized and said that he couldn't go any further.
I expressed my gratitude and asked him to wait while I went over to take a look.
The driver told me to be careful, saying that the barbed wire meant it was dangerous to go over there, and that I was very likely close to a cliff. If anything happened to me, he would be hard to explain.
I reassured him.
After getting off the car, I walked into the bushes. The weather was very hot, and the branches and leaves were lush, so the heat could not dissipate. It didn't take long before my T-shirt was soaked, but I didn't dare take it off. There were a lot of mosquitoes and flies in this damn place, and my arms were full of big lumps because of their bites.
I walked forward while cursing. I had to ask He Qingyou for his labor fee when I returned. It was so hot. If it wasn't for his request, I wouldn't have come to this place where rabbits don't shit and suffered.
Not far away, we saw the barbed wire. The wire was tangled around the poles, but it was not difficult to get through. The workmanship was crude and perfunctory. A sign was posted on a pole: No climbing, consequences at your own risk.
I ignored it completely, walked to the stake, carefully pushed aside the wire, then crouched down and passed through the gap. I didn't pay attention and the sleeve of my T-shirt got caught by the caltrops. I moved too fast and the left sleeve was torn apart with a "swish".
I am so distressed, I just bought the T-shirt and it is already scrapped before I even wear it. He Qingyou, He Qingyou, if I don't let you pay for it, you will support me.
I continued to walk in. The sun was blazing, and there was no one in the forest. The air was trembling, as if the sky was burning. The surface temperature was estimated to be nearly 40 degrees. I was almost exhausted, and finally passed through the forest and came to the edge of the cliff.
This cliff is so dizzying to look down from, it is at least forty or fifty meters, and below is deep green water without any waves. Looking down, you will actually feel dizzy as if the earth is collapsing.
I rubbed my temples and used the surrounding scenery as a reference to locate the place where the black gas had just come from.
I found a relatively safe place on the edge of the cliff, packed up briefly, then sat cross-legged in meditation and began to use my psychic bracelet to sense the atmosphere of this place.
Once I got into the state, I immediately felt the cliff in front of me filled with rolling black air rising straight into the sky.
I tried to use my senses to continue exploring. The source of the black smoke was in the deep pool under the cliff. I continued to peer down and found something strange.
At the very bottom of the pool, I could vaguely "see" a huge black shadow. For some reason, I suddenly remembered the dragon I had seen in Chen Jian's bardo realm.
That dragon was transformed from Chen Jian's dead mother, and was Chen Jian's inner demon in purgatory, not a real dragon. In other words, there is no way to prove whether dragons exist in nature.
The weird thing about the whole thing is that I actually brought back a dragon scale from the bardo and sold it.
There is still no conclusion as to whether there are dragons or not, and whether the dragons in the bardo realm are illusions of inner demons or real dragons.
At this moment, I sensed that there was something like a dragon under the deep pool. Of course, I can only say it was suspected, and I don't know what it is.
The farthest I could sense was the edge of the cliff, and I took a careful peek, not daring to go too far, because the smell here was so strong that I felt like I was sitting in the center of a nuclear explosion. An indescribable, invisible, and odorless smell was surging, and it was endless.
How can my small arm twist someone's thigh?
I decided not to take any more risks, so I quickly closed my senses. Just as I was about to open my eyes, I suddenly realized that something was wrong with the water. It seemed that something red flashed by.
I was skeptical, made a decision, and then waited and saw.
Sensing the cliff again, I "saw" a ball of red clothes swimming underwater. It was not there just now, but appeared just now.
What's going on? I feel a very uncomfortable smell.
Looking carefully, I found that the red clothes looked like a child. It gave me the feeling that there was a child playing under the deep water, and he seemed quite happy.
I was watching the child in red unconsciously. I was sure that it was not a human for two reasons. First, its state could only be sensed through the spiritual bracelet, not seen with the naked eye. Second, how could it be a human if it could stay underwater for such a long time?
I also felt a very evil feeling, which made me feel very uncomfortable.
At this moment, the ball of red clothes suddenly stopped, seemed to raise its head and looked up from underwater.
It seemed to have discovered me.
