C24 (1/2)

”Yes, of course! ”Listen to me finish …” ”I remember that when Xiao Fei died that day, all the people in our alleyway gathered together and made guesses. In the end, all of them had the same opinion, saying that it was the child's mother, but seeing that he was pitiful and had no one to take care of, they simply attached themselves to him and took him down with them!”

”Oh? Is that true? ” Zhou Huan was a little scared when he heard it, but he felt that it was really true.

”Yeah, that's the way it is! Otherwise, what other possibility is there? Why don't you tell me? ” Lao Zhou asked provocatively.

”That makes sense. Then about this child … ”How about other areas, such as normal times, are there any special actions?”

Zhou Huan's focus was still on the child called Xiao Fei. He had a nagging feeling that the figure he saw last night was related to Xiao Fei.

”Normally...” He didn't do anything, just play with the rope. After it rains, he likes to shake the tree and shake off all the raindrops on it. Oh right, he kept repeating the words, call … Call... ”Gulp!”

”Slurp?” ”What do you mean?”

”It's his catchphrase, right? He often says' huff 'in his mouth! ”Huu!”, she is actually quite a cute child, not bad at heart. ” Ah Feng added.

”Oh …” Zhou Huan nodded his head. Suddenly, he remembered the strange snoring sound that he heard last night, and his back started to feel cold.

Gulp! Gulp!

He silently uttered these two words in his heart.

”Lao Zhou, I remember that time, there was something rather strange.” After pausing for a moment, Ah Feng began to speak again.

”What?” Zhou Huan asked.

”If it's raining, then do you remember after Xiao Fei committed suicide? After it rained for many days, the alley was filled with water, and we walked in the water. From that time on, the alley was always filled with water for no reason, and it was even worse than before. He slept well in the middle of the night and found that the floor was completely filled with water. There's more … Xiao Fei's body did not seem to have been fished out from the river in the end. ”

”Yes yes yes, what you just said, I remember now, it's indeed strange, if we can't find Xiao Fei's corpse, let's talk about it being washed away by the river, but although this alleyway used to have problems with the drainage, it's not that bad, but now, every few days or so we hear someone's home getting flooded, and furthermore, the tide is about to rise, who knows what will happen?”

The more Zhou Huan listened, the weirder he felt it to be. He even had a premonition that when the tide really came, something big would happen.

”Sigh …” His father left when he was born and he found out he was a fool. His mother brought him up all by herself, and we all took it to heart, but then again, there's not a single family that's particularly well off, so it's not really helpful. Then, his mom was pushed off her bike and her leg was broken. It was quite tragic. ”

”Pushed?” Zhou Huan suddenly heard a crucial point.

”Right, didn't I just say that?”

”No. Who pushed him? ”

”In a household on the other side of the alley, there are two children there too. They are a pair of siblings, brother is called Army, sister is called Xiaomei, she is slightly older than Xiao Fei. If we are to say that our only family in this area is a little better off, it might be their family. ”

”Xiao Fei's mother was pushed off the bicycle by the two children?”

”Mn, you don't know, the two children were different from Xiao Fei, they were especially mischievous, and liked to bully Xiao Fei since young. When they were older, they even bully Xiao Fei's mother, and the parents of the two children also opened and closed their eyes, to put it bluntly, they did not put the mother and son in their eyes.”

”In other words, because those two kids were so mischievous, they pushed Xiao Fei's mother off the bicycle and broke his leg?”

”More or less. Those two children are crazy, darting around like a gust of wind. I'm quite annoyed by them.”

Zhou Huan understood what the Lao Zhou felt, and he did not like that kind of devilish brat.

Following that, Zhou Heng became silent. After organizing his thoughts, he realized that this matter should have started from the moment the two children pushed Xiao Fei's mother off the bike and broke his leg, and following Xiao Fei's mother's obedient and obedient personality, she chose not to make a scene, and did not argue with the family. In the end, it was only a few days later that Xiao Fei fell into the river and committed suicide.

Zhou Huan realized that if it wasn't for the strange experience they had last night, this incident wouldn't have been so special to begin with.

For the time being, he did not plan to reveal it, lest the people in the alley become more suspicious.

As a journalist, he decided to investigate this matter personally.

Just as Zhou Huan was about to leave, he heard the continuous sound of a bicycle bell behind him, followed by the laughter of the two children. A boy of about ten years old rode a bicycle that was ridden by an adult, and on the back seat, a girl who was slightly younger than the boy flew past him like the wind.

”Just those two, the army and Xiaomei.” The Lao Zhou said.

Zhou Huan answered. Even though he had only taken a glance, he had already realised that not only were these two siblings mischievous, they also looked quite ugly. They belonged to the category that would make people hate them if they saw them.

Zhou Huan felt that even if it was the parents of those two children, they shouldn't have liked them that much.

In the evening, when Zhou Huan returned from work, the first thing he did was take a bath after entering his house.

However, while he was showering, he heard the strange ”huff huff” sound again.

He instantly thought of Xiao Fei's usual voice: HU HU! Gulp!

He didn't know why, although his understanding of the retarded child was entirely based on Lao Zhou and Ah Feng's descriptions, but at this moment, his impression of the child was extremely deep, as if he had seen it with his own eyes. He almost saw Xiao Fei standing right in front of him. His fat body, thick and sturdy arms, round head, and a face full of pockmarks, especially that red undergarment, which was tensed up on Xiao Fei's body. It was bright red, as if it was blood flowing out from Xiao Fei's body.

As he thought about it, a chill rose up Zhou Huan's back again.

In the face of this situation, if it was anyone else, they would most likely choose to move, but Zhou Huan was still unwilling to retreat. One reason was because of his professional instincts as a reporter. The other reason was that he had a tough temper since he was young and did not like to give in. It was not his style to retreat in the face of trouble.

So he decided to follow it up.

The next day was Saturday. Zhou Huan decided to rest for the day and replenish his sleep.

As a result, he was woken up early in the morning by the sound of the aunts downstairs, saying that the tide would start to rise today.

Zhou Huan thought, wasn't it not even April yet?

Then he went downstairs to inquire. He was told that the tide had indeed come earlier this year than usual, and that it felt very unusual.

Moreover, not only was the tide rising today, it was also raining heavily, causing the entire alley to become even more sticky. Zhou Huan could imagine that a lot of water must have come out of every house's house again.

Although the weather was bad, Zhou Huan wanted to take a walk around the river to see what the high tide looked like.

Thus, he held up an umbrella, and under the heavy wind and rain, he slowly walked towards the river bank.

The journey from the alley to the river was short, and there were only a few houses. Not long after, Zhou Huan stood in front of the dam, and saw the river water violently churning, the level of the water evidently rising, in addition, he realized that the color of the river water was very similar to the color of the sky, it was both grey and misty.

Zhou Huan carefully climbed up the dam to get a better look.

Standing on the dam, Zhou Huan suddenly thought of the retarded child called Xiao Fei. A few months ago, the child jumped off from this dam and committed suicide.

Looking at the churning waves on the surface of the river, Zhou Huan felt that it was difficult for him to understand Xiao Fei's feelings at that time.

While he was lost in thought, a huge wave suddenly came from in front of him. He was caught off guard and almost fell off the dam. He even accidentally drank a large mouthful of water and choked for a long time.

Zhou Huan realized that this wave came in an unfathomable manner, without any warning. At this moment, he felt extremely uncomfortable, to the point that he had the urge to vomit.

At this moment, he saw an extremely shocking scene. A head actually appeared on the dark gray surface of the river, as if a person was emerging from the river. On a closer look, this person's face was round and full of pockmarks, and he was still smiling at him.

A voice came out in Zhou Huan's mind: Xiao Fei!

He blinked with all his might. Finally, the river surface returned to normal again, and Xiao Fei disappeared.

Zhou Huan slowly climbed down from the dam, as if he was extremely worried about something. After pausing for a moment, he returned back to the wet alley. Along the way, he did not hold any more umbrellas, allowing the rain to violently beat down on him.

The tide had been rising for about three days. During this time, a lot of water seeped out of every household in the alley. The water in the alley was almost as high as his knees.

Overall, this year's tide had come early and gone fast, which was very strange.

Everyone in the alley started guessing. This strange sign seemed to indicate that something was about to happen.

Everyone knew that a few months ago, Xiao Fei committed suicide and died in this very river. Xiao Fei loved to play with water when he was still alive, and it was also because after he died, there was more and more water in the alley.

Sure enough, the day after the tide went out, something really happened.

That morning, everyone was standing around on a patch of mud below the dam, including Zhou Huan. If the tide did not ebb, this piece of flat land would have been flooded by the river and wouldn't be able to stand.

At this moment, everyone's face was extremely gloomy, several women even covered their mouths.

This was because they had all seen a scene that caused their hearts to tremble.

In the middle of the crowd, the upper half of a corpse was stuck upside down in the dirt. Its legs were bent, and its posture was very strange.

Due to the approach of the police station, the police quickly arrived. When the two police officers pulled the corpses out of the soil, everyone could clearly see the faces of the dead, and they couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

What shocked them was not the identity of the deceased but the fact that even through the lower half of their body they could tell that the deceased was the child's army. What really scared them was that the army's face had suddenly become covered in pockmarks, as dense as if they had been stung by countless bees!

When the military's parents arrived at the scene and saw their son's corpse, they were naturally crying their hearts out. However, a thought quickly emerged in the other spectators' minds:

Xiao Fei is back for revenge!