"Look, the reservoir has fish jumping..."
Suddenly Qi Miaomiao pointed at the reservoir. Moonlight reflected on the water's surface, and several ripples appeared. It should be the movement of fish surfacing to feed or thrash. Zhang Nong chuckled, "If only we had a fishing rod right now, it would be awesome..."
Wan Yunting and the others also smiled, but unfortunately, they didn't have any fishing rods...
Just as everyone was sitting on the embankment, enjoying the cool evening breeze and relaxing...
Splash!
Suddenly, a splash sound came from the reservoir, breaking the silence of Wan Yunting and Gu Luotang. They immediately saw in the distance, blurred by the moonlight, two figures playing in the water. This made Wan Yunting's eyes widen. He said, "At night, why are there children in the water?"
Gu Luotang also stood up and looked. "Are they swimming?"
"Probably."
Huang Jingshan and Qi Miaomiao also stood up, looking at the two figures in the water in the distance. They were clearly boys around fourteen or fifteen years old. But judging by their movements, it seemed to be more than just swimming.
"They don't seem to be swimming!"
"Yeah, they must be fishing!"
Wan Yunting noticed that one of the children was pulling in a net with both hands, while the other child was holding a bamboo pole, patting the water's surface as if to scare the fish into their net...
"Why are they netting fish in the reservoir at night..."
"Exactly! And they don't even have a boat, or even a raft made of foam. If they get caught in their own fishing net by going into the water like this, how dangerous would that be?" Qi Miaomiao looked at the two children in the water, feeling scared just thinking about it.
"Let's call them ashore quickly..."
Gu Luotang and Zhao Lusi, among others, looked on with concern.
Wan Yunting nodded, then got down from the embankment and went to the edge of the reservoir. Just as he was about to call them up...
Ah!
In the next second, the boy pulling the net let out a startled cry and instantly sank into the water, as if something underwater had dragged him down. The speed was so fast that the boy with the bamboo pole hadn't even reacted. When he turned back, his companion was gone. Terrified, he shouted, "A Heng, A Heng, what happened? Don't scare me..."
"Oh no, this is bad, this is bad..."
Gu Luotang, Qi Miaomiao, and Huang Jingshan on the embankment were also startled and panicked. Wan Yunting's eyes widened further. He quickly took out his phone and wallet from his pocket, set them aside, and without hesitation, jumped into the water, swimming rapidly towards the boy...
"Yunting Ge..."
This scene also scared Gu Luotang and Qi Miaomiao, who quickly went down to the edge of the reservoir. They watched Wan Yunting swimming quickly towards the boy, making Zhao Lusi and the others anxious. "Wan Ge, be careful..."
"A Heng..."
The boy was still calling for his companion but received no response. He was panicked and scared, but he didn't go ashore. He continued to search for his companion in the water.
By this time, Wan Yunting had swum to his side and shouted, "You get out of there quickly, I'll dive down to check..."
"Oh..."
The boy didn't know who Wan Yunting was. When they had arrived earlier, they had seen people sitting on the embankment...
Wan Yunting told the boy to get ashore first. As he looked at the water surface scattered with moonlight, he suddenly felt a chilling and terrifying sensation...
But Wan Yunting didn't hesitate. He took a deep breath and then, at the spot where the boy had sunk, he also dived into the water, forcefully descending towards the depths...
However, because it was night, the visibility underwater was even worse. It was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything. Wan Yunting had to surface and shouted to the boy who had already reached the shore, "Do you have a flashlight? Throw it down to me quickly..."
"Got it..."
In his panic, the boy quickly picked up a flashlight from beside his clothes and threw it to Wan Yunting in the water. Wan Yunting caught it and turned it on. He didn't care if the flashlight was waterproof or not. The most important thing now was to dive down and see if the boy was caught in the fishing net or dragged down by something...
Meanwhile, Gu Luotang, Qi Miaomiao, Huang Jingshan, Zhang Nong, and Zhao Lusi had already circled the reservoir and run towards them. Looking at the boy beside them, whose face was pale and trembling, Gu Luotang quickly said, "Do you have a phone? Quickly call your adults to come over..."
"Ah, okay..."
The boy also knew the seriousness of the situation and quickly took out a phone from his pocket and called his father, crying, "Dad, come to the reservoir quickly..."
Under the water, Wan Yunting, holding the flashlight, dived in. Although the light couldn't illuminate a farther distance, it allowed him to see more than a meter underwater. He struggled to descend to the bottom and finally saw a blurry figure underwater, realizing it was the boy.
Wan Yunting's eyes widened. He quickly dived down, grabbed the boy's arm, and began to pull him towards the surface. But suddenly, Wan Yunting frowned. No matter how hard he pulled, he couldn't budge the boy. So he looked back again, shining the flashlight at the bottom of the water, and then he saw that the boy's right ankle was entangled by a muddy hemp rope.
So Wan Yunting bit the flashlight with his mouth, and with both hands, he quickly untied the hemp rope from the boy's ankle. But for some reason, the hemp rope wrapped around the boy's ankle was tied in a death knot, which made Wan Yunting frown. At this moment, he had a bad feeling!
But he still tried hard not to think too much and quickly untied the hemp rope from the boy's ankle, intending to rescue him as soon as possible...
Suddenly, the flashlight flickered, indicating that the flashlight was not waterproof and was starting to short circuit...
However, in the next second, Wan Yunting seemed to see a pale, bloodless woman's face that suddenly appeared before him with the flashlight's beam. This startled Wan Yunting, and his heart clenched tightly, making his scalp tingle all over...
But as the flashlight flashed brightly, the eerie woman's face disappeared. Wan Yunting's eyes were wide open, knowing he had encountered something unclean. So he quickly tugged at the rope. With a final forceful pull, the hemp rope soaked in the water was broken by him. But Wan Yunting also seemed to have dislodged something underwater, stirring up a cloud of silt...
Wan Yunting knew there was something underwater, but he couldn't afford to investigate it now. Before the flashlight completely died, he hugged the boy's body and quickly swam towards the surface...
"He's out..."
On the shore, Gu Luotang, Qi Miaomiao, Huang Jingshan, and others were all holding their phones and shining their flashlights on the water surface. Seeing Wan Yunting finally emerge, they were all excited.
Wan Yunting, carrying the unconscious boy, swam towards the shore. Gu Luotang and the others quickly went to receive the boy from his arms, pulling him ashore and laying him flat on the ground. Gu Luotang felt his carotid artery still beating and shouted, "He's fine, he probably swallowed some water..."
"I'll do it..."
Saying that, Huang Jingshan stepped forward and began performing CPR on the boy, trying to expel the water he had choked on...
"Yunting Ge, are you okay?"
Gu Luotang noticed that Wan Yunting, upon surfacing, had a furrowed brow and an uneasy expression. She quickly asked.
"I'm fine..."
Wan Yunting waved his hand, but he turned back to look at the water surface of the reservoir and said, "There seems to be something down there!"
"Something? What something?"
Qi Miaomiao and the others stared in astonishment. Wan Yunting frowned and said, "I'm not sure, but what was wrapped around this child was a hemp rope, and it was tied in a death knot!"
Zhang Nong and the others stared. They looked at the boy's right ankle, where there was indeed a hemp rope tied in a death knot. Since Wan Yunting had broken the rope to bring the boy up, the rope tied in a death knot was naturally still on his ankle...
"This... how is this possible..."
Looking at the hemp rope tied in a death knot on the boy's ankle, Lu Xin Jue and Zhao Lusi's eyes widened. At this moment, an inexplicable chill ran down their spines, and their faces were filled with terror and disbelief. "Could it be a water ghost!!"