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Chapter 17: Drought (2)
One way!Already dug it under the pool!What a far-reaching strategy, what a huge project, countless underground waterways converged into that underground reservoir.Sitting and sneering by the dim pool is that embezzler, moth!
Da Lao Zhang lit a firecracker, and the villagers rushed over in their clothes and surrounded the reservoir.

Seeing that the water level in the pool had dropped to the bottom, what appeared was not a tunnel, but a human figure.Under the light of the flashlight, the skin of the humanoid glistened.

"Don't let him run away!" shouted the old man, trying to grab the figure with his stick.

The human figure was unexpectedly agile, circled around the bottom of the pool a few times, and jumped up.

This leap jumped into the crowd.Everyone rushed forward and pressed the human form underneath.

The office of the village committee was crowded with people, and the whole village got up from their beds to watch the weird man tied to the chair.

The weirdo has been covered with clothes.When he was first caught, he was still naked, which reminded the folks of those urban artists who came to take nude photos, which was very indecent.It took people a long time to confirm that the scales grew on the strange man's skin, extending all the way to the heels and ears; the strange man's hair and teeth were almost completely lost, and new tiny sharp teeth grew on the gum bed, and the teeth were exposed when he opened his mouth , like the mouth of a mandarin fish;

"This, this, this..." People surrounded him and pointed. "Isn't this——Chen Taiming!" After "this" for a long time, someone finally remembered.

After being reminded by someone, everyone recognized that this was Chen Taiming who disappeared seven years ago.He is not dead yet!There was also a severe drought seven years ago. People who disappeared in that drought reappeared in this drought. Is there any connection?
"Taiming, where have you been these past few years?"

"Taiming, have you been to Korea?"

"Taiming, are you rich now? Come and rescue us?"

The strange man was silent and expressionless, as if he had lived on a deserted island for decades and lost his language ability.But he was not completely expressionless, he stared at several people, blowing air with his mouth one by one, as if he wanted to eat them.Then people discovered that his tongue had become forked, no wonder he couldn't speak.

"I'm so pitiful for this child, he must have suffered from some strange disease." The grandmother of the Wang family said, "It was poor seven years ago, but now... Sigh!"

Everyone will never forget the severe drought seven years ago, when there was no rain for more than 70 days, the newly planted seedlings were dried up into firewood, and the cracks that opened in the fields could swallow children.At this time, a flood accident occurred in a mine, and water rushed from the old tunnel to the main tunnel.It is estimated that the miners who discovered the water seepage were too excited to dig too quickly, but there is no way to verify it. 12 people did not escape, and Chen Taiming's father was one of them.

A bad thing is a good thing for most people. Water is a life-saving thing, and it can save far more than 12 lives.Except for the 12 family members of the miners, everyone else was very happy, singing and dancing, playing boxing and guessing numbers, and almost missed the art team.On the issue of whether to report to the superiors and request a large water pump, everyone's opinion is very unanimous-no.The water stopped after a symbolic pumping for a while, because the reservoir was full, and the pumping into the pond could not withstand evaporation and infiltration.After a democratic vote of the whole village, it was unanimously agreed to stop pumping water and keep this natural reservoir, and everyone voted unanimously to agree that the person underground was dead.

Chen Taiming didn't show too much resistance, because he had already resisted. He was pointed at by the old village head and scolded for being ignorant of current affairs, and was tied back from the mine by the mine protection team.He just tied a bag of biscuits in a plastic bag, tied it around his waist, and walked down the mine in silence.He was never seen coming up again.

Unexpectedly, seven years later, he "resurrected" again. Did he bring a blessing or a curse?No one can figure it out, and no one can communicate with him.But people already have a faint sense of foreboding.

The strange man was still staring at a few people, including Big Zhang.Big boss Zhang was still a little nervous at the beginning. He had never touched such a strange person before. It was like touching a snake in the grass. He had to be careful. When he recognized the strange person as Chen Taiming, he became bold again——Chen Taiming was caught by him back then. What kind of ability can someone who has been beaten back from the mine have?
Big Zhang went up and grabbed the weird man's shoulder and shouted: "What are you doing back here? Where did you get our water? Ah?!"

The strange man bulged out his narrow and protruding eyes, and opened his somewhat pointed mouth, blowing a rancid stench onto the old man's face.

Big Lao Zhang's stomach was filled with sour water, and as soon as he let go of his hand, the weirdo broke free from the rope.The weirdo's body was slippery, and the rope was not an obstacle in the first place.His upper body sprang to the front like gluten, and his lower body burst out with amazing strength.The crowd subconsciously moved out of the way, and the strange man jumped on the big boss and rolled forward.

Big boss Zhang howled on the ground.People hurriedly gathered around to watch, only to see that he was pinned to the ground, with a few bloodstains oozing from his neck, but he couldn't control the slippery body of the strange man while baring his teeth and claws.Under the eyes of everyone, Big Zhang had no choice but to fight with his back. He used his knees to prop up the strange man into a space, and punched him.

This punch hit the front door, and the strange man fell on his back and didn't move.People went up to help the old man up, and praised his skills.

"This is the person who took the water away? Can't it?" The village director inserted his yellow fingers into his hair and arched.

"Village chief, people's hearts are unpredictable." Someone said.

Yes, people's hearts are unpredictable, let alone a weird person.

The weirdo has been handcuffed and stuffed into a rice bin.The rice warehouse is a large tin bucket with an open upper end.The village director moved a ladder and climbed up to the rice barn to watch. His face appeared on the dome of the rice barn, full of doubts.

Curiosity was soon overwhelmed by fear, and the director fell down with an "oops", but fortunately he was caught by the following people.The appearance of the strange man was still clearly imprinted in front of his eyes: the rice warehouse was filled with moisture, and a pair of white eyes were bulging on that terrifying face, like the eyes of a lizard that had been dead for many days.

The weirdo had already lost half of his life, and was getting weaker and weaker every day.Although someone threw some vegetable leaves and steamed buns in, the weirdo didn't eat any.The things thrown in rotted and fermented, and the remains of the weirdo continued to ooze water. It flowed out from under the rice bin and soaked into the ground, soaking the wet piece of the slate floor. Sometimes it was yellow, sometimes it was green, with a smell of Rancid.The villagers took a detour one after another, and no one wanted to look at him again.

Big boss Zhang cracked a strange case, which was very glorious.But after the scenery, the village fell into a gloomy cloud again—one of the two reservoirs has dried up, and the other is running low, which is definitely not enough for the whole village.After discussion by the village committee, it was decided to implement a unified allocation of water resources in the whole village, and the privately stored water of each household must be turned over for centralized use.

Just when the village cadres led the picket team adapted from the joint defense team to go door-to-door to check the water, the eldest brother Zhang developed a high fever.In a trance, he heard the pickets outside the window knocking pots and pans and shouting loudly, like a group of knights in the green forest.He felt that he was at the forefront of a big event, and his name would definitely be written in the village history.He couldn't help but wanted to move, but he coughed painfully, and his chest hurt like a prick.

In the next few days, a burning sensation invaded his whole body, as if chili oil was constantly oozing from the skin.Just when he thought death was approaching, the pain suddenly disappeared, just like a dream.

Da Lao Zhang woke up with his nostrils fluttering, a strange fragrance came from nowhere, scratching his little heart, itching inexplicably.He got up clumsily, and followed the fragrance.

He found a hidden crock in the kitchen.The moment he opened the crock, he felt like he was going to pass out.It was a jar of water, ordinary clean water, but at this moment, it hit the addict's nerves like the smoke of opium.

The old man picked up the earthen jar and drank it all in one gulp, even the water droplets that fell on the ground exuded a strange fragrance.

water!Big boss Zhang picked up his shoulder pole and rushed out of the door, joining the ranks of the picket team.

With the addition of Big Brother Zhang, the picket team is always in good hands.Big boss Zhang can tell by smell, which house has hidden water, and which house has just drank water.Fragrance is everywhere—it turns out that hypocrisy and selfishness are hidden behind so many doors.

He took the pickets and knocked them open one by one, smashing them into pieces.

"Knock!" He pointed to a door and said, seeing that everyone was hesitating, he emphasized his tone again, "Knock!"

"Old Xu's family... I'm afraid it won't happen?" Someone said with little confidence.

A few days ago, when the youngest son of the old Xu family was looking for water outside, he fainted with a gulp. It was said that he was dehydrated, and he was sent to the health center to hang several bottles of water.Will there be water in his house?
Big old Zhang said calmly: "It's a big bird, knock!"

After banging for a long time, the door opened a crack.The elder Zhang kicked the door open with a bang, stepped over Old Xu on the ground and walked in.

The pickets followed in file, but deliberately walked half a beat slower than Big Brother Zhang.Big boss Zhang swaggered through the middle hall and walked into the inner room.A fat and round woman was half naked on the bed, screaming at 120 decibels—that was Lao Xu's wife, a well-known shrew.Big boss Zhang drove away the woman and lifted the bed.Beneath the bed was a floor piled with straw.

Old Xu's wife rushed forward and tore it up, shouting, "Demon! Devil!"

The pickets crowded outside the door to watch the excitement.Old Xu's wife is more domineering than when she was wearing clothes. It will be miserable if she can't find water this time.

Da Lao Zhang opened the straw and shook the floor, revealing a gap.A baffle was opened, and a pool appeared below, which was dug out and made of bricks and cement.

The sultry aroma almost made the elder Zhang unsteady, he quickly waved his hand and said to the picket team: "Come pretend!"

The team members swarmed into the house carrying poles and buckets.

There was a sudden, drawn-out scream that stunned the crowd.You don't need to look to know that the source of the voice is Lao Xu's wife.I saw a burst of strength coming from her who didn't know where, and her fat body jumped up quickly, drawing a thick arc in the air, and jumped into the pool with a plop.

The water splashed all over the crowd, and Lao Xu's wife was like an old hen protecting eggs, splashing water in the pool, her hair disheveled and shouting: "Come on! Come and fill my mother's bath water! And your favorite urine Smell!"

The pickets flashed back.The crystal water droplets scattered in the air seemed to have evaporated into mist, and for a moment, Da Lao Zhang felt that she was like a fairy.However, the plump body quickly brought the old man back to reality. He froze for a moment and said to the team members: "Let's go!"

Before leaving, he threw a sentence to Lao Xu's wife: "You don't care about the life of the whole village, and the whole village will remember you!"

Today's incident made Big Lao Zhang very angry, and the loss of water made him very sad, as if his own urine had spilled into someone else's vegetable field.At night, his longing for water grew stronger and stronger.He had already drank all the water in the house, so he couldn't resist getting up to find water.

He sneaked out of bed.The wife was sleeping soundly face inward, and the moonlight cast a solid and weighty shadow, like the outline of a mountain.Now this woman has no attraction for him.

In another distant universe, it is water that calls.

Big Lao Zhang ran out without any clothes on, and he took off his undershirt during the run, and the feeling of being naked made him feel very comfortable.He felt that his body was changing, his spine was getting more and more bent, his body was close to the ground, and he had to use his hands and feet to run.

At the side of the reservoir, he saw his own shadow, the scales glistened in the moonlight, and the eyes had become elongated and protruding.He vaguely remembered that there was another one of the same kind.He licked the water surface with his tongue, the shadow was shattered, and the joy of every water molecule went from the tip of the tongue to the whole body, as if leading to another paradise from here.

He plunged into the water, drained one pool, and ran to drain another, without quenching his thirst.He was desperately aware that the feeling of thirst would be with him for the rest of his life.

He looked up into the distance, the mountains under the moonlight exuded a faint fragrance, and the fragrance gathered into a bright jade-colored giant dragon, coiling around the top of the mountain for a while, and flying over his head for a while.So he ran straight to the mountains, never looking at the dry village behind him.

This is a story that is too weird to believe, but it still happened, and the reason why I write it is because I hope that if one day I leave this world, you will know where I went.

You'll see what it's all about next, and believe it or not, I'm telling the truth.

(End of this chapter)