No. 7 Fish House

The door of Fish House No. [-] was pushed open, and He Fu was sitting on the sofa reading a book, still holding the new "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio" in his hand.Without raising his head, he said, "Did you see Captain Yang today?"

It was Xing Ting who opened the door and entered. Entrusted by He Fu, he went to the police station to look for Yang Mingzhen. Since He Fu's body had recovered, it was inconvenient for him to go out. The reason for his inconvenience was that he was worried about the person hiding in the dark. People will still harm him.Therefore, Xing Ting was sent to find Yang Mingzhen to discuss the matter. The day before yesterday Xing Ting went to the police station and found that Yang Mingzhen was not there.What is the specific reason, Xing Ting failed to find out.

"No." Xing Ting also went to the police station today, but he didn't see Yang Mingzhen, not even Yang Mingzhen's assistant Cui Liang.

He Fu flipped through "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio", and there was a letter in the pages. Xing Ting's eyes lit up when he saw the letter.

"When did you buy the new book? There is a letter hidden in it." Xing Ting asked He Fu.

"I didn't buy it." He Fu said, "When you went out to buy vegetables the day before yesterday, someone gave me this book, saying it was from Yang Mingzhen."

"Then he also hid this letter?" Xing Ting hurried over, "Did something happen?"

He Fu unfolded the letter. This was the first time Yang Mingzhen had written to him, and it was even secretly included in this new book.

There was a newspaper clipping in the letter, which was about Tribulus Island ten kilometers away from the northern outskirts of the tea city.

"Tribulus Island?" Xing Ting was a little puzzled, "It is said that there is no one on this island, why did Yang Mingzhen give this to you?"

He Fu pinched the newspaper clipping with his white fingers and turned it over. There were a few words written on the back: Come here quickly.

These few words touched the heartstrings of the two of them. Could it be that something happened to Yang Mingzhen!

"When you went to the police station, did someone tell you when Yang Mingzhen left?" He Fu asked Xing Ting.

"The afternoon before yesterday." Xing Ting said, "In the morning, it was said that a newcomer came to the police station, and Yang Mingzhen left in the afternoon."

"Newcomer?" He Fu pondered, his delicate eyebrows slightly frowned.

After a while, he said calmly, "They are planning to give up on him."

"Is this group of beasts planning to attack him?" Xing Ting exclaimed, "This is the police."

He Fu smiled slightly, and there was no emotion in his clear eyes, "He Fu used to be a policeman, didn't they kill him as well?"

"He Fu..." Xing Ting stared blankly at the person in front of him, he knew that He Fu was not his real name. ·

After a long silence, Xing Ting spoke first: "I don't understand why there were so many people who wanted to refine Yiren back then. Did they think it would be good to get these things from Yiren?"

He Fu pursed his lips and said, "Very good, the human lifespan is only a hundred years, while the Yiren can live 200 to 300 years."

"However, even though aliens will still die after 300 years, they just age a little slower than normal people." Xing Ting argued.

He Fu blinked and said, "If you become like me, you can live forever."

Xing Ting was choked by this sentence, he didn't know how He Fu, who was a stranger, became an immortal body, but he saw He Fu suffered so much pain.He felt, "You are not happy even if you live forever."

"But they think happiness." He Fu said, "Greedy people think that as long as they don't die, they are happy if they have glory and wealth."

Xing Ting grabbed He Fu's hand regardless and said, "Let's go save Yang Mingzhen."

He Fu pulled his hand away from Xing Ting's, and glanced at Xing Ting lightly, "When did I say I was going to save him?"

"Even if I save him today, can I save him tomorrow? Can you save his life?"

"No." Xing Ting said, "But he is our friend, shouldn't we save him?"

He looked at He Fu, and suddenly felt that he had lived under the same roof with him for more than half a year, but now he looked like a stranger.

He Fu did not speak immediately, but glanced at the fish tank beside him. There were only six of the original seven fish left, and the little black cat was watching the fish in the fish tank under the fish tank.It seems that in the next second, I want to jump into the fish tank and eat these fish clean.

He Fu asked lazily, "Do you think I'm like a fish in a fishbowl, or like this cat?"

Xing Ting looked at He Fu incomprehensibly, what metaphors are cats and fish?What does He Fu want to describe himself as?

"Neither." He Fu shook his head, and tapped the fish tank lightly with his slender index finger, "I am the fish tank."

"In your eyes, I am a fish tank that protects the fish and an enemy against the cat. I am immortal and will not die, just like this fish tank."

But the fish tank also has a broken day.

Once broken, all of this will cease to exist...

Xing Ting listened to this metaphor dumbly, he seemed to understand what He Fu meant.

"Let's go." He Fu said.

"Where?"

"Go to Tribulus Island." He Fu said.

Suddenly Xing Ting couldn't react, he looked at He Fu, "Aren't you unwilling to save him just now?"

"Since it is a fish tank, it has the mission of a fish tank." He Fu smiled.

Tribulus Island is located on the Perlan River, ten kilometers outside the northern outskirts of the tea city. The river is very wide. In the beginning, many fishermen came here to salvage fish and shrimp to make money.Sometimes it is too far away from home and it is getting late, fishermen will rest on Tribulus Island.Originally, Tribulus Island was indeed an empty island. After two or three years of development, the fishermen planted a lot of vegetables and fruits on the island. The scenery on the island is charming, and many people stayed here to build houses for their families. Bring on the island life.It has a sense of isolation.

These fishermen have rarely left the island since they came to the island.

Decades passed, and uninformed outsiders thought the island was still empty and a ghost island.

Because the island was haunted a few years ago, it is said that a few young people went to the island in order to explore the island to experience the feeling of heartbeat. They went to the island in the dark in the dark. The family members searched for it for three days but failed to see the corpse floating along the river. downstream.

The appearance of the corpses was also extremely strange, and the three corpses were covered with hoarfrost. Since then, rumors of the haunting of Tribulus Island spread to the streets and alleys of the tea city, and those young people who like to explore are discouraged.

Xing Ting was walking on the way to the Perlan River, and while walking, he read the legend about Tribulus Island, and there was a photo of the deceased in the news.

"I thought it was a snowman." Xing Ting snapped his tongue, and saw the thick hoarfrost covering a man's body, like a snowman piled up in winter.

He Fu took the photo and looked at it carefully. He looked at it very seriously, not letting go of every detail of the photo.

"It's not hoarfrost." He Fu said, "The three dead people went there in summer, when there will be neither snow nor frost."

"Of course not." Xing Ting said, "This is just a metaphor."

He Fu didn't talk to him, his eyes were still fixed on the photo.This hoarfrost looks familiar...

"It's very strange. Why did the young people who explored die so badly? Why are these fishermen living on the island all right?" Xing Ting said, "Did these fishermen kill three young people?"

He Fu did not refute, but nodded seriously: "It's also possible."

"But why did they kill these three young men?" Xing Ting thought, "The fishermen have no hatred with the three young men. It seems that the modus operandi is unimaginable, and it doesn't seem like manslaughter..."

"Secret." He Fu said.

Xing Ting immediately realized, "I see, they want to hide the secrets of the island. These people have lived on the island for so long, except for shopping and leaving the island by boat, they hardly ever go out. You see It was written in the news that when the fishermen went to the city to purchase, they spent a lot of money. After buying a lot of things and bringing them back to the island a few years ago, they never came out again. No wonder we thought that there was no one on the island. They Live too secretly, clearly hiding something."

"Spend a lot of money, how can a few fishermen get so much money." Xing Ting analyzed, "There must be some gold, silver and jewelry on this island!"

He roared loudly at the end, and several boatmen beside him turned their heads to look at him.

He Fu saw several boatmen turning their heads and smiled slightly: "Hello, we need to cross the river to the island in the middle of the river."

The boatmen looked at each other, but no one spoke.

An older boatman, wearing a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat, came over.

"Are you going to Lili Island?" the old boatman asked He Fu, staring at Xing Ting, "Do you also want to pick up those gold, silver and jewels?"

"Ah?" Xing Ting waved his hands, "No, no, we're going...for a picnic?" He glanced at He Fu.

He Fu smiled and said, "Yes, picnic."

"What the fuck." A boatman next to him spit out a mouthful of phlegm and squinted at the two men dissatisfied. Go die, don't be silly, get out of here quickly."

Xing Ting was angry, "Who are you calling stupid? We didn't talk to you. Why are you so big? You, rush to talk to us."

"If you talk to my father, you are talking to me." The strong man glanced at the old boatman, "My father will not take you there, and neither will I."

"Then what if we want to buy your boat?" He Fu pointed to the boat behind the old boatman.

The old boatman smiled: "The broken boat is not worth a lot of money, you should go back."

He Fu said, "Then let me ask a question."

"what is the problem?"

"You sail here every day. The day before yesterday, did you see a tall man taking a few people to Tribulus Island?" The man He Fu was talking about was Yang Mingzhen.

The old boatman replied: "No."

Xing Ting was about to speak, but He Fu stopped him, "Oh, that's my friend, he's a little crazy, I'm afraid he'll hurt you when he comes out. Since I haven't been to the island, it's just right."

"En." The old boatman didn't say much, just nodded.

"Sell us that boat." He Fu said, "I don't want to go to Lili Island, I want to go to the water by boat."

"Huh?" The old boatman glanced at him, "Jin Shui?"

"Well, I have a little daughter-in-law waiting for me to pick her up." He Fu said.

Xing Ting looked sideways at this kid, he lied without blushing, how could he have a little wife.

"It's just that the boat is a bit broken." The old boatman pointed to the boat behind him, "Otherwise, why don't you let our family Ah Zhong take you to the water?"

He Fu shook his head, "No, I just want to buy your boat."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the old boatman to refuse, he took out a bank note and handed it to the old boatman, "Is that enough?"

"Enough." The old boatman nodded slightly, signaling Ah Zhong to send the two of them aboard.

Xing Ting complained in a low voice, "It's too wasteful for you to buy such a broken boat."

After getting on the boat, He Fu threw the oars in his hand to Xing Ting, "You sail."

"What about you!" Xing Ting asked.

"I won't." He Fu said, "After all, I have a lot of money, and it's just right for me to contribute the money."

"Okay." Xing Ting was too lazy to say, and rowed the boat towards Lili Island.

He Fu stopped him: "I told you, I'm going to get into the water."

Xing Ting was dumbfounded, "Didn't you lie to that old man?"

"I lied to him." He Fu said, "But you have to follow suit. Look at what is next to you."

Xing Ting turned sideways when he heard the words, and looked at the canopy behind him, which was made of wooden boards, with a hole in it.

"It's just a hole." Xing Ting answered truthfully.

"It's a bullet." He Fu said, "Under your feet."

Xing Ting immediately looked at his feet, and sure enough there was a bullet casing. There was actually a bullet on a small broken boat?Did the boatman kill someone?

"Is it Yang Mingzhen?" Xing Ting asked.

He Fu said: "It may be, or it may not be. So we have to be careful, pretend to go to the water, and then go around to the back of Lili Island. Although the terrain behind the mountain is difficult, it is safe."

"En." Xing Ting rowed obediently, seeing himself getting farther and farther away from the shore, he saw the group of boatmen on the shore suddenly a little scared.

"Are they undercover police officers?"

He Fu shook his head: "They are indeed boatmen."

"That's good, at least the boatman is not a big threat to Yang Mingzhen." Xing Ting breathed a sigh of relief.

"What if they are... the boatmen on Tribulus Island?" He Fu said these words suddenly, Xing Ting was amazed and had goosebumps all over his body.

If it was the boatman from Tribulus Island, then Yang Mingzhen and the others would be in danger now.

There are very weird things on Tribulus Island. If these boatmen are good at using this weird thing to attack Yang Mingzhen, or take away the guns in Yang Mingzhen's hands, it is really a disaster.

Thinking of this, Xing Ting rowed vigorously, hoping to fly to the island immediately.