Give a bellflower to the drowning ghost

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Wang Ze said, "You never told me your name."

"When there are only two people, 'I' and 'you' are enough," said the ranger.

Wang Ze said, "What if there are more than two people?"

The forest ranger said: "At least in this remote area, I'm the only forest ranger, and that's enough."

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A third person appeared in the depths of the forest.

The forest ranger suddenly stopped and pushed aside the crooked grass roots, revealing deep and shallow footprints underneath. The shoe size is very small, and it seems to be high-heeled shoes. In this kind of barren mountains and mountains, it is like another world.

"It's the footprints of a woman," said the ranger.

Wang Ze grabbed the branch and asked out of breath, "Is there someone else here?"

The ranger didn't answer. He straightened up and ran straight in the direction of the footprints.

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The high heels were found by rangers by the lake.

The pink high-heeled shoes were covered with mud and fell in the overgrown bushes, like strange visitors arriving at their destination and throwing them everywhere and forgetting about them.

The ranger picked up the delicate shoes and said to the visitor: "Please don't litter here."

The visitor didn't answer, she just turned slowly and watched the ranger warily.

It was a young woman with a pretty face. She stood at the waist-deep position of the lake water, and the light-colored gauze skirt on her body bloomed on the water surface, like summer flowers.But what didn't match it was her makeup stained with sweat or tears, and her blank expression.

The visitor backed away, and the emerald green water stirred up waves as she moved, slapping her chest and scatter her hair in the water.

The ranger puts down his high heels and methodically removes his sneakers.

Seeing this, the visitor's tense expression finally became a little turbulent. She turned around and swam towards the center of the lake, looking for a position deep enough for her to end her life.

"Stop struggling," said the ranger dryly, "I swim here every day, and I'll catch you before you drown yourself."

"In that case, I'll let you die with me." The visitor said in a trembling voice, she took out a gun from her body, clenched it with her backhand, and it shone coldly in the sun.

The rangers never knew where the women hid the odds and ends.

He shrugged: "Okay, then it's up to you."

The ranger made his voice a bit interesting: "But, you can find a place at the foot of the mountain and stab yourself to death, but you found this place with a pair of high heels, I'm afraid you really like the death of drowning." In this case, I can only support your choice."

The visitor opened his mouth slightly, somewhat unexpectedly.

The ranger continued: "However, when you are drowning, the clear and beautiful lake water around you will enter your windpipe, and then you will start to suffocate, struggle, and even start instinctively calling for help, or you will be lucky to lose your life." Consciousness, and then, I'll get you ashore."

"I will give you artificial respiration and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. I am still very confident that I can save you. Whether you will wake up with mental impairment or physical disability is another matter. When you wake up, you will feel From the throat to the lungs, it feels like it has been burned, and you will cough up water until your mouth is full of vomit, and you will have hallucinations, but you can’t die, as long as I’m still standing here, you can’t die.”

"You can also try to cut your pulse now, but it is much harder to commit suicide by cutting your pulse than drowning. Even soaking in water will not speed up the blood loss. Then I will go into the water when you are weak enough. Get you ashore."

"Unless you can kill me with your own physical fitness, otherwise, you have no chance to kill yourself."

The ranger smiled and said: "I don't care about your will to survive, I don't intend to talk to you about the principles of life, I just want to tell you that if you start looking for death, I will stop you, and you will be extremely painful in the process of hurting yourself. It's better to die than to live until you regret coming here on this day."

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Wang Ze obeyed the command of the forest ranger, ran to the place where there was a signal down the mountain, dialed an emergency number for help, and called the police.He then followed the police and found the ranger by the lake.

The ranger is naked from the waist up, wearing only a pair of wet trousers. He sits on the moss-covered stones by the lake, takes off his socks and hangs them aside, nonchalantly trying to dry himself in the weak sunlight.

The woman who came all the way here was wrapped in an orange blanket by the medical staff.She looked very bad, her skin was covered with marks scratched by the gravel at the bottom of the lake, and she exuded the unique grassy smell of the lake, but compared to these skin traumas, her spirit seemed to have been greatly shocked. He even lost the strength to cry, so he could only be at the mercy of the medical staff.

A young policeman walked up to Wang Ze and lit a cigarette: "I left in a hurry just now and didn't have time to ask, who are you and what are you doing here? You don't seem to be here to take over that kid's work."

Wang Ze took out his ID card: "Students who come here to get close to nature during the summer vacation, I rent the house of the forest ranger to play here for a while, and go back after the vacation is over."

"Really," the policeman chatted with Wang Ze while biting a cigarette, but his eyes fell on the forest ranger in the distance, "I was afraid that you also came here to commit suicide, you probably have no such plan."

Wang Ze smiled bitterly: "Do I seem to have anything in common with that girl?"

The policeman said: "Yes, the common thing is that we all met that kid. There was a writer before, and it seems that he came here to collect materials, and he also killed himself in this lake. Many people in this place committed suicide. It's so evil, I advise you to find another place to spend your summer vacation earlier."

39

The crowd left, night fell, and the mountain was quiet again.

Wang Ze said, "I have something to ask you."

The ranger lay on his sleeping bag, casually playing a game: "Ask."

Wang Ze tried his best not to pay attention to the knife wound on the ranger's arm. He said, "Why did you save this woman but not him?"

The ranger put down the game console.

For a moment, Wang Ze realized that he didn't dare to look at the expression of the ranger, but the ranger just replied calmly: "Today, I happened to catch up. I didn't catch up that day. Such a big mountain, I can’t do it all by myself.”

With a subtle smile on his face, the ranger said softly, "If you insist on pursuing the matter, then I have committed negligence."

"I couldn't save him, I'm sorry for him, that's all."

The ranger said clearly: "And this matter has nothing to do with you."