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Fish carcass at the bottom of the lake

Robert is a well-known journalist in the United States, On this day, he was invited by his friend Alan to Chicago for a vacation

By Aynaz SabooriPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
Fish carcass at the bottom of the lake
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Robert is a well-known journalist in the United States, On this day, he was invited by his friend Alan to Chicago for a vacation. Alan is a third-rate writer, specializing in writing some thriller ghost novels, although has been depressed, he persisted and did not give up.

Alan drove Robert straight to the shores of Lake Michigan. He had just bought a cabin built on the water here. The previous owner said the house was haunted, so he simply sold the haunted house for nothing, and Alan, who was struggling to write without inspiration, bought the place, hoping to find inspiration and material.

The cabin was built in a quiet lake bay, a wooden walkway more than one meter wide from the cabin has been built to the water of the lake bay. Looking at the blue water and blue sky in front of him and the green trees in the lakeside cabin, Robert could not help but be a little enchanted.

In the evening, after the two had a good meal, Alan proposed to go night fishing at the end of the waterfront walkway, and Robert readily agreed.

The moon was reflected in the dark water, and there was silence around them, with the sound of insects chirping from time to time. Robert soon felt the hook sink, a big fish had been hooked! He was busy recovering the line, but the moment the fish jumped out of the water, his hand suddenly became lighter. The fish fell on the wooden trestle and didn't move. Robert and Alan went up to check, a pressed fish body, surprisingly a large pool of lake water, and then the fish seemed to be deflated balloon, a sudden limp, only a thin layer of fish skin left.

Robert and Alan looked at each other, eyes full of surprise. Alan found a knife to cut open the skin of the fish, and found only a white fish bone - the fish was hollowed out from the inside! I do not know which boring person did this kind of thing, the two no longer pay attention to the hollow fish carcass, and continue fishing. This time it was Alan who pulled up the hook, but what he pulled up was another hollowed-out fish carcass.

Robert and Alan looked at each other, the two no longer daring to fish, busy packing fishing gear back to the cabin. Alan remembered the widespread horror legend in the Lake Michigan area: under the waters of the Great Lakes lived a blood-sucking zombie, it is the descendants of the Dracula family, sealed by the gods at the bottom of the lake, unable to come ashore. It only appears at night, sucking the flesh and blood of fish in the water. There are also rumors that there have been fishermen fishing at night, and saw Dracula emerge from the water, raw devouring the large fish in the lake.

Robert and Alan, of course, know that these legends, artificially adding more ingredients, but these fish carcasses aroused their curiosity. The next morning, the two men rented diving equipment, ready to dive to the bottom of the lake to explore the situation.

Robert put on a diving suit, and Alan dived into the bottom of the lake with dozens of meters deep. The bottom of the lake was so dark that they could not see the sun, they turned on the underwater lights and paddled forward for about 300 meters. Suddenly, Alan found a large fish suspended in the water in front of a motionless. Robert went up and grabbed the fish body a pinch, and sure enough, several currents gushed out from the fish body, which was also a gutted fish carcass. Two people put down the fish carcass, and swim forward in the direction of the dark current coming, until near the deepest part of the lake where the five lakes meet.

At this point, both were shocked by the sight in front of them: countless lake fish of all sizes forming a huge cylindrical school of fish, slowly making circles of inertial movement with the current. But these fish are motionless, lifeless, apparently, all the same as the fish they saw before, just fish carcasses. Robert did not dare to come closer, these dense fish corpses make his scalp numb. Is this column centered on living on a legendary underwater vampire?

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Aynaz Saboori

How to explain? How to understand? What do we do with all the injustice?

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