Chapter 20: The Lonely Boatman

On the nameless riverside of the Outer Xing'an Mountains, the villagers of Longxinggou knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the rolling waves in front of them.

More than 100 heads kept knocking on the dirt road by the river, and the sound of thumping was one after another.

While kowtowing, a village of old and young kept shouting in their mouths:

"Blessed, blessed!"

"I didn't expect that this time, the Dragon Lord would be able to appear in front of so many of us. The Dragon King's envoy is right! The Dragon King, his old man, really cares for us!"

"What are you still doing in a daze? Send the sacrifice to the river!"

"Hurry up, stop knocking!"

"Where's the cow?

The more than 100 villagers on the riverside, after kowtowing their heads in unison, quickly fell into a strange phenomenon.

They spoke loudly, showing their loyalty to the Black Water Dragon King, and the movement in their mouths was louder than loud.

Even Lin Shuo and Anne, who were on the mountain, could hear it clearly.

But under their feet, it was as if they had taken root, and no one moved.

The big river in front of me is like boiling, with huge waves and mist.

Not only that, but the sky was also gloomy, and the clouds were thick.

They had never seen anything like this in their lives, and they were both excited and scared.

After all, the old hunter had seen the Black Water Dragon King when he was a child, and he was the first to get up from the ground, light a dry tobacco, and while smoking, he walked to the river and looked at the movement in the water.

Except for him, no one in the whole village dared to approach the river, and everyone looked up at the old man.

Looking at the past from Lin Shuo's perspective on the mountain The Black Water Dragon King came from the upper reaches of the river, from north to south. The water here is the narrowest, passing through here, not far from the confluence of this river and the Heilongjiang River.

At this time, Lin Shuo and Anne could clearly see that the Black Water Dragon King had actually left.

However, from the riverside, this conclusion should not be reached, because the sediment at the bottom of the river was stirred up by this black water dragon king, and the water had long been muddy, and the aftermath on the river surface had not been settled.

What's even more evil is that when the Black Water Dragon King left, the sky was cloudy again.

Then there was a strong wind on the river, and it seemed that a heavy rain was coming.

The old hunter by the river looked at the water, then at the sky, and turned back and beckoned.

The sons of the old Orion's family hurriedly took a few steps forward and threw the pig they had killed the day before yesterday into the river.

Someone takes the lead, and things go a lot smoother.

The villagers bravely stepped forward and threw chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs into the river one by one.

In the end, the cow could not match the strength of more than a dozen strong young men, and it was also pushed down.

Seeing that the sky was about to change, everyone did not stay by the river for a long time, but hurriedly bowed down again and walked back.

Lin Shuo heard on the mountain that when they went, the movement of blowing, playing and singing was bigger than when they came, and it seemed to be full of relaxation after finishing a big thing, and a kind of confidence to fulfill a long-cherished wish.

......

Anne watched the whole process from the top of the mountain, took a hair tie from her handbag, and tied her long windswept hair up.

The beautiful woman whispered, "The Black Water Dragon King is gone, and they just threw the sacrifices, and I don't know who was cheaper in the end." ”

Lin Shuo seemed thoughtful, and said softly: "When ordinary people encounter this kind of monster, they will run away a long time ago. The fact that they were able to kneel down on the spot, and that they dared to go to the river without knowing whether the monster in the water had gone or not, could no longer be described as bold.

It seems that the god of the Black Water Dragon King is truly worshipped.

Now that I think about it, the Dragon King's envoy played a trick on me, he didn't actually put the rice bowl into my hand, he just made me think so.

Because even if I had exposed him, he would have prepared a rhetoric with the villagers.

He has been operating here for decades, and the Black Water Dragon King has become an unbreakable belief here under the packaging of their branch of the people.

We, the strangers, are easily unshakable. ”

"What do you mean, this dragon king's emissary, a bit of a doorman?" Anne asked.

"Hmm. Lin Shuo nodded, "It seems that the threshold he stepped on is higher than I thought before." ”

Anne glanced at Lin Shuo and said, "Then you let him go, do you want to put a long line to catch big fish?"

"You don't have to hold me. I did underestimate him before. Lin Shuo smiled and shook his head, "I'm a little preconceived, I always feel that although this person is from the door, since he has been reduced to the point of making a living by charlatans, he must not be smart." I didn't expect him to play this game of chess quite big. ”

"And what exactly is the purpose of the Blackwater Dragon's injury?" asked Anne.

"I don't know. We currently have too little information, and we will guess wildly, and we will fall into the calculations of others. Lin Shuo shook his head, "But I have a hunch that we will meet him again." ”

......

This morning, the sky has been overcast.

At noon, the first rain after autumn fell in parts of the Heilongjiang River basin.

The rain was not small, and soon, near this nameless river, it was impossible to see people three meters away.

Since the passage of the Black Water Dragon King, the waters here have never returned to calm.

The rustling sound of raindrops falling on the rough river became a steady background of white noise, and everything around seemed silent.

In the mist, a canoe slowly turned around the foot of the mountain and appeared on the river twenty kilometers downstream of the chain bridge.

Here, less than a kilometer from the confluence of the Nameless River and the Heilongjiang River, it is the widest body of water in the vicinity.

On the canoe stood a man, dressed in a cloak and hat, and holding a three-meter-long iron pole.

At the top of the iron rod, a long hemp rope is tied. The hemp ropes were as thick as the wrists, and were coiled at the man's feet, as high as the knees.

The canoe swayed with the waves of the river, but the man stood at the bow of the boat without moving. It was as if the joints of his whole body had been locked, and his feet were welded to the bow of the boat.

The rain crackled on the hat, and he just stood motionless in the rain, as if waiting for something.

After a while, just below the surface of the river, there was a huge black shadow coming from the upstream direction of the Nameless River.

The figure passed quickly under the canoe, causing the waves on the river to become more and more turbulent.

At the confluence of the two rivers, the long figure made a U-turn under the water and turned back to approach the canoe again.

Then, the boat shook slightly.

The bottom of the canoe had been lifted out of the water by this black shadow, and it did not stop until the canoe was five or six meters above the water.

On the surface of the river, there are two huge eyes, which slowly open.

The pupils of these eyes are upright, and the pupils are no less than the size of a canoe, and they look terrifying.

The man who stepped on the canoe and held the long pole seemed to have long been accustomed to it, and instead of being frightened, he cursed softly:

"Foolish!"

The two giant eyes under the boat blinked, as if they knew human nature.

The people on the boat looked at the churning river and began to talk to themselves:

"What?

"Where can you run? Now that the world is full of people, where can you go without being discovered, you bastard?"

"What? You're invulnerable, you're not afraid of people?"

"Oh, you bastard, you don't know how powerful people are now! It's not a hundred years ago when we first settled here. ”

"What are you talking about?! Our Liu family has been tied to you for more than a thousand years, and that is dozens of generations! If I leave you now, how will I face my ancestors after I die?"

"I'd like to try again. It's not easy to set up a home for you, and you can't let it out easily. ”

"I know you can't beat it, aren't I trying to figure it out?"

After chattering for a while, the man's expression on the river changed slightly, and he said, "Don't talk about it, the harvest is coming!"

After saying this, he began to shake the pole in his hand, and the hemp rope tied to the pole and coiled at his feet went up to the sky with a "whoosh".

It turned out to be a lasso.

The man flicked the noose, swung it around his head a few times, and flicked it out.

Ten meters away, a cow that was constantly floating in the water was caught in the horns by him.

"Next!"

As soon as the man struck his hand, the ox swept out of the water like a cannonball, and the monster under the boat opened its mouth and caught it. There was a muffled thud, and the cow fell to its belly.

This man has so much strength! And this monster has such a big mouth!

"The harvest of these days is all yours. The man continued to mutter, "You're wounded, he's healing." ”

"What should I do? I'll just eat stick noodle porridge, what else can I do? This world is not peaceful, it's good to be able to fill my stomach. ”

"What ...... to eat?"