Chapter 31: The Living Underwater
When I was stabbed by something, my whole body fell into a state of paralysis, and my limbs began to stiffen rapidly. Although I was still conscious, and although I could clearly feel everything that was happening around me, the muscles of my whole body fell into a state of stiffness in just a few seconds, and the whole person stood upright in the water like a stick, and was dragged by something to the bottom of the water.
I was in a nightmare, and I was so conscious that I couldn't move my limbs, and I was dragged to the bottom by something.
Where is he going to drag me to?
Once I enter the underwater ancient city, I will definitely die.
In the absence of any diving equipment, the average person can only dive about five or six meters, and professionally trained people can only dive to a depth of about thirty meters at most. How deep is the underwater ancient city, fifty meters, or a hundred meters?
If I keep diving like this, even if I can withstand the strong pressure underwater, I will be suffocated to death sooner or later.
Many people say that before people die, everything in this life will flash in front of their eyes, and all regrets will appear in front of them.
What do I regret?
I haven't seen my mom look like.
I didn't get to see my dad again, and I didn't inherit the Ghost Eye King and that humble little shop. Is inheriting the ordinary life of the small shop my father's hope for me?
I haven't met the girl who catches my heart yet. That's a pity, isn't it?
I was thinking about it when I felt a pain in my body again. The sensation was faint, but I could feel as if something had penetrated my arm, slowly injecting some kind of fluid into my body.
This time, my consciousness became a little more awake, and the stuffiness in my chest was slowly dissipating. I know it's not because I can breathe underwater, it's because my breathing has become unusually slow, at least I won't be suffocated in the water right away.
I was thinking it was strange when I was dragged to the bottom of the lake by that guy. I couldn't turn my head, but I could clearly see the wall in the distance. Am I being dragged into the arena-like rotunda in the ancient city?
Should be. As far back as I can remember, there was only one circular building in the whole city.
As I desperately rolled my eyes to look around, I realized that all of my classmates were standing in the water. When I rolled my eyes to look at the feet of the students opposite, I saw a loop of almost transparent rope tied to their ankles. From a distance, those people seem to be standing at the bottom of the lake, but in fact their feet are half-floating in the water with their feet off the ground, and the water waves will ripple like aquatic plants, which is the secret of the "living people" under Fuxian Lake.
When I slowly rolled my eyes to look at the classmate across from me, I saw that red blood continued to overflow from his seven orifices, turning into strands of red threads and floating in the lake - he could no longer withstand the pressure of the water.
It didn't take long for the other party's gaze to dim, and the whole person began to lean forward slowly, until he was held by the rope under his feet, and then he leaned and floated in the water, but the red blood was still floating on the other party's face.
Are all my classmates here? They're all dragged into the city, they're tied underwater, what the hell are the guys who tie us up doing? Just tie people up in the water and suffocate them?
When I was puzzled, I suddenly heard the sound of paddling, and not long after, a half-human, half-snake water god quietly appeared in front of my eyes. This water god is obviously much larger than I have ever seen, and even bigger than the ape that was beheaded by Ye Xun.
After twisting the body of the snake with the thickness of a bucket around me a few times, he wrapped his snake tail around my legs, stretched out his claws to grasp my clothes, and slowly climbed up from my waist, until he reached the same height as my face, and the other party's face full of black scales slowly approached my face.
A stream of snakey water rushed into my nostrils in an instant, and I could only watch as it got closer and closer to me. It wasn't until its scaly head was pressed against my face that it slowly pried my teeth open with its snake mouth. As the icy water poured into my mouth, I distinctly felt a slippery snake snitch slipping into my mouth.
I could even feel the slick hyaccia pressing down on my tongue, pushing a round thing down my throat. Before I could figure out what it had put in my mouth, it rolled into my stomach along with the lake.
At the same time, the water god's hands also hugged the back of my head, and fiercely pushed my head forward, sealed my lips with his mouth, and exhaled desperately into my mouth.
I wanted to resist, but my instinct after suffocation made me keep breathing in the air coming from the other person's mouth.
After exhaling a few breaths, the water god suddenly pulled his head back and covered my mouth and nose with his hands. I wanted to vomit, but my mouth and nose were blocked by the other party, and I couldn't vomit out, so I could only force the vomiting back down.
The water god who had been gagging my mouth until he realized that I didn't want to vomit anymore slowly let go of his palm, slid off me, and swam towards the other person. But as soon as it touched the man, the other party's eyes were wide open in a huge fright, and he wanted to open his mouth to scream.
I watched as the lake poured into the man's open mouth, and red blood poured out of his mouth—his lungs blasted from the top.
The blood-contaminated lake blurred the other party's face in an instant, and the classmate slowly fell back in the blood mist. Blood was still pouring out of his mouth as he floated in the water with his head up.
The water god immediately let go of the corpse and swam towards the next classmate.
The god of water only looks for the living?
Soon after the thought came to my head, the water god wrapped itself around another classmate, exhaled into his mouth as if it were me, and then let go of the man and swam to the next target.
Soon after, he swam back from a distance. I could clearly tell that the water god was extremely tired. There were also at least four more bodies in the water that had died from over-shock. The eyes of the dead were all wide open and protruding, and the eyes that could no longer be focused seemed to slowly turn with the waves of water, and looked towards me emptyly, and I only felt that the eyes of the dead were still flowing. Are they waiting to see what happens to me?
I couldn't look at them, I had to close my eyes.
But the thoughts in my head never stopped. I never saw what was dragging us down, but I knew that if it hadn't been for what they had injected into me, I would have died underwater.
I don't know exactly what they did to slow us down, but I'm sure that if I could get used to the pressure in a short period of time, I would be able to survive unharmed, at least not suffocation.
Also, the four corpses around me were leaning and prostrating, but they didn't stay in the water in the legendary posture of a man leaning forward and a woman leaning back. The position in which the body stopped in the water depended entirely on the direction in which the rope was bound, not male or female.
In other words, many years ago, the god of water was constantly dragging living people into the ancient city and tying them under the water. Otherwise, the body should float to the surface instead of sinking all the time.
The first person to discover the underwater ancient city should not have carefully examined each corpse, but only avoided the floating corpses in the water after observing them from a distance, and it was only then that the theory spread that the male corpse leaned forward and the female corpse leaned back.
Although the underwater temperature of Fuxian Lake is very low, it is not enough to freeze and preserve the corpse. There must be other reasons why the corpse under the water can not decompose, maybe it is because of the round ball that the water god spits into the corpse's mouth.
What the hell is that ball?
Now it seems that the god of water intends to keep us alive, but what is the purpose of keeping us alive?
As food? No. The corpses under the water were all intact, not at all like they were used as food reserves.
The ball is the egg of the god of water, and it is trying to use the temperature of our body to hatch the egg, and then let the god of water burst out of our body? At that moment, I could even imagine young water gods lying on my disembowelmented corpse and eating corpses.
I quickly opened my eyes and looked around, until I found that none of the corpses had cracked in the abdomen, and I was relieved. But it didn't take long for my heart to rise again, what if those corpses had already been eaten by the water god?
I felt cold again. But I can't move the slightest bit now, so I can only wait in fear for my fate.
I don't know how long it took for me to hear the fluctuation of the lake again. When I opened my eyes, the serpentine water god came again, and after giving me the same breath as last time, he was tired and gone. This time, there was another corpse in the lake.
After a certain period of time, the water god will reappear, cross the qi, leave, and repeat. It wasn't until the water god gave me the fifth time that he let go of the rope on my feet, dragged me up with one hand, and slowly swam to the lake.
I didn't know what it was going to do, but I realized that my neck could turn. I quickly turned my head to look around a few times.
Almost ten water gods of various shapes were dragging my classmates into the distance. After the other party swam more than 100 meters, I was dragged into a cave that was as narrow and curved as a road.
From the moment I entered the cave, my heart was half cold. Is this another lair of the god of water?
I escaped from under the Boundary Fish Stone, but I couldn't escape the fate of being eaten alive by the water god, and maybe I would be eaten cleaner.
While I was thinking about it, the god of water had dragged me out of the water to the shore.