Chapter Twenty-Three: The Elusive Crocodile

After a while, a dark and thin little boy who looked to be only five or six years old ran to Xia Shaoguang's car and knocked on the car door gently. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Xia Shaoguang lowered the window of the car and asked softly, "Are you the son of Sister-in-law Wang?" ”

"Hello Uncle Policeman!" The little boy greeted Xia Shaoguang in his immature voice, and at the same time saluted a Young Pioneer.

"Hello!" Xia Shaoguang made the little boy a little stunned when he saluted like this, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

"Hello Auntie!" The little boy saw Ruan Wen in the driver's seat and also saluted.

Ruan Wen smiled lightly and said, "Really good, what's your name?" ”

"My name is Iron Egg." The little boy reported his own milk name, and the village liked this kind of milk name, and the name Wang Tiezhu Tian Erniu was afraid that it would accompany them for the rest of their lives.

"Okay, Tie Dan'er, did you call the police to say there is a crocodile?" Xia Shaoguang didn't want to waste any more time, so he cut to the chase and asked.

"Yes, Uncle Policeman, I'll take you to see the crocodiles." As he spoke, Tie Dan'er ran eastward.

Xia Shaoguang and Ruan Wen glanced at each other and hurriedly followed, of course, Ruan Wen did not forget to take the beast control equipment.

They had just arrived just in time for the market to be at its busiest, but after waiting for a while, there were noticeably fewer village names coming and going.

Tie Dan'er ran very fast, Xia Shaoguang and Ruan Wen almost lost it several times, and after running for about two hundred meters, a river embankment appeared in front of them.

Xia Shaoguang saw the situation of Repainting Village on the way here, and knew that there was a river called Guhua River that passed through Repainting Village, so it seems that this river should be Guhua River.

The Guhua River is about ten meters wide, and it looks like two or three meters from the embankment to the water surface, but there is a flat land at the bottom of the embankment, which is basically the same as the river water.

The river runs east-west, the river flows slowly, and it looks quite deep, so it's hard to say that there are crocodiles hidden in it.

Xia Shaoguang leaned on the river embankment and looked down, and saw that the river below was naturally green, and only when the breeze was blowing, there would be some microwaves, otherwise it would be quite calm, and there would be no crocodiles in sight.

"Uncle policeman, that's where I saw that crocodile." Tie Dan'er pointed to the position in the middle of the river and said to Xia Shaoguang.

Xia Shaoguang looked in the direction of Tie Dan'er's fingers, where could he see any crocodiles, and he couldn't even see a fish at all.

However, Xia Shaoguang did not rush to conclusions, crocodiles are the best at hiding in the water and waiting for the arrival of their prey, the Guhua River is so big, where to hide it?

Xia Shaoguang squatted in front of Tie Dan'er and asked softly, "Tie Dan'er, can you describe to me the crocodile you saw?" ”

"Well," Tie Dan'er nodded, "at that time, the adults were throwing pork on the bridge, and I saw something swimming towards the bridge here. ”

Ruan Van also walked over, leaned over and asked, "How are you sure it's a crocodile?" Have you ever seen a crocodile before? ”

Ruan Wen's question is not unreasonable, after all, crocodiles are not common animals, and a five-year-old boy in the village has no possibility of knowing crocodiles.

Tie Dan'er said a little anxiously: "Because, last week, there was a movie in the village, and there were crocodiles in the movie, and Tie Dan'er remembered it." ”

"Do you remember how big the crocodile you saw?" Ruan Van continued to ask.

Tie Dan'er put his finger in his mouth, thought for a moment, and said, "It's so big! As he spoke, Tie Dan'er spread his hands and gestured.

A five-year-old boy with his hands open is only about one meter and two meters long, so this kind of comparison is definitely not good.

So, Xia Shaoguang gestured to a length of about one meter and asked, "So big?" ”

Tie Dan'er shook his head.

Xia Shaoguang opened his arms a little more and asked, "So big?" ”

Tie Dan'er shook his head and said, "The head is almost that big. ”

Xia Shaoguang and Ruan Wen glanced at each other, and saw each other's thoughts in each other's eyes, if what Tie Dan'er said was true, then it also meant that this crocodile was at least six meters long, and this was definitely not a crocodile species that could appear in China!

The largest known crocodile is the bay crocodile, which can reach a maximum of about seven meters, but it is absolutely impossible to live in such a small river as it lives in a tropical region like Southeast Asia!

It seems that things are really a little tricky, Xia Shaoguang looked at Ruan Wen and then at Tie Dan'er, the expression on his face was a little dignified.

Don't look at the fact that there are two or three meters high embankment by the river now, which is simply not a problem for a crocodile six or seven meters long.

"Tie Dan'er, you go back first, there is some danger here, and we will tell you when we catch the crocodile." Xia Shaoguang said to Tie Dan'er.

Tie Dan'er was just about to speak, Ruan Wen suddenly remembered something and asked, "Tie Dan'er, which direction did you see the crocodile going?" ”

Tie Dan'er didn't think about it, pointed to Xia Shaoguang's back with his hand, and said, "Go over there." ”

Xia Shaoguang turned his head, but saw that the direction was exactly the direction of the ancient bridge, and at this time there was an endless stream of villagers rushing to the market on the ancient bridge, so it was not lively!

Oops!

Xia Shaoguang thought to himself, if Tie Dan'er was not mistaken, the complexity of the matter was far beyond his imagination, if it was better to catch a crocodile in a sparsely populated place, once there were more people, it would inevitably cause casualties, and at that time, his desire to conceal the tunnel crossing point would be in vain.

Xia Shaoguang took a deep breath, and suddenly had an idea, he said to Tie Dan'er: "Tie Dan'er, I have something I need to ask you about now, you go to your village chief now, and ask the village chief to inform everyone to go home, no matter what method is used, just say that the police uncle said it!" ”

Tie Dan'er looked at Xia Shaoguang with some doubts, maybe Tie Dan'er didn't understand what Xia Shaoguang meant.

Helpless, Ruan Wen had no choice but to repeat it in a way that Tie Dan'er could understand, and Tie Dan'er was ordered to run back.

Xia Shaoguang stood up and said to Ruan Wen: "If the crocodile thing is true, I'm afraid it won't be enough with the strength of the two of us. ”

Ruan Wen nodded, agreed with Xia Shaoguang's statement, and said, "I only brought some relatively simple beast control equipment, and I may not be able to subdue that crocodile." ”

"Well, let's take one step at a time, the top priority should be to find the crocodile first and ensure the safety of these villagers, I just hope that Tie Dan'er can go well." Xia Shaoguang nodded, revealing all kinds of helplessness in his tone.

After that, Ruan Wen took out two folding sticks from the beast control equipment he carried, handed one to Xia Shaoguang, and said: "Ordinary crocodile, you can use this thing to protect yourself, but if it is really a prehistoric crocodile, I don't know if it is useful." ”

Xia Shaoguang folded his stick and climbed along the embankment to the flat ground by the river below.

The two of them searched all the way along the river bank in the direction of the ancient bridge, but just as they were about to reach the bottom of the ancient bridge, a piece of pork fell from the ancient bridge into the water, making a splash.

Xia Shaoguang frowned, and was just about to mumble something, when he saw that at the location where the pork fell into the water just now, a bigger wave set off from the bottom of the water.

A head with rough scales appeared on the surface of the water, and after eating the pork that had fallen into the water, his two eyes stared at Xia Shaoguang.