At dusk, a thick fog appeared in the forest, and these things like fine yarns poured up from the damp black earth, like countless snakes spitting out letters among the dense trees. The sound of the murmuring water echoed through the forest from far and near, slowing down the oppressive atmosphere.

"Captain, if we find the river, we can walk out along it." Said solemnly, when everyone heard this, their eyes lit up with joy, although they were half-baked explorers, they also knew that in such a forest, finding a water source was equivalent to finding a chance to survive.

Zhang Fang nodded, raised his hand and made a forward movement, "I can hear the direction of the water, everyone go with me." ”

After walking for about ten minutes, as expected, everyone saw a stream flowing in the mountain stream that was several times larger than expected, the water flow was clear, the sound of the water was loud, it seemed that the flow was very large, and there should be no interruption in the downstream. Everyone looked at each other and felt a certain degree of certainty in their hearts.

The banks of the stream are lined with thick yellow leaves, and the ground is flat, making it a suitable resting place. Thinking that it was getting late, everyone discussed it and decided to make do with a night's rest here first, and then leave tomorrow to recuperate.

Because of the attack of the monster last night, their equipment was less than half, and the two tents were left in the original place, in desperation, Zhang Fang took out a tarp from his backpack and simply supported it with branches.

As night fell, the air around us became more humid and the temperature dropped considerably. Although the seven people were huddled together, the cold wind blew, and they couldn't help but shudder.

"No, I've got to get rid of it." The fat man said and stood up.

"Wait, I'll go with you." Thin bamboo pole called out to him.

"Be careful." Remind them solemnly. After all, everyone is still worried about what happened last night.

"Don't worry, I'm not going far this time." The fat man said, picked up the flashlight beside him, pulled the thin bamboo pole and walked towards the stream.

"Alas, I said fatty, don't you dare to come next time, what are you encountering? If I hadn't lost my camera, I'd have taken a picture of the monster from last night and sent it to the National Institute of Biology. ”

"Hey, you kid ran faster than anyone else last night and took pictures? Do you have the guts? The fat man quipped.

"You still say that I'm better than you pee your pants in fear, right?" The thin man fought back.

"Who peed their pants? Which eye did you kid see? ”

The two teased each other, and the tension subsided.

The fat man lifted his pants and was about to walk back, but with a flicker of his flashlight, he suddenly saw something flash at the bottom of the stream. So he hurriedly poked the thin bamboo pole beside him, "Look, is that white flower thing silver?" ”

The thin bamboo pole looked in the direction he was pointing, "Where is this silver?" What do you look at? I looked at it, it looked like a jewel・・・・・・"

The two looked at each other and understood what was in each other's eyes.

The fat man rolled up his trousers to step into the stream, and the thin bamboo pole grabbed him, "It's weird here, or don't pick it up, who knows if it's something valuable, what if it's not?" Don't take the risk. ”

The fat man pushed him away, "Don't go down if you're afraid, and shine on the shore for me." This stream is not waist-deep, and it cannot drown people, and it can be seen clearly from below, so what danger can it be? ”

As he spoke, the fat man had already flowed down, bent down and rubbed at the bottom of the stream, his face full of fat was happy, and shouted at the thin bamboo pole: "Oh, thin bamboo pole, there are a lot of good things at the bottom, and they are really gems, a lot!" ”

He raised his hand and handed the few gems he was holding to the thin bamboo pole, "Take it, there are still a lot of them underneath, are you sure you can pick them up together?" ”

The thin bamboo pole shone the gems with a flashlight, each one was the size of a pigeon's egg, white and round, crystal clear, he watched the fat man groping in the water with an excited face, and his heart couldn't help but move, these gems were found by the two of them, and these treasures could not belong to him alone!

Thinking of this, the thin bamboo pole found a short branch to fix the flashlight, so that the light could be projected on the surface of the stream, rolled up his trousers and walked down, "Fatty, I'm with you, this deep mountain and old forest, maybe these gems were washed down from which imperial tomb." ”

"Hehe, I think so too," the fat man squeezed his eyes at the thin bamboo pole, "Let's say that we accidentally fell into the stream, and don't tell anyone else about the gem." ”

"Don't worry, I know." Thin bamboo pole nodded, he didn't want anyone else to get a piece of the pie.

"These things can be sold for a lot of money when they are taken out, and when the time comes, we will have a lot of money to spend, and it doesn't matter if we get the graduation certificate or not・・・・・・" The fat man muttered to himself as he desperately stuffed the gems into his pocket, but suddenly heard a thin bamboo pole behind him snort in pain.

"Fatty, my foot seems to have been bitten by something, and I can't move!" The thin bamboo pole's face turned pale, and his eyebrows were painfully folded.

"Wait a minute, I'll take a flashlight." The fat man turned back to the shore, thinking that it must be something like a snake, but when he projected the flashlight on the thin bamboo pole, he was immediately speechless in fright, but his eyes and mouth widened.

The surface of the water shimmered in the light, so clear that you could see the bottom, it was a large python-like thing, the tail was pointy, and the slippery appearance made people goosebumps at a glance, but the front half of it was fish-shaped, covered with black scales, and on it grew a head like a mandarin duck, revealing its slender teeth, and tightly piercing into the calves of the thin bamboo pole.

"Monsters, monsters!" The fat man's face at the moment was no better than the thin bamboo pole, his hands trembled, and the flashlight fell into the water with a thud, and he didn't care about his brother anymore, so he hurriedly climbed ashore and ran away.

"Fatty, save me!" The thin man didn't know where the strength came from, so he shouted bitterly and threw himself at him, grabbing the fat man's ankle.

The fat man was already so frightened that his legs were weak, and when he was caught like this, half of his body that leaned out of the water fell back again.

The strange thing that bit the thin bamboo pole did not let go, although it was only more than a meter long, but its strength was amazing, Rao is fat man and thin bamboo pole combined weighed more than three hundred, it only had to shake its head slightly, and the two of them disappeared into the water together.

The fat man clung to a clump of grass on the shore, and was ruthless in his heart, raised his other leg and kicked the heart of the thin bamboo pole violently, and the force that dragged him into the water disappeared suddenly, and he even crawled to the shore with a rolling belt, never daring to turn back, and ran quickly to the assembly place.

I could only hear the sharp screams of the thin bamboo poles behind me, and the crackling and splashing of water droplets, like a desperate fish struggling・・・・・・

Zhang Fang and his entourage waited for more than ten minutes, but they didn't see the fat man and the thin bamboo pole come back, and they couldn't help but feel a little worried.

"I'll take a look." Solemnly stood up and said.

"Brother, don't go." Zheng Xiaoxiao pulled the corner of his clothes, and she had a bad premonition.

"Solemnly, I'll go with you to have a look." Zhang Fang helped the gold-wire glasses.

"Okay." He nodded solemnly, but before he and Zhang Fang could take a step, they heard the screams of fat men and thin bamboo poles coming from the stream, mixed with the splashing sound of water.

"Not good!" Zhang Fang's face became solemn.

As soon as the words fell, everyone saw the fat man soaking wet, running out in despair, and fell not far away.

solemnly went over to help him up, only to see that his face was pale, as if he was greatly frightened, "Thin bamboo pole, thin bamboo pole was eaten by a big fish, no, it's not a big fish, it's a big snake, it's not necessarily a big snake, it's a bird・・・・・・"

Jiang Yi shrank into Lu Peng's arms, "Is he crazy?" What gibberish? ”

Zhang Fang didn't say a word, pulled the fat man from Zheng Zheng's hand, and slapped him hard, so that his eyes regained a little light.

"If you have anything to say on the road, it's not safe here, we have to shift our positions." He said.

The group set out overnight, turned back the way they came, and stopped at a place with few trees when the sky was slightly bright. Because he didn't rest last night, and was frightened by the madness of the fat man, everyone was extremely tired, and the fat man calmed down and told the matter as it was, and he didn't even hide that there were gems at the bottom of the stream, of course, omitting the details of his kicking the thin bamboo pole.

After hearing this, Zhang Fang said, "That's not a gem, it's an egg laid by a water monster." ”

"What?" The fat man was startled, and poured out the gems in his pocket, and when the sun shone, the round stones seemed to be deflated, and quickly shrank into a crumpled mass, and some thick green and fishy liquid flowed from the bottom.

"I'll just say that there is always a strange smell along the way, it turns out that it emanates from you." Jiang Yi covered his nose and glanced at the fat man with disgust, he was really a pig teammate, and he couldn't tell the difference between fish eggs and gems.

"It was a gem last night, and it didn't stink so ・・・・・・much," the fat man felt a churning nausea in his stomach at the thought of carrying the monster's eggs close to him.

"Poor skinny bamboo pole." Zheng Xiaoxiao said softly.

"Yes, captain, there is a fatality now, how will you explain when you go back?" Lu Peng rubbed his hands, cramped and uneasy, he remembered that with the nine-tailed fox he had encountered, he had been attacked by monsters three times in total, and this forest had exceeded the limit of his understanding, "After we go out, we will go to the police, but they won't believe it, right?" I think we have to report to the National Bureau of Biology. ”

"Let's go out first." Zhang Fang looked at the sun, revealing a calm look.

Because there are water monsters, the method of relying on the water source to go out has been passed by everyone, everyone is a little uneasy, but also a little lucky, fortunately someone has waded through this thunder, otherwise, who knows if it is not themselves who fell into the belly of the monster?

Everyone discussed for a while, and just as they were about to leave, a shrill bird cry suddenly came from the sky, and the shrill sound seemed to be trying to pierce the eardrum.

Zhang Fang looked up and said, "Fat man, it seems that it was the egg you picked up last night, and its smell attracted the predators." This time, though, it's us. ”