237 Fish and carcasses

"There's something under the ice?" Everyone looked at Wusha in confusion and asked in unison, "What is it?" ”

Wusha touched his chin and stretched out a finger, "It looks like a fish!" ”

After a moment of silence, everyone silently took a breath.

Lin Yehuo jumped up and pointed at him with a chicken leg, "What's so strange about fish in the river!" ”

Everyone was helpless - originally thought that Tianzun and Yin Hou were sometimes quite slippery, although the great monk looked very festive, but he was still more serious and reliable, but he didn't expect it...... Not even slippery!

Wusha raised his eyebrows and asked, "What about the fish that are bigger than people?" ”

Everyone glanced at each other, touched their chins and raised their faces and thought about it - there are a lot of big fish in this world, not to mention that people are so big and boats are so big, but most of them grow in rivers, lakes and seas, and they also need the kind of fish and shrimp in the vast waters, otherwise what do those behemoths eat? …… It's a little weird that there are such big fish living in the glacier.

"Could it be a corpse floating in the river?" Yin Hou asked Wusha, "Are you wrong?" ”

"Of course not!" Wusha shook his head vigorously, "Those things are clever and swim around, they are guaranteed to be alive!" ”

"Those?" Bai Yutang frowned, "Are there a lot of them?" ”

"Many!" Wusha nodded, "A big group." ”

Gongsun touched his chin, "A large group? That's even more unreasonable. ”

"yes." Xiao Tonghai also nodded, "We have very few fish here, and we usually have to go to Black Wind City to buy them if we want to eat them." The river to the north is frozen, what fish can there be? I've never seen a fish the size of a thigh, let alone a human. ”

As he spoke, Xiao Tonghai called a few entourages and asked, and everyone said that they had never seen such a big fish living in the glacier.

"Food is a real problem!" Zhan Zhao said seriously, "Isn't such a big school of fish about the same as a school of Jiaoyu?" Only live in the sea, right? In this kind of glacier, they starved to death. One or two I can still understand, so ......"

"Who said there was no food?" Zhao Pu asked suddenly.

And all the people looked at him.

The corners of Zhao Pu's mouth twitched, "There's a lot of food, right?" Those fish will eat every day, but the frozen ones may not be eaten. ”

Everyone was stunned, and Zou Liang also nodded, "No, I can't finish eating." ”

When everyone heard this, they naturally thought of thoseβ€”corpses.

Bai Yutang frowned, he couldn't hold up the chopsticks, and it seemed that the habit of eating on time that had been easily cultivated by Zhan Zhao in the past few days couldn't be maintained.

Zhan Zhao also felt that it affected his appetite a little, "What do you mean...... What fish eat dead bodies? ”

Gongsun frowned, "It's possible." ”

The crowd couldn't eat it anymore.

"Ahem." Xiao Tonghai couldn't help coughing and asked his subordinates to call the cook.

The corners of everyone's mouths couldn't help twitching - what are you calling a cook?

Soon, the cook of the Wolf King's Fort came, a dark-skinned old man.

Zhan Zhao raised his face and bowed to the old man - just now he felt that every dish was delicious and special, and it turned out that the cook was him! Terrific.

"Ahem."

Zhan Zhao was looking up at the cook, when he heard Bai Yutang coughing beside him, and hurriedly turned his face to look at him-rat is uncomfortable? Eat a duck pear to lower the lung fire.

But I saw Bai Yutang warning him with his eyes-do you need to look so fond of it?!

The corners of Zhanzhao's mouth twitched, and he reached out and pushed Bai Yutang - eat less flying vinegar!

"Tatu, did you grow up near the glacier?" Xiao Tonghai asked the cook.

"yes!" The old man nodded.

"Are there any fish in the glacier?" Xiao Tonghai said, looking at the sandless not far away.

"Black, with a white line on the back......"

"Oh!" The cook, Tatu, nodded, "Black and white." ”

"Black and white?" Zhan Zhao asked, "What is the name of the fish?" ”

"Yes! There are a lot of small fish in the Binghe area, I also caught and ate it when I was a child, and the fish tasted bad, and there were a lot of bones. Tatu shook his head, "It's fishy." ”

"You say it's a small fish?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Yes, the smallest one is the size of a finger, and the largest one is the length of a chopstick." "Actually, now that I think about it, it might be delicious to fry it." ”

Everyone felt a little sick to their stomachs.

"What's wrong, young master?" Tatu seems to have been by Xiao Tonghai's side since he was a child, and it is very pleasant to call him a young master, "Do you want to eat fish?" Don't eat that black and white, I'll get you two bigger ones to eat. ”

"Okay." Without waiting for Xiao Tonghai to agree, Xiao Liang nodded, and Zhan Zhao also silently calculated-Wolf King Fort doesn't know if there are any fish that can't be eaten in the Central Plains!

Lin Yehuo listened, and asked Wusha, "Master, are you mistaken?" People obviously say it's a small fish. ”

"But that's what I saw, black, long and thin, with a white trail on its back, and it was a big fish." Wusha muttered, so that Tatu on the side heard it, and he nodded again and again, "There are few fish in the glacier, and what you can see is basically black and white." ”

Wusha asked, "That fish, can't it grow to the size of a human?" ”

"Oh, monk, you have encountered the black fish spirit, right?" Tatu shuddered.

Everyone couldn't help laughing.

"Many, much more! At least that's that big! "No sand to Tatu.

Tatu thought for a moment and said, "Speaking of which, when I was a child, I heard an old man in the neighborhood tell a legend about the black and white way, I don't know if the road can be done accurately?" ”

Xiao Liang patted the stool beside him, motioned for the old man to sit down, and said.

Tatu sat down and said, "That black and white way is just a local saying, because the real name is a little scary." ”

"What's your real name?" Gongsun asked, "Is it called a ghoul fish?" ”

Tatu was surprised and nodded, "Yes! This gentleman is so knowledgeable. ”

"What's the name......" Zhao Pu couldn't help but pout, "It's so ugly." ”

"Don't look at the name, but the legend of the ghoul ray is not scary." Gongsun said, "The ghoul fish is actually just a very ordinary small fish, this kind of fish is not afraid of cold, and lives at the bottom of the ice river in the far north all year round. A traveler had an accident while crossing the glacier and drowned in the river. Legend has it that after the corpse is frozen in ice, it cannot return to its homeland or be reincarnated. At this time, a school of ghoul fish will swim over, eat the carcass, and then swim to a place where there is no ice floes, sticking their heads out of the water...... In this way, the soul of the deceased can be reincarnated. ”

Everyone glanced at each other, and after a long time, Zhao Pu couldn't help but say, "Isn't it just a fat fish that eats corpses...... Make up such a nice excuse. ”

Gongsun glanced at him.

"This black and white way is the same as a lot of fish, if you eat better, you will grow up, and if you don't eat, you will freeze, there is no food in the glacier area, and it is understandable that you will grow small." Yin Hou held his chin, "But if the food is suddenly abundant, it is normal to eat fat." ”

Everyone nodded...... After talking for a long time, it seems that the clue found by Wusha is of little use.

"Hey......"

At this time, he heard the great monk Wusha sigh helplessly, "You ordinary people, how much time it takes from the flower to the flower, do you know the Tao?" ”

Everyone was stunned and a little confused.

Yin Hou and Tianzun smiled.

Lin Yehuo looked at Wusha, "It's time to talk about the big reason again......"

"It's not the truth, it's the Dharma!" Wusha was helpless, "You have no wisdom roots!" ”

Lin Night Fire scratched his head.

Everyone also looked at Wusha, "Monk, what do you want to say?" ”

"Do you know how long it takes for a fish to grow from the size of chopsticks to the size of a human...... Or how many generations will it take? Wusha asked

Everyone instantly felt awakened, touching their chins thoughtfully, "What is this......?"

Zhao Pu was also stunned, "Don't say it, if you don't have more than ten or twenty years, it may be really difficult!" ”

"In other words, those corpses are sinking one after another, starting a long time ago and continuing to this day, right?" Zhan Zhao asked.

"Amitabha." Wusha nodded, "I guess, there is some evil obstacle, practicing some evil and crooked kung fu there, and harming living beings!" ”

Everyone was stunned, "Practice? ”

Wusha shook his head and chanted the Buddha.

Everyone is in a hurry, why didn't the master say it at the critical moment?

Lin Yehuo spread his hands to everyone - the Taoist monk is this virtue, he speaks half of the word every time and then squats and recites the Buddha, it is useless to ask again! No way.

Everyone was quite helpless, and sure enough, strange people had strange tempers.

Seeing that Master Wusha was immersed outside his Three Realms, everyone had to go to see Yin Hou and Tianzun, and they always felt that they seemed to know something.

Tianzun touched his chin and looked at Yin Hou.

Yin Hou said, "Wusha may have remembered the martial arts many years ago. ”

"How many years ago, how many years ago?" Bai Yutang asked.

"A hundred years...... "Yin Hou estimated it, "At that time, the martial arts of the rivers and lakes were still in the melee stage, and demonic skills and witchcraft were very popular. ”

Everyone frowned - in fact, there are still some vicious kung fu practiced by killing people and bloodthirsty, which is very cruel.

Gongsun saw that everyone was talking more and more deeply, so he took the fourth son to sleep with Xiao Liang, and Xiao Tonghai also went to accompany his wife......

Soon, there were a few people left on the grass talking about serious things.

Zhao Pu asked, "Do you think that someone is using those missing soldiers in Beihai to practice evil kung fu, so that the internal force can be high like this, right?" ”

Yin Hou nodded, "Those soldiers should have died one after another, and the latest to die was at the top, so the few corpses you brought back were found to have died recently after Gongsun conducted an autopsy. But if these people had died recently, those fish would not have been able to eat so huge, and they would not have become a fat man if they ate them in one bite, and they would not have practiced pinball magic skills if they had not insisted on eating them for a hundred years. ”

Wusha's voice was broken, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he raised his face and looked at Yin Hou with resentment. What pinball magic.

Tianzun also hugged his arms and nodded, "That's it, it's obviously a meat ball magic skill!" ”

"Who is using that place to practice?" Bai Yutang frowned, "Is there such a master nearby?" ”

Zhan Zhao suddenly thought of it, poked Bai Yutang, and asked, "Could it be...... The mysterious man who killed those princes? ”

"It's possible......" Bai Yutang said, and asked again, "What about Xuanyuan?" Could it be that it is also possible? ”

"It's possible." Yin Hou said seriously, and Tianzun also nodded.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at the two of them, "Isn't Xuanyuan Ji's kung fu an evil demon's internal power?" ”

"That's right!" Tianzun smiled, "You also feel it, Xuanyuan Ji can't control his internal force well, but...... He's not crazy! And the ability to control one's own internal force is improving little by little. ”

"Oh......" Zhan Zhao understood, "In other words, Xuanyuan Ji is not to practice high internal force, but to make the internal force stable, he wants to try to control his internal force and use it to the maximum!" ”

Bai Yutang frowned, "No wonder there are three different ice surface changes...... It was the three levels of Xuanyuan Ji's internal force, and with the degree of control he had over his internal force now, he should only be able to successfully shatter and freeze part of the glacier. ”

"The other loose and in-between parts were caused ......by his previous internal strength when his internal strength was relatively weak," Zhao Pu felt reasonable, "What we considered before was that those soldiers fell into the glacier at the same time, but the fish that Master Wu Sha saw showed that these corpses may have accumulated for twenty years or even longer." On average, it may take hundreds of people to practice each time...... So, there is no need to shatter the surface of the whole river at all, a small part is enough! ”

Bai Yutang frowned, "If it's really Xuanyuan, then he still asked us to investigate the case?" ”

"Well, but Xuanyuan Jie usually can't see what he's thinking." Zhan Zhao frowned, "Don't be deceived by him, we should be crazy, maybe he will be fools." ”

Yin Hou said, "Judging from the strength of his internal force, he can only successfully control about half of his internal force at present, in other words, you and Yutang can join forces to restrain him." ”

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other - that's good!

"And who is the mysterious master of murder in the palace?" Zhan Zhao always felt uneasy...... If Xuanyuan Ji did this, and then it was related to the smiling fatherly appearance when he looked at Bai Yutang on weekdays, somehow...... Zhanzhao got goosebumps all over his body - could he have another purpose?

……

The next morning, everyone got up early and rushed to the glacier area on the border of the North Sea, only to find an amazing thing - all the corpses were gone!

And...... The glacier is also melting!

The glacier, which was originally completely frozen, now only had a thin layer of ice on the surface, and the river water was flowing below, and there were no corpses! There were many, many big fish, huge schools swimming under the ice, and a few of them had bulging bellies and turned over...... It was like he was about to die.

Bai Yutang was a little sick to his stomach when he saw this scene, and took a few steps back to the side.

Zhan Zhao was also puzzled, "What about so many corpses?" ”

Gongsun looked at Zhao Pu, and Zhao Pu looked at Ouyang and Zou Liang - the evil door is gone, and it was still there a few days ago!

The great monk Wusha was the most perplexed, "I saw it yesterday...... Why is it all gone today? ”

Yin Hou stretched out his hand, touched the ice, and said, "It may be that in the early hours of the morning, someone used internal force to shatter the ice along with the corpses in the ice...... Some of the fragments sank, some were washed away, and some were eaten by the fish.

Zhao Pu asked Zou Liang and them to go downstream to fish.

After a while, Zou Liang came back, carrying a black cloth bag in his hand, walked up to Zhao Pu and asked, "Are you sure you want to see it?" ”

Everyone came over and looked at the bag in his hand out of curiosity.

Before Zhao Pu could speak, Gongsun opened the bag and looked at it, shaking his head, "Oh, it's all fingers and eyeballs......"

Before he finished speaking, Zhan Zhao felt that Bai Yutang was about to vomit, and hurriedly reached out to help him rub his chest, "Oh, don't come over to see if you're afraid of getting dirty." ”

Bai Yutang looked down at Zhan Zhao's hand rubbing his chest vigorously - this cat felt that it was taking advantage of him more than helping him get lucky.

Just as they were uncomfortable, Yin Hou and Tianzun suddenly came over, one hand at a time, and gently patted Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao's shoulders, and said, "You two, if you want to know if Lu Dao did this thing Xuanyuan Ji, there is a way to try him out!" ”