Chapter 27: Beasts in the Water
Seeing Hua Muling suddenly fall backwards, I hurriedly rushed forward and hugged her, reached out to probe the tip of her nose, and found that although her snort was weak, her breath was there, so I was relieved.
I looked at Hua Muling's beautiful and pale face, and I couldn't help but feel a very guilty and self-reproachful feeling in my heart, I gently brushed aside the hair scattered on her face with my hand, and then murmured: "I'm sorry, Hua Muling!" I don't expect you to forgive me for doing this, but I had to do it to you. After all, it's just too complicated. Ay...... I wish you woke up and told me everything you know. ”
After saying that, I picked up Hua Muling, found a relatively dry place nearby, and laid her flat on the ground, while I found a stone wall and sat down against the wall.
I let out a long sigh, and the pain was so intense that I felt like my whole body was about to fall apart.
I rubbed my sore and swollen neck, then slowly took off my already soaked shirt and wrung out the moisture from it.
I sighed, I wanted to smoke a cigarette to relieve my slight nervousness, but the cigarette in my pocket had been blistered, I smiled wryly, and threw the cigarette case aside.
I have a habit of fiddling with something in my hand when I think about things, and when I am bored, I take out the tactical knife I have been carrying with me from my trouser pocket, put it in the palm of my hand and fiddle with it, and in my heart it is like a movie, and quickly go through everything that happened yesterday in my mind.
"What's going on here? Why am I suddenly the key to this? Who is the person who has been hiding behind the scenes? What exactly does he want to do? I couldn't stop thinking to myself.
But people are often like this, the more you try to figure out something, the more you can't find the direction.
I leaned against the wall and closed my eyes and thought for a while, but everything seemed like a mess, and I didn't have a clue.
Slowly, I fell asleep unconsciously.
I don't know how long it took, but I suddenly felt someone gently pushing me.
I slowly opened my eyes and found that the person who was pushing me was actually Hua Muling, I just wanted to speak, but Hua Muling covered my mouth.
Immediately afterwards, Hua Muling put her head to my ear, lowered her voice and said, "Shhhhhhh Don't speak loudly. Look over there......"
Hua Muling said and pointed to the river on the side, and when I looked in the direction of his finger, I couldn't help but gasp.
I saw that at this time, there were countless green snails shining with dark green light in the cold and dark river water, and they were slowly crawling out of it.
The green snails crawled forward, struggling to shed their shells, revealing their bodies, which could be seen through their internal organs.
Before this, Xiong Ming and I had suffered the loss of these green snails, so we naturally knew how powerful these guys were, and when we saw such a green pothos popping up at this time, we couldn't help but get goosebumps.
I gave Hua Muling a look, and then pulled her to tiptoe behind a falling rock that was more than half a meter high.
I whispered to Hua Muling and asked, "What is the situation?" ”
Hua Muling shook her head and said, "I don't know either!" When I woke up, I heard a strange chime, and after a while, I saw these guys coming out of the water and starting to go in one direction. ”
I whispered in surprise, "Did you hear the bell?" What bells? ”
Hua Muling nodded and whispered: "Yes, a very strange bell, like the kind of bell that rings when the temple tells the time, but it is very dull, which makes people sound very uncomfortable. ”
I whispered in surprise, "What are they doing here?" ”
Hua Muling shook her head and said in a very low voice: "I don't know either!" It just feels like they're attracted to something. ”
I frowned and thought for a moment, then I looked up at Hua Muling, I didn't speak immediately, I just stared at Hua Muling so directly.
Hua Muling was obviously very uncomfortable by my sudden move, and whispered, "Why are you looking at me like this? I don't have any flowers on my face! ”
I looked at Hua Muling for a while, and then asked in a very low voice: "Hua Muling, I want to know, can I still trust you?" ”
Seeing me suddenly ask, Hua Muling was stunned for a moment, and then lowered her voice and said, "Hu Tian, I know what you're thinking." But it's not what you think, maybe you don't believe it, but I didn't want to hurt you from the beginning. ”
I looked into Hua Muling's eyes, her eyes clear and determined. Although she didn't say much, no one was a three-year-old, and I knew that Hua Muling wasn't lying, which made me feel a little more guilty about my previous actions.
I sighed softly, lowered my voice and whispered, "Since that's the case, let's go!" ”
Hua Muling looked at me in surprise and asked, "Go?" Where to? ”
I pointed with my chin in the direction the green snails were heading and whispered, "Of course I'm going to see where these guys go!" As the so-called abnormality must be different, there must be something wrong with where these big cockroaches are put without hesitation. ”
Hua Muling frowned and whispered, "But ......"
Before Hua Muling could finish speaking, I interrupted her and whispered: "It's nothing, if we want to find the Quartet Seal in our current situation, it is estimated that there is only one way to go in Huashan." ”
After saying that, without waiting for Hua Muling to refute, I bent out from behind the stone and touched the direction where the green snails were going.
But I had only walked a few steps when suddenly the river not far away seemed to be boiling a pot, and a large bubble like a bucket bubbled out, and a few seconds later, a giant tortoise with a body size of five meters away burst out of the river.
This giant turtle is like the legendary Zhenbei Divine Beast Xuanwu descended into the world, except for the back of the turtle is dark black, the rest of the body shows a dark brown color that is almost metallic, in addition, its jaw, round eyes, and head have a single horn the size of a basketball, and when it screams, it is like a copper bell ringing, and the eardrum of people hurts.
What surprised me was that for some reason there were seven or eight black iron chains the thickness of adult thighs, and the other end of those chains went deep into the water, and I didn't know where it led.
I saw the giant tortoise burst out of the water, and the iron chains on its body were stretched straight in an instant. The giant tortoise seemed disgusted by the chains that bound it, and it began to struggle in anger.
But the chains seemed to shrink and tighten, and after dozens of seconds, the chains actually had the intention of dragging the giant turtle back to the bottom of the water.
The giant tortoise began to roar angrily, and the roar like a bell shook me and Hua Muling with splitting headaches, and our hearts were shaken.
After the giant turtle roared a few times, it began to crawl towards the shore like a desperate play, and with the sound of a "bang, bang, bang" iron chain dragging, countless green snails were crushed by the giant turtle on the shore, becoming dark red residues.
Seeing that the giant turtle seemed to be crazy and wanted to rush ashore, Hua Muling and I couldn't help but be shocked, and after swapping colors, the two of us quickly hid back behind the half-meter-high piece of the previous one.
As the saying goes, no book is written, and just as the two of us hid back in the shadows behind the stones, the sound of scale armor rubbing against the ground came from the top of the two of us.
Although the sound was not loud, it was the unique sound of reptiles moving, and whoever heard it at this time would inevitably send chills down their spine.
Hua Muling and I subconsciously looked at the top of our heads when we heard the sound, but it didn't matter if we didn't look at it, we were really startled when we saw a big white snake more than ten meters long, which was slowly swimming over the top of the two of us at this time.
This snake is as white as jade, with some red spots on its abdomen, barbs on the back of its neck, a pair of fleshy horns on its truck-sized head, a pair of red eyes like blood, and a half-meter-long snake letter spitting out from time to time.
"The snake has horns, the turtle can't escape, and the green dragon Xuanwu fights for the treasure?" Seeing the big white snake in front of me, I couldn't help but be surprised.
Hua Muling patted me and asked in a surprised whisper: "What is a snake horn, a turtle can't escape?" And what is the Qinglong Xuanwu Fighting for the Land Treasure? ”
I lowered my voice to a very low level, and then whispered: "When I was very young, my grandfather told me that if a snake has horns, it is not a snake, but a Jiao, which grows one meter every 50 years, and it takes at least 500 years to grow to ten meters. And every 500 years, Jiao has a chance to turn into a dragon with thunder, but the heavenly thunder is the most rigid and yang thing, although Jiao has a hundred years of practice, but it can't bear it, so Jiao will do everything possible to find the treasure in the world. ”
After speaking, I pointed to the big white snake that had just swam above the two of us, and whispered: "This big white snake has a fleshy horn on its head, it is obvious that it has incarnated into a Jiao, this time I came here to be attracted by the bell you said before, to find the treasure hidden in this place, and after devouring it, it will turn into a Neidan to help myself survive the catastrophe in the future." ”
Hua Muling looked at the big white dragon, and then looked at the giant tortoise that looked like Xuanwu and said, "That's just the same purpose compared to the giant tortoise?" and those green snails, it is estimated that they were also attracted by that thing, so they crawled towards that side so desperately. ”
I nodded and said, "That's right! If my estimate is correct, that baby probably won't be around from time to time, that's why these guys have such a big reaction. One is the supreme Xuanwu of the north, and the other is the overlord of the east, Qinglong, I really don't know what kind of good objects can attract these two great gods. Grandma's, I want to see what it is? ”
With that, I quietly got up and leaned against the wall and began to move forward little by little.
Hua Muling asked in surprise behind me, "Do you really want to join in the fun?" ”
I glanced at Hua Muling and said, "Go and see, maybe there is still a way to live." If we stay here, don't you think that once these two guys fight, we will be like those green snails here, and we will become cannon fodder every minute? ”