A whistling cool breeze blew, this wind was not strong, when it blew on the person, it brought a biting cold feeling, which made the man who was originally wiping the water droplets on his body shiver, and the breath was much weaker at the moment, and involuntarily wrapped his arms, and sat down with a 'whoosh', borrowing the strings of the cabin to block the wind.

Song Qingxiao also felt a chill in the place where her back was wet with water, but the yin qi in the water was dispersed by the spiritual power in her body before it invaded her body, plus she belonged to a cultivator, and her spiritual power attribute was ice-based, this chill had no effect on her at all.

But there's something wrong here.

The five trialists were separated, and she was put on a boat bound for the Nine Dragons Cave to visit the so-called sacrificial ceremony.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw that the boat was sailing on a slender river, with towering green hills on both sides, sandwiching the long river in the middle, and the reflections on both sides covered it directly, blocking all the sunlight above, making the sky dark, as if it was approaching night.

The shadow of the mountain is reflected in the water, making the color of the river water appear as thick as black, and there is an eerie feeling.

Because there is no sunlight all year round, the yin here is extremely heavy, and the temperature is quite low, and several young adults who do not have the slightest spiritual power are faintly unbearable.

"Sacrificial ritual?" Song Qingxiao looked at the young man who was trembling with his arms around his chest, and asked, "What is that?" ”

When the young man with a pale face heard this, he immediately rubbed his big arm's hand for a moment, a little incredulous:

"Don't you know?"

"I don't know." She replied, and the young man's expression was even more surprised:

"You don't know what else you're here for?" He stole a glance at the inner compartment of the bow of the ship, lowered his voice and said, "It cost a lot of money." ”

"I've just heard it from someone once in a while, and I'm curious to come and see it."

"Curious?" The young man looked at her with a neurotic gaze, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "It's dangerous." ”

"Tell me how dangerous it is." When Song Qingxiao heard him say this, he knew that he should have a general understanding of the Nine Dragon Caves that the group was about to go to, so he immediately crossed his knees and sat down in front of him.

From the fact that this person was willing to remind him before, and that he could reach over and try to pull her at the critical moment, it proved that he was not bad-hearted, and he should be willing to talk to her after learning that he didn't know anything about the place he was going.

When the young man heard her question, he really showed a little hesitation.

He turned his head and glanced in the direction of the one-eyed old man before, as if he was a little hesitant, but in the end, as if he had figured out something, he gritted his teeth and said:

"This place is called the Heishui River, and it is the only way to go straight to the Nine Dragon Caves."

The so-called Nine Dragon Grottoes are actually an underground river located at the bottom of the mountain range.

The locals are not sure where the source of the river is, but legend has it that it comes from the sky and flows into the Nine Dragons Caves.

The Nine Dragon Caves are located in the interior of the mountain range, with many reefs, turbulent currents, and intricate terrain, which ordinary people dare not enter.

"When the tourism was developed, the local person in charge wanted to take advantage of the legend and use this place as a development project, making this place a major tourist attraction in the local area, but unfortunately it was very evil here......

When the young man said this, he couldn't help but glance in the direction where the one-eyed old man appeared before, and lowered his voice:

"Once the ship enters the boundaries of the Kowloon Caves, it cannot move again."

No matter whether it is a new ship or an old ship, as soon as it enters the Kowloon Cave, the engine will no longer rotate, and it will have to be rowed by manpower.

However, the terrain inside is complicated, like nine coiled dragons, not an experienced boatman, and there is no entry or exit here.

There are many scary legends circulating here, and when the locals tried to discourage the development of tourism, the people in charge of the project did not believe in evil, so they forcibly organized a team of people to enter.

As a result, as soon as the ship came, it extinguished the fire before it could enter the gate of the Nine Dragons Cave.

When the local guide saw this scene, he felt that something was not right, there are many legends about the Kowloon Caves here, and the locals have been told by their elders not to step into it easily.

No matter how much the person in charge coerced and enticed, he refused to take another step.

The person in charge of developing the tourism project does not believe in ghosts and gods, and thinks it is just nonsense.

Various rumors of the Kowloon Caves have been circulating in the local area for a hundred years, if this road can be opened up, and with the local rumors, it is conceivable that once this place is developed, I am afraid that more people will come to explore and visit.

Doing this is also a great achievement for him, how can he let it go so easily?

What's more, in modern society, the theory of ghosts and gods can be explained from a scientific point of view, in his opinion, the so-called rumors in the Nine Dragon Caves are just ignorant people back then, and when they saw some unexplained visions, they just spread falsehoods.

He did not listen to the local people's strong dissuasion, and when the boat's motor was turned off, he forcibly ordered a boatload of staff to paddle in.

In desperation, a boatload of people paddled in under the gaze of the locals.

After the boatload went in, they never came out.

It wasn't until three days later that the matter couldn't be contained, and after the trouble got bigger, the above sent people, and asked the local people who were familiar with the water to assist, and found a boatman who was familiar with the Nine Dragons Cave to lead the way, and after a long time in the Nine Dragons Caves, they finally found the boat that sailed into the Nine Dragons Caves that day.

But there was no one on the boat anymore, and the boat drifted down the river like a ghost ship.

When the locals, led by the boatman, pushed the boat out of the Nine Dragons Cave, they found that in just a few days, the paint on the hull had peeled off.

The motor and some modern equipment have been corroded, as if they have passed for decades, and they are almost unrecognizable.

If it weren't for the fact that there were some mobile phones and some documents that could prove that some of the people who entered the Kowloon Cave together that day, as well as the numbers left on the hull, I am afraid that no one would have dared to believe that the ship had become like this in only two or three days.

As soon as the boat was launched, the people who remained in the Blackwater River at that time were alarmed.

When I went in that day, the locals who stayed here had seen the new ship with their own eyes, and in just a few days, what happened in the Nine Dragons Caves?

There were about a dozen people on the boat, and there was no call for help or ring for several days, but now it disappeared mysteriously, where did it go?

"It is said that the back of the boat that was pulled away was identified, and there was no fight on it, and no blood stains were found on it, as if a boatload of people got off the boat out of thin air without thinking about it."

Due to the large number of people involved and the importance of the matter, it attracted the attention of the local municipal government, and sent someone to tow the boat away, and at the same time asked someone to enter the Kowloon Cave again to search at a high price.

To see people in life, to see corpses in death, such a large group of people to disappear mysteriously is really terrifying.

The incident was so bizarre that the boatman who led the way entered again, but this time it was not as lucky as the first time, and there were seven people on the ship who were familiar with the nature of the water, but only one of them survived.

"It's just that although the person still has a breath, he was seriously fatally injured, and after the municipal center made every effort to rescue him, he finally came back from the ghost gate." The young man paused for a moment, then added:

"The people who survived seemed to have memory loss, saying that it was a critical moment, and their memories were lost, and they didn't know what was going on."

Two groups of people had accidents in succession, and so many people died, and the local civic center naturally did not dare to take any more risks.

Later, I invited a master to come and see, saying that the feng shui here is special and very dangerous, so a forbidden area was established and no longer easy for people to enter.

The local civic center knew that such a thing could not be silenced at all, so it was very clever to use local legends to add more fuel and vinegar and exaggerate the matter tenfold.

In this way, the incident is half-true, and after a long time, many people regard this forbidden event as a rumor, which adds a mysterious and unpredictable feeling to the Nine Dragon Grottoes.

Song Qingxiao heard this and muttered for a moment.

The young man spoke wherever she wanted, and it sounded like it had nothing to do with her trial mission other than the same word 'dragon', and it seemed that she needed to find clues from this person's words herself.

When she heard the young man mention the second entry, she couldn't help turning her head in the direction of the one-eyed old man at the bow of the boat, as he had done before:

"The one who survived, the one who was at the helm before?" She thought about it, as if remembering that when she had just entered the trial scene, the young man seemed to mention a name in what he said, "Uncle Xiang? ”

When the young man heard her say this, he looked surprised, as if he did not expect her to react so quickly.

But then the young man thought of the hideous and terrifying wound on half of Uncle Xiang's face, even if it had healed, but everyone who had seen it was afraid, no wonder Song Qingxiao guessed it as soon as he guessed.

He nodded:

"Uncle Xiang was the only living mouth back then, it is said that the boatman who entered the Nine Dragons Cave twice at that time was Uncle Xiang's father, who was a famous person in our local area, famous for his good water nature, and his courage was also big, and he made a living by 'fishing for treasures', and traveled in this area all the year round."

The so-called 'treasure hunting' of young people does not refer to treasure in the true sense of the word.

There are too many rumors in the area from Heishui River to Jiulong Caves, and some people even say that the end of Jiulong Caves leads directly to the abode of the gods, which contains elixirs, jewels and jade, and immortal arts.

Because of all kinds of rumors, there are many people who venture to the Kowloon Caves every year.

But most of them didn't come back, they died here, their bodies washed into the river, and someone needed to salvage them.

Uncle Xiang's ancestors happened to do this, so they are very familiar with the roads in this area of the Nine Dragon Caves, and there are a lot of times in and out every year, dealing with dead corpses all year round, and the yin and evil qi on the body is enough, I thought I could hold it, but I didn't expect that there was no entry and no exit that time, and like everyone else, he died in the Nine Dragon Caves, and the bones have not been found so far, and they are still sinking under the water.

"But I feel like it's just speculation." The young man is obviously also affected by all kinds of rumors, although he was born here, but he doesn't believe in this kind of rumors with a fantasy color, and at this time he chatted with Song Qingxiao for a few words, as if he had opened the talking gate:

"I suspect that this is just a trick by the people in the village, just like when I was young, my grandmother said that if I don't obey, the dragon king will take me away, it's the same reason."

He said it casually, but Song Qingxiao's heart moved when he heard this.

(End of chapter)