After tossing for a long time, I returned to the fork in the road, and I didn't leave anything and made a commotion, which was really unexpected, but fortunately, the monitor lizards in the river did not follow.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and I asked Xiu Ling to stop the boat at the fork first, and then discuss with the rest of the people what to do.

The Taoist priest sighed and said: "Alas, this road is impassable, so many monitor lizards, even if there is an iron plate armored ship, it is not enough to see, I really don't know how your third uncle passed them?" ”

I also wondered, "Maybe they are many and powerful, and they are all masters!" ”

Even I don't believe in this, if you want to say that if you encounter these lizards on land, maybe the third uncle and they can still fight with their skills, but now this is in the water, no matter how awesome you are, as long as people lift your boat, no matter how powerful the master is, when he gets to the water, he has to at least make a discount on his ability to be in the water. The monitor lizard is different, this thing is as flexible in the water, with the advantage of size and numbers, plus that kind of strange sound, it is possible to be completely wiped out by surprise.

Sure enough, as soon as I spoke, the Taoist priest shook his head and said impossible, the group of people that the third uncle was looking for were at most more powerful than him, and some were even inferior to him.

At this time, I remembered the wreckage of the boats on the river beach where I camped last night, and asked, "Hey, you say, is it possible that the disintegrated boats we saw on the river pond and tidal flats were attacked by a group of monitor lizards, and this became like that?" ”

The doctor immediately shook his head, "No way, you've all seen the corpse of the monitor lizard, the claws are very different from the human hand, it is impossible to cause the kind of claw marks on the wreckage, and besides, the monitor lizard only hit the ship with its head, and did not use its limbs." ”

The monitor lizard on the boat was thrown into the water by the Taoist priest when he fled for his life just now, saying that it was to reduce the weight. Although the body is gone, I remember it very clearly in my mind, and when I think about it carefully, it is really what the doctor analyzed.

But if those wrecked ships were not attacked by monitor lizards and disintegrated, it means that the third uncle and they have at least passed the monitor lizard level, and the real fatal change is after the monitor lizard.

I was thinking about it in my heart, when the doctor suddenly looked at me and the Taoist priest, and asked with some uncertainty: "Reporter, Taoist priest, do you think this monitor lizard is a little familiar?" ”

Hearing this, the Taoist priest and I were stunned, familiar, what do you mean? I hurriedly asked the doctor why he said that?

The doctor lifted his glasses and talked about the corpse we found by the river bay a few days ago, and after he reminded him, the faces of the Taoist priest and I suddenly changed, and we blurted out almost at the same time: "Tongue, you said that tongue?" ”

Seeing the doctor nodding, the Taoist priest and I were shocked, the tongue we mentioned in our words was referring to the thing that was rolling the remains we found into the underground pit by the downstream river bay.

At that time, it happened so suddenly, we only saw that the red thing that swept away the corpse was a tongue, and as for the part of the thing that poked out of the cave, we didn't really see it, but now we can contact the monitor lizard in the river, damn it, the one who swept away the corpse is clearly also a monitor lizard!

Just the tongue that came out of the pit was the size of an adult, and how huge should its body be hidden in the cave?

Thinking of this, I subconsciously swallowed my saliva, only to feel a chill rush up from my back spine.

The Taoist priest and the doctor could naturally think of the questions that I could think of, and their faces all became solemn and they stopped talking.

At this point, I really have no choice, unless I can get the boat to fly over, the swarm of monitor lizards that stand in the way will be difficult to cross anyway.

Of course, we can also try to take the other two rivers, but that is completely useless, because the third uncle did not go from here at all, and the hinterland of the 100,000 mountains is complex, the mountains are extended, and the direction of the water veins is even more missed.

I sighed in my heart, third uncle, third uncle, what can you do for me?

Just when we didn't know what to do next, Lin Qiao'er suddenly exclaimed, which startled me a lot, and I thought it was a group of monitor lizards chasing after us.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" I asked, looking at her.

Lin Qiao'er didn't have a panicked look on her face, and pointed to the river where we had just escaped and exclaimed, "Look, it's back!" ”

"Coming back? What's coming back? I was puzzled, and instinctively turned my head to look, and I was suddenly shocked, only to see Sister Bailing's tracking paper puppet appear at the mouth of the river.

Everyone including Sister Bailing was taken aback, according to the characteristics of the paper puppet described by the Taoist priest, it was impossible to return unless......

Compared to before, the speed of the paper figure is much slower, looking at this swaying appearance, it seems that it can be blown off as long as there is a breeze, and judging by the situation, it should be that the spiritual energy is about to run out.

The paper golem didn't fall after all, it flew over our heads, didn't stop, flew into the rightmost river channel as I guessed, and disappeared from our field of vision.

The facts verified my conjecture, I stood up suddenly, and said excitedly to the rest of the people: "I understand, the third uncle they did walk on the left river at the beginning, but I don't know why, they found that the road was wrong, so they turned back again, you see this paper puppet, it returned after we were attacked by monitor lizards, which shows that the third uncle They are actually not much deeper than us, so the paper puppet will return so quickly, and the river channel that the paper puppet chooses now is the final route of the third uncle!" ”

In fact, I don't need to say it, most of them have already thought of it, and the doctor frowned and said to me: "Your previous analysis is correct, but the river that the paper golem is entering now is not necessarily the final route, and I even have some doubts that they will not know the correct route either, only know that the target is upstream, so they try one by one." ”

I was stunned, I didn't expect this, but the doctor's words are not impossible, if this is the case, then the third uncle is likely to try the river on the left, and found that they could not cross the obstacle of the monitor lizard, so they tried to change the river channel on the right.

If this is the case, then this is not good news for us, because none of us can judge whether the third uncle and their second choice is correct, if they still go wrong, then the river on the right must also be very dangerous, we dare to follow up, the good luck is unpredictable!

You can't walk on the left, and you don't dare to walk on the right, how can this be good?

The doctor explained the current situation to everyone, and Xiu Ling immediately asked suspiciously: "Since you can't do it left and right, why don't you try the middle?" ”

"Alas, you can't go in the middle!" The doctor shook his head and smiled wryly, explaining, "We can't be sure if they ended up on the right, if not, then the middle is the final route they took, but if it is, if we go further to the middle, it will diverge from the route they took." ”

Lin Qiao'er was a little depressed after listening to the doctor's explanation, so she asked, "Then what should we do, we can't stay here all the time, right?" ”

The doctor thought for a moment and said, "It's not impossible, we can wait and see if the paper puppet will fly back again......"

"Don't wait!"

Before the doctor could finish his words, he was interrupted by Sister Bai Ling, who shook her head and explained, "The paper golem's spiritual energy is almost exhausted, and it is impossible to come back!" ”

This is undoubtedly a basin of ice water in the cold winter, which has poured everyone cold. I asked Sister Bai Ling if she could make another paper puppet, she said yes, but it was useless, even if it was made, this second paper puppet would still be the same as the first paper puppet, first go to the river on the left, and then enter the river on the right, and will not continue the footprints of the first puppet, which has nothing to do with the number of paper puppets, it is only related to Sister Bailing's cultivation, if it is replaced by a paper puppet tied by grandma, maybe the three rivers can be made transparent.

For this fact, we all felt helpless, there was really no way to come, Sister Bailing said to us, just take the river on the right side to try, as long as you are careful, cautious, and turn back immediately when you encounter an unmanageable danger, there will be no problem.

As soon as we heard it, it seemed that this was the only way to do it at the moment, so we all agreed.

The boat moved and soon entered the rightmost fork in the road.

Because of what happened just now, this time everyone didn't dare to be careless, and their spirits collapsed tightly, paying close attention to the situation in the river.

When I woke up in the morning, the sky was still sunny and the sun was shining, I thought it must be a sunny day, but I didn't realize that only three or four hours had passed, and the sun was obscured by clouds, and the sky was overcast.

The river channel covered by the dense forest was already a little underlit, but when the sky changed, it became even darker.

My mood was also like this moment of weather, extremely depressed, and the danger lurking around the dense forest was breathless

The Taoist priest patted me on the shoulder, smiled and asked me if I was scared, I nodded, shook my head again, and said that no one is not afraid, but Fengyang and Yeling I have broken through, even if there is an evil sect here, it will not be more terrible than those two places combined, right?

Now I am more worried in my heart, worried about my father and third uncle, worried that there will be casualties among the six of us this time, after all, the figures of those who died in the ancient town are still haunting my mind, and I really don't want anyone to die because of me, especially these people on the ship.

The Taoist priest laughed when he heard my words, laughing at me for worrying about the sky, saying that everyone's life is constant, and that the heavens will determine that you will die today, even if you try harder, it will be in vain, and you will not be able to run away when you die, and there is no such thing as who harms who in this world.

In order to reassure me, the Taoist priest also gave me an example: "Just say that the couple last time, the fate of the couple has been decided, and no one can change it, and then they meet you, and you will become their catastrophe." But even if you don't go to Xiangnan, you don't go to the ancient town, and you don't meet them, in the same way, when the time comes, there will be other things that will become their calamity, sometimes it is a person, sometimes it is a thing, a grass, a tree may be fateful and cannot be stopped.

So instead of thinking about so many things that you don't have, it's better to be open to face and experience. What is gone, we cherish it, what is still alive, we cherish it, life, that's all! ”

Looking at the Taoist priest who was talking about these philosophies seriously at this moment, I didn't see the obscenity on his face for the first time, but felt a trace of enlightenment, and when I looked at him again, I felt that he had an indescribable meaning all over his body.

Once again, I was impressed by the Taoist priest, no, maybe the Taoist priest at this moment is the real Taoist priest.

Just when I just felt that I couldn't understand this guy, the old turtle who was resting on the top of the Taoist priest's head was woken up, glared at me with an unhappy face, and opened his mouth to spit thunder, I was frightened, and hurriedly hid behind the third child.

The third child, who was napping, raised his eyes and glanced at the old turtle, so frightened that it immediately swallowed back the thundercloud that had been spit out to his mouth, and exploded in his mouth with a poof, like that, not to mention how embarrassed it was.

I saw it and laughed, the old turtle was sullen, but he couldn't provoke the big black dog, so he could only stare at it, sprinkle his anger on the Taoist priest, open his mouth and spit it out, and suddenly a huge black gas far greater than the thundercloud just now split on the Taoist priest's face.

A terrible wail came, and the Taoist priest who was scorched and blackened with a bewildered face wailed loudly, not to mention how sad it was.

This is a small episode on the way, which makes our overly depressed hearts get a little spice, but this day will not be sunny because of our mood improves, dark clouds are accumulating, the sky is getting darker and darker, and the rain finally falls.

Compared to the downpour of the previous days, it is not a lot of rain at the moment, but it is a pretty bad situation for us.

In the deep mountains, the rain is most likely to coalesce together, forming a torrent, and then the water flows into the river, which is very easy to make the water surface rise rapidly, forming a torrent.

We packed up our things and retracted into the cabin, which was not large, but it was lucky that it could squeeze six people and a dog.

The dense raindrops formed a rain curtain, making it even more difficult to see the already dark surface of the river, and everything was hazy and could not be seen at all beyond ten meters.

The ship was still moving forward, but at the slowest speed, leaving only the sound of rain outside the cabin and inside the cabin, even drowning out the roar of the engines.

Under such circumstances, the boat went forward for more than an hour, and the rain did not stop, but we found that the originally narrow river channel was much wider, and as we continued to move forward, the river continued to widen.

In this case, there must be an extremely wide body of water not far ahead, and perhaps that is the lake in the mountains that we are looking for!

Thinking of this, everyone's spirits were suddenly lifted, and they didn't care about the problem of vision, so they drove forward quickly with full horsepower.