Chapter 41: The River
Let's say that Sun Ji and Lu Chun found a river in front, there seemed to be a clue, Fu Jing was overjoyed, and immediately took everyone and ran over, and saw that there was a river four or five meters wide in front of him, which was the depth of the hills of Cangwu Hill, and it seemed that it was the upper reaches of the river, meandering to the southeast.
Near them had been pulled up a wet stone, which had been smooth with moss, and on one side there were a few trench-like marks, and when I scraped them open, the marks were a little strange, as if they were gnawed by some kind of animal, and seemed to be full of sharp teeth.
Lu Chun asked Hong Gang to cut the stone, and after the Thunder Sword slashed it open, he did find a small green mine, and he knew that there must be an animal that smelled the green ore in the stone and wanted to devour it, so in this way, this green ore can not only attract vegetation, but also tempt some animals.
Lu Chun asked people to catch two small animals, and after melting the green ore into liquid, they fell to the ground, but found that the two small animals didn't like to eat these green ore spirit sources at all, so this green ore may be a special spirit source, aimed at specific animals and plants.
Lu Chun seemed to be still testing his conjecture, just a little below the river, using tree vines to blend into the water, catching two strange fish, let them try, the result, still not right, Lu Chun's face was a little happy, making Yu Ying full of doubts, I don't know what Lu Chun is thinking? I can even laugh.
Lu Chun seemed to see that the boss's face was slightly wrong, so he said: "This green mine spirit source has a fatal temptation to ordinary plants, I am almost sure, this green mine may be the spiritual source of the Jianmu Divine Tree, there should be a small Jianmu tree in the Cangwu Hill, but the Jianmu is too small to find, however, according to some legends, there are special fierce beasts growing west of Jianmu, and now the stone that wraps the green ore has these traces, I think that special fierce beast will live nearby?" Most likely an aquatic beast? The river here is too shallow to exist, so let's follow this river and look downstream? I feel like there's going to be a big discovery! ”
In the current situation, Fu Jing seems to only believe in Lu Chun, a geological expert, so immediately everyone set off and moved down the river, and sure enough, seeing that the river is getting wider and wider, and the depth of the water surface is deepening, Lu Chun launched the tree vines and probed into the river, but unfortunately, there is no major discovery, so he had to continue to go downstream, and finally, he walked more than ten kilometers along the river, and the river has been wide to fifty or sixty meters, and the water surface is wide and deep. Green Spring is at the edge of this wide river, and it is poked into the water with tree vines.
The distance of the green spring monster tree vine can only reach more than 30 meters, slowly extending along the river under the water, diagonally down, only to more than 10 meters on the water surface, the depth of the water, has exceeded more than 30 meters, if you go to the middle of the river, I don't know how many meters of water depth? And they looked at the distance of the river, and found that the river surface was no longer as turbulent as just now, and it seemed to have reached the most gentle river area, and the width of the river seemed to be extreme, only fifty or sixty meters wide.
Green Spring slowly groped down the underwater soil, and finally, dragged out a stone from under the river, there were a lot of pitted scratches on it, no, a bit like a bite trace, judging from the new and old traces, the time did not exceed a few years, that is to say, there was really some kind of aquatic beast living in this water, and I liked to eat this green mine spiritual source, however, after cutting this big stone, I found that the green mine was not very big, smaller than the thumb, and there were not many spiritual sources, it is estimated that this is the reason why those water beasts gave up after trying.
Midoriharu felt that they should find a way to catch the aquatic beast in order to validate her idea. At this time, Lei Yan suddenly said, "Then isn't this easy to do?" Let's make a fishing rod and catch that aquatic beast in this river, won't we! ”
Lu Chun smiled slightly, did not refute Lei Yan's thoughts, Lei Yan suddenly arrogantly straightened her chest, which means that when this girl was also proud, Fu Jing immediately asked Hong Gang and Sun Ji to get a fishing rod, and Lu Chun also found a way to get two more green mines, so as not to be caught off guard when they got it. Lu Chun nodded, and immediately used the tree vine to sense some green ore breath in the river again, and soon, he got two more pieces.
Hong Gang and Sun Ji also made a fishing rod, and the fishing line was naturally the kind of jack string, and then, they also made a special fishing hook with alloy steel wire, tied the green ore to the hook, and also made a fish float on the string to avoid being hooked when the time came, and they couldn't hook the water beast at the first time.
After doing this, Hong Gang and Sun Ji respectively threw out the fishing line at a distance of 100 meters in this wide river, and landed in the center of the river, where the fish floated and they waited for the results.
Waiting is torturous, but at the same time it is exciting, at least they found a clue, but Yu Ying is a little uneasy, he feels more and more that the purpose of these people is not pure, and there may even be huge hidden dangers, but as a hostage, he still does his own consciousness, and stays by the side when he has time, secretly transporting the magic of the gods, quietly driving and devouring the black line, and eating the wolf poison in the body.
Sure enough, Lu Chun's guess was not out of Lu Chun's guess, in less than two hours, Hong Gang's fish float suddenly planted in the water, he grabbed the fishing rod violently, and lifted it up, and immediately hooked a certain water beast, however, the water beast seemed to be extremely fierce, and instantly pulled the fishing line, drawing an arc on the water surface. Hong Gang pulled back desperately, but he didn't expect the water beast to struggle more and more violently, and the water marks were wandering everywhere, and the speed was very fast. Fu Jing was shocked: "Hong Gang, fishing should be loose and tight, and brute force should not be used to avoid breaking free from the prey!" ”
Hong Gang hurriedly loosened the fishing line, but he pulled him, stumbled, and almost loaded into the water, fortunately, the fishing line was long enough, so he loosened some fishing lines, and sure enough, the water beast was pulling and wandering around, but it didn't surface, and he couldn't see what kind of water beast it was? But the strength of the water beast's struggle is obviously not as strong as just now, Hong Gang seems to have gradually mastered the scale of fishing, one loose and one tight, just like walking a dog, elastic and tight, in the end, the water beast is really in the water, swimming a little tired, but Hong Gang is also sweating, secretly scolding the power of this water beast is really a headache, the sustainability is too strong, at least more than half an hour.
Fu Jing saw that Hong Gang seemed to be a little exhausted, so he went up in person, grabbed the fishing rod with one hand, and began to stir the fishing line, and finally, pulled the fishing line to the river surface of more than ten meters, and then, Fu Jing actually broke out with brute force, and suddenly pulled the water beast on the fishing hook out of the water with a bang.
It's just that to everyone's surprise, the water beast pulled out turned out to be a human-faced fish beast water beast with a mouth full of fangs, the lower body is a fish body, but the upper body is a human-faced human body, without arms, the mouth is a little big, full of sharp teeth, almost more than two meters long, it is a human-faced fish beast.
Shaking his head frantically, he seemed to want to use his sharp teeth to scrape the fishing line, but fortunately, these fishing lines were entangled with alloy steel wires, which were not worn out for a while, but were pulled out by Fu Jing, and suddenly smashed on the river beach behind, shaking the fishtail violently, swinging wildly, opening his mouth to bite them, as if he saw them pounce, and immediately showed his mouth full of sharp teeth, and snorted and intimidated them, I couldn't understand what it was saying?
Fu Jing glanced at Sun Ji who pounced, Sun Ji immediately manifested a wolf claw, jumped over, and slapped a wolf claw on the head of the human-faced fish beast, making him scream, he was honest, and shook his head a little, but seeing them coming, he still swung his fish tail and made a threatening gesture. Sun Ji seemed a little surprised, he didn't stun this human-faced fish beast with a wolf claw, but with another claw, he completely stunned this human-faced fish beast.
Everyone walked over and found that the upper body of this human-faced fish beast was similar to that of a man, but its mouth was sharp, and there were two rows of gills next to its ears.
Because the human-faced fish beast fainted, Lu Chun immediately came over, broke open the mouth of the human-faced fish beast, and under the mouth full of sharp teeth, there was blood, and found that the green ore was swallowed into the stomach by the human-faced fish beast, and the stomach was hooked, so it was bleeding, like a hungry dog pounced on food, swallowing all the dates, and it was determined that this green ore was indeed the fatal temptation of this human-faced fish beast.
Lu Chun is a geological expert, but he still has a lot of understanding of some legendary things, and after carefully observing this human-faced fish beast, he said to Fu Jing: "Judging from the appearance of this human-faced fish beast, it is much stronger than ordinary human-faced fish beasts, and there is a special green ore breath in the blood. If this human-faced fish beast is indeed the kind of monster with a human-faced fish body, then the Jianmu Divine Tree must be in the vicinity of here! Legend has it that the tree is shaped like a cow, the bark is like a yellow snake, and the leaves are like a net. Let's look around, is there any of these similar plants? ”
As a result, after looking for it, the range expanded to seven or eight kilometers, but there was nothing, Lu Chun suddenly patted his head and said: "Legend has it that the Jianmu Divine Tree lives next to the weak water, and the water of this river, although it makes some leaves rise and fall, but it is by no means weak water, but there must be some weak water along with this river, otherwise, it will not let the withered yellow leaves rise and fall, perhaps, the Jianmu Divine Tree is not on the surface of this cangwu hill, but in other places?" ”
Lei Yan said: "You have made it clear, not above the ground, is it still underground?" ”
Lu Chun smiled slightly: "Is it really possible to be underground?" It's not that you haven't noticed that the material of those green ores in the water is not strong, and even some human-faced fish beasts don't have the patience to gnaw off the shell of the stone, and they will definitely not attract the Jianmu Divine Tree to use the roots to root in the green ore, although the roots of the Jianmu Divine Tree are huge, but like an abyss, but, I think the Jianmu Divine Tree is very likely to really grow underground? ”
Lei Yan seemed to hear some arrogance of Lu Chun, and seemed to be aimed at her, so she said very uncomfortably: "Lu Chun, you are not blind, are you looking at the white river water?" Do you want us to dive underwater? You don't want to think about the ferocity of this human-faced fish beast, even Sun Ji hit it twice before knocking it out, it can be seen that the combat power in the water, even if you are two, you are not an opponent! ”
Fu Jing snorted: "What are you arguing about?" Now what are we trying to figure out? It's not the mother-in-law scolding, shut up Lao Tzu! ”
Lei Yan pouted, and then, coquettishly: "Didn't I want to make the situation clear?" ”
Fu Jing snorted: "Don't pretend to understand." If you don't understand this, don't get involved! Green Spring, you say, what should I do? ”
Lu Chun nodded: "Entering the water from this river, even if we prepare diving suits, it is not a way, but this river flows downward, do you find it, only when you get to this river, there will be some dead leaves on the water surface, if there is really weak water infiltration, that is in the downstream part, let's continue to look around the downstream, maybe we can really find a place to enter the underground?" ”
Everyone had no choice but to nod their heads and follow the river down to find it, but a few kilometers away, they found that the river had flowed through a low mountain and became an underground river.