Chapter 41: Roar
The clattering sound became clearer and clearer, and the boat beneath our feet began to rock.
"There's something down here?" Dong Tian swayed his body and used the crossbow arrow to carry the sampan. "Be careful, Brother Dong, lean back, don't fall in." I pulled him to my side.
I closed my eyes and pretended not to hear the voice, which at first clearly did not intend to let us go.
"Brother, what should I do?" Dong Tian's body swayed with the boat, as if he was drunk. I looked at Su Xiao, who was still ugly in my arms, and I was in trouble for a while.
If Dong Tian and I were alone just now, how could we escape to the shore, but with Su Xiao, things became complicated. I had a feeling that this thing under the water wouldn't make it easy for me to get ashore.
By this time the boat had ceased to move forward, but had begun to spin and turn on the river like a whirlpool, and those who watched were dazzled. "Brother Dong, there is a whirlpool under this water, let's get off the boat quickly, otherwise we will wait faster and faster, and we won't be able to leave."
Then I tried to take a few steps forward. I didn't know that when my feet stepped on the sampan, it creaked, and the things under my feet began to move.
The sound swam back and forth where I stood, and my face turned pale, and I knew this guy was at my feet, but I didn't know why it hadn't been attacked.
I couldn't help it, I knew in my heart that what was under the water was consumed by me. He turned around and walked back to where he had been. When I walked to Dong Tian's side, I whispered to him and asked him to wait and go ashore first.
"Why?"
I told him that I felt that I was consumed with this thing, and I guess I couldn't let me go, and I walked slowly with Su Xiao on my back, so he asked him to go ashore first to meet us.
Actually, I have another idea in my heart, I want to see what this thing is, I remember my father told me about this situation when I was a child, but now I am not sure.
Dong Tian thought about it, then nodded, suppressed his steps, took a few steps back, and then rushed forward with a brisk step, and then plunged into the water, swimming to the shore lifelessly.
"Brother Dong, hurry." As soon as Dong Tian got out of the water, I heard the sound pause, and then it became even more poignant when it sounded again, and it was obviously angry that thing.
I saw a black shadow behind Dong Tianzhi approaching him quickly.
"Brother Dong, behind you!"
Dong Tian listened to my words, and his body was still swimming forward, but when the black shadow approached, he suddenly turned around and stabbed the crossbow arrow in his hand at the thing with all his might.
"Woohoo!"
The black shadow probably didn't expect Dong Tian to be so ruthless, let out a terrible cry of pain, and then hit the surroundings like crazy, Dong Tian's body was hit by blood waves like duckweed in the water.
The boat was about fifty meters away from the shore, and Dong Tian swam over twenty meters by himself, and the black shadow tossed down, and the water waves surged towards the shore one by one, pushing Dong Tian to swim to the shore faster.
Probably because that guy was afraid of Dong Tian, or maybe my shouting alerted it, in short, it decisively let go of Dong Tian and disappeared underwater again.
But all of a sudden, my heart went to my throat, damn it, danger is coming.
When I saw Dong Tian, he swam to the shore and waved at me, signaling that I was safe. But I felt bitter in my heart, but then I saw Su Xiao's haggard face, and I gritted my teeth.
At that moment just now, I had seen the black shadow clearly, which was what my father told me, and the thing that boaters on the Yellow River were most afraid of was called a mandrill.
I don't know how such a thing could have happened in this underground river, but his pale face was rotted by blisters, his hair was more than a foot long, his clothes were all tattered with weathered strips of cloth, and there were two holes in his chest, which were knotted in his chest by two thick hemp ropes. The drooping head was covered with long hair, and it swelled with the waves of water. All this made me sure that it was definitely a mandrill.
"Brother Dong, you got me something over there and lit it, I can see it, I'll wait a minute, this thing is a mandrill, it's a big trouble." I puffed up my voice and asked Dong Tian on the shore to arrange it for me.
Fuck, I've heard my grandfather say that this thing is usually formed by the resentment of people who die in the Yellow River, but I didn't provoke it, what did you do if you found me.
Then I thought about the possibility, could it be something in me? Or is it Su Xiao in my arms?
But the mandrill clearly wasn't going to give me time to figure it out. At this moment, the boat under my feet suddenly stopped, stopped spinning on the water, and just stopped straight in the middle of the water.
There was no wind in the underground canal, but I could feel a chill rushing through my mouth and nose, making me shiver.
"Su Xiao, whether you live or die, it's up to you for a while!" I was ruthless, and muttered to the unconscious Su Xiao, and then used the same method as before to fix Su Xiao on my back, I tried it, it was more reliable, in case I met the water mandrill later, there was also the possibility of fighting.
"Brother Dong, wait for you to answer me!" I howled at Dong Tian. As soon as I spoke, I felt that the ship that had been stagnant was shaking.
I suddenly remembered the legend about the mandrill, which is said to be so powerful that it is stained with immortality. I don't know if there is such a thing as a mandrill in this world, but this thing in front of me is exactly what my father described to me.
The clatter sound sounded again, and at the same time I felt the boat under my feet sway violently, I took a step forward, and saw a patch of brown hair appear in the original scarlet river in front of the boat, and a pair of scarlet eyes rushed out of the hair, staring at me viciously.
"I'll go, it's so fierce!" I shuddered and took a step back, but it was so easy. The mandrill saw me, and clasped the boat with a pair of claws, and roared wildly, apparently trying to shake me into the water.
I've heard my grandfather say that people can't fight with mandrills in the water, that's his world, and if he gets it, he will die!
As soon as the boat shook, my body immediately began to sway violently on the boat, "Damn, I want to kill Lao Tzu, no way, ball thing!" I breathed a sigh of relief without fear, and my feet shook and my calves and stomach shook like iron towers nailed to the sampan, and my body swayed with the boat.
This trick is famous, and it's called the town tower. We Yellow River sand diggers used to dig sand and want to earn a living in the wind and waves, relying on this ability. This town tower is also a foreign kung fu, pay attention to a mouthful of dantian gas, force town Wanlisha. Although I went to school since I was a child, I learned this kung fu with my father. I originally thought that the Yellow River would be diverted, and the sand diggers would become sand diggers, and this kung fu would be wasted, and besides, I would not have the opportunity to use it when I went to school. What I didn't expect was that this town tower handed down by my father has become a magic weapon for me to save my life today.
"Master, master, did you expect such a day?"
The mandrill saw that I was actually standing firmly on the sampan, and it shook for a long time, but I did not move at all, and the fierce light on my face flashed, which was very strange.
Suddenly a wisp of scarlet flashed in those eyes, and I secretly said no, panicked, this thing has to do something else. Sure enough, I saw the mandrill stare at me, and then he sank into the water, and the brown hair disappeared into the river.
"Where?" I looked at it for a long time, but I didn't find where this guy was hiding, and the heaviness in my heart was even greater. This guy is very shrewd, and this time he hid it, and I spent it. It's in the dark, I'm in the light, and the situation is too bad for me.
If I were alone, I would still be able to consume it with it, but Su Xiao's breathing on my back was getting weaker and weaker, and my body was hot and cold, and I knew that Su Xiao was sick. Su Xiao can't afford it!
At this time, Dong Tian didn't know how to use a fire to raise on the riverbank, and the fire passed through the darkness, shining a string of vague shadows on the surface of the river, exuding a strange halo
Suddenly, I felt the boat shook, and then there was a click, and the paws, which had been dry, rose up from the bottom of the river through the sampan and grabbed my trouser legs.
"I'll wipe it, you want to kill Lao Tzu, no way!" I slammed back, one step back, and then the other foot stomped hard at the claw.
Click!
As soon as I stepped down, the paw was completely bent to the side by my stamping, and the stubble of Bai Sensen's bones creaked through the friction between the dry and rotting flesh and the wood on the sampan.
"Whew!"
I looked at the hand angrily, thinking it was over, but before I could rejoice, a violent roar came from under the water, and the claw grabbed my ankle again without being affected.
"It's over!" I screamed in my heart, is it going to be over?
Then I felt the claw start to exert force, trying to pull me into the water along the hole in the sampan.
"If you want my life, Lao Tzu wants your life first!" I knew that when it came to life and death, I couldn't care so much, so I struggled violently, and the other foot kept rising and falling, stomping the claw that was about to break.
The shoes I wore were made for me by my mother. At first, we make paste on the cloth, which is stuck layer by layer, and then dried, and then put on raw cowhide on both sides, densely packed with needles and threads, and then put it under the sun to dry it, which is hard and hard like a stone.
I stomped around, I didn't know if the mandrill felt pain, but my feet were starting to go numb, but as the mandrill grew faster and higher, I didn't think it was much better.
My heart is slightly happy, but happy and sad.
There was a jolt under my feet, and then I heard the sampan click, and a crack appeared under my feet!