Chapter 22: The Water Monkey
Ge Zhuang, as my best brother in life and death, I would not see him in distress, so I immediately swam to Dong He's side as fast as I could, grabbed one of his arms, and pulled him outward, but he couldn't pull at all.
I felt a very powerful force, which was stalemate with me and Ge Zhuang, this power was very huge, and it was not something I could control at all, and the reason for Ge Zhuang's drowning must be because of this.
And when I pulled Ge Zhuang, he must have felt my approach, and the swing of his body became more and more exaggerated, like a fish caught by a hook and struggling under the water, I guess he must have wanted to convey some message, but there was no way to communicate underwater, so he could only swing his body around.
I became more and more impatient, I surfaced and changed my breath, and heard Chen Yun shouting at me, and several beams of light hit me in the face at the same time, "What's wrong Sima Nan, is something wrong with the fat man!" ”
Ignoring the big words, I dived again, this time changing my posture, holding Ge Zhuang's body from behind, wrapping my hands around his waist, and at the same time propping my legs on the stone wall, pulling out with enough strength, like pulling a radish out of the person.
But my legs on the stone wall couldn't keep them upright, and the power transmitted from Ge Zhuang's body was so strong that I felt powerless.
This makes my heart furious, people are in a state of breath-holding at any time underwater, and the lack of oxygen content for a long time will inevitably lead to a significant decline in physical strength, Ge Zhuang's strength has always been much greater than mine, and even he can't break free, if it's me, there is no way to pull people out.
Thinking of this, I quickly let go of the hands on Ge Zhuang's waist, sneaked to the left side of his body, and several rays of light came down above my head, and when I opened my eyes, my vision was clear.
This look made me can't help choking, Ge Zhuang's stomach seemed to be moving, and he actually stretched the whole way into the hole, and the part inside his neck also went in, no wonder I couldn't pull him no matter how I pulled it.
I also panicked in my heart, time passed minute by minute, and Ge Zhuang's physical strength was also passing by minute by minute, even if he was good at water, how long could he last in this environment? It's been at least a minute since he drowned!
Every second is a countdown to life, and when I am in a hurry, I can only feel *, stick into the gap of the hole, pry it a few times, and the tip of the knife seems to touch something hard, and when I push it up, * also transmits a force to me.
From my position, it was not easy to exert force, so I had to change my position under the water and dive directly under Ge Zhuang's body, so that the things in the cave in the water could be seen in detail, and I swept over at a glance, but found a distorted human face, with pale and terrible facial features, and a flicker, which had completely disappeared in the cave.
What is it?
My heart trembled violently, and just as I was feeling bad, I suddenly felt a hand grabbing my shoulder from above, and my heart jumped in shock, and I almost shouted under the water, but fortunately I didn't panic, and hurriedly raised my head, and was about to stab it up, but the handle of the knife was grabbed by someone.
Only then did I see clearly that the person holding the handle of my knife was actually Ge Zhuang.
The boy had already stuck his head out, and he was embarrassed by the hole in his scalp, and grabbed the blade of my knife and pulled it up, and we both surfaced one after the other, and at the same time took a big breath.
Ge Zhuang didn't catch his breath, so he grabbed me and swam towards the shore, Chen Yun and Lao Zhong hurriedly dropped the rope to meet us, the two of them climbed up with their hands and feet, both close to the stone wall and gasped, after the two of us got out of trouble, they turned their heads to the river at the same time, and stood wet all over, with a frightened expression on their faces.
Ge Zhuang was still coughing vigorously, he had just swallowed two mouthfuls of water, and now he was disgusting in his stomach, so he squatted down after coughing, lowered his head and spit out a big gulp, spit out a puddle of water, his face looked better, and he said with a scared face, "Damn, I almost planted it this time!" ”
"Fatty, what the hell is going on?" Chen Yun saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly walked over and asked.
"It's supposed to be a water monkey!" Ge Zhuang sat up straight and glanced at the artificial river with palpitations.
The water monkey is a person who begs for a living on the river, and it is a synonym for the water ghost. Water ghosts are different from people, when they go into the water, they will shrink into a ball and become a monkey-like creature, the whole body is pitch black, I used to meet one when Ge Zhuang and I were fishing for corpses in the backwater bay, and Ge Zhuang wanted to fish it up at that time, but he was scolded so bloody.
"There are really water ghosts down there, I found the hole just now, and I was about to go in to take a look, but I found that the hole was a little narrow, and the fat man's body might not be able to get in, so I planned to come out first to change my breath, and the result was ...... As a result, you can guess what I saw, a human face popped out of the hole, and it bit me at once, and the strength was so great, if it wasn't for the little pumpkin jumping down in time, I might not have been able to get out. ”
Hearing Ge Zhuang's description, I couldn't make up my mind for a while, it was hard to say whether that thing was a water monkey or not, I didn't see it very clearly before, so I had to say, "The fat man is right, I also saw a face just now, but only for a moment, I thought it was an illusion, listening to the fat man's description in such detail, I think it should be true." ”
Chen Yun asked Ge Zhuang to get up quickly and check if there were any wounds on his body, Ge Zhuang hurriedly stood up and took off his shirt, but he didn't find anything else, just a bruise on his stomach and neck, like a mark left by something.
I hurriedly unzipped my hiking bag, took out the glutinous rice and put it on him, the bruises did not come out of black gas, presumably not caused by corpse poison, but just because the other party was too strong, so it caused the bruises.
"Fatty, think about it again, what does that thing look like?" It's so weird, I have to figure out what's next.
Judging by the direction of the wind, this should have been an exit, but if there was water behind the stone wall, where did the cold wind come from, so we had to go into the water again to find out anyway.
Ge Zhuang recalled it carefully, and hurriedly said, "No, it's too dark under the cave, there is only a black shadow outline, I was too anxious at the time, I just wanted to get out quickly, so I didn't fail to see it clearly. ”
It's getting harder and harder. I couldn't help but squint, it would be a real annoyance for us to run into this thing in the water, especially since the number of this thing is still up for debate, and if there are too many of them, we will have to take a detour.
I thought about it for a while, and asked suspiciously, "It shouldn't be possible that there will be zongzi underwater, excluding zongzi, that thing is very likely to be some kind of creature living in this water, do you remember the big-headed monster baby we found in the ruins of the ancient country of Yelang before, listen to the fat cat uncle, it's somewhat similar." ”
"Yes, the fat man just wanted to say this!" Ge Zhuang immediately chimed in, "Could it be that thing swimming along the current?" "Chen Yunle said that the ruins of the ancient kingdom of Yelang are more than a thousand kilometers away from this side in a straight line, how can they swim over?