Volume 1, Ghost Town of the Bone Forest_Chapter 23, Big Turtle
The dragon king hidden in the well seems to have been heard by every generation of Chinese children, and it is part of the myth of our childhood. The well, which was dark at night and shaded during the day, was like a gate to the mythical Dragon Palace. But when the fat man and I really happened to this, the mentality was a different story!
The black shadow did not rush up directly from the well, it lay in the darkness like a large stone that could not see the light. I took a few steps back, and the fat man was pulling on the broken rope with a similarly unpleasant face.
"What to do? If it's really a dragon, we can be regarded as discovering a great wonder for the motherland. ”
Fat people always have the ability to say a few words that can make you laugh when they are serious.
"Don't be poor, I don't know what it is, but it's definitely not a dragon, there are so many wells in Shanghai that we can hit a dragon? So how lucky are we? ”
I straightened out my thoughts and firmly believed that it could not be a dragon in this well.
"Tie the rope to me, I'll lean to the well and see, and if I fall, you can pull me up."
I wrapped the rope around myself, and it was so strong that even two trucks wouldn't break it. I looked at the fracture, apparently it had been cut by something sharp or something.
"Be careful!"
The fat man reminded me, and I nodded, rubbing my feet against the ground and walking towards the edge of the well. The fat man was stern behind me, and both of them were nervous.
Moved to the well, there was still a "knock" sound below, obviously the wrestling between me and the fat man and it just now made it a little angry, and the movement under the well was getting louder and louder.
I looked at the edge of the well, and my eyes looked down, it was really a big guy, the diameter of this well was about a meter long, and this black shadow was about the same size as the bottom of the well, and it looked like a big grinding disc. I couldn't see clearly above, so I poked into the well little by little, and suddenly I didn't know what was going on behind me, and suddenly there was a strong force, pushing my whole person to the bottom of the well! I was weightless under my feet, and my body was loaded into the well, and I didn't have time to hold my hands on the edge of the well before my head fell down.
"Fatty, hold me!"
I yelled, and the rope suddenly tightened, and my head rushed down and hung in the well.
"What's going on! Who the fuck pushed me down! ”
I shouted, and the fat man hurriedly replied: "I saw that you jumped down by yourself, and I was taken aback, you hold on, I'll pull you up!" ”
After all, the fat man is about 200 pounds, and he has the strength to pull my body up little by little. I spread my hands outstretched, trying to support the wall of the well as much as I could, and supported my body with the strength of my arms.
There's no way the fat man can push me down, so what's going on with the strange force that just worked on me? Apparently an invisible force, otherwise the fat man would not have kept reminding me.
Just as I was slowly lifted up, I saw the big thing coiled down slowly raised its head, because the distance was much closer, so this time I finally saw what the monster at the bottom of the well was!
That's a giant turtle!
Turtles are called soft-shelled turtles in Shanghai, and they look very similar to turtles, but they are actually two things. The difference lies in the shell of the head and back, the shell of the turtle is not as hard as that of the turtle but the surface is smooth and pebble-like, and there is no pattern of the turtle shell, and the whole body is basically black. The second is the head, the turtle's head is round, while the turtle's head is pointed. Finally, most Chinese tortoises have no teeth, while turtles do.
I've seen a turtle the size of a plate with my face in the past, but this is the first time I've seen a turtle the size of a well! The stone that the fat man threw down just now must have been bitten by this thing, and the hemp rope must have been bitten off by its teeth in the end!
It is said that the thousand-year-old king is 80,000 years old, but I was really surprised to see such a huge turtle in the actual situation.
Its head was black and as long as a snake, and its sharp head was facing me, so it must have discovered my presence!
Then the most incredible scene happened to me, the turtle's body lifted up little by little, and this huge thing like a grinding stone could actually lift the body and the shell on its back at an angle with incredible power, which completely subverted my previous perception of this amphibian.
And, worst of all, I sensed that it seemed to have offensive intent on me!
"Fatty, hurry up! There's a king down there who wants to bite me! ”
I shouted as hard as I could, and my head was still rushing down, and if I were bitten by its sharp teeth, it would hurt even if I didn't die.
"What Wang Ba, I'm working hard!"
The fat man gritted his teeth and struggled to reply.
My body was still slowly rising, but the speed was still too slow, the turtle pointed its head at me, and suddenly its head rushed out, and I saw its big mouth bite my nose, I hurriedly turned my head, and the turtle's head grazed my face, and the tip of my nose could smell the fishy smell from the big guy's mouth.
"Fatty, hurry up and pull me up!"
I shouted desperately, and the turtle below retracted its head, as if to aim, at this time my body had been pulled to half the height of the well, and there was a distance of nearly two meters from the turtle below, in my opinion, such a long distance should not be attacked.
However, what happened in the next moment slapped me hard! Not long after the turtle's head retracted, it bounced out like a cannonball, and I was shocked, but my body was stuck in it. The turtle's mouth opened like a big black hole, and I had to turn my head again, but this time it bit the collar of my clothes, so that it could not bite my flesh!
"Damn, why did you become heavy all of a sudden!"
The fat man shouted from above, and the turtle hung upside down in the air, and its body was completely suspended. The fat man is about to run out, and if I don't do something at this point, I guess even the fat man will have to fall. At the critical moment, I let go of one of the hands that was holding the wall of the well, pulled out the dagger on my waist violently, and rushed up to my head frantically and shouted: "Fatty, hold on for five more seconds, just five seconds!" ”
The fat man had no strength to speak, and I raised the dagger at this time and stabbed it into the neck of the turtle, and the black and red sticky blood immediately gushed out, I stabbed it and was not at ease, and after pulling out the dagger, I stabbed the turtle's neck several times, and the blood sprayed my face, and many of them splashed into my mouth with a fishy smell.
The neck was pierced by me, the mouth of the turtle gradually loosened, and finally fell back to the bottom of the well, I hung in the air and breathed a long sigh of relief, the fat man pulled me out of the well with the strength of milk, and both of them lay on the ground, one for the rest of his life, and the other for exhaustion.
"What did you just say, what's going on? What's down there? ”
The fat man asked, gasping.
"It's a big turtle, it's a big turtle, I was almost bitten to death by it, like a millstone. By the way, who pushed me down just now? ”
I sat up and asked as I looked around.
"Nobody, I just saw you slipping under your feet, do you feel someone pushing you?"
The fat man seems to have something to say. He didn't see anyone, and I could clearly feel a push behind me, which meant that there was something we couldn't see wandering around!
"Isn't this temple blessed by a bodhisattva? Could it be that the Bodhisattva is not pleasing to the two of us? ”
I muttered and stood up, wiped the blood from my face and looked into the well, the turtle lay down without moving, and I don't know if it was really dead, but my neck was about to be cut off and I shouldn't be able to live.
"Let's go, I think it's a little weird today, or don't spend it here."
The fat man was a little scared, but I was also panicking, and I was packing my things to leave, when suddenly a thought came to my mind. I looked up and asked, "Fatty, the first time you looked at the well, you didn't see anything, did you?" Didn't you see that turtle either? ”
"No, the well was empty when I looked!"
The fat man hurriedly shook his head and replied.
I pursed my lips and walked back to the well, then tied the twine around my body. The fat man asked puzzledly, "Are you going down again?" Want to fish for the carcass of that turtle? ”
"I can't get something that big, but if the bottom of the well is empty when you look at it, a turtle of this size won't come out of thin air. So if I'm not mistaken, there may be a hole at the bottom of the well. ”
I threw the rope to the fat man, who shook his arm and grabbed the other end of the rope.
"I'll go down and have a look."
After speaking, I supported the wall of the well with both arms, and drew into the well little by little, and at the bottom of the well, I fell on the body of the turtle and stepped on it, this guy was completely dead and there was a blood stain at the bottom of the well. I crouched down and looked around, and sure enough, there was a door in the stone wall at the bottom of the well!