My hand brushed aside the floating corpses on it, trying to swim up quickly, but there were several more such corpses around, the same bodies blistered by the water, they seemed to be floating and aimless, but I could feel that these floating corpses in the water were coming for me, I had to get out, hurry out, I couldn't stand it in the water, I felt that I had reached the limit, I couldn't be afraid of these floating corpses.

I kept pushing those corpses to the side, and my body floated up quickly, and those corpses wandered around me, and the cold and slippery corpses touched my body, and I couldn't help but open my mouth, anyway, during the time I went up, I drank several sips of water, and I felt that I couldn't drink it anymore. Fortunately, I finally surfaced, I gasped for breath, and the water in my stomach couldn't be spit out, but I had to spit out the turbidity in my body, and I had just spit out the turbidity in my body, when suddenly something under the water grabbed my foot, and the force was so strong that it grabbed my foot tightly, and I thought it was bad. I didn't want to go down, so I kicked the thing hard with my other foot, but I felt like my foot was kicking on the aquatic weeds, and it was very slippery, and it felt like it was covered with slime.

I hurriedly looked underwater, only to see a large mass of aquatic plants under the water, this large mass of aquatic plants, floating in the water, I was actually dragged by a large mass of aquatic plants, is this a water ghost in the water? My body is still diving, deeper and deeper, my ears at this time, began to hurt again, the water is very cold, I can't stay underwater for too long, otherwise I will really drown, so I went up hard, the thing dragged down, we were frozen under the water, colder and colder, my ears were getting louder and louder, the whole person began to be confused, I slowly stopped struggling, there was no strength to struggle, my body was floating in the water.

The thing that grabbed my foot was released, and then it slowly floated upward, and the only consciousness I had was to see that the thing was not a weed, but a living thing, and the weeds covered with slime were the hair of that thing, and I saw that thing, like a monkey, with a thunderous mouth, big eyes, like a child, more like a monkey, it was covered with long hair, and it looked terrible in the water.

At this moment, someone suddenly said in my mind: "Use the evil spell to bite the tip of your tongue." ”

I don't understand how that voice came from at that time, but that voice did sober me up a lot, I silently recited a sentence in my heart that Taishang Laojun was as anxious as a law, and I couldn't recite it silently in the water, and I recited the shortest sentence, hoping that Master Zu would save my life. After reading it, I bit the tip of my tongue and spit it out to the water ghost in front of me, a blood-red color, the water ghost seemed to be very afraid of that color, and hurriedly dived into the deep water, I saw that the water ghost was gone, and the desire to escape came up, I gritted my teeth and used the last strength, swinging my feet, and slowly floated to the water, as soon as I came out of the water, I spit out the turbidity in my stomach, and then breathed back in the water.

In fact, anyone who can swim knows that backstroke is the most effortless way, even if you can't swim, don't be nervous if you fall into the water, take a deep breath, swing your feet on your back, rely on your own buoyancy, you won't sink, if you struggle desperately, exhaust your physical strength, and no one saves you in the end, then there is only a dead end.

I gasped for half a day, and after panting evenly, I swam to the shore, and after climbing to the shore, I remembered that the second fool was drowned, and I was very sad at that time, although I am not a brother, but I have always regarded him as a brother, and now I am drowning, I burst into tears for a while, and cry loudly there, the more I cry, the more painful it is, the more I cry, the more sad I feel.

At this time, a child said to me, "Brother Daring, why are you crying here?" ”

I cried and said, "The second fool drowned, he just drowned." ”

After I finished speaking, I felt that something was wrong, wasn't the one who asked me just now just a fool? I quickly raised my head to see, sure enough, it was the second fool standing in front of me, I was stunned, and then suddenly hugged the second fool over, the second fool is still so heavy, it should not be a ghost, the ghost has no weight, I hugged the second fool and turned into a smile, and said: "The second fool you didn't die, it's really good, you don't know that I died of sadness just now." ”

The second fool stared at me and said, "Brother Daring, what's wrong with you?" ”

I wiped my tears and said, "I don't know what's wrong." ”

At this time, the fool and the thin monkey also came running, and they asked me what was going on when I was crying just now, so I told me what had just happened, and the fool looked at me incredulously and said, "The second fool has been catching grasshoppers with us, and you can see that we caught these two strings of grasshoppers." ”

I saw the fool and the thin monkey carrying a string of grasshoppers, and then my mind was completely confused, the second fool did follow the fool and the thin monkey to catch grasshoppers just now, but who did I save in the water? I really saw that kid really stupid. I felt pain in my feet and neck, and at the same time, there was a faint stench, so I looked down, and my feet and necks appeared jet-black color, the color seemed to be tightly held by my hands, and the stench was also coming from my feet and neck. Seeing my feet and neck, I involuntarily took a breath, what the hell is this?

After resting on the shore for a while, we didn't have the heart to take a bath anymore, so we sent the two fools home, and the three of us returned to the Three Treasures Temple, and saw the master lying under the tree, drinking wine with a wine gourd, so I walked over and said to the master, "Master, I met a water ghost in Lao Niutan today, and I almost drowned me. ”

Master had been squinting and drinking, but when he heard that I had met a water ghost in Lao Niutan, he got up and looked at me and said, "Tell me what that water ghost looks like." ”

I said, "When the water ghost looks down from the water, it looks like a large mass of moving aquatic plants, but if you look at the water ghost at eye level, you will see that it looks like a monkey, not a thin monkey, but a real monkey." ”

Master said, "Be bold, tell me in detail." ”

So I told me how I saw the two fools fall into the water, how I saved people, how I met the dead corpses, and how I was caught by the water monkeys and escaped. Then I said, "Master, I have a lot of things that I can't figure out, what's going on with that second fool in the water?" And what exactly is that thing in the water? ”

The master said: "Be bold, you can be regarded as picking up a life today, in fact, the second fool in the water is not a person at all, but a soul in the water, and the thing that pulls you is not something else, but a very rare water monkey, no wonder over the years, the drowned people have not seen people alive or dead, and there are no corpses." ”

When I heard that the water monkey was very strange, I asked Master, "Master, what is this water monkey?" ”

Master said, "The water monkey is a kind of monkey that lives in the water, this kind of monkey hides in rivers, lakes and seas, or in the abyss where it does not dry, it is about the height of a child, it has a head about the same as that of a monkey, and a small pointed mouth with four fangs in its mouth, and it tears things very quickly. It is extremely powerful in the water, and once it comes ashore, it is a turtle in an urn.

Seeing people who fall into the water, they will pull people's feet, drag the people who fall into the water to the bottom of the water, after drowning, paste the seven orifices of people with silt, so that people's souls can not come out, and they cannot be reincarnated. ”

I said, "No wonder, Master, this water monkey is definitely not right and can't stay, it's really too powerful in the water, if I hadn't recited a sentence of Grandmaster's wisdom, bit the tip of my tongue, and spit out a mouthful of blood, I would have drowned in that old cow pool today." ”

The master nodded and said, "When you go to the village in a while, you will say that I want eighteen carts of quicklime, the price is negotiable, and it must be sent to Lao Niutan before noon tomorrow, and you won't want it after an hour." ”

I said, "Master, what are you?" ”

Master smiled and said, "I want lime to be useful for myself, and you will know when the time comes." ”