I asked my aunt what the stone ox was for.

My aunt and grandmother couldn't say why, but told me to stay away from the little pond.

Right now, it's not a stone ox that's locked up in chains under this pond, but a person. What is the connection between the two, and what is the difference? I don't understand.

I decided to dive down to find out, so I mustered up the courage to swim again to the bottom of the pond to the center.

As I swam down, I could hear my heart pounding violently, and I paddled my hands hesitating to retreat to shore.

The struggle in my head has not stopped. Although there was a similar situation in my aunt's village, the stone cow was dead, and it was okay to dive into the water to see if you were brave. And what is at the bottom of this pool is not a stone, but a person, obviously that person cannot be a stone sculpture, a ** person.

If that person is alive, if he is pressed to the bottom of the water, then I will also die. However, a living person should not be lurking underwater for so long before the surface of the water to breathe. But a dead corpse will be swollen after soaking for a long time, and it will not be the normal appearance that I just saw.

Confused, I swam again to the bottom of the pond in the middle.

The man was still sitting cross-legged at the bottom of the water. He had a collar around his neck, and three chains held the collar so that he could not float. His eyes were closed, as if he were asleep, dreaming. I swam around him and he didn't move. I deliberately tested him and didn't get too close. If he suddenly rushes to grab me, there are chains to bind him.

As I swam around him, I took a closer look at his countenance, he was in his twenties, his skin was pale from soaking, and there was a faint layer of moss on his eyelashes and eyebrows, like moss growing on stone steps that had been immersed in water for a long time. He also had a faint layer of moss between his fingernails. The hairs on the hands are clearly visible, swaying slowly with the flow of water like aquatic plants. He was dressed in a blue cotton shirt and trousers, and his feet were barefoot, and there was a little moss on his clothes. But apart from his eyelashes, eyebrows, nail seams, and trousers, his face, hands, and feet were clean.

He resembles both a living person who deliberately holds his breath and a corpse that has been drowned for a long time.

I picked up a small rock from the bottom of the water and threw it at him.

The stone was resisted by the water, and when it fell on him, he had almost no strength.

He still didn't move.

I picked up a larger stone and threw it at him.

The stone struck him in the hand.

His mossy eyelashes moved!

Although I had been prepared, I was still shocked to see his eyelashes move. Fortunately, he didn't make any bigger movements, and he didn't even open his eyelids after his eyelashes moved. At that moment, I felt that he was no different from a mussel shell. Although there were signs of survival, they were limited to a little squirming.

I don't know his true details yet, but I'm sure he has an inextricable connection to Goust.

Whatever his connection to Goust, if I break that connection, the benefits will definitely outweigh the disadvantages.

So, I went back to shore, took a plier and a screwdriver from the box I had brought, and then dived underwater again, came to the man's side, and pried open the chains that held him one by one.

As soon as the chains broke, his body slowly floated upward.

In fact, once a person who can't swim falls into the water, if he wants to save himself, he should first calm down and not flutter. Some people were originally very close to the shore, but they ended up fluttering in a mess, but unconsciously swam farther away. After calming down, the person will actually be lifted by the buoyancy of the water, and will not immediately sink rapidly. This will increase the chances of being rescued.

He was carried by me to swim to the shore like an extremely calm waiter. His eyelashes were still shaking, like a sleepy man who didn't want to wake up.

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