Chapter 9: Dead Waters
After more than four years of training, Baozi already has a calmness and wisdom that his peers do not have. After listening to Grandma Gray's narration, Baozi pondered for a long time, "The monster let the woman go, why didn't you eat it?" ”
Cabbage Blossom interjected while eating potatoes, "Maybe that woman's fat is too thick to eat." ”
The meaning of the gray grandmother is similar, it is estimated that the rats are small and can eat in one bite.
Baozi shook his head, "If it doesn't have the ability to attack people, then it's just a matter of hibernation and not doing it, since it has already succeeded, poisonous needles, stings, entanglements, pulled into the water and eaten slowly, how can you let people go back again, if this woman goes home and says, someone from the village drains the pond water, won't this demon be finished?" ”
The bigger problem is that when the woman comes home, the whole village is silent, as if nothing happened.
Baozi decided to take the gray grandmother and cabbage flower to the blister to see what was going on the next night.
Peeking at a woman bathing is a technical job, to ambush in the nearby bud rice field in advance, it is not important to be unaware, but also to withstand the attack of mosquito battle groups, experienced people use artemisia grass to make a grass ring and wear it on the head, not only to prevent mosquitoes but also to facilitate concealment. The sun sets over the western mountains, and the red glow is like fire. Buns, cabbage flowers, and the gray grandmother arrived early, and the guerrillas generally dodged into the endless green veil tents. At this time, there were still a few children playing by the water. As the meal approached, the children dispersed in twos and threes, until it was dark and the people were gone, and the water was still as safe as a mirror, and occasionally one or two small fish burst out of the water, and only then did some concentric circles faintly flash.
An hour passed, and the legs of Baozi and Cabbage Flower had been bombarded by mosquitoes and looked unpresentable, "Baozi, I see, I haven't taken a bath today, I know that you are coming, and the eldest girl and little daughter-in-law dare not come out." The cabbage flower couldn't help urging "My ass is full of bags".
After all, Baozi is a half-grown child, and he doesn't have too strong concentration, he pounded his sore legs, and just wanted to answer, a figure suddenly appeared on the country road in the distance. Dressed loosely and holding a wooden basin in her hand, she walked towards the water's edge. The woman slowly lowered the tub, untied her shirt, and slowly entered the water, swimming towards the center of the water.
"Junko daughter-in-law!" The three spoke almost in unison. Is there still such a person in this world who does not know whether to live or die? I choked on water for twenty minutes the night before, and even if I didn't die, I would lose half my life, so there was no reason to come to the shower again anyway, right?
Baozi closed his eyes tightly, concentrated his mind and looked at it with the eyes of the gods, and the daughter-in-law of Shunzi was a person, neither transparent, nor dry bones, nor a tail. But when I glanced at the water again, I could vaguely see the black gas surging under the water, and a breath of unjust murder came to my face. Accompanied by the black qi, there are eight or nine huge branches that are as transparent as tubes stretching out towards Junko's daughter-in-law, like a giant octopus! Each vine is as thick as a bowl in diameter, and the whole body is transparent, like a giant jellyfish or jellyfish in the ocean, and the eight vines are very flexible and have a clear division of labor, some of which are wrapped around the ankles of the daughter-in-law, some are wrapped around the wrists, and one is stuck into her mouth! Junko's daughter-in-law was still stiff, at the mercy of the eight vines, and sank to the bottom of the water after a few seconds.
Baozi yelled "Not good! In a hurry, he only took off his coat, and before he had time to take off his pants, he ran to the water's edge with a smoke, and a fish jumped into the water. Seeing the branches sticking out from the bottom of the water, dragging Junko's daughter-in-law, who was still open-eyed, to sink like withered claws, Baozi took out the firewood knife prepared in advance while swimming. A vine seemed to have eyes, and when it saw the bun coming to stir up the situation, it let go of the daughter-in-law of the son and stabbed the bun at a speed like a water snake. Baozi saw clearly this time, this vine is not a plant! Rather, it is an animal, at least a part of it, with a toothy head, no eyes, and a transparent body. It doesn't know how to sense the objects around it, but it's extremely flexible. The piranha-like sharp steel teeth have reached in front of the face, and at this time, the bun can't care about analyzing which prehistoric species it belongs to, so he blocked it with a firewood knife, and the steel teeth of the branches bit the sharp knife, and actually bit out two tooth marks on the blade, what kind of tooth is this?
Baozi held a knife in one hand, and grabbed the vine seven inches with the other, this thing was sticky and slippery, soft and boneless, and it was not tight at all. Baozi thought to himself, just think it's a water snake, as the saying goes, "hit the snake seven inches, the back of the head is a dull stick", maybe the structure of the vine is really the same as the snake, a knife down, that thing really straight and dizzy, half a moment can't turn its head. Seeing this, Baozi slashed a few more times, the strange thing is that this steel knife used by Uncle Ershen to kill chickens and sheep is easy to chop bones and meat, but it is like a spoon scratching on the mirror, the knife slides open, and it is constantly cut!
The monster saw that Baozi was not easy to deal with, so he separated two vines and wrapped them around Baozi's legs. Although the bun is watery, but after all, he is a teenager, he doesn't have much lung capacity, he has been fluttering for more than forty seconds, and he has moved the strength to feed, and there is no energy at the moment, and the water resistance is very large, not like the tentacles of the monster are flexible, and the movements are getting slower and slower. As an aside, not to mention underwater, but on flat ground, two professional boxers fight a game in the ring, and they are exhausted and collapsed after three minutes, not to mention a child swimming underwater. Baozi watched the outline of the moon on the water become rough, and he couldn't hold back his last breath in his mouth, thinking that his life is bitter, and my little life will be explained here!
I also have to take a look before I die, what the hell is it, the bun gathered vitality to the Yin Hall, urging the opening of the Eye of the Heavenly God, only to see a black hole a few meters deep underwater, the eight or nine vines are stretched out from the black hole, although each vine is transparent, but the smooth outer skin seems to be covered with transparent scales, the inner wall has crystal blue blood vessels, creeper like all over the body, the blood vessels are bubbling with blue-black blood, like a pen water production line. Baozi only felt that the vines wrapped around her ankles were getting tighter and tighter, and the vines were winding up along her thighs, presumably covering her whole body soon.
At the critical moment, suddenly a man's voice sounded in his ears, "Baozi, use your blood". No, it's not so much in the ears as in the head. Whether it's nerve damage caused by lack of oxygen, or if there is really the help of the gods, all Baozi can do is give it a try. He quickly sliced his middle finger with his knife, and the blood was like red ink, and it suddenly spread in the water. Somehow, the three vines, perhaps because the blue ink was afraid of the red ink, immediately retracted backwards as if they were electrocuted after touching the blood, and retreated deep together with the five vines that were entangled with Junko's daughter-in-law. Seeing this, Baozi struggled to swim up, and hugged Junko's daughter-in-law, who was still open and motionless.
It stands to reason that to save people who fall into the water, what they are most afraid of is that the other party is grabbing and shouting and fluttering, and even the person who saves people can be dragged and fed to the water ghost together. But Shunzi's daughter-in-law really arrived home honestly, straight and stunned and poked in the water. It doesn't matter if she's relaxed, her weight has increased dramatically! With the bun, he kept falling and followed the vines to the bottom of the water. The bun wrapped around the woman's waist, and she didn't care much, paddling desperately, but it only slowed down the speed of the fall.
Baozi's eyes were blurred, and he saw the dead little baby girl in the backyard waving to him, and saw the small fish around him staring at him stunned.
"Buns, Bao Ziqiang!" The man's voice echoed again, "Upstream, quick, upstream!" ”
Baozi made a symbolic stroke again, and he had no strength at all.
Baozi's breath is suffocated, his chest is stuffy, and he wants to exhale and breathe, but he knows in his heart that there is no gas exchange in the water, as long as he opens his mouth and saliva enters his nose, this little life is over. But the boy's shaft strength somehow rushed up, he didn't want to drown in the water the first time he came out of the mountain, no matter what, he had to fight him, and he grabbed the motionless Shunzi daughter-in-law and threw it upward.
Suddenly, the water splashed on her head, and a figure fell into the pond, her hands in front of her, skillfully twisting her waist, like a dolphin, swimming towards Baozi and Junzi's daughter-in-law. This person is none other than the cabbage flower. The fight just now seemed like a protracted battle, but from the shore, it was less than a minute. The cabbage flower counted the sixty seconds she had been waiting for, but she saw green waves surging and sludge rolling, but no one came up. She was afraid that the bun would be missing, so in a hurry, a fierce son stabbed down. Fuck it, it's important to save the good looks.
Seeing that the bun had really reached the end of the crossbow, Cabbage Hua grabbed the arm of Shunzi's daughter-in-law with one hand, and threw herself upward, and the two of them worked together to drag the woman to swim back. It was also at this time that the water surface "soared" a few times, and the water splashed and tumbled, jumping down more than 20 giant rats, some of which turned into villains, and some of them still looked like mice, some of them held their arms, some dragged their legs, and migrated upwards together.
It can really be said that the immortals gathered firewood and the flame was high, and after some efforts, they simply pulled a hundred catties of living people from the bottom of the water to the surface. The immortals dragged Shunzi's daughter-in-law to the shore, panting heavily, all of them were like living again.
During this period, there were people who were in a hurry to pass by at night, and when they saw Baozi and others diving into the water to save people, they called out to the villagers to come to help, and when the big guy ran to the shore, Baozi and Cabbage Flower had already dragged people up, so they helped carry people. When the rats saw the people coming, they dispersed and hid in the grass not far away.
A man came crying from afar, shouting his daughter-in-law's name and crawling through the crowd, and poofed to Baozi and the other two kneeling, this person was Junzi. "Little hero, little hero, you are Lei Feng, you are Ouyang Hai" Cabbage Flower saw that Shunzi didn't praise herself, so she was so angry that she glanced at him, "Hey, you don't know each other, and me!" ”
"Yes, Huahua, well, you two are living little sisters of the prairie!" Junko's mind is spinning fairly fast. Baozi waved his hand, he didn't want to pay attention to these clichés, he just wanted to take a few more breaths.
"I'll just say there's a ghost in this pond! She didn't believe it! There are ghosts in the pond! Junko's mouth is not idle. When Baozi heard this, there must be something hidden in this matter, so he asked Junzi to tell the story completely, and Junzi picked up his daughter-in-law, who was still motionless with her eyes open, and said, "Let's go, little hero, let's go home." ”
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