Chapter Twenty-Six: At the Bottom of the Water, at the Edge of the Shadows

I squeezed out a smile, silently prayed a few words in my heart, and after temporarily hugging the thighs of the immortals, I took a deep breath and said to them: "Wang Zhen and I are responsible for fishing, and you two can help watch the wind." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Zhang Siyuan was dissatisfied: "I swam much faster than you, why don't you let me go?" ”

I replied, "I don't think so." ”

The more I swam that way, the faster my heart beat and I felt uneasy, like a restless little animal in my arms. Seeing the huge black shadow getting closer and closer to me, I felt dry even in the water. Wang Zhen's body was tense, and his face was solemn like the sky before a rainstorm. I wanted to make a joke to lighten the mood, but my brain was whiter than a blank sheet of paper. I sighed heavily, calmed down, clenched my fists, pointed to the fish not far away, and glanced at Wang Zhen.

Zhang Siyuan's voice was a little dry: "No matter whether this fish is in hand or not, you have to rush back desperately, there is no movement in the lump at the bottom of the lake now, go up when you are ready." ”

Wang Zhen and I launched like two mines, and the carefree fish on the water were frightened by our posture and fled in a hurry, and what was even more infuriating was that they panicked and fled towards the highly dangerous waters.

Wang Zhen looked annoyed, his mouth moved obviously, and he should be scolding his mother. We tried to catch another one, but before we could get close to it it it disappeared without a trace.

I sighed in frustration, and a series of small bubbles popped up on my cheeks. Wang Zhen swam back to me, pointed to a school of fish swimming freely in the huge shadow, and said to me tentatively, "Why don't we try it there?" ”

I broke out in a cold sweat, and my heart felt like someone had knocked on me. I shook my head and waved my hand, but when I thought about it, I realized that there was no other way out but that. The water waves kept shaking, and the speckled figure was not real. My stomach suddenly screamed out of place, and then the feeling of my stomach being tightened came up.

My heart was crossed, and I clenched my fists and said, "We outflank us from below, and we won't let go of the big one." ”

Wang Zhen nodded, made an ugly grimace at me, swam back and said a few words to the two who were frowning tightly, and bowed to the bottom of the water.

I silently followed him and followed him all the way down. saw that Wang Zhen's expression was very wrong, and his eyes were staring straight ahead, his eyes were full of horror. When I saw him like this, my heart sank as if the rope tied to the stone had been cut, and I looked up with trembling and saw a picture that I could not imagine.

Countless tentacles slumped limply at the bottom of the water, and a few pairs of dull eyes stared at me without a trace of life. The rough brownish skin and the white suction cups on the tentacles made my hairs stand on end, and my hair was creepy. I grabbed Wang Zhen's arm and hurriedly fled upward, but the short distance felt unbearable.

Wang Zhen and I rushed out of the water with a bang, panting and shouting at the two people with puzzled faces: "Quick, run!" There's an octopus monster underwater! ”

Zhang Siyuan and Wang Linshuo's faces instantly turned pale. I looked back and saw that the monster was not chasing me, and my beating heart calmed down a little. Zhang Siyuan shouted in horror: "Let's go ashore to hunt game, if we stay here any longer, we will be entangled by octopuses sooner or later!" ”

Wang Zhen slowly raised his head, his eyes were a little hollow. He grabbed Zhang Siyuan, who turned around and wanted to escape, and said with some hesitation: "That octopus seems to be dead." ”

I grabbed him and asked, "Are you sure?" Do you see it clearly? ”

Wang Zhen waved his hand: "I just think that those pairs of eyes have no trace of life, and they don't look like the eyes of living creatures at all." And there is another question, how can an octopus have so many eyes? My guess is several large dead octopuses stacked on top of each other. ”

Wang Linshuo hesitated: "How can there be so many dead octopuses?" ”

Wang Zhen shook his head, and Zhang Siyuan, who had been thoughtful, suddenly brightened his eyes, snapped his fingers and said, "The octopus seems to be roasted like squid." ”

The three of us rolled our eyes at him in unison. After some troublesome deliberations, everyone decided to go down to the bottom of the water to find out.

Although I was mentally prepared, my heart shook violently when I saw the twisted tentacles and lifeless eyes again. Zhang Siyuan and Wang Linshuo's expressions were extremely frightened, if they weren't underwater, it is estimated that both of them would have opened their mouths in unison.

Wang Zhen cautiously tried it, and when he saw that the octopus didn't move, he turned around and made random gestures to us. I really didn't understand what he wanted to express, and when I was meditating, I saw Zhang Siyuan suddenly jump in front of me, pinch an octopus and swim desperately to it.

I was stunned by his actions and had no idea what he was trying to do. Wang Linshuo's eyes were quick, he pulled him down, glared at him angrily, and pointed to the octopus in his hand.

Zhang Siyuan pinched the octopus with one hand and pointed to his mouth with the other, I immediately understood what he meant, and scolded in my heart, I didn't expect you kid to really dare to say and do. I dared to look at the octopus on the ground, and I thought to myself that there wouldn't be a living creature hidden in the octopus pile. But when my eyes met them, I was so shocked that I could barely speak.

This huge black shadow turned out to be made up of the corpses of hundreds of octopuses. After the largest octopus on the top was taken away by Zhang Siyuan, the corpses of countless small octopuses were revealed.

I couldn't help but take a few steps back and exchanged a surprised look with Zhang Siyuan. Wang Linshuo suddenly stepped forward and laboriously pulled two fingers in the octopus pile, and we looked at him motionlessly.

Suddenly, his expression and movements were stunned, and a puzzled look appeared on his face. I patted him, and he turned his head to give me a strange look and shoved the octopus in either direction. Although I couldn't understand why he did this, I still beckoned Zhang Siyuan, who had just changed his breath, to help him. I felt like I was about to suffocate from the exertion, and I was about to float to the surface to catch my breath, when I saw a wooden plank peeking out of the place where the octopuses had been piled up.

The scene flashed before my eyes, and I wanted to see it more clearly, but my lungs were about to explode, and I had to swim back to the surface to breathe and dive again.

When he came back again, the plank had been thrown aside, and a black hole that probably could fit two people side by side appeared in front of him. After the surprise, what came to my mind was more boredom, how could this be a hole again? Where does this hole lead?

Wang Zhen went in to take a look, leaned out with a calm face, and turned around and went upstream. I saw that I was the only one left under the water at this time, and I knew that they must have floated up to breathe, so I followed Wang Zhen upward.

Zhang Siyuan picked up the stones on the shore, pointed to the oversized octopus, and said while panting: "There is food now." ”

Although my brain was sending a signal of resistance, the primitive desire began to ferment slowly. The sizzling squid on the side of the road and the takoyaki in the snack bar came to my mind out of place, and I swallowed silently.

Wang Zhen asked Wang Linshuo, "How did you find out that something was wrong under that pile of octopuses?" ”

He replied, "I was just trying to count them, but I was surprised to find that something didn't feel right, and there was something hard under the slippery octopus tentacles." ”

Wang Zhen nodded, and I interrupted the conversation between the two of them in time and asked, "Do you remember the sentence that I was at the bottom of Chenghai Lake?" Shall we go into the hole? ”

Zhang Siyuan replied weakly: "Now is not the time to discuss this. As the saying goes, people are iron, rice is steel, if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry, and now it is almost dark, and Lao Tzu has not eaten two meals. It doesn't matter what Cheng Haihu or Cheng Haihu is, he will eat first and then talk about it. Let's go back to the place where we put our clothes, pick a few branches and wash them and string them together, Wang Zhen also has a lighter in his pocket, find some dead branches and dead grass and the like to have a wild seafood party. ”

After Zhang Siyuan finished speaking, his eyes rolled around in his sockets, with a little indifference and coercion and temptation in his eyes. I picked up the octopus and looked at it repeatedly, and after confirming that there was no danger, I said, "Okay, listen to Uncle Zhang." ”

We went back the way we came, and climbed ashore wet, Wang Zhen untied his pants from the tree, and Zhang Siyuan ran back with a bunch of branches, leaves, and wood, and I don't know where he found these things.

When everything was ready and the flame was rising, I leaned on the stone exhausted, looked at the large string of squid in Wang Linshuo's hand, and couldn't help but really relax.