Looking at the increasingly blurred dock, the monk turned around and said to me, "Although I don't know how this situation came about, there is a speculation that can explain our current situation: that we have been moving towards the island, but the fog on the surface of the lake has caused a lot of refraction of the light here, forming multiple mirror images, which is the legendary mirage. It's just that this mirage is much more real than the one we usually see, and we are in a mirage, so there is an illusion that we are always in the same place. Not only is the pier a mirage, but I'm afraid the island we saw at first is not real, but I guess we will soon be able to see the real island. ”

Hearing the monk's tone of such a swear, my heart gradually settled down, and I returned to Nangong and sat down, ready to take a rest. However, before I could sit down, the raft suddenly jolted, as if it had touched something in the water.

I looked at the monk and asked, "Monk, what's in the water?" ”

The monk stood in front of the raft with his back to us, and I couldn't see his expression. He stood there motionless as if he had been immobilized, and did not answer me. We all stood up in an instant, knowing that something must be wrong here.

I stood on the edge of the raft and looked into the water, but it was so dark that I couldn't see anything. Nangong and the others also scattered and looked in all directions. Just as I was about to crouch down and put the glow stick into the water to see what was in the water, I suddenly noticed a black mass moving in the water, because it was about the same color as lake water, so I didn't notice it at first.

I took the glow stick and stabbed it hard at the black mass, only to feel that I had stabbed something that was neither soft nor hard. Just when I was still wondering what it was. A huge splash of water sounded in front of me, and the bamboo raft beneath my feet suddenly slanted over. My hands were scratching in the air trying to grab something, but I didn't catch anything, and I was thrown straight into the water.

Before I could emerge from the water, a figure slammed directly into my head and threw me into the water again. After a few uncontrollable sips of water, I struggled to lower my legs with my head wrapped around my neck. Just as I was about to stick my head out of the water, I saw a long black shadow flash in the water.

I was so frightened that I took another sip of water, choked a little uncomfortably, and by the time I came back to my senses to see the guy clearly, I had already lost its shadow. Did I just read it wrong? There was no light at all under the water, and it was pitch black all around, but the shadow just now was darker, as if it was emitting a black glow, so I could vaguely see its shape.

Sticking my head out of the water, I realized that it was the big white girl who had just smashed me into the water, and she was swimming towards the bamboo raft while she was stepping on the water. Thinking of the black shadow just now, I immediately swam to the bamboo raft, looking for Nangong's shadow while swimming, but the surroundings were too dark, and I didn't see Nangong's figure for a while.

Laboriously pushed the big white girl onto the bamboo raft, and then climbed up herself. I stood on the bamboo raft, took out a glowing rod and looked around, and found that the monk and Nangong were gone, and the lean man had already gotten on the bamboo raft before the two of us.

While shouting Nangong's name loudly into the river, I looked around, hoping to find traces of Nangong and the monk, and the two of them should not be too far away from the bamboo raft, because this lake is a stagnant lake, and they cannot be washed away by the current. But I searched for a long time but didn't find the two of them, could it be that the two of them were taken away by the big guy just now?

Just as I was standing on the bamboo raft and shouting Nangong's name, there was a sudden splash on the water under my feet, and I looked down to see that it was Nangong and the monk. The two of them were holding the bamboo raft with one hand, but the other hand reached into the water and tried to lift one person up, how could there be another person?

Ignoring nothing else, I hurriedly squatted down to catch the guy and pulled him onto the raft. This guy is a middle-aged man, and his beard can't tell his real age. He had a deep scar on his left shoulder, and his entire arm looked like it was going to fall off, and the wound was bleeding.

Nangong and the monk also climbed onto the bamboo raft and came to the middle-aged man's side. While bandaging the man's wounds, I asked Nangong, "Who is this man?" Where did you guys just go? ”

Nangong pressed the middle-aged man's arm and didn't look at me, and said: "I fell into the water with the monk, and found that there was a person stuck in the water between the stones at the bottom of the water, so I rescued this person with him, and there was a corpse next to him, but only half of his body was left." ”

Hearing her description, I remembered the dark shadow I had just seen in the water, and asked her, "Did you find anything when you were underwater?" ”

Nangong was a little puzzled, raised his head to look at me and said, "What is it?" ”

I bandaged the wound on the man's shoulder, took out a few more anti-inflammatory pills, fed him two pieces, crushed the rest and applied it to his wound, and then wrapped it in another layer of gauze.

After taking care of his injuries, I continued: "I just saw a long shadow underwater, but it disappeared in the blink of an eye. ”

Nangong was a little puzzled, but she shook her head and said, "I didn't see anything." After speaking, he looked at the monk on the side.

The monk didn't interject when he heard us talk, and it wasn't until he heard me talk about the shadow that he asked, "What kind of shadow do you see?" ”

I told the monk what I had seen under the water, and the monk didn't say anything, but sat down in silence.

Seeing the monk sitting there without saying a word, my heart became more and more bottomless, and I asked, "Monk, do you know what that thing is?" ”

When the monk heard what I said, he did not answer me, but stood up and picked up the bamboo wormwood and began to paddle forward, as if he could not wait to go to the island. Seeing this, I had no choice but to shut up and sit down to take care of this unfortunate injured bastard. His injuries were severe, and he was in a coma all the time, muttering something in his mouth, but the voice was so small that I couldn't make out what he was saying.

We walked on the lake for about half an hour, and the shadow of the island in the center of the lake finally became clear, and we finally saw the island, and the monk was holding the bamboo raft forward as if someone was chasing after him. I looked back, and the shadow of the pier was gone, and there was a white expanse behind me where I couldn't see anything. I'm a little worried that if we can't find a way out of this little island, how will we go back?

Just as I was thinking about it, the bamboo raft suddenly stopped, and I looked forward to find that we did not reach the island, but stopped at a distance of more than twenty meters from the island, and the monk stood motionless in front of the bamboo raft holding the bamboo wormwood in both hands.

I couldn't help but walk forward, trying to walk in front of him to see the situation, but at this moment, the bamboo raft suddenly broke in the middle, and I was violently shocked out, if it weren't for my heavy tonnage, I guess this would have thrown me out of the bamboo raft. Before I could curse, I saw a huge black snake head sticking out of the crack in the raft, looking down at me at the moment.

Looking at the snake head that was several laps larger than my waist, my movements became sluggish, and I tried to move backwards to Nangong and the injured middle-aged man. The big snake did not act immediately, but slowly stretched its body out of the water, and after a while, its body was more than ten meters long and stretched out of the water. How long is this guy exactly? Could this be the shadow I've ever seen underwater? But why didn't it attack us at that time?

At this time, there were only me and Nangong and the injured middle-aged man on this half of the raft. The three of them were on the other half of the raft, and the big snake stood in the middle of the two of our rafts, spitting out letters to us. Nangong had already taken out the gun but didn't shoot, such a big guy who knows if the bullet can hurt it, if the shot does not repel him but provokes its ferocity, it is estimated that Nangong and I will have to give it a snack. But the big snake seemed to be interested in me and Nangong, and he didn't care about the three monks behind him, just staring at us like this.

Suddenly, the serpent lowered its head and opened its mouth to us and hissed. It is estimated that this snake has not brushed its teeth for countless years since it was born, and the smell of the fish is even stronger than the smell of the dead.

Nangong fired, just at the moment when the snake opened its mouth. I don't know where it hit, the snake planted in the water and began to writhe wildly. Our bamboo raft was overturned, and I fell into the water again. After falling into the water, I was swept up by the turbulence in the water and my body whirled uncontrollably in the water. I don't know how long it took for me to control my body, but now my lungs were at their limit, and I was trying to poke my head out of the water, not bothering to see where the serpent was, but breathing greedily into the air.

When I finally regained consciousness, I realized that the snake had long since disappeared. I looked around and found that Nangong was all there, but they were just as embarrassed as me now, so I was relieved. Suddenly, I seemed to think of something, looked around, but secretly said badly: the middle-aged man who was rescued by Nangong was gone, could it be that he was taken away by the big snake. It is said that pythons kill their prey first and then take it to a quiet place to eat. Could it be that this unlucky guy just got saved by us and directly gave the big snake a snack?

Nangong They also discovered the situation at this time, we began to look for the guy in the water, we searched in the water for about half an hour, but still did not find the whereabouts of the middle-aged man. This guy was unlucky enough to think about it, and he finally escaped death and was saved by Nangong and the monk, but he didn't expect to be targeted by the big snake.

The size of the big snake is very large, although I haven't seen its whole body, but I can speculate that the guy is definitely more than thirty meters long, what does such a large animal rely on to survive in such a relatively closed environment? Besides, with the size of this big snake, even if we are a few of us combined, it is estimated that the guy can be half full, but why did it only take the middle-aged man and let us go? Could it be that Nangong's shots hurt it? But judging from the snake's movements, it doesn't seem to have been seriously injured.

We searched for more than half an hour, but we really didn't find that the middle-aged man had to pack up his equipment and slowly swim towards the island, although we were only twenty meters away from the island at the moment, but there was still no way to see the whole island clearly, the whole island was hidden in the thick fog, and we could only see a vague shadow.