Chapter 42: The Water Worm

Speaking of dung (qiang first sound) beetle, you may not know, but when it comes to its alias, everyone should know, shell lang,

Everyone should know about this thing, so I won't explain too much.

The water dwindle, it's a living thing, not a demon, it looks very similar to the shell, to put it bluntly, it's a more powerful and difficult animal,

The only difference in appearance is the eyes and the shell on the back, generally the eyes of the shell lang are black, while the eyes of the water dung are green, and they will emit a faint green light in the dark.

The hard shell on the back is even more different, the shell of the water beetle is not broken, like an iron cast, and a weapon can splash a little spark on its back.

This thing is also recorded in ancient books,

It was mentioned in the "Guanyi Shi" written by the Taoist priest Cangyunzi of the Song Dynasty: "The water beetle, although the body is small but the strength is infinite, the sword does not hurt its body, but it is overcome by fire." ”

How big is this thing?

Now let me tell you a story.

During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, a strange thing happened in Shuntianfu (that is, today's Beijing),

Suddenly, overnight, the surface of the Wuding River (today's Yongding River in Beijing) was covered with a layer of black oppressive things, these things were water beetles.

At that time, the people didn't think much about it, so they called Shangguan to go to the scene to take a look, and they were ready to fish out the things to solve it.

One of the officials was inquisitive when he saw that the river was full of these things, and he squatted down and reached out into the water to fish.

Hearing only a scream, the official suddenly fell into the water, and for a while the screams were endless, and everyone present was stunned.

In the blink of an eye, only a white skeleton was left floating on the water, and there was no flesh left.

Emperor Zhu Di was depressed at the time, Lao Tzu had just been in power for a long time before such a moth came out, didn't he clearly dismantle the stage for his brother and me?

Although Zhu Di was also angry, he was not stupid, he first found some Taoist priests to go to the scene to see, and if it was a demon or something, he would directly let them die.

The Taoist priests all shook their heads after seeing it, the things in the water are not monsters, you can rest assured,

Zhu Di was relieved when he heard the news, and without saying a word, he found a group of officers and soldiers to salvage these things with bamboo baskets.

The strange thing is that these things have no intention of resisting at all, and they are as if they are dead, and they are easily salvaged by the officers and soldiers.

Caught these things, it should have been solved, but unfortunately everything is not so simple,

Against these things, who dares to step on them,

You can only beat it with a hammer and a stick, etc., and this knock will be dumbfounded,

An iron hammer weighs less than dozens of catties, and the strength of the strong man's swing is not to mention, and it doesn't matter if it smashes on the water dwindhopper.

Not to mention smashing these things to death, I feel that the human water beetle is not painful or itchy, and the most that hits the body is a spark of gold and iron.

Everyone has no trick when they see this situation, and they can't even smash it with a sledgehammer of dozens of catties, what else can they do?

Zhu Di was also extremely distressed during that time, thinking day and night about how to solve these things,

I also thought about throwing the water dwindle, but what happened after throwing it away,

These things can only be loaded with large iron buckets, and the lid is cast in pig iron, and there are also 100 catties.

Zhu Di was distressed in the dormitory all night, thinking of a way to solve these things,

Suddenly I saw a moth pounce on the oil lamp, he was speechless for a long time, and looked at the moth in a daze.

Early the next morning, seven or eight large iron buckets were erected in the place where the water dung were kept, and firewood was burned in the buckets.

Seeing that the fire was almost big enough, Zhu Di gave an order and poured all the water dwindles into these iron buckets.

At this moment, the sound of flapping wings came from the barrel, a bit like the sound of a fly.

Before they could fly out, Zhu Di directly asked someone to cover the barrel tightly with an iron lid.

In a few moments, a smell of burnt corpses filled the air, and when I opened the iron bucket, I saw that the water dwindhoppers had been burned alive.

No matter how strong you are, when you fly, you can lift the iron lid of 100 catties.

To get back to the point,

After we stopped attacking, the little one ran to the side of the boat in a few steps, and waved at what was below.

"This gadget is a bit awesome, friends and brothers are all over the world,." Dad pointed to Xiao Budian suspiciously and asked,

This is true, we all think it's very strange, this little thing seems to be able to deal with living things,

You don't have to do it today, you can be good,,

As soon as he heard his father talking about it, the little guy raised his head proudly, and the corners of his mouth grinned.

Well, this is actually not cute, just like when the old Song Dese,

I frowned and squatted down, and gently tapped its head with my fingers: "You are not small, hurry up and let them go, I panic when I look at these things." ”

Although these water dwindles don't do anything, but they look at it and panic, what if they don't play cards according to common sense for a while,

The group of grandchildren under the water clinged to the boat, the green eyes stared at us motionless, the water flow was also blocked by them, and for a while the only thing left in the cave was the sound of us talking,

When the fat man saw that it was safe, the curious baby's heart came out again, and he shouted to Xiao Budian with a smile: "Little guy, my brother has made you something to eat, you ask them not to bite me and not to do anything, I just pick one up to see if it's okay~"

Xiao Budian tilted his head and thought for a while, nodded vigorously and agreed, and screamed in his mouth,

This little shameless, let it do a little thing and have to ask for conditions, go back and see if I don't clean it up,

When the fat man wants to catch the beetle, our hearts are all raised, my mother, if you are bitten, you will lose a piece of meat,

"I'm going to have to open my eyes today, I've only seen these things in books." The fat man was not afraid at all, and carefully picked up a water beetle from the water, and observed it with a gleam in his eyes, as if he were looking at a work of art.

We are also helpless, if this fat man's curiosity comes up, no one can pull it,

After a long time, the fat man slowly put the water beetle back into the water, and said with a wry smile: "The ancients didn't deceive me, they didn't deceive me, this thing is really invulnerable." ”

"I thought it was just an exaggeration by the ancients, but I didn't expect it to be true." The fat man muttered, took out a waterproof camera from his bag, and carefully photographed the underwater and cave scenes.

Six Fingers took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out one and threw it to me, lit one himself, took a hard puff, and looked at the cave lightly for a long time without speaking,

"I thought I was going to be in danger again, didn't you?"

Suddenly, he laughed and scolded, and smiled: "It's good that you don't have to do it today, otherwise you would really have to plant it here." ”

Actually, I know that he has been holding his heart since the appearance of the water dwindliad,

After all, when we came, in the nine-storied pagoda, we couldn't count the dangers we encountered on one hand.

Although these things are small in size, they are not small, and if we really want to do it, we will have to kill a few people.

We're all okay, the fat man doesn't have any combat effectiveness at all, so he came directly to feed the water beetles.

"You can go ashore in front, everyone pay attention, there are more rocks nearby, don't let the boat touch the stones." The GI suddenly shouted, and we were stunned,

We can go ashore now,