If you want to say that this old man Zhou, he was fascinated by ancient creatures back then. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info When Zhou Lao was young, his parents opened a pawn shop, and his ancestors had a rich family business, so naturally Zhou Lao lived a privileged life since he was a child.

This year, Zhou Lao had just turned ten years old, and on his birthday, he was kidnapped. His captors tied him to a small rundown cabin. The hut is in a clearing under a cliff by the sea, and half of the hut is flooded by the sea at high tide. It's in the middle of nowhere, and ordinary people can't find it at all. After Zhou Lao was kidnapped, he stayed here for five whole days.

For five days, Zhou Lao was locked in his room, and no one paid attention to him, let alone abused him. It's just that someone regularly delivers food to him from the door every day. At that time, Zhou Lao was young after all, and he had never been alone, let alone kidnapped. He lives in deep fear every day.

One day, the wind was blowing outside the window, and the waves were crashing against his window in waves, and soon, lightning and thunder roared, and heavy rain came in through the cracks in the window. Zhou Lao was so frightened that he curled up beside the bed and didn't dare to move. I don't know how long it took, the wind stopped, the rain stopped, the sun came out, the golden sun shone in, and the dappled light and shadow jumped on the rotten floor. Zhou Lao suddenly heard a chirping sound from outside the door, like a bird's cry and a little hoarser than a bird's call. At that time, Zhou Lao, who didn't know where he got the courage, opened the door and looked outside. The door to the outer room was wide open, and the floor was damp, and in the middle of the floor lay a large black fish. The big fish was the size of Zhou Lao, and the scales on its body glowed with a black pearl-like light, looking ghostly and dazzling. The fish wasn't dead yet, its tail swaying back and forth on the floor, and it was obvious that it was struggling. Zhou Lao looked a little stunned, he stood at the door in a daze, and suddenly the big fish in front of him seemed to notice that there was someone behind him, jumped lightly on the floor, and turned his body in a different direction......

Zhou Lao was stunned when he saw the big fish that turned his body around. It is not the head of a fish that turns, but the body of a person. The body is thin and bony, but the head, neck, body, and hands are clearly human-like, only the buttocks and below the fishtail. Zhou Lao had never heard of such a thing, let alone seen it. Afterwards, whenever Zhou Lao thought about it, he would say, "If that was true, it was really fearless at that time." ”

When Zhou Lao saw such a creature, he was scared at the same time, but he also seemed to be deeply attracted by it. The merman in front of him and Zhou Lao looked at each other, the merman's eyes did not have the whites of his eyes, and the entire eye socket was pitch black, but shining. Zhou Lao looked at its big black hole-like eyes and nodded.

The mermaid struggled on the floor and jumped a few times with all his might, heading towards the door. When it jumped to the door, it looked back at Zhou Lao again. Zhou Lao said that the merman's eyes at that time seemed to be telling him, don't worry, someone will come to save him soon.

After the merman jumped into the sea, Zhou Lao fainted along the eaves and fell to the ground. By the time he woke up again, he was already at the hospital.

Afterwards, he told the people around him the story of the shark several times, but no one believed him, and most of them asserted that he was ill and hallucinated. In order to prove his experience, Zhou Lao began to search for various legends and evidence about the merman. After many years, nothing has been found.

Speaking of that painting, it is just a painting that Zhou Lao found in the antique market, and there is no way to verify whether it is fictional or real. The painting was very dilapidated, but Zhou Lao bought it and regarded it as a treasure.

Over the years, Zhou Lao has devoted himself to the study of paleontology, hoping to obtain some information about the merman in his research. It's just that after so many years, the merman in his memory is becoming more and more blurred. After retiring, Zhou Lao inexplicably moved to this coastal city, walking by the sea every day, and even obsessed with deep sea exploration, all in order to find information about the merman.

Until, I received a call from Lao Jiang.

Since Lao Jiang brought the merman's body from the sea tomb, he has been unharmed for a few years, but his business has become more and more prosperous, and the gang brothers are also like a family. However, in the past year, the brothers in the gang have begun to disappear one after another, and no clues have been found, which has caused panic among the people in the gang. So Lao Jiang began to suspect that it was the merman who was responsible, after all, he couldn't think of any other reason besides.

Lao Jiang originally wanted to tell Zhou Lao as it was, but when he saw this painting in Zhou Lao's compartment, he suddenly changed his attention. "Teacher, you have studied so many paleontologies, is there any paleontology with a curse?"

"Cursed?" Zhou Lao took the reading glasses on the table, "If you have listened to my class well, you should know that there is no such ancient creature." ”

"If you say it...... What about the merman? "Lao Jiang approached the painting, the picture was dim, and the mermaid on the painting looked very real and terrifying.

"According to the books I've consulted, a creature like a merman will never curse others."

"Paleontology, paleontology, of course, are some dead things, no matter how powerful they are when they are alive, they are just corpses after being dead for so many years, and more of them are not even corpses, just stones. If you insist on saying that there are ancient creatures that can curse, it can only be a corpse transformation. Ah Shen said nonchalantly.

It's okay that Ah Shen doesn't speak, but when he speaks, it makes Lao Jiang feel like an initiation. "Corpse ......," he muttered to himself.

Lao Jiang's abnormal reaction made Zhou Lao faintly aware of something, "Jin Guo, are you hiding something from me, you said that it is important to come to me this time......"

Zhou Lao was willing to help, Lao Jiang had no intention of concealing it, he looked at the poker face, and decided to explain everything to Zhou Lao.

"When Ah Shen and I were sophomores, once, I heard a few "masters" talking about the submarine tomb, and the eyebrows of those people were fluttering, not like it was fake, and one of them also claimed that he had gone down to the tomb, but because he didn't have enough oxygen, he had to come up. I listened to it with great interest, and in any case, it was purely a story, and I didn't even think I would go to the tomb.

Later, not long after, the person who helped my family manage the money rolled up a large amount of money and ran away, and it was the global economic crisis, and my family's industry was affected, resulting in a big financial crisis, and the workers' money could not be paid, and the purchase money could not be paid. The whole family has entered a low ebb.

As an only child, it seems natural that he wants to take responsibility for this family business. At first, I only thought of borrowing a little money from Ah Shen to survive this crisis, but I couldn't open my mouth, and at that time, I suddenly thought of the tomb, so I blurted out as a matter of course, asking Ah Shen to go to the submarine tomb with me.

Of course, Ah Shen thought it was strange, but according to Ah Shen's character, as long as it was someone he believed in, he would unconditionally believe and support whatever he wanted to do. He said yes without saying a word. If someone else knew about it, he and I would have been warned or even demerited by the school.

Later, the two of us took advantage of the summer vacation to go to the ocean where the tomb was located, when Ah Shen's parents passed away only a few months, Ah Shen inherited a large amount of money, we had money to buy some simple equipment, rented a small fishing boat, drove the boat to the sea, changed the equipment, Ah Shen and I both jumped into the water. ”

Zhou Lao sat down slowly, and his eyes never left Lao Jiang. After so many years, it should not be mentioned again, Lao Jiang talked about this matter so specifically, it must be twists and turns, and the impact of this incident has been extended to the present.

"Ah Shen and I are both very good at water, but the further down we go, the greater the resistance, as if there is a strong force preventing me and Ah Shen from approaching. Ah Shen and I are both characters who can keep moving forward the more we are resisted, and the two of us have worked hard and almost exhausted all our strength to reach the underwater tomb. ”

Lao Jiang grabbed the water cup on the table and drank it all. "The tomb, made of bronze, sank to the bottom of the sea like a cuboid container. The surface of the bronze, without patterns, is unusually smooth when washed by the sea. However, after a long time, sea moss and corals have grown on the surface, and there are also many sea crabs and shellfish clusters. As I had heard, I circled around the outer part of the bronze tomb and finally found the entrance. The entrance was at the top of the cuboid, almost covered with coral, and it took Shen and I a lot of effort to clean the hole. Ah Shen shone a flashlight underneath and gestured to tell me that he would go down first. The two of us installed submarine radio communication, and we were not afraid that we would not be able to contact each other after separation, so I agreed.

Ah Shen swam into the ancient tomb, for a long time, he seemed to swim to the end, I saw his flashlight shaking in the water. I swam in his direction. But when I swam to the general level, Ah Shen's light suddenly flickered twice and went out. I stopped, floating in the water, it was pitch black, only the light of my own flashlight shone in the darkness, which looked particularly ghostly.

I tried to contact Ah Shen over the radio and called into the microphone several times, but he didn't respond. I panicked and desperately pushed downstream, and when my foot touched the bottom, I realized that there was nothing underneath.

As soon as I was nervous, I felt that I couldn't breathe, although the oxygen was still sufficient, but I knew very well that according to my current state, the oxygen was probably only enough for me to last less than an hour. I tried my best to calm myself down, and looked at the room with a flashlight, the room was boxy, there was nothing in it, and the entire bronze wall was a dark green glow in the sea. I began to analyze the layout of this burial chamber, the whole burial chamber is about three meters in length, width and height, according to the height of the entire bronze coffin, the place where I am standing now should not have reached the bottom of the coffin, so it stands to reason that there should be a room under my feet. Thinking about it this way, I guessed that Ah Shen might have fallen into the room below. I tried to remember where Shen had been standing, and I swam towards it, and as expected, there was a hole that led to the burial chamber below. But that hole, for me, was too small. ”

Old Zhou closed his eyes and nodded, "At that time, you were even fatter than now." And no wonder ......"

"Teacher, don't be sarcastic about me yet. After coming out of there, I also realized this, and I began to lose weight in anger. But now the figure is still not very good-looking. Old Jiang smiled, and suddenly became serious again, "As soon as I arrived at the entrance of the cave, I looked down, and suddenly I saw that in that tomb, there was a small flame, shining blue-green light. And Ah Shen stood next to the light.

At this time, I shouted at the radio, and I heard Ah Shen's response, and I asked him what was going on."

"A burial chamber, nothing ......" At this time, Ah Shen, who had been beside him without speaking, suddenly replied. His eyes looked at Lao Jiang with confusion and determination.