As soon as I saw the white shadows wriggling on the ground, I could tell that they were more than a dozen lotus women. The old road at the bottom of the river seems to be very evil, and all the mess has been brought in along the river. If I had put it in the past and seen so many lotus women, I would definitely turn around and run, but now it is different, I am determined, more than a dozen lotus women who have just been washed here by the river have obviously found me, and the direction of the squirming is all coming towards me, one by one sticking to the ground, crawling faster and faster.

rumble

The yang fire that was already rising above my head was another boom, and the lotus woman was an evil thing with a very strong yin energy, and she was very afraid of the yang fire, so I didn't panic, and I could force them back with my own yang fire. However, to my surprise, these lotus women are a bit evil, and although they seem to be afraid of my yang fire, they rush to me.

This time I was a little busy, kicked out a approaching lotus woman, and took a few steps back, the lotus woman is very fierce, even the yang fire is not afraid, and it is also a very serious threat to surround together. I punched and kicked, the lotus woman surrounded a circle, just knocked out the front one, there was a sharp sound of breaking the air behind my head, I reflexively grabbed it, twisted the neck of the lotus woman who rushed behind me, and broke it alive.

burst

At the same time as the Lotus Woman's neck was broken, the huge belly cracked at once, I knew that the Lotus Woman's belly would have a ghost baby, but everything in front of me was beyond my expectations. The lotus woman's belly burst open, and the mutilated internal organs that had turned into pus flowed behind a transparent membrane, and the membrane in the stomach suddenly highlighted the face of a sharp-beaked monkey, and although it was separated by a membrane, I could see that the little face was hairy and had two sharp teeth.

I was shocked, I didn't know what it was, and kicked it out. The soles of my feet have not yet touched the belly of the lotus woman, the film bursts, the unbearable smell of pus splashes out, the hairy face squeaks completely revealed, and with a wave of my claws, I feel that the thick cowhide soles on the soles of my feet seem to have been cut by a sharp knife, almost cutting the soles of my feet.

What is this? I lifted my other leg and kicked the furry thing away, but the small body of the thing was like steel and iron bones, and it flew out of the way and fell heavily to the ground, bounced like lightning on the ground, and grinned at me.

Puff puff

At the same time, the bellies of so many lotus women around them began to slowly swell, popping and popping, their bellies were not ghost babies, all of them were this kind of fluffy stuff curled up in a ball. As soon as they came out of my belly, they jumped very quickly and nimbly, constantly circling around my body.

Monkey?

I finally saw what the furry things were, and they were all very small monkeys. His hair was swarthy and shiny, with sharp teeth and sharp mouths, and he was jumping up and down around me with hostility.

When I saw these monkeys that suddenly came out, many things that I had heard about in the past came to mind. The empty river bottom, the strange shapes covered in mud after they died, and the monkeys jumping around

Therefore, the old legend, when the flood plagued the Central Plains, some messy mountain spirits and water monsters also took advantage of the water potential to wreak havoc on one side, King Yu while controlling the water, while subduing these things one by one, the old people on the river beach said, there are too many ghosts and monsters, King Yu once built a tower, all these things in a certain place, and also sent monkeys to guard the tower. These are false legends, and they cannot all be believed to be true, but the old people's claims are not entirely unreasonable. From ancient times to the present, the river has been salvaged more than once from the stone carved or iron cast monkeys, as well as iron oxen≤ some people are curious about these iron oxen and iron monkeys, this is actually nothing mysterious, iron cattle appear in the flood season is the easiest to burst the area, can suppress the water potential. And the iron monkeys in the water are everywhere, and the monkeys ward off the evil in the water.

Seeing these monkeys, I seemed to understand at once what kind of place this old road was, and it was likely that this was the place where King Yu suppressed all evils. But I don't have to think about it, the monkeys around me have jumped one after another, and the thing is so nimble, like a shadow that flickers in the darkness, if there were only one or two, I might be able to deal with it easily, but so many at once it makes me feel extremely difficult.

creak

The monkey's cry kept ringing in my ears, drifting around, and I had enough strength, but not as nimble as them. Knocked two monkeys away, and a strong wind flashed in his left ear, and then he felt a sudden pain in his ear, and he was scratched with a deep blood mark. Blood flowed down my neck, and as the blood dripped down, the monkeys who were attacking with all their might seemed to sense something, and they all jumped out together, huddling into a ball and looking at me with a cower. These monkeys are spiritual, and the blood in my body carries the bloody breath of Yu Wang Ding, and they can sense the unique majesty from the ancient saint king.

The monkey's attack stopped, and they huddled together, and in less than a minute, one monkey turned around and ran, and the rest scattered as birds and beasts, and in a moment ran away without a trace. I took a breath and applied some medicine to the wound on my ear, and in just a few minutes, my heart beat even louder in the depths of the old path, and my pace quickened, and I ran forward in a hurry.

I thought that this old road should be a smooth road, but after running forward for three or four hundred meters, a wide waterhole blocked the way. The water in the pool is the water of the river that seeps down from somewhere, and it carries sediment and mud mixed with the soil at the bottom of the pool, which is even more turbid than the water of the big river. It's a stagnant water, and there's not a hint of wind, and there's no waves. I have a good water nature, but when I see this muddy water, I feel hesitant, dangerous, and always hidden in places that I can't see.

This is the only way forward, and I have been looking at it for a long time, and I can only pass from here. I didn't want to swim directly into the water, so I turned around and went to the foot of the wooden tower behind me, broke off two rotten logs, and pushed them into the water together. Standing on the log, slowly paddling, towards the other side of the pool. The water was calm, and as I stood on two logs and floated to the center of the pool, the smooth surface of the water was like a whirlwind that swirled slightly. This whirlpool was only the size of a basin, far less violent than the whirlpool in the river, but when the whirlpool appeared, I felt as if I had been pricked by a needle, painful and uneasy.

It was a feeling I had never felt before, very uncomfortable—under the whirlpool of motion, it was as if something was going to spin and float up. I settled down, held the knife in one hand, and parked the log at the door next to the whirlpool, and the cat was so that if something came up, it would stab me with a knife.

As the small whirlpool turned, strands of hair floating in the turbid water slowly floated in the water, and a large clump of hair and algae floated out, and I couldn't tell whether it was the hair of a dead person or a living person, so I didn't think about anything, and stabbed it down. But as soon as the hand holding the knife moved, a face flashed in the floating hair.

The face that appears on the surface of the water at this moment should be extremely frightening, but this face is very beautiful, it is a woman less than thirty years old, I have never seen this face, I have never seen this person, but the moment I saw her, I felt that the feeling of being pricked by needles in my heart was even stronger, and a heart was pierced with holes, and it hurt indescribably. His eyes were swollen with sourness, and the hand holding the knife slowly loosened.

"Child, do you know me? Do you still know me? The woman who emerged from the water was lying quietly on the surface of the water, her gaze was so soft, so warm: "Close to the water, water man, do you still know me?"

"You" I felt like my throat was choked by something, and I couldn't say a word. My emotions are very complicated, very violent, and my sober consciousness is constantly reminding me that this woman who has emerged from such a deep whirlpool will definitely not be a living person, but I deliberately avoid my own consciousness, I prefer to believe that it is true.

I've never met her, but some people, without having to tell the difference, will let themselves know who the other person is. It was a kind of spiritual interconnectedness and resonance.

"Mizu, my child, do you still know me" The voice of the woman floating on the surface of the water trembled, and tears were already welling up in her beautiful eyes.

"Are you a mother, are you you" I couldn't help but want to reach out and touch her, to confirm my thoughts, she is real, very real.

I never met my own mother, who died when I was very young. When I was a child, whenever I saw other people's children being held and cared for by their mothers, I hid aside and cried silently. I was young at the time, and I didn't know why I was being stripped of this power.

I don't know anyone who lost their mother's love at a young age, for people like me, the longing for mother's love has always been buried deep in the heart, when it is not touched, this longing may be quiet and silent, but once touched, it is like a volcanic eruption, out of control.

I was weeping, trembling, and the unresolved consciousness was telling me that my mother was dead, a thing of the past forever, and that she could never come back to life. But at this moment, looking at the woman floating on the surface of the water with tears, I can feel the kind of care and love that I have never felt before. It was a feeling of luxury, and I couldn't even think about it. Once upon a time, when I was lonely and helpless, I thought that if my mother was still alive, even if I was asked to shout, I would stay in her arms for a moment, and it would be worth dying.

"Water boy, my son, you still know me, remember me, you still remember me" The woman on the water burst into tears.

"Mother!" I didn't dare to blink, lest I blink and my mother would disappear in front of me.